Geert Wilders is right: when streets turn violent, we must reclaim them

Following riots in France that occurred after a sports match, Geert Wilders has written about the need to take back our streets for safety's sake:

Following a football match, rioters in Paris went on a rampage in the French capital, looting shops setting cars on fire, attacking, even firing at police officers. Videos and television footage showed that many rioters had an immigrant background. It is a scene Europeans have become all too familiar with – not just in France, but all over the continent.

In the past decades, Europe’s ruling elites have allowed millions of immigrants from Africa and the Islamic world to settle in our midst. Some of them hate their host country to the extent that they want to destroy it. They loot and vandalize, assault and rape, and even murder.

Leading politicians – such as Emmanuel Macron in France, Rob Jetten in my own Netherlands, Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels, and many others in their ivory towers – think that people do not notice what is going on. But they do notice, and they are deeply worried. They want the chaos to stop. They also realize the root cause of our societal break-down: Mass immigration by people who contribute absolutely nothing to our societies and reject our cultural values.

While our cities begin to resemble war zones, our governments continue their march of folly. In my country, the authorities want to force literally every municipality in the Netherlands to house a quota of asylum seekers. These fortune seekers, many of whom are young men, are being lodged in hotels, holiday resorts, former schools, former army barracks, even on cruise ships.

I have called on the Dutch people to resist – firmly, but always in a non-violent manner – the establishment of centres for asylum seekers in their neighbourhoods. I have recently begun a nation-wider resistance tour, visiting local communities where the authorities are planning new asylum centres.

The response has been overwhelming. The mainstream media do not report on the protests because the demonstrators are peaceful and law-abiding.

It is not our people who go rampaging in the streets, ravaging their neighbourhoods! We are not conquerors like the thugs in the streets of Paris; we defend our homes. We do not destroy our communities; we love them. We do not loot our neighbours; we protect them. We do not harass and attack our women; we stand up for them.

Well if Donald Trump can perform mass deportations of monsters from the USA, so can European governments, and that's something the public must dedicate itself to demanding now. Wilders is right that something must be done.

Europe has at least a thousand no-go zones crafted by Islamization

According to a new report by a European think tank:

There are up to a thousand “no-go zones” across Europe and thousands more “sensitive” neighbourhoods as a result of decades of mass migration policies and the failures of multiculturalism to integrate disparate groups of foreigners into Western society, a report has found.

The report, “No-Go Zones, Immigration and the Rise of Parallel Societies,” from the conservative New Direction Foundation for European Reform think tank, estimated that there are between 900 and 1,000 urban areas that could be deemed as “no-go zones”, in which there are elevated levels of crime, social fragmentation, and weakened state authority.

Authored by Maxime Hemery-Aymar, of France’s Observatory of Immigration and Demography (OID), it directly linked the mass migration and open borders agendas to high-crime areas, the breakdown of social norms, and even the fostering of Islamist terrorism.

Indeed, the think tank found that 63 per cent of Islamist terror attacks in Europe between 2010 and 2025 had a “verified link” to an identified no-go zone.

“So-called ‘sensitive neighbourhoods’ in Europe remain fertile grounds where such vulnerabilities can be exploited: community withdrawal, perceived exclusion, and petty crime create a conducive context that jihadist recruiters know how to leverage,” the report stated.

As noted at the end, the time to take action to prevent future horrors stemming from these no-go zones is now. And we have to hope even the USA public is willing to be altruistic, and not let people like Tucker Carlson and John Daniel Davidson influence them negatively.

Update: Allen West also notes in a related point that:

West said, “Domestically, they are beholden. They’re being held hostage to Islamic jihadism. Especially in the United Kingdom and especially in France.”

And the no-go zones are just the beginning.

Trump losing patience with Hamas after observing how freed hostages look similar to Holocaust survivors

Here's what Donald Trump had to say following the release of a few more hostages this week:

President Donald Trump on Saturday expressed dismay over the appearance of three Israeli hostages who emerged from Hamas captivity looking “like Holocaust survivors.”

“I watched the hostages come back today, and they looked like Holocaust survivors,” Trump said upon the release of Or Levy, Ohad Ben Ami, and Eli Sharabi.

“They were in horrible condition, they were emaciated. It looked like many years ago, the Holocaust survivors. I don’t know how much longer we can take that.”

Trump expressed concern and frustration with Hamas over the men’s condition, noting that, under the current ceasefire’s first phase, hostages are slowly being released.

Making matters worse is that the Hamas has now halted their releases:

Hamas has announced that it is suspending the release of hostages planned for Saturday until further notice due to "Israeli violations".

Israel has rejected the accusations, stating, "The one who committed the violations is the terrorist organization. Members of the delegation who returned this morning from Qatar claimed that Hamas' conduct endangers the continuation of the deal."

The Prime Minister has convened a situational assessment to review the implications of the announcement, with the participation of Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi and incoming Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir. Egyptian sources commented to Reuters that they believe the deal is in danger of collapse.

Defense Minister Israel Katz responded to Hamas' announcement of the cessation of the release of the hostages and said that it was a complete violation of the ceasefire agreement and the deal for their release.

If the Israeli army doesn't respond to this, it will not be good.

Something else we should be losing patience with is far-left municipalities in Europe naming streets after terrorist leaders:

Barghouti is an honorary citizen of the city of Palermo. The city of mafia massacres honored a murderer who sent young tanzim to kill Jews (and priests). Obviously in the name of "peace" and "two states for two peoples", right?

In France, many cities have named streets and squares after Barghouti, such as Valenton. A square in his name was inaugurated in Coulounieix-Chamiers. The socialist municipality voted by a large majority for the proposal to name the square of the Castle of Izards in honor of the Palestinian Arab terrorist. A photo of Barghouti was displayed at the Stains town hall. The arch-terrorist was granted honorary citizenship by twenty French cities, including Ivry-sur-Seine. And then Gennevilliers, La Courneuve, Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, La Verrière, Vitry-sur-Seine.

