Middle East Forum

A CRA audit tied the Muslim Association of Canada to the Muslim Brotherhood. A 2025 Vote Palestine drive won endorsements across 4 parties. Craig Considine and Sydney Rodman in MEF Online: Canada is the preview, and Jewish Americans are the test.

Hamas has asked the ICJ and UN bodies to use the film Naza against Israel. @giuliomeotti asks Yossi Klein Halevi, who protested his own government for 3 years, what that means: no name, no verifiable incident, and a 25 minute Venice ovation he calls groupthink.

Mokha fell last week. With Perim Island the Houthis now hold the Bab el Mandeb gateway, their biggest gain since Sanaa. @mrubin1971 in MEF Online: stop the whack-a-mole strikes, recognize Somaliland and South Arabia, and Iran stops inheriting 1,750 miles of coastline.

Israel votes on 27 October. 308 seat projections this year, in Hebrew, across a dozen outlets. As of today they are in one place. MEF has opened israelvote.meforum.org: every 2026 poll, the source on each row, a 14 day average across 16 houses. Yashar 24, Likud 23, Together 12.

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@AshleyJSPerry Full episode — September 16, 2026 | Israel Insider with Ashley Perry: youtu.be/BTjmPeTNtpg

Saudi Arabia called on Turkey and Pakistan under the Mecca defense pact. It got communiqués. On Israel Insider, @ashleyjsperry on why "there's really only one dependable partner in the region." Full episode in reply ⬇️

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@MauriceHirsch4 Full episode — Oslo's Deadly Legacy: Rethinking the Palestinian Authority, with Maurice Hirsch and host Lauri Regan: youtu.be/041wKSodjzM

On the latest MEF Podcast, @MauriceHirsch4 on the Palestinian Authority: every month it pays out millions in salaries to terrorists, and every time anyone moves to stop the money, someone warns the PA will collapse. His answer: seize the ATMs. Let it collapse. Full episode in

Ismail Haniyeh's son spoke at a state-backed religious-school alumni congress in Trabzon on 5 Sept: education minister in the room, Erdogan on video, the hall chanting greetings to Hamas. @abdbozkurt on how Hamas got access to 1.2M pupils and 10M alumni in all 81 provinces.

Algeria gave the UAE ambassador 48 hours to leave. @amineayoubx: the break did not create the new North African order, it revealed how far the old one had eroded. Since 2020 Morocco, the UAE and Israel built a network from Laayoune to the Sahel. Algiers stayed outside it.

Naza, the Venice prizewinner by Israeli directors, is being read as an indictment of Israel. @giuliomeotti reads it the other way: Synonyms, Foxtrot, Waltz with Bashir, The Gatekeepers. Only Israel has a film industry and press that accuse it from within. Gaza has no equivalent.

Turkey’s intelligence chief did not arrive in Athens empty-handed. He brought demands over Greek islands, Israel, and the Eastern Mediterranean. Christos Konstantinidis argues Ankara is talking diplomacy while simultaneously building the military infrastructure for

Hamas messaging is reaching deep into Turkey’s state-backed religious education system. @abdbozkurt reports that Ismail Haniye’s son addressed an imam-hatip network serving more than 1.2 million students—while the event featured pro-Hamas chants and militant imagery.

Algeria cut ties with the UAE. Israel did not cause the rupture—but it may benefit from what comes next. @amineayoubx argues the split strengthens an emerging Morocco-UAE-Israel strategic network while leaving Algiers increasingly outside it. meforum.org/mef-online/alg…

Israel withdrew from Lebanon in 2000. Its adversaries drew their own lesson from what followed. @yossikup argues Israel should not repeat that experience by leaving southern Lebanon before Hezbollah is disarmed and the Lebanese state can prevent its return.

At one of America’s largest Muslim conventions, Zohran Mamdani and Abdul El-Sayed were presented as models of growing Muslim political power. Michael Lewis reports that ISNA speakers paired those appeals with accusations of “genocide” and “Islamophobia” to mobilize attendees

Israel can win on the battlefield and still lose the strategic contest around it. @ZviHauser argues military superiority is no longer enough. Israel needs a permanent national capability to fight the information and influence war that increasingly determines its freedom to act.

How should October 7 change interfaith dialogue? Tim Orr joins MEF’s Focus on Western Islamism podcast to examine interfaith dialogue and the theology behind Islamist antisemitism. Watch the full conversation: youtu.be/zVHzK5wj5MQ

The Mecca defense pact is about to discover whether it is an alliance or a slogan. The Houthis are threatening Saudi shipping and attacking Saudi-linked tankers. @KaswarKlasra examines how far Pakistan and Turkey will actually go when Riyadh invokes its new security

Europe can condemn Israel politically. Defending European skies is another matter. Britain’s air defenses rely on Israeli technology, while governments across Europe are buying Israeli missile-defense systems. @giuliomeotti examines the widening gap between Europe’s rhetoric and