CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed: "Online incitement to terror ‘is key’: Hans-Jakob Schindler"

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed for story: "There's growing concern about the violence the Israel-Hamas war could be inspiring here in Europe. Over the weekend a German tourist was fatally stabbed in Paris. The suspect was identified as an alleged radical Islamist with mental health problems. Several other European security agencies have made arrests over alleged plots in recent weeks and warn of an escalated terror threat. European security agencies are taking precauctionary measures fearing an increase in islamist attacks fueled by the Israel-Hamas war. There are hightened fears after an attack in Paris over the weekend killed a German tourist. The attack came as France had issued its highest counter-terrorism alert Is that a new dimension to the threat facing Europe?"

"Hans-Jakob Schindler, a senior director at the non-profit Counter Extremism Project (CEP), told DW the attack demonstrated the 'new terror method of not actually planning complex attacks, but trying to inspire individuals online to conduct attacks.'"

"The lack of international attention on Afghanistan’s renewed terror threat is laying the groundwork for what Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Berlin- and New York-based Counter Extremism Project, called a “back to the future” repeat of the atrocities committed by al Qaeda, with Taliban collusion, in the United States in September 2001."

"On the other hand, terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler from the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) sees the administrative assistance provided by foreign services for German prosecutors as fundamentally positive. 'This shows that the international framework that has been built over the last 20 years to combat international terrorism is working well.'"

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed on DW News: "There is no direct contact. So this goes via Qatar... they're going between Israel and Hamas." 

"Alexander Ritzmann, a senior advisor of the Counter-Extremism Project, has been a leading expert on Active Clubs and their international spread. He told VICE News that in the United States, the Active Clubs appear to be building 'a militia that looks like a combat sports network.'"

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed on DW News: "Israel and militant Islamist group Hamas have agreed to extend a temporary truce by another day minutes before it was set to expire, Israel and mediator Qatar have confirmed. Qatar and Israel said the truce would continue under the existing framework where Hamas, considered a terror group by several countries, released 10 Israeli hostages per day in exchange for Israel releasing 30 Palestinian prisoners."

"'Hamas wants these images, it produces these images , it causes the dead civilians in order to serve the narrative, to illustrate the narrative: Israel is completely disproportionate and is taking revenge on the Palestinian people,' explains Hans Jakob Schindler to contrasts. The senior director of the international organization Counter Extremism Project is based in Berlin and researches terror strategies."

"Hans-Jakob Schindler, who currently heads the political non-profit Counter Extremism Project, told DW that Israel was balancing the twin goals of safely releasing the hostages while eradicating Hamas in the Gaza Strip."