Eretz Israel is our unforgettable historic homeland...The Jews who will it shall achieve their State...And whatever we attempt there for our own benefit will redound mightily and beneficially to the good of all mankind.(Theodor Herzl, DerJudenstaat, 1896)
We offer peace and amity to all the neighbouring states and their peoples, and invite them to cooperate with the independent Jewish nation for the common good of all. The State of Israel is ready to contribute its full share to the peaceful progress and development of the Middle East.(From Proclamation of the State of Israel, 5 Iyar 5708; 14 May 1948) With a liberal democratic political system operating under the rule of law, a flourishing market economy producing technological innovation to the benefit of the wider world, and a population as educated and cultured as anywhere in Europe or North America, Israel is a normal Western country with a right to be treated as such in the community of nations.... For the global jihad, Israel may be the first objective. But it will not be the last.(Friends of Israel Initiative)
Showing posts with label Asylum Seekers and Refugees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Asylum Seekers and Refugees. Show all posts
A Dutchman defies his demonisers. Geert Wilders on his persecution by the "multicultural political elite":
A few days ago, at a migrant centre in Holland:
(Hat tip: Vlad Tepes blog)
Points from a must-read by the Gatestone Institute's Giulio Meotti:
'On December 9, for the first time in Dutch history, a court criminalized freedom of expression: The truly heroic Dutch Member of Parliament, Geert Wilders, was found guilty of the "crime" of "hate speech."
The death sentence against Salman Rushdie in 1989 by Iran's supreme leader looked unreal. The West did not take it seriously. Since then, however, this fatwa has been assimilated to such an extent that today's threats to free speech come from ourselves. It is now the West that put on trial writers and journalists.
The Red Brigades, the Communist terror group which devastated Italy in the 1970s, coined a slogan: "Strike one to educate one hundred." If you target one, you get collective intimidation. This is exactly the effect of these political trials about Islam.
"Hate speech" has become a political weapon to dispatch whoever may not agree with you. It is not the right of a democracy to quibble about the content of articles or cartoons. In the West, we paid a high price for the freedom to write them and and read them. It is not up to those who govern to grant the right of thought and speech.
In Europe now, the same iron curtain as in the Soviet era is descending.' [Emphasis added]
"As a refugee, I too welcome refugees. As a Jew, I am aware of the mitzvah of welcoming the stranger.
As an adult with life experiences, I resent economic invaders who jump queues and try to force themselves into advanced economies where they can benefit from social services.
As a prudent person, I want no part of people who come to my adopted country and demand that I and my fellow citizens submit to the standards of their religion. The same group that tells us that we must not blame them for the terror plans of a small group of them but then not only fail to condemn them themselves, but appoint extremists as religious leaders.
As a father and a grandfather, I condemn parents who have failed to raise children who respond to social issues in a rational and Jewish way."
So says an elderly Holocaust survivor in Sydney, in response to the demands of a group of youngsters calling themselves "Jews for Refugees" that Australia admit all of the illegal "refugees" who have tried to enter Australia by the back door and are now in detention offshore while their applications are considered.
He is absolutely justified, and so, despite the leftist and holier-than-though thought police, are the like-minded people, Jews and non-Jews, who deplore the current invasion of the European Continent by young men of military age posing as "refugees".
The other day, Nigel Farage, leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) and a staunch supporter of Brexit (Britain leaving the great bureaucratic tyranny known as the European Union) unveiled a poster in support of his stance that shows a vast crowd of young male migrants pouring into Europe. It is a genuine photograph of real migrants, not some staged event. It reflects what has been happening across Europe in the past few months. Yet it has been condemned (most recently by no less a personage than J.K. Rowling) as "racist" and resembling Nazi propaganda.
What balderdash.
I'm not a particular fan of Farage, but such accusations trivialise genuine racism and undermine democratic debate.
They are attempts to silence those who deplore the creeping islamisation of Europe (sobering new article by Giulio Meotti here) and what that entails for future generations (not least for women and girls). Oh, and for Jews.
The estimable Douglas Murray has once again drawn attention to Europe's migration nightmare here, and how Merkel and the rest of the European "elites" have no idea how to solve this problem that is of their own making.
Also from the Gatestone Institute and The Rebel, this, from Colonel Richard Kemp.
In this robust speech Hungary's Viktor Orban, defying the politically correct tyranny that would muzzle us all, spells out the terrible threat facing Europe, its civilisation, and its people by the invasion whose name is miscalled "migration".
