Rethinking the Fight against Antisemitism after October 7

Absolutely, because today we will really discuss the issue of transnational antisemitic violence and networks and how we could more effectively counter this really significant threat that has always been there but really been taken off in the last two years.

Now, for those who join us for the first time, let me please take a minute to introduce our what the Counter Extremism Project is and what we do.

The Counter Extremism Project is a fully privately funded transatlantic think tank on advocacy organizations.

We look at all aspects of ideologically motivated violence from the entire ideological spectrum.

So beginning with violence oriented right-wing extremism, all the way the ideological spectrum to really hardcore Islamist terrorism.

Because we are looking at this broad spectrum, we are trying to be conceptually useful to our counterparts in governments in Europe and North America, as well as in a range of national and multilateral and international organizations.

We have really three big issue areas that we focus our work on.

Technically, number one is the prosecution of foreign terrorist fighters.

Number two is anything to do with countering the financing of extremism and terrorism.

And number three, the core aspects of all work of CEP is how to make the internet and social media a little bit more difficult to access and misuse by extremists and terrorists.

Today's subject really crosses all of the various ideological motivated violence streams that we look at, as well as several of our technical work streams.

And I'm really happy that we can present this very news report, which is the outcome of a quite long cooperation with the German Federal Foreign Office, i.e. the German Foreign Ministry, on aspects of transnational antisemitism, their key networks, as well as options on how, both on the European side, as well as on the American side, we could counter this wave of antisemitism that we've seen since the pogrom-like terror attack of Hamas against Israeli and Israeli civilians on October 7th, 2023.

Also, a core issue of what our very latest large-scale project called the Auschwitz Research Center on Hate Extremism Radicalization, ARCHER, is focusing on.

Now, those who have not heard the name, ARCHER is a really physical project in Auschwitz at the death camps inside the house of Rudolf Hirst, the former commander of Auschwitz.

Those who've seen the movie Zone of Interest, that house and the neighboring house was purchased by CEP in 2024 and 2025 after some renovations.

We now in 2026 begin a whole series of interesting and challenging conferences, but also art exhibition, concerts, meetings.

So anyone... who is interested in that.

There is an entire series of this episode of this podcast series just focused on Archer.

And anyone who wants to know much more about CP, please go to the very, very first episode of this podcast series where I explain in much greater detail what CP is and who CP are.