Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies

We just announced it about a week ago.

We're establishing a research center at the Moshe Dayan Center.

where we have a program in Applied Middle East Studies where we're looking at radical Islam, extremism, and the re-emergence of anti-Semitism in the Middle East, and how that's informing kind of the Western issue as well.

You pay a lot of attention to anti-Semitism and anti-Israel rhetoric going on in academia.

We have a small research center in Cambridge University in the UK.

We just signed an agreement with Tel Aviv University at the Moshe Dayan Center, where we're creating a research program and teaching on a master's program in Middle East studies.

So we're there.

We're also at INSS.

Meanwhile in Iraq, the planned US withdrawal is reportedly emboldening Iranian-backed militias.

According to Dr. Ronan Zeidel, an Iraq specialist at the Moshe Dayan Center, these groups are resisting disarmament.

pushing back deadlines and shifting focus from disarmament to regulation of weapons.

He noted that Iran maintains an unofficial presence in the country, and while the US retains economic leverage, Baghdad faces a dilemma over confronting the militias.

It's a coherent position.

Which is where Yusri Kaysan from the Dayan Center comes in.

He calls the pattern integration without identification.

Arab citizens want the budgets, the services, the local government, the integration into civic life.