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Thursday, July 09, 2026

LInks - 9th July 2026 (2 - Migrants: Europe - Germany [including Citizen Vigilante])

The migrant-killing vigilante film that’s been banned in Germany - "Citizen Vigilante was inspired by a notorious case in Hamburg in 2016, when a group of teenagers gang-raped a 14-year-old girl and left her for dead, only for the perpetrators to walk free with suspended sentences. Parallels between this and the recent case in Britain when three teenage boys walked free after raping two teenage girls are obvious, and for Boll, it’s important that his pictures respond angrily to what he sees as social injustices.  “If you look at what happened in Hamburg, where the rapists walked free without any penalty, the coverage in the media was like ‘oh, the poor perpetrators’,” says Boll. “It’s as if we’re living in a completely insane and absurd political environment, especially in Europe, where people have completely lost track. There is a huge difference between so-called ‘hate speech’ and stabbing people in the neck. But facts don’t matter any more.”... The film is implicitly critical of Boll’s native Germany, despite being set in the United States (and filmed, for budgetary reasons, in Croatia), and he has been rewarded with its being effectively banned in his home country. “The rating system refused to give us a rating, so now you can only watch it if you bring in a Blu-ray from Austria or Switzerland. And I think they did that on purpose. It was a deliberate censorship decision. I hired a lawyer to complain about it, but we lost in a six-two vote, as I was told that the film was inciting violence against migrants.” Boll is used to considerable opposition to his films, which also include the widely derided House of the Dead and Postal. The director’s robust, two-fisted approach to his critics – quite literally, in 2006, when he fought and beat five of his most vehement detractors in 10-round boxing matches – has seen him become a pariah in Hollywood and the European film industry, but he continues to obtain funding from a variety of sources. His low-budget pictures, often starring actors who have either passed their prime or faced difficulties in the profession, usually turn a profit thanks to foreign sales and a public appetite for sensational, often violent, content on screen... “It’s absurd how I feel politically,” Boll tells me. “Now you’re being told that if you’re a conservative about anything – social, sexual, political – that you’re a Nazi. But this is how things stand at the moment. If you question anything – such as the hundreds of billions being pumped into Ukraine – then you’re either a friend of Putin or a Nazi or both.” Is he? Boll laughs, like a man who has been asked this question several times before. “I am not a Nazi!”  Boll, in fact, would not even regard himself as a conservative. “I grew up a Social Democrat, as did the rest of my family, and we voted for leaders like [former German chancellor] Gerhard Schröder. Now, of course, he’d be persona non grata as well, despite having done the only economic reform in Germany that worked. These days, Social Democrats want leaders like Mamdani in New York: literal communists who just want to tax the rich to death and have the government take over the economy so we can all follow socialist rules.”...   Boll expresses a desire to have an Expendables-esque lineup of other great thespians who have fallen foul of the system in his pictures. “Take Kevin Spacey, for instance. One of the best actors working today. I’d love to cast him in a strong male lead in one of my pictures, but by doing so, I can guarantee that the film would not get an American distributor. To me, that’s unfair. He won all the lawsuits and legal cases, and now he’s stuck in these very cheap exotic movies he’s making now. I think he should come back and get another shot.” Boll has never been in the mainstream of the film industry, despite having, at various times, cast actors as respected as Jason Statham, Ben Kingsley, JK Simmons and, now, Hammer in his pictures. He dismisses Hollywood entirely: “they schmooze up to Trump but most of them hate him, and with the possible exception of Paramount, none of them are conservative…all the decision-makers, from Netflix and Apple to Amazon, are all on the left, and they’re so politically correct that they won’t greenlight anything that is politically critical.”... Boll wants Citizen Vigilante to be taken seriously, and our interview ends on a sombre note. “I’m not surprised about the rioting that I saw in Belfast the other day. In the end, this is what you get when you ignore people, and that’s the same as in my movie. I’m not condoning violence of any kind – it’s unacceptable and I’m against it in any form – but I think people are just saying ‘Enough is enough’ now.”"

How two violent gang rapes of teenage girls by migrants in Germany inspired a 'banned' movie now being watched by millions around the world - to the horror of the liberal establishment - "We have discovered details for the first time about its links to that night in September 2020 in Hamburg’s City Park (called Stadtpark) when the nine young migrants dragged the drunk teenager into some bushes, raping her for almost three hours while filming the horror on their mobile phones. Only one of her attackers, an adult Iranian, was imprisoned, and in 2023 he received a pathetic sentence of less than three years.  The remaining eight were exonerated by the judge on the premise that their sickening attack, after which the gang stole the girl’s wallet and mobile phone, was a ‘means of releasing frustration and anger’ stemming from their experience of migrating to Europe and their resulting ‘cultural homelessness’. Controversially, the trial – at a youth court because the perpetrators were aged under 21 at the time – was held in secret. It ran for 68 days and took evidence from 96 people including sympathetic ‘migration experts’ and social workers. An outcry over the non-custodial sentences, later upheld by an appeals court, followed the landmark case. Shockingly, there were even calls on social media for attacks on the presiding judge, a move condemned by the city judiciary as ‘utterly intolerable’.  In a further twist, a 20-year-old Hamburg woman named only as ‘Maja R’ sent one of the migrant attackers a WhatsApp message, calling him a ‘disgraceful racist pig and freak’ who should feel ashamed. Horrifyingly, Maja herself was sent to a youth prison for a weekend in June 2024 as punishment for ‘insulting’ the rapist.  Hamburg, a liberal city, was already reeling from an earlier high-profile case in the working-class suburb of Harburg in February 2016. Several young migrants from Balkan countries had gang-raped a teenage girl at a birthday party, using bottles and other objects during their assault and filming it on their phones. The half-naked victim was left ‘like a piece of meat’ in the freezing cold which resulted in her being rushed to hospital with hypothermia. This attack also sparked a row over lenient sentencing when three of the perpetrators, aged between 14 and 17, received suspended terms of under two years because they had ‘shown remorse’.  Tens of thousands of Germans signed a petition demanding longer jail terms for the rapists, and a retrial ordered by Germany’s highest criminal court eventually resulted in tougher penalties for the culprits.  Such are the febrile conditions in which Citizen Vigilante was created... Citizen Vigilante sets out to show that the West’s criminal justice system has been hijacked by a Left-wing establishment that protects migrant criminals at the expense of native Europeans... Sanders goes on to confront the family of a young rapist, asking his father why his son had attacked a girl, apparently because she was wearing a miniskirt. The father responds: ‘I teach him the values of the Koran and this family,’ which shockingly earns him a bullet in the head... ‘If five neo-Nazis raped a 15-year-old migrant girl, they would get 15 years in prison,’ he insists. Yet when a migrant commits the same crime, ‘these people always get off the hook. We’re told they’re under 18, or “traumatised”, or they are getting “psychological evaluation”. Law enforcement, the judges, the media, have become almost crazy.’  He says that Citizen Vigilante represents all those people who have been let down by the system. ‘It doesn’t help them to hear things like the rapists were “traumatised migrants”. I mean, what would you feel if you are the father of that girl [in Hamburg’s Stadtpark], or if you’re the raped girl herself?’ Boll says after the 2020 park-rape case, a seasoned newspaper commentator went on German TV to say the migrant attackers were victims of failed integration: they needed more money, more teachers, more social services and a better environment in Germany.  ‘That is where I draw the line. It sends out a view that the victim doesn’t matter at all.’ In the graphic opening scene of his film, in which, as he puts it, a ‘mother gets stabbed and bleeds out in front of her little son’, he says: ‘This was deliberate, as a way of dealing with these random acts of violence, that get sugar-coated in the media. I have had discussions with people here in Germany, and they pointed out there are way more rapes and stabbings inside marriages.  ‘My point is that the random violence of being pushed in front of a Tube train, or stabbed from behind in the neck, or being raped because you wear a bikini to the public swimming pool, is way more dangerous.  ‘It’s terrible, of course, if a wife gets raped inside a marriage, but that’s not a security risk for anybody else. But if you have daughters or, as a woman, you go on your own to the lake to swim – and then you get grabbed and raped randomly – that’s a huge security risk because you basically cannot go to the pool because you are scared.’... ‘The German subsidised [state] system only produces the films where migrants look good, where migrants are successful, where migrants are fully integrated. Not one movie is done in Germany at all where migrants commit a real crime.’ His movie, thanks in part to the notoriety secured by its being banned, was on the way to huge success even before Elon Musk provided a platform for it. As it reaps millions of dollars for Boll, he tells us unemotionally that ‘when I was going around with the script, every streaming service told me I was a Nazi. They despise this idea even of shooting the movie like this. And it’s already topping Apple TV in America.’  At the end of Citizen Vigilante, a controversial statement appears in large letters. It says: ‘This film is dedicated to the thousands of rape and murder victims in Europe who were betrayed by our legal system.’  As things stand today, that is a stark message that German authorities, and perhaps those of other European countries mired in the growing problems wrought by mass migration, would prefer no one sees."
Left wingers love to promote "banned" media. Ironic.

Nate Fischer on X - "Watched Citizen Vigilante thanks to the endorsement by the German government.  They are right to recognize the danger of its message.  Nothing delegitimizes a regime more than refusal to protect its citizens—an intentional failure to fulfill the most fundamental and timeless function of government.  And nothing more instinctively draws citizens to a prospective replacement than filling this gap."

