Wall Street Journal: Israel-Gaza Conflict Spurs Bitcoin Donations to Hamas

The Palestinian militant group Hamas has seen a surge in cryptocurrency donations since the start of the armed conflict with Israel last month, a senior official with the group said, exploiting a trend in online fundraising that has enabled it to...

Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland: Interview mit Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler: Wird Afghanistan jetzt zur Brutstätte für Terroristen?

Hans-Jakob Schindler, Senior Director des, Counter Extremism Project: „Es ist ein Wunschdenken, dass die Taliban nach 20 Jahren enger Verbindung damit beginnen würden, Al-Kaida zu kontrollieren.“

Heinrich Boell Stiftung: Die neue transnationale Dimension des Rechtsextremismus

Das Counter Extremism Project (CEP) untersuchte im Auftrag des Auswärtigen Amtes im letzten Jahr die transnationalen Verbindungen der gewaltorientierten rechtsextremen und -terroristischen Milieus in Deutschland, Großbritannien, Finnland, Frankreich...

Newsweek: How QAnon and ISIS Radicalize Supporters in the Same Way

Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project, talked about the similarities in how ISIS and QAnon managed to appeal to people to join, and how they also attract the same type of person, during an episode of The Hunt with...

PBS Frontline: Repatriating ISIS Foreign Fighters Is Key to Stemming Radicalization, Experts Say

Tunisia has not taken a public stance on repatriation. “More than 800 of [its] fighters have already returned — and quite a few of them undetected,” said Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, a senior director at the Geneva-based Counter Extremism Project.

The National: Counter-terrorism programme in France bears fruit with no militants reoffending

Dr Marc Hecker, of the French Institute of International Relations, said the project was “bearing fruit” and called for its expansion. “There is no single case of terrorism recidivism out of 64 convicted terrorists,” he told a webinar hosted by the...

Lawfare: The German Far Right Doesn’t Need to Win Elections to Be Dangerous

According to the Counter Extremism Project, events such as these have played a key role in the development of “a leaderless, transnational and apocalyptic violent extreme right-wing movement,” and German far-right extremists count as some of the most...

Die ZEIT: Fascism: The Brown Internationale

Die ZEIT: Transnationaler Rechtsextremismus – Gastbeitrag von A. Ritzmann

Eine aktuelle Studie des Counter Extremism Projektes (CEP) im Auftrag des Auswärtigen Amtes hebt hervor, dass seit etwa 2014 eine führerlose, transnationale, apokalyptische und gewaltorientierte rechtsextreme Bewegung entstanden ist, die sich als...

The New York Times: Capitol Riot Puts Spotlight on ‘Apocalyptically Minded’ Global Far Right

When insurrectionists stormed the Capitol in Washington this month, far-right extremists across the Atlantic cheered. Jürgen Elsässer, the editor of Germany’s most prominent far-right magazine, was watching live from his couch.