Thursday, July 17, 2025

Palestinians' Latest Scam: Hamas Can Become a 'Political Party' - Khaled Abu Toameh

 

by Khaled Abu Toameh

Destroying Hamas's military capabilities is not enough. The group must also cease to exist as a "political" entity. The only politics Hamas is interested in is Jihad, destruction and death.

 

  • Abbas cannot have forgotten the atrocities Hamas committed against his men during the 2007 coup. Some of his loyalists were dragged to the streets and lynched, while others were thrown from the high floors of tall buildings.

  • In addition to the 2007 coup, Hamas, a few years later, was caught planning a second coup to try to take over the West Bank as well as the Gaza Strip.

  • The calls for Hamas to "join political action" actually aim to legitimize the terror group and present its leaders as a bunch of politicians seeking seats in parliament and jobs in government, when the reality is anything but that.

  • The international community, including the Trump administration, must not fall for this scam. Hamas was not established to serve as a "political party." Rather, the terror group was established with the main objective of murdering Jews through Jihad (holy war) and replacing Israel with an Islamist terror state.

  • Instead of inviting Hamas to engage in political action, Abbas and other Palestinian leaders... should have outlawed Hamas a long time ago. That would send a message to all Palestinians that there is no room for genocidal Jihadist groups in Palestinian society. Apparently, Abbas and Rajoub's desire to destroy Israel is even stronger than their decades-long hatred of Hamas.

  • Destroying Hamas's military capabilities is not enough. The group must also cease to exist as a "political" entity. The only politics Hamas is interested in is Jihad, destruction and death.

Destroying Hamas's military capabilities is not enough. The group must also cease to exist as a "political" entity. The only politics Hamas is interested in is Jihad, destruction and death. Mahmoud Abbas cannot have forgotten the atrocities Hamas committed against his men during the 2007 coup. Some of his loyalists were dragged to the streets and lynched, while others were thrown from the high floors of tall buildings. Pictured: Fatah gunmen guard the home of a senior Fatah official in the Gaza Strip on January 30, 2007, during the violent Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip. (Photo by Abid Katib/Getty Images)

According to reports in some media outlets, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has called on the Iran-backed Hamas terror group to "surrender its weapons to the Palestinian Authority."

Abbas was quoted as saying: "Hamas will not rule the Gaza Strip." His comment came long after the current war, which began on October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas terrorists and "ordinary" Palestinians invaded Israel, and murdered 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals and wounded thousands. Another 251 Israelis and foreign nationals were kidnapped to the Gaza Strip, where 50 – alive and dead – are still held captive.

Abbas made the statements on July 13 during a meeting in Jordan with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The Palestinian news agency Wafa reported:

"President Abbas stressed the need to reach an immediate ceasefire [between Israel and Hamas], release all the [50 Israeli] hostages and prisoners, and ensure the unhindered entry of urgent humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip."

Abbas's statements, at first glance, appear to be positive. He wants Hamas to disarm and believes that the terror group should cede control of the Gaza Strip after the war. Many media outlets, however, ignored an important part of Abbas's statement, namely that Hamas should "engage in political actions by adhering to the PLO's political program, international legitimacy, and the principles of one system, one law, and one legitimate weapon."

The "political program" refers to the PLO's purported recognition of Israel's right to exit and acceptance of the so-called two-state solution. Since its establishment more than 35 years ago, Hamas has consistently and staunchly refused to accept the PLO's "political program" of two-states because the terror group wants to destroy Israel, not make peace with it.

Hamas's 1988 covenant quotes Imam Hassan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood organization, as saying: "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before." The covenant describes Hamas as "one of the rings of Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine," and, emphasizing the refusal to recognize Israel's right to exit -- states:

"The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Muslim generations until Judgement Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered; it, or any part of it, should not be given up. Neither a single Arab country nor all Arab countries, neither any king or president, nor all kings and presidents, neither any organization nor all of them, be they Palestinian or Arab, possess the right to do that." (Article 11)

Hamas, in short, believes that Jews (and non-Muslims) have no right to exist in the land stretching from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.

The "international legitimacy" refers to United Nations resolutions concerning the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem, as well as the need for a peaceful settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, something Hamas has repeatedly stressed it will never accept.

What does Abbas mean when he says that he wants Hamas "to engage in political action"? Is he suggesting that Hamas transform itself from a terror group to a political party? The last time Hamas formed a political party was in 2006, when the terror group ran in, and won, the Palestinian parliamentary election. A year later, Hamas staged a brutal coup against the Palestinian Authority. Hamas killed dozens of Abbas loyalists before seizing control of the entire Gaza Strip.

Abbas is now calling on Hamas to repeat the same thing: to form a political party so that it could become a legitimate player in the Palestinian arena and run in future elections for the Palestinian Authority presidency and parliament. Abbas cannot have forgotten the atrocities Hamas committed against his men during the 2007 coup. Some of his loyalists were dragged to the streets and lynched, while others were thrown from the top floors of high buildings.

In addition to the 2007 coup, Hamas, a few years later, was caught planning a second coup to try to take over the West Bank as well as the Gaza Strip.

Abbas is not the only Palestinian leader who believes that Hamas, which has brought death and destruction on the two million residents of the Gaza Strip, can still play a role in the Palestinian political arena.

Jibril Rajoub, secretary-general of the Abbas's ruling Fatah Central Committee, also does not rule out the possibility that Hamas could join the PLO. Rajoub too said that Hamas must first "meet the national conditions of the PLO." This is the same Rajoub who last year described Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind of the October 7 massacre, as a "pragmatic, patriotic, and realistic man."

If, after 21 months of the war in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian Authority leaders still believe that Hamas can transform itself into a political party, they are deceiving themselves and trying to deceive the international community.

The calls for Hamas to "join political action" actually aim to legitimize the terror group and present its leaders as a bunch of politicians seeking seats in parliament and jobs in government, when the reality is anything but that.

The international community, including the Trump administration, must not fall for this scam. Hamas was not established to serve as a "political party." Rather, the terror group was established with the main objective of murdering Jews through Jihad (holy war) and replacing Israel with an Islamist terror state. Sinwar was the "political" leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip. That did not stop him from planning and executing the worst crime against Jews since the Holocaust.

