by AM | Oct 30, 2023 | Aggregate
Foreign Affairs
From ‘Never Again’ to ‘Now and Again’
As antisemitic incidents spike in the rest of Europe, Hungary’s restrictive immigration policies are vindicated.
As Israel continues to count and identify the bodies of the October 7 Simchat Torah massacre by Hamas, and as the number of civilian victims used as human shields by Hamas in Gaza continues to rise, revolutionary Islamists are now filling European streets and squares, attacking police and synagogues, and, above all, proclaiming loudly: “Here we are, and we stand by what happened.”
This problem stems from both failed demographic and immigration policies. While Hungary’s Viktor Orbán has accepted some level of immigration and has started to let in tens of thousands of third world migrant workers to deal with the ongoing global recession, he has done so under strict regulations. Notably, the immigrants are primarily from non-Muslim countries.
The rest of Europe, however, takes a different approach. A quick glance at British statistics shows that the foreign-born population has been growing steadily since 1921 with a radical jump after 2001. In 2001, there were 1,600,000 Muslims in the U.K.. By 2021, their number had increased to 3,868,000. The Muslim population of the U.K. is expected to grow to 13 million by 2050. West Germany began admitting its first Turkish migrant workers in the 1960s; their number have since ballooned to four million. In addition, Germany has taken in almost a million Syrian migrants, which has resulted in further problems. In 2021, 65 percent of Syrians in Germany were unable to find work, placing additional strain on Germany’s famed social welfare system. These radical changes did not occur in centuries, but in decades.
Hungary and the rest of post-socialist Europe, however, have taken a more cautious pace and some politicians, such as Orbán, or the recently elected Slovakian left-wing P.M. Robert Fico have sounded the alarm on immigration. In response they were criticized by the mainstream press as “extremist,” “racist,” and “xenophobic.” These adjectives are debatable; Orbán regularly connects his strong stance on immigration with protecting other minority groups. In 2016 he declared, “We shall not import to Hungary crime, terrorism, homophobia and synagogue-burning anti-Semitism.”
Their warnings were not cultural “fear-mongering,” as the left-wing press claimed. The European immigration problem has direct ties to real security issues. In 2017, there were over 50,000 Salafists (radical Sunnis) in France; in 2022, 11,000 in Germany. Not all Salafists are jihadists, but many of them are or have such sympathies, and most European countries admit extreme Salafists are a security concern. But they are not the only dangerous group in Europe. Although Germany banned Hezbollah in 2020, there remain about 1,250 members of the Shiite terror group. The constant surveillance of this many people regularly drains resources and manpower from the internal security services. In 2018, the German police were keeping only 774 radical Islamists under constant surveillance. A recent report from the Dutch National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security stated that “last year, the terrorist threat from ISIS to Europe increased. Especially since the second half of 2022 there have been ever more clues that ISIS is planning attacks in Europe.” Israel has also warned that there are over 450 Hamas operatives in Germany alone.
Attacks have already taken place throughout Europe in connection to the current war in the Middle East. In France, a mass stabbing occurred at a secondary school in Arras, after Hamas called for a “Global Day of Jihad” on October 13. A French language teacher was killed, while several others were injured. The perpetrator, a Muslim from Russia, was known to the French security services for being a radical and was affiliated with ISIS. Three days later, two Swedes were shot dead in Brussels by a Tunisian migrant who had previously been flagged by Belgian authorities for potential jihadist activity. Again, ISIS claimed responsibility.
Meanwhile, illegal migration continues. Last month, around 7,000 migrants arrived to the island of Lampedusa, Italy, in a span of only 48 hours. The island normally has a population of 6,000. Lampedusa is a well-known transport hub for would-be-terrorists. The Tunisian who shot two Swedes in Brussels arrived there on a boat in 2011. The island is “overwhelmed” and “in a crisis,” according to its mayor who spoke with Reuters. A staggering 2.3 million immigrants entered the E.U. from non-E.U. countries in 2021, an increase of almost 18 percent compared with 2020. This does not mean that a real far-right threat does not exist in Europe; it is not, however, coming from populists but from mushrooming neo-Nazi groups. The world is destabilizing at an alarming rate and there are increasingly strong signs in Europe which point towards a looming civil war or bloody social unrest; there are fewer and fewer signs that this scenario can be avoided.
