Heath Sloane, at The Blogs

Feb 3, 2026, 4:27 AM

The EU moves to ban the Muslim Brotherhood

For many years, Western governments operated under a reassuring assumption: extremism announces itself through violence, and movements that work through courts, charities, and civic institutions must therefore be part of the democratic bargain. It was a tidy distinction, administratively convenient and morally comforting. But history...

Jan 23, 2026, 7:17 PM

Gaza and the Return of Responsibility

For much of the past three decades, international conflict management has been governed by a comforting assumption: that enough process, inclusion and consensus will eventually substitute for authority. Declarations multiplied, mechanisms proliferated and conferences convened, even as outcomes stagnated. Nowhere has this gap between intention...

Jan 16, 2026, 6:10 PM

Israel Noticed What the Map Pretended Not to See

International relations often resemble a triumph of legal fiction over lived reality. We are asked to treat a collapsed state with no monopoly on violence as sovereign, while dismissing a peaceful, democratic, and administratively coherent polity as an inconvenient anomaly. The map is revered, even...

Sep 6, 2022, 11:24 AM

EU Foots The Bill For Palestinian Hate-Filled Curriculum

The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) hate-filled school curriculum indoctrinates schoolchildren to become future martyrs. So why is the European Commission funding it to the tune of €145 million? After a 14 month-long funding freeze, EU member states resumed paying the salaries and pensions of PA civil...

Oct 5, 2021, 3:00 PM

MEMRI TV Publishes 9,000th Clip

On August 6, 2021, MEMRI TV reached the milestone of publishing its 9,000th video – completing nearly 60,000 minutes of translated content since the project launched in 2004. These 9,000 MEMRI TV clips span multiple languages including Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Turkish, Russian, Chinese and more. MEMRI TV’s...

About Me

Heath Sloane is the founder of Advocacy Edge Consulting, a geopolitics and public affairs agency specialising in threat intelligence, media accountability, and counter-extremism