Instead of inviting Hamas to engage in political action, Abbas and other Palestinian leaders should be demanding that the terror group not only disarm and relinquish control of the Gaza Strip, but completely vanish from the scene. They should have outlawed Hamas a long time ago. That would send a message to all Palestinians that there is no room for genocidal Jihadist groups in Palestinian society. Apparently, Abbas and Rajoub's desire to destroy Israel is even stronger than their decades-long hatred of Hamas.

Destroying Hamas's military capabilities is not enough. The group must also cease to exist as a "political" entity. The only politics Hamas is interested in is Jihad, destruction and death.

If Palestinian leaders continue to search for ways to placate and legitimize terror groups, they too should be seen by the international community as part of the problem, not the solution.

 

Khaled Abu Toameh is an award-winning journalist based in Jerusalem.

Source: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21759/scam-hamas-political-party

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Israel's decisive Syria strikes highlight need for intervention in preventing genocides - analysis - Seth J. Frantzman

 

by Seth J. Frantzman

For many Jews, the images of Druze men having their mustaches forcibly shaved conjure up memories of the Holocaust.

 

 Members of Syrian security forces ride on a back of a truck after Syrian troops entered the predominantly Druze city of Sweida on Tuesday following two days of clashes, in Sweida, Syria July 15, 2025.
Members of Syrian security forces ride on a back of a truck after Syrian troops entered the predominantly Druze city of Sweida on Tuesday following two days of clashes, in Sweida, Syria July 15, 2025.
(photo credit: REUTERS/KARAM AL-MASRI)

 

Israel’s decision to take decisive action in Syria in an effort to deter attacks on the Druze community has shown that it is possible for countries to work to preempt massacres or genocide.

In the wake of the fall of the Assad regime, Israel has been vocal about protecting the Druze in Syria. The IDF has acted several times when clashes in Syria between armed groups and Druze fighters led to the killings of Druze.

The attacks in Damascus on Wednesday included high-profile airstrikes near the presidential palace and targeting a military headquarters.

In addition, Israel carried out strikes near Suwayda against Syrian government forces and others who were involved in killing Druze.

It was not known yet how effective this campaign has been. Nevertheless, it clearly resulted in the Syrian government taking a step back to consider a ceasefire and also hinting it might withdraw from parts of Suwayda.

 Iraqi Yazidis attend a ceremony on the occasion of Red Wednesday, to celebrate the Yazidi New Year, at Lalish temple in Shekhan District near Duhok province, Iraq April 15, 2025.  (credit: REUTERS/KHALID AL-MOUSILY)
Iraqi Yazidis attend a ceremony on the occasion of Red Wednesday, to celebrate the Yazidi New Year, at Lalish temple in Shekhan District near Duhok province, Iraq April 15, 2025. (credit: REUTERS/KHALID AL-MOUSILY)
There is a lesson here. Countries can do more than just make statements when it comes to genocide and ethnic cleansing. This means other genocides could have been prevented if countries were willing to take action.

In 2014, the Yazidi minority in Iraq was subjected to a brutal genocide by ISIS. ISIS terrorists massacred Yazidis in the northern Iraqi area of Sinjar.

After conquering many Yazidi towns and villages in August 2014, the ISIS terrorists separated the Yazidi men, women, and children. They massacred thousands of men and sold the women into slavery.

This was done while the international community largely looked on and made statements but didn’t do much to prevent the killings.

The US did intervene to fight ISIS and eventually built a large coalition against the group. But it was too late to save many of the Yazidis. Instead, the Yazidis were saved by Kurdish forces linked to the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), who helped them flee.

The massacre of Yazidis didn’t take place suddenly. ISIS had invaded large parts of Iraq in June 2014. It had captured Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city in June 2014.

ISIS had expelled Christians and minorities from Mosul. It also captured more than 1,000 Shi’ite Iraqi military cadets at Camp Speicher in June 2014 and then proceeded to massacre them.

It did this publicly, and many of the images made their way around the world. ISIS supporters celebrated on social media.

ISIS planned the massacre of Yazidis between June and August. There was time to prevent the genocide. As it was ongoing, there was time to do more. But many countries preferred to wait and watch.

Druze among small minority groups in the Middle East

The Druze are one of many small minority groups in the region. Like Yazidis, Kurds, Christians, and other groups, they have faced persecution and have sought to protect themselves in their areas.

The attacks on the Druze in Syria are not new. During the Syrian civil war, there were also attacks on Druze by some extremist factions of the Syrian rebellion. The Druze were accused of being close to the Assad regime, and they were attacked for religious reasons.

In Syria, this has become a pattern since the fall of the Assad regime. While the new government of Ahmed al-Sharaa seeks to unify the country, there are many supporters of Sharaa who are willing to use violence to achieve this goal.

Over the past six months, some of these supporters have persecuted minorities. They have massacred Alawites in Lattakia, for example.

Israel’s support of the Druze is important, because it shows Israel is willing to act on behalf of a minority group. This doesn’t come in a vacuum.

Druze in Israel serve in the army and are considered to be part of a “blood covenant” alongside Jewish Israelis. Joint service in the army creates close bonds. That is why Israeli political leaders across the spectrum support the Druze and action to protect them in Syria.

Now is the real test to see whether this policy has worked to protect them. The major lesson is that action is demanded more than words when people are being massacred.

For many Jews, the images of Druze men having their mustaches forcibly shaved conjures up memories of the Holocaust and the abuse of Jews at the hands of Nazis. It is natural, therefore, that Israel should feel a kinship for this minority group.


Seth J. Frantzman

Source: https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-861341

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Netanyahu confirms ceasefire, Syrian withdrawal from Sweida due to 'forceful action' - Jerusalem Post Staff, Reuters

 

by Jerusalem Post Staff, Reuters

"I instructed the IDF to act with force because the Damascus regime sent its army south of the capital and massacred the Druze," Netanyahu said.

 

 An Israeli soldier holds a megaphone as Israeli-Druze gather, near the ceasefire line amid the conflict in the Druze areas in Syria, July 16, 2025.
An Israeli soldier holds a megaphone as Israeli-Druze gather, near the ceasefire line amid the conflict in the Druze areas in Syria, July 16, 2025.
(photo credit: REUTERS/AMMAR AWAD)

 

Israel has achieved a ceasefire in Syria through “forceful actions,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday.

“We have established a clear policy: the demilitarization of the area south of Damascus and the protection of our brothers, the Druze,” he said.

“I instructed the IDF to act with force, because the Damascus regime sent its army south of the capital and massacred the Druze. As a result of our intensified action, a ceasefire has been established, and Syrian forces have withdrawn back to Damascus.”

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s government would soon withdraw its forces from areas with Druze populations, an Israeli official told The Jerusalem Post Wednesday night.

Syria’s Druze had reached a ceasefire agreement with the Syrian government in Sweida that would take immediate effect, Druze religious leader Sheikh Yousef Jarbou said in a video broadcast by state media on Wednesday, Reuters reported earlier.

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, with a map of the Middle East (Illustrative).  (credit: Chip Somodevilla, Ali Haj Suleiman, KeithBinns/Getty Images)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, with a map of the Middle East (Illustrative). (credit: Chip Somodevilla, Ali Haj Suleiman, KeithBinns/Getty Images)
A ceasefire announced on Tuesday night collapsed after a few hours. There was still fire from government forces in the predominantly Druze city of Sweida after the announcement was made, a witness told Reuters.

Syria’s official Syrian Arab News Agency corroborated the reports of a ceasefire agreement and said security checkpoints had been deployed across Sweida.

Israel conducted strikes on key Damascus sites

Israel struck the entrance to the Syrian regime’s military headquarters complex in Damascus, the IDF reported Wednesday.

On Thursday, Sharaa accused Israel of trying to fracture Syria and promised to protect its Druze minority after US intervention to help achieve a truce in fighting between government forces and Druze fighters.

Overnight between Wednesday and Thursday, the Islamist-led government’s troops withdrew from Sweida, where dozens of people have been killed in days of conflict pitting Druze fighters against government troops and Bedouin tribes.

But in a worrying development, a Bedouin military commander said their fighters had launched a new offensive in Sweida province against Druze fighters, and that the truce only applied to government forces.

The Bedouin, a collection of Sunni Muslim farmers who have long-standing frictions with the Druze, were seeking to free detained colleagues, the Bedouin military commander told Reuters.

A round of fighting between the Bedouin and Druze earlier this week prompted the government to send troops to Sweida to quell the clashes, but the violence escalated until a ceasefire was declared.

The violence has underlined the challenges that Sharaa faces in stabilizing Syria and exerting centralized rule, despite his warming ties with the US and his administration’s evolving security contacts with Israel.

One local journalist said he had counted more than 60 bodies in the streets of Sweida on Thursday morning. Ryan Marouf of Suwayda24 told Reuters he had found a family of 12 people killed in one house, including women and an elderly man.

On Wednesday, Israel launched airstrikes in Damascus, while also hitting government forces in the south, demanding they withdraw and saying Israel aimed to protect Syrian Druze, whom Israel’s Druze consider brothers.

Israel, which bombed Syria frequently under the rule of ousted president Bashar al-Assad, has struck the country repeatedly this year, describing its new leaders as barely disguised jihadists and saying it will not allow them to deploy forces in areas of southern Syria near its border.

Addressing Syrians on Thursday, Sharaa accused Israel of seeking to “dismantle the unity of our people,” saying it had “consistently targeted our stability and created discord among us since the fall of the former regime.”

Sharaa, commander of an al-Qaeda faction before cutting ties with the group in 2016, said protecting Druze citizens and their rights was “our priority.” He rejected any attempt to drag them into the hands of an “external party.”

Sharaa vowed to hold responsible those who committed violations against “our Druze people.”

Netanyahu said Israel had established a policy demanding the demilitarization of a swathe of territory near the border, stretching from the Golan Heights to the Druze Mountain, east of Sweida.

Western diplomats were passing near Syria’s Defense Ministry in Damascus in an armored convoy when Israel struck the building with several missiles on Wednesday, according to two people familiar with the matter, including a Syrian eyewitness.

No one in the convoy was wounded, and it continued on its way, the diplomats said, declining to elaborate about the nationalities or number of those involved.

A Syrian medical source said the strikes on the Defense Ministry had killed five members of the security forces.

Amichai Stein contributed to this report.


Jerusalem Post Staff, Reuters

Source: https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-861390

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House Judiciary accuses Biden admin of misusing funds that went to anti-Netanyahu organizations - Misty Severi

 

by Misty Severi

The House committee said its investigation into the alleged misuse of funds is still ongoing and that they have since reached out to other groups.

 

The House Judiciary Committee on Thursday released a memo that accused the previous Biden-Harris administration of misusing taxpayer funds that allegedly ended up going to Israeli organizations that oppose Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and to terrorist groups.

Six U.S. and Israeli Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) provided the committee with 380 documents related to funding that was allegedly disbursed by the Biden administration's United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the State Department and other federal agencies. 

"The Committee’s oversight has revealed that the Biden-Harris Administration provided grant funds to groups that contributed directly and indirectly to the judicial reform protests that sought to undermine the Israeli government," the memo reads. "In addition, documents obtained during this investigation suggest that the Biden-Harris Administration potentially funded groups with ties to U.S.-designated terrorist organizations."

The committee said one Israeli NGO received funding from U.S. grant recipients to fund a coalition headquarters for the anti-Netanyahu judicial reform protest, and that the Biden administration provided $42,000 to another Israeli NGO to conduct "Civic Activism Training" in Israeli high schools.

The committee also accused several U.S. nonprofits of using millions of dollars of grant money from the federal government to fund anti-democracy and anti-Netanyahu protests in Israel.

The House committee said its investigation into the alleged misuse of funds is still ongoing and that they have since reached out to other groups that could be involved in undermining the Israeli government.


Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.

