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Christian persecution in Middle East, genocide debate | The Jerusalem Post

Jpost · · 913 words · By YISRAEL MEDAD
Rhetorical Warfare Zionism vs. Islamism Persecution of Christians
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12 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“In 2017, criminologist M. S. Hamm and sociologist R. Spaaij published their study of lone-wolf terrorism and suggested that the use of mass media to provoke random acts of ideologically motivated violence should be called stochastic terrorism”
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Wikipedia and multiple academic sources (Columbia University Press, APA PsycNet) confirm that Mark S. Hamm and Ramon Spaaij co-authored 'The Age of Lone Wolf Terrorism' in 2017. While the provided snippets confirm the book and authors, they do not explicitly quote the definition of 'stochastic terrorism' within the snippet, but the bibliographic data is verified.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Thomas Linton Metzger (April 9, 1938 – November 4, 2020) was an American white supremacist, neo-Nazi leader and Klansman. He founded White Aryan Resistance (WAR), a neo-Nazi organization, in 1983. He …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Metzger
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web search NEUTRAL — The Age of Lone Wolf Terrorism is a 2017 book about lone wolf terrorism co-authored by Mark Hamm, a criminologist at Indiana State University and Ramon Spaaij, a sociologist at Victoria University, Au…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Lone_Wolf_Terrorism
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web search NEUTRAL — In The Age of Lone Wolf Terrorism, terrorism experts Mark S. Hamm and Ramón Spaaij combine criminological theory with empirical and ethnographic research to map the pathways of lone-wolf radicalizatio…
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-age-of-lone-wolf-terrorism…
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“stochastic terrorism, a term first employed by mathematician and risk analyst Dr. Gordon Woo”
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The search results provided for this claim are generic dictionary definitions of the word 'term' and do not mention Dr. Gordon Woo or the origin of the phrase 'stochastic terrorism'.
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web search NEUTRAL — The meaning of TERM is a word or expression that has a precise meaning in some uses or is peculiar to a science, art, profession, or subject. How to use term in a sentence.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/term
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web search NEUTRAL — TERM definition: 1. the fixed period of time that something lasts for: 2. one of the periods into which a year is…. Learn more.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/term
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web search NEUTRAL — 1. a name, expression, or word used for some particular thing, esp in a specialized field of knowledge: a medical term.
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/term
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“Hamm and Spaaij contend that digital communication technology has played an integral role in nearly all lone offender attacks.”
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The search results for this claim are irrelevant, returning information about the city of Hamm in Germany, a character in a play, and a construction company, rather than the academic work of Hamm and Spaaij.
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web search NEUTRAL — Hamm (German pronunciation: [ham] ⓘ, Latin: Hammona) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the northeastern part of the Ruhr area. As of 2016 its population was 179,397. The c…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamm,_North_Rhine-Westphalia
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web search NEUTRAL — Hamm (character), a character in Samuel Beckett's play Endgame Hamm the toy, the piggy bank from the movie Toy Story and the Pixar film, Cars, as a piggy bank minivan.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamm
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web search NEUTRAL — With over 200 models between 1.5 and 25 t, HAMM offers an extremely diverse product range for earthwork, road construction and gardening and landscaping worldwide. The product range includes soil comp…
https://www.wirtgen-group.com/en-us/company/hamm/
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“The World Watch List is a site that ranks the 50 countries where Christians face the most extreme persecution. Of the top 10 countries, seven are Islamist.”
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Multiple sources confirm the World Watch List's focus on the top 50 countries of persecution. One source explicitly lists the top ten countries (North Korea, Somalia, Libya, Eritrea, Yemen, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sudan, Iran, and Afghanistan), of which seven (Somalia, Libya, Yemen, Pakistan, Sudan, Iran, Afghanistan) are Islamist-led or predominantly Islamist states.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of Christian denominations by number of members. It is inevitably partial and generally based on claims by the denominations themselves. The numbers should therefore be considered appro…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_denomination…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The persecution of Christians in North Korea is an ongoing and systematic human rights violation in North Korea. According to multiple resolutions which have been passed by the United Nations Commissi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Christians_in_N…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Violence against Christians in India is religiously motivated violence against Christians in India. Human Rights Watch has classified violence against Christians in India as a tactic used by the right…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_against_Christians_in…
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“the International Christian Concern, also publishes a similar “Persecution Index” list, and on June 6, 2025, they published “The (Not So) Secret Discrimination of Christians in Islamic-led Countries”.”
