Anti-Christian Hate Crimes.

 Anti-Christian hate crimes across Europe surge in May as arson attacks reach 2026 high.

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Anti-Christian incidents across Europe rose sharply in May, with new figures showing the highest monthly number of arson-related attacks recorded so far this year.

According to a report released by the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe (OIDAC Europe), 37 anti-Christian hate crimes were documented during the month, targeting churches, Christian institutions, religious symbols and individual believers.

The latest figures follow OIDAC Europe's April report, which recorded 38 anti-Christian hate crimes across the continent. 

While violence, intimidation and disruptions to worship featured prominently during Easter celebrations, May was marked by a significant rise in arson attacks against Christian sites.

OIDAC documented 13 cases across Europe during May, the highest monthly total recorded in 2026.

The attacks ranged from fires inside church buildings to incidents targeting religious objects and parish facilities.

Among cases recorded in the British Isles, police in Warrington began an investigation following multiple fires in a former church building. 

An arson-related attack was also reported in Ireland. Germany and Italy each recorded four arson-related incidents, while France recorded three. In Germany, the arson attacks occurred in Marbach, Munich, Delmenhorst and Gladbeck.

In Italy, The Basilica of San Siro in Genoa was defaced with anti-clerical graffiti that included messages advocating the burning of churches.

In Poland, an attempted arson attack on a chapel in Krosno damaged an icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help.

The 37 anti-Christian hate crimes recorded by OIDAC Europe during the month comprised 13 arson attacks, 10 acts of vandalism and three of desecrations, one disruption to worship, three physical assaults, one instance of incitement, three thefts of sacred objects, and three cases involving both property damage and violence. 

Germany recorded the highest number of incidents – at 10 cases – followed by Italy and France with eight each.  

Additional incidents were documented in Poland, Ireland, Austria, Portugal, Spain, Greece, the UK, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

OIDAC Europe highlighted several particularly serious cases. 

While roughly 200 people were attending Mass in Hanau’s Holy Spirit Church, unidentified attackers shot steel and plastic pellets at a church, smashing several windows. 

A nun was reportedly assaulted at a bus stop in Poland, verbally abused and had the cross she was wearing ripped from her neck.

Two Catholic fraternity students suffered severe injuries during an assault in Innsbruck, Austria, allegedly perpetrated by individuals linked to the far-left. 

Elsewhere, a priest in Portugal was reportedly held against his will for around an hour and a half during a robbery at a church and parish residence in Cantanhede, while in Greece a historic church bell tower in Chania was damaged in a shotgun attack.

Beyond physical attacks on buildings, OIDAC Europe said several incidents demonstrated continuing hostility toward Christians themselves and Christian organisations.

One example cited in the report involved a café run by Christians in Leipzig, Germany, which recently closed after its operators said it had been targeted in 26 separate incidents during a two-and-a-half-year span.  

According to the café's management, repeated vandalism, graffiti, butyric acid attacks and other forms of harassment, allegedly linked people connected to far-left extremist circles, eventually made the business financially unsustainable.

The report also referenced figures recently presented to the Greek Parliament showing that 4,409 incidents affecting Orthodox Church properties were recorded in Greece between 2015 and 2024, representing more than 96% of all incidents involving religious sites in the country.

Alongside the hate crimes included in its statistics, OIDAC reported dozens of other incidents involving damage to Christian property for which no clear anti-Christian motive could be identified. These included thefts, break-ins, vandalism and fires that remain under investigation.

As such, the organisation said the figures likely represent only a portion of the anti-Christian hostility occurring across Europe. 

Nevertheless, it said the incidents recorded during May indicate that attacks on Christian places of worship, religious symbols, institutions and believers remain a persistent issue across a wide range of European countries.

The report comes amid broader debate over how anti-Christian incidents are recognised by European institutions. 

Earlier this year, the European Centre for Law and Justice criticised a resolution adopted by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on religious discrimination, arguing that it failed to explicitly address anti-Christian hostility despite acknowledging concerns about antisemitism and Islamophobia.

Optimism, Pessimism and The Third Way.

 Optimism, pessimism and the third way.

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Rabbi Marc Angel of New York has recently brought out a book on Rabbi Uziel (1880-1953), Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel under the British Mandate and then under the new-born State. Rabbi Uziel worked with the great Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Kook and then with Chief Rabbi Herzog, formerly of Ireland! The book is called ‘Loving Truth and Peace.’

