Gerard Filitti

Attorney fighting for #CivilRights, Senior Counsel @LawfareProject, Political strategist, Talking head on TV, Author,

[FDD @FDD]

Qatar has spent at least $400 billion in the U.S. since 2000 — roughly $1.2 million per Qatari citizen. @NatalieEcanow spent more than a year tracking Qatari spending in the U.S.

Her new memo maps the full picture and begs the question of when foreign investment becomes foreign influence: https://t.co/qgjhLlLTsw

[Gerard Filitti @GerardFilitti]

Qatar Foundation International announced it's winding down after 17 years inside American schools. Note the timing.

@FDD signaled in late April that a major investigation into Qatar's US footprint was coming. QFI then moved to dissolve, ahead of the research going public.

FDD's $400 billion report landed June 3; ISGAP's "Institutional Capture" findings had already dropped May 27. Both call for QFI to register as a foreign agent. And at the same moment, the parent foundation opens a new front targeting three HBCUs.

That's not a retreat. It's a relocation that makes it harder to track dark money entering our school systems.

I made this case six years ago. Back then it was a lawyer's memo. Now it's a documented, dollar-by-dollar map.

Read in full: https://t.co/mrnaeuZcm0

[Tiffany Meier Tonight @TMTonightShow]

"This is a stepped-up escalation. I think that this indicates the resolve of both parties to continue fighting, both the United States and Iran to continue fighting if a deal is not reached. However, ultimately, I think that the issue is one that our allies in the Gulf region are also looking at and have discussed with President Trump their approval in principle of a deal, so this really is more of a push towards finalizing that deal than anything else. "

@GerardFilitti weighs in on the Iran ceasefire

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[i24NEWS English @i24NEWS_EN]

'Linda Sarsour is highly influential, and her words carry significant weight, causing harm to the Jewish community.'

Gerard Filitti (@GerardFilitti) joins @Nicole_Zedeck on #TheRundown to discuss Israel's decision to bar anti-Zionist activist Linda Sarsour from entering the country.

[Gerard Filitti @GerardFilitti]

You can stand in front of a synagogue and yell "globalize the intifada" - death to Jews - and @NYCMayor won't say a word.

But he'll skip the Israel Day Parade to make a point.

That's not a coincidence. That's a message. And the message is: Jews don't matter.

@NEWSMAX | #EndJewHatred

[Gerard Filitti @GerardFilitti]

Joined @NTDNews this morning to break down the Iran negotiations and the Israel-Hezbollah front. Here's the unvarnished picture:

🔴 IRAN'S LEADERSHIP STRUCTURE

Ignore the headlines about Iran's president resigning or its parliament posturing. None of that matters. Power in Iran flows from the Ayatollah — and a council of senior clerics that functions like a Soviet-style Politburo. The presidency and parliament are interchangeable mouthpieces. Any deal worth the paper it's written on has to be a deal with that council. Period.

There are serious questions about whether Khamenei's son — the new Supreme Leader — is even alive or functional. It's possible the IRGC is propping up the fiction of his leadership while actually running the show. But that game has a shelf life. You eventually have to produce proof of life, or other actors start making their move.

🔴 THE IRGC-MULLAH SYMBIOSIS

The IRGC and the Mullah regime are not just allies — they are mutually dependent. Together they control the economy, the means of production, foreign assets, and the flow of money in and out of the country. That symbiotic relationship has kept both in power for 47 years. It hasn't changed, and it won't change under the current framework.

🔴 WHAT'S ACTUALLY ON THE TABLE

Let's be honest about what these negotiations are and aren't.

There is no deal on the elimination of ballistic missiles.
There is no deal to stop funding for terrorist proxies.
There is no deal on nuclear material — only a deal to reach a deal on that later.

What is on the table? Reopening the Strait of Hormuz and restoring the status quo that existed before America struck. That's it. We are being asked to go back to the way things were — in exchange for nothing structural, nothing permanent, and nothing that actually constrains Iran's ability to project terror around the world.

That is not in the interest of the United States. It is not in the interest of the Gulf nations. And it is not in the interest of the world.

We are negotiating under pressure — oil prices, shipping disruptions — and that pressure is being exploited. At this point, we have more to lose than to gain by proceeding on these terms.

🔴 HEZBOLLAH'S ADAPTATION

Iran's ability to resupply Hezbollah has been interrupted by the strikes, but don't mistake degraded logistics for a defeated force. Hezbollah still holds a large stockpile of missiles and rockets. More importantly, we are watching them transition tactics in real time — pivoting to small, explosive-laden unmanned drones, the same style of warfare we've seen define the Ukraine-Russia conflict. They are adapting because they have to, and they are doing it effectively.

🔴 CAN IRAN MAKE PEACE? THE IRA COMPARISON

A fair question was raised this morning: are there parallels to other militant groups — like the IRA — who ultimately put down their arms?

The answer is no, and the distinction matters.

The IRA had political grievances against a specific government. Iran's Islamic Republic is not a grievance movement — it is a theocracy. Its ideological foundation includes the explicit destruction of America and the West. That is not a negotiating position. That is a civilizational commitment baked into the regime's identity since 1979.

When a regime's core purpose is war against you as the "great Satan," accommodation without fundamental political transformation is not achievable. The only viable outcomes are a permanent, verifiable constraint on Iran's ability to project power — or regime change.

That's the sobering truth. And it's one American policymakers need to reckon with before they sign anything.

