CEP Webinar on September 17, 2025 | Ms. Gabriele Scheel

Ms. Gabriele Scheel Head of Division “International Cooperation against Terrorism, Drug Trafficking, Organized Crime and Corruption,” Federal Foreign Office of Germany On September 17, 2025, CEP held a webinar “Transnational Connections Between...

Eye on Extremism: September 17, 2025

The Israel Defense Forces confirmed Tuesday that it had launched a controversial and long-expected major ground offensive in Gaza City, as local medics said dozens were killed and injured in strikes, and the desperate Israeli families of hostages...

ARCHER at House 88, Director Jacek Purski for #EradicateHate2025

In a video for the Eradicate Hate Global Summit (September 15-17, 2025), Jacek Purski; Director of Auschwitz Research Center on Hate, Extremism and Radicalization (ARCHER) at House 88 and Senior Advisor of the Counter Extremism Project (CEP); walks...

CEP Managing Director Dan Roth writes: The 30-day countdown to the automatic reintroduction of U.N. sanctions against Iran—the “snapback”—has begun. Triggered by Britain, France and Germany (the E3), this long-overdue decision is a response to Tehran...

Shapiro’s address to the Eradicate Hate Global Summit was the first time a politician in office addressed the conference in its five-year history. A day earlier, the summit announced a collaboration with the Counter Extremism Project on the Auschwitz...

Israel's military assumes that there are up to 3,000 combat-ready members of Hamas in the city of Gaza. In total, the terrorist organization still has 16,000 to 18,000 fighters. "However, there is currently no longer any organized 'military'...

Eye on Extremism: September 16, 2025

At the reopening of a restored synagogue in Munich on Monday, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz appeared to be fighting back tears as he recalled the crimes committed against Jews by the Nazis. "I would like to tell you how ashamed I am of this: as...

Terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler, director of the Counter Extremisms Project (CEP) in Berlin, sees a worrying trend: "The willingness to use violence in the right-wing extremist scene is increasing significantly," he said in an interview with...

Germany maintains only limited economic relations with oil-rich Iraq – not least because of existing sanctions against Iran. However, many goods such as consumer goods and pharmaceuticals are unaffected, says Hans-Jakob Schindler of the Counter...

Eye on Extremism: September 15, 2025

The man arrested in the killing of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk is not cooperating with authorities, but investigators are working to establish a motive for the shooting by talking to his friends and family, Utah Governor Spencer Cox said on...