I’ve always been interested in Chief Rabbi Uziel, having lived on Uziel St in Jerusalem during 1983-4, when studying at religious seminary in that very street. And fellow students were also Sephardi, just like Rabbi Uziel.

Rabbi Uziel was an encourager. He encouraged everyone: the observant and the non-observant; completely lapsed Jews, as well as prospective converts.

In his legal rulings on how a Jewish state should be run while incorporating religious norms, Rabbi Uziel tended to follow ‘paths of peace.’ His vision for the Jewish State included minority groups as full citizens with ample room to observe their own holy days, festivals, and customs. This was at a time when many Jews feared Islam and Christianity, and with good reason. But Rabbi Uziel saw the bigger picture. He was unique. In other words, he didn’t wish to impose: his was a ‘live and let live’ religion which wholeheartedly embraced others.

At the same time, Rabbi Angel has also published a series of essays on readings for Shabbat. This book is aptly named ‘Angel for Shabbat’.

In what other book can you read about my former colleague, Professor Norman Geras, of Manchester University, a politics expert and prize-winning blogger, in the context of Moses having to stand up to Pharaoh (Exodus 9:13)? 

As Rabbi Angel states (p 132), Professor Geras wrote about "'the contract of mutual indifference'. His basic thesis was that when people become indifferent to the injustices perpetrated against others, the general morality of society declines ... Mutual indifference is the sign of a morally defective society/world. It is not only degrading to the victims of injustice, it is degrading to the perpetrators themselves.”

That is why G-d told Moses to "stand [tall] before Pharaoh."

Or another gem on page 214, which is entitled ‘Sacred Space’ and deals with reasons for synagogue attendance. Why do people go to Shul? This is asked in the context of the building of the Mishkan (Tabernacle), precursor of the Temple (Exodus 39). 

For some people the Shul acts as a ‘hospital’. They come at times of crisis, illness and death. They attend only at time of need. Otherwise they avoid Shul.

Then we have the Shul as ‘museum’. These people visit for Shul’s ‘nostalgic qualities’. They enjoy the ‘old relics’ and attend on high holy days ‘as a social/cultural obligation’. It is ‘a building that houses old things and old memories.’

Next is the ‘entertainment hall’ Shul. People "have a good time there. They meet friends; they hear nice music; they listen to a sermon; they enjoy the refreshments ... They want the synagogue to entertain them, to come up with new melodies and new programmes."

Last but not least we have the Shul as ‘Sacred Space’.

"This refers to those who are seeking communion with the eternal, ineffable G-d. They come to synagogue often and in a spirit of yearning. When they enter the sanctuary, they feel the power of the sacred space. They sit humbly, quietly, thoughtfully. They absorb the atmosphere; they savor their words of prayer; they lose themselves in meditation. They have not come to synagogue because of a crisis; nor to experience the museum-like qualities; nor to be entertained. They have come for something far different: they have come to commune with G-d, to understand themselves, and transcend themselves."

This is the meaning of the building of the Mishkan - the space which G-d indwells. What a marvellous description of the meaning of Shul for so many people.

I must confess however that I find that the presence of like-minded people, together with the wonderful singing and kiddush refreshments, not to mention the rabbi’s sermon - always short and to-the-point - all help contribute to the meaning of the Shul I attend, so that the Sacred Space grows as we sit there allowing a special quality to enter in.

And finally, on June 13 diaspora communities read the story of the ‘spies’ in ‘Shelach Lecha’ (Numbers 13-15). Rabbi Angel discusses this story from every angle on pages 307-16. This reading is especially dear to me because I was asked to speak on this very subject at a Jerusalem synagogue some years ago.

Rabbi Angel contrasts the optimism of Caleb and Joshua with the pessimism of the 10 other leaders chosen by Moses to spy out the Promised Land. 

On their return from spying out the Land the spies made the mistake of speaking publicly about their misgivings without first consulting in private with Moses. Moses would have provided a realistic plan of action which would included both points of view, the pessimistic and the optimistic. Not entering the Land was, after all, not an option for the children of Israel.

Rabbi Angel comments: ‘This is true for government officials, for journalists, for opinion makers - for everyone. Responsible leadership entails careful analysis, concern for how one’s words and deeds will affect the public, an honest and realistic plan of action that can gain public support and confidence.’

