Who, that July week of 2005, as London reeled from the worst terrorist bombings in its history with 52 people dead and hundreds injured, would have believed that the 20th anniversary of the atrocities would be marked by the rise of pro-Islamism amongst ethnically English Londoners? What absurd historical twists allowed Palestine Action to become so dangerous that it was outlawed by the British government on the eve of the 20th anniversary of 7/7?
The explanation explains nothing, yet explains a lot: That it is the consequence of 1,200 Jews being massacred by Islamist terrorists near a music festival in Israel nearly two years previously.
What? How?
Good questions. That slaughter was then followed by riots outside the Israel embassies in London and Dublin.
These were by anti-Hamas Jewish zealots, yes?
No. They were by pro-Hamas zealots.
You mean Muslims?
Some were. Many – perhaps most – were not.
Help me, please.
Sorry. I can’t. But I should warn you that such nonsense is not unusual, and is caused by the ineluctably malignant magic of the insidious. Only by a coincidence of sounds does this word possess the power of its modern English meaning of treacherous cunning, fortuitously – if subconsciously – infusing its Latin roots with the unrelated Anglo-Saxon word inside. It is as if our language-shapers knew that we do not need to look beyond our city walls for enemies: They are right beside us.
This is true for any society whenever the circumstances are right, but especially true when uncontrolled immigration has broken the self-belief of the native populations. In England today, the mothers of more than 40 percent of babies born last year were not native to the UK, up by nearly 10 points in less than a decade. In six areas of London, more than 80 per cent of last year’s babies have at least one foreign parent. So, why would natives not feel dispirited when this is being done to them by their governments? A dispirited people are often an irrational people. Whereas there are a thousand sound reasons for opposing Israel’s current policies towards Gaza, there are none whatever for supporting Hamas, a nihilistic death-cult that fuses the murderous ethos of Mein Kampf with the suicidal harakiri relish of the Bushido.
Yet this is what has happened in Britain, with the rising popularity of the now-outlawed Palestine Action terrorist group. Perhaps the most startling, yet equally least surprising, element was the presence last weekend of the Reverend Sue Parfitt, an 83-year-old Anglican woman priest (who once upon a more accurate time would have been called “priestess”) at a pro-Palestine Action protest in London, as participants chanted the genocidal, “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free”, another term for Judenrein or “Jewless”.
Indeed, the pusillanimity and equivocation of English women particularly, in the face of religious or behavioural deviations by immigrant-groups, has been most informatively grim. This was exemplified by the silence of virtually all English feminists towards the ethnically-Pakistani gangs that groomed, drugged and raped tens of thousands of white English working-class girls, from well before 7/7. So, why would immigrants not look down on a society that ignored the serial mass-rapes of its least powerful by outsiders? As any Marxist would have predicted, middle-class English feminists prioritised the economic needs of their own class, senior lawyers and executives, while remaining heroically deaf to the cries of the raped, not least because both the violated she-waifs and their violators were both of the wrong races for such attacks to “count”.
However, another element was present: The insidious academic triumph of neo-Marxist philosophies, and the consequences are now poll-measurable in the USA. Daniel McCarthy, the editor-in chief of Modern Age, recently observed that supporters of the Democratic Party have dramatically swivelled in their attitude towards the USA.
“In 2005, fully 81 per cent of Democrats said they were ‘very’ or ‘extremely’ proud of being American.”
Today, that figure has slumped to 36 per cent, while Republican attachment to their country – at 92 per cent – is largely unchanged since 2005. Moreover, it remained high even when the US was being misgoverned either by a systematically disingenuous Obama or a systematically senile Biden. As McCarthy pointed out, patriotism was once obligatory for all US political parties, with even the Communists proclaiming (if forlornly): “Communism is 20th-century Americanism”.
