Olaf Scholz Meets With Benjamin Netanyahu

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday in Jerusalem. Below is a brief report on the press conference following the meeting.

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from Jüdische Allgemeine:

Netanyahu and Scholz: Hamas must be eliminated

“We have no future if Hamas, which is determined to carry out genocide against us, remains intact,” stressed the Israeli head of government.

March 17, 2024

After a conversation with the German Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD), Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu explains that he and his German guest are in agreement that “Hamas must be eliminated”.

There will be no peace as long as the Islamist terror organization remains in the Gaza Strip, said Netanyahu on Sunday in a joint press conference with Scholz in Jerusalem. “We have no future if Hamas, which is determined to carry out genocide against us, remains intact.”

On Friday Netanyahu approved a ground offensive in the town of Rafah on the Egyptian border. Before a planned offensive in Rafah, the civilian population will be brought to safety, Netanyahu said. Israel is also undertaking every effort to enable aid deliveries for the people in the Gaza Strip, “over land, over sea, and from the air.”

At a meeting with Netanyahu, Scholz emphasized that Israel has the right to defend itself against the terror of Islamist Hamas. At the same time, he expressed doubts as to the military action of Israel in the Gaza war in view of the high victim toll. He urged Netanyahu to rethink his strategy in the Gaza Strip.

In the five months or so of the war, the number of civilian victims has reached an extremely high level. “Many would say too high,” said Scholz. “No matter how important the goal may be, can such a terribly high cost be justified, or are there other ways to reach this goal?” Scholz asked.

Scholz arrived in Israel for a visit on the same day, the second since the start of the Gaza war on October 7.

In addition to Netanyahu, Scholz wanted to meet with President Isaac Herzog and Minister Benny Gantz, as well as relatives of hostages. It is believed that there are still about 100 of them alive. He previously met with Jordanian King Abdullah II in the Jordanian seaside resort of Akaba.

The federal Chancellor first traveled to Israel ten days after the Hamas attack to assure the nation of German solidarity. “Israel’s security and that of its citizens is a German state interest,” he said then. “Our responsibility growing out of the Holocaust makes it our duty to stand for the security and the existence of Israel.”

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A Fine Synthetic Brogue

When Dymphna died, she took almost all of the Irishness of this blog with her, since I have no more than a wee dram of Irish blood in my veins. However, to honor her memory and keep up the traditions, here’s a small St. Patrick’s Day post.

I’ve posted this poem before, but it’s been (I think) fourteen years, so it’s time for an accord of repetition. It’s by the late great Ogden Nash, who I suspect was no more Irish than I am. But still, he did a good job of poking a finger in the eye of the modern commercialized cult of St. Paddy’s Day:

It’s a Grand Parade It Will Be, Modern Design

by Ogden Nash

Saint Patrick was a proper man, a man to be admired;
Of numbering his virtues I am never, never tired.
A handsome man, a holy man, a man of mighty deeds,
He walked the lanes of Erin, a-telling of his beads.
A-telling of his beads, he was, and spreading of the word.
I think that of Saint Patrick’s Day, Saint Patrick hadn’t heard.

The saint was born a subject of the ancient British throne,
But the Irish in their wisdom recognized him as their own.
A raiding party captured him, and carried him away,
And Patrick loved the Irish, and he lived to capture they,
A-walking of the valleys and a-spreading of the word.
I think that of Saint Patrick’s Day, Saint Patrick hadn’t heard.

He defied the mighty Druids, he spoke them bold and plain,
And he lit the Easter fire on the lofty hill of Shane.
He lit the Easter fire where the hill and heaven met,
And on every hill in Ireland the fire is burning yet.
He lit the Easter fire, a-spreading of the word.
I think that of Saint Patrick’s Day, Saint Patrick hadn’t heard.

Saint Patrick was a proper man before be was a saint,
He was shaky in his Latin, his orthography was quaint,
But he walked the length of Ireland, her mountains and her lakes,
A-building of his churches and a-driving out the snakes,
A-building of his churches and a-spreading of the word.
I think that of Saint Patrick’s Day, Saint Patrick hadn’t heard.

