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January 24, 2023 at 5:43 PM

PA Goes After Israel & Harvard Reverts to Type

In this week’s Action Update, we see both sides of the U.S.-Israel relationship under the current American administration and acknowledge that we should’ve known better than to think Harvard was going to do the right thing when it comes to anything pertaining to Israel. Let’s dive right i…
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January 18, 2023 at 3:49 PM

EU is asked, “Does it not pay to kill Jews?”

In this week’s edition of the Action Update, we wanted to bring you a few important stories that may have flown under the radar but nonetheless bear understanding. The common theme is that others seem to be realizing what we’ve been saying for years: don’t appease bad people. The United K…
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January 11, 2023 at 1:43 PM

Iranian Drones and a Chemical Terror Attack Thwarted

Preview During the past week, Washington was focused on the effort to elect a Speaker of the House of Representatives. With that task now complete, we’re sure our elected officials would agree that it’s time for Congress to get to the hard work of governing this nation. As they do so, here…
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January 3, 2023 at 3:06 PM

The UN Goes After Israel (Again) and Other 2023 Challenges

Preview Welcome to 2023. We hope you had a wonderful holiday season and a great New Year. Over the past few months, we’ve been preparing for the changes set to take place in Washington and around the world. In today’s Action Update, we’ll let you know what’s going on and what we’re looking…
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December 7, 2022 at 1:30 PM

Action Update: Dueling Democrats

Preview The CUFI Action Fund is a nonpartisan organization. We focus on policies, not partisan politics. But this also means that we give no quarter to any officials who harm the U.S.-Israel relationship, kowtow to the enemies of freedom, or traffic in antisemitism. Last week, we were crit…
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November 29, 2022 at 3:30 PM

Deeply Troubling News out of Mar-a-Lago

Preview After working for years to support the U.S.-Israel relationship and combat antisemitism, it’s not terribly easy for news to surprise our team, but this week, we’ll discuss two events that caught us off guard. Deeply Troubling News out of Mar-a-Lago Last week, former President Donal…
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November 15, 2022 at 6:00 PM

An anti-Israel Investigation and Iran’s Policy of Sexual Violence

Preview It hasn’t been a good week for those who care about freedom and democracy. Some of the blame falls on the Biden Administration, and much of it falls on the regime in Tehran. There’s no introduction that will do justice to this week’s news, so we’re just going to go ahead and be…
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November 8, 2022 at 2:57 PM

Bibi, Bombs and BDS

Preview From Israeli elections and Iranian nukes to the mutations of the effort to destroy Israel, in this week’s Action Update we’ll be covering a lot of ground. So, without further ado, let’s dive into the latest. Israeli Elections Last week we discussed a bit about how Israel’s pa…
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November 2, 2022 at 12:00 PM

Iran Talks Enter Zombie Mode

Preview In this week’s edition of the Action Update, we’ll discuss the Israeli elections that just took place, the first signs of the Biden administration acknowledging the reality on Iran, and the current state of affairs in the effort to see the Chicago-based financial services company…
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October 28, 2022 at 2:39 PM

The UN Strikes Again

Preview This week’s Action Update is coming to you a bit late because there were so many things happening over the past few days that we wanted to address them in as close to real time as possible. With that out of the way, let’s dive right in. The UN Strikes Again Late last week, the …
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October 18, 2022 at 6:53 PM

A Third Intifada?

Preview A new terror group has emerged in the West Bank, and they are mixing traditional guerilla warfare tactics with the longstanding inhumanity of Palestinian terrorism. They are dangerous, organized and their actions may very well spark a Third Intifada. Who Are The Lion’s Den? As e…
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October 11, 2022 at 2:33 PM

Abbas’s Allies Kill Israeli Soldier

Preview It’s often said that the world is smaller and more interconnected than ever before, but it’s a cliché for a reason: it’s true. Keeping with the clichés, in this week’s Action Update, we’ll discuss how all politics is local and how a threat to freedom anywhere is a threat to freedom …
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October 4, 2022 at 3:32 PM

