Antisemitism, Antizionism, Jihadism and the Reunited Germany. News by Fred Alan Medforth
“In Paris, anti-Semites have begun to inscribe Stars of David on buildings where Jews reside. Dark times are ahead.”
We have seen this in, of all places, Berlin, also.
By Andrea Widburg
There are few places on earth that are historically more white than Wales, a little country clinging to the western edge of the United Kingdom. There are also few countries in the world that are currently more white than Little Wales. That reality, though, didn’t stop the Welsh Labour Party from boasting about the fact that, without black history, there is no Welsh history.
I actually have a Welsh connection. When I spent my junior year abroad in England a very long time ago, one of my flatmates was Welsh.
I’ve never forgotten sitting at the kitchen table with her as we spoke about our backgrounds. I gave her a quick ride through the countries that my ancestors had been expelled from over the centuries, whether Jews or French Huguenots.
My snow-white Welsh friend sat there listening, her eyes getting bigger and bigger. Then, in that lovely Welsh accent, she said, “My family has been in Wales…well, really, my family has been in Wales since Caesar’s time.” And I bet if you’d tested her DNA, you would easily have confirmed the unadulterated purity of her Celtic blood.
What we know about Wales is that there’s been a human presence there for about 29,000 years. To the extent it engaged in trade during the Bronze Age, the best guess is that the people who lived there—the Celts—engaged in trade with other Celts or maybe with some Germanic tribes. They weren’t trading with Africa. It was a backwater far from the Mediterranean.
In 55 and 54 BC, Julius Caesar landed troops in Britain, saw that it was a backwater, and left it alone. The serious Roman invasion of Britain didn’t happen until the early first century A.D. The Ancient Britons, all of whom were snow-white Celts, fought back. Their fight ended in the middle of that century, however, when Boudica’s forces lost disastrously to the Romans. The surviving Celts retreated to the fringes of Britain: Ireland, Scotland, Cornwall…and Wales.
For several hundred years after that, Britain was a Roman colony, and it is possible that the Romans brought with them black Africans from the southernmost reaches of their far-flung empire. However, sitting as it was on the far West coast, the Romans viewed Wales solely as a useful place to mine gold, copper, lead, zinc, and silver. The upper-class people became Romanified; the rest did not.
In the post-Roman era, the Danes, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, etc.—that is, pale-skinned German tribes—began to raid the British Isles, eventually becoming settlers rather than raiders. Wales, however, was unaffected. It continued to be mostly Celtic.
In 1066, the Normans (another Anglo-Saxon tribe) conquered England, and the Norman lords turned their attention to Wales. By the early 1400s, Wales was subdued and became part of England. The Welsh people continued to be lily-white Celts, though.
Indeed, for over 900 years, Wales continued to be white, very, very white. If Welsh people married outside of Wales, they did so with other white people. It was always white.
Even now, Wales is white. (Have I mentioned how white the Welsh population is?) There are only 18,000 black people in all of Wales (or 0.6% of the population).
The same Wikipedia article says that the first recorded black person in Wales was a gardener, John Ystumllyn, who died in 1786. Since then, the blacks who have their names associated with Wales have been in sports and entertainment. Moreover, picking a few at random, one discovers that the athletes often moved to Wales for professional reasons, not because they have any Welsh lineage (see, e.g., Ethan Ampadu, Rabbi Matondo, Sorba Thomas, and so on).
Wales is white.
That whiteness is a problem for Welsh leftists because they understand that being white means being evil. You can’t escape that on the left. Whites are toxic colonists who are inherent racists. In the hierarchical world of leftism, the only rung lower than the white rung, as we are daily seeing, is the Jewish rung.
What to do? What to do?
Well, the answer is easy if you’re a leftist. That’s because leftism is bounded by self-serving delusional fantasies.
The lies never stop.
And that’s how you get this magnificent fantasy tweet from the Welsh Labour party:
There’s only one problem with this Welsh effort to gain itself a higher rung on the leftist intersectionality ladder: It’s delusional. And no matter how hard the left fights reality, eventually, reality wins—and, sadly, it usually does so in the most painful ways possible.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/10/leftist_intersectional_race_fantasies_take_over_welsh_history.html
The man was arrested by the police on Sunday, but exploited his hospital stay to flee. He was picked up again and taken into police custody once more. He was to be tried in an immediate trial on Thursday.