Left-wing French MPs also went to pay homage to Barghouti in prison. Members of the Belgian Parliament have launched a campaign to nominate Barghouti for the Nobel Peace Prize.

In the French town of Bezons, among the honorary citizens there is also Majdi al Rimawi, leader of the terrorist cell that killed the Israeli Minister of Tourism, Rehavam Ze’evi.

In cities that name streets after Barghouti, mega mosques financed by Qatar are being built. In Aubervilliers, a city with a Muslim majority, where Barghouti became an honorary citizen just 48 hours after the slaughter of Father Jacques Hamel, they throw Molotov cocktails at Jewish schools.

These are cities from which Jews have fled in recent years. In Stains, Jewish families have gone from 250 to 50, in La Courneuve from 300 to 80…

Like in Gaza: since 2005 there have been no more Jews and the only ones are those in the Hamas tunnels.

This is very bad too, and cannot be taken lightly by anybody in France who's worried about this leftist dhimmitude.

Muslim mayor in Brussels, Belgium tried to censor conference with conservative figures attending, court thankfully overrules attempt

A serious issue involving an attempt to suppress conservatives in Europe took place in Belgium:

A socialist mayor in Brussels ordered police to shut down the National Conservatism Conference being held in the city while Brexit leader Nigel Farage was speaking on Tuesday. [...]

The NatCon conference at the Claridge, near the European Quarter of Brussels, was “sabotaged” by police on the order of Emir Kir, the mayor of the Saint-Josse-ten-Noode municipality of the Belgian capital. The Turkish heritage socialist mayor said according to Sky News: “I issued an order from the mayor to ban the ‘National Conservatism Conference’ event to guarantee public safety.

“In Etterbeek, Brussels City and Saint-Josse, the far-right is not welcome,” he added in reference to previous venue cancellations for the NatCon conference in Belgium.

The police reportedly handed organisers of the event, which included the MCC think tank and the American Edmund Burke Foundation, notice of the shutdown as Brexit leader Nigel Farage was on stage, ordering them to end the event within 15 minutes. Mr Farage told the crowd according to GB News: “I’ve heard the police are very eager to close us down, so they can close it down with me on stage.”

“If anything has convinced me Brexit was the right thing to do, it was the events here today,” Farage added.

Other speakers scheduled for the National Conservatism Conference were set to include Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, former British Home Secretary Suella Braverman, and former French presidential candidate Éric Zemmour.

An organiser from the MCC think thank, Frank Füredi told the POLITICO website: “It’s really something out of a tinpot dictatorship… They’re trying to use a technical reason to make a political point. They told the owner that if it doesn’t get shut down they’re gonna cut the electricity.”

Thankfully, the local court overruled the attempt, and even some leftist politicians defended figures like Farage:

The overturning of the leftist order to shut down the NatCon conference in Brussels and the international cross-party condemnation of the blatant act of cancel culture will serve as a “watershed moment” in the battle for freedom of speech, Brexit leader Nigel Farage has predicted.

As Nigel Farage was on stage at the National Conservatism Conference on Tuesday in Brussels, far-left Turkish heritage municipal mayor Emir Kir ordered police to shut down the event in an attempt to show that the “far-right is not welcome” in the de-facto capital of the European Union. Although some participants, including Members of the European Parliament and former French presidential candidate Éric Zemmour, were blocked by armed police from entering the building, the conference continued.

Ultimately, an “emergency late-night ruling” from a Belgian court ruled that the order to shut down the conference was unconstitutional over breaches of freedom of speech and assembly protections. This came after neo-liberal Prime Minister Alexander De Croo reproached the municipal mayor’s order, saying that: “Banning political meetings is unconstitutional. Full stop”

After the conclusion of the NatCon conference on Wednesday, Nigel Farage said on his GB News programme: “The whole world could see that cancel culture was alive and kicking in Brussels yesterday and this story has gone global… I believe it is a watershed moment, that now it cannot be denied that this sort of thing happens.”

Absolutely correct. The Eurpean governments who truly don't want to build up a negative image would do well to start removing "mayors" like the one in Brussels who was the primary, but obviously not the only source, behind this scandal.

However, it was not just the populist right who condemned the actions of the socialist municipal mayor, with even those on the European left raising the alarm at the, with former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis telling the UnHerd website: “I’m no political friend of Nigel Farage but I would hate it if anyone like Nigel was prevented from speaking merely because he may say things that may annoy, among other people, myself.

I'd suggest people like Varoufakis start begin distancing themselves from Islam, in example, if they really want to mend fences. In addition, people like him can also attend the conference in a show of solidarity.

Update: Giulio Meotti's commented on the issue, and warns that Hamas is fundraising in Belgium, which could be described as western Europe's first Muslim state.

An imam in Belgium recited antisemitic verses from the koran at the parliament

In Belgium, which is already long its own hellhole of Islamofascism, an imam at the parliament incited against Israel:

An Imam at the Belgian parliament last week began reciting a verse from the Quran that explicitly calls on Muslims to kill and take Jews captive.

The Quran excerpt is verse 33:26 from the Al-Ahzab Surah (chapter). It translates to, “And He brought down those from the People of the Book who supported the enemy alliance from their own strongholds, and cast horror into their hearts. You ‘believers’ killed some, and took others captive.”

Within the Quran, Jews are referred to as the “People of the Book.”

The event on Tuesday was not organized by the parliament, but rather at the initiative of Hasan Koyuncu, a member of parliament within the socialist party and vice president of the Francophone Parliament in Brussels, along with the Friends Of Brussels Association.

Performance led to widespread condemnations

MP Theo Francken, critical of the organizer of the event, posted on X, formerly Twitter, "This man invited that imam. He is deputy speaker of parliament. Can he stay that way?"

MP Darya Safai recalled her own detention in Tehran, "With the same chants as here in the Brussels parliament, we woke up every morning in the prison of the ayatollahs, were required to pray in our cell with the same words, and at the same time several Iranians were hanged to set an example to others. I managed to escape that prison alive, unlike many others, and it shocks me even more to hear the same thing here in Belgium, 24 years later, in the heart of Western democracy."

