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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 30 September 2024. Part of a series on Terrorism Definitions History Incidents By ideology Anarchist Communist Left-wing/Far-left Narcotics-driven Nationalist Right-wing/Far-right Religious Buddhist Christian (Mormon) Hindu Islamic (Salafi-Wahhabi) Jewish Sikh Special-interest / Single-issue Suffragette ...
Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims. [ 1 ] The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violence during peacetime or in the context of war against non-combatants (mostly civilians and neutral military personnel). [ 2 ]
Map of 2,872 terrorist incidents in the contiguous United States from 1970 to 2017. KEY: Orange: 2001–2017; Green: 1970–2000 Terrorism deaths in the United States In the United States, a common definition of terrorism is the systematic or threatened use of violence in order to create a general climate of fear to intimidate a population or government and thereby effect political, religious ...
The most active perpetrators of terrorism in New York City were Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN), a Puerto Rican separatist group, responsible for 40 NYC attacks in this decade. The Jewish Defense League (JDL), which engaged in attacks against targets it perceived to be anti-Semitic, launched 27 attacks during this period, none ...
The history of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict traces back to the late 19th century when Zionists sought to establish a homeland for the Jewish people in Ottoman-controlled Palestine, a region roughly corresponding to the Land of Israel in Jewish tradition. [1][2][3][4] The Balfour Declaration of 1917, issued by the British government ...
Schmid and Jongman Schmid and Jongman. "Terrorism is an anxiety-inspiring method of repeated violent action, employed by (semi-)clandestine individual, group, or state actors, for idiosyncratic, criminal, or political reasons, whereby—in contrast to assassination—the direct targets of violence are not the main targets.
The British administrative headquarters for Mandatory Palestine, housed in the southern wing [1] of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, were bombed in a terrorist attack [2][3] on 22 July 1946, by the militant right-wing [4] Zionist underground organization Irgun during the Jewish insurgency. [5][6][7] Ninety-one people of various nationalities ...
The history of Hamas is an account of the Palestinian nationalist and Islamist [ 1 ] – described by some as fundamentalist [ 2 ] – socio-political organization with an associated paramilitary force, the Ezzedeen al-Qassam Brigades. [ 3 ][ 4 ] Hamas (حماس) Ḥamās is an acronym of حركة المقاومة الاسلاميةḤarakat al ...