MEF staff
Benjamin Baird
Director, MEF Action
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Profile
Benjamin Baird directs MEF Action. A public affairs specialist, he organizes grassroots advocacy campaigns for Middle East Forum projects and coordinates public pressure campaigns on MEF policy objectives. He is a U.S. Army infantry veteran with a B.A. from American Military University, and his writing has run in National Review, the New York Post and the Jerusalem Post.
Summarized from the MEF bio of Benjamin Baird, read October 4, 2026.
Writes on: Islamism in the West; Congress and legislation; foreign influence and funding; Muslim Brotherhood; the United States; Turkey; India and Pakistan.
Topics are this site's tags, assigned from the subjects of Benjamin Baird's bylined MEF pieces, the MEF bio and the topics MEF lists on its Speakers Bureau page.
MEF Work (112)
Bylined pieces published by the Middle East Forum, newest first, 2017 to 2026. Titles are quoted as MEF published them and link to the original on meforum.org.
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2026 (5)
- Trump Killed USAID. Don’t Let Its Hamas-Hunting Watchdog Die with It
- Health and Human Services Hidden Handouts
- Finally a Legitimate Effort to Designate the Council on American-Islamic Relations as a Terrorist Group
- Time for Congress to Get Busy Backing Regime Change in Iran
- Unmasking the Muslim Brotherhood Ties Inside Ohio’s General Assembly
2025 (9)
- National Guardsmen Shooting Spotlights the Danger of ‘Insider Attacks'
- Senate to Hold Confirmation Hearings for Disgraced Michigan Mayor Amer Ghalib
- Mamdani’s Money Trail: Terror-Linked Donors Bankroll NYC Mayor’s Race
- How Qatar Fuels Campus Extremism in the United States
- Hamas-Aligned CAIR Outraged after DHS Cuts Funding to Terror-Linked Islamist Groups
- Homeland Insecurity: Unraveling DHS Funding of Terror-Linked and Extremist Groups with Anna Stanley
- Congress Can Crush Iran’s Regime Without Firing a Single Shot
- America for Sale: Qatar’s $40 Billion Spending Spree Buys Influence and Control of Elite Institutions
- Will a Kurdish-Druze Crescent Be a Bulwark Against Chaos in Syria?
2024 (10)
- Reasserting American Power in the Middle East: A Blueprint for the Trump Administration with Gregg Roman, Michael Rubin, Jonathan Spyer, Jim Hanson, Winfield Myers, Sam Westrop, Eric Navarro, Dexter Van Zile, Alex Selsky
- Trump’s New Islamist Friends
- Twinning with Terrorists: Hamas Seeks Sister City Pact with California City
- TSA Bestows Award on Islamist Group Blacklisted by Executive Branch
- Disgraced Maryland Hate Crimes Commissioner Gets Free Pass from Local Media
- Maryland AG Replaces One Hater with Another to Serve on Hate Crimes Panel
- End Tax Write-Offs for Terror-Linked Islamist Charities
- After Campus Riots, Voters Must Press Lawmakers to End Malign Foreign Influences in Universities
- Qatar's Tech Conference for Antisemites
- Florida House Passes Bill Slamming Hamas-Linked CAIR
2023 (25)
- NYC Mayor Eric Adams Panders to Pakistani Political Cult
- 'Anti-Semite' Professor Accused of Sex-for-Grades Scandal Ousted from Oberlin College with Isabel Vincent, Ben Baird
- 'Anti-Semite' Professor Accused of Sex-for-Grades Scandal Ousted from Oberlin College with Isabel Vincent, Ben Baird
- Swedish Lawmakers Call on European Union to Sanction Sale of Spy Tech to Iran
- U.S. Still Welcomes Hamas Lobby on Capitol Hill
- 'Squad' Members Were Boosting Hamas Long Before It Beheaded Babies
- Canceled: California Assembly Deletes Praise for Radical Islamist Groups Following MEF Campaign
- Crocodile Tears from Jailed Muslim Brotherhood Cleric Earns Sympathy from Congress
- California Assembly Looks to Honor State's Most Radical Islamists
- The Highest-Ranking Muslim in the Biden Admin Is an Extremist
- Senate Dems Ram Through Islamist-Linked Biden Nominee After 2-year Blockade
- CAIR Resorts to Misinformation in Fight to End Terrorist Watchlist
- CAIR's Convenient Amnesia about the Terrorist Watchlist
- Maryland Legislature Funds Pro-Iran Mosque Entangled in Terror Trials
- 'All about Activism': Countering Foreign Influence in the West
- Los Angeles to Pay CAIR to Fight Deportations
- Al Qaeda-Linked NJ Mayor Cries 'Islamophobia' after White House Snubbing
- Indiana Congressman Praises Muslim Brotherhood Group He Once Rejected
- Irvine Mayor Farrah Khan Courts Pakistani Terror Ambassador
- Biden Staffs White House with Another Islamist
- Islamic Call to Prayer Now Part of Minneapolis Soundscape
- CAIR Forces Apology from Texas Legislator Who Recalls Violence of Ramadan with Ben Baird
- Biden Staffs White House with Another Islamist Sympathizer
- America's First All-Muslim City Council Is Riddled with Antisemites
- MEF Investigation Reveals: Los Angeles Police Infiltrated by Pakistani Regime Loyalists with Jenna Wright
2022 (19)
- Islamists Commandeer Muslim Vote to Sweep Midterm Elections
- Did Ohio Just Elect the Next Ilhan Omar?
