Pia Bernstein, 27, has received death and rape threats and has been a victim of a social media hate campaign on her German university campus, according to a BILD interview with the Jewish student published on Friday.
During a discussion on antisemitism at her university, Goethe University in Frankfurt, she alleged she was pushed against the wall of her lecture hall – in an attack which left her shoulder injured.
The young student also said she received messages from anonymous individuals threatening to behead and or rape her.
“When I leave the lecture hall, I am always stalked. I am also filmed. Everything to intimidate me,” she told the German paper.
Bernstein’s photograph has been shared on social media, according to screenshots shared by the German newspaper. In one such image, the text “This person thinks it’s perfectly fine to kill Palestinian babies because their grandparents survived the Holocaust. What do we think?” was edited above her head.
Bernstein condemned the post as “sick” asserting that she had Palestinian friends.
In one of the many hateful messages shared by Bernstein, an anonymously sent message read “Inshallah, you will be shot…You should die…Your whole f***ing Israel…”
The Jewish student alleged, based on her own investigations, that those behind the social media hate campaign are the same behind the pro-Palestinian demonstrations being carried out on campus – and many had become known to the police.
In response to the threats and harassment, Bernstein told BILD she filed over 60 police complaints which are still being investigated. Despite her involvement with authorities, she claimed that only a fine of €300 was issued against her harassers and the arrest of one man who threatened her with a gun on a video call.
Bernstein’s lawyer Jürgen Illing said, “It is a threatening situation that shapes her daily life.”
Goethe University, like many universities, has seen an increase in pro-Palestinian demonstrations since October 7 2023, when Hamas invaded southern Israel and murdered some 1200 people.
Last month, the university canceled the talk “Talking about (the Silencing of) Palestine. On its Epistemological and Political Challenges” – alleging the organizers had failed to properly identify themselves and engage with the university.
The university claimed that while the organizers advertised the event from the Autumn term of 2024, they remained anonymous and failed to contact the university about a room reservation until hours before the campus was due to suspend for winter break.
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One of the high dignitaries of the Islamic State, a French national, has been held prisoner by the Kurds in northern Syria since 2018. Believing his life to be in danger, he has asked to be repatriated to France, which has created controversy: it was in fact through him that the French learned of Daesh’s involvement in two terrorist attacks on French soil.
The man was born Adrien Guihal on the French civil register, but for the Islamic State, he goes by the name Abu Oussama al-Faransi. Aged 40, he converted to radical Islam in 2002. In 2008, he took part in an attempted terrorist attack on the headquarters of the French intelligence service, foiled by the French authorities, earning him a prison sentence. Released in 2012, he then worked in a car garage reputed to be a haunt of jihadists. He travelled to Syria in 2015. Three years later, he was captured by Kurdish forces in Raqqa, then the short-lived capital of the Islamic State. He has since been imprisoned in northeastern Syria.
His mother is behind his request for repatriation. She believes that his safety is no longer assured and that he is in danger there. The request has been submitted to the French authorities several times since December 2022. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Administrative Court of Paris have already opposed it. This time, Guihal’s mother intends to appeal to the Administrative Court of Appeal of Paris. On Wednesday, February 12th, Étienne Mangeot, the terrorist’s lawyer, filed the case with the court, aiming to force France to repatriate him. Two other families have joined the appeal.
Other French nationals fighting for the Islamic State are in the same situation. According to Mangeot, 65 French nationals are being held with Guihal in Derik prison, which is in the hands of Kurdish forces, in extremely difficult conditions that “place them in real danger of death.”
But Adrien Guihal is not just another Islamist. “He is undoubtedly one of the highest-ranking living dignitaries of the Islamic State,” admits Mangeot. Since his departure for Syria in 2015, Guihal has been the subject of an international arrest warrant. There, he worked in the communications department of the Islamic State. In 2016, the day after the attack in Nice, it was his voice that the French heard in the audio recording, claiming responsibility for the terrorist attack that left 86 people dead on the 14th of July, France’s national holiday. A month earlier, he also claimed responsibility for the murder of a police couple in Magnanville, a suburb of Paris, who were savagely stabbed to death in front of their three-year-old boy.
