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June 8, 2017

One Year After Orlando Massacre: Radicalizing Influence of ISIS Continues

CEP's new resource, Orlando Nightclub Attack, clearly shows that one year after an American ISIS follower Omar Mateen carried out the deadliest gun attack on American soil in killing 49 people at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, the power...

Press Release

June 7, 2017

ICYMI: Dr. Hany Farid Discusses eGLYPH Technology for Detecting Extremist Content Online

CEP Senior Advisor and Dartmouth College Computer Science Professor Dr. Hany Farid was interviewed on June 5 by CNN’s Jake Tapper about the eGLYPH technology and the reluctance of Internet and social media companies to utilize it. In an editorial in...

Press Release

June 6, 2017

Will Qatar Ever Expel Terror Leaders?

CEP launched its HARBORS Campaign: Qatar, today, an effort to convince the country to arrest, expel, and end its financial and material support to 12 sanction-designated or wanted individuals. Prior to Gulf state neighbors announcing the severing of...

Press Release

June 5, 2017

Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Others Cut Diplomatic Ties with Qatar

Two CEP reports, Qatar: Extremism and Counter-Extremism and Qatar, Money and Terror: Doha’s Dangerous Policies, reveal the extent to which Qatar shelters and finances extremists and terrorists, undermining regional and international security. Saudi...

Press Release

June 4, 2017

CEP Applauds Prime Minister May’s Call to Action Against Ideology of Islamic Extremism and its "Safe Space" Online

CEP issued a statement condemning the terror attack on London Bridge and at the nearby Borough Market that claimed the lives of seven people and wounded dozens more, and applauded Prime Minister May’s call for a crackdown on extremist ideology that...

Press Release

June 1, 2017

Who Speaks for Iraqi Sunni Arabs?

CEP released a new resource on the Iraqi Islamic Party, founded as a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood and the largest Sunni Islamist party in the country. The IIP is perceived as a sectarian party and has been accused of nurturing the wave of...

Press Release

May 30, 2017

ICYMI: CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid on the Problem of Online Extremism

CEP Senior Advisor and Dartmouth College Computer Science Professor Dr. Hany Farid, the world’s leading authority on digital forensics and hashing technology, was interviewed by Scientific American, The Verge , and On the Media, regarding the failure...

Press Release

May 23, 2017

ISIS Claims Credit for Bombing that Killed at Least 22, Including Children

The suicide attack that claimed the lives of at least 22 people outside the Manchester Arena on May 22 fits a pattern of terrorists targeting crowded areas to maximize civilian casualties, CEP said, in releasing updated reports on terror targets and...

Press Release

May 22, 2017

CEP Condemns Terror Attack at Concert in Manchester, England

CEP released a statement of strong condemnation following the apparent terror attack in Manchester, England that claimed the lives of at least 19 people.

Press Release

May 22, 2017

Four Years After Lee Rigby’s Murder, Online Radicalization, Vehicle Attacks Still Plague U.K.

On May 22, 2013, British soldier Lee Rigby was rammed with a car and then brutally hacked to death. Four years later, CEP has found that the plague of online radicalization and vehicle attacks still haunt the U.K., prompting lawmakers in a May 1...

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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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