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Towards Jihadist Pogroms in Europe? by Drieu Godefridi

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21704/towards-jihadist-pogroms-in-europe

Europol reports indicate that Europe is now home to tens of thousands of radicalized individuals. The attacks in Paris (2015) and Brussels (2016) demonstrate the feasibility of complex operations by small groups.

Will people who criticize Islam be dragged through the courts by a desperate regime, while those who outspokenly fantasize about murdering Jews are granted a blank check?

Is quoting Islamic law “inflammatory”? The answer is completely arbitrary. The European Court of Human Rights often upholds convictions if statements about Islam are deemed to disrupt “religious peace” or “target Muslims”. This subjective determination reflects a legal trend in Europe to prioritize “social cohesion” over freedom of speech, unlike the U.S. First Amendment.

“Whomsoever God has cursed, and with whom He is wroth, and made some of them apes and swine, and worshippers of idols — they are worse situated, and have gone further astray from the right way.” — Qur’an 5:65.

“And He brought down those of the People of the Book who supported them from their fortresses and cast terror in their hearts; some you slew, some you made captive. And He bequeathed upon you their lands, their habitations, and their possessions, and a land you never trod. God is powerful over everything.” — Qur’an 33:26.

In such a cultural context, in this atmosphere of hatred, can it not be considered legitimate or even desirable, from that perspective, to participate in collective action against Jews?

Let us never forget that the vast majority of Muslims in Europe are peaceful and take no part in terrorist activity. But even if only 0.01% of Europe’s Muslims were to take up the cause and seek revenge for the supposed “genocide” committed by “the Jews”, this would still represent thousands of potential “jihadists”.

Europe in 2025 has been facing rising tensions linked to Islamist radicalization, These have been fueled by conflicts in the Middle East, jihadist propaganda on social networks and gaps in security coordination among countries.

Imagine a handful of individuals, mostly radicalized European Muslims, between the ages of 18 and 35, operating in major European cities such as Brussels, Paris or Berlin, and determined to avenge “the Palestinians”. This network decides to strike Jewish Europeans, massacre as many as possible, spread terror among Jews and non-Muslims – all “kuffars”, unbelievers in Allah — and to pit one community against another. They gather in unmonitored mosques, on encrypted internet forums or through recruiters in the Middle East. Together, to maximize the psychological and media impact, they plan a coordinated attack, inspired by Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel. Their target: a high-profile public event, such as a cultural festival, a march against antisemitism, a pro-Israel rally, or a so-called “republican march”, as it is known in France. Their attack could be paired with a secondary target, such as a Jewish community center or synagogue, to remind the international community who the villain is supposed to be.

What This Muslim Doctor Did to a Jewish Congressman Wasn’t Quite in Line with the Hippocratic Oath Robert Spencer

https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2025/06/23/what-this-muslim-doctor-did-to-a-jewish-congressman-wasnt-quite-in-line-with-the-hippocratic-oath-n4941089

The classic version of the Hippocratic Oath has doctors swearing: “I will comport myself and use my knowledge in a godly manner.” Dr. Feras Hamdan, “a family medicine physician in Cleveland” who is “affiliated with medical facilities such as Cleveland Clinic and Ashtabula County Medical Center,” didn’t exactly comport himself in a godly manner in an incident involving Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio), but of course, that depends on which God one is looking to serve. 

CNN reported Friday that Hamdan was “arrested after Miller filed and signed a complaint with police for aggravated menacing, as well as requested a protective order against him, according to police in Rocky River, a suburb of Cleveland.” Miller, who is Jewish, called 911 on Thursday morning and said: “I’m on the freeway. I have somebody who has cut me off, who is flipping me off, who is showing me a Palestinian flag, and is yelling to kill me.” This was Rep. Miller’s introduction to the respected Dr. Hamdan, who also screamed, “Death to Israel.”

Miller added: “I’m a little shaken at the moment because I got death threats.” He recounted: “I was just driving to work and I was cut off by a man in a Tesla who held up a Palestinian flag to me and then rolled down his window and said that ‘I’m going to cut your throat and your daughter’s.’ And he said ‘you’re a dirty Jew. I’m going to f**king kill you all, and I know who you are and where you live.’” 

