Those responsible for orchestrating the attacks “are operating in plain sight and within reach in the hands of our purported major non-NATO ally Qatar,” said Mark Wallace, a former U.S. representative to the United Nations and head of the New York...

Counter Extremism Project Stands With Australian Jewish Community, Which Repeatedly Warned That Antisemitic Attack Was Likely

CEP CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace stated: “We condemn the horrific terrorist attack on Australian Jews during a Hanukkah lighting at Bondi Beach, Sydney. This targeted attack violated the right of Jews to live and worship safely in Australia. Jews...

Deutsche Welle's Gerhard Elfers talks with the Counter Extremism Project's senior director Hans-Jakob Schindler. They discuss the latest events in Sydney, Australia, where two gunmen attacked a Jewish celebration event at the popular Bondi Beach. At...

Terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler, like the Australian government, assumes the attack was motivated by antisemitism. However, given the current state of the investigation, it remains unclear which social group the perpetrators belong to.

Eye on Extremism: December 12, 2025

Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji tells Al Jazeera that Iran’s role in Lebanon and the Middle East is “very negative,” and calls Tehran’s policies “a source of instability” in the region. Rajji says Lebanon’s pro-Western government is open to...

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed about Russia’s hybrid warfare in Germany and the German government’s protest to the Russian ambassador in Germany. [Staring at 6:56]

Sahel Monitoring August 2025

This is the fourth installment in a new series analysing the threat environment in the Sahel based on the propaganda output by Jama'a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM), the Islamic State–West Africa Province (ISWAP), and the Islamic State–Sahel...

Eye on Extremism: December 11, 2025

Amnesty International released a report on Thursday accusing Hamas of crimes against humanity, including murder and torture, for the October 7 massacre and the treatment of the hostages taken. The report concluded that Palestinian terrorists killed...

CEP Researcher and Content Review Specialist Joshua Fisher-Birch talks to The World about The Base after Spanish police arrested three members in November.

The involvement of minors in such cases marks an entirely new development, said Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project in Berlin, but their “amateurish” tradecraft made their crimes comparatively easy to detect....