Antisemitism, Antizionism, Jihadism and the Reunited Germany. News by Fred Alan Medforth
A threatening situation involving a knife took place last week at the Stuttgart Wine Village, a local folk festival. As reported by the newspaper Esslinger Zeitung, last Wednesday a 23-year-old man approached the staff of the wine village with a knife and is said to have shouted ‘I’ll take you all to Allah!’.
The staff recapitulated to the Esslinger Zeitung that it was already late when the incident occurred. The public festival had ended that day and the staff had sat together after work, drinking and chatting. After midnight, a man is said to have walked past and shouted that the music should be turned off, to which the employees replied that he should leave them alone and go away. ‘Then we thought that was it. But then he suddenly came around the corner again and had a knife in his hand and threatened us,’ said one of the organisers.
A short time later, the man is said to have appeared again – this time with a knife in his hand, imitating slashing gestures. ‘Thank God security was on the scene immediately,’ said one employee. The police were also on site ‘incredibly quickly, in just a few minutes.’ When asked by NIUS, a police spokesperson said that the officers were aware of the incident.
A 23-year-old man is being investigated for threatening behaviour and the suspect is a man holding a German passport. An extremist background is not assumed and the man has since been released. The argument at the festival is said to have been fuelled by playing music.
As those involved told the Esslinger Zeitung newspaper, the situation has left its mark. ‘We do wonder how safe it is here when more and more people are walking around with knives. It didn’t used to be like this,’ said the organiser. There are also concerns about the security staff: ‘They should actually be better equipped, with protective waistcoats and the like. We organisers would also contribute to the funding – that’s not the point.’
The Berlin Fire Department has confirmed a disastrous trend – in the first half of 2024 alone, more stab wounds were registered in the capital than in the whole of 2022. The number of unreported cases is probably much higher.
At the request of the daily, the Berliner Zeitung, the city’s fire brigade revealed current figures. In 2022, a total of 230 knife crimes were registered. This number grew to a total of 294 cases in 2023. But from January to July 2024 alone, the Berlin fire brigade recorded 234 cases of stab wounds. That is already more cases than for the whole of 2022.
The fire department’s statistics also show that there has been an enormous increase, especially during the spring and summer months of 2024, compared to the peaks in 2022 and 2023. While an annual peak was recorded in 2022 in August with around 32 cases and in 2023 in November with around 33 cases, the fire department already recorded 44 cases of stab wounds in April of this year and another 43 cases in July.
During his election campaign, Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner (CDU) announced an “equipment offensive” and more powers for the police. He promised more police presence and increased controls in hotspot areas. So far, these have not led to fewer knife crimes.
The issue of knife crime committed by immigrants is particularly sensitive after the citizens’ movement Pax Europa had organised a rally in Mannheim on May 31, 2024, to “educate people about political Islam”. Rouven Laur, a German police chief inspector, died as a result of a knife attack while on duty at this very rally.
The stabbing was caught live and caused a world-wide stir on social media since Laur was part of the police force that was present to protect the event. A 25-year-old Afghan man, presumably motivated by Islamism, began stabbing participants in the event with a knife, and Laur intervened. After admonishing one of the participants instead of stopping the assaillant, the migrant stabbed Laur several times in the head and neck from behind.
A total of six people were seriously injured in the knife attack. Laur was placed in an artificial coma due to his serious injuries and died some days later. If the attacker had been deported after his asylum application was rejected, Laur would still be alive.
Data from the police crime statistics of individual German states show that in several states the number of stabbings increased from 2013 to 2018 by over 30 percent. In 2020 alone, there were at least 100 deaths from nearly 20 000 knife attacks.
By Jack Hellner
“Experts” have been making dire predictions on the climate for over one hundred years, and their solution is always for the government to control our lives. They always falsely claim that the predictions and solutions are based on science, but science has nothing to do with it. It is always about taking more money and power for the government, or $cience.
One hundred and two years ago, the AP predicted that the ice caps would soon be gone, coastal cities would soon be underwater, and claimed the oceans were dying; instead, the globe went into a cooling period from 1940 to 1975. The dire predictions were 100% wrong, because they were simply fabricated.
Fifty-four years ago, around the first Earth Day, billions were set to die from starvation because of disastrous global cooling; the dire predictions were 100% wrong because they were pulled out of thin air.
Once the cooling stopped in the late 1970s, the fear mongers were back to pushing global warming propaganda, of course caused by humans and our use of natural resources.
