Author: Hugh Fitzgerald

In Milan, a parade celebrating Italy’s Liberation Day — liberation from Fascism — took place on April 25. Italians of every persuasion were welcomed to take part, with one exception. Jews who showed up to march, including some who had been Partisans themselves, or were the children of Partisans, were the object of harassment and threats of violence, and forced to withdraw under police protection.

What do all those wives, plural or singular, of rich Muslim men, wear? “Modest fashions” that, ideally, are niqabs that hide everything but the hands and eyes of their wearers. And now there has just taken place a Modest Fashion Week in Paris where models parade — to sashay would be immodest — down the catwalk, one forbidding figure after another wearing everything from hijabs to black abayas and niqabs.

Crazier and crazier. Well, if the Israelis commit genocide, or “genocide,” why wouldn’t they harvest the organs of Palestinians and, it now is claimed, collect the skin — a full-body scalping —  as well of dead Palestinians? More on this absurd charge, that ought to have provoked whistles and catcalls and boos at the Ohio Senate Judiciary Committee hearing where it was made…

There have been dozens of these killings by the IDF of senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commanders, Basij leaders, nuclear scientists, heads of the air force, ballistic missile scientists, government spokesmen, and many others. A long list, that recently got longer by one, with the announcement by Israel that it had killed the IRGC naval commander, Alireza Tangsiri, who among other duties had organized the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Tangsiri was a very big fish. Now he sleeps with the fishes.

Gaza’s alternative to rule by Hamas are the large families — the clans — those traditional sources of authority and power, that have re-emerged as Hamas has been battered by the IDF. The clans are organic to Gaza, unlike Arabs from outside who would not be familiar with the tribal structures that predominate in the Strip.

The Islamic Republic of Iran has the second largest reserves of natural gas, and the third largest reserves of oil, in the world. In the past thirty years, the country has received more than $1.4 trillion from the sale of oil alone. Yet in this resource-rich country, the people of Iran have been suffering economically. Today, over 40 million Iranians live in absolute poverty, and nearly 70 percent of the population falls below the relative poverty line.

Israel has until now not sufficiently grasped the importance of the information war. It has allowed Hamas to run circles around it, putting out lie after lie, without the IDF ever providing a thorough, systematic, and rapid rebuttal to those calumnies.

Israel has been brilliant at fighting in Gaza, and at preserving the lives of Gazan civilians, but it has not done enough to defend its conduct of the war.

Though the governments of Ireland, Spain, and Norway are more hostile to Israel than Italy, in the size of its anti-Israel protests, the Bel Paese comes in first.

The president of Argentina, Javier Milei, a Catholic fascinated by Judaism, who is said to study his weekly Torah portion, has made clear his deep affection for the Jewish state.

Would Trump have assembled such a force, the mightiest American force since the Iraq War, only to put pressure on Iran to curb its nuclear program? What’s to come is still unsure, but every day it looks more and more as if Iran has made a fatal error in not coming to terms, when it still had a chance, with The Donald.

Aber Kawas is a Democratic Socialist, a fervent admirer of Zohran Mamdani, and a candidate for the Queens Assembly. Mamdani has just endorsed her candidacy — the first such endorsement of his administration. He’s a great supporter of this creature,…

Now that both carrier battle groups, that led by the USS Gerald Ford and the other led by USS Abraham Lincoln, are within striking distance of Iran, the Israelis have reason to believe that Trump has at last been considering an attack on the Islamic Republic that would decapitate its senior leadership, both clerics and military men, and embolden would-be protesters to return to the streets in overwhelming numbers, in order to bring down the regime. Two of Israel’s most important intelligence officials, the heads of IDF Intelligence and of Mossad, were recently in Washington to offer their advice on potential Iranian targets.

Saluting the flag is a simple sign of loyalty to the country, the United States, by those who are its citizens. It has no religious significance.

Muhammad, the Model of Conduct (uswa hasana) and the Perfect Man (al-insan al-kamil) had a favorite wife. This was little Aisha, the daughter of Abu Bakr, one of Muhammad’s Companions

The Israelis are constantly working to improve their weaponry, both as to performance and as to cost. The Iron Dome anti-missile system, first introduced in 2006, has been impressive enough, capable of intercepting more than 90% of the missiles launched toward Israel. However, it is expensive: each interception requires the firing of two Tamir missiles….