So what happened? Aside from the Marxists, unchecked multi-ethnic immigration happened, bringing with it existential doubts about the justice of American values. That most immigrants still keenly endorsed the American dream is true, but many others had imbibed the virus of anti-Western theology. Partly this is based on the irrefutable truth that Americans are living on land once “owned” by American Indians, though the latter would neither have understood the concept of property nor why their position in the new country they were inhabiting would be improved by their being known by the twee and meaningless term, “native Americans”.
Endlessly reciting this historic wrong cannot undo this injustice. Nothing can. Almost nobody today in the entire western world lives where their ancestors lived two centuries ago. Roots exist in myths, not in real lives, and only the mentally unwell or the bitter dwell on distant might-have-beens. Nonetheless, the fictions of the aboriginal rights of the “native Americans” seem to have become embodied in the political mythology of American Democrats today, causing many to align themselves with illegal immigrants.
McCarthy writes: “When illegal immigrants clash with law-enforcement in cities like Los Angeles, many Democrats, including office holders, side with the foreign lawbreakers. There are some 212 Democrats currently serving in Congress, but only seven voted for a House of Representatives resolution condemning the recent violent protests in LA. The Democrats have come to see themselves as a party that represents populations other than just American citizens.”
Moreover, the US-naturalised film-maker Mira Nair, the mother of Zohran Mamdani, the newly nominated Democratic candidate for the New York mayoralty about whom I was writing last week, told the Hindustan Times that her son “is not an [American] at all. He was born in Uganda, raised between India and America. … He thinks of himself as a Ugandan and as an Indian.”
Mamdani’s father is (of course) a professor at Colombia University, specialising in, sigh, what else, but post-colonial studies. His son explicitly seeks to expropriate the “white” plutocracy, though he does so with a quite exquisite hypocrisy: Economically, the most successful ethnic group in the USA are people of Indian origin, though of the sub-continental south-west Asian variety (often lawyers) rather than that of the aboriginals, or sue rather than Sioux. Of course, no politician of whatever race would be allowed to refer to Mamdani’s skin colour: Nowadays, epidermal stigmas are allocated to Caucasians only.
This sort of racist rubbish became explicitly authorised within the secular creed that was built at the shrine of St George Floyd, who was accidentally killed by – an admittedly very brutal – police officer four years ago. Only in the moral dystopia created by the diabolical theologians of white guilt would Floyd have become a hero, or an outrageous hypocrite such as Mamdani be nominated as an anti-Israel Democratic candidate for the mayoralty of the most Jewish city in the world, or the murderers of over 1,200 Jews could in death be turned into martyrs, or tens of thousands of white English girls be raped without a word of complaint from their bourgeois feminist sisters.
Indeed, every single item in the foregoing paragraph would have been both unwritable and unbelievable at the start of this century, though the rot that made them all possible had begun long before then. The primary British newssheet for, and promulgator of, this decay has been The Guardian, whose foremost propagandist has been a militant gay named Owen Jones who seeks a pan-British alliance between the native hard Left and – no, don’t laugh – the immigrant Islamic demographic. Yes, this militant homosexual wants an an axis of weevil between the secular-left of Britain and Islamist cut-throats of the Hindu Kush and all points westward – there now, I told you not to laugh. But that’s not the real point; This is. The raving lunatic Jones, homosexual-zealot/ayatollah-ally has 500,000 fans on Instagram, nearly 800,000 on YouTube and a million followers on X.
Now do you get my point?
When an existential crisis strikes at the heart of a society, hysterical illogic too often is king, and its reign is usually arbitrary and unpredictable. Escape from this crisis does not come from violence but from a stoic calm as measured thought assumes the throne. But whatever possibilities might exist for such a response in Washington, and they probably do, the requisite qualities are entirely lacking in both London and the – yes, the hitherto unmentioned EU (long story: see Brussels Signal, passim 2023-25). And that is the larger truth. All of Europe is in a crisis, with no cure in sight, hence the insidious ubiquity of that insidious curse, insidiousness.
Kevin Myers is an Irish journalist, author and broadcaster. He has reported on the wars in Northern Ireland, where he worked throughout the 1970s, Beirut and Bosnia.
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