https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77Ku7_LbSnA
Douglas Murray – author of On Democracies and Death Cults – on the cowardice and impotence of Western elites. This is a clip from _The Brendan O’Neill Show_. Watch the full episode here: • Douglas Murray: Can civilisation survive? …
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/10/03/spare-us-your-crocodile-tears-starmer-and-corbyn/
The experience of being a Jew in Britain over the past two years has been one of trapdoors of depravity. You fall through one on to what you think is firm ground, only to discover that there is always further to fall. Yesterday was a prime example.
The terror attack on a Manchester synagogue was, of course, the sort of shock that changes things forever. This was something that all in the community had feared, yet it had thankfully failed to materialise. In France, yes, there had been attacks like this on many occasions. The attack on Charlie Hebdo, the defenestration of elderly Jews in Paris and Lyon, the anti-Semitic rape last year of a 12-year-old girl. But in Britain, nothing of that nature.
Well, so much for that. Today, it emerged that the community security guards had prevented the attacker from entering the Heaton Park synagogue, at huge personal cost, with one killed and the other seriously injured. Their everyday heroism – as is common with such atrocities – provided a shining light in the darkness that descended at the hands of Jihad al-Shamie.
Yes, nothing will ever be the same for Jews in Britain, if indeed they remain here. As it turned out, however, the attack itself was only the first trapdoor of the depravity.
Before the blood was dry, the condolences came pouring in. What’s wrong with that, I hear you ask? Nothing, I suppose, when the people offering the condolences are genuine. In this case, however, you couldn’t move for disingenuousness and hypocrisy.
Take, for example, a certain Jeremy Corbyn. ‘I am horrified by the news of multiple stabbings at a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur’, he posted to his 2.5million followers on X. ‘We must defend a society where people of all faiths can practise their religion in safety and peace.’ This from the man who, a few years ago, referred to the genocidal anti-Semites of Hamas as his ‘friends’.
Nobody can see into Corbyn’s soul of course, if indeed he has one. But many observers found the words ‘crocodile’ and ‘tears’ coming to mind.
Which brings me to his successor. Last week, Sir Keir Starmer was basking in the adulation of Hamas after he recognised a Palestinian state without any preconditions. While this week’s Trump peace plan boxed the jihadis in, Starmer’s policy did the same to Israel.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/pro-hamas-mob-storms-downing-street-after-synagogue-attack/
After the Muslim terrorist attack at a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur, PM Keir Starmer made remarks claiming that he’s going to fight “antisemitic hatred”. It might have be more useful to fight Islamic terrorism, but in any case his party’s base would like to go in a very different direction.
As they showed when they showed up as a mob to protest not killing Jews.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm-plus/mamdani-for-jihad/
Speaking at a mosque during his campaign, New York City’s likely next mayor Zohran Mamdani announced happily: “I am the first Muslim elected official to ever run for mayor in the history of our city.” An official of the mosque who was standing behind Mamdani immediately called out, “Takbir,” which is a prompt to which Muslims respond “Allahu akbar,” that is, Allah is greater, greater than the gods of the non-Muslims. The assembled believers responded dutifully, albeit unenthusiastically, but the candidate did not. He may have been aware that he was on video and suspected that him saying “Allahu akbar,” which so many jihad terrorists have called out as they committed murder and mayhem, would not be good campaign optics. Yet he really doesn’t make a secret of where he stands. He’s pro-jihad, at least against Israel and India.
Mamdani then went on to point out that most of the people in the room were migrants and delivered his standard stump speech about how he was running for mayor to make the city more affordable. He asserted that in his campaign, he was following the example of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, who taught that Muslims should strive to make things easy for people.
His only other references to Islam came once again in the context of victimhood. Mamdani told a story about how “a brother of mine, Asad” took a photo of him at a campaign event and posted it on social media with the caption, “Alhamdulillah [thanks be to Allah], the first Muslim elected official to run for mayor.” Mamdani went on to claim that “a member of the New York Post responded. He said, ‘Is it true that they did not allow pagers into the event?’”
Mamdani explained this as a reference to Israel’s blowing up of pagers belonging to the jihad terrorist group Hizballah, asserting that “scores of Lebanese civilians, including a young girl by the name of Fatima” had been killed in this operation. His hatred for Israel was as clear as when he famously refused to condemn the phrase “Globalize the Intifada.”
The candidate then claimed improbably: “And we know that to be Muslim in public life in this city and in this country, is to face these kinds of responses, and to be called a terrorist no matter where it is, where you go.” He emphasized that they had an opportunity “to prove that Muslims don’t just belong in New York City, we also belong in city hall.” Mamdani clearly thought this was a winning line, as he used it in at least one other mosque as well.