For the lawyer, it would be more “reassuring” today to know that Guihal is in prison in France and will be tried there, rather than potentially “on the loose” and being picked up by one or other of the Islamist groups still active in Syria. But this point of view is not shared by the French Foreign Ministry, which believes that, since the fall of the IS regime, people accused of complicity with the Islamic State should be tried locally. Mangeot would like the French courts to “have the last word,” and emphasises that Guihal and his accomplices are currently being held outside any legal framework, with no reaction from France: “I find that very unfortunate and a bit serious for the democracy that we are,” he told the press.
No to the return of terrorists to France! Adrien Guihal, one of the highest-ranking French Daesh dignitaries, whose voice claimed responsibility for the Nice and Magnanville attacks, is demanding his repatriation. He is an absolute danger to our security! Radicalism is already a threat on our soil. Sending him back to prison here is to offer an opportunity for others to recruit him. This is a terrorist strategy that we must firmly reject! I call on our politicians to categorically oppose this return.
The driver behind the car-ramming attack in Munich that left more than 30 people injured appears to have had an “Islamist motivation” authorities said Friday.
They qualified the observation by claiming there’s no evidence the suspect – named locally as 24-year-old Farhad N – was involved with any radical network, rather he appeared to be a lone terror operative.
As Breitbart News reported, the 24-year-old Afghan, who arrived in Germany as an asylum-seeker in 2016 and lived in Munich, was arrested after sending his Mini Cooper careering into the back of a labor union demonstration in the Bavarian city on Thursday.
Farhad N previously had his asylum application rejected but his deportation was suspended.
Police officers pulled him out of the car after firing a shot at the vehicle, which didn’t hit him, and arrested him.
AP reports prosecutor Gabriele Tilmann said the suspect cried “Allahu Akbar,” or “God is great,” to police and then prayed after his arrest — which prompted a department that investigates extremism and terror to take on the case immediately.
In questioning, the perpetrator admitted deliberately driving into the demonstration and “gave an explanation that I would summarize as religious motivation,” Tilmann said.
The AP report notes no further details were offered, but she added: “According to all we know at the moment, I would venture to speak of an Islamist motivation.” However, there were no indications the suspect was in any Islamic extremist organization, she added.
Farhad N posted content with religious references — such as “Allah, protect us always” — on social media, where he described himself as a bodybuilder and fitness model, Tilmann said.
The deputy head of Bavaria’s state criminal police office, Guido Limmer, said investigators found a chat, apparently with relatives, in which the suspect wrote “perhaps I won’t be there anymore tomorrow,” but so far they have found nothing that points to concrete preparations for the attack or anyone else being involved.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz responded harshly and with stern words after the incident, the BBC reports.
“This perpetrator cannot hope for any leniency. He must be punished and he must leave the country,” Scholz told reporters.
The incident came just hours before world leaders including U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky among many others are due to arrive in the city for a major international conference, the Munich Security Conference.
On February 10, 2025, Pope Francis wrote a letter to the bishops of the United States expressing strong criticism of the Trump administration’s deportation policies and directly challenging Vice President J.D. Vance’s theological justification for these actions. However, Pope Francis remained relatively silent during the last administration to President Biden’s clear and repeated advocacy for abortion, gender ideology and other policies that directly and egregiously contradict Catholic teaching.
Catholic doctrine upholds the dignity of every human being, including migrants, but it also unequivocally opposes abortion and the redefinition of marriage and gender. When Pope Francis chooses to intervene forcefully on matters of prudential judgment (such as immigration enforcement), but he fails to take a firm stance against a leader who openly promoted grave moral evils contrary to natural and divine law (such as President Biden’s abortion policies), it demonstrates what appears to be a selective and politically motivated concern rather than being doctrinally consistent.
Furthermore, the Catholic Church recognizes the legitimacy of sovereign nations enforcing just immigration laws. While the Church calls for humane treatment of migrants, it does not demand open borders or the abolition of deportation policies. For the Pope to strongly rebuke a policy that falls within the bounds of Catholic social teaching while remaining largely silent on a politician who openly promoted intrinsic moral evils is greatly disturbing.
There has long been a concern about the Church’s financial ties — particularly with globalist organizations — as well as concern about government funding and wealthy donors who have a vested interest in certain political outcomes. Especially in the case of immigration, there is a large financial element at play. The Catholic Church in the United States receives significant government funding to assist migrants and refugees through Catholic Charities and other organizations. Stronger immigration enforcement means less funding for these programs which is undoubtedly a large factor in the Vatican’s stance.
