CEP in the News

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March 7, 2021

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen and Deputy Director Lara Pham write: "Such calls for enhanced legal authority may seem understandable when viewed in the context of the aftermath of senseless, tragic attacks. However, U.S. laws treat foreign...

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March 3, 2021

"According to Joshua Fisher-Birch, a terrorism analyst at the Counter Extremism Project who specializes in groups like the Base, Watkins is a true radical. 'Watkins’ alleged crimes, as well as messages and videos attributed to him, show him as...

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March 2, 2021

"'We have not been looking at this problem with the same goggles as we have with jihadist groups, but now that we have started to do so, we realize that far-right groups can use the same organized crime methodologies to finance their activities,'...

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February 28, 2021

CEP Senior Director Hans-Jakob Schindler discussed the threat posed by an increasingly transnational far-right extremism, including those driven by white supremacist ideologies such as the "Great Replacement" theory, and the need for cross-border...

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February 22, 2021

"According to the Counter Extremism Project, representatives of far-right groups like Alternative für Deutschland in Germany and Lega Nord in Italy have won support in national elections in recent years by pushing anti-immigrant rhetoric. Other...

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February 22, 2021

CEP Senior Advisor Alexander Ritzmann writes: "At the regional or municipal level, there are some positive examples across the EU – particularly in Germany – of how activities of violence-oriented right-wing extremists can be disrupted, eg, through...

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February 19, 2021

"Joshua Fisher-Birch, a senior analyst at the New York-headquartered Counter Extremism Project who had previously called for the podcast to be taken down, welcomed the move. 'It’s a positive step that PodOmatic has decided to stop hosting Rundo and...

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February 17, 2021

"'Robert Rundo and Denis ‘Nikitin’ Kapustin both promote a white nationalist movement rooted in an extreme right-wing hyper-masculinity that focuses on using physical fitness, street combat, and MMA to proselytise,' said Joshua Fisher-Birch, a senior...

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February 17, 2021

CEP Senior Director Hans-Jakob Schindler spoke with J.J. Green of WTOP's The Hunt about how ISIS continues to post material on Facebook, and gets away with it.

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February 11, 2021

CEP Senior Advisor Alexander Ritzmann referenced: "In the past, says extremism expert Alexander Ritzmann, right-wing extremists were focused on the fight for their own country. Today, though, the focus has shifted – to the defense of the "white race...