The problems described above affect the European Jewish community in a particularly dangerous manner. The mere fact that a very large proportion of immigrants come from countries where anti-Semitism is deeply ingrained in society should be reason enough for strict border controls. According to ADL data for the Middle East and North Africa and Asia, 80 percent of the population is anti-Semitic in Morocco, 87 percent in Algeria and Libya, 71 percent in Turkey, 60 percent in Iran, and 92 percent in Iraq. But Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza beat them all: Ninety-three percent of their population is anti-Semitic. In the summer of 2015, the ADL conducted a survey focusing specifically on Muslim communities in Western Europe, which found that 68 percent of Belgian Muslims, 62 percent of Spanish Muslims, 56 percent of German and Italian Muslims, 54 percent of British Muslims, and 49 percent of French Muslims held anti-Semitic views. In general, 55 percent of Muslims in Western Europe were found to be anti-Semitic. In terms of attacks, Germany saw 2,480 anti-Semitic atrocities last year; the UK, 1,652; France, 436. Attacks have sharply risen since the outbreak of the war between Israel and Hamas.
But this may not be all that surprising. A report by the Community Security Trust, a Jewish NGO in the U.K. explained that “the single biggest contributing factor to the record number of antisemitic incidents recorded in 2014 was antisemitic reactions in the U.K. to the conflict in Israel and Gaza.” How could the current protests and atrocities catch European authorities unprepared? This is not to say that some countries have not acted. French president Emmanuel Macron recently banned pro-Hamas protests. On October 13, France raised its security alert to the highest level and deployed 7,000 soldiers following the aforementioned school stabbing. Viktor Orbán also banned all pro-Hamas demonstrations in Hungary. But in the rest of Europe, hatred took the streets.
Ten thousand pro-Palestinian demonstrators sided with Palestine in the Netherlands, as Jewish schools closed around the country. Thousands protested against Israel in London. Jewish schools in the U.K. also stepped up their security or shut down altogether. Parents kept their children away. Pro-Palestine protests were held in Germany as well; some local Arabs openly support Hamas. But this is nothing compared to what German media reported: some Jewish homes had been marked with the Star of David, reminiscent of the Nazi era. One German synagogue was firebombed.
How could Europe’s liberal leaders have turned a blind eye to the dangers of Muslim immigration for decades? How could they commemorate the Holocaust every year, while allowing the mass arrival in Europe of people who see the Holocaust not as a story of a horrific genocide, but as the story of a brave man—Hitler—who tried to defeat the evil Jews, and failed? The West’s fear of being branded ‘illiberal’ has given free rein to anti-Jewish hatred on the streets of Europe.
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by AM | Oct 29, 2023 | Aggregate
Anti-Semitic attacks have exploded since Hamas ambushed Israel earlier this month. It has taken form in many ways including tearing down posters of missing children to making threats to people simply because they are Jewish.
This has taken an extreme form in online messages. Lily Ebert, who is a 99-year-old Holocaust survivor has been receiving about 1,000 hate messages on a daily basis since the October 7th attack. She lives in London and runs a TikTok account with her great-grandson. Their main aim is to educate people about the Holocaust and have a substantial following of over 2 million people.
The messages they received are very aggressive and cruel including references to Hitler and emojis that show the devil and the middle finger. Her great-grandson Dov Forman disabled the comments on their account because it became unbearable for her.
Daily Mail reported:
An Auschwitz survivor is ‘worried and frightened’ after receiving a barrage of anti-Semitic abuse online in the wake of the October 7 terror attack in Israel.
Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert, 99, receives around 1,000 anti-Semitic messages every day, since Hamas terrorists massacred 1,400 people in Israel and kidnapped 200.
Some of the comments she has received include ‘dirty Zionist’, ‘go die’, ‘you guys… prove why Hitler did what he did’ and ‘holohoax’.
She has also been told to ‘get bombed’ and been sent devil and middle finger emojis on her widely followed social media accounts. London-based Lily and her great-grandson Dov Forman, 19, run a TikTok account with 2.1 million followers, which educates people about the Holocaust.
This kind of persecution is a tragedy just by itself. She had to originally live through persecution as a 20-year-old woman when she was sent to Auschwitz. Lily spent 4 months there along with her family. Two of her sisters survived, but her mother and two other siblings died in the gas chambers.