On the other hand, abortion and gender ideology do not offer the same direct financial incentives for the Church to oppose them aggressively. While Catholic doctrine condemns these practices unequivocally, to speak out about them risks alienating powerful political allies and financial supporters. This would seem to explain why Pope Francis remained relatively quiet on President Biden’s policies while vocally opposing President Trump and Vice President Vance on immigration issues and policy. Pope Francis’s reluctance to address grave moral issues raises legitimate concerns about whether financial and political interests outweigh doctrinal fidelity on the part of the Vatican.
There has also been much outcry on the part of the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) who are deeply involved in refugee advocacy. This, however, must be understood in the context of the Jesuit order’s historical and political tendencies – especially their connection to liberation theology and their role in political movements around the world.
Liberation theology gained prominence in the 20th century, particularly in Latin America. Many Jesuits have historically aligned themselves with this movement, often advocating for radical social change and even supporting leftist revolutionaries. This has sometimes led to their direct involvement in political uprisings, particularly in Latin American countries where they have backed socialist movements and criticized conservative governments.
In El Salvador, during the civil war, Jesuits were deeply involved in leftist revolutionary movements. In Nicaragua, Jesuits openly supported the Sandinista regime, a socialist government that suppressed opposition, including Catholic leaders who opposed their policies. In Venezuela, Jesuits have been vocal critics of conservative leaders while showing leniency toward socialist governments.
The Jesuit Refugee Service, being part of this larger ideological framework, naturally opposed immigration restrictions, particularly those imposed by nationalist or conservative governments. Their concern is not just about humanitarian aid – it is about their long-term political and ideological vision, which includes reshaping global power structures in favor of their version of “social justice.”
By keeping immigration channels open, the Jesuits increase their influence over displaced populations, often using their networks to promote their political and theological agenda. This is why they strongly oppose President Trump’s policies but do not apply the same level of scrutiny to leftist leaders who cause the very refugee crises they claim to care about.
The Jesuits’ opposition to President Trump’s policies is not likely primarily about helping refugees – it is much more likely that it is part of their broader historical pattern of political activism. Their history of supporting revolutionary movements, undermining conservative governments and aligning with globalist causes makes their outrage over President Trump’s immigration policies undoubtedly mostly about power and ideological control.
Francis has repeatedly aligned himself with globalist elites, including the United Nations and the World Economic Forum, who push for mass migration, climate policies that harm the working class and economic controls that weaken national sovereignty. His stance on immigration aligns with these globalist objectives. This stance by Pope Francis represents a betrayal of the Church’s independence and its traditional role as a moral guide rather than a political enforcer of leftist policies.
As I discussed earlier, the Jesuits have historically sought to destabilize conservative governments and promote socialist policies under the guise of Catholic social teaching. Francis himself, as the first Jesuit Pope, has shown sympathy toward this ideology. His opposition to President Trump’s immigration policies is part of a broader effort to undermine national identity, weaken conservative leadership and advance a globalist vision.
Catholic doctrine teaches that immigration must be just, orderly, and it must prioritize the common good. Pope Pius XII, Pope Leo XIII, and even Pope Benedict XVI all emphasized the right of nations to control their borders while still practicing charity toward migrants. President Trump’s policies, while strict, do not violate Catholic teaching because they aim to protect the common good – which includes protecting families from crime, ensuring economic stability and maintaining cultural cohesion.
While Pope Francis criticizes President Trump and Vice President Vance for wanting to secure the U.S. border, the Vatican itself is a walled city-state with one of the strictest immigration policies in the world. The Swiss Guard does not allow open migration into the Vatican, and yet the Pope expects the U.S. to absorb unlimited numbers of illegal migrants. This hypocrisy is confusing and frustrating to faithful Catholics.
Pope Francis is politicizing Catholic teaching in a way that undermines the moral authority of the Church and aligns it with secular, leftist and globalist agendas. He is prioritizing mass migration and global governance over defending non-negotiable Catholic moral teachings like the sanctity of life, the traditional family and national sovereignty. His selective interventions against President Trump and Vice President Vance – while remaining silent on President Biden’s promotion of abortion and gender ideology – make it clear that his priorities are political, not doctrinal.
In summary, Pope Francis was noticeably silent about President Biden’s open support of abortion, gender ideology and same-sex marriage, all of which are grave intrinsic evils in Catholic teaching. However, when it comes to President Trump and Vice President Vance enforcing lawful immigration policies which are not intrinsically evil, the Pope suddenly feels the need to intervene. This selective outrage makes it clear that he is more concerned with globalist political goals than with upholding Church doctrine.
