Terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler, like the Australian government, assumes the attack was motivated by antisemitism. However, given the current state of the investigation, it remains unclear which social group the perpetrators belong to.

Eye on Extremism: December 12, 2025

Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji tells Al Jazeera that Iran’s role in Lebanon and the Middle East is “very negative,” and calls Tehran’s policies “a source of instability” in the region. Rajji says Lebanon’s pro-Western government is open to...

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed about Russia’s hybrid warfare in Germany and the German government’s protest to the Russian ambassador in Germany. [Staring at 6:56]

Sahel Monitoring August 2025

This is the fourth installment in a new series analysing the threat environment in the Sahel based on the propaganda output by Jama'a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM), the Islamic State–West Africa Province (ISWAP), and the Islamic State–Sahel...

Eye on Extremism: December 11, 2025

Amnesty International released a report on Thursday accusing Hamas of crimes against humanity, including murder and torture, for the October 7 massacre and the treatment of the hostages taken. The report concluded that Palestinian terrorists killed...

CEP Researcher and Content Review Specialist Joshua Fisher-Birch talks to The World about The Base after Spanish police arrested three members in November.

The involvement of minors in such cases marks an entirely new development, said Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project in Berlin, but their “amateurish” tradecraft made their crimes comparatively easy to detect....

Eye on Extremism: December 10, 2025

President Donald Trump’s recent executive order directing a review of Muslim Brotherhood chapters for potential terrorism designations is limited in scope, and leaves out scrutiny of Qatar and Turkey — a strategy that experts say reflects both legal...

Counter Extremism Project Welcomes Florida and Texas State-Level Designations of Muslim Brotherhood CAIR as Foreign Terrorist Organizations

(New York, N.Y.)— The Counter Extremism Project commends the decisions by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to designate the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as Foreign Terrorist Organizations...

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler writes: "For far too long, European governments have comforted themselves with the assumption that Hamas terror attacks would remain confined towards targets in Israel and the Palestinian territories. The...