Europe’s failing centrist leaders might be struggling for support at home. But they have now found a new gang of admirers, winning praise from the Jew-hating Islamists Hamas.
This week, two young Israeli embassy staffers were shot dead at the Jewish Museum in the U.S. capital of Washington D.C., by an Islamo-leftist who chanted “Free, free Palestine”.
There could hardly be a more cold-blooded example of how the jihad against Israel in the Middle East is also a gun pointed at the heart of Western democracy.
Yet those murders took place in a week when many European leaders were also effectively screaming “Free Palestine!” in the faces of the beleaguered Israeli people.
Our presidents and prime ministers have turned the truth on its head and declared to the world that Israel is the real murderer of innocents in its war against the death cult of Hamas. As a result, Europe’s elites are emboldening the forces of antisemitism and anti-Western hatred in the Middle East and around the globe.
It is now clearer than ever that, in military terms, Israel is hammering its Iran-backed Islamist enemies—Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, whoever. Barely a Hamas leader who helped organise the October 7th pogrom in Israel is still alive.
Yet on the global political and moral battlefield, Israel is being betrayed by its supposed allies in the West.
As Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said after the Washington D.C. murders, Western governments who attack Israel are “emboldening Hamas to continue fighting forever: “You’re on the wrong side of humanity and you’re on the wrong side of history”.
We will all pay a heavy price if Europe’s leaders are allowed to take the wrong side in what is, as we have said from the start, a fight to the end between the forces of civilisation and barbarism.
Official Europe’s anti-Israeli turn is getting worse with every week. This week a “strong majority” of European foreign ministers backed “a major shift” in EU policy towards Israel, to pressure Netanyahu’s government “to end the humanitarian blockade of Gaza.”
The 17 member states supporting the anti-Israeli shift included not only the usual suspects such as France, Spain, and Ireland. The move was proposed by the Netherlands government—supposedly a staunch supporter of Israel, as one of 11 member states that do not recognise the imaginary state of Palestine. Yet.
That EU move came after President Emmanuel Macron of France, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and Canadian PM Mark Carney issued a joint threat of “concrete actions” to force Israel to call an “immediate halt” to its military offensive and end its “blockade” of Gaza.
This is all based on a distorted Gaza-Through-the-Looking-Glass view of Israel’s war. Israel is not deliberately starving Gazans, not committing genocide, and not illegally occupying anywhere. It is fighting truly genocidal Islamist terrorists—who kill Israeli Jews for being Jews—in defence of its national sovereignty and its people.
Of course, as in any war, there has been much civilian suffering in Gaza, including hunger. As recently reported on europeanconservative.com, the blame for that lies with Hamas, who started the war on October 7th and have since used the civilian population of Gaza as human shields, celebrating their deaths as martyrdom. By contrast, Israel has gone to extraordinary lengths to limit civilian casualties in its counter-offensive.
Yet of all the bloody conflicts in the world, Israel is singled out for wild accusations of genocide and is the only state ever to be charged with the crime of starvation by the International Criminal Court. As ever, the one democracy in the Middle East and the one Jewish state on earth is held to a different standard of “humanitarianism” than anybody else. Whyever could that be?
Official Europe’s distorted view was summed up this week by Britain’s moronic Labour foreign secretary David Lammy, a politician whose weak grasp of reality was illustrated by his previous suggestion that a biological man could grow a cervix. Lammy’s shrill speech to the Westminster parliament ranted against the “monstrous … morally wrong … indefensible” actions, not of the Hamas rapists, murderers, and hostage takers of October 7th, but of Israel, for daring to fight a war of self-defence against these monsters.
Lammy even had the nerve to criticise Israel for “dismissing the concerns of your friends and partners.” With “friends” like these, we might conclude, who needs enemies?
Indeed the new unhealthy friendships forming in international politics became clear when Hamas came out in praise of Western leaders for “restating the principles of international law” against “the government of the terrorist Netanyahu.”