But the silver-tongued announcer is a coy, facetious rogue;
He ushers in Saint Patrick with a fine synthetic brogue,
He spatters his commercials with macushlas and colleens,
Begorras, worra-worras, and spurious spalpeens.
I hope one day Saint Patrick will lean down from Heaven’s arch
And jam the bloody air waves on the Seventeenth of March.

A Small Country Far Away

Our Israeli correspondent MC sends an update from Sderot, preceded by a reflection on the history of appeasement.


British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain shakes hands with German Chancellor Adolf Hitler in Munich, September 1938

A Small Country Far Away

by MC

Most people who are blind to Hamas’ atrocities probably think along the lines of Israel being “a small nation, far away”, with little understanding that Hamas is only as far away as the nearest CAIR or Muslim Council office. When Chamberlain waved his piece of paper in 1938, everybody (except the Czechs) heaved a sigh of relief.

What the world did not understand was that the Nazis (and all other socialists) are liars, and deceit is part and parcel of being a social humanist as well as being an Islamist.

Lying is a natural way of life. One reason the Ten Commandments were so revolutionary was that they forbade both ‘false witness’ and murder.

A corollary to the Ten Commandments and Torah is that every word and action that we take adds to or changes Creation and thus can we be judged at the appropriate time.

Kibbutz Beeri was a ‘socialist’ kibbutz as kibbutzim go, but Hamas is no respecter of any Western political nuances. The ‘useful idiots’ are always disposable once they become ‘useless idiots’, maybe even dangerous idiots, because they think they are deserving of rewards and privileges.

Both Communism and Nazism had the tendency to make that reward a bullet in the back of the neck…

Jews have been with us for some thousands of years. Thus there must be something unique behind Jewish culture. Those who do not believe that God is behind that culture should appreciate that there must be something special at the root of Judaism that makes it so persistent.

Secular humanists should take note: Socialism failed in France and turned to mass murder. It failed in Russia and turned to mass murder. It failed in Germany and turned to mass murder. Same with Cambodia and Cuba. Chinese communism resorted to mass murder even before firmly in power.

Is there a noticeable trend here? One would think not, judging by the avidity with which people try to repeat the socialist ‘experiment’ and hope for different results.

But Islam is probably the biggest mass slaughterer of all time, and we call it a “Religion of Peace”. Is this existential irony a part of that same insanity?

Those Ivy League universities which allow the persecution of Jews because woke-fake propaganda says that Jews are colonialists and settlers should read the real history of Israel and the Jews. The idea of the modern “Jewish Homeland” entered international law with the San Remo treaty in 1922. This treaty was included in the United Nations Charter under article 80, so EVERY signatory of the United Nations Charter accepted that Israel has the right to exist.

Gaza and “Judea and Samaria” were illegally occupied by Egypt and Jordan respectively when the world left Israel to the wolves and vultures in the 1948 War of Independence, when the Arab world tried to continue the work of the Holocaust, but were beaten back.

There has always been Jewish occupation of the land. If you dig a hole in Israel you find mainly Jewish, but also Roman, Philistine or Canaanite remains, but not ‘Palestinian’, because the current iteration of ‘Palestine’ was only invented in 1963.

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When Islamization Deniers Celebrate Islamization

A previous version of this essay was first published in Norwegian at the website Document.no.

When Islamization Deniers Celebrate Islamization

by Fjordman

On March 10, 2024, the municipality of Oslo in Norway lit large Ramadan light displays for the first time outside the City Hall.[1] Predictably, the Islam-friendly state broadcaster NRK portrayed this as a positive step towards more diversity and tolerance.[2]

They did not mention that Ramadan is also a period of intensified Jihad, Islamic holy war. Ramadan is often marked by deadly Islamic attacks against non-Muslims.

March 12, 2024, marked the start of trial against Zaniar Matapour. He is the Islamic terrorist behind the attack in central Oslo on June 25, 2022, where two people were killed and 21 injured. 19 shots were fired before civilians managed to overpower the perpetrator.[3] During the trial, Oslo City Hall is decorated to celebrate the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan. Less than two years after Matapour’s deadly Jihadist attack, the city of Oslo thus publicly celebrates the ideology behind the terror attack, a few hundred meters away from the crime scene.