#Iran #Hezbollah #ForeignPolicy #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast

[Gerard Filitti @GerardFilitti]

Powerful rally by diverse New Yorkers today in front of @GovKathyHochul NYC office calling on her to start removal proceedings against @NYCMayor Mamdani for malversation. #RemoveMamdani #EndJewHatred

[Councilwoman Inna Vernikov @InnaVernikov]

“The Mayor of the largest city in the U.S.
stood at a rally on May 26 & pledged use of an authority his office does not possess…Mamdani promised what the law forbids. His promise is now public. The reckoning is now scheduled.” READ a brilliant legal analysis by @GerardFilitti: https://t.co/f0raKYTQ0i

[The Lawfare Project @LawfareProject]

The Lawfare Project’s Senior Counsel, @GerardFilitti, talks to @NEWSMAX about the historical revisionism of Mamdani’s recent Nakba post, the protests targeting synagogue, and the need to hold political leaders accountable for their inaction.

[Gerard Filitti @GerardFilitti]

…the missing picture (NOT seized by the CIA from Tulsi Gabbard’s office) @realJennaEllis

[i24NEWS English @i24NEWS_EN]

‘This is part of an organized campaign by pro-Hamas organizations against Jews.’

Gerard Filitti (@GerardFilitti) joins @benitalevin on #Rundown

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[Gerard Filitti @GerardFilitti]

Paul Kessler was beaten to death with a megaphone at a rally by pro-Palestinian protester Loay Alnaji. This week, Alnaji pleaded guilty - not to murder, not to a hate crime, but to involuntary manslaughter.

The court is likely to give him probation and up to a year in county jail.

The Ventura County DA failed to charge this as a hate crime. Failed to pursue murder. And now expresses shock at a lenient sentence after declining to pursue the charges that would have produced a significant one. It didn't just undercharge. It stripped the crime of its identity.

This isn't an anomaly. Charges dropped in D.C. A hate crime dismissed at Columbia. A Brooklyn Museum vandal walking with community service. And a specific legal escape hatch - the claim that anti-Zionism is political, not antisemitic - goes unchallenged in courtrooms while Jewish victims go without justice.

The message currently being sent is not deterrence. It is permission.

My full analysis: https://t.co/X9v5luUYbh

#Antisemitism #HateCrimes #PaulKessler #CivilRights #Zionism #October7

[Gerard Filitti @GerardFilitti]

On @NTDNews discussing Project Freedom, the Strait of Hormuz, and Iran's latest 30-day proposal:

"The ceasefire is really turning into a stalemate. The U.S. has effectively strangled Iran's ability to export goods and earn hard currency - but 20% of the world's oil is still bottled up in the Strait.

This is more of a pause on the war than a long-term settlement. Iran's negotiating position is that it alone controls the Strait of Hormuz and the world should pay a toll to pass through. Until that changes, there is no deal."

#IranWar‌ #Iran

[Gerard Filitti @GerardFilitti]

Earlier this week, I had the privilege of moderating the "Unmasking Extremism" panel at the Unite Against Extremism summit, and I am genuinely grateful that these four brought their knowledge and expertise to the stage.

Four panelists. Four distinct vantage points. One central truth: what we're watching is not spontaneous. It is a pipeline.

@JSchanzer (FDD) brought the receipts. Literally. A former Treasury terror finance analyst, he traced how operatives from Hamas-linked charities shuttered by DOJ reappeared running campus organizations. He testified before Congress. Nothing happened. Then October 7th.

@DanielDiMartino (Manhattan Institute) fled Venezuela. He sees what many miss: the ideological capture happening in American schools is, in some respects, more sophisticated than anything Chávez deployed because it is now self-sustaining, reinforced through social media, peer culture, and a captured educational system.
@LydiaMoynihan (NY Post) mapped the media failure with precision. Hamas propaganda doesn't arrive in newsrooms labeled as such. It travels through a laundering chain: from Hamas press offices to aligned outlets, to NGOs, to wire services… until a reporter quotes Doctors Without Borders and never mentions where the narrative really originated.

@JackiAlexander_ (Honest Reporting) demonstrated the propaganda infrastructure in real time: staged images, Hamas-purchased photos in Getty and Reuters, and an NGO ecosystem in Gaza where Hamas assigns personnel to every organization operating there.

This is not organic. There is a pipeline - ideological, financial, and propagandistic. It has been built deliberately, over decades. We have the receipts. Now comes the harder work: disrupting the pipeline, defunding the infrastructure, and de-radicalizing a generation that has been deliberately targeted.

#UniteAgainstExtremism @LawfareProject

[Gerard Filitti @GerardFilitti]

Nearly a dozen unions lobbied Mamdani to kill a bill requiring the NYPD to have a plan for keeping school entrances safe. He obliged. UAW Region 9A took public credit the same day.

New piece: https://t.co/F0VICEKTv5

#NYC #NYCPolitics #Mamdani #SchoolSafety #UnionPolitics

[Jami Burns @jamiburns45]

⚠️ Louisiana suspends primary after redistricting decision • Dems attack Supreme Court after Louisiana ruling • Three federally charged in S. Hernandez attack🌟 @DougBurnsLAW @GerardFilitti @ShannonCake @NEWSMAX

[NTD News @NTDNews]

9 to 13 Congress Seats Could Swing Republican Due to Supreme Court Decision: Legal Expert

The Supreme Court ruled 6–3 in Louisiana v. Callais that the state’s redrawn congressional map was unconstitutional because race was the predominant factor in drawing the lines.

Now, some states are reevaluating their maps in light of the decision. NTD discussed with Gerard Filitti, Political Analyst and Senior Counsel with the Lawfare Project.

[Gerard Filitti @GerardFilitti]

Norah O'Donnell read Cole Allen's manifesto verbatim on 60 Minutes, including its characterization of the President as a "pedophile, rapist, and traitor."
The editorial question of whether that was responsible journalism is exactly the question my piece yesterday addressed. #WHCD #MediaBias
https://t.co/C2psu2Iwu2