Three recent reports have helped to give at least a partial answer to the puzzle of seemingly spontaneous yet simultaneous and near-identical pro-Palestinian, anti-Israeli and antisemitic protests on the streets and campuses in Western Europe, Canada, the U.S. and Australia.
Mohammad Raad is the head of the Hezbollah group in Lebanon’s Parliament. In an interview with Russia Today TV on June 11th 2024, he said:
We’re currently investing in protests and demonstrations in Western countries, especially among college students. We already have Muslim students agitating, but it’s the Western students themselves who will destabilise their own countries.
This is a clear and chilling statement of the intent to destabilise Western society and build an anti-Israel coalition through a war on education and information.
On October 7th, the U.S. Treasury published a short account of how it was targeting a significant international Hamas fundraising network. The non-profit sector was being abused by terrorist financiers through “sham charities” to raise and funnel revenue to “Hamas and other destabilising Iranian proxies” to finance their campaign of violence. Treasury estimates these Europe-based “sham charities” have funnelled up to U.S. $10 million per month to Hamas this year. Sanctions were being imposed on several organisations and individuals in order to degrade their ability to raise money to finance their operations. This was the eighth tranche of U.S. designations to target Hamas’s financial support networks, some with allies like Australia and the U.K. Citizens and residents are legally obligated to comply with U.S. Government designations of terrorist actors. Non-U.S. financial institutions and individuals found to be engaged in dealing with sanctioned entities could also expose themselves to punitive measures by Treasury.
ELNET (the European Leadership Network) is a non-profit pro-Israel advocacy group which brings together leaders to foster close relations between Europe and Israel, based on shared democratic values and strategic interests, by facilitating in-depth policy discussions on key strategic issues, common challenges and opportunities. On October 15th, it released a set of four complementary reports that provide details on how Hamas has been embedded in five key European countries: Germany, Italy, U.K., the Netherlands and Belgium. The first part of every report is identical and covers the continent. The second part drills down into the specific situation in each country individually. The U.K., for example, is described as “a focal point for Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood-related activity since the mid-1990s” with 11 Hamas-affiliated organisations and individuals operating there.
The four reports highlight around 30 Hamas-affiliated actors across Europe which raise funds, lobby, recruit, disseminate propaganda and appear on media “sharing Hamas talking points and propaganda”. Their coordinated efforts aim to influence popular opinion and legitimise the groups to policymakers without disclosing ties to Hamas in order to avoid scrutiny from security and law enforcement agencies. Despite Hamas’s designation as a terrorist organisation by the EU in 2001 and several European governments on various dates, these organisations and individuals operate freely across the continent. Along with their leaders, six organisations are identified as operating on a pan-European level. Three of the six individual leaders of the groups, based in Austria, Germany and Italy, were designated in the preceding week’s U.S. Treasury report as persons of interest for sanctions. (Israel has identified 12 Hamas-linked individuals who operate across Europe.) Often, shortly after being designated as terrorist groups, some were dissolved but reconstituted under a different name but the same leadership. ELNET also identifies media outlets which serve as mouthpieces for the pro-Hamas network’s activities in Europe. In addition, the Muslim Brotherhood, which includes Hamas as a member, often uses “civil fronts” of innocuously named charities, humanitarian associations and other community-oriented NGOs to advance Islamist ideologies while offering community services.
Released to mark the anniversary of the October 7th 2023 atrocities, the U.S. Treasury and ELNET reports make for sobering reading. The operation is sophisticated, global and remarkably successful. The Hamas-affiliated actors operate under the cover of humanitarian and charitable NGOs to fund and support Hamas ideology and activities across Europe. Weak enforcement and supervision has allowed them to expand their networks, undermining Western values and cohesion, spreading Islamist ideology and increasing the threat of terrorism. The reports argue that, “Increased awareness about Hamas’s ‘civil activity’ across Europe is necessary to prevent Hamas from spreading its ideology and fomenting violence and radicalism among European communities.” What the ELNET reports don’t say but I alluded to in my last article, is that an open and honest conversation on the relationship between immigration (volume and sources), demographic change, societal breakdown and voter backlash is a prerequisite for eradicating rather than accommodating the rise of extremist rhetoric and politics. Instead, a recent “expert brief” from the influential Council on Foreign Relations, in a series on the ‘Future of Democracy’ project no less, argues condescendingly that, “Advances by Right-wing parties in recent elections in Austria and Germany could have a destabilising effect on domestic politics, as well as normalise anti-migrant and Eurosceptic viewpoints in European politics.”
Is there any reason to believe that the global reach of the Hamas-affiliated network doesn’t extend to Australia? And do we have the capacity and courage to absorb the warning signs from Europe in time rather than persist Micawber-like with a “She’ll be right mate” indifference to the danger? Sheik Ibrahim Dadoun is the man who, on the day after the mass atrocities in Israel last October, told a celebratory rally in Sydney that he was “elated… smiling” following the previous “day of courage”. At a conference in Sydney last month, Hizb ut-Tahrir activists and sheiks hailed the recently slain Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind of the October 2023 butchery, as a legendary hero, a martyr who “died a warrior’s death”. The conference heard that Islam will “dominate” and bring “justice to every corner of the world” amidst a “civilisational struggle”. In attendance at the conference, Dadoun insisted that he remained “elated” as “victory was coming” and he’d never before seen “the shift and the tide that has occurred over the last year against the Zionist regime”. What then are Australians to make of the revelation that his employer, the United Muslims of Australia, received about $1.65 million in Government funding in September? There are three serious problems with this. It gives the appearance of financially rewarding extremist rhetoric and behaviour; it gives extremist group leaders financial incentives to make sure that extremist ideology never dies down as this would dry up the bottomless Government funding; and it creates resentment in other groups that have adopted the Australian values of interfaith tolerance, inclusion and peaceful coexistence. Does the Government truly believe that we do not notice? Or is it the case that it simply doesn’t care?
Ramesh Thakur is a former United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and Emeritus Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy, the Australian National University. This article was first published in Spectator Australia.
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Wow! I agree with something that Dominic Cummings said!
Backstabbing, lying bastard that he is.
Diversity = Less White People. ——-Whiteness is ofcourse the Original Sin if you listen to the silly Liberal Progressives and, the social justice warriors and the wokerati, that want to apologise to everyone that isn’t white for every thing a white person ever whispered into his wife’s ear. And heaven forbid if a statue of the disgusting man is not promptly chucked into a river. ——–I sit here and my grandfather had to sit in a bomb shelter under his house and my uncle was torpedoed by U boats in the Atlantic twice and was rescued from the sea. The Nazi’s killed many millions and put them in concentration camps, but guess what. I don’t hate GERMANS. The Germans that live today had nothing to do with war.
The problem with Germany as shown these last three years is that they seem to be reverting to 1930’s type.
And I suppose London was a peace rally?…yeah, right
I am not sure what you mean. So I won’t pass comment at this point.
I must admit I haven’t looked but how diverse is the enquiry team? Could the same (about important facts falling through the cracks) be said about them too I wonder?
‘Lack of diversity’ wasn’t a problem for Anders Tegnell.
Again, the inquiry failed to ask what Lee Cain thought would have changed if the PM had had brown people to advise him? Would the decision have been quicker, more intense lockdown? If so, what is his reasoning that that would be a good thing?
Sunak is brown, and he now claims to be anti-lockdown. He’s the wrong sort of brown I suppose.
I’m utterly amazed that we managed to win the second world war with the lack of diversity we had in the War Cabinet at the time. Mind you, the latest RBL donation campaign leaflet seems to think it was the Indian, Caribbean and Gurkha soldiers that won it – so maybe Lee has a point.
We didn’t win the Second World War.
We failed to achieve the objective for which we ostensibly went to war.
We gained no territory or riches. We didn’t lose as many people as in WW1, but the economic effects were far worse, and WW1 didn’t involve the destruction of our countryside. We were far less free after the war than before.
We avoided defeat because of the RCN.
Well, that was just a trailer! No doubt you’ve been watching the Dominic hearing recently – he’s back on after lunch from 13:45. I’m not commenting on it, except that it was absorbing. Tells its own story.
A shame he missed his coveted Churchill moment by not following Sweden.
And as most on here realise, he will be thrown under the bus.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/march-9-2022-biden-signed-death-warrant-american-freedom-digital-takeover-financial-system/5838305
The digital takeover of the financial system in the USA via an Executive Order so this country won’t be far behind.
Really I could decide if they were stupid or evil, Lee Cain is more stupid than evil I’d say. Cummins too really comes across as a gullible thicko with an anger management problem.
He took the opportunity of criticising many of his colleagues as well, rather than admitting his errors. However, he did demonstrate how incompetent the Gov was, in particularly inside No. 10. When it comes to being gullible, he was one of the ones who was like that, being gullible to the academic “experts” on the topic. It demonstrates that this place is a worthwhile cause, rather than paying too much attention to what the bureaucrats might try to do again.
