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ISIS and the Cleansing of a Culture
“Nothing is safe from the cultural cleansing under way in the country: it targets human lives, minorities, and is marked by the systematic destruction of humanity’s ancient heritage.” – Irina Bukova, Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific...
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CEP Releases Searchable Map and Database of World Extremist Leaders and Funders
Explore the background, motives and often surprising locations of the world’s most notorious extremists and funders The Counter Extremism Project today launched the Extremist Leadership Database, a unique searchable list and interactive map...
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The Legacy of Alisa Flatow
In the spring of 1995, 20-year old Alisa Flatow, an American student at Brandeis University, was in the middle of her semester in Israel studying at a women’s seminary. Alisa boarded a bus on April 10 bound for the beach, but never reached her...
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Counter Extremism Project Leading – And Twitter Finally Responding
(New York, NY) – The following is a statement from the Counter Extremism Project: “Efforts by the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) and others have resulted in Twitter’s recent decision to change the rules of user conduct. By its own admission, Twitter...
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No Turkish Delight for U.S.
Turkey’s relationship with violent extremist group ISIS might generously be described as “permissive” - less generously, “complicit.” Not only has Turkey adopted a relaxed stance toward ISIS, some claim it has actively aided and abetted the terror...
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CEP Condemns Murder of Christians in Libya, Killing of U.N. Aid Workers in Somalia
The following is a statement from the Counter Extremism Project: “The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) condemns the execution-style murder of Ethiopian Christians by Libyan terrorists affiliated with ISIS and the bus bombing in Somalia carried out by...
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Counter Extremism Project Releases Resource on Far-Right Hungarian Group Jobbik
The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) is releasing a resource on Hungarian far-right and openly anti-Semitic group Jobbik following its recent success in a special parliamentary election. Jobbik is now the third most powerful political party in Hungary...
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The Tangled Roots of ISIS
The belief that the Iraq war was a monumental blunder is now widely held. In the public mind, the decision to dethrone Saddam Hussein has also become a ready explanation for nearly every ill to befall the world since. The latest baleful effect...
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Extremists Compete for Control in Libya
The February beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians by ISIS-alligned extremists in Libya grabbed international headlines, as did the reality that ISIS’s influence had spread far beyond Syria and Iraq. Since the beginning of 2015, forces loyal to...
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CEP Applauds Twitter Action on Extremist Accounts but Broader Problems Ignored
The Counter Extremism Project commends Twitter for reportedly suspending 10,000 accounts linked to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). According to recent studies by online extremism experts, however, there are between 46,000 and 70,000...
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.