Now Israel has finally rolled out everywhere in the country the Iron Beam laser-based system that promises to revolutionize the IDF’s ability to intercept incoming aerial threats, from missiles, rockets, drones, and mortars, hitting them at the speed of light, and for only a few dollars per intercept

After 46 years of enduring the mullahs’ hellish regime, the people of Iran are now out on the streets all over the country, in Tehran, Mashhad, Kermanshah, and Qeshm, and a dozen other cities, in numbers we have not seen before, protesting against the economic degringolade.

Would you be surprised to learn that the former mayor in the UK who tried to secure British visas for 41 relatives and friends in Bangladesh is named Mohammad Amirul Islam? No, of course you wouldn’t

Shaun O’Sullivan is a Christian pastor and preacher in the U.K., who has the misfortune of standing up for Jews, and for the Jewish state. His preaching, naturally, has led to Muslim complaints; they feel “threatened”

Dr. Johnson famously said — on April 7, 1775, to James Boswell, who noted it down for posterity — that “patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” But for the very worst of the scoundrels, the last refuge, it turns out, is antisemitism.

While the Mossad, with the collaboration of European counterparts, has exposed the networks of terrorist groups across the continent, the Europeans have continued to let Hamas-linked individuals to appear in their media, treated as respected authorities instead of as the terrorists they are.

Claudia Tenney, a Congresswoman from New York, on October 28 introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives that affirms Israel’s sovereignty over the Temple Mount, and calls for equal access and religious freedom for Christians, Muslims, and the Jewish people at the site. This “equal access” means that Jews would no longer be limited to visiting the Temple Mount for four hours a day, five days a week, while Muslims can visit at all hours and on every day of the week.

The Hamas prisoners whom Israel released — that is, the worst of them, the ones with the most Israeli blood on their hands — have ended up first in one luxury hotel in Cairo, and now have been moved to a second luxury hotel, where there are fewer foreign guests to be alarmed and the security is better.

A French court issued a bizarre decision: two Tunisian men, both illegal migrants with criminal records, cut down an olive tree planted in memory of Ilan Halimi, the young Jewish man whom a gang of twenty Muslims kidnapped, tortured for several weeks, and finally left to die.

We all know of doctors and nurses around the world who, after posting on social media their homicidal hatred of Jews, including boasting about having killed, or hoping in the future to kill, Jewish patients, have lost their jobs and their licenses.

It’s not the settler-colonial ethnic-cleansing genocidal Israelis who have been offering aid in exchange for sexual favors; it’s Palestinian men in Gaza, including those who work for UNRWA.

Nigel Farage’s Reform Party now leads both the Labour and Conservative parties by 12%. This is almost entirely due to its harder stance on immigration, both legal and illegal, and by “immigration,” everyone understands this to mean Muslim immigration.

Iran’s terror tentacles are spread across the globe.

Protests are not enough. Israel must make clear that it will answer this menace with a move of its own — to annex part, or all, of Judea and Samaria.

The UN’s long-running antipathy to Israel, beginning with the infamous 1975 “Zionism is Racism” resolution.

Mossad is tiny, with a total personnel of 7,000 — but its intelligence operation in the Middle East has not been surpassed even by the secret services of much larger spy agencies, including those of the U.S., the U.K., and Russia

Why does the United Nations do everything it can to make it more difficult for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to deliver food aid? It insists that UNRWA must be the only distributor of aid, but UNRWA, as the Israelis have shown, is riddled with Hamas members and sympathizers. Hundreds of UNRWA staff turn out to be members of Hamas; dozens of them took part in the atrocities of October 7, 2023. It is these people who in the past helped Hamas to steal, hoard, and resell aid, at exorbitant prices, to ordinary Gazans. Nor did UNRWA ever object to Hamas using its buildings, especially its schools, and hospitals, to hide both combatants and weapons.

And he then become the object of repeated attacks by pro-terror (Palestinian) bullyboys.

Europeans of the right and center met recently in Vienna to discuss shared fears over the threat to Europe of a rapidly increasing Muslim population, and to express their appreciation for both the Trump administration and Israel for the ways they are dealing with Islamic threats. More on this meeting, and its significance, can be found here.

“Someone tried to murder my family.More of Macon’s handiwork in recognizing a terror state.

