Links - 6th August 2026 (2 - Berlin Pride Islamist Attack)

Berlin Pride attack suspect shot and killed during police operation - "The man suspected of carrying out what authorities say was likely an "Islamist terror attack" at Berlin Pride has been shot and killed by police. Officers opened fire when Abdul Ballout, a 21-year-old German citizen with Lebanese heritage, rushed at them with a knife in Spandau, a western borough of Berlin... Police say following the ramming, several people were injured in a stabbing attack. Speaking to reporters on Sunday, German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said evidence pointed to it being an "Islamist terror attack"... he was sentenced to one year and 10 months in prison for "preparing a serious act of violence endangering the state". The decision was deferred for six months and he was placed under the supervision of a parole officer. He was previously convicted of assault and robbery in 2022, and of robbing a victim of headphones in 2020... Saturday's attack shattered the joy and revelry of Berlin's Christopher Street Day, where hundreds of thousands spill onto the city streets for one of Europe's most famous Pride events. Christopher Street Day commemorates the first known uprising among the LGBT community in New York City in 1969 at the Stonewall Inn, which is located on Christopher Street."
Damn German police, acting as judge, jury and executioner! Failure to comply is not a death sentencce!
This will only intensify Islamophobia. Germany needs to protect the Muslim community from backlash!

Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 on X - "Guys, the details of the latest jihadist attack in Europe are psychotic. Abdul Ballout was born in Berlin, but he left Germany for Lebanon. Germany identified him as an Islamist threat, so they had him arrested in Lebanon and FLEW HIM BACK TO GERMANY to put him on trial for plotting terror attacks. He was convicted and sentenced for terrorism offences in May 2026 but released on time served. By July 2026 he was back on the streets. German authorities told him to attend de-radicalisation counselling sessions. He responded by carrying out a jihadist terrorist attack on a pride parade."
Damn AfD! Time to lock up the "far right" to protect queer people

Police shoot dead Berlin Pride van and knife rampage suspect, officials say | Germany | The Guardian - "Before last year’s parade, Berlin LGBTQ+ organisations sounded the alarm that attacks had become more frequent while hard-won rights were under threat. Campaigners said a rise in hostility had accompanied the surge in support for the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), now the most popular party in national opinion polls, as well as an increase in Islamist-inspired attacks."

WerteInitiative. jüdisch-deutsche Positionen on X (Translated from German) - "For many years, both Federal President Steinmeier and the Federal Foreign Office have repeatedly distinguished themselves through a remarkable naivety toward radical Islam and its political regimes. It is now becoming apparent that organizations close to the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamism, according to the Federal Intelligence Service, have been funded with millions in German taxpayer money—a further piece of evidence for this problematic stance. We expect a clear commitment and clear messages from the Federal Government here, stating that it will no longer support this course going forward and that funding will only be granted according to strict criteria compliant with the free democratic basic order. It is precisely through radical and political Islam that Judaism is threatened today as never before. As German citizens, it is incomprehensible and irresponsible to us how this form of naivety or appeasement can be politically tolerated."

Andrew Hammel on X - "The Berlin attacker was sentenced to 13 months for attempting a terror attack but the judge converted it to probation. The prosecution's appeal against the probation was underway when the attack happened."
Jonatan Pallesen on X - "It is crazy how easy this tragedy was to avoid.
• Don't take all these Lebanese migrants -> avoided
• Deport him after first robbery sentence, or first assault sentence -> avoided
• Deport him for supporting Hezbollah -> avoided
• Deport him after attempting a previous terror attack(!) -> avoided
Instead what he got was probation and a useless deradicalization program. The mass immigrationist left have the blood of the victims on their hands."

Meme - *Colonel Sanders driving car "KFC 1" through crowd of terrified fleeing chickens in Queer garb*
"QUEER LIBERATION NOT OCCUPATION"
"LOVE NOT ZIONISM"
*Chicken with "Free Palestine" shirt and keffiyeh*
*Chicken with Palestine flag* *Pride flags*
*Chickens in drag, fishnet stockings, pride themed clothing running*

Meme - Kangmiin Lee: ">almost gets killed by Muslim migrant
>"don't blame Muslim migrants"
Liberal women have the survival instincts of a goldfish"
liz IS seeing ariana @lizilanteshit: "if you're blaming immigrants and/or muslims for the queerphobic attack in berlin rn and are calling for more deportations and stricter immigration laws: GENUINELY, FUCK YOU!!!!!"
liz IS seeing ariana @lizilanteshit: "i can't believe i barely just escaped an attack on queer people in berlin ... i feel sick. i hate this world"
Time to jail white straight cis men to keep queer people safe

HTH ✨🌏🏠 on X - "🚨WTF. At a vigil for the Berlin Pride parade victims, an LGBTQ+ speaker says she had hoped the attacker was "not an Arab-Muslim, but a White Christian person" These people are deranged."
Left wingers just hate white people and Christians

Meme - Owen Jones: "The answer to hate is not more hate. This was a heinous attack on Berlin's LGBTQ+ people by a suspected ISIS terrorist. For British LGBTQ+ people, it evokes memories of the far-right Soho nail bomber. Both attackers wanted to turn entire communities against each other."
Sky News: ""People are trying to divide our society and set some people against others. As the CSD in Berlin, we will not allow this." The organisers of Berlin Pride say yesterday's attack must not be used "for political ends"."
Of course Owen Jones managed to use this to bash the "far right" while not mentioning Islamism. Ironic he shared this image in praise then did what it said not to do. He's really a piece of work. But of course, we know that left wingers love to exploit tragedies for political ends if it pushes the left wing agenda

Meme - Basic Optimism: "On the morning of the Berlin Pride attack, Pride organisers warned gay people to fear the AfD. The same day, the Internationalist Queer Pride marched through the city claiming there can be no queer liberation without Palestinian liberation. At night, a suspected Islamist rammed a van into Berlin Pride, killing one woman and injuring 16."
WELT: ""The queer community is afraid," say the CSD organizers regarding the AfD's poll numbers. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected in Berlin on 'Saturday for Christopher Street Day. Organizers ore concerned about the AfD and increasing counter-protests."

Ali Utlu | Facebook (Translated) - "The queer community bears responsibility for the dead and the injured at the Berlin CSD. They systematically conceal the real danger for us LGB: Islamist violence and Muslim homophob

ia. Instead, they always look for blame only with "right-wing" and organize demos against phantom enemies. Today, it's again "against the right". We LGB pay the price for your lies. #GayNotQueer #CSDBerlin"

Islamist Attacks Berlin Pride Parade - "An incident involving several arrests occurred during a left-wing demonstration on the sidelines of Christopher Street Day (CSD) in Berlin. Police reported on the X platform that, despite several discussions with the org

anizers, “prohibited slogans were repeatedly shouted” during the march in the Gesundbrunnen and Wedding districts. A spokesperson specifically mentioned the slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” According to the police, hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators were present, particularly at the front of the march.
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The march reached Leopoldplatz and, according to police, was ended by the organizers shortly before reaching its final destination. There, officers arrested a former participant. He is alleged to have attempted to strike officers with a flagpole during the march. In total, police arrested nine people in connection with the march. They initiated criminal proceedings for offenses including violent crimes and propaganda. According to the spokesperson, around 7,000 people participated in the demonstration. Titled “Internationalist Queer Pride,” it was intended to protest capitalism and colonialism."
Left wingers will never learn

Meme - Woman with light blue hair and horn rimmed glasses stretching arms out: "DIVERSITY Is ouR STRENGTH!" *man with face covered with keffiyeh* *human pup*
*Man with face covered with keffiyeh runs over human pup with white van, screaming 'Allahu Akbar!!', with EU, German and Pride flags flying*
Woman with light blue hair and horn rimmed glasses and blood on face: "DAMN STRAIGHT WHITE MEN"

Matthias Schmidt on X - "I was at Berlin Pride yesterday where I witnessed a horrible terrorist attack. A car drove into a group of LGBT people celebrating being homosexual. Police immediately started questioning witnesses. Suddenly, I hear a white male next to me “I saw him. He was a young, tall Arab man”. I stepped in immediately. “Stop this racist nonsense” I shouted. “Sir, step aside. He killed people, we need to find him now” policeman said. “By racial profiling and fueling hatred in our country, and Europe?” I replied. He put his head down and moved onto another witness. Of course we must strive for justice. But a racist society is a greater threat than any terrorist attack"

Berlin's 'queer commissioner' condemns Pride attack as 'conservative' violence - "The government-appointed head of LGBT issues in Berlin is joining the chorus of accusations from the German left-wing that last week’s Islamic attack on a Pride parade was fundamentally fueled by “conservative” resentment. Alfonso Pantisano, the “queer commissioner” for the state, acknowledged that the attacks were Islamist in nature but deflected the blame to the Christian Democratic Union and other conservative movements he claims fail to address “queerphobia” in Germany. “The far Right here in Germany is of course waiting for an attack like this one to use it in order to highlight that the foreigners are the problem,” Pantisano said in an interview with Democracy Now! on Tuesday. “But by doing so, they completely forget and avoid looking at how much queerphobia there is in this country at all various levels of structures — at schools, in the workplace, at churches, on the streets, in sports, and in so many other places.” The queer commissioner admitted that those “far-right” forces “might not come out onto the streets with a van and kill us in a big, huge group like this attack could have done,” but asserted that they are a part of the general opposition to LGBT lifestyles... Just days before the attack, Pantisano had said in an interview with Abendschau that “right-wing extremists and neo-Nazis” remain the biggest threat to LGBT citizens. He was asked if he stood by those comments in a follow-up interview the day after the attack and affirmed that he did “because by ‘conservative forces’ I also include all religious groups that all have a problem with us, and Islamists belong to that.” Ronald Glaser, a member of the Bundestag affiliated with the right-wing Alternative for Germany party, told the Washington Examiner that Pantisano “should be fired” and said that conservatives in Germany have “long complained that individuals like Abdul Ballout — and their families — were able to immigrate and obtain citizenship without hinderance.” “There is no common ground between German conservatives and second-generation immigrant Islamists,” Glaser said. “Anyone who argues like [Pantisano] is deluding themself. He refuses to acknowledge the problems associated with the mass illegal immigration of recent decades and lashes out at those who point out these issues — instead of facing up to them.” Pantisano is not the only political actor placing the blame for the attack on conservatives. The Berlin branch office of far-left party Die Linke made a similar claim, as did the Neukolln district branch of the Berlin Left Party. “With the rise of the right wing and antifeminist forces, queerphobia and transphobia are also increasing massively,” a statement posted to the Left Party’s Instagram on Sunday said. “The targeted dissemination of queerphobic and transphobic ideology by right-wing and conservative actors paves the way for attacks like yesterday’s.” Christian Buchholz, a former member of the Berlin Parliament who is running again as an AfD candidate in September, told the Washington Examiner: “When reality encounters leftist ideology (like Alfonso Pantisano, a spearhead of leftist ideology), the reality loses and the ideology wins.” AfD officials have been accusing the CDU, the center-right party that has refused to cooperate with them and accused them of being extremist, of now aping their policies. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is floating the idea of revoking citizenship for dual nationals who are convicted of terrorism-related offenses, saying on July 26 that “these criminals, these extremists, have no place in the heart of our society.” “Suddenly the union also wants to strip Islamists of their citizenship,” AfD leader Alice Weidel said on Tuesday. “After the CSD attack, CDU […] is adopting AfD demands that they had just recently demonized. Only an AfD government would back up the words with actions!”"
In Western countries, it's worse to be "racist" than to kill someone

Facebook - "Berlin Pride and the Allah-phant in the room. Berlin Pride featured a sea of Palestine flags, condemnation of the anti-Islamist AfD party, and calls for tolerance and acceptance of Muslim migrants. Then a pro-Palestine Islamist migrant drove into the crowd and got out, attacking people with a machete. One dead, 29 injured. The response will surprise nobody. Leftists condemned conservative white men - who weren't anywhere near the area - and said they "wished the attacker had been a white man". Left-wing politicians ignored the Allah-phant in the room, pretending that the attack was just the result of some generic ill-defined "homophobia". I'm sick of being called a bigot for trying to stop people destroying themselves with mass immigration and Islamism. I'm now happy to watch them do it. If Islamism isn't a problem, then I don't want security services to police Islamist threats for anyone who thinks Islamism isn't a problem. I want all Western events that wave Palestinian flags and celebrate Islamism to offer free entry to Islamists. Glastonbury, Kneecap concerts, the Green Party Conference - enjoy your enrichment guys, I'll grab some popcorn and watch the live stream."
I like how left wingers warn against "division" and blaming "groups" - then immediately blame Christians, conservatives and right wingers

Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 on X - "The organisers of Berlin Pride say yesterday's attack must not be used "for political ends". But the jihadist who attacked the event did it for political ends - his goal was to massively raise the cost of all non-Islamic mass events in Europe, including Pride events If you respond to political attacks by refusing to acknowledge their political intent, you are doomed to endlessly repeat the cycle forever"

Meme - Payton Alexander @Alexand...: "Gay men will be the most right wing demographic in the west within 10 years. Just keep doing this. Ill take a million people who don't want me to get married over one psychopath who wants to run me over with a car."
Joseph Jones @JoeGayHistorian: "I would imagine that support from gay men for parties that lean right - already sizable among German gay men - will only increase following this horrific event."
Katy Faust: "The irony here is rich. Progressives spent years celebrating (and voting for) the ideology most likely to run you over with a car or toss you from a building if you're gay, while treating the people who just don't want marriage redefined as people who need to be violently attacked. Preferring the ones who won't kill you is basic self-preservation. But still ... zero mention of the child. "A million people who don't want me to get married" is one way to put it. Another way: a million people who think a child might want their mother."
Of course left wingers elsewhere were slamming her

Dr. Maalouf ‏ on X - "There are 2,750 mosques in Germany. Not a single one has condemned the Islamic terrorist attack at the Berlin Pride parade."

Germany: Berlin Pride killer Abdul Ballout attended 3-day deradicalization course ‘run by progressive white women’ - "Deradicalization programs have a solid track record of failure. Jihadists are violent criminals, but violent criminals are not necessarily jihadists. Prison reform in the West is geared toward Western culture, not that of the Sharia. The most violent criminals in western countries who are not jihadists know they did something wrong, despite whatever psychological profile that may have impacted them. Jihadists, on the other hand, deeply believe they are doing a good deed. Murdering an infidel is the highest calling in Islam, even elevating the jihadist to “martyrdom” if he dies in the way of jihad. No infidel could possibly reverse that belief in a deradicalization program that the jihadist was forced to attend in an infidel system. As for the progressive women identified below to be running the program in Germany: Bleeding hearts think they’re extending kindness and help to the poor, beleaguered immigrants who land on their doorstep. Their suicidal empathy gives them a twisted sense of personal value. It’s a similar mindset to that of the LGBTQ+ community, which supports open-door immigration from Muslim countries, despite the hatred and severe penalties for gays in these same countries. Also, the LBBTQ+ community overwhelmingly supports the Palestinian “resistance” collectively when they’re only safe in Israel, particularly among the Jewish population."

GB News didn’t cause the Berlin terror attack - spiked - "far too many in Europe’s political class refuse to attribute the attack to its Islamist perpetrator. For them, the ‘real’ culprits are populist political parties, commentators and critics of all things woke. In Britain, Labour MP Kate Osborne has tried to pin the blame for the attack in Berlin on Reform UK and GB News. She claims that the likes of Nigel Farage and Patrick Christys have used ‘language that attacks and vilifies the LGBTQ+ community’, and that this ‘escalation of hate against gay people’ has now become a ‘catalyst for real-world physical violence’. It was this, apparently, that caused Ballout to drive a white van into a crowded gay-pride parade. Other responses to the attack – which killed one woman and injured 29 others – were equally dishonest in seeking to obscure Ballout’s Islamist motivation. Speaking at the scene of the attack, German chancellor Friedrich Merz blamed ‘intolerance, exclusion, discrimination, stupid remarks, bad jokes’. His words were vague but the implication was obvious. He was blaming anyone critical of the modern LGBTQ+ movement, or anyone critical of ‘diversity’. One of the more remarkable comments was made by a speaker at a vigil for the attack. The LGBT activist said she hoped the attacker was ‘a white Christian person’. She was seemingly more worried about the perpetrator’s identity causing a ‘backlash’ against Muslims than she was about tackling the Islamist roots of yet another terror attack on German soil. No doubt, there was a similar reasoning at work when one of the organisers at Berlin Pride said the attack must not be used for ‘political ends’. All of these responses willfully hide what we know about the suspect"

The Greens’ progressive-Islamist alliance is doomed to fail - "One of the most typical British political responses to the Islamist attack on Berlin’s Gay Pride event on Saturday has been the refusal to call it that. Sir Chris Bryant, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, has for example been busy on social media refusing to label the main suspect, Abdul Ballout, as an Islamist. “What ideology committed this crime? Be honest now?” he was asked. Bryant replied: “Hatred.” A newspaper reported that “a car ploughed through a park during Berlin’s biggest LGBT Pride event, killing at least one person and injuring more than a dozen others”. Who knew that cars had agency? Not for the Germans, this beating around the bush... The Berlin attack should act as a terrible warning to the likes of Polanski of the fundamental incompatibility between LGBT-embracing progressives and the Islamists with whom they are making common cause. It won’t, because they are too far down their Red-Green rabbit hole. Within the Greens, the “Global Majority Greens” faction – whose treasurer Mothin Ali is also a deputy leader of the party – has attacked Polanski for a “hierarchy of racism” for treating anti-Semitism complaints seriously (an irony given how Polanski has himself downplayed the seriousness of the threat to British Jews as merely a “perception”)."

DEI Fraud and Cover-Up at Cambridge

Academics questioning another academic's work is bullying and harassment. At least when that academic is black. A good reminder that when left wingers complain about "bullying" and/or "harassment", they can't be taken seriously.

DEI Fraud and Cover-Up at Cambridge

"“Wouldn’t it be the most ridiculous story ever told, if the boy who couldn’t read and write at 18 gets a PhD before he’s 30?”

Those are the words of Jason Arday—the 2002 Professorial Chair in the Sociology of Education at Cambridge University. Indeed, the story of his metamorphosis from arguably the most disadvantaged person in the UK to elite scholar-athlete-philanthropist would make even Walt Disney raise an eyebrow.

Born to Ghanaian parents, Arday grew up on a council estate (the British equivalent of Section 8 housing) in south London. At age three he was diagnosed with global development delay and autism. Therapists said he would be confined to an assisted living facility. Miraculously, at 11 years old, he spoke his first word (“hello”). When he was 18, he learned to read and write.

Under the influence of a white high school teacher who “gave [him] agency,” Arday pursued higher education. After receiving a PhD from Liverpool John Moores University, he rocketed up the academic ladder as a scholar of racism, education, and inequality. In three years he went from senior lecturer at Roehampton (2018) to associate professor at Durham (2019) to professor at Glasgow (2021). Ivy League universities (plural) tried to recruit him, but he had his heart set on Oxford or Cambridge. In 2023, at age 37, he became the youngest black full professor in the history of Cambridge. He is one of the youngest people of any race to ever hold a chair professorship at Oxbridge.

In his spare time, Arday ran 30 marathons in 35 days and 300 miles in three days.

As of 2023, he had worked with “more than 70” charities and raised more than £5 million.

Up until his appointment at Cambridge, Arday continued to face unspecified hardships. As reported by the Guardian in 2023, despite previously being a professor at Durham and Glasgow, “He has barely slept over the past 15 years..., working through most nights—often on his academic and charity work, but sometimes just to make ends meet.”

He has received “hundreds of thousands of letters and emails” from fans “all over the world.” This indicates a level of fame comparable to an upper-middle-tier household name celebrity.

But how much of “the most ridiculous story ever told” is true?

I was recently contacted by a faculty member at Cambridge (whose name I will not reveal) who alleges that Arday is a plagiarist and fabulist. My source claims that many if not most professors at Cambridge have known about this for more than a year. However, Arday and/or Cambridge’s administration are using intimidation and legal threats to squelch the story. As far as I am aware, the only mention of Arday’s alleged plagiarism that exists in the public domain is on the personal website of retired Plymouth Marjon University professor Dave Harris...

Developing normal speaking abilities after being nonverbal until age 11 is medically improbable.

Arday has repeatedly made unequivocal assertions that he could not read, write, or even spell his own name until he was 18. But he left secondary school with General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) qualifications in Physical Education and Textiles. Despite being in vocational subjects, these tests require literacy, and they are normally taken at age 15 or 16. Based on publicly available information, it is possible to recreate a timeline that places Arday’s test date before age 18. It is conceivable that he received “special arrangements” to allow him to take the test with help from a reader and scribe. However, a write-up of his forthcoming memoir says that he “left secondary school with two GCSEs to his name, still barely able to read or write.” So he may be backing away from his original story.

30 marathons in 35 days and 300 miles in three days are feats of dubious believability. Wikipedia lists running 50 marathons in 50 days as one of the highlights of professional ultramarathon runner Dean Karnazes’s career. 30 in 35 days is possible for an amateur, but only with intensive training and planning. 300 miles in three days is an even bigger stretch. For comparison, Yiannis Kouros, who has been described as “the greatest ultrarunner of all time,” set a world record in 1984 when he ran 359 miles in three days. Arday asserts that he was able to do all this because “If you have the will, it will always supersede skill”—a proposition that anyone with experience in athletics knows to be false...

Arday routinely passes off the words and ideas of others as his own. If one removes the apparently plagiarized material from his record, there is little or no real scholarship...

I ran Arday’s 2015 PhD dissertation through the plagiarism-detection program Copyleaks. It found substantial overlap with previously published work, particularly a dissertation submitted by Paula Zwozdiak-Myers in 2009. (Zwozdiak-Myers received her degree from Brunel University London, where she is currently a Reader in Education.) The chart below compares passages from Arday (2015) and Zwozdiak-Myers (2009). From literally the first page of the Introduction to his dissertation (which starts on page 17 of the manuscript), Arday relies heavily on Zwozdiak-Myers for key ideas and arguments. Many passages are lifted with minimal editing, sometimes retaining copy-editing mistakes from the original source...

Dave Harris is a retired Professor of Leisure and Education at Plymouth Marjon University. He hosts a website that provides free teaching materials.

Harris writes that he first read Arday’s work with the intention of summarizing the arguments to make them accessible. However, what he euphemistically refers to as “oddities” were “so frequent that they dominated [his] reading.” Harris emailed Arday, pointing out examples and asking if he could provide clarification.

Arday replied to Harris as follows: “Please do not email me again. Should you have the time to spare, I invite you to direct your resources elsewhere. Anything further from you will be considered bullying and harassment.”

After Harris and his colleague prodded several journal editors and administrators at Cambridge, two journals issued corrections to Arday’s publications...

The note appears to acknowledge that Arday’s entire paper is a work of plagiarism...

The editorial note appears to treat plagiarism as an issue of missing references.

How much of Arday’s work is like this?

On his Cambridge University faculty webpage, Arday lists 10 publications under the heading “Principal and Recent Publications.” Entries range from the year 2018 (the year he published his first paper) to 2023 (the year he moved to Cambridge). These are apparently the publications that he believes represent his best work, in recognition of which he was awarded a chair professorship at Cambridge. I will go through the papers one by one...

Arday highlights 10 papers as representing his most important work. The chart below indicates for each paper whether it (a) contains plagiarism, (b) fails to employ scholarly methods, and/or (c) was not actually written by Arday. 

When you take away the work that is plagiarized or not otherwise written by Arday, there is essentially nothing resembling real scholarship. There is no indication that Arday is familiar with even elementary statistics. His research involves reporting his own experiences of alleged racism or having conversations with people and providing subjective commentary.

Jason Arday was hired by Cambridge explicitly to advance the cause of racial diversity. When he joined the university in 2023, the official announcement included the following quote by Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education Bhaskar Vira...

(Readers of this Newsletter may remember Vira as one of the administrators who tried to get me fired from Cambridge in 2024 for writing about race and affirmative action.)

The head of the Faculty of Education, Hilary Cremin, told the Times of London that “hiring Arday was proof of the university’s commitment to tackling existing inequalities.”...

Arday stated that he was coming to Cambridge to “open doors” to members of underrepresented groups...

In other words, hiring Arday was an overtly political act. Everyone involved—including Arday himself—understood that he was being recruited to promote the ideology of DEI and increase the representation of certain groups.

You can imagine how Vira, Cremin, and others felt when in June 2023 they received an email from Dave Harris’s colleague alerting them to Arday’s alleged plagiarism. If hiring Arday was “proof of the university’s commitment to tackling existing inequalities,” what would it prove if the university placed him under investigation, let alone held him accountable if it turns out he engaged in wrongdoing?...

From the perspective of the university (represented by Rhys Morgan), any pre-2023 plagiarism was irrelevant. It is difficult to understand this position. Arday was hired on the basis of his work. Surely the university would wish to know whether or how much of this work was fraudulent.

For the Faculty of Education (represented by Hilary Cremin), it was enough for Arday to state that he experienced “direct and indirect racism” and “health issues” to absolve him of responsibility. I sympathize with Arday for his health problems. However, it is unclear how illness or alleged racism can explain why he stole other people’s work. And if he committed plagiarism in 2018, wouldn’t the Faculty want to know whether or not it was a one-off? Yet, with no real investigation into the facts, Cremin declared that “he has our full support.”

I have heard from multiple sources that Arday and/or the university have sicced the law firm Carter-Ruck on journalists or academics who raised questions about Arday. In any case, there are obvious questions about Arday’s work and life story. The fact that literally no one at Cambridge has spoken about this publicly suggests that, at the very least, the administration has created an atmosphere of intimidation where people are afraid to express controversial ideas...

There are more than a thousand black people in the UK with IQs over 140 who would be capable of doing serious work in the sociology of education. If Cambridge administrators wanted a black professor to serve as a role model for underrepresented minorities, they could have found someone qualified. Instead, they grabbed a random black person with an unvetted fairytale backstory and almost nothing that even resembles genuine scholarship. When evidence of the black person’s long history of plagiarism is brought to their attention, they excuse it on the basis that he was the victim of “direct and indirect racism.” In their view, he cannot be asked to follow the same rules that we expect schoolchildren to understand. I know it sounds silly to say that “leftists are the real racists.” But by hiring Jason Arday and refusing to investigate credible accusations against him, isn’t Cambridge making a statement that the only way to have black professors is to abandon all standards?

There is a conflict between what universities such as Cambridge call “DEI” and something else that they claim to value, namely, free speech. DEI demands that we accept the fiction that people like Jason Arday, who are hired because they tick certain identity and ideology boxes, are just as qualified as scholars selected on the basis of academic merit. But if people are allowed to speak freely, they might point out that this is false. The Cambridge administration resolves the dilemma by siding with DEI against free speech. Faculty know what is likely to happen to them if they speak about the Arday situation. That is why the administration has been able to bury the story for three years.

The upshot is that we lose both free speech and equality. Equality means treating people the same without regard to immutable characteristics like race, and that is not what is happening at Cambridge."

 

 

Links - 6th August 2026 (1 - Left Wing Economics: Canada)

Marc Nixon on X - "The Liberals keep bragging about 88,000 jobs.  Here's the part they don't want you looking at.  Statistics Canada hired roughly 32,000 temporary census workers.  Public sector employment jumped.  Infrastructure spending funded by taxpayers boosted construction hiring.  FIFA-related activity boosted temporary employment.  Temporary jobs increased nearly 3x faster than permanent jobs.  In other words, the headline says "88,000 jobs."  The fine print says "temporary, taxpayer-funded, and seasonal."  There's nothing wrong with temporary work.  But when temporary jobs become the main engine of growth, that's not an economic boom.  That's economic life support."

Four in 10 Canadian manufacturers shifting production to U.S.: survey | National Post - "A third (32 per cent) of respondents reported “higher margins when producing and selling within the U.S. than when exporting from Canada” and slightly more still (35 per cent) attested to “stronger margins on international sales from the U.S.”  Outside of the tariffs, other reasons firms are choosing to migrate south are lower operating costs in some states, a more favourable tax environment and easier supply chains if their customers are already in the U.S. Asked what would make them stay, the owners, corporate executives and decision makers of 275 companies polled said certainty around free trade, continued tariff relief, lower corporate taxes, cheaper energy, better access to skilled workers and lower housing costs for workers."
Time to blame the US for left wing policies destroying the Canadian economy

Melissa Lantsman on X - "This should dominate the news: Hiking the industrial carbon tax 19% while Ontario auto shrinks is like raising rent on a building the tenants have already vacated. No EU deal. 5 quarters of falling investment. 40% of manufacturing firms eyeing a move to the US. Ford's plant hasn't shipped a vehicle in 2 years. GM & Stellantis keep cutting.   Slow. Quiet. Inevitable. And preventable. Still no deal. No news. No update."

Ottawa signals big spending to lead to growth, but also deficits | National Post - "The federal government plans to pay for its recent big-ticket spending through a combination of economic growth, Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne said Monday, but signalled that there are plans to take on more debt.  Prior to officially kicking off the government’s pre-budget consultations this year, Champagne told reporters in Ottawa that the government is “investing” in the Canadian economy to ensure various new spending items can be justified. He also repeated his argument from recent months that Canada has the strongest fiscal position in the G7, implying that increased deficit spending is affordable...  Economists have remained skeptical that the government’s long-term investments will produce short-term gains, and that high-cost projects will be paid for through any means other than increased borrowing.  Champagne also cited the benefits of removing interprovincial free trade barriers and strategic defence procurement that improve innovation as ways to boost growth. “We’ll do that in a very smart way.”  Though the federal government has already removed the bulk of Ottawa’s barriers to interprovincial trade, the heavy lifting remains with the provinces and territories to remove their barriers, most of whom have been reluctant for decades to do so.  And while analysts agree that defence procurement can be done in a way to maximize benefit to the country that is making a major purchase, they say there is little chance of recouping close to the entire expenditure in the short term.  Don Drummond, formerly TD Bank’s chief economist and before that a high-ranking official at the Department of Finance, has said that the government seems to be resting its projections on optimistic forecasts for economic growth and labour productivity. With a range of threats on the horizon, such as rising American tariffs, Drummond said Canada could be making itself vulnerable, as was the case from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s, when governments continued to assume that stronger growth was just around the corner...  While Ottawa has been amassing large piles of debt for more than half a century, it’s taken the habit to new levels over the last few years. The federal government has now accumulated $1.27 trillion in total debt, almost half of which has been added over the last five years.  Those figures do not include much of the government’s planned or announced spending for a wide range of expensive projects, including the announcement Monday of a builder for a new fleet of submarines, which are estimate to cost $80 billion. That added to the list of other big-ticket items that Ottawa has already promised...  Although Champagne didn’t mention it Monday, the government has also tried to trim spending, although it will not be nearly enough to pay for the new bills. Last year’s budget proposed cutting the federal bureaucracy by about 40,000 jobs through attrition and targeted pink slips. But that only goes part of the way to undoing the dramatic 42 per cent increase of about 110,000 in public service employees between 2015 and 2025."

Regulatory Accumulation, Business Dynamism and Economic Growth in Canada - "Despite their good intent, regulations and their accumulation over time impose real costs to businesses and may have a negative impact on economic growth and competitiveness. Accurately measuring these costs and benefits is important for understanding if regulations are achieving their desired results. This paper uses a new, modelled, measure of regulatory burden developed by KPMG and Transport Canada to inform about the possible overall impact of the changing number of regulations faced by firms on Canadian economic activity. Measuring regulatory burden is complex, and there is not a consensus on the best approach. The novel Transport Canada – KPMG measure is based on counting the number of regulatory provisions in Federal legislation and is one of several aggregate measures of regulatory burden available. It shows that regulatory requirements in Canada rose 2.1% per year from 2006 to 2021. A measure from the US based Mercatus Center that is not as broadly defined showed an increase in the number of provisions rising 1.1% per year over the same period while the OECD measure of product market regulation (PMR) that tracks the stringency, rather than the number, of regulations declined. Using the newly developed Transport Canada – KPMG measure, regression estimates show that regulatory accumulation from 2006 to 2021 is associated with a decline in gross domestic product (GDP) growth by 1.7 percentage points and reduced employment growth by 1.3 percentage points in the business sector. A smaller decline on labour productivity of 0.4 percentage points was also estimated. The business sector investment growth was lowered by an estimated 9.0% (with the effect being bigger for small firms than for large firms) for the period 2006 to 2021 and that regulatory accumulation is associated with lower business entry and exit rates. Understanding economy wide costs and benefits from regulations is challenging. The results of the study provide a first indication for Canada of the estimated impacts of the changing number of regulations over time on businesses. While the results of the study point to potentially important costs for the economy, it is not meant to reflect a full economic assessment of the benefits of regulations nor economic impacts associated with not introducing regulations."
Time for more regulation to boost the economy!

Just how much trouble is Canada's economy in?
Left wingers still insist it's doing great, but dismissing the BBC won't be as easy as dissing non-left wing news sources

James E. Thorne on X - "Canada: Crying Over Spilt Milk in a Self‑Inflicted Stagnation
Canada’s elite have spent a quarter‑century turning a rich, opportunity‑dense economy into a slow‑growth, over‑levered cul‑de‑sac, and they still insist nothing is structurally wrong. There is no sense crying over spilt milk about past mistakes when the architects of this stagnation are still in charge and still in denial.  Canada did not just drift into secular stagnation; it embraced a kind of virtue socialism and an industrial policy anchored on climate change targets rather than productive capacity, competitiveness, or growth. An economy built on world‑class natural resources, strategic geography, and human capital has been deliberately downgraded into a housing‑addicted, low‑productivity balance sheet recession risk, and the people who did it still show up on panels calling this “resilience.”  For years, Canada’s comparative advantages in energy, resources, and industrial capacity were something to apologize for, regulate to death, or tax into oblivion, while policy and capital chased the illusion that you could mortgage and virtue‑signal your way to prosperity. The result is a country flirting with a liquidity trap, where even lower rates may barely move a real economy suffocated by over‑priced assets, under‑built productive capital, and households too damaged to borrow again.  The real scandal is not that Canada faces secular stagnation; it is that the elite engineered it, denied it, wrapped it in climate rhetoric, and now blame external shocks while the data scream that this is a made‑in‑Canada crisis.   To be clear, Canada’s problems are not the result of President Trump!  If Canada’s elite will not finally admit that decades of attacking its own strengths, worshipping its own bubbles, and treating industrial policy as a morality play have left the country one downturn away from a full balance sheet recession, then they are not guardians of the national interest, they are custodians of decline, and at this point, there really is no sense crying over spilt milk, only over the refusal to fix the mess they made."
Of course, left wingers are very upset that Carney isn't destroying the country as fast as Trudeau was and are still blaming Trump

T.D. Leaker on X - "(The 🍓🍓🍓🤣 at the end)…  Karen earns $995 today.  Before she sees a penny, roughly $533 disappears in marginal federal and provincial income tax.  She fills her tank. Another $15.75 in fuel taxes and HST.  She buys a pack of cigarettes. About $10 goes to taxes.  A $20 bottle of wine to take the edge off? Another $3+ in taxes and levies.  Dinner? $3.90 in HST.  Every single month she quietly pays HST on her phone, internet and streaming services. She pays $6,000 a year in property tax just to continue living in a home she already bought with after-tax income. Part of every insurance premium is insurance premium tax. Hidden in almost everything she buys are corporate taxes, commercial property taxes, development charges, licensing fees and tariffs that businesses simply pass along in the price.  She books a vacation. Airport Improvement Fees. Security charges. More taxes.  She invests what’s left. If it grows, she pays capital gains tax. If it pays dividends, she pays dividend tax.  Then one day Karen dies.  Her family discovers there isn’t technically a “death tax” in Canada—but her estate is treated as though she sold almost everything the moment she died. Capital gains become taxable, final income tax is due, and in Ontario her estate pays probate fees before her family receives what’s left.  Karen’s money was taxed when she earned it, taxed while she spent it, taxed while she invested it, taxed while she owned things, and taxed one final time when she died.  But don’t worry.  Karen refuses to buy American strawberries because she’s bravely protesting the tariffs the U.S. charges on their imports.  After paying roughly $687 in taxes and government fees on a $995 workday, she’s finally taking a stand against someone else’s tax policy. 🇨🇦💪"

Adams on X - "JUST IN🚨: SpaceX is now worth more than Canada."
Gad Saad on X - "There you go. The United States is built on a limitless ethos of entrepreneurship, innovation, and excellence. Canada is built on feminized and "empathetic" parasitic taxation fuelled by envy and resentment toward those who produce."

How the Liberals’ multibillion-dollar tech plan created ‘chaos’ instead of growth - The Globe and Mail - "Canada has been the worst performing advanced economy in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development since 1976. Governments of all partisan stripes have tried and failed to reverse the trend. If nothing changes, the OECD projects, our economic growth per capita will continue to stagnate for decades to come...  the federal government invited 40 industry groups to weigh in on its latest big-ticket plan to support Canadian innovation. It was a $1-billion agency announced in the spring budget that would stimulate businesses to spend more on research and development and deliver innovation-led growth.  During five roundtable meetings around the end of August, officials with the Innovation, Science and Economic Development department (ISED) asked participants how they thought the proposed Canadian Innovation and Investment Agency (CIIA) could most effectively help businesses increase R&D spending and overcome challenges to growth.  Each invitee got about three minutes to speak. Many left unimpressed, according to representatives of six attending organizations who spoke to The Globe and Mail afterward.  Several believed ISED had already settled on what the CIIA should look like. To them, the agency didn’t sound any more potentially effective in delivering economic impact than initiatives that had come before... The consensus among many participants was that, after seven years in power and committing billions to supercluster programs and other initiatives including strategies for sectors such as artificial intelligence (AI), Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government had little to show for its efforts to unleash the economic potential of Canadian ingenuity. The new $1-billion agency wouldn’t change that, they felt. “I wasn’t overwhelmed at all by what they were saying,” says attendee Michele Lajeunesse, senior vice-president, government relations and policy with the Information Technology Association of Canada, known as Technation. “I’m not sure why we need yet another agency when money is already being spent in ways that could be better spent. How is this going to differ in terms of its effectiveness? Others haven’t been so effective.” Eye-rolls now greet mentions of the word “innovation” by Ottawa, after years of politicians throwing it around as a buzzword... There are so many innovation programs and agencies that “with everything that’s been announced, it’s impossible to come up with a word other than ‘chaos,’” said Robert Asselin, who was budget director for then Liberal finance minister Bill Morneau, and is now senior vice-president of policy with the Business Council of Canada. “The problem has been mainly a lack of clear objectives” by a government “unclear what kinds of problems they are trying to solve. The government still thinks in terms of programs as opposed to outcomes. It should be outcomes first, then programs and structures to support these outcomes.” Innovation programs, critics say, have been overly politically driven with an attempt to cover too many regions and sectors, and designed by bureaucrats with outdated or underdeveloped notions of how to create economic growth in a knowledge economy.  “Canadian policy makers have spent the past three decades confusing innovation with invention, a science-and-technology strategy with an innovation strategy, intellectual property generation with IP protection, free trade agreements with asset protection agreements, privatization with digitization, and supply chains with value chains,” former BlackBerry co-chief executive Jim Balsillie wrote last year. Observers say one of the best ways to foster economic growth would be to help homegrown companies develop into giants like Shopify Inc. That was a key message in 2019 from outside advisers, including Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke himself, tasked by the government to provide advice on economic growth.  But Liberal actions on innovation have been diffuse and rarely singularly focused on turning upstarts into economic anchors... If the government is falling short on innovation, it’s part of a larger problem: Canada has been a chronic laggard on key economic measures.  Our economic output per capita has been the worst among advanced nations in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development since the 1970s, a trend the OECD forecasts will continue until 2060. Business spending on R&D, productivity growth and labour utilization are in the bottom quarter of advanced nations. According to the World Bank, Canada’s share of global exports has fallen from more than 4 per cent in the early 1990s to 2.38 per cent in 2020. Canada ranks sixth among G7 nations and 15th overall in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 2022 global innovation index; we used to make the top 10. And Canada ranks 24th overall in knowledge and technology outputs – a measure of the amount of patents generated here. As intangible assets have increasingly driven wealth creation globally, we remain net importers of other nations’ IP.  These are the weaknesses robust innovation policies should help to address, as they have in other countries such as the Netherlands, Israel and South Korea. But those policies haven’t made much of a dent here... Even Mr. Morneau says in his new memoir that the government “didn’t do nearly enough to stimulate economic growth” needed to pay for social programs. “Productivity improvement is the most important issue on our agenda, and we are not focused on it.” He singled out “our poor performance when it comes to innovation; we depend too often on others to lead the way.”... a 2018 Globe report revealed that Canadian universities, governments and phone companies were helping Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. develop cutting-edge 5G mobile technologies, even though the company was viewed by Canada’s intelligence allies as a corporate arm of its home country and suspected of aiding its cyberespionage capabilities. The Canadian government still permits universities and professors to work with Huawei to develop IP that is routinely transferred out of the country."
From 2023

Union Station Disaster : r/TorontoTransit - "I am honestly so disappointed and furious about the state of downtown Toronto right now.  We are at the beginning of a literal once in a lifetime global event, and the city decided this was the perfect time to turn the most important entrance, of the most important transit hub, in the most important city into an active and chaotic construction zone. It feels completely unsafe, incredibly stressful, and entirely dysfunctional.  I cannot wrap my head around how nobody at any level of decision-making understood the massive global publicity of this event. To leave our main gateway looking like a chaotic, half-finished maze right as the world arrives is a total failure of planning.  What's even more shameful is that the mainstream media is completely downplaying this. They report on transit delays as 'scheduling updates' instead of calling it what it is: an absolute embarrassment that reflects horribly on Toronto and Canada as a whole. If the general public truly realized how badly this was botched and how much it damages our reputation, the backlash would be severe enough that everyone involved in these decisions would be out of a job... I don't mean the Union Station essential construction work related to transit. Scotiabank Arena construction didn't seem like something that can't wait for another month. They just started that couple of weeks ago."
"As a private corporation, why would Scotiabank Arena want to negatively impact it's earnings bottom line by altering it's build/construction schedules to accomodate any or every large public event that goes on in downtown Toronto?"
"Yeah that’s what the city is supposed to be there for to keep those fucking cockroaches in line."
"because they're human beings? and human beings should care about things like, oh, idk, whether they're causing pain and suffering to other human beings?"
"This is coordinating with MLS in action. Basketball and hockey are on downtime and now’s the time as they only have concerts going through the facilities."
Left wingers just hate private corporations

Union Station Disaster : r/TorontoTransit - "Let's distinguish the hyperbole from reality.  People are unhappy when there is inadequate service delivery, and people are unhappy when maintenance and enhancements are undertaken to correct inadequate service delivery. No win scenario.  Work at Union Station is a decades long project to account for continually increasing demand. In the grand scheme of things, the World Cup events are little more of a blip on this radar than Blue Jays games or large venue concerts along with all the other events that go on all summer long in the city.  One can hardly expect construction work across the city to cease for the duration of these events and then restart smoothly."
"Please stop with this same old comeback. The, we have to do the construction sometime, argument has been going on for decades in Toronto. In my area, Keele and Finch, there has been 35 years of major project construction. The sewer pipes, the subway extension and the LRT back to back to back. The sewer pipes are being re assessed, the subway extension is closed every weekend for signal building and now signal removal ! And the finch LRT is a complete joke. All excuses to sell construction tenders and contracts at the highest prices with the least amount of return and horrible planning and build quality. But Rogers builds a concert stadium, no local resident wanted, in a week it seemed like. Why? Private commerce. Let’s please stop the response if we need to have construction now for the future. It’s a money grab. We should have tore down the gardener expressway 30 years ago and build a new solution but we haven’t. It’s all about corruption."

Carney government’s changes to pesticide rules will put safety at risk - "Prime Minister Mark Carney is quietly bringing-in sweeping reforms to the pesticides law, making it more difficult for the government to ensure that the air you breathe, the water you drink and the food you eat is safe from dangerous toxins.   Buried in two omnibus financial bills are provisions that overhaul the Pest Control Products Act. They change the health minister’s mandate to include economic considerations — not just risks to human health and the environment; they grant cabinet the power to overrule a minister who refuses to approve a pesticide or who determines that a pesticide currently in use is too dangerous for the environment, and they prevent that minister from launching a review on the harmful effects of that pesticide for up to six years. The proposed changes also eliminate legislated reviews of pesticides, raise the bar to launch formal re-evaluations, increasing the possibility that a product could be on the market for decades without any re-evaluation of its health and environmental risks. “The changes that are being proposed basically will rewrite the entire purpose of the legislation from one that’s supposed to be precautionary, and public health and environmental-protection forward to one that tries to trim its sails to the developments going on in the United States,” said Jason MacLean, a researcher at the University of Chicago Law School and a witness in pesticide litigation.  “There’ll be no scientific precaution required now, because the minister can just come to a discretionary decision,” he said."
Clearly safety is the only possible consideration for any regulation, so speed limits should be set to 1kmph

Mark Collins on X - "The new Northern Shield Pipeline proposed by @fordnation and @ABDanielleSmith is already, as predicted, getting hit with FN opposition. Specifically, the one in Sarnia who have stated multiple times their goal os to deatroy Sarnia's economy and shut down every single plant in the area.  There will never be enough money to blackmail them with. They will eternally hold projects hostage for increasingly large sums of cash.   Time to start playing hardball with the FN."
The lengths you must go to because BC is troublesome. Of course they'll sadly still benefit indirectly if this succeeds despite their negative contributions

Heather Exner-Pirot on X - "Why are we talking about the need for Northern Shield pipeline? Michigan's governor and an allied environmental coalition has been trying to shut down Enbridge's Line 5 for years, which enters Ontario from a US/southern route."

RMC86 on X - "Richard Masson, former CEO of the Alberta Petroleum Marketing Commission, explains why the Smith-Ford Northern Shield pipeline is DOA.
1⃣ Industry CEOs are giving this zero attention. It won't make it out of the feasibility stage due to the enormous cost, risks & approval process.
2⃣ If the catalyst is the threat to Line 5, which goes through the 🇺🇸, shipping oil by rail to Sarnia is much more feasible.
3⃣ A branch to a part-time, ice-bound port in Hudson’s Bay isn’t possible. Pipeline oil must flow without interruption & can’t be shut off in the winter.
🛢 I’m glad that oil pipelines are in the national conversation but let’s be realistic. We’re making the best out of a Liberal regulatory, taxation & approval environment that repels business capital."
Nana0000 on X - "Exactly right. Former Alberta Petroleum Marketing CEO calling the Northern Shield pipeline DOA because of insane costs, regulatory hell, and technical realities (ice-bound port that can’t run year-round) is the cold truth we’ve been living in the patch.  Liberal regulatory, taxation, and approval environment repels capital. Same story with the west coast MOU — southern compromises, carbon/CCUS burdens, and TMX-style overruns waiting to happen.  I’m 67, grew up and worked the oil patch with my dad. We used to dream of building a future here. My grandkids face unaffordable housing, skyrocketing food, and squeezed basics. Industries collapsing: oil strangled, manufacturing fleeing to the U.S., farming in crisis, forestry shutdowns.  This isn’t “national conversation” — it’s decades of ideology crushing viability and futures. We’re making the best of a bad environment that repels investment and opportunity. Grandkids deserve better than this slow-motion disaster. #OilPatchReality #CanadaAtCrossroads"

Links - 5th August 2026 (2 - Migrants: Europe - Ceuta Invasion)

Libs of TikTok on X - "So lemme get this straight… Spain passes mass amnesty plan for hundreds of thousands of migrants Morocco then pardons nearly 3,000 criminals including terrorists And days later hundreds of Moroccan men INVADE Spain…? This is how a Western civilized country gets destroyed."
Damn Israel!

PeterSweden on X - "The Swedish Green Party has now expressed SUPPORT for the almost 50.000 people that arrived in Ceuta the last day. They are now accusing the Swedish government for "non existent empathy" after announcing that Sweden won't accept them into the country. The Green Party is likely to be part of the next Swedish government according to the polls."

PeterSweden on X - "IT BEGINS Finland is now supporting Italy in calling for possibly SUSPENDING Schengen with Spain and introduce border controls."

Sanchez condemns ‘selfish’ EU in row over Ceuta migrant chaos - "Pedro Sánchez has criticised “selfish” EU leaders after 22 European prime ministers and presidents attacked him for the sudden migrant surge in Ceuta... They singled out Mr Sánchez’s migrant amnesty for criticism. In early July, some 609,737 of the 1.17 million migrants in Spain who applied for legal status obtained temporary work permits, making it the largest regularisation of black market workers in European history... Mr Sánchez has been an outlier in the EU because he is pro-immigration, anti-Israel and one of the few Left-wing leaders in the bloc... France tightened checks on its Spanish border and said it would increase its police presence fivefold to 334 officers and gendarmes by Saturday."
Left wingers cannot take personal responsibility

Meme - "It said, Spain has opened the door."
_didier.neza: "This Illegal Moroccan Migrant in Ceuta said it clearly:“The door was announced for us to come. We were promised a good life in Spain.”They received messages on social media telling them the borders were open. Thousands believed it and rushed in.This is not accidental. The EU has opened its borders on purpose. It is globalists—not Islamists—who hold the real power behind this. Globalism has far more reach and influence than radical Islam. These open-border policies are part of a deliberate globalist agenda to reshape nations.At New Africa Network, our message is the opposite. We are calling Africans to stay and rebuild. We want Africans to live free, safe, and fulfilled in Africa; with real security, real opportunity, and real financial freedom.Whether a man is Muslim or not, we stand against every form of extremism, especially Islamic extremism and jihadism. Our mission is to help every African build a better life right here on African soil.This is why I do not believe in an Islamic Antichrist or an Islamic beast system. The Antichrist will rise through the globalist system; not through Islam. Globalism, not radical Islam, is the greater threat to nations and to the church.Africa does not need empty promises from Europe. Africa needs Africans who will rise and rebuild.This is the work of New Africa Network.@newafricanetwork#NewAfricaNetwork #LetMyPeopleGo"

David Bernstein on X - "So Spain has killed 67 Moroccans breaching its border, all civilians. 67 a days for three years would be 73,365 people or approximately how many Gazans Hamas alleges has been killed in the war, including combatants.  So Spain has the same daily death toll as the Gaza war, except that every single person they killed was a civilian, there was no precipitating massacre, they aren't at war, and there is no threat from the likes of Iran and Hezbollah looming over them."
The claim is that this doesn't count because Spain didn't actively kill them. Yet, when left wingers throw around death tolls due to the Iraq war, they rely on projection populations if the war hadn't happened and compare them to actual populations, then proclaim that the US killed that many people

Oli London on X - "Hollywood actor Javier Bardem shares Instagram post blaming ISRAEL for 50,000 Moroccan migrant men storming into Spanish territory.   “Spain has been Europe’s loudest voice against Israeli and US war crimes in Palestine, Lebanon and Iran.”  The actor reposted an Instagram post from another user which claimed Israel “benefits” from a “destabilized Spain.”   “We don’t know who engineered this crisis, but we know who benefits from a weakened, destabilised Spain: Israel, and the Western far right eager to turn migration into a weapon against Muslims.”"
Terrorism supporters are stupid, hateful and can't take responsibility for their own idiocy
It's interesting. Left wingers are usually for open borders, but have a decidedly more mixed reaction to the Ceuta invasion. Maybe because they blame Israel.

Charlie Weimers MEP 🇸🇪 on X - "Ceuta shows what happens when borders are abandoned.
Thousands of illegal migrants are right now storming into Ceuta. This is no coincidence. It is the direct result of Spain’s amnesty policy and a court ruling that makes returns more difficult.  The social democratic government in Spain has “regularised” hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants. Almost 1.2 million applied. Over 600,000 have already received temporary permits.  At the same time, the Spanish Supreme Court has banned swift pushbacks of those arriving by sea. The smugglers exploited this immediately. The result was a veritable invasion across the border.  I have been to Ceuta myself and seen the weak border protection with my own eyes. I have seen how thin it is and how quickly the city can be overwhelmed. This is not theory. It is reality.  When a Member State creates strong pull factors through amnesties and obstacles to removals and deportations, the rest of Europe must be able to act. Otherwise both security and trust between the states collapse.  This time we have sharp tools. The Return Regulation, which I have helped drive forward, provides longer detention periods, mutual recognition of return decisions, tougher entry bans and return hubs.  It replaces the old, toothless system. Now the legal basis exists to send back the illegal immigrants who stormed the border.  It is time to use the new tools. Everyone who has illegally forced their way into Ceuta and has no right to stay must be returned – quickly, consistently and without exception. No more excuses. No more amnesties that reward illegal immigration.  Border control is not extremism. It is survival. Either we take back control – or we lose it.
Ps. I see some gleeful right-wing debaters urging Spain to “decolonise” Ceuta and Melilla as a response to the Sánchez government’s militant policy towards Israel.  Consider this: in these cities, which have been European for five hundred years, people live who now fear for their existence and their lives. We already see illegal migrants trying to occupy private homes.  A majority in Ceuta votes for the right and does not support Pedro Sánchez in any way."

AwakenedOutlaw⚒️ on X - "“The immigrants coming to Ceuta are women and children, many of them malnourished” ~ Pedro Sánchez, Prime Minister of Spain. Ok, sure they are. BTW, this is a coordinated invasion being perpetrated by Morocco, as can be seen here."

