Scoop Jackson Lecture: Caroline Glick securefreedom 2024-10-22 | Scoop Jackson Lecture: Caroline Glick
Webinar: The Crisis of Israels Judicial Tyranny and the Resistance to it Being Reformed securefreedom 2023-03-29 | For the last several months, Israel has been in an unprecedented internal upheaval - perhaps the greatest since its formation in 1948. The trigger for this upheaval was the government's attempt to check the power of its judiciary branch, which over the last 30 years has asserted such control that it threatens the very principle of parliamentary sovereignty as the voice of the people. The government's reform package was designed to address at least in part some of the most egregious excesses of the judiciary's distorted power, but the initiative was met by an overwhelming tidal wave of organized resistance with both domestic and foreign dimensions. Consequently on Monday, March 27, after 2 months of unrest, the government was forced to pause the reform process and regroup. Many voices on the left, however, have doubled down on demands and insist the current Israeli government must be brought down - despite it having just been elected.
Webinar: US policy toward the unrest in Israel and Saudi Arabias rapprochement with Iran securefreedom 2023-03-16 | In the last two months, the U.S. has faced three challenges to its position in the Middle East: Dramatic unrest in Israel over the government's efforts to reform its judicial system, the Iranian breakout in enriching uranium essentially to bomb-grade levels, and the rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran, sponsored by China, in talks in which all sides agreed to ban any use of English during the deliberations.While all three events in their own right signify a major setback for the Untied States' position in the region, the U.S. not only failed to respond to Iran's enrichment, but actually welcomed and claimed it encouraged the Chinese-led brokering of the Saudi-Iran agreement. And rather than calm the unrest in Israel, the U.S. has apparently orchestrated foreign pressure against the government's reform plans, and funded one of the leading organizations that seeks the current destabilizing and encourage the unrest in Israel, and perhaps others.
Andrei Illarionov: A smart way to end the Russia-Ukraine War securefreedom 2023-02-23 | CSP Senior Analyst for Russian and European Affairs, Andrei Illarionov, spoke at a February 22 webinar titled "Europe’s worst war since WWII." Illarionov's comments explain the great death toll of the war, Vladimir Putin's motivations behind Russia's attacks, and offered insights to how he thinks the war will ultimately be decided.
Russian-Ukrainian War as Europe’s Worst War Since WWII (Andrei Illarionov, Chad Robichaux) securefreedom 2023-02-22 | On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a new stage to the Russian-Ukrainian war with a ground invasion on multiple fronts. One year later, the largest and most deadly conflict in Europe since WWII has devastated Ukraine and exposed Western weakness.The Center for Security Policy hosted a webinar on February 22, 2023 to discuss the on-the-ground reality for Ukraine and the outlook of the war.Moderator:Frank Gaffney: Executive Chairman of the Center for Security Policy and host of Securing America with Frank Gaffney on Real America’s Voice NetworkPanelists:Andrei Illarionov: Senior Analyst at the Center for Security PolicyChad Robichaux: Founder and president of The Mighty Oaks Foundation; currently providing aid and spiritual resilience to soldiers on the front lines in UkraineMitzi Perdue: Businesswoman, award winning author, and past president of American Agri-Women; previously visited Ukraine multiple times in the last year, had 18 stories published on the humanitarian crisis she witnessed there, and has started a crowd-funding effort to support mine-clearing efforts in Ukraine
Webinar - Judicial Reform: A Means of Saving, not Endangering, Israeli Democracy securefreedom 2023-02-07 | Thirty years ago, Israel’s Supreme Court, known as the High Court of Justice (HCJ), launched a judicial revolution in the Jewish State that vastly empowered itself at the expense of the executive and legislative branches — and representative, accountable government, more generally. The leftist-dominated HCJ granted itself the authority to intervene in, and dictate the outcome of, policy decisions, without regard to the rule of law pursuant to the Israeli constitution, statutes or such considerations as the standing of parties, the justiciability of matters on which it acts and the inappropriateness of arbitrarily selected and subjective “guiding principles” and “reasonableness” as the basis for its rulings. The Court also reduced the executive and legislative branch’s legal advisors into servants of the HCJ instead of accountable