In Iran an Entire Generation Demands Liberty

Preview While there has been a lot going on inside the U.S., from the tragic devastation of Hurricane Ian to the upcoming mid-term elections, the press continues to cover international matters of importance as well. Sadly, however, in many respects we haven’t seen the press focus the appro…
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September 28, 2022 at 6:44 PM

The Homefront is the Front Line

On Sunday evening, Jews around the world began celebrating Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. As they begin the year 5783, we are going to discuss the threats faced by the children of Israel, both here at home and around the world. The Home Front is the Front Line Earlier this week, if …
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September 20, 2022 at 3:00 PM

A Mass Murderer Comes to the USA

Preview Iran’s President, Ebrahim Raisi, is a war criminal and mass murderer. His regime regularly tortures and kills innocent people, supports assassination and kidnapping plots in the U.S. (against both former officials and dissidents), holds American citizens hostage, and thumbs its nos…
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September 13, 2022 at 5:34 PM

Palestinian Terrorism on the Rise

Preview The Middle East, and those concerned with what goes on there, rarely face a week that’s all good. Sadly, sometimes, the news is all bad. And sometimes, like the past week, we get a bit of everything. So, let’s dive right in. Bad News There’s no other way to put this: things are he…
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September 7, 2022 at 8:37 PM

Will the U.S. Enrich the World’s Leading Sponsor of Terror?

Preview Last week, CUFI founder and Chairman Pastor John Hagee authored an op-ed for Newsweek in which he offered a stark assessment of the Biden administration’s approach towards Iran. A key component of Pastor Hagee’s piece was his focus on the pivotal role Congress must play if we are t…
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August 30, 2022 at 12:30 PM

Action Update: Can we Avoid a Nuclear Iran?

Preview There’s an old Jewish lesson (of sorts) that goes something like this: if you haven’t had a drop to drink, yet two Rabbis tell you you’re drunk, go home and sleep it off. The message is simple: no matter how confident you are in your belief or position, if two learned friends tell …
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August 23, 2022 at 12:00 PM

Action Update: Getting Fleeced At The Iranian Bazaar

Preview Reports have come out this week, that world powers and the Iranians may be inching closer to a renewed Iran nuclear accord. Troublingly, a senior Iranian official said in a recent interview, “The achievements of the Islamic Republic in the nuclear talks in the past one month were e…
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August 17, 2022 at 2:25 PM

Iran Believes They Have a License to Kill

Iran’s rulers justify their existence, the country’s economic woes, and the crushing theocratic rule they impose on their people by claiming a divine right to rule and violently spread the Islamic Revolution throughout the world. Engaging with this regime has never produced positive resul…
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August 9, 2022 at 1:00 PM

Three Days of War: Key Facts Every Pro-Israel Activist Should Know

Preview We know you’re already aware of the recent conflagration between Israel and the Iranian-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) that took place over the weekend, but there’s a lot about the past few days that every pro-Israel activist should know. And one of the key pieces of inform…
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August 2, 2022 at 2:34 PM

The UN Cries Wolf While Innocents Suffer

Each week in the Action Update we often focus on the latest developments in various nations’ foreign policies. However, one of the cornerstones of a pariah state like Iran is that it treats its citizens with the same contempt and authoritarianism as its foreign policy approach would sugge…
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July 26, 2022 at 1:00 PM

What you missed at CUFI's Summit and Iran talks drag on

Preview As no doubt many of our readers and supporters are aware, CUFI returned to the nation’s capital last week for the first CUFI Washington Summit since the Covid-19 pandemic prevented us from doing so. We covered our legislative agenda in last week’s Action Update, so this week we tho…
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July 19, 2022 at 2:00 PM

CUFI on Capitol Hill

Preview As you read this, more than 1,000 top CUFI leaders are gathering on Capitol Hill in order to lobby our elected officials in support of three key pieces of pro-Israel legislation. Without further ado, here is what we’re supporting: The DEFEND Act The DEFEND (Deterring Enemy Forces a…
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July 6, 2022 at 4:26 PM