The messages sent via a mobile phone were at least explicit. On Sunday, police officers in Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique) arrested a person for making death threats against … his roommate and took him into police custody. The situation was taken all the more seriously because the suspect used images to make some of the content more graphic, referring to the Islamic State.
“A photo showing a cake decorated with an Islamist flag and a hooded Islamic State man was sent, according to a source familiar with the investigation. The remarks were also worrying in their choice of words. The same source quoted the content of a message received by the terrified roommate: “You are not a Muslim, this Friday I will perform a prayer against you, Allah Akbar, we must eliminate the kuffar (infidels) like you,” the same source reported.
(…) “Due to a particularly sensitive context, he was put on the wanted list by the local authorities. He was registered with the police wanted persons file,” said the source close to the case. Le Figaro
It was 3 pm on Tuesday October 31 when a person armed with a hatchet appeared at the gate of a business in Chasse-sur-Rhône. The man had threatened several employees of the company with death in the name of Islam, according to an employee at the scene. The gendarmes who were called succeeded in arresting the armed person after he had been overpowered by the policemen with one shot.
According to the newspaper Dauphiné libéré, the perpetrator had told his victims that people “have no respect for Islam” and that he only believed in Allah, and threatened to kill them and cut their throats. He would reveal the perpetrator profile of an unbalanced person. On the morning of the same day, the 31-year-old man had been seen in the industrial area of Chasse-sur-Rhône stopping trucks and cars. The day before, he had been released from 48 hours of police custody and brought before the public prosecutor’s office in Lyon. There he was released under judicial supervision.
In police custody the day before
The Dauphiné Libéré newspaper reports that the 31-year-old suspect had been released from police custody for 48 hours the day before the crime in another case and had been brought before the public prosecutor’s office in Lyon. He had been released under judicial supervision.
The gendarmes used a stun gun and a firearm.
The gendarmes first used a stun gun to subdue the man. However, the man remained threatening and the gendarmes opened fire. He was shot in the thigh before the law enforcement officers used their stun gun two more times.
The fire brigade as well as the Dragon69 helicopter were on the scene.
Actu.fr / Le Dauphiné / BFMTV
On the night of Monday October 30 to Tuesday October 31, an imam of the mosque of Beaucaire (Gard) was arrested by the forces of order at the airport of Marseille, CNEWS learned from police sources. He is suspected of glorifying terrorism on social networks.
An imam from the mosque of Beaucaire in the Gard department was arrested at Marseille airport (Bouches-du-Rhône) on the night of Monday October 30 to Tuesday October 31 for allegedly glorifying terrorism committed with the use of a public internet service, in this case on Facebook, a police source told CNEWS.
The man, born in Nîmes in 1990, is suspected in particular of having called for a fight against Jews on the social network while legitimising their murder.
In addition, this imam had posted a photo of a mosque in Jerusalem with a Palestinian flag on October 16. The suspect captioned his posting: “O Allah, let us return to your religion and give us back Palestine and the al-Aqsa mosque as they were before”.
Germany’s largest-selling tabloid newspaper Bild has published a 50-point migrant manifesto urging newcomers to respect the country’s values, democracy, and constitution.
It described the publication as a “guiding principle for what holds our free society together” and claimed the text was aimed at everyone who lives or wishes to live in Germany, adding: “We do not want to change our way of life just because we have guests.”
The manifesto touches upon several legal and constitutional matters that contravene a number of principles established in Sharia, religious law that forms a part of the Islamic tradition and is practiced in multiple nations across the Arab world from where many recent new arrivals to Germany originate.
“There are no unbelievers for us. Everyone can believe in whatever they want — including Santa Claus,” one clause reads.
“We don’t mask up or cover ourselves up, we look at each other’s faces,” another adds.
The publication urged anyone who considers the German constitution or its legal system to be a collection of non-binding advice to “leave Germany as quickly as possible,” and told new arrivals to learn German, insisting “only if we speak the same language will we understand each other.”
Newcomers were reminded that homosexuality is a legal and accepted part of German society, in addition to many other liberal European nations, stating: “Men are allowed to love men and women are allowed to love women. Anyone who has a problem with this is themselves the problem. Love and Let Love!”
