COMMENTARY / OPINION
A Radical Company is Paying Supreme Court Justices Millions by Daniel Greenfield
July 9, 2025
- Jackson received a $893,750 advance for her memoir and is now reporting $2 million in profits last year. These would be record numbers for a Supreme Court Justice’s biography from a book that hardly anyone had noticed when it came out. And while books can become unexpected successes once released, there was little sign of that happening.
- Penguin Random House will be publishing Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s book for which she received a $2 million advance. That’s money the publisher seems even less likely to recoup considering that Barrett is hated among leftists and has a mixed approval rating among conservatives. Past polls show that the majority of the country can’t even name a single Supreme Court justice, yet they are receiving celebrity level advances for books no one cares about.
- Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor had been previously criticized for not recusing herself in cases involving Penguin which had paid her over $3 million.
- Penguin is actually Bertelsmann: a German ex-Nazi publishing giant that has waged war on American parents, promoted racism and is trying to monopolistically gobble up all of American publishing. Ibram X. Kendi’s “How to Be an Antiracist”, Robin DiAngelo’s “White Fragility”, Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Between the World and Me”, and, during WWII, “The Christmas Book of the Hitler Youth” all came out of Bertelsmann.
- While the ex-Nazi foreign corporation operates under familiar names like Penguin, Random House, Doubleday, Ballantine, Knopf, Viking, Putnam, Bantam, Del Rey, Golden Books and many others, it’s actually a foreign company pushing deeply destructive products. Even as parents tried to stop their children from being exposed to sexually inappropriate content, former CEO Markus Dohle went to war against them with a $500,000 legal fund.
- [A] foreign company that has tried to completely monopolize American publishing by seizing control of Simon and Schuster, and has intervened in American politics, is … troubling.
- Bertelsmann millions have gone mostly unexamined even as ProPublica, a leftist advocacy group, launched a smear campaign against Justice Thomas. The Thomas smears were repeated by every media outlet in the country which pursued the 76-year-old justice’s 96-year-old mother to find out where exactly she lives and who paid the tuition for his grandnephew, yet shrug when the Supreme Court can’t even form a quorum over millions from a multinational giant that has business before the court being directed to justices
- Justice Jackson making millions for a ghostwritten memoir after spending less time on the bench than most dustcloths is an equally obvious exercise in cashing in, not literary inspiration.
Last year, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, despite being in her early 50s and having an undistinguished career before her affirmative action appointment, published a memoir.
You might be forgiven for having missed it when “Lovely One” came out. As the media politely notes, it was “briefly” on the New York Times bestseller list and is now going for half price on Amazon. That is mostly to be expected of the ghostwritten memoir of an obscure judge.
Except that Jackson received a $893,750 advance for her memoir and is now reporting $2 million in profits last year. These would be record numbers for a Supreme Court Justice’s biography from a book that hardly anyone had noticed when it came out. And while books can become unexpected successes once released, there was little sign of that happening.
The actual sales figures have not been made public and perhaps ‘Lovely One’ sold millions of copies even while hardly anyone noticed before ending up in the remainder bin a year later. Certainly no one in the same media that pursued every living member of the Thomas family to find if anyone had ever done them a favor actually bothered obtaining the sales figure.
Even when the money was coming from an avaricious foreign publisher which has deluged Supreme Court justices with millions of dollars in generous publishing deals.
After Jackson’s memoir, Penguin Random House will be publishing Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s book for which she received a $2 million advance. That’s money the publisher seems even less likely to recoup considering that Barrett is hated among leftists and has a mixed approval rating among conservatives. Past polls show that the majority of the country can’t even name a single Supreme Court justice, yet they are receiving celebrity level advances for books no one cares about.
Penguin’s payouts previously made headlines when five Supreme Court justices, including Jackson and Barrett, had to recuse themselves from a case involving allegations of plagiarism by racist Hamas supporter Ta-Nehisi Coates whose works, including a book describing 9/11 firefighters as “not human to me”, were widely backed and promoted by Penguin.
The ‘Penguin’ recusals successfully allowed Coates to triumph in that latest court case.
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor had been previously criticized for not recusing herself in cases involving Penguin which had paid her over $3 million. And the current Supreme Court is so badly conflicted over its Penguin cash that it can no longer decide cases involving it.
And that’s a problem because Penguin is actually Bertelsmann: a German ex-Nazi publishing giant that has waged war on American parents, promoted racism and is trying to monopolistically gobble up all of American publishing. Ibram X. Kendi’s “How to Be an Antiracist”, Robin DiAngelo’s “White Fragility”, Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Between the World and Me”, and, during WWII, “The Christmas Book of the Hitler Youth” all came out of Bertelsmann.
