Eye on Extremism: January 9, 2026

Iran signaled Friday that security forces would crack down on protesters, directly challenging U.S. President Donald Trump’s pledge to support those peacefully demonstrating as the death toll rose to at least 50. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei...

The problem: although the wave of demonstrations is widespread, there is a lack of leadership. “The moment has not yet come when the regime is seriously in danger. What is currently missing is a central organization of the protests and a vision for...

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes that if HMPPS does not collect or hold information on the nature and extent of religious gangs in prison, it cannot hope to win the battle for power and space that is constantly being waged across prisons holding...

Hamas is one of only 43 organizations on the EU's list of terrorist organizations, explains Hans-Jakob Schindler of the "Counter Extremism Project," a transatlantic think tank for analyzing and combating extremist threats. Furthermore, it has been...

“For years, Venezuela has been one of Hezbollah’s key hubs for laundering drug money,” says Hans-Jakob Schindler, head of the Counter Extremism Project think tank. The cocaine mostly originates in Colombia and is smuggled through Venezuela to Europe...

Eye on Extremism: January 8, 2026

Several synagogues across the United States were targeted with fake bomb threats around New Year's day in order to extort congregations for ransoms to be paid through cryptocurrency addresses, according to information drawn from synagogues, Jewish...

In Britain, the first Brotherhood clubs opened 60 years ago. “None were openly identified with the Muslim Brotherhood and membership of the Muslim Brotherhood remained (and still remains) a secret,” the Jenkins-Farr report said. According to a recent...

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed about the left-wing extremist attack against the electricity grid in Berlin.

CEP Senior Director Hans-Jakob Schindler speaks on the terror attack against electricity infrastructure in Berlin.

CEP Senior Director Hans-Jakob Schindler speaks on Hamas’s structures in Germany.