Post by The Soufan Center (TSC)

#IntelBrief: Europe’s Expanding Hybrid Threat: Taking a Page from the Proxy Playbook Bottom Line Up Front 🔹 On Wednesday, two Jewish men were stabbed in Golders Green, a Jewish area of north London, in an attack that fits the broader pattern of recent antisemitic violence in Europe and low-level asymmetric activity that has followed the U.S.-Israeli-led war on Iran. 🔹 The low-cost playbook, utilizing proxy networks and disposable agents, now being adopted by Iran, has been refined by Russia across a range of European contexts to exploit existing tensions between national, ethnic, and religious communities. 🔹 Mobilizing to counter the Iranian threat needs to be swift and avoid cumbersome bureaucratic delays that often plague Western counterterrorism responses. 🔹 The Soufan Center’s research has found that building resilience through transparent attribution, when possible, and raising awareness on common hybrid tactics, are among the most effective ways to combat hybrid threats. Read more👇 https://lnkd.in/eu7Fs3nd Colin P. Clarke, Ph.D., Clara Broekaert, Nikkie Lyubarsky, Gabriella Tejeda