appointees of the government. In addition, the HCJ solidified its control over the process for selecting judges throughout Israel not only on its own level, but at all levels, with the effect of erasing any genuine representation by Israel’s elected bodies. The cumulative effect of all these revolutionary changes in the separation and balance of power in the Israeli government has been to introduce what can only be described as judicial tyranny, manifested by unchecked rule by judges and the voiding of the democratic essence of Israel by reducing its elected officials to members of advisory bodies. As the population of Israel has become increasingly conservative politically, the Supreme Court has drifted to the far left. The HCJ’s campaign to vastly enhance its power in the service of an increasingly radical leftist agenda has tarnished its reputation, diminished its credibility and alienated it from a majority of the Israeli people. That majority elected the new Netanyahu government which sought and received a mandate aimed at achieving judicial and legal reforms. To that end, the new governing coalition has set out to reset relations between the branches of government in Jerusalem and to restore the nation’s founding checks and balances. In the process, it is not only reviving and renewing Israeli democracy. It is aligning the Supreme Court and the Attorney General’s office once more with the best in modern judicial practice, notably in nations like the United States and Great Britain. Such reform is bitterly opposed by the left, which has taken to the streets in demonstrations and evoked inflammatory and even violent rhetoric against the Netanyahu government and its judicial overhaul. Worse yet, the United States has directly intervened and thrown its weight against such reforms. Team Biden appears to be doing so with a view to not only undermining the Israeli coalition right out of the gate. It also seems intent on packing the U.S. Supreme Court and in other ways mutating our own accountable and representative constitutional system.
The Biden Administration’s Hostility Towards Israel Is Counter-productive — and Could be Contagious securefreedom 2023-01-12 | The new Israeli government is barely a week old, but it faces an unprecedented array of criticisms — including some outright threats — from domestic opponents and foreign adversaries. Worse yet, both are being encouraged and emboldened by the ill-concealed hostility of the U.S. government. As high-level bilateral meetings take place in this country and in the Jewish State, it is time to examine what is at stake and to avoid further, possibly enduring harm to the bilateral relationship. The Netanyahu government faces arguably unprecedented vitriol from its internal critics among the political opposition and the left-leaning opinion-setting elites. Their attacks focus on the governing coalition’s policies with respect to social issues, legal reforms and foreign policy. Especially neuralgic has been the response to a series of proposed reforms that threaten the monopolistic control enjoyed by a narrow Ashkenazi/secular/left-leaning legal fraternity and that contribute to the increasingly unchecked power of Israeli courts.It appears that the Biden administration is fostering such dangerous fracturing of Israeli society and its mondo politico. For one thing, the United States has remained silent amid such threats to the rule of law and demands for an insurrection against the new, democratically elected Israeli government. It has, instead, adopted what is, at best, a posture of probational judgment of Bibi Netanyahu and his coalition, if not outright hostility towards them.Washington is also aggressively challenging the new coalition in Jerusalem by trying to morph the Abraham Accords into the Oslo framework, whereby Israel’s increasingly strategic and friendly bilateral relationships with its Arab neighbors are once again subordinated to the Palestinian issue and regional progress subjected to a PLO veto. On the status of Jerusalem, itself, the United States is increasingly siding with Jordan — while ignoring the Hashemite kingdom’s fraught bid to reinterpret the Jordan-Israeli peace treaty in ways that limit or terminate Israeli sovereignty in the most critical parts of the Old City and promote the concept of the “historic status quo,” a new term that implies complete restoration of Islamic sovereignty over all the holy places as it was in 1857 under Ottoman imperial rule. And on Iran, the United States insists that it has, for the moment at least, backed off its quest of a new nuclear deal. But it has neither taken it off the table decisively nor materially stiffened policies to isolate the regime (e.g., no snap-back sanctions, no broader designation of sanctions, no regime-change suggestions, no severing of all contacts).
