Eye on Extremism: June 10, 2026
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Jerusalem Post: Iran attacks Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan in retaliation for US strikes – report
The Kuwait Army announced it was intercepting hostile aerial targets after Iranian media reported Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) had targeted the Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait early Wednesday morning. The IRGC also said they had targeted four sites at the US al-Azraq base in Jordan using long-range missiles, Iranian media reported.
The Muslim Brotherhood has steadily built an extensive network of organizations, financial structures, and influence operations across Germany and Italy while maintaining a carefully moderated public image, according to new Israeli government assessments.
CEP Mentions
Süddeutsche Zeitung: Organization against extremism wants to expand Goebbels' villa
An international anti -extremism organization plans to develop the former Goebbels villa at Bogensee, north of Berlin, into a center against antisemitism and online hate speech. The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) intends to establish another branch there and has approached the Berlin real estate management company with the idea, CEP Managing Director Hans-Jakob Schindler told the German Press Agency.
Hans-Jakob Schindler speaks on the current situation concerning the war against Iran.
Tagesschau: Do weapons and ammunition end up on the black market?
Terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler assumes that weapons supplied by Ukraine's allies are also ending up on the black market. He accuses EU member states of covering up the problem. "No government that supplies weapons to a conflict region, especially the German government, wants to admit that our weapons are being used for anything other than the purpose for which they were delivered," he said in an interview.
Analysis
Times of Israel: US anti-Zionist groups keep backing activists who are incarcerated for violence
Last year, an anti-Israel attacker hurled gasoline bombs into a rally for Israeli hostages in Boulder, Colorado, incinerating and killing an elderly woman and wounding more than a dozen others. The deadly attack, coming weeks after the murder of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, DC, shook the US Jewish community. While Jews in Colorado and around the US mourned the deceased victim, Karen Diamond, last week, local anti-Zionist activists backed the attacker, Mohamed Sabry Soliman.
Iran’s proxy and Israel’s foe is at the center of the conflict roiling the Middle East and threatening to boil over any minute. On Tuesday, tensions were running high after a day of battle between Israel and Iran ended through American coercion, hoisting the Lebanese-based Hezbollah terrorist organization as a major regional player.
United States
Reuters: Trump says Iran has taken too long to negotiate, will 'pay the price'
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said Tehran has taken too long to negotiate a deal and would now "have to pay the price" after Iran and the United States exchanged strikes in the region amid reported efforts to continue talks.
Three men, including a U.S. Navy veteran, have been charged with conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group, federal authorities announced. According to the Justice Department, the suspects plotted violence against American troops, with one expressing a desire to behead a female soldier and another stating it would be "sick" if his name were written on a drone used to attack Americans.
Fox News: DOJ launches 15-city antisemitism awareness tour amid rising hate crimes
The DOJ launches a 15-city antisemitism awareness and action tour to combat rising hate crimes against Jewish Americans. Task force head Leo Terrell joins 'Fox & Friends First' to detail his plan. The Department of Justice initiates a 15-city antisemitism awareness tour as attacks against Jewish Americans reach a 46-year high. Task Force Head Leo Terrell details the plan to expand enforcement and education, targeting local prosecutors who fail to act. Terrell urges Jewish Democrats to join the Republican Party to effectively combat antisemitism.
Gun-trafficking experts say those terrorism-related charges against an American firearms dealer are likely a first. The accusations appear to respond to Mexico’s demand for action on arms trafficking, marking potential progress in the United States’ fraught but vital relationship with Mexico.
Reps. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and Laura Gillen (D-NY) this week introduced the Student Protection and University Accountability Act, which aims to compel schools to institute clear policies for addressing antisemitism and other forms of discrimination under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, or face losing their federal funding if they fail to do so.
Reps. Dan Goldman (D-NY) and Mike Lawler (R-NY) are leading 28 colleagues in introducing a House version of the Jewish American Security Act, the package of antisemitism-related legislation introduced by Sens. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) and James Lankford (R-OK) last month in the Senate.
New York Post: Anti-Israel Democrat with Nazi tattoo wins primary
An anti-Israel oyster farmer who had to cover up a Nazi tattoo has clinched the Democratic nomination to be the party’s Senate candidate in Maine.
Liberal activists who were behind Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner's campaign admitted that their vetting process did not pick up certain issues such as his controversial Nazi-linked tattoo.