Secretary of State of the Brussels Capital region Nawal Ben Hamou left the event during the incident.

Well this is truly disgraceful, but from what I've known about Belgium over the years, it may not be shocking this could occur in such an establishment. If anything, it makes clear the socialist movement is a serious danger, based on their willingness to align with the Religion of Peace, and for all we know, they may even soon convert to it in the near future.

French government must consider deploying army against Muslim rioters

What began in Nanterre is now spreading even worse around France:

The French government is considering “all options” including a nationwide state of emergency after another night of violence which saw hundreds of arrests and injured police officers, and thousands of fires, including many symbols of the state including town halls, schools, post offices, and buses destroyed.

Some 40,000 police officers were deployed across France on Thursday night in an attempt to forestall a third night of violence triggered by the death on Tuesday of a delivery driver at the hands of a police officer in a Paris suburb after he refused to comply with a traffic stop. Yet the enormous show of force by the French state failed to prevent even greater levels of destruction.

Per France’s Le Figaro reports there were 875 arrests overnight nationwide, which saw protest and violence spread to urban areas across the country and even to neighbouring Belgium, the home of the European Union. Figures that underline the considerable scale of the attacks reveal there were some 3,880 fires set overnight, 249 police officers injured — although none seriously — and 492 buildings damaged.

Among those buildings damaged were several town halls and schools burnt out, reports state. Le Parisien cites the Interior Ministry to report 80 police stations were damaged overnight, 34 town halls burnt or otherwise damaged, 28 schools, and 57 other state buildings nationwide. Attacks on symbols of the state appeared so targeted even individual post-boxes were attacked. President of the French Republican Party Eric Ciotti posted footage to social media that claimed to show a French mayor being attacked by a mob as his car was set on fire.

In Marseille, two off-duty police officers were recognised out of uniform and were “seriously injured” in what has been described as a “lynching”.

Looting of businesses including gas stations, tobacconists, and apparel stores has also been reported. In one Parisian suburb, a truck was used to ram down the doors of a shopping centre so looters could access the stores inside.

It should go without saying that a crisis like this seriously demands military intervention to prevent further horrors from spreading. So now, the vital query is whether the French government is going to see that if the army is needed to put a stop to this, they'll do it? More on the subject here.

Secularism will not survive under Islam in France, or anywhere else

Giulio Meotti's addressed the continued danger of Islam conquering France and much of Europe:

Macron's adviser on Islam at the Montaigne Institute, Hakim El Karoui, also reveals that Islam is the first religion practiced in France. "There are more practicing Muslims, between 2.5 and 3 million, than practicing Catholics, 1.65 million".

Cuchet portrays a France at the end of its history and culture, the twilight of a Christianity that becomes a prelude to the European one.

Over the centuries, Islam has made several attempts to conquer Europe, managing to conquer the western flank (Spain), all of the southern Mediterranean, the eastern flank (from Constantinople to the Balkans) to be stopped in the north. Here Islam failed because it faced Christians strong in faith and ready to resist. But this time things could be different.

Islam has numerous advantages which it lacked in the past. For one thing, the Islamic threat is less obvious today. The process of Islamization is hidden and operates with the power of demography and propaganda rather than force of arms. Furthermore, Islam, which sees its confrontation with the West as a spiritual struggle, is now facing a culture in which the influence of religion has been violently eradicated.

The other problem is the so-called "secular people". They demolish Christian symbols from the public space, which is increasingly submerged by those of Islam.

In the city of Bourbon-Lancy, the statue of King Louis IX and the cross that adorns the school will be removed. The building was purchased by the socialist-led municipality from the diocese to be transformed into a center for social and cultural activities. “On condition that the statue of St. Louis and the cross be removed”.

Who did the statue of the king and the cross annoy? The same people who vandalized a Paris church four times since the beginning of the year?

He also notes that the Brittany province is seeing more Muslims now, and that's additionally dangerous. I would recommend for anybody in France who needs a worthy system of faith to consider the following: 1)Orthodox Christianity, like in eastern Europe, 2)Orthodox Judaism, though not the Haredi approach to the faith, and 3)faiths of the far east, like Shintoism, Hinduism and Buddhism, if they too provide anything that can encourage and inspire for the better. And I hope French worried about the future will consider this information, because sooner or later, the horrors of Islam are really going to be unleashed, and we need to be prepared properly.

It's also vital to consider that the "palestinians" - the same fabricated society the EU's so hell-bent on supporting at Israel's expense - is in favor of conquering Europe:

Europe will be conquered by Islam, according to a senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad official who claims the continent’s subjugation is part of the fulfillment of an ancient Islamic prophecy.

Speaking on Al-Quds Al-Youm TV on Islamic Jihad’s Gaza television station earlier this month, Samir Zaqout, who heads the political bureau of the Islamic Jihad in Gaza, warned that the European continent would yet fall to Islamic domination. [...]

[...] The message comes as Europe faces a sudden surge of mass migration, with many Western nations seeing near-record numbers of boat migrants arriving on their shores in recent months.

There's a vital lesson to learn here - no matter how much Europe kowtows to Islam, even those calling themselves "palestinians" today will not be grateful, and will turn against Europeans after the balance of power tips in their favor. Exactly why realists in Europe should do their best to avoid associating with them.

Israel must beware of transsexual invasion

Giulio Meotti warns and reminds that Israel isn't immune to transsexual ideology:

What liberty to voice criticism do we have left in the West?

Criticize Islam? It depends on how brave you are.

Criticize mass immigration? If you are ready to parry the thunderbolts of the bienpensants.

Criticize Greta and the absurdities of the ecological movement? If you agree to pass for irresponsible. Criticize cancel culture? If you can eat without conformism.

We had one issue over which we were free of criticism, a very banal one, and if they hadn't questioned us we wouldn't even have noticed that it was a freedom. It was remembering that you are born male or female. The year 2022 will be remembered as the year in which we practically lost that freedom and were forced to swallow a candy-colored dogma that now dominates our lives.

