Giovanni Giacalone, at The Blogs

Jan 20, 2025, 1:19 AM

The bad ‘deal’ and the media coverage disaster boosting Hamas

The first three Israeli hostages are back home, and this is surely something we should all be happy about. We hope that all the ones who are still captive will also be released as soon as possible. Humanely speaking,...

Jan 14, 2025, 3:31 PM

The ‘deal’ would be a win for Hamas, Biden and Trump, but not for Israel

Reaching a deal with Hamas just a few days before the arrival of Donald Trump at the White House? The timing is indeed interesting as we all recall Trump’s hawkish rhetoric against Hamas: “…if those hostages aren’t released by...

Jan 3, 2025, 7:20 PM

Is Italy negotiating an Abedini/Sala deal with the Iranian regime?

On January 15th, 2025, Milan's Appeal court will decide whether to apply house arrest for Mohammad Abedini Najafabadi or keep him in prison until the Italian judiciary and the Ministry of Justice consider his extradition to the United States. As...

Dec 28, 2024, 3:59 PM

Abedini’s arrest: Tehran retaliates by detaining an Italian journalist

On December 19th, 2024, the 29-year-old Italian journalist Cecilia Sala was apprehended from her hotel in Teheran by Iranian agents and placed under arrest. She is currently detained in an isolation cell of the infamous Evin prison, where she...

Dec 22, 2024, 6:11 PM

Two Iranian citizens arrested for fatal drone attack on US military personnel

Two individuals, respectively in the United States and Italy, have been arrested on charges of being involved in the January 28th, 2024, drone strike on the Tower 22 outpost, on the northeast corner of Jordan, next to the Syrian...

Dec 10, 2024, 4:58 PM

The real threat to Israel and free Syria is now the Muslim Brotherhood

As Bashar al-Assad’s regime quickly fell under the offensive of the “rebels”, Syria now has a new interim Prime Minister to oversee the transition to a new government that could end up in the Islamists’ pockets. The jihadist leader...

Nov 26, 2024, 7:05 PM

PFLP’s Mariam Abu Daqqa invited to speak at the University of Turin

On Monday November 25th, the Turin-based student collective “Progetto Palestina” (Palestine Project) held a conference at the Einaudi Campus of the University of Turin, entitled “Forgotten Feminism”, and with the participation of an exceptional guest, Miriam Abu Daqqa, a...

Nov 20, 2024, 10:02 PM

Italian Defense Minister claims that Italy guarantees the safety of Hezbollah

After the eight rockets that were fired by Hezbollah hitting an Italian UNIFIL base, the Italian Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani said: "Judging by the type of rockets, we can confirm that it was Hezbollah that hit the Unifil base", declared...

Nov 11, 2024, 2:51 PM

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In Italy, ‘a round of applause’ for the Amsterdam pogrom

Why is this US-sanctioned Hamas fundraiser still free to operate on Italian soil when his pro-terror activities are well documented?

Nov 9, 2024, 2:00 PM

The Amsterdam pogrom against Jews: what went wrong? Almost everything

The scenes seen in Amsterdam on Thursday night, November 7th, are absurd and of extreme concern: a pogrom perpetrated against Jews and Israelis, in the heart of “civilized” Europe and on the anniversary of Kristallnacht, when Nazis, along with...

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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