As Vlad Tepes notes, this video deserves to be widely shared.
A heart-wrenching account by a lifelong resident of Calais regarding the terrible impact on the town and its people of the thousands and thousands of "asylum seekers" in the "Jungle" awaiting their chance to invade France's neighbour across the Channel.
(Note: Sandgate in the subtitles should of course read "Sangatte")
A trifle sad, is it not, how some Leftists would rather grouse about the sexism lite in this photo
than deign to say a condemnatory word against the hardcore misogyny represented in this one?
Beauty and (some of) the Beasts: From my Facebook page
My Tuesday post on Elder of Ziyon this week concerns the hypocritical
and outrageous near-silence of Western feministas
concerning the sex attacks on women in Germany and elsewhere on the
European continent at the hands of mainly Muslim men, so I won't reprise
here the views I've given there.
However, I'd like to call attention to the video below, which abhors the importation into Europe (take heed while there's still time, Australasia and North America) of men from a culture and a region in which loathsome contempt for and brutal maltreatment of women is entrenched.
The Palestinian Arabs do not emerge from this video as blameless in this regard, yet, bizarrely, swathes of the Western "feminist" movement have declared anti-Israel activism a feminist issue. A mad, mad world indeed.
Infamously spoken by Oz's ex-Grand Mufti, Sheikh Hilali
As Professor Phyllis Chesler, who has personal experience of living in a Muslim society, writes inter alia, in a must-read piece, 'mass public gang rapes represent the normalization of "Islamist" ways and are also another face of jihad':
'..... European men rape European women every single day. But make no mistake: the pattern of sexual harassment and rape in the Muslim world in general is vastly different. Muslims in Sudan and Nigeria have perpetrated similar horrific attacks upon Christian, animist, and Muslim women. Similar atrocities took place in the former Yugoslavia, perpetrated by both Serb and Croat Christians and Muslims. Nevertheless, in an Islamist era, such Muslim-perpetrated attacks have assumed monstrous proportions.
Recall the roving gangs in Egypt in Tahrir Square in 2011, the mass groping and the assault of blonde American journalist Lara Logan. Realize that hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Egyptian Muslim and Christian women were also groped and sexually assaulted, whether or not they were wearing headscarves or face masks.... [graphic example follows] ....
If Germany and Austria—if all Europe--does not find, prosecute, and deport all the men who took part in the recent New Year's Eve atrocities, they will soon discover that such attacks might become regular features of European life and will occur on most holidays; that, like Muslim women, European women will increasingly live in fear; begin to stay indoors; and that female workers will increasingly suffer from post-traumatic stress symptoms. A European woman's quality of life and efficiency at work may decrease. This will be true for women of every ethnicity and religion....'
There are other urgent lessons to be learned from the misogyny glimpsed in the above video, and seen in Cologne and elsewhere on New Year's Eve, very crucially the insanity of permitting a prevalence of young unattached Muslim male 'migrants and asylum seekers' to enter Europe in enormous numbers, many of whom, through sexual predation, are making life miserable for women and children fleeing to Europe the Middle East as well as for non-Muslim women.
This article surveys the situation as it affects Germany, and also examines other worrying factors:
And this one warns compellingly of the folly of immigration programsthat fail to preserve the natural gender balance, a balance that must be followed if host nations are to have a hope of avoiding the victimisation of women and other anti-social behaviour:
'.... 58 per cent of Europe's arrivals in 2015 were adult men, UNHCR data says ....
Research shows where men outnumber women rates of violent crime, property crime and crime against women are higher
According to the UNHCR, 58 per cent of the more than 1 million migrants and refugees who arrived in Europe last year were adult men, 17 per cent were women, and the remainder were children.
Professor Valerie Hudson, a Texas A&M University professor, said gender imbalances could cause serious problems in the community.
She said societies where men outnumbered women were more susceptible to higher levels of violence, insurgence and mistreatment of women....
"What we have found uniformly [in societies where men outnumber women] is a rise in crime, particularly violent crime, property crime, crime against women." ....
"We also see much more ease of recruitment into criminal gangs, or quasi-rebel/social movement-type gangs.
"We also see across the board a more constrained lifestyle for women and there's also a significant rise in demand for trafficked women, either as 'brides' or prostitutes." ....
Professor Hudson said her colleague Andrea den Boer, from the University of Kent, was doing her own research on Germany's gender ratio.
