The problem, experts caution, extends well beyond Australia’s borders.

“The repatriation debate should take on a much greater sense of urgency, not only in Australia but in all countries that still have citizens and other individuals with a relationship to their home country,” Senior Director of the Counter Extremism Project, Hans-Jakob Schindler, tells the Sun.

“Having radicalized and potentially dangerous individuals under control is always better than having such individuals in a foreign country where they are not under direct control or monitoring,” Mr. Schindler explains. 

“The risk is that such individuals have knowledge about the country and can either try to return clandestinely or pass on that knowledge to other individuals that travel to Australia.”

Organizations associated with the TRACE project will meet with leading experts on anti-Semitism and anti-Gypsyism at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum on June 10-11, 2026. The aim of the meeting is to strengthen cooperation, share experiences, and a joint response to these challenges in Central Europe.

The conference will take place at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum and at the ARCHER – Auschwitz Research Center on Hate, Extremism, and Radicalization. The center itself is located in House 88, the former villa of Auschwitz concentration camp commandant Rudolf Höss, which the Counter Extremism Project has transformed into an international center for research and education on extremism. ARCHER combines academic research, educational activities, public debate and the arts and focuses on understanding the processes that lead to the normalization of extremist attitudes in society.

"It is Hezbollah that keeps driving this country into conflict with Israel."

Middle East expert Hans-Jakob Schindler comments on current developments in the Middle East. There appears to be progress in the dialogue between Israel and Lebanon – but Hezbollah remains the decisive factor.

"As long as the oppressive apparatus within Iran is still loyal and functioning the regime can just about keep power - but only through the absolute repression of its own people."

Dr Hans-Jakob Schindler, Senior Director, CEP talks about the Iranian regime to Newsmax. 

According to Hans-Jakob Schindler, head of the Counter Extremism Project, she has become "a kind of grandmother heroine for the extreme left in Berlin".

Klette did not explicitly admit to being an RAF member during the trial, and Schindler told the BBC she would never face trial for terrorism allegations against her from that period because of the statute of limitations.

However, she could still face a further trial, as federal prosecutors allege she was complicit in three of the group's attacks.

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler quoted extensively in cover story on Hamas networks in Germany: "Hamas wants to give itself a peaceful image through its propaganda - far from executions and rape..."

“... The people who have been in prison so far cannot therefore be described as prisoners or detainees. "They are hostages of the regime," says Schindler, who now heads the Counter Extremism Project, a think tank that focuses on terrorism. Ultimately, the Iranians are not interested in giving the German detainees a fair trial, but rather in convicting them on flimsy evidence in order to use them as political bargaining chips. This was also the case with Helmut Hofer. "The Iranians' idea was to exchange him for the terrorist Darabi and his accomplices," says Schindler. Kazem Darabi was the mastermind behind the Mykonos attack in Berlin, in which four Kurdish politicians in exile were killed. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. Germany did not allow itself to be blackmailed by Iran.” 

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "Shawcross has now disagreed publicly. The Home Office had, he said, ‘ignored’ key recommendations to beef up Prevent’s performance and the glass remained only ‘half full.’ I have some experience of bureaucratic sleight of hand at work when it comes to reviews and recommendations. When I was tasked by the Government to look into the Prison Service’s colossal and unforgivable failures in containing Islamist extremism a few years ago, I made 69 recommendations which were mysteriously repurposed into 11 without my consent; eight were finally accepted."

The old Goebbels villa north of Berlin has been decaying for years. Now an international organization wants to turn it into a center against antisemitism. The future of the site remains uncertain.

An international anti -extremism organization plans to develop the former Goebbels villa at Bogensee, north of Berlin, into a center against antisemitism and online hate speech. The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) intends to establish another branch there and has approached the Berlin real estate management company with the idea, CEP Managing Director Hans-Jakob Schindler told the German Press Agency.