Webinar: US-Israel Relations Under the Biden Administration securefreedom 2022-12-20 | The progressive attack on the culture of the United States and its foreign policy have weakened both the foundations of our Republic and our foreign policy. America will need in the coming years to rediscover and reinforce those foundations and return to robust foreign policy with a strong moral compass divined for freedom.Our relationship with Israel will play an important role in this effort.The assault on the idea of Israel over the last 75 years was more than an attack on a fellow democracy, but a proxy for an attack by progressives and freedom’s global adversaries.Once the United States decides to return to its leadership of the free world, it is inescapable that the damage done will require years of reconstruction of both U.S. power and U.S. alliances. During that period, we will need to rely more than ever on regional allies to help carry the burden strategically so that our vital interests are preserved. For this very reason, our greatest adversaries seek to weaken and attack Israel, and work hard to drive a wedge between Jerusalem and Washington.Yet the Biden administration is accelerating the trend started during the Obama administration of reducing our special relationship with Israel, creating a false balance between the Jewish state and the Arabs of Palestine, undermining Israeli attempts to organize a regional alliance to deal with our common adversaries like Iran, joining in disproportionate criticism of Israel in international forums, and undoing the historic correction of moving our embassy to Jerusalem and recognizing the city as the capital of the Jewish nation.Finally, rather than accept the democratic verdict of the Israeli people in recent elections, the Biden administration is questioning the very foundations of the U.S.-Israeli relationship.
Bibi’s Victory: A Win for Israel, A Time for Restoring Her Ties with America securefreedom 2022-11-07 | Longtime Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s return to power in Israel with, at last, a clear parliamentary majority and a mandate for strong leadership comes at a pivotal juncture in the Middle East and in U.S.-Israeli relations. His country faces an extraordinary array of security challenges including: an imminently nuclear-armed Iran; Tehran’s jihadist terrorist proxies, Hezbollah and Hamas, entities the mullahs have equipped with immense quantities of increasingly deadly rockets and missiles; and insurgent Palestinian forces inside Israel proper and the areas the Jewish State controls in Judea and Samaria.Making matters worse is the fact that the Biden Administration has over the past nearly two years exacerbated each of these threats and undermined or actually thwarted Israeli efforts to contend with them. It is predictable that those responsible for thereby straining ties between the Jewish State and the U.S. will redouble their previous efforts to isolate Israel and sabotage a government in Jerusalem committed to the practice of peace through strength.The Center for Security Policy (CSP) strenuously opposes such a misbegotten policy towards America’s most important ally in the Middle East and, arguably, in the world. In a webinar featuring its formidable Mideast team, CSP explored the imperative need for the United States to: stand with Israel; oppose our shared enemies; and counter pressure to accommodate, legitimate or otherwise empower and embolden the latter. The Center’s experts discussed how our organization intends to have Bibi’s back in official Washington, to the strategic benefit of both the United States and Israel at a time such as this.
Webinar: The Battle for Irans Freedom securefreedom 2022-10-21 | Iranians from every ethnicity, stratum of life, economic and industrial sector and every age have taken to the streets of Iran without pause to brave a brutal response of batons, bullets, arrest and torture.Led by Iran's women, their clearly stated aim is freedom, and at this time their resolve still seems to be hardening and the regime is reeling. To analyze how this came about, examine the likelihood that this may be the end of the Islamic Republic and to discuss what shape an Iran "the day after" appears to be taking, the Center for Security Policy convened a panel of Iranian experts and public figures on Friday, October 21.
Webinar: Who Lost Afghanistan? securefreedom 2022-10-12 | Nearly 2,500 U.S. service members killed. More than 20,000 service members injured. $2.3 trillion dollars expended. And after 20 years of American military operations, the Taliban government once again governs Afghanistan in strict adherence to Sharia law while playing host to jihadi terrorists of numerous groups, including al-Qaeda and ISIS .The Center for Security Policy is proud to host New York Times best-selling author Robert Spencer to answer these questions and more, in a webinar moderated by Director for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Kyle Shideler, discussing Spencer’s new book Who Lost Afghanistan? now available at Amazon.com.