No one who went through such trying times should be forced to relive such evil. This kind of behavior that we have seen unfolds is a testament to the condition of the heart and how evil one can become if unchecked and left unaccountable.
The Gateway Pundit reported recently of A Jewish boy in New York who was threated by teens. Anti-Semitic behavior has also been on the increase in cities across the United States.
A teen made threats to a 9-year-old boy on a playground with a knife yelling, “I will kill you, Jew.” This occurred on Monday at KIPP AMP Middle School Playground in Brooklyn in Crown Heights.
The police and the boy’s mother said her daughter was targeted also by this hateful teen. He also yelled “Heil Hitler” to them. The mother said that was directed at her daughter.
This is very disturbing at the very least. We have innocent children being threatened with violence because they are Jewish. The fact that people were yelling “Allah Akbar” to children inside the United States of America is unacceptable.
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by AM | Oct 29, 2023 | Aggregate
Billionaire Leon Cooperman, who wears his Polish-Jewish heritage as a badge of pride and has made giving away his billions to make the world a better place a major part of his life, is angry.
The 80-year-old estimates that he has given $50 million over the years to New York City’s Columbia University, where he earned a master’s degree in business administration in 1967. But he will give no more to the school due to the way some students and faculty celebrated the slaughter of Israeli civilians in the massacre of Oct. 7 that claimed more than 1,400 lives.
“These kids at the colleges have sh– for brains,” Cooperman told Fox Business host Claman last week.
“We have one reliable ally in the Middle East. That’s Israel,” Cooperman said. “We only have one democracy in the Middle East. That’s Israel. And we have one economy tolerant of different people, gays, lesbians, etc. That’s Israel. So they have no idea what these young kids are doing.
“Now, the real shame is, I’ve given to Columbia probably about $50 million over many years. And I’m going to suspend my giving. I’ll give my giving to other organizations,” he said.
Watch the latest video at foxbusiness.com
He made similar statements to CNN.
“It’s not just because I’m a Jew. What Hamas did was brutal and over-the-top. These kids don’t have a clue what they’re talking about,” he said.
Joseph Massad, a Columbia professor, was a focus of Cooperman’s ire. In a column on The Electronic Intifada, a Chicago-based publication, Massad wrote, “the stunning victory of the Palestinian resistance over the Israeli military on the first day of fighting is a historic event.”
The biographical paragraph at the endof the column identifies Massad as a professor of “modern Arab politics and intellectual history.”
“I told [Columbia] that they should fire this professor that made the comments he made. I mean, war is hell. This war is not good for anybody,” Cooperman told Claman. “But to praise what Hamas did is disgraceful. Disgusting.”
“You shouldn’t support organizations that are detrimental or in opposition to your views,” he said.
CNN noted that a Columbia student was assaulted while putting up posters to support Israel.
Commentator Meghan McCain, who attended Columbia, also ripped the school, according to the New York Post, which noted that thousands of Columbia students signed petitions demanding action against Massad, leading in turn to other students and faculty announcing their support for him.
“The only thing I can say is, they will never get a dime from me. I will never do any speaking engagements with them. Columbia can go to hell as far as I’m concerned,” she said, according to the Post.
The culture at Columbia is such that an LGBTQ group at Columbia University wanted to exclude Jewish students from a movie night, according to the New York Post.
“It’s FREE PALESTINE over here. Zionists aren’t invited,” stated a notice promoting from organizer Lizzy George-Griffin.
“THE HOLOCAUST WASN’T SPECIAL.”
The school canceled the event, according to the Post.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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by AM | Oct 29, 2023 | Aggregate
When Russell ‘Texas’ Bentley talks about the war in the Donbas, and the struggle against Nazis in Ukraine, it’s not hearsay. He has been there from the start, and served in Vostok Battalion and XAH Spetsnaz Battalion in 2014, 2015 and 2017, fighting on the side of the Donetsk People’s Republic – now a region of Russia. He was also baptized into the Russian Orthodox Church.
This last week Bentley shared a new update from downtown Donetsk with some really big news.
Sputnik reported:
“The biggest thing that everybody’s talking about recently is the advances of our guys in the Avdiivka front. They’ve taken the Terrikon (slag heap) which is a literally strategic position from there. They can observe for miles around.”
Watch: 4-minute interview with Bentley:
Not unlike Mariupol with the Azovstal industrial area, in Avdiivka the Coke plant is an area where Ukrainian soldiers have deeply fortified and are holed up.