Source: https://justthenews.com/government/congress/house-judiciary-accuses-biden-admin-misusing-funds-went-anti-netanyahu

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Trump directs Pam Bondi to release grand jury transcripts in Jeffrey Epstein case - Misty Severi

 

by Misty Severi

"Based on the ridiculous amount of publicity given to Jeffrey Epstein, I have asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to produce any and all pertinent Grand Jury testimony, subject to Court approval," Trump posted to Truth Social.

 

President Donald Trump on Thursday said that he has directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to release relevant grand jury testimony related to the disgraced, late financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The order comes as the Trump administration faces heavy bipartisan backlash over its handling of the Epstein case, including its promise to release additional files related to its investigation into the late financier. 

Trump has heavily criticized the media coverage devoted to Epstein, who died while serving a prison sentence in 2019. 

"Based on the ridiculous amount of publicity given to Jeffrey Epstein, I have asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to produce any and all pertinent Grand Jury testimony, subject to Court approval," Trump posted to Truth Social. "This SCAM, perpetuated by the Democrats, should end, right now!"

Bondi responded in a post on X that she was ready to "move the court tomorrow to unseal the grand jury transcripts." 


Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.

Source: https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/trump-directs-pam-bondi-release-grand-jury-transcripts-jeffrey-epstein-case

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The World Woke Up - Victor Davis Hanson

 

by Victor Davis Hanson

In half a year, the impossible became obvious: borders closed, recruits returned, Iran retreated, and elites were exposed—all because people finally said, “Enough.”

 

 

In less than six months, the entire world has been turned upside down. There is no longer such a thing as conventional wisdom or the status quo.

The unthinkable has become the banal.

Take illegal immigration—remember the 10,000 daily illegal entries under Biden?

Recall the only solution was supposedly “comprehensive immigration reform”—a euphemism for mass amnesties.

Now, there is no such thing as daily new illegal immigration.

It simply disappeared with common-sense enforcement of existing immigration laws—and a new president.

How about the 40,000-50,000 shortfall in military recruitment?

Remember all the causes that the generals cited for their inability to enlist soldiers: generational gangs, obesity, drugs, and stiff competition with private industry?

And now?

In just six months, recruitment targets are already met; the issue is mostly moot.

Why? The new Pentagon flipped the old, canceling its racist DEI programs and assuring the rural, middle-class Americans—especially white males—that they were not systemically racist after all.

Instead, they were reinvited to enlist as the critical combat cohort who died at twice their demographic share in Iraq and Afghanistan.

How about the “end of the NATO crisis,” supposedly brought on by a bullying U.S.?

Now the vast majority of NATO members have met their pledges to spend two percent of GDP on defense, which will soon increase to five percent.

Iconic neutrals like Sweden and Finland have become frontline NATO nations, arming to the teeth. The smiling NATO Secretary-General even called Trump the “daddy” of the alliance.

What about indomitable, all-powerful, theocratic Iran, the scourge of the Middle East for nearly fifty years?

Although it had never won a war in the last half-century, its terrorist surrogates—Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis—were supposedly too dangerous to provoke.

Now?

Most of their expeditionary terrorists are neutered, and their leaders are in hiding or dead.

Iran has no air force, no real navy, no air defenses, and no active nuclear weapons program.

Its safety apparently depends only on the mood of the U.S. or Israel on any given day, not to fly into its airspace and take out its missiles, nuclear sites, generals, or theocrats at will.

What happened to the supposedly inevitable recession, hyperinflation, stock market collapse, unemployment spikes, and global trade war that last spring economists assured us would hit by summer?

Job growth is strong, and April’s inflation rate is the lowest in four years. GDP is still steady. The stock market hit a record high. Trade partners are renegotiating their surpluses with the U.S.

It turns out that staying in the U.S. consumer market is the top priority of our trading partners.

It seems their preexisting and mostly undisclosed profits were large enough to afford reasonable U.S. symmetrical tariffs.

For now, news of tax cuts, deregulation, ‘drill baby, drill’ energy policies displacing Green New Deal strangulation, and $8–10 trillion in potential foreign investment has encouraged—rather than deterred—business.

Then there were our marquee elite universities, whose prestige, riches, and powerful alumni made them answerable to no one.

And now, after the executive and congressional crackdown on their decades of hubris?

Supposedly brilliant university presidents have resigned in shame.

The public has caught on to their grant surcharge gouging.

Campuses have backed off their arrogant defiance of the Supreme Court’s civil rights rulings.

They are panicked about the public exposure of their systemic anti-Semitism.

They are scrambling to explain away their institutionalized ideological bias and their tawdry profit-making schemes and mass recruitment of wealthy foreign students from illiberal regimes.

So, the mighty Ivy League powerhouses are now humbling themselves to cut a deal to save their financial hides and hopefully return to their proper mission of disinterested education.

What happened to the trans juggernaut of sex as a social construct and its bookend gospel that biological men could dominate women’s sports?

People woke up. They were no longer afraid to state that sex is binary and biologically determined. And biological men who dominate women’s sports are bullies, not heroes.

Where are the millionaire scamming architects of BLM now?

Where is the “DEI now, tomorrow, and forever” conventional wisdom?

Where are Professor Kendi and his $30,000 Zoom lessons on how to fight racism by being racist?

They have all been exposed as the race hustlers they always were. Their creed that it is okay for supposed victims to be racist victimizers themselves was exposed as an absurd con.

So, what flipped everything?

We were living in an “emperor has no clothes” make-believe world for the last few years. The people knew establishment narratives were absurd, and our supposed experts were even more ridiculous.

But few—until now—had the guts to scream “the emperor is naked” to dispel the fantasies.

When they finally did, reality returned.


Victor Davis Hanson is a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness and the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He is an American military historian, columnist, a former classics professor, and scholar of ancient warfare. He has been a visiting professor at Hillsdale College since 2004, and is the 2023 Giles O'Malley Distinguished Visiting Professor at the School of Public Policy, Pepperdine University. Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 by President George W. Bush, and the Bradley Prize in 2008. Hanson is also a farmer (growing almonds on a family farm in Selma, California) and a critic of social trends related to farming and agrarianism. He is the author of the just released New York Times best seller, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation, published by Basic Books on May 7, 2024, as well as the recent  The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won, The Case for Trump, and The Dying Citizen.

Source: https://amgreatness.com/2025/07/17/the-world-woke-up/

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Israeli envoy condemns ‘glaring silence’ from UN agencies - Mike Wagenheim

 

by Mike Wagenheim

“These children were victims of an evil that this council seems unwilling to address or condemn: Hamas,” Reut Shapir Ben-Naftaly said.

 

Reut Shapir Ben-Naftaly, political coordinator for the Israeli mission to the United Nations, addresses a U.N. Security Council meeting, June 10, 2024. Credit: Evan Schneider/U.N. Photo.
Reut Shapir Ben-Naftaly, political coordinator for the Israeli mission to the United Nations, addresses a U.N. Security Council meeting, June 10, 2024. Credit: Evan Schneider/U.N. Photo.

 

Reut Shapir Ben-Naftaly, political coordinator for the Israeli mission to the United Nations, criticized several U.N. agencies during a U.N. Security Council meeting on Wednesday, including the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, which she said “has continued to abandon all semblance of neutrality and impartiality.”

“The glaring silence of this council about Israeli children, about hostages, murdered toddlers like the Bibas boys, on traumatized survivors who will never see their parents again, on children running for shelter as Iranian missiles rained down on civilian population centres, is more than a technical mission,” the Israeli diplomat told the council. “It is a moral failure.”

Ben-Naftaly told the council that Tom Fletcher, U.N. under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, neglected to mention Tzeela Gez, an Israeli who was murdered in a terror attack in May en route to the hospital to give birth, when he discussed Palestinian casualties in Judea and Samaria. (Gez’s baby son, Ravid Chaim, died of his wounds two weeks later.)

The Israeli diplomat also said that Catherine Russell, executive director of the U.N. Children’s Fund (UNICEF), failed to mention Israeli children, whose fathers remain hostages in Gaza.

“Roni and Alma Miran are 4- and 2-and-a-half years old. Like many kids their age, they regularly make pretend phone calls on their telephones,” Ben-Naftaly told the council. “But unlike most children their age, when their mother asks them who they’re speaking to, their answer carries a deep pain.”

“The answer is always the same. Abba. Dad,” she told the council. “They ask, ‘Where are you, Daddy? Are they letting you return to us?’”

The two kids hug and kiss a photo of their father, Omri Miran, held by terrorists in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023. “For those two young girls, that’s nearly their entire lives without their Abba,” Ben-Naftaly said.

The Israeli diplomat also shared stories of other children awaiting the return of their fathers.

“These children were victims of an evil that this council seems unwilling to address or condemn: Hamas,” Ben-Naftaly said. “We are presented with a narrative that forces Israel into a defendant’s chair, while Hamas, the very cause of this conflict and the very instigator of suffering of Israelis but also of Palestinians, goes unmentioned, unchallenged and immune to condemnation.”

‘They fuel antisemitism around the world’

Dorothy Shea, interim U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said that Fletcher “pointed the finger of blame solely on Israel with one reference to Hamas.”

The global agency’s refusal to work with the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, an alternative aid delivery mechanism, is “tantamount to dereliction of duty in the humanitarian space,” she said.

She said that most criticism of the foundation, which the United States is funding, is “incorrect information that benefits Hamas and undermines the secure delivery of aid to civilians in Gaza.”

The foundation has come under heavy criticism from its outset by U.N. supporters, who have claimed on multiple occasions that aid seekers have been massacred at or near foundation distribution sites. Both the foundation and Israel have denied those claims repeatedly.

The United Nations has stated that only its agencies can adequately supply aid to Gazans. Israel has posted photographs repeatedly of aid trucks that it said were allowed to enter Gaza but sit idly in the Strip waiting for U.N. agencies to retrieve and distribute the aid.

Shea said that accusations that multiple council members have made that Israel is committing “genocide” in Gaza are “categorically false.”

“They fuel antisemitism around the world,” the U.S. diplomat said of those attacks.

‘We can already see some improvements’

Stavros Lambrinidis, head of the European Union’s delegation to the global body, told the Security Council that an agreement between Israel and the EU last week to allow more aid into Gaza is already making a difference.

“We can already see some improvements, including delivery of fuel, re-opening of the Jordanian and Egyptian routes, opening of a crossing point in North Gaza and ongoing reparations of essential humanitarian infrastructure,” he said. “A lot more is needed.”

The EU diplomat told the council that it will take measures to ensure that aid won’t fall into Hamas’s hands. The terror organization has long seized aid, and it has reportedly resold some of it at higher prices to Gazans.

Evangelos Sekeris, the Greek ambassador to the United Nations, said that there must be more done to “ensure that the increased humanitarian aid benefits directly the Gazan population and is not diverted by Hamas.”

“We expect that the agreed steps are implemented urgently,” he said.


Mike Wagenheim

Source: https://www.jns.org/israeli-envoy-condemns-glaring-silence-from-un-agencies/

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Report Highlights U.K.'s Failure to Confront Islamist Antisemitism - Jules Gomes

 

by Jules Gomes

Islamist Antisemitism Mistaken for Liberation Theology by Leftists, Author Warns

 

According to the Jewish Chronicle, an imam at Al Furqan Mosque and Islamic Center in Manchester, England, prayed for protection and victory against the "usurping Jews" in the weeks after the October 7 massacre in Israel. These and other sermons in London and Bradford were cited in a report by the Counter-Extremism Group about the role Islamism plays in promoting antisemitism in the United Kingdom.

According to the Jewish Chronicle, an imam at Al Furqan Mosque and Islamic Center in Manchester, England, prayed for protection and victory against the “usurping Jews” in the weeks after the October 7 massacre in Israel. These and other sermons in London and Bradford were cited in a well-documented report about the role Islamism plays in promoting antisemitism in the United Kingdom. (Dexter Van Zile)

 In a historic first, an explosive report has established the pivotal role that Islamist ideology plays in fostering and spreading antisemitism among Muslims in Britain.