Germany’s Intelligence Chief Warns of Islamist Infiltration of Political Institutions - "Islamist groups in general and the Muslim Brotherhood in particular were exerting targeted influence on state and political structures in Germany with a view to transforming the state and society, Selen told the secret meeting. The ultimate goal of these infiltration attempts was the establishment of an Islamic society. The Muslim Brotherhood does not act violently, but it is no less dangerous, because it pursues its objectives in an extremely strategic manner with long-term goals, the intelligence head noted. The Islamists respect German laws—but only insofar as these laws are compatible with Sharia. The Muslim Brotherhood’s strategy involves establishing contacts with political figures and inviting them to events through a complex network of organizations. The goal is to build long-term relationships and influence public officials in line with the movement’s agenda. For example, officials should oppose criticism of political Islam or turn a blind eye to Islamism, Selen said... In a follow-up interview with BILD published on June 4, Güner Balci, the Integration Commissioner for Berlin-Neukölln, confirmed that Islamist infiltration was so widespread in Germany that there are “still police projects nationwide in which Islamists participate.”  “Women and girls are forced to enter marriage as virgins or at least to pretend to be,” Balci warned. Because many people in Muslim communities “despise, abhor, and even want to punish” homosexuality, “we have a very high number of homophobic attacks and crimes in Neukölln, but also in other districts of Berlin.”... It is noteworthy that both Germany’s domestic intelligence chief Sinan Selen, born in Istanbul and raised in a secular Turkish family that immigrated to Cologne, and Berlin-Neukölln Integration Commissioner Güner Balcı, the daughter of Turkish Alevi guest workers, have emerged as particularly clear-eyed voices on the Islamist threat. Their backgrounds underscore the critical distinction between Islam as a faith and Islamism as a political ideology. Those with intimate knowledge of Muslim-majority societies and communities often best appreciate this divide—and recognize that effectively countering Islamist infiltration requires supporting anti-Islamist Muslims and secular voices rather than blurring the lines between the religion and its totalitarian perversion... “Aha! Officially, they say the threat comes from the right—but behind closed doors, they say something completely different,” the computer scientist and political commentator Hadmut Danish remarked. “What only select guests in the Bundestag were allowed to hear behind closed doors should be known to all of Germany.”  “The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), the Greens, and the Left Party can be considered to have been taken over by Islamists. In the case of the Greens, this is quite clear, and in the case of the Left Party, it’s practically blatant,” Danish wrote. “I know the Greens are strongly Islamist, and the entire left-wing bloc is infiltrated by Islam.”  Exploring the links between leftist ideologies such as feminism, immigration, and Islamism, Danish asked: “Could it be, if one thinks this through further, that feminism serves this goal simply to prevent Germans from having children so that Islam can gain a majority more quickly?”  He added, “First feminism, then migration due to declining birth rates? A plan? Systematic extermination? At least feminism and Islamic immigration both emerged at roughly the same time, in the seventies.”... Writing on X, the German political scientist Nina Scholz said she was “naturally delighted when security agencies share the analysis from our book.” Scholz’s book, Political Islam—A Hybrid Threat to Europe: The Muslim Brotherhood’s “Civilization Jihad,” was published in April. According to Scholz’s findings, the Muslim Brotherhood attempts to delegitimize the state and its institutions by infiltrating state institutions, influencing legislation, and exploiting the state’s weakness caused by external and internal crises to shift norms. “A central element of their strategy is citizenship, which grants civic rights to activists in the network,” she writes, explaining that Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the chief ideologue of the Brotherhood, explicitly recommends that Muslims accept the citizenship of their host countries in his book on the interpretation of Islamic norms for Muslims in non-Muslim countries... Ultimately, the “strategic goal of the Muslim Brotherhood is the complete elimination of equal partnerships,” which are “replaced by a model of asymmetrical alliances in which potential partners are subordinate to the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood.”"

Germany: Government report reveals astronomical crime rates for young foreigners compared to German youth - "  The suspect burden figure (TVBZ) has been compiled by the Federal Criminal Police (BKA) and published in the Police Crime Statistics (PKS) starting this year. This ratio shows the total number of identified suspects over the age of eight, and is calculated per 100,000 inhabitants per population group. It examines all crimes except for immigration law violations, and the data presents a concerning trend.  For German suspects across all age groups, the TVBZ is 1,878.  In contrast, Syrian suspects have a TVBZ of 8,236, and Afghan suspects are at 8,753 — more than four times higher.   New German federal government statistics indicate that young foreigners are disproportionately represented as suspects in numerous crimes, with particularly significant differences in street crime and shoplifting.  The suspect burden figure (TVBZ) has been compiled by the Federal Criminal Police (BKA) and published in the Police Crime Statistics (PKS) starting this year. This ratio shows the total number of identified suspects over the age of eight, and is calculated per 100,000 inhabitants per population group. It examines all crimes except for immigration law violations, and the data presents a concerning trend.  For German suspects across all age groups, the TVBZ is 1,878.  In contrast, Syrian suspects have a TVBZ of 8,236, and Afghan suspects are at 8,753 — more than four times higher.  However, when the data is compared among young people, the disparity is even more pronounced. Syrians between 14 and 18 years old are five times more likely to commit a crime than Germans in the same age bracket.  However, in regard to other groups of young people from North Africa, the difference is even more astronomical. Algerian youth feature a TVBZ rate that is a tremendous 56 times higher than Germans.  For Moroccans, it is 19 times higher.  Differences are also notable across specific offense categories. In street crime, which includes offenses like bodily harm, robbery, sexual harassment, and pickpocketing, the TVBZ for German suspects is 168. For Syrians, this figure jumps to 1,291, and for Afghans, it’s 1,218—nearly eight times as high... Many of these German citizen suspects have a foreign background; however, there is often no way of knowing how many of these suspects have a foreign background because Germany does not record this information.  There are some ways around this. As data from North Rhine-Westphalia showed, when the first names of gang rape suspects are analyzed, it shows that at least half of the German citizens clearly had names from a foreign background, such as Mohammad.  During the Berlin riots on New Year’s, a list of the names of suspects was leaked to the press, which showed a huge number of the “German” suspects actually had foreign names.    New German federal government statistics indicate that young foreigners are disproportionately represented as suspects in numerous crimes, with particularly significant differences in street crime and shoplifting.  The suspect burden figure (TVBZ) has been compiled by the Federal Criminal Police (BKA) and published in the Police Crime Statistics (PKS) starting this year. This ratio shows the total number of identified suspects over the age of eight, and is calculated per 100,000 inhabitants per population group. It examines all crimes except for immigration law violations, and the data presents a concerning trend.  For German suspects across all age groups, the TVBZ is 1,878.  In contrast, Syrian suspects have a TVBZ of 8,236, and Afghan suspects are at 8,753 — more than four times higher.  However, when the data is compared among young people, the disparity is even more pronounced. Syrians between 14 and 18 years old are five times more likely to commit a crime than Germans in the same age bracket.  However, in regard to other groups of young people from North Africa, the difference is even more astronomical. Algerian youth feature a TVBZ rate that is a tremendous 56 times higher than Germans.  For Moroccans, it is 19 times higher.  Differences are also notable across specific offense categories. In street crime, which includes offenses like bodily harm, robbery, sexual harassment, and pickpocketing, the TVBZ for German suspects is 168. For Syrians, this figure jumps to 1,291, and for Afghans, it’s 1,218—nearly eight times as high.  The data was released after a parliamentary inquiry from AfD domestic policy spokesperson Martin Hess, who criticized the findings, stating, “This is the predictable result of a migration policy that has been completely failed for decades and has given up all control since 2015 at the latest.”  Hess had previously requested detailed data on crime rates among foreigners, broken down by nationality and age group, in a small inquiry in June.  This data also needs to be considered from another perspective. Many of these German citizen suspects have a foreign background; however, there is often no way of knowing how many of these suspects have a foreign background because Germany does not record this information.  There are some ways around this. As data from North Rhine-Westphalia showed, when the first names of gang rape suspects are analyzed, it shows that at least half of the German citizens clearly had names from a foreign background, such as Mohammad.  During the Berlin riots on New Year’s, a list of the names of suspects was leaked to the press, which showed a huge number of the “German” suspects actually had foreign names.  A top Berlin prosecutor has indicated that up to three out of four clan members have German citizenship.  Any time any of these suspects commit a crime, it is recorded as a German suspect. If Germany kept data on the crime rate of German citizens with a foreign background, as Denmark does, it would likely reveal an incredibly high crime rate among this group of German citizens. This policy has been promoted by the AfD, also to help measure the integration rates of foreigners even after generations have resided in Germany. The new TVBZ data will also pop a myth from the left, which is that foreigners are committing such high rates of violence because they are mostly young men. However, as the data shows, German suspects, when compared to foreign suspects from the same exact age group, often feature dramatically lower crime rates. Germany also has an extremely strong welfare state, which means these foreign youths have access to food, shelter, and consumer goods.  This data comes after crime data showed that German men actually feature lower violence rates than women from a number of different foreign groups."

Are men really behind the crime problem? German statistics show foreign women are more violent - "The constant refrain is that men in general are behind Germany’s crime problem and that foreign origin is secondary. However, current data shows the opposite is true.  Last year, Syrian women had higher rates, per 100,000 people suspected of violence, than German men.  The data shows that for 100,000 German men, 272 were suspected of a violent offense. For Syrian women, this figure per 100,00 was 336. Clearly, Syrian women were more violent than German men.  However, they are not the only group. Afghan women are also more violent, with a rate of 359, even more violent than Syrian women.  Iraqi women have an incredible rate of 394, which is considerably more than German men. Even Serbian women are more violent than German men, with a rate of 371.  Bulgarian women are at 359.  For German women, only 60 are suspected of a violent crime per 100,000.  All of this data makes the left’s generalized argument about the “violent male” questionable at best. Although, German police, in the name of the left’s precious mantra of gender equality, did somehow manage to confiscate knives from elderly German women at Christmas markets."

'We have imported knife violence' – Wave of knife attacks shakes Germany once again - "Another wave of knife attacks has hit Germany, showing that not much has changed despite the many lost lives and Germans maimed in knife attacks. In fact, the statistics show that these crimes are even getting worse, with 79 knife attacks per day now recorded. A German criminal lawyer warns that Germany has “imported knife violence,” in response to growing blade crimes.  In the last few days, headlines include Kosovar man arrested after knife attack in Germany injures three, including 12-year-old girl” “Man stabbed half to death on basketball court,” “Manhunt continues after Syrian asylum seeker stabs 5 outside student bar in Bielefeld,” and “Rioter injures police officer with knife.”  However, thousands of such headlines have run in the German press in recent years, with Remix News reporting on many of them. The overwhelming number of perpetrators are foreigners or those with a foreign background, yet despite promises to crack down and enact deportations of migrant criminals, the bloodshed not only continues but appears to be getting worse.   “We have imported knife violence. In other cultures, the knife is a kind of status symbol. This is changing the social climate here in the country,” stated criminal attorney Udo Vetter. He further notes that “knives have become an everyday companion for many people. And the barrier to using them is low.”  Notably, he warns that due to the rise of knives and knife crimes, it is creating a problem that is expected to only grow exponentially, with more and more people arming themselves with knives out of fear."

Finally we have the proof that Lucy Connolly was stitched up (Two Tier Justice)

Government-spread misinformation is good, because it pushes the left wing agenda. 

Finally we have the proof that Lucy Connolly was stitched up

"[She] had been made an example of by a British state that was increasingly nervous that people no longer accepted its narrative on multiculturalism – “Diversity is our strength!”.

So terrified was the criminal justice system by the threat of social unrest it was determined to clamp down on anyone who dared challenge it.

As most of you will know, on July 29 2024, on the evening of the Southport massacre of three little girls, Lucy was in quite a state. Diagnosed with PTSD after Harry’s death, she was easily triggered by any report of children suffering. The horrific incident, in which an unidentified male ran amok with a knife at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class on the first day of the summer holidays, had tipped her over the edge.

The fact that Axel Rudakubana was originally said by the media to be a Cardiff-born “quiet choir boy” angered Lucy, as did the insistence by police and MPs that the attack was not “terror related”, despite the targets being young Western girls enjoying moving their bodies to “decadent” pop music (not unlike the jihadist attack on the Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena which I have always attributed to Islamist misogyny), the discovery (we later learnt) of an al-Qaeda training manual on Rudakubana’s computer, and the presence of enough ricin under his bed to poison everyone in his street.

In the heat of the moment, Lucy put an angry and deeply unpleasant post on X – “Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f---ing hotels full of all the b-----ds for all I care, while you’re at it take the treacherous government and politicians with them. I feel physically sick knowing what these families will now have to endure. If that makes me racist, so be it.” She then took the dog for a walk, got home, thought better of what she’d said and took the tweet down within three hours of posting it.

Lucy was deeply ashamed of the tweet. “It doesn’t represent who I am”. That should have been the end of it, but somebody (believed by the Connolly family to be a Labour councillor) screenshotted it.

Lucy posted again, this time saying that “violence is not the answer”, but by then her original post had gone viral. The police came to arrest her at the start of a day when her living room was full of the small children she looked after. After an interview, it was reported by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) that Mrs Connolly had told police she “did not like immigrants and claimed that children were not safe from them”. She said nothing of the sort, but by the time the CPS admitted it the damage was done. Within hours, she was all over the media as “Tory councillor’s racist wife”.

Lucy was denied bail, although as a first-time offender with a blameless record she was the perfect candidate for it. With remarkable speed, her case was rushed through. Lucy was held on remand in prison and was persuaded by a duty solicitor that “going guilty” was her best option if she wanted to be home in time for Christmas with her 12-year-old daughter.

Such a case might be expected to be heard in a magistrates’ court – I was told by one horrified magistrate that she would be “looking for any reason not to jail someone like Lucy” – but a magistrate could not have given Lucy a long sentence, something we could speculate the state was rather keen on in the aftermath of the Southport “riots”.

The Connollys were shocked when the judge at Birmingham Crown Court delivered a lecture on what a diverse and tolerant nation the UK was and then, apparently ignoring all the mitigating factors and the powerful testimonials from ethnic-minority parents, sentenced Lucy to a shocking 31 months in jail.

I was deeply suspicious about Lucy Connolly’s case. Ray Connolly was almost as demonised as Lucy for insisting on Sky News “my wife is not a racist”. I believed him. After my own brush with police over a long-deleted tweet, I began to talk to Lucy in prison, and heard how she was being denied the normal leave granted even to hardcore offenders. I came to the chilling conclusion she was effectively a political prisoner.

After I wrote about Lucy, her story was picked up around the world, contributing to a growing alarm that Britain – ironically led by “human rights” lawyer Sir Keir Starmer – was exercising censorship of our ancient free-speech rights.

Much of this was surmise and not easy to prove. Questioned about the case, the Prime Minister said he had no knowledge of it. Lord Hermer, the Attorney General, was said not to have been involved in the sentencing of Mrs Connolly and others arrested in connection with the Southport riots. When Lucy applied to the CPS for her files, they said they didn’t have them.

Like many things Lucy was told, that wasn’t true. She put in a SAR (Subject Access Request) and this week was finally sent all the relevant documents. Some of what they contain is utterly damning – not of Lucy but of the criminal justice system that was clearly in a hurry to punish her as harshly as possible.

Lucy was charged on the night of August 9. By 9.45am the following day – a Saturday, when good lawyers are hard to find – the CPS had got confirmation that Lord Hermer had signed off the prosecution. Up early, was he? Emails said the case had gone through as an “emergency prosecution”, what one senior barrister described to me as “almost certainly unlawful”.

“They have to prove it’s an emergency – and it clearly isn’t,” he said. “What is it they’re trying to prevent? Mrs Connolly had already deleted her tweet. Saying it’s an emergency prosecution is clearly political.”

On email, the CPS continued: “There is evidence of other racist tweets sent on L.C’s account. Both before and after the particular tweet. This demonstrates that this was not a one-off regrettable tweet but part of her dislike for immigrants and a desire for…” [The final word of the sentence is redacted.]

Not true. “No further racist tweets were found on my phone or my Twitter account,” Lucy says. “This is confirmed by Northamptonshire Police in a reply to a complaint I made against them. There is one charge for one tweet on the indictment.” If the police or CPS claimed there were other racist tweets then they “misled the court,” says the barrister, “which is very serious.”

Astonishingly, district judges had been informed about “these cases” (linked to Southport presumably) and were told they must be put in “the next available slots”. Who was telling them that? Surely, it was the Ministry of Justice or even the Attorney General himself. “Unconstitutional” is what the barrister calls it.

Reasons cited for denying Lucy bail twice are “obviously unlawful”, he says. She didn’t need “protection” as she could be safe at home with her family. Also, there was no danger of a repeat offence, as the documents claim. “Police could have taken away her phone and her computer. Again, it looks like a political decision.”

The documents record that, on August 22, Lucy’s solicitor attended her second bail hearing (the first request had been refused). The hearing lasted two minutes. Just long enough to read out Lucy’s name, date of birth and address. “The decision had already been made,” Lucy tells me. “They clearly weren’t prepared to listen to any of my mitigating factors because how could they in such a short amount of time?” Either her solicitor didn’t offer a defence, or he wasn’t allowed to.

The courts were also told that charges and sentencing should reflect the “seriousness” with which Parliament “has approached the issue of racial hostility”. What has Parliament got to do with it? Isn’t the judiciary supposed to be independent?

As Lucy’s was a first offence she could have been fined and her case heard in a magistrates’ court. But, in the documents, the CPS reveals that they’ve been told that people (involved in Southport) are going to get custodial sentences of more than 12 months. Judges have been told that they will have to award a certain sentence. “They have a Sentencing Council which they claim is independent,” says the barrister. “Specifying what the sentence should be is definitely political interference.”

The documents also reference Frank Ferguson, head of the Crown Prosecution Service’s Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division, who said in a statement issued after Lucy pleaded guilty on September 2: “During police interview, Lucy Connolly stated she had strong views on immigration, told officers she did not like immigrants and claimed that children were not safe from them.”

“This was not what was said,” according to Lucy. “Police interviews confirm I did not say I did not like immigrants. I said I was concerned about undocumented men arriving in the UK illegally and we don’t know what they’ve done or where they’re from. This was later corrected by the CPS to reflect what I’d actually said.”

None of the above is particularly surprising to be honest, although I still find it shocking. “It just confirms everything we suspected,” says Lucy. “I’m just surprised they were prepared to put it down in black and white.”

With Starmer and Hermer preparing to restrict trial by jury, there seems no let-up in the authoritarian crackdown on “hate speech” (very often just telling the truth) that saw Lucy Connolly cruelly and absurdly spend more than a year away from her child. The same criminal justice system which gives insanely lenient sentences to foreign rapists did, in effect, put on a show trial for a white, working-class mum of previously good character who called out an asylum system which poses a growing danger to women and girls.

Well, it backfired. Lucy’s case became notorious. Once her draconian release conditions are lifted in a year’s time, and she can travel abroad, she has an open invitation to go and speak at the White House about the way she was fitted up to act as a deterrent to others who feel inclined to criticise what Lucy rightly called “treacherous government and politicians” who have lost control of our borders.

The Trump administration makes no secret of the fact that it regards Starmer’s Britain as a free-speech basket case and, in fact, Graham Linehan, the comedian, gave evidence to Congress today, about his arrest at Heathrow Airport by five armed officers last September for tweets he sent about the transgender debate."

 

Links - 9th July 2026 (1 - Department of Government Efficiency: USAID [including Layoffs])

A Year After U.S.A.I.D.’s Death, Fired Workers Find Few Jobs and Much Loss - The New York Times - "Former U.S.A.I.D. workers who have done informal surveys estimate that less than half have found full-time work, with many making less than before. An estimated third are unemployed. Others are in part-time work... Others acknowledged that there was bloat and waste in the agency and a need for reform. Much of the $35 billion it managed in 2024 went to Washington-based contractors, not directly to people in need overseas. The success of many projects was hard to measure... U.S.A.I.D. workers who once thought of themselves as ambassadors for American “soft power” said they worried about the trust in the United States that was lost overseas"
Even before USAID got dismantled, the US was hated around the world. Looks like it was a very poor return on investment.
The fact that so many have not managed to find a new job suggests that they aren't very good workers

Robert Sterling on X - "I feel terrible for anyone who loses their job. I’m not trying to kick anyone while they’re down. But these USAID and NGO workers are the least sympathetic unemployed people I’ve ever seen. EVERY person in this story was making well into six figures:
USAID employee: $175,000
USAID contractor: $127,000
USAID-funded NGO employee: $272,000(!)
USAID advisor at the DOD: $195,000
USAID contractor: $200,000
There were 16,000 employees at USAID, and the New York Times was only able to interview one making less than $175k. Worldwide, there were an estimated 280,000 contractors. ALL of these people were getting paid from our tax dollars. Many were making 2-4x the wage of the average American taxpayer ($65-70k per year). Yes, USAID did some good work, especially during the Cold War. And, yes, many of the agency’s employees were hard-working Americans, with good intentions and love for their country. Again, we should take no joy in seeing thousands of people lose their livelihoods—this is not a case of justifiable schadenfreude. But it’s not sustainable for an agency with so little accountability to manage tens of billions of dollars per year, enriching tens of thousands of NGO-industrial-complex managers living in the DC/Maryland/Virginia metroplex in the process. Even the NYT acknowledges that “there was bloat and waste in the agency and a need for reform. Much of the $35 billion [USAID] managed in 2024 went to Washington-based contractors, not directly to people in need overseas. The success of many projects was hard to measure.” Every last dollar that went to these highly paid employees was funded by an American taxpayer, the vast majority of whom make far less money than the people laid off from USAID. We have the right to demand accountability, and we have the right to expect that these funds will be spent in our interest, not theirs. USAID and its thousands of employees, contractors, and NGO beneficiaries ignored that principle, and they eventually paid the price with their careers. I wish them all nothing but the best, but I won’t mourn that they will no longer be making $200k per year on the backs of American workers."
Fugitive Caesar on X - "personally I find this hilarious that Democrats spent the past 50+ years deindustrializing America, sending factories overseas, flooding blue-collar and white-collar jobs with 150 million foreigners, regulating business to death... and now they need to find jobs in this economy."