Hezbollah Drone Attacks and the New Axis of Evil

On Tuesday morning, as Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid was departing for France to discuss Iran and Hezbollah with French President Emmanuel Macron, Lapid sent a clear and unambiguous message to Israel’s neighbors to the north: if Lebanon doesn’t "rein in" Hezbollah, Israel will. In thi…
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June 28, 2022 at 1:49 PM

Action Update: A Secret Meeting of Middle Eastern Generals

The Middle East is rapidly changing, and in some cases, for the better. One of the themes prevalent around the time of the Abraham Accords was that such was unthinkable just a few years prior. In this week’s Action Update, we start with an even more "once unthinkable" reality in which we …
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June 22, 2022 at 12:00 PM

A Regional Defense Against Iranian Aggression

In last week’s Action Update we promised to elaborate a bit more on what we’re hoping to see from President Biden during his mid-July trip to the Middle East. The trip is important, and a lot of work needs to be done in a short period of time, so this week we’ll only be covering two …
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June 15, 2022 at 1:00 PM

Iran Targeting Israelis Abroad

Preview The Middle East has a habit of causing one to wake up in the morning and do a double-take as they scroll through the newsfeed on their phones. Unsurprisingly, the worst offender in this and many, many other contexts, is Iran. So, in this week’s Action Update we start with the …
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June 7, 2022 at 3:34 PM

Oil, Threats & Hate

Preview Often, it’s hard to keep track of who’s battling who and what alliances have formed in the Middle East. Sometimes it’s as simple as good vs. evil (e.g., Hamas vs. Israel). And sometimes, the age-old concept that ‘my enemy’s enemy is my friend’ applies. Things in the region are…
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June 1, 2022 at 1:00 PM

Freedom Is Not Free

Preview Here at home, on Memorial Day, we exercise the freedoms bequeathed to us by the fallen, while bearing in mind that the debt that enables our backyard barbeques can never be repaid. For the best amongst us, Memorial Day is made more personal by their having witnessed the herois…
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May 24, 2022 at 1:21 PM

Rep. Massie Refuses to Condemn Antisemitism

Preview In the past week, we’ve seen: a Republican lawmaker vote against a resolution condemning antisemitism; Iran, once again, threaten revenge for the killing of an Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) leader; and an increasing sense that certain members of the Republican part…
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May 17, 2022 at 1:00 PM

Action Update: The Nazis Are Here in the USA

For years, experts in the field from across the political spectrum have been warning about the startling and brutal rise in bigotry across the country. And in recent years, these comments ceased being a warning about what’s to come and have now become expressions of horror concerning…
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May 11, 2022 at 1:00 PM

Brutal Terror Attacks Against Israelis

The decisions and actions of some in Washington often leave Americans scratching their heads. And this week, we’re going to discuss one of those moments in the context of senators’ attitudes towards Iran. However, before we get into the Potomac oddities, we’ll first dive into the tro…
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May 3, 2022 at 1:00 PM

Mossad Foils Iranian Effort to Kill American, Israeli Officials

Preview This week’s Action Update has a little something for everyone. Intrigued by the efforts of Israel’s foreign intelligence service to protect innocent people? We’ve got you covered. Interested in some high-level policy analysis? There’s some of that as well. And of course, want …
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April 27, 2022 at 1:00 PM

Rockets Fired at Israel

Preview We work in politics, so we endeavor to be diplomatic. But there’s no diplomatic way of articulating the current situation: The Biden Administration’s Middle Eastern foreign policy approach is a slow-burning failure. And as you’ll see below, that belief isn’t rooted in one’s pa…
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April 19, 2022 at 1:00 PM

Iran's Leader Vows to Target Israel While Iran Talks Stall

Preview Violence, threats and condemnations - over the past week, we’ve seen them all. But what does it really mean? In this week’s Action Update, we dive into what you need to care about, what you can ignore, and what comes next. All Politics is Local In recent weeks we’ve seen terro…
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April 12, 2022 at 1:00 PM

