Asher Stern

Asher Stern is a researcher at the Program on Extremism at The George Washington University. Prior to joining the Program on Extremism, Stern served as Project Manager and Researcher at the International Institute for Counter Terrorism, where he directed applied counterterrorism analysis focused on extremist networks, radicalization dynamics, and emerging threat ecosystems.

Frontline Watch provides a weekly update on emerging terrorist activities and global threat trends, with Counterterrorism Managing Editor Dr. Mahmut Cengiz examining the developments shaping the security landscape both domestically and internationally, with research assistance from Sean Dilallo, Brian Cortes, Floyd Alex Cross, and Chris Dayton. This edition features an analytical article examining an emerging challenge in homeland security. In “Public Antisemitism Has Stopped Being Shocking.

The normalization of public antisemitic intimidation in the United States and the United Kingdom has produced the upstream environment in which hate crime, terrorism, and hostile-state activity are now converging operationally. U.S. homeland security planners should treat that convergence as the consequence of the social environment, not as a separate threat picture.