When I was a teenager, and just starting to learn about the Holocaust, I wondered why Jews living in Nazi Germany didn’t get out in the 1930s, when they still could. Then, as I grew older, and came to understand normalcy bias in human behavior, it made a lot more sense.
Viktor Klemperer, an assimilated German Jew who remained in Nazi Germany, was horribly persecuted, but avoided the death camps because he had a gentile wife, and had converted to Protestantism as a young man. He kept a diary of the Nazi years, published to considerable fanfare in the 1990s, long after his death.
On June 16, 1934, Klemperer wrote in his journal: “We still cannot believe that things will remain as they are, or get worse. We keep thinking: It cannot go on like this, it must get better, it must be a passing phase.”
To be fair, the Nazis made it difficult for Jews to emigrate, but Jews like Klemperer were so tied to German culture, and so unwilling to believe the worst about their fellow Germans, that they didn’t even try. The legacy of such trusting people has hung heavily over Jews after the war.
Last Friday’s synagogue attack in Manchester by a Muslim named, get this, Jihad al-Shamie, was the sign that Ben Freeman needed to abandon his British homeland.
“When a society makes clear that Jews will never be more than tolerated, history insists that we listen,” he wrote in The Free Press. “And so all around me, Jews are applying to move to Israel, where, despite the war and rocket attacks, they feel they might be safer. At Shabbat tables, these conversations are no longer rare. For many, the question is not if they will leave, but when.”
“For me, that moment has come,” he continued. “I am going to Israel, the Jewish indigenous land. There I will not be a foreigner, a guest, or an unwelcome intruder. It is not perfect. It is not without danger. But it is ours.”
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, the prominent British Jewish commentator Dominic Green observed that Jews make up only 0.5% of the UK population, while Muslims comprise more than 6%. Like most European left-wing parties, the Labour Party is in the pocket of Muslim voters. Islamo-gauchisme, they call it in France.
“The government has lost control of the streets and surrendered control of the narrative,” Green wrote of today’s Britain. “The country is seething, but no one in power wants to admit the truth. A Muslim immigrant tried, and nearly succeeded at, committing mass murder against Jews. The leaders of a nuclear power are intimidated into silence and appeasement by a rag bag of amateur jihadists. The Jews might go quietly. But ordinary English people won’t.”
No, they won’t, and even if they could, there is no Israel for them to go to. On the European continent, some EU citizens are migrating to Hungary seeking safe haven from Islamic and migrant violence. But even Hungary is one election away from capitulating to EU demands for more open borders. The Orbán government pays a fine of €1 million daily to Brussels for the privilege of controlling its own borders. Should Orbán lose next year’s election, that could easily change.
A Budapest friend visiting London tells me his childhood best buddy, now a well-to-do businessman, just returned from buying a flat in Dubai. If he leaves, he will be yet one more UK millionaire abandoning the overtaxed country at the rate of 45 per day this year.
But if that man leaves, it wouldn’t be for economic reasons. Though he lives in a safe London neighborhood, he wants a place to escape with his family if civil war kicks off. He’s lucky: he has the resources to escape. But ordinary English people don’t.
For most of this year, the King’s College London war studies professor David Betz has been publicly warning that civil war is likely coming for Britain, France, and elsewhere in Western Europe. He bases his forecast on what academics know about the causes of civil wars. And he blames “asymmetrical multiculturalism”—that is, policies that favor non-native ethnics—as the main driver of the coming conflict.
Meanwhile, the boats carrying young, military-age men keep crossing the Channel and landing on English beaches. Government ministers and politicians grumble that Something Must Be Done. But everybody knows nothing will, at least not anytime soon. So they comfort themselves with Klemperer’s self-sedating words from 1934: “It cannot go on like this, it must get better, it must be a passing phase.”
Britain’s Jews are a canary in the civilizational coal mine. A country so afraid of its migrant Muslim population that it not only refuses to protect Jews, but actually punishes non-Jewish citizens who say hurty things about migrants on social media, is not a country prepared to defend civilization from these barbarians it has allowed through its gates.
The Manchester synagogue slayings happened on Friday morning, and by Friday evening, a rowdy pro-Palestinian mob mustered outside No. 10 Downing Street, the prime minister’s residence. Not all were Muslims or migrants.
“I don’t give a f—k about the Jewish community right now,” Fiona Smith, 42, told The Telegraph.
A sign of the times. Antisemitism is rampant on the British Left.
If you had ever wondered how you would have behaved as the Nazis began persecuting Jews after they came to power in 1934, well, now is your chance to find out.
What infuriates me, as a practicing Christian, is the continued blindness of Europe’s Christian leaders to the dangers of mass migration—not least a rebirth of violent antisemitism not even a century after Germany’s Nuremberg Laws codified anti-Jewish persecution. Christianity is flat on its back in Europe. Do they not see what adding millions of Muslims to Europe portends for those who still hold to Europe’s ancestral religion—people those leaders are supposed to represent?