Razib Khan 🧬 ✍️ on X - "one thing that annoys me a bit is how the media focuses on gov. and media layoffs like tragedies in a way that they don't do with other sectors nearly to the same extent. losing your job and finding another one is pretty common for americans"
David Armano on X - "I was laid off in 2020 during the height of the pandemic in June, right around the time when our cities began to burn. It was terrible. I don’t wish that on anyone and it altered my career. I was 49. there’s little sympathy for private sector layoffs like what you see here"
Left wingers don't care about private sector layoffs because they hate the private sector

SightBringer on X - "⚡ The woman in that photo is being used as a political prop by the NYT and she probably doesn't even know it. The framing wants you to feel outrage at the cruelty of the cuts. But the actual data point buried in the story is devastating to the narrative it's trying to build. 272k for a senior VP at a USAID-funded nonprofit is not a real salary. It's a subsidy. That job existed inside a closed loop: taxpayer money flows to USAID, USAID funds NGOs, NGOs hire professionals at inflated rates, those professionals build lives around compensation that was never stress-tested against the open market. The entire salary was a function of proximity to the spigot. Not output. Not value creation. Not demand for her specific skills. The $19/hour number isn't the system being cruel. It's the system being honest for the first time. The market is saying: without the government funding stream, your skills at 57 command 39k. That's the real price. The 272k was the fiction. And here's what nobody in that thread will say: there are tens of thousands of people in the DC metro area alone sitting in exactly this position right now. Government-adjacent professionals whose entire compensation structure was built on a funding model that is being unwound. Not by AI, not by automation, but by simple political reallocation. And the market is going to reprice every single one of them. The deeper pattern is that an entire class of professional jobs in America were never real market jobs. They were artifacts of institutional spending that created its own employment ecosystem. Government, corporate middle management, DEI departments, compliance layers, consulting firms that exist to service other consulting firms. The whole structure was a series of jobs that existed because the money existed, not because the work needed doing at that price. That structure is now being compressed from multiple directions simultaneously. AI from one side. Spending cuts from another. Corporate efficiency mandates from a third. And the professional class that built its identity, its mortgages, its kids' tuitions, its retirement plans around those salaries is about to discover what the open market actually thinks they're worth. That's the repricing. This woman is just the first photo to go viral."
Clearly the problem was they weren't paid enough, which is why they're struggling now

Aakash Gupta on X - "A "senior VP" at a "nonprofit" was pulling $272K a year. Every dollar of it was yours. Sheryl Cowan's salary came from a federal appropriation, routed through USAID, laundered through a DC-area 501(c)(3) so nobody had to call it what it was. Roughly nine out of every ten USAID dollars in FY2024 never left the DC beltway. Samantha Power, the USAID administrator herself, called the industry the "industrial aid complex." The scale of what was inside that wrapper: Chemonics took a $9.5 billion USAID contract to manage health supply chains and, per Senator Ernst's office, overbilled the agency by up to $270 million while the project produced 31 indictments for illegally reselling taxpayer-funded supplies. $800 million flowed through Johns Hopkins alone. DAI, FHI 360, RTI International, Creative Associates: a network of "nonprofits" and contractors that collectively employed 20,000 Americans, almost all in Arlington, Bethesda, and Falls Church, almost all paid with money you earned. That's why Sheryl can't ladder down to a $150K role now. There is no $150K role. Every rung of her career collapsed in the same quarter because every rung was on the same payroll. Chemonics furloughed 750 US staff, roughly 70% of its American workforce. DAI cut 380. FHI 360 eliminated 483. RTI laid off 370. The USAIDstopwork tracker counted 19,187 American jobs gone. She can't step down to $180K because those jobs were federal money too. She can't take $120K because every former program director is applying for it. The reference network collapses with the paycheck network because the references were on the same grants. $272K was federal money with a nonprofit logo on the check. The "private sector" in a 30-mile radius of the Capitol was an accounting fiction, and the 20,000 people finding out right now what it really was are the same people who spent a decade calling it private."

David P Deavel on X - "So, what you're saying is that a person who is paid six-figures by a government agency is not worth more than a small fraction of that in the rest of the world? I'm stunned."

VoxDawg - Pattern Recognizer on X - "Pro Tip: If your NGO has to close its doors when the government stops funneling taxpayer dollars to you, then you were NOT a "Non-governmental organization""

Jamazel on X - "I don’t seem to remember the Times doing a sympathy piece on all of those people who lost their jobs when the government shut down the economy because of a virus that has a 99.99% survival rate. Also, that photo is not of Sheryl Cowan."

mjsb on X - "West Virginia coal miners would like to help by suggesting she "learn to code""

Brittany Hughes on X - "So we’re to believe she was good enough to be worth $272,000 a year and somehow couldn’t find another commensurate job elsewhere? For a whole year? Or maybe, like many taxpayer-funded positions, she just wasn’t worth $272,000 in the first place."
Tee Baille on X - "Most of the higher level USAID people I have had the displeasure of meeting while working overseas (almost 30 year career) are not only incompetent, but abusive, insulting and completely useless."
TexasSIMRP-edu on X - "I can speak to that regarding some USAID folks in Africa. They were useless."

Thread by @iliketeslas on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "I’m in South America , and a friend who worked with USAID in different projects for 15 years just told me “everything DOGE found about the waste is true” we really lived a life of kings with USAID’s money 😅 Everyone around the world knew about the US government corruption except the Americans If democrats were concerned about the people whos funds were cut by canceling USAID.. shouldn’t they be trying to reactivate a way to send aid in a transparent way instead of just saying “Elon bad” ? The hypocrisy 🤷🏻‍♂️"

Libs of TikTok on X - "BREAKING: USAID official and 3 company executives plead guilty in fraud and bribery scheme involving at least 14 contracts worth over $550 million  USAID Official Roderick Watson took bribes, was showered with lavish gifts— including cash, laptops, thousands of dollars in tickets to a suite at an NBA game, a country club wedding, downpayments on two residential mortgages, cell phones, and jobs for relatives.  In exchange for the bribe payments, Watson influenced the award of contracts by manipulating the procurement process at USAID.  Watson faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison.  Imagine how much more fraud there is…"
This won't stop left wingers from continuing to post their fake news memes about how DOGE hasn't charged anyone with fraud, therefore it was all a scam. They think things can happen instantly, which is why they claim Trump didn't send the National Guard in on January 6th because he was the one who incited the insurrection

Director on USAID Project Arrested for Nine-Year Fraud Scheme | Office of Inspector General - "Ruth Chisina Mufute of Zimbabwe is charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and four counts of wire fraud"
District of Maryland | Former USAID Employee Pleads Guilty to CARES Act Fraud | United States Department of Justice - "Simeon Bakare, 55, of Waldorf, Maryland, pled guilty to wire-fraud charges in connection with the scheme"
District of Columbia | Former Contractor of USAID-Funded Program Extradited to the United States, Convicted and Sentenced for Conspiracy to Obtain Grant Money Through Fraud | United States Department of Justice - "Stephen Paul Edmund Sutton, 53, a United Kingdom citizen, pleaded guilty and was sentenced today for his participation in a fraud scheme, perpetrated when he was employed by a  contracting firm that implemented a U.S. Agency for International Development-funded (USAID) power distribution program (PDP) in Pakistan"

Office of Public Affairs | USAID Official and Three Corporate Executives Plead Guilty to Decade-Long Bribery Scheme Involving Over $550 Million in Contracts; Two Companies Admit Criminal Liability for Bribery Scheme and Securities Fraud | United States Department of Justice - "Four men, including a government contracting officer for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and three owners and presidents of companies, have pleaded guilty for their roles in a decade-long bribery scheme involving at least 14 prime contracts worth over $550 million in U.S. taxpayer dollars.
Roderick Watson, 57, of Woodstock, Maryland, who worked as a USAID contracting officer, pleaded guilty to bribery of a public official;     Walter Barnes, 46, of Potomac, Maryland, who was the owner and president of PM Consulting Group LLC doing business as Vistant (Vistant), a certified small business under the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) 8(a) contracting program, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery of a public official and securities fraud;     Darryl Britt, 64, of Myakka City, Florida, who was the owner and president of Apprio, Inc. (Apprio), a certified small business under the SBA 8(a) contracting program, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery of a public official; and     Paul Young, 62, of Columbia, Maryland, who was the president of a subcontractor to Vistant and Apprio, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery of a public official."

Meme - DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican: "Screen-capped for posterity. This individual claims to be a PhD student in economics at @GeorgeMasonU . They are not even hiding their motives. I read the essay; it presents little in the way of specifics.   As of this writing, it has received 16 likes.   In their view, cutting USAID justifies firebombing Teslas and issuing daily threats against public figures.  In their view, deporting an MS-13 immigrant is a reason to start a civil war. (And that incident is most of the author's premise for the essay.)   Maybe I'm naive, but I don't want believe some of our neighbors are so innately consumed by malice that they would kill us for wanting to preserve this nation. And yet, their actions, and increasingly, their words say otherwise.  Pray for this nation."
Nicholas Decker @captgouda24: "The ultimate source of political power is, and always will be, violence. If the present administration should continue on its course, there is no choice but war. I say this out of sorrow - when must we kill them?"
More proof that the right incites violence

Nicholas Kristof on X - "The @washingtonpost reports on how the chaos around the closure of USAID led to breakdowns in supply lines, resulting in kids dying of malaria: https://t.co/s85AJKw0CG @SecRubio says US aid cuts haven't killed anyone; in fact, they kill kids at a rate estimated at 88 per hour."
Some dude on X - "In 1950 before white people started pumping their nations with foreign aid there were about 180 million sub Saharan Africans and they desperately needed our help. 75 years later there are 1.2 billion sub Saharan Africans and they desperately need our help."
dikgaj on X - "There are a few countries trying to be different. But the mechanism of aid is always to sustain dependence and recycling of aid back to source after allowing a part to go into nepo elite corrupt pockets who help in retaining indirect say in the country."
Weird how the US gets denounced as an evil genocidal country all the time, but it turns out they're supposedly providing so much life-saving aid and it's an evil genocidal country to remove it. If they get slammed no matter what they do, why not save some money?

Defiant L’s on X - "Sen. John Kennedy: "You're getting rid of $5.5 million to lesbian, gay biseuxal transgender queer and intersex advocacy in Uganda. I can't believe we're arguing about this!""

Shane Goldmacher on X - "NEWS: The DNC took out a $15 million loan in October, the latest sign of financial distress for the official arm of the Democratic Party. The party ended the month with $18.3 million in the bank  — $15 million of which came from the loan."
DC_Draino on X - "Trump cutoff USAID funding and suddenly the DNC is going bankrupt. Hmm."

