The West Is Rapidly Descending Into A Repetition Of History

The demonstrations we've been seeing on university campuses and elsewhere with calls for "Death to the Jews" or "Gas the Jews" are eerie reminders that we haven't learned anything from history. The recent events are precisely what transpired in 1930s Nazi Germany. At first, it was rhetoric, then it descended into Kristallnacht or the "night of broken glass" in 1938, in which hundreds of Jewish businesses and synagogues were destroyed along with Jewish deaths. It progressed to concentration camps and then the gas chambers.

Even in Manhattan, attacks on Jewish businesses are happening with some regularity. Here is an example of “broken glass”.

Popular NYC kosher restaurant targeted by vandals, has window smashed after anti-Israel protests

While we don't have the gas chambers today––yet––we have the vile racist rhetoric, some Jewish students have been assaulted, and, of course, the terrible slaughter in the worst way imaginable way of Israeli civilians because they were Jews. As I previously wrote, "the end justifies the means" mentality rationalizes that anything goes. People say it couldn’t happen again; think again.

So, we are seeing widespread racism rear its ugly head in America, Australia and other Western countries. Rather than nipping it in the bud, it's almost as if it's being promoted. America, of all places, with its experience of racism against blacks, you would think would act immediately to stifle this racial incitement and attack against Jews, but instead, it is being perpetuated. In many cases, police forces are doing little to quell the hostilities.

The reality is that this has been festering for decades. In the same way, the foreign powers now view America as weak, so the internal radicals know that the current government will not act, just as the previous one did little to prevent the Black Lives Matter riots.

The Big Lie

The overt antisemitism is rampant throughout college campuses. Yet after the 1967 and 1973 wars in which Israel was attacked by its Arab neighbours, there were no mass protests or demonstrations after Israel won those wars and kept captured territories as a security buffer.

It's strange, too, that when you read the Koran, the land of Israel and Jews are mentioned many times as the legitimate inhabitants of the land. The Koran was written in the 600s. Islam only came into existence then, many centuries after the presence of the ancient land of Israel. There is no mention of a place called Palestine in the Koran.

Quran 2:40 states, 

"O Children of Israel, remember My favor which I have bestowed upon you and fulfill My covenant [upon you] that I will fulfill your covenant [from Me], and be afraid of [only] Me."

In Quran 32:23 we have the following, 

"Indeed, We gave the Book to Moses, so be not in doubt concerning the meeting with Him. And We made it [a guide] for the Children of Israel."

So where did this idea that somehow Palestine––which was never a country––come to be so embedded now? Well, as the Nazis perfected, thanks to Joseph Goebbels, "If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself." To put it bluntly, the young marching on university campuses and spouting antisemitism are ignorant of history. Except for specific professional courses, most university education is now indoctrination. It's all about taking down the West and its values.

Hussein Aboubakr Mansour, a Middle East historian, describes the linkage between Nazi Germany and Middle Eastern Muslims.

"'This is Berlin; long live the Arabs!' With this catchphrase, Yunis Bahri (1903 - 1979) opened his first German broadcast on the pan-Arab shortwave radio station on April 7th, 1939…

Arab sympathy for Nazi Germany, already at an advanced stage, became an uncontrollable mass phenomenon, and vicious hatred towards Jews, the United States, and Great Britain was firmly inserted into modern Arab mass culture at its birth. Radio Berlin became the first modern mass Arab media medium in the Middle East."

You can read Mansour's article on his substack here.

If the ignorant students demonstrating and chanting Jew hatred knew anything, they would know that this has nothing to do with Israel; it's an extension of the same old tactics used by totalitarian regimes, both fascist and communist, which has now morphed into Islamism. Here again, not all Muslims believe in Islamism. It is a doctrine that believes in converting all and revering Sharia law as the law of the land.

The current situation is being exacerbated by mass migration into America and many other Western countries. Look at the increase just in U.S. immigration in the past three years.

Also look at the breakdown of where the immigrants are coming from.

The second most significant percentage of immigrants have come from the Middle East, from countries without democratic societies and where war and the teaching of Jew-hatred are endemic. Since the majority of these people are Muslim, why aren't these people being settled in countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Jordan and Oman, which are Muslim and share their values? The answer is that they don't want them. Jordan, in 1991, kicked out the "Palestinians" who were, in fact, Jordanians and engaged in terrorist activities and tried to overthrow the government. This also happened in Kuwait.

The majority of Muslims are peaceful and not terrorists; however, many harbour antisemitic ideas and have not absorbed the ideas of classical liberalism and modernism. We know about the overwhelming support in Arab countries for the October 7 atrocity. However, a very worrying trend is that in a Cygnal poll in America, 57.5% of Muslims approved of the attack.

The problem is not just about Israel-Hamas, but it is about a fundamental change in Western society over many decades. The West and its institutions are disempowered. Whether it's individuals or countries, if you don't empower yourself, someone else will take power over you.

Values are like the roots of a plant; they are the foundation. If they wilt and die, so do the plants. The core of Western civilization is the Christian-Judeo value system, which embraces democratic ideas, freedom and classical liberalism. Slowly but surely, it's disintegrating. 

The following chart tracks the significant decline in religiosity. Today, more people do not attend or identify with a religion than those who do.

The decline has accelerated in the past 15 years, more than doubling the '60s and '70s, which was the age of sex, drugs and rockn'roll. Of course, you don't have to be attached to a religion to be a moral, upstanding person. Still, the change has coincided with a breakdown of the family, fewer children in a two-parent family, and fewer children overall. 

Many no longer have any sense of spirituality or a belief in something beyond themselves. Remember when we used to say the Lord's Prayer at school? It had a valuable purpose. It kept children grounded. Today, schools and universities are breeding grounds for radical indoctrination.

So there is a big, big VOID. When you have a void, you search for something to fill it. The voids drive the values. Something will fill it. It could be communism or Islamism. When this becomes entrenched in our society, it leads to disorder and chaos.

We are on the road to empowering other powers through our actions, and our political leaders are cowards in their appeasement of foreign countries that promote these ideologies and have allowed these to infiltrate our societies.

A shocking symptom is the lack of knowledge about the Holocaust and also the blood libel that the Jews themselves created it, which is believed by 11% of the respondents. As more and more of the older generation dies off, the memory of the Holocaust may fade as well.

Survey finds 'shocking' lack of Holocaust knowledge among millennials and Gen Z

The idea of the Holocaust is not about playing the victim but about recognizing a historical event. Just as the Civil Rights movement is identified with Martin Luther King Jr Day, the memory of the Holocaust must be kept alive.

When you keep lying, distorting or rewriting established history, in the end, you end up repeating it. Unless we fill the void in our society with sound moral principles based on what has served us so well, we are bound to continue our decline.