Signs of Hope in Europe

Is the defamation of Israel and the delegitimization of Jews and Zionists boomeranging on the West? “From France to America, hatred of Israel is eroding the West – opinion,” by David M. Weinberg, Jerusalem Post, November 7, 2026:

“Progressive” circles in the West have dived deep into campaigns of vilification against Israel and Zionism. They accuse Israel of genocide and crimes against humanity, and of being a threat to world peace and security. They promote boycott, divestment, and sanctions against Israel….

Israel is a “threat to world peace and security”? Is Israel the cause of the conflict between Morocco and Algeria? Between Egypt and Ethiopia? Between the Shi’a Houthis and the internationally-recognized government, run by Sunnis, in Yemen? Was Israel the cause of the Libyan Civil War? Or of the Syrian Civil War? Did Israel make the jihadists in Damascus attack the Druze in the Sweida governorate? Did Israel cause Saddam Hussein to murder 182,000 Kurds or to invade Kuwait? Is Israel the cause of the present bad blood between the UAE and Saudi Arabia? Is Israel responsible for Boko Haram in Nigeria? Has Israel caused the Turkish government to oppress the Kurds? Is Israel to blame for the takeover of Afghanistan by the troglodytes of the Taliban? Did Israel cause the Russian invasion of the Crimea in 2014 and of Ukraine in 2022? The answer to all of these, of course, is “no.”

When the state of Israel — the “colonial-settler apartheid genocidal state” of Israel — takes up so much of the world’s attention, other matters are put on the back burner, from Iran’s nuclear program that threatens far more of the world than just the Jewish state, to the Red-Green alliance of the far-left rioters with the Muslims (who now number seven million in France) in various European countries, but most obviously in France. Israel continues to be the focus of attention, as it was for so many during the midterm elections in the U.S. At the UN, more attention — unpleasant attention — is given to Israel than to any other country, and that will continue at least until the current Secretary-General of the UN, António Guterres, leaves office, and may continue well beyond his tenure. In the last year, the General Assembly passed 17 resolutions denouncing Israel, as against four resolutions denouncing the UN’s other 192 members.

In France, the protesters do not fly the tricolore, but — as the videos clearly show — wave the flag of a nonexistent “Palestine.” It is the same everywhere in Europe where the protesters now appear.

Weinberg’s grim histrionics do not convince me that things are so bad. In Europe, several parties that are likely to win the next elections — the Fratelli d’Italia in Italy, the National Rally in France, the Alternative für Deutschland in Germany — are all pro-Israel, and determined to turn back the demographic jihad in their countries by ending Muslim immigration and deporting those Muslims who have either committed crimes, or have shown that they are both unable and unwilling to integrate into a society created by Infidels, that is, by “the most vile of created beings.” JD Vance is hostile to Israel, but the Republican Party is not, and could nominate the pro-Israel Marco Rubio to be its presidential candidate in 2028.

Faced with all this, where does hope come from? Well, my father often would point to the resilience of the Jewish people over the past century. Jews overcame the destructive powers of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union and proceeded to build a magnificent modern Jewish state in Israel….

“Jews overcame the destructive powers of Nazi Germany”? What can he possibly mean? Six million Jews did not “overcome” the Nazis; the Nazis murdered them. The Nazis won their war against the Jews.

The Jewish people will prevail. My father certainly believed that. If good people band together in democracies to divorce the extremists, the West can be saved too.

It is the West itself, not just or even mainly the Jews, that is now showing its resilience. It has taken longer than it should have, but now many people in Europe and North America understand the threat of Muslims in the West, who are working to ensure, as Muhammad said, that “Islam is to dominate and not to be dominated.” The states of Europe have already cut way back on the number of immigrants — especially Muslim immigrants — that they allow in. After the next elections in 2027, in at least three countries — Germany, France, and Italy — that number could asymptotically approach zero. The outlawing of the Muslim Brotherhood throughout much of Europe, and of CAIR in several American states, the expulsion of imams for spouting hatred of Jews, the shutting down of mosques where terrorists are praised by the man at the minbar, are signs of that resilience.

To David M. Weinberg, I say: Sursum corda!