Author: Hugh Fitzgerald

It was in Nice in 2016 that a Muslim terrorist driving a truck plowed into a crowd of pedestrians celebrating Bastille Day, killing 83 and wounding 434. There have been several other murderous attacks by Muslims in the city since then. In October 2020, for example, three people were murdered by Muslims in the Basilica…

Israel’s new foreign minister, Gideon Sa’ar, set out his views on everything from “the gang in Damascus” to “opening an embassy in Moldova” to “the need to better fund Israel’s hasbara” in a meeting with journalists. More on his tour d’horizon of Israeli policy, and how he now sees the region and the world, can…

Syria is a fractured state plagued by competing factions and extremist ideologies….

Hezbollah lies prostrate, weaker today than at any time in its existence. And Israel is in a better strategic position than it has ever been, having crushed Hamas, reduced Hezbollah to a shadow of its antebellum self, largely destroyed the Yemeni port of Hodeidah that the Houthis rely on for weapons deliveries from Iran, and destroyed as well Iran’s missile defenses, its ballistic missile plants, and a nuclear research facility.

Yair Lapid, leader of the opposition in Israel, has said that in limiting its attack on Iran to weapons production and air defense sites, the IDF missed a “golden opportunity” to set back the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program. And he is not alone

Universities that capitulate to the anti-Israel and antisemitic mobs on their campuses ,and agree to their demands to cut ties to Israel, will now find — if a bill just introduced in Congress passes, as it almost certainly will — that their federal funding will be cut.

Palestinians in Gaza are the victims both of a death cult —Hamas — and of what he calls “woke elites” in the West, for whom the “issue of Palestine” has become “a vessel for the fashionable anxieties of the privileged.”

The BBC is a public corporation, supported by the license fees that are mandatory for all people in the UK who watch television, even if they never watch the BBC. The mandatory license fee is now over 160 pounds per year; the assumption has always been that the BBC could be counted on for unbiased coverage, and so deserved this support. But the evidence of systematic anti-Israel bias, on the part of so many of its reporters, as revealed in the recent Asserson Report, fatally vitiates that assumption, and is one more reason why the government, if the BBC refuses to acknowledge the evidence of its anti-Israel bias and to discharge those responsible, should stop paying for its news operation.

Now Iran has been stripped of its anti-missile defenses, making it much more vulnerable to strikes by Israel. Iran was counting on Hezbollah’s vast arsenal of rockets and missiles to serve as a deterrent, that would discourage Israel from attacking the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.

Now that the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah has been declared, Hezbollah has been crowing that it has won a great “victory.” Apparently that “victory” consists in the fact that the IDF did not manage to destroy the Lebanese terror group altogether, the way it is now doing to Hamas in Gaza, so that Hezbollah…

The Philadelphi Corridor is a strip of land — nine miles long, and 100 meters wide — that stretches along Gaza’s southern border with Egypt. For years, that border has been porous, and both through it and in the tunnels under it, Iran-supplied weapons have been delivered to Hamas.

The Hamas-tied Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has just honored outgoing Congressman Jamaal Bowman. Bowman is a peculiar sort; for years he was a conspiracy theorist on social media, focusing on the “real” malefactors behind the 9/11 attacks.

Jamaal Bowman is the anti-Israel and antisemitic Congressman, a member of the extended Squad, who was defeated in the Democratic primary by George Latimer, and as of this January, will no longer be a member of the House. Perhaps he will go to work for CAIR, which has just honored him with its “Champion of Justice” award.

All over Europe, government officials and a complicit media have been trying to hide the reality of Muslim violence and crime

” This matter of who can rightly be called a “Palestinian refugee” is bizarre.

News about one more of those “honor” killings has become distressingly commonplace. There are many thousands of such killings every year, in Muslim countries and communities around the world.

No sooner had Cornell University opened its doors for the Fall Term to begin than the pro-Hamas protesters appeared, invaded a college building and proceeded to vandalize it. Will they get away with the kind of violence and campus destruction that they were allowed to get away with last year? Not likely. More on these wet-behind-the-ears Stormtroopers can be found here.