While the ex-Nazi foreign corporation operates under familiar names like Penguin, Random House, Doubleday, Ballantine, Knopf, Viking, Putnam, Bantam, Del Rey, Golden Books and many others, it’s actually a foreign company pushing deeply destructive products. Even as parents tried to stop their children from being exposed to sexually inappropriate content, former CEO Markus Dohle went to war against them with a $500,000 legal fund.
Any corporation moving millions of dollars to Supreme Court justices in a way that has already successfully advantaged it in the Ta-Nehisi Coates plagiarism case would be suspect, but a foreign company that has tried to completely monopolize American publishing by seizing control of Simon and Schuster, and has intervened in American politics, is even more deeply troubling.
Yet the Bertelsmann millions have gone mostly unexamined even as ProPublica, a leftist advocacy group, launched a smear campaign against Justice Thomas. The Thomas smears were repeated by every media outlet in the country which pursued the 76-year-old justice’s 96-year-old mother to find out where exactly she lives and who paid the tuition for his grandnephew, yet shrug when the Supreme Court can’t even form a quorum over millions from a multinational giant that has business before the court being directed to justices.
No one in the media seems to have even bothered examining the sales figures for ‘Lovely One’ to determine how many copies were sold and which venues actually sold them. Sotomayor had become notorious for high-pressure sales tactics aimed at compelling venues to buy her books.
Supreme Court justices used to write on mainly legal matters (with notable exceptions such as Taft and Douglas) and reserved their memoirs toward the end of their lives. Newly minted justices like Jackson signing memoir deals is an obvious cash-in and Justice Sotomayor, after publishing a memoir no one was asking for ‘My Beloved World’, began writing children’s books.
Would Penguin really be publishing Sotomayor’s feeble efforts at writing children’s books, ‘Just Help!: How to Build a Better World’, ‘Just Ask!: Be Different, Be Brave, Be You’ and (coming soon) ‘Just Shine!: How to Be a Better You’ if she weren’t a Supreme Court justice?
And Justice Jackson making millions for a ghostwritten memoir after spending less time on the bench than most dustcloths is an equally obvious exercise in cashing in, not literary inspiration.
Judges putting their names on things to make money is not illegal, and maybe after this, Justice Jackson will have her own line of dish towels, sneakers or crypto coins, but Bertelsmann has not only monopolized the American publishing market, but has monopolized the market for justices. And considering its radical politics and vast ambitions, that is a major problem.
What happens when Bertelsmann triggers a court case with major legal implications and once again a quorum of justices can’t be found to sit on it?
Then the woke mega-publisher will have officially bought America’s legal system.
Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. Reprinted by kind permission of the Center’s Front Page Magazine.
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The Iran Ceasefire: A Dicey Intermission by Amir Taheri
July 13, 2025
- [T]he recent flare-up has deeper reason than a concern about Iran building a nuclear arsenal, something which all directors general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from Hans Blix to Muhammad Al-Baradei and Rafael Grossi have repeatedly said they cannot confirm.
- Tehran’s fourth demand may be the hardest for any American administration to even contemplate accepting: Accepting the Islamic Republic’s right to “export” its model of governance, its Islamic values and its campaign for “global justice” just as the US does by propagating its values. In other words, Tehran says: Let us do what we please and we promise not to make the bomb that we have always said we never intended to build.
- [M]id-term election in the US… could transform Trump into a lame-duck president if Elon Musk’s new political Tesla manages to rob the Republicans of just six seats in the Congress and two or three in the Senate. At the same time, Israeli Prim Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s numerous political enemies may eventually manage to bring him down.
- Thus, regime insiders believe it is imperative to prolong the current ceasefire, even through negotiations, until the two big clouds shaped like Trump and Netanyahu disappear like morning mist.
- The current political situation doesn’t have only two sides: steadfastness and surrender. The third side is change, of course. which means giving the enemy a victory it didn’t win with war.
With varying degrees of intensity and a diversity of locations, the war of Iran vs Israel and the US started more than four decades ago. Pictured: Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian watches a military parade during a ceremony marking the country’s annual Army Day on April 18, 2025 in Tehran, Iran. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)
The recent attack by Israel and the US on parts of Iran’s nuclear project has already been dubbed by some commentators as the Twelve Day War.
However, that cut-off time was chosen by Tehran to back a claim that Iran managed to fight twice as long as Arab states led by Egypt did in the Six Days War of 1967.
In fact, with varying degrees of intensity and a diversity of locations, this war started more than four decades ago when the new revolutionary authorities raided the Israeli diplomatic mission in Tehran and handed it over to PLO leader Yasser Arafat on a visit as special guest of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. A few months later, the new revolutionary regime repeated the exercise by raiding the US Embassy and seizing its diplomats as hostages.
Under international law, a nation’s diplomatic mission or embassy is part of its sovereign territory, and an armed attack on it regarded as causus belli (a cause of war). A year later, the US retaliated when President Jimmy Carter ordered a badly planned violation of Iranian territory, confirming the existence of a state of war between the two countries.