As filmmakers and actors critical of the Islamist mullahs' regime were arrested in Iran, transgender activists managed to cancel a screening of a gender-critical film on a famous European university campus this week after raiding a classroom to prevent the event from taking place, reports the Telegraph. The screening of “Adult Human Female”, a documentary challenging transgender ideology in the UK, was organized by the University of Edinburgh's Academics for Academic Freedom group. The 439-year-old institution is known as one of the houses of the Scottish Enlightenment. Several activists occupied a lecture hall in George Square, preventing the screening from taking place. When organizers attempted to move the event to an alternate venue, more activists entered and the screening was eventually cancelled.

[...] 2022 was certainly interesting for those who like to observe the rapid unraveling of Western democracy under the blows of a politically correct wave that has never been so arrogant, and therefore weak and self-destructive. Academic conferences deprogrammed, book presentations attacked, film screenings cancelled, teachers fired and in trouble with the law, akttacks on theatres, forced resignations…

What else do we need to realize that in the West there is a creeping totalitarianism? Israel, beware and steer clear when you hear the words “gender” and “inclusivity”.

That's correct. Also notice how such ideologues have no interest in being inclusive of Armenians, in example. It's sad this Orwellianism is now consuming Europe, and something must be done to cut it out.

Lapid emphasizes double-standard with EU

Yair Lapid supposedly opposes the Iran deal, yet also supports a 2-state solution:

Prime Minister Yair Lapid pledged his support for a two-state resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and spoke of his opposition to the revival of the 2015 Iran deal on Monday, when he addressed the first European Union-Israel Association Council meeting to be held in a decade. "Over the past year, there has also been a positive change in our work with the Palestinian Authority," Lapid told the gathering of EU foreign ministers in Brussels in a virtual address. "We are working with them and helping their economy develop," he added.

Lapid referenced his speech in September at the United Nations General Assembly in which he spoke of two states.

"I expressed once more my commitment to the two-state solution. But the Palestinians need to put an end to terrorism and incitement.

"Israel wants peace that will lead to security, not peace that will destabilize the Middle East," he added.

I'm afraid this utterly reeks of patheticness. Providing the PLO with their own state within Israeli land only enables them to establish more of the same. Lapid's just proving more than ever why he's not qualified for leadership, which he could tragically obtain next month.

Europeans speaking out against censorship

There's representatives in Europe who're speaking out not only against censorship, but also failure to condemn leftist violence:

Jerome Riviere, president of the Identity and Democracy group, the bloc of national populist and national conservative parties in the European Parliament, condemned big tech censorship in a speech at the EU legislature this week.

The Identity and Democracy groups includes Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) from a number of mainstream national populist parties in European countries.

The parties include Matteo Salvini’s Lega party in Italy, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally in France, Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom in the Netherlands, and Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Germany.

National conservative parties from Finland, Denmark, Estonia, Belgium, Austria, and the Czech Republic are also represented.

In his speech, Riviere, a French MEP representing the National Rally party, condemned the recently inaugurated President Biden for his lackluster response to political violence and insurrection from the far left during summer, and said the rise of tech censorship against President Trump and his movement represented a concern for all democracies.

“The other overwhelming spectacle that should worry us is the exclusion by almost all social networks of a democratically elected and still serving president.”

“This represents an unprecedented historical aggression against this essential democratic principle: respect for freedom of expression.”

“Social networks have disconnected Donald Trump, arrogating to themselves the exorbitant right to create new rules. They believe conditions of use of their service take precedence over the constitution of sovereign states.

Riviere is the latest major political voice to join a worldwide backlash against the political power of big tech companies; a backlash that begun after Donald Trump – then still the president – was permanently suspended from most major social media platforms.

Seeing that Poland is beginning a major anti-censorship drive of their own, this'll hopefully be the wakeup call needed at a time when Biden is making a major disaster of US policy, beginning - but not limited to - stateside alone.

In some Haredi communities, being ill with Corona carries stigma

In this JTA/Times of Israel article, they bring up how there's those in Haredi communities both here and in Europe who're reluctant to admit to being infected with Coronavirus, because of the stigma it brings with it:

The coronavirus has spread rapidly among members of the Jewish community of Antwerp, which has a large Orthodox population. At least five have died and another 10 are hospitalized in serious condition.

But the virus is hardly ever mentioned there by name.

“People call it ‘the disease’ or they say they have ‘fallen ill,’ but there’s a taboo, a stigma on it and a sense of shame around it,” said Martin Rosenblum, a doctor in the Belgian city who sees patients from its predominantly Haredi Orthodox population. “It means that some people with the virus wait until they’re in really bad shape before they try to go to hospital or get help.” [...]

In Belgium, Rosenblum said that Jews there see contracting the virus as a sign of frowned-upon contact with the outside world.

“[The coronavirus] was seen as something like AIDS, happening in the outside world and afflicting the decadence out there,” Rosenblum told Radio Judaica, a Belgian-Jewish station, last week.

There’s a bit of historical-religious precedent, too.

One pamphlet circulating in Haredi communities in Israel through WhatsApp, even though many Haredi Jews avoid using smartphones, is headlined “Saying corona is forbidden” and promises that censoring the virus is “the way to weakening corona.” It quotes Johanan bar Nappaha, a third-century rabbi, who ruled against mentioning diseases publicly.

“When you say ‘corona,’ you’re making the disease grow,” the pamphlet reads.

There’s also the fear that one could be seen as a contaminated threat to a specific community.

There's only so many wrongheaded stigmas an insular community could apply to one, including the notion that "snitching" on a criminal offender is inherently wrong, effectively allowing criminals off the hook. And they even lead to a situation where those infected by illness won't seek treatment until it gets really out of hand. Simply terrible.

More information on Israeli neighborhoods to be closed off due to Coronavirus

Here's some more news on Times of Israel about which areas will undergo closure due to mass infections:

Ministers were set Monday to rule on enforcing a tighter closure over eight cities and 15 ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods in Jerusalem to stem the coronavirus outbreak.

