1) UN Watch provides a report on the ‘Hamas Takeover of UNRWA Schools in Gaza and Lebanon’.
“The UN agency that raises more than $1 billion annually from Western states with the promise to educate Palestinian children with values such as peace, tolerance, and universal human rights, instead has handed them over to the very operatives who recruit child soldiers, glorify suicide bombers, and preach the annihilation of a UN member state.
By knowingly employing Hamas terrorist leaders as school principals and teachers, and by allowing terror chiefs to head the unions that oversee thousands of their teachers, UNRWA didn’t just tolerate extremism — the Western-funded UN agency institutionalized it, turning classrooms into incubators of hate.”
2) At the INSS, Ofir Dayan discusses ‘A Chinese Influence Campaign Against Israel as a Means of Harming the United States’.
“China’s involvement in amplifying anti-Israel messages has become increasingly evident in the past year. Despite its diplomatic and economic ties with Israel, China uses its official media channels to portray Israel and the United States as solely responsible for the suffering in the Gaza Strip and as destabilizing actors. At the same time, it covertly runs influence campaigns within the United States, spreading anti-Israel and antisemitic narratives. These efforts have included conspiracy theories about “Jewish control” of politics, the economy, and the media in the United States, as well as attacks on pro-Israel politicians. Although China’s ultimate objective is to harm the United States, Israel suffers collateral damage from this Sino-American confrontation.”
3) At the Alma Center, Yaakov Lappin analyses ‘The West’s Abandonment of the Syrian Kurds and its Geopolitical Implications’.
“Since the March 2025 agreement between the Kurds and Damascus, the contradiction between the new Syrian regime’s aspiration for centralized control and the Syrian Kurds’ demand for autonomy has not been effectively resolved. The involvement of Turkey, the main ally and military supporter of Al-Sharaa, and a bitter enemy of the Kurds’ aspirations in northern Syria, further complicates the situation.”
4) MEMRI provides excerpts from a report concerning executions in Iran.
“According to a Dari-language report published by Afghanistan International on September 3, 2025, the Iran Human Rights (IRH) organization said that the Islamic Republic of Iran executed at least 864 people in the first eight months of 2025, raising fears that the Iranian government continues to use the death penalty as a means to crush dissent and punish its opponents.
The number of executions reflect a 100 percent increase compared to the same period last year, while Iranian officials confirmed only 61 cases, according to the report. At least nine people were also executed on charges of spying for Israel, the report noted.”
5) At the Modern War Institute, Liam Collins and John Spencer provide a case study of Operation Cast Lead.
“The First Gaza War occurred between December 27, 2008, and January 18, 2009. Despite its name, the twenty-two-day campaign is better understood as a major escalation in the long-standing conflict between Israel and Hamas. Operation Cast Lead, Israel’s operational name for the conflict, marked the first large-scale confrontation between the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Hamas following Israel’s 2005 disengagement from Gaza. It also initiated a new phase of urban conflict that would define future wars in the territory.”
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