The Atlantic: A Video Game That Lets You Torture Iraqi Prisoners
I asked the team whether showing prisoner abuses could play into the hands of ISIS propagandists, who already use elements of violent video games to recruit fighters. “In this case, I doubt it,” the developer said. “Even terror groups would understand there is a nuanced message behind the game that will in turn shine a light on their own abuses.” (On the other hand, David Ibsen, the executive director of the Counter Extremism Project, said a game that revolves around torture has the potential to become part of terrorist groups’ propaganda, especially to attract young recruits.)
The Counter Extremism Project Presents
Enduring Music: Compositions from the Holocaust
Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Counter Extremism Project's ARCHER at House 88 presents a landmark concert of music composed in ghettos and death camps, performed in defiance of resurgent antisemitism. Curated with world renowned composer, conductor, and musicologist Francesco Lotoro, the program restores classical, folk, and popular works, many written on scraps of paper or recalled from memory, to public consciousness. Featuring world and U.S. premieres from Lotoro's archive, this concert honors a repertoire that endured against unimaginable evil.