Several weeks ago, I traveled through the placid seaside town of La Grande Motte on my way to the city of Montpellier. Not long after I arrived back in the U.S., I learned of a Muslim terrorist attack on the synagogue at La Grande Motte, in which a policeman was hurt, hurled into the air from the blast.

That Israel is very good at fighting wars, but not nearly as successful in fighting the “war of the words” – the information battle, hasbara – as are the Arabs, is by now well known. Israel has allowed the Arabs to invent a people (“the Palestinians”) and to rename a place (the “West Bank”), and to promote historical amnesia (“who cares about the Palestine Mandate?”) There are many other lexical battles that the Arabs have fought and managed to win. But there is no need to acquiesce despairingly in this state of affairs; those Arab verbal victories can be undone by Israel and its supporters if they remain vigilant in the use of words.

The war in Gaza is now the longest war Israel has had to fight.

As is well known, many American campuses have been roiled by raucous and menacing anti-Israel and pro-Hamas protesters. Jewish students have been briefly held prisoner by groups of these protesters who surround them, all the while screaming their slogans in the faces of those they hold hostage, an ordeal that leaves Jews afraid. They have had their kippahs knocked off, mezuzahs ripped from the door jambs outside their college rooms, seen pro-Israel speakers, including invited speakers from elsewhere drowned out by pro-Palestinian mobs who either block the speaker’s entrance to the lecture hall, or instead, attend the lecture only in order to jump up, on cue, a few minutes to the talk, to scream their slogans about “apartheid” and “genocide,” which often result in the talk being cancelled and the would-be speaker hurriedly leaving. Thus do these campus brownshirts prevent students from hearing speakers who are pro-Israel.

A Palestinian state already exists. Israeli officials have, it’s true, seldom mentioned that the land which became the Emirate of Transjordan (today’s Jordan) was originally intended, under the Mandate for Palestine, to be included in the future Jewish National Home.

The most successful of all the Arab verbal victories is the invention of the “Palestinian people.”

A New Jersey middle school has apologized for a question, and its answer, that appeared on a quiz given to seventh-graders at Schuyler Colfax Middle School in Wayne, New Jersey. Students were asked to select one answer that went along with the description “It is a terrorist organization that commits acts of violence, destroys cultural artifacts, and encourages loss of life in order to achieve its goal of global rule under strict Islamic Sharia law.”

a. Muller has now written an Open Letter to the world, expressing her disgust at the want of sympathy for, and of solidarity with, Israel, which has become the object of such grotesque and unjust hatred. She is particularly incensed by the “collective stupidity” of the young who have been busy screaming their support for Hamas.

Here is a list of 44 inventions and advances for which we have Israelis to thank:

Workers at Beirut Airport have reported on “unusual boxes” arriving at the airport from Iran since November, and have seen Hezbollah officials at the airport, overseeing their handling.

While Hamas has to worry about its last redoubt in Rafah soon to be pummeled by the unstoppable IDF, it also must be alarmed at the anger of Palestinians in Gaza directed at them, particularly by the powerful extended families — that is, the clans, some with thousands of members — that remain so important in Palestinian society.

The other day, someone in London wanted to show his support for the terror group Hamas. So he strolled through the center of the city, along Oxford Street, the back of his shirt emblazoned with the word “Hamas” and the number “7” — a reference to October 7, and the atrocities committed by Hamas operatives on that day. More on his offensive display — which also happens to be a criminal offense in the U.K.

In Pakistan, Christians lead lives of constant misery, poverty, and physical mistreatment. Most are condemned to the most lowly of occupations, such as latrine cleaning and tannery work, and subject to constant abuse by Muslim neighbors and employers

The reason: an asylum seeker was wearing a cross on his necklace.

An English politician, Alan Duncan, MP, has for decades been expressing his spittle-flecked anti-Israel animus. Now he has just been taken to task for his accusations that British politicians – especially Jewish ones — who support Israel are guilty of “dual loyalty.” More on his miching mallecho can be found here. Sir Alan Duncan is…

The Biden administration has been trying without success to persuade Israel not to enter Rafah in order to take apart the last four intact battalions of Hamas operatives.