The Church does not teach open borders or unlimited immigration. In fact, Catholic social teaching supports the right of nations to control their borders in a just and orderly manner. St. Thomas Aquinas and other Church theologians have emphasized the importance of prudence and the common good in determining how a nation should handle immigration. Vice President Vance’s invocation of ordo amoris (the order of love) is much more aligned with Catholic tradition than Pope Francis’s globalist interpretation of charity.
Pope Francis’s letter opposing U.S. immigration policies disregards the nation’s sovereign right to secure its borders, a principle supported by Catholic teaching on the common good. While the Church calls for compassion toward migrants, it does not mandate open borders or unrestricted immigration. Pope Francis’s objection to these policies reflects a political agenda rather than a doctrinal stance, undermining the legitimate authority of the U.S. to enforce its own laws in pursuit of order and national stability.
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In a controversial decision that has sent shockwaves through international baseball, organizers have excluded Israel’s Under-19 national team from defending their European Championship title, citing concerns over potential political unrest.
The defending champions, who clinched victory two years ago, were set to compete in Stuttgart’s prestigious Palomino tournament this April. However, tournament chairman Andre Fink informed the Israel Baseball Association that their participation would no longer be possible, pointing to what he termed “the current political situation.”
In his official communication to Israeli officials, Fink explicitly drew parallels to recent incidents involving Israeli sports teams abroad, particularly referencing the disturbances faced by Maccabi Tel Aviv‘s supporters in Amsterdam. While acknowledging there were “no issues on the field,” Fink expressed significant concerns about potential security threats from “problematic elements” outside the venue.
Dr. Jordy Alter, president of the Israel Baseball Association, condemned the decision in strong terms. “This exclusion fundamentally contradicts the principles of international sport,” he stated. “Our academy has consistently demonstrated the highest standards of sportsmanship and mutual respect. To bar young athletes from competition based on hypothetical security scenarios sets a dangerous precedent.”
The timing is particularly troubling as Israel’s youth baseball program has been gaining momentum internationally, with their 2022 European Championship victory marking a high point in the sport’s development within the country. The team has become known for its competitive spirit and technical proficiency, making the exclusion especially difficult for the young athletes who have trained extensively for this tournament.
In a formal statement, the Israel Baseball Association warned that this decision could have far-reaching implications for Israeli participation in international sports more broadly. “This creates a troubling precedent that could affect not just baseball, but all Israeli sports teams competing abroad,” the statement noted. “We categorically reject the notion that Israeli teams cannot safely participate in international events.”
The association has called for solidarity from the international baseball community, emphasizing that such exclusions threaten the fundamental principles of sporting inclusivity. They have maintained their commitment to providing Israeli athletes with equal opportunities to compete on the global stage, despite this setback.
As of now, no alternative arrangements have been announced for the Israeli team’s competitive schedule this spring.
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A Ghanaian tourist has won the right to live in Britain despite never attending her own wedding ceremony.
Francisca Boateng, 42, secured her immigration appeal after claiming her “proxy” marriage to a German citizen living in Britain had lasted long enough to qualify her for UK residency.
Boateng met Fatao Sualihu, a German citizen, while holidaying in Britain in August 2018.
After returning to Ghana and divorcing her then-husband on Christmas Eve 2018, she arranged a “proxy” wedding in Kumasi on New Year’s Eve.
This was possible as her German husband’s settled status enabled her to claim the same residency rights.
The Home Office challenged the evidence of the proxy wedding, questioning photographs with “slightly blurry superimposed” dates.
Officials also raised concerns about a “haphazard” set of papers provided by Boateng’s former husband.
The case has sparked fresh criticism of the immigration tribunal system following a series of controversial rulings.
Despite the Home Office’s concerns, Judge Joseph Neville ruled that Boateng had met the “burden of proof” requirement.
“I find it to be more likely than not that a customary marriage did take place on Dec 31 2018 as claimed by [Boateng] and that it was a valid marriage under Ghanaian law,” he said.
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said allowing proxy marriages to count “seems to contradict any notion of common sense”.
“The courts are wrongly adopting ever wider definitions that allow people without deep connections here and who have not made a meaningful contribution to the UK to stay here permanently,” he said.
A new “common sense approach” was being developed, he added.
