Eye on Extremism: December 23, 2025

The terror attack in Australia has renewed urgent warnings from intelligence officials and counterterrorism experts that global jihadist networks are intensifying their reach, even as Western governments continue to frame groups like ISIS as weakened...

Extremist Content Online: ISIS and Its Supporters Celebrate Bondi Beach Terrorist Attack, Encourage Additional Attacks, Note Importance of Online Presence; Neo-Nazis Celebrate Attack Online and Blame Jews

(New York, N.Y.) — The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports on the methods used by extremists and terrorist groups on the Internet to spread propaganda and incite violence. Last week, ISIS acknowledged the Bondi Beach Terrorist Attack via the...

Eye on Extremism: December 22, 2025

Jeremy Carl, a Trump administration nominee for a senior position at the State Department, has expressed a range of derogatory views of the Jewish community, characterizing in writings and public interviews the community as holding a victim mentality...

“Enduring Music: Compositions from the Holocaust” to Premiere in Concert at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on International Holocaust Remembrance Day 1/27/2026

On January 27, 2026—International Holocaust Remembrance Day—the Counter Extremism Project and ARCHER at House 88 will bring to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts* in Washington, D.C. a landmark concert of works composed in the ghettos...

Eye on Extremism: December 19, 2025

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Friday that online video feed picked up by the country’s intelligence further confirmed that the antisemitic mass shooting at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Sunday was inspired by the Islamic State terror...

Counter Extremism Project Welcomes UK Crackdown on Individuals Calling to “Globalize the Intifada”

(New York, N.Y.) - CEP CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace stated: “We welcome the announcement by the Metropolitan Police and Greater Manchester Police that chanting or displaying ‘globalize the intifada’ at protests will result in arrest and enforcement...

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...

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...

Eye on Extremism: December 16, 2025

A mass shooting in which 15 people were killed during a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach was “a terrorist attack inspired by Islamic State,” Australia’s federal police commissioner Krissy Barrett said Tuesday. The suspects were a father...