Talking about violent extremism, and interventions with NBC News. There are programs and resources if you or a loved one needs assistance leaving these groups behind. Resources: 🇺🇲 Life After Hate 🇨🇦 OPV Ted Oberg nbcwashington.com/investigations…

Criticism of Israeli policies is not antisemitism & some minor league twitter trolls who conflate the two typically only want to delegitimize any criticism of Israel. This is counterproductive if your goal is to find solutions to the conflict & to the real problem of antisemitism

Are we living in an alternate universe where Democrats aren't currently in power?

3 foreign #ISIS militants -- from #Canada, #Russia & #Libya -- escaped from #SDF custody earlier today, while being transferred from one prison to another in #Raqqa. 2 others, from #Azerbaijan & #Pakistan, also escaped, but were captured.

Tamil asylum seeker dies after setting himself on fire, seeing no way out of Australia’s ‘cobweb of cruelty’ theguardian.com/australia-news…

Israel's recovery of six hostage bodies in Gaza puts pressure on Netanyahu reuters.com/world/middle-e…

This is is from the editorial of Israel’s most liberal newspaper. Ask yourself why it is that Israeli liberals can say this about Netanyahu but much of the ‘liberal’ U.S. media, many Congressional Democrats, and of course the Democratic White House in the U.S. can’t or won’t?

Over the past 11 months, this brutal war has tragically numbed many to the suffering of others, trapping them in a relentless cycle of focusing solely on their own pain and the anguish of their side. As a Palestinian, I witness the unbearable daily agony of my people—innocent

This "beauty" of mine is out soon with International Centre for Counter-Terrorism. Excited. Ht Thomas Renard + Joana Cook and fyi Colin P. Clarke Michael Colborne Amarnath Amarasingam Aaron Y. Zelin Phillip Smyth Matthew Levitt Andrej Matisak Igor Janke - Układ Otwarty Ben Makuch Dr. Ian Garner

U.S. Charges Hamas Leaders in Oct. 7 Massacre in Israel and Other Terrorist Attacks nytimes.com/2024/09/03/us/…

Biden admin "plans to accuse Russia of a sustained effort to influence the 2024 US presidential election by using Kremlin-run media and other online platforms to target US voters with disinformation" cnn.com/2024/09/04/pol…

🚨Our new article is out, focussing on how insurgencies can be understood as gendered organisations! Christina Schmid and I provide a framework to understand the unique nature of insurgencies as highly strategic, political, and gendered entities🚨 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

2 students, 2 teachers killed in shooting at Georgia high school, 14-year-old suspect in custody. 14 years old. abcnews.go.com/US/police-resp…

Today, the US Justice Department announced that it has disrupted a Russian influence campaign known as Doppelgänger — which ISD has researched extensively since 2022 — for interfering in the upcoming US election. isdglobal.org/press-releases…

September 4th, 2024: "The NDP is ending its 2022 supply-and-confidence agreement with the Liberals, what does the move mean for the prime minister — and could it push up the next election date?" youtube.com/watch?v=JwjOoM… Rosemary Barton @ACoyne chantal hébert @AlthiaRaj #CDNPoli 🇨🇦🍁

Amarnath Amarasingam Today, Dutch authorities arrested 3 people in connection with The Base. The new EU terror designation seems to have an effect. dutchnews.nl/2024/09/dutch-…

🚨🗞Today's Insight Monitor is out, and it's a timely look at terrorist attacks in Canada. This is particularly useful since the revelations yesterday about Russian influence operations in the US (and elsewhere). newsletter.insightthreatintel.com/p/rising-threa…

Tremendous biggest horrible nobody thought possible

The new CBC podcast on the 100-year history of "sex testing" is brilliantly done and absolutely enraging. Worth a listen: cbc.ca/listen/cbc-pod…

Fuck this guy JD Vance says school shootings are a 'fact of life,' calls for better security apnews.com/article/jd-van…