A Home Office spokesman said: “While we do not routinely comment on individual cases, as the tribunal decision clearly indicates, we contested this case twice and will always seek to uphold our immigration rules.”
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Another day, another shocking/horrific/laughable (delete as applicable) case of the British state failing to carry out the public’s wish of stopping ludicrous migrant asylum claims. This time, a Nigerian woman succeeded on her ninth attempt to secure asylum in the UK—not, this time, because of her son’s dislike of foreign chicken nuggets, but because she joined a terror group.
Upper tribunal judge Gemma Loughran ruled that because the 49-year-old woman joined the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)—which, as the British government itself reports, has been implicated in acts of violence against the state and other actors—she had a “well-founded fear of persecution” in Nigeria.
The judge overturned a previous ruling by lower tribunal judge Iain Burnett, who said that the woman joined the group purely “in order to create a claim for asylum.”
That a migrant should believe becoming a member of a terror group is a sure way of being granted asylum is itself a sign of the gross failure of the British state to maintain a safe border.
The Daily Telegraph, which was the first on the story, splashed today with the line: “Join a terror group, stay in the UK.”
Commentator Ian Acheson said the case was another example of the judiciary colluding in the exploitation of the asylum system, describing this as “the low trust society in action.” And Tory peer Daniel Hannan highlighted that this was merely the latest in a long history of wrong asylum verdicts.
Reasons for illegal immigrants to be allowed to remain in Britain: “The Caribbean sun is too hot for my husband” “My son doesn’t like foreign chicken nuggets” “One of my illegitimate kids is trans” Now this. We are a joke country. https://t.co/pG42eh1L7mpic.twitter.com/MwdVOjySlu
In recent days, border experts from the Migration Watch and Centre for Migration Contol think tanks have told europeanconservative.com that immigration tribunal judges need stripping of their powers to work on behalf of illegal migrants regardless of the rules determined by Parliament. This would likely depend on the UK’s withdrawal from the European Convention of Human Rights, which Labour prime minister Keir Starmer says will “never” happen under his watch. So much for his ‘desire’ to clamp down on illegal migration.
Nine Slovenian and Croatian Socialist MEPs have called for the cancellation of an ongoing exhibition in the European Parliament, commemorating the Foibe Massacres.
According to the MEPs, who wrote a letter to EP President Roberta Metsola urging her to cancel an exhibition, the content was controversial and misleading.
The commemoration exhibition was organised by the right-wing Fratelli d’Italia (FdI) at the EP in Strasbourg, bringing attention to the mass killings and deportations organised by far-left Yugoslav Partisans during and immediately after the Second World War.
Around 300,000 people were forced to leave their homes in the region.
Partisans targeted ethnic Italians and anti-Communists, often in retribution for the crimes committed by Italian fascists.
In their longwinded letter, the Socialist MEPs said they had concerns about the exhibition, which was inaugurated on February 10.
“Unfortunately, our concerns have not only been confirmed, but the content of the exhibition is much more pressing than it was initially possible to conclude when it was announced,” they said.
They added that next to MEPs, the professional public – historians – also were indignant.
The MEPs claimed: “It is quite clear that there is a complete discrepancy between the facts and the information stated on the exhibited billboards.
“It is an untrue and extremely harmful presentation of the half-past history of Slovenia, Italy and Croatia at a time when generations throughout Europe suffered immense pain, especially because of the fascist regime,” they said.
They went on to say that the region saw the first resistance against fascism arise in the early 1920s.
“The National Liberation Resistance and the Partisan Army of Yugoslavia are still considered the most successful European resistance movement against fascist tendencies.
“It is therefore very clear that the foundation of today’s free and sovereign Europe is the value of anti-fascism,” they said.
In their disagreement with the content of the exhibition, the Socialist MEPs added: “It is utterly outrageous that a minority of individuals driven by intentions of division — and evidently also the incitement of hatred — are allowed to showcase manipulations within the central institution of the European Union: the Parliament.
“This is both controversial and extremely harmful. The consequences of such actions do not simply ‘fade away’ after their conclusion—in this specific case, an exhibition on the Foibe massacres—but rather generate new attempts to undermine the fundamental principles of the EU. ”
The MEPs claimed the Italians wanted to subvert “the principles of the European community — a community whose very foundation is rooted in the victory over Nazi-fascism”.
They added a letter from Slovenian historian Dr Nevenka Troha, niece of the well-known Communist politician Lidija Šentjurc, who repeated the claims.
