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December 19, 2025

Australia is tightening its laws against hate speech following the terrorist attack on Bondi Beach. Security expert [CEP Senior Director] Hans-Jakob Schindler is calling for more proactive measures from platforms and investment in online...

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December 18, 2025

CEP Senior Director Hans-Jakob Schindler talks to SWR about what is important to prevent terrorist attacks.

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December 18, 2025

Experts from the Counter Extremism Project emphasize that disrupting propaganda networks is essential for long-term counter-terrorism success, as it curtails recruitment and funding streams.

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December 18, 2025

Outside Europe, the Muslim Brotherhood's fundamental relationship to violence is tactical in nature, and the organization is always prepared to use violence to achieve its goals, says terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler from the research...

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December 18, 2025

“The online sphere is 100% key to these attacks,” said Hans-Jakob Schindler, the former coordinator of the United Nations Security Council’s panel on Islamic State and al Qaeda. […] The man then connected online with Islamic State sympathizers and...

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December 17, 2025

“Hamas was founded as the Egyptian arm of the Muslim Brotherhood and has made this very clear in its Charter of 1987,” Hans-Jakob Schindler, Senior Director of the Counter Extremism Project, tells The Cipher Brief. “The political statement of Hamas...

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December 17, 2025

On this week’s episode of “The Hunt with WTOP National Security Correspondent J.J. Green,” Dr. Hans Jakob-Schindler, senior director at the Counter Extremism Project, says terrorists covet open locations for attacks.

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December 17, 2025

[CEP Senior Director] Hans-Jakob Schindler, former counterterrorism coordinator for the UN Security Council and member of the German Federal Ministry of the Interior's “Advisory Group on Preventing and Combating Islamism,” told WELT: “In recent years...

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December 16, 2025

In an interview with ZDFheute live, extremism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler also sees this as a warning signal for Western security authorities.

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December 16, 2025

Following the attack in Sydney, terrorism expert [CEP Senior Director] Hans-Jakob Schindler warns that the abstract threat of terrorism in Germany remains high: “We have IS and Al-Qaeda networks that continue to try to spread their narrative on...