MEF Action

One Year – 25 Action Campaigns Defending Western Values @MEFAction, the advocacy wing of the Middle East Forum (@MEForum), rocked the policy-making arena in #2024. Help us reassert American leadership in the Middle East in #2025 and beyond. meforum.org/2024?utm_campa…

Since 2022, the Middle East Forum has urged @SanDiegoCounty to stop funding @CAIRCalifornia’s hate-filled annual fundraising banquets. We are pleased to announce that the county has stopped the funding program as it reconsiders bankrolling a designated terror group.

He never disappoints. @RepFine verbally suplexes #Turkey under @RTErdogan. How can we have a useful @NATO alliance with friend like Turkey? Congressman Fine pondered this question at an East Med interparliamentary briefing on Tuesday.

Do you want your governor to follow the lead of @RonDeSantis of Florida and @GregAbbott_TX of Texas by designating @CAIRNational as a terrorist group? You can send a letter to your governor with a single click. Help us #DesignateCAIR in your state! middle-east-forum.quorum.us/campaign/desig…

@AmyMek @GovRonDeSantis Do you want your governor to follow the lead of @RonDeSantis of Florida and @GregAbbott_TX of Texas by designating @CAIRNational as a terrorist group? You can send a letter to your governor with a single click. Help us #DesignateCAIR in your state! middle-east-forum.quorum.us/campaign/desig…

WE NEED ACTION! RAIR Foundation USA has uncovered one of the most organized, documented Muslim Brotherhood family networks operating anywhere in the United States - and it’s being built in Florida, partly on taxpayer vouchers. Can you please confirm if you have yet to launch an investigation? See full report: rairfoundation.com/floridas-musli…

EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY Florida is designating the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as foreign terrorist organizations.   Florida agencies are hereby directed to undertake all lawful measures to prevent unlawful activities by these organizations, including denying privileges or resources to anyone providing material support.

@GovRonDeSantis Do you want your governor to follow the lead of @RonDeSantis of Florida and @GregAbbott_TX of Texas by designating @CAIRNational as a terrorist group? You can send a letter to your governor with a single click. Help us #DesignateCAIR in your state! middle-east-forum.quorum.us/campaign/desig…

Western academia faces a credibility crisis when individuals who openly align with Hezbollah and praise Khamenei as a “philosopher of liberation” are presented as neutral experts on women and the Islamic Republic. This is not critical scholarship. It is ideological protection for a regime that has imprisoned, tortured, and killed countless Iranians, including women and political prisoners. Shirin Saeidi (@saeidi944101) has been accused of: 1️⃣ Fabricating interviews with former political prisoners in her PhD dissertation and a 2022 Cambridge University Press book, a grave violation of academic integrity. 2️⃣ Falsifying research data and misrepresenting human subjects, violating basic research ethics and putting real people at risk. 3️⃣ Using University of Arkansas letterhead to intervene in the Swedish appellate case of Hamid Nouri, a convicted war criminal linked to the 1988 massacre of Iranian political prisoners, abusing institutional credibility. 4️⃣ Collaborating with entities sanctioned by the United States, including Iran’s Islamic Ideology Dissemination Organization, aligning a US public university with sanctioned regime bodies. 5️⃣ Publicly promoting rhetoric that attacks Jewish self-determination, calls for dismantling Israel, and echoes antisemitic propaganda used by authoritarian regimes. 6️⃣ Disparaging and intimidating survivors of political imprisonment and families of victims of state violence, silencing and retraumatizing survivors. 7️⃣ Defending the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, calling its terrorist designation unlawful and framing criticism of the regime’s armed forces as cultural suicide. 8️⃣ Actions that have severely undermined academic honesty, respect for human subjects, and solidarity with victims of mass atrocities, harming students and the university’s reputation. Despite serious and unresolved allegations, @saeidi944101 is still appearing on major international stages like #DohaForum2025 and presenting herself as an authority on the Middle East, women, and political Islam. Her presence at these events grants legitimacy and institutional prestige even while core questions about ethics, academic honesty, and the misuse of a public university’s name remain unanswered. This gap exposes a larger accountability failure within her institution and across global academic and policy spaces that keep elevating disputed figures without real scrutiny. Stand with survivors, not their abusers. Follow us at : @AAIRIA_Org Our petition is in first comment #FireSaeidi

#MEFActionAlert Help us call on the @UArkansas to REMOVE Dr. Shirin Saeidi (@saeidi944101), the Director of @UARKMEST program. Saeidi has defended the terrorist #IRGC and collaborated with Iran regime entities. Sign the Petition! change.org/p/urgent-conce…

#MEFActionAlert Help us call on the @UniversityOfArk to REMOVE Dr. Shirin Saeidi (@saeidi944101), the Director of @UARKMEST program. Saeidi has defended the terrorist #IRGC and collaborated with Iran regime entities. Sign the Petition! c.org/LbWwH4fztg

#MEFActionAlert Join the nationwide action campaign to designate @CAIRNational and its chapters as a terrorist organization. Ask your state’s governor to follow Texas Gov. @GregAbbott_TX’s example by designating Hamas-linked CAIR. Visit the link: middle-east-forum.quorum.us/campaign/desig…

Join the movement urging the #Senate to #BlockAmer Ghalib’s nomination as U.S. Ambassador to #Kuwait. Sign up to voice your opposition to this #FakeDoctor and disgraceful nominee. @SenateForeign @SenRischID @tedcruz @SenatorShaheen @SenMcCormickPA middle-east-forum.quorum.us/new-campaigns/

1/Read my op-ed at @nypost exposing how terror-linked Islamists, anti-Israel activists, and campus extremists are bankrolling @ZohranKMamdani’s bid for NYC mayor. City taxpayers are matching these donations at $8 to every $1 contributed, amplifying voices of hate and extremism.

Please FOLLOW and SHARE this account to participate in MEF Action Campaigns. In the past, participants have joined grassroots movements to: 🇺🇸Ask Congress to sanction Iran-backed militias. 🇺🇸Urge corporate execs to divest from Qatar. 🇺🇸Ban the sale of F-35s to Turkey.

In a completely tone deaf move, @WACHouston is the first to host @hmousavian, an Iranian regime proxy with a vicious past, since his retirement on uncertain terms from @Princeton. #CancelMousavian

#MEFActionUpdate You wrote to #Congress members, and they answered your calls to block F-35 jet sales to #Turkey. Thanks to your letters, @RepChrisPappas and 39 other House members called on @SecRubio to reject Turkey’s bid to acquire the stealth F-35. #NoJetsForTurkey

Unless American policymakers press the advantage, the Islamic Republic will rebuild and survive to fight another day. | @BenjiBaird trib.al/pAvwWGH

Unless American policymakers press the advantage, the Islamic Republic will rebuild and survive to fight another day. | @BenjiBaird trib.al/RgJ8J5g

Act now to urge #Congress to pass the “Free Iraq from Iran Act.” Iran’s regime controls Iraqi govt ministries & armed militias, transforming the country into a proxy state. Click to join our #MaximumPressure Campaign to pass this critical bill. middle-east-forum.quorum.us/campaign/free-…

Act now to urge #Congress to pass the “Free Iraq from Iran Act.” Iran’s regime controls Iraqi govt ministries & armed militias, transforming the country into a proxy state. Join @MEFAction’s #MaximumPressure Campaign to pass this critical bill. middle-east-forum.quorum.us/campaign/free-…

Kurds will not lay down their weapons in Syria. Kurds will never be ruled by al Qaeda’s Syrian branch now headquartered in Damascus. Rojava is here to stay.