Yet in closing, he undercut any idea that he was running solely as a Muslim candidate for his Muslim constituency: “We have an opportunity to vote for not only one of us, but more importantly, a city that each one of us can afford.” On another occasion, Mamdani demonstrated that he was more of a politician than a fanatical believer when he spoke at a Gurduwara, a Sikh temple, and left wearing a bandanna with a Sikh emblem tied over his head.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21928/intent-to-destroy-israel
Raging against Israel are those hypocritical, self-righteous, self-seeking, egocentric, cowardly leaders: Emmanuel Macron (France), Keir Starmer (UK), Anthony Albanese (Australia), Mark Carney (Canada), Pedro Sanchez (Spain) and their ilk, seemingly without an ounce of integrity between them, supporting an avowed genocidal death cult that publicly expresses the desire to murder all Jews, Christians, and other “infidels,” and take down the West.
If you do not want to fight the invasions in your own countries, at least stand aside and do not obstruct someone else doing it for you. These feckless so-called leaders even fail to protect their own Jewish citizens from domestic terror. By so acting, and by legalizing Islamic Sharia law, they are oozing toward complete submission to the Islamist hordes they have encouraged to reside in their midst. In this way, as Trump cautioned, they are actively destroying their own nations and Western civilization itself.
Sadly, suicidally, it is also about appeasing their radical Islamist voters – who will probably reciprocate, as Trump noted, by wanting more.
There are no longer gray areas in the implied intent of major Western nations, such as France, Spain, Portugal, Canada, the UK, Australia and others, to isolate or destroy Israel.
Hamas and associated jihadist murderers are not Israel’s primary enemies; rather, Israel’s real enemies are its purported allies — those Western powers seeking its demise by legitimizing a terror-dominated Palestinian state alongside, and within, the borders of the world’s only Jewish homeland. Ironically, these are the countries Israel is defending as it fights a seven-front war, sacrificing nearly a thousand of its heroic soldiers. Israel is defending these Western nations against an invasion that President Donald J. Trump clearly warned is “not sustainable”:
“You’re destroying your countries…. Europe is in serious trouble. They’ve been invaded by a force of illegal aliens like nobody’s ever seen before. Illegal aliens are pouring into Europe, and nobody’s doing anything to change it, to get them out. It’s not sustainable. And because they choose to be politically correct, they’re doing just absolutely nothing about it….
“Now they want to go to Sharia law, but you’re in a different country, you can’t do that. Both the immigration and their suicidal energy ideas will be the death of Western Europe if something is not done immediately. This cannot be sustained. What makes the world so beautiful is that each country is unique, but to stay this way, every sovereign nation must have the right to control their own borders…. as we do now, and to limit the sheer numbers of migrants entering their countries and paid for by the people of that nation that were there and that built that particular nation at the time. They put their blood, sweat, tears, money into that country, and now they’re being ruined….
“Proud nations must be allowed to protect their communities and prevent their societies from being overwhelmed by people they have never seen before with different customs, religions, with different everything. Where migrants have violated laws, lodged false asylum claims or claimed refugee status for illegitimate reasons, they should, in many cases, be immediately sent home. And while we will always have a big heart for places and people that are struggling and truly compassionate, answers will be given. We have to solve the problem and we have to solve it in their countries, not create new problems in our countries.”
https://amgreatness.com/2025/10/03/trumps-bold-gaza-peace-plan-is-an-offer-hamas-cant-veto/
Although it appeared, as this article went to print, that Hamas would not accept President Trump’s historic 20-point Gaza Peace Plan without substantial changes, the beauty of this plan is that it may bring peace to the Middle East and initiate a process to rebuild Gaza, regardless of what Hamas decides. This is because, due to President Trump’s leadership, Arab states, the Palestinian Authority, and Israel support this plan; the war will soon end, and a process to rebuild and secure Gaza will proceed, even if Hamas rejects the plan.
Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar support the 20-point plan. Even the Palestinian Authority (PA), which rejected previous peace plans as insufficient, has accepted this plan. European states have voiced their support. Although the Israeli government is uncomfortable with some provisions of the plan, it has accepted it.
Some of the provisions of the 20-point plan are similar to previous plans that failed due to Hamas’s opposition. The plan calls for a cease-fire, the release of all hostages held by Hamas, and the release of almost 2,000 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. Hamas will be disarmed and its weapons will be destroyed. Hamas will be barred from playing any role in the future governance of Gaza. Hamas members who pledge to live peacefully and support coexistence with Israel will be offered amnesty. Those who refuse will be provided safe passage out of Gaza.