Before carrying out his deadly attack, Zaniar Matapour is said to have become “markedly more religious.”[4] He also pledged allegiance to the Jihadist terrorist organization known as the Islamic State (IS or ISIS).

The Ramadan lights in Oslo are said to mimic similar celebrations in London. But is British society really something to emulate today? Britain now resembles a broken nation, already partially on its knees to Islam, while persecuting individuals brave enough to speak this truth out loud.

When the author Melanie Phillips described the Islamization of British society in her 2006 book Londonistan, critics accused her of exaggerating. She didn’t.

Haitham al-Haddad, a British Islamic jurist and the chair of the Fatwa Committee for the Islamic Council of Europe, said in a panel discussing Muslims in the West in 2023 that the situation of Muslims in the West is a lot better than it was 20 years earlier. He said that if you go outside, you might think you are in a “second Afghanistan,” but it is in fact “Londonistan.” Al-Haddad said that Muslims in the West should not consider themselves a “subjected minority,” because they are the “leaders of humanity.”[5]

Under its Muslim mayor Sadiq Khan, London has become an increasingly crime-ridden city where white Britons are a shrinking minority. Muslim rape gangs have operated in many British cities for years and continue to do so.[6]

In January 2024, the Gay and pro-Israeli MP Mike Freer announced that he would not seek re-election at the next UK election due to concerns for his personal safety, following threats and attacks by militant Muslims.[7]

His fear was not unfounded. A Jihadist supporting the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group murdered the Conservative MP David Amess on October 15, 2021.[8] The terrorist had also considered attacking Freer.

Thousands of Muslims have publicly demonstrated in London and other cities in sympathy with the terrorist organization Hamas.[9] Pro-Palestinian Muslims have been so aggressive in confronting individual politicians that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak warned British police chiefs in February 2024 that “mob rule is replacing democratic rule.”[10] At the same time, the public is also warned against the alleged dangers of so-called Islamophobia.

Prime Minister Sunak denied that his party has “Islamophobic tendencies.”[11] He said comments made by Conservative politician Lee Anderson were unacceptable, and he was therefore suspended from the party. Anderson stated that the Mayor of London was under the control of Islamists.[12] Sadiq Khan described the comments as racist and Islamophobic, and that they would “pour fuel on the fire of anti-Muslim hatred.”

The Islam-critical Dutch politician Geert Wilders has been living under constant police protection for the past two decades. He has described this in his book Marked for Death: Islam’s War Against the West and Me.

Other Islam-critical politicians such as Filip Dewinter in Belgium have also been subjected to harassment and planned assassination attempts.[13]

More and more European writers, intellectuals, artists, politicians, and ordinary citizens are threatened by militant Muslims. A veil of censorship and Islamic threats, an Iron Burka, is descending upon Western Europe.

People who ask critical questions regarding claims about man-made climate change risk being labelled “climate deniers.” Perhaps we should rather introduce a new term that is more appropriate: Islamization deniers.

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Ruction at the Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam

The National Holocaust Museum was officially opened in Amsterdam on Sunday, but the occasion did not go off without a hitch. Massed pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered outside the building, chanting slogans and attacking the police. The protesters specifically objected to the presence of Israeli President Isaac Herzog at the ceremony.

The video below gives a brief account of what happened. Many thanks to Gary Fouse for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:

Below is an article from Algemeen Dagblad about the confrontation at the Holocaust Museum, also translated by Gary Fouse:

Holocaust museum opened in grim atmosphere, riot police have to keep demonstrators away

Update: King Willem-Alexander was greeted with boos today upon his arrival at the Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam and at his departure. The atmosphere in the demonstration on Waterloo Square became grim. Demonstrators are angry over the presence of the Israeli President, Isaac Herzog. Thirteen demonstrators were arrested.

Domestic editorial staff, March 10

During the condoning off between Waterloo Square and Visserplein in Amsterdam by police, several demonstrators climbed onto the police buses that were set up as a cordon. The police beat them away with batons. Later, the activists set off fireworks. Those flew over the cordon that police put up there.