From the conquered slag heap Russians can survey that area, as well as the whole town of Avdiivka, and even further up to the rear areas.
Bentley suggests that the pincers are closing, since the visibility allows Russian forces to ‘bring in drones, artillery, rocket fire, whatever we need in order to block off reinforcements and reprovisioning’.
We’ve seen time and again – the Russian war of attrition and its boa-constrictor ’embrace’ of cities.
The cauldron.
Bentley also explains why both Russia and Ukraine are committing so many forces to this particular battle.
“Avdiivka is a street strategic position along the whole Donbass front. When it falls, the Donbass front is gonna shatter like glass. Once Avdiivka is out of the way Russia will be able to move in any direction that they want for as far as they want there. It’s one of the strongest positions that’s ever been built in this war. And once it’s taken, the Ukrainians aren’t going to have anything else, any defensive positions that can anywhere near or match what they built up in Avdiivka.”
Bentley spent a lot of time on the Avdiivka front, even since he first worked there at in 2014, including when it was briefly conquered by Russians.
Is he is also well informed about the Ukrainian fortifications in the city.
“The Ukrainians were building up the defensive positions, tunnels. There’s a whole network of tunnels under that city now. It’s like a whole underground city underneath the regular city. So it’s a major position.”
Bentley is a communist, so maybe not the person we’d ask for geopolitical advice, but on the other hand he has lived in the Donbas for over a decade, so he knows the reality on the ground. And through we him we confirm that, while Russian geopolitical goals surely play a role in the war, there is also a very real humanitarian issue for Donetsk civilian areas, under constant Ukrainian artillery fire for the last 9 years.
“Another big development is that, as the Russian forces have moved forward on the northern side of the pincer, the Ukrainian artillery that’s been bombing Donetsk for almost 10 years, ever since the beginning of the war has had to move back further and further. So we’re getting to the point where literally, you know what, what we’ve all been praying for here in Donetsk all these years, the crops are getting ready to be moved out from artillery range. They’re not gonna be able to hit the cities, the civilian parts of Donetsk anymore. And that’s a beautiful thing.”
Read more about this:
Siege of Avdiivka: Russian Forces Cut All the Supply and Reinforcement Routes for the Ukrainians, in a Move to Encircle the City
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by AM | Oct 29, 2023 | Aggregate
This article originally appeared on JoeHoft.com and was republished with permission. This article was edited to add more information.
“Gaza Man” – Sings, Cheers, Cries, Nearly Dies and Recovers within hours.
Gaza Man was first discovered when Hamas was lobbing missiles into Israel. The terrorist group that runs the Gaza Strip with an iron fist, attacked Israel on Oct 7, killed over 1,300 innocent people, and kidnapped over 200 innocents, primarily women and children.
At this time, “Gaza man” was literally singing in the streets of Gaza. But then Israel retaliated, and he was on cameral crying like a baby.
The Gaza man who recorded a video of himself celebrating Hamas rockets being fired at Israel before also posting a video of himself crying in a hospital after an Israeli airstrike turns out to be a musician who has praised Hamas on multiple occasions
pic.twitter.com/OiUVvoNfdF
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 24, 2023
This article was edited to add more information.
How It Started VS. How It’s Going.
A Palestinian in Gaza filmed himself cheering the Hamas rockets fired into Israel, and then crying when Israel responded. pic.twitter.com/iouDMv3gHQ
— Hananya Naftali (@HananyaNaftali) October 22, 2023
This Hamas actor was then found in critical condition in the hospital one day and the next day, he looks like he had a very rapid, and successful recovery.
Pallywood in action
Just yesterday, this guy (Hamas’ actor) was filmed in a critical condition at the hospital.
Today he uploaded this video. He looks very healthy to me.
Are the hospitals in Gaza that great, or they’re just lying again? pic.twitter.com/bIu6CgldrG
— Inbar Cohen (@InbarCohen13) October 26, 2023
Here’s the video:
Is it always him? The one who shouted “Allah Akbar” while Hamas rockets flew towards Israel, the one who was seen in uniform holding an automatic weapon and who cried in an air raid shelter? An endless soap opera. pic.twitter.com/KepeMUWvCs
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) October 25, 2023
According to far-left Reuters, injured teenager who lost his leg misidentified on social media.
