Giovanni Giacalone, at The Blogs

May 22, 2024, 4:35 PM

The IDF needs to fully enter Rafah with its divisions and finish the job

In the last few months, we heard everything and the contrary of everything regarding the IDF intervening deeply into Rafah to take out what is left of the Hamas battalions and its Gaza leadership. The Biden administration repeatedly warned Israel...

May 10, 2024, 7:17 PM

The Biden administration, the Obama legacy, and Hamas

The issue of Washington withholding the shipment of essential munitions from Israel due to concerns about “possible civilian casualties” in Rafah generated a backlash on the Biden administration, which is now being attacked by multiple sides, including the pro-Israel...

May 6, 2024, 7:41 AM

Hamas kills more Israelis. Enough is enough, the IDF must enter Rafah now

Three more Israeli soldiers were killed by Hamas fire on Sunday, not during IDF operations in Gaza, but on Israeli soil. They were hit by rocket fire originating from Rafah, and indeed Hamas immediately took responsibility, saying their Al-Qassam...

May 1, 2024, 8:05 PM

The current hostage-deal proposal could be a disaster for Israel

The latest “hostage-deal” proposal, as exposed by Israel National News in reference to an article published by the Lebanese newspaper “al-Akhbar”, would be a major defeat for Israel. First and foremost, Hamas shouldn’t even be in the position to make...

Apr 26, 2024, 1:41 AM

Jewish demonstrators attacked by Arabs in Milan, where was the police?

The scenes seen in Milan’s most central square, Piazza Duomo, on Thursday, April 25th 2024, are among the most absurd, embarrassing, and alarming so far seen in Italy, and in Europe since October 7th, when the Israel-Hamas war broke...

Apr 25, 2024, 1:01 PM

They are not peaceful demonstrations, it’s terrorism

The most objective definition of “terrorism” that I have so far been able to find is the one conceived by Boaz Ganor, director of Herzliya’s International Institute for Counter-Terrorism: “Terrorism is the deliberate use of violence, aimed against civilians, in...

Apr 15, 2024, 8:28 PM

Italian FM Tajani feels reassured by Iran: only ships to Israel will be attacked

The Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonio Tajani, made some very concerning statements on April 14th regarding Iran’s aggression against Israel, at a time when even Arab countries have taken action alongside Israel, as well as obviously the United...

Apr 13, 2024, 10:52 PM

Pakistani imam in Italy accuses Biden and Zionists of pedophilia and satanism

On March 2nd, 2024, we exposed the activity of Zulfiqar Khan, a Pakistani Tabligh preacher who plays the role of imam at the IQRAA Islamic Center in the northern Italian city of Bologna. Khan’s sermons launched from the pulpit of...

Apr 7, 2024, 5:19 PM

Anti-Jewish and anti-Israel activity spread in Europe

The Jewish communities in Europe are once again at risk of becoming targets of Hamas, Hezbollah, and other terrorist groups and cells active in the Old Continent, as well as by self-activated attackers receptive to extremist propaganda. The risks...

Apr 1, 2024, 11:16 PM

Israeli student ‘warned’ by the Italian police for carrying Israeli flag

On Sunday, March 24th, Israeli veterinary student Jasmine Kolodro stood on the street, wrapped in an Israeli flag, next to a pro-Palestinian demonstration in the city of Padua. After a few minutes, the demonstrators began to verbally attack and...

About Me

Giovanni Giacalone is a senior analyst in Islamist extremism and terrorism at the Italian Team for Security, Terroristic Issues and Managing Emergencies-Catholic University of Milan, at the Europe desk for the UK-based think tank Islamic Theology of Counter-Terrorism, and a researcher for Centro Studi Machiavelli. Since 2021 he is the coordinator for the "Latin America group" at the International Institute for the Study of Security-ITSS. In 2023 Giacalone published the book “The Tablighi Jamaat in Europe”.

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