"According to Joshua Fisher-Birch, an analyst at the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), 'These groups will continue to hold anti-immigration rallies before the November election because they see an opportunity to recruit and gain publicity within the broader anti-immigrant space,' before warning, 'These extremist groups are not popular but frequently try to gain momentum from culture-war issues in an attempt to stay relevant and recruit.'"

“... Update, 5:01 p.m.: According to extremism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler from the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), there is a "very aggressive and relatively large Islamist scene" in Austria. There is a "huge illegal arms trade in Austria." You can read what else is known about the Islamist scene in Austria here. Update 4:53 p.m.: After the exchange of gunfire near the Israeli Consulate General in Munich, investigators believe that the victim attempted a terrorist attack. According to current information, the attack by the 18-year-old Austrian armed with a rifle is believed to have a "connection to the Consulate General of the State of Israel," police and the Attorney General's Office announced after the shooting in Munich this afternoon.”

"Thousands of prisoners are to be freed early to ease overcrowding in England’s prisons.
@JonnyDymond asks Ian Acheson, former prison governor, what most concerns him about this new scheme."

"According to the police, the man is an 18-year-old who was born in Austria and has Bosnian roots. There are many indications that the incident has a radical Islamist background, says extremism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler from the Counter Extremism Project (CEP). Why did the Austrian choose Munich as his target? "There may be a connection to the anniversary of the 1972 Olympic attacks," says Schindler. On September 5, 52 years ago, Palestinian terrorists carried out an attack on Israeli athletes at the Summer Games in Munich and murdered eleven Olympic participants."

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson: "Are you ready for SDS40? You might need to be if you’re unlucky enough to live in a high crime area. This is the anodyne descriptor for the government’s emergency release of an estimated 5,000 offenders this month and next, having served only 40 per cent of their sentence in prison custody. This is the result of a hospital pass from the outgoing Conservative government who passed laws to lock more people up for longer without any coherent thought about where they would be banged up."

"The clubs are ‘arguably the largest and fastest growing violent extreme-right network’, and are spreading across the UK, according to the insights provided to Metro.co.uk by the Counter Extremism Project (CEP)."

CEP Senior Advisor Edmund Fitton-Brown writes: "Iran has defined itself in opposition to Israel, the United States, and the wider West since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Over the course of half a century of complex regional and global events, the clerical regime’s hostility and determination to “resist” has never abated, even when Iran finds itself naturally on the same side as the US in a given conflict. For example, when the American-led coalition invaded Iraq in 2003 to drive out Iran’s deadliest enemy, the Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein, and with the partially articulated intention of giving Iraq’s Shia majority the decisive voice in the country’s government, it only took Iran a matter of weeks to start orchestrating the killing of US and British soldiers."

"The nonprofit Counter Extremism Project (CEP) released a report claiming 69 confirmed attacks by ISIS in central Syria in March.

The attacks resulted in the deaths of at least 84 Syrian soldiers, and 44 civilians and more than doubled the total number of confirmed ISIS operations for all of 2024."

CEP Senior Research Analyst Josh Lipowsky writes: "I joined hundreds of Argentinians and delegates from around the world outside the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA) in Buenos Aires last month to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the bombing on July 18, 1994, which killed 85 people and wounded 300 others."

"Germany is still in shock after the terror attack in Solingen, days before important state elections. How can we stop terrorism? Is migration a threat? Our guests: Hans-Jakob Schindler (terrorism expert); Morten Freidel (NZZ); Amir Musawy (freelance journalist)"