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Thursday, Apr 24, 2025

The Role of Antisemitism in the Mobilization to Violence | Alexander Ritzmann

On April 24, 2025, CEP hosted a webinar presentation of a new groundbreaking report, titled “The Role of Antisemitism in the Mobilization to Violence by Extremist and Terrorist Actors”, commissioned by the German Federal Foreign Office. In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day and the March of the Living in Auschwitz, Poland, Alexander Ritzmann, Senior Advisor of CEP will present the report and discuss its findings with Dr. Hans Jakob Schindler, Senior Director of CEP and ARCHER at House 88. Report here: https://www.counterextremism.com/sites/default/files/2025-04/CEP%20Transnational%20Antisemitism%20Study%202025.pdf
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A new study by the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) places anti-Semitism at the center of extremist violent mobilization – and calls for a radical rethink in how we deal with it. The study, titled "The Role of Antisemitism in the Mobilization to Violence by Extremist and Terrorist Actors," examines developments in France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, and the United States. Its central thesis: antisemitism is not a mere byproduct of extremist ideologies—it is a strategic tool for radicalization, recruitment, and the legitimization of violence. All ideological camps are affected: right-wing extremist, Islamist, left-wing extremist, and pro-Palestinian groups

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April 16, 2025
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"The villa was bought by the American NGO Counter Extremism Project (CEP), which works worldwide against all forms of extremism, hatred and racism. "We are definitely not going to turn it into a museum," says CEP director Hans-Jakob Schindler. The organization has coined the building House 88, which is to serve as an 'experience space'. The house number 88 of Höss' home refers to the eighth letter of the alphabet and is a code for Heil Hitler. The world-famous architect Daniel Libeskind, son of Holocaust survivors and architect of the Holocaust Namenmonument in Amsterdam, is going to completely renovate the villa. The CEP has also bought the adjacent building, which will house a think tank."

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March 21, 2025
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“Last month, the United Nations (U.N.) released its "Action Plan to Enhance Monitoring and Response to Antisemitism," partially in response to a "surge in antisemitic incidents targeting Jews and Jewish institutions in Europe, the United States of America and elsewhere… Edmund Fitton-Brown, a senior advisor to the Counter Extremism Project and a former U.N. Monitoring Team coordinator, told Fox News Digital that "the CT[counterterrorism] strategy is a mess." Though he said that some U.N. efforts to counter terrorism are effective, he said that given the lack of agreement over what constitutes terrorism, the U.N. particularly struggles with identifying groups like Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis as terrorists. "If something really dramatic happens, then often a group will find it is being accused of being a terrorist group," Fitton-Brown said, noting how the U.N. condemned the Houthis in the aftermath of their 2022 attack on Abu Dhabi airport but failed to designate them as a terror group. "On Hezbollah, the U.N. has been hopelessly weak," he explained.”

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February 6, 2025
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“‘Why does the Ayatollah Khamenei of Iran have a f— Twitter account?” asks Mark Wallace, a rare lapse in language from a courtly man. “Why should the No. 1 state sponsor of terrorism be on f— social media?” [...] Mr. Wallace’s decade-old nonprofit, the Counter Extremism Project, acquired the Höss house and one next door from the Polish family that had owned them for the past 80 years. He declines to say how much he paid but says there were “at least 10 different family members across two houses, and many were estranged from each other.” The purchase “took years to accomplish because we didn’t believe it appropriate to pay a significant premium because of its Nazi history. As for his broader mission, he speaks of an “algorithm of evil” and wants to “make it untenable for social media to reward hate and antisemitism.””

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February 5, 2025
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"As part of the anniversary events, the house where the Nazi commandant of Auschwitz lived with his family — which was the subject of the Oscar-winning movie “The Zone of Interest” — opened to visitors for the first time on Monday following its sale by Polish owners to the Counter Extremism Project, a New York-based group."

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January 27, 2025
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