The letter was signed by Slovenian and Croatian Socialists, Greens and Liberals.
In reaction, Carlo Fidanza, head of the Fratelli d’Italia-ECR delegation said: “The request by Slovenian and Croatian left-wing groups to remove the exhibition commemorating the Foibe massacres and the Italian exodus from Istria, Rijeka, and Dalmatia is a dark moment for the European Parliament.”
He added that it was a “sad confirmation that some still refuse to acknowledge historical truth and honour the victims of Tito’s atrocities, even 80 years later”.
“During the inauguration of the exhibition, organised by Stefano Cavedagna and the Fratelli d’Italia delegation with support from Anvgd and Comitato 10 Febbraio, all participants emphasised the importance of reconciliation.
“The presence of Slovenian colleagues from the EPP, whose previous government helped uncover hundreds of foibe in Slovenia where Tito’s regime killed thousands, was particularly significant. The foibe were an Italian and European tragedy, and a few pro-Tito nostalgics will not erase it from memory again,” Fidanza said.
Italian President Sergio Mattarella spoke about what he called the tragic silence that could be defined as “a concealment of history” during a commemoration on February 10, Italian public outlet Ansa reported.
He labelled it a dark page in history and went on to condemn Marshal Tito’s Communist crimes but also those of fascism first and then of Nazism.
“In the areas of the eastern border, after the fascist oppression, responsible for a harshly segregationist policy towards the Slavic populations, and the barbaric Nazi occupation, the Communist dictatorship of Tito was established, inaugurating a ruthless season of violence against the Italians residing in those areas,” Mattarella said.
“What happened to the people of Rijeka, the Istrians and the Dalmatians” was a story “that has defeated the conspiracy of silence and that no attempt at denial or justification can ever hide or erase”.
Al tempo di questa foto, un triste tempo, Egea, la bimba con la valigia con su scritto “esule giuliana” che commosse il mondo in quanto simbolo dell’esodo istriano del Dopoguerra e delle #foibe, aveva da pochissimo perso il papà massacrato dai titini.
The Italian President went on to highlight that eventually, Tito turned “on the anti-fascists, the comrades in ideology: In the face of the proposal of the new Yugoslav regime of sovereignty over the Julian territories, being Italian became an obstacle, if not a fault.
“The memory of the victims must be preserved and honoured,” he said, adding: “Naturally – after so many decades and in profoundly changed historical and political conditions, it would lose its authentic value if it were subservient to the resumption of divisions or rancour.”
On social media, Deputy Italian PM Matteo Salvini said: “Even today, some people try to rewrite history, through shameful outrages and acts of vandalism, but the memory of those innocents cannot be erased.
“Memory is a duty, truth is a right. Today and always, let us honor our fellow countrymen victims of one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century, because without memory there is no justice,” he said.
Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani commented: “Memory does not mean recrimination or revanchism [a policy of seeking to retaliate, especially to recover lost territory].”
Tens of thousands of deaths and ten million refugees, but no one seems to have heard of it. And how could they? No one talks about it in this sort of Animal Farm 2.0 that has become the Western conscience and its media, where “all victims are equal but some are more equal than others”. The woke West is obsessed with the white man to the point that Goldman Sachs had a policy of excluding companies with boards of directors composed exclusively of white men from initial public offerings (IPOs).
“What do the good souls of Hamas say about Christians being torn to pieces?”, I asked myself four years ago. The question was rhetorical, the good souls have shown us that they don’t give a damn about Jews and Christians. Instead, what do they say about blacks being torn to pieces? This question is more pertinent, because the good souls are supposed to be the champions of oppressed peoples in the Third World.
A real genocide is underway in Sudan. And as often happens in an Islamic country, two factions are fighting for power after the departure of dictator Omar al-Bashir. And as often happens in an Islamic country, it never ends well.
“Bodies piled up in makeshift cemeteries can be seen from space,” writes the Economist. 640,000 people are suffering from one of the worst famines in history, a real famine.
For the first time since the term “genocide” gained legal status under the United Nations Convention in 1948, the world’s attention has been captured by a fake genocide, ignoring a real one raging at the same time. Hamas propaganda that preys on the minds of the stupid and gullible in our societies is largely to thank for this sordid outcome, which leaves an indelible stain on Western civilization.
Hadi Matar entered, softly singing the pro-Palestine anthem “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” in the court where he has been on trial for stabbing the writer Salman Rushdie in the summer of 2022, he would have been joined by those present.
