Dear Friend,
This is an urgent appeal to support MEMRI's work.
IN THE LAST 25 YEARS
For the past quarter of a century, MEMRI has been providing vital research, primary source translations, and original analysis to the governments of the U.S. and its allies, and to their counterterrorism officials, law enforcement agencies, militaries, and other authorities, assisting them in tackling threats and facing adversaries. We work with news organizations and media to inform their understanding of the complexities of issues and developments in all these countries, and serve as a valuable resource for academia and legislatures worldwide.
SINCE THE WAR
Since the Hamas attack on the southern front of Israel on October 7, 2023, and Hizbullah, Iran's other proxy, joining the war a day later, on October 8, on the northern front, MEMRI staff have been closely monitoring the Israel-Hamas and Israel-Hizbullah wars around the clock, seven days a week, publishing an unprecedented number of reports and clips – nearly 600 in the first eight weeks of the war. The translated MEMRI TV clips we released during this time have had over 80 million views.
As the war continues and expands, with the Iranian ayatollah's regime joining the war directly with attacks involving hundreds of missile in April and October, MEMRI's research is playing a more important role than ever in deciphering enemy plans, strategies, and intentions.
In fact, the war on the southern front has involved the murder of 32 American hostages as well as another seven American hostages who remain in captivity. In the north, it is a war against Hizbullah, a group whose history includes the murder of 17 Americans in the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut in April 1983, and that of 241 U.S. military personnel in the bombing of the U.S. Marine Corps Barracks in the same city in October of that year, along with countless other terrorist attacks on American targets.
The war involves Iran, a country that constitutes a menace to the United States, whose leadership regularly lead chants of "Death to America" and refer to the country as "the Great Satan," and which holds a sword over Western economies in the Red Sea, where Iran's Houthi proxies have paralyzed 60 percent of the traffic, and is a direct threat to the oil of Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, and Bahrain. Iran also has missiles that can reach Europe, is developing missiles that could reach the United States, and is trying to develop nuclear weapons. All of this shows that the war is no less against America than it is against Israel. It is important to note that the threat from Iran comes not from the Iranian people, but from the Iranian ayatollah's regime. There is a way to counter that regime, and to pull it down without war.
The war in the Middle East has also prompted a wave of violent demonstrations in the United States and the West generally and MEMRI is working to document and expose extremist and violent organizations in the West. We monitor imams who advocate hatred and violence against Americans, both Jews and non-Jews, and are playing an ever-growing role in Western security. MEMRI's work to document and expose extremism in the West is also more important than ever. Its monitoring of extremist imams who advocate hatred and violence against Jews, Americans, and the West, is playing an ever-growing role in Western security. In just one example, its exposure over years of the PLFP-linked Samidoun has resulted recently in that group being banned in the U.S. and Canada.
MEMRI research, with its significant intelligence value, is filling a major void. We have been assisting governments worldwide, providing them with our latest research – in the U.S., Canada, Israel, and Europe. In MEMRI's 25th year, we again prove that we are on the cutting edge in this field.
In addition to our support to law enforcement, our research has assisted the Departments of State and Treasury, and other agencies. MEMRI research was used in public forums by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and by National Security Council Strategic Communications Coordinator John Kirby. MEMRI research is being shared on social media by prominent political leaders, including members of Congress.
With the ongoing war in Gaza and Lebanon, the Iranian aggression, Qatar's ongoing sponsorship of jihadi and Islamist organizations and movements worldwide, extremism in the U.S. and the West, and heightened tensions in the region and across the U.S. and the West, including violent anti-Israel and antisemitic protests, our work is more crucial than ever.
MEMRI staff – researchers, translators, editors, as well as technical and distribution teams – are working 24 hours a day from different locations on the globe and different time zones. The work we are doing is exhausting, and producing that amount of material is very costly. There is much to do, and we need your help today. We cannot do this without you.
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HELP US MEET OUR GOALS BEFORE THE END OF THE FISCAL YEAR – SO WE CAN CONTINUE OUR WORK
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In gratitude for your consideration,