Iran’s eight-year war with Iraq provided a parenthesis in which both Israel and the US shipped arms and intelligence to Tehran against Saddam Hussein’s regime in Baghdad.
The war with Israel was resumed when Tehran started creating proxy mini-armies in Lebanon and to fish for potential mercenaries among various Palestinian armed groups.
By the early 1980s, Tehran, allied with the Assad regime in Damascus, had turned Lebanon into a battleground against the US and Israel.
In the 2000’s, Tehran started a low intensity war against US forces in Iraq while through proxies pursuing a war of attrition against Israel, wars that continue to this day.
All that needs to be re-stated to show that the recent flare-up has deeper reason than a concern about Iran building a nuclear arsenal, something which all directors general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from Hans Blix to Muhammad Al-Baradei and Rafael Grossi have repeatedly said they cannot confirm.
To be sure, the famous “one percent in risk” theory requires taking the possibility of a dangerous foe acquiring the ultimate weapon very seriously, something that all US presidents since Bill Clinton have done with various attempts at “containing” Iran, all to no avail.
Does that mean that the current regime in Tehran is totally unlikely to temporarily give up the potentially military dimension (PMD) of its nuclear project?
Judging by remarks by many figures within the Iranian regime, most recently by President Masoud Pezeshkian and in an oblique way by “Supreme Guide” Ali Khamenei, the answer could be a cautious: no.
The regime has hinted that it is ready to consider freezing the PMD of the project, something which it denies exists, in exchange for four concessions from the US and its allies, including Israel.
The first is to let the regime keep a straight face and proclaim a magnificent victory against the Great Satan and its little companion.
This is what Tehran is already doing both at home and, with help from anti-US and anti-Israel circles, across the globe.
The second demand is to abolish, not merely suspend or lift, all sanctions imposed on Iran.
The third demand is for the US and allies to commit themselves to never devise or support a regime change scheme against Iran. That means severing relations with dozens of Iranian opposition outfits.
Tehran’s fourth demand may be the hardest for any American administration to even contemplate accepting: Accepting the Islamic Republic’s right to “export” its model of governance, its Islamic values and its campaign for “global justice” just as the US does by propagating its values. In other words, Tehran says: Let us do what we please and we promise not to make the bomb that we have always said we never intended to build.
That message was obliquely transmitted through Tucker Carlson’s exclusive interview with President Pezeshkian: Let us boast about a great military victory and we shall let you claim a great diplomatic victory by returning to negotiations.
The ceasefire declared by President Donald Trump has injected an intermission into a deadly drama that started almost half a century ago. During the intermission, three clocks will be ticking.
The first is that of Khamenei’s physical and political life, both of which, though shaken, still appear tenable.
The second clock is that of mid-term elections in the US that could transform Trump into a lame-duck president if Elon Musk’s new political Tesla manages to rob the Republicans of just six seats in the Congress and two or three in the Senate. At the same time, Israeli Prim Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s numerous political enemies may eventually manage to bring him down.
Thus, regime insiders believe it is imperative to prolong the current ceasefire, even through negotiations, until the two big clouds shaped like Trump and Netanyahu disappear like morning mist.
Finally, the third clock that is ticking is that of swelling anger among the Iranian people at what more and more of them see as an historic failure combined with unprecedented humiliation and hardship.
The current ceasefire is a dicey intermission in a war that started almost half a century ago and seems nowhere near coming to an end.
To sum up, this was the message in Tasnim, organ of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, last Tuesday: The current political situation doesn’t have only two sides: steadfastness and surrender. The third side is change, of course. which means giving the enemy a victory it didn’t win with war.
Amir Taheri was the executive editor-in-chief of the daily Kayhan in Iran from 1972 to 1979. He has worked at or written for innumerable publications, published eleven books, and has been a columnist for Asharq Al-Awsat since 1987.
Gatestone Institute would like to thank the author for his kind permission to reprint this article in slightly different form from Asharq Al-Awsat. He graciously serves as Chairman of Gatestone Europe.
France and Europe: Increasingly Submitting to Islam by Guy Millière
July 13, 2025
- “We have imported another civilization.”– Former MP Philippe de Villers, YouTube, “eight months ago.”
- “[W]here do those who do this come from? And why are they still here?” — Éric Zemmour, president of Reconquest, a right-of-center party he created in 2021. When he spoke out, he was sentenced to heavy fines, X, June 1, 2025.
- When illegal immigrants are arrested, all of them are given an “Obligation to Leave French Territory” (Obligation de Quitter le Territoire Français/OQTF) and ordered to leave France immediately. No one, however, including the police, deports them, so most do not go.
- France is being ravaged by the rise of Islam.
- The United Kingdom, with a smaller proportion of Muslims than France or Belgium, seems also to be undergoing a slow submission to Islam.