The cities set to be included in the decision are Tiberias, Elad, Migdal Haemek, Beitar Illit, Ashkelon, Or Yehuda, Modiin Illit, and parts of Beit Shemesh.

The Jerusalem neighborhoods that are to be sealed include Har Nof, Bayit Vegan, Givat Mordechai, Ramat Shlomo, Sanhedria, Shmuel Hanavi, Beit Yisrael, Mea Shearim, Geula, Bucharim, Zichron Moshe, Ramot, Makor Baruch, Givat Shaul, and Kiryat Moshe.

Ministers were also expected to approve extending the lockdown of Bnei Brak — which began on Friday after the ultra-Orthodox town recorded one of Israel’s largest outbreaks of the coronavirus — for a further week.

It remains unclear what the new guidelines will be, though they will likely include a broader military presence to enforce the restrictions. Interior Minister Aryeh Deri said on Sunday night that Jerusalem would be divided into eight regions, with residents only allowed to shop for essential supplies within the borders of their regions.

Israelis are already banned from venturing more than 100 meters from their homes, with exceptions made for work and purchasing essential supplies.

The new restrictions are, however, expected to be less severe than those currently in place in Bnei Brak, with the Ynet news site terming them a “breathing closure.”

They must still ensure Haredi extremists and Islamists can't access safer areas where they could possibly endanger people due to infections. Several of the neighborhoods cited above are Haredi communities, and they'll have to be managed well at a time like this.

Update: Belgium, which has a significant Haredi community, may be facing similar problems.

Update 2: now here's some eye-opening information about the nonagenarian guru of the extremist Eda Haredit: he's been infected too:

The nonagenarian leader of the Eda Haredit, a hardline anti-Zionist Haredi group based in Jerusalem that initially sought to avoid some government regulations aimed at thwarting the spread of the coronavirus, has contracted the disease.

Rabbi Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss, 95, was diagnosed on Thursday after being tested the previous day. He had been admitted to the hospital on Wednesday with a high fever and low blood pressure, according to reports in Haredi media.

[...] The group initially refused to shut down its affiliated educational institutions, closing kindergartens but keeping schools and yeshivas open in defiance of government guidelines. Its former spokesman said it did limit physical proximity there. On Monday, however, it released a notice instructing its followers in the ultra-Orthodox community to heed the Health Ministry’s orders or commit a “big sin.”

In the notice, the religious authority warned of the dangers of the pandemic and said all state instructions from medical authorities must be followed. It added that prayers can be conducted outdoors, if distance is kept between worshipers, in accordance with ministry rules which have since been superseded.

It took getting infected himself to at least convince the anti-Zionist extremist to call for some safety measures among his foolish followers. Now, he could be paying a heavy price for all the trouble people like himself have caused for this country, by commanding his cultists to resist military service and hold up traffic in public.

Update 3: there was, however, a terrible incident just 2 days ago of extremists who attacked medical workers who'd come to conduct a virus test for a patient. Such barbarism is abominable and requires serious preventative action.

The evils of the UNRWA

Rachel Avraham's written about the discoveries of corruption in the UNRWA, which led to the resignation of their recent chairman:

The mandate of UNRWA, the UN agency operating in 59 refugee camps in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, the West Bank, Jerusalem and Gaza, is set to have its mandate renewed next week at the UN General Assembly in New York. Nevertheless, what makes this a big deal now is that UNRWA Commissioner Pierre Krahenbuhl just resigned over “managerial issues.”

Krahenbuhl’s resignation came after an internal UN report found that mismanagement of UNRWA led to “sexual misconduct, nepotism, discrimination, retaliation and other abuses of authority for personal gain in order to suppress dissent and to otherwise achieve their personal objectives.” This internal report prompted Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland to stop funding UNRWA, after the US had already stopped funding the international humanitarian organization.

Furthermore, according to four recent reports conducted by the Center for Near East Policy Research and published by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Information Center, the textbooks utilized in the UNRWA schools today utilize a curriculum that prepares students for war. Israel does not exist in the PA schoolbooks used by UNRWA. The term “beautiful” found in these textbooks is defined as a “shahid,” meaning martyr. Four UNRWA textbooks glorify Dalal Mughrabi, a Palestinian female terrorist who murdered over 30 men, women and children. In these textbooks, Newton’s law of physics is demonstrated with a picture of an Arab firing a slingshot at IDF soldiers. And a 2016 textbook for 3rd graders that is still in use by UNRWA proclaimed: "And I shall remove the usurper from my country and shall exterminate the foreigners' scattered remnants."

Even UNRWA has acknowledged that some of the PA textbooks utilized in UNRWA schools incite hatred: “About 4-5 percent of the material in the PA textbooks has been found to not be in line with UN values.” However, while UNRWA claims that their teachers have found a way to get around problematic sections in PA textbooks, their claims appear suspect when UN Watch published a report claiming that UNRWA staff members and teachers regularly share anti-Semitic and pro-terrorist content on social media.

And they're not likely to change, even after these revelations. A whole bunch of taqqiya specialists themselves are the UN members, and the whole organization in its entirety must be defunded for the evil they're backing.

Belgian paper uses vile anti-semitic tactics out of the 1930s and 40s

The Belgian newspaper De Morgen's caused an outrage over a column they published where a writer not only took the cliched route accusing Israel of "occupation", they even resorted to declaring them possessors of ugly noses:

In an unusual move, Israel’s embassy in Belgium condemned a local daily for printing and defending an op-ed in which Jews are described as land thieves with ugly noses and a superiority complex.

The embassy addressed the July 27 op-ed by Dimitri Verhulst on Wednesday, writing on Twitter that it “is deeply shocked by the publication in Belgian newspaper De Morgen of a blatantly anti-Semitic article.”

Israel rarely comments on articles published in commercial media in democratic countries.

Ambassador Emmanuel Nahshon wrote on Twitter that his embassy “will fight forcefully and uncompromisingly against anti-Semitism, which is a crime not only targeting the Jewish community but against any democratic and tolerant society.”

