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CEP Mentions
Süddeutsche Zeitung: The IS slave
A call to Sofia Koller. She is observing the Munich trial for the Counter Extremism Project, an NGO that attempts to disrupt the financial flows of extremist groups. In recent years, Koller has followed a number of ISIS trials, including those involving women defendants. And she noticed a pattern when the treatment of female slaves was discussed. "When it came to gaining an advantage for themselves, the women often accepted the female slaves, sometimes even approving of their purchase," because the slaves did the housework. But also because, unlike a second wife, they posed no competition.
Welt: IRAN: After protests! Mullahs crack down! Mass arrests of opposition members
In Iran, leading reformist politicians were arrested following mass protests. The regime is resorting to repression while the economic crisis continues. “The only option is to keep people off the streets by applying pressure,” says [CEP Senior Director] Hans-Jakob Schindler, Iran expert, on WELT TV.
El Pais: Who set fire to the cables? A month later, Germany still hasn't found the culprit behind the massive Berlin power outage
CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schinler quoted about Vulkangruppe and left-wing extremism in Germany.
Analysis
Times of Israel: Will Herzog’s Australia visit and new legislation assuage Jews’ fears after Bondi attack?
Reuven Morrison was among the 15 people murdered on December 14 in the deadliest terror attack in Australian history. He was attending a Hanukkah event organized by the local Chabad House at Bondi Beach when he was gunned down. Morrison’s final moments, captured on video, depict him fighting against the self-described “anti-Zionist” terrorists with a brick.
Times of Israel: Saying others tied his hands, Netanyahu rewrites own role in allowing Hamas to fester
It was days before the April 2019 election, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was giving an interview to Channel 13 television. Why, asked right-wing journalist Sharon Gal, was he not launching a large-scale military offensive against Hamas in Gaza?
United States
The Guardian: US federal contractor hired white supremacist leader for wildfire relief
A federal security contractor that has been awarded millions of dollars by the Department of Agriculture hired a prominent white nationalist leader to work on its patrols last year. Ian Michael Elliott, a longstanding senior figure in the neofascist group Patriot Front, was part of “crisis relief missions” undertaken on the US west coast by Knight Division Tactical, according to an image shared on LinkedIn in September by one of the company’s executives.
C-SPAN: Religious Liberty Commission Holds Hearing on Antisemitism
The Justice Department's Religious Liberty Commission holds a hearing on combating antisemitism and upholding religious freedom.
New York Post: Unseen footage puts Benghazi attack suspect at scene of crime that killed 4 Americans at US embassy
Damning footage not seen outside a courtroom puts alleged killer and conspirator Zubayar Al-Bakoush at the scene of the crime at the US embassy compound in Benghazi, Libya the day militants attacked the facility and killed four Americans. The footage, used as evidence in a related trial and obtained by The Post after Bakoush was brought to the US to face charges, shows him dressed in camouflage, standing outside the gate of the compound on Sept. 11, 2012 as a group of about 20 armed men breach the gate of the US Mission in Benghazi.
Jewish Insider: New report warns about the rise of activists smuggling in antisemitic content in K-12 schools
Political activists seeking to push extremist perspectives into the classroom are behind a nationwide acceleration of antisemitic content in K-12 classrooms, with increasingly active movements targeting school boards, district leadership and teacher organizations, according to a report published Monday by the North American Values Institute.
Jewish Insider: Amid criticism, Kraft’s anti-hate group defends Super Bowl ad against antisemitism
The Blue Square Alliance Against Hate’s widely watched Super Bowl ad designed to combat antisemitism instead sparked a heated divide within the Jewish community over the effectiveness of its message. Titled “Sticky Note,” the ad from New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft’s group featured a Jewish student being harassed by his high school classmates because of his religion, with bullies placing a “dirty Jew” sticker on his backpack. In a show of allyship, a Black classmate puts a blue square over the note. “Do not listen to that,” he tells his Jewish classmate. “I know how it feels.”
