Eye on Extremism: October 24, 2025

A first-of-its-kind operation targeting terrorism financing and the illegal activity supporting it, has led to 83 arrests across six African countries and the identification of 160 persons of interest. Operation Catalyst (July – September 2025) aimed...

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed about terrorism financing in Germany for BR radio feature. “The ‘caliphate’ of the so-called ‘Islamic State’ is long gone. But IS supporters continue to carry out attacks. And new Islamist...

Eye on Extremism: October 23, 2025

The U.S. and Israel are considering a plan that would divide Gaza into separate zones controlled by Israel and Hamas, with reconstruction only taking place on the Israeli side as a stopgap until the militant group can be disarmed and removed from...

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...

Eye on Extremism: October 22, 2025

After years spent accumulating arms and influence in rural parts of this West African nation, al-Qaeda-aligned militants have shown their power now extends to the heart of the state — imposing a fuel blockade that has paralyzed the Malian capital and...

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.”

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

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...

"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...

Eye on Extremism: October 21, 2025

The fragile cease-fire in Gaza that came into force last week rests on some key assumptions: that Hamas militants give up their weapons and that an international troop presence keep the peace as Israel withdraws its military from the enclave. But the...