Demonstrators then threw fireworks and eggs over the police buses at the police. On the buses, the demonstrators glued pamphlets with the head of the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog, with the text: “Wanted”.

Groups of demonstrators challenged each other in front of the door of the Holocaust Museum. A group of Palestinian supporters shouted slogans such as “shame on you” to a dozen pro-Israel demonstrators in an adjacent section. Who, for their part, defiantly waved Israeli flags.

In the pro-Israel section hangs a banner with photos of people who were abducted on October 7. The police come between both parties to calm the mood down. The atmosphere has now become grim. Police buses were shaken back and forth by demonstrators.

Around 3pm peace is restored in Amsterdam. A total of 13 demonstrators were arrested. The arrests were carried out, among other things, for disturbing public order and vandalism, such as throwing rocks and the destruction of a police bus. All suspects are still in custody and are being questioned, the police report. Among the suspects is a minor, according to a spokesperson.

Herzog calls for the hostages to be freed

In his speech at the opening of the Holocaust Museum, Herzog called for the release of Jewish hostages being held in Gaza. He feels that the Holocaust Museum is a reminder of “the horrors that come from anti-Semitism”. “Hate and anti-Semitism are now flourishing worldwide.” Herzog also said in his speech that “too many Dutch people” helped the Nazis, but he also spoke of the Dutch people who protected persecuted Jews.

King Willem-Alexander said in his speech at the opening of the National Holocaust Museum that “people must remain aware how the Holocaust began and how it went from bad to worse.” He described how the Sobibor Extermination Camp “began with a sign in the Vondelpark” on which was written “Forbidden for Jews”.

“This museum shows us how it happened, not so long ago,” said Willem-Alexander. The king presented a mezuzah to the great-granddaughter of the Holocaust survivor Rudie Cortissos. A mezuzah is a text casing with a fragment from the Torah, which according to Jewish customs, is placed on the doorpost of a Jewish home. Upon his arrival and departure from the Holocaust Museum, the king was treated to boos.

Protesters outside could be heard clearly in the synagogue as Willem-Alexander spoke. In the house of worship the chants of the protesters could be heard. What exactly they were yelling was not clear.

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Give Me That Phone!

The following video was recorded in the waiting room of a clinic in the Iranian city of Qom. When a Muslim cleric started to record a cell phone video (or take a photo) of a young unveiled woman who was there with her baby. When the woman saw what he was doing, she reacted with fierce anger, and demanded that he turn over his phone to her.

Notice that the unveiled woman receives active support from a significant number of veiled women, who join her in demanding that the cleric surrender his phone. As far as I can determine, one of them manages to snatch the phone and run off with it just before the end of the clip.

The subtitling wasn’t done by us, and the translator is unknown. Many thanks to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for uploading this video:

The video was posted by the Italian newspaper La Stampa. Below is a the written paragraph accompanying it, translated by Gary Fouse:

Mullah photographs woman without veil in a waiting room. She rebels and confronts him

“Show me your phone!” That’s how a woman confronted a cleric who was surprised while he was taking a photo, probably to report the fact that she was without a head covering. But the mother, at that moment in the waiting room of a clinic in Qom with her sick child, reacted forcefully and lashed out at the mullah, shouting at him to show her his phone. Other women came to calm her, but also to help her, and surrounded the man, who was filmed as he hurriedly left the clinic. It is unclear what occurred after the events recorded by the security cameras. The Iranian judiciary has stated that a case has been opened and that the incident is the object of an investigation but denied reports that the clinic was shut down or that arrests had been made.

It’s Not a Good Time to Be a Jew in Swiss Schools

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from Blick:

Anti-Jewish attacks in school

‘“I’m giving you ten seconds, then you’re dead”

Threats, insults, bullying. In the last months, there have been numerous attacks on Jews (females and males) in Swiss schools. The Israeli Community Association says the problem has massively increased.

A summer day in 2023: Joshua* (14) is afraid. For the last few weeks he has been attending a new school. A Muslim classmate says to him, “When class is over, I’ll give you ten seconds to run — then you’re dead.”

Joshua knows: The reason for the threat is his religion, that he is Jewish. His parents come from Israel, and the family has been living in Switzerland for five years.