And then the piece de resistance:

"In Israel’s War of Independence in 1948, David Ben Gurion called a meeting of his military experts to address a serious crisis. Reinforcements were desperately needed in the north but there seemed to be no way to get the troops there. The experts told Ben Gurion that it was impossible to move troops to the north since the enemies’ positions were too strong. Ben Gurion replied: 'We do not need experts to tell us that something is impossible. Anyone can say this. We need experts who can tell us how to accomplish the impossible!' Upon further deliberation, the experts came up with a plan - and they succeeded in doing the 'impossible.' They found a way of getting the needed troops to the north and ensuring a victory for Israel in the battles there.

"In the many crises which face us - individually as well as communally - it is tempting to give in to pessimism and judge things to be hopeless or impossible. It is also tempting to ignore the real dangers before us and to be unrealistically optimistic about chances of success. It is vital, though, that we maintain clearheaded realism - facing problems honestly, being neither fearful nor foolhardy.

"It is the realists who are best suited to achieve the 'impossible.'"

The book is full of such gems, in which Rabbi Angel brings the Shabbat readings to life and renders them relevant for today. 

‘Angel for Shabbat’ and ‘Loving Truth and Peace’ are published by Da’at Press (based in London) in conjunction with the American Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals. Both books are highly recommended. CT.

Birdie.

 

1 Corinthians 6:2.

Here is a sonnet capturing the profound stillness and joy found in spiritual communion with God.

 Here is a sonnet capturing the profound stillness and joy found in spiritual communion:

The rushing world dissolves in quiet grace,
When in the sacred stillness I recline,
And seek the warmth of Your abiding face,
A peace that is so human, yet divine.
The heavy burdens of the day depart,
Replaced by lightness born of perfect trust,
A sudden sunburst in the shadowed heart,
That lifts the spirit from the earthly dust.
No longer bound by fear or anxious sigh,
I rest within the hollow of Your hand,
Beneath the shelter of an open sky,
The truest home my soul has ever planned.
In ev’ry breath, in ev'ry joy conferred,
I find my silence answers to Your word.

I Shall Never Purchase A Copy of The Daily Mail Again.

 They continue to gush with oodles of sympathy for the vicious, evil murderess Ruth Ellis, executed back in 1955. WHY?

It sickens me to the core! Cold, calculating, premeditated and malicious - she pumped five bullets into her boyfriend's torso - also risking innocent lives  on the same street where he was butchered!

Agreed, he certainly did not treat her well, but the Mail's pandering to abolitionist tripe is embarrassing. Many partnerships fail but normal people do not go out to acquire a weapon so as to blow someone's head off!

Justice was properly served in this case. Nobody should ever escape the consequences of their actions just because they happen to be pretty!

We Have Had More Than A Few on Our Buddleia. Painted Ladies.

Birdies.

 

Needs To Receive Serious Thought.

 

Something To Ponder,

 

Successive, Failing Governments Can't Even Sort Out The Consequences of Our Current Droughts. What Are Largely Leftwing Governments Getting Right? - Yes. I Know!

 How many reservoirs have been built in the UK in the last 35 years?

The UK hasn't built a single major reservoir since 1992. That's before SMS texting, the debut of Friends, and even predates the European Union. In that time, the population has grown by over 10 million, meaning more homes, businesses, and industry, all demanding water.20 Feb 2025

Blogger - 1)There are rumours of ONE being built in Hampshire. WOW!

                 2)  Never think the Tories are without blame in these critical matters.

Colossians 2 Tells Us:

9) For in Christ, all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form.

England Make It To The World Cup Final Four.

                          We won!

          Two wins more will do the trick!

Just Like Richard The Third.

King Alfred the Great's bones 'found under car park' in time for England vs Norway match.

The remains of King Alfred the Great have been found buried under a car park in Winchester, a researcher claims after a 13-year hunt.

By Anders Anglesey, Michael D. Carroll

05:01, Fri, Jul 10, 2026 Updated: 05:39, Fri, Jul 10, 2026

The King Alfred statue in Winchester. (Image: Dragonfly Films / SWNS)

The long-lost remains of King Alfred the Great have been unearthed beneath a car park, investigators have sensationally claimed.

