“The creator of the audiobook has previously released similar AI content; however, Siege has a more notorious history,” said Joshua Fisher-Birch, a terrorism analyst at the Counter Extremism Project, “due to its cultlike status among some in the...

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...

Eye on Extremism: December 19, 2025

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Friday that online video feed picked up by the country’s intelligence further confirmed that the antisemitic mass shooting at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Sunday was inspired by the Islamic State terror...

Counter Extremism Project Welcomes UK Crackdown on Individuals Calling to “Globalize the Intifada”

(New York, N.Y.) - CEP CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace stated: “We welcome the announcement by the Metropolitan Police and Greater Manchester Police that chanting or displaying ‘globalize the intifada’ at protests will result in arrest and enforcement...

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

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.

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...

Eye on Extremism: December 18, 2025

More than six years after Islamic State’s caliphate collapsed in the Middle East, the group’s brand of extreme violence lives on, inspiring lone-wolf attacks such as the one on Sydney’s Bondi Beach. The group, which once imposed harsh Islamist rule...

“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...

“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...