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January 29, 2025 | |

‘Potential Mass Casualty Event’: Australian Police Foil Possible Antisemitic Attack

‘Blast Zone Could Have Been 40 Meters’: Australian police announced on January 29 that 10 days earlier, they had discovered a recreational vehicle laden with explosives in a...

January 21, 2025 | |

‘How Can You Do That to Children?’: Jewish Community Daycare Center Torched in Latest Antisemitic Outrage in Australia 

Childcare Center Burned in Arson Attack: A Jewish community-run daycare center in Sydney was set alight by arsonists and sprayed with antisemitic graffiti in the early hours...

December 11, 2024 | David May |

The Australian Government Allowed Hate Speech Against Jews and Israel; Then a Synagogue Was Burned

Vandals defaced a synagogue in the Australian city of Melbourne in late November, with the phrases “Free Gaza” and “Jews kill babies.” A week later, in early December, two masked...

December 10, 2024 | |

Australia Launches Antisemitism Task Force After Terrorist Arson Attack on Melbourne Synagogue

Task Force to Investigate Threats Against Jewish Community: Australia launched an antisemitism task force on December 9, following an arson attack that ripped through Melbourne’s...

December 6, 2024 | |

‘Act of Antisemitism’: Synagogue Set Ablaze in Melbourne

Melbourne Synagogue Destroyed: Two masked individuals deliberately set the Adass Israel Synagogue on fire on December 6, according to local police. Most of the building, which was...

March 31, 2023 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Andrew Zammit, Emelie Chace-Donahue, Madison Urban

Composite Violent Extremism: Conceptualizing Attackers Who Increasingly Challenge Traditional Categories of Terrorism

Excerpt Counterterrorism practitioners have increasingly drawn attention to acts of violent extremism which, in the words of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director Christopher Wray, “don’t...

September 8, 2021 | Sardar Pashaei, Benjamin Weinthal, Alireza Nader

Why The Iranian Regime’s Murder Of A Champion Wrestler Matters

This Sunday, September 12, will mark one year since Iran’s clerical regime executed the champion Greco-Roman wrestler Navid Afkari for expressing opposition to the religious dictatorship in Iran. His...

January 4, 2017 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

ISIL’s Virtual Planners: A Critical Terrorist Innovation

On December 19, Anis Amri plowed a hijacked truck through the Christm...

December 1, 2015 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

The Paris Attacks: A Strategic Shift by ISIS?

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April 26, 2010 | Ethan Gutmann World Affairs Journal

Hacker Nation: China’s Cyber Assault

A  decade before Operation Aurora—China’s recent hacking spree of at least thirty-four Western companies—the Chinese government attempted to seize American computer code th...