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This past weekend saw a slew of violent protests erupting across the United Kingdom after a stabbing rampage at a children’s dance class in Southport left three children dead and several seriously injured.
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Tomorrow marks ten years since ISIS launched an assault on the Yazidi religious minority in the town of Sinjar in northern Iraq—the beginning of a sustained campaign of oppression and violence carried out by ISIS against the Yazidi community.
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Today, nearly three weeks after an air-strike targeting senior Hamas leaders in the vicinity of Khan Younis, Gaza—and in the wake of a slew of assassinations and deaths of top Hamas and Hezbollah leaders including Ismail Haniyeh and Fuad Shukr—the...
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Today, Counter Extremism Project (CEP) Chief Executive Officer Ambassador Mark D. Wallace and CEP President Frances F. Townsend released the following statement regarding the death in Tehran of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh:
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On July 27, Hezbollah fired a rocket from Lebanon that killed at least 12 and wounded more than 30 on a soccer field in the Druze town of Majdal Shams in Israel’s Golan Heights. All the fatalities were between the ages of 10 and 20. Hezbollah...
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(New York, N.Y.) – On July 21, CEP President and Former U.S. Homeland Security Advisor Frances Townsend was named as part of a bipartisan panel of experts conducting a 45-day independent security review of the July 13 attempted assassination of...
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Israel carried out airstrikes today against the Houthi-controlled Al-Hudaydah port in Yemen, which is used by the Iran-backed Houthis as an entry point for the smuggling of IRGC-supplied weapons. The airstrikes, which targeted gas and oil depots as...
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(New York, N.Y.) — Counter Extremism Project CEO Mark D. Wallace issued the following statement regarding the apparent attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania yesterday evening: “I denounce this horrific...
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The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists and terrorist groups on the Internet to spread propaganda and incite violence. Last week, CEP researchers found that the main Telegram channel used by the Nordic...
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On Friday of last week the State Department announced its decision to designate the Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM) as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist Organization (SDGT) pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13224. The State Department has...
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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