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Extremism News Roundup
Eye on Extremism: July 25, 2025
The Israeli government and President Trump’s Middle East envoy said on Thursday that they were recalling the teams that had been negotiating on a Gaza cease-fire with Hamas, perhaps imperiling the hope for the return of some of the last surviving...
Extremism News Roundup
Eye on Extremism: July 24, 2025
Israel brought its delegation home from Gaza ceasefire talks for consultations on Thursday after Hamas delivered a new response to a proposal for a truce and hostages deal. The Israeli Prime Minister's office thanked mediators for their efforts and...
Extremism News Roundup
Eye on Extremism: July 23, 2025
For more than two weeks, mysterious explosions and fires have erupted across Iran, setting ablaze apartment complexes and oil refineries, a road outside a major airport and even a shoe factory. In public, Iranian officials have shrugged off the...
Extremism News Roundup
Eye on Extremism: July 22, 2025
Iran has emerged from its war with Israel — briefly joined by the United States — deeply wounded. Its military defenses are battered, its nuclear program was pummeled and its population has been devastated by a heavy civilian toll over the 12-day war...
Extremism News Roundup
Eye on Extremism: July 21, 2025
Hundreds of Bedouin civilians were evacuated from Syria's predominantly Druze city of Sweida on Monday as part of a U.S.-backed truce meant to end fighting that has killed hundreds of people, state media and witnesses said. With hundreds reported...
Extremism News Roundup
Eye on Extremism: July 18, 2025
Iran suffered a significant setback when Israel killed top military leaders and the U.S. struck its nuclear facilities, but a pattern of high-value weapons seizures shows Tehran is making new efforts to arm its militia allies across the Middle East...
Extremism News Roundup
Eye on Extremism: July 17, 2025
Syrian forces largely withdrew from the southern province of Sweida on Thursday following days of clashes with militias linked to the Druze minority. While the truce between Druze armed groups and government forces appeared to be largely holding...
Extremism News Roundup
Eye on Extremism: July 16, 2025
Neo-Nazis are forging alliances with black extremist groups over a shared hatred of Jews, posing a growing threat to UK national security, research has warned. Antisemitism is emerging as an ideological “glue” binding white and black nationalists...
Extremism News Roundup
Eye on Extremism: July 15, 2025
Nearly 400 Jewish organizations are urging the nation's largest teachers' union to reject a member-approved proposal that would sever ties with the civil rights group Anti-Defamation League (ADL) over the war in Gaza.Axios: Hundreds of Jewish groups...
Extremism News Roundup
Eye on Extremism: July 14, 2025
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday called for full support of the disarmament of Kurdish militants that began with a handover of the first batch of weapons by Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) forces, a step he said opened a new page for the...
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.