The CounterPoint Blog

August 03, 2016 Josh Lipowsky

Hamas and ISIS: The Ideological Ties That Bind

Following the horrific shooting attack at a Tel Aviv restaurant that killed four Israelis and wounded more than a dozen others in June, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said he was “shocked” by Hamas’s statements praising the attack and promising...

July 27, 2016 Supna Zaidi Peery

Turkish Caliphate on the Rise

Coups are never a good thing, especially in countries that purport to be democracies like Turkey. Yet, the July 15 coup attempt would have been that country’s sixth since Kemal Ataturk enforced secularism in the 1920s after the demise of the Ottoman...

July 20, 2016 CEP Brussels Staff

EU Commission, Tech Companies Agree to Code of Conduct for Hate Speech

Welcome to the View from Brussels, a perspective from the de facto capital of Europe on the state of counterterrorism, extremism, and radicalisation throughout the European Union. The recent terror attacks across Europe and the use of social media...

May 13, 2016 Julie Shain

ISIS’s Counter-Counter-Narrative

The 14th installment of ISIS’s English-language magazine, Dabiq, devoted comparatively little space to celebrating recent bombings in Brussels, dedicating less than two pages to eulogizing suicide bombers Najim Laachraoui, Khalid el-Bakraoui, and...