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***VIRTUAL*** The Virus of Hate: Far-Right Terrorism in Cyberspace

Date: 
June 18, 2020
TIME: 
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Join a community lecture with Professor Gabriel Weimann, Haifa University

Far-right violence and terrorism are a growing threat to Western societies. Far-right terrorist attacks increased by 320 per cent between 2014 and 2019 according to the 2019 Global Terrorism Index. In 2018 alone, far-right terrorist attacks made up 17.2% of all terrorist incidents in the West, compared to Islamic groups which made up 6.28% of all attacks.

Nineteen countries across North America, Western Europe and Oceania have been targeted by far-right attackers. This trend in far-right attacks has led some observers to state that far-right domestic terrorism has not been treated seriously enough in the West and that security and intelligence services should pay closer attention to this emerging threat.

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Classrooms Without Borders.
Event Contact Person: 
Melissa
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Event Website: 
https://classroomswithoutborders.org/gabriel-weimann-lecture/
Speakers: 
Dr. Gabriel Weimann
Dr. Gabriel Weimann is a Full Professor of Communication (Emeritus) at the Department of Communication at Haifa University, a Full Professor at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzelia, Israel, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland, USA.
His research interests include the study of political campaigns, persuasion and influence, modern terrorism and the mass media, online terrorism and cyberterrorism. He published nine books: Communicating Unreality (Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 2000); The Influentials: People Who Influence People (State University of New York Press, 1995); The Theater of Terror (New York: Longman, 1994); Hate on Trial (Toronto: Mosaic, 1986); The Singaporean Enigma (Jerusalem: Tzivonim, 2001); Terror in the Internet: The New Arena, the New Challenges (Washington, DC: USIP Press, 2006); Freedom and Terror (London: Routledge, 2011); Social Research in Israel (Jerusalem: Tzivonim, 2015); and Terrorism in Cyberspace (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015).