Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET) is a Washington, DC-based think tank and policy center with a pro-Israel stance that works to promote their views in media coverage of the

Arab–Israeli conflict The Arab–Israeli conflict is an ongoing intercommunal phenomenon involving political tension, military conflicts, and other disputes between Arab countries and Israel, which escalated during the 20th century, but had mostly faded out by the ...

in the Middle East

History

The organization holds seminars on topics related to the

Middle East The Middle East ( ar, الشرق الأوسط, ISO 233: ) is a geopolitical region commonly encompassing Arabia (including the Arabian Peninsula and Bahrain), Asia Minor (Asian part of Turkey except Hatay Province), East Thrace (Europ ...

and the

Arab–Israeli Conflict The Arab–Israeli conflict is an ongoing intercommunal phenomenon involving political tension, military conflicts, and other disputes between Arab countries and Israel, which escalated during the 20th century, but had mostly faded out by the ...

In 2008, these seminars were sponsored by the Adelson Family Foundation under the title "Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Policy Seminar Series". In 2008 it was involved in the distribution in cooperation with The Clarion Fund and

Aish HaTorah Aish HaTorah ( he, אש התורה, lit. "Fire of the Torah") is an Orthodox Jewish educational organization and yeshiva. History Aish HaTorah was established in Jerusalem in 1974 by Rabbi Noah Weinberg, after he left the Ohr Somayach yeshiva ...

of over 20 million DVDs of the film '' Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West'' in swing states prior to the 2008 US Presidential election. EMET conducted a short campaign to prevent

Mosab Hassan Yousef Mosab Hassan Yousef ( ar, مصعب حسن يوسف; nicknamed "The Green Prince"; born 5 May 1978) is a Palestinian who worked undercover for Israel's internal security service Shin Bet from 1997 to 2007. Shin Bet considered him its most valuab ...

, a former Israeli spy and author of '' Son of Hamas'' from being deported from the United States. Mosab publicly thanked the organization following his immigration hearing, saying "I am especially grateful to Sarah Stern, president of the Endowment for Middle Eastern Truth. Today’s blessings would not have happened without her and this amazing organization." According to '' The Jerusalem Post'', EMET was responsible for initiating a bipartisan congressional letter to Attorney General

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on the subject of the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice for Victims of Overseas Terrorism, accusing the office of failing to serve American citizens in Israel who were victims of Palestinian terrorist attacks. The letter was sponsored by Democratic Congressman Howard Berman and Republican Congressman

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, and 52 co-sponsors, who joined in demanding the Attorney General pursue indictments against Palestinian terrorists released by Israel in the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange.

Board

Past and present Advisory Board members include

Sarah Stern Sarah (born Sarai) is a Patriarchs (Bible)#Matriarchs, biblical matriarch and Prophet, prophetess, a major figure in Abrahamic religions. While different Abrahamic faiths portray her differently, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all depict her ...

Jeane Kirkpatrick Jeane Duane Kirkpatrick (née Jordan; November 19, 1926December 7, 2006) was an American diplomat and political scientist who played a major role in the foreign policy of the Ronald Reagan administration. An ardent anticommunist, she was a lo ...

Yoram Ettinger Yoram Ettinger (born 1945) is an Israeli researcher, diplomat, writer, lecturer and consultant to Israeli and US legislators and their staffers. He is an expert on US-Israel relations, Middle East affairs and Jewish-Arab demography. Ettinger is ...

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Daniel Pipes Daniel Pipes (born September 9, 1949) is an American historian, writer, and commentator. He is the president of the Middle East Forum, and publisher of its ''Middle East Quarterly'' journal. His writing focuses on American foreign policy and the ...

Meyrav Wurmser Meyrav Wurmser is an Israeli-American neoconservative political executive. Biography Meyrav Wurmser wrote her Ph.D. thesis on Revisionist Zionism behind the Herut and Likud parties, and received her doctorate in political science at George Washi ...

, David Wurmser, Frank Gaffney, James Woolsey, Caroline Glick and Larry Greenfield.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Endowment for Middle East Truth Non-governmental organizations involved in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict