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Greta’s flotilla has exposed the suicidal stupidity of Islamo-leftism Why is anyone surprised that Allah-fearing Koran-bashers and genderfluid Westerners are struggling to get along? Brendan O’Neill

By on September 26th, 2025

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/09/25/gretas-flotilla-and-the-suicidal-stupidity-of-islamo-leftism/

Remember when leftists chanted, ‘Yemen, Yemen, make us proud / Turn another ship around!’, goading the medieval anti-Semites of the Houthi movement to bomb merchant ships in the Red Sea? Well, now those same people are blubbing like babies because Israel allegedly pumped some ABBA on to their flotilla of boats heading to Gaza. So it’s fine for a racist militia to rain missiles on the hard-grafting men of merchant ships, but heaven forbid that the Jewish State subject the lily-handed activist class to a bit of ‘Dancing Queen’. Bombing commercial ships is resistance – making the West’s privileged, preening haters of Israel listen to some Seventies bangers is a war crime.

They don’t like it up ’em, do they, to quote Lance Corporal Jones. A fitting line to cite because, when you think about it, these flotilla fools are the Dad’s Army of the high seas, only younger and a lot more sinister. A gaggle of social misfits that fancies itself as a force for good. A mob of inept muppets that hilariously fantasises it will save the world from evil – from Nazism in the case of Dad’s Army, from Zionism in the case of the ABBA-oppressed TikTokers on those dumb boats sailing into a warzone. Rarely has the woke left’s toxic combination of grating self-pity and depthless self-regard been so starkly exposed as it has by the latest melodramas from these white-saviour ships in the Med.

It’s hard to figure out exactly what’s going on with the flotilla. We know 52 boats are involved. We know Greta Thunberg is on one of them. We know they intend to ‘smash’ Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza. We know they’re carrying food parcels for Gazans. We know that in the six weeks or so that they’re at sea, Israel will have handed out around 40million meals in Gaza. And we know this will do sweet FA to dislodge the latest hip libel about the Jewish State ‘starving Palestinians to death’.

But everything else is unclear. The boat folk claim their communications systems have been targeted. ‘They’re jamming our radio!’, cried one as ABBA blasted in the background. Is it wrong that I laughed? They say drones have flown overhead. They say some of the drones have dropped items on to the boats, possibly including ‘noise grenades’, which are designed to disorientate people without injuring them. They say it’s all Israel’s doing, though the Italian authorities, in whose waters these things reportedly happened, pointed the finger at ‘unidentified perpetrators’. Israel is staying schtum. It refuses to comment on the very serious accusation that it is committing the war crime of winding up Swedish Greta with some Swedish pop.

The flotilla’s keffiyeh-adorned flag-shaggers are shocked that someone seems to be targeting them. I’m shocked these people are that dumb.

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Michael Finch’s Riveting ‘A Time to Stand’ The President of the Freedom Center delivers a masterpiece. by Bruce Bawer

By on September 26th, 2025

Patriot. Philosopher. Prophet. Poet.

Let’s start with this. Michael routinely, and reverently, reaches back into American history, contrasting today’s corrupt and mediocre political class – and the preposterous cultural elites who support them – with our brilliant Founders and the greatest of our presidents, military heroes, artists, and authors. In an era of grubby race hustlers, insane transgender ideologues, appalling apologists for Islamic jihad, and miscellaneous merchants of madness, Michael patiently reminds us, time after time, that our beloved country is the product of the strenuous efforts of millions of men and women who, over many generations, and with a quiet nobility and extraordinary sense of self-sacrifice, settled the land, worked the land, and, when called to do so, took up arms for the land.

In some moods, to be sure, Michael is capable of expressing the view that the America that some of us are old enough to remember and were brought up to revere – the America of hard work and high principle – is slipping through our fingers, or is lost already: as he puts it, to Americans “over a certain age, this America, this culture, this society have become beyond foreign. It is not the country we grew up in and it is not the country we want to die in. It is alien.” More often, however, Michael is a man of hope and faith who is quick to assure us – and himself – that in spite of everything that the bad guys, the soulless self-seekers, have done to despoil it, our America “is still out there, that America that we remember, the one that was proud and strong, but also assured, humble — the one that embodied a quiet patriotism that didn’t need boasting.”

Indeed, in a time when we are subjected constantly to the inane bombast of despicable political careerists and unscrupulous media lackeys, Michael reminds us that the nobility of our immigrant and settler ancestors was, indeed, overwhelmingly a humble nobility. And if he is so extremely effective in reminding us of this, it is because he himself embodies that same kind of humble nobility, speaking to us, in most of his essays, not in a hectoring tone but in a gentle yet urgent voice that commands attention because it is speaking fundamental truths – home truths – about who we, as Americans, were, once upon a time, and who we can be again.

Yes, Michael can lay it on the line with the best of them, asking in one essay, with a richly justified asperity, “When did this war on race begin, where did this sudden hatred of white people come from?  What is a white person anyway?  Am I supposed to have more in common with say, a Bulgarian than with my Mexican-American neighbor or a black man that has roots in America going back almost four centuries?  What foolishness is this?” In 2016, when some Trump supporters were “running for the hills” after the release of NBC’s infamous Access Hollywood recording of Trump saying a single vulgar word, Michael was able to work up genuine anger at these “quislings” and to mount an eloquent and stirring – and deeply wise and well-informed – defense of the future president:

As conservatives, we love to think of America being founded, and for 240 years, run by nothing but pious Christian pilgrims. But, this is just fantasy. We have had very pious men in our history, but also very many rogues, drunks, gamblers, womanizers, etc., lead our country, fight our wars, and create our industries. We may not want to admit it, but the very same traits required to take risks, to lead men, to create and build, often coalesce with some of the traits that we find so morally repugnant.