- Move Over, Ilhan Omar; Minnesota Republicans Pander to Somali Islamists
- Al Qaeda-Linked Lawyer Could Become Next Los Angeles City Attorney with Ben Baird
- Is This Immigrant Muslim Stronghold in Michigan America's Election Fraud Capital?
- Palm Beach School Board Under Fire for Awards from Islamist Group
- Palm Beach Activists Demand School Board Members Return Awards from Terror-Tied Group with Ben Baird
- Harvard Replaces Michigan Mayor Accused of Election Fraud from Voting Rights Panel
- Why the Media Ignores Islamist Mayor's Racism and Apparent Election Fraud
- Why the Media Ignores Islamist Mayor's Racism and Apparent Election Fraud
- Islamist Lobby Day: Congress Welcomes Turkish-Backed Extremists to Capitol
- Exclusive: Islamist Hamtramck Mayor's Bigotry and Apparent Voter Fraud with Hany Ghoraba
- Connecticut Congressional Candidate Bankrolled by Libyan Muslim Brotherhood Supporters
- Irvine Mayor Farrah Khan continues to associate with Armenian Genocide deniers
- Radical Minnesota Imam Gets a Pass in Media Coverage of ACLU Lawsuit
- ACLU: Vetting Islamist Travelers "Violates the U.S. Constitution"
- 'All She Wanted to Do Was Bring Back the Muslim Empire:' Islamist Hero Worship Turns to Violence
- 'All She Wanted to Do Was Bring Back the Muslim Empire:' Islamist Hero Worship Turns to Violence
- Biden's Nominee to Federal Court Spent Career Representing Islamist Interests
2021 (10)
- Miracle Winner of New Jersey State Senate Race Forced to Endure Lecture from Islamist Group with Susan Warner
- Behind Dr. Oz's Curtain
- The Palestinian Lobby Exploits U.S. Racial Divisions
- Foreign Agents Use Turkish American PACs to Bankroll US Elections
- Exposed: Indian American Muslim Council's 20-Year Love Affair with the Taliban
- CAIR's 9/11 Tips to Teachers Whitewash Islamist Role in Attack with Martha Lee
- Islamist Group Slams Presidential Appointment of First Muslim Judge to Federal Court
- Islamist Lobby Suffers Loss in Chicago with Defeat of Anti-India Resolution
- Chicago's Indian American Muslim Council Doth Protest Too Much
- Chicago's Indian American Muslim Council Doth Protest Too Much
2020 (10)
- The Islamist Election Wave
- Middle East Forum Crashes Palestine Advocacy Day
- Middle East Forum Crashes Palestine Advocacy Day
- Biden Condemns Anti-Semitism While Ignoring Democrats Who Support It
- Biden Condemns Anti-Semitism While Ignoring Democrats Who Support It
- MEF Warns Political Candidates About Taking Money Fro͏m Turkish American PACs
- Islamists Appropriate Black Lives Matter Movement, Despite History of Anti-Black Bigotry with Hesham Shehab
- Erdoğan's Foot Soldiers in America with Karys Rhea
- Islamism in American Politics: The 2020 Elections
- How Al Jazeera is Avoiding Registering as a Foreign Agent
2019 (15)
- Terrorist Support Group Swings and Misses in Feeble Rebuttal
- Is Turkey Coming Back? Policy Experts Predict 'Rogue Ankara' Over Long Term
- New Brand of American Islamists Wins Big in 2019 Elections
- Democratic Presidential Hopefuls Meet With Terrorist-Run Pay-To-Slay Group
- Islamist Lobby Falls Flat in Pennsylvania
- Tell Pennsylvania Lawmakers to Keep Islamists Out of the State Capitol
- Muslim Reformers Meet in Islamists' Backyard
- Emboldened Islamists Call for Theocracy in America with Martha Lee
- Muslim Reformers Warn of Islamists' Political Designs
- Middle East Studies at UT-Austin: Biased Professors, Politicized Classrooms with Winfield Myers
- The Real Face of the Muslim American Society
- Brooklyn's Islamist Vigilantes
- CAIR's Radical-Speaking Circuit: Faith-Led, Seventh-Century Justice-Driven
- CAIR's Radical Speaking Circuit
- President Trump and the Janus-faced Qatari Regime
2018 (6)
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