PBS News on X - "When USAID shut down, more than 80% of its programs were canceled. In an attempt to keep the most cost-effective and life-saving projects up and running, two laid-off agency employees created a website called Project Resource Optimization to match donors with threatened programs. So far, they've helped keep nearly 80 projects running in 30 countries.  @AliRogin  sat down with founders Caitlin Tulloch and Rob Rosenbaum for more."
The Dank Knight 🦇 on X - "PBS accidentally showing how programs continued fine without billions of taxpayer dollars. Proving USAID was just an activist money laundering scheme for Democrats to spread their woke degenerate cancer."

USAID Being Removed has KILLED at least 600,000 people. : r/DoomerCircleJerk - "Imagine if the U.S. actually had that level of soft power fielded, China would probably have a lot less influence in Africa. That or 600,000 shitty indie game devs have committed suicide."
"If US AID being removed killed that many people then aren’t they admitting the U.S. has saved hundreds of millions of people and thus the most benevolent and helping nation in the history of humanity"
"Nope, their argument then becomes that those people wouldn't need to be saved if the US hadn't crushed them due to capitalism or racism or blah blah."
"That’s right. They are always shifting goalposts and never giving credit for legitimate works."
Left wingers just hate the US and the West and despise them even while demanding they spend endless resources on the rest of the world. But then, they also claim "billionaires" are evil for not giving away all of their money, which supposedly would keep people from dying (even if they don't spout that delusional line about it saving the world). Foreign aid given by the West has remarkably poor ROI, even if you count "soft power"

Hutch on X - "Trump’s decision to end USAID has already led to 400,000 children killed. I’m having some angry thoughts about all the Killer Kamala rhetoric from a certain set of single issue voters who decided that their emotions were more important than actual outcomes."
John Fruz on X - "I hate Trump, but this is some of the most retarded "evidence" I've seen. It's a random mathematical model. It's not even purporting to track excess deaths, much less actually have specific cases."
Daniel Friedman on X - "There are places that are entirely dependent on international aid, and the populations there are exploding but if the aid spigot from one country is cut off, hundreds of thousands of children supposedly die in a matter of months of malnutrition and preventable disease.  These countries have been aid dependent for decades and have no internal capacity to feed or care for their people.  With the population of Africa exploding as the population of the West declines, we're heading toward a world where half the population will be places that depend on aid.  We can't take care of them all."
John Magilligan on X - "Don’t be surprised when China swoops in and picks up our slack. They’re forming relationships while we’re cutting children off from necessary aid. This is the century of humiliation for the USA"
Daniel Friedman on X - "The fucked up thing is, USAID was so captured by progressives that the organization wasn’t using the “soft power” it was creating to spread American values; it was promulgating academic Marxism, race resentment and third-worldism."

Thread by @BalazsOrban_HU on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "❌️ Hungarians don’t need a 'Norwegian USAID'. We’ve seen this playbook before: money, ideology, loyal NGOs — and a foreign agenda wrapped in the language of “democracy.”
And yet, here we go again: another €20 million in foreign funding, courtesy of the Norway Fund, once again handed to a Soros-backed liberal organization to distribute in 🇭🇺Hungary — just as Norway insisted last time, rejecting even neutral candidates like the Hungarian Red Cross. If Norway truly wants to support Hungarian society, it should invest in what people actually need. Promoting woke ideology through foreign-funded gender campaigns targeting children, for example, is not one of them. But this isn’t about supporting civil society. Out of approx. 60,000 Hungarian NGOs, Norway opted to channel the money through a group with clear links to George Soros — a pattern repeated across multiple European states. It’s about directing funds to loyal ideological networks — the very same strategy once used by #USAID around the world, where funding meant influence, and influence meant pressure on sovereign governments. The Norwegian version follows the same script: across multiple European countries, including Hungary, organisations tied to George Soros have repeatedly been chosen to manage the disbursement of these funds. These groups serve as ideological foot soldiers in a global liberal network, often the very same ones attacking 🇭🇺 #Hungary’s child protection laws, migration policy, and national sovereignty under the banner of “progress.” Call it “civil society” or “democracy promotion” — but in practice, it’s foreign-funded activism pushing the global liberal network’s agenda."

Charlie’s Voice Rising on X - "🚨WOW… Mike Benz just dropped a wild bombshell on Joe Rogan’s podcast. During the Obama years, USAID pushed $1.2 BILLION through Cayman Island accounts, pretending it was “aid for Pakistan”… …but the cash actually funded  ZunZuneo — a Cuban Twitter-clone built to spark rent-a-riots and topple governments around the world.  You can’t make this up."

The SCIF on X - "USAID was funding BOTH the WUHAN Lab gain-of-function research & SMARTMATIC Election Systems.  Do you think it was a coincidence that "covid" came out right around the 2020 election?  Coincidentally, the same left-wing billionaires, NGOs, and USAID also funded the 'NO KINGS' protest, aka, the color revolutions across America.  This means that USAID was simultaneously funding BOTH the election-rigging technology that would steal the 2020 election WHILE manufacturing and releasing a WEAPONIZED VIRUS that would distract the world from the theft of said election while depopulating the planet at the same time. It's all connected.  Everything is out in the open and face-up on the table... I don't even know what to say anymore. You can't be this naive anymore. We can't live under this fraud and tyranny anymore.  Americans are suffering, and everyone else is robbing you blind getting filthy rich."

Rubio defends USAID closure after Hurricane Melissa response success - "Those worried about shuttering the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) were wrong, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who touted the agency’s record in delivering support in the wake of Hurricane Melissa that ravaged the Caribbean in October.   Although USAID historically functioned as an independent agency to deliver aid to impoverished countries and development assistance, the State Department announced in March that it would absorb remaining operations and functions in an effort to streamline operations to deliver foreign assistance amid concerns that USAID did not advance U.S. core interests. The move resulted in cuts for thousands of USAID employees.   Critics including Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said that upending the agency would "lead to millions of preventable deaths," while a group of House Democrats wrote a letter to President Donald Trump in February as USAID cuts got underway that changes would lead to increased maternal and child mortality.   But Rubio now claims those skeptics’ fears were unfounded.  "Alarmists in politics and the media forecasted that the closure of USAID would result in catastrophe. Now, nearly a year later, they’ve been proven wrong," Rubio said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "The State Department has realigned foreign assistance with the interests of the American people, streamlined disaster response capabilities, and leveraged the ingenuity of American companies to save lives."   Specifically, Rubio pointed to the assistance the State Department provided in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, which hit Jamaica as a Category 5 hurricane and was the strongest to strike Kingston since the island started tracking its storms 174 years ago.  The State Department deployed a regional disaster assistance response team (DART) and activated U.S.-based urban search and rescue (USAR) teams to support response efforts in the region as part of recovery efforts.   Likewise, the State Department assisted in administering food and other resources to those in need, using predesignated supplies housed in 12 different warehouses across the region. Ultimately, the State Department coordinated with the United Nations World Food Program to distribute 5,000 family food packs to families in Jamaica, and provided nearly $37 million in assistance to those hit by the storm.  "This new era of foreign assistance eliminates extreme ideological projects that previous administrations forced the American people to subsidize, cuts out the wasteful NGO industrial complex, and puts the American people first," Rubio said.   The Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan think tank, evaluated the State Department's response to Hurricane Melissa looking at key performance indicators including speed, logistics, funding, and interagency coordination, and concluded that the U.S. "delivered a textbook surge of humanitarian aid in the wake of a natural disaster of historic magnitude."... The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) targeted USAID in its push to eliminate wasteful spending during a review earlier in 2025. The agency attracted scrutiny for a series of funding choices, including allocating $1.5 million for a program that sought to "advance diversity, equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities" and a $70,000 program for a "DEI musical" in Ireland...  the State Department is undergoing its own transformation. In addition to absorbing USAID, the State Department has undergone a massive overhaul as part of the largest restructuring for the agency since the Cold War.   Additionally, it rolled out an America First Global Health Strategy in September to deliver health aid worldwide by working directly with recipient country’s governments instead of through non-governmental organizations and other aid programs."

AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to H.I.V. Assistance - The New York Times
Left wingers keep complaining about the US putting its nose in other countries' business, yet they keep screeching about USAID cuts, of course
Of course, left wingers always chant "correlation isn't causation" when they hate the results

Joseph Guarino 🐲🐝🏳️‍🌈🚊🦉🍥 on X - "Fun fact: dismantling USAID was a goal of both Project 2025 and the DSA platform."
So was it still evil?

Wednesday, July 08, 2026

Links - 8th July 2026 (2 - Migrants)

Thread by @willsolfiac on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "One example I didn't have space to bring up in my recent article on the spread of the 'nation of immigrants' article is Ireland, which is a fascinating example because its immigration advocates are coming to exactly the same conclusions as in Britain, but from a completely different historical basis.  So if Britain must become a nation of immigrants because it had an empire, Ireland must become one because it sent out lots of poor emigrants. The conclusion is always the same.
See this article for an example. As well as making this argument, he claims that Ireland's refugee crisis comes from Western-caused wars in the middle east. The top five source countries for asylum in Ireland in 2025 were:
1. Somalia
2. Nigeria
3. Pakistan
4. Afghanistan
5. Georgia
So only one that could plausibly be linked to wars in the middle east."
Saying that all Muslims are responsible for the actions of any Muslim is racist and Islamophobic, but saying that all white people are responsible for the actions of any white person at any point in history is anti-racist and anti-colonialist

MichaeloKeeffe on X - "This is one of the most disturbing things I've ever read, but it perfectly encapsulates modern Ireland. As men moved to neutralise an Algerian migrant who was stabbing kids outside a creche in Dublin, women on scene locked hands to protect him." Sister of Stardust victim tells jury of moment she jumped on alleged Parnell Square attacker - "A WOMAN WHOSE brother was a victim of the Stardust nightclub fire has told the Central Criminal Court how she was taking a break from an inquest into his death when she confronted a man stabbing children in Dublin city centre.  Siobhan Kearney today told a trial jury that she “jumped” on the defendant Riad Bouchaker (52) and tried to get him to the ground. She said the knife he was wielding landed at her feet and she kicked it away while things went “really crazy”, with people hitting Bouchaker.  Kearney described how she then locked hands with another woman to protect Bouchaker from further blows. She said she started screaming “we’re not savages” as people tried to get at the accused."
Some people claim it was unjustified to continue to hit him because he was on the ground and had no more knife and thus was no longer a thread, but even handcuffed suspects who have been searched by the police can guns, or even fire them, even hitting police

Meme - Klaus Arminius @Klaus Armin...: "A Gypsy migrant kills an Irish school teacher. An Algerian migrant stabs Irish children. An Arab migrant beheads 2 Irishmen. An Indian migrant rapes Irish women. lrish women report sexual harassment by migrant men. Then there's smooth brain @CriticalRedPen "White Irish men""
Elaine Burke @CriticalRedPen: "I'll tell you what I'm scared of in Dublin right now and that's white Irish men."

