Digital Hunting: How I Tracked ISIS on TikTok
As information professionals, we know: the most valuable insights are often hidden beneath the surface. I uncovered hidden digital trails of young women recruited by ISIS – not through direct keywords like #ISIS or #Jihad, but through subtle, “innocent” hashtags and cultural codes. My journey spies after ISIS’ recruiting and manipulating young women mainly in […]
Visual Radicalization: ISIS Strategies for Female Recruitment on TikTok
THE NAME OF THE BOOK: The Role of Intelligence in Countering Violent Extremism THE NAME OF THE CHAPTER: Failure to Connect the Dots, 50 Years Later: “Yom Kippur War” (1973) Versus “October 7” Dr. Galit M. Ben-Israel[1] Beit-Berl Academic College, Israel Ben-Israel, G. (2024). Failure to Connect the Dots, 50 Years Later: Yom Kippur War […]
A Brave New World”: A World Where Big Wars and Asymmetric Warfare Coexist”
Abstract. The old order has been broken due to postmodern historical events. After the great wars (Imperial and national wars), we believed the war era had ended. Around the turn of the millennium, a new era of “small wars”/asymmetric warfare began. Non-state armed groups against state armies like Hezbollah in Lebanon, ISIS in the Middle […]
Religious Internet Networks and Mobilization to Terror
Abstract: The current research is part of a broader investigation into Diaspora Internet communities’ political involvement patterns. The study has compared the Internet content of three religious groups (Muslim, Jewish, and Sikh) with an attempt to reveal specific cultural and religious codes that bring the potential terrorists to use the Internet as a tool for […]
The Impact of Web 2.0 on Public Engagement in the Israeli Home Front
ABSTRACT: The research deals with citizen engagement and public participation in crisis in the Israeli home front, in the era of Web 2.0. Since 2004, Web 2.0 has characterized changes that allow users to interact and collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as creators of user-generated content in social networking sites: […]
Developing discourse and tools for alternative content to prevent terror
INTRODUCTION. The inclination of certain parts of the Muslim European population towards devastating terror rhetoric propagated by Al-Qaeda and ISIS and its affiliates requires a close look as to the origins of the inclination and the ways this rhetoric can be dismissed or at least put into contest with more balanced explanations of the reality. […]
Learning Terror trigger textual devices on religious Internet sites
Abstract: The presented paper is a part of a broader research on patterns of political involvement of religious Internet communities. The research proposes that special textual devices, like keywords, semiotic phrases, icons, etc., are activating the first trigger that draws the attention of potential volunteers to take an active act in terror groups. Keywords: terror […]
Development of Defense-Oriented Application Software under Fire: The Case of Israel
Abstract. This paper presents an analysis of the efforts to develop new application software under fire by innovators of the Israeli start-up nation. The applications were developed voluntarily by Israeli civilians living in Tel Aviv during Operation Pillar of Defense in November 2012. At the time when the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) was engaged in […]
Databases on Terrorism: Constructing a Database on Hostage-Barricade Terrorism and Abductions
Abstract: This paper presents the database of Hostage-Barricade-Terrorism (HBT) situations and abductions, which were carried out by Palestinian terrorist organizations during the period 1968-1994, against Israeli soldiers and Israeli citizens. The study proposes a new methodology for describing processes adopted in HBT and abduction events. Keywords: Hostage-barricade terrorism (HBT), abductions, Palestinian terrorist organizations, database, ‘hard […]
Analysis of success of mobilization to terror using tools of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
ABSTRACT: The current research is dedicated to putting forward the ways Internet surfers are mobilized for the aims of illegal and harmful actions and even terror. We introduced the usage of a psychological-linguistic approach known as NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) which creates a fast shift in the perception of reality followed by the behavioral change of […]