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Bruce Hoffman
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I have been studying terrorism & insurgency for nearly 50 years. Senior fellow at @CFR_org. My own opinions. Retweets not endorsements.
Washington, DC
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    Bruce Hoffman
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    Jan 20, 2025
    I often tell my students that what is so fascinating about studying terrorism is that a fiction thriller writer could never invent what actually happens. A case in point is the depraved graduation diploma-like certificates Hamas gave the three female Israel hostages released
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    Bruce Hoffman
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    Nov 15, 2023
    What does "from the river to the sea" really mean? This is a photograph I took on December 30, 2019 when I was briefed by senior officials in the Palestine Authority about relations with Israel. The briefing took place in the PA HQ in Ramallah, Palestine. This map was shown.
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    Bruce Hoffman
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    Sep 1, 2018
    Why do we treat our closest ally and friend, Canada, so poorly? Canadians fought bravely alongside us most recently in Afganhistan and their CT cooperation with us is as unstinting as it is critical to America’s own security.
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    Bruce Hoffman
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    Aug 3, 2022
    Take a moment to remember a great American, Kayla Mueller, who 9 years ago today was kidnapped, & ultimately executed by, ISIS. She was a dedicated humanitarian, with an open mind & an enormous heart who only wanted to ease the suffering of others & make the world a better place.
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    Bruce Hoffman
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    Oct 8, 2023
    Back in 2006, Hezbollah had an arsenal of ~15k missiles (the most sophisticated provided by Iran). Today, it has 10x that number. The danger of a two front war for Israel or perhaps 3-front if the West Bank erupts in violence, begins to assume existential dimensions.
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    Bruce Hoffman
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    Nov 17, 2023
    In the week since my article was published, I have heard from Jewish students both at the university I teach at & elsewhere. They report how their professors have singled them out with assignments to "defend Israel's invasion of Gaza" before the class & when they skipped that
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    Bruce Hoffman
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    Oct 11, 2023
    Listening to NPR interview again with Amer. U. professor. Gaza also has border crossings with Egypt. Yet, hardly anyone ever mentions that they are closed nor asks why? Because Egypt also considers Hamas to be a terrorist organization & not a "political party" (NPR host's words)
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    Bruce Hoffman
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    Jan 6, 2019
    FBI special agents, analysts, support operations personnel & others will now have not received a paycheck since before Christmas. The hardship imposed on them is very poor thanks for keeping us safe from terrorists, malevolent hackers, spies, pedophiles, human traffickers, etc.
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    FBI Agents Association
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    Jan 1, 2019
    FBIAA Pres. @tfoconnor83 - “FBIAA members and others are currently working without pay or paid leave because of a fourth government shutdown in five years. The FBIAA calls on elected officials to work together to end the shutdown and restore Agents’ pay.” (Statement attached.)
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    Bruce Hoffman
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    Jun 2, 2022
    "The world can’t sit by and do nothing as the Kremlin again employs famine as a weapon." ⁦@MaxBoot⁩
    Opinion | The West must help Ukraine end Russia’s Black Sea blockade
    From washingtonpost.com
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    Bruce Hoffman
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    Dec 24, 2018
    The other terrorist group we supposedly defeated, hasn't gone away either. ind.pn/2EIBhMQ
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    Bruce Hoffman
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    Apr 19, 2024
    The 168 chairs, with 19 small ones for the kids & babies murdered on April 19, 1995, is among the most moving memorials anywhere to lives senselessly lost because of terrorism. Even more tragically, it was an American who cruelly & mercilessly killed other Americans that day.
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    Bruce Hoffman
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    Jul 19, 2020
    Chris Dickey, 1951-2020. Renowned foreign correspondent, accomplished novelist and memoirist, superb photographer, loving husband, devoted father & grandfather. Among the best terrorism analysts I've known--& a cherished friend who will be greatly missed.
    The journalist Christopher Dickey in an undated photo. He was, the television newsman Brian Williams said, “one of those great and curious storytellers who seemed to know just about everything and everyone.”
    Christopher Dickey, Renowned Foreign Correspondent, Dies at 68 (Published 2020)
    From nytimes.com
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    Bruce Hoffman
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    Feb 24, 2021
    How can it be an intelligence failure when you fail to read your own department's 12-page assessment warning 3 days before 1/6/21 that "Congress could be targeted ... as 'the last opportunity to overturn the results of the presidential election'"?
    FBI alert about possible ‘war’ against Congress reached D.C. and Capitol Police on eve of attack,...
    From washingtonpost.com
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    Bruce Hoffman
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    Dec 6, 2023
    I had to have armed police present at 2 events I spoke at last week on campuses respectively in the midwest & northeast. They were needed both to protect me & to ensure that protestors did not shut down either. The problem thus goes beyond free speech--regardless of the "evasive"
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    Aviva Klompas
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    Dec 5, 2023
    At today's congressional hearing on the shameful surge in campus antisemitism @RepStefanik asks: Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate your school's code of conduct? President of @MIT: Something something context something something President of @Penn: Something
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