Antisemitism, Antizionism, Jihadism and the Reunited Germany. News by Fred Alan Medforth
On today’s #NCFNewspeak, NCF Director Peter Whittle, Senior Fellows Rafe Heydel-Mankoo and Dr. Philip Kiszely and Amy Gallagher of Stand up to Woke discuss:
Shakespeare’s birthplace is being “decolonized” following accusations of “white supremacy”
The Lake District will soon be home to its first mosque
1 Million foreigners receive benefits with a potential extra million in the years ahead
Two young men aged 19 and 24 were arrested on Tuesday in the Ain department near Lyon by investigators from the Directorate-General for Internal Security (DGSI). They are suspected of attempting to join a jihadist group in Syria. Following their interrogation, one of the two was remanded in custody, while the other was placed under judicial supervision.
The two suspects are said to have plotted to join the brigade of Omar Diaby, a francophone jihadist figure who has firmly established himself in north-west Syria. According to Le Parisien, they exchanged information with his son via encrypted messenger and planned a route via Turkey or Jordan. One of the two suspects, a Turkish national, forwarded pro-jihadist content in particular via Telegram. According to the counter-terrorism services, Omar Diaby’s brigade, also known as ‘Firqatul Guraba’, continues to attract French recruits.
The two young men were taken into police custody as part of a preliminary investigation launched by the national counter-terrorism prosecutor’s office for ‘criminal terrorist gang formation’ and brought before a counter-terrorism judge in Paris on Friday.
Three teenagers planned a terrorist attack – potential targets were a church or synagogue or a police station. They apparently also wanted to kill as many people as possible. Fortunately, the teenagers were caught in time.
On Friday, the district court in Düsseldorf sentenced two girls ( aged 16 and 17) and a boy ( aged 16) to three years in youth prison each for conspiracy to commit murder and arson resulting in death!
The girls from Düsseldorf and Iserlohn and the boy from Lippstadt had ‘radicalised themselves with the ideology of this terrorist organisation by consuming propaganda material from the so-called Islamic State (IS) on the internet and via social media’, the court announced at the end of the non-public hearing.
During Ramadan 2024 (March, April), the trio and a young man from Ostfildern in Swabia, who had already been sentenced to two years’ probation, had decided to commit a terrorist attack within two months.
Police stations, railway stations and courtrooms in Hamburg, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Iserlohn and Stuttgart were initially targeted.
Court spokeswoman Dr Vera Drees: ‘Ultimately, they were determined to attack police stations or places of worship (churches, synagogues) while many people were present, set them on fire with Molotov cocktails and use firearms and stabbing weapons to kill as many people as possible.
One of the teenagers obtained bomb-making instructions on the internet and made them available to her accomplice. However, the police were already on the trail of the terrorist teenagers and eventually arrested them. The trio have been in custody since Easter 2024.
A defence lawyer has announced an appeal and a prison appeal.
Terrorismus: Teenager planten Anschlag mit vielen Toten | BILD | BILD.de
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has conceded that U.S. Vice President JD Vance ‘had a point on migration’, although she stuck to the Euro-orthodoxy that Russia is the greatest threat to the continent of all.
“Security is also about what is going on in your local community”, says Danish Prime Minister Frederiksen in an interview that illustrates how she has bucked the trend for European centre-left Social Democrats losing power in recent years, apparently by bowing to public demand for border control and deportations.
The comments came in an interview with Politico which reported that while she “unfortunately” found herself disagreeing with VP Vance during his famous Munich speech when he said the greatest threat to Europe was mass migration, nevertheless “Still, he had a point… she conceded”.
In comments that would be remarkable from a mainstream left-wing leader in practically any European country except Denmark, Frederiksen told the publication: “I consider this mass migration into Europe as a threat to the daily life in Europe”. Her objection to mass migration is precisely because of her left-wing views and consequent concern for the working class, she explained, going on to say: “No matter if you look at statistics on crimes or if you look at problems on the labour market, insecurity in local communities, it is the most vulnerable who experience the consequences”.
There is no contradiction here, Frederiksen said, even if most European left-wing leaders would strongly disagree. She continued, Politico reported: “I totally believe in equal opportunities and a Scandinavian welfare model with a tax-paid education, social benefits and health care. But for me that’s only one traditional pillar of being a social democrat… Being in control of migration is the second pillar.”