"[Dr den Boer] found that the sex ratio alteration in the young adult population, according to her ... preliminary calculations [is] looking also to be abnormal at about 114 boys of that age for every 100 girls," she said....
"Speaking as an American who has studied global gender issues for a long, long time, all of us look to northern and north-western Europe as an example of cultures that have successfully pursued gender equality," she said.
"To now see folks like the Mayor of Cologne urging women to dress differently, to behave differently, that there may be certain 'no-go areas' for women, I think is tragic....'
As the Australian scholar of Islam Dr Mark Durie observes in concluding an excellent article on Islamic sex slavery,
'It is not a sign of tolerance when free people deliberately silence themselves about the ideological drivers of sex trafficking. The same can also be said of acts of terrorism, such as the world has witnessed over the past week in France, Tunisia and Kuwait.
Until societies are able and willing to have a frank and free discussion of the ideological drivers which motivate acts of terror and abuse, they should not expect to be able to develop effective strategies to contain or wind back such atrocities.
Scene: a Christian cemetery on the Croatian/Serbian border.
Dramatis personae: Muslim invaders migrants.
Script: As told to and by the BBC's Orla Guerin.
Many observers will no doubt stare uneasily at that this screengrab from one of Ms Guerin's BBC news reports about the current invasion of migration of Muslims of eclectic provenance into Europe.
For the image captured may well symbolise the European future.
As we all know, from when she used to demonise Israel on a regular basis, the wild-eyed, doom-laden voiced Guerin (like Bowen, Donnison, Knell, and the rest of the arrogant mob of leftist Beeboids who infest Twitter and the airwaves) has never let the BBC's Charter and producers' guidelines come between her and her personal biases.
Hence tweets such as these from her, feminist though she seems to be:
The other day, I posted a humdinger of a video by Rabbi David Bar-Hayim
warning of the dire consequences for the West of the kind of mass Muslim
migration we are now witnessing.
Source: Seen on Twitter; provenance unknown
Here's a look (horrendous to behold) at how one of Europe's northern nations is accelerating its own destruction.
As Denis Prager, himself a Jew, has observed:
'Allowing millions of Syrians and others from the Muslim Middle East into Europe will end up a catastrophe for Europe, and therefore for the West....
How does an ethically motivated person -- Jew or non-Jew -- deal with the emotionally powerful Holocaust argument?
For one thing, the parallels are far from precise.
Every Jew in Nazi-occupied Europe -- man, woman, child, baby -- was targeted for death. The Syrian people are not targeted for death. The only such targets in the Middle East -- aside from the Jews of Israel -- are Christians and Yazidis, every one of whom should most definitely be allowed into Europe and the United States.
The parallel is also imprecise because the vast majority of the Jews of Germany and many other European countries were assimilated citizens of their respective countries, who thoroughly embraced Western culture and values. In contrast, most of the Muslims of the Middle East -- and the largely Muslim population (from non-Arab countries) already in Europe -- hold values that are not merely different from, but opposed to, those of Europe.
It is not as if Europe has no experience with large numbers of Muslim immigrants. And the experience has been largely negative.....'
Regarding safe haven for Middle Eastern Christians cruelly persecuted by Muslims (for whom the prominent British publisher Lord Weidenfeld, a refugee from Nazism, has nobly made provision, though not to the liking of Islamophiles who bemoan the "discrimination" against Muslims), Britain's Sunday Express reports, inter alia, the views of Dr Patrick Sookhdeo, head of the Barnabas Fund:
'According to Mr [sic] Sookhdeo, Britain’s offer to take up to 20,000 Syrian refugees inadvertently discriminates against the Christian communities most victimised by the Islamic State butchers.
He said: “The British government has said it will take 20,000 refugees and we have said, ‘Will you not take some Christians?’ But we have had no reply.
“We have even put out a joint statement with Muslim Aid to the Government saying both communities are suffering, can’t you look after both?
“What David Cameron is doing, we believe, is unfair.
“He has said he will go to the camps to get the refugees, but the problem is that the Christians don’t like to live in the camp.
“What they prefer to do is to live in church halls or else with families and the reason is that it is safer for them. What we are saying to the Government is that you need a broader based approach.
“By all means take the most vulnerable people but don’t just take them from the camps because you are only going to get one kind of people. When it comes to other countries they all say that European legislation means you can’t discriminate between one religious community and another but we say surely the most vulnerable are the ones you have got to be taking in.”
