Terror on a Shopping Street: The Inquest into the Streatham High Road Incident

Last Monday in London’s Royal Courts of Justice (commonly referred to as the Old Bailey), the Inquest began into the death of convicted terrorist Sudesh Amman in Streatham, a London suburb, on 2nd February 2020. Amman had been released from prison 10...

Tech & Terrorism: Radical Hate Preacher Anjem Choudary Attempts To Return Online After U.K. Lifts Speech Ban

With Anjem Choudary’s public speaking ban lifted by the United Kingdom, the radical British cleric has made multiple attempts to re-establish his online presence on multiple major social media platforms. Already, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and...

Hamas’s Public Relations Offensive: Media Manipulation

Following is the second in a series of blogposts analyzing the public relations strategies used by the terrorist group Hamas to further its ideological and political goals. The previous update, which provided an overview of the communication...

Extremist Content Online: White Supremacists and Neo-Nazis Celebrate El Paso Shooter On Telegram Ahead Of Attack’s Second Anniversary

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. Last week, CEP researchers located a dozen neo-Nazi or white supremacist...

ISIS Redux: The Central Syria Insurgency in July 2021

Following is the July 2021 installment of “ISIS Redux: The Central Syria Insurgency,” a monthly chronicle of attacks by the terrorist group ISIS in central Syria. Previous editions of ISIS Redux can be viewed through the following links: June , May...

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen writes: "If big tech platforms are willing to cooperate with legislators and work within the new legal regimes that have been established to regulate them, the decade to come may yet see them partially restore the...

Tech & Terrorism: Google Sues Germany Over Hate Speech Law

This week, Google filed a lawsuit in administrative court in Germany to challenge a portion of the country’s expanded 2018 Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG). NetzDG regulates online content moderation and requires online platforms to remove...

U.S. Investigating Qatar For Alleged IRGC Financing

The U.S. State Department has reportedly launched an inquiry into an allegation that Qatar’s royal family has supplied funds to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). The investigation...

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "Neo-Nazis are the fastest growing cadre of violent extremists in our prisons, and now yet another offender motivated by far right ideology has entered our creaking jail system. Last week, Andrew Dymock was...

No Justice, No Peace? Northern Ireland’s Amnesty Fiasco

It’s not easy being secretary of state for Northern Ireland. The province, still unreconciled after a 30-year insurgency that ended in 1998, also sits on the remaining fault line of the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union. The British...