Now he sits there, panic grabbing him. Joshua calls his father. Teachers accompany him to the tram stop so that he can get home safely. The young boy who uttered the threat — and is waiting for him in front of the school — is 15 years old. He describes himself as a Hamas supporter and consumes terror propaganda on the Internet.

A.H. ** is also 15 years old and a consumer of Islamist propaganda. A few days ago, he stabbed an Orthodox Jew 15 times with a knife in the Selnau-Quartier (Zurich). The 50-year-old family father barely survived. The teenager-terrorist had sworn fidelity to the Islamic State (IS), and in a video announced, “he wanted to kill as many Jews as possible.” Now he sits in pre-trial custody.

The school did too little

His attack unleashed a debate about online radicalization and the limits of juvenile justice. The non-partisan government counsel, Mario Fehr, demanded that the perpetrator have his citizenship revoked.

The Jewish student, Joshua, continued to go to class after the incident in the summer, and in his case, the threat remained. Still, some schoolmates made it clear to him: In this schoolhouse, they were “on the side of the Palestinians.” After the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, the parents took their son out of the private day school. “Unfortunately, we did not go to the police then,” says Joshua’s father today. He regrets that because the school itself has done too little.

The school principal sees it differently. She indeed confirms the incident and says, “The attack was clearly motivated by anti-Semitism.” She also stresses, however, that “intensive” conversations with the parents and children were subsequently held. The Muslim student has consequently apologized to Joshua. Anti-Semitism is, furthermore, a recurring theme in education — described as “very demanding” by the principal. “Many students have acquired partial knowledge of the Middle East conflict from social media.”

Sports day cancelled

There are many attacks like that against Joshua. The escalation in the Middle East has led to a series of anti-Jewish incidents in schools. Many have resulted in the Jewish student having to change classes or even schools.

Sunday Blick knows of cases in several cantons. In December, for example, a conflict escalated in a public primary school in Zurich. A game and sports day had to be canceled because the mood among the students was heated. A Jewish girl was severely bullied.

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Inflection Point: Biden Administration Must Pander to the Muslim Vote

The following report by Clare Lopez was published earlier this month by Sharia TipSheet.

Inflection Point: Biden Administration Must Pander to the Muslim Vote

by Clare M. Lopez

Topping the list this month has to be the Biden administration’s desperate outreach to Michigan Muslims in a must-win state it fears he may lose over his support of Israel. In early February 2024, Biden’s White House sent a clutch of senior officials to Michigan to listen to the foreign policy demands of Muslim voters there. No evidence the Biden admin’s groveling swayed any of Michigan’s Muslim electorate, but its shameful public appeasement certainly showed our ally Israel — and the rest of the world, friends and enemies alike — what its pledges of friendship really mean.

  • [Editor’s Note — A former French President expressed support for Israel, but retracted it after one of his ministers pointed out the fact that France has a lot of Muslim residents and expressing support for Israel was no longer smart as a matter of domestic politics. It appears the Democrat Party in the U.S. has reached the same inflection point.]

Biden is sending aides to Michigan to see Arab American and Muslim leaders over the Israel-Hamas war” by JOEY CAPPELLETTI, AAMER MADHANI and SEUNG MIN KIM at the Associated Press/ABC 8 News, February 7, 2024

“Top Biden Official Panders to US-Arab Leaders in Closed-Door Meeting, Says He Has ‘No Confidence’ in Israeli Government” by Margaret Flavin at Gateway Pundit, February 10, 2024

“In Private Remarks to Arab Americans, Biden Aide Expresses Regrets on Gaza” by Reid J. Epstein and Erica L. Green at the New York Times, February 9, 2024

“KASSAM: Biden’s White House is Outsourcing Foreign Policy to Michigan’s Muslim Leaders” by Raheem Kassam at National Pulse, February 10, 2024

Biden sends delegation to meet with Hamas supporter” by Daniel Greenfield at Israel Today, February 11, 2024

  • And it wasn’t just a “HAMAS supporter” — Deputy National Security Advisor Jon Finer met with one Osama Siblani who has openly declared his support for HAMAS, Hizballah and other Islamic factions whom he calls “freedom fighters”.