Women deserve equal rights, police officers are to be respected, and free speech is a cornerstone of German democracy, although this does not extend to “threatening or beating people, throwing stones, setting cars on fire, or celebrating murderers,” the manifesto added.
Other clauses notably directed towards migrants from the Islamic world reiterated that it is okay to eat pork, not okay to marry children or have multiple wives, and not acceptable to cast out women who commit adultery, “and certainly not okay to beat them or even stone them.”
“Beer and wine are part of the culture here. You should respect that, and if you don’t want to drink, don’t,” the manifesto added.
Its final clause read: “We love life and not death.”
The publication comes at a time of rising tensions across the country, sparked in part by the ongoing conflict in the Middle East between Hamas-run Gaza and Israel, and also due to the liberal federal government’s commitment to mass immigration and a recent influx of new arrivals that has saturated public services and led to a decline in social cohesion in a number of states.
Germany’s mainstream political parties are gradually shifting toward the anti-immigration rhetoric pushed by the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which is steadily increasing its support in the opinion polls and currently sits second nationally.
Earlier this month, Chancellor Olaf Scholz called for the country to “finally deport in large numbers those who have no right to be in Germany” amid a dramatic rise in illegal immigration into the country, while opposition leader Friedrich Merz slammed the fact that over 300,000 rejected asylum seekers had not left the country and were now enjoying full benefits including free dental care.
Merz’s Christian Democrat Union (CDU) has vowed to implement more restrictive immigration and asylum policies in an attempt to stifle support for the AfD, submitting proposals to abolish the right to asylum for migrants who enter the European Union without permission and vowing to implement measures to take genuine refugees directly from war-torn countries.
Segments of the Jewish population in Berlin are being forced to consider a question many once thought unthinkable in the wake of the atrocities committed by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi followers and the subsequent promises of “never again” — is it time to leave Germany?
Spiegel International reports testimonies from a host of Jews in the national capital worried about their futures and those of their families as a rising tide of antisemitism is seen once more to cast a shadow across the city.
The despair has arrived on the back of the Hamas terrorists attack that killed 1,400 people in Israel on October 7 and kidnapped around 220 more. The report summarizes the fears in a metropolis once known for its anti-Jewish hate and the records of history:
Berlin, of all places, the city from which Adolf Hitler ruled over Nazi Germany. When the Nazis came to power here, 160,000 Jews lived in the city, around a third of Germany’s total Jewish population. By the end of the war, only 1,500 remained – with the rest having been murdered in the Holocaust or driven to suicide or to flee abroad.
The Guardian reports Germany’s antisemitism commissioner has condemned the country’s recent increase in anti-Jewish violence, warning it risks transporting the country back to its “most horrific times.”
The remarks tap into a debate that has played out across Europe, and in particular in Germany and France – home to the E.U.’s largest Jewish and Muslim communities – as officials scramble to contain the spillover of tensions sparked by the Israel-Hamas war.
“People are shocked to hear news of houses where Jews live being marked with a Star of David,” he told the outlet. “Because that, of course, rings a bell and brings us back to the most horrific times we had in this country.”
Recent weeks have seen Germany’s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, vow to take a “zero tolerance” approach to antisemitism, citing the responsibility towards Israel given Germany’s role as the perpetrator of the Holocaust, in which six million Jews were murdered.
Other national leaders have echoed those concerns.
In recent days Scholz has doubled down on the pledge, after assailants hurled two molotov cocktails at a synagogue in central Berlin and the Star of David was found daubed on the facades of several buildings where Jews live in Berlin.
The attacks have come even as German citizen Shani Louk has been confirmed as a victim of the horrific Hamas attack on October 7.
“Our history, our responsibility for the Holocaust makes it our duty in every moment to stand for the existence and security of Israel,” said Scholz.
Germany has the third-largest Jewish community in Europe, according to the interior ministry.
The Central Council of Jews in Germany puts the number of practising Jews in the country at around 100,000 and the number of synagogues at around 100.
Antisemitic acts have increased sharply in the country amid the latest turmoil in the Middle East, the Federal Association of Research and Information Centres on Anti-Semitism (RIAS) confirmed to AFP.
