Erasing History

A year without antisemitism, a Holocaust Day without Jews

It is beginning to look as though Jews are being erased from history

Antisemitism erased:

Earlier this month, a number of major media outlets published their annual “year in photos" feature.

Time magazine presented 100 photographs about the year 2025. The New York Times featured 97. ABC-News published a similar story, using 45 photos.

The idea was to summarize the most important events of 2025-wars, political upheavals, athletic milestones, natural disasters.

Apparently, the editors at all three agencies agreed that antisemitism was not very important, even though this past year saw a record number of antisemitic incidents around the world. Not only swastika daubings and cemetery desecrations, but numerous murders and attempted murders.

Antisemites gunned down two attendees at a Jewish Museum event in Washington, DC; set Jews on fire in Boulder, Colorado; ran over and stabbed worshippers at a British synagogue on Yom Kippur; attempted to burn to death the governor of Pennsylvania and his family on Passover; and massacred fifteen Jews on a beach in Australia.

Neither Time nor ABC-News thought any of those developments was sufficiently important to be part of their photo spreads.

The New York Times was only slightly better. It did include one photo of a memorial at the site in Australia where Jews were massacred. The caption, however, did not include the words “Jews" or “antisemitic."

Yes, that was implied-the Times noted that the victims were “there to celebrate Hanukkah" and the attackers were “gunmen motivated by Islamic State ideology." But why not just say outright that the victims were Jews and the perpetrators were antisemitic terrorists?

It gets worse. Time, the New York Times and ABC all included multiple scenes of destruction in Gaza. Yet none of them showed the terrorists in Gaza who were embedded in the damaged residential areas.

Nor did they show the antisemitic rallies on college campuses and elsewhere, in which participants openly called for the mass murder of millions of Israeli Jews, and celebrated the antisemitic slaughter perpetrated by Hamas on October 7.

The New York Times did not ignore the campus turmoil entirely, however. Its “Year in Photos" included a sympathetic photo of a Columbia University alumna, dressed in cap and gown, in handcuffs. She was “arrested during pro-Palestinian demonstrations," the caption explained.

In reality, of course, she was not arrested for being “pro-Palestinian" (as if cheering for the murderous fascist Hamas regime is “pro-Palestinian"). Those who were arrested were setting documents on fire--an obvious public hazard--and engaging in other disruptions.

The Times also printed a touching photo of Mahmoud Khalil with his wife and newborn son, after he was, as the Times put it, “detained for his role in protests" at Columbia. There was no mention that Khalil and his comrades were “protesting" in support of antisemitic mass murderers and gang-rapists. Apparently that information was not fit to print.

Part II of The Holocaust without Jews:

The BBC has apologized for omitting mention of Jews in its Holocaust Awareness Day coverage, as if its 1.1 billion viewers will notice that apology As Stephen Pollard, former ediitor of the UK's Jewish Chronicle, wrote in an artticle titled Why the BBC is one of the most dangerously antisemitic organisations in the West:

"The sheer audacity of its blatant, calculated, deliberate decision to make its own contribution to wiping Jewish suffering from history - one of the foundations of the contemporary revival in Jew hate - yesterday’s BBC reporting of Holocaust Memorial Day surely tops everything.

"As the Campaign for Media Standards highlighted with clips on social media, much of the BBC’s coverage omitted any mention of Jews from the Holocaust. Both the BBC1 breakfast programme and the news bulletins on the Radio 4 Today programme referred to 'six million people' being murdered - a formulation then repeated throughout the day, which was clearly a deliberately constructed form of words to be used to reference the Holocaust.

It seems that, unless they can be falsely vilified as they are in coverage of the war in the Gaza Strip, Jews are being erased from history.

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421642

The emergence of Holocaust erasure

The world is missing the key point-that it was a uniquely monstrous crime aimed specifically at the extermination of the Jewish people

International Holocaust Memorial Day has become a spur to write the Jews out of their own history.

The United Nations chose Jan. 27-the date of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration/death camp-to commemorate the Holocaust, the term that developed specifically to describe the Nazi genocide of the Jews.

Yet the message the United Nations posted on X on Tuesday omitted any mention of the Jews. It said: “The genocide started with apathy & silence in the face of injustice, and with the corrosive dehumanization of the other. Today and always, we need to remember this. And we must stand up for our shared humanity."

