Author: Hugh Fitzgerald

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.

In 2010, a school under his leadership invited Sheikh Abdul Rahman al-Sudais, a Saudi cleric notorious for calling Jews “pigs” and praying for their annihilation, to speak to students. Other schools under Hamid’s direction invited another sheikh, Ismail Menk. to speak. Menk has repeatedly described homosexuals as “filthy” and “worse than dogs and pigs.”

As is well known, dozens of UNRWA staffers in Gaza took part in the Hamas atrocities committed on October 7, 2023, when 6,000 Hamas operatives smashed into Israel, where they proceeded to rape, torture, mutilate, and murder 1,200 Israelis and take 251 as hostages back into Gaza. Hamas documents seized by the IDF in Gaza revealed that hundreds of UNRWA staffers were member of Hamas. UNRWA knowingly allowed its schools and other structures to be taken over by Hamas, which hid its fighters and stored its weapons in those UNRWA buildings. And UNRWA schoolbooks continue to indoctrinate Palestinian children in a homicidal hatred not just of Israelis, but of “the Jews” everywhere.

Here’s what just one immigrant from Syria has done during his nine years in Germany, but despite his long rap sheet, despite his lawless mayhem, despite his vast vandalism, and his attack on an elderly woman, he still hasn’t been expelled:

A Muslim nurse who had been working at the Bankstown Hospital in Sydney, Australia, promised that if she were asked to treat an Israeli patient she would kill him. Now she has been arrested, and charged with threatening to kill Israelis.

Hezbollah has not removed many of its combatants and continues to hide weapons inside civilian villages in that territory.

n 2015, as she opened wide her country’s gates to a million Muslim immigrants, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel famously proclaimed “Wir schaffen das!” or, “We Can Do This.” No, Angela Merkel, Germans couldn’t. Germans still can’t. They can’t integrate Muslims successfully into the larger society. They can’t persuade Muslims to stop hating Infidels, not in Germany and not anywhere else in Europe. They cannot prevent Muslims — economic migrants pretending to be asylum seekers —from taking advantage of every benefit that the generous welfare state of Germany provides. Alternative für Deutschland, with its firm opposition to more Muslim immigration (but the party, it must be emphasized, is not against immigration in general) is at this point the country’s only hope.

A storied French couplet goes: Cet animal est très méchant Si on l’attaque, il se défend. In English, that would be: This animal is very wicked, Just see what happens when you kick it. And that is what Israel has been doing: hitting back at those who attempt to mass-murder its people. It’s no more…

In recent months, an antisemitic controversy has been roiling Chautauqua, where every summer, adults and young people gather for nine weeks to hear lectures in a bucolic setting on a lake in western New York.

Chautauqua is a quintessential American institution, dating from the 19th century.

We’ve now had the second week in which Israel received a handful — three this time — of its hostages, while Hamas in exchange took delivery of ninety Palestinian prisoners, including a number who were guilty of murdering Israelis. The Israeli government had been under terrific pressure from two sources to make the lopsided deal….

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.