The editor of the paper, predictably, is defending the revoltingly written article:

The editor of a prestigious Belgian daily defended an op-ed described as anti-Semitic, saying its critics were trying to silence criticism of Israel.

The column, written by Dimitri Verhulst, was published July 27 in De Morgen and quickly drew outrage. It describes Jews in Israel as land thieves with a religious superiority complex and says they have “ugly noses.”

“We clearly do not view the text as anti-Semitic. Otherwise we wouldn’t have published it. Neither did the author intend it as anti-Semitic,” Bart Eeckhout, De Morgen’s editor in chief, wrote in response to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “The op-ed surely is a harsh criticism on Israel’s politics toward the Palestinian people. It is written in a hard, sarcastic fashion and it foretells the current uproar, stating that any hard criticism on Israel will always be reinterpreted as anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism is a very serious allegation, which we think is used too easily in this case, in a way to silence the debate about Israel’s policies.”

And all this time, Belgium crumbles as jihadists take over. It's clear where the paper's staff stands, then. They don't even make distinctions between what constitutes a valid critique and what doesn't, nor do they consider crudeness a bad example. Such a vile disgrace.

Guest post by Mr. Cohen for 12-18-2018

Here is another guest post written by Mr. Cohen about Islamic antisemitism in its modern forms today.
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali wrote:

I was born in Somalia but raised as a young child in Saudi Arabia, where rabid expressions of anti-Semitism were everyday occurrences. Many Palestinian refugees were our neighbors and in their eyes, Jews possessed extraordinary, Harry Potter-like powers, with the ability to cause death and destruction.

“We can never defeat these Yahuds” was a common theme.

Evil conspiracy theories abounded.

If water didn’t come out of the tap, “Oh the Jews are at it again”.

If someone fell ill, “The Jews have poisoned him”.

On a tour in Belgium, when I was 23, the guide said we were in the Jewish quarter. All the Somalis froze. “Where are the Jews?” we asked. The guide pointed out an ultra-Orthodox man and his family walking past. “But they are people!” And then I cried. That was when I grew up mentally.

Anti-Semitism persists because scapegoating has served the West well for 2,000 years.

It suits certain communities to blame others for their misfortunes. But Arabs are Semites, too, so the term does not really apply to them.

Muslims believe they are the recipients of God’s final words. Rabbinical Judaism can challenge the authenticity of the Qur’an and this is therefore seen as a threat. Arabs have adopted Nazi and communist thinking about Jews as their own, translating The Protocols of the Elders of Zion into Arabic.

The establishment of Israel was wholly alien to Arabs. Today Muslim countries are dictatorships, and the leaders use Israel to try and deflect criticism from themselves.

The populations want democracy, and women want equality. They compare life in Israel with their lives, and the only defense their leaders have is to tell their populations: “Jewish evil has got into you!”

Children from the age of two are inculcated and indoctrinated to detest Jews by their social, religious and academic leaders despite none of them ever having met a Jew. This is how easy it is to manipulate billions of people. Hatred of Jews is taught to ignorant people, and there is no campaign to counter such propaganda.

SOURCE: Islam’s Eternal Scapegoat by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Moment Magazine, Anti-Semitism Symposium, Feb 2015, pages 5 to 6

MomentMag dot com, 4115 Wisconsin Ave NW Washington DC 20016

MICROBIOGRAPHY:

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, President of the AHA Foundation and author of:

The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam.
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Thanks again to Mr. Cohen for writing this.

Trump makes a valid point about the impact of Islam in Europe

Donald Trump, on his visit to Britain, made clear that all the mass migration into Europe, mainly by Muslims, is endangering the continent:

U.S. President Donald J. Trump tripled down on claims mass migration caused the Brexit vote, saying the impact on cities like London and Paris is “sad” and praising Hungary for its tough border policies.

President Trump had told The Sun newspaper that mass migration had “changed the fabric of Europe and, unless you act very quickly, it’s never going to be what it was, and I don’t mean that in a positive way” ahead of a NATO summit in Belgium and a working visit to the United Kingdom, doubling and then tripling down on this assertion in Brussels and Chequers.

Despite the President having already told the press “I know it’s not politically correct to say that, but I’ll say and say it loud” at Chequers, establishment journalist and former Celebrity Apprentice contestant Piers Morgan tried to get him to row back on these comments once again in an interview on Air Force One after his “fantastic” meeting with Queen Elizabeth II.

“I said Brexit was going to happen for a specific reason: immigration. I think the people of the UK want to have who they want in their country, and I think what’s happening all over Europe is very sad,” the U.S. leader told Morgan.

He's utterly correct. It's absolutely terrible how western Europe's destroying itself like this, and about time their governments start acting responsibly and getting rid of Islamists from their countries. And if exile is what needs to be done when it comes to those who're citizens, then exile it should be. The same can be said for the USA, and not allow dangerous ideologues to exploit citizenship for the sake of remaining in the country and causing more potential damage. The point's been made clear by Trump, and the governments of Europe had better start taking note.

A jihadist in Belgium murdered 2 policewomen

A terrible terrorist attack took place in Liege, Belgium, costing the lives of two policewomen whose guns the terrorist then used to gun down a motorist before he was shot dead:

The Police chief of Liège, Belgium, has said that the deceased gunman, who fatally shot two female officers and a bystander outside a cafe and took one woman hostage at a local school, deliberately targetted police.

Shots were heard in the centre of the eastern Belgian city of Liège at around 10.30 am local time when an armed man opened fire outside the Cafe des Augustins on the Rue des Augustins, killing two police officers.

Belgian prosecutors’ office spokesman Philippe Dulieu confirmed the attacker in Liege was carrying a knife and approached two police officers, stabbed them several times, disarming them, and then used their weapons in a shooting rampage.

Dulieu said that the attacker “then took their weapons. He used the weapons on the officers, who died.”

National Belgian broadcaster RTBF has named the suspect as 36-year-old Benjamin Herman who was on temporary release from prison. He was known to police for petty crime such as theft, damage to public property, and minor drug trafficking.

