Perspective: What links ISIS-inspired terrorists and white supremacist ones like the Poway shooter?
Leslie Gollub, left, and Gretchen Gordon hug Sunday at a vigil held to support the victims of Saturday’s shooting at Chabad of Poway synagogue in Poway, Calif. By Ibrahim Al-Marashi Ibrahim Al-Marashi is an associate professor of history at California State University San Marcos and co-author most recently of “A Concise History of the Middle East.” April 29 at 6:00 AM On Saturday, a 19-year-old student allegedly walked into a synagogue in Poway, Calif.
These sorts of terrorist attacks fall under the umbrella of “propaganda of the deed,” a category that dates to the anarchist violence of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. While such attacks may not be coordinated, they intend to use mass media to propagate their ideas, inspire other similar actions and provoke fear among their perceived enemies.
Two years later the Palestinian Black September group kidnapped and killed 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics, hoping to capitalize upon the Games being broadcast live for the first time around the world. In the past decade, white-power terrorism has turned to propaganda of the deed to advance its political aims in ways as similar to these groups’ methods as their ideas are different. They too claim to be under siege from global forces. White supremacists claim that white populations are under threat and need to maintain their identity in a globalizing world lest they face elimination from minority groups and immigrants aided by “leftist elites.
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