“Protecting people more than borders” is the slogan of the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe, an ecumenical NGO that promotes mass migration. One wonders if these divines give a damn about the peoples of Europe, Jews and Gentiles alike, suffering violence and displacement by these migrants, especially from Islamic countries.
Though the Catholic Church is not part of that organization, its bishops and bureaucrats are aligned with its mission. On the World Day of Migration this past July 25th, Pope Leo XIV issued a pro-migrant statement, saying in part that “communities that welcome them can also be a living witness to hope.”
Jihad Al-Shamie was a Syrian immigrant who became a naturalized British subject. He was welcomed by Britain. He didn’t offer much hope to Jews gathering at the Manchester synagogue on the holiest day of their year, did he? And what about the hope the Pakistani Muslim migrant rape syndicates offered to working-class white English girls?
We have all been strictly instructed by our betters not to read the 1973 dystopian novel The Camp Of The Saints, by Jean Raspail. A 2019 article in The New York Times quoted experts warning that the novel, which tells the story of a million-man migrant invasion of Europe, is a white supremacist fantasy.
“Raspail can boast himself about being a prophet,” Jean-Yves Camus, an expert on the far right at the French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs, told the Times back then. “People now buy ‘The Camp of the Saints’ because they want to read the book written by the writer who saw what would happen before everybody else.”
Raspail, who died in 2020, was just such a prophet. The book has recently been reissued by Vauban Press in a new English translation by Ethan Rundell. I first read the novel in 2015, when a caravan of one million migrants poured into Europe after German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s invitation. It really does have some appalling racist passages.
But a decade on, after living for four years in Europe and coming to understand the scale of the migration problem, the unwillingness of governments to take a stand to stop it, and the collaboration of the media, NGOs, and the churches to suppress the truth, I reread The Camp of the Saints with freshly jaded eyes. The novel’s moral flaws are more than compensated for by its truth-telling: on Easter Sunday, after the migrant flotilla has come ashore, a radio broadcaster tells the French people, “You are implored to open wide your doors—just now by the pope, leader of our sick Christian world. But I tell you, I beg you, to close your doors, close them quickly, if there is still time!”
In Raspail’s dark tale, there wasn’t time. I wonder if there still is for Europe in real life. In any case, this soon won’t be a problem for Ben Freeman, a British Jew and patriot whose country let him down.
British Jews: The Canary in Europe’s Coal Mine
People dance under Israeli flags as they gather for a commemorative event organized by the Jewish community to honour the lives lost in the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, in Trafalgar Square, London on October 5, 2025.
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When I was a teenager, and just starting to learn about the Holocaust, I wondered why Jews living in Nazi Germany didn’t get out in the 1930s, when they still could. Then, as I grew older, and came to understand normalcy bias in human behavior, it made a lot more sense.
Viktor Klemperer, an assimilated German Jew who remained in Nazi Germany, was horribly persecuted, but avoided the death camps because he had a gentile wife, and had converted to Protestantism as a young man. He kept a diary of the Nazi years, published to considerable fanfare in the 1990s, long after his death.
On June 16, 1934, Klemperer wrote in his journal: “We still cannot believe that things will remain as they are, or get worse. We keep thinking: It cannot go on like this, it must get better, it must be a passing phase.”
To be fair, the Nazis made it difficult for Jews to emigrate, but Jews like Klemperer were so tied to German culture, and so unwilling to believe the worst about their fellow Germans, that they didn’t even try. The legacy of such trusting people has hung heavily over Jews after the war.
Last Friday’s synagogue attack in Manchester by a Muslim named, get this, Jihad al-Shamie, was the sign that Ben Freeman needed to abandon his British homeland.
“When a society makes clear that Jews will never be more than tolerated, history insists that we listen,” he wrote in The Free Press. “And so all around me, Jews are applying to move to Israel, where, despite the war and rocket attacks, they feel they might be safer. At Shabbat tables, these conversations are no longer rare. For many, the question is not if they will leave, but when.”
“For me, that moment has come,” he continued. “I am going to Israel, the Jewish indigenous land. There I will not be a foreigner, a guest, or an unwelcome intruder. It is not perfect. It is not without danger. But it is ours.”
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, the prominent British Jewish commentator Dominic Green observed that Jews make up only 0.5% of the UK population, while Muslims comprise more than 6%. Like most European left-wing parties, the Labour Party is in the pocket of Muslim voters. Islamo-gauchisme, they call it in France.
“The government has lost control of the streets and surrendered control of the narrative,” Green wrote of today’s Britain. “The country is seething, but no one in power wants to admit the truth. A Muslim immigrant tried, and nearly succeeded at, committing mass murder against Jews. The leaders of a nuclear power are intimidated into silence and appeasement by a rag bag of amateur jihadists. The Jews might go quietly. But ordinary English people won’t.”
