Eye on Extremism: July 9, 2025

Google co-founder Sergey Brin called the United Nations “transparently antisemitic” on Saturday in an internal forum for employees, according to screenshots reviewed by The Washington Post and verified with a current member of the forum. His comments...

Eye on Extremism: July 8, 2025

Al-Qaeda affiliate Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) is the main group behind a surge in militant jihadist attacks sweeping across several West African nations, especially Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. On 1 July, the group said it had...

CEP Senior Advisor Prof. Ian Acheson writes: Today’s terrorist threat is more diverse and unpredictable than in 2005. Our resilience against violent extremism is hollowed out by institutional timidity. We still face tactical, technical and...

CEP Senior Advisor Prof. Ian Acheson writes: Bear in mind these dead, I can find no plainer words,’ wrote the Northern Irish poet John Hewitt reflecting on the Troubles’s terrible death toll. How we remember the victims of terrorism and articulate...

Eye on Extremism: July 7, 2025

The July 7 2005 attacks were a watershed moment for the now-head of the Metropolitan Police’s counter-terrorism squad, who drove to London to help in the aftermath of the atrocities and remained in the capital for the next two decades. In 2005...

A short history of HTS and important affiliated groups in Syria

This blog is the first entry in a new five-part series about the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP), an al Qaeda (AQ)-affiliated, originally Uyghur Islamist terrorist group. While remaining an AQ-affiliate, TIP is also closely linked with Hayat Tahrir al...

Counter Extremism Project Statement Marking 20 Years Since the 7/7 London Bombings

(New York, N.Y.) — Counter Extremism Project CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace, CEP Senior Advisor Ambassador Edmund Fitton-Brown, and CEP Senior Advisor Professor Ian Acheson issued the following joint statement marking 20 years since the July 7, 2005...

The so-called activist clubs, in which a young close relative of a minister was active, have grown rapidly in Sweden. Alexander Ritzmann, senior advisor at the Counter Extremism Project in Berlin, has mapped the movement from its beginnings in the...

Eye on Extremism: July 3, 2025

The Buchenwald Concentration Camp Memorial attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors every year - for most, it is a place of silent remembrance. But right-wing extremists are increasingly disrupting the commemoration with provocative performances...