Eye on Extremism: May 2, 2025

Germany's spy agency on Friday classified the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) as "extremist", enabling it to step up monitoring of the country's biggest opposition party, which decried the move as a "blow against democracy". A 1,100-page...

Eye on Extremism: May 1, 2025

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called senior officials in India and Pakistan in an effort to defuse the crisis that followed last week’s deadly attack in Kashmir, the State Department said. Rubio urged Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif...

Eye on Extremism: April 30, 2025

Israel’s latest airstrike on what it called a Hezbollah missile storage facility in Beirut’s southern suburbs came during increasing pressure for the Lebanese militant group to disarm. The disarmament of what has been the region’s most powerful non...

CEP Senior Research Analyst Sofia Koller interviewed: "Is the reintegration of women who have turned their backs on the terrorist organization IS successful? Exit programs show that the willingness to change is high. Yet Islamists continue to attempt...

Eye on Extremism: April 29, 2025

The head of Israel's Shin Bet domestic intelligence agency has resigned. Ronen Bar made the announcement that he would leave his position on 15 June at a memorial event for Shin Bet members who have died in service. It came after he had been engaged...

Alexander Ritzmann of the Counter Extremism Project has been tracking the trend for years. He warns that some of these groups could morph into shadow militias, ready to act on “Day X.” That’s the term they use for the day a right-wing dictator takes...

Alexander Ritzmann from the Counter Extremism Project has been researching the phenomenon for years and believes there is a danger that shadow militias could emerge from some of the groups and strike on D-Day. Day X is supposed to be the assumption...

Eye on Extremism: April 28, 2025

At least 11 people aged between 5 and 65 were killed and dozens injured when a man with a history of mental health issues rammed an SUV through a crowd at a Filipino community festival in the western Canadian city of Vancouver, police said on Sunday...

Extremist Content Online: Pro-ISIS TikTok Account Spreading Bomb-Making Information and Knife Attack Instructions Located

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists and terrorist groups on the Internet to spread propaganda and incite violence. Last week, CEP researchers located a pro-ISIS account on TikTok that posted...

The demonstrations also serve to mobilize people. Terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler from the "Counter Extremism Project" think tank is convinced. From the beginning, this was an integral part of Hamas' strategy. These demonstrations were not...