Thirty-five years ago, the United Nations put out a dire warning, essentially repeating the false forecasts from 1922, that said that the government only had ten years left to solve the problem; these predictions were 100% wrong because, again, they were just invented. From a report at the time:
A 1989 AP Report: Nations ‘Wiped Off Face of the Earth’ by 2000
A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.
Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of ‘eco-refugees,’ threatening political chaos, said Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program, or UNEP.
He said governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes beyond human control.
And every year, we get dire warnings about the warm oceans causing massive damage. Every once in a while, they are right. This year, it is the first time in 27 years that no named storm has developed from August 21st through September 2nd. This year, like 2023, is extremely mild.
The green pushers are disappointed that the severe storm activity that they continually predict isn’t coming true. How the heck will they convince people to get rid of their efficient gas-powered vehicles and appliances if the climate won’t cooperate with fear mongering?
Hurricane forecasters are bewitched, bothered, and bewildered. The Atlantic hurricane season was supposed to be epic. Instead, it’s turned into a real dud.
Huge storms wreaking havoc on coastlines from Aruba to Long Island were supposed to line up in the Eastern Atlantic in June and hit us one at a time until late September. The damage was going to be historic and the TV coverage was going to give climate change fanatics plenty of air time to vent that ‘this is just a foretaste’ of what’s to come.
Alas, the internet is forever. And McNoldy’s ‘omen’ proved to be something much less. There hasn’t been a named storm since August 21 and the conditions, still optimum for large, dangerous storms to form, aren’t producing the killer hurricanes forecasters predicted.
And what do the so-called experts blame for fewer storms than predicted? Dust and wind off the Saharan desert! Somehow, these experts who tell us that they can predict global temperatures and sea levels forever, couldn’t accurately predict storm activity a few months out because the dust blocked the sun and therefore storms didn’t develop; per the “experts,” the “Saharan Dust Puts Atlantic Hurricane Season On Pause”. This natural dust and wind, from a tiny speck of land (the Sahara Desert) overcame the warm oceans, eight billion people breathing out CO2, billions of gas-powered cars and trucks, and billions of beef cows spewing methane—and we’re supposed to believe this?
Politicians, scientists, bureaucrats, the Paris Climate accord, and green slush funds (Inflation Reduction Act), had nothing to do with blocking the storms. They were blocked naturally.
I have an idea, if “man made climate change” were really an issue: Put more sand on the Sahara Desert and some industrial fans to create wind to reduce storms instead of destroying a massive number of industries which have greatly improved our quality and length of life.
Temperatures and sea levels have always changed cyclically and naturally without humans causing the change. It is pathetic that most of the media will just repeat the dire forecasts, no matter how wrong previous predictions have been, without asking questions or doing research. That makes them worthless propagandists. Human-caused climate change is the biggest scam of all time.
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“Hamas is terrorist.” That’s the official position of the British government⸺although from recent events, you wouldn’t know it.
On Saturday, September 7th, two protestors unveiled a banner bearing the same slogan, summarising the legal position of the organisation—which is proscribed under UK law—in front of one of London’s regular “pro-Palestine” demonstrations. The duo was separated and both campaigners were detained and charged separately.
Mark Birbeck, a co-founder of Our Fight, which campaigns in support of Israel, emerged from the cells on Sunday morning. His bail conditions include him not contacting co-demonstrator Niyak Ghorbanii, not attending Middle East-focused protests for three months, and not entering the City of Westminster borough in London during any protests related to Israel.
Birbeck told The European Conservative:
It’s incredible that despite Hamas being a proscribed organisation, pointing it out has such an impact. But we know why; whether you are David Lammy or Ben Jamal or Jeremy Corbyn or a marcher calling for a ceasefire, it spoils your narrative to be reminded that Hamas started this war, executes hostages in tunnels under Gaza, and wants to destroy the only Jewish state. And that’s of course why myself, Niyak and many others will continue to shout about this.
Back in October 2023, then-Justice Secretary Sir Robert Buckland criticised London’s Metropolitan Police for its indulgence of anti-Israel protests, including initial celebrations of the October 7th pogrom staged prior to any Israeli response. He stated, “The police must step in and enforce the law”. Almost one year on, the Met’s assistant commissioner Matt Twist has admitted that mistakes were made, fuelling the perception of ‘two-tier policing’ on London’s streets. As if to prove the point, Birbeck left Wood Green police station facing Orwellian ‘pre-charges’ based on the possibility he will break his bail conditions in future.
