"Although the U.S. and the European Union have designated Hamas as a terrorist organization, 'they’re not effectively cut off from the international financial system,' said Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project. 'They...

[Translated from German] "That's exactly what Hamas' calculations are, analyzes Hans-Jakob Schindler from the international organization Counter Extremism Project: 'Hamas is interested in producing terrible images of dead Palestinian civilians and...

"In recent times, Europe has been grappling with a heightened terrorist threat, with events like the firebomb attack on a Berlin synagogue and killings in Belgium and France sending shockwaves across the continent. In a region where security concerns...

"'These images are horrible from a German perspective,' Hans-Jakob Schindler, a former diplomat in the Middle East and a director of the Counter Extremism Project, told The National. ' We all remember the black-and-white pictures from the 1930s...

"Hamas, after its surprisingly successful and deadly attack on Israeli villages, is for now on top of the terrorism tree. It adheres to an extreme ideology that blends Islamism with Palestinian nationalism, dedicated to the destruction of Israel; its...

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed: "Palestinian Islamic Jihad is a smaller, but older terror group that operates in the Palestinian territories...Coming out of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, but very quickly developing very...

"Hans-Jakob Schindler, director of the Counter Extremism Project NGO, pointed out that violence online can lead to violence on the streets. He said Sweden was the focus of an online campaign by Islamists that was intensifying risks for the Nordic...

"France raised its terror threat alert to the highest level last Friday after a knife-wielding man of Chechen origin killed a teacher and injured three other people at a school in northern France. Officials described the killing as an Islamist terror...

"The number of far-right, white supremacist fight clubs is exploding. The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) published a recent report that pinpointed at least 100 in the USA, Canada, and Europe. ... Alexander Ritzmann, the CEP report’s author, said...

"Dr Hans-Jakob Schindler said that the militant group’s strategic aim is to create ‘horrific’ imagery from the Palestinian territory that will prompt other forces to enter the fray. The senior director of the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) spoke...