Miller later said: “I have a weapon on me. I’m glad I didn’t use it. But, I mean, what is going to happen? This guy just said he is going to kill me. And said he is going to kill my daughter who is almost two years old. And he cut me off and clearly was trying to hurt me.” 

“What is going to happen?” is a good question. Feras Hamdan, MD’s practice is now listed on Google as “permanently closed,” but there is no public indication yet that Hamdan’s license to practice medicine has been suspended, or even if there is any inquiry underway that could lead to such a suspension.

Hamdan’s case is similar to that of another Muslim physician in Ohio, Lara Kollab, a former doctor of osteopathic medicine at the Cleveland Clinic. Kollab said on X, which was Twitter back then, that she would “purposely give all the yahood [Jews] the wrong meds.” In another tweet, she wrote: “Studying for my med micro final, came across this. Clearly, I pay attention in class and write very useful notes.” Accompanying that tweet was a handwritten note that read: “People who support Israel should have their immune cells killed so they can see how it feels to not be able to defend yourself from foreign invaders.”

It’s Time the Right Rejects Our Worst Online Influencers Guess who? Mark Tapson

https://www.frontpagemag.com/its-time-the-right-rejects-our-worst-online-influencers/

With the well-deserved collapse of public trust in the mainstream media, there has been a concomitant rise in popularity of online influencers as sources of news and opinion. The upside is, there is a lot to be said for giving a massive platform to independent journalists such as Andy Ngo and Michael Shellenberger. But there has also been an alarmingly high number of social media influencers on the Right amassing millions of followers but delivering everything from misinformation to conspiracy theories to propaganda.

The two most notable examples are, of course, Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens. When Carlson was fired from Fox News two years ago, conservatives including me were giddy that his independent platform would bring hope and change for a fearless conservative voice, and help bury the obsolete propagandists of the mainstream media. Instead, he has become the biggest disappointment for conservatives since Supreme Court Justice John Roberts. Carlson, with over 16 million X followers, now shills for every Western-hating Islamic power from Qatar to Iran, and supportively platforms subversives like former kickboxer Andrew Tate and “historian” Darryl Cooper (pictured above), who asserts that Hitler was the peacemaker and Churchill the villain of World War II.

Although a few like myself saw Candace Owens from the beginning as nothing more than a glib, low IQ grifter, she plummeted from Turning Point USA and Prager U stardom into a raging antisemite with a conspiracy nut’s shaky grasp of history, so much so that the Horowitz Freedom Center felt compelled to post a statement denouncing her and regretting having boosted her career early on. She has nearly seven million followers on X.

The Attempted Erasure of an Ancient People – Part II by Nils A. Haug

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21694/o-muslim-o-slave-of-allah-there-is-a-jew-behind

The fiction of a “Palstinian people” was admitted by a late Palestinian Authorly senior official Zuheir Mohsen in an interview for the Dutch Newspaper Trouw: “The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct “Palestinian people” to oppose Zionism. Yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity exists only for tactical reasons…..”
— Zuheir Mohsen to James Dorsey, “Wij zijn alleen Palestijn om politieke reden”, Trouw, March 31, 1977.

The Australian Jewish Association consequently issued a travel warning to Jews and Israelis wishing to visit Australia, advising that their visa may be cancelled at any time.

None of the nations that vehemently supported the irrationality of a Palestinian state ever mentioned the slaughter by Hamas of Israel’s innocents; the 54 hostages still held by Hamas, only 21 of whom remain alive, or that Hamas, not Israel, had started the war, or that the war could end immediately if Hamas returnd the hostages, which they had no business kidnapping in the first place, and laid down its arms.

The short reply of the US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee to Macron was: “No Palestinian state likely in our lifetime.”

