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"This year's observance also saw the introduction of new initiatives aimed at combating antisemitism, including plans for the former villa of Rudolf Höß, the Auschwitz commandant, to be transformed. This educational center is supported by international organizations, including UNESCO and the Counter Extremism Project, highlighting the organized response to rising intolerance."

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January 27, 2025
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"It has since been acquired by the Counter Extremism Project, a non-government organisation that combats extremist groups by pressuring financial support networks, countering the narrative of extremists and their online recruitment, and advocating for stronger laws, policies and regulations around the world."
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January 27, 2025
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"“These groups see the next four years as a mix of positives and negatives but overall as an opportunity to enlarge their movement” said Joshua Fisher Birch, a terrorism analyst at the New York-based Counter Extremism Project. “Extreme-right groups are focusing on mass deportations and seeking to win over potential recruits by concentrating on this issue.”"
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January 26, 2025
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"This house with its twisted history has now been bought by the Counter Extremism Project from a Polish family whose ancestors had lived there since before and after the war - when it was seized by the Nazis."
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January 26, 2025
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"“My dream, and those of our colleagues, is that every visitor, every fellow, every academic that comes here takes action to fight extremism and antisemitism wherever they come from,” said Mark Wallace, the CEO of the Counter Extremism Project."

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January 26, 2025
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"It has since been acquired by the Counter Extremism Project, a non-government organisation that combats extremist groups by pressuring financial support networks, countering the narrative of extremists and their online recruitment, and advocating for stronger laws, policies and regulations around the world."
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January 26, 2025
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“Eighty years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau , the impact of what happened there during World War II is still felt. Although the first news about the site was broadcast on the radio, in film and in newspapers, today the events that occurred, the stories of those who died and those who survived, continue to impact not only the media, but also popular culture worldwide… Since Auschwitz was liberated in 1945, the Hoss family home remained in the hands of a Polish family, but in 2023 it was acquired by the Counter Extremist Project, a New York-based NGO that has sought to combat extremism since 2014.”
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January 26, 2025
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"The new owner is the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), an organisation that studies global extremism and advises state actors on how to push back. It has big plans for the former Höss house, renamed the Auschwitz Research Centre on Hate, Extremism and Radicalisation (ARCHER) at House 88. It hopes this authentic site can help retool for the 21st century the “never forget” mantra of Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel."
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January 26, 2025
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“We spoke to former prison governor Ian Acheson. He’s now the Senior Advisor to the Counter Extremism Project. We began by asking him why Prevent missed so many signs to stop Axel Rudakubana before he went on to kill. Ian Acheson: We don’t have the full facts of a public inquiry and we will get those. But on the face of it, it does look like Prevent has failed to detect his descent into murderous violence. Prevent, I think, is overwhelmed by trivial referrals still, which is obscuring the risks posed by very dangerous people and distracting them from their core mission. Secondly, tendency of practitioners to see young people who are in trouble solely through the lens of vulnerability, not the risk they pose to others…”
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January 26, 2025
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“Tomorrow marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the German-Nazi concentration and death camp where more than 1.1 million people were murdered between 1940 and 1945, about 85% of whom were Jews. Other victims included Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, Roma and Sinti gypsies, and other ethnic groups. The date of the camp's liberation by the Soviet army on 27 January 1945 is observed annually as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. There were many other Nazi death camps built across German-occupied Poland during World War II such as Treblinka, Sobibor, Majdanek and Chelmno… A New York-based charity, the Counter Extremism Project, bought the house recently and will run the project.”
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January 26, 2025
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On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility. 

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