- Political parties in power for decades in all Western European countries — except Italy — seem deliberately blind to the danger facing them. Any party willing to take on the “great replacement,” is deliberately kept out of power.
- The Dutch election will be closely watched. Wilders’s chances of winning again in October could promise a revival for the Netherlands — a second Enlightenment — and a regeneration for Europe.
For years in France every celebration has led to riots, looting and violence. The police rarely intervene. If a rioter is injured by a policeman, the policeman could end up in prison. Arrests are few. Often those who are arrested are immediately released. Pictured: Riot police detain a man as Paris Saint-Germain supporters celebrate by rioting, after PSG won the UEFA Champions League soccer match, on the Champs-Elysees Avenue in Paris on May 31, 2025. (Photo by Lou Benoist/AFP via Getty Images)
Paris. June 21, 2025. Annual Music Festival. Ten years ago, orchestras played peacefully in the streets. Families strolled and stopped to listen. Security reigned and was taken for granted. In recent years, the atmosphere has changed — radically. Families no longer go out. Young men coming from the Islamic suburbs flood the city, prevent musicians they do not like from playing by shouting insults and threats, and by attacking anyone who gets in their way. This year, more than a hundred rape complaints were filed with the police. Countless knife attacks have left dozens injured. Stores are looted. What took place in Paris also took place in every major city of France.
Three weeks earlier, on May 31st, the victory of a French soccer team sparked the same chaos. Young men coming from the Islamic suburbs swarmed Paris. They set fires in building entryways and in ransacked shops. Firefighters who responded were attacked. Ambulances transporting sick or injured people were obstructed. People out for an evening walk were assaulted and forced to abandon their vehicles to looters and arsonists. Banners from the victorious soccer club were hardly in sight but Algerian and Palestinian flags were everywhere.
For years in France every celebration has led to riots, looting and violence. The police rarely intervene. If a rioter is injured by a policeman, the policeman could end up in prison. Arrests are few. Often those who are arrested are immediately released.
Former MP Philippe de Villiers described the situation as a “conquering Islamism” creating a “civilizational jihad,” “We have imported another civilization,” he said. “French politicians do not want to see it.”
Instead, French politicians, with few exceptions, appear to choose willful blindness. They never talk about what is taking place. When Éric Zemmour, president of Reconquest, a right-of-center party he created in 2021, spoke out, he was sentenced to heavy fines. “Is it possible,” he recently wrote on X, “to ask the awkward questions: where do those who do this come from? And why are they still here?”
It is not hard to see where they come from. More than 500,000 new immigrants enter France from the Arab world and sub-Saharan Africa. The police and intelligence services see where they come from. It is also just as easy to see why they are’ still here. When illegal immigrants are arrested, all of them are given an “Obligation to Leave French Territory” O (Obligation de Quitter le Territoire Français/OQTF) and ordered to leave France immediately. No one, however, including the police, deports them, so most do not go.
In addition to riots, there are sickening murders. They make the front pages for a few days and are then forgotten. Most of the murderers are those who should have been deported, but were not. When it comes time to try them, the French justice system is lax. On April 27, 2024, a young illegal Afghan migrant stabbed Matisse, a fifteen-year-old boy in Chateauroux, a small, quiet town in Loire Valley. The young migrant was sentenced on May, 28, 2025 to eight years in prison. If he does not make trouble there, he will be released in four years. Sometimes a murderer is not even tried, but viewed by a judge as not responsible for his actions. In 2017, Kobili Traoré, beat, tortured, and threw a Jewish grandmother, Dr. Sarah Halimi, to her death from the window of her apartment while he shouted “Allahu Akbar!”. He was found not guilty by reason of marijuana and sent to a psychiatric institution. The murderer of Alban Gervaise — a military doctor who had his throat slit in front of his daughter on May 22, 2022 in Marseilles by Mohamed L. (his name has not been released by the French authorities), but not on drugs — said he had acted in the name of Allah. On June 25, 2025, a judge declared that he was mentally unfit to stand trial and will be required only to have a psychiatrist monitor him for a few months. Gervaise’s widow published a statement saying she hopes the French state “will ask for forgiveness”.
Attacks in France against Jews have been decreasing, slightly, for the past year. There were so many after October 7, 2023, that most Jews in France still hide their Jewishness. Their number in France is also decreasing. It is now below 400,000. Those who remain are often too poor to leave.
The number of Muslims, conversely, is increasing. Not all in France, of course, are rioters or criminals; many just want to live peacefully. The proportion of illegal immigrants among them, however, has grown, as well as their refusal to integrate into a French way of life. This trend is particularly high among young Muslims. A survey a few years ago showed that 65% of Muslim high school students place Sharia law above the laws of the republic. Meanwhile, in France’s 751 no-go zones, everything is based on Sharia law. Radical imams there state, in accordance with Islamic dogma, that Islam must reign over the whole earth and that in France, it will soon reign supreme.