Alfred the Great, the only English monarch to be bestowed such a title, was one of the most significant rulers in history and is widely regarded as the founder of the nation. Despite his legendary status in English history, his final resting place has long remained a mystery.

Now, author and historical researcher Graham Phillips claims to have located Alfred's grave following a remarkable 13-year search.

Phillips claims the site lies just 20 yards from a slab marking where Alfred was once interred. He added: "Bizarrely. Like Richard III, the bones are under a car park."

Alfred died in 899 and his remains were relocated on numerous occasions.

He was originally laid to rest in Winchester Cathedral until 1110, when his remains were transferred to Winchester's Hyde Abbey, where they were interred before the high altar, flanked by the bodies of his wife and son. The abbey was subsequently demolished following the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539, leaving the site in ruins.

In 1866, during construction of a workhouse on the site, English antiquarian John Mellor excavated the area, believed he had unearthed Alfred's remains and arranged for them to be reburied at the nearby St. Bartholemew's Church. Yet in 2013, when archaeologists exhumed and carbon dated the bones from St. Bartholemew's churchyard, they were found to date from over 200 years after Alfred's death - sparking Graham's curiosity and subsequent investigation.

He said: "Whoever's bones they were, they weren't Alfred's. So, I decided to discover what happened to them. The quest has taken me 13 years."

Author and historical researcher Graham Phillips now claims to have discovered Alfred’s grave (Image: Dragonfly Films / SWNS)

It had long been assumed that Alfred's remains were lost during the workhouse construction in the 1860s, and Winchester city council transformed the Hyde Abbey site into an attractive garden, marking the locations of Alfred's grave, along with those of his wife and son, with stone slabs. Phillips, however, believes he has uncovered evidence suggesting the bones of all three had already been relocated several decades prior to the 1860s.

He added: "I discovered that in 1788 a prison was built next to the area, and the site where graves were was turned into a garden for the warden's house. I'm convinced the original bones were moved at that time."

During the late 1700s, English historian Henry Howard paid a visit to Richard Page, the warden overseeing works at the Hyde Abbey site, in order to obtain plans of the ruins that had existed prior to the prison's construction. It was while Phillips was searching for a copy of that very plan in the archives of Cambridge University that he stumbled upon what he describes as an astonishing discovery.

Graham added: "Howard had written an article about Hyde Abbey published in Volume 13 of Archaeologia, the journal of the London Society of Antiquaries, in 1800. In it, he refers to prisoners employed to landscape the warden's new garden unearthing bones which were reburied nearby, even including a map."

At present, there are no plans to excavate the Hampshire car park and dig up King Alfred's remains, or return him to Winchester Cathedral, reports the Daily Mail.

The England squad will need to channel all Alfred's famous courage, cunning and lion-hearted spirit to defeat Erling Haaland and his fellow Norway Vikings once again on Saturday. DE.

What Is Happening In The World? Well - Open Your Mind and Learn from Melanie.

The trillion-dollar campaign to conquer the West.

The Islamists are playing the longest civilisational war game in the world

Melanie Phillips Jul 10

 

Muslims praying in Whitehall, London

More and more information is surfacing to reveal that the Islamic holy war against the West isn’t just being waged on the battleground of the Middle East.

Even more significantly, it’s also being waged through a trillion-dollar influence campaign to colonise and subvert the Western mind, organised by extremists from the Islamic world.

These have tunnelled into the West through a vast civic infrastructure whose real purpose and sources of funding have been as well concealed, and in their own way are just as deadly, as the subterranean genocide factories in Gaza and Lebanon.

To those with eyes to see, it was obvious from the start that the hate marches springing into existence after October 7, 2023 — even while the Hamas-led atrocities were still going on — weren’t spontaneous protests against Israel.

They were instead a globally co-ordinated campaign to turn gullible Westerners into the unwitting army of Islamic jihad through support for the Palestinian cause.

An important new report by NGO Monitor shows that this post-October 7 protest infrastructure in Britain has used the signature liberal causes of humanitarianism and human rights to launder the Islamic jihad against the West.

The report found that, through a series of concentric circles, just six groups have been involved in more than 80 per cent of the major protests.

In the innermost circle sit the states hostile to the West: Iran, China, Russia and Qatar; terrorist organisations such as Hamas, Hezbollah and al Qaeda; and extremist religious-political movements like the Muslim Brotherhood.

