{"id":26667,"date":"2026-08-16T11:34:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T11:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/?p=26667"},"modified":"2026-08-16T11:34:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T11:34:24","slug":"european-leaders-in-urgent-need-of-deradicalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/16\/european-leaders-in-urgent-need-of-deradicalization\/","title":{"rendered":"European Leaders: In Urgent Need of Deradicalization"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have now arrived at a time when European leaders and “elites” are, once again, in desperate need of deradicalization — from being “pro-Hamas.”<\/em>Sometimes the sentiment is presented as “pro-Palestine,” but it really has nothing to do with Palestinians and everything to do with hating Jews. <\/em><\/p>\n

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If these protestors were actually pro-Palestinian, they would be demanding freedom of speech, equal justice under the law, better educational opportunities and better governance, where Palestinian leaders were less corrupt and did not shoot at their own people to prevent them from taking aid, or plant weapons depots among them to increase their own citizens’ casualty rates.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Do the Government and Parliament not understand that singling out the world’s only Jewish state, holding it to standards not applied to anywhere else, and falsely accusing Israel of committing these terrible crimes is bound to drive hostility towards people who are identified with Israel, which is the vast majority of the Jewish community?” \u2014 Lord Austin, speaking at a debate in the UK House of Lords, June 10, 2026.<\/em><\/p>\n

“The anti-semitism of today… is nothing but a wrench to unscrew, bit by bit, the whole machinery of our civilization… like a hand grenade tossed over the wall to work havoc and confusion in the camp of democracy. That is its real and main purpose.” \u2013 German author Thomas Mann, NBC radio, March 9, 1940.<\/em><\/p>\n

After World War II, many of Europe’s “elites,” notably in Germany and Austria, were in grave need of denazification. We have now arrived at a time when European leaders and “elites” are, once again, in desperate need of deradicalization — from being “pro-Hamas<\/a>.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Sometimes the sentiment is presented as “pro-Palestine,” but it really has nothing to do with Palestinians and everything to do with hating Jews. If these protestors were actually pro-Palestinian, they would be demanding freedom of speech, equal justice under the law, better educational opportunities and better governance, where Palestinian leaders were less\u00a0corrupt<\/a>\u00a0and did not\u00a0shoot<\/a>\u00a0at their own people to prevent them from taking aid, or plant\u00a0weapons depots<\/a>\u00a0among them to increase their own citizens’ casualty rates.<\/em><\/p>\n

Some of Hamas’s senior leaders continue to live comfortably, far from Gaza, in\u00a0Turkey<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Qatar<\/a>, and are\u00a0billionaires<\/a>\u00a0many times over. Until a string of assassinations, the combined wealth of just the top three leaders of Hamas was\u00a0$11 billion<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

As with Nazism, the ultimate aim of the pro-Hamas or “pro-Palestinian” movement in Europe \u2013 especially since Hamas’s Iran-orchestrated invasion of Israel on October 7, 2023 \u2013 is to rid the world of Jews “by any means necessary,” as the pro-Hamas crowds\u00a0explain<\/a>\u00a0at their demonstrations. At least, the thinking seems to go, if the Jews are terrorized enough, perhaps they might flee Europe on their own.<\/em><\/p>\n

The “pro-Hamas” sentiments among the governing classes in Europe appear to be guided by an overwhelming, almost frenzied obsession with Jews and the Jewish state — often in a way that works against these countries’ own national interests.<\/em><\/p>\n

In Britain, for instance \u2013 a country literally circling the drain as it descends into migrant violence and chaos \u2013 there was recently a gruesome\u00a0attempt<\/a>\u00a0by a Sudanese migrant to behead a British man in Belfast. What, though, is Parliament busy\u00a0debating<\/a>? Israel.<\/em><\/p>\n

“This is already the second debate this week on Israel,” Lord Austin\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0the House of Lords on June 10.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Over the last few years, Parliament has discussed Israel more than any other issue \u2014 not just more than any international issue but more than any domestic issue, including the economy, unemployment, crime or the NHS. The public out there look at Parliament and think this is utterly mad.”<\/em><\/p>\n

