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August 26, 2024

Extremist Content Online: Posts on X Encourage Violence Against Muslims and Jews, Promote Neo-Nazi Accelerationist Groups and White Supremacist Terrorists

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists and terrorist groups on the Internet to spread propaganda and incite violence. Last week, CEP located 33 posts on X posted by 18 accounts that promoted acts of...

Press Release

August 20, 2024

CEP Webinar: Protecting and Fostering Jewish Life in The EU After October 7

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) invites you to a webinar on Monday, September 9, 2024, focusing on protecting and fostering Jewish life in the EU after October 7.

Press Release

August 19, 2024

Extremist Content Online: Content From Extreme-Right Eskisehir, Turkey Knife Attacker Spreads Online

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists and terrorist groups on the Internet to spread propaganda and incite violence. Last week, Terrorgram-affiliated Telegram channels posted content related to a knife...

Press Release

August 12, 2024

Extremist Content Online: Extreme Right Celebrates Anti-Muslim and Anti-Immigrant Riots on Telegram and X

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists and terrorist groups on the Internet to spread propaganda and incite violence. Last week, multiple extreme right Telegram channels celebrated and promoted anti...

Press Release

August 7, 2024

CounterPoint Brief: Hamas Names Yahya Sinwar as New Leader

Yesterday, August 6, Hamas named Yahya Sinwar as the new leader of its political bureau. Previously Hamas’s leader inside the Gaza Strip since 2017, Sinwar will now assume overall leadership of the terrorist organization. Israeli authorities...

Press Release

August 5, 2024

CounterPoint Brief: Far-Right Riots in the United Kingdom

This past weekend saw a slew of violent protests erupting across the United Kingdom after a stabbing rampage at a children’s dance class in Southport left three children dead and several seriously injured.

Press Release

August 2, 2024

Ten Years on from the Yazidi Genocide: Victims of Kidnapping and Enslavement Still Await Justice

Tomorrow marks ten years since ISIS launched an assault on the Yazidi religious minority in the town of Sinjar in northern Iraq—the beginning of a sustained campaign of oppression and violence carried out by ISIS against the Yazidi community.

Press Release

CounterPoint Brief: Death of Hamas Commander Mohammed Deif

Today, nearly three weeks after an air-strike targeting senior Hamas leaders in the vicinity of Khan Younis, Gaza—and in the wake of a slew of assassinations and deaths of top Hamas and Hezbollah leaders including Ismail Haniyeh and Fuad Shukr—the...

Press Release

July 31, 2024

CEP Statement on Killing of Hamas Leader Haniyeh

Today, Counter Extremism Project (CEP) Chief Executive Officer Ambassador Mark D. Wallace and CEP President Frances F. Townsend released the following statement regarding the death in Tehran of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh:

Press Release

July 30, 2024

CounterPoint Brief: Implications of Hezbollah Attack on Majdal Shams

On July 27, Hezbollah fired a rocket from Lebanon that killed at least 12 and wounded more than 30 on a soccer field in the Druze town of Majdal Shams in Israel’s Golan Heights. All the fatalities were between the ages of 10 and 20. Hezbollah...

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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