The post was quoting from a statement issued by the U.N.’s High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, who also said that “a group of deluded killers inflicted unspeakable atrocities on millions of Jews and members of other minorities."

As reflected in the U.N.’s abbreviated version of this statement on X, Türk universalized the Holocaust and thus blurred its real significance. But at least he mentioned the Jews. Others, shockingly, did not.

Throughout the day, the BBC’s news bulletins and presenters made no reference at all to the Jews murdered in the Holocaust. Instead, they referred to the “6 million people murdered by the Nazi regime."

But the Nazis murdered many more people than that. Six million was the specific number of Jews who were exterminated, larger than any other group that suffered.

Later on Tuesday, after a storm of criticism, the BBC apologized for failing to mention the Jewish victims. But just think about the implications of that omission.

The BBC had in its collective head the universally known figure of 6 million, but nevertheless erased their Jewish identity. That isn’t just a careless mistake. It suggests something pathological and very dark indeed is at work in the BBC psyche.

And so, another baleful milestone has been reached. We’ve previously seen antisemitism and gaslighting of the Jews through Holocaust revisionism and Holocaust denial. Now we are seeing the erasure of the Jews themselves from the Holocaust, and therefore from both their own history and their presence in that episode in the history of the world.

That world clearly hasn’t learned [or is purposely ignoring] the key point about the Holocaust-that it was a uniquely monstrous crime aimed specifically at the extermination of the Jewish people. Instead, the world learned something very different-that it demonstrated man’s general inhumanity to man.

Of course, many others perished in the Holocaust. But the driving force of the Holocaust was the Nazis’ obsessional and deranged intention to eradicate the Jewish people alone from the face of the earth. To that terrible end, it established an industrialized system of mass murder for the Jews.

It did not do that for any other people. The Final Solution was intended for the Jews alone. That’s what made the Holocaust of the Jews unique.

Yet those who established Holocaust education and memorialization have increasingly blurred this essential message, choosing instead to universalize it and thus obscure the singular victimization of the Jews.

The resulting message from much of this memorialization has been that anyone can be a Nazi. It was but a short step from there-for those intent upon exterminating the collective Jew in the State of Israel-to start calling Israelis “Nazis," and to accuse Israel of perpetrating a “holocaust" or “genocide" of the Palestinian Arabs.

Mass murder is an evil wherever it takes place. The murder of tens of thousands of Iranians who have been rising up against their tyrannical regime is unconscionable.

But it’s not genocide, the deliberate and systematic destruction of a people because of their ethnicity, nationality, religion or race. That’s what the Iranian regime threatens against the Jews.

The modern world, however, does not accept that this is a distinction of any value. With moral responsibility and duty having been trumped by individual rights, dominant Western secular thinking has erased the significance of intention altogether, focusing instead on consequences.

One reason why Westerners argue so preposterously that Israel’s war of self-defense against genocide is itself genocide is that they’ve redefined the word as meaning merely “a lot of people who’ve been killed"-and necessarily of the kind of whom they approve or, at least, don’t disapprove, as with the Palestinian Arabs.

This has fed into the madness about Gaza, in which the serial lies about Israeli starvation, war crimes and the wanton killing of the innocent have become established as incontrovertible facts even though they are demonstrably the very opposite of the truth.

This madness has been further fueled by an unholy alliance between intersectional identity politics, liberal universalism, Islamist holy war and lightly buried Christian theological Jew-hatred.

In Britain, the number of schools commemorating International Holocaust Memorial Day has more than halved since Oct. 7 in the face of opposition from parents and pupils-many of these Muslims, but non-Muslims, too.

And it’s the madness over Gaza that not only ensured the Jews would be wiped out of statements made on this day, but has actually turned the Holocaust against them by accusing them of perpetrating a “holocaust" of the Palestinian Arabs.

In British Columbia, Canada, parliamentarian Yuen Pau Woo posted on X: “On this International Holocaust Remembrance Day, let us pledge that ‘never again’ means ‘never again,’ even when Israel is the perpetrator #Gaza."

In Britain, Dov Forman, the grandson of a Holocaust survivor, found himself asked on BBC Radio’s flagship “Today" show what he’d say to the argument that, if we continue to talk about the Holocaust, “we need to talk about Gaza." The interviewer went on: “What is the universal message you want to be heard on this Holocaust Memorial Day?"