In areas controlled by IS, Christians have been crucified, beheaded, raped and subjected to forced conversion.
Christian children are also being sold as slaves.
Mr Sookhdeo added: “It is like going back 1,000 years seeing the barbarity that Christians are having to live under. I think we are dealing with a group which makes Nazism pale in comparison and I think they have lost all respect for human life.
“Crucifying these people is sending a message and they are using forms of killing which they believe have been sanctioned by Sharia law.
“For them what they are doing is perfectly normal and they don’t see a problem with it. It is that religious justification which is so appalling.” ....'
No namby pamby political correctness here, no propaganda of the kind the mainstream media is thrusting down our throats, in this needs-to-be-heeded warning from Rabbi David Bar-Hayim of machonshilo.org
The rabbi, whose beautiful voice is as easy on the ear as (I will dare to say it!) his good looks are on the feminine eye, warns that the present "crisis" is not a crisis at all but the norm for Arab-Muslim societies, and that "only a madman would take upon himself such a mission" as importing people "fleeing from their own crisis" because to do so is "importing a civil war" ... importing a culture in which internecine strife and murder is innate.
The rabbi praises the insights of Frontpage columnist Daniel Greenfield into this issue and in support of his warning discusses the Torah phrase "This is the way of Ishmael".
I've been catching up with the most recent posts on one of the websites I most admire, the rhetorically-titled Is the BBC Biased?, and note the number of times the authors have had reason to draw our attention to the outrageous leftist propaganda that the BBC, despite its obligations to be objective, in reporting, is pushing regarding the current migration crisis facing Europe.
No wonder this video (featuring exasperated Britons, fearful and furious at what now seems like a Third World invasion of their Continent and existential threat to its way of life) berating the egregious BBC radio host Stephen Nolan, has gone viral; all Nolan could do in response was to insult them, thus underlining what one of them calls the "guilt trip" foisted on the public by such types as he:
Typifying the biased agenda foisted onto the public by the British national broadcaster are the reports by funereal-toned Fergal Keane that feature on the BBC's website, in which contempt for European civilisation and the Europeans who wish to preserve it is not far from the surface. It's the same leftist mindset that regards everything the British Empire ever achieved as inherently evil.
A mindset that believes that the "victims" of "imperialism" are entitled to grab whatever they can:
This week, in a typically sharp and robust piece, Australian conservative columnist Andrew Bolt complained that the ABC's Paul Barry has twisted and traduced what Bolt wrote here:
"I argued that the tragic picture of drowned toddler Aylan Kurdi did not show what most of the media claimed - a refugee fleeing death in Syria.
The picture was more complicated, I said. The boy’s family had actually lived in Turkey in safety for three years, and a key part of the father’s decision to go to Europe was to have his teeth fixed.
Paul Barry of [the ABC's] Media Watch is angry with this dissent, and last night tried to dismiss it in ways I think are deeply misleading"
But it's not only Paul Barry who has taken pot shots at Bolt. It would appear that the woman dubbed "La Trioli" has made a (subtle) dig at Bolt too.
Although ABC reporters and presenters are obligated, like their BBC counterparts, to be objective, this obligation is honoured more in the breach than in the observance. Virginia Trioli, the very handsomely paid co-host of ABC News Breakfast and ABC News 24, has a weekly column in a publication called The Weekly Review, which is delivered free to mailboxes.
I don't know whether Ms Trioli's column is similarly gratis but I do know that she's free with her views, as befits a column titled "Mouthing Off". In the current issue of the giveaway paper she "seeks understanding" for "asylum seekers" (yes, for the ABC all of the seething mass of Third World humanity desperate to enter the West are, it seems, genuine "asylum seekers") by those who dismiss them as "economoc migrants".
The half-Italian Ms Trioli writes, inter alia:
"The story - and the distortions of that story - of the father of little Aylan Kurdi is instructive....
The journey of the contemporary asylum seeker is challenging to us because it does not take a straight line from, say, napalmed village in Vietnam to refugee boats to the Australian shore. This route travels through countries of equally little hope - economically, socially - in search of a future. It's similar to the journey my grandfather made before the outbreak of World War II. First to America, then to Australia and then calling for his little family and first son to take a boat and join him...."
As for the oft-made analogy between the plight of European Jewry in the 1930s and the situation of today's migratory Muslims, blogger Edgar Davidson has a graphic comment:
