CATHERINE PEREZ-SHAKDAM

Catherine Perez-Shakdam is a French Jewish political analyst and commentator for the Middle East. A former consultant for the United Nations Security Council on Yemen’s War Economy; her research was instrumental in better understanding Yemen’s political landscape and actors’ financial interests. Her writing and commentaries on the Middle East have graced the cover of countless publications, including the Huffington Post, BBC Arabic, BBC Persia, Voices of America, and the Times of Israel. In 2017 Catherine was the only Western media personality to have been granted an interview with now-President Ibrahim Raisi.
FOREIGN MINISTER Gideon Sa’ar and German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul visit the Holocaust Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, in Berlin, in June.

Genocide is a word that has lost all meaning since Gaza war - opinion

We live in a time when Parliament in the UK can debate Israel 10 times more than Sudan, where half a million children have starved to death.

SEPTEMBER 7, 2025
PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant are depicted behind bars at an anti-Israel protest in Tehran in June. The great cities of the West echo with the same sound as Tehran, says the writer.

A warning from the belly of the beast: the markers of conquest - opinion

They do not need to storm our gates; they believe we will fling them open ourselves. And I fear they are not wrong.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2025
A PRO-PALESTINIAN protester waves a Palestinian flag in front of the Greek parliament during a demonstration at Syntagma Square in Athens on August, 24, 2025. The chants echoing in our capitals are not background noise but warnings, the writer argues.

Revolution at our doorstep: The Left’s dance with Islamofascism - opinion

The time for hesitation is over. The only question that remains is whether we have the courage to see this revolution before it triumphs and to stop it while we still can.

AUGUST 26, 2025

The caliphate will be televised, and the West will fall – opinion

In attacking Israel, Europe has quite possibly mortgaged its own future in a breathtaking form of self-sabotage.

AUGUST 9, 2025
PEOPLE MOURN in front of the Bataclan concert hall following a series of deadly attacks in Paris in 2015. The memory of such events lasts just long enough for the hashtags to fade, the writer laments.

Iran’s theater of victimhood: How the Islamic Republic poisons minds and nations - opinion

The Iranian regime is not content to manipulate its own people; its ambitions extend to beguiling the West with a narrative of victimhood.

AUGUST 4, 2025
A MEMORIAL rally for Iranian military commanders and scientists killed in the war with Israel takes place in Tehran this week. The mullahs demand obedience and complicity, says the writer.

The Druze and the great betrayal: Why Israel must not stand alone - opinion

The Druze are under siege in the Middle East, but the West is failing to defend them.

JULY 21, 2025
A BEDOUIN fighter walks with a weapon near damaged cars and buildings in Sweida, Syria, this past Saturday. The Druze are under siege once again, the writer asserts.

Greta Thunberg's 'Freedom Flotilla' puts the UK in a legal, moral quagmire - opinion

The so-called “Freedom Flotilla,” a political theater disguised as humanitarian urgency, has sailed not just toward Gaza but straight into the heart of legal and moral peril for the United Kingdom.

JUNE 30, 2025
A drone view shows the Gaza-bound aid ship Madleen, organized by the international NGO Freedom Flotilla Coalition, anchored off the coast of Catania, Italy, on June 1, 2025

From the Basij to Balochistan: How Iran has encircled the Arab world - opinion

Iran’s peripheral militias and quiet encirclement of the Arab world.

JUNE 19, 2025
MEMBERS OF Iran’s Basij militia force attend an anti-Israel march in Tehran last week before Israel launched its attacks. It’s a quiet war of encirclement, exemplified by the Islamic Republic of Iran’s patience, theological certainty, and strategic depth, says the writer.

As Paris burns, the West must stop asking 'why?' and address jihad threat - opinion

The flames in Paris are not just physical. They are the burning embers of decades of self-delusion.

JUNE 4, 2025
Riot police on the Champs Elysees avenue after Paris St Germain won the Champions League, Paris, France, May 31, 2025

Britain recognizing a Palestinian state would be grotesque, enshrine terror - opinion

I say to those who still possess a spine in this Parliament: speak now. Defend those whose voices are growing fainter under the din of ideological theatrics.

MAY 12, 2025
BRITISH MP Kit Malthouse speaks during Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons last year. Last week, he posted on X: ‘A number of us have written to the prime minister calling for recognition of Palestine.’

Israel at 77: Choosing life, shaping the future - opinion

Am Yisrael Chai is not a slogan but an eternal covenant. A people lives. A nation thrives. A dream, battered but unbroken, endures.

MAY 2, 2025
FOREIGN MINISTER Gideon Sa’ar meets with UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, in Abu Dhabi earlier this year. Imagine what could be accomplished if Israelis, Emiratis, Bahrainis, Moroccans, Sudanese, and others stood together, not just in commerce but in conscience, says the wr

Khomeini's ideological war: Iran uses Palestinian cause as tool in war against West - opinion

Pro-Palestine marches, in their desire to see justice for Palestinians, are inadvertently helping to undermine the very freedoms that they believe they are fighting for.

APRIL 17, 2025
A mural on a building in Tehran depicts Iran's late leader Ruhollah Khomeini. The youth of the day, particularly students, intellectuals, and left-wing activist, were swept up in the fervor of Khomeini's revolution.

Shame on Princeton: The libel of anti-Zionism and the normalization of hate - opinion

Anti-Zionist panel scheduled at Princeton University is not dissent but Israel hate.

MARCH 27, 2025
People walk around the Princeton University campus in New Jersey, November 16, 2013.