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The Current Terrorist Threat Matrix in Europe: A Trend Overview  (Nicolas Stockhammer, RSDI)
The interplay of multifaceted crises, a growing societal polarization, and a diminishing capacity to counter extremism, which frequently appears in non-violent forms, have a significant impact on the evolution of ideologically motivated, extremist violence. At the same time, ongoing conflicts within the Euro-strategic security environment continue to exacerbate terrorism in Europe. The wars in Ukraine and Gaza, abrupt regime change in Syria, political instability across substantial parts of the Middle East and North Africa region, and other significant regional developments pose undeniable, yet unpredictable, challenges to European security.

American Antisemitism Is Ever More Violent – from the Left as Well as the Right  (Melissa Langsam Braunstein, Jewish Chronicle)
Conventional wisdom has long considered violent American antisemitism a problem of the political Right. By contrast, any antisemitism on the Left was deemed rare, mild, and non-violent. But oh, it’s long past time to revise that received wisdom. Not long after Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s family and first-Seder guests may have read the Haggadah’s warning that “in every generation they rise up against us to destroy us,” the sleeping Shapiros were targeted. Local man Cody Balmer reportedly told a 911-operator he’d firebombed the governor’s mansion very early Sunday. According to the search warrant, Balmer wanted Shapiro “to know that he ‘will not take part in his plans for what he wants to do to the Palestinian people.’” Balmer added that Shapiro “needs to stop having my friends killed, and ‘our people have been put through too much by that monster.’” Balmer further planned to hurt Shapiro “with his hammer” if they met face-to-face.

US Brings First Terrorism Charges Against Alleged Venezuelan Gang Member  (Reuters)
The U.S. on Wednesday added terrorism-related charges to its criminal case against an alleged high-ranking member of Tren de Aragua, the first time U.S. authorities have used those charges against the Venezuelan street gang. Jose Enrique Martinez Flores was charged in a new indictment with conspiring to provide and providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization, according to a court filing.

“Good Hunting”: Right Wing Extremist Chats Flourishing on Telegram  (Maik Baumgärtner et al., Der Spiegel)
He goes by “Hunter” on the messaging app Telegram. And the young German makes no secret of his political orientation. He’s from a “NatSoc Family,” he claims, writing in English – a family with national-socialist sympathies. Where they live in the German state of Saxony, he writes, there are fewer “non-whites” than in western Germany, and the far right is gaining ground, “especially the militant scene.” In a chat with a Telegram user claiming to share his views, “Hunter” goes into detail. He writes that he is training a group of teenagers and young men between 13 and 25 and posts photos of them marching in camouflage. Sometimes, they drive to Poland or the Czech Republic, apparently for target practice. He is planning to conduct detonation tests in the woods with a mixture of diesel and manure, he claims. His role model: Timothy McVeigh, the man who blew up a federal building in the US state of Oklahoma in 1995.

Neo-Nazis Recruit on TikTok - Deadly Role Models  (Carsten Janz, John Hufnagel, and Andrea Röpke, T-online)
Pupils, teenagers and young adults are increasingly being drawn into the far-right scene on social networks such as TikTok. Right-wing extremist influencers are already luring under 14-year-olds with right-wing slogans or bizarre-looking “explanatory videos”. This is apparently co-organized by former Nazis who have already made a criminal appearance and also played a role in the National Socialist Underground (NSU) trial. This is the result of t-online research. The scene is now increasingly shifting from the Internet to the streets. Experts warn of dangerous second “baseball bat years”. How were old Nazis, who no longer played a major role in the scene, able to gain so much influence again? And what role does TikTok play in this? The strategies of the right are a cause for concern. It’s reminiscent of the old days. A good 40 men and a few women meet on a market square in Schwerin on March 29, 2025. They are wearing combat boots and bomber jackets, their heads are often shaved. In their hands are posters with the words “Aryan Circle” or “Germany, my homeland”. Reich flags can be seen several times. There are a noticeably large number of young people at the demonstration. Many are not of age, some appear to be around 14 years old.