Gideon Falter, Chief Executive of the Campaign Against Antisemitism, tweeted:
We live in a country where you can hold up a sign saying that Jews control politics but be arrested for holding a sign saying that Hamas is a terrorist organisation (which is simply stating the law of the land) because it offends people.
Licence-fee payers to the UK national broadcaster are unlikely to find it covering these arrests. While the Metropolitan Police shields Hamas supporters from hurt feelings, the BBC has been slammed for doing all this, and more, in its “sickening” coverage of Gaza. Using artificial intelligence, content analysis and a dedicated research team, the Asserson Report has identified a total of 1,553 breaches of BBC editorial guidelines. These include issues of impartiality, accuracy, editorial values, and public interest, on both BBC English language news and its Arabic language service.
Just one example: since October 7th last year, grimly enough, Hamas has featured more often in BBC reporting as an organisation running a health ministry than as a proscribed terrorist group.
A Paris court in May detained and charged a couple on accusations that they were involved in Iranian plots to kill Israelis and Jews in Germany and France, police sources told AFP.
Authorities charged Abdelkrim S., 34, and his partner Sabrina B., 33, on May 4 with conspiring with a criminal terrorist organization and placed them in pre-trial detention.
The case, known as “Marco Polo” and revealed Thursday by French news website Mediapart, signals a revival in Iranian state-sponsored terrorism in Europe, according to a report by France’s General Directorate for Internal Security consulted by AFP.
“Since 2015, the Iranian [secret] services have resumed a targeted killing policy,” the French security agency wrote, adding that “the threat has worsened again in the context of the Israel-Hamas war.”
The alleged objective for Iranian intelligence was to target civilians and sow fear in Europe among the country’s political opposition as well as among Jews and Israelis.
Iran is accused of recruiting criminals, including drug lords, to conduct such operations.
Abdelkrim S. was previously sentenced to 10 years behind bars over a killing in Marseille and released on probation in July 2023.
He is accused of being the main France-based operative for an Iran-sponsored terrorist cell that planned acts of violence in France and Germany.
A former fellow inmate is believed to have connected the suspect with the cell’s coordinator, a major drug trafficker from the Lyon area who likely visited Iran in May, according to the DGSI.
The group intended to attack a Paris-based former employee of an Israeli security firm and three of his colleagues residing in the Paris suburbs.
Three Israeli-German citizens in Munich and Berlin were also among the targets.
Investigators believe that Abdelkrim S. made multiple trips to Germany for scouting purposes, despite his probation, including travels to Berlin with his wife.
He denied the accusations and said he simply had purchases to make.
French authorities are also crediting the cell with plots to set fire to four Israeli-owned companies in the south of France between late December 2023 and early January 2024, said a police source.
Abdelkrim S. rejected the claims, the source added, saying he had acted as a go-between on the Telegram messaging app for the mastermind and other individuals involved in a planned insurance scam.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/paris-charges-couple-in-iranian-plot-targeting-jews-in-france-germany
The Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) has once again failed to fulfil its duty of neutral, balanced reporting under the terms of regulated media. The Jewish Community Vienna (IKG) is deeply outraged: according to the IKG, the ORF news programme ORF-Weltjournal on September 4, 2024 (ORF 2) spread the narrative of the terrorist organisation Hamas without contradiction. Israel was portrayed as evil in an utterly absurd way – and this – mind you – on state television: according to the IKG, the Weltjournal programme was produced by well-known Hamas supporters, with at least two Hamas apologists in leading positions. A number of lies about the war in the Gaza Strip were spread in the programme, fuelling anger against Israel.
According to the IKG, the spread of Hamas propaganda jeopardises Jewish life worldwide.
In the first two days after the Hamas propaganda was broadcast on ORF-Weltjournal, the IKG’s anti-Semitism reporting centre recorded an increase in hate postings and anti-Semitic graffiti on house walls. What’s more, there has also been an increase in calls for violence against Jews.
The IKG criticises the fact that ORF editors of all people are contributing to this anti-Semitic climate in society. This can no longer be tolerated. Corrections, structural and personnel consequences are urgently needed, according to the IKG.
