Here’s How We Should Combat Radical Right-Wing Terrorism
On 22 May 2017, an Islamist suicide bomber detonated his bomb outside an Ariana Grande pop concert at the Manchester Arena. His chosen target was guaranteed to kill the most…
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October 2018
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The Sobibor Death Camp Revolt – October 14, 1943 – Part 1
My CARR Blog for October will cover one of the most courageous events of the Second World War, where Jewish prisoners, against all the odds, rose up against their captors…
Is He a Fascist? The Election of Jair Bolsonaro
Newly elected Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro’s narrative is one that lends itself to creating what historians of dictatorship have called a ‘cult of personality’. One of his supporters recently told…
Paging Mr Aaronovitch: The Radical Right doesn’t need any more help from the mainstream
For anyone paying attention, the radical right is on the march. Recent years have been more favorable to their fortunes than at any time since the end of World War…
Why? Explaining the Holocaust
I am reviewing this superb book for CARR as it is probably fair to say that most people with an interest in the radical right also have some interest in…
Voting Radical Right in Western Europe “Rules of the Game”
My study of the radical right in my book Voting Radical Right in Western Europe focused on the institutions that determine the “rules of the game” – in particular, electoral systems…
The Decline of the Left and the Populist Radical Right Surge in the Refugee Crisis
“We may only be at the beginning of the populist radical right surge in European politics.” Electoral Oblivion The Netherlands, Hungary, France, Germany and Sweden: what do all of these…
The EU’s Putin Wannabes
The Austrian Habsburg Empire was famous for its motto: ‘not to lead wars but instead, to marry [and to colonize more territories]’; frequently repeated in Latin, bella gerant alii, tu felix Austria,…
What’s Wrong with Anti-Semitism?
Anti-Semitism is dangerous because of what it reveals about people and systems, not just in and of itself. In 2010, a British journalist born in Poland, Ewa Jasiewicz, spray-painted the words,…
PEGIDA turns 4 – will AfD be among the well-wishers?
Four years ago on October 20, 2014, ‘Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident’ (PEGIDA) staged their first-ever demonstration in the city of Dresden. About 350 people attended. Soon,…