In May 2025, the French Department of the Interior published a 73-page report, “Muslim Brotherhood and Political Islamism in France”, detailing how the Muslim Brotherhood infiltrates and takes root in the school system, the army, sports associations, and the police. The report speaks of a “threat to the republic” and adds that the Muslim Brotherhood does not advance through violence and attacks, but in a way less visible. In response, the government promised to act. It did nothing. Unless a radical political change takes place, the government will probably keep doing nothing.
What is taking shape in France, and has been underway for more than three decades, as analyzed by hordes of authors, is the much-mocked “great replacement” of Christians by Muslims, and of Christianity by Islam — the same way the great Byzantine Empire was displaced throughout Turkey.
France is being ravaged by the rise of Islam.
When Renaud Camus came out with his book, The Great Replacement , in 2012, the mainstream media called him a conspiracy theorist. He has never been invited on television, and his publishers no longer want to publish what he writes.
Twenty years ago, in 2006, Georges Bensoussan, a historian, published The Lost Territories of the Republic. Since then, the “lost territories” have grown exponentially.
Only this year, on January 31, 2025, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the Islamic-leftist party France Unbowed noted that, “Yes, there is a great replacement.” When he emphasized, bizarrely, that the great replacement was “necessary and positive”, no one called him a conspiracy theorist.
In the 2022 presidential elections, Jean-Luc Mélnchon received 21.95% of the vote and 69% percent of the Muslim vote. He is planning to run again in the 2027 presidential elections. He is apparently hoping that sooner or later the great replacement will elect him.
France Unbowed, a radically anti-Israeli party, refuses to define Hamas as a terrorist movement. It includes several openly anti-Semitic members of parliament and an openly pro-Hamas European deputy, Rima Hassan.
President Macron, presumably seeking to avoid riots that are even more serious, sends messages of appeasement to whoever rules the no-go zones. After October 7, 2023, he supported Israel for a few days, then adopted a resolutely “pro-Palestinian” position He falsely accused the insanely careful Israeli army of deliberately murdering women and babies and said that it would be up to historians to decide if what the Israeli army was doing in Gaza constituted genocide. He refused to participate in a demonstration against anti-Semitism organized in Paris on November 12, 2023, when anti-Semitic attacks were on the rise. Last month, June 17-20, Macron tried to recognize a “Palestinian state” in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and to organize a major “pro-Palestinian” event at the United Nations. The Israeli army’s action against Iran’s regime and the destruction of its main nuclear sites by the United States forced him to postpone his plans. He then announced that he disapproved of what Israel and the United States had done in Iran. The Israeli government stated that Macron was leading a “crusade against Jewish state.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remarked that recognizing a “Palestinian state” less than two years after the October 7, 2023, massacre would be “a major reward for terrorism “. Macron did not reply.
Boualem Sansal, 80, an Algerian novelist who became a French citizen and criticized the threat from Islam, was arrested in Algeria and sentenced to a five year prison term for writing an “attack on national unity“. French Prime Minister François Bayrou stated that the condemnation was “unbearable,” but never confronted Algeria. “The only weapons we now have in France,” commented French writer Pascal Bruckner, a friend of Sansal, “are supplication, kneeling and hope.”
The 2027 French presidential election will be crucial. France is the European country with the largest number of Muslims, and that part of its population is increasing rapidly. The growing weight of the Muslim vote means that, as the France Unbowed party seems to hope, France’s situation will be impossible to reverse. France also remains the European country with the largest Jewish population. Each year, the number of cities where they can live in safety is fewer.
“[T]he chances of… France’s turning into an Afro-Mediterranean country are not to be dismissed,” wrote the French journalist Michel Gurfinkiel in 1997. ” Twenty-eight years later, the Islamization of France, as he predicted, has, for the most part, proven true.
What is going on in France is, of course, affecting other Western European countries as well. Belgium is undergoing rapid Islamization. Brussels is 23% Muslim and a city where radical Islamic and anti-Semitic discourse is now widespread. In the Netherlands, Islam has become the country’s second largest religion, and on November 6-7, 2024, violent anti-Jewish incidents took place in Amsterdam.
The United Kingdom, with a smaller proportion of Muslims than France or Belgium, seems also to be undergoing a slow submission to Islam. The mayors of several major cities — London, Oxford, Leeds, Birmingham —are pious Muslim. Hamid Patel, a mufti (a legal expert empowered to make rulings on religious matters), is currently the chair of Ofsted, the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills, the British agency in charge of supervising organizations providing education, training, and childcare services.
