Introductory remarks
Gabriele Scheel
Head of Division “International Cooperation against Terrorism, Drug Trafficking, Organized Crime and Corruption”, Federal Foreign Office of Germany
Part 1: Methods of misuse
Dr. Thorsten Hindrichs
Research Associate, Department of Musicology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Maximilian Kreter
PhD candidate at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies e. V. (HAIT) and doctoral fellow at the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right (CARR)
Alexander Ritzmann
Senior Advisor, Counter Extremism Project
Part 2: Government countermeasures, challenges, and role of industry
Michael Hertzberg
United States Department of the Treasury
Millie Radovic and Neil Everitt
Financial Action Task Force (FATF): Risk, Trends and Methods Group
Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
Fact:
On October 7, 2023, Hamas invaded southern Israel where, in the space of eight hours, hundreds of armed terrorists perpetrated mass crimes of brutality, rape, and torture against men, women and children. In the biggest attack on Jewish life in a single day since the Holocaust, 1,200 were killed, and 251 were taken hostage into Gaza—where 101 remain. One year on, antisemitic incidents have increased by record numbers.
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