“Britain is choosing to appease its own Islamists, while treating as an enemy the country that is not only fighting the same existential foe but is vital to help the United Kingdom defend itself against it.” — Melanie Phillips, jns.org , June 5, 2025

It is a choice: the West is allowing its hard-won freedoms, primacy of individual rights and freedom of expression to be compromised.

The mass campaign to “Globalize the intifada” essentially means ‘Globalize Jew-hate’ — a short step to the stated intent of some Islamists to ultimately eradicate Jews globally.

This outcome is what many demonstrators seem to seek when they use supporting the cause of the so-called Palestinian people as a subterfuge, a Trojan horse, to hide their homicidal aims against the Jews, starting with Israel.

Problematically, the Palestinian people do not actually exist. They are ordinary Arabs who happened to be on the land called Israel, who decided to flee during the 1948 war, but then, after the five Arab armies lost, were not allowed back. Israel considered them disloyal fifth-columnists who had left of their own free will and a potential risk, in contrast to the Arabs who remained in Israel during the war. The fiction of a “Palstinian people” was admitted by a late senior Palestine Liberation Organization official Zuheir Mohsen in an interview for the Dutch Newspaper Trouw:

‘Jews Not Allowed’: The Attempted Erasure of an Ancient People by Nils A. Haug

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21681/jews-not-allowed-the-attempted-erasure-of

For those Jewish scholars and experts from abroad, often invited by the local community in Australia to visit and share their views and expertise, there is news: you might not be permitted to come to Australia.

If, however, you are a dedicated Palestinian from Gaza, you are most likely welcome in Australia –little vetting required.

In Europe, Jew-hatred in France is on the rise again….. French President Emmanuel Macron, possibly to please his growing Muslim constituency, intended to recognize “steps toward” a borderless, atrociously governed, terrorist Palestine State – contrary to the interests of Israelis, the region, and especially the Palestinians.

“If France is really so determined to see a Palestinian state, I’ve got a suggestion for them: Carve out a piece of the French Riviera, and create a Palestinian state. They’re welcome to do that… but they’re not welcome to impose that kind of pressure on a sovereign nation.”– US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, i24news.tv, June 1, 2025

Are Macron’s government and others not only denying Israel, and its majority Jewish population, the necessary arms to defend itself, but also seeking to recognise a hostile Islamist state inside another country’s borders? What is “chutzpah” in French?

Pro-Palestinian activists at Sydney University, Australia, a recent investigative report revealed, have been freely disrupting university lectures, shouting antisemitic slogans and carrying banners declaring “Jews not allowed.” According to the report:

“Jewish workers and students experienced antisemitism daily whilst on campus, creating a workplace of fear, anxiousness and a fear of retribution towards Jewish workers and students because they were Jewish people.”

As has become typical in the West, the report’s recommendations were ignored and a full investigation of the university not undertaken.

For those Jewish scholars and experts from abroad, often invited by the local community in Australia to visit and share their views and expertise, there is news: you might not be permitted to enter Australia. Your visa, even if approved at some earlier stage, could be revoked and you might be silenced. The governing leftist Labor Party may not want you there.

If, however, you are a dedicated Palestinian from Gaza, you are most likely welcome in Australia, with little vetting required. So, come join the many thousands who are there already. Come create your very own “private Idaho,” just as many of your fellow Islamists have already done in Europe.

Scheduled to speak to thousands of people at a fundraising event in June for Australian Friends of Magen David Adom (the offical Israeli ambulance and medical emergency service devoted to saving lives of all people), Hillel Fuld had his visa revoked at the last minute. Fuld, an American-Israeli who describes himself as “a proud Zionist, a tech columnist, advisor to Google and Microsoft, and a father of five,” has over the past 20 months posted on his X and LinkedIn accounts commentary about Hamas’s war on Israel.

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke, “responsible for importing thousands of Gazans to Australia without adequate security checks,” stated his reason for revoking Fuld’s visa as “‘islamophobia rhetoric’ which risked inciting discord against Australia’s Muslim population.”

Fuld, therefore, was supposedly a “threat to the ‘health, safety or good order’ of Australians.”