A female fan of Senate hopeful Graham Platner downplayed concerns about his old Nazi-linked tattoo at a local rally Sunday — but said if he had ink of an Israeli flag, that would cross a red line for her. The woman had been asked by a New York Sun reporter at the jam-packed event whether an Israeli tattoo on her Democratic candidate — who infamously once sported a tat tied to the Nazi SS — would be a dealbreaker for her as a supporter.
Afghanistan International: Taliban Commander Sentenced To 42 Years For Kidnapping US Journalist
Haji Najibullah, a Taliban commander involved in the kidnapping of American journalist David Rohde and two companions, was sentenced to 42 years in prison by a court in New York on Tuesday. According to ABC News, US federal prosecutors said Najibullah and his associates held Rohde, his Afghan interpreter and their driver hostage for more than seven months in hideouts across Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2008.
Washington Times: SPLC on hot seat over evidence staffer shacked up with paid neo-Nazi informant
Those accusing the Southern Poverty Law Center of being in bed with White supremacists may be onto something. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, Ohio Republican, blasted the center at a Tuesday hearing over allegations that an SPLC employee was living with a paid informant. The employee, who oversaw millions of dollars in payments to “field sources,” was allegedly cohabitating with a member of the neo-Nazi group National Alliance.
A Pennsylvania man was sentenced to prison for antisemitic threats against a public official and false statements to government agents, the Pennsylvania Western District US Attorney’s Office announced on Tuesday.
WLNS 6: Michigan appeals court vacates terrorism conviction in Whitmer kidnapping case
A state appeals court Tuesday vacated the terrorism-related convictions of a Wolverine Watchmen member tied to the 2020 plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, ruling that kidnapping does not qualify as a “violent felony” under Michigan’s anti-terrorism law and ordering a new trial.
Canada
The J7 Large Communities Task Force Against Antisemitism urged Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to recognize anti-Zionism and extremist Islamist ideologies as drivers for antisemitism in Canada, warning that the country’s reputation as a safe home for Jews has diminished.
Germany
Deutsche Welle: Neo-Nazi lost in east Germany, but extremism remains threat
The small town of Aue-Bad Schlema rarely makes headlines in Germany. Located in the Ore Mountains near the German-Czech border in southeastern Saxony, it is surrounded by picturesque forests and is far removed from the bustle of the big cities. In this old mining region, people are deeply connected to their roots and take pride in preserving traditions such as brass band music, nutcrackers and the famous ornamental Christmas pyramids. The near-victory of a candidate from a party officially classified as far-right-extremist has had lingering effects in Aue-Bad Schlema, in southeastern Saxony.
United Kingdom
Reuters: Anti-immigrant violence erupts across Belfast after knife attack
Masked men burned families out of their homes in Belfast and torched a number of vehicles in a wave of anti-immigrant violence on Tuesday night that followed a knife attack for which a Sudanese man appeared in court charged with attempted murder. Hundreds of protesters, many with their faces covered, attacked police and burned vehicles in a number of locations across Northern Ireland after a video of the attack, in which the victim lost an eye, went viral.
Times Higher Education: Far-right radicalisation threat ‘only going to get worse’
Changes to how universities are expected to comply with the government’s counter-terrorism efforts will be revealed next month, as institutions grapple with a growing threat from right-wing extremism alongside other forms of radicalisation. The Office for Students (OfS) is expected to share further details on its updates to the Prevent monitoring framework in July, after figures released last week revealed that referrals to the counter-terrorism scheme from within universities increased by nearly 50 per cent last year.
One of the UK’s leading human rights lawyers has said the potential sentencing of four Palestine Action protesters as terrorists when the jury did not convict them of a terrorism offence violates fundamental legal principles.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan International: Taliban Confirm Pakistani Airstrikes, Report 13 Dead
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid has confirmed that Pakistan carried out strikes inside Afghanistan, saying Pakistani forces bombed civilian homes in Kunar, Khost and Paktika provinces. According to Mujahid, 13 people were killed and 14 others injured.
Deutsche Welle: Afghanistan: Taliban open fire during hijab protest
Taliban authorities in Afghanistan cracked down on a protest over women's dress code violations on Tuesday, with multiple witnesses reporting shots being fired. Up to 150 Afghan men had reportedly gathered in the western city of Herat to show their solidarity with more than a dozen women who had been arrested last week for going out in public without a full chador cloak or face-covering burqa.