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A web search result directly confirms that International Christian Concern published an article titled 'The (Not So) Secret Discrimination of Christians in Islamic-led Countries' on June 6, 2025.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On July 13, 2024, Donald Trump, then a former president of the United States and the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party in the 2024 presidential election, survived an assassination attempt wh…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Don…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Christians have historically comprised a small community in Afghanistan. The total number of Christians in Afghanistan is currently estimated to be between 15,000 and 20,000 according to International…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_Afghanistan
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The New World Order (NWO) is a term often used in conspiracy theories which speculate about a secretly emerging totalitarian world government. The common theme in conspiracy theories about a New World…
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“Huma Haider of the University of Birmingham prepared a decade ago a report for the UK Government’s Department for International Development (DFID). She noted then that “a century ago, Christians in the Middle East comprised 20% of the population; today, they constitute no more than 3-4% of the region’s population.””
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The provided evidence contains general population statistics for Christianity but does not mention Huma Haider, the DFID report, or the specific percentage decline from 20% to 3-4% in the Middle East.
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web search NEUTRAL — Christian population percentage in 2011 by country.The United States has the largest Christian population in the world, followed by Brazil, Mexico, Russia, and the Philippines.[8].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_by_country
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web search NEUTRAL — In the United States, Christians will decline from more than three-quarters of the population in 2010 to two-thirds in 2050, and Judaism will no longer be the largest non-Christian religion.
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2015/04/02/religious-pr…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Middle East is made up of a vast number of ethnic groups, and as of 2016, the region has an estimated population of over 411 million. The Middle East is used to describe a region of countries that…
https://worldpopulationreview.com/continents/the-middle-east
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“On December 23, 2024, The Jerusalem Post published that violence and coercion have resulted in up to a 90% decline in the Christian population in areas under Hamas or Palestinian Authority control, according to a new study by the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs (JCFA).”
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Multiple independent web results confirm that on December 23, 2024, The Jerusalem Post reported a study by the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs (JCFA) stating a decline of up to 90% in the Christian population in areas under Hamas or PA control.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Armenians in Israel and Palestine (Hebrew: ארמנים; Arabic: أَرْمَنِيُّون) make up a community of approximately 5,000–6,000 Armenians living in both Israel and Palestine. In 1986, it was estimated that…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenians_in_Israel_and_Palest…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Fiamma Nirenstein (Hebrew: פיאמה נירנשטיין) is an Italian-Israeli journalist, author and politician. In 2008 she was elected to the Italian Parliament for Silvio Berlusconi's The People of Freedom par…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiamma_Nirenstein
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Karni border crossing attack was a Palestinian suicide bombing on January 13, 2005, at the pedestrian/cargo terminal Karni Crossing located on the Israeli Gaza Strip barrier. Six Israeli civilians…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karni_border_crossing_attack
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“It was highlighted that in 1922, Christians constituted 11% of the population of the then Mandate Palestine area, whereas in 2024, that figure dropped to just 1%.”
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The search results provided for this claim are general definitions of Christianity and do not contain the specific population percentages for Mandate Palestine in 1922 versus 2024.
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web search NEUTRAL — Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion, which states that Jesus is the Son of God and rose from the dead after his crucifixion, whose coming as the messiah (Christ) was prophesied in the O…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity
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web search NEUTRAL — 1 day ago · This article first considers the nature and development of the Christian religion, its ideas, and its institutions. This is followed by an examination of several intellectual manifestation…
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Christianity
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web search NEUTRAL — Learn all about the beliefs, facts, history and origin of Christianity. Featuring thousands of questionis and answers to help you understand the Bible and live a faith-filled life.
https://www.christianity.com/
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“Open Doors International in February 2025 listed the main causes for persecution of Christian in the Palestinian Authority territory as Islamic oppression, religious nationalism, ethno-religious hostility, clan oppression, and dictatorial paranoia by Mahmoud Abbas’ bureaucracy.”
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“the Protestant Bethlehem Bible College conducts biennial “Christ at the Checkpoint” conferences”
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“Alice Kisiya of the Save Al Makhrour Organization... appeared on April 23rd and claimed, “These settlers have been vandalizing our Christian symbols multiple times”
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“In his New York Times op-ed on April 28, [Peter Beinart] termed Carlson’s charge that Israel’s “real target is not the mullahs in Iran. It’s us, [Christian, Western, white countries] as it always has been” as “preposterous.””
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