The Spanish Left have themselves to blame for this migrant invasion - "“Long live Spain,” shouted one of the thousands of Moroccans who had forced their way into Ceuta. He didn’t seem aware of it, but he and his fellow migrants have destroyed the country’s myth of positive mass immigration.  “Throughout history, migration has been one of the great engines of national development.” These were the words of Pedro Sánchez, the Spanish prime minister, a few years ago. Now his government is in crisis after it lost control during an invasion of its territory... The initial story was that a July 8 legal decision, which stopped the Spanish authorities from immediately deporting those who swam over the border, had caused the collapse of the frontier.  Government sources believe that people-trafficking groups used it to create a snowball effect of people thinking they could make it into Ceuta and Europe... civil guard sources told El Mundo that “Morocco wasn’t fooling anyone” and that thousands of young Moroccans had been arriving near the border zone from all over the country.  As the centre-Left newspaper El País reported, such a large entry of people would have been impossible without the complicity of the Moroccan authorities.  The last time a similar incident happened was in 2021, when 15,000 stormed the border. Then it was an organised assault by the Moroccan government after Spain protected of one of the militant leaders that still contest Morocco’s annexation of Western Sahara in the 1970s. In return for stopping the flow and taking back those who had broken in, Spain agreed to support Morocco’s claim to what had once been a Spanish colony.  The majority were deported within 10 days, and only legal disputes over the status of children caused the process to last longer. Sánchez’s great mistake is not only being soft on immigration, but being soft on Morocco. The images that went viral across social media were matched by government inaction. Only 15 police officers and 40 Civil Guard officers were manning the border, even as hundreds started crossing into the city days earlier.  After control had been lost, Sánchez’s government still sought to downplay the crisis, failing to declare a national emergency and only calling in the army eight hours after Ceuta’s leader had begged for help... Sánchez is now dealing with the occupation of part of his country by tens of thousands of young, military-aged men. When he said that his nation had to choose between being “an open, rich country or a closed, poor one”; he clearly failed to envision anarchy. While it is worth separating the crisis in Ceuta from his broader strategy of bringing in millions of Latin Americans, in this case the government is worse than complicit: it is weak.  Across the spectrum of Spanish politics, every significant party from right to left has condemned what is effectively an invasion.  The Left is blaming the border breach on an Israeli-American-Moroccan pact to punish Spain for its pro-Gaza policy, while the right sees it as the start of an attempted annexation of Ceuta.  The Sánchez government’s casual promotion of mass immigration, and its treatment of the nation’s frontiers, have left it prey to not only the Moroccan government but also large numbers of idle young North Africans. This has already led to 18 deaths among those trying to cross, and it is hard not to believe that the open rhetoric of Spain’s government has encouraged some of those crossing. El Mundo reported one Moroccan telling a civil guard officer: “I want to be Spanish like you.”  Sánchez’s government was already at the end of its cycle, incapable of passing legislation and buffeted by damaging corruption cases.  The historic events in Ceuta, which are still ongoing, have, however, consigned a government “which showed the way on low skilled immigration” to what was once called the dustbin of history. Ceuta tells a different story."
One left wing cope is that Ceuta isn't contiguous with mainland Spain, so it's not Spain. By this logic, if the US invades the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador isn't allowed to complain

The crisis in Ceuta threatens the very fabric of the EU - "The Spanish government also bears much of the blame. Ceuta faces regular attempts by illegal immigrants to enter, yet as Jack Davey has pointed out in these pages, there were only 55 officers guarding the border and it took the government precious hours to call in the military. Considering the scale of the crowds (see the video below) which crossed the border, there should have also been intelligence warnings that something was going on... It seems highly unlikely that such large numbers of illegal immigrants could cross again without the tacit acceptance of the Moroccans.  Morocco has claimed since independence in 1956 that Ceuta should be part of their territory. Using illegal migration flows to breach the city’s defences shows how migration can be used as a weapon. It’s similar to the sort of hybrid warfare used by Russia in Crimea, where their “little green men”, who were members of Russian special forces in unmarked uniforms, were able to seize the peninsula. The EU and Nato should take that threat seriously.  Unfortunately the result so far has been unimpressive. EU officials have expressed concern but done little... Much like the refugee crisis of 2015, EU leaders seem caught off guard instead, unable to react as needed. That may prove their downfall."
Israel didn't respond well to October 7th, so terrorism supporters claim that's proof that they wanted it. Spain didn't respond well to the Ceuta invasion, and terrorism supporters claim Israel was behind it

Congratulations Ireland, you’re no longer Europe’s most ridiculous country - "There’s nothing like 50,000 migrants pouring over a border to burst a bubble of progressive indulgence. In a single afternoon, the dogma upon which Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s reviled prime minister, had built much of his liberal Eldorado – that migration and security can be managed by way of humanitarianism and European solidarity – collapsed under the dead weight of reality.  In fact, the only major plank of his dogma that was left unchallenged was his gratuitous Israelophobia, and even that came jolly close. After all, Sánchez’s ability to side with Hamas over absolutely everything – this is a man who said he regretted not having nuclear weapons to “stop” Israel’s war of self-defence – would have looked rather silly if the Ceuta migrants had employed jihadi-style butchery, rape, mutilation and kidnap... the man could have been chewing a wasp for the sourness of his tone as he found himself talking in the language of sovereignty – territorial integrity, legal reforms, maritime barriers – rather than the post-national liberalism upon which he has so often relied for that warm and fuzzy tingle. From a British point of view, it was hard to avoid a frisson of schadenfreude. Two weeks ago, the achingly cosmopolitan Sánchez was crowing about the removal of la verja, the border barrier at Gibraltar, describing it as the fall of “the last wall in western Europe”. Fast-forward to Friday, and the Spanish leader, who remains mired in an awkward corruption scandal, found himself condemning a “violación de la integridad territorial de España” as if he had converted to conservatism.   It was even more satisfying to see the beleaguered socialist bleating so impotently as Italy suspended the EU’s hallowed Schengen open borders agreement, backed by Finland, Denmark and Czechia... For some time, it has been too close to call. The great nation of Ireland has been steadily vandalising itself in recent years.   Beginning in the Nineties, its elites replaced one overbearing moral establishment – the Catholic-nationalist order, which had long been beset by scandals – with another, namely a creed of Brussels fanaticism, the embrace of American-centric multinational capitalism and the determined imposition of tiresome progressive ideology.  As ever, the most potent symbolism of this cultural shift is that of immigration. The Emerald Isle, a country of just five million, has experienced one of the fastest rates of population growth in the developed world in recent years, driven overwhelmingly by arrivals from overseas.  Record numbers of new arrivals have coincided with housing shortages that predated the migration wave, leading to tent villages in Dublin, asylum seekers living in hotels and old office blocks, and GP surgeries and schools coming under immense strain. Violent riots flared in 2023, followed by arson attacks. The second emblem of national decline, of course, is hatred of Israel. Here, too, we find Ireland excelling; Jerusalem even announced the closure of its Dublin embassy in December 2024, citing the Irish government’s “extreme anti-Israel policies”.  Anti-Semitism has a long history in Catholic Ireland. In James Joyce’s 1922 masterpiece Ulysses, Mr Deasy tells Stephen Dedalus: “Ireland, they say, has the honour of being the only country which never persecuted the Jews... Because she never let them in.”  But its obsession with Israelophobia has reached new depths of petty depravity, from withdrawing from Eurovision in protest against Israel, to renaming Herzog Park in Dublin, which was named after the Chaim Herzog, Israel’s sixth president, who grew up there.  All pretty bleak. Spain, however, has now claimed the booby prize. Not only has it also pulled out of Eurovision and indulged in gender recognition laws and amnesty programmes for undocumented migrants that would make Zack Polanski blush, but – as Ceuta has shown – its hard-left leader governs with such brazen hypocrisy that no other European country comes close."

pagliacci the hated 🌝 on X - "Spanish leftards like Sanchez are in an amazing ideological predicament rn because they know what is happening in Ceuta isn’t organic, but at the same time they’re supposed to be unconditionally pro-migrant.  So they’re in zugzwang.   If they try to stop this, they’re admitting that migrants can be sent as political weapons, which is effectively an admission that the “right wing conspiracy theories” they hate so much were correct, and that their universal asylum policy is retarded.  But if they accept the migrants, Ceuta is going to collapse and the right is going to have a massive step-up politically.   No good move."

Rihards Kols on X - "The border breach at Ceuta is severe. It is useful to remember that the exclave maintains double border checks before the European mainland. The true vulnerability exposed today is political.   Spain’s domestic push for the mass regularisation of illegal migrants creates an undeniable pull factor. Judicial rulings blocking expedited returns multiply the threat. The Sánchez government is making unilateral choices that systematically undercut collective European security.  You cannot fracture the external perimeter in the south and expect European stability. Latvia guards the EU’s eastern external border - we know this, and the cost of deterrence. The current migration situation does not allow for any national exceptionalism in applying our rules.  Spain will soon benefit from the EU Migration Pact’s solidarity mechanism as a country under 'migratory pressure' - receiving money, support, or relocations. Rewarding a state that simultaneously legalises mass illegal migration is a farce. European solidarity requires strict national responsibility."

GeoInsider on X - "There is another possible angle worth considering:  Just days before the Ceuta crisis, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez traveled to Algeria to restore diplomatic and economic relations after four years of tensions. The visit marked a major reset in Spain-Algeria relations after years of strained ties.  During the visit, Sánchez met with Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune and senior government officials. Both countries reaffirmed Algeria as one of Spain's principal strategic partners, discussed expanding energy cooperation, increasing Spanish investment, strengthening trade, coordinating on migration, and agreed to hold a new high-level bilateral summit later this year to deepen cooperation further.  Historically, when Spain has taken actions that Morocco views as contrary to its interests over Western Sahara, relations have at times deteriorated sharply. The clearest example came in 2021, when Spain allowed Polisario leader Brahim Ghali to receive medical treatment. Morocco strongly protested, recalled its ambassador, and during the ensuing diplomatic crisis, a mass migration event into Ceuta followed.  To understand why this matters, you have to understand the Western Sahara dispute. Morocco considers Western Sahara an integral part of its territory and has proposed an autonomy plan under Moroccan sovereignty. The Polisario Front, backed primarily by Algeria, seeks independence for Western Sahara and has proclaimed the self-declared Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.  This is why Morocco pays such close attention to Spain's relationship with both Algeria and the Polisario Front. Spain is the former colonial power in Western Sahara and remains one of the most influential European countries involved in the dispute. When Madrid takes steps that Rabat interprets as favoring Algeria or Polisario as happened with the Ghali case in 2021 it has, in the past, led to severe diplomatic crises.  There is another important point that is often overlooked. Morocco has never recognized Spanish sovereignty over Ceuta and Melilla. To this day, Rabat officially considers both cities to be Moroccan territory under Spanish administration. While Morocco has generally pursued its claims through diplomatic channels, the status of Ceuta and Melilla remains one of the most sensitive issues in Spain–Morocco relations.  Does this mean Sánchez's visit to Algeria caused the current migration crisis? No, there is currently no public evidence to support that conclusion. However, given the events of 2021, Morocco's longstanding rivalry with Algeria, the central importance of Western Sahara in Moroccan foreign policy, and Morocco's official claim over Ceuta and Melilla, it is another plausible angle worth considering as events continue to unfold. It should be treated as a possibility based on historical precedent, not as an established explanation."