The 2027 presidential election in France will be of critical importance. According to polls, Marine Le Pen, the leader of the National Rally, had a good chance of being elected president. She has said that if she won, she would strictly limit immigration to France and fight the country’s Islamization. She immediately found herself sentenced to a five-year ban on running for public office, supposedly for embezzling EU funds. She was charged with using the EU money to pay European parliamentary assistants who also worked in Paris, François Bayrou did exactly the same thing and was acquitted by a Paris criminal court. Le Pen has appealed but may not be able to run.
The chairman of the National Rally party, Jordan Bardella, 29, could also have been a candidate, but on July 9, the police raided the headquarters of the National Rally party, after which two judges accused Bardella of illegally financing the 2022 and 2024 election campaigns and have threatened to ban him from running in 2027. “Never has an opposition party suffered such relentless persecution under the Fifth Republic”, Bardella remarked.
In Belgium, the new prime minister, Bart De Wever, is a member of the New Flemish Alliance, a party opposed to the Islamization of the country . He is at least trying to take action.
In the Netherlands, Geert Wilders, who won the Dutch elections in November 2023, immediately found himself facing a coalition of all the country’s other parties, which banned together to block him from becoming prime minister. Wilders recently asked the deputies of his party to bring down the government. A new election has been scheduled for October 29, 2025.
In the UK, recent polls show that Reform UK, a right-wing political party committed to combating the advance of Islam, could win the most seats in a general election and that its leader, Nigel Farage, could then become prime minister. The next election in the United Kingdom, however, is not due any time soon.
In Germany, in elections a few months ago, Alternative für Deutschland [AfD] secured the second position and is now the country’s leading party. Calls have already started for it to be banned.
Political parties in power for decades in all Western European countries except Italy seem deliberately blind to the danger facing them. Any party willing to take on the “great replacement,” is deliberately kept out of power.
The Dutch election will be closely watched. Wilders’s chances of winning again in October could promise a revival for the Netherlands — a second Enlightenment — and a regeneration for Europe.
The populations of Western Europe can see a danger approaching: the old continent appears to be teetering on the brink of a civilizational collapse and transmutation. Europe’s survival and the values of Western civilization are seriously at stake.
Dr. Guy Millière, a professor at the University of Paris, is the author of 27 books on France and Europe.
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We’ve Seen This Before by Andrew Fox
History is repeating itself, not as tragedy or farce, but as a horror story
July 13, 2025 Special to IPT
I gave a talk to Holocaust survivors last month. More than one told me that the mood in the UK for Jews now resembles Germany in the 1930s. The difference between them and others claiming this is that they remember it from the first time around.
They are right. This is no longer hyperbole; it is fact.
The Holocaust didn’t start with gas chambers. It started with graffiti, slurs, and whispers. It began with people asking Jews to account for themselves. Are you loyal? Are you one of us?
In 2025, that looks like: are you a Zionist?
I heard exactly that question last night over a pint with a friend who had attended a Jewish cultural event. The barman (in the Three Crowns in St James, if you’re interested) demanded of my friend, “Are you a Zionist?” The implication was clear that support for the Jewish state now carries a moral price tag. It is a litmus test for belonging, for acceptability. That is not political disagreement; it is a modern shibboleth meant to mark Jews for social exile.
We are witnessing a global rise in antisemitism at a scale not seen for generations. Some of it is overt. It is violent, chilling, and reminiscent of the pogroms Europe once vowed never to repeat. In Amsterdam last year, what was initially dismissed as football hooliganism was later revealed, through text messages and court transcripts, to be a lynching of Jews driven by pure racial hatred. Not “anti-Zionism”; pure Judenhass.
At Glastonbury, the “singer” of British act Bob Vylan, repeating popular blood libels against the Jewish state, stood before tens of thousands and chanted for the death of every soldier in the Israel Defence Forces. Again, I’m not being hyperbolic; it was his literal demand. A call for the wholesale killing of Jewish soldiers, which in practice means calling for the deaths of the sons and daughters of almost every Israeli family. That’s not resistance. That’s incitement. When crowds cheer that on, we are no longer in the realm of protest. We are in something else entirely.
What begins as words (“Zionist,” “settler,” “coloniser”) becomes real-world violence in short order. The language matters. Words shape permission structures. They signal what is tolerated and what is forbidden. When an artist calls for the death of every IDF soldier, and the crowd cheers, it gives a green light to every unhinged antisemite listening.
This hatred does not exist in a vacuum. It is fed, every day, by an information campaign unlike anything we’ve seen since the Cold War. Hamas and its allies have mastered the dark art of manipulating digital imagery, fabricating statistics, and weaponising words and emotion. They show the world what war looks like and demand that we call it genocide.
Civilian casualties in Gaza are not the consequence of genocidal intent, but the normal, tragic by-product of every war in history, compounded by the deliberate strategy of a terror regime that uses its own people as human shields. Hamas has stored weapons in schools, fired rockets from refugee camps, and built command tunnels beneath hospitals. Then they cry victim when those military targets are struck. Meanwhile, humanitarian aid is entering Gaza at record levels (on average, double the daily amount compared to before the war began, when there was no accusation of starvation), but activists still scream famine. The truth doesn’t matter when the lie is more powerful.