Bad enough that this morally degraded equation puts the genocide of the Jews on the same level as Israel’s attempt to prevent another genocide of the Jews. Worse, Gaza is being used to wipe out the particularity to the Jews of the Final Solution.

Underlying all this erasure is the unmistakable, if incredible, belief that the Jews have no right to their claim of victimhood-because their tormentors view the memory of the Holocaust as a moral bludgeon that the Jews wield to gain special privileges, such as avoiding “legitimate criticism" over the “crimes" of Israel.

Accepting that the Jews are the world’s greatest and most enduring historic victims gets in the way of the only permitted narratives.

-Arab Palestinianism erases the Jews from their own history in their ancestral homeland. -Universalism erases them from their history as victims in Europe. ------Anti-Zionism, which separates the Jewish people from the land that’s central to their ancient faith, erases Judaism altogether.

Erasing Jewish victimization is part of a global agenda by such people to erase the Jews-from their mind, from their conscience and from their world.

They won’t succeed. The Jewish Diaspora will need to change in the face of this onslaught, but Israel will emerge stronger than ever.

The more the West tries to erase the Jews, the clearer its suicide note becomes for the erasure of its own civilization.

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421689

Pakistani Muslim Rams Brooklyn Synagogue 4 times

Pakistani Man Rams Car Into Large Brooklyn Synagogue

   I wonder what his motive might have been.

A motorist rammed his car at least four times into a rear entrance of the global headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch Orthodox Jewish movement in Brooklyn Wednesday night, according to the police and video of the crash.

The car is registered to Dan Sohail, 36, of Carteret, N.J., an internal police document showed.

The episode unfolded at 8:45 p.m. at the Gothic revival structure at 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights. Video taken at the scene shows a gray Honda sedan, with a cargo carrier on the roof and New Jersey plates, at the bottom of a driveway. The car slams into a set of wooden doors, one of which splinters and flies from its hinges. As people look on, yelling “Yo! Yo!” and “No!,” the car backs up and hits the doors again, breaking off another door, and again and again.

As onlookers cautiously approach the car, the driver, a heavyset man with a beard, wearing shorts despite the temperature of 16 degrees, gets out and starts walking up the driveway. He agitatedly explains to a bystander, “It slipped.” Two officers walk up to him and handcuff him behind his back. He does not resist. He appears to spit at the crowd as the officers lead him toward a police vehicle.

The 770 synagogue in Brooklyn is the headquarters of the Chabad Chassidic Jewish movement and the apparent attack was timed for a key commemoration for the movement.

Sohail is a Pakistani name. A search of public records turns up a Muslim family in New Jersey.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/pakistani-man-rams-car-into-large-brooklyn-synagogue/

     Perp ramming his car into the doors

     Insane Muslim perp

     Cleaning up the mess afterwards

     Front of building

History's Worst Slavers Demand Reparations

History’s Worst Slavers Now Demand Reparations

On December 24, 2025, Algeria’s parliament unanimously passed a law declaring France’s 132-year colonization of the North African nation a crime. The Algerians are further demanding a formal apology and reparations from France. Interestingly, this new law also stipulates prison sentences for any Algerian who speaks well of French colonialism, or makes any “remarks with colonial connotations.”

This is a clear example of selective outrage. Yes, France colonized Algeria for over a century. But it also brought to that what it did not have before—functional governance, infrastructure, technology, medicine, and, in a word, progress. (Hence why this new law criminalizes speaking well of the colonial era—as many, especially older, Algerians still do.

Moreover, France did give its former colony priority in migration, allowing millions of Algerians to relocate to France for a better life, as a form of compensation or reparations.

On the other hand, what has Algeria done to atone for the centuries of crimes it committed against the Europeans, including the French?

For over three hundred years, from around the 16th to the early 19th century, the Muslims of North Africa—also known as “Barbary,” that is, land of the barbarians—thrived on enslaving Europeans. According to the conservative estimate of American professor Robert Davis, “between 1530 and 1780 there were almost certainly a million and quite possibly as many as a million and a quarter white, European Christians enslaved by the Muslims of the Barbary Coast.”

