ISIS Archives - The Jerusalem Fund

Israel’s cynical new strategy: Reframe Palestine debate as a religious battle, when it is really about civil rights

February 15, 2016December 7, 2015 by Lucian Dieterman

With the focus on Syria, in part due to ISIS and in part to the massive refugee crisis, the threats to world peace because of the Israeli occupation of Palestine have been put on the back burner. Indeed, the U.S. administration has seemingly washed its hands of its efforts to broker peace, despite U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit to Palestine-Israel last month to discuss confidence-building measures, once again.

Bashing Arabs, Muslims, and Refugees

July 27, 2021November 20, 2015 by Lucian Dieterman

By Zeina Azzam

Judging by the vitriolic reactions against Muslims—and especially Syrians—in U.S. society after the Paris bombings, it is clear that few understand that the vast majority of the casualties of ISIS’s bloody strikes are actually Muslims. The group has wreaked havoc in majority Muslim states for a number of years. But so many people in Europe and the United States seem not to understand that the Islamic State does not represent Muslims, and that Muslims are in fact terrified by and abhor the savage tactics of the group. They are trying desperately to escape the lands under ISIS control.