Over the past few weeks in Australia, the following incidents against Jews were reported without much consequence:

Ringleader of anti-Israel protest receives slap on wrist for assault – WATCH

Gaza comes to the City to Surf
Club bans ‘fatophobia’ and Zionists

Local Labor Party branch calls for antisemitic measures

Jews targeted at Newcastle surf event
Extremist ‘anti-racist’ to speak at NSW Government-sponsored organisation’s event

Western Sydney couple get slap on the wrist over antisemitic graffiti

In the overall scheme of things, these events might seem trivial. Jews, regrettably, are often the “canary in the coalmine” – meaning, how Jews as a defenceless minority in the diaspora are treated, portends escalating future actions not only against them but other minorities, and eventually all citizens.

With Fuld, the issue is the curtailment of freedom of speech. Facts are denied a platform, in order to make space for alternative narratives that suit the prevailing political trend. This issue should be of concern to all citizens.

More than a decade back, Charles Small noted about the US:

“Anti-Semitism is a deep, deep hatred, and once we permit this hatred to exist or target one group, it’ll only be a matter of time before other groups are targeted.”

Small was the director of the Yale University Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism until it was closed down by the university after only a few years. Small’s words in 2012 were far-sighted. A decade or so later, we see widely-supported, violent anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist events at Harvard, Yale and University of Pennsylvania, among others institutions (see Appendix). Columbia University, Northwestern University, Portland State University, UC Berkeley, and the University of Minnesota are currently under federal investigation.

In Europe, Jew-hatred in France is on the rise again. In early June, French dockworkers prevented a shipment of military goods destined for Israel intended to assist it surviving an onslaught of jihadists from Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Iran and its own West Bank. French President Emmanuel Macron, possibly to please his growing Muslim constituency, intended to recognize “steps toward” a borderless, atrociously governed, terrorist Palestine State – contrary to the interests of Israelis, the region, and especially the Palestinians. To justify his actions, and Macron has been lobbying other European nations to follow suit.

Fahad Ali, a Nasty Piece of Work Timothy Cootes

https://quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/anti-semitism/fahad-ali-a-nasty-piece-of-work/

Since October 7, the misbehaviour of Australia’s academics has provided excellent and amusing copy for Quadrant, but hasn’t yet effected much improvement in the hiring standards of our universities. This is the topic, you might say, of my thesis-in-progress, which posits that you can get away with the most obscene displays of moral imbecility in this country so long as you brandish your academic title.

A new case study, I’m bound to report, may very well test the credibility of my thesis. Dr Fahad Ali, a casual lecturer at the University of Sydney, set out his preferred foreign policy vision and objectives just as Israeli airstrikes began targeting the greater Tehran area. “F*** sanctions,” Ali advised his social media followers. “I want Zionists executed like we executed Nazis.”

His post, due to an obvious violation of community standards, was removed by X, and a similar decision now falls to his employer. The University of Sydney, according to The Australian, is “appalled” by Ali’s remarks and has promised to conduct a speedy investigation.

The coverage of this incident so far suggests Ali (right), a sensitive plant, is just a well-meaning and passionate advocate for Palestine who let himself become emotionally overwhelmed. On the contrary, this latest hissy-fit, in both content and volume, looks rather similar to many of Ali’s previous outbursts, so the evidence against him is really starting to pile up. In the spirit of cooperation with Quadrant, the University of Sydney, in its review of Ali’s ongoing employment status, might pursue any of the following lines of inquiry. 

University Abuse of Taxpayers Must End Why private colleges should become part of the marketplace. by Larry Sand

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm-plus/university-abuse-of-taxpayers-must-end/

When perusing the news these days, you can’t escape the onslaught of stories about Harvard. The once venerable institution, with its current involvement with Jew-hatred—which the school fosters or disregards—has become emblematic of the degradation of our nation’s higher education system.

Alan Garber, Harvard’s president, has repeatedly acknowledged an epidemic of antisemitism at the university. “It is present on our campus. I have experienced antisemitism directly, even while serving as president, and I know how damaging it can be to a student who has come to learn and make friends at a college or university.”

