Rachel Ehrenfeld

Rachel Ehrenfeld

Rachel Ehrenfeld is an American political commentator and is the author of several books including Funding Evil; How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop It. She is the Director of the American Center for Democracy.

Profile

From her ACP biography:

Dr. Ehrenfeld is the Director of the New York-based American Center for Democracy and the Center for the Study of Corruption & the Rule of Law. She is the author of FUNDING EVIL: HOW TERRORISM IS FINANCED - and HOW to STOP IT (Bonus Books, 2003, 2005); EVIL MONEY (HarperCollins, 1992, SPI, 1994) and NARCOTERRORISM (Basic Books, 1990, 1992). Dr. Ehrenfeld is an authority on the shadowy movement of funds through international banking and governments to fund terrorism. She has a unique understanding of the challenges of international terrorism to democracy and freedom, and how money laundering and political corruption facilitates terror financing and economic terrorism.
An American citizen fluent in several languages, Ehrenfeld has testified before Congressional Committees, as well as the European Parliament, and provided evidence to the British Parliament, and consulted government agencies such as the Department of Defense and Homeland Security. She is also a Member of the Board of Directors of the Committee on the Present Danger along with former Secretary of State George Schulz and former CIA Director James Woolsey.
She has been a visiting scholar at the Columbia University Institute of War and Peace Studies, a research scholar at the New York University School of Law, and a fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and Jesus College at Cambridge University. She has a PhD in Criminology from the Hebrew University School of Law.
Her articles have appeared in numerous publications such as The New York Times, Los Angeles Times , The Jerusalem Post , and The Wall Street Journal and she is a frequent guest on The O'Reilly Factor, and CNN, NBC, CNBC, FoxNews, and other TV programmes.

Recent Publications

2006

• Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen, Jihadists and Jews, The Washington Times, 16 October, 2006.
• Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen, Why Tariq Ramadan lost, The Washington Times, 22 October, 2006.
• Rachel Ehrenfeld, Islamist Terror Twins, The Washington Times, 31 July, 2006.
• Rachel Ehrenfeld, Different Shades of the Same Enemy, FrontPageMag.com, 27 July, 2006.
• Rachel Ehrenfeld, Saudi Charity Begins...Nowhere, FrontPageMag.com, 7 July 2006.
• Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen, Risky Russky Business, FrontPageMag.com, 28 June, 2006.
• Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen, Putin's Dubious 'Democracy', FrontPageMag.com, 26 June, 2006.
• Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen, The Truth about the Muslim Brotherhood, FrontPageMagazine.com, 16 June, 2006.
• Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen, Russia After Dark, The Washington Times, 9 June, 2006.
• Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen, Russian Roulette, The Washington Times, 1 June, 2006.
• Rachel Ehrenfeld, Funding Terror, FrontPageMag.com, 7 April, 2006.
• Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen, Protecting U.S. Strategic Assets, FrontPageMag.com, 24 March, 2006.
• Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen, The Mullah-Hamas Axis, FrontPageMag.com, 14 March, 2006.
• Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen, The Hamas-Russia Connection, FrontPageMag.com, 10 March, 2006.
• Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen, Welcoming Terror to U.S. Ports, FrontPageMag.com, 23 February, 2006.
• Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen, Europe’s Last Chance, FrontPageMag.com, 16 February, 2006.
• Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen, Youngsters and jihad, The Washington Times, 14 February, 2006.
• Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen, Terror's Missing Link, FrontPageMag.com, 13 February, 2006.
• Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen, Hamas Will Not Change, FrontPageMag.com, 8 February, 2006.
• Rachel Ehrenfeld, The Caliphate is Coming, FrontPageMag.com, 31 January, 2006.

Affiliations

• American Center for Democracy
• Benador Associates – featured speaker
• Committee on the Present Danger
• International Analyst Network
• Jerusalem Summit (extreme zionist organisation)
• United States Committee for a Free Lebanon
• Terror Finance Blog