Politico notes, rightly, that Mette Frederiksen stands out in Europe as a rare social democrat still in office, and says this is precisely because she quickly learnt to act on migration, not ignore it. She said:
The message that our populations in almost all European countries have tried to send to politicians through the years: Please get in control [of] our borders and be decisive on migration… If I ask people about security and their security concerns, many of them will reply that Russia and defending Europe is top of mind right now.
But security is also about what is going on in your local community… If I ask people about security and their security concerns, many of them will reply that Russia and defending Europe is top of mind right now. But security is also about what is going on in your local community.
Mette Frederiksen appears to get a free pass from the international media on her border policy, precisely because she is the left-wing establishment in her country. In other European nations where the legacy left has stuck to its guns on unlimited migration and open borders, upstart left-wingers offering an alternative have been smeared as dangerous left-wing ‘populists’. In Germany, for instance, the anti-mass-migration but pro-generous welfare BSW party missed out on parliamentary seats by a fraction of a per cent in last months’ election, and almost certainly would have crossed the threshold without the saturation of German media with attack pieces in the days leading up to the vote, its party leader believes.
Indeed, the BSW was banned from even attending the Munich Security Conference where Vance made his comments on the threat of mass migration to Europe hollowing out the continent from within while its leaders gazes are focussed resolutely eastwards to Moscow.
At that meeting, Vance had told the stunned audience of world leaders:
Of all the pressing challenges that the nations represented here face, I believe there is nothing more urgent than mass migration. Today, almost one in five people living in [Germany] moved here from abroad…. No voter on this continent went to the ballot box to open the floodgates to millions of unvetted immigrants.
Denmark cracking down on mass migration to preserve the national way of life did not start with Frederiksen and predates her leadership, but she has undeniably carried it forward during her years in power. As long reported at Breitbart News, Denmark has moved to crack down on ‘non-Western young men harassing native Danes’, has pursued a ‘zero asylum seeker‘ policy, and has moved to counter parallel societies by banning migrant ghettoization.
Denmark has been paying migrants to go home and not come back, offering Syrians 200,000 kronor (€27,000, $28,300, £22,400) to leave with its repatriation law and has collaborated with other European nations on organising deportation flights.
A man aged around 20 was charged on Friday March 21 by an anti-terrorism judge at the Paris court for ‘criminal association in connection with a terrorist project’ and ‘glorification of terrorism’, Paris Match reports. He was remanded in custody. This information was confirmed by judicial circles.
The suspect was arrested at the beginning of the week by investigators from the Directorate-General for Internal Security (DGSI) at his parents’ home in Meaux (Seine-et-Marne). The man is suspected of having visited several websites dedicated to the manufacture of homemade explosive devices and the purchase of products for their manufacture.
He is also suspected of having purchased a drone to equip it with a bomb that he had made himself.
According to reports, the investigation revealed that the young man had spent a year in the Iraqi-Syrian crisis zone before returning to France. The suspect also glorified terrorism on the Internet by glorifying the attack on Charlie Hebdo while claiming that France was a country of ‘kuffar’. The suspect suffers from schizophrenic disorders, Paris Match reports further. (…)
Actu17 / Meaux (77) : un jeune islamiste arrêté par la DGSI, soupçonné de préparer un attentat à l’aide d’un drone. L’individu, ayant séjourné en zone irako-syrienne, déteste la France un pays de « kouffars (mécréants) » – Fdesouche
A 43-year-old man has been taken to the reception centre in Plaisir (Yvelines) to await deportation from France, it emerged on Friday. Police had arrested him on Wednesday at a hostel in Mantes-la-Jolie, where he was staying, after becoming aware of his worrying and ‘highly radicalised’ behaviour. They suspected him of glorifying terrorism.
According to police information, the 40-year-old had mentioned and endorsed the Islamist attacks on French soil several times since October. He is also said to have expressed his hatred of France and its people and complained about the administration, which was slow to respond to his application to extend his residence permit.
The suspect had entered the country in 2020 and had been in an irregular situation since August 2021 after being notified of an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF) issued by the prefecture of Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine).
During the house search, the police discovered a fake identity card which, according to its owner, he had bought ‘for work in Barbès (in Paris, XVIII district) for 170 euros’. In front of the police officers, he called himself a ‘normal Muslim’, emphasised his ‘attachment to France’, stated that he did not understand the accused acts and thus rejected any glorification of terrorism. (…)
At the end of his police custody, the suspect was brought before the court in Versailles, which did not take any criminal action in the matter. However, the 43-year-old was handed over to the prefectural authorities for deportation.
