We are all familiar with Muslims falsely attributing antisemitic sentiments to great men of the past, such as Benjamin Franklin. The “Franklin forgery” is a classic anti-Semitic canard that falsely claims that American statesman Benjamin Franklin made anti-Jewish statements during the Constitutional Convention of 1787. It has found widening acceptance in Muslim and Arab media, […]
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon: A Very Dangerous Man
Jean-Luc Mélenchon is a far-left French politician who, as head of the party La France Insoumise, leads a coalition consisting of Communists, the hard left, the Greens, and Muslim voters, too. The last group, curiously, has received no mention in the coverage of the various French elections. Mélenchon has just come in second in the […]
France: Populist Le Pen makes historic gains, as Macron loses parliamentary majority
Last week, Macron — sandwiched between the Right and far Left — warned in desperation that “disorder” and “chaos” were the inevitable outcomes in any society dominated by the socialist Left. Yet as I previously reported on the Left Column: Macron himself is no model of order, given his reckless open-door immigration policies that have […]
EU Capitulates, Will Open Its Pockets to the Palestinians ‘Without Conditions’
Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, on July 14 tweeted her pious hopes for the EU-Israel relationship: “EU and Israel are bound to be friends and allies. Because the history of Europe is the history of the Jewish people. Our democracy flourishes if Jewish life flourishes, too. I am committed to […]
Persecution against Christians never ends in Turkey
How do Christian families, most of whom are descendants of the survivors of the 1913-23 Christian genocide, continue to survive in Turkey? How much respect and tolerance are shown towards them by the Muslim society and government of Turkey? A recent incident targeting the Assyrian Christian natives in a village in southeast Turkey gives us […]
New Book Offers Return to a Conservative Future
“Many can now see that the nations of the West are hurtling toward the abyss,” writes American-Israeli political theorist Yoram Hazony in his recent 400-page magnum opus, Conservatism: A Rediscovery. Herein he provides a tour de force review of Anglo-American conservative political thought, from fifteenth-century England to the modern West, and draws lessons for why […]
Turkey Wants to Block Finland and Sweden From Joining NATO, But It Should Itself Be Expelled
Among the providential results of the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been the reawakening of the West to the value of its mutual defense pact, NATO, whose 30 members are all pledged to come to the defense of any member threatened with aggression. And the Ukraine war has led to a spectacular development: the desire […]
Islamic State resurgent in Africa, Iraq, and Syria, and threatens the West
Coalition forces managed to destroy the Islamic State’s caliphate in Iraq and Syria, but the group continues to rebuild in that region, as well as in Afghanistan (Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISIS-K). The biggest threat Islamic State threat today, however, is in Africa, where it is proliferating rapidly and finding ways to get jihadis into […]
The collapse of Russia will be the beginning of the end of the West
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was largely predictable, but it also brought some surprises. It was quite expected that the current U.S. administration would try to draw Russia into the “Ukrainian swamp” in order to weaken and isolate it as much as possible. It was expected that the inexperienced and naive Ukrainian leader would trust the […]
UK: Now police are legally bound to crack down on ‘noisy’ protests
Leftists are increasingly waging war against the freedom of expression and embracing the cancel culture. “Conservative” Boris Johnson has shown many similarities to Justin Trudeau, from his handling of immigration policy and public scandals to how he deals with protests. Over in Canada, Ottawa police have announced a crackdown in advance on a “Rolling Thunder” […]