Virtually no part of coastal Europe was safe from these Muslim pirates. From 1627 to 1633, Lundy, an island off the west coast of Britain, was actually occupied by them. From it, they pillaged England at will. In 1627 they raided Denmark and even far-off Iceland, hauling a total of some 800 slaves.

In 1631, the fishing village of Baltimore in Ireland was raided, and, according to an early source, “237 persons, men, women, and children, even those in the cradle” were seized and taken to the miserable slave markets of North Africa—the most notorious and largest of which was centered in, irony of all ironies, Algeria.

Then there were the sadistic torments Christian captives were subjected to: many were forced into hard labor in quarries, with barely any food or water. Others were rowers on Ottoman galleys, chained for hours, beaten by their overseers, and worked to death.

Women and girls were sold into concubinage, enduring sexual abuse—as did not a few boys and even men. With countless European women selling for the price of an onion, little wonder by the late 1700s, European observers noted how “the inhabitants of Algiers have a rather white complexion.”

Punishments for those who resisted or in any way spoke negatively of Islam, Muslims, and especially Muhammad, beggared description and included being “impaled alive” and “roasted alive.” Other European slaves were “thrown from the city walls, and caught upon large sharp hooks, on which they hang till they expire.”

After a Muslim man tried to engage in homosexual relations with his young male European slave, and the latter, outraged, killed him, the hapless Christian was, to quote an eyewitness source,

dragged to the place of execution over the rough and pointed stones, subjected to the insults of an excited and brutal crowd. On his arrival there each of the spectators seemed to take a pleasure in assisting at the work. He was crucified against the wall with four large nails; a red-hot iron was thrust through his cheeks to prevent him from speaking, and, in this condition, he was slowly burnt to death with firebrands. Such acts of cruelty were by no means uncommon.

Nor was America spared. In 1785, Muslim pirates from Algiers captured two American vessels. Considering the horrific ways Christian slaves were treated in Barbary —tortured, pressured to convert, and sodomized, as described in the writings I’ve been quoting from missionaries and redeemers (such as John Foxe, Fr. Dan, Fr. Jerome Maurand, Robert Playfair; see pp. 279-283 of my book, Sword and Scimitar) — when Captain O’Brian later wrote to Thomas Jefferson that “our sufferings are beyond our expression or your conception,” he was not exaggerating.

As ambassadors to France and England, Jefferson and John Adams met with one of Barbary’s envoys to Britain, one Abdul Rahman. In a March 28, 1786 letter to Congress, Jefferson explained the source of Barbary hostility:

We took the liberty to make some inquiries concerning the grounds of their pretentions to make war upon nations who had done them no injury, and observed that we considered all mankind as our friends who had done us no wrong, nor had given us any provocation. The ambassador answered us that it was founded on the laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Musselman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.

And yet, here is Algeria today, lecturing Western people about morality, branding France a “criminal” colonizer, and demanding “reparations”—because France colonized, that is, civilized Algeria, including by forcing it to stop subsisting on slavery.

The irony is staggering, indeed: it’s not just that Muslims in general had a long history of enslaving Europeans, but that Algeria was arguably the worst of all these Muslim slavers of Europeans.

At any given time for three centuries, Algiers held tens of thousands of European slaves. Entire coastal regions of France, Italy, and Spain were repeatedly raided, leaving devastation in their wake. European captives endured unspeakable horrors: torture, forced labor, sexual abuse, starvation, and death.

Incidentally, there’s another great irony here: France’s entire rationale for invading Algeria in the first place was precisely to put an end to its Muslim slave market, which had for centuries preyed on Europeans.

At any rate, and when it comes to reparations, whatever one thinks of France’s colonial history in Algeria, it has, at least, and as mentioned, privileged its former colony by allowing millions of Algerians to move to and pursue a better life in France.

Meanwhile, what has Algeria done to atone for the millions of Christians it enslaved, tortured, and killed? Nothing. Not a word of apology. Not a single dinar in reparations. Not even acknowledgment in its schoolbooks.

Before closing, and speaking of reparations, between 1795 and1800, the United States was forced to spend 16 percent of its entire annual federal budget on ransom payments to Algiers, in order to release some American sailors and buy a few years of peace, before Algiers became more demanding again, and the First Barbary War broke out.

