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January 17, 2025

"Since Auschwitz was liberated in January 1945, the house at 88 Legionow Street had been in the private hands of a Polish family. But last year it was acquired by the Counter Extremism Project, a New York-based NGO that has sought to combat extremism...

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CounterPoint Brief: Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Deal

On January 15, Hamas announced its agreement to a ceasefire with Israel to end the 15-month war in Gaza started by Hamas’s October 7, 2023, terror attack. The United States, Qatar, and Egypt brokered the multiphase agreement, which would see Israel...

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January 17, 2025

CounterPoint Brief: Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Deal

On January 15, Hamas announced its agreement to a ceasefire with Israel to end the 15-month war in Gaza started by Hamas’s October 7, 2023, terror attack. The United States, Qatar, and Egypt brokered the multiphase agreement, which would see Israel...

Extremism News Roundup

January 17, 2025

Eye on Extremism: January 17, 2025

“Bashar Abdo had just returned home last month after four years in the Syrian military when a mob of neighbors and others armed with guns and knives swarmed his family’s front door and accused him of being a thug for the ousted regime. His sisters...

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January 16, 2025

"Since Auschwitz was liberated in January 1945, the house at number 88 Legionow Street had been in the private hands of a Polish family. But last year it was acquired by the Counter Extremism Project, a New York based NGO that has, sought to combat...

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January 16, 2025

"Hamas has ability to rebuild if circumstances allow, expert Hans-Jakob Schindler tells DW Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project, has told DW that the ceasefire deal is "a victory" for the hostages and Palestinian...

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January 16, 2025

“The house at 88 Legionow Street is imposing and ugly on the outside, but functional and spacious within. With temperatures below freezing and snow thick on the ground, visitors really notice the blast of warm air coming from the radiators when they...

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January 16, 2025

"Even so, organizations like IS and al-Qaida are not yet at a crisis level of recruiting American soldiers to its cause. “In a few cases, they have attracted individuals serving in the armed forces,” said Joshua Fisher Birch, a terrorism analyst at...

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January 16, 2025

“A hateful white supremacist network with a ‘fight club’ ethos is spreading across the US and around the world, new research shows. Neo-Nazi Active Clubs are said to be one of the fastest-growing extreme-right groups in America and are also present...

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“The American non-governmental organization Counter Extremism Project purchased the house of the commandant of the German Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, Rudolf Höss, in the summer and will open it to visitors on January 27, the 80th anniversary of the...

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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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