In the period from October 7 to 15, RIAS documented 202 antisemitic “incidents” compared with just 59 during the same week in 2022.
Sigmount Koenigsberg, a pointman on antisemitism for the city’s Jewish community, told the Rheinische Post newspaper the rise anti-Jewish incidents brought back painful memories of Nazi Germany.
“It is the first time since Nazi rule that this is happening again in Germany. It reminds my community very much of that terrible time,” he said.
The European Commission promised a substantial overhaul of its humanitarian finances after conservative MEPs shed light on several alarming issues in relation to EU funds disbursed to Gaza in the past during a hearing in the European Parliament’s Budgetary Control (CONT) committee last week.
According to the Commission’s written answers, provided to the MEPs before the hearing (and seen by The European Conservative), the European Union has transferred €681 million to the Palestinian Authority and the UNRWA (the UN agency active in Palestine) between 2021 and 2023—one-third, or about €225 million of which went directly to Gaza. On top of that, the EU “provided support for the Palestinian Authority’s recurrent expenditures,” specified as mainly salaries, pensions, and social allowances.
The most important thing all MEPs in the room wanted to know was how the Commission makes sure none of these funds end up funding—or even indirectly contributing to—terrorism-related activities. Especially given the large percentage of funds disbursed in Gaza, where Hamas has been in complete control for over one and a half decades.
“Hamas was called, recognized, and acknowledged as a terrorist organization. How was it possible to pour €225 million into a place that is fully controlled by a terrorist organization and nobody did anything or said anything?” Cristian Terheș (ECR) asked the Commission’s representative during his explosive speech. “It is absolutely absurd!”
“There is so much evidence, so much evidence that our money [given to the Palestinian Authority] is being misused in different ways, directly and indirectly … to support terrorist organizations,” Bert-Jan Ruissen (ECR) also added.
Now, despite the immense importance of the topic, only five MEPs—all right-wing—attended the hearing out of over 50, which was also noted by some of the speakers, calling the fact that their leftist colleagues don’t even care about how EU taxpayer funds are spent “outrageous.”
Nonetheless, the ones who did participate did not spare Neighborhood Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi the uncomfortable questions.
Terheș, for instance, also brought up the so-called ‘pay for slay’ laws that are still in effect in the Palestinian Authority-controlled West Bank, under which the PA pays generous rewards and life-long pensions to militants (or their families) if they lose their lives or get convicted for terrorism against Israel—dubbed as “participation in the struggle against the occupation.”
In 2016, for instance, the PA handed out a total of $315 million, or 8% of its entire budget, under these schemes, and even had 500 civil servants on the payroll only to administer these funds. As the payments substantially increase with the length of the jail sentence (and, therefore, the severity of the crimes) and include special bonuses for becoming a “martyr” for the cause, the system is nothing but a giant incentive program for terrorism.
Since the Commission admitted that the EU was paying for pensions and salaries in the West Bank, Terheș asked, how does the Commission make sure that EU funds are not being used in this abhorrent scheme?
“We have a list to check that direct beneficiaries do not appear on any of the terrorist list,” Várhelyi replied, stressing that every person who receives their salary or pension from the EU is vetted independently, but also admitted that there might be a “possibility of indirect benefit for those who are involved in terrorist activities” or had been convicted for such acts, adding that this specific issue is being addressed by the Commission’s ongoing review.
Another important question was related to the curriculum and staff of public schools in the West Bank, which are mostly funded through, and, in many cases, run by the UNRWA.
“We saw in the news that even some UN teachers in the Palestinian territories were cheering about the damage caused by Hamas,” Marian-Jean Marinescu (EPP) said, asking if the Commission was taking proper precautions before disbursing hundreds of millions to the UNRWA.
Terheș even brought a fifth-grade literature book from his recent trip to Palestine that was published this year by the PA’s Ministry of Education. Opening the book, the MEP showed everyone in the room a large picture of Dalal Mughrabi, a kidnapper and suicide bomber who killed 38 Israelis, including 13 children in 1978, and is still being celebrated as a martyr with dozens of schools bearing her name.
“How is it possible that now, in 2023 … these kids are still learning that this is a role model for them?” Terheș asked. “And now, out of the blue, we are surprised that people are blowing themselves up and killing innocent people,” he added, before asking the Commissioner what has the EU done so far to ensure Palestinian kids are not being indoctrinated, especially from EU funds.