When murderous Islamist terrorists congratulate our leaders like that, it should surely suggest two things. First, that “international law” is really a political weapon used to undermine and override the defence of national sovereignty. And second, that when you’re winning praise from genocidal Jew-haters, it really might be time to realise that you’re on the wrong side.
We are now reaching a crisis point. That Washington murderer looks like the armed, extremist wing of an anti-Israeli mood that reaches to the top of Europe’s politics and culture.
The Israel-bashing movement brings together all that is rotten in our societies. There is antisemitism, in both its old and new varieties. There is the identity politics of the left, which declares that Jews are always privileged whites to be condemned, and Palestinians are always victims to be praised. And looming over everything, there is the toxic anti-Western feeling that unites Islamists and self-loathing liberal elitists in its hatred of our history and civilisation.
In response, we need to challenge the distortions that dominate media and political debate about the conflict. The end of the war remains uncertain. But it should be clear that Western leaders’ dream of a “two-state solution” is a dangerous fantasy today.
It cannot be said often enough that Hamas does not want a Palestinian state. It wants to destroy Israel as part of its jihad for a global Islamist caliphate. That is the real meaning of the slogan “From the River to the Sea, Palestine shall be free” that has rung around Western capitals and campuses since October 7th. It is a call to wipe Israel off the face of the earth and drive the Jews into the Mediterranean. Any demand for an Israeli ceasefire without the annihilation of Hamas means surrendering to a death cult that has sworn to stage more October 7th massacres “again and again.”
The Israelis are not only fighting and defeating their enemies. They are at war with our enemies, too. They are despised by globalists because they insist on defending their national sovereignty, borders, and people.
That is also why all of us in Europe who defend those vital principles should stand unconditionally with the Israeli people. They are on the frontline of the global war for democracy. We should let them know who their true friends and allies are.
Israel Is Beating Our Enemies—but Being Betrayed by Its ‘Friends’
A woman holds flowers and an Israeli national flag in a sign of support outside the Capital Jewish Museum following the shooting of Israeli embassy staffers, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim by a gunman who shouted “free Palestine.”
Photo: Drew Angerer / AFP
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Europe’s failing centrist leaders might be struggling for support at home. But they have now found a new gang of admirers, winning praise from the Jew-hating Islamists Hamas.
This week, two young Israeli embassy staffers were shot dead at the Jewish Museum in the U.S. capital of Washington D.C., by an Islamo-leftist who chanted “Free, free Palestine”.
There could hardly be a more cold-blooded example of how the jihad against Israel in the Middle East is also a gun pointed at the heart of Western democracy.
Yet those murders took place in a week when many European leaders were also effectively screaming “Free Palestine!” in the faces of the beleaguered Israeli people.
Our presidents and prime ministers have turned the truth on its head and declared to the world that Israel is the real murderer of innocents in its war against the death cult of Hamas. As a result, Europe’s elites are emboldening the forces of antisemitism and anti-Western hatred in the Middle East and around the globe.
It is now clearer than ever that, in military terms, Israel is hammering its Iran-backed Islamist enemies—Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, whoever. Barely a Hamas leader who helped organise the October 7th pogrom in Israel is still alive.
Yet on the global political and moral battlefield, Israel is being betrayed by its supposed allies in the West.
As Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said after the Washington D.C. murders, Western governments who attack Israel are “emboldening Hamas to continue fighting forever: “You’re on the wrong side of humanity and you’re on the wrong side of history”.
We will all pay a heavy price if Europe’s leaders are allowed to take the wrong side in what is, as we have said from the start, a fight to the end between the forces of civilisation and barbarism.
Official Europe’s anti-Israeli turn is getting worse with every week. This week a “strong majority” of European foreign ministers backed “a major shift” in EU policy towards Israel, to pressure Netanyahu’s government “to end the humanitarian blockade of Gaza.”
