Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch, a program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and the author of twelve books, including two New York Times bestsellers, The Truth About Muhammad and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) (both Regnery). His latest book is Did Muhammad Exist? An Inquiry Into Islam's Obscure Origins (ISI).
Spencer has led seminars on Islam and jihad for the United States Central Command, United States Army Command and General Staff College, the U.S. Army's Asymmetric Warfare Group, the FBI, the Joint Terrorism Task Force, and the U.S. intelligence community.
Spencer is the Associate Director of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI). He is a weekly columnist for FrontPage Magazine and has written eleven monographs and well over three hundred articles about jihad and Islamic terrorism.
All Muslims in the U.S. are now taken for granted as being “moderate”; even to suggest that some might not be is condemned as “Islamophobic.” Yet plots of this kind keep being uncovered, and many more are to come. Will they ever lead to a public discussion about the nature of Islam and what might […]
Islamic supremacists pushing Sharia law have infiltrated America at every level of society. The latest involves Islamic schools in South Florida which have been using taxpayer funds. “School vouchers row: Islamic leaders hit back at ‘Sharia law’ claim,” by Natalie La Roche Pietri, WLRN, November 5, 2025: Islamic leaders in South Florida have pushed back against […]
Hamas broke the ceasefire with Israel, first by deliberately delaying the return of all of the bodies it is known to have found. And then one of its snipers shot at an IDF soldier standing behind the Yellow Line in Gaza, killing Yona Efraim Feldbaum. It was not only Israel that was outraged. The Qatari […]
Even the new FBI regime of Kash Patel, which is vastly superior to the authoritarian corruptocrats it supplanted, refuses to call jihadis what they are. It’s clear that this was a jihad plot, given the fact that the FBI conducted an operation in Dearborn and the mention of “international terrorism,” but the long period in […]
There are two possible reasons why Hamas has not returned the bodies of the Israeli hostages: either because they disposed of many altogether, or the bodies will serve as evidence of barbaric, systematic abuse by Hamas, or both. Hamas has been benefitting from global propaganda, and it doesn’t want the truth revealed about what it […]
A reminder (again): the Palestinian “resistance” (from the River to the Sea) is a central cause to the Muslim ummah. Islam is built on conquest, and has been actively at it for 1,400 years. Hamas is an offshoot of the global Muslim Brotherhood that has managed to infiltrate Western countries with its operatives, and has proliferated extensively. […]
Gaza’s alternative to rule by Hamas are the large families — the clans — those traditional sources of authority and power, that have re-emerged as Hamas has been battered by the IDF. Gregg Roman argues that the West ought to recognize these clans as the only conceivable, and welcome, replacement for Hamas in Gaza. More […]
Trump should ‘take the win’ and not get involved in nation building in Gaza. Once it was clear that its attacks on Oct 7 wouldn’t lead to the conquest and destruction of Israel (especially once Hezbollah refused to pull the trigger and Iran hung before instead of launching the massive rocket barrage that would have […]
There is nothing radical or extremist about it; it’s mainstream Islam. Still, half a loaf is better than none. No one else dares to state this threat remotely as honestly. “Tommy Tuberville: Radical Islamic Extremism ‘One of Greatest Threats,’ America Risks ‘Losing Its Identity,’” by Jasmyn Jordan, Breitbart, October 9, 2025: Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) delivered […]
On October 4, Trump boasted on social media about his plan to end the war in Gaza in this way: After negotiations, Israel has agreed to the initial withdrawal line, which we have shown to, and shared with, Hamas. When Hamas confirms, the Ceasefire will be IMMEDIATELY effective, the Hostages and Prisoner Exchange will begin, and we […]
40% of white voters support Israel. Minority voters support the “Palestinians.” The New York Times poll showing what the paper described as a “major drop in support for Israel” sent shockwaves through the Jewish community. But few drilled down to see what the numbers really showed. I did. 40% of white voters support Israel. 41% of black […]
The Biden administration refused to do it. I was on the scene at the assault on the Adas Torah synagogue in Los Angeles by Muslims and leftists during which local authorities chose to do nothing. Just as they’d done nothing during the UCLA riots and the previous assault on a Holocaust museum screening an Oct […]
Two things are clear wins for Netanyahu. First, it is not the Palestinian Authority, but a group of Arab technocrats who will take over running Gaza after Hamas surrenders. Whether or not such people can actually be found is a different matter, but at very least, the plan does not allow for an extension of […]
There are 211 Democrats in Congress. Now 47 of them, about 22% of the total, have signed a letter in support of American recognition of a “state of Palestine.” More on their letter can be found here: “Forty-seven Democrats sign letter calling for US to recognize a Palestinian state,” by Michael Starr, Jerusalem Post, September 28, […]
The Democratic Socialist — really, the Communist and Islamic supremacist — Zohran Mamdani, has reissued his threat that, if he is elected mayor of New York, and Benjamin Netanyahu should appear in the city, he would not hesitate to arrest him. More on Mamdani’s threat, and other unpleasant promises that he has made, can be […]