Le Parisien / Mantes-la-Jolie (78) : un migrant raciste anti-Français arrêté dans un foyer après avoir salué les attentats islamistes frappant la France ; il est clandestin et sous OQTF – Fdesouche
German police officers have become unhappy about the electric police cars forced on them by the government.
Ralf Kusterer, deputy leader of German Police Trade Union (Deutsche Polizeigewerkschaft, DPolG), told tabloid Bild on March 20 the new cars’ batteries empty much too fast to use efficiently as per by law enforcers’ needs.
According to the union leader, some police missions had to be aborted as the cars lost power even when charged overnight at the police station.
Some officers had been required to spend their working hours at charging stations as their cars’ battery power was slowly restored.
In July 2024, police stations in the southwestern German State of Baden-Wurttemberg were given a fleet of 136 Audi Q4 e-tron 45 Quattro vehicles (retail price from €55,000).
The state’s interior minister Thomas Strobl of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) hailed the cars as an “investment into our safety as well as into climate protection”.
Baden-Wurttemberg is governed by The Greens party with the Conservative CDU as a junior partner.
Questioned by Julia Goll, a Liberal State MP, on how the ministry was assessing the situation, ministry officials reportedly answered that police officers could use the time spent at the charger to “carry out research or processing of files by using the personal mobile phones provided”.
Goll called the suggestions “grotesque” and completely removed from serious police work.
Kusterer said: “In reality in such cases two police officers have to sit in the car and listen to how their colleagues call for back-up.”
How often police missions were hindered by empty batteries of police cruisers could not be determined, the state interior ministry said, as “there is no statistical recording of pursuits or emergency journeys by the Baden-Württemberg police”.
German police ‘forced to abort missions’ as their electric cars ‘drain too fast’ – Brussels Signal
Oxford University intends to make an 800-year-old Latin ceremony gender-neutral for the sake of students who claim to be “non-binary.”
The proposed changes, which will be voted on by the university’s governing body, Congregation, on April 29th, would eliminate all gendered language from Latin texts used in graduation ceremonies. Terms such as magistri (masters) and doctores (doctors), grammatically masculine, are to be replaced with clunky alternatives like vos, simply meaning “you”—even though the masculine plural has always been used for mixed groups of men and women.
Even the Latin word for “who” is to be rewritten to avoid any suggestion of grammatical gender.
The Telegraph reports that the changes will likely be implemented in all ceremonies from October onwards. They will also affect other formal occasions, such as the admission of a new Vice-Chancellor, where references in English to “his” or “her” tenure will be replaced with the clumsy and ambiguous “their.”
Oxford insists the overhaul is “necessary so that the Latin used can refer to those who identify as non-binary as well as those who identify as male and female.” It also claims it is merely aligning itself with UK legal requirements for higher education.
Dr Jonathan Katz, Oxford’s Public Orator and a Latin specialist, signed off on the grammar of the proposed script but notably distanced himself from its ideological basis. He said:
One of my colleagues wrote to me this morning to ask whether this was an early April Fool. It isn’t—just keeping up with modern trends. My only role has been to check that the Latin grammar is correct, which I believe it is so far.
It’s true that in standard Latin the masculine plural is used to cover a mixed-gender group, but it was felt that the masculine appearance of many words was still unhelpfully dominant. Ideologically I remain neutral in this, but it was an interesting linguistic exercise that the lead Dean of Degrees and I were requested to go through.
However, critics say the university, once revered for its intellectual rigour and scholarly tradition, is now pandering to a fringe minority. According to national statistics, just 0.2 per cent of UK university students identify as “other gender”—a mere 14 individuals out of Oxford’s 7,000 annual admissions, if the same proportion holds.
David Soskin, a former Downing Street adviser, called it “curious” that alumni had not been consulted. “They probably know how donors would react,” he said.
Others are more blunt. Historian Dominic Selwood slammed the revised language as “devoid of any elegance, atmosphere, beauty or tradition,” pointing out that what Oxford stands to lose far outweighs any potential gain. “At least the ceremony will be shorter and everyone can get to the pub earlier,” he added.