Lapping around them are charities, campaign groups, protest movements and advocacy organisations that provide legitimacy for these hostile forces, amplify their propaganda and transmit extremism to society.

Out of 40 organisations mapped in the report, at least 11 have links to extremist groups or officials who have co-operated with Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Muslim Brotherhood.

US-based progressive foundations and far-left activist groups, such as the Open Society Foundation, Action Network, Cultures of Resistance and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, are providing significant funding and support, facilitating donations and strengthening the British protests.

Some of these groups have helped inspire violence in the United States. Last month, US prosecutors indicted eight current and former students at the University of Michigan for conspiring to threaten university leaders, law enforcement, businesses and the Jewish Federation.

The indictment stated that one of the internet websites used by the defendants to spread their demands belonged to Palestine Action, the UK group that continues to attract passionate support from otherwise respectable, middle-class Brits despite having been proscribed by the government as a terrorist outfit.

Well-meaning, if ignorant, people continue to support such organisations on the naive assumption that they help the oppressed.

The Islamist programme to subvert the Western mind has relentlessly focused for years on universities and schools. The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy has just published another vitally important report, Institutional Capture, which documents how anti-West, Islamist Qatar has reshaped American education in a devastating programme of cultural infiltration.

Over the past 16 years, according to the report, Qatar Foundation International (QFI), the US member of the Doha-based Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, has conducted a systematic campaign to embed itself within American educational institutions.

Deploying at least $65.3 million across 220 documented initiatives between 2009 and 2025, it has been a “manipulator of thought” in social studies, science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics, as well as in youth engagement, professional development and social activism initiatives.

Through corporate restructuring and strategic partnerships, it has leveraged the reputation of host organisations to embed the Qatari viewpoint on the Middle East in educational materials served up to students in both universities and K-12 schools.

At national conferences for social studies educators, it has stacked the proceedings with presenters trained by QFI to present Qatari talking points.

The result has been an educational echo chamber that “casts doubt on Israel’s very existence, rejects curriculum that teaches students about the efforts to normalise relations between Israel and Arab states, and normalises and relativizes terrorism”.

This is the template for the Muslim Brotherhood’s long-term strategy for civilisational jihad against Western society, turning educational institutions into a weapon of war by shaping, producing and normalising ideological positions that fit the agenda of conquering the West for Islam.

It’s scant wonder, therefore, that the West has fallen victim to a psychotic madness about Israel’s fictitious perfidies — a malevolent narrative of demonisation that is in turn a Trojan horse for suicidal anti-Western loathing and contempt among the elites. Millions of people are being manipulated on a staggering scale.

America is beginning to grapple with this. In March, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce released nearly 900 pages of documents detailing two major American university partnerships in Qatar.

As the Jewish Institute for National Security of America observed in its own analysis of these documents last month, they showed that Qatar has “used complex funding contracts with American universities to acquire access to intellectual property, governance deliberation, academic credentialing and institutional reputation, which it has used to help support Islamist movements hostile to the United States and its allies”.

The release of those documents galvanised the introduction last month of legislation to ban federal funding to colleges that operate branch campuses in adversarial countries, or accept research funding for sensitive fields like artificial intelligence, biotech and quantum computing.

That’s a welcome development, but acute concerns still remain. This process of jihadi infiltration has been going on for decades. Successive British governments and US administrations have refused to acknowledge the civilisational threat that it poses.

In large measure, this is because the West can’t understand Islamic religious fanaticism. It assumes that everyone in the world is, like itself, governed by self-interest. So it simply can’t get its collective head around the fact that Islamists are apocalyptic and messianic, and believe they have a divine command to conquer Israel, America and the West for Islam.

US President Donald Trump seems to make the same mistake. True, none of us can know what’s in his mind. Maybe he really does understand the Islamists’ mindset and is playing a long game to reel them in.

But maybe he believes that the Iranian regime and other Islamists are driven by the same self-interest as in his own world, and that therefore he can end all such conflict through his supposedly unmatched “art of the deal”.

Such concerns are exacerbated by the extremely troubling financial links between members of Trump’s circle and Qatar. Rather than treating it as the enemy of the civilisation that it is, Trump has used Qatar as a trusted interlocutor in talks with Hamas, the Taliban and Iran. His apparently unshakeable belief in the universality of venal self-interest presumably explains his disbelief that the Iranian regime won’t accept that its devastating military losses mean it’s lost the war.