Palestinian Terrorists Are Killing Israelis

Preview In recent weeks, we’ve seen a heartbreaking wave of terror across Israel, a possible glimpse of sanity from the Biden administration on Iran, and some good news in the efforts to combat antisemitism at the state level. So, without further ado, let’s dive in. Palestinian Terro…
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April 5, 2022 at 12:00 PM

Iran's Done Talking

Preview One of the most important elements of our work is the intake of information. Our work product, from legislation and policy documents to your weekly Action Update, is the final element of our labors. This week, three sentences in the articles we read stuck out. Iran’s Done Tal…
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March 30, 2022 at 1:26 PM

From Jerusalem to Hungary to the Negev Desert

Preview Over the past two weeks, Christians United for Israel staff and leadership have been to the Middle East and Europe, working every step of the way to support the Jewish people in yet another hour of need. In this week’s Action Update, we go from Jerusalem to Hungary to the Negev …
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March 15, 2022 at 8:50 PM

Action Update: Anyone Seeing a Pattern?

Preview Recent days have brought good news and bad. We’ve seen policies we’ve long supported advance and seen bipartisan opposition to US capitulation to Iran’s every whim in negotiations over the Islamic Republic’s quest for nuclear weapons. On the other hand, we’ve seen said capitulati…
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March 7, 2022 at 9:30 PM

Russia, Iran, the U.S., and Israel: Good vs. Evil

Preview The news from around the globe is grim. Evil is having its day in the sun. We must be committed to confronting it. The core of the issue is that the totalitarian fascist regime of Vladimir Putin has forged an alliance of sorts with the radical Islamist theocracy in Iran. As we d…
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March 1, 2022 at 3:49 PM

Russia: A Threat to Freedom Everywhere

The CUFI Action Fund is a single-issue organization. But some world events are so important that history itself pivots at those points and the ripples it sends impacts everything. Russia’s appalling, unwarranted, and inhumane invasion of Ukraine is such an event. We’ve seen the United …
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February 17, 2022 at 5:25 PM

Action Update: The Iran-Russia Mistake

Preview In this week’s Action Update we focus on Iran, but as the following indicates, nothing exists in a vacuum. In our interconnected world, how countries handle one foreign policy challenge (or success) directly impacts others. We are rapidly approaching a geo-political inflection po…
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February 10, 2022 at 2:00 PM

Action Fund Update: The Message, The Policy, The Lasers!

Last week, Christians United for Israel held its annual Leadership Summit in Texas, where over 200 of our top leaders and activists met with and heard from experts, CUFI staff, and your very own Action Fund team members.The Message If the theme of the Summit could be boiled down to one …
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January 28, 2022 at 8:50 PM

Standing with the Jewish People At Home and Abroad

Yesterday was International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It falls on the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. One might think that this day has been marked for decades, but, somewhat tellingly, the commemoration was only codified by the U…
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January 19, 2022 at 2:44 PM

Combating Antisemitism, Terrorism and the Hamas Caucus

Our plan this week was to devote this edition of the Update to progress we are making on several fronts in our effort to combat antisemitism and stand up for the US-Israel relationship. And we’re not allowing a terrorist’s actions to change that. But as we’re sure y…
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January 12, 2022 at 8:11 PM

CUFI Action Fund Update: Iran Edition

Welcome to the CUFI Action Fund Update: Iran edition. Regular readers of the Update know Iran is a pariah state. You know they are the world’s leading sponsor of terror, that they are pursuing a nuclear weapons capability and have an abysmal human rights record. But …
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January 7, 2022 at 10:06 PM

Around the Middle East in 2 minutes

Happy New Year! For our DC readers, and all others able to take a little time off these past couple of weeks, welcome back. As is often the case in our line of work (and we’re sure many others), you take a little time off and there’s a pile of things to go through on …
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December 15, 2021 at 4:17 PM

The White House May Finally See Iran’s Leaders For Who They Are

Preview An Update from CUFI Action Fund  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ …
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December 8, 2021 at 3:54 PM

The Action Update

Preview An Update from CUFI Action Fund  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ …
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