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January 20, 2025

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson quoted: "Writing in today’s Times, Ian Acheson, who held senior positions at several prisons including governor of HMP Erlestoke, John Podmore, the former governor at HMP Belmarsh and HMP Brixton, and Professor David...

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January 20, 2025

"They make no mention of their neo-Nazi sympathies and avoid public discussion about “politics, Jews or history,” the New York-based Counter Extremism Project reports. Members are encouraged to look and act like “regular guys” and maintain a focus on...

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January 17, 2025

"Since Auschwitz was liberated in January 1945, the house at 88 Legionow Street had been in the private hands of a Polish family. But last year it was acquired by the Counter Extremism Project, a New York-based NGO that has sought to combat extremism...

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January 17, 2025

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "On 23 September last year at 6.30 p.m. in the evening in a street in Woolwich, London, Daejaun Campbell cried out, ‘I’m 15, don’t let me die’ as he bled out on a pavement after being stabbed. You probably won’t...

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January 16, 2025

"Since Auschwitz was liberated in January 1945, the house at number 88 Legionow Street had been in the private hands of a Polish family. But last year it was acquired by the Counter Extremism Project, a New York based NGO that has, sought to combat...

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January 16, 2025

"Hamas has ability to rebuild if circumstances allow, expert Hans-Jakob Schindler tells DW Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project, has told DW that the ceasefire deal is "a victory" for the hostages and Palestinian...

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January 16, 2025

“The house at 88 Legionow Street is imposing and ugly on the outside, but functional and spacious within. With temperatures below freezing and snow thick on the ground, visitors really notice the blast of warm air coming from the radiators when they...

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January 16, 2025

"Even so, organizations like IS and al-Qaida are not yet at a crisis level of recruiting American soldiers to its cause. “In a few cases, they have attracted individuals serving in the armed forces,” said Joshua Fisher Birch, a terrorism analyst at...

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January 16, 2025

“A hateful white supremacist network with a ‘fight club’ ethos is spreading across the US and around the world, new research shows. Neo-Nazi Active Clubs are said to be one of the fastest-growing extreme-right groups in America and are also present...

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“The American non-governmental organization Counter Extremism Project purchased the house of the commandant of the German Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, Rudolf Höss, in the summer and will open it to visitors on January 27, the 80th anniversary of the...