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Terrorism & Radicalism
Countering Global Terrorism and Exposing the Islamist Ideology.
Terrorism and its underlying Islamist ideology pose a civilizational challenge to the West and Europe in particular. Beyond the immediate security threat of mass casualty attacks, the worldview inspiring terrorism constitutes also a major obstacle to the integration of immigrant communities.
A successful counter-terrorism strategy is therefore not only a matter of improving police and intelligence work, as important as those tasks are, but also requires an effective counter-radicalization strategy.
To defeat terrorism and its underlying worldview we can’t though focus only on violent extremism but must also tackle those groups that may officially reject violence and yet still propagate goals and values that are incompatible with our liberal democracies. It is their views and ideas that lead to the creation of parallel societies, thus undermining social cohesion, and prepare the ideological groundwork for the jihadis.
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TAI Director Daniel Schwammenthal on Terrorist Structures in Europe
On May 17, 2018, the AJC Transatlantic Institute and CSU Brussels, in partnership with the European Foundation for Democracy, hosted an event entitled “Terrorist Structures in Europe - Front Organizations, Financing, Propaganda and Recruitment” in the European Parliament. Speakers included Udo...
MEP Monika Hohlmeier on Terrorism in Europe
On May 17, 2018, the AJC Transatlantic Institute and CSU Brussels, in partnership with the European Foundation for Democracy, hosted an event entitled “Terrorist Structures in Europe - Front Organizations, Financing, Propaganda and Recruitment” in the European Parliament. Speakers included Udo...
AJC Welcomes MEP Letter Calling for EU To List Entire Hezbollah As A Terror Group
Brussels – 22 February 2018 – AJC welcomes a letter signed by 60 Members of the European Parliament calling on the European Union Foreign Affairs Council to designate Hezbollah in its entirety as a terrorist organization.
Co-initiated by Anders...
An Impossible Balancing Act? The EU's Policy on Saudi Arabia and Iran
On January 25, 2018 the AJC Transatlantic Institute hosted a discussion on Iran and Saudi Arabia at the European Parliament. Speakers included Anders Vistisen, Member of the European Parliament (ECR), Bas Belder, Member of the European Parliament (ECR), Dr. Abdulla Mosa Al Tayer, Chaiman of...
Palestinian Terrorist Leila Khaled at EU Parliament Glorifies Terrorism
Only weeks after the European Parliament voted to form a special committee on terrorism, Leila Khaled, active member of the EU-designated terror group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), was on 26 September 2017 cheered on by MEP Javier Cuoso after her...
Jan Jambon Discusses Israel's Support to Belgium after the 2016 Brussels Attacks
Watch the Belgian Interior Minister, Jan Jambon, discuss at our event in with EU40 "Security in the Age of Terrorism" how Belgium was inspired by Israeli expertise.
Shortly after the Brussels Attacks in March 2016, Israeli security experts...
Ambassador David Walzer on EU-Israel Relations
On the sidelines of the European-Israeli Dialogue on National Security and Regional Stability on 3 May 2016, Amb. David Walzer outlines his vision of EU-Israel relations. These should involve, but by no means be limited to, collaborating on fighting the common threat of...
Video: Yoram Schweitzer discusses the need to ban Hezbollah
Yoram Schweitzer, Director of the Terrorism and Low Intensity Warfare Project at Tel Aviv University's Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), discusses Hezbollah and the need to identify the organization as a terror group.
The interview was filmed on the sidelines of the...
Video: Dr. Peter Spoor on EU-Israel Counter-Terrorism Cooperation
Dr. Peter Spoor, Advisor to EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator, discusses the deepening cooperation between the EU and Israel on combating terrorism. The interview was filmed on the sidelines of the European-Israeli Dialogue on National Security and Regional Stability on 3 May...
Saad on Radicalism and Terrorism in Europe
In the aftermath of the terror attacks that shook Brussels in March 2016, Chief Commissioner of the Brussels Police, Saad Amrani, analyses the roots of Islamic radicalism in Europe and how the ideology is rapidly finding new followers among young Muslims. ...