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Added to claims by many in the West that Israel’s land does not belong to Jews and that they are therefore “settler-colonialists,” a fresh strategy of these individuals, seeming to project their own racism, is to label Jews and Israelis as “racist,” then couple that defamation with accusations of genocide, just to make their point got across.

These labels are, of course, simply a deceptive tactic to conceal the deep underlying contest over which facts should be allowed to survive much deliberate fog, and probably have their roots in Muslim and Christian religion beliefs. Israel’s existence, as the home of Judaism, undoubtedly frustrates the jihadist agenda to establish a caliphate under strict Islamist Sharia law in the region. The long-term Christian calumny against the Jews still seems to exist on many fronts, supposedly for the Jews’ refusal to accept Jesus as their messiah and for not having done more to protect him.

These derogatory false accusations heaped upon Jews are nothing new. This is an age-old conflict over “first truths,” such as the Biblical version of the Creation as opposed to conflicting versions. The Christian crusades in the Middle Ages to re-take the holy city of Jerusalem and Israel from Islamic control, and to re-establish Judeo-Christianity in its rightful birthplace, has also starkly highlighted the religious character of these endless battles.

Israel’s struggle for survival is similar to those events. The preservation of Judaism in its ancestral homeland once again seems to be an issue. Some things just do not change.

In early 2025, in Paris, France, a march by many thousands took place, accompanied by a slew of Palestinian flags and banners. The advertised objective was to protest racism against Muslims – so-called Islamophobia. However, according to the American journalist Ben Cohen:

“[P]erhaps the most egregious aspect of the demonstration was its contemptuous approach to the problem of antisemitism, which has risen precipitously in France, as elsewhere in Europe, in the 18 months that have elapsed since the Hamas mass atrocities in Israel…

“Indeed, the entire event suggested that in order to combat racism, the French far left—a large bloc that won 182 parliamentary seats in last year’s legislative elections—has embraced Jew-hatred as a strategy.”

In simple terms, for career expediency, as a way of gaining political power, the Jews are to be blamed as the main instigator of Islamophobia in France and elsewhere. In this view, dating in France at least back to the Dreyfus Affair and the Vichy government during World War II, the Jews are to blame for France’s social woes, but not the consistently violent conduct of radical Islamists in their midst. If Muslims do not like Islamophobia, all they need is to stop threatening, attacking, raping and murdering (and here, here and here), and the “temperature” could drop overnight.

Cohen continues:

“The unmistakable message delivered by the Paris march against racism, along with satellite marches in other French cities, was this: Jews are not allies; Jews fabricate claims of bigotry and discrimination against them; and Jews are guilty of perpetrating a ‘genocide’ against Palestinians rooted in ‘Zionist ideology.'”

In reality it is the Palestinians who time and again attack the Jews (here, here , here and here) and promise to in the future.

After Vice-President J. D. Vance’s pointed lecture to Europeans in early 2025 at the 61^st Munich Security Conference, accusing “European leaders of suppressing free speech and censorship,” one wonders who would now proclaim Europe the land of the free. No doubt, few Jews in the UK, Germany, Sweden or France would agree they can publicly pursue their religion freely in those countries.

In Europe, charges of disturbing the public order apparently apply only to pro-life, conservative, family orientated Judeo-Christians, in pursuit of their religion and normal life – not against vociferous Islamists and radical leftists crying out, in the name of social justice, for the death of Jews and elimination of Israel.

The ways to avoid arrest in London these days, according to British author Douglas Murray, are:

“[W]hen first being questioned by a police officer, he should promptly shout ‘Jihad, jihad, jihad’. Next he should whip out a sign saying ‘Slay the infidel’ before rounding it all off with a few cries of ‘Intifada’… Had [Montgomery Toms] followed my advice, the first officer would doubtless have said: ‘Very well, sir, please carry on and have a nice day.'”

With mass migration “suffocating Europe,” demographics will increasingly lead to Islamists holding pivotal positions in government, particularly in France and the UK. Murray alleges that uncontrolled immigration has put Europe on the verge of “committing suicide”:

“[B]y the end of the lifespans of most people currently alive Europe will not be Europe and the peoples of Europe will have lost the only place in the world we had to call home.”

According to Edward Cranswick:

“Murray cites the results of the 2011 census as showing that only 44.9 per cent of London residents now identified themselves as ‘white British’ and that ‘nearly three million people in England and Wales were living in households where not one adult spoke English as their main language.’ He quotes the Oxford demographer David Coleman as saying that, on current trends, within our lifetime ‘Britain would become ‘unrecognisable to its present inhabitants'”.

If you venture out now onto London’s Edgeware Road, you might suppose you were in downtown Amman.

The recent statement by London’s Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, while celebrating Eid in Britain’s hallowed Trafalgar Square, heavily criticized Israel:

“More than 50,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza as a result of Israel’s ongoing military campaign, including more than 15,000 children.”

