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The FBI’s 2020 Hate Crime Report Shows 12-Year High, But Spotlights Underreporting

Once again the FBI has released its annual Hate Crime Statistics for 2020, and while the data is grim, it is also woefully inadequate. Despite generating widespread press, the FBI data…

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8 min

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Legislation and Law Enforcement Practices in the OSCE area: Main tendencies in the Fighting of Extremism, 2018-20

Sometime ago, an international team of authors, as part of the work of my European Centre for Democracy Development, completed a major project to monitor manifestations of xenophobia and extremism…

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5 min

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R.I.P C.V.E.

Let us hope that in 2021, on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, we can mark the end of the term ‘CVE’ (Countering Violent Extremism) and the conceptual confusion…

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4 min

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Hate in the Time of Coronavirus

There is a wealth of evidence to suggest that incidents relating to the fear of foreigners are on the rise. There is no part of the globe that has not…

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5 min

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Quarantined Radicals: Right-Wing Extremism In The Age Of COVID-19

Researchers are asking if this era of self-isolation will increase radicalization, but they need to look at the existing extremism COVID-19 is exacerbating. There have been articles published that assert…

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6 min

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How To And How Not to Fight Anti-Semitic Violence In The US

An analysis of the effective methods to combat anti-Semitism as well as ineffective methods. In recent years, there has been a surge in anti-Semitic violence in the United States. The…

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7 min

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Conversation with an Imam: being Muslim in Post-Brexit UK

With the anniversary of the Christchurch Mosque attack approaching, and following Brexit, is the Muslim community in the UK living in fear? s the United Kingdom faces a post-Brexit reality…

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5 min

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Why Prosecuting Jussie Smollett Is Important

The evidence that Jussie Smollett staged his attack is overwhelming, but it doesn’t detract from the fact very few hate crimes are hoaxes. It highlights it. Earlier this month, actor…

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CARR Research Insight Series: Two Americas: The Radical Right, Then and Now

In the first CARR Research Insight, Mark Potok considers the resurgence of the radical right in the United States. This piece explores this resurgence in the context of ethnic and racial hatred and political backlash…

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5 min

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Reconfiguring Islamophobia and the Radical Right: a decade in retrospect

My new book, “Reconfiguring Islamophobia: a radical rethinking of a contested concept” (Palgrave Macmillan) marks a decade since the publication of my first book on the topic (“Islamophobia”, Ashgate). Through…

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The FBI’s 2020 Hate Crime Report Shows 12-Year High, But Spotlights Underreporting

Legislation and Law Enforcement Practices in the OSCE area: Main tendencies in the Fighting of Extremism, 2018-20

R.I.P C.V.E.

Hate in the Time of Coronavirus

How To And How Not to Fight Anti-Semitic Violence In The US

Conversation with an Imam: being Muslim in Post-Brexit UK

Why Prosecuting Jussie Smollett Is Important

CARR Research Insight Series: Two Americas: The Radical Right, Then and Now

Reconfiguring Islamophobia and the Radical Right: a decade in retrospect

Tucker Carlson Is The Most Dangerous Anchor In America

An Exception no more: Identifying the origins of the radical-right appeal, the case of Chega in Portugal

Germany Has Stepped Up Its Efforts Combating Right-Wing Extremism

Eric Zemmour’s Plan to Save France from Extinction