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The ‘Free’ University of Brussels: An Anti-Semitic Madrassa in Europe? by Drieu Godefridi

By on September 26th, 2025

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21922/free-university-of-brussels

The climate of hatred and intimidation is so pervasive that, according to them, it is impossible to be Jewish on the ULB campus. One cannot speak or express oneself as Jewish — or simply be Jewish. Just being a Jew is condemned and subjected to violence.

Finally, when Alain Destexhe, long-time Belgian Senator, sought to shed light on this choice by pointing to demographic developments at ULB, citing around twenty first names — without surnames — the university immediately, the same day, filed a complaint against him for “incitement to hatred”. It is questionable how the observation of a demographic evolution — neither good nor bad in itself, but simply factual — could be construed as “hateful”. So much for “free inquiry”, the motto of the ULB.

Out of conviction or cowardice, the Free University of Brussels seems to have chosen the path of complicity with Islamist anti-Semitism.

Voices are now calling on the Belgian authorities and the European Union (notably within the Erasmus program) to take the necessary measures, including the complete withdrawal of funding.

The Free University of Brussels (ULB) has been making headlines in Europe. Law students decided to name their class after Rima Hassan, a French Islamist politician known for her anti-Semitic positions and her apologetics for Hamas and other terrorist organizations. That decision came against the backdrop of countless attacks and threats targeting Jewish students on the Brussels campus.

Has the ULB become a breeding ground for Islamist and anti-Semitic hatred in Europe?

1. Anti-Semitic attacks

May 2024 – Physical assaults against Jewish students at the ULB campus. Jewish students, including the president of the Union of Jewish Students in Belgium, were attacked by pro-Palestinian demonstrators. The victims were first insulted, then beaten. Israel’s ambassador to Belgium, Idit Rosenzweig Abu, shared a video of the attack. Incredibly, campus security removed the Jewish students — the victims, not the aggressors — from the premises “for their own safety”, without immediately intervening against the attackers. Hundreds of people then demonstrated to denounce this gratuitous and indiscriminate anti-Semitic violence.

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Is There Any Role for the United Nations in Trump 2.0? Trump blasted the UN as corrupt, anti-American, and obsessed with “woke nonsense,” vowing to cut funding while pushing it to focus on peace and real security. By Fred Fleitz

By on September 26th, 2025

https://amgreatness.com/2025/09/26/is-there-any-role-for-the-united-nations-in-trump-2-0/

During his address to the United Nations General Assembly this week, President Trump denounced the UN for its uselessness in ending wars, stating that the world organization is not living up to its potential and pointedly asked, “What is the purpose of the United Nations?”

This is a question many Americans have asked recently as they watched President Trump and his foreign policy team try to end wars around the world while the UN did nothing but hold do-nothing meetings, issue “empty words” about global conflicts, and pass anti-Israel resolutions.

This, of course, is not a new problem. The UN has been corrupt and strongly anti-U.S. and anti-Israel for most of its existence. Like President Trump, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick once condemned the UN for the “bizarre reversal” of its founding intent to resolve conflicts. During the Cold War, the UN was dominated by an anti-Western/anti-Israel Third World-Soviet bloc alliance. Today, it is dominated by China and woke anti-U.S./anti-Israel ideologies.

Trump said his exasperation with the UN has also been driven by its obsession with climate change and “the failed experiment of open borders.” The president stated that these issues are destroying many nations.

Trump called climate change the “greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world” and “the green energy scam.” He also slammed UN aid to migrants, claiming the world organization is “funding an assault on Western countries,” and noted that the UN in 2024 “budgeted $372 million in cash assistance to support an estimated 624,000 migrants journeying into the United States.” The president concluded, “It’s time to end the failed experiment of open borders.”

Although Trump’s views on these topics are commonly held in the U.S., they are sacrilege at the UN and were received with gasps and grumbling in the General Assembly Hall—a clear sign of how out of touch the United Nations is with the American people.

Trump had harsh words for many nations that are making it harder to end the wars in Gaza and Ukraine. He criticized moves by several states to recognize a Palestinian state as rewarding Hamas. The president also criticized nations that are buying energy from Russia, noting that “China and India are the primary funders of the ongoing [Ukraine] war by continuing to purchase Russian oil. But inexcusably, even NATO countries have not cut off much Russian energy and Russian energy products.”

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Left-Wing Terrorism Has Been Unleashed

By on September 26th, 2025

https://issuesinsights.com/2025/09/26/left-wing-terrorism-has-been-unleashed/

For years, we were told by government officials and outside “experts” that the terrorists in our midst were mostly right-wing fanatics – a list that under the Biden administration came to include parents who spoke up at local school board meetings and Catholics who like the Latin mass.

But even the left is now admitting what everyone else already knows.

Namely, that despite their constant bleating about tolerance and peace, it’s leftists who pose the greatest threat to Americans.

This week, the Trump-hating Atlantic magazine published an article titled “Left-Wing Terrorism Is on the Rise,” written by scholars at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

“We found that left-wing terrorism has increased since President Donald Trump’s rise to political prominence in 2016. Indeed, 2025 marks the first time in more than 30 years that left-wing attacks outnumber those from the far right.”

By early July, “far-left extremists had already been responsible for five terrorist attacks and plots, putting 2025 on pace to be the left’s most violent year in more than three decades.”

And their list doesn’t include the killer who slaughtered two children in a Minneapolis church, the gunman who shot up ABC10 in Sacramento, the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the killing in a New Hampshire restaurant by a gunman who shouted “free Palestine,” or the attempted assassination of ICE agents in Dallas by a shooter who engraved bullet casings with “Anti-ICE” (but who ended up killing an illegal immigrant). All of these political attacks were committed by leftists — in just the past month.

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