It sounds like he was a Muslim convert, proving the dangers of allowing the practice in prisons. Now, thanks to all the incompetence they displayed, the lives of two ladies who deserved better were lost. From what I heard, one of them was a mother, and now the shoddy neglect of security has cost a parent her life.

An important point is made about how gun control led to this tragedy:

Belgian citizens, unarmed via stringent gun control, were helpless as a Jihadist stabbed two officers and then stole the officers’ guns and shot them dead. [...]

The University of Sydney’s GunPolicy.org lists Belgium’s gun control as “restrictive.” This means Belgians have no guaranteed right to gun ownership. It also means that the process to legally purchase a gun in Belgium is arduous. One must acquire a license from the government before purchasing a gun and those pursuing such a license must convince the government they have a “genuine reason” for firearm possession. They must also pass a background check, including interviews with a third party reference, and must pass a firearm safety course. After all this Belgians are only allowed to acquire one firearm and face limitations on the amount of ammunition they can possess.

Moreover, Belgians’ firearms must be registered with the government.

Because the government in Belgium practically forbids firearms for defending innocent lives to civilians, citizens are unable to come to the help of even public servants in dire need. This has to be changed one way or another.

Macron blames Europe for terror, not mass migration

Here's Emmanuel Macron using an approach that's potentially hurtful:

Violent crime, terror attacks, and epidemic levels of sexual assault in Europe are “not linked” to mass migration, Emmanuel Macron has said, blaming “discrimination” and inequality for the phenomena.

Speaking to George Washington University students in the U.S. last week, the French President also acknowledged that “90 per cent” of African migrants arriving in Europe are economic migrants and not refugees.

Macron was prompted to address the topic after a student stood up to say that Americans have watched as mass immigration “from the Middle East and Africa to Europe … over the years”, resulting in the rise of violence, crime, and terror attacks on the continent.

Highlighting “an increase in sexual assault and rape of women to the point that many women are too afraid to leave home” and “an increase in anti-Semitism to the point that in many cities Jewish citizens are advised not to wear religious garb for fear of being attacked”, she asked the President what his government is doing “to ensure the national security and the cultural identity of France and Europe”.

“I am absolutely not naive. In our societies, we have a need for more security, more national security, especially for women,” Macron said, before stating: “I do not believe that these phenomena are linked to migration.”

*Ahem* Maybe they're not linked to migration per se, but they most certainly are linked to Islam. And if he's only placing the blame upon native Europeans and not the Muslims and interlopers from north Africa themselves, that's inicredibly insulting and does no favors for anybody. So he's not helping by claiming he's not naive.

Marine Le Pen had the following to say about Macron at a gathering in Nice:

Front National President Marine Le Pen wants to send a kind word of warning to President Donald Trump following the recent state visit of French President Emmanuel Macron to the United States: he’s not the one you want.

Speaking exclusively to Breitbart London following a large rally of supporters in Nice, France, Ms. Le Pen said President Trump “should not be mistaken” about President Macron and his ambitions.

“Macron is not the new cycle [of politics],” she said. “He is the end of the old cycle.”

Speaking to a crowd of over 1500 supporters in the southern French city, Ms. Le Pen talked of the new wave of European populists and patriots ready to take control and govern across the continent.

The rally — hosted by her pan-European political group ‘Movement for a Europe of Nations’ — included speakers from Austria’s new governing Freedom Party, as well as counterparts from Greece, Bulgaria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Poland, and more.

“Another way has now opened. Everyone sees that the EU’s project is out of breath and that it is cracking from all sides,” she told the crowd.

Sooner or later, that's just what'll happen, and the EU had best come to terms with how its horrendous policies. Macron will have to recognize reality sooner or later as well.

An ultra-Orthodox candidate in Antwerp elections won't shake hands with women. Big mistake, and he had to withdraw

A Haredi working with a Belgian political party embarrassed the Jewish community as a whole because he wouldn't shake hands with women - just what some Muslims won't do either - and had to withdraw his candidacy:

An Ultra-Orthodox Jew in Antwerp, who was on the list of the Christian-Democrat CD&V Flemish party for the communal elections in October, withdrew his candidacy this week after causing a turmoil by saying that if elected he would respect a certain number of religious principles and that he would in particular refuse to shake hands with women.

During a press conference in the port city, home of a large ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, Aaron Berger said he understands the ‘’sensitivity of society’’ regarding shaking hands with women which his community considers instead as a mark of respect.

However, Berger said that while he withdrew his candidacy, he continues to support the CD & V party which, in his view, remains “the most favorable party” to the Jewish community. “They are open to dialogue with all communities and this dialogue will continue,” he said.

I hope so, but he didn't do them any favors by keeping such antiquated visions in place, and making himself look almost as scummy as the Islamofascists you'd think he was against. How does he expect to oppose Islam effectively if he won't avoid "customs" that look almost as reprehensible?

At the same press conference, Kris Peeters, leader of CD&V and Deputy Prime Minister in the Belgian federal government, declared : “Nobody, and certainly not Mr. Berger, is questioning the respect between man and woman.”

He added: “It has been said that Antwerp is a city where there is a form of apartheid between communities. It cannot be a city in which different communities do not meet, so we think it is very important to make efforts and to look for people from these communities willing to break this so-called apartheid.”

My advice is not to look for a Haredi candidate. An Orthodox adherent, yes, but not one who holds the kind of insulting "customs" that jerk does, and has no self-confidence in his ability to manage good interactions with the fairer sex. In fact, that's probably not even the worst thing about him. No, what is, if the following is true:

Another sensitive element around Berger’s candidacy mentioned by the media was the fact that he has been recently found guilty of theft by the Antwerp Criminal Court. He would have stolen 28,500 euros from an old sick man. This information may have influenced the withdrawal of his candidacy. “The fact that his criminal record is blank is in his favor, it’s now up to him to explain the nature of the theft, when it was dated, and how important the case was,” commented Michael Freilich, editor of the Antwerp Jewish magazine media “Joods Actueel”.

