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Modern right-wing terrorism largely emerged in Western Europe in the 1970s, and after the Revolutions of 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, it emerged in Eastern Europe and Russia. Right-wing terrorists aim to overthrow governments and replace them with right-wing regimes.
1,300 leftist and 238 right wing terrorists by 1983. Terrorism emerged on the world stage with the 1972 murder of eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, in an effort to end Israeli occupation of their territories and establish a Palestinian homeland.
Abstract. Violence committed by individuals and groups inspired by far-right ideologies is increasingly seen as a transnational threat. There is an urgent need to better understand why this type of terrorism has become more frequent and how far-right groups operate within and across borders.
Using meta-analysis as the methodological approach for the study a number of definitions were scrutinised. This article provides a brief examination of the intersection between right-wing terrorism and ethnic nationalism, and how accelerationism escalates ideology into violence.
- Kwame Antwi-Boasiako
Causes for right-wing terrorism have included white nationalism, ethnonationalism, fascism, anti-socialism, the anti-abortion movement, and tax resistance. Sometimes terrorists on the same side fight for different reasons.
Far-right terrorism is not a new phenomenon. It comprises a diverse and dispersed network of individuals, groups and organizations united by a set of common ideas centered upon racial unity, white nationalism, xenophobia, and a powerful narrative of racial imperilment.
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Raffaello Pantucci, Kyler Ong, PERSISTENCE OF RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM AND TERRORISM IN THE WEST, Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses, Vol. 13, No. 1, ANNUAL THREAT ASSESSMENT (January 2021), pp. 118-126.