Isn’t stupid evil? Stupids carry out actions they know will be to the detriment of others, but for no tangible gain to themselves. Therefore they do things just for the immiseration of others, that being their joy.
That’s evil.
This term diversity I think people misunderstand what it really means. You can read the real meaning if you refer to corporate business strategies. It is essentially an obvious point, that the bigger the pool you have to draw on the more likely you are to secure talent, hence Indian and Chinese maths graduates etc. There is no suggestion in this strategy that ‘diversity’ is inherently good or even good within a larger social perspective. It is important to read what it actually happening rather then the window dressing.
Well no, not really. Diversity means you need people conversant with a particular area of expertise: so in business you want specialists in marketing, sales, accounting, legal, regulatory, production around the table.
It is to be hoped the best talent was hired in the first place and that has nothing to do with race.
With respect to this issue, diversity would mean specialists in virology, epidemiology, infection/contagion control, critical care, immunology… for example, and not political advisors, psychological warfare specialists.
Lee Cain has one of those faces I would KEEP punching.
Why does he always look grubby?
Well it appears that he has the faintest of five o’clock shadow (bum fluff?), but you can just picture him in a dirty mac offering sweets to kids too.
Honestly the whole thing is a schtick and not a particularly sophisticated one.
Quite. Respiratory viruses and the disease they cause, follow long known trajectories. In fact that is true for all known pathogens and the diseases they cause. Millions of words have been written on the subject, umpteen hours of research.
The UK Common Cold Research Unit spent 50 years researching respiratory viruses and trying to find vaccines/cures (unsuccessfully) then closed when there was nothing more to do.
They cannot even use incompetence as an excuse. So something else – it’s clear.
It is a mixture of wanting to feel safe and wanting to belong and do the same thing that everyone else is doing. Nothing wrong with that impulse in certain times. I would say that we are bringing more people to our side.But you shouldn’t wish for total immediate enlightenment. Can you imagine what it would be like if everyone got it at once. It is unstable now the best we can hope for is a gradual release.
Listening to Cain and Cummings it is evident that they really were in a bit of a panic, losing their s### over apperntly rising ‘cases’ and could have done with a dose of humility about their own grasp of the situation.
It’s difficult to reason with an idiot totally convinced of their own competence (is that the Dunning-Kruger thing we keep hearing about?)
They would have benefited from a chat with Planet Normal’s ‘George’ or John Iaonnidis for some perspective. Everything is someone else’s fault but the biggest gem for me today was that of the Potemkin meetings: ministers strutting into Downing St for meetings whose outcome was already settled. (Just like this Inquiry!)
But if you look at the stats, the number of ‘cases’ – aka positive PCR tests was very low in February, March, April, actually starting to decline in March.
Deaths peaked in the first week in March, declining thereafter into April, virtually gone by May as were positive tests.
Infection to death is on average 21 to 28 days, therefore if deaths peaked first week of March, infections peaked first week of February.
Respiratory virus epidemics follow a known, distinct trajectory with period of low level activity, sudden exponential rise, peak, then steady decline – called a Gompertz Curve.
The death curve could be time shifted approx one month back, to indicate early infections started in December 2019, rose exponentially in January 2020, peaked in early February and declined thereafter through March.
With all the alleged experts and over a century of acquired knowledge and experience from around the World with respect to respiratory viruses and their spread, it is quite impossible they did not know – via their advisors – this.
I refuse to believe the cover story – novel virus, we panicked, didn’t know what to do, diversity of views.
When they can smuggle a befuddled cretin like Biden into the White House, what chance has the rest of the world got. After 2 weeks I concluded that that they were trashing the economy for the flu. Any one with a modicum of intelligence could see that. But the idle millions lapped it up.
It actually was less serious than ‘flu. ‘Flu is often serious and fatal in the young, particularly babies and infants. The risk from CoVid for the young was approaching zero.
CoVid was only a high risk for end of life individuals with existing medical conditions.
So presumably he has some sort of evidence that countries with a more “diverse” decision-making panel (presumably in black countries, more diverse means less black and more white – or is white universally bad, and black countries should in fact strive for less diversity?) did “better” during covid?
I don’t think he was using the modern perversion of the word ‘diversity’
Any manager worth his salt cavasses a diversity of views in order to make the best informed decision.
I don’t see how there can be a diversity of views if there are not present a diversity of individuals.