Octavian 🇪🇺 on X - "The fact that tens of thousands of Moroccans instantly ran to Ceuta in the hopes they could escape Morocco reminds me of this quote by Algerian president Boumediene:  "No quantity of atom bombs could stem the tide of billions… who will someday leave the poor southern part of the world to erupt into the relatively accessible spaces of the rich Northern Hemisphere looking for survival."  Don't get me wrong, it's on us to protect our borders and to stem the tide. But the Roman Empire fell in a fairly similar way, where the Romans eventually just gave up. It's simply dangerous that the pressure is this intense for such a long time. You just need a couple more Pedro Sanchez governments and we'll face the same fate as the Romans. We do have to think about how to give North Africans a future so they don't run to their deaths trying to get to Europe, not for the sake of North Africans but for our sake to relieve not only the physical pressure but also the psychological one."
It's weird how non-Western countries don't face this problem

Rupa Subramanya on X - "49,000 illegal migrants just crossed into the Spanish city of Ceuta, population roughly 84,000. That’s an influx equivalent to nearly 60% of the city’s entire population in just 24 hours. This is an extraordinary demographic transformation.
Ceuta is currently: 60% Catholic and 37% Muslim 50.4% male and 49.6% female
If all 49,000 migrants are Muslim and men and that's a reasonable assumption to make going by the images, and were allowed to remain, the religious composition would almost exactly reverse:
-60% Muslim and 38% Catholic
-69% male and 31% female
 If this alarms you, let me remind you that this is simply the illegal version of the demographic transformation  western democracies especially Canada pursued legally: millions admitted in just a few years, and in Canada's case, large numbers of low-skilled, uneducated, working-age men, many we're now discovering are criminals, originating mostly from Punjab and Haryana in India.   If you're pro-immigration, this is what legal mass immigration looks like when it happens at extraordinary scale and speed. Canada accomplished its own version of it in remarkably little time."

Mariana Hernandez | Facebook - "Your timeline is about to be full of videos of Moroccans "invading Spain" with captions like "this is what happens when you vote socialist" and I need you to pause before you share that garbage. Ceuta is not in Spain. It's not in Europe. It is physically, geographically, on the continent of Africa. On Moroccan soil. Taken from Morocco in 1415 — before Columbus, before the Inquisition, before Spain even existed as a unified country. Spain has a colony in Africa in 2026 and nobody wants to call it that. "This is what happens when you vote socialist." No. This is what happens when you colonize a piece of another continent and hold it for 600 years and then act shocked when people from that continent walk into it. The Portuguese crown took Ceuta in 1415. Spain inherited it in 1668. And never left. So when you see Moroccans swimming around a fence to set foot on *their own continent* and someone captions it "Muslim invasion" — the irony is so thick you could build a border wall out of it. About 2,000 people crossed into Ceuta in the last ten days. Spain's far right is foaming. American accounts are already repackaging the footage for people who will never google where Ceuta actually is. You want to know what actually triggered this? Spain's own Supreme Court just ruled that migrants intercepted at sea near Ceuta can't be sent back to Morocco. Not socialism. Not open borders. A judicial ruling by Spain's own judiciary. But that doesn't fit in a rage-bait caption, does it? Morocco has claimed Ceuta for decades. The only reason there's an EU border there at all isn't geography — it's because a European empire took a piece of Africa and never gave it back. And now they're mad that Africans keep showing up to it. "This is what happens when you vote socialist." No. This is what happens when you never decolonize."
Comments: "I guess that means Constantinople doesn't belong to Turkey because they invaded Europe and it's an Asian Turkish colony in Europe? "
"I guess you missed what happened in Spain for 800 years. This is a tiny part of their former colonizer."

Matt Van Swol on X - "🚨#BREAKING: The Moroccan Muslims who have invaded the small Spanish city of Ceuta are now BREAKING INTO STORES by the HUNDREDS. Police are completely overwhelmed. Migrants can be seen running from one store to the next, grabbing items and running. WHERE IS THE MILITARY?!!!!!"
What would Spain do without all these doctors and engineers (or "doctors and nurses, engineers and computer scientists")?

Dolors Montserrat on X - "Ceuta is paying the price for the Spanish Government’s massive regularisation, the failure to enforce EU return rules and its repeated delays in implementing the Migration Pact.  Sánchez has lost control of Spain’s external border and his failure is now a European problem.   Europe cannot tolerate a government that fails to protect an external EU border and expects the rest of Europe to bear the consequences."
Zineb Riboua on X - "The moment someone reaches Ceuta, they come under EU asylum rules and may become eligible for regularization programs such as the one recently introduced by the Sánchez government. The Spanish Supreme Court has also ruled that migrants who arrive by swimming cannot be sent back. Everyone warned how absurd it is."

David Santos on X (Translated from Spanish) - "A Moroccan who entered Ceuta illegally claims he fled Morocco because he's linked to a death, and he has problems with both the police and dangerous individuals.  Spain is a shithole."
If Spain sends him back and he gets killed or executed, Spain will have murdered him (as per Nixon Giovanni Pérez Paz and Glendy Marisol González de la Cruz and ICE)

Zineb Riboua on X - "Morocco maintains functioning schools, universities, hospitals, a working economy free from war and famine in a very unstable region, has different projects, and today there are more opportunities than ever. However, in Morocco, criminal punishment is severe. & those who violate Moroccan law exploit a structural advantage because Sanchez’ permissive immigration policy and willingness to invoke human rights rhetoric to shield criminals provide sanctuary to them. Moroccan authorities cannot pursue offenders across the border into Spanish territory or Ceuta and whenever it did it created a scandal one way or another, these criminals know this and leverage this gap to the maximum."
Left wingers think all third world countries are shitholes, so you need to let everyone from those countries into the West, or you lack "empathy" and are a terrible human being

Rawan Osman | Facebook - "In the past 24 hours, ten of thousands of migrants — mainly Moroccan nationals, confirmed by AP — poured across the border into Spain's exclave of Ceuta. Ceuta is politically, administratively, and officially Spanish territory — which means it's the EU. Spain now faces a choice it has avoided for decades: settle the sovereignty question for real, or accept that anyone who reaches Ceuta's shores has, in every legal sense, reached mainland Europe. Here's one "solution": just give Ceuta to Morocco. Problem solved, right? I am looking forward to watching how virtue-signaling Sanchez will solve this one.  As a German citizen and European taxpayer, here are my thoughts. I came to Europe in 2011, a divorced woman escaping the Arab world. I chose the conservative south of Germany because I wanted my son raised in a democracy, properly educated, able to give back to humanity. In 2015, when Merkel opened Germany's gates to Syrian refugees, she invited in mostly men — the very men I had spent my life running from. My son came home from the pool one day and told me police had been called after a Syrian teenager groped a German girl in broad daylight, even after she told him in German and English to stop. I had to explain to my seven-year-old why men behave this way where I grew up. Getting my visa was brutally hard, as if the process was designed to discourage people like me. But I did it. I arrived alone, with a child — not with friends "conquering the land." I didn't speak the language. I was ridiculed, sometimes dismissed by people who wouldn't even try English. I learned German, opened a business, worked 12–16 hour days. Then my son was bullied for years — told we lived off other people's taxes. I was paying taxes. I was sending him to one of the most expensive schools in Germany. Every mistake a refugee made, we paid for too. I fought to build a life here so my son could live safely. Watching wave after wave of illegal migration flood this continent, I sometimes feel like I wasted my life running from the very ideology I thought I'd escaped — because it followed me here. What happened is part of an ideological invasion, and we have to fight it because we have no choice. This won't leave us alone. #spain #europe"

Pedro Sanchez holidays as migrants refuse to leave Ceuta

A complacent EU is to blame for the chaos at Ceuta - "Whether the illegal immigrants have gone back is immaterial. As Joshua Treviño, an American analyst, has pointed out, Morocco has shown it has the capability to do this if it wishes. Should Spain displease it again, flooding Ceuta with almost as many illegal immigrants as there are residents is now an option.   This is a long-held tactic: in 1975, Morocco marched a human wave of 350,000 people into the Western Sahara, which was then ruled by the Spanish. This coincided with the death of General Franco, and so the Spanish army was ordered not to fire. The land was given up to Morocco the next year... The EU is a powerful bloc, yet it finds itself at the mercy of Morocco because human rights laws undermine border controls. Without those controls, freedom of movement under Schengen becomes a liability rather than a benefit. Yet instead of leading, the EU merely convenes meetings. The EU’s complacency has seen its share of the global economy shrink and the continent miss out on the frontier of AI. If it fails to secure Europe’s borders, then the whole project may well collapse, as frustrated voters demand the security that European leaders refuse to deliver.   Ceuta was a test of the EU’s ability to respond and it failed."