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There is a profound hypocrisy underlying the argument that Israel should withdraw from the West Bank. To make that demand implies that Israel should acknowledge the difference between the West Bank and Israel proper, such difference being that the West Bank belongs to the Palestinian Arabs, while Israel proper belongs to the Jews.Jewish settlements in the West Bank are denounced because supposedly the West Bank isContinue reading “Ending Israeli occupation of the West Bank”

Farid Hafez is a top European Muslim Brotherhood intellectual. He is a professor of political science at Salzburg University in Austria. He collaborates with the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU) at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, a hotbed of Islamist thinking run by John Esposito. And he edits a series of European Islamophobia reports published in Ankara by SETA, a research organization close to the Islamist Turkish government.[1]In 2018 Farid Hafez wrote an article about Muslim anti-Semitism in Europe, responding to the manifesto against the so-called “new anti-Semitism” in France. He writes:“AtContinue reading “The principle of collective guilt of religious groups”

In June 2019, The Nation published an article called “The European Left’s Dangerous Anti-Immigrant Turn”.[1] Intrigued, I started reading it, expecting accounts of jackbooted leftists marching down the Champs Elysées, but found out it was about the Danish Social Democrats, who had just emerged victorious from general elections and named one of their own prime minister.“In something of a paradox, the center left returned to the scene onlyContinue reading “Is it progressive to support immigration?”

In “The zombie lie of ‘economic anxiety”[1], the author argues that in the US economic worries are mere epiphenomena whose true cause is racial hostility. Then he applies the same argument to western Europe, where Muslim immigrants replace blacks as objects of hostility. This is quite a big leap, since American blacks do not have a common ideology or a holy law as Muslims do and inContinue reading “Does economic anxiety cause populism?”

In this brief essay I will tentatively enquire whethersettlercolonialism is currently taking place in Europe, using two criteria proposed by scholars on the subject of settler colonialism.    Two definitions of settler colonialism Definition 1:Settler colonialism is “a distinct type of colonialism that functions through the replacement of indigenous populations with an invasive settler society that,Continue reading “Is Muslim immigration into Europe a form of settler colonialism?”

After all we have learnt about Heinz Christian Strache, firstly about his fascist youth[1], secondly his demagogy and thirdly his plan to establish an authoritarian régime in Austria by illegally purchasing a large Austrian newspaper — the Kronen-Zeitung — with moneys supposedly offered by a Russian oligarch[2], I would be the last person to wantContinue reading “Heinz Christian Strache on the Austrian Islam Law”

Razika Adnani is an iconoclastic Algerian philosopher and Islam scholar Atlantico, 26 July 2019 (excerpt)https://www.atlantico.fr/rdv/3576895/-la-reforme-de-l-islam-est-elle-possible–entretien-avec-l-islamologue-et-philosophe-algerienne-iconoclaste-razika-adnani-alexandre-del-valle- Razika Adnani: When in 2018 Emmanuel Macron proposed a reform of Islam in France, I responded in an article published in Le Figaro called “Reforming Islam in France or reforming Islam as such”, to clarify that if by that expression he meant reforming the way theContinue reading “Can Islam be reformed? Interview with Razika Adnani”

I fully agree with the overall message of this op-ed piece from the French daily Libération, although I quarrel with the author’s use of the term “racism” to designate unwarranted aversion toward Mohammedans, where a more accurate term would be “chauvinism”. The term “racism” is a red herring that refers to a biologistic ethnocentric ideology that no longer prevails on the European right.  Racism attained prominence in the aftermath of the 2nd World War, when itContinue reading “French leftists should not support Islamists and decolonials”

A collection of press clippingsThe number of children believed to have been sexually exploited in Rotherham has been raised to 1,510, in the first official increase in the figure since the scandal erupted four years ago.The National Crime Agency (NCA) detectives revealed the updated figure on Tuesday in a briefing on Operation Stovewood, the investigation into childContinue reading “Sex abuse in England”

Hezbollah, a favorite of CAIR and Islamic militants, is connected to European fascists.In an article in Consortium News in November 2018, Max Blumenthal rightly denounced Italy’s fascist Casa Pound party.https://consortiumnews.com/2018/11/17/blowback-us-funded-ukraine-neo-nazis-mentor-us-white-supremacists/ Casa Pound is named after the third-rate American poet Ezra Pound, who lived in Fascist Italy from 1924 to 1945, supported Fascism and made pro-Fascist radioContinue reading “Hezbollah hobnobs with European Fascists”