Bruce Hoffman
@hoffman_bruce
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I have been studying terrorism & insurgency for nearly 50 years. Senior fellow at @CFR_org. My own opinions. Retweets not endorsements.
Washington, DC
Joined May 2011
"Al Qaeda militants are moving closer to seizing the capital of the West African nation of Mali, which, should the city fall, would become the first country in the world run by the U.S.-designated terrorist group"
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If the jihadists succeed in taking Mali, it would become the first country run by the group. The U.S. has warned its citizens to leave the West African nation immediately.
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A Jewish man from London dropped his credit card into the driver’s section of a public bus. Rather than returning it, the driver made ignored the passenger, who was trapped on the bus for hours trying to retrieve his property. The driver reportedly said that he doesn’t like
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On the campus of Columbia University, hundreds of students set up an encampment to protest the genocide and famine in Darfur that has already displaced 12 million people and claimed 400,000 lives. Thousands of artists signed a petition condemning the massacre of 460 patients and
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BREAKING: The FBI has foiled a major Islamist terror plot targeting multiple synagogues in America. The suspects — all based in Dearborn, Michigan — planned to massacre Jews on U.S. soil. Another chilling reminder: Islamist terror isn’t just abroad. It’s here.
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Our country is suffering from "an erosion of a deterrence against violence" where "political violence is not necessarily taboo anymore." It's a "seismic shift in American democracy." Alongside @hoffman_bruce on the terrific @TIB_Pod with @AmyMcGrathKY.
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Al Qaeda militants are moving closer to seizing the capital of the West African nation of Mali, which, should the city fall, would become the first country in the world run by the U.S.-designated terrorist group https://t.co/FAMm7b9T0d via @WSJ
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If the jihadists succeed in taking Mali, it would become the first country run by the group. The U.S. has warned its citizens to leave the West African nation immediately.
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Absolutely shameful. Afghans Get Stuck in Limbo After U.S. Evacuates Them https://t.co/z9I2SY23xS
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Some 1,300 at a former base in Qatar are unable to continue to Americ
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Another for the "deja vu all over again" file--also from today's WSJ:
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The group is betting it can assert itself without triggering a return to war, but the president’s plan calls for the militants’ capitulation.
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For the "deja vu all over again" file:
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Attacks by the militant group are up as it exploits a reduced American presence and the collapse of the Assad regime. “They have returned to our city.”
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Disgraceful: Little squad of racist bigots threaten violence and beheading (in a british univeristy!!!) against a professor teaching at a London uni while ruining lessons of real students. I want to correct my earlier post: @profserious & @CityStGeorges authorities are
🚨Masked pro-Palestine students disrupted Michael Ben Gad’s lessons today, screaming ‘free free Palestine’ at him as he attempted to teach his economics class. Their campaign of harassment started because Michael is an Israeli who did his mandatory military service decades ago.
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“In photos of his bedroom shared by the police, the swastika on his wall appears alongside children’s wallpaper featuring construction vehicles.” Important reporting on a worrying neo-Nazi plot in northern England by @lizziedearden in the @nytimes.
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Three men in northern England were sentenced last week for preparing acts of terrorism. Their case highlights a growing threat from right-wing extremism, experts said.
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" From a Gaza lawyer & activist: "My Gaza is ready for peace. Hamas is trying to destroy it."
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My Gaza is ready for peace. Hamas is trying to destroy it.
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Bret Stephens: "Why Mamdani Frightens Jews Like Me" https://t.co/yRuHbwJDu5 via @NYTOpinion
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A candidate who stands out for his monomania, double standards and affinity for extremists.
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"Prime Minister Keir Starmer called Birmingham’s ban 'the wrong decision' & repeated...'we will not tolerate antisemitism in our streets.' This is obviously false, given the marchers who have chanted antisemitic slogans across Britain for two years..." https://t.co/kZbwDz8XYR
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Is Britain safe for Jews? On Thursday authorities in Birmingham, the c
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Raife Hastings appreciation post. Watch The Terminal List: #DarkWolf -- now streaming on Prime Video.
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BBC paid £400,000 to create a documentary called “Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone.” They hired a 13 yo narrator who was the son of the Hamas Ministry of Agriculture. Today, the UK’s media regulator Ofcom has determined that BBC “materially misled” viewers and “seriously
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The person in question has also been suspended by Oxford University, where he is an undergraduate student at Balliol College.
Officers investigating chants filmed at a Palestine Coalition demonstration in central London on Saturday, 11 October, have made an arrest. A 20-year-old man was arrested at an address in Oxfordshire on Wednesday, 15 October, on suspicion of inciting racial hatred. He remains
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JOSHI WAS NOT A JEW. NOT AN ISRAELI. HE HAD NO FIGHT WITH HAMAS. HE WAS A HINDU. But Hamas killed him. JOSHI'S MURDER IS ON THOSE WHO GAVE HAMAS A PLATFORM IN THE SUB CONTINENT. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE. SHAME!
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A reminder that Jews were barred from studying at Oxford for hundreds of years. Time for @UniofOxford to prove history is in the past and expel this vile person.
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A humble question: how many times are we going to enter “a new era/age of political violence” before editors and headline writers realize and accept that domestic terrorism was here all along?
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