CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler testified before the Committee for International Affairs and Community of Germany's parliament:

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler testified before the Committee for International Affairs and Community of Germany's parliament on the financing of extremist organizations: [Translated from German] "Dr Hans-Jakob Schindler from the non...

CEP Strategic Advisor Liam Duffy gave a presentation for the "Jihadism in the West" workshop at the World Summit on Counter-Terrorism: "It’s right that we focus on individuals and attacks, but I think we only focus on individuals and attacks to the...

CEP Strategic Advisor Liam Duffy on panel at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT)’s World Summit on Counter-Terrorism

On September 14, 2022, CEP Strategic Advisor Liam Duffy gave a presentation at a workshop on "Jihadism in the West," at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT)’s World Summit on Counter-Terrorism

EU Announces Additional Military Aid To Combat ISIS Resurgence In Mozambique

This week, the European Union (EU) announced plans to boost financial support to Mozambique in its fight against ISIS. According to EU officials, the €15 million in military aid will be allocated towards equipping forces on the ground combating a...

Extremist Content Online: White Supremacist Raising Money On GiveSendGo To Support Campground To Be Used For Training

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. At the beginning of September, CEP researchers identified a fundraising...

Extremist Content Online: Facebook Edition

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit Meta-owned Facebook to spread propaganda, recruit followers, and incite violence in order to hold the popular social media platform accountable for its...

CEP Webinar: The Current Terrorism Threat Posed By ISIS And al-Qaeda

Despite a reduction of Islamist terror attacks in Europe, both ISIS and al-Qaeda networks continue to operate successfully in several regions: a suicide attack by the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISIS-K) against the Russian embassy in Kabul on...

Paris Terror Court Sees Eight Stand Accused Of Supporting Bastille Day Attacker

The trial of eight defendants accused of providing support to Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel began this week in Paris. Lahouaiej-Bouhlel was a Tunisian resident of France who killed 86 people and injured 450 others when he drove a semi-truck through a...

"'Palestine has become a cause du jour among many grassroots social justice groups, which has led to an infusion of antisemitism by those promoting anti-Israel narratives,' Josh Lipowsky, senior research analyst for the Counter Extremism Project...

CEP Webinar: 30 Years Of Western Jihad – A Discussion With Jytte Klausen

On September 8, 2022, ahead of the 21st anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, CEP hosted a webinar with Professor Jytte Klausen, curator of the Western Jihadism Project at Brandeis University and author of "Western Jihadism: A Thirty...