Around 18,000 Jews live in Antwerp, a city of 500,000 inhabitants.

If he really did that, he has only dealt all the more damage to the image of the community he comes from, by fleecing a guy who in the hospital. There have been Haredi rabbis in Israel like Yona Metzger who were charged with fraud, and that does no favors for anybody. In any case, the Belgian candidate's only proven why he's not fit to shine shoes.

Europe's in the process of self-Islamization

A writer for the Algemeiner warns how European politicians are practically enabling Islamization of the continent:

Forget the beheading videos, the ISIS propaganda on social media, and even the terrorist attacks themselves. Europe, says counterterrorism expert Afshin Ellian, is Islamizing itself. In the process, the Western values on which its democracies are built are increasingly put at risk.

Take, for instance, Belgium’s ISLAM Party, which now hopes to participate in the country’s October local elections in 28 regions. (Its name serves as an acronym for “Integrité, Solidarité, Liberté, Authenticité, Moralité.”)

The party’s ultimate aim: transforming Belgium into an Islamic state. According to the party’s founder Redouane Ahrouch, items high on its agenda include separating men and women on public transportation and the incorporation of sharia law, supposedly as long as it does not conflict with current laws. Ahrouch’s own behavior, however, suggests that his respect for “current laws” and mores has its bounds. He reportedly refuses to shake hands with women. In 2003, he received a six-month sentence for beating and threatening his wife. Currently, the Islam Party has two elected representatives in office — one in Anderlecht, the other in Molenbeek — both regions known to be hotbeds of extremism.

Or consider DENK, Holland’s pro-Islam party founded in 2015 by Turkish-Dutch politicians Selçuk Ozturk and Tunahan Kuzu. The party platform, which supports boycotts and sanctions against Israel, also discourages assimilation, calling instead for “mutual acceptance” of multiple cultures. Non-Muslims, for instance, would apparently be required to “accept” the Muslim extremist father who beats his daughter for refusing an arranged marriage or for becoming too “Westernized” for his taste. It’s his culture, after all.

DENK also calls for a “racism police force” to monitor allegedly racist comments and actions. Those found guilty would be placed on a government “racism register” and banned from government jobs and other employment.

So far, such pro-Islamist views have served the party well. In local Dutch elections last month, DENK (which means “think” in Dutch) gained three seats in Rotterdam, totaling four seats among 45 total and edging out Geert Wilders’ far-right Partij voor de Vrijheid (PVV), which fell from three seats to one. In Amsterdam, which also has 45 seats, a full 50 percent of Dutch-Moroccans and about two-thirds of Dutch-Turks gave the party a three-seat win in its first election. Many of these voters, according to post-election analyses, moved to DENK from the center-left Labor Party (PvdA), clearly feeling more at home with a more overtly pro-Muslim politics.

Similarly, France’s Union of Muslim Democrats (UDMF) has taken a number of voters from the Green Party by promising to defend Muslims. UDMF’s online program statement condemns burqa and headscarf bans. What’s more, in its pretense of supporting what it calls the “sweet dream of Democracy, Union, and Human Rights,” the party loudly (though rightly) condemns “anti-Muslim speeches” that “lead the most psychologically fragile people to commit acts of unprecedented violence.” Examples of such “unprecedented violence” follow: a German white supremacist who killed an Egyptian woman wearing a veil in 2009 and the stabbing of a French Muslim in Vaucluse.

What the party statement does not mention anywhere are the attacks by Muslims in Paris and Nice that together killed 240 people between January 2015 and July 2016; the attack by a Muslim extremist on a Jewish school in Toulouse in 2012; and the kidnapping and heinous torture of Ilan Halimi, a 23-year-old Jew, in 2006. These are among other acts of “unprecedented violence” committed by Islamists.

UDMF also calls for protection of the family and its “essential role in the education of children,” while citing Article 14 of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child, which calls for respecting “the right of the child to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion.” From here, the party demands the “right and duty of parents … to guide the child in the exercise of the above-mentioned right.” Implied here is the demand that parents be allowed to treat their children as they see fit according to their religious beliefs — including to beat daughters who refuse an arranged marriage, become “too Westernized,” and so on.

Most disturbing are the large numbers of Muslims who have flocked to parties like DENK and UDMF throughout Europe. Rather than moving towards more secular, traditionally democratic political movements, Europe’s Muslims are appear to increasingly distance themselves from the “European” side of their identity, and identify more with Islam and the Muslim community. And this too is part of Europe’s “self-Islamizing,” the result of taking too unsure a hand, too ambivalent a position, on the issue of assimilation.

The worst part, as you'll notice in the rest of the article, is how local politicians are precipitating this as well, practically associating with them to celebrate Iftar. The same outfits who won't celebrate Passover, Hanuka, Easter and Christmas with Judeo-Christian sources. What are they trying to prove anyway? All they're doing is making it look like they're self-haters, and no doubt, some of them are.

This also makes clear that, for Muslims in Europe, the left-wing parties themselves aren't enough for them anymore. Now they're switching to parties meant to represent their own ideology. And that's something that has to be opposed.

I'd also like to note that reading the above also reminded me why I'm offended by Haredis and such who go by the superfluous "custom" of "shomer negiah" and won't shake hands with the opposite sex, or won't sit next to them on a public transportation vehicle. Whether it was an indirect influence from Islam, I have no idea, but I do know that if any Haredis keep upholding it, they'll be providing encouragement and influence for Islamofascists like the aforementioned to keep advocating it in their own approach. Worse, it can provide anti-semites with ammunition, with the biggest irony being it's unlikely those anti-semites are against Islam in any way. If today's advocates of Orthodox Judaism don't want to make the sect look bad, then they've got to do what they can to have anybody advocating "shomer negiah" to cut it out, and also stop advocating gender segregation as extreme ultra-Orthodox/Haredis are doing. We cannot afford at times like this to give anybody the impression Orthodox Judaism is bad in that sense.