Urgent Appeal - Support MEMRI In Our Time Of Need

Memri

20 hours ago

Following the 12-day Israel/U.S.-Iran war, and to the continued war in Gaza for nearly two years, the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) continues to provide vital research, primary source translations, original analysis, and vital early warnings to the governments of the U.S. and its allies and to their counterterrorism officials, law enforcement agencies, militaries, and other authorities. As the region resets, with never-before seen changes as well as increased tensions, MEMRI's work is more important and more needed now than ever before.
Meanwhile, the last Iranian proxy standing, the Houthis, are renewing their disruption of shipping in the Red Sea and their launching of drones and missiles at Israel; China continues efforts to expand to the South China Sea and Taiwan; and civil wars continue in Sudan and Libya.
MEMRI is working around the clock, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, monitoring and translating, providing cutting-edge research and open-source intelligence (OSINT). As always, our wide-ranging work focuses on the most recent and most critical events and developments in these regions.
No other organization does the work that we are doing. But this work is resource intensive, and we need your help today.
Since MEMRI's establishment nearly 30 years ago, we have become one of the world's most productive nonprofit think tanks focusing on the Middle East and South Asia and on threats from these regions to the U.S. and the West. Our research output equals or surpasses that of similar organizations many times our size with many times our budget. In the past decade, not one day has passed without new MEMRI research being posted on our website and sent out in emails to hundreds of thousands of subscribers. MEMRI research is filling a major void; in our 27th year, we again prove ourselves leaders in this field.
But during these eventful times, our research and translation teams remain stretched to the limit. There is so much more of this primary source material that MEMRI needs to monitor, translate, and distribute. As we face so many more challenges this year, we continue to produce ever more research and distribute it to governments, legislatures, media, and you, our readers. We are appealing to you, our donors and readers, to help support our work.
Areas we are closely monitoring, with a focus on statements by governments, terrorist and rebel groups, and their leaders, include:
Iran: Following the war, Iranian regime officials and clerics ramp up their assassination threats against President Trump, as they withdraw from all international nuclear oversight organizations and vow to double down on the country's nuclear program, moving toward nuclear ambiguity. At the same time, Iran's non-Persian ethnic groups call for the downfall of the Islamic regime and for a new democratic future for the country.
Qatar: Qatar, the foremost sponsor of terrorism worldwide that pretends to be a U.S. ally continues to position itself also to be an "honest broker" in negotiations, amid its ongoing efforts to buy influence in the West, including in U.S. higher education.
Gaza and Lebanon: As Hamas continues to attempt to thwart the distribution of humanitarian aid that it once exclusively controlled – thus forcing Gaza's civilian population to stand by it – the Lebanese government, under U.S. pressure, demands that Hizbullah disarm, but Hizbullah's compliance is not assured.
Syria : Amid President Trump's lifting of all remaining U.S. sanctions on Syria, and removal of Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham – the organization led by Syrian leader Ahmed Al-Sharaa that took over the country in December – from the list of designated terrorists, Syrian forces unleash brutal attacks on the Druze region in southern Syria.
Yemen's Houthis: Ansar Allah (the Houthis), the last Iranian proxy left standing, resumes its disruption of shipping in the Red Sea and missile and drone launches toward Israel.
Jihadi activity: There are increased threats and chatter about lone wolf attacks in the West, from ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and other jihadi organizations.
Russia-Iran-China Alliance: The 12-day Israel/U.S.-Iran war laid bare the limits of Russia's and China's support for Iran, and Iran now seeks to acquire Chinese military technology, including 40 advanced fighter jets for its airforce.
Extremist imams and Islamist organizations in the U.S. and West: In addition to all these regions, MEMRI focuses on exposing the continuing extremism emanating from mosques and Islamist organizations in the U.S.
We continue our mission to "bridge the language gap" and to make it possible for U.S. officials and the public to understand what is happening both outside the U.S. and inside it (such as in extremist sermons in mosques).
We are appealing to you, as a reader and donor who is aware of our vital work, to continue with a greater effort to support our work. Your donation will also support these special projects:
MEMRI TV – The MEMRI TV project scours hundreds of channels and online broadcasting outlets – Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Turkish, Russian, Chinese, and Korean – for relevant, important content to record, translate, subtitle, and publish. To date, MEMRI TV clips, numbering nearly 12,000, have had over 350 million views across the web. No other research like this is being carried out by any intelligence community anywhere in the West.
Lantos Archives on Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial – Named after the late honorable Congressman and Holocaust survivor Tom Lantos, this project exposes Muslim antisemitism in the Arab and Muslim world and the West, and also monitors online propaganda, incitement, threats, and recruitment activity by violent neo-Nazi groups and individuals. It maintains the world's largest archives on these subjects.
Our linguists and analysts – experts in the field – have been exposing extremism, antisemitism, and jihadi threats for over a quarter of a century, helping law enforcement agencies all over the U.S., and have thwarted numerous actual planned attacks. We ask you today to help us continue our essential, unique, and vital work. We cannot do this without you.
With gratitude,