Love Island’s Billykiss Azeez: People assume I’m not Irish. It hurts - "The government has come under pressure from an unlikely advocate for hate speech legislation: a Love Island contestant. Billykiss Azeez, who lives in Dublin but is originally from Nigeria, has spoken about her disappointment with the decision by the Fianna Fail and Fine Gael-led coalition to park new laws after a political and public backlash over perceived threats to free speech. “It’s disappointing to hear that the government, whose job and responsibility is obviously to protect the people, will not push to get that hate speech legislation in place,” Azeez, 28, told The Sunday Times. It’s disappointing to see that they’re not putting the people first. The people is everyone; it doesn’t matter if their ethnicity is pure Irish, white Irish, or if they’re black Irish.” "
Time to go on about "white fragility"
Clearly, if you assume she's not Irish, you should go to jail for hate speech

Andy Ngo on X - "Dublin, Ireland — While in the city center of @Dublin_ie , I was told to go back to China.  I was reporting at a migrant encampment by the canal when this happened. An NGO worker pitching tents tried to stop my interview with the migrants, who are all adult males. She also falsely claimed it was illegal to record them in public.  Ireland has been experiencing a migrant crisis fueled by a surge of foreign nationals mostly from Africa and the Middle East. Nonprofit groups have been helping build tent cities around Dublin."

Konstantin Kisin on X - "It turns out that if you import millions of people who are taught to hate Jews their entire lives your country becomes less safe for Jews. Who could have predicted this?"
Time to crack down on the "far right" to keep Jews safe

Meme - Soyjak: "Lol, there's no such thing as "Irishness". lreland has always been a rainbow nation of Danes, Normans, English and Zimbabweans. Catalonia is for the Catalonians. I have a PhD in critical race theory, you know"

Shadi Hamid on X - "My new @washingtonpost column: Why do Muslims need to be like everyone else? A case against assimilation."
Melissa Chen on X - "This explains what Lee Kuan Yew observed in 2011 when he said:  “I have to speak candidly to be of value, but I do not wish to offend the Muslim community. I think we were progressing very nicely until the surge of Islam came, and if you asked me for my observations, the other communities have easier integration – friends, intermarriages and so on, Indians with Chinese, Chinese with Indians – than Muslims.   That’s the result of the surge from the Arab states. I would say today, we can integrate all religions and races except Islam.”  This specific attitude is anathema to pluralistic democratic societies. If the government tolerates Islamic exceptionalism, then the social fabric frays which destabilizes society.   And if you think totalitarian ethnostates would welcome the refusal to assimilate, may I remind you of what is going on in Xinjiang, China."
Is it racist, xenophobic and Islamophobic to say that Muslims don't assimilate when they say it themselves?

Tyson Zahner | Facebook - "Ask a progressive what gentrification is… They'll almost certainly be able to tell you that when a large enough group of people moves into a community, it...
* fundamentally changes that community.
* Long-term residents get displaced.
* The cultural identity of the neighborhood erodes.
* Businesses that served the original community close.
* New ones open that cater to the newcomers.
* The people who built the community no longer recognize the place they call home.
They'll tell you these are legitimate grievances. They'll tell you the long-term residents have every right to be upset. They'll tell you that demographic change has real consequences for real people and that pretending otherwise is either naive or dishonest. And they're right.
So why does all of that understanding suddenly evaporate the moment the same dynamic applies to mass immigration?
When a community of people primarily born in America experiences rapid demographic change, the same things happen. Cultural character shifts. Economic pressures emerge. Long-term residents feel displaced. Community institutions and norms change. The people who built the community watch it become unrecognizable. If you understand why residents of Harlem might have legitimate concerns about an influx of outsiders transforming their neighborhood, then you already understand why American citizens might have legitimate concerns about rapid, large-scale demographic change transforming theirs. Same principle. Same dynamics. Same human instinct to care about the place you call home. But suggest that out loud and suddenly you’re a racist or you’re a xenophobe or you're a conspiracy theorist pushing "Great Replacement Theory." Funny how that works."

Otter's Rock - "This is probably a little too much nuance, but whenever I see a "all borders are violence" post (a political position I generally agree with!) I always add a little asterisk that says "*but the border checks that keep you from bringing homegrown produce into big agricultural areas to avoid the transmission of parasites and invasive species are actually fine and if we were more vigilant about that kind of thing maybe we wouldn't have spotted lanternflies in the states."  That doesn't work as well as a slogan, though"
"Things borders should be for:
Biosecurity
Customs management (you do not want people importing a bunch of stuff that doesn't meet your country's safety standards, for example)
Things like that one lake in Europe where three national borders coincide and they built an island specifically so you can run between countries for fun
Things borders shouldn't be for:
Policing who can and can't come into a country"
Left wing logic: "So basically, keeping spotted lanternflies out is more important than keeping murderers out? If you say so..."

Mark W. on X - ""The seething racial resentment in the Third World against the West — decades after independence and trillions in foreign aid — should cause second thoughts about opening our borders to mass immigration from that world..." Pat Buchanan"

vittorio on X - "if the purpose of a system is what it does, then the whole western immigration system is a machine that turns taxpayer money into raped daughters.   the moderate response would be to stop, deport everyone who shouldn’t be here, and hang any bureaucrat and politician responsible.  the actual response is to prosecute anyone who points it out.  you are paying for the importation of men who rape your daughters and you’re not even allowed to be upset about it.  and worst of all, the leftists who defend this will look at this chart and the thing that upsets them is that you shared it"

African refugee who sexually abused niece spared deportation - "A low IQ African refugee who sexually abused his nine-year-old niece has been allowed to stay in Australia because he would lose access to NDIS support for his intellectual disability if deported back to Sierra Leone. The illiterate child sex offender, 37, was anonymised as YGTC to protect his identity by the Administrative Review Tribunal in Melbourne on Thursday after successfully appealing the October 2025 cancellation of his humanitarian visa.  ART Senior Member Margret Bourke overturned the cancellation under immigration minister Tony Burke’s controversial Ministerial Direction 110, which has resulted in dozens of serious criminals being spared deportation in recent months. The tribunal heard that YGTC was convicted of two counts of indecent act with a child aged under 16 years for abusing his sister’s daughter in 2015, but spared jail and given an 18-month Community Corrections Order (CCO) after pleading guilty in 2019.  While under the CCO he was referred to the National Disability Insurance Scheme, placed on an NDIS plan and has continued to receive support services, the tribunal heard, and was not required to complete a sex offender program as he was assessed as “low risk”.  Ms Bourke noted that YGTC had “an intellectual functioning in the extremely low range, with tests recording that he functions in the first or second percentile”, meaning he has an IQ lower than 69, and therefore did not warn him against self-incrimination at the start of the hearing so as not to “confuse” him.  She found that he would face “significant social and economic hardship” if returned to his home country, as “the assistance available for persons with disabilities in Sierra Leone is virtually non-existent”... She further found that it was in the best interests of YGTC’s two minor children, aged 1 and 2, for him to remain in Australia, that his wife and parents rely on his for support, and that he was unlikely to reoffend, even though a psychologist found he had “no insight into the effect of the behaviour on his niece”... This year alone the ART has used the ministerial direction to restore the visas of a Chinese wife-killer, an Ethiopian rapist, an obese homosexual Indian paedophile, an Iranian drug smuggler, a killer Sri Lankan driver, and a Sudanese refugee who was jailed over the fatal stabbing of an Australian teenager."

Meme<>/a> - "LET'S GO BE OPPRESSED!!! *non-white people rushing to white countries*"

Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 on X - "In this Guardian article, a new migrant to Australia complains she is not entitled to welfare.  In the same article she says she doesn’t want to give up foreign citizenship to obtain Australian citizenship: “We have ancestral property, houses, land. We’d have to give that up.”  Can someone explain how that’s Australia’s problem?   If you have “ancestral property, houses and land” in your home country, why should Australian taxpayers be expected to support you?   Maybe somebody can explain this to me."

Evangelical Dark Web on X - "Watching The Lion King with my kids and it's amazing how the first act of Scar's tyranny is to import a bunch of low IQ foreigners who ruin the Kingdom in a matter of years."

Andy Ngo on X - "“Go back to your country! You destroyed your county. You come to South Africa to destroy our country!” Protests against mass migration have been ongoing in South Africa. They want the Somalis, Pakistanis, and other Africans gone."

James on X - "Many African countries are facing serious challenges, especially with governance, but at least most have not been dumb enough to blame immigrants for those problems."
For A Marxism Without Guarantees on X - "Please be serious. Which Migrants are going to flock in South Sudan for better opportunities  for example 😭. People go where there are opportunities for them to survive.  The blaming of migrants is misdirected anger yes but don't act like people are going to all those countries which they are not. They are mostly going to south Africa. We need to interrogate that."
Jesus' Fave🙏🏽👑 on X - "Nigeria blamed Ghana for its problems during the Ghana Must Go era."
How ignorant. Don't they know they need to blame white people?

Dr Fred on X - "Dear Xenophobic South Africans 🇿🇦,  For those of you who foolishly think you don’t have your people in other countries, and that even if you do, they are all staying there legally,  On March 1, 2026,  63 South Africans were deported from Ireland to South Africa.  This operation was carried out by the Garda National Immigration Bureau.  10 (~16%) of the deportees were convicted of offences in Ireland.  This is how civilised countries handle illegal immigration.  The country doesn’t allow citizens to behave like animals, go around beating up anyone who doesn’t speak their language, loot their shops, and dehumanise them, as is happening in South Africa."
VuyeLwa on X - "Heyyyyi animeni! There’s no xenophobia here. No Afrophobia either! Why is everyone pretending to ignore simple facts? Our systems are all under pressure because of a large influx of immigrants, majority of whom are in the country illegally. It’s not sustainable!!"
What an idiot. Doesn't he know that white countries without open borders are fascist, authoritarian regimes?!

