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Fiamma Nirenstein

Fiamma Nirenstein

Fiamma Nirenstein is an Italian-Israeli journalist, author and senior research fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs (JCFA). An adviser on antisemitism to Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she served in the Italian Parliament (2008-2013) as vice president of the Foreign Affairs Committee. A founding member of the Friends of Israel Initiative, she has written 15 books, including October 7, Antisemitism and the War on the West, and is a leading voice on Israel, the Middle East, Europe and the fight against antisemitism.

The wanted poster for Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, nom de guerre Muhammad al-Masri. Credit: FBI.
Opinion
The significance of the al-Masri assassination
The Israeli operation is one that a large part of the Islamic world will welcome, as it helps transcend the fear of Sunni terrorist organizations and shows that Iran can be beaten on its own terrain.
Nov. 15, 2020
Fiamma Nirenstein
U.S. President Donald Trump at a rally in West Virginia on Aug. 21, 2018. Source: Donald Trump via Twitter.
Opinion
The split between the ‘deplorables’ and virtue-signalers
As renowned conservative intellectual Victor Davis Hanson, author of “The Case for Trump,” has said, the chasm between the American elites and Trump marks a definitive “clash of civilizations.”
Nov. 5, 2020
Fiamma Nirenstein
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Opinion
Erdoğan uses incitement as an ideological weapon of war
Though the Turkish leader was not directly responsible for it, the recent massacre in Nice came on the heels and in the midst of his incitement against France and French President Emmanuel Macron.
Nov. 1, 2020
Fiamma Nirenstein
Anti-Zionist Rally
Opinion
The responsibility of institutions in the tsunami of contemporary anti-Semitism
Though a seeming paradox, the origins of renewed unabashed expressions of Jew-hatred—which were taboo in the West for about three decades after World War II—can be traced to decisions taken by international bodies.
Oct. 21, 2020
Fiamma Nirenstein
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with reporters during the announcement of normalization of relations between Israel and the Kingdom of Bahrain on Sept. 11, 2020, in the Oval Office of the White House. Credit: Tia Dufour/The White House.
Opinion
The Abraham Accords and a changing Middle East
Like it or not, Israel is finally integrated into the positive narrative of the region.
Sep. 15, 2020
Fiamma Nirenstein
U.S. President Donald Trump and Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on May 15, 2017. Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead.
Opinion
A revolutionary peace treaty
Now it is very clear that the new situation in the Middle East is set between two blocs—one of which has finally embraced the concept that Israel, far from being a detriment, bears positive fruit.
Aug. 16, 2020
Fiamma Nirenstein
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan inside the Hagia Sophia. Source: Twitter.
Opinion
Turkey’s mad sultan
The weakness of Turkish President Recep Tayyip’s leadership is causing conflagrations throughout the world and is causing his country much suffering.
Jul. 27, 2020
Fiamma Nirenstein
Anti-Semitic graffiti. Credit: Yonderboy/Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
The third wave of anti-Semitism is upon us
The coronavirus pandemic has rebooted the classic medieval Jew-hatred seen during the Black Plague. Today, in the age of a sovereign Jewish state, it has been redirected to demonize Israel.
Jul. 6, 2020
Fiamma Nirenstein
A protester flies an upside-down American flag through the streets of one of the cities beset by riots in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers on May 29, 2020. Source: Screenshot.
Opinion
Looting American culture
The young people destroying shops, stealing goods, shooting and beating have been shaped by a culture that bows to suffering and elevates victimhood.
Jun. 4, 2020
Fiamma Nirenstein
Silvia Romano, upon her return to Italy on Sunday, May 8, 2020. Source: YouTube.
Opinion
The abduction of Western freedom
How Silvia Romano, recently released from Al-Shabab captivity, is serving as a vehicle for importing jihadist ideology to Europe.
May. 13, 2020
Fiamma Nirenstein
International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda speaks at the Oslo Forum in 2014. Photo: Stine Merethe Eid via Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
Prosecutorial injustice is the real culprit
ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda’s move to charge Israel with war crimes, particularly during the coronavirus pandemic, is blight on her role and integrity.
May. 4, 2020
Fiamma Nirenstein
Palestinian security forces stop a driver attempting to enter the West Bank city of Hebron, as part of the Palestinian Authority's steps to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, April 19, 2020. Photo by Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90.
Opinion
How COVID-19 has sparked anti-Semitic conspiracy theories
In the wake of the pandemic, it has become clear that the Jewish people’s right to a state and self-defense can be questioned in the name of a virus.
Apr. 22, 2020
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