No, they won’t, and even if they could, there is no Israel for them to go to. On the European continent, some EU citizens are migrating to Hungary seeking safe haven from Islamic and migrant violence. But even Hungary is one election away from capitulating to EU demands for more open borders. The Orbán government pays a fine of €1 million daily to Brussels for the privilege of controlling its own borders. Should Orbán lose next year’s election, that could easily change.
A Budapest friend visiting London tells me his childhood best buddy, now a well-to-do businessman, just returned from buying a flat in Dubai. If he leaves, he will be yet one more UK millionaire abandoning the overtaxed country at the rate of 45 per day this year.
But if that man leaves, it wouldn’t be for economic reasons. Though he lives in a safe London neighborhood, he wants a place to escape with his family if civil war kicks off. He’s lucky: he has the resources to escape. But ordinary English people don’t.
For most of this year, the King’s College London war studies professor David Betz has been publicly warning that civil war is likely coming for Britain, France, and elsewhere in Western Europe. He bases his forecast on what academics know about the causes of civil wars. And he blames “asymmetrical multiculturalism”—that is, policies that favor non-native ethnics—as the main driver of the coming conflict.
Meanwhile, the boats carrying young, military-age men keep crossing the Channel and landing on English beaches. Government ministers and politicians grumble that Something Must Be Done. But everybody knows nothing will, at least not anytime soon. So they comfort themselves with Klemperer’s self-sedating words from 1934: “It cannot go on like this, it must get better, it must be a passing phase.”
Britain’s Jews are a canary in the civilizational coal mine. A country so afraid of its migrant Muslim population that it not only refuses to protect Jews, but actually punishes non-Jewish citizens who say hurty things about migrants on social media, is not a country prepared to defend civilization from these barbarians it has allowed through its gates.
The Manchester synagogue slayings happened on Friday morning, and by Friday evening, a rowdy pro-Palestinian mob mustered outside No. 10 Downing Street, the prime minister’s residence. Not all were Muslims or migrants.
“I don’t give a f—k about the Jewish community right now,” Fiona Smith, 42, told The Telegraph.
A sign of the times. Antisemitism is rampant on the British Left.
If you had ever wondered how you would have behaved as the Nazis began persecuting Jews after they came to power in 1934, well, now is your chance to find out.
What infuriates me, as a practicing Christian, is the continued blindness of Europe’s Christian leaders to the dangers of mass migration—not least a rebirth of violent antisemitism not even a century after Germany’s Nuremberg Laws codified anti-Jewish persecution. Christianity is flat on its back in Europe. Do they not see what adding millions of Muslims to Europe portends for those who still hold to Europe’s ancestral religion—people those leaders are supposed to represent?
“Protecting people more than borders” is the slogan of the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe, an ecumenical NGO that promotes mass migration. One wonders if these divines give a damn about the peoples of Europe, Jews and Gentiles alike, suffering violence and displacement by these migrants, especially from Islamic countries.
Though the Catholic Church is not part of that organization, its bishops and bureaucrats are aligned with its mission. On the World Day of Migration this past July 25th, Pope Leo XIV issued a pro-migrant statement, saying in part that “communities that welcome them can also be a living witness to hope.”
Jihad Al-Shamie was a Syrian immigrant who became a naturalized British subject. He was welcomed by Britain. He didn’t offer much hope to Jews gathering at the Manchester synagogue on the holiest day of their year, did he? And what about the hope the Pakistani Muslim migrant rape syndicates offered to working-class white English girls?
We have all been strictly instructed by our betters not to read the 1973 dystopian novel The Camp Of The Saints, by Jean Raspail. A 2019 article in The New York Times quoted experts warning that the novel, which tells the story of a million-man migrant invasion of Europe, is a white supremacist fantasy.
“Raspail can boast himself about being a prophet,” Jean-Yves Camus, an expert on the far right at the French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs, told the Times back then. “People now buy ‘The Camp of the Saints’ because they want to read the book written by the writer who saw what would happen before everybody else.”
Raspail, who died in 2020, was just such a prophet. The book has recently been reissued by Vauban Press in a new English translation by Ethan Rundell. I first read the novel in 2015, when a caravan of one million migrants poured into Europe after German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s invitation. It really does have some appalling racist passages.
But a decade on, after living for four years in Europe and coming to understand the scale of the migration problem, the unwillingness of governments to take a stand to stop it, and the collaboration of the media, NGOs, and the churches to suppress the truth, I reread The Camp of the Saints with freshly jaded eyes. The novel’s moral flaws are more than compensated for by its truth-telling: on Easter Sunday, after the migrant flotilla has come ashore, a radio broadcaster tells the French people, “You are implored to open wide your doors—just now by the pope, leader of our sick Christian world. But I tell you, I beg you, to close your doors, close them quickly, if there is still time!”
In Raspail’s dark tale, there wasn’t time. I wonder if there still is for Europe in real life. In any case, this soon won’t be a problem for Ben Freeman, a British Jew and patriot whose country let him down.
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