Europe’s Elites Want a Great Replacement Just don’t call it that. by Bruce Bawer

https://www.frontpagemag.com/europes-elites-want-a-great-replacement/

One of the consequences of the Hamas atrocities of October 7, 2023, was this: they reminded native Europeans that a good many of the millions of Muslims who live in their countries are not necessarily the friendly bearers of cultural enrichment that politicians claim them to be. After Gazans massacred Israelis on such a terrifying scale, native Europeans were compelled to recognize that the same thing could happen – tomorrow morning – on their own turf. Little wonder that anti-immigration parties have won more support.

And nowhere in Europe, perhaps, has awareness of the danger of mass immigration spiked more than in Britain. A handful of brave souls have been talking about the Muslim rape gangs for years, but even now precious few of the perpetrators have been brought to justice. A not inconsiderable percentage of Muslims in Britain admit to pollsters that they’d like to see the country subjected to sharia law. A long list of major British cities have Muslim mayors. Even as native Brits struggle to find decent, affordable housing, the government is putting Muslim illegals up in luxury hotels.

Those who dare to complain publicly about any of these things risk arrest and prosecution. Indeed, while people are allowed to march in the streets waving Hamas flags, displaying the Union Jack or the St. George’s cross – the flag of England – is treated as a crime. For years, both the Conservatives and Labourites have repeatedly promised to reduce immigration and repeatedly broken their promises. Reform UK, the party whose electoral fortunes have skyrocketed as a result, seems too timid to do what’s necessary to rescue the UK from full Islamization.

Perfect timing, then, for an article in the Guardian arguing that Britain, and indeed all of Europe, needs to increase immigration levels. “Those wanting to shut Europe’s borders,” avers the British journalist Alex Clark, “must contend with a stark demographic reality: the continent’s native population is expected to fall sharply over the next century in an era of low birth rates.” So if anti-immigration parties take control in Europe and actually succeed in reducing immigration rates, it “could speed up the population decline of Europe, creating economic shocks including slower growth and soaring costs from pensions and elderly care.”

Is Any Place Safe to Visit Anymore? Matt Margolis

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/09/07/is-any-place-safe-to-visit-anymore-n4943423

I’ve always thought I’d eventually make it to the United Kingdom. It’s one of those “bucket list” destinations—castles, history, the pubs, the whole cultural experience, even the Harry Potter experience. But truth be told, over the past several years my appetite for visiting has cooled considerably. Sometimes the decline of a nation unfolds so quickly, you feel as though you’re watching it in real time. 

PJ Media previously reported on the recent arrest of Graham Linehan, the man behind the sitcoms Father Ted and The IT Crowd, and the whole incident has pushed the UK squarely into the category of places I may never set foot in. Short of a total course correction in British culture and politics, I can’t imagine ever going. 

Earlier this month, Linehan touched down at Heathrow from the U.S. and was immediately surrounded by five armed police officers—and then arrested for three tweets he posted back in April. His “crime”? Pointing out that letting a biological male into female-only spaces is, by definition, a violent, abusive act. He even joked that if authorities won’t step in to protect women, maybe ordinary people will have to. Predictably, critics ran with the line about “punch him in the b***s,” portraying it as some dire threat of violence. But anyone with half a brain could see it for what it was: hyperbole, a comedian mocking the absurdity of the world we’ve let ourselves live in. In Britain today, though, nuance is dead—and so is free speech.

Even Linehan’s bail conditions were an Orwellian overreach, banning him from accessing social media altogether. Those restrictions were only lifted on Saturday, highlighting again how intrusive and destructive the system is becoming. Public figures remain deeply split—some insist the police response was grossly disproportionate while others call his tweets “totally unacceptable.” Yet no one even questions the biggest outrage: that a citizen was placed in handcuffs over words.

Chicago Passes 300 Dead No reason to send the National Guard, Chicago mayor insists. by Daniel Greenfield

https://www.frontpagemag.com/chicago-passes-300-dead/

Even as Illinois Gov. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson continued their press tour, condemning President Trump for proposing to fight crime in Chiraq, the body count in the city has passed 300 this year.

After 11 murders last week, Chicago hit the big 300. The next big round number will be 1,400 shot which at current rates, Chicago will likely pass by the end of this week.