Harvard, however, is hardly a one-off.

The nation’s colleges are hotbeds of Jew-hatred. StopAnti-Semitism, an advocacy group, issued a report card in late 2024 that details how 25 colleges across the country treat Jewish students.

In the introduction, the group states, “Since last year’s staggering 1,500% increase in antisemitic submissions, StopAntisemitism has been forced to triple the size of our team just to manage the deluge of reports. This year alone, we’ve seen a jaw-dropping 3,000% rise in antisemitic tips and submissions, as universities across the country fail to protect their Jewish students in the wake of violent antisemitic uprisings.”

The findings are quite disturbing:

55% of Jewish students have personally been victims of antisemitism at their schools.
43% did not feel safe enough to report the incidents.
Of those who did report, 87% believe their school failed to investigate properly.
43% hide their Jewish identity from their classmates out of fear.
72% feel unwelcome in certain spaces on campus simply for being Jewish.
67% say Jews are entirely excluded from their school’s DEI initiatives.
69% are blamed for the actions of Israel—actions they have no control over.
67% feel their university did not take sufficient action to protect Jewish students in the wake of the 10/7 massacre.
43% would not recommend their school to fellow Jewish students.

California Coffee House Intifada “Hamasnik” coffee shop owner in Oakland refuses to serve Jews. by Lloyd Billingsley

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm-plus/california-coffee-house-intifada/

“The Trump Justice Department,” the California Globe reports, “this week sued the Palestinian owner of an Oakland coffee shop for denying service to visibly Jewish customers in a panoply of crass anti-Semitism that shows Hamasniks use ‘Zionist’ as a code word for Jews.” The Jerusalem Coffee House owned by Fathi Abdulrahim Harara is now the target of a lawsuit by the U.S. Department of Justice.

“It is illegal, intolerable, and reprehensible for any American business open to the public to refuse to serve Jewish customers,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division in a statement. “Through our vigorous enforcement of Title II of the Civil Rights Act and other laws prohibiting race and religious discrimination, the Justice Department is committed to combatting anti-Semitism and discrimination and protecting the civil rights of all Americans.”

On two occasions, the lawsuit alleges “Harara ordered Jewish customers — identified because they were wearing baseball caps with Stars of David on them — to leave the coffee house. During one incident, an employee told a Jewish customer who was trying to make a purchase, ‘You’re the guy with the hat. You’re the Jew. You’re the Zionist.  We don’t want you in our coffee shop. Get out.’”

During another incident, “Harara accused another Jewish customer who was with his five-year-old son of wearing a ‘Jewish star,’ being a ‘Zionist,’ and supporting ‘genocide.’ Harara repeatedly demanded that the customer and his son leave and falsely accused them of ‘trespassing’ to the Oakland police. Neither customer stated anything about their political views to Harara or any other employees while at the coffee house.”

On the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel, “the Jerusalem Coffee House announced two new drinks: ‘Iced In Tea Fada,’ an apparent reference to “intifada,” and ‘Sweet Sinwar,’ an apparent reference to Yahya Sinwar, the former leader of Hamas who orchestrated the attacks on Israel.” The lawsuit also alleges that “the coffee house’s exterior side wall displays inverted red triangles, a symbol of violence against Jews that has been spray painted on Jewish homes and synagogues in anti-Semitic attacks.”  This was predictable from the start.

Stories Told by the Ghosts of Babyn Yar By Janet Levy

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/06/stories_told_by_the_ghosts_of_babyn_yar.html

No monument stands over Babi Yar. A drop sheer as a crude gravestone. I am afraid. Today I am as old in years as all the Jewish people. Now I seem to be a Jew.

So begins Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s heart-wrenching poem Babi Yar, published in 1961.  Written to protest antisemitism, it shames communist leaders by saying their hands are “unclean” for having erased the memory of the gunning down of over 34,000 Jews by the Nazis in Babyn Yar, a ravine on the outskirts of Kyiv on September 29–30, 1941.