To this, Várhelyi promptly admitted that the problem is real and has been persisting for a long time. “We have run a study that came to the same conclusion as you have,” the Commissioner said, adding that there’s no disagreement between Brussels and the PA about the need for curriculum reforms, although it was regrettable that it didn’t happen so far.
The commissioner stressed that the UNRWA has been closely cooperating with the EU in addressing this issue—that is why it’s shocking the book was picked up from a school run by them.
“I’m very sad to see that this is educational material that you have shown today, which is used by UNRWA, because [the agency] was the one who not only was able to talk about this problem but undertook commitments with us to eradicate any [such] material,” Várhelyi stated, adding that he still believes the cooperation will soon yield concrete results.
While agreeing that there were significant shortcomings in how the Commission handled these funds in the past, Várhelyi concluded by pledging a lot more vigilance in the future, which is also the main objective of the current review.
“With the brutal and never-seen-before terrorist attack of the Hamas, we have a new political reality on the ground which calls for prudence when it comes to our spending,” the commissioner said, stressing that the review will make sure that the EU will never engage with anyone who had the slightest connection to the Hamas’ attacks.
Furthermore, the Commission is not only going to introduce new, stricter screening criteria, Várhelyi added, but also “impose a condition on anyone who benefits from our funding to take clear and unambiguous commitments to help us stop the spread of hate, the glorification of terror, and antisemitism.”
The MEPs welcomed these efforts, but some remained skeptical of the results. “I would like to thank the commissioner for the review, that’s a really good initiative, but I see this, to be honest, as a first step. … What we need to see is clear, concrete actions,” Ruissen said, suggesting to freeze all payments until the Palestinian Authority shows that it takes these concerns seriously.
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/conservative-meps-are-eu-taxpayers-funding-terrorism/
Two criminal proceedings were initiated: One has been entrusted to the Paris Criminal Investigation Department, which is investigating “for glorification, death threats and intimidation of a public official in order to prevent him from carrying out his mission”. The other will be led by the French police IGPN for “intentional violence with weapons by a public official (over the use of firearms)”. Le Parisien
According to reports so far, she was shot in the stomach and taken to hospital. She is in critical condition, but her state is stable. Le Figaro
The Met police have been criticised after posters of missing Israelis were removed by officers amid fears of an “escalation” of tension within the community.
Officers said they received calls from residents after the posters were put up on shop shutters in north London.
The posters were reportedly placed on a chemist in Edgware after some employees posted anti-Israel statements on social media.
The comments have since been deleted and a staff member has apologised for the posts.
A photo circulating of the officers removing the posters has been shared on social media and has received backlash from the Jewish community.
It comes as Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has faced criticism over the handling of pro-Palestinian protests in London.
On Saturday, five people were charged after being arrested at the demonstrations.
There have been calls for more arrests to be made at the protest after repeated claims of antisemitic chants at the demonstrations.
Rowley said his officers are limited by legal definitions of extremism and that he would support a review into the definition and how it should be policed.
He said: “There is scope to be much sharper in how we deal with extremism within this country.
“The law was never designed to deal with extremism, there’s a lot to do with terrorism and hate crime but we don’t have a body of law that deals with extremism, and that is creating a gap.”
In response to his comments, Home Secretary Suella Braverman said some people who were protesting were “chanting for the erasure of Israel”.
She urged a “zero-tolerance approach to antisemitism” and noted that police and Crown Prosecution Service are operationally independent.
“They need to make those decisions based on the facts and evidence as they see them,” Braverman said.
“But I have made my views clear, these are hate marches and the police must take a zero-tolerance approach to antisemitism.”
The Campaign Against Antisemitism accused the Met of a “double standard” by “turning a blind eye to extremists”.
The very same day that central London again became a no-go zone for Jews, how is it that the Met Police thinks tearing down posters of abducted children while allowing people to call for ‘jihad’ and ‘intifada’ is the right approach to easing communal tensions?” a spokesman told the Daily Mail.
“It is hard not to see a double standard at play here.”
https://www.gbnews.com/news/israel-hostage-posters-london-met-police-torn-down
