Europe's Antisemitic Reversion and the West's Failure: A Choice to Reject Hamas-Aligned Politics at the Ballot Box
Source: https://www.facebook.com/americanspectator/. "Europe’s Oldest Hatred Returns Under a New Flag | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics." October 25, 2026. spectator.org
The Gist
The author says the riots in Europe show that an ancient hatred of Jews is coming back, now carried by Hamas supporters and their allies on the far left. He thinks the West let it happen by staying passive and letting in immigrants who weren't expected to adopt Western values, and he claims Democrats are tied to the movement. So he urges readers to vote against them.
Conclusion
Americans should reject the Democratic Party at the ballot box, because the antisemitic violence now seen in Europe is a resurgence of an old hatred carried by a Hamas-aligned coalition. The West has enabled this hatred through passivity and indiscriminate immigration, and Democrats are compromised by it.
Premises
- Antisemitism is a recurring European pattern, from the First Crusade through blood libels and expulsions to the Holocaust. It faded only after religious freedom became the norm, and it is now reviving in Europe's riots.
- Bernard Lewis showed that the demonic-Jew trope migrated to the declining Ottoman world, where it became a way to blame Jews for civilizational failure (the 1840 Damascus blood libel). It survives today in Middle Eastern Islamist movements.
- The current European riots are driven by antisemitism rather than by their stated grievances: rioters in Marseille reportedly marked Jewish shops for destruction and spared Muslim ones, and the rioters fly the Palestinian flag and invoke 'Hamas'.
- Hamas embodies the biblical ḥamas, violence in service of robbery, rape and the destruction of civilizational boundaries, and rioters in Europe tolerate or approve of its atrocities when they are committed against Jews.
- The West has responded passively, like Noah in the ark or Chamberlain appeasing Hitler. It has ignored Middle Eastern extremism and admitted large numbers of immigrants without any expectation that they assimilate to values of religious freedom and non-violence.
- Communists, Nazi sympathizers and Islamists now converge under a single flag of violent intolerance, and the Democratic Party is in thrall to this coalition, as shown by how few Democrats publicly oppose it.
- Democrats' late-campaign backpedaling is insincere, because they are too compromised by repeated Hamas sympathies to be trusted once in power.
Assumptions
- The motives of rioters can be inferred from anecdotal reports such as a single list of targeted shops in Marseille and the flags on display.
- The 'Palestinian flag' movement and Hamas are effectively the same thing, and all participants share the same antisemitic ideology.
- Opposition to Israeli policy or support for Palestinian causes is equivalent to support for Hamas and Jew hatred.
- Immigration policy is a direct cause of the unrest, and immigrants as a group are unwilling to assimilate.
- Events in France and Italy are a valid predictor of the political situation and risks in the United States.
- Democratic candidates' policies and positions are accurately characterized as Hamas-sympathetic.
- Voting Republican is the appropriate response to the threat described.