Author: Hugh Fitzgerald

In the UK, an Islamic State online forum has been discovered that teaches its audience how to start wildfires and to hide their handiwork, as arsonists, from forensic investigation. It has long been suspected that lone-wolf arsonists loyal to the Islamic state and other Islamic terror groups have started some of the wildfires in both Europe and the U.S. Now there is proof that ISIS supporters have shared online their expertise on starting wildfires, suggested suitable targets, and provided guidance on how to avoid detection of arson. More on this latest weapon that Muslim terrorists are employing can be found here.

Antisemites are in a permanent state of denial. They deny that there was ever a Holocaust. They deny that Jews have been oppressed through time and space. And now, those who hate the very idea of a Jewish state deny that Jews ever lived in the Land of Israel. But the archeological evidence tells a different story: it is full of mentions of ancient Israel, not only by Jews, but also by Egyptian pharaohs.

Alexander Z. was a Ukrainian who fought the Russians, and then, seeking a more peaceful existence, moved with his 15-year-old son to Dortmund, in Germany. His son began to take an interest in Islam, read the Qur’an, found it compelling, and converted to Islam. And then, a year into his conversion, he got into a verbal fight with his father, and stabbed him to death.

This is a true story about Taryn Thomas, an impressionable young woman who started out as an Israel-hater as an undergraduate at Stanford, since it seemed the thing to do, and then by slow degrees underwent a change of heart and mind, especially after she visited the Jewish state. She then became the object of calumny and death threats from her former friends who didn’t want to hear about her mental metamorphosis. More on Taryn Thomas’ journey from the swamp of lies to the sunny uplands of the truth can be found here.

Why try to brainwash people into believing that 9/11 was a “terrorist attack”? Let them make up their own minds. Don’t try to influence them. That would be unfair. That would be playing with their minds. Thus thought a Muslim member of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation senior staff, who sent out a memo to CBC…

Migrants differ not only in their respective points of origin and destination, and in the skills they bring, they differ also in their reasons for migrating and in such demographic characteristics as age distribution. And sex ratios. Some groups acquire the culture of new lands rapidly, while others cling to their ancestral ways for generations or, in some cases, centuries…. (pp. 2-3)

And some migrants arrive with attitudes that make it impossible for them to assimilate. Muslims are the chief example of this. The Qur’an tells them that they, the Muslims, are “the best of peoples,” while the non-Muslims among whom they now live are “the most vile of created beings.” Given that, why would Muslims want to become part of a society created by the “most vile of created beings”? And Muslims know further that, as Muhammad famously declared, “Islam is to dominate and not to be dominated.” That belief bodes ill for assimilation.

In Pakistan, Christians are ordinarily confined to low-paying and menial jobs — sweeping streets, cleaning latrines, making and hauling bricks. This is a way to keep them in a state of permanent need and humiliation. And Muslims who employ them, or who may even work at the same site, are careful to remind them of their lowly state.

And she got more than she expected, being subjected by an employee to an outburst of antisemitic invective, leaving her in tears. More about this dismal story, one of thousands of similar antisemitic incidents that have become so widespread

Lars Møller recently published a piece on three farsighted people — the late Oriana Fallaci, Mark Steyn, and Douglas Murray — who understood and have written about the mortal threat to Western civilization from “the sons of Allah,” tens of millions of whom are now living in our midst. More. on his tribute to the three (and he might have added the names of Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer and Ibn Warraq to his list) and the alarm he now feels, because so few in the West have heeded them, can be found here:

One of the brothers was so well thought of by fellow Muslims in his Sheffield neighborhood that he ran as a Labour candidate for local office. More of their ghastly all-in-the-family tale can be found here.

It is apparently not enough for the Trump/Vance administration to give a malevolent Iran everything it wants — an end to sanctions on selling oil, its assets unfrozen, $300 billion in private investments that Trump pomises he will help raise, no mention of ending aid to its Hamas and Hezbollah proxies; no mention, either, of limits on Iran’s ballistic missiles, and no commitment by Iran to turn over its 140 kg. of uranium enriched to a level of 60. No, now Trump wants to extend his geopolitical defeats by giving Recep Tayyip Erdogan our top-of-the-line F-35 fighter jets, that Turkey has been trying to obtain for years……

“You evil Zionist bitch!”

80 year old Academy award winner Dame Helen Mirren attacked on the street for saying that Jews shouldn’t be murdered.

Economic instability. Political fragmentation. War. Technological upheaval. Institutional distrust. Fear of decline.

And then comes the search for a “villain” large enough to explain the feeling.

For centuries, Jews have repeatedly served that role.

The UK government has now done something useful in the war against Muslim antisemites: it has banned Hasan Piker and Cenk Uyghur from entering the UK to spread their poison.

While much of the world is fixated on the Shi’a fanatics who rule Iran and control the Strait of Hormuz, Sunni fanatics in northwest Africa are relentlessly expanding their operations.

Who says the U.K. has free speech? The other day, an RAF cadet dared to say what a great many sensible people all over Europe and North America are quietly thinking: that the ideology of Islam is the “greatest threat” to their nations’ wellbeing. For his candor, instead of engaging with him in a free and open discussion about his claim, his RAF commanders promptly removed him from his training course.

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.