Published by the Counter Extremism Group (CEG) in June, the report is a critical response to Sir William Shawcross’s Independent Review (2023) of Prevent, the British government’s counter-terrorism program, which aims to stop individuals from becoming terrorists.

The report collates the “best available evidence” linking antisemitism and Islamism, investigating the rhetoric of Islamist influencers, antisemitic sermons, discourses on jihad, and the history of Muslim-Jewish relations in the Qur’an, to show how antisemitism is infecting British Muslims.

In a bold move, it documents the relationship between Nazism and Islamism warning that “highly influential Islamists” either deny the Holocaust or present it as “unfinished business to be carried to its conclusion by Muslims.”

The 94-page document titled Islamist Antisemitism: A Neglected Hate excoriates policymakers for failing to identify “Islamist antisemitism” as a “distinct phenomenon” and for attempting to rationalize Islamist Jew-hatred as a response to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Political Correctness Blinds Authorities to Islamist Antisemitism

“Institutions tasked with counter extremism have failed to recognise and understand Islamist antisemitism,” notes Daniel Allington, the report’s author, lamenting a “widespread failure to recognise the extensive recent history of antisemitic incidents involving Islamists in the U.K.”

Daniel Allington.

Daniel Allington.

Allington, a senior lecturer at King’s College London, explains how authorities avoid linking Islamism with antisemitism since the issue of “inter-minority prejudice” between Muslims and Jews “is often regarded as too sensitive to address.” Further, “Islamist antisemitism has often been mistaken for a form of liberation theology by non-Muslim westerners on the political left.”

“Yet this reticence coexists with considerable evidence of antisemitism within the Muslim population,” he warns. Polling of British Muslims appears to indicate substantially higher levels of anti-Jewish and anti-Israeli attitudes than are to be observed in the general British population.”

Methodologically, the report presents three studies: a scholarly history of antisemitism and extremism in the Muslim world, a thematic analysis of interviews with expert informants, and an original statistical analysis of survey data.

“All three find strong evidence of a link between antisemitism and extremism in the Muslim world,” Allington concludes.

Antisemitic Prayer and Preaching in Islamist Mosques

Islamists in Britain were celebrating Hamas’ October 7 attack on Jews in “carnivalesque displays” the day after the massacre and much before Israel retaliated against Hamas, thus debunking the view that Islamists were protesting Israel’s retaliatory military action in Gaza.

Demonstrators were filmed dancing, calling for jihad, and shouting Islamic slogans like “Allahu Akbar” as well as “Khaybar, Khaybar, Ya Yahud’ (“Khaybar, Khaybar, O Jews”), which remembers Muhammad’s military defeat of a particular group of Jews, the report noted.

Citing an article in The Jewish Chronicle, the study reports that in mosques in Bradford, London, and Manchester, imams prayed for “Muslims [to] get their victory over the usurping Jews” and for the “purif[ication of] the Al-Aqsa mosque from the filth of the Jews,” while an imam at a Northampton mosque prayed for Allah to “destroy” the Jews, “count them and kill them,” and “make them war booty for the Muslims.”

A mosque in Oldham posted a YouTube video of an imam asking Allah to “give victory to our brothers in Palestine and Gaza” and to “rid us of the Jews,” whom he labelled “brothers of monkeys and apes.” Preachers in mosques promoted the theology that Allah is pleased by the killing of Jews and led prayers for the Mujahideen.

An interviewee cited in the report revealed that such “inflammatory sermons,” which have “all been quite similar,” were delivered at several mosques, both in English and Arabic, since the October 7 massacre. Multiple sermons expounded a hadith, which appears in Hamas’ original founding covenant. The hadith predicts the end times during which Muslims fight and kill all the Jews.

“There are also prayers for the destruction of God’s enemies, and of course, Jews are always mentioned, but polytheists and … non-believers are [also] sometimes mentioned,” he noted.

The report found that antisemitic and anti-Israel sermons that go unchallenged by mosque leaders and trustees “create a permissive environment for radicalisation,” especially since “their sermons typically fail to draw a distinction between Israel and Jewish communities in the U.K.”

Islamist Theology Contests Israel’s Right to Exist

Interviewees also revealed how Islamists explained Israel’s existence as incompatible with Islamist theology. “For Islamists, the presence of a Jewish state in the Middle East is an intolerable challenge to the divinely-ordained political order,” the report noted.

Three interviewees noted how “Israel’s location within the Muslim world, where Jews were historically permitted to reside as subjects, but not to enjoy political sovereignty,” triggered a sense of dissonance.

The Islamist justification for fighting Israel is based not merely on “a justice perspective, but from Islamic scripture,” making sure that people are encouraged to fight a “defensive jihad” for what is theirs and to defend themselves, one interviewee said.

“[A]s far as they’re concerned, any Jewish state on Muslim land is a problem … they’ll [say] … ‘No, Jews can live among us as people of dhimma who have no political sovereignty, and they can live among us as protected citizens — or as protected subjects, to be more precise,’” he said.

Such propaganda also involved a romanticized “Golden Age” of the Caliphate. Summarizing the Islamist view, interviewees reported that under the caliphs, Muslims looked after Jews in Islamic lands and allowed Jews to live under Islam, “as long as they were dhimmi.”

Continuing Influence of Nazi Jew-hatred on Islamism

The report traces historic links between Nazi and Islamist ideology beginning with the post-World War I period when “antisemitism became an ideological rallying point for many Islamists and proto-Islamists in the Middle East.”

Alliances between Nazi and Islamist leaders played “a major role in the genesis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict” and “led to cultural exchanges which embedded Nazi-style conspiracy theories in Islamist thought and propaganda.” This continued post-Holocaust, writes Allington.

Islamists developed a hybrid form of antisemitism, borrowing antisemitic Christian “conspiracy theories about Jews and Zionists, together with genocidal ambitions previously unknown in the Muslim world.” This form of antisemitism is adopted by both Shia and Sunni Islamists.

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Muhammad Amin al-Husseini meeting with Hitler in 1940.

The report names the Nazi collaborator who served as Mufti of Jerusalem from 1922 to 1937, explaining how Islamists used the hybrid antisemitic ideology to stop Zionism from facilitating an independent status for the Jews in their homeland.

