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October 1, 2024

"Hans-Jakob Schindler of the Berlin-based Counter Extremism Project breaks down Israel's four stated objectives for its land incursion into southern Lebanon. He told DW that keeping the Israeli operation against Hezbollah "limited, localized and...

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October 2, 2024

“After Iran has responded with ballistic missile attacks on Israel's ground offensive into Lebanon, Ask DW answers your questions. We'll be joined in the studio by DW's Middle East analyst Shani Rozanes and by security expert and senior director of...

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September 30, 2024

"Alexander Ritzmann, a researcher with international organisation The Counter Extremism Project and an adviser to the European Commission’s Radicalisation Awareness Network, said he had "never seen a network in right-wing extremism grow so fast". He...

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September 30, 2024

"… Just as Israel has come under attack from drones and missiles fired by Iran’s allied militias in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen, so has Israel struck out at targets in all those countries. Edmund Fitton-Brown, a former British ambassador to Yemen...

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September 30, 2024

"Edmund Fitton-Brown, Senior Advisor to the Counter Extremism Project and former Ambassador of the UK to Yemen, told MailOnline: 'If you look at the Hezbollah leadership roll call, they are mainly dead, many of them in the past week or so. 'It's not...

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September 28, 2024

CEP Seniod Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed: "Hezbollah has confirmed the death of Hassan Nasrallah. During his three decades as leader, Hezbollah became one of the most powerful paramilitary groups in the Middle East. Here's a look back...

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September 28, 2024

"Security expert Hans-Jakob Schindler calls the action unusual. After the killings of Hamas leader Ismail Haniya and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, the Iranian regime must assume that its security measures, which were long considered adequate...

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September 28, 2024

"Edmund Fitton-Brown, Senior Advisor to the Counter Extremism Project and former Ambassador of the UK to Yemen, told MailOnline: 'Any successful upgrade of Houthi capabilities would also likely draw a kinetic Israeli response.'"

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September 28, 2024

"Born in Lebanon in 1964, Safieddine has been part of Hezbollah since it was founded in 1982, according to the Counter Extremism Project, an advocacy group based in Washington. The US designated Safieddine a “specially designated global terrorist” in...

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September 27, 2024

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler quoted: “Tensions in the Middle East are reaching a new high. Terrorism specialist Hans-Jakob Schindler analyses the possible effects of the Israeli counterattacks on Lebanon and outlines scenarios for 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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