It explains his view that Gaza’s Islamist lions would obviously be turned into lambs by the prospect of the Strip’s transformation into a property developer’s Riviera paradise.

And it may explain his support for Turkey’s menacing Islamist president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. According to Trump, Erdoğan almost entered the war in support of Iran and against America, but the US president talked him out of it. Now, Trump reportedly intends to reward him for this by selling him F-35 warplanes.

Taking his words at their face value (which may always be a mistake), this suggests that narcissistic fantasies prevent this American president from understanding what being an Islamist means.

So as Trump continues to give us all political whiplash by his on-off-on Iran war, and as the West allows its mouth to be stuffed with Qatari gold, the Islamists fight on — as they’ve done ever since the seventh century — playing the longest civilisational war game in the world.

JNS

DE.

Stark, Starin' Bonkers! THIS IS OUR MONEY BEING FRITTERED AWAY!

Burnham ‘will push ahead with Chagos deal.’

Mauritian ministers assured handover will go ahead by senior Foreign Office official

Camilla Turner

Diego Garcia, an island in the Chagos archipelago home to a US-UK air base, would be leased back for £35bn under the deal Credit: US Navy/Reuters

Andy Burnham is to press ahead with the deal that cedes the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, according to a senior Foreign Office official.

Robbie Bulloch, the director of the Foreign Office’s overseas territories and polar directorate, met Gavin Glover, the attorney general of Mauritius, last week and said that plans to give the archipelago to Mauritius were “unlikely to change”. DT

Bayeux?

 

Ann Widdecombe Murdered?

 https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/10/police-investigating-death-of-ann-widdecombe

Melanie Phillips.

 Well that didn’t take long, did it?

On the day that 322 politically bankrupt and panicky Labour MPs made it all but certain through their backing that Andy Burnham’s coup against Sir Keir Starmer had succeeded and he would replace him as prime minister, Burnham — whose only claim to fame is the common touch he brought to his role as mayor of Manchester — chose to celebrate by sticking it to the Jews.

After meaningless bromides about condemning the Hamas-led atrocities in Israel on October 7 2023 and the “appalling” rise in antisemitism, as well as having “felt first-hand” the anxiety of British Jews about the “very real threat they face” after the lethal Manchester synagogue attack last year, he proceeded to parrot Hamas propaganda defaming Israel for defending itself against genocide. He did so using the same falsehoods about Israel that have fuelled the onslaught against British Jews as the presumed supporters of the cosmic and diabolical evil that apparently is the State of Israel.

In his video on X yesterday, Burnham said:

The terrible suffering in Gaza is a scar on our collective conscience. It’s completely unacceptable that innocent Palestinians including children continue to be killed. That there’s still a humanitarian crisis with too little aid getting in, and that the Israeli military continues to expand the area it controls in Gaza. We’ve got to do more to put pressure on the Israeli government.

He approved of the pressure already imposed by the Starmer government including recognising “the Palestinian state”, placing sanctions on Israeli ministers and imposing “waves of sanctions on violent settlers and the organisations that support them”. He also supported the restrictions imposed on arms licences, he said,

to make sure that no British bombs or bullets can be used by the IDF in Gaza or in the West Bank.

He went on:

Israel continues to violate the ceasefire agreement killing innocent Palestinians. Netanyahu’s government is clearly attempting to taker a two state solution impossible. We need to do more, including … looking at further sanctions, both against those involved in the violence in Gaza but also measures to ban trade in goods with illegal settlements. I like many others feel passionately abut Gaza and I will work with international partners to stop the suffering, to ensure the Israeli government adheres to international law…There’s increasing evidence that war crimes appear to have been committed. … holding the Netanyahu government to account… I will always take a fair and balanced approach and stand up for what is right.

This was all an obscene travesty of truth and fairness and a shocking display of either brainwashed ignorance or the most shameless cynicism.

There was zero condemnation of Hamas for causing that suffering in Gaza by using “innocent Palestinians including children” not just as human shields but as cannon fodder — war crimes against their own people.

He made no mention that Hamas has been regularly torturing and murdering Gazans who dare oppose the tyrannical terrorist group.