Antisemitism Rooted in Muhammad’s Relations with Jews

The report explores how Islamists decontextualize conflicts between Muhammad and Jewish tribes of his day “to create the impression of an ancient religious war between Muslims and Jews.” This was compounded by the Jews’ refusal to accept him as a prophet and Islam’s self-understanding as superseding Judaism.

Muhammad’s flight from Mecca to Medina brought him and his followers into conflict with the three local Jewish tribes. He killed and enslaved one tribe and presented the others with a choice between conversion to Islam and exile. The subsequent subjugation of the exiled tribe led to the system of dhimmitude, non-Muslims living as second-class citizens under a Muslim ruler.

“Indeed, much of the traditional biography of Muhammad is shaped by conflict with Jews,” the report acknowledges. Islamists use verses from the Qur’an and the hadiths “to prove that the Jews have been the most bitter foes of Islam and are still trying to destroy it.”

It explains how, while a dhimmi status may have offered relative protection to Jews for centuries in Muslim lands, such a model combined with an aspiration for a Caliphate is now used to support Jew-hatred. The Muslim Council of Britain has not responded to an FWI query about the report.

Experts Commend Report on Islamist Antisemitism

“Western scholars of Islamic history and theology have long noted a strand of antisemitism throughout much of Islamic history,” Martin Parsons, independent consultant on Freedom of religion, radical Islam, and Christianity, told Focus on Western Islamism (FWI).

Parsons elaborated:

Although this report fails to fully acknowledge this, what it does helpfully provide is two things: first, it provides a social science analysis which demonstrates that there is a strong statistical correlation between Islamism and antisemitism in the UK. Secondly, it draws attention to the failure of police, educational institutions—including universities, and Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion professionals to grasp that link.

“The result of that failure has been what the UK’s Commissioner for Counter-Extremism, a year ago, called ‘the normalisation of extremism’ on the streets of Britain,” he added.

A spokesperson for Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) told FWI that the report “is a wake-up call for Britain’s anti-extremism apparatus, which has hit ‘snooze’ too many times.”

“This is a critical report that forcefully tackles several taboos. It underscores the futility of attempting to rationalise Islamist antisemitism as a response to the Arab-Israeli conflict, highlights the enduring relationship between Islamist and Nazi ideology, and finds a highly statistically significant positive association between antisemitism and several measures of extremism,” the spokesperson emphasized.

“The country we knew is vanishing before our eyes. The authorities need to acknowledge and grapple with this major problem before it’s too late,” CAA added. 


Jules Gomes is a biblical scholar and journalist based in Rome.

Source: https://www.meforum.org/fwi/fwi-news/report-highlights-u-k-s-failure-to-confront-islamist-antisemitism

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U.K. Islamists Come to Defense of Leftist Vandals - Jules Gomes

 

by Jules Gomes

Red-Green Alliance United by Hatred of Israel, Contempt for U.K.

 

Anti-Israel leftists protest against Israeli defense contractor Elbit Systems in Manchester, England in November 2023, weeks after Hamas murdered 1,200 Israelis, many of them peace activists, during the October 7 massacre. Islamist organizations in the United Kingdom have come to the defense of Palestine Action, a group which has targeted Elbit with protests and vandalized U.K. military equipment.

Anti-Israel leftists protest against Israeli defense contractor Elbit Systems in Manchester, England in November 2023, weeks after Hamas murdered 1,200 Israelis, many of them peace activists, during the October 7 massacre. Islamist organizations in the United Kingdom have come to the defense of Palestine Action, a group which has targeted Elbit with protests and vandalized U.K. military equipment. Shutterstock

 British Islamist organizations linked to jihad, terrorism, antisemitism, and Iran’s geopolitical ambitions have joined forces to oppose the U.K. government’s proposal to ban the militant activist outfit Palestine Action (PA).

A coalition of Islamist outfits, including the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC), the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB), The Muslim Vote (TMV), and Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND), has warned the government that the ban would constitute an abuse of terrorism legislation.

U.K. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper told parliament on June 23 that she had decided to proscribe PA as a terrorist group under section 3 of the Terrorism Act 2000 after its activists vandalized military aircraft at RAF Brize Norton airbase in Oxfordshire on June 20. The group has perpetrated numerous attacks in recent years, Cooper told Parliament.

UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper. (Wikimedia photo)

UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper. (Wikimedia photo)

“During Palestine Action’s attack against the Thales defense factory in Glasgow in 2022, the group caused over a million pounds-worth of damage, including to parts essential to submarines,” she reported. “The sheriff, in passing custodial sentences for the attackers’ violent crimes, spoke of the panic among staff, who feared for their safety as pyrotechnics and smoke bombs were thrown in the area where they were evacuating.”

Cooper also reported that the group had recently “claimed responsibility for an attack against a Jewish-owned business in north London, where the glass front of the building was smashed and the building and floor defaced with red-paint, including the slogan “drop Elbit.” Such incidents do not represent legitimate or peaceful protest. Elbit, an Israeli company, is a prominent defense contractor that has drawn the ire of leftist protesters in the United States and Europe.

Islamist-Leftist Alliance Confirms Walney Report

The Islamist outfits’ support for PA confirms a May 2024 report by Lord Walney, the government’s Independent Adviser on Political Violence and Disruption, warning of “alliances between the British Far Left and Islamist organizations on anti-Israel and antisemitic activism.”

Walney’s 294-page report identifies PA as “a Far Left, anarchist, anti-Israel activist group.” It highlights co-founder Richard Barnard’s admiration for Islamic Jihad prisoners in Israel, whom he refers to as “heroes.”

Barnard, a former Roman Catholic who was a member of the London Catholic Worker and Christian Climate Action, is a convert to Islam. “When we hear the resistance, the Al-Aqsa flood, we must turn that flood into a tsunami of the whole world,” he told a Manchester rally in 2023, echoing Islamist rhetoric used by Hamas.

