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“Berlin – The triangle on the wall of a house glows blood red. The message: Anyone who lives here is a potential target of the terrorist organization Hamas . The symbol is appearing more and more often in Germany, for example several times in June at the Humboldt University in Berlin. […] Israel has been at war since October 7 and the Hamas attack . And since then, anti-Semitic acts of violence have been on the rise in this country. Not only Jews, but "also people who are committed to protecting Jewish life are in danger," explains Alexander Ritzmann in an interview with IPPEN.MEDIA . He is a consultant at the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) in Berlin and has now published a guide for security authorities, among others. This guide is intended to help identify key figures in anti-Semitic movements. Because behind anti-Semitism lies a targeted agenda in which organized crime (OC) is also involved, says Ritzmann.”

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October 7, 2024
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"Alexander Ritzmann, Senior Advisor at the Counter Extremism Project, cautions that Active Clubs are carefully presenting themselves as 'just another right-wing sports club' to evade detection by authorities."

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October 5, 2024
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"'Rightwing extremist propagandists have been looking for a Telegram alternative for several years,' said Joshua Fisher-Birch, analyst at the Counter Extremism Project, who first alerted the Guardian to the SimpleX migration of far-right extremists. 'This is the most significant platform change for these specific, extreme, privacy-focused online white supremacist communities to date.'"

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October 4, 2024
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"Alexander Ritzmann, a researcher with international organisation The Counter Extremism Project and an adviser to the European Commission’s Radicalisation Awareness Network, said he had "never seen a network in right-wing extremism grow so fast".

He said AC was a "sophisticated operation" and warned if the movement was "allowed to continue to operate and multiply, the likelihood for targeted political violence will increase"."

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September 30, 2024
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"According to Joshua Fisher-Birch, an analyst at the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), 'These groups will continue to hold anti-immigration rallies before the November election because they see an opportunity to recruit and gain publicity within the broader anti-immigrant space,' before warning, 'These extremist groups are not popular but frequently try to gain momentum from culture-war issues in an attempt to stay relevant and recruit.'"

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September 8, 2024
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September 06, 2024

CounterPoint Brief: EU Arrests Members of Newly-Designated Terrorist Group The Base

This week saw the arrests of five young men in Europe—two in Italy and three in the Netherlands, including a 16-year-old boy, who stand accused of membership in “The Base”—a neo-Nazi white supremacist network that was designated as a terrorist group...

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"The clubs are ‘arguably the largest and fastest growing violent extreme-right network’, and are spreading across the UK, according to the insights provided to Metro.co.uk by the Counter Extremism Project (CEP)."

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September 2, 2024
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"Joshua Fisher-Birch, an analyst at the Counter Extremism Project who specializes in monitoring the far right, confirmed he had seen the same Terrorgram-linked channel, the War Room Posse.

'It is still a bit early to tell what Terrorgram channels will say specifically before the election,” said Fisher-Birch, adding that the “channels are also continuing to share manuals that promote lone actor attacks on people of color, LGBTQ people, Muslims, Jews, government officials and others, as well as encourage attacks on infrastructure'."

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August 20, 2024
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