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Populist Hybrid Warfare


The Ceuta migrant crisis became a Rorschach test for conspiracy: fantasies of a Muslim invasion on one side, theories of Israeli and American subterfuge on the other.

Desperation, not invasion. Refugees swimming ashore, Ceuta.
Desperation, not invasion. Refugees swimming ashore, Ceuta.

Josh White and Mitchell Plitnick cut through the noise — examining claims that Morocco engineered the crisis, and how it turned into a spectacle for the global far right.

Their verdict: the left needs more than a defensive crouch.

Photograph courtesy of HazteOir.org. Published under a Creative Commons license.