Paul on X - "🇮🇪🚨  The "South African" family that was deported from Ireland this year have been arrested in South Africa as they were Nigerians who illegally obtained SA passports 🇳🇬  These Nigerians scammers were plastered all over Irish media and used as a sob story by media & NGOs"

South Africa’s migrants begin exodus as vigilantes prepare for crackdown

Do Immigrants Import Their Economic Destiny? - "over the extremely long run, a good predictor of your nation’s current economic behavior is your nation’s ancestors’ past behavior. Exceptions exist, but so does the rule.  Recently, a small group of economists have found more systematic evidence on how the past predicts the present. Overall, they find that where your nation’s citizens come from matters a lot... There are three major long-run predictors of a nation’s current prosperity, which combine to make up a nation’s SAT score:
S: How long ago the nation’s ancestors lived under an organized state.
A: How long ago the nation’s ancestors began to use Neolithic agriculture techniques.
T: How much of the world’s available technology the nation’s ancestors were using in 1000 B.C., 0 B.C., or 1500 A.D...
 On average, nations with high migration-adjusted SAT scores are vastly richer than nations with lower SAT scores: Countries in the top 10% of migration-adjusted technology (T) in 1500 are typically at least 10 times richer than countries in the bottom 10%. If instead you mistakenly tried to predict a country’s income today based on who lived there in 1500, the relationship would only be about one-third that size. The migration adjustment matters crucially: Whether in the New World, across Southeast Asia, or in Southern Africa, one can do a better job predicting today’s prosperity when you keep track of who moved where. It looks like at least in the distant past, migrants shaped today’s prosperity...   Overall, the relationship between a nation’s percent population of Chinese descent in 1980 and current economic freedom is strongly positive. Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, the countries with the largest percentage of post-1500 Chinese immigrants, are the freest. Hong Kong, which had only a few thousand Chinese residents before the British arrival, is now the economically freest country in the world. Malaysia (a third of whose residents are of Chinese descent) and Thailand (10 percent) are next, and Malaysia is clearly the freer of the two. The remaining countries, Laos and Myanmar, are substantially less economically free than Singapore...   Economists have long known that some of the strongest statistical predictors of long-run national prosperity have been “percent Confucian” and “percent Buddhist.” A famed paper coauthored by Xavier Sala-i-Martin demonstrated that conclusively. It’s time for scholars to investigate whether, for most countries, a pro-Confucian migration policy is a good option... second-generation immigrants to the U.S. are more likely to favor income redistribution policies if they come from a country where the average citizen today also favors more redistribution. In this case, attitudes migrate, so heavy immigration from pro-redistribution cultures will tend to boost a nation’s number of pro-redistribution citizens decades later. More importantly, the same holds for trusting behavior... trusting attitudes migrate. And the link from trust to economic performance is well-accepted at this point: One famous paper, “Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff?” [Answer: Yes] is now routinely cited in economics textbooks. And why do low-trust societies generate worse economic performance? One reason is that low-trust individuals demand more government regulation...   One particular attitude has been well-studied in the migration literature: Strong family ties. This is often known as “amoral familism,” the view that you should help out your family, right or wrong. In comparative anthropology and sociology, it’s well known that cultures strong in amoral familism tend to be places where children live with their parents into adulthood, where corruption is common, and where identity is heavily shaped by one’s extended family...   At this point, it’s clear that attitudes migrate to a substantial degree, and at least in democracies, they’re likely to take those attitudes into the voting booth. There’s an old saying in the migration policy world, a line by Max Frisch: “We wanted workers, we got people instead.” It looks like that saying needs updating: “We wanted workers, we got voters instead.”... giving the vote to women really did change government in a more progressive, expansionist direction... Women did not quietly, meekly vote for whatever the men around them supported. They had their own minds, and those minds, when empowered by the vote, moved policy in a more progressive direction. And notice that the longer-run effect was twice the immediate effect: Expanding the franchise to a group that favored more government spending indeed increased government spending, but it took decades to see the full effect. In U.S. history, new voters have mattered.  And this is no one-off study: the policy impact of female suffrage has been studied extensively... “eliminating poll taxes raised welfare spending by 11 to 20 percent” among other findings, so once again, new voters made important progressive policy change a reality...        Government policies don’t radiate from subterranean mineral deposits: they are in large part the product of its voting citizens. And in the long run, new citizens lead to new policies."
Clearly, mass migration from poor countries with weak institutions and low human capital can only strengthen a first world country

Dr. Sydney Watson on X - "I find feminists today really fascinating.  They have long made this argument that "it's not all men, but it is always a man"  But, conveniently, that doesn't apply to immigrants - especially when we know a HUGE PORTION of these "asylum seeks" and "refugees" are fighting age men from countries that hate women.  Feminists use the analogy that, if you had a bowl of M&Ms and knew a few were poisoned, you wouldn't take the chance eating any. To them, this applies to men - most men might be fine, but you wouldn't chance finding out which ones are not.  But, again, all of this self-preservation dies when it comes to immigration.  All I can conclude is if these women acknowledged their cognitive dissonance, their brains would break. So, it's a lot easier to fight for the rights of invaders, and justify their violence and shittiness, rather than acknowledge that their ideology is broken and flawed.  I've said it a million times - the FEMINIST position is one that is anti mass immigration. It is one that protects women from the hundreds of thousands of foreign males who do not respect women, and believe we are lesser than.  It bothers me endlessly than these women are sowing the seeds of not only THEIR own destruction, but the destruction of the rest of us women as well.  And they're too arrogant and militant to see that."

Meme - Lauren Witzke @LaurenWitzk...: "Most third-world migrants can not assimilate into civil societies. Prove me wrong."
viet thanh nguyen @viet_t_nguyen: ""Third World" refugee here. I have a PhD in English and I won a Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. What have you done?"
A PhD in English and he still doesn't know what "most" means

Christian Heiens 🏛 on X - "The math behind this is actually really fascinating, and it explains why the Left has to rely so much on institutional capture and mass migration to remain alive.  The children of Liberals adopt their worldview 89% of the time, while Conservatives see their kids adopt theirs 81% of the time.   But this advantage on the Left is dwarfed by the fact that they’re essentially an anti-catalyst movement.   We know that women have kids at a higher rate than men across the board, but Conservative men have kids at a higher rate than even Liberal women.  This means that ~59% of Conservatives become parents, while just ~31% of Liberals do.  That’s almost a 2X fertility advantage.  And when you multiply those numbers by the ideological detainment rate on both sides, you see that:
59% x .81 = 47.8
31% x .89 = 27.6
So that rounds to a minimum of 48 Conservative-aligned children per 100 Conservative adults, compared to a minimum of just 28 Liberal-aligned children per 100 Liberal adults.  Conservatives are reproducing their worldview at ~70% higher rate per adult than liberals.   And this is a minimum estimate because all our math here assumes that both the Conservable and Liberal families had only one kid, but we know Conservatives on average have much larger families.  The Left can’t compete with this organically, so they have to essentially steal the children of Conservatives through the education and media system (which they’ve all ideologically hijacked) and import new voters who will make up for their own collapsing birthrates.  If you ended all immigration and dismantled their dominance over education, the Left would be extinct in 20 years."
See also: Islamo-leftism and Muslims reliably voting left wing

The Atlantic on X - "An Afghan asylum seeker hopes that “one day my children will live in a world that sees refugees not as a burden, but as human beings who survived the unimaginable.” George Packer tells her story:"
Holly Grayle on X - "We see you as a burden because you are in fact a burden. Afghans are one of the most welfare-dependent groups  in the West, and that's not even factoring in their disproportionate level of violent and/or sexual offending.   We'd all like to see you as something other than a burden too, but you need to actually stop BEING a burden first.   Afghans built a dysfunctional country and frankly, they should have to live in it."

QTCinderella on X - "I want everything that you want to happen to immigrants to happen to you ❤️"
Matt Morse on X - "I want them to live in their own country."
Naturally, she hid replies

Meme - ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 @kunley_drukpa: "You would think Singapore of all places would be safe from replacement migration dynamics but reports are that the Mainland Chinese migrants there are now displacing the older Singaporean Chinese and so ‘Chinese-ifying’ the country. Is it really just the same shit everywhere?"
hoeflator/滥交师傅 (Yishun Kampung mode) on X - "Singapore is undergoing The Great Replacement. Our supermajority is being usurped by PRCs that give little care for our unique microcosm of history and do naught to integrate or join the actual supermajority. We will eventually form two separate ethnic enclaves that will exist within the “Chinese” grouping but have very different values, cultural behaviors, and logos driving them. As our local Chinese refuse to breed due to the religion of fiat currency, we will be replaced. In 20 years we may hear nothing but PRC mandarin at a hawker centre.   I’m early, not wrong. I have drunk the water of life (108v charged filtered NEWater) and see the truth… the iron rice bowl has begun to fracture…"

A Salient Example of Hajj Amin el-Husseini’s Canonical Islamic Jew-Hatred—Introduction, Text, and Commentary (2/X)

Part 1

The end might be what people are referring to when they say the Grand Mufti declared Palestine a waqf in 1937.

A Salient Example of Hajj Amin el-Husseini’s Canonical Islamic Jew-Hatred—Introduction, Text, and Commentary (2/X)

"Proclamation of the Grand Mufti to the Islamic World in 1937 (Ed: here is an alternate translation of this text, Islam i Židovstvo [Islam and Judaism])

Since the earliest days of their history, the Jews have been an oppressed people and there must be good reason for that. As far back as the Egyptian pharaohs, energetic oppressive measures had to be taken against the Jews, because they were exploiting the Egyptian people and destroying general morale through usury and other crimes. Finally there was nothing left to do but banish the Jews from the land and, under the leadership of Moses, the Jews traveled through the Red Sea. As the recognized Arabic theologian, Tabari, relates, the Jews wanted to kill Moses when he returned from Mount Sinai. As punishment for this crime and for their apostasy, Allah caused them to wander in the desert for forty years. By means of this catharsis, the new generation which arose during this time would have had the possibility of stripping away the sins of their fathers and returning to the way of Allah. This new generation spread out across Mecca, Medina, Syria and Iraq—the lands where milk and honey flowed. But this generation was still worse than the previous one, as says the Arabic proverb: "A dog had a young one, but the young one was more like a dog than the one that created it."

That portion of the Jews which had come to Syria and Palestine were now under Roman rule. The Romans very quickly recognized the danger posed to the land by Jewry and therefore decreed sharp measures against the Jews. Added to this was the fact that a serious epidemic— the plague—broke out, which in general opinion had been brought in by the Jews. When the doctors, too, declared that the Jews were the epicenter of the disease—in which they were no doubt correct—such outrage arose among the people that many Jews were killed. This event is that reason that the Jews to this day are called "microbes." For that reason, the Arabs understand especially well when likewise energetic measures are undertaken in Germany against the Jews and they are driven off like mangy dogs. In any case, the Arabs are the injured party by that, since the Jews for the most part made their way from Germany to Palestine.