The plan includes some new ideas involving Israeli concessions that address previous stumbling blocks. Israel will not annex the Gaza Strip, and Israeli troops will gradually withdraw and be limited to a perimeter presence.
A temporary international stabilization force will be deployed in Gaza to oversee security, demilitarization, and reconstruction in Gaza following a ceasefire and the disarmament of Hamas. This force will reportedly be staffed mainly by troops from Gulf Arab states. A Palestinian Authority police force will eventually be deployed after the PA is reformed and deradicalized.
A Board of Peace will be established as a temporary international oversight body to manage Gaza’s transitional governance and redevelopment. President Trump will chair this board. Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair will be a prominent member. Arab and European members will join them. The board will eventually be dissolved and replaced by the PA after it undergoes substantial reforms and deradicalization.
Finally, the plan keeps the door open to a future Palestinian state, albeit as a distant Palestinian aspiration. According to the plan, “when Gaza’s redevelopment has been advanced and the PA reform program has been implemented, the conditions may be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian statehood, which is recognized as the aspiration of the Palestinian people.”
The idea of any role for the Palestinian Authority in administering or securing Gaza and proposals for a Palestinian state have been anathemas for Israeli officials in the aftermath of the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre against Israel. However, Israel’s grudging acceptance of vague provisions on these ideas was crucial to winning the support of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, and the UAE. Coupled with Netanyahu’s apology to Qatar for violating Qatari sovereignty in Israel’s recent airstrike, Hamas now has no Arab support in opposing the Trump plan. This may set the stage not just to rebuild Gaza but also to expand the Abraham Accords.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/10/02/britain-has-abandoned-jews-to-this-savagery/
Six minutes. That is all it took for Britain to descend to a new low of infamy, in which Jews are slaughtered at synagogues. A nation whose entire postwar sense of self is bound up with the fight against the Nazis – against militarised anti-Semitism – is now a place where Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, has become stained in the blood of British Jews, brutally murdered by an assailant dressed all in black.
The attack this morning at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Crumpsall, at the heart of the Jewish community in the north of Manchester, is by turns horrific and horrifically predictable. A car rammed into congregants, a scumbag emerged and stabbed two dead, before being ‘neutralised’ by armed police as he tried to smash his way through a window, while wearing what appeared to be a suicide vest but may well have been a grotesque prop to his barbarous performance.
Words fail me. Because we have failed Jews. The horror in Crumpsall comes after years of anti-Semitism bubbling up from the depths, while the great and good did little more than spray some air freshener, offering warm words about standing with the Jewish community, while doing naff all else. In which Labour continues to prattle on about ‘Islamophobia’ or the ‘racism’ of Nigel Farage’s visa proposals, while the world’s oldest hatred has staged a barbaric comeback on our streets.
Even before 7 October in Israel – the most deadly assault on Jews since the Holocaust, two years ago this week – British Jews could see what was coming. Even before Hamas sent its killers and rapists into kibbutzim and dance parties, even before Western capitals erupted in jubilation about those apocalyptic incursions, British Jews made up 0.5 per cent of the population and a quarter of the victims of religious hate crimes. Jewish pensioners would be suckerpunched in north London. A Jewish cemetery in Kent was desecrated eight times in 10 years. Security around schools and synagogues became a grim fact of British Jewish life. Meanwhile, we had TV debates about whether it was racist for Boris Johnson to mock the burqa, or Adele to wear her hair in braids and wave a Jamaican flag during Notting Hill Carnival. It shames us.
https://amgreatness.com/2025/10/02/from-the-league-of-nations-to-the-united-nations-to-trump-global/
Historians traditionally blame the failure of the League of Nations—the post-World War I, Versailles-era dream of President Woodrow Wilson—on many things.
Its membership was small (58 nations). The League’s utopian rhetoric lacked commensurate force.
The postwar ascendant United States refused to join.
The winners of World War I, like France and Britain, were terrified of rearming, while the losers, such as Germany and Austria, were eager to.
Consequently, the League in the mid-1930s allowed fascist powers to make a mockery of the Versailles Treaty. It could never even enforce its own embargoes and sanctions.
Without big power backup, the League soon watched the Axis powers prey on weak nations and start another world war.
In response, the post-World War II United Nations was said to have corrected the impotence of the old League.
The U.S. was now in. Indeed, the UN headquarters were to be in New York.