Daily Pennsylvanian: Judge allows Penn affiliates to intervene in ongoing federal antisemitism lawsuit
A federal court granted five Penn affiliates a motion to intervene as defendants in an ongoing antisemitism lawsuit between the University and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Daily Northwestern: Northwestern launches investigation into antisemitic hate symbols painted around campus
Northwestern is investigating “despicable and hateful graffiti” found on signs around campus Feb. 1, according to a statement to The Daily from a University spokesperson. “Based on that investigation, we have identified a suspect who we believe is unaffiliated with Northwestern,” a NU spokesperson wrote in the Feb. 8 statement. “The University is working with local law enforcement on next steps, including potential criminal charges.”
Finland
YLE: Russian neo-Nazi mercenary appeals Ukraine war crimes convictions in Finland
Russian neo-Nazi militant Voislav Torden is back in court, appealing a life sentence handed down last year by Helsinki District Court for war crimes in Ukraine. The Helsinki Court of Appeal began hearing the case on Monday. Last March, the District Court found Torden guilty of four war crimes. They stemmed from an ambush in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine in September 2014 and the events that followed. Twenty-two Ukrainian soldiers were killed in the attack.
France
Jerusalem Post: Three Jewish men threatened by knife-wielding attacker on way back from Paris synagogue
A knife-wielding attacker threatened three young Jewish men in the Trocadéro gardens in Paris on Friday evening, the Paris Prosecutor's Office told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday. The three kippah-clad Jewish men in their twenties were heading back from a Rue Longchamp synagogue at around 7:20 pm when a man approached them and asked if they were Jewish.
Portugal
The Guardian: Portugal elects socialist as president but far-right rival takes record vote share
The moderate socialist António José Seguro won a resounding victory in the second round of Portugal’s presidential election on Sunday, triumphing over his far-right opponent, André Ventura, whose Chega party still managed to take a record share of the vote.
Spain
Reuters: Spain's far-right Vox doubles its seats in Aragon regional vote
Spain's far-right Vox party doubled its seats in Sunday's regional election in Aragon region, as a gamble by the governing conservative People's Party to call a snap election backfired. The People's Party - which called the vote in December following failed budget negotiations, hoping to consolidate its power and dilute Vox's representation - remains the biggest party in the Aragon regional government, but will now have to rely even more on the anti-immigration movement to govern.
United Kingdom
Jerusalem Post: Press TV journalist who praised Oct. 7 arrested en route to anti-Zionist gathering
Two people were arrested at the Birmingham launch of a movement calling itself the Anti-Zionist Movement on Sunday, according to West Midlands Police (WMP). One of those arrested was a journalist for Iran's Press TV who praised the October 7 attacks.
The Times: Police investigate pro-Palestinian group over ‘armed resistance’ post
Police have opened a criminal investigation into a new pro-Palestinian protest group in Birmingham that declared it was “unapologetically pro Armed Resistance”. The Anti-Zionist Movement (AZM) advertised that its launch event was due to be held at a venue in the city on Sunday with several speakers who had attracted controversy over previous anti-Zionist and alleged antisemitic views.
The Telegraph: Prison guards scared to put extremists in solitary
Prison officers are failing to put some of Britain’s most dangerous inmates into solitary confinement over fears of challenges by human rights lawyers. The extremists are held in separation centres, which are “prisons within prisons” in high-security jails where they can associate with other offenders but can also be placed in solitary confinement. They aim to isolate them to prevent them radicalising other inmates and enable tighter security to protect officers from attacks.
The Telegraph: Home Office ‘tried to silence adviser who raised concerns about Islamism’
A former government adviser has accused the Home Office of attempting to “silence” him after he warned about the threat of Islamism. Fiyaz Mughal, the founder of Tell Mama, a project that records anti-Muslim incidents in the UK, raised concerns publicly last year that ministers were failing to take seriously the threat of Islamic extremism.
Belarus
Belsat: Hrodna region alone sees 384 'extremism' cases launched in a single year
In the Hrodna region, 384 criminal cases of "extremist orientation" were opened in 2025. This was told by the First Deputy Prosecutor of the Hrodna region, Jauhen Shcharbak. "First of all, we consider extremism as a real danger to the stability of state institutions. In 2025 alone, the investigating authorities opened 384 criminal cases of an extremist nature, 68 cases against 71 people (65 men and six women) were sent to the courts. Since 2020, 606 such criminal cases have already been submitted to the courts, and 148 persons are currently wanted," Jauhen Shcharbak said.
