Counter Extremism Project Announces Purchase of Former Home of Auschwitz Commandant Rudolf Höss and Its Transformation Into a Center for Research, Education, and Action on Antisemitism, Extremism, and Radicalization

Today, Counter Extremism Project (CEP) CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace announces the purchase of the former home of Auschwitz Commandant Rudolf Höss. The property, located at House Numbers 88 and 88a on ul. Legionów in Oświęcim, Poland, sits directly...

Extremist Content Online: White Supremacist Telegram Channels Identify Need for Alternative Platform After State Department’s Terrorgram Collective Designation

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists and terrorist groups on the Internet to spread propaganda and incite violence. Last week, white supremacist Telegram channels noted the U.S. State Department’s...

CEP Analyst Greg Waters writes: "Syria’s first post-Assad protests broke out on Dec. 25 after a video claiming to show the destruction of an Alawite shrine spread rapidly across Facebook. The video was quickly debunked as several weeks old, the...

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "The assailant in the Southport massacre has pleaded guilty to the murders of three children in the town last year. Keir Starmer has leapt with unusual speed to authorise a public inquiry into what drove Axel...

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "We are rapidly becoming a low trust society and this has serious implications for ‘community cohesion.’ The term, coined by academics after the 2011 riots has lately become a soubriquet for institutional...

Eye on Extremism: January 21, 2025

“Around 90 Palestinian prisoners and detainees were freed from Israeli jails and into the occupied West Bank on Sunday, as part of an exchange under ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel that went into effect Sunday morning. Their release comes...

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson quoted: "Writing in today’s Times, Ian Acheson, who held senior positions at several prisons including governor of HMP Erlestoke, John Podmore, the former governor at HMP Belmarsh and HMP Brixton, and Professor David...

"They make no mention of their neo-Nazi sympathies and avoid public discussion about “politics, Jews or history,” the New York-based Counter Extremism Project reports. Members are encouraged to look and act like “regular guys” and maintain a focus on...

"Since Auschwitz was liberated in January 1945, the house at 88 Legionow Street had been in the private hands of a Polish family. But last year it was acquired by the Counter Extremism Project, a New York-based NGO that has sought to combat extremism...

CounterPoint Brief: Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Deal

On January 15, Hamas announced its agreement to a ceasefire with Israel to end the 15-month war in Gaza started by Hamas’s October 7, 2023, terror attack. The United States, Qatar, and Egypt brokered the multiphase agreement, which would see Israel...