The twisting of words doesn’t end with outright lies. The greatest trick Hamas and their allies ever pulled was to conflate Judaism with Zionism. They have made the world believe they are one and the same, then claim that they are “only” against the latter. This sleight of hand has given countless antisemites the perfect semantic shield. “I’m not antisemitic,” they say. “I’m just anti-Zionist.” Yet their targets are Jewish schools, Jewish homes, Jewish shops, and Jewish friends.
I recently had dinner with a friend who told me that she no longer feels safe in her own social circles and does not wear her Star of David in public. Online, she is inundated with hate, a lifelong Londoner accused of supporting child murder simply for being Jewish. She is far from alone. Jewish students are being harassed on campuses. Mezuzahs are being chiselled off doorposts. Synagogues are being forced to increase security. The Israeli Embassy in London was recently the target of a foiled terror plot. The memorial to the Israeli hostages in Brighton was recently covered in faeces.
This is not about discomfort with Israel’s policies. This is about the dehumanisation of an entire race.
I do not believe that most people cheering these slogans or waving these flags are consciously antisemitic. Some will be; now they have a licence to act on long-held prejudices that they no longer feel the need to hide. Many, though, are what Lenin once called useful idiots: fellow travellers swept up in the fervour of a cause they do not fully understand. Others are overwhelmed by propaganda; duped into believing they are standing for justice, when in fact they are being used as foot soldiers in a much darker campaign.
Motivation doesn’t matter, though. We are watching words turn to violence in real time. The signs are all there, just as they were in the 1930s. We promised Never Again, but that promise is meaningless if we fail to act when it matters.
We are not yet where Germany was in 1938. However, we are close to where we were in 1933. The slogans, the silences and the scapegoating of Jews are back. Words matter, so let us call it what it is: antisemitism. If we keep showing cowardice on this issue, we will find, all too soon, that the violence is back too. The spiral from slur to slogan to stone is always shorter than we think.
This article was originally published on Substack
Andrew Fox is a former British Army officer. Recent senior lecturer at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Masters study in Middle Eastern strategy and Psychology. Now a think tank research fellow focusing on Defence, the Middle East and Disinformation. Read more about Andrew on his website. Follow Andrew on Substack
How Islam will subjugate Europe Giulio Meotti
Allowing uncontrolled free speech when your enemies make use of it to advance your destruction is the epitome of idiocy. Are we witnessing the dumming down of Europe? Opinion.
Jul 11, 2025, 3:52 PM (GMT+3) Israel National News – “Islamists march through the streets of Berlin, protected by the democracy they deeply despise. They call for a caliphate, they dream of a theocracy. And to all those who don’t want to believe it: try holding the same demonstration with the same signs in Cairo, Baghdad, Riyadh, Amman, Beirut, or Abu Dhabi.”
Ahmed Mansour captures the terrible paradox of European democracy.
Islamists call for the establishment of a caliphate during the demonstration in Berlin.
Berlin police wanted to ban the demonstration, but a court overturned the ban. Caliphate supporters were then allowed, separated by gender, to call for the establishment of theocracy in Europe.
Erdogan, “the moderate,” said it clearly: “Democracy is a tram, you ride it as long as you need it and then you get off.” Millions of Muslims in Europe must be thinking something like this.
What happened in the German capital was tantamount to a declaration of bankruptcy for the rule of law. The grand coalition led by Friedrich Merz had promised to repress Islamic extremism. But what we are seeing is the exact opposite: a judiciary that capitulates to the Islamists and a political system that stands by while our values are trampled.
“The Caliphate is the solution,” shouted the Islamists who took also the streets in Hamburg. They waved flags depicting the Shahada and raised their index fingers, the symbol of the Islamists. It’s all perfectly legal. The police said that “calling for the advent of the Caliph is not a crime.”
The Caliphate is no longer unstoppable in Europe, simply because population composition and birth rates have long since revealed their irreversible reality. Accelerated incredibly by high immigration, it seems unstoppable, even desired and promoted by a policy that attributes a disastrous Nazi gene to the Germans and hopes for a better East than the West.
Caliphate means submission. There are Muslims and those who convert to Islam. And Germany is already unrecognizable:
There are “no-go zones” for Jews, justices using Sharia law, schools banning miniskirts to avoid noises, muezzins calling for prayer, publishing houses censoring books critical of Islam, teachers critical of Islam forced to teach in bulletproof vests, street signs in Arabic, Sharia patrols in the streets, mass sexual assaults, attacks on those who disobey Islam in schools, a surge in forced marriages and students demanding the introduction of strict Islamic rules.
