Eye on Extremism: April 15, 2025

Hamas is said to have rejected an Israeli proposal for a six-week ceasefire in Gaza which called for the armed group to give up its weapons. A senior Palestinian official familiar with the talks said the plan gave no commitment to end the war or for...

The Houthi Propaganda Machine Meets Reality

Over nearly a decade, the Houthis have strengthened their grip on Yemen’s economy, built a ruthless and efficient security apparatus, acquired and deployed advanced weaponry, and indoctrinated around 20 million people living under their control...

Hashem Abedi, 28, inflicted "life-threatening" injuries on the officers at HMP Frankland in County Durham on Saturday. He is being held at the jail for his role in the deadly bombings eight years ago and his latest attack has outraged many, including...

Extremist Content Online: CEP Continues to Find Content Glorifying White Supremacist Mass Shooters on TikTok, ISIS Propaganda on Instagram

he 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 found eight accounts on TikTok that glorified white...

New CEP Report Exposes Strategic Use of Antisemitism in Extremist Violence Across Five Nations

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) released a groundbreaking research and policy report titled The Role of Antisemitism in the Mobilization to Violence by Extremist and Terrorist Actors, commissioned by the German Federal Foreign Office. CEP Senior...

The threat of violence has never been far away from crowded jails but the problem is now endemic. The rehabilitation of offenders cannot happen within an unstable system. As the former prison governor Ian Acheson says: “Broken staff cannot help fix...

Ian Acheson, a former prison governor who carried out a review of Islamist extremism in jails in 2016, described Hashem Abedi, 28, as the second most dangerous prisoner in the UK after the serial killer Robert Maudsley.

When I’m speaking to people who know nothing about prisons, I often start with an entertaining mind game.I ask people to imagine that they are on the board of a company with a turnover north of £6bn a year. The company makes widgets. The widgets have...

Eye on Extremism: April 14, 2025

Counter-terrorism police are leading the investigation into an attack on three prison officers by Hashem Abedi, one of the men responsible for the Manchester Arena bombing. The officers sustained life-threatening injuries on Saturday including burns...

The threat of violence has never been far away from crowded jails but the problem is now endemic. The rehabilitation of offenders cannot happen within an unstable system. As the former prison governor Ian Acheson says: “Broken staff cannot help fix...