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Extremism News Roundup
Eye on Extremism: December 30, 2025
US President Donald Trump on Monday threatened Hamas with “hell to pay” if it does not disarm within a “very short period,” in remarks delivered alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after their meeting at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida...
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Eye on Extremism: December 29, 2025
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Saturday his country is in a full-scale war with the U.S., Israel and Europe ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ’s meeting Monday with U.S. President Donald Trump. Pezeshkian said in an...
Extremism News Roundup
Eye on Extremism: December 26, 2025
President Donald Trump said the United States launched a “powerful and deadly” strike against forces of the Islamic State group in Nigeria, after spending weeks accusing the West African country’s government of failing to rein in the targeting of...
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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...
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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...
Extremism News Roundup
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...
Extremism News Roundup
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...
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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...
Extremism News Roundup
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...
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Eye on Extremism: December 15, 2025
Anthony Albanese says his government will dedicate “every single resource required” to eradicate antisemitism in Australia after the Bondi terror shooting, after envoy Jillian Segal and the Coalition accused Labor of not doing enough to fight hate...
The Counter Extremism Project Presents
Enduring Music: Compositions from the Holocaust
Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Counter Extremism Project's ARCHER at House 88 presents a landmark concert of music composed in ghettos and death camps, performed in defiance of resurgent antisemitism. Curated with world renowned composer, conductor, and musicologist Francesco Lotoro, the program restores classical, folk, and popular works, many written on scraps of paper or recalled from memory, to public consciousness. Featuring world and U.S. premieres from Lotoro's archive, this concert honors a repertoire that endured against unimaginable evil.