Alexander Kissler sums it up well: “A country that tolerates repeated calls for an Islamic caliphate is not tolerant, but decadent.”
And we know how decadent civilizations end.
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When NYC was Sinatra’s kind of town Jack Engelhard
Nothing lasts forever, but turning NYC into a wasteland is going too far. Opinion.
Jul 13, 2025, 9:56 AM (GMT+3) Israel National News – Oh yes. It was like that all right, once upon a time before anyone had heard the name, Zohran Mamdani, and threats to turn NYC into a wasteland.
Over at Katz’s Deli I’m sitting with Vaughn Meader, when I spot something out the window.
I say, “Look. That guy looks like Marlon Brando.”
“That IS Brando,” Meader explains. “This is New York, Jack.”
I was new. I was new to this environment, this town, this country, to this people and their slang. Just got off the boat.
Meantime I was on assignment for the Philadelphia Inquirer to do a feature on Vaughn Meader, the hottest act in America.
His impersonations of President John F. Kennedy were done to perfection. He regaled America and he was regularly featured on the Ed Sullivan Show.
Off-stage he was not funny. Things were going too well, he was getting rich, and this spooked him.
“Do you hear the talk?” he asked me. Yes, I had. JFK was his only act, and if anything happened to the President, poof goes Vaughn Meader, and the country.
This was more than chatter. The country was divided in half between those who loved JFK and those who hated JFK. Was he tough enough against the Soviets? Castro and Cuba?
Was he doing enough on Civil Rights? Why was he sending “advisors” to Vietnam?
These were hot topics on the Dick Cavett Show, where Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer nearly came to blows over their differing opinions.
Vaughn Meader had to spin all that into comedy. His material had to stay fresh. Lenny Bruce accused him of being a sell-out.
Liz Taylor and Richard Burton caught his act at the Au Go Go in the Village. So did Paul Newman.
This is New York, Jack.
My job was to find out what made Vaughn Meader click. Usually it was scotch on the rocks, and the horses. I took most of my notes while he was making bets.
These ended up in my novel about the 1960s, “The Days of the Bitter End.”
Like most of New York, he was always in a hurry, but always took time to sign autographs. He felt himself unworthy of so much fame and adulation.
At this time, he was bigger than Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, who were performing at the Paramount.
“Enjoy it while it lasts,” Jerry advised Meader.
Bob Dylan arrived in Greenwich Village with the message that the times were a-changing..
The Counterculture was on.
Arthur Krock, the leading columnist at The New York Times, wrote that if an attempt were made on the President’s life, blame the CIA.
Since he was the President’s double, Vaughn Meader would also need extra protection. He had become more than a comedian.
People actually expected him to come up with real answers, as if he were the real deal. People still remembered the Bay of Pigs fiasco and the Cuban Missiles Crisis.
But his Peace Corps was a success, as was his promise to reach the moon. His New Frontier was intended to Make America Great Again.
Under JFK’s leadership, America was riding high.
Sinatra was at his usual hangout, Jilly’s. “Get yourself another routine,” he advised Meader. “Keep it in your pocket in case this one gets stale. Nothing lasts forever, kid.”
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Now available, a collection of Jack Engelhard’s op-eds, “Writings.”
Jack Engelhard writes a regular column for Arutz Sheva. Engelhard wrote the int’l bestseller Indecent Proposal that was translated into more than 22 languages and turned into a Paramount motion picture starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore. New from the novelist, the anti-BDS thriller Compulsive. Website: www.jackengelhard.com
From the esteemed John w. Cassell: “Jack Engelhard is a writer without peer, and the. conscience of us all.”
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All the Inconsistencies in Jeffrey Epstein’s Cell Block Video [39:39] JESUS ENRIQUE ROSAS
JULY 7, 2025 The Body Language Guy
Watch the FULL, original 11-hour video here: • Jeffrey Epstein’s Cell Block FULL footage …
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
2:08 Block Cell Setup
13:49 Epstein seen alive for the last time
16:33 Inmate taking out the dirty laundry
16:54 Folder under the door
19:19 One minute is missing!
22:10 Video editing software?
25:30 Big fella coming in
27:56 They fell asleep after 1am
31:39 Where did this woman come from?
32:39 They fell asleep again after 4am
34:33 The strange hoodie figure
38:06 Epstein is found dead
🚨Trump is BIG MAD at Kash Patel over Epstein & DROPS BOMBSHELL! [13:29] Professor Nez
July 12, 2025
President Trump just broke the internet with a fiery response to Kash Patel’s recent comments surrounding the Epstein saga! In a shocking twist, Trump did not hold back, unleashing his thoughts on Patel’s involvement and the swirling controversy over the Epstein files.
Behavior Analysis of Karoline Leavitt DEFENDING Pam Bondi’s INCOMPETENCE! [14:49] Jesus Enrique Rosas
July 7, 2025 The Body Language Guy