“Posts online suggest that the same person faked an injury from an Israeli attack – but personal identifiers prove the two clips show different people,” the outlet wrote.
Here’s another video of him.
He’s revived! The actor paid by Hamas, who almost died yesterday in the hospital in Gaza, today praises Allah in the street. An endless soap opera. pic.twitter.com/FokgHi3kFI
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) October 26, 2023
It’s still him, he just changed his shirt. https://t.co/cNfzn5Uua5 pic.twitter.com/JyqjCceP8y
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) October 26, 2023
Him again! But hadn’t he died yesterday? pic.twitter.com/No83mK5egJ
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) October 26, 2023
New episode. https://t.co/kneODY23LL pic.twitter.com/0hTt17MvV8
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) October 26, 2023
Here’s the compilation:
Academy Award for Best Actor of 2023. pic.twitter.com/6BBuSWr51Y
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) October 26, 2023
Here’s another video of him singing to an allegedly injured child.
Father tries to sing his injured son to sleep: just a baby, and I want to ask, just WHAT threat did he pose these israelis.. just WHAT exactly pic.twitter.com/iT9rBgEJNz
— Sarah Wilkinson (@swilkinsonbc) October 25, 2023
According to X/Twitter’s community notes, “This man is a musician and actor who can be seen in many different videos from Gaza. Altogether, these videos are very likely to be staged.”
Upon further investigation, The Gateway Pundit found his Instagram account. The Gaza man seen in the videos is Saleh Aljafarawi, a video creator with almost 2 million Instagram followers.
The made-up scenes by Gaza man are reminiscent of “The Pieta” photos from 2007, where the Islamist extremists took a picture of a man in rubble after an Israeli attack. Jim Hoft at The Gateway Pundit outed this fake news event. The picture was later named International Picture of the Year:
Good acting wins International Picture of the Year Award honors!
Sports Shooter reports that The Pieta won first place in the “Human Conflict Picture Story” division.
You do remember this Hezbollah photo fraud don’t you?
Back on August 8, 2006 during the midst of the Israeli-Hezbollah war, the New York Times published this photo of the sweating, dust-free, cap-at-side-holding “victim” of Israeli bombings with the caption:
The mayor of Tyre said that in the worst hit areas, bodies were still buried under the rubble, and he appealed to the Israelis to allow government authorities time to pull them out. (Photo Tyler Hicks The New York Times)
Bizzyblog forwarded the “Dead Guy w/ no dust” photo here in the morning thinking that this guy looked pretty clean for a bomb attack.
There was a reason for that…
An anonymous commenter at this blog put the pieces together on this Hezbollah photo fraud by late in the afternoon.
Here’s another video of “Pallywood.”
“Pay attention to the “critically wounded” who is lying on the stretcher and pointing The actors carrying the stretcher stand and wait for instructions while “the dying person is about to die.”
“For those who missed Paliwood – the Arabs in Gaza present “This is how wounded people are evacuated in Gaza”
Pay attention to the “critically wounded” who is lying on the stretcher and pointing
The actors carrying the stretcher stand and wait for instructions while “the… pic.twitter.com/fnOcbPCUTq
— Amy Sutton (@TeamAmerica2020) October 28, 2023
From Abu Ali Express:
The attached video, which was taken in Al Bireh this morning, perfectly expresses, in my opinion, the Palestinian pattern of action in almost every scene of conflict.
Here’s how it works: a Palestinian youth positions himself on the roof of a container with a makeshift “protective position”, taken from the remains of the fence of the “Military Center for Medical Services of the State of Palestine” 1.5 meters away from the IDF position.
Below, Palestinian medical services are waiting vigilantly (they know he will be injured) along with a large number of journalists who are documenting everything.
The Palestinian throws a stone using a slingshot at the IDF forces – and receives a precise shot in response.
The Palestinian “professional” rescue services are negligently evacuating him and probably worsening his injury….. and who is to blame?
El Yahud! (The Jews)
The whole Palestinian story in 48 seconds
The attached video, which was taken in Al Bireh this morning, perfectly expresses, in my opinion, the Palestinian pattern of action in almost every scene of conflict.
Here’s how it works: a Palestinian youth positions himself… (1/4) pic.twitter.com/yahH8mGFcj
— AbuAliEnglish (@AbuAliEnglishB1) October 28, 2023
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