Ron Agam

Florida’s decision to designate the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as foreign terrorist organizations is not “controversial.” It’s overdue.

This war did not fall from the sky. On October 7, Hamas crossed the border into Israel and carried out mass murder. They went house to house, burned families alive, raped, tortured, dragged hostages away. More than one thousand Israelis were killed and hundreds were kidnapped in one day.

Qatar is no mystery anymore. The danger is not that we don’t understand what it is doing. The danger is that we do—and still pretend we don’t.

The Muslim Brotherhood’s old ideology has found a new accelerator. Democracies are still acting like it’s 1938.

In November, the fashion world flew to Doha for a high-gloss charity gala. Under huge chandeliers and endless camera flashes, Vogue’s Anna Wintour posed with Qatar’s family at the inaugural Franca Fund event, presented as a glamorous night for medical research and culture.

When you warn about Islamist organizations in the West, you hear the same sentence again and again. “Come on, this sounds like a conspiracy theory.”

Everyone in this story sees the contradiction. No one in power wants to say it out loud.

In a few days Washington will try to sell the world a neat package. Saudi Arabia gets a historic security pact and astronomical American weapons. 

What we just saw with Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York is not a one-off. It’s a sign of where progressive politics is headed, and what’s coming next could shake the Democratic establishment to its core. 

There are awards that glitter and awards that clarify. When President Isaac Herzog conferred Israel’s Presidential Medal of Honor on Mathias Döpfner on October 22, 2025, it clarified something essential: in an age of wobbling spines and performative neutrality, Mathias chose clarity and accepted the consequences that come with it. 

Yesterday in Jerusalem, inside the President's House, I witnessed one of the most moving ceremonies I can remember. President Isaac Herzog

President Trump deserves credit for doing what others could not, helping bring calm to Gaza and pushing for a broader peace in the Middle East. His instincts for deal-making, for cutting through diplomatic fog, have always been his greatest asset.