The Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) is central to National Conservative activity in Hungary, fostering discussions on corruption scandals linked to Orban.

The 2025 ISNA Annu­al Con­ven­tion attract­ed thou­sands of par­tic­i­pants to the Don­ald E. Stephens Con­ven­tion Cen­ter in Rose­mont, Illi­nois. On 29 August 2025, Patch report­ed that the 62nd Islam­ic Soci­ety of North Amer­i­ca con­ven­tion had been inau­gu­rat­ed by around 50 elect­ed offi­cials and com­mu­ni­ty lead­ers, fol­lowed by Fri­day prayer. The annu­al con­fer­ence is con­sid­ered by […]

The  Amer­i­can Mus­lims for Pales­tine (AMP) has pub­lished a state­ment con­demn­ing Texas Gov­er­nor Abbot­t’s recent des­ig­na­tion of the Coun­cil on Amer­i­can-Islam­ic Rela­tions (CAIR), describ­ing the move as “reck­less” and an “egre­gious abuse of pow­er.” The state­ment begins: Amer­i­can Mus­lims for Pales­tine (AMP) unequiv­o­cal­ly con­demns the reck­less and base­less deci­sion by Texas Gov­er­nor Greg Abbott to des­ig­nate […]

In a recent inter­view, Osama Abu Irshaid, nation­al direc­tor of Amer­i­can Mus­lims for Pales­tine (AMP), called Holo­caust muse­ums “false pro­pa­gan­da.” On 24 Novem­ber 2025, The Jerusalem Post report­ed that Abu Irshaid alleged they were used to black­mail the world. He fur­ther stat­ed that Jews had a “monop­oly on the vic­tim men­tal­i­ty” and called for a […]

Turkey is using the Diyanet reli­gious insti­tu­tion for influ­ence oper­a­tions with dra­mat­i­cal­ly increased fund­ing. On 2 Decem­ber 2025, Eurasian Times report­ed that the Turk­ish Direc­torate of Reli­gious Affairs now offi­cial­ly plays an active role in pur­su­ing the coun­try’s for­eign pol­i­cy, with the bud­get increas­ing from $1.3 bil­lion to $3.18 bil­lion in 2023. The arti­cle begins: […]

Turkey has estab­lished a secret intel­li­gence unit inside its embassy in The Hague to gath­er infor­ma­tion on dis­si­dents across Europe. On 27 Novem­ber 2025, Nordic Mon­i­tor report­ed that clas­si­fied doc­u­ments revealed that the embassy cell oper­ates under Ambas­sador Fat­ma Ceren Yaz­gan, a long-time MIT oper­a­tive, and that intel­li­gence is trans­mit­ted to Turk­ish domes­tic secu­ri­ty agen­cies. […]

Chi­na is shift­ing to overt dis­in­for­ma­tion oper­a­tions against Japan using state-linked chan­nels. On 28 Novem­ber 2025, ASPI and Japan Nexus Intel­li­gence report­ed that Chi­nese state media and diplo­mat­ic social media accounts inten­si­fied efforts to erode Japan’s stand­ing as an Indo-Pacif­ic defence part­ner. The arti­cle begins: Chi­nese state media and diplo­mat­ic social media accounts inten­si­fied efforts […]

A pro-Krem­lin bloc in the Euro­pean Par­lia­ment has near­ly dou­bled in size. On 26 Novem­ber 2025, Novaya Gaze­ta Europe report­ed that around 84 deputies now rou­tine­ly vote against Rus­sia-crit­i­cal res­o­lu­tions, with a fur­ther 62 abstain­ing, com­pared to 40 oppos­ing in the pre­vi­ous par­lia­ment. The arti­cle begins: The new Euro­pean Par­lia­ment, elect­ed in June 2024, has […]

