About the Course

Our 30 page Hamas financing report looks at all the ways that Hamas finances its activities. This includes an in-depth look at historic and current revenue sources, how the group procures weapons and devices for terrorist attacks, the movement mechanisms used by the group (including a section on cryptocurrency), and a detailed analysis of Hamas’s management and storage activities. We also created a visual of Hamas’s financial network to facilitate understanding of the global reach of the group. Finally, we explore how Hamas hides the source, destination, and use of funds. 

Part of our value-added in this report is our ability to identify intelligence gaps: what kind of intelligence and information the international community needs in order to detect and disrupt Hamas financing. 

We also take a critical look at some mistakes we’ve seen in open-source reporting on the topic. We cast a critical eye on all reporting, making this the most reliable and comprehensive report you’ll find anywhere. 

The final section looks at a variety of different options for disrupting Hamas financing, and outlines a strategy for tackling the group with the aim of making sure that they’re never able to orchestrate an attack like October 7th again. 

Course Contents

    1. Hamas Financing

    1. Report: Hamas Financing

    2. Feedback & Review

About this course

  • $159.00
  • 3 lessons

Instructor(s)

Jessica Davis

Instructor

Jessica Davis is an international expert on terrorism and illicit financing, President and Principal Consultant with Insight Threat Intelligence, and President of the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies. She is an award-winning researcher who works to bring evidence-based solutions to the private and public sectors to counter illicit financing and terrorism. Prior to launching Insight Threat Intelligence, Jessica worked for the government of Canada in various roles in the Canadian Armed Forces, Global Affairs Canada, FINTRAC, and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. She is the author of Illicit Money: Financing Terrorism in the 21st Century (2021) and has published extensively in the Globe and Mail, Just Security, Lawfare, and in academic journals. Jessica is an associate fellow with the Royal United Services Institute’s Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, a senior visiting fellow with the Soufan Center, a senior associate with the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), and is a PhD candidate at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University. In 2023, she won the prestigious SSHRC Impact Talent award for her research on counter-terrorist financing policies and practices. She writes at newsletter.insightthreatintel.com.

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