How suffering and destruction caused by Israel’s Gaza assault serve the ideologies and goals of extremists

We are seeing a massive escalation in Islamophobia and, in particular, antisemitism,” Emily Winterbotham, director of the terrorism and conflict program at London’s Royal United Services Institute, told Arab News. We’ve also seen a 12-fold increase in hateful social media content referred to specialist police officers of the Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit,” said Winterbotham. “This is primarily antisemitic content and from users not previously on police radar.”