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June 21, 2023

"Analysts with the Counter Extremism Project were used to seeing radical groups asking for donations in crypto currencies. Everyone from neo-Nazis to ISIS sympathizers liked Bitcoin, as it helps avoid oversight from banks and regulators. But in 2020...

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June 20, 2023

"'PIJ is dedicated to eradicating Israel and establishing an autonomous Islamic Palestinian state in the lands currently comprising Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. PIJ believes that the land of Palestine is consecrated for Islam, that Israel usurped...

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June 20, 2023

"Last year, Alexander Ritzmann, the Berlin head of the Counter Extremism Project, warned that the problem would grow if neonazi groups with ties to Ukrainian fascist militias such as III.Weg (“Third Path”), which has trained and invited speakers from...

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June 20, 2023

CEP Senior Advisor writes: "Nonetheless, western media has come to develop a sort of Azov obsession, buoyed by a complete lack of nuance in the reporting around this group. One key factor missing in all of the analyses of the Azov: the difference...

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June 20, 2023

"Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, Sr. Director of the Counter Extremism Project takes a look at the key question; Are Terror Attacks Looming?"

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June 15, 2023

"'The [U.N.] monitoring team goes to great lengths to try to triangulate information, and it publishes things that it's reasonably confident of, and that goes through a rigorous editorial process,' Edmund Fitton-Brown, a former senior United Nations...

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June 15, 2023

"Some analysts believe that terrorist financing has flourished because South African authorities have become too comfortable with the absence of any visible Islamic activities in South Africa. “I don’t think South Africa realized that. It was the...

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June 15, 2023

"Bill welcomes back to the show Generation Jihad regular Ambassador Edmund Fitton-Brown. Now a member of the Counter Extremism Project’s advisory board, Edmund previously served as the UK’s Ambassador to Yemen and later as the coordinator of the U.N...

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June 14, 2023

"On this week’s episode of 'The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green,' Hans-Jacob Schindler, senior director at the Counter Extremism Project, discusses how propaganda from terror groups works."

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June 14, 2023

"Our team spoke to terrorism expert Gregory Waters, who documents the Islamic State group’s activities for the Counter Extremism Project. Our interview with him has been transcribed below and lightly edited for clarity and length."

Daily Dose

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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