September is already up to 8 murders. Probably more by the time you read this.

The media spent so much time platforming Pritzker’s lies that crime is down (it’s not, the 4 killed this weekend match the same weekend in 2024) or Johnson’s useless executive order refusing to cooperate with federal law enforcement that it completely ignored the minor story of the people actually being murdered.

At least 16 people have been shot, four fatally, in shootings across Chicago this weekend, police said. This weekend’s gun violence comes after at least 58 people were shot, eight fatally, across the city over the long Labor Day holiday weekend last week.

Nothing to see here. Just lots of bodies. And politicians desperately trying to spin this as public safety.

The Man Who Invented Conservatism A new book rescues Frank Meyer from obscurity. by Mark Tapson

https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-man-who-invented-conservatism/

Ask the random conservative to name a modern architect of his political philosophy and names like Russell Kirk or William F. Buckley are likely to come to mind. Maybe George Will or Irving Kristol, Barry Goldwater or Ronald Reagan. It would take a perceptive student of conservatism to come up with the name of Frank S. Meyer.

Daniel J. Flynn’s brand new book The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer is a riveting, meticulously researched biography that breathes life into the extraordinary journey of Meyer, a man whose intellectual odyssey from fervent Communist to architect of modern American conservatism is as improbable as it is inspiring.

FrontPage Mag contributor Daniel Flynn is a senior editor of The American Spectator and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is the author of seven books including A Conservative History of the American Left; Cult City: Jim Jones, Harvey Milk, and 10 Days That Shook San Francisco (I interviewed him about that one for FrontPage Mag here); and Why the Left Hates America, which I’ve also read and recommend.

Flynn’s new biography is a compelling contribution to the historiography of American political thought.

The BLS Blows It Again!

https://issuesinsights.com/2025/09/08/the-bls-blows-it-again/

When President Donald Trump tapped economist EJ Antoni to head the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the elites in Washington clucked their thick tongues. Antoni might have a doctorate in economics, but he’s not “widely recognized”! He’s tweeted some things that turned out wrong! Worse still, he seems to like Trump!

But on Friday, the BLS proved once again why it is in desperate need of an overhaul by an outsider such as Antoni.

When it released its monthly jobs report on Friday, the BLS said the economy had created 22,000 jobs in August – a weak number that generated countless headlines.

But who knows what the actual number is? These days, you could throw a dart at a wall while blindfolded and be as accurate as this agency.

In each monthly report, the BLS revises the previous two months’ numbers as additional data come in.

You’d think that these revisions would be rather small, given the massive size of the survey it conducts each month – more than 100,000 businesses and government agencies.

You’d be wrong.

The chart below shows the initial report, and the subsequent revisions, since the November elections. Does this look like the work of top professionals?

From Peace Laureate to Press Jailer: The Authoritarian Transformation of Muhammad Yunus by Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21891/bangladesh-yunus-authoritarian

The silencing of Bangladesh’s media is not just about censorship — it is part of a larger transformation of the country into a breeding ground for radical Islamist politics that threatens the stability of the entire region.

By criminalizing the press, Yunus is dismantling the very institutions that could hold his interim regime accountable, while empowering Islamist groups that thrive in darkness.

Ansar al-Islam, the Bangladeshi franchise of Al-Qaeda, openly justifies murdering secular writers and bloggers by branding them “enemies of Islam.”

Yunus’s reliance on Islamist allies such as Jamaat-e-Islami undermines this role by pushing Bangladesh into a trajectory that will likely make it hostile to US interests.

If Bangladesh descends further into authoritarianism and Islamist radicalization, it risks becoming another Afghanistan — a sanctuary for extremist groups with transnational ambitions.

Washington cannot afford to remain silent while an unelected regime dismantles democracy and silences the media in Bangladesh.

Yunus has promised elections in February 2026, but his Islamist allies are already signaling their intention to sabotage the process. If the media remains silenced, if journalists remain in prison, the path is clear: Bangladesh will be robbed of its democracy and its people robbed of their voice.

Bangladesh stands at a dangerous crossroads. The persecution of journalists under Yunus is not merely an assault on freedom of expression – it is the deliberate dismantling of democracy itself. Every day that Monjurul Alam Panna and other journalists remain behind bars, Bangladesh moves closer to becoming another Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.

