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October 24, 2025

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed on potential Russian espionage in Germany. “Is the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party spying for Russia? In the Thuringian state parliament, the party submitted dozens of inquiries about...

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October 24, 2025

CEP Senior Advisor Alexander Ritzmann stated, "To counter extremism, we must focus not only on individual acts of antisemitism, but on the strategy and financing of extremists. We are talking about a real network of organized antisemitism." To do...

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October 22, 2025

Opening the event, German speaker Alexander Ritzmann (Counter Extremism Project, Germany) reconstructed the map of organized antisemitic networks, illustrating methods for identification and counteraction that combine open-source intelligence, flow...

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October 22, 2025

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed. “US Vice President JD Vance is in Israel, meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amid concerns over the Gaza ceasefire deal.”

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October 21, 2025

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler cited on terrorism financing in Germany.

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October 21, 2025

From the perspective of terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler of the research organization "Counter Extremism Project," this makes the work of investigators in Germany extremely complicated: "You practically have to prove that this euro was intended...

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October 21, 2025

"You effectively have to prove that a specific euro was intended to go towards the purchase of a Kalashnikov or explosives or the preparation of a specific attack," explains Hans-Jakob Schindler of the New York, London and Berlin-based Counter...

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October 20, 2025

"You practically have to prove that every euro was intended for a Kalashnikov, explosives, or the preparation of an attack. In this respect, you make it extremely complicated for investigators here in Germany—in terms of the possibility of conviction...

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October 20, 2025

The peace plan for Israel and Gaza calls for the disarmament of Hamas. That will be difficult to implement, says Hans-Jakob Schindler of the Counter Extremism Project: “Hamas has been maneuvering from the outset because it does not want to relinquish...

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October 20, 2025

"Pickpockets, scammers and con artists are stealing money from the pockets of Berliners and especially our unsuspecting tourists," reads the call for a demonstration on the Telegram channel of the far-right German Youth Voran. However, the...