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  • AMCD Applauds Israel’s Targeting of Hezbollah’s Leadership

    September 30, 2024 The American Mideast Coalition for Democracy applauds Israel’s precision targeting of the top Hezbollah leadership in Lebanon, expressing relief that the terrorist organizations’ stranglehold on Lebanon is broken and hope that Lebanese civil society will reassert itself, take back control of their country, and that Beirut will reemerge as the “Paris of…

  • Seventh of October and the Oppressed in the Middle East

    October 7, 2024  by Dr. Walid Phares  and Gazelle Sharmahd On the morning of October 7 last year, the U.S. woke to shocking news: hundreds of Jihadis had crossed the Gaza-Israel border and launched a brutal mass murder attack not only at a rave in the desert but inside farms and residences scattered in the…

  • “Educate America” addresses LA’s “Abrahamic Summit”

    September 20, 2024 On July 18, 2024, the partners at “Educate America” Dr Walid Phares and Gazelle Sharmahd addressed an “Abrahamic Summit” held in Los Angeles to celebrate and elevate the goals of the Abraham Accords signed during the summer 2020 by the United States with Israel, the UAE and Bahrain to normalize relations between…

  • AMCD Unequivocally Endorses Rep. Steube’s PAGER Act

    September 18, 2024 The American Mideast Coalition for Democracy believes Congressman Greg Steube’s “‘Preventing Armed Groups from Engaging in Radicalism” (PAGER) Act is an excellent piece of legislation designed to help the Lebanese people rein in Hezbollah by placing conditions on U.S, funding now going to the Lebanese Armed Forces. This legislation calls for the…

  • Left-Wing Protests Empower Jihadist Agendas

    September 9, 2024 The American Mideast Coalition for Democracy deplores the surge in far left-wing, pro-Hamas demonstrations which blames the Jewish state of Israel for everything, including the death of six hostages just found executed by the terrorist organization–the same terrorist organization which had kidnapped and held them for almost eleven months before shooting them…

  • Unwitting Allies: How Left-Wing Protests Empower Jihadist Agendas

    Israelis block the Ayalon Highway and clash with police in Tel Aviv, during a protest calling for the release of hostages held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, September 1, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

  • AMCD calls on President Sisi to Order the Release Yemeni Christian Convert 

    President Sisi who is fighting the jihadists and protecting Coptic churches should immediately order the release of Yemeni Christian convert. August 26, 2024 The American Mideast Coalition for Democracy abhors human rights violations of all kinds, but imprisonment for “thought-crimes” is especially egregious; therefore, AMCD calls for the release of Abdulbaqi Saeed Abdo, whose “crime”…

  • AMCD Decries Use of Gaza Civilian Casualty Photos to Stir Hate

    August 20, 2024 The American Mideast Coalition for Democracy strongly condemns the use of photos depicting civilian casualties in Gaza to provoke feelings of hatred toward Israel and Jews. “For months social media has been flooded with these images, some real and some fabricated, to provoke hatred of Israel and antisemitism more widely,” said AMCD…

  • Virtue Signaling or Saving Lives?

    The New Poster-Child for Compassion Instead Incites Hate August 16, 2024 by Dr. Walid Phares and Gazelle Sharmahd There is a disturbing trend in the West and on social media that ignores facts and speaks directly to the unfettered emotions of the youth and those who have no sense of history nor understanding of age-old…

  • Iran’s VACLAV HAVEL

    4th anniversary of the kidnapping of Jamsheed Sharmahd by Dr. Walid Phares (August 2, 2024) This week is the fourth anniversary of the kidnapping of Jamsheed Sharmahd (a dual German-American national born in Iran) by Islamic Regime operatives who transferred him to Iran, where he was subject to torture and sentenced to death by Khomeinist courts.…