Biden invited Muslim leader who publicly supported terror group Hezbollah to meet with his top aides” by Joe Schoffstall at Fox News, February 8, 2024

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“Many French People Are Victims of Aggression”

As a follow-up to Wednesday’s post about attacks targeting Jews in Europe, here’s additional footage of the French Jew who was attacked and left with multiple wounds that required stitches.

Many thanks to HeHa for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:

Video transcript:

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Where Should Europeans Flee To When Our Countries Have Been Destroyed?

An earlier version of this essay was first published in Norwegian at the website Document.no.

Where Should Europeans Flee To When Our Countries Have Been Destroyed?

by Fjordman

The national conservative government in Hungary has been under pressure from the EU for years because they oppose large-scale non-European immigration.

The Hungarians point out that the EU’s immigration policies create insecurity and instability in many European countries. By admitting large numbers of illegal immigrants each year, the EU also encourages continued large non-European immigration to Europe.

Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó stated on February 13, 2024, that a radical change of EU immigration policy is necessary in order to protect Europeans and their safety. Brussels’ open migration policy creates a real danger of “Europeans losing Europe,” he claimed.[1]

Unfortunately, this is not an exaggeration. If current trends continue, Europe may effectively cease to be the homeland of Europeans.

I have previously written that the migrations we are experiencing now are the largest and fastest in all of human history. In scope, they far surpass the so-called Migration Period which we associate with the fall of the Western Roman Empire.[2]

In Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, we were also largely dealing with migration within Europe. Now, foreign peoples from other continents are flooding into Europe.

According to a survey from 2023, one in five Swedes felt that their area has become less safe. At the same time, a narrow majority (51 per cent) of Swedes stated that they have personally considered moving to another place because of rising insecurity.[3]

Millions of Swedes no longer feel comfortable in their own neighbourhood. That half of the Swedish population has seriously considered moving from their current home due to fear of crime and violence would have been totally unthinkable 50 years earlier. At that time, Sweden was still a safe and relatively ethnically homogeneous country.

Now, Sweden has become a Multicultural country with mass immigration and massive rates of violent crime among imported clan cultures. The big question is: Where should citizens move to avoid these problems?

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A “Dirty Jew” Gets What’s Coming to Him

Events in Gaza are really bringing Jew-hatred to the surface in Europe. Media reports don’t generally mention the ethnicity of those who attack Jews, but it’s a fair bet that they’re culture-enrichers. Sometimes the stories mention cries of “Allahu Akhbar”, which gives you a clue.

Here’s a recent one from France. Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from the French radio network Europe 1:

Man arrested after anti-Semitic attack on a man in his sixties man coming out of synagogue

An individual was arrested by police on Wednesday after the anti-Semitic attack of a man in his sixties in Paris last Friday, according to information gathered by Europe 1. The charged person is already known for other anti-Semitic acts and for attempted homicide.

According to Europe 1’s information, an individual was arrested by police on Wednesday morning after the anti-Semitic attack on a man in his sixties in Paris last Friday. The suspect is suspected of insulting and beating Marco, a 62-year-old man, on the street because of his religion. The charged person is already known for other acts of anti-Semitism and for attempted homicide.

Darmanin denounced an “unspeakable act”

He was arrested in the 20th Arrondissement of Paris. He is suspected of hitting the victim and calling him “a dirty Jew’. The victim, who was wearing a kippa, was coming out of a synagogue when he was attacked by a man who fled on foot, according to police sources. The attacker punched and kicked the victim, who was transported to a hospital.

As soon as the attack was announced, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin denounced a “new anti-Semitic attack” and an “unspeakable act”. The attack occurred around 5:30 pm on rue des Orleaux in the 20th arrondissement.

The same day, the minister of the interior asked prefectures to reinforce protective measures for the Jewish community, notably around the schools and places of worship after a distribution of humanitarian aid to Gaza turned into a tragedy following shots by Israelis and a stampede that caused 115 deaths, according to Hamas. The international community has called for an investigation and an immediate cease-fire in the war unleashed by the bloody attack conducted on October 7 in the south of Israel by Hamas terrorists who infiltrated from Gaza.

