Insight Monitor: January 2024
Everything you might have missed
Hello Insight Monitor subscribers! I hope everyone is surviving cold, dark January. In case you’ve fallen behind on your reading, here’s your January Insight Monitor summary — everything you might have missed from your favourite newsletter! A big thank you to all of you who have been sharing our content. We’re continuing to grow, and have great things planned for 2024.
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We kicked things off in January with a bit of a departure for us here at Insight Monitor. We took a look at our own publishing platform (Substack), and how it allows Nazi content to proliferate, and generate revenue. Yes, Substack removed some Nazi newsletters (five). But many others exist, and they continue to generate substantial revenues.
We also published our major report on Hamas financing. This report has everything we’ve written about the group in one place, plus plenty more analysis, particularly around how to counter the financing of the group. If you’re a paid subscriber to Insight Monitor, be sure to check out the discount code!
We continued our profiles on terrorist and extremist groups this month as well, taking a close look at the Houthis. It’s an interesting one: their financing extends far beyond just what Iran provides as part of its axis of resistance.
This month, we also took a look at the cost of terrorism. This is an issue that remains top of mind for me, because it relates to how we conceive of terrorism, and also how we counter it. This article gets pretty wonky, so grab a cup of coffee and enjoy!
Along those lines, we also published our initial estimate on the cost of the Hamas attack on October 7th. While this estimate is preliminary (information is still flowing in about the scope and scale of the attack), it was almost certainly one of, if not the most, expensive attacks in history, even controlling for inflation.
And as always, we published a news roundup of all the terrorist financing stories you might have missed from the previous month. A word of warning: the December roundup was ~very~ long, so you’ll want a fresh coffee for this one. Lots of terrorist financing news.
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