The “collective failure” was caused by the fear of an accusation that the Guardian has flung again and again at White officials and White institutions: the accusation of “Racism!” Having worked so hard to create that fear, the Guardian refuses to admit its own culpability. The editorial about Southport is full of weasel-words: “nightmare … grave failures … deadly flaws … single most disturbing conclusion … dangerous culture of buck-passing … alarming instances of serious threats to public safety going unaddressed … dreadful sequence of events … individuals with a disturbing interest in violence.”

Baffled, moved, repulsed. That’s how I’ve felt reading perhaps the world’s most influential book. Yes, the New Testament often baffles me, sometimes moves me, rarely repulses me. But am I right to be repulsed? Well, see for yourself:

3:5 Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth; 3:6 And all flesh shall see the salvation of God. (The Gospel of Luke)

Those are the words of John the Baptist in the New Testament, based on those of Isaiah in the Old Testament. And I’m repulsed by both the metaphor and the ideology it seems to promote. I hate the image of filling valleys and lowering mountains, of straightening the crooked and smoothing the rough. I think that variety is indeed the spice of life, but John the Baptist is bigging up blandness and banality. Or so it seems. He wants the world to be a billiard ball and claims that this will bring us to God. In other words, he’s preaching the ideology of egalitarianism, saying that kings should be lowered and beggars be raised, so that hierarchy is destroyed and all men become equal.

Revolting Reds

That’s what he seems to be preaching, anyway. How else do you interpret those words? I can’t see any other way. The Levellers of the English Civil War certainly took his words at face-value. They wanted to level society, bring the mighty down and lift the humble up. The same ideology, with the same apparent inspiration in the New Testament, chopped the head off Charles I during the same war. Then the ideology dropped its Christian cloak and chopped off thousands more heads during the French Revolution, which prepared the way for the mass murder of the Russian and Chinese Revolutions. Egalitarianism is evil, whether it leads to mass murder or to men in women’s bathrooms. And egalitarianism does seem to be inspired by Christianity and by words like the ones I quoted above: “Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low.”

Of course, modern leftism isn’t really egalitarian. It just pretends to be. As I’ve often pointed out, leftists preach equality and practice hierarchy. They say we’re all the same under the skin while sacralizing Blacks and demonizing Whites, while worshipping women and demeaning men. But I think that this contradiction is inevitable, because the impossible quest for equality will always become corrupt and always be co-opted by those hungry for power and thirsty for revenge. That’s why I’m repulsed by those words in the New Testament. I hate the image of a levelled world and I hate the ideology it seems to be promoting.

Pope Leo bows before Blackness and “throws a wreath into the sea in tribute” to dead immivaders (see story at BBC)

But maybe I’m interpreting John’s words wrong. If I am, then so are the current Pope and the current Archbishop of Canterbury. They’re both leftists, both egalitarians, and both core components of Clown-World, the equality-crazed, racism-obsessed system of lies and lunacy that currently rules the West. Pope Leo has recently proclaimed to non-White immivaders of Europe that quiero inclinarme ante su dignidad — “I want to bow before your dignity.” In other words, he wants to bow before Blackness, to grovel before the false god of equality. Meanwhile, the Archbishop of Canterbury literally embodies egalitarianism. After all, she’s a woman called Sarah Mullally. A woke woman, dedicated to racial and sexual equality. That is, she’s dedicated to preaching them, but not to practising them. No, as a typical leftist she preaches equality and practises hierarchy, which is why she has never spoken out against the non-White Muslim rape-gangs preying on White women and girls in historically Christian Britain. In the leftist hierarchy of virtue and privilege, non-Whites and Muslims are far above Whites and Christians, so leftists have left the rape-gangs alone to practise the patriarchal rape-culture of Islam. In leftist eyes, it’s perfectly acceptable for men to rape and torture girls, so long as the men are non-White and the girls are White.

First adoption, then atrocity

It’s also perfectly acceptable in leftist eyes for men to rape babies, so long as the men are gay. That’s why the Arch-Invertebrate of Contemptible won’t be speaking out against a meteor-murder that’s currently flashing through the headlines in Britain. It’s a horrifying story that leftists will be anxious to assign to oblivion ASAP, because it doesn’t cast one of their sacralized groups in a good light. Please be warned that this vibrant vignette from the Chronicles of Clown-World is a disturbing read:

Dead baby, depraved gays: leftists handed Preston Davey over to be raped and tortured to death.

A teacher has been found guilty of sexually abusing and murdering the 13-month-old baby boy he adopted with his partner. Preston Davey died in July 2023 at the hands of Jamie Varley, 37, who took a year off work to adopt him. Varley, from Blackpool, told police Preston had accidentally drowned in a bath, but a post-mortem examination discovered the child had suffered 40 injuries. His partner, John McGowan-Fazakerley, 32