The Radical Right’s Obsession with Bioterrorism, 2020

The IGTS is glad to recommend the paper published by Dr. Ely Karmon from the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) in June, 2020 “The Radical Right’s Obsession with Bioterrorism”. This paper presents a comprehensive and detailed picture of the obsessive interest of radical right- wing groups and individuals in biological warfare and bioterrorism since the 1970s and its evolution until the new era of the global coronavirus pandemic. It underpins the ideological and strategic reasons and motivations for such interest and cites most of the important cases of bioterrorism by these elements. An interesting part of the analysis relates to the “schizophrenic” relations of some of these ideologues and groups with their jihadist counterparts. Based on this historic overview it presents a first evaluation of the future radical right bioterrorism threat.

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