Kyle Shideler on the death of Zawahiri and the future of US policy in the Middle East securefreedom 2022-08-12 | Center Senior Analyst for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, Kyle Shideler, joined Hadel Oueiss of North Press Agency to talk about the death of Ayman al-Zawahiri and the future of U.S. policy in the Middle East.
Book Release Press Conference: The CCP is at War with America securefreedom 2022-06-30 | The Center for Security Policy has just released a new “Team B” product – an exercise in competitive analysis that strongly challenges the Director of National Intelligence’s September 2021 conclusion that the provenance of the SARS-CoV-2 virus cannot be determined. The Team, co-chaired by former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Pete Hoekstra and former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Lieutenant General William “Jerry” Boykin, U.S. Army (Ret.) and comprised of intelligence professionals, other national security practitioners and subject matter experts, concluded that: - There is no evidence that the virus emerged naturally;- There is, by contrast, significant circumstantial evidence that it came from a PRC biological weapons laboratory; and- The virus was deliberately unleashed on the world by the Chinese Communist Party when it allowed millions of travelers from Wuhan to fly internationally, even as it was locking down movement within China.The authors, identified collectively as Team B III (in the tradition of the official group that produced the first Team B exercise in competitive analysis in 1976 and a second one sponsored by the Center for Security Policy in 2010 entitled, Sharia: The Threat to America), call their report: The CCP is at War with America. Acclaimed China expert Gordon G. Chang wrote the Foreword.The book can be purchased here:ccpatwar.com
Webinar: The Case for Ukraine securefreedom 2022-05-06 | Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in February has precipitated an impressive, and these days rare, degree of bipartisan support here for the people of Ukraine, translating into billions in aid and vast arms transfers to the beleaguered defenders. Despite punishing sanctions and military reverses, however, Putin appears determined to continue his murderous aggression. Indeed, he threatens to escalate the conflict further and punish those assisting Ukraine, including with nuclear weapons. As the war in Ukraine’s actual and potential costs continue to grow – notably, with President Biden seeking another $33 billion for emergency humanitarian assistance and arms for that country, hard questions about America’s role there must be urgently addressed.
Stopping a Taiwan Invasion - Stephen Bryen gives an introduction to the latest CSP book release securefreedom 2022-04-29 | A Center for Security Policy organized panel of experts, all of whom have extensive experience in the Pacific and with the U.S. Pacific command, believe the U.S. can deter China from attacking Taiwan.The Panel’s work resulted in 34 Findings and Recommendations.The Panel’s proposals, if adopted, will discourage any attack from China, and strengthen peace and security in the Pacific.**"The appearance of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) visual information does not imply or constitute DoD endorsement."**
Kyle Shideler on the FBI being pressured to ignore Black Identity Extremism securefreedom 2022-04-19 | Center Senior Analyst for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, Kyle Shideler joined Newsmax TV to discuss the Brooklyn subway shooting and the FBI being pressured in ignoring "Black Identity Extremism."
Harold Rhode explains the Biden administrations relationship with the Iranians securefreedom 2022-03-23 | Securing America with Harold Rhode Pt. 1 | March 22, 2022
Todd Bensman gives an update on the US border crisis securefreedom 2022-03-23 | Securing America with Todd Bensman Pt. 1 | March 22, 2022
Securing America with Rep. Scott Perry Pt. 2 | March 15, 2022 securefreedom 2022-03-17 | REP. SCOTT PERRY, Pennsylvania’s 4th Congressional District, U.S. House of Representatives, Member, House Transportation & Infrastructure, and Foreign Affairs Committees, Former State Representative, Pennsylvania General Assembly, @RepScottPerry- Rep. Scott Perry’s take on the Russia-Ukraine war- An update on the Iran Nuclear Deal- Perry’s thoughts on the Iranian attack on Iraq
Securing America with Rep. Scott Perry Pt. 1 | March 15, 2022 securefreedom 2022-03-17 | REP. SCOTT PERRY, Pennsylvania’s 4th Congressional District, U.S. House of Representatives, Member, House Transportation & Infrastructure, and Foreign Affairs Committees, Former State Representative, Pennsylvania General Assembly, @RepScottPerry- Rep. Scott Perry’s take on the Russia-Ukraine war- An update on the Iran Nuclear Deal- Perry’s thoughts on the Iranian attack on Iraq
John Mills on Russian banks switching to a Chinese card system securefreedom 2022-03-08 | Center Senior Fellow John Mills appeared on Newsmax TV to discuss Russian banks making a quick switch to a Chinese card system after American credit card companies announced they would be ending service in Russia.