Ger­man anti-Islam­o­pho­bia NGO Claim Allianz, which has faced polit­i­cal and media scruti­ny over its mem­bers’ Islamist ties, has trans­formed its legal sta­tus into a non-prof­it com­pa­ny with lim­it­ed lia­bil­i­ty. On 19 Novem­ber 2025, CLAIM offi­cial­ly announced the dis­so­lu­tion of the CLAIM Alliance and the con­tin­u­a­tion of its mis­sion through the devel­op­ment of CLAIM gGmbH, empha­siz­ing […]

US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump has signed an exec­u­tive order direct­ing a ter­ror­ist des­ig­na­tion review for spe­cif­ic Mus­lim Broth­er­hood chap­ters. On 25 Novem­ber 2025, Fox News report­ed that the order signed on 24 Novem­ber launch­es the first for­mal review of Broth­er­hood branch­es in Egypt, Jor­dan, and Lebanon under US des­ig­na­tion laws. The arti­cle begins: Pres­i­dent Don­ald […]

Executive Summary The pres­i­den­tial direc­tive to review “Mus­lim Broth­er­hood chap­ters in the Mid­dle East” cre­ates imme­di­ate ambi­gu­i­ty, as the procla­ma­tion describes the Broth­er­hood as a transna­tion­al move­ment with var­ied struc­tures. Mid­dle East­ern chap­ters are for­mal orga­ni­za­tions, while West­ern Mus­lim Broth­er­hood-linked networks—the Glob­al Mus­lim Brotherhood—are legal­ly sep­a­rate but con­nect­ed through ide­ol­o­gy and per­son­al ties. U. S. […]

A TV sta­tion sup­port­ing the Islam­ic Repub­lic was found to be able to broad­cast in the UK despite con­cerns about its overt sup­port for the Iran­ian regime. On 13 Novem­ber 2025, Iran­Wire report­ed that the TV chan­nel LuaLua TV, linked to Bahrai­ni oppo­si­tion and Iran, oper­at­ed unre­strict­ed in the UK. Despite new evi­dence of its […]

An Intelligence Digest Tracking Global Threats to Democracy

An Intelligence Digest Tracking Global Threats to Democracy

Russ­ian Pres­i­dent Vladimir Putin praised Nathan Gill for recruit­ing British MEPs in a Russ­ian influ­ence oper­a­tion. On 23 Novem­ber 2025, The Sun­day Times report­ed that What­sApp exchanges between Gill and alleged Russ­ian agent Oleg Voloshyn showed Vik­tor Medved­chuk told Gill that Putin was impressed by MEP com­ments. The arti­cle begins: Pres­i­dent Putin is said to […]

Vik­tor Orbán’s anti-war road­show has launched as the Hun­gar­i­an prime min­is­ter trans­forms oppo­si­tion to Euro­pean sup­port for Ukraine into his cen­tral cam­paign mes­sage. On 15 Novem­ber 2025, The Guardian report­ed that Orbán kicked off a week-long series of ral­lies sched­uled for five cities before the year’s end, posi­tion­ing “peace” as the core nar­ra­tive for Fidesz’s re-elec­tion bid […]

For­mer Inter­na­tion­al Union of Mus­lim Schol­ars (IUMS) Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al Moham­mad Sal­im Al-Awa has called for stead­fast resis­tance to Trump’s Gaza plan, urg­ing Pales­tini­ans and Mus­lim nations to reject it as a threat to Pales­tin­ian rights and uni­ty. On 22 Novem­ber 2025, MEMRI report­ed that Al-Awa had called the Trump Gaza plan a dan­ger­ous scheme aimed at […]

Nihad Awad, the Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of the Coun­cil on Amer­i­can-Islam­ic Rela­tions (CAIR), has strong­ly reject­ed Texas Gov­er­nor Greg Abbott’s recent des­ig­na­tion of CAIR as a ter­ror­ist orga­ni­za­tion, stat­ing that that he oper­at­ed accord­ing to an “Israeli agen­da par excel­lence.” On 19 Novem­ber 2025, MEMRI report­ed that Awad had called Abbott’s procla­ma­tion an “anti-Mus­lim approach,” alleg­ing […]

