Zach D. Huff

Zach D. Huff is a Kurdish affairs expert and field researcher for the Middle East Center for Reporting and Analysis.

THEN-PRIME MINISTER Naftali Bennett shakes hands with Ra’am Party leader Mansour Abbas in the Knesset plenum, in 2021.

It's time for Israel to have an Arab co-president - opinion

Polls by the Israel Democracy Institute reveal that about two-thirds of Israel’s Arab citizens, who make up 21% of the population, express record levels of solidarity with Israel.

JUNE 30, 2024

A POSTER of Tal Shalev, 53, hangs above his family home patio in Kibbutz Nir Oz, where he and his father David, 75, were murdered by Hamas on October 7.

Evidence of October 7 massacre must be preserved - opinion

Countless solidarity and educational trips have already visited the October 7 areas to bear witness.

MARCH 13, 2024

US President Joe Biden delivers an address from the White House last month, after visiting Israel following the Hamas massacre The US playbook lacks the deterrence needed to curb Iran, the writer maintains.

The US should delist this Iranian Kurdish 'terror' group - opinion

Since its founding in 2004, the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) has never attacked civilians in Iran, or anywhere else. It does not focus its offensive operations against any other government.

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Inside New York’s night of protest and looting

20 minutes ahead of the 11 p.m. curfew and unsure how the night would play out, I grabbed an aluminum bat, which I shrouded in a garbage bag so as to not intimidate police or activists.

JUNE 5, 2020

A broken window after a night of looting in New York

Resilience in a turbulent neighborhood

Khashoggi appeared to prefer a reunified Syria under Ba’athist President Bashar Assad over allowing the Kurds’ emerging democracy.

OCTOBER 24, 2018

A demonstrator holds picture of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi during a protest in front of Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, October 5, 2018

With the Kurds who are fighting the elite IRGC

Kurdish groups like the PDKI operate among the estimated six million Kurds in western Iran.

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The aftermath of an Iranian ballistic missile strike on the Koya headquarters of the KDP-I Iranian opposition group in northern Iraq