“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”, legions of Westerners enrolled in Jihad, like Greta Thunberg, sing along with the terrorists.
One of the dancers performing at the Super Bowl halftime show (with Donald Trump present) waved a combined Sudanese-Palestinian flag that read “Gaza” and “Sudan.”
Perfect snapshot of the gullible Western moron: his friends don’t give a damn about Sudan.
A Washington Post report on Sudan reports bodies piled up in mass graves and women being tortured and raped for fun. “The Arabs call us ‘rats’ and attack us while shouting Allahu Akbar,” says one survivor who escaped the massacres.
Are there protests in Milan, Paris, New York or London? Camps at Columbia and Oxford? Is Greta Thunberg organizing Sudanese sit-ins in Amsterdam? Where is Amnesty International? And the Pope? No professors, journalists, writers, “Jews for Peace” and Judith Butler-style feminists? And the UN “special rapporteurs”?
Ah, the UN.
In 2024, the UN General Assembly adopted 17 resolutions on Israel and only six on the entire rest of the world, including North Korea, Iran, Syria, Myanmar, Russia, and the United States over the embargo on Cuba. At the UN, Israel is evil by definition. In 2024, out of a total of 23 UN General Assembly resolutions criticizing countries, 17 of them, or three-quarters, focused on a single country and the world’s only Jewish state. Since 2015, the General Assembly has passed 141 resolutions against Israel, which is more than double the number of resolutions condemning all other countries together. And the UN Human Rights Council (from which Israel withdrew this week) has passed 104 resolutions against Israel, compared to 99 against all other countries.
The Palestinian Arabs received $40 billion. And what did that bring? A terrorist organization that controls close to 2 million people and slaughtered 1,200 of the other side in a single day.
Many were outraged by the Red Cross’s handshake with Hamas terrorists, its lack of any aid to the hostages. So I went to look for the Red Cross guy: in Geneva he his picture has him with a keffiyeh. No surprise there.
There is a part of the West that is in trouble, very badly indeed.
But Bruno Tertrais is right when in Le Figaro he says: “The Palestinian cause is the apogee of geopolitical wokism, it unites anti-Westernism, anti-capitalism and anti-colonialism.”
This is why there is no other cause – not the Kurds, not the Tibetans, not the Uighurs, not the Sudanese, not the Ukrainians, not the Armenians, not the persecuted Christians – that attracts gullible Westerners.
And they are so obsessed with the white man that when one morning in 2025 three skin-and-bone Jews were paraded in front of Islamic terrorists after 16 months of darkness in the tunnels, now unable even to walk, there was no public campaign of collective indignation. Nothing, everything passes muster before us in the atonement of Western guilt. The only worthy response was the video projected in Times Square in New York.
“When Africans die by the hundreds of thousands in Sudan, no one bats an eyelid,” writes Pascal Bruckner in the weekly Le Point. “In a certain progressive mythology, the Palestinian is our only last ‘noble savage‘, innocent even when he kills and slaughters. He is the great Christological icon whose beatification process has been ongoing for fifty years. Hearing members of Hamas, Hezbollah and their supporters shout ‘Allahu Akbar’ and propose to eradicate Jews, Christians and infidels throughout the world makes your blood run cold.”
In Sudan, there are no Jews to blame. There are “only” mass massacres of thousands of blacks, rapes, atrocities and millions of displaced people, and most of the killers are Arabs.
Take the testimony of one of those millions of people who fled Sudan for neighboring Chad, a young woman named Maryam Suleiman. He spoke of the day the Rapid Support Forces, the rebranded version of the Janjaweed, the Arab militia responsible for the massacre in Darfur two decades ago, raided his village. The gunmen lined up men and boys as their leader declared: “We don’t want to see black people, we don’t even want to see black garbage bags.” Then he shot a black donkey.
I thought about that black donkey and then about organizations that might be in a position to attract attention, like Black Lives Matter, but they are silent. The same people who took to the streets when George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis did not say a word against the organized murder of tens of thousands of black men and women in Sudan.
The Jew in Wokism is just another white man (although more than half of Israelis are not). And if an Arab kills a black man, so be it.
A bit like in Nigeria, where over 3.000 Christians are killed just for being Christians every year and not even an eyebrow is raised.
They invented a “genocide in Gaza” to defend the cutthroats who howl “Allahu Akbar”.
