1st Edition

The Munich Massacre Contemporary Thoughts and Views on Sport and Terrorism from a Global Perspective

Edited By Yair Galily, Ilan Tamir Copyright 2023
128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

This book contextualizes the Munich massacre as one of the factors that contributed to a re-thinking of security strategies in the early 1970s, a moment in the evolution of modern governments’ fight against terrorism. In the early hours of September 5th, 1972, heavily armed members of the Palestinian group, Black September, turned terrorism into a global televisual spectacle for the first time... Read more

Introduction: Back to the future: contemporary thoughts and views on sport and terrorism from a global perspective

Yair Galily and Ilan Tamir

1. "They’re all gone": death trap at the "cheerful games"

Udi Carmi and Orr Levental

2. When the theatre of terror emerged

Gabriel Weimann

3. Munich gives way to soccer vs. jihad

James M. Dorsey

4. ‘We can only trust ourselves’: Operation Wrath of God in perspective

Yair Galily

5. Framing the Munich Olympics massacre in the Israeli press

Tal Laor

6. Strengthening inter-agency coordination in counterterrorism in Israel after Munich

Boaz Ganor

7. The Munich massacre and the proliferation of counterterrorism special operation forces

Ronit Berger Hobson and Ami Pedahzur

8. Female members of the Israeli sports delegation to the 1972 Munich Olympic Games look back 50 years

Ilan Tamir

Biography

Yair Galily is Behavioral Science Professor and Senior Lecturer in Communication and Psychology at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya; Senior Fellow at the Institute for Counter-Terrorism Policy (ICT); Founder and head of the research unit at the Israel Football Association; and a member of the Club Licensing Committee of the European Football Association (UEFA).

Ilan Tamir is Professor at the School of Communication, Ariel University, Israel, and a visiting scholar at Harvard University, USA.