Almost all the nations of the world—currently 193—eventually joined.
A “Security Council” of the great powers (and former great powers) would “police” the consensus of the General Assembly of all members.
The UN would spin off a host of subordinate globalist projects, such as the World Health Organization, International Criminal Court, and World Bank, to promote peace, law, health, and profit.
Yet the UN’s 80-year record has proved as dismal as the League’s 26 years.
Only half the UN members are free societies and true democracies.
The two greatest threats to world peace—dictatorial Russia and communist China—exercise veto power in the Security Council.
Anti-Semitism is now a UN brand. So are rank corruption and profiteering.
No one expects the UN either to prevent or stop a war.
Aside from serving as a platform for national propaganda, it is increasingly both impotent and toxically anti-Western.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21948/qatar-supporting-terrorist-groups
If anyone needs to apologize, it is Qatar, which has long been financing, hosting, and advocating for Hamas and other Islamist terror groups such as the Islamic State (ISIS) and Al-Qaeda.
Qatar, in fact, needs to apologize not only to Israel, but to several Arab countries affected by the Gulf state’s support for Islamist terror groups.
“Qatar is now known as the world’s safe haven for terrorist groups and militia leaders…. Evidence suggests that Qatar has directly armed or financed multiple Islamist groups in the region, undermining U.S. objectives in pivotal countries such as Libya, Egypt, and Syria by pushing those places toward violent extremism.” — US Representative Doug Lamborn, 2015.
Qatar is not – and never was – an impartial mediator in the Hamas-Israel war. As a longtime sponsor of the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist terrorist groups, Qatar’s main goal is to ensure that Hamas, possibly under a different guise, continues to play a key role in the Palestinian arena.
People who contend that Qatar might “change,” thanks to the potential incentives of the Abraham Accords, appear afflicted with the same illusions as those who fantasize that the Palestinian Authority will reform. Sadly, the self-interested statements by French President Emmanuel Macron, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese have encouraged the terrorists and their sponsors to have renewed hope that they finally might be able to get rid of Israel, after all.
In its perennial role as both the “arsonist and the firefighter,” as with the Taliban in Afghanistan, there is every reason to assume — unless someone emphatically stops them — that Qatar will set about surreptitiously creating a “Hamas, the Sequel” the minute the weather improves.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly “apologized” to his Qatari counterpart for violating the Gulf state’s sovereignty in Israel’s September 9 strike against Hamas leaders in Doha. The alleged apology took place in a September 29 phone call arranged by US President Donald J. Trump.
If anyone needs to apologize, it is Qatar, which has long been financing, hosting, and advocating for Hamas and other Islamist terror groups such as the Islamic State (ISIS) and Al-Qaeda.
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/10/01/the-gazan-suicide-bomber-who-attacked-israeli-hospital-that-saved-her-life-n4944341
Here’s a story every American should hear — the Gaza woman who twice received extensive life-saving care from Israel, obtained her education through Israel, and then returned to blow up the hospital that saved her life. And she told an American journalist that she would attempt another terrorist attack in a heartbeat if she could.
Westerners tend to be cultural imperialists, which means that they make the false assumption that the overwhelming majority of human beings have basically the same goals and standards and want the same outcomes. The number of egregiously stupid mistakes that American politicians, for instance, have made because they refuse to acknowledge that Communist and Islamic regimes don’t value the lives or prosperity of their people is appalling.
Even the new America-brokered deal pressed on Israel that would require the release of hundreds of Gaza jihadists — Oct. 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar was previously released through just such a deal — does not seem to acknowledge that the overwhelming majority of the so-called Palestinians fanatically and fundamentally believe they must wipe Israel off the map for Allah. They are taught that from school, the media, and mosques from the youngest ages. As long as Gaza exists as a Muslim-run territory, Israel will be fighting off terror attacks.
But Sinwar was only one of about a thousand Gazans traded back in a deal for a single Israeli hostage, just as the brand new deal would release around 2,000 Gazans in exchange for the nearly 50 Israeli hostages. Among the other Gazans in the Sinwar deal was Wafa, an attempted suicide bomber who targeted the very Israeli hospital that had saved her life.
Back in 2012, Leland Vittert told The Free Press’s Bari Weiss that he was a foreign correspondent for Fox News. He described how normal it was as a Middle Eastern correspondent to have to cover suicide bombings against Israel and riots in the “West Bank,” which is the Palestinian propaganda term for the Israeli land the Bible calls Judea and Samaria. But the Obama-backed “Arab Spring” that gave birth to so many Islamic terrorist movements had been occupying his time.
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