The Mosques Are Our Barracks

Many years ago Recep Tayyip Erdogan famously quoted a poem by the 20th-century Turkish nationalist writer Ziya Gökalp:

The mosques are our barracks,
the domes our helmets,
the minarets our bayonets,
and the believers our soldiers.

One of those barracks was raided today by security police in the Swedish town of Tyresö, and four people were arrested for planning a terrorist attack. Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from Dagens Nyheter. The translator notes that the targeted building seems to be some sort of informal mosque:

Four suspected of preparing for a terrorist crime — Connected to ISIS

March 7, 2024

Four persons suspected of preparing for a terrorist crime and aggravated weapons possession were arrested Thursday in Tyresö. According to the Security Police (Säpo), the suspected crimes are connected to the ISIS terror organization.

“We had to act to disrupt the planned crime and avert a possible threat,” says Fredrik Hultgren-Friberg, Säpo press spokesman, to DN.

The case involves violent Islamist extremism where the Security Police also see connections to large-scale organized crime, the authorities write in a press release.

The raid on Thursday was carried out at, among other places, a building that residents in the area describe as a mosque and gathering place.

“I saw police lying on a hill here behind us and they moved. Two of the operational forces then came and moved me out of the way. They went ahead with a sledgehammer and began to break the windows. When they had broken openings in the windows, they threw in stun grenades,” says an eye witness to the police operation.

The witness describes how the police then broke down the door to the premises and searched it; then technicians arrived at the scene.

A man who usually visits the mosque has reached the closed-off location.

“I was married in this mosque, and I have been coming here for about ten years. It is a good mosque, and I have never heard anyone say anything about terrorism or anything like it. This really surprises me, and I wonder what led to this,” says a man standing outside the mosque.

One of the police officers who are at the scene tells DN that he, among other things, is tasked with calming people who became upset when they saw the raid.

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It’s Not a Good Time to Be a Jew in Western Europe

The two videos below represent just a small sample of stories that have been coming in from Western Europe about Jews being attacked in the street. More are in the pipeline, and will eventually be posted here.

These two clips don’t mention the ethnicity of the attackers, but does anyone seriously doubt that cultural enrichment was involved?

One clue is the fact that no such attacks have been reported in Hungary, which is widely considered the safest European country in which to be a Jew. Hungary hasn’t allowed mass immigration from the Third World, so Jews in Budapest are generally able to go about their business unmolested.

The first clip features a French Jew who was badly beaten, with stitches still showing on his forehead during the interview. Many thanks to Brunhilde for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:

The second video concerns an incident that occurred in the Swiss city of Zurich, in which an Orthodox Jew was attacked with a knife. Many thanks to Gary Fouse for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:

Video transcript #1:

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Terror Plot Foiled in Belgium

The Islamization of Belgium proceeds apace.

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from the Flemish daily De Standaard:

Radicalization: Four suspects in terror investigation arrested, among them a 15-year-old from Ninove

On Sunday morning, the federal police arrested four persons in Ninove, Brussels, Charleroi, and Luik [Liege], in the context of a terror investigation within the jihadist environment. “The four were making plans for a terror attack,” says the Federal Prosecutor’s Office.

by Cedric Lagast and Mark Eeckhaut
March 3, 2024

The special units raided four different addresses early Sunday morning across the country. The action was accompanied by considerable security measures. They were looking for four persons who had contact on the Internet where they were formulating a plan for a terror attack.

They are an adult from Liege and three minors from Ninove, Brussels, and Charleroi. The suspect from Ninove is barely 15 years old. All four are French-speaking. They found each other on the Internet. From the conversations they participated in, it can be deduced that they are radicalized. They reportedly talked about the Islamic State, among other things.

Terrorist group

“They are suspected of participating in a terrorist group and preparing for a terrorist attack,” says Eric Van Der Sypt, from the Federal Prosecutor’s Office. During the house searches, no weapons or explosives were found.

The target of the attack was has not yet been determined. “But in such a situation, we prefer to intervene,” the Federal Prosecutor’s Office says. “Better too early than too late.”