"A counter-extremist group has warned a Senate committee a fast-growing, global far-right extremism group has infiltrated Australia. Known as 'Active Clubs', the hearing was told the group thrives on social media, and exists to build a "shadow...

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson quoted: "Professor Ian Acheson, a former prison governor, revealed that low-paid new recruits were being rushed through a training process which leaves them ill-equipped to properly deal with manipulative criminals."

CEP and CEP Senior Advisor Alexander Ritzmann remarks to Australian Parliament quoted: " A counter-extremist group has warned a Senate committee a fast-growing, global far-right extremism group has infiltrated Australia. Known as 'Active Clubs', the...

Eye on Extremism: July 23, 2024

“The top U.N. envoy for Syria told the Security Council on Monday that the threat of terrorism is “resurging” with attacks by Islamic State extremists set to double this year, endangering civilians already facing a “protracted state of displacement...

Eye on Extremism: July 22, 2024

“Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group said that its fighters fired dozens of rockets into northern Israel on Saturday, targeting a kibbutz for the first time in nine months in retaliation for an Israeli drone strike earlier in the day that wounded...

"The comments of ex-governor Professor Ian Acheson come following a series of high-profile cases of female prison staff engaging in inappropriate relationships with male inmates."

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson quoted: "But the UK’s prisons crisis goes back far further than that. The prisons expert Ian Acheson says Sir Tony Blair was a misplaced enthusiast for “lock ’em up” and policies have lurched from one failed initiative...

CEP BRIEF: ISRAEL RESPONDS TO HOUTHI DRONE STRIKE AGAINST TEL AVIV

Israel carried out airstrikes today against the Houthi-controlled Al-Hudaydah port in Yemen, which is used by the Iran-backed Houthis as an entry point for the smuggling of IRGC-supplied weapons. The airstrikes, which targeted gas and oil depots as...

COUNTERPOINT BRIEF: ISRAEL RESPONDS TO HOUTHI DRONE STRIKE AGAINST TEL AVIV

Israel carried out airstrikes today against the Houthi-controlled Al-Hudaydah port in Yemen, which is used by the Iran-backed Houthis as an entry point for the smuggling of IRGC-supplied weapons. The airstrikes, which targeted gas and oil depots as...

“Extremism researchers have been taken aback by the growth of the active club movement. According to a recent report from the Counter Extremism Project, since its establishment in 2021, the network has grown to 104 known cells worldwide.”