The Jewish scum from all lands came together there, to take the Arabs‘ land away. They have bought up land from the poorest of the poor and from conscienceless landowners; they have stolen bread from the mouths of poor widows, taken milk from children, to gorge themselves. They have not shied away from committing bloody murders. when Arabs resisted the Jewish immigration, and they deprived families of their providers and brought them to misery. "Allah will punish them for these shameful deeds!"

This battle of Jews against Arabs is nothing new; the venue has just changed over time. The Jews hate Muhammad and Islam and every person who wishes to improve his people and fights against Jewish greed and corruption. The battle between the Jews and Islam began when Muhammad fled from Mecca to Medina, where he created the foundation for the development of Islam. At that time, the Jews were great business people and noticed immediately that Muhammad‘s influence in spiritual as well as in business matters could become dangerous to them. So they developed an even greater hatred for Islam and this hatred increased more and more, the stronger and more powerful Islam became. They broke the treaty of Khaybar that had been agreed upon with Muhammad and their rage reached its height when the Koran showed their deepest spiritual feelings and revealed their unscrupulousness and lack of conscience, and made them generally known. And at that time the Jewish methods were already the same as today. Their weapon as ever was defamation, and so they tried to lower Muhammad in the eyes of his followers. They said he was a swindler, a magician, a liar. And when they did not achieve their ends that way, they tried to undermine Muhammad‘s honor by spreading the rumor that his wife Aisha had committed adultery. By spreading these rumors and reports, they wanted to sow doubt in the hearts of Muhammad‘s followers.

And when none of this worked, they tried to discredit Muhammad‘s teaching. To this purpose, several Jews converted to Islam, only to take up Judaism again the next day. When they were asked about this sudden change of feeling, they explained slyly that they had tried Islam with good intentions, but were forced to conclude that everything was a lie. The following words about this are in the Koran: "Many of the people of the Book wished they could make you unbelievers again, after you had become believers. The envy in their souls, after the truth had become clear to them." (Koran 2: 109)

When the Jews recognized the impossibility of achieving their ends by the means already attempted, they sought a new way and began to ask Muhammad senseless and unsolvable questions. By doing this, they wanted to show others that Muhammad was lacking in knowledge and wisdom. But with this method too, as before, they had no success. So they became convinced that Islam is firmly rooted in the hearts of Muslims and thereafter tried to eradicate the Muslims. They committed the cowardly crime of giving money to several non-Muslim Arabic tribes to fight against Muhammad. But almighty Allah wished it otherwise and with an iron fist struck down the rebellious tribes for Muhammad and conquered their city. The Jews could not bear this defeat and decided to destroy Muhammad and hired murderers for this purpose.

The Jews in Medina lived in the city district Banu Nadir and Muhammad had concluded a treaty with them after he had come to Medina. One day, he went to this district with ten companions in order to speak with the Jews and convert them to Islam. Muhammad showed the Jews the foundations of Islam and the Jews appeared interested and approachable, While Muhammad was in friendly conversation with some of the Jews, other Jews were preparing an attempt on his life. They convinced a man to throw a heavy stone at Muhammad‘s head. Muhammad would have been lost if a warning had not come from Allah. An inner voice warned him to leave the place, so the traitorous Jews could not carry out their plan. Muhammad sent one of this followers to the Jews to tell them that they were to leave the city within ten days. They had broken the treaty they had made with him by plotting to take his life. Every Jew still found in the city after ten days would be punished by death.

Now some of the Jews who had outwardly adopted Islam but were inwardly still Jews convinced the other Jews not to leave the city. Therefore, when the ten days had elapsed, Muhammad saw himself constrained to drive the Jews out by force...

The Jews who had fled to Khaybar did not admit defeat and resolved to avenge themselves on Muhammad. They turned to the other Jews in Khaybar as well as the Jews of Taima and Wadil el Kura with whom they fashioned a plot. With the help of much money, they incited the non- Muslim Arab tribes to attack Medina. When Muhammad learned of these plans, he quickly armed his people and marched against Khaybar, the center of the revolutionary plans. The Muslims conquered Khaybar, drove out most of the Jews, while Muhammad concluded a treaty with the remaining Jews and assured the peace. Only after this devastating blow could the Islamic realm develop peacefully. It is, however, no wonder, considering Jewish character, that the Jews did not give up their dark plans in spite of the agreed treaty, and tried by all means to destroy Muhammad. They invited Muhammad to a banquet and he accepted the invitation without suspicion. Splendidly roasted lamb was set before him, which was served him by Zaynab, the Jewess, the wife of Sallam b. Mishkam. There was talk about the treaty and the good understanding which now prevailed, and nothing was further from Muhammad‘s mind than to suspect treachery. Muhammad and his faithful follower Bishr b. al-Baraa each took a piece of the lamb, but Muhammad did not swallow his, because he noticed an odd flavor and said: "The bone tells me that the lamb is poisoned." Muhammad had Zaynab the Jewess summoned and asked whether this meat was in fact poisoned. She answered: "You know that I have a good reputation among the Jews, and I admit that I poisoned the lamb. I thought that, if you are only a king, I would be killing a king, but if you are a true prophet, you would know that the meat was poisoned."

Muhammad‘s companion died as a result of the poison. The little bit of poison that Muhammad had on his tongue became more and more noticeable, and there are historians who attribute his death to the effects of this poison...

The Muslims must think again and again of the meal of Khaybar. If the Jews could be so treacherous to Muhammad, how treacherous will they be to them.

The Jews now were convinced that Muhammad‘s person was protected against any attack, so they decided to sow dissension among the tribes, to break the power of Islam... A vengeful old Jew, Shas b. Qays, was one day with his friends passing through a square where there was a gathering of the reconciled tribes. He could not bear to see the two tribes which had had so many wars with each other so peacefully united, and he devised a devilish plan. He sent his friend, who was a connoisseur of the war literature of the earlier time and charged him to perform some of the old songs of hatred in their gathering. The Jew, an accomplished orator, went to the gathering and began to recite the battle songs of both tribes. He succeeded in finding one man in each tribe in whom the old hatred flared up. These two began fighting with each other and called their tribesmen to their weapons. An incalculable disaster would have occurred if Muhammad—as soon as he had report of the civil war—had not hurried to the place of battle...

The Koran has this to say about the Jew Shas b. Qays in this connection: "Oh, people of the Book, why do you hold back the one who believes from the path of Allah, when you yourselves are witnesses? But he will not overlook what you are doing." (Koran 3:99)...

In spite of all their efforts, the Jews never succeeded in sowing dissension among Muhammad's followers and leading them back to unbelief. Although the Jews must have realized the futility of their efforts, they tried repeatedly to carry out their devilish plans. And indeed this time they attempted by deception to bring Muhammad himself to apostasy. There was conflict between two Jewish tribes, and the one that was in the wrong had a meeting and sent their leaders to Muhammad. The Jewish leaders said to Muhammad: "You know that we are very influential men. If you judge in our favor in our quarrel with the other party, we will use our influence to assure that all Jews convert to Islam." Naturally, Muhammad rejected this request. In the Koran, this is said about it: "That you make your decisions according to that which Allah reveals and do not follow your own desires. Be cautious in their presence, so that they do not divert you from a part of what Allah reveals to you. If they turn away, know that Allah will surely strike them for some of their sins. Truly, many people are transgressors." (Koran 5:49)

Another example of the subversive activities of the Jews is passed on by Ibn Abbas. At the time when Muhammad went from Mecca to Medina, prayer was said in the direction of Jerusalem. This situation lasted only 17 months and then Muhammad received a divine revelation to change the direction of prayer for the future to Mecca, and since this time prayer is always said with the face turned toward Mecca...

When the Jews heard these verses, they became very angry and raised the idea with Muhammad of turning the direction of prayer back to Jerusalem. In this case, they promised that all Jews would accept Islam. Muhammad, however, did not allow himself to be diverted by this offer into offending against the divine command...

And yet another example of how the Jews did not shy away from stabbing Muhammad in the back at times of greatest danger. When Muhammad had won the battle of Badr, he sent a messenger to Medina on his own camel—because it was the fastest, in order to bring the news of victory. The Jews attempted to cause confusion in the Muslim ranks and to dishearten Muhammad‘s comrades-in-arms by spreading the false report that Muhammad had fallen in the battle. As proof of that, they offered the fact that Muhammad‘s camel had returned with a strange rider. When this plan too was unsuccessful, some of the Jews turned to Mecca and tried to incite Muhammad‘s enemies against him. They declared that they were prepared to support the Meccans against Muhammad with an army. When the heathen Meccans asked the Jews whether Muhammad's religion was good, since the Jews indeed had received a holy scripture before Muhammad, the Jews said: "You know that we are men of science. So believe us when we tell you that your religion is better."...

And it can be seen how this curse has come true. The Jews are scattered homeless across the entire world and nowhere do they find true help and support.

Further, there is a verse in the Koran which quite unmistakably characterizes the position of Islam and Judaism. It says, "You will certainly find that the Jews and the idolaters harbor the strongest hostility toward those who believe." (Koran 5: 82)

And this thought is even more strongly expressed in a statement of Muhammad: "It will never be possible to see a Jew and a Muslim together without the Jew having a secret intent to destroy the Muslim."

Abu Huraira passes on the following hadith: "The day of judgment will only come when the Muslims have dealt the Jews a crushing blow, when every stone and every tree behind which a Jew has hidden, speaks to the Muslim: ‗Behind me is a Jew. Strike him dead.‘ Only the tree Gharqad, a small shrub with sharp thorns, will not take part, for it is a Jewish tree."

The reason for the arguments made above is that the Jews are on the point of reaching out their hands toward the holy places which are sacred for each Muslim and each Christian. The Islamic world and the friends of Islam shall be shown how the Jews truly are in their innermost being. Usually, one only sees the Jews with the veneer of civilization, but the Arabs have learned best how they really are, that is, as they are described in the Koran and in the sacred scriptures. Then the agonies to which the Arabs in Palestine have been subjected can be understood. And one can imagine how these agonies will increase to the monstrous when the Jews have fully and completely laid their hands on Palestine."

I present to my Muslim brothers in the entire world the history and the true experience which the Jews cannot deny. The verses from the Koran and hadith prove to you that the Jews have been the bitterest enemies of Islam and continue to try to destroy it. Do not believe them. They know only hypocrisy and guile. Hold together, fight for Islamic thought, fight for your religion and your existence! Do not rest until your land is free of the Jews. Do not tolerate the plan of division, for Palestine has been an Arabic land for centuries and shall remain Arabic."

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