No mention that Hamas hid in the tunnels they built to commit war crimes against innocent Israelis, including children, while failing to build one single shelter for their own civilians. Hamas prevented the Gazans from sheltering in the tunnels because the Islamist barbarians wanted as many of them as possible to die under bombardment as a strategy of war to get the credulous, post-truth progressive world to support barbarism against civilisation. As has happened, and asd Burnham has now done.

It is Hamas, not Israel, that’s been repeatedly breaching the ceasefire in Gaza. Burnham omitted that bit, thus reversing aggressor and defender as is routinely done against Israel to delegitimise and destroy it.

No mention that Hamas, although much depleted, are still attacking Israeli soldiers in Gaza and refusing to disarm because, as they have repeatedly declared, they intend to commit more atrocities against Jews.

No mention of putting more pressure on Hamas and its state sponsors in Qatar and Iran to abandon their genocidal agenda.

Instead, Burnham stated that Britain would refuse to provide a single bomb or bullet to help defend civilians in Israel under attack from Gaza or in the disputed territories known as the “West Bank”.

Just think about that. The incoming British prime minister believes it’s doing “what is right” to refuse to assist the prospective targets of genocide against their attackers.

Defaming the half million or so Jewish residents of these disputed areas, of whom a few hundred delinquent boys are genuinely mounting unprovoked attacks against local Arabs — a real issue that’s being grossly exaggerated as another weapon of delegitimisation against Israel — Burnham made no mention of the dozens of murderous attacks and plots against these Jewish residents that are being perpetrated or hatched every day.

He also parroted the untruth that the Jewish “settlements” in these areas are illegal. This reflects Britain’s long-standing and cynical misrepresentation of international law. The fact is that the Jews alone are entitled to live in the “West Bank” under international law many times over.

As for Israel committing war crimes, this is the foulest lie. Israel, which goes to enormous lengths to behave in accordance with the laws of war, has committed no war crimes. These have been committed instead in their thousands by Hamas against Israeli and Gazan civilians.

Why is Burnham parroting this disgusting rubbish? Why, indeed, is he giving Gaza top priority while the British public is still waiting to hear how he proposes to govern the United Kingdom? Why doesn’t he identify the murder of more than 40,000 Iranian men and women by the fanatical Tehran regime as a “stain on our collective conscience”?

The reason is simple. Amoral Andy is falling over himself to suck up to the “Gaza first” Islamists and the “Zios out” gang in his own party and throughout so-called liberal Britain, because he believes that this is where electoral success now lies.

Referring to Starmer saying shortly after October 7 that Israel had the right to defend itself, and subsequently being criticised for being seen to be slow to call for Israel to cease fire, Burnham also said:

I know many people feel that, at the start of Israel’s military action in Gaza, my party didn’t get it right, and I am sorry about that. The response has too often not been good enough.

In fact, by parroting Hamas’s propaganda and then rewarding its murderous behaviour by recognising “Palestine”, Labour’s response to Gaza helped cause the killing of yet more Israelis at the hands of a galvanised Hamas that actually thanked it for “justifying” the October 7 atrocities. By defaming Israelis as diabolical and wanton killers, Labour also ramped up the Jew-hatred which has subjected British Jews to unprecedented vilification, intimidation, harassment and murderous attack.

If Britain had been subjected to a fraction of the thousands of missile and terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians, not to mention the increasing stranglehold through a “ring of fire” by a regime intent on wiping it off the map, does anyone doubt that Britain wouldn’t have gone to war just as Israel has been forced to do — and would have been far less scrupulous than the Israelis have been about trying to safeguard civilian lives?

Yet for Burnham and the entire progressive west, Israel alone is not to be allowed to defend itself against annihilation. For Burnham and his ilk, all of Israel’s defensive military measures are instead acts of aggression.

This is not morality but depravity, and the disintegration of reason.

Burnham’s video will have caused a shudder among all who respect truth and justice, and all who understand the threat to Britain and the west from the Islamist onslaught that’s being laundered through the Palestinian cause. And he hasn’t yet even got his feet across the Downing Street welcome mat.

Nevertheless, it’s still not enough for the Israel-baiting far-left. The Telegraph reports:

But on Thursday night, both the Greens and Your Party said the comments had not gone far enough, as Mr Burnham refused to accuse Israel of committing war crimes unequivocally.

Robespierre, the architect of the French revolutionary terror who went to the same guillotine to which he had condemned an entire class of people, had the same problem.

Progressives always eat their own. But they help kill the rest of us first.

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