Russia
Sunday Guardian: ‘Neo-Nazi, Swastika, Holocaust Slogans’: Teen Stabs Students at Ufa University in Russia; Indians Among Injured
A shocking knife attack inside a university hostel in Russia has raised alarms about student safety and extremist violence, after a teenager allegedly linked to a neo-Nazi group went on a stabbing spree. The incident took place at a foreign students’ dormitory at a state medical university in Ufa, leaving multiple people injured, including four Indian students.
Afghanistan
Amu: UNSC to vote on extending Taliban sanctions monitoring mandate
The United Nations Security Council will meet on Thursday to vote on a draft resolution to extend the mandate of the U.N. team monitoring sanctions on the Taliban, according to the council’s program of work. The draft resolution proposes extending the mandate of the sanctions monitoring team until Feb. 17. The team supports the Afghanistan sanctions committee established under Security Council Resolution 1988.
Amu: Pakistan’s president claims Afghanistan has become haven for militants
Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari claimed on Sunday that Afghanistan had become a safe haven for militant groups threatening regional and global peace, following a deadly attack on a Shia mosque near Islamabad. Zardari made the remarks in a statement issued after a suicide bombing at an imambargah in Islamabad on Friday that killed at least 36 people and wounded more than 170, according to Pakistani authorities. The Islamic State Khorasan (IS-K) group claimed responsibility for the attack.
Gaza Strip/West Bank
Times of Israel: 3 times more Palestinians said hurt in West Bank terror than Israelis in January
Three times more Palestinians were victims of terror attacks in the West Bank than Jews in January, according to reported figures from Israel’s security establishment. The report by the Kan public broadcaster on Sunday came amid a spike in attacks by extremist settlers in the West Bank. The network did not specify the precise source of the figures.
Reuters: Israeli forces kill four militants in Gaza, farmer also shot dead
Israeli forces killed four militants in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Monday after they emerged from an underground tunnel and opened fire on troops, Israel's military said.
It described the attack on Israeli troops as a violation of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire with the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas that went into force in Gaza last October and said it views it with the "utmost gravity."
Iran
Iran International: Reformist says Iranian security forces staged violence to justify crackdown
A senior Iranian reformist has accused security bodies of deliberately escalating and even staging violence including alleged killings among their own ranks to legitimize a sweeping crackdown on protests, sharply disputing the official narrative blaming foreign actors.
Iraq
Associated Press: Iraq executes a former senior officer under Saddam for the 1980 killing of a Shiite cleric
Iraq announced on Monday that a high-level security officer during the rule of Saddam Hussein has been hanged for his involvement in the 1980 killing of a prominent Shiite cleric.
Arab Weekly: Baghdad announces the transfer from Syria of over 2,200 ISIS detainees
Iraq has so far received 2,225 Islamic State (ISIS) extremist group detainees, whom the US military began transferring from Syria last month, according to Iraqi officials. They are among up to 7,000 ISIS detainees whose transfer from Syria to Iraq the US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced last month, in a move it said was aimed at “ensuring that the terrorists remain in secure detention facilities”.
Israel
Times of Israel: Liberman accuses PM of ‘funneling goods’ to Hamas at expense of Israeli citizens
Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman accuses Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government of “returning to exactly the same failed concept that led to the disaster” of October 7. Addressing the press ahead of his hawkish opposition party’s weekly faction meeting in the Knesset, Liberman discusses his visit to the Gaza border today, arguing that “the October 7 government is imposing a ‘Hamas tax’ on Israeli citizens and is funneling goods to it at the expense of Israeli citizens.”
Times of Israel: Security cabinet okays deepened Israeli control of West Bank; Hamas urges ‘escalation’
Defense Minister Israel Katz and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Sunday announced a series of security cabinet decisions to “dramatically” change land registration and property acquisition procedures in the West Bank, easing Jewish settlement in the territory.
Jerusalem Post: Procedural failures almost allowed Hamas-linked Palestinian millionaire build Jerusalem hotel
The absence of mechanisms enabling Jerusalem’s Planning and Infrastructure Committee to vet the security backgrounds of real estate developers nearly allowed a Palestinian businessman accused of supporting Hamas to build a hotel in Jerusalem, the Knesset's Internal Affairs and Environment Committee heard on Monday.