Khan was implying falsely, with inflated Hamas “statistics,” that the deaths had been completely unprovoked, and that none of these victims had actually been killed because Hamas was using them as human shields for the exact purpose of inflating the death count so that Israel could be blamed for it. It is not complicated: If you do not want your people killed, do not start a war, especially with Israel.

Khan added:

“These betrayals of humanity should weigh heavily on our collective conscience. But I’m proud that while the international community has chosen to avert its gaze, Londoners have not.”

Again, this distortion masks Jew-hatred to accord with the Hamas Covenant, which seeks the death of all Jews:

“The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews. When the Jew will hide behind stones and trees, the stones and trees will say, “O Muslims, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.” (related by al-Bukhari and Muslim). — Article 7, 1988 Hamas Covenant.

And the elimination of Israel:

“‘Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it’ (The Martyr, Imam Hassan al­-Banna, of blessed memory).” — Preamble, 1988 Hamas Covenant.

It is concerning that in the foreseeable future, radical Islamists might, demographically, have the political power to use Britain’s nuclear weapons. There are currently 25 Muslim members in the House of Commons, and Islam is already the second-largest religion in England, and the second-largest population group in London. Within the next ten years, Islam will be the dominant religion in the UK. A similar overpowering also appears possible for France.

A few months ago, French President Emmanuel Macron vowed to officially recognize “Palestine” as an independent state. Palestine is not now nor ever was a legitimate state, and the “Palestinian people” were, according to Zoheir Mohsen, a senior official of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), “invented.” Israel will not agree to part with its historic lands Judea and Samaria, nor ever again relinquish security control of Gaza and allow another attack like that of October 7, 2023.

The idea of an independent Palestinian state as a “two-state solution” has been overtaken mainly by two events. The first was President Donald Trump’s extraordinary Abraham Accords, which created peace between Israel and five nations –- the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, Kosovo and Morocco. The second, and the last straw, was the stomach-turning invasion of Israel by Hamas on October 7, 2023. That bloodthirsty assault revealed to the Israelis definitively that if they allow an openly murderous terrorist state along Israel’s border, it would be about the dumbest thing they could ever do.

The world has moved on. If the Arabs who call themselves Palestinians want to be any acceptable part of it, they would be wise to hurry and join the other nations in a constructive way or risk being left behind.

Weak Western leaders such as France’s Macron and UK’s Keir Starmer are quickly sinking into irrelevance.

Sundry forces who hate Jews – an ancient hatred most likely based on projection, jealousy and the fatal assumption that Jews are weak – are probably soon to be under criminal investigation.

Even Jewish children do not seem to be immune from being targeted by this pervasive hatred. In June, three young, high-achieving, siblings were expelled from a prestigious private school in Virginia because they complained about constant anti-Semitic bullying. The other students allegedly taunted them for being “Israeli,” and “categorized Jews as ‘baby killers,’ saying they deserved to die because of what is happening in Gaza.” The report adds that students told one of the three “that everyone at the school is against Jews and Israel, which is why they hate you.”

When the parents complained, the principal sent an email stating that all three students were “expelled, effective immediately.” He blamed the children themselves and their parents. He wrote:

“[Y]ou have a profound lack of trust in both me and the school and I do not see a path forward without trust, understanding and cooperation. In our meeting, I felt very clearly that you do not think Nysmith is the right school for your family, and the longer we try to ignore that reality, the more pain it will cause your children.”

Such is the dark atmosphere for Jews. They have to face constant hatred, even in “the land of the brave and home of the free.” Regrettably, such is the success of pro-Islamic and both left- and right-wing propaganda in the West that Jews will apparently continue to be unjustly blamed for all that is wrong with the world, at least for the near future.

Historically, Jews generally have not been racist, at least not more than anyone else. They have lived amicably among foreign cultures for centuries, and are certainly not “genocidal.” On the contrary, Israel is home to virtually all cultures and all ethnicities. Israel’s Arabs and Christians are offered mostly the same benefits as Israel’s Jews, with the exception that, other than Circassians and Druze, they are not required to serve in Israel’s armed forces, although they may do so if they choose. Modern Israel has never initiated a war against its neighbors. It is not an imperialist or expansionist nation — in fact, it fought British imperialism. Israel is a country that, for decades, has simply sought a secure peace.

Nils A. Haug is an author and columnist. A Lawyer by profession, he is member of the International Bar Association, the National Association of Scholars, the Academy of Philosophy and Letters. Dr. Haug holds a Ph.D. in Apologetical Theology and is author of ‘Politics, Law, and Disorder in the Garden of Eden – the Quest for Identity’; and ‘Enemies of the Innocent – Life, Truth, and Meaning in a Dark Age.’ His work has been published by First Things Journal, The American Mind, Quadrant, Minding the Campus, Gatestone Institute, National Association of Scholars, Jewish Journal, James Wilson Institute (Anchoring Truths), Jewish News Syndicate, Tribune Juive, Document Danmark, and many others.