Arab Boycotts
https://isgap.org/event/2021/03/terrorism-and-the-bds-campaign/
Apr. 20, Arab Boycotts Benjamin Weinthal, Research Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracy Week Three: A dive into the Arab boycott of Jews and Israel will be a feature of the course. Palestinian Arabs launched boycott activities and violence against Jewish businesses and Jews in then-British mandate Palestine. As early as 1922 Arab leaders promoted […]
Iran: Hybrid Threats and Latin America
https://isgap.org/media/2021/02/iran-hybrid-threats-and-latin-america/
23 Feb., “Iran: Hybrid Threats and Latin America” Dr. Felipe Pathé Duarte, Assistant Professor and Researcher, NOVA Law School and Institute for Internal Security and Police Science, Lisbon; Senior Consultant, VisionWare Information Systems; International Security Resident Analyst, RTP Television. Convener: Dr. Pedro Gonzalez Corona, Research Fellow, ISGAP Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 Time: 11:00 AM […]
The Terror Attack at the Pulse Club in Orlando
https://isgap.org/flashpoint/the-terror-attack-at-the-pulse-club-in-orlando/
Too many similarities and some differences mark the terror attack in Tel Aviv on June 8 and the terror attack in Orlando on June 12. In Tel Aviv, two cousins inspired by hateful incitement blended into the crowd with a mission to kill as many civilians as possible. They used improvised weapons (Carl Gustav) and […]
The Terror Attack in the Tel Aviv Sarona Market
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By now there is wide coverage in various media outlets of the terror attack in Tel Aviv close to IDF Headquarters. The Atlanta Journal & Constitution – which did not report on the shooting – reported today on a few reactive measures enacted by Israel. The confusion of the first moments was understandable and initially […]
Mimesis, Antisemitism, Terror
https://isgap.org/flashpoint/mimesis-antisemitism-terror/
How can we explain the virulence and brutality—the gratuitous barbarity—of Islamist mass-murder terrorism? More than ideology, more than neurosis, we should consider mimesis, rivalry and mimetic contagion. Some ten days before the attacks in Paris last November, the immortel René Girard died, bringing to an end a long and uniquely productive intellectual career. For decades, […]
The Paris Attacks, Antisemitism and the Elections
https://isgap.org/flashpoint/the-paris-attacks-antisemitism-and-the-elections/
The mass terror attacks which took place in Paris and the nearby town of Saint-Denis on the evening of November 13 did not specifically target Jewish individuals, property or events (in fact, the attacks occurred on the Jewish Sabbath in the French capital). Although at least two Jews were killed at the Bataclan concert hall, […]
How Not to Grieve for Victims of Terrorism: Judith Butler’s Hypocritical Response to the Paris Attacks
https://isgap.org/flashpoint/how-not-to-grieve-for-victims-of-terrorism-judith-butlers-hypocritical-response-to-the-paris-attacks/
Three days after the obscene terror attacks of November 13, 2015, in Paris, Judith Butler—a leading BDS philosopher, who has called for an end to Jewish sovereignty and self-determination in Israel[1]—had this to say. Quit whining, Paris. It’s not all just about you. Consider the Palestinians. I am paraphrasing, of course. Here are Butler’s original […]
Escalation of Palestinian violence
https://isgap.org/flashpoint/escalation-of-palestinian-violence/
The recent escalation in Palestinian violence was brought about by events in early September 2015, when tensions regarding the Temple Mount (Al-Aqsa Mosque) rose between Israelis and Palestinians. Violence broke out during the Jewish High Holidays, that saw an increase in Jewish worshippers to the Western Wall and the Temple Mount, as well as an […]
Palestinian Violence and Failure of Leadership
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I am disheartened and worried about the violence being perpetrated in Israel by my fellow Palestinians. This recent wave of violence started at the Al-Aqsa mosque, in East Jerusalem, and extended to the rest of East Jerusalem, to the West Bank, and then to all of Israel does not seem to have any positive consequences […]
Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury – “Hate Speech and Political Islam”
https://isgap.org/media/2009/10/hate-speech-and-political-islam/
Title: “Hate Speech and Political Islam: Root Cause of Religious Extremism, Terrorism and Jihad” Speaker: Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, Journalist; Editor and Publisher, Weekly Blitz Newspaper, Bangladesh Date: Thursday, October 29, 2009 YIISA/ISGAP Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective Seminar Series