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February 6, 2025

“Today, the alignment of big tech companies with Donald Trump – and with the global far right – has become obvious. But it wasn’t always like this. A well-aligned public relations pitch, a team of lobbyists with various ideological hues and...

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February 6, 2025

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "Ive yet to meet an oncologist, thank God. But if I did turn up to be told I had cancer I wouldn’t expect him to start treating me with a chainsaw. That was my thought this morning when I read that our national...

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February 6, 2025

“Last month, the United Nations (U.N.) released its "Action Plan to Enhance Monitoring and Response to Antisemitism," partially in response to a "surge in antisemitic incidents targeting Jews and Jewish institutions in Europe, the United States of...

Extremism News Roundup

February 6, 2025

Eye on Extremism: February 6, 2025

“Nearly 70 people were killed and up to 50 others wounded during 24 hours of fighting between Islamic State fighters and security forces from Somalia’s Puntland region, officials said Wednesday. At least 15 Puntland soldiers and more than 50...

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February 5, 2025

“‘Why does the Ayatollah Khamenei of Iran have a f— Twitter account?” asks Mark Wallace, a rare lapse in language from a courtly man. “Why should the No. 1 state sponsor of terrorism be on f— social media?” [...] Mr. Wallace’s decade-old nonprofit...

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February 5, 2025

CEP Advisor Liam Duffy writes: "If you’ve been bewildered by the actions of certain British institutions of late, you’re probably not alone. The discontent and distrust these bodies attribute to pervasive mis-and-disinformation is at least partly...

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February 5, 2025

"Peeking through the windows of strangers and constantly staring at the crematorium have taken their toll. The house was purchased by the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), an NGO that fights extremist groups, radicalism, and online recruitment of...

Extremism News Roundup

February 5, 2025

Eye on Extremism: February 5, 2025

“President Trump wants to deploy a blunt new tool to fight Mexican cartels that flood the U.S. with drugs, by adding them to a list of terrorist groups that includes the likes of al Qaeda and Hamas. The move could increase pressure on the cartels by...

Extremism News Roundup

February 4, 2025

Eye on Extremism: February 4, 2025

“A senior Taliban minister who expressed support for reversing the ban on girls’ education in Afghanistan appears to have been forced to flee the country. Speaking at a graduation ceremony in Khost province, near the Afghan-Pakistani border, on 20...

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February 4, 2025

“The former Polish residence of the Nazi commandant at Auschwitz will soon open its doors to the public as a center dedicated to combatting antisemitism, extremism and hate... The property at 88 Legionow Street, dubbed “House 88,” served as the...

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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

Fact:

On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility. 

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