In Clermont d’Excideuil, a tiny village (pop. 240) in the Dordogne, a quiet rural seat far from the cities where Muslims in France live, some Muslims came to town one night recently, in order to deface dozens of graves, a church door, and other sites dear to the Christian residents, with writings expressing Islamic supremacism. The villagers were startled and horrified.

We hear constantly that Israel is losing the information war, that the nightly scenes of buildings reduced to rubble in Gaza, and the latest Hamas-concocted numbers of “dead civilians” or, alternatively, and even more misleading, of “women and children killed,” are leading to a significant loss of support for the Jewish state. This turns out to be false

There are now tens of millions of Muslim migrants in Europe, who have been allowed to settle deep behind what they regard as enemy lines, the borders of Dar al-Harb. They claim to be refugees seeking asylum, but almost none of them are true refugees, fleeing persecution or death. They are economic migrants, hoping to batten on all the benefits that the generous welfare states of Europe have on offer: free or greatly subsidized housing, free medical care, free education, unemployment benefits (even without having an employment record in Europe), family allowances, and more.

There is a “Great Replacement” going on, and it will continue until enough people realize it is not inevitable, and that there are choices that Europeans can make to ensure that non-Muslim migrants are admitted while Muslim would-be migrants are kept out. This policy does not reflect a blind “islamophobia,” but is based on Europe’s unhappy experience with Muslim migrants since the beginning of the century

Meet Marwan Barghouti, Serial Killer and Possible Palestinian President

Barghouti enthusiasts make no mention at all of the innocent people he was convicted of murdering. That’s like murdering them twice.

An Islamic scholar, Dr. Khaled Bahajri, of the Islamic Center of Inland Empire – Rancho Masjid in California in a recent Friday sermon sang the praises of Hamas’ glorious deeds on October 7. More on his praise of Hamas, both for how the terror group went about preparing mentally for its daring raid into Israel, and for the kindness with which it has been treating the hostages, can be found here.

There is an illuminating discussion of the roots of the current wave of anti-Israel animus, that in its virulence is often indistinguishable from antisemitism

Many people have been appalled by the October 7 pogrom. And more are beginning to connect the dots of the Muslim war against Israel with the Muslim war against non-Muslims being waged, so far largely nonviolently, by the millions of Muslims who have been allowed to settle in the U.K.

In the U.K., as in the U.S. with the “Squad” in Congress, many in the so-called “progressive left” have abandoned Israel. For those “progressives” who still remain supporters of the Jewish state, the sense of abandonment is palpable.

Israel’s achievement in Gaza, of a 10 to 7 civilian-to-combatant ratio, is astounding, without parallel in the annals of urban warfare.

Marwat Al-Azza is a Palestinian woman who lives, quite comfortably, in east Jerusalem, under a secure government of laws, so different from the rule of the Hamas dictators in Gaza or the dictatorship of Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank.

In a recent poll, a large number of UK high school teachers admitted that they self-censored their lessons, so as not to offend their thin-skinned Muslim students.

I wouldn’t.

Ibraham Mossallam has been, until just now, a pilot for United Airlines. He’s also a great fan of Hamas, and a very great hater of Israel, as he’s made clear over the last six weeks in his postings on social media. This makes some people nervous, who would prefer a pilot who does not approve of raping, torturing, and murdering people, and who might take it into his head to bring down a plane full of infidels — the “most vile of created beings” — and in the process, become a Muslim martyr.

In Germany, a non-Muslim decided to buy himself a cap. He chose the raised and rounded skullcap, known as the tubeteika, that is worn by Muslims in Central Asia, in all of the five stans — Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan — and by the Uighurs in Xinjiang, China. But thin-skinned Muslims, always so ready to interpret the most innocent of Infidel gestures as malign, promptly punched him, broke his nose, and took his cap.

Ever since Chancellor Angela Merkel opened wide the gates to a million Muslim migrants in 2015, Germany has been living a slow-motion nightmare,