CEP in the News

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August 13, 2021

CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid writes: "Apple has taken the modest but long overdue step of extending a decade-old technology to protect children online, with appropriate protections for user privacy. It should not be criticized for these efforts...

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August 11, 2021

CEP's Daniel Roth quoted: "‘The Iranian threat to shipping in the Gulf is substantial and borne out by numerous examples of Iranian attacks, hijackings, detentions and increasingly, drone strikes. ‘Iran considers the Gulf its private lake, which it...

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August 11, 2021

"The ‘kamikaze’ unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which are designed to explode upon impact, are a ‘core element’ of Tehran’s attempts to exert its presence in the region, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) said."

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August 2, 2021

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...

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July 27, 2021

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...

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July 23, 2021

CEP statement quoted: "...survivors of Breivik's attacks had voiced concern regarding his 'status as an inspirational figure among far-right extremists.' '[This status] underlines the need for greater action to target the dissemination of known...

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July 21, 2021

"On this week’s episode of “The Hunt, with WTOP National Security Correspondent J.J. Green,” Dr. Hans Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project, says ISIS is slowly gaining strength."

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July 18, 2021

"In June of last year, the Republican Study Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives recommended designating KSS as a terrorist group. The recommendation also included other PMF factions: the Badr Organization, Kata’ib al-Imam Ali, Liwa Abu al...

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July 16, 2021

CEP Tech & Terrorism release published: "In early July, Facebook began testing a pilot program on its platform asking some users if they had been “exposed to harmful extremist content” or “concerned that someone you know is becoming an extremist.”...

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July 9, 2021

CEP resources referenced and report quoted: "The Counter Extremism Project (CEP), in a study funded by Germany’s foreign office, concluded in November 2020 that 'the 21st century, and the period after 2014 in particular, saw the emergence of a new...

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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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