Skandal: ORF übernimmt anstandslos antisemitische Hamas-Propaganda | Exxpress
A minor enquiry by Franziska Müller-Rech, an MP for the Free Democratic Party (FDP) in North Rhine-Westphalia, has once again brought to light the extent of incompetence and indifference in the black-green state government of North Rhine-Westphalia. According to information from the newspaper ‘Welt’, the Ministry of Education is so far aware of three cases in which Islamic religious teachers have falsified their teaching licence (Idschaza). This was the result of an investigation after a case of fraud was uncovered in which an Islamic advisor to the ministry had fabricated all academic qualifications. ‘The review of the religious authorisation of all documented Ijaza of the teachers actively employed in Islamic religious education revealed two inconsistencies,’ the ministry announced. One of the persons in question is no longer allowed to teach, criminal charges have been filed and disciplinary proceedings have been initiated. In the second case, the person is no longer active in the teaching profession.
‘The origins of the presumably falsified documents are not known to the Ministry of Schools and Education,’ the statement continued. The third case came to light three years ago, the teacher in question was suspended and disciplinary proceedings are still ongoing. The ministry did not say why a comprehensive review of teaching licences had not already been initiated at that time or how many Ijaza had been checked. However, it did say that it does not even have lists of the teachers who hold an Ijaza! These are only now being compiled. This unbelievable negligence confirms the FDP’s call for the complete abolition of Islamic religious education in North Rhine-Westphalia.
‘The current reports of falsified teacher licences show once again that this current arrangement can no longer be maintained,’ criticised Müller-Rech, who is the FDP parliamentary group’s spokesperson on school policy. She also warned that the state government must ‘finally show determination and replace Islamic religious education with ethics or practical philosophy’ and must not allow ‘Islamic religious education to become a gateway for extremist ideologies’. A study by the University of Münster had shown what would then threaten, revealing that around 60 per cent of the 252 students of Islamic theology and religious education surveyed were ‘anti-Semitic and extremist’. The actual figure is likely to be much higher. But Education Minister Dorothee Feller ( Christian Democratic Union, CDU) is not bothered by any of this. She considers Islamic religious education, in which only around six per cent of the more than 470,000 (!) Muslim pupils in NRW take part, to be ‘indispensable’.
This shows once again that the Christian Democrats, especially under the Merkel disciple Hendrik Wüst, are nothing more than an appendix of the Greens. Instead of finally acknowledging and combating the danger of Islamisation, they are allowing themselves to be sold fake teaching qualifications and do not even know how many Islamic religious teachers there are in the country. This fits in perfectly with the image that the state government presented after the massacre in Solingen. Just two days later, Josefine Paul, Minister for Children, Youth, Family, Equality, Refugees and Integration, replied to a contact from the Ministry of the Interior in all seriousness: ‘Is there anything important?’ Moreover, her ministry had not the slightest knowledge of the central rules of the asylum system. And influential parts of the CDU are also striving for a similar black-green coalition at federal level.
Several men allegedly raped and tortured a 30-year-old Iranian man in a ruined brewery in North Rhine-Westphalia on Sunday night. New details are now emerging.
At midday on Sunday, the police and public prosecutor’s office announced that a police operation had been carried out in Iserlohn late on Saturday night in connection with a sexual offence.
Witnesses had reported screams coming from a building at around 11.30 pm. According to the newspaper ‘Bild’, it was the ruins of a brewery. The police found the 30-year-old man injured in the building. The injured man was a refugee from Iran, confirmed public prosecutor Michael Burggräf.
The search with a police helicopter was quickly successful. Four suspects, aged 24, 34, 42 and 46, were tracked down and arrested in a neighbouring wooded area. As a political background could not be ruled out, the state security services took over the investigation.
As reported by the news magazine ‘Spiegel’, the alleged perpetrators are said to be Iranians loyal to the regime who had been in a political dispute with the victim before the offence. The man who was raped was an opponent of the Mullah regime, ‘according to the current state of knowledge, the victim was to be humiliated above all’, said the Hagen public prosecutor Michael Burggräf to the magazine.
The four suspects are now in custody. This was announced by the police and the public prosecutor’s office. A political motive is still being investigated because the suspects and the victim could be from Iran. The ongoing investigation is also looking into whether the victim and the suspects knew each other.
Four men, aged 24, 34, 42 and 46, were tracked down and arrested in a forest near the scene of the crime. Two further suspects are still being sought. The arrested men have stated that they are Dutch and Danish citizens with Iranian roots. The information is now being verified, the spokesman for the Burggräf public prosecutor’s office added.
Männer-Gruppe soll Iraner (30) in Brauerei-Ruine vergewaltigt und gequält haben – FOCUS online