Webinar: Countering the Authoritarian Wave in Latin America securefreedom 2022-02-04 | The Center for Security Policy’s Hemispheric Security Initiative hosted a webinar on February 3 to address the growing threat posed to the United States and its people by the rising tide of Communist authoritarianism across Latin America. It featured; one of the region’s most formidable statesmen, former Peruvian First Vice President Francisco Tudela; a top U.S. policymaker under President Trump, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Sergio de la Peña; and discussions of two important analyses: a new paper by the Executive Director of the Center for Secure Free Societies, Joseph Humire, about “The Authoritarian Wave,” and one by Vice President Tudela concerning the threat posed by the imperiling of the Western Hemisphere by Peru’s new Communist government under President Pedro Castillo.The webinar is of special timeliness as it comes shortly after Vice President Tudela has initiated a process calling for the impeachment of President Castillo on the grounds that he has engaged in treason by suggesting in an interview last week a willingness to relinquish Peruvian territory to Bolivia in violation of Peru’s constitution. It also will frame the issues and challenges facing freedom-loving people in Colombia and Brazil – and the dire implications for America if the authoritarian tidal wave of 2021 continues unchecked, aided and abetted by external forces like the Chinese Communist Party, Russia, Iran and Cuba.
The Dangerous Campaign to Free Aafia Siddiqui securefreedom 2022-01-26 | On January 15th, a British-Pakistani Muslim named Malik Faisal Akram entered the Colleyville, Texas synagogue of Congregation Beth Israel, and held four people hostage, including Beth Israel’s rabbi.During negotiations with law enforcement Akram made clear his goal was to seek release for notorious convicted Al Qaeda terrorist Aafia Siddiqui, who is being held in nearby Carswell federal prison. While the investigation into Akram, including what ties he may have had to other jihadists or groups is still underway, questions are being raised about the role played by domestic Islamist groups, such as the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and other groups linked to the Muslim Brotherhood in agitating for Siddiqui’s release from jail. What role did this agitation play in motivating Akram’s terror attack? Who is Aafia Siddiqui, and why would her early release from prison be dangerous for American national security?
Why the United States, not China, needs to shape Middle East Policy securefreedom 2021-12-20 | Other content:youtube.com/watch?v=W2oPXD9TSTkyoutube.com/watch?v=FQF_-52IypUThe appearance of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) visual information does not imply or constitute DoD endorsement.
Time for a New ‘Monroe Initiative’ to Counter China, Russia and Iran in Latin America securefreedom 2021-12-17 | In the wake of a fraud-riddled Peruvian election last summer that has ushered in a communist regime in Lima, the Chinese, Russians and Iranians are aggressively pursuing with their clients throughout Latin America the colonization of the hemisphere’s few remaining Free World nations. An election in Chile this weekend and upcoming voting in Colombia and Brazil next year offer the grim prospect of the contemporary Communist International— which is doing business in the Western Hemisphere as the Forum of Sao Paolo— running the table completely. Such an outcome would be disastrous for not only the people of the region but Americans as well. The United States in particular is likely to feel the extremely adverse, knock-on effects of regional economic dislocation, attendant illegal migration, intensified drug trafficking and the burgeoning national security threats arising from the Marxist revolutions being supported and fostered by this country’s foes, like Xi Jinpeng, Vladimir Putin and the Ayatollah Khamenei.
