Experts from the Counter Extremism Project emphasize that disrupting propaganda networks is essential for long-term counter-terrorism success, as it curtails recruitment and funding streams.

Outside Europe, the Muslim Brotherhood's fundamental relationship to violence is tactical in nature, and the organization is always prepared to use violence to achieve its goals, says terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler from the research...

Eye on Extremism: December 18, 2025

More than six years after Islamic State’s caliphate collapsed in the Middle East, the group’s brand of extreme violence lives on, inspiring lone-wolf attacks such as the one on Sydney’s Bondi Beach. The group, which once imposed harsh Islamist rule...

“The online sphere is 100% key to these attacks,” said Hans-Jakob Schindler, the former coordinator of the United Nations Security Council’s panel on Islamic State and al Qaeda. […] The man then connected online with Islamic State sympathizers and...

“Hamas was founded as the Egyptian arm of the Muslim Brotherhood and has made this very clear in its Charter of 1987,” Hans-Jakob Schindler, Senior Director of the Counter Extremism Project, tells The Cipher Brief. “The political statement of Hamas...

On this week’s episode of “The Hunt with WTOP National Security Correspondent J.J. Green,” Dr. Hans Jakob-Schindler, senior director at the Counter Extremism Project, says terrorists covet open locations for attacks.

[CEP Senior Director] Hans-Jakob Schindler, former counterterrorism coordinator for the UN Security Council and member of the German Federal Ministry of the Interior's “Advisory Group on Preventing and Combating Islamism,” told WELT: “In recent years...

Eye on Extremism: December 17, 2025

The surviving gunman in Sydney’s Bondi Beach terror attack at a Jewish community event was charged Wednesday with 59 offenses, including 15 charges of murder, as Australian authorities were investigating the two perpetrators’ links to the Islamic...

In an interview with ZDFheute live, extremism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler also sees this as a warning signal for Western security authorities.

Following the attack in Sydney, terrorism expert [CEP Senior Director] Hans-Jakob Schindler warns that the abstract threat of terrorism in Germany remains high: “We have IS and Al-Qaeda networks that continue to try to spread their narrative on...