Lebanon
Times of Israel: IDF nabs top terror group figure from Lebanon, kills 2 Hezbollah operatives
The Israel Defense Forces captured a “senior” member of the al-Jama’a al-Islamiyya terror organization during an overnight raid in southern Lebanon, and separately killed two Hezbollah operatives, the military said Monday.
AFP: Visiting Israeli border, Lebanese PM vows to expand state authority against Hezbollah
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam visited heavily damaged towns near the Israeli border on Saturday, pledging reconstruction and lamenting the frequent strikes on the area as a “blow to our dignity.” It was his first trip to the southern border area since the Lebanese army said in early January that it had completed its mission of disarming Hezbollah south of the Litani River.
Naharnet: Lebanon surprised after Kuwait includes hospitals on 'terror' list
Lebanon's health ministry expressed surprise and said it would seek clarification after Kuwait inscribed several private hospitals in the Mediterranean country on its "terror" list on Sunday. Kuwait's foreign ministry issued a circular indicating that it had listed the eight hospitals as part of regulations related to "combatting terrorism."
Naharnet: Hezbollah replaces top security official Wafiq Safa as part of internal restructuring
Hezbollah has replaced a top security official who was in charge of coordination with Lebanon's security agencies after he told the group's leadership that he wants to step down, two officials with the group who were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter said. Wafiq Safa had headed Hezbollah's Liaison and Coordination Unit for decades and it was not immediately clear what his new job within the Iran-backed group is going to be. Hezbollah's leadership accepted Safa's resignation Friday, one of the officials said.
Naharnet: The south-north Litani ambiguity: Bassil discusses thorny Hezbollah disarmament
Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil discussed Hezbollah's disarmament in a televised interview, in which he said that for Hezbollah to hand over its arms Lebanon must work on a comprehensive strategy to protect the country.
Africa
BBC: How off-the-shelf drones are changing jihadist warfare in West Africa
Jihadist groups are increasingly carrying out drone strikes in West Africa, raising alarm that they are building the capacity to wage a "war from the skies". A leading violence monitoring organisation, Acled, has recorded at least 69 drone strikes by an al-Qaeda affiliate in Burkina Faso and Mali since 2023, while two Islamic State (IS) affiliates have carried out around 20 - mostly in Nigeria, which has been battling numerous insurgent groups for almost 25 years.
Ethiopia
Reuters: Ethiopia accuses Eritrea of military aggression, backing armed groups
Ethiopia's foreign minister has accused neighbouring Eritrea of military aggression and of supporting armed groups inside Ethiopian territory, according to a letter seen by Reuters and verified by the foreign ministry. The two longstanding foes who waged war against each other between 1998 and 2000, signed a peace deal in 2018 and were allies during Ethiopia's two-year war against regional authorities in the northern Tigray region.
Nigeria
Reuters: Gunmen kill three people and abduct Catholic priest in northern Nigeria
Gunmen killed three people and abducted a Catholic priest and several others during an early morning attack on the clergyman's residence in northern Nigeria's Kaduna state, church and police sources said on Sunday. Saturday's assault in Kauru district highlights persistent insecurity in the region, and came days after security services rescued all 166 worshippers abducted in attacks by gunmen on two churches elsewhere in Kaduna.
Australia
The Australian: New Office of National Intelligence chief Kathy Klugman warns Islamic extremism is a top threat to Australia
The newly appointed top intelligence official has warned Islamic extremism is “absolutely not a thing of the past”, that its “persistence is remarkable”, and that it is at the top of the agenda for the nation’s intelligence agencies following the antisemitic Bondi terrorist attack at the end of last year.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: ASIO was told about Bondi shooter's terrorist links years before attack, former spy claims
A former undercover agent has made explosive claims that he shared intelligence with Australia's spy agency, ASIO, about gunman Naveed Akram's terrorist associations and alleged radicalisation, six years before the Bondi Beach attack. ASIO investigated the information in 2019 but said it could not substantiate it, concluding Akram, then a teenager, did not present a terrorism threat or subscribe to violent extremist ideology.
Jerusalem Post: Herzog condemns ‘Globalize the Intifada’ as anti-Israel chant rings out in Sydney
As President Isaac Herzog drew a straight line here Monday night between the antisemitism embodied in the chant “globalize the intifada” and the attack in Bondi, police just a few kilometers away were battling anti-Israel protesters chanting that very slogan.
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