Oxford’s rush to change a centuries-old ceremony in the name of inclusion raises serious questions. If even Latin—the foundational language of Western academia—is now considered too “exclusive” to be uttered in its original form, what other traditions are next on the chopping block?
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/oxford-university-latin-ceremony-scrapped-non-binary/
The mayor of Romans-sur-Isère, Marie-Hélène Thoraval, has strongly criticized a newly published book on the Crépol attack, accusing its authors of distorting the truth and downplaying the racial and social tensions at the heart of the tragedy.
The book, written by investigative journalists Jean-Michel Décugis, Pauline Guéna, and Marc Leplongeon, seeks to reframe the Nov. 18, 2023, attack in Crépol as a politically exploited “news item” rather than a racially-motivated crime.
The attack, which resulted in the death of a White teenager named Thomas and serious injuries to three others, was carried out by a group of Black youths outside a village dance. Witnesses reported that one of the attackers declared, “We are here to stab White people.” However, the book claims the incident was “seized upon” by “fascists” and questions the racial undertones that many — including the victims’ families — believe were central to the crime.
Speaking to Valeurs Actuelles, Mayor Thoraval accused the authors of rewriting history and ignoring the stark reality of the social divide in France.
“They are trying to downplay the Crépol attack by presenting a watered-down, even distorted, version of reality. It is a dramatic provocation aimed at the families,” she said.
She further warned of “religious communitarianism” eroding the country, pointing to the neighborhood of La Monnaie in Romans-sur-Isère, where the attackers were from.
“Forty years ago, it was a working-class neighborhood. Today, it has become a community enclave, welcoming an uninterrupted flow of immigration. In these neighborhoods, the rules and customs in place are no longer those of the Republic. Lawless zones are being established, where the law of religion and drug trafficking prevails.”
One of the controversies reignited by the book is the absence of a police report mentioning anti-White racism as a possible motive for the attack. The mayor recalled a meeting between then-Minister Olivier Véran and the victims’ families, during which they unanimously testified that the attackers had shouted openly racist and anti-French insults.
“Denying the existence of anti-White racism is absurd. Racism cannot only go one way. Imagine if the situation were reversed, if youths from Crépol had attacked a party in La Monnaie. Anti-racist organizations would have immediately taken up the case, and this tragedy would never have been dismissed as a simple fight.”
Thoraval firmly rejected the notion that the attack was a random act of violence, calling it a premeditated assault.
“Crépol wasn’t a brawl or a fight. It was an attack and a punitive expedition. The youths at La Monnaie weren’t ‘equipped’ with knives, as I’ve read or heard. They were armed with knives. To claim otherwise is to perpetuate an unbearable culture of excuses.”
Over a year after the attack, Thomas’s family and the residents of Crépol remain deeply affected. Many are still struggling with legal fees and are frustrated by the slow pace of justice.
“They come across videos showing one of the arrested attackers partying in prison. No one talks about it, and they suffer in silence. Their lives have been turned upside down. An entire village will remain traumatized,” she said.
“Their anger is disturbing [for the elites] because it forces political leaders to acknowledge that their migration and integration policies have failed utterly. The families of Crépol still carry the energy of anger within them. But they are bruised, wounded. They have been given life sentences.”
Thoraval revealed she is still in regular contact with Thomas’ family who remain determined to fight for justice.
‘We came to kill White people!’ — 9 arrested for murder of French teen in mass stabbing attack
Unbelievable events in the Wedding district of Berlin on Wednesday: hundreds of Muslims gather on Leopoldplatz for a joint fast-breaking event organised by the city of Berlin and local initiatives. After a few speeches, ‘Allahu Akbar’ echoes across the square – in front of the Protestant Nazareth Church, mind you.
Remarkable: Leopoldplatz is considered one of the most criminal and neglected squares in Berlin. Drugs are traded openly on the square and criminal offences are committed time and again. The city of Berlin recently announced that random checks (including for knives) could be carried out on the square in Berlin-Wedding.
Several hundred people gathered there on Wednesday for what is known as Iftar. They had brought home-made food with them, which was eaten in the evening hours after the end of the fast. The district mayor praised the 160 nations living together here. She saw the public breaking of the fast as a ‘ gesture against the shift to the right’.
A short time later, ‘Allahu Akbar’ echoed across the square where the Nazareth Church is located …
