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![Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov and Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on May 10, 2024, in Almaty, Kazakhstan. (Photo by Azerbaijani ForeignMinistry/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/card_600_x_400/public/2024-07/GettyImages-2151786947.jpg?itok=YTtquxHZ)
![An Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps member carrying a Palestinian flag in downtown Tehran on April 29, 2022. (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/card_600_x_400/public/2024-06/GettyImages-1240328504.jpg?itok=nkSrvUKN)
Former Congressman Ted Deutch, the CEO of the American Jewish Committee, will join Hudson to discuss what NATO militaries can learn from Israel’s fight against Iran-backed militias, the implications of a nuclear Iran for Europe, Tehran’s role in the rise of antisemitism in the West, and why aiding Israel is an important step to dismantle the China–Russia–Iran–North Korea axis.
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![Wang Yi speaks at a press conference on May 30, 2024, in Beijing, China. (Photo by Wang Zhao-Pool/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/card_600_x_400/public/2024-06/GettyImages-2154656187.jpg?itok=9XtmfyVe)
To discuss China’s ambitions in the Middle East, Beijing’s position in the Israel-Hamas conflict, and what this all means for American interests in the region, Hudson’s Zineb Riboua hosts a discussion with Senior Fellow John Lee and Atlantic Council Nonresident Fellow Tuvia Gering.
![Wang Yi speaks at a press conference on May 30, 2024, in Beijing, China. (Photo by Wang Zhao-Pool/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2024-06/GettyImages-2154656187.jpg?h=3613a604&itok=q5x65MTZ)
![Pro-Palestinian protesters rally outside the Fordham University Lincoln Center on May 1, 2024, in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/card_600_x_400/public/2024-06/GettyImages-2151035050.jpg?itok=M74TtxxK)
What are the hidden agendas of antisemites and anti-Zionists? What are the implications of this agenda for national security? And what is to be done?
![Pro-Palestinian protesters rally outside the Fordham University Lincoln Center on May 1, 2024, in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2024-06/GettyImages-2151035050.jpg?h=790be497&itok=xyb_tNUb)
![An American flag hangs from the roof of Lisner Hall of the George Washington University Law School as people walk around an encampment at University Yard on May 3, 2024 in Washington, DC. Pro-Palestinian encampments have sprung up at college campuses around the country with some demonstrators calling for schools to divest from Israeli interests amid the ongoing war in Gaza. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/card_600_x_400/public/2024-05/GettyImages-2150772403.jpg?itok=W9Y8u2jB)
Michael Doran hosts Professor Ran Kivetz, Asaf Romirowsky, and Liel Leibovitz to discuss the causes of the recent slate of pro-Hamas encampments on American college campuses.
![An American flag hangs from the roof of Lisner Hall of the George Washington University Law School as people walk around an encampment at University Yard on May 3, 2024 in Washington, DC. Pro-Palestinian encampments have sprung up at college campuses around the country with some demonstrators calling for schools to divest from Israeli interests amid the ongoing war in Gaza. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2024-05/GettyImages-2150772403.jpg?h=e6f3bd2a&itok=fxlf82KF)
![The cargo ship Rubymar sinking after it was targeted by Yemen's Houthi forces in international waters on March 7, 2024, in the Red Sea. (Photo by Al-Joumhouriah channel via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/card_600_x_400/public/2024-04/GettyImages-2066528585.jpg?itok=cfJlvRtv)
![Demonstrators hold US and Israeli flags during a rally in Central Park marking 150 days since hostages were taken in attack on Israel on March 10, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/card_600_x_400/public/2024-03/GettyImages-2078451970.jpg?itok=ntXNIsEP)
Mike Pence, the forty-eighth vice president of the United States, will sit down with Hudson Japan Chair Ken Weinstein to discuss the importance of the US-Israel relationship.
![Demonstrators hold US and Israeli flags during a rally in Central Park marking 150 days since hostages were taken in attack on Israel on March 10, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2024-03/GettyImages-2078451970.jpg?h=8c1344d8&itok=5kP4Vrco)
![A unit of Israeli soldiers returns to the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip on January 28, 2024. (Photo by Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/card_600_x_400/public/2024-03/GettyImages-1960614267.jpg?itok=VN_srqwW)
Michael Doran, Jonathan Silver, and Elliott Abrams will discuss Israel’s foreign and domestic policies since the October 7 massacre, the Biden administration’s Middle East policy and its impacts, and the rise of anti-Zionism in the US.
![A unit of Israeli soldiers returns to the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip on January 28, 2024. (Photo by Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2024-03/GettyImages-1960614267.jpg?h=fb5fb322&itok=W_uXpEp8)
![The Israeli flag flies in front of the Lviv Regional State Administration building as a sign of solidarity with the Israeli people on October 13, 2023, in Lviv, Ukraine. (Photo by Les Kasyanov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/card_600_x_400/public/2024-02/GettyImages-1740977353.jpg?itok=1ssWEWeQ)
![Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken shake hands prior to a meeting at the Muqata, the presidential compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on November 30, 2023. (Photo by Saul Loeb/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/card_600_x_400/public/2024-02/GettyImages-1813416430.jpg?itok=DMIwIUuv)
![The image of rescued Israeli-Argentinian hostage Louis Har with the word "rescued" written on it outside the Ministry of Defence in Tel Aviv on February 12, 2024 (Oren Ziv/AFP via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/card_600_x_400/public/2024-02/GettyImages-1997131150.jpg?itok=tBCFaI1n)