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https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/10/07/october-7-farage-warns-labour-cynically-ignoring-antisemitism-wave-to-appease-muslim-voters/

The UK’s Labour government has looked the other way on the “wave of antisemitism that has swept across Britain” because it made a “cynical electoral calculation” to appease Muslim voters, Nigel Farage said.

Brexit pioneer and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has argued that on the anniversary of the October 7th terrorist attacks, the United Kingdom should heed the “wake-up call” of the suspected terrorist attack against a synagogue in England last week by a Syrian migrant.

Writing for The Jewish Chronicle on Tuesday, Mr Farage said the Jewish community “has contributed immensely to our Judeo-Christian culture, but now finds itself living in fear” from “a wave of antisemitism” in Britain that has become “normalised”. The British government rewarded Hamas for the October 7 terror attacks in 2023 by pre-emptively recognising a Palestinian state last month, he further warned.

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Two years after October 7, Israel has defeated its enemies. The West is still surrendering to them.

Over the past two years of war in the Middle East, I have often quoted the famous Prussian General Carl von Clausewitz. Among his most famous insights about the art of war was that an army should attack its opponent at its opponent’s center of gravity. On October 7, 2023, it appeared to me that Hamas had done what terrorist groups are so good at doing, which is to add a type of jujitsu into the art of war.

Today you do not attack your enemy at their center of gravity because if you do, in this non-Napoleonic era, you are likely to lose. Instead you try to unsettle your enemy’s advantages by tackling them at their weakest points—by hitting them at their most vulnerable place, throwing them off balance. That is what Hamas terrorists did two years ago this morning when they struck not the headquarters of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) or the nuclear plant at Dimona, but peaceful kibbutzim and a dance party.

It has been my privilege during the past two years to spend a lot of my time with the people of Israel and with Jewish communities around the world. That has, among other things, given me the opportunity to rethink, listen to other voices, and make alterations or refinements to points I have tried to make. One such example came recently, after a woman who had read my book on this conflict reacted to my Clausewitz point. “You know, I think you’re wrong,” she said. “I think they did hit us in our center of gravity that day. Not in the military sense but in our soul.” And I think she was right.

Two years on from that day, similar attacks have happened again and again. When a young couple were shot to death on the streets of Washington, D.C., in May by a man shouting “Free Palestine,” the media focused on the fact that the two—Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky—happened to be staffers at the Israeli embassy. The more salient point was that it could have been anyone who had been exiting the event they had been at. The event was being held at the Capital Jewish Museum. In Boulder, a Holocaust survivor was burned by an assailant with a flamethrower at a rally to secure the release of hostages. In April, Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro’s home was firebombed by a suspect motivated, he said, by what Shapiro wanted “to do to the Palestinian people.”

Countries that used to be seen as safe refuges for Jews—Australia, Canada—now see routine shootings and firebombings at yeshivas and synagogues, the vandalizing of Jewish-owned businesses, and repeated efforts to attack not the hardest possible targets but the softest and often the most meaningful ones.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/10/07/7-october-a-war-for-the-soul-of-the-west/

For me, there are two anniversaries this week. There’s 7 October, two years since a 7,000-strong army of anti-Semites invaded Israel to wage a genocidal campaign of rape and terror against the Jews there. And there’s 8 October, which will mark two years since the young and educated of the West sang the praises of that fascist abomination. Since people in our own cities hit the streets to dance with unalloyed glee over that Islamist Kristallnacht. And to call it a ‘day of celebration’. And to holler ‘Glory to our martyrs’, by which they meant the men who had just slit the throats of Jews.

We will do a disservice to Israel, to the dead and grieving of 7 October and to ourselves if we do not remember both of those atrocities this week. The physical atrocity of the slaughter of Jewish families by tooled-up Islamofascists. And the moral atrocity of the apologism and even festivity that greeted those horrors here in the West. For where the former ignited a war for the survival of the Jewish nation, the latter confirmed we are in a war for the soul of the West, too. Two years on from that fascist dagger in civilisation’s heart, the stakes are as high as ever, both for Israel and for humanity.

The most important thing to commemorate today is the dead, the injured, the kidnapped and the grieving. There is a tendency to downplay 7 October. It has come to be swaddled in euphemisms. Lowlifes of the left call it ‘resistance’, but even in ‘sensible’ society a kind of linguistic cowardice rules. There is a reluctance to confront the enormity of what occurred that day. ‘Attack’, people call it. ‘Terrorism’, they say. It is memorialised as the impulsive act of a desperate people – the ‘wall [came] down’ on this ‘giant open-air jail’ and a swarm of oppressed humanity rushed over the border, as Ta-Nehisi Coates says. It was organic, horrible, ‘a tragedy’.

This is a species of denialism. Weasel words that bury the history-shaking savagery of what was done to the Jews two years ago today. The truth is that 7 October was a well-planned, well-executed military pogrom driven by the genocidal intention of obliterating Jews. It was the match of the militarised pogroms that swept Eastern Europe under Nazi rule. Close to 7,000 Islamist militants took part. They invaded Israel by land, sea and air. This included 3,800 of Hamas elite Nukhba forces and its Al-Qassam Brigades and 2,200 individuals from other terror armies, like Palestinian Islamic Jihad. A further 1,000 pogromists stayed in Gaza to rain missiles on Israel. Hamas had been planning its invasion since 2018 – or ‘incursion’, as the media say, yet another slippery term of obfuscation.

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“The day after October 7 [2023], I saw the people celebrating in Birmingham on Library [Centenary] Square,” says Gordon Biggerstaff, 61, a nurse from North Wales. “They were dancing and they were singing. I have never been so ashamed of my country.”

Biggerstaff says it was at that moment he felt the overwhelming need to help his “Jewish brothers”. “The police and the government did nothing about it and they have done nothing since. I thought, ‘These people don’t represent me’, and I needed to do something about it myself.”

In Israel, three-year military service is mandatory, but in wartime reservists can be called up for service until they are in their 50s. Since the outbreak of the war, more than 300,000 reserves have been called up, having to leave behind their jobs, families and lives.

“Me being there means some Israeli lad can go back to working or studying or being with his family,” Biggerstaff says.

He adds: “Just as in nursing when I want my patient to know that we care, that they matter, I want the people in Israel to know that they are not alone, they are not ignored and there are others in the world who see their pain and are prepared to come into the water even if they cannot swim.”

For the past two years, Israel has been a country gripped with intertwining challenges. It is trying to heal from October 7 while 48 hostages remain in Gaza and the war against Hamas rages on – all while a growing anti-Israel sentiment seemingly spreads across the globe and Israel itself remains split on the conflict.

According to YouGov, since the outbreak of the war against Hamas, public opinion towards the Jewish state has fallen among key European countries, as well as the UK, to its lowest since records began. However, there are some Britons who are going out of their way to help Israel recover.

That has been made possible via Sar-El, an organisation founded in 1982 that allows people from all over the world to volunteer in Israel. Members work within the IDF in non-military logistical roles, but the work they do reaches out into the civilian population.