In Ireland, currently facing its own huge self-inflicted problems with migrant crime, President Catherine Connolly praised her sister’s participation in the May 2026 Hamas-aligned Global Sumud Flotilla by\u00a0saying<\/a>\u00a0she was “very proud” of her. The flotilla has\u00a0documented<\/a>\u00a0links<\/a>\u00a0to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. The sitting president of a European country is proudly boasting of her own personal links to an Islamic terrorist entity \u2014 and is admired for it rather than removed from office. The Irish government is also trying to\u00a0pass<\/a>\u00a0a law\u00a0boycotting<\/a>\u00a0Israeli goods, known as the “Occupied Territories Bill,” thereby\u00a0risking<\/a>\u00a0the violation of U.S. anti-boycott laws. Ireland is home to a large contingent of US companies, including tech giants such as X, Meta, Google and Microsoft. If, however, such a law were to pass, those companies might have to stop doing business in Ireland. Even if such a move would be a drastic blow to the Irish economy, in Ireland the hatred of the Jewish people and their tiny state might well supersede national interests.<\/em><\/p>\n

France has\u00a0opened<\/a>\u00a0a “war crimes” probe into Israel over its treatment of the Global Sumud Flotilla members. Meanwhile in France, violence in the cities has become so prevalent that authorities\u00a0imposed<\/a>\u00a0nightly curfews to get through the 2026 FIFA World Cup. In June, Paris Mayor Emmanuel Gregoire\u00a0granting<\/a>\u00a0honorary citizenship of the city to Gazans and the Arabs of the West Bank, as well as to “Palestinian journalists” — many of whom have\u00a0turned<\/a>\u00a0out to be \u2013big surprise — Hamas terrorists.<\/em><\/p>\n

Nevertheless, European leaders can be seen hard at work accusing Israel of every imaginable crime and then turning around pretending to be “shocked” when Jews suffer the consequences of the hatred that these “leaders” help to create.<\/em><\/p>\n

Lord Austin, speaking at the June 10 debate in the UK House of Lords,\u00a0said<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

“Do the Government and Parliament not understand that singling out the world’s only Jewish state, holding it to standards not applied to anywhere else, and falsely accusing Israel of committing these terrible crimes is bound to drive hostility towards people who are identified with Israel, which is the vast majority of the Jewish community? This is why I believe Parliament is playing a large role in driving the explosion of antisemitism that we have seen on the streets of Britain.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The obsession with the Jews has spilled over into the rest of the culture. Jews have now become so deliberately ostracized and boycotted that they\u00a0can<\/a>\u00a0barely find publishers for their books or a bookshop that will\u00a0sell<\/a>\u00a0them. Their book festivals are\u00a0boycotted<\/a>\u00a0by Nobel Prize Laureates such as J.M. Coetzee. While Jews can barely get published anymore, simply because of who they are, the publishing world is clamoring to publish Arab terrorists: Marwan Barghouti, a convicted terrorist serving five life sentences for murder, has a book,\u00a0Unbroken: In Pursuit of Freedom for Palestine, scheduled for simultaneous publication in several countries on November 5, 2026. Boosting him as some sort of Nelson Mandela, the book will be carried by the leading publishing houses in Britain, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, and the US. Genocidal Jew hate sells well.<\/em><\/p>\n

Above all, perhaps, a story from Madrid about the actions of a public school shows the consequences of European government leaders’ frenzied Jew-hatred — of which Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez\u00a0is<\/a>\u00a0one of Europe’s most radical adherents. To remain in office, S\u00e1nchez\u00a0depends<\/a>\u00a0on the even further-left Podemos, a party born of radical activism whose founders have long been entangled in troubling financial networks\u00a0linked<\/a>\u00a0to regimes hostile to the West \u2014 in particular Venezuela under Hugo Ch\u00e1vez and Nicol\u00e1s Maduro.<\/em><\/p>\n

A public school in Madrid recently saw 10-year-old students\u00a0performing<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 as if straight out of an actual Hamas\u00a0summer camp<\/a>\u00a0for kids — a pro-Hamas play, dressed as Hamas terrorists, in keffiyehs, military clothing and balaclavas, carrying toy weapons while chanting, “With strength and courage, we will not surrender.”<\/em><\/p>\n

German author Thomas Mann (1875-1955), speaking on NBC radio on March 9, 1940,\u00a0said<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

“The anti-semitism of today… is nothing but a wrench to unscrew, bit by bit, the whole machinery of our civilization… like a hand grenade tossed over the wall to work havoc and confusion in the camp of democracy. That is its real and main purpose.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The Nazis almost succeeded.<\/em><\/p>\n

European leaders are now doing just about everything in their power to destroy Western civilization. They have facilitated mass migration from the Middle East and Africa, including all the third-world “traditions” that come with it. This time, no one will come to save the Europeans from themselves.<\/em><\/p>\n

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