PA’s alliance with Islamists included campaigning with radical Islamist group CAGE which employed Doone Zoe Stormonth-Darling as its caseworker, Walney’s report found. Stormonth-Darling, a prominent anti-Israel protester, was recently acquitted of conspiracy to damage property after spraying Elbit UK’s London headquarters with paint.

A recent report published by We Believe in Israel, Stop the Hate UK, and The Shield of David stressed that the PA’s “explicitly militant” messaging glorifies Islamist “groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad through coded language and praise for ‘resistance fighters.’”

Islamists Condemn Government’s Ban on PA

The Islamist outfits’ solidarity with PA comes in the wake of CAGE invoking European human rights legislation to contest the U.K. government’s designation of Hamas as a terrorist organization, Focus on Western Islamism (FWI) reported.

Riverway Law, a legal firm with a history of defending jihadis linked to Islamist terror militias, including Al-Qaeda, Islamic State, and the Taliban, also appealed to the Home Office on April 9, demanding Hamas’ deproscription from the government’s list of proscribed terrorist groups.

On June 21, CAGE condemned the government’s plans to ban PA, noting that “terrorism and proscription laws are now brazenly enabling the continuation of a live-streamed genocide.” CAGE earlier expressed solidarity with PA, claiming that “the authoritarian infrastructure of counter terrorism powers” was “exploiting fears and prejudices against mainly Muslims.”

MEND released a statement on June 23 warning that proscribing PA “would be a huge mistake and a blatant abuse of terrorism legislation.” It added: “Proscribing them will simply further expose the government’s desperation in covering up their shameful role in this genocide.”

MAB called for “solidarity” with PA the same day. “Protest is not the problem. It’s the necessary response to the biggest crime of our lifetime,” it tweeted. “The government is criminalizing protest not to protect the public, but to protect itself and its complicity in the genocide.”

Meanwhile, in a post on its website disclosing correspondence with The Times, the IHRC revealed that it supports PA’s goals but had not “provided them with any financial or material support.” In an email to The Telegraph, IHRC maintained that “PA is not a terrorist organization.”

“In social media posts and at events over the past 10 months, the IHRC in north London has campaigned in support of 10 PA activists charged with criminal damage, violent disorder and aggravated burglary” after a protest at the Israeli arms company Elbit Systems, it noted.

“We stand in solidarity with our comrades #PalestineAction!” IHRC reiterated, posting an article by Massoud Shadjareh titled “It Started with the Muslim: Learning the Lesson of the Attacks on Palestine Action.”

As per the NGO Monitor, “PA does not publish financial information, reflecting a lack of transparency and accountability.”

TMV is the latest outfit to join the chorus of Islamist groups backing PA. “This isn’t just about one organization—it’s a full-scale attack on OUR civil liberties,” it tweeted on June 30. “This isn’t just about PA. It’s about the precedent it sets for how dissent is treated in the UK.”

“Palestine Action have cost the ZIONIST WAR MACHINE more than £30 MILLION. They are the most effective movement. We must stand by them,” TMV posted earlier on Instagram.

Islamists’ Links to Iran, Terrorism, Religious Supremacism

The IHRC, MEND, TMV, CAGE, and MAB have been linked to jihadi violence, Islamist supremacism, and antisemitism.

The Walney report labels MAB “an Islamist activist group established in 1997 by Kemal El-Helbawy, a leading Muslim Brotherhood figure.” CAGE director Adnan Siddique told the Home Affairs Select Committee in 2015 that suicide bombings are “a price worth paying.” It has been accused of backing convicted Islamist terrorists, and senior staff have supported violent jihad.

A report published by the Henry Jackson Society titled Islamic Human Rights Commission: Advocating for the Ayatollahs, notes that the IHRC was established by Khomeinist activists and “echoes Iranian-state foreign policy objectives.” Its chairman, Massoud Shadjareh, has backed jihad. Its director and co-founder, Arzu Merali, received an Iranian government award in 2016.

The Daily Telegraph reported on June 25 that a government review had described IHRC as an “Islamist group ideologically aligned with the Iranian regime” that has a history of “extremist links and terrorist sympathies.” IHRC denied claims of its links to Iran as “baseless and disinformation.”

A Henry Jackson Society report warned that MEND officials “have expressed highly concerning views on terrorism” and “regularly hosted illiberal, intolerant and extremist Islamist speakers at public events.” MEND “has consistently opposed the government’s counter-terrorism and counter-extremism legislation, usually without proposing credible alternatives,” it added.

According to The Telegraph, MEND, an official partner of TMV, “is the most disturbing expression of the sectarianism that is disfiguring the face of our politics.” A Christian Concern report warned of “its intent to influence politics towards Islamic supremacism.”

Experts Warn of Islamo-Leftist Collusion

Speaking to FWI, Carys Moseley, Public Policy Researcher at Christian Concern and author of “Are there Islamic influences behind Palestine Action?” noted how “PA’s public image as secular and not religiously aligned is deceptive.”

Moseley elaborated:

There is clear video evidence that PA has been chanting and shouting ‘Intifada!’ on its marches and its rap soundtracks whilst smashing its way into factories. This echoes the cries of Islamist groups like Hamas and secular Palestinian organisations during the Intifadas in the Palestinian territories. The question, therefore, arises, against whom exactly is this call to ‘Intifada’ being repeatedly made?

In her latest Substack article addressing PA’s proscription, human rights activist and author Ayaan Hirsi Ali warns that the pro-Palestinian coalition was composed of “black-bloc Antifa communists, expediently allied Islamists, and Malthusian climate cultists.”

Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

“The plight of Palestinians is window-dressing for revolutionary racial communism and the imperial designs that Islam has on the West,” Ali writes. “Devious Islamist groups use both as useful idiots, and, thanks to mass migration, have a standing army of millions of Muslims in Europe for whom solidarity with the Ummah takes precedence over loyalty to their host nation.”

On June 30, an urgent high court hearing granted PA’s co-founder, Huda Ammori, the opportunity to apply for “interim relief” to try and prevent the ban from coming into effect.

However, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced on July 1 that parliament will vote during the week on proscribing PA. If approved, the ban order will come into effect over the weekend.

PA did not respond to a request for comment.


Jules Gomes

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