The AfD is urg­ing Berlin to fol­low the US antifa ter­ror­ist des­ig­na­tion in a dis­play of transat­lantic nation­al con­ser­v­a­tive coor­di­na­tion. On 14 Novem­ber 2025, The Guardian report­ed that AfD deputy fed­er­al spokesper­son Stephan Brand­ner wel­comed the US State Depart­ment deci­sion to clas­si­fy Ger­man Antifa Ost as a ter­ror­ist orga­ni­za­tion and called on Euro­pean gov­ern­ments to […]

Rus­sell Vought serves as OMB direc­tor and Project 2025 archi­tect, wield­ing unprece­dent­ed influ­ence in the Trump admin­is­tra­tion. On 20 Octo­ber 2025, ProP­ub­li­ca report­ed that Vought has used the Office of Man­age­ment and Bud­get to cen­tral­ize deci­sion-mak­ing pow­er to such an extent that insid­ers describe him as the shad­ow pres­i­dent, freez­ing $26 bil­lion in fed­er­al fund­ing […]

The Coun­cil of Europe’s Euro­pean Youth Foun­da­tion is fund­ing the Forum of Euro­pean Mus­lim Youth and Stu­dent Organ­i­sa­tions’ (FEMYSO ) inter­na­tion­al activ­i­ties. On 28 July 2025, the Coun­cil of Europe report­ed that the Euro­pean Youth Foun­da­tion con­duct­ed a mon­i­tor­ing vis­it on 24–25 July to FEMYSO’s inter­na­tion­al activ­i­ty titled The essen­tials of organ­i­sa­tion­al sus­tain­abil­i­ty in youth […]

The UK For­eign Affairs Com­mit­tee heard tes­ti­mo­ny about a Russ­ian dis­in­for­ma­tion net­work oper­at­ing auto­mat­ed accounts on a mas­sive scale. On 18 Novem­ber 2025, the Com­mit­tee heard Nina Jankow­icz of Amer­i­can Sun­light Project tes­ti­fy that her orga­ni­za­tion iden­ti­fied 1,100 like­ly auto­mat­ed accounts in 2024 that post­ed hun­dreds of times dai­ly, with more than 800 accounts still […]

Rus­sia has launched an elec­tion inter­fer­ence oper­a­tion tar­get­ing Arme­ni­a’s June 2026 par­lia­men­tary elec­tions through an unusu­al­ly ear­ly dis­in­for­ma­tion cam­paign. On 19 Novem­ber 2025, the Foun­da­tion for Defense of Democ­ra­cies report­ed that News­Guard iden­ti­fied Krem­lin-linked net­works Storm-1516 and Foun­da­tion to Bat­tle Injus­tice, which have been push­ing false nar­ra­tives since April to erode trust in demo­c­ra­t­ic insti­tu­tions […]

Chi­na’s gray-zone influ­ence oper­a­tions are tar­get­ing Japan through unau­tho­rized con­sulate activ­i­ties at non­des­ig­nat­ed diplo­mat­ic facil­i­ties. On 19 Novem­ber 2025, The Japan Times report­ed that PRC con­sulates in Japan have con­duct­ed at least 60 gray-zone activ­i­ties across 25 pre­fec­tures and 21 cities since 2017, oper­at­ing one-day con­sulate events at club­hous­es, cul­tur­al cen­ters, hotel meet­ing rooms, and […]

The Euro­pean Par­lia­ment is resist­ing Bel­gian cor­rup­tion probes linked to Huawei influ­ence oper­a­tions. Eurac­tiv report­ed that Par­lia­ment has refused to lift immu­ni­ty for four MEPs six months after Bel­gian pros­e­cu­tors request­ed waivers in a Chi­nese influ­ence inves­ti­ga­tion, with Legal Affairs Com­mit­tee mem­bers ques­tion­ing pros­e­cu­tor cred­i­bil­i­ty in tense exchanges with fed­er­al pros­e­cu­tor Ann Fransen. The arti­cle […]