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CATHERINE PEREZ-SHAKDAM

Catherine Perez-Shakdam is a French Jewish political analyst and commentator for the Middle East. A former consultant for the United Nations Security Council on Yemen’s War Economy; her research was instrumental in better understanding Yemen’s political landscape and actors’ financial interests. Her writing and commentaries on the Middle East have graced the cover of countless publications, including the Huffington Post, BBC Arabic, BBC Persia, Voices of America, and the Times of Israel. In 2017 Catherine was the only Western media personality to have been granted an interview with now-President Ibrahim Raisi.
Riot police on the Champs Elysees avenue after Paris St Germain won the Champions League, Paris, France, May 31, 2025

As Paris burns, the West must stop asking 'why?' and address jihad threat - opinion

The flames in Paris are not just physical. They are the burning embers of decades of self-delusion.

JUNE 4, 2025
BRITISH MP Kit Malthouse speaks during Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons last year. Last week, he posted on X: ‘A number of us have written to the prime minister calling for recognition of Palestine.’

Britain recognizing a Palestinian state would be grotesque, enshrine terror - opinion

I say to those who still possess a spine in this Parliament: speak now. Defend those whose voices are growing fainter under the din of ideological theatrics.

MAY 12, 2025
FOREIGN MINISTER Gideon Sa’ar meets with UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, in Abu Dhabi earlier this year. Imagine what could be accomplished if Israelis, Emiratis, Bahrainis, Moroccans, Sudanese, and others stood together, not just in commerce but in conscience, says the wr

Israel at 77: Choosing life, shaping the future - opinion

Am Yisrael Chai is not a slogan but an eternal covenant. A people lives. A nation thrives. A dream, battered but unbroken, endures.

MAY 2, 2025

Khomeini's ideological war: Iran uses Palestinian cause as tool in war against West - opinion

Pro-Palestine marches, in their desire to see justice for Palestinians, are inadvertently helping to undermine the very freedoms that they believe they are fighting for.

APRIL 17, 2025
A mural on a building in Tehran depicts Iran's late leader Ruhollah Khomeini. The youth of the day, particularly students, intellectuals, and left-wing activist, were swept up in the fervor of Khomeini's revolution.

Shame on Princeton: The libel of anti-Zionism and the normalization of hate - opinion

Anti-Zionist panel scheduled at Princeton University is not dissent but Israel hate.

MARCH 27, 2025
People walk around the Princeton University campus in New Jersey, November 16, 2013.

The UK’s inaction on Islamist radicalism Is a crisis for Israel and the West - opinion

The UK must abandon the dangerous belief that critiques of radical Islamist ideology equate to Islamophobia, instead adopting the UAE’s clear stance to protect society from this threat.

MARCH 17, 2025
AN ANTI-ISRAEL protest takes place outside a Premier League soccer match between Manchester City and Chelsea, in Manchester, in February. A Henry Jackson Society poll shows that one-third of British Muslims want implementation of Sharia law in the UK.

A new front: Iran is turning Algeria into an IRGC outpost and the West should be afraid - opinion

The IRGC, long the spearhead of Tehran’s expansionist ambitions and a state-within-a-state that thrives on destabilization, now finds in Algeria a new theater for its operations.

FEBRUARY 23, 2025
Members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) attend an IRGC ground forces military drill in the Aras area, East Azerbaijan province, Iran, October 17, 2022.

The Abraham trade route: A roadmap for peace, power, and prosperity - opinion

The Abraham trade route is not a fantasy – it is a necessity. And the time to make it a reality is now.

FEBRUARY 18, 2025
AN IRANIAN military ship takes part in a drill in the coastal area of the Gulf of Oman, near the Strait of Hormuz, in 2022.

The language of antisemitism: A hatred without an end - opinion

Antisemitism is not just a Jewish problem. It is a societal disease, an intellectual rot, a spiritual collapse.

FEBRUARY 13, 2025
KANYE WEST and Bianca Censori pose at the red carpet during the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles last week. The writer argues: In his latest plunge into the abyss, ‘Jews were better as slaves,’ West has merely vocalized what has been lurking beneath the surface.

Gaza can only reclaim its future once Hamas is truly gone - opinion

Hamas cannot be managed, reformed, or contained. It must be destroyed – completely, irreversibly, and without the possibility of resurrection.

FEBRUARY 3, 2025
Hamas terrorists seen before a hostage release in Gaza City, February 1, 2025

What the new Middle East chessboard means for Israel - opinion

The collapse of Assad’s regime marks the start of a new and volatile chapter.

DECEMBER 12, 2024
REBELS LED by HTS capitalize on their swift takeover of Aleppo in northern Syria and Hama in the west-central region by pressing onward to Homs, in Hama, last Friday. Having pounded anti-Assad factions for years, Russia cannot expect accommodation from HTS, say the writers.

The silenced suffering of Iran’s youth and the deafening silence of the West - opinion

In the end, it is not only Iran’s youth who suffer under this hypocrisy; it is the integrity of human rights itself.

NOVEMBER 18, 2024
IRAN FANS wear t-shirts with the message: ‘Woman Life Freedom’ outside a stadium before a 2022 World Cup match between Iran and Wales in Qatar. Young Iranians have dared to imagine a future free from the stranglehold of a regime that views every breath of liberty as a mortal threat, says the writer

BBC’s dangerous lapse is their failure to label terrorist organizations properly - opinion

The BBC’s failure to call these groups what they are – terrorist organizations – does not merely distort reality but actively endangers the public.

OCTOBER 3, 2024
BBC HEADQUARTERS in London