CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed regarding the arrest of an alleged ISIS terrorist in Berlin.  

The militants have seized large amounts of weaponry from government forces and demonstrated their ability to use drones, says the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), which analyzes terrorist groups.

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: David Lammy didn’t cover himself in glory this week in Parliament. Our Lord Chancellor chortled and guffawed while his shadow Robert Jenrick tried to hold him to account for the release in error of a registered child sex offender from HMP Chelmsford whose crime sparked national protests. The shelf life of ‘but the Tories’ as a reflexive response to every ill is running out. It has kept Labour MPs well fed and with some justification, but voters are less easy to satisfy. The latest security calamity comes, after all, a year and change after the arrival of the supposed changemakers.

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed about terrorism financing in Germany for BR radio feature. “The ‘caliphate’ of the so-called ‘Islamic State’ is long gone. But IS supporters continue to carry out attacks. And new Islamist structures are emerging in prison camps in Syria. The necessary funds for this come from donations, including from Germany. Donors are sometimes unaware of what they are doing, say lawyers, and investigators in this country are having a hard time, say experts.”

CEP Senior Advisor Alexander Ritzmann stated, "To counter extremism, we must focus not only on individual acts of antisemitism, but on the strategy and financing of extremists. We are talking about a real network of organized antisemitism." To do this, Ritzmann stated, "It is necessary to distinguish those who practice professional antisemitism from people who hold antisemitic ideas." Ritzmann also highlighted the distinction between those who organize and those who commit acts of antisemitism. But there are also different ways of being antisemitic: "There are those who use antisemitic narratives to justify violence, out of solidarity with the enemy of my enemy, and those who write online comments that glorify terrorism. Antisemitism is changing."