If Yunus’s regime is not challenged now, Bangladesh will not just lose its democracy — it will proceed to export instability across South Asia.

For years, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been synonymous with the brutal silencing of dissent, turning his country into one of the world’s largest prisons for journalists. Today, shockingly, Bangladesh — once hailed as a moderate Muslim democracy — is following the same dangerous path under the unelected, military-backed rule of Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus.

Since the Islamist-backed coup of 2024 that installed Yunus in power, the country has witnessed an unprecedented assault on freedom of the press. Journalists have been dragged to jail under trumped-up charges, assaulted in courtrooms, and criminalized under the vague Anti-Terrorism Act. The once vibrant Bangladeshi media, long known for its resilience, is now suffocating under a regime that increasingly mirrors Taliban-style authoritarianism.

The Issue Is Never the Issue: Senate Hearing Turns Into Proxy War RFK Jr.’s Senate grilling wasn’t about COVID or the CDC—it was a proxy battle over power, Trump, and who controls the narrative. By Roger Kimball

https://amgreatness.com/2025/09/07/the-issue-is-never-the-issue-senate-hearing-turns-into-proxy-war/

The issue is never the issue.

The appearance of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services, before the Pfizer Tribunal at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Thursday reminded me of the truth of that famous saying of Saul Alinsky.

The issue is never the issue. What is always the issue, according to that community organizer nonpareil, is power.

Ostensibly, Secretary Kennedy came to answer questions about COVID (remember that scam?) and the performance of people at—or, rather, recently at—the Centers for Disease Control. He recently fired the new, freshly confirmed director, Susan Monarez, for being “untrustworthy,” and some 1000 staffers walked out in solidarity or—what’s that other word beginning with an “s”?—Oh, right: in a snit.

One by one, the senators, mostly Democrats but also a few Republicans, screamed and gesticulated at Kennedy, accused him of being a “charlatan” and worse, and demanded that he resign or be fired.

One friendly questioner asked whether Kennedy thought that the response to COVID had been “politicized.” Indeed, it had, Kennedy said. Moreover, the government and the media lied to the public about many aspects of the disease, beginning with its origin. (No bats were involved in this entertainment.)

The public was also aggressively lied to about the danger of the virus—overwhelmingly, the only vulnerable parts of the population were the elderly, the obese, and the diabetic. We were lied to about the efficacy of “social distancing”—it was a made-up nostrum—and cloth masks. They are worse than useless. I still see damaged souls driving around in cars or walking outside by themselves wearing a mask. You might as well, as some wag proposed, wear a seat belt while walking around as a sort of safety blanket.

But the largest load of lies concerned the various COVID vaccines. Kennedy’s views about the efficacy and safety of vaccines are often caricatured. You may or may not always agree with him, but his views are nuanced, well-informed, and subtle. Several senators seemed surprised that Kennedy could agree with the proposition that President Trump deserves the Nobel Prize for overseeing Operation Warp Speed, which produced a spate of COVID vaccines in a matter of a few months, while also remaining highly critical of the safety and effectiveness of the vaccines.

From Sydney to Buenos Aires: Iran’s Global Terror Campaign by Majid Rafizadeh

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21890/irans-global-terror-campaign

Investigations revealed that the IRGC had employed intermediaries in Australia, including organized crime networks, to carry out these attacks, demonstrating the regime’s continuing reliance on proxies to pursue its hostile objectives abroad.

From the 1980s onward. Iran has been implicated in multiple deadly attacks against American troops in Lebanon, killing hundreds of U.S. diplomats and military personnel, all carried out by Hezbollah under Tehran’s guidance.

The Iranian regime also had a role in the September 11, 2001 attacks on the US. In 2018, a U.S. federal court ruling determined that Iran provided material support to Al-Qaeda in the period leading up to and following the 9/11 attacks, resulting in a multibillion-dollar judgment for the families of the victims.

[I]t is difficult to understand why some international actors have advocated for engagement, negotiation or sanctions relief with Iran. Diplomatic overtures and economic incentives have not only failed to curb the regime’s aggressive behavior; they have emboldened it.