Gaza Strip/West Bank
Discussions between Palestinian factions and mediators in Cairo aimed at reaching a permanent end to the war in Gaza have stalled over the pivotal question of disarming the territory and Hamas, Palestinian sources told AFP on Tuesday.
New Arab: Hamas pushes to link Gaza to Iran war deals, but Palestinians unconvinced
Hamas's recent effort to include Gaza in any regional ceasefire agreement has sparked debate about whether regional shifts could end Israel's ongoing genocide. Yet, Palestinians enduring over two and a half years of Israel's genocide, the dominant sentiment remains cautious rather than hopeful.
I24: Gaza: IDF eliminates two key Hamas financial officials
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Shin Bet security agency announced Wednesday that they had killed Khader Jamasi, identified as the head of Hamas's funds transfer network in the Gaza Strip, along with his deputy, Muhammad Harazin, in a joint operation carried out Sunday in northern Gaza.
Iran
Iran International: IRGC claims drone attack on US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they carried out a drone attack on the US Navy's Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain in response to what they described as recent hostile actions by the United States.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Wednesday that Iran had inflicted “heavy damage” against US military assets in the region and warned that Tehran would continue to respond to “attacks” originating from US positions, while Jordan, Bahrain, and Kuwait reported intercepting aerial threats linked to Iran.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has allegedly used the country's soccer system to spy on citizens, potentially violating FIFA bylaws, according to a new report from a major opposition party. The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)'s U.S. office provided the report to Fox News Digital. It outlines an alleged plot for Iran’s soccer federation and top clubs to be drawn into a broader state security apparatus, and that at least 15 IRGC commanders have been formally documented and identified in soccer club management.
Israel
Times of Israel: Gunman in military uniform shot dead at Lebanon border after firing on troops
A gunman from Lebanon opened fire on Israeli troops at the border on Tuesday afternoon before they shot him dead, according to the Israel Defense Forces. No soldiers were injured.
Lebanon
Reuters: UN to send investigators to Lebanon over potential law breaches, rights chief says
The UN human rights office will deploy a team of investigators to Lebanon next week to assess potential violations of international law by all parties during the current war in the country, UN human rights chief Volker Türk said onWednesday.
The Americans have recently conveyed a set of Israeli conditions to the Lebanese side, which were rejected by Speaker Nabih Berri and Hezbollah, Al-Jadeed TV reported on Tuesday. "These conditions consisted, firstly, of the withdrawal of approximately 2,300 Hezbollah members from the area south of the Litani River, with their names to be specified by the Israeli side. The two sides rejected this condition specifically, based on information suggesting that the names included were not Hezbollah fighters, but rather residents of villages within Hezbollah's support base and its economic and social structure," the TV network said.
Naharnet: Aoun: What does Sheikh Naim want?
Let Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim Qassem "tell me what he wants. Does he want to fight? Let him go and fight; we've seen the results," President Joseph Aoun has said, according to his visitors. In remarks to the al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper, the visitors said Aoun dismissed reports of contacts between U.S. President Donald Trump and Hezbollah.
South Africa
Reuters: Twelve killed, nine injured in Johannesburg shooting, South African police say
At least 12 people were killed and nine injured on Tuesday evening when gunmen opened fire at an informal settlement in Cleveland, east of Johannesburg, police said on Wednesday. Police said in a statement that they had launched a manhunt for more than 10 suspects following the attack at the Jumpers informal settlement.
Australia
New charges were laid against the surviving Bondi Beach massacre terrorist on Wednesday, according to the Australian Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions, the first update of charges since December.
The Australian: Cartoon in The Age and SMH ‘encoded antisemitic trope’
A cartoon published by both The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age just three weeks after the Bondi massacre conveyed an “antisemitic trope that Jewish people secretly control or manipulate global events, governments, financial systems, or the media”, according to the Australian Press Council. The cartoon, by award-winning illustrator Cathy Wilcox, suggested those pushing for a Royal Commission into rising antisemitism following the December 14 terrorist attack were indoctrinated by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, News Corp. chairman emeritus Rupert Murdoch, senior members of the legal profession, and various Coalition figures, the APC ruling found.
SBS: As women linked to ISIS return, how does Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) work in Australia?
The return of 32 women and children from Syria, who are linked to the self-proclaimed Islamic State group, has prompted concerns around community safety and discussions around mandatory Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) activities for at-risk individuals.
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