The 17 member states supporting the anti-Israeli shift included not only the usual suspects such as France, Spain, and Ireland. The move was proposed by the Netherlands government—supposedly a staunch supporter of Israel, as one of 11 member states that do not recognise the imaginary state of Palestine. Yet.
That EU move came after President Emmanuel Macron of France, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and Canadian PM Mark Carney issued a joint threat of “concrete actions” to force Israel to call an “immediate halt” to its military offensive and end its “blockade” of Gaza.
This is all based on a distorted Gaza-Through-the-Looking-Glass view of Israel’s war. Israel is not deliberately starving Gazans, not committing genocide, and not illegally occupying anywhere. It is fighting truly genocidal Islamist terrorists—who kill Israeli Jews for being Jews—in defence of its national sovereignty and its people.
Of course, as in any war, there has been much civilian suffering in Gaza, including hunger. As recently reported on europeanconservative.com, the blame for that lies with Hamas, who started the war on October 7th and have since used the civilian population of Gaza as human shields, celebrating their deaths as martyrdom. By contrast, Israel has gone to extraordinary lengths to limit civilian casualties in its counter-offensive.
Yet of all the bloody conflicts in the world, Israel is singled out for wild accusations of genocide and is the only state ever to be charged with the crime of starvation by the International Criminal Court. As ever, the one democracy in the Middle East and the one Jewish state on earth is held to a different standard of “humanitarianism” than anybody else. Whyever could that be?
Official Europe’s distorted view was summed up this week by Britain’s moronic Labour foreign secretary David Lammy, a politician whose weak grasp of reality was illustrated by his previous suggestion that a biological man could grow a cervix. Lammy’s shrill speech to the Westminster parliament ranted against the “monstrous … morally wrong … indefensible” actions, not of the Hamas rapists, murderers, and hostage takers of October 7th, but of Israel, for daring to fight a war of self-defence against these monsters.
Lammy even had the nerve to criticise Israel for “dismissing the concerns of your friends and partners.” With “friends” like these, we might conclude, who needs enemies?
Indeed the new unhealthy friendships forming in international politics became clear when Hamas came out in praise of Western leaders for “restating the principles of international law” against “the government of the terrorist Netanyahu.”
When murderous Islamist terrorists congratulate our leaders like that, it should surely suggest two things. First, that “international law” is really a political weapon used to undermine and override the defence of national sovereignty. And second, that when you’re winning praise from genocidal Jew-haters, it really might be time to realise that you’re on the wrong side.
We are now reaching a crisis point. That Washington murderer looks like the armed, extremist wing of an anti-Israeli mood that reaches to the top of Europe’s politics and culture.
The Israel-bashing movement brings together all that is rotten in our societies. There is antisemitism, in both its old and new varieties. There is the identity politics of the left, which declares that Jews are always privileged whites to be condemned, and Palestinians are always victims to be praised. And looming over everything, there is the toxic anti-Western feeling that unites Islamists and self-loathing liberal elitists in its hatred of our history and civilisation.
In response, we need to challenge the distortions that dominate media and political debate about the conflict. The end of the war remains uncertain. But it should be clear that Western leaders’ dream of a “two-state solution” is a dangerous fantasy today.
It cannot be said often enough that Hamas does not want a Palestinian state. It wants to destroy Israel as part of its jihad for a global Islamist caliphate. That is the real meaning of the slogan “From the River to the Sea, Palestine shall be free” that has rung around Western capitals and campuses since October 7th. It is a call to wipe Israel off the face of the earth and drive the Jews into the Mediterranean. Any demand for an Israeli ceasefire without the annihilation of Hamas means surrendering to a death cult that has sworn to stage more October 7th massacres “again and again.”
The Israelis are not only fighting and defeating their enemies. They are at war with our enemies, too. They are despised by globalists because they insist on defending their national sovereignty, borders, and people.
That is also why all of us in Europe who defend those vital principles should stand unconditionally with the Israeli people. They are on the frontline of the global war for democracy. We should let them know who their true friends and allies are.
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