Closing Iranian embassies and consulates, expelling diplomats, and halting trade with Iran — and especially secondary sanctions: banning trade with countries that trade with Iran — would disrupt its operations, curb its influence, and send a message that the regime’s pattern of aggression and antisemitism will not be tolerated.

Iran’s deep involvement in antisemitic attacks in Australia should serve as a kick-in-the-head wake-up call to the European Union and the wider international community. Australia made the unprecedented decision to expel the Iranian ambassador, Ahmad Sadeghi, the first such diplomatic action in the country since World War II.

GOOD NEWS FROM AMAZING ISRAEL FROM MICHAEL ORDMAN

https://verygoodnewsisrael.blogspot.com/
Another week, another dazzling compilation of Israel’s outsize contribution in medicine, technology, and science, in spite of the harsh conditions of war. rsk

POSITIVE NEWS IN A WAR

Rebuilding the Kibbutz. 50 young educators from the Hashomer HaTzair Labor Zionist youth movement have relocated to Kibbutz Nir Oz (see here previously) that was devastated by Hamas terrorists on 7 Oct 2023. Kibbutz chairman Tzvika Tesler said a prayer at a ceremony marking the start of the rebuilding process.
https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/kibbutz-nir-oz-the-hardest-hit-community-in-the-10-7-attacks-welcomes-50-new-idealistic-residents-as-it-looks-to-rebuild/ https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/414164
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rwqZ_uBUmI

German volunteers restore Metula guest house. A group of German volunteers, including descendants of Nazi families, went to Metula, a northern Israeli town damaged by war. Their goal: to help rebuild homes and support recovery efforts. Their message: “We came to fix, not to forget.”
https://worldisraelnews.com/watch-german-volunteers-help-restore-northern-israel-community/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4KPxwGGlFo

Parents volunteer to see their lone soldier children. 77 Parents of lone soldiers from the US, Russia and Argentina arrived as an organized group on the Birthright Israel volunteer program to see their children and assist the Jewish state. They had an emotional reunion on Aug 7 at the IDF base in Glilot Junction.
https://www.jns.org/parents-of-lone-soldiers-visit-in-volunteer-cohort-via-birthright-israel/

German Christians support Israel. To show faith and solidarity, young German Christians defied fear and public opinion to come to Israel and support the Jewish state. They sang in Hebrew, prayed at the Western Wall, and witnessed both the beauty and heartbreak of a nation under fire.
https://unitedwithisrael.org/watch-young-german-christians-visit-israel-to-show-support/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_1N1fEhQ50

More students than before the war. (TY Sam K) 23,700 students have returned to school in the Gaza envelope – an increase of approximately 2,000 since 7 Oct 2023. https://ground.news/article/back-to-school-data-in-the-envelope-number-of-students-returning-increased-by-2-000

ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS

Brain stem tumor removed through eye socket. Surgeons at Tel Aviv Sourasky (Ichilov) Medical Center performed Israel’s first-ever minimally invasive brain surgery through the eye socket. Surgeons successfully removed a rare skull base tumor without the need to open the skull.
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/israel-performs-its-first-ever-eye-socket-brain-surgery-removes-rare-tumour-9195158/amp/1

Groundbreaking bacteria research. Hebrew University of Jerusalem scientists have developed a technique that distinguishes the precise subgroup of a bacteria strain that is causing infection. It explains why antibiotics and vaccines sometimes fail. The discovery can lead to more precise treatments.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/using-novel-method-to-compare-subgroups-israeli-researchers-unlock-bacterias-secrets/ https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00915-8

No wasted medical trials. (TY Atid-EDI) Israel’s QuantHealth.ai (see here previously) has successfully simulated 350+ clinical trials, with 90% predictive accuracy. Its 23 therapeutic areas, include oncology, immunology, cardio-metabolic diseases, and gastroenterology. It saved one top 10 customer $31.4 million.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250722764714/en/QuantHealth-Successfully-Simulates-350-Clinical-Trials-with-90-Accuracy-Delivering-%2431.4M-in-Savings-for-a-Top-10-Pharma-Company

Combating obesity. (TY WIN) The US FDA has approved generic liraglutide injection from Israel’s Teva. It copies Novo Nordisk’s obesity drug Saxenda, which costs over $1,300 per month. Liraglutide mimics the body’s glucagon-like peptide-1 hormone, suppressing appetite and triggering insulin release for up to 24 hours.
https://jewishbreakingnews.com/teva-wins-fda-approval-for-first-generic-weight-loss-drug/

