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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.

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, some Europeans crossed a red line by equating Israel’s war against Hamas with the Shoah.
Bringing home the last hostage closed a national wound. Israel must now turn that closure into a united resolve to insist on Hamas’s disarmament.
The warning signs that preceded the Holocaust are visible again, this time on a global scale and cloaked in modern language.
Since the 1960s, it has functioned first as an instrument of Soviet domination, then as a factory of anti-Americanism, and ultimately as a systematic de-legitimizer of Israel.
Tyrannies do not change their nature because Western leaders wish them to.
The streets are quiet in the Islamic Republic, but the regime is not safe. History shows that patience, not panic, decides Middle East battles.
As the massacre of protesters continues, Iran’s leaders revive a propaganda playbook to deny crimes, shift blame and delay international action.
As Iran’s repressive regime weakens and its people bleed in the streets, the United States signals that this time, indifference is not an option.
Something profoundly disturbing is unfolding alongside the extraordinary uprising in Iran: the rest of the world’s refusal to support it.
Amid nationwide protests exposing a regime losing control, one truth stands out: the Islamic Republic’s violence is no longer an internal affair.
While the Islamic Republic is shaken by rising street protests, the shadow of American power—and of Israel—hangs over Tehran.
From Venezuela to Iran, the geopolitical map of the war against democracies is being redrawn and the jihadist axis faces collapse.