So by Algeria’s own logic, shouldn’t it be making reparation payments to the U.S.?

In short, Algeria has just exposed itself, in front of the whole world, as a shameless hypocrite.

https://www.raymondibrahim.com/01/16/2026/history-s-worst-slavers-now-demand-reparations

Soccer News: The Amsterdam Pogrom

Erasing the Amsterdam ‘Jew hunt’

Preserving video evidence of possible police failures on the night Israeli soccer fans were attacked is a prerequisite for accountability and public confidence

    Israeli soccer fan after being assaulted by Muslims in Amsterdam

On the evening of November 7, 2024, following a soccer match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv, Amsterdam experienced a wave of antisemitic violence that Jewish organizations and public officials later described as unprecedented in postwar Western Europe. Israeli fans were chased through the city center, assaulted in public spaces, and forced to flee for safety. Some attackers recorded their assaults.

One Israeli supporter escaped by swimming through a canal at night. “Say ‘Free Palestine’ and we’ll let you go!” came the shout from the embankment. He obeyed. Others, targeted because they were perceived to be Jewish, were beaten and kicked even after they lay motionless on the street.

A visible police presence was conspicuously absent that night, and the security camera footage that could clarify police deployment is on its way to being erased. The public prosecutor confirmed this in a letter sent over a year after the events, following my repeated inquiries. Mayor Halsema flatly refused to do anything to prevent erasure. Last Wednesday, she informed me that she will not answer my resolution tabled in the meeting of the City Council on the matter.

Amsterdam’s mayor, Femke Halsema, initially described the night as “pitch-black” and “evoking memories of pogroms,” later regretting the use of the latter word. Yet despite the severity of what occurred, fundamental questions about preparedness, decision-making, and police response remain unanswered.

Authorities have acknowledged that for at least 24 hours before the match, they had access to messaging groups in which calls circulated for what participants described as “part two of the Jew hunt.” The day before the game, Israeli supporters were already assaulted in multiple hit-and-run incidents. And yet after the match, visiting fans were not escorted as they walked through the city center, despite being easily identifiable by the yellow-and-blue colors of their club, and when talking Hebrew.

Two official reports published in May largely cleared the police and mayor, though an independent academic review later criticized the reports as lacking in scientific rigor. Beginning in August, I submitted written inquiries to the mayor, the chief of police, and the chief public prosecutor. Only after a bailiff was dispatched to the prosecutor’s office in December did I receive a formal response. My central question was and is straightforward: I demand the camera footage documenting police activity, or the lack of it, in the city center that night in order to see whether there was a sufficient police presence.

However, the chief prosecutor has substantial leeway in determining which information will eventually be deleted. He seems bent on erasure. Mayor Halsema has declined to intervene, even though she has the authority to preserve the recordings in the interest of public order. If the footage is lost, lost too will be the possibility of independent assessment by the elected city council. It may then never be possible to determine whether police deployment in central Amsterdam was sufficient to protect foreign nationals visiting the Dutch capital, in this case: Israeli supporters.

A documented absence of police

Official statements have repeatedly asserted that police presence was robust. Yet contemporaneous reporting suggests otherwise. Between 11 p.m. and midnight, officers were scarcely visible at key locations, including Station Square, Damrak, and the Burgwallen. A video journalist documented the absence of police on the ground. And despite claims that 1,200 officers were deployed citywide, not a single arrest was made during the post-match disturbances.

The consequences of Amsterdam’s response did not end at its borders. In November, police in Birmingham consulted their Amsterdam counterparts ahead of a Europa League match between Aston Villa and Maccabi Tel Aviv. Following advice that Dutch police later disputed, English officials barred visiting supporters from attending the game. Initially justified on public safety grounds, the decision quickly became a national controversy, with critics arguing that barring fans because they were Israeli or Jewish crossed the line into discrimination. Members of Parliament questioned the quality of the intelligence used to justify the ban.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer intervened publicly: “This is the wrong decision. We will not tolerate antisemitism on our streets. The role of the police is to ensure that all football fans can enjoy the game without fear of violence or intimidation.” West Midlands Police Chief Constable Craig Guildford resigned last week after Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood and Downing Street declared they no longer had confidence in him over his false representation of what Amsterdam police had told.

