"The UN Secretary General is calling on Israel to immediately halt its large-scale military operation in the occupied West Bank. For now, Israel presses ahead, and claims to have killed some Palestinian militants in a gun battle in a mosque on Thursday. DW spoke with Hans-Jakob Schindler about Israel’s goals in the Palestinian territory."

"A report published last year by the Counter Extremism Project described Active Clubs as a 'stand-by militia of trained and capable [right-wing extremists] who can be activated when the need for coordinated violent action on a larger scale arises.'"

“... The video is still being reviewed, says Hans-Jakob Schindler, Counter Extremism Project expert and former UN Security Council adviser on global terrorism sanctions. But it is obvious that the attack followed the IS script: "With such attacks, which are difficult to detect in advance, IS is showing that it is still important." In 2017, IS lost its state base in Syria and Iraq, said Schindler. But the group is now on the rise again, for example in Afghanistan and West Africa. The West has withdrawn from the core areas of IS terrorists. "Because the pressure there has decreased, attacks in the West are becoming more likely again ." This raises the question of how terrorists are financed. Although an attack like the one in Solingen - which is presumably inspired by IS but carried out without personal instructions - costs the group nothing, says Schindler. But in Syria, IS is again carrying out more and more bomb attacks.”

"Terror expert H.-J. Schindler believes that it has been overlooked that internal security is primarily threatened on the Internet."

“Three people were killed in the attack in Solingen, Germany, claimed by IS on Friday evening. “There is definitely danger in the Netherlands,” said German terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler. #Newshour”

"A video has also surfaced showing a masked man claiming allegiance to IS. It is possible that this is the 26-year-old Syrian who is said to have carried out the attack in Solingen. However, there is much to suggest that he was not directly controlled by IS. "My theory is that he radicalised himself and had little to no direct connection to IS beforehand. He only sent the video to the terrorist organisation shortly before the attack," says terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler from the Counter Extremism Project in an interview with this editorial team."

"The campaigning organisation Counter Extremism Project said Telegram has taken some action to reduce the use of its platform by terrorists but commented on its website 'it is clear that more can and should be done.' "

“'Terrorist organisations are being given more breathing space because since 2019 we've reduced our military engagement in these areas.' Counter terrorism expert, Dr Hans-Jakob Schindler, shares his analysis of recent terror attacks and attempts.”

"'It is inconceivable that they [the weapons dealers] are not operating on the Houthis’ behalf,' said the former British Ambassador to Yemen, Edmund Fitton-Brown, who now works for the Counter Extremism Project.
'Purely private dealers who tried to profit from supplying, [for example] the government of Yemen, would be quickly shut down.'"

"Edmund Fitton-Brown, the former British ambassador to Yemen who is now a senior adviser to the Counter Extremism Project, a New York-based non-profit organisation, said: 'To me, this is clear material support for terrorism. X has a lamentable history of failing to police itself properly against extremists [and] this is a problem that has clearly got worse since Twitter became X. The very fact that they sell blue tick marks to terrorist groups like the Houthis and the Taliban is obviously a breach of sanctions and a breach of the law.'"