"Hizb ut-Tahrir is global, and much of its current leadership is in the UK and Australia. The group is banned across the world, including in the Middle East. Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and Turkey have all outlawed Hizb ut-Tahrir, according to the...

CEP APPLAUDS UNITED KINGDOM FOR PROSCRIBING HIZB UT-TAHRIR

Yesterday evening, British parliament passed a draft order proscribing the global Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir (“Party of Liberation”) a terrorist group. The proscription, which took effect at midnight GMT, comes after months of escalated rhetoric...

Eye on Extremism: January 19, 2024

“Between 9 and 12 months old, babies learn to stand, say their first word, maybe take their first steps. As the family of Kfir Bibas, the youngest Israeli held in captivity in Gaza, celebrated his first birthday without him, they wondered which, if...

"A panel of public and private sector experts discussed the findings of the 2023 FATF report on Crowdfunding for Terrorist Financing which highlights the four main ways in which terrorist groups exploit crowdfunding for terrorist financing. The...

Violence-Oriented Right-Wing Extremist Actors in Russia: Club of Angry Patriots- Part 2

During the past decade and a half, extremist non-state actors in Russia have become a central element of the violent transnational right-wing extremist milieu. The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014 and particularly its re-invasion of the country in...

CEP Webinar: The Stakes Of Houthi Aggression Against International Shipping Since Oct. 7

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) invites you to a webinar on Tuesday, January 30, 2024, to present a policy paper concerning the threat to global security posed by the Houthi attacks on the international shipping industry since the outbreak of the...

Eye on Extremism: January 18, 2024

“The U.S. on Wednesday returned the Yemen-based Houthi rebels to a list of terrorist groups, as the militants attacked their second U.S.-operated vessel in the Red Sea region this week and the U.S. military carried out fresh strikes. Attacks by the...

Eye on Extremism: January 17, 2024

“Iran launched attacks Tuesday in Pakistan targeting what it described as bases for the militant group Jaish al-Adl, potentially further raising tensions in a Middle East already roiled by Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Pakistan said the...

Extremist Content Online: Extreme-Right And Neo-Nazi Content Located On TikTok, Instagram, And Twitter/X

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) produces a weekly report on the methods used by extremist and terrorist groups on the Internet to spread their ideologies and incite violence. Last week, CEP researchers identified around three dozen accounts on...

CEP Senior Advisor Ambassador Edmund Fitton-Brown: "'This isn't about Gaza. It's about the Houthis trying to disrupt international trade and the world economy just for the sake of it. Solidarity against this is very important,' said Edmund Fitton...