The cross-party leadership of the Transatlantic Friends of Israel asked EU High Representative Josep Borrell urgently for reassurances that EU funds not be used to benefit terrorists and for a thorough review of funding standards for NGOs to ensure that they are not employing terrorists or inciting violence.
The European Union must finally decide how to treat Islamic Hezbollah. And stop pretending that the “Party of God” is divided into “politicians” and “soldiers”. The former can act legally, the latter cannot – because they are terrorists who “specialize” in bombings, including suicide ones. It is time to recognize that Hezbollah is one organization. A terrorist organization – writes Sebastian Rejak*.
Police arrested a 21-year-old suspected right-wing extremist after he threatened to kill Muslims in Germany. The man reportedly said he wanted to carry out an attack similar to the deadly Christchurch mosque shootings.
Heated rhetoric between Greece and Turkey contributed to ongoing tensions over maritime borders and hydrocarbon development in the Eastern Mediterranean. Crisis Group expert Nigar Göksel says that following Turkey’s late-May decision to begin hydrocarbon drilling in areas Greece claims as its Exclusive Economic Zone, both the Greek and Turkish defence ministers this week signalled their readiness to use force to defend their respective interests. Talks scheduled next week between Athens and Cairo intended to demarcate their maritime borders, following a similar deal Athens struck with Italy this week, are likely to further heighten tensions with Ankara and solidify alliances that are dividing the region.
Why is Trump trying to designate it as a terrorist organization in the wake of protests over George Floyd’s death?
President Trump is blaming the far-left network known as antifa for the looting and rioting that has arisen during anti-police-brutality protests in cities across the nation. Trump said he’ll label the movement a terrorist organization, though he legally cannot do that, and Attorney General William P. Barr said there is evidence antifa and other similar extremist groups are instigating violence.
An outgoing Social Democrat lawmaker has been sworn in as the German parliament’s new commissioner for Germany’s military, the Bundeswehr. Eva Högl said “attitudes” must change.
The trend we witness in world politics is away from the initial forms of globalization and toward a reassertion of the nation-state as one of the two key players in international economic and business relations, the other player being transnational businesses.
President Donald Trump‘s tweet that he would designate the group Antifa as a domestic terrorism organization is drawing criticism as unconstitutional and risking the diversion of resources from known terrorism threats.
On Sunday afternoon, President Donald Trump tweeted that, “The United States of America will be designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization.” The declaration, via social media, comes on the heels of Attorney General William Barr blaming the violence from the protests that have erupted across the country in response to the murder of George Floyd on “far-left extremist groups.”
Bottom Line Up Front
Recent discussion about white supremacy extremist groups has focused on the Russian Imperial Movement, but the Atomwaffen Division (AWD) deserves closer scrutiny for its transnational linkages and global aspirations.
Atomwaffen members maintain links to Canada, Germany, Ukraine, Estonia, and elsewhere.
Atomwaffen has cultivated linkages to other white supremacy extremist groups abroad, including the Sonnenkrieg Division, the Feuerkrieg Division, a German chapter labeled AWD Deutschland, and the Antipodean Resistance based in Australia.
It is critical to counter the transnational growth of Atomwaffen before it is able to metastasize into a full-scale movement abroad, where it could draw upon an anonymous globalized network to organize and conduct terror attacks.