Another award for OncoHost. (TY OurCrowd) Israel’s OncoHost (see here previously) has been selected as the Top Precision Oncology Solution for 2025 by Life Sciences Review. OncoHost’s PROphet® predicts how a specific immunotherapy treatment will perform on a cancer patient, from a single blood sample.
https://www.prnewswire.com/il/news-releases/oncohost-named-top-precision-oncology-solution-for-2025-302517239.html https://www.lifesciencesreview.com/oncohost

Prem baby returns to hospital. 24 years ago, Prof Simcha Yagel delivered premature baby Ruhama, weighing just 495 grams, at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital. Ruhama has just returned to the same hospital – to give birth to her first child – a boy. And Prof Yagel was present at that delivery too.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/414035

PETER JENNINGS – The Diplomatic Folly of Recognising Palestine

https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/foreign-affairs/the-diplomatic-folly-of-recognising-palestine/

Anthony Albanese has taken one of the most consequential—and reckless—foreign policy steps of his prime ministership: announcing the decision to recognise Palestine as a state at the UN in September. The move will not bring peace, will not free a single hostage, and will almost certainly reward Hamas for its October 2023 atrocities.

The announcement was made in a chilly Parliament House courtyard on August 11. A prime ministerial media statement said that seventy-seven years ago Australia had supported UN Resolution 181 to create the State of Israel and a Palestinian state. Now, “the world can no longer wait for the implementation of that Resolution to be negotiated between the parties”.

Albanese was emboldened to bring forward recognition now on the basis of: “major new commitments from the Palestinian Authority, including to reform governance, terminate prisoner payments, institute schooling reform, demilitarise and hold general elections. The Palestinian Authority has also restated its recognition of Israel’s right to exist. The President of the Palestinian Authority has reaffirmed these commitments directly to the Australian Government.”

The Prime Minister said that “Australia’s position is predicated on the commitments we have received from the Palestinian Authority”, but the government is taking it on faith that the PA can and will take these steps. Recognition will happen in September at the UN in New York. Whatever the PA does, or fails to do, to implement these rather vague commitments, will happen after that time. 

Australia’s move had been some months in the making. In a departure from her normally bloodless delivery Foreign Minister Penny Wong told ABC Radio that “the reason for urgency behind recognition is this, there is a risk that there will be no Palestine left to recognise if the world does not act”. The statement is utter nonsense but shows that the government has a head of steam up on the issue and won’t be deterred by inconvenient facts. 

The Australian announcement was part of a co-ordinated effort involving a core group of countries, the UK, Canada and France, joined on occasion by other European nations, Japan and New Zealand. Four “joint statements” since June have been released, making the case that the war in Gaza must be ended “through an immediate and permanent ceasefire” and maintaining that “a negotiated two-state solution [is] the only way to guarantee that both Israelis and Palestinians can live side by side in peace, security, and dignity”.

Anthony Albanese has not yet managed to meet US President Donald Trump face to face, but he was able to put a call through to Mahmoud Abbas, the eighty-nine-year-old President of the Palestinian Authority, to discuss Gaza and a two-state solution. Albanese said: “It was a very constructive discussion … We agreed that we would meet in September in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.” Albanese also spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and acknowledged that Netanyahu had opposed his proposal to recognise Palestine. That’s hardly surprising given that Australia has subjected Israel to relentless political haranguing since the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023. 

Wong and Albanese are careful to put the case that there should be no role for Hamas in a Palestinian state and that the terrorist group should disarm and hand over the Israeli hostages. But our leaders quickly resort to the defence that there is little we can do to shape practical outcomes. Albanese told the ABC’s Laura Tingle in July: “Australia isn’t a central player in the Middle East, but what we can do is continue to do what we have done, which is to take a principled position.”

My contention here is that Australia’s “principled” position to provide recognition to a Palestinian state is an ill-considered policy, driven by domestic political considerations. Moreover, recognition that comes too early and without regard to the realities of the situation in Gaza and the West Bank has the potential to do serious damage. The ultimate winner from this Australian move will be Hamas.