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 […]
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 […]
“Mann Tracht, un Gott Lacht”: A Socio-Technological Outlook in a Disruptive Era
Abstract: Internet (Web 1.0) became part of daily life in the late ’80s; Web 2.0 defines the last 20 years of the 21st century. A new era begins in 2020. It was predicted that Web 3.0 would begin in 2030, but the Covid-19 pandemic accelerated it. How did this happen? Since December 2019 or mid-February […]
Greater is our terror of the unknown: The Diasporic Internet networks and their inference with Global security
Abstract: Regional and international security problems can be understood in more profound way if the research will take into account the relationship between terrorism and new media technologies. If the civilians are exposed to the information and technological revolution, there is no logic to assume that terrorist groups do not share the same benefits and […]