Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens
@amhitchens
Snr. Lecturer @warstudies | Co-Director @ICSR_Centre | Fellow @gwupoe | Incitement: Anwar al-Awlaki's Western Jihad (HUP) Homegrown: ISIS in America (IB Tauris)
Delighted to have this report out with @MoustafaAyad for @gwupoe. Was a pleasure to work with one of the best researchers and thinkers in the field and will be doing a long-ish thread on our findings soon. For now, enjoy the report and please send any feedback
Today we’re releasing our newest report by @amhitchens and @MoustafaAyad - ‘The Age of Incoherence? Understanding Mixed and Unclear Ideology Extremism’ extremism.gwu.edu/age-incoherenc…
My colleague and I have just released a new 236-page report showing how Quran burnings in Sweden between 2020 and 2023 were exploited by states such as Russia, China, Iran, and Turkey to spread disinformation, polarize public opinion, and undermine Sweden’s security situation (in…
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🚨 NEW: Department of Justice unseals indictment against a member of the Terrorgram Collective in the Eastern District of California.
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22 killed after suicide bomber opens fire at church at a Greek Orthodox church in Damascus trib.al/9rAszOV
Unfortunately this has been coming and won't be the last time. Very easy target, little CT police response systems in place, many soft targets near the coast
BREAKING: Israel says Iran attempted to attack Israeli citizens in Cyprus trib.al/Rx0iR33 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
Following the violent attack on a #PalmSprings fertility clinic, evidence pointed to the attacker being an adherent to the obscure ideology of efilism. Manfredi Pozzoli traces the attacker’s online footprint and this emerging threat. gnet-research.org/2025/06/20/mur…
Today, Abdul Basit and Rueben Dass explore how terrorist groups in the #Afghanistan-Pakistan region incorporate technologies in their operations, the threat they pose, and implications for the region’s security landscape. gnet-research.org/2025/06/18/nas…
As I wrote in this paper a decade ago, bad faith extreme RW actors use grooming gangs scandal to push bigoted attitudes re UK Muslims writ large. Grooming gangs are a problem and scandal / the extreme right exploit this. Both can be true at the same time. icsr.info/wp-content/upl…
When you cheered Luigi's attack, you may not have realised what you were seeing the beginning of, and you're not gonna like it trust me.
Given what's happening in Iran now, obviously same (and more) can be said about Oct 7.
In Kashmir now we see the impact relatively small scale terrorist attacks can have on global order. Don't only measure terrorism on how many people it kills
Far as I know, I was the first to refer to emerging anti Muslim right as cultural nationalist back in 2013. The wording and presentation of the problem here by Prevent is too simplistic and so are some of the reactions 1/
This from the Home Office is what my recent blog predicted - link next tweet - and under this sort of thing I'll shortly find myself referred to Prevent for extremism - while the police facilitate marches for a second Holocaust by people waving Hitler photos every week in London.…
No true. No one has a legal duty to refer anyone to Prevent. Public institutions have a legal duty to have system in place to make referrals if staff come across anything of concern and to make sure their staff know about Prevent etc.
Important to note that Prevent is *binding* on all education providers: if a pupil/student expresses these concerns (even reasonably in political/philosophical/religious debate), it is the *duty* of the teacher/lecturer to report it as “cultural nationalism”. It's just insidious.
U.K. Faces ‘Extraordinary’ Threat from Russian and Iranian Plots, Official Warns, noting these hostile states were paying local criminals to carry out acts of violence, espionage and intimidation. nytimes.com/2025/06/06/wor…