Public trust in law enforcement does not depend on flawless performance. It depends on transparency, especially when things go wrong. Preserving evidence is not an act of accusation; it is a prerequisite for accountability. Erasing footage that could clarify what happened in Amsterdam does not protect public order, it undermines confidence that authorities will confront uncomfortable facts. When evidence disappears, accountability tends to follow. That is as true in the Netherlands as it is anywhere else.

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-erasure-of-amsterdams-jew-hunt/

A man being kicked by a group of thugs while lying on the ground

A man being dragged by his coat, with the person taking the video swearing at him and shouting statements in support of Gaza

How to Evict a Giant Bear living under your house

A 550-pound bear living under a California home has finally been evicted after taking up residence over a month ago

The bear

The 550-pound bear living under a man’s Los Angeles home has finally left the building — after being shot at with paintballs.

Altadena homeowner Ken Johnson had been living with the massive black bear under his home since Nov. 30 when it began squatting in his crawl space. The “unbearable” roommate ruined Christmas for Johnson and had him on edge for weeks.

The bear eviction finally happened after Johnson contacted “The Bear League” — a group from Lake Tahoe that specializes in bear removal emergencies.

“We heard about Ken, we felt bad for him and flew down and got the bear out,” said Ann Bryant, the founder and executive director.

The crew jumped into action, firing paintballs into the crawl space until the bruin had enough — retreating from its den.

“The bear was gone in 20 minutes,” Bryant said.

The paintballs are filled with vegetable oil and sometimes “they hit the bear in the rump,” added Bryant — who said her organization does between six and eight bear extractions a day.

      Bear retreats with paintball spots on rump

Johnson told The Post he quickly covered the crawl space with two layers of plywood and sandbags to prevent the bear from ever coming back. The Bear League also placed an “electric mat” in front of the crawlspace designed to give a small shock if stepped on.

The shock mat proved to be handy when the bear returned but got zapped.

The bear attempted to return to his home two days later, but Johnson was able to board up the crawl space and placed an electrified mat to keep him out

“He came back, and I was like, ‘oh my gosh.’ But after he hit the mat he scurried away into darkness,” Johnson said.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife had been trying to extract the bear for over a month first with scent spray — then with a bear trap filled with sardines, fried chicken, shrimp, peanut butter and apples.

The trap eventually caught the wrong bear, a beast that had been walking around the neighborhood.

Johnson eventually threatened to sue the CDFW after the agency abandoned efforts to get rid of the animal.

But now that the bear is gone, the homeowner said he loves the animal — as long as it stays away.

“A bear is not a good roommate,” he said. “We’re meant to co-exist, not co-habitat.”

https://nypost.com/2026/01/08/us-news/bear-living-under-mans-california-home-finally-leaves/

https://nypost.com/2026/01/09/us-news/inside-the-bear-league-californias-paintball-eviction-experts/

Radical Left & Islamists Destroying Western Civilization

PM to European legislators: The Radical left and the Islamists are destroying Western civilization

PM Netanyahu and Minister Regev meet with parliament members from Hungary, Austria, Spain, and France, and thanked them for their support.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister Miri Regev met on Sunday with the Patriots delegation - parliament members from Hungary, Austria, Spain, and France - at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem.

Prime Minister Netanyahu and Minister Regev thanked the Patriots delegation, friends of the Jewish people, for their steadfast and consistent support of the State of Israel, and for their courageous insistence on sovereignty in their countries and the safeguarding of borders and national identity.

Minister Regev introduced Prime Minister Netanyahu to the Patriots of Jerusalem - the first Israeli branch that will join the European Patriots group.

"The Western Judeo-Christian civilization is under attack. This is an effort carried out not by radical Islam alone, but in collaboration with forces which you know well: the deep radical left and the Islamists, who in theory should be rivals, but are united by one thing - the hatred of Israel and the Jews," Netanyahu told the delegates.

"Many countries in Europe were numb; they opened their borders with no supervision whatsoever. Not just for a year or two, this has been a long-term struggle. In this regard, we are not just allies and comrades-in-arms, we are brothers and sisters in the decisive struggle for the future of the world. The gravest danger that the world faces is the link between militant Islam and nuclear weapons."