Want to see videos of women tied by barbed wire to their daughters, and then both of them raped, before being killed? Want to see decapitated Jewish babies? How about whole families burned to death? Or women whose breasts were sliced off, or men with their eyes gouged out and genitalia cut off? There’s all this, and more, and apparently two Muslims in the British army were delighted to view such atrocities — not to deplore, but to take delight in them. Now their ghoulish interest has been found out, and as a result, they have both been discharged from the army.

DEI is even farther along in the old and rotting world than it is in North America, where Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs are now beating a retreat since they came under assault from President Trump.

Israeli Brig. Gen. (ret’d) Amir Avivi has published here a piece on Iran’s many mistakes that made the IDF’s stunning successes in its war with the Islamic Republic possible. In just under two weeks—and after years of mounting pressure—Iran has suffered a series of devastating blows. Key military commanders and nuclear scientists have been killed,…

Reza Pahlavi is the son of the late Shah, who has been living in exile in the United States ever since Ayatollah Khomeini replaced his father as the ruler of Iran. He has been appealing to Iranian officials, including military leaders, to break with the Islamic Republic, now that it has been dealt blow after blow by Israel, severely weakening the hold of the regime on its people.

The recent firing of pro-Israel staffers at the National Security Council, including Eric Trager and Merav Ceren, comes at a time when President Trump claims that negotiations with Iran are “going well,” even though Iran publicly insists it will never agree to end its program of uranium enrichment, and continues to make threats to “destroy Israel” should the Jewish state try to attack it.

British Colonel (ret’d) Richard Kemp has fought in half-a-dozen military campaigns, and commanded British troops in Afghanistan. He has closely studied the IDF, even before the latest war in Gaza, and concluded that “Israel has the most moral military in the world.” He has just published a piece, urging that the “naysayers” denying the IDF’s achievements in Gaza be ignored, for Israel, he says, is “winning the war in Gaza.”

The latest murderous assault by a Muslim living in Europe on non-Muslims took place in the German city of Bielefeld recently. A Syrian asylum seeker entered a student bar at midnight, and proceeded to stab with a cane sword as many people as he could. He injured five, and two of them are in critical condition. He didn’t know his victims, but for him they were, as non-Muslims, “the most vile of created beings,” and thus deserved to die.

In Western Europe, Muslims are greatly overrepresented in the prison population. In France, for example, 10% of the general population is Muslim, but Muslims make up nearly 70% of the prison population. In the UK, Muslims are 6.7% of the population, but 18% of the prison population. In Germany, Muslims are 6% of the population, but 30-40% of the prison population.

ntisemitic acts in France have been increasing precipitously in France, which has both the largest Jewish and the largest Muslim population in Europe. The Muslims are doing just fine, living on the largesse provided by the generous welfare state that provides them with free or greatly subsidized housing, free medical care, free education, family allowances, and more. It they need a little more to tide them over, they supplement government money with crimes of property — street robberies, house burglaries, shoplifting, drug trafficking. Muslims make up 10% of the population but 70% of the criminals now in French prisons.

The BBC has quite a stable of journalists consumed by a deep anti-Israel animus that frequently grades into naked antisemitism. Such English reporters as John Simpson, Jeremy Bowen, Lyse Doucet (oops — she’s Canadian), Barbara Plett Usher (who wept over the fate of that “frail old man, Yasser Arafat” as he fled Beirut), and Yolande Knell constitute a long BBC tradition of calumniating Israel, and justifying Arab terrorists.

The Druze are ethnically Arab, but practice a religion that is an offshoot of Islam. Sunni Muslims regard them as non-Muslims, and mistreat them accordingly.

The IDF has carried out what it calls a “warning airstrike” against a Sunni group that was threatening Druze in villages just south of Damascus, stopping them in their tracks. More on this can be found here. In a statement on state news agency SANA, the director of security for the Damascus countryside said a…

They violently invade university buildings, and vandalize them, writing pro-Hamas graffiti on walls. They attack campus police trying to regulate the tent encampments that they set up in the middle of campuses. At Columbia, the pro-Hamas brigade entered Hamilton Hall, and proceeded to break furniture and write on the walls. When members of the janitorial staff tried to stop them, they were attacked. One of the janitors was so wounded that he spent five days in the hospital.

Ten years after four Jews were murdered by a Muslim terrorist at the Hyper Cacher kosher market in Paris, another attack — this time not murder, but arson in the middle of the night — occurred at the same market.