The poem wasn’t proscribed, but censors ensured that for 22 years, it wasn’t published in any of Yevtushenko’s collections.  Dimitri Shostakovich’s Symphony 13, inspired by the poem, suffered a similar fate: performances faced bureaucratic interference and disruptions, and the lyrics, an interlinked collage of Yevtushenko’s poems, had to be changed off and on.

But such is the irony of how human nature and memory respond to suppression that everyone came to know Yevtushenko’s poem anyway.  And Symphony 13, which resonated deeply with audiences in the Soviet Union, came to be known as the Babyn Yar symphony.  A massacre to which even a cold memorial plaque was denied thus became enshrined in collective memory through the power of art whose creators defied an authoritarian regime.

In The Ravine of Memory: Babyn Yar Between the Holocaust and the Great Patriotic War, published in March this year, Shay A. Pilnik presents the story of that internal memorialization of the Babyn Yar massacre through literature.  For there were many other writers, too, who wrote essays, poems, stories, and other works about Babyn Yar.

In the introduction, Pilnik quotes James Young, author of a seminal study of Holocaust memorials: “The more memory comes to rest in its externalized forms, the less it is experienced internally….”  Then, speaking of the story his book tells, Pilnik says: “Ours is a story of the most effective memorial one could think of — albeit not one made out of stones, but rather of words — calling its memory-bearers to act rather than simply to recall, galvanizing a literary, social, and national movement to revolve around it.”

Fight or Flight? On both sides of the Atlantic, life turns darker for Jews. by Bruce Bawer

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm-plus/fight-or-flight/

In France, vandals deface the Holocaust Memorial along with several other Jewish sites in Paris – a city already plagued for years by Islamic car-burnings, church-burnings, and machete attacks, not to mention several major acts of jihadist terror. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blames this latest rash of antisemitic acts on French President Emmanuel Macron’s support for a Palestinian state and indifference to rising antisemitism.  

In Sweden, which during the last few years has been increasingly tormented by Islamic violence, Jewish students are reported to be “hiding their identities. They walk to class in fear, avoid social media, and feel abandoned by their teachers and universities.”

In Germany, statistics show that the number of antisemitic incidents almost doubled last year.

In Switzerland, a new report reveals that antisemitism has reached an “unprecedented level.” It has “reached the streets”; it has “visibly prevailed against all resistance and taken a frightening turn.” While some observers expected Swiss Jews in Israel to return home after the Hamas attacks, the number of Swiss Jews moving to Israel has actually increased.

In Norway, whose Foreign Minister has promised to arrest Netanyahu if he sets foot in Norway, a writer using the pseudonym Anonymous Jew charges that the Hamas terrorists who butchered Jews in Israel are being treated as “heroes in the streets of Oslo.” Anti-Semitism is everywhere. The Norwegian government, which recognized Palestine last year, seems now to have divorced itself entirely from Israel and abandoned all sense of obligation to Norwegian Jews. “I am tired, writes Anonymous Jew, “of hiding who I am, tired of feeling like a stranger in my own country.” Consequently: “I am leaving. Not because I want to, but because I have to. I am leaving Norway, the country I loved, because it is no longer safe to be a Jew here.”

In the Netherlands, where more than a hundred Muslim men assaulted dozens of Jews in Amsterdam last November 7, a 48-year-old Jewish woman declares that the country is “over” for Jews. “Education has failed, integration [of Muslim minorities] has failed. Respect for us Jews has disappeared and will never return. There are simply too few of us, the other side is so much larger and more aggressive.” Another Dutch Jew agrees. “Jews who would have never considered aliyah before [i.e., moving to Israel] now understand there’s no future for them in Europe.” Yet another Dutch Jew says: “I am usually an optimist, a very happy person, but I worry about my children. Will they be able to go to university safely? When will it be too late to leave if things get worse? Are we back in the 1930s? Two of my grandparents survived Auschwitz. Even after October 7, we thought we could tough it out, the war would end, and antisemitism would eventually die down.” But it hasn’t.