CEP in the News

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April 16, 2020

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "...one figure stated as ‘current’ stands out – and not in a good way. The number of people who the security service has investigated for links to terrorism has doubled from 20,000 in 2017 to 40,000 now."

News

April 15, 2020

"Joshua Fisher-Birch, a researcher for the Counter Extremism Project, says that groups like the ‘Nordic Resistance’ and ‘Hundred Handers’ have sought to increase their membership by capitalising on the pandemic, and ‘Generation Identity’ has used the...

News

April 15, 2020

CEP Senior Director, Dr. Hans Jakob Schindler, spoke with J.J. Green of WTOP's The Hunt about five Tajik nationals arrested by German police on suspicion they were members of an Islamic State cell planning attacks on U.S. forces stationed in Germany.

News

April 15, 2020

"Williams spomína Joshuu Fishera-Bircha, výskumného pracovníka v projekte boja proti extrémizmu, podľa ktorého skupiny ako „Nordic Resistance“ a „Hundred Handers“ sa snažia ťažiť z pandémie a skupina „Generation Identity“ využíva krízu na podporu...

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April 12, 2020

"'Many of them currently see the US in a situation in which confidence in the state is declining, in addition to the great economic downturn,' says Joshua Fisher-Birch from the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) to SPIEGEL."

News

April 10, 2020

CEP Advisor Kacper Rekawek speaks with Christian Esch of Der Spiegel about extremist right-wing fighters in light of the US decision to sanction the Russian Imperial Movement (RIM).

News

April 8, 2020

"Polling data by the Counter Extremism Project shows that 'the French public, relative to public opinion in the United States and other European countries, has long viewed Islamist-based extremism as one of its greatest threats.'”

News

April 5, 2020

CEP "The Far Right on Facebook" study quoted in report: "Yet, Facebook is losing the fight: in September 2018, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) identified and monitored a selection of 40 Facebook pages that sell white supremacist clothing, music...

News

April 3, 2020

“'These groups understand that a pandemic and economic downturn provide them with opportunities to promote conspiracy theories, assign blame and offer their ideology as a solution,' Counter Extremism Project researcher Joshua Fisher-Birch told The...

News

April 2, 2020

"The Counter Extremism Project, the U.S.-based global terrorism watchdog that first spotted the post targeting the Jewish day school in Philadelphia, said that federal authorities were aware of the Zoombombing plans."

Daily Dose

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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