terrorism

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• 6/25/2023
  

  Martha Hodes Talks "My Hijacking" with HNN

  by Michan Connor

  In 1970, when she was 12, Martha Hodes was held hostage for nearly a week in a campaign of airline hijacking that captured world attention. She discusses trauma and erasure in the historical record, the roles of remembering and forgetting in shaping views of the past, and how she investigated herself as a historial actor. 

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  6/12/2023
  

  Martha Hodes Turns Historian's Training to Reach Memory Hidden by Trauma

  A memoirist of her own experience of terrorist hostage-taking reviews Martha Hodes's effort to apply the tools of historians to recover memory of being held in the Jordanian desert on a hijacked plane in 1970. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/1/2023
  

  Martha Hodes Reconstructs Her Memory of a 1970 Hijacking

  At age 12, the historian, with her older sister, was a passenger on a jet hijacked by Palestinian militants. After decades of minimizing the story, her efforts to approach her past as a historian highlight the gaps in documentary records, the contradictory ways memory can fill those gaps, and the varying degrees of distance historians keep from their subjects.

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  5/30/2023
  

  German Government Panel of Historians Begins Inquiry into 1972 Munich Olympics Killings

  The government hopes to address ongoing questions raised by the families of murdered Israeli athletes about failures of security before the attack and as the crisis unfolded. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  2/24/2023
  

  Biden Should Remove Cuba from List of State Sponsors of Terrorism

  by Guillaume Long

  After Obama removed Cuba from the list of countries sponsoring terrorism, Trump reinstalled it for petty political reasons. The Biden administration should reverse the decision again. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  2/27/2023
  

  Black History, White Terror, and Rosewood at 100

  by Dan Royles

  The efforts of historians and survivors to achieve a small measure of justice and acknowledgment for the Rosewood massacre demonstrate the stakes of Florida's current efforts to restrict the teaching of history that challenges white supremacy. 

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• SOURCE: American Historical Review
  9/19/2022
  

  "As if I Wasn't There": Writing from a Child's Memory

  by Martha Hodes

  Writing her own memory of being held hostage by terrorists forced the author to put herself at the center of the story. 

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  8/1/2022
  

  The Battle over Reproductive Freedom Still Rages at Dr. George Tiller's Former Clinic

  "It’s been more than a decade since Tiller was murdered, but at Trust Women, which reopened and rebranded under his protégé Julie Burkhart in 2013, the past has a habit of lingering outside the gates."

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• SOURCE: African American Policy Forum
  5/18/2022
  

  African American Policy Forum Statement on Buffalo Massacre

  "Racial terrorism would die out with the generations weaned on it—or so the more hopeful among us believed."

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  5/15/2022
  

  Isaac Chotiner Interviews Kathleen Belew on White Power and the Buffalo Mass Shooting

  "The idea is simply that many different kinds of social change are connected to a plot by a cabal of élites to eradicate the white race, which people in this movement believe is their nation."

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• 4/17/2022
  

  Does Israel's Right Cultivate a Permanent Enemy to Justify a Permanent Occupation?

  by Alon Ben-Meir

  The vast majority of Israelis and Palestinians have been born since the occupation began. The current Israeli government seems content to exploit violent outbreaks like those of recent weeks to ensure that no one seriously imagines alternatives.

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• SOURCE: London Review of Books
  4/7/2022
  

  Is the British Legal System Finally Ready for Justice for the True Perpetrators of an IRA Bombing?

  Journalist Chris Mullin discusses the saga of wrongful conviction, eventual exoneration, and delayed justice for the victims of the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings, and argues he is being scapegoated for the whole mess because he won't identify a source who was involved.

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  2/2/2022
  

  FBI Identifies 6 Juvenile Persons of Interest in HBCU Bomb Threats

  On the first day of Black History Month multiple historically Black campuses reported bomb threats. 

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• SOURCE: Lawfare
  12/5/2021
  

  The Historian's Approach to Understanding Terrorism (and Why it's Needed)

  by Richard English

  Historians have the long-term focus, the attention to particularity and contingency, and the willingness to engage with sources from multiple origins that are missing from policy approaches to terrorism. 

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• 9/12/2021
  

  9/11's Memorials and the Politics of Historical Memory

  by Marita Sturken

  Major 9/11 memorials try to fix the public memory on a moment of national unity that, 20 years later, seems illusory. Other memorials point the way to using the force of memory to encourage critical reflection on nationalism.

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• 9/5/2021
  

  Were the 9/11 Attacks Preventable?

  by J. Samuel Walker

  It's impossible to know if more diligent preparation for potential Al Qaeda attacks could have prevented them, but the Bush administration's slowness to develop a national security strategy for terrorism will always haunt the nation and the world. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  8/15/2021
  

  Perspective on the History of the Taliban

  Wazmah Osman of Temple University discusses how the weekend's events, when the fall of Kabul seemed imminent, and explains why the Taliban's defeat was illusory.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/28/2021
  

  Twenty Years after 9/11, its Memorialization Remains Contested

  by John Bodnar

  "How people respond to traumatic events and the pain of others, of course, is always unpredictable. But such responses have consequences."

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• SOURCE: BBC
  4/28/2021
  

  France Arrests Ex-Members of Italy Extremist group Red Brigades

  Alleged members of the leftist terror group had been harbored in France under policies of its former Socialist president François Mitterand, with the proviso that such sanctuary was only for those who had not been involved in violence. 

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• 3/21/2021
  

  White Terrorism: From Post-Civil-War Lynchings to the Present

  by Walter G. Moss

  The Capitol riots of January 6 echoed elements of mob lynchings in the participants' binary us/them view of society, a conservative white Protestant religious culture, and a willingness to accept rumor and conspiracy as justifications for their actions.