Minister Miri Regev added, "The meeting with the Patriots delegation is proof that Israel is not alone. There are brave leaders in Europe who understand that Israel's struggle is also their struggle - for sovereignty, for borders, and for national identity. The connection to the Patriots of Europe is a strategic move that strengthens Israel's standing in the international arena and presents a clear front against attempts of boycott and delegitimization. We will stand together for our shared values and protect the future of generations to come".

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421443

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Transportation Minister Miri Regev met with a visiting delegation of parliamentarians from Hungary, Austria, Spain, and France at the Prime Minister's Residence.

The group discussed European-Israeli ties and coordination on border security, national identity, and countering antisemitism, according to statements at the meeting.

Netanyahu and Regev thanked the visitors for what they called steadfast support for Israel and solidarity with the Jewish people. Regev also introduced the “Patriots of Jerusalem,” described as the first Israeli branch to join the European Patriots group.

"The Western Judeo-Christian civilization is under attack. This is an effort carried out not by radical Islam alone, but in collaboration with forces which you know well: the deep radical left and the Islamists, who in theory should be rivals, but are united by one thing – the hatred of Israel and the Jews," Netanyahu said. 

"Many countries in Europe were numb; they opened their borders with no supervision whatsoever. Not just for a year or two, this has been a long-term struggle. In this regard, we are not just allies and comrades-in-arms, we are brothers and sisters in the decisive struggle for the future of the world.

"The gravest danger that the world faces is the link between militant Islam and nuclear weapons."

Netanyahu, Regev praise delegates for standing with Israel 

“The meeting with the Patriots delegation is proof that Israel is not alone,” Regev said, calling the connection to European allies a strategic step that strengthens Israel’s standing and counters boycott and delegitimization efforts.

"There are brave leaders in Europe who understand that Israel's struggle is also their struggle,  for sovereignty, for borders, and for national identity. The connection to the Patriots of Europe is a strategic move that strengthens Israel's standing in the international arena and presents a clear front against attempts of boycott and delegitimization," she added.

“We will stand together for our shared values and protect the future of generations to come.”

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-884506

Democrat politicians made it possible for Hamas to get Cement for its Tunnels

'Born with rifles in their hands'

They may hold rifles from the time they can crawl, but Hamas terrorists obtained their weapons due to a world that also allowed them the cement for tunnels. Will that change? 

      Cement for Hamas arriving in Gaza

Hamas terrorists “were born with rifles in their hands," President Trump said this week, to dramatize the difficulty-and necessity-of disarming them.

But that rhetorical flourish also raises an important question: just where did Hamas obtain its weapons in the first place?

One source was Iran. In January 2002, the Israeli navy intercepted the Karine A, a ship carrying 50 tons (!) of Iranian weapons that Yasir Arafat was trying to bring into Gaza.

The Karine A was captured, but one may assume that other such ships got through-and that Arafat gave some of those weapons to Hamas, since the Palestinian Authority leadership, then and now, has always regarded Hamas as its ally, not its enemy.

Unfortunately, the U.S. and its European partners were busy seeking deals with Iran instead of confronting Tehran and stopping the flow of weapons to terrorist groups.

A second source of guns for Hamas was the smuggling of weapons from Sudan and Libya, through tunnels that Hamas built along the Gaza-Egypt border.

The Egyptian authorities could have shut down those tunnels long ago. But Egypt’s allies-including the U.S., which gives Egypt $1.5-billion in aid annually-didn’t press the matter.

A third major source was Hamas manufacturing its own weapons. How did it keep that activity secret from Israel’s drones and other surveillance? By setting up weapons production facilities in the tunnels it built under Gaza.

And how were those tunnels built? Former U.S. Mideast envoy Dennis Ross explained it in a Washington Post op-ed on Aug. 8, 2014.

Ross described how, at the behest of then-Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, he urged Israel to allow Hamas to import cement. He did so even though he knew that Hamas had been using cement for military purposes.

“At times," Ross wrote, “I argued with Israeli leaders and security officials, telling them they needed to allow more construction materials, including cement, into Gaza so that housing, schools and basic infrastructure could be built." The Israelis “countered that Hamas would misuse it," but in the end, they succumbed to Ross’s pressure and allowed Hamas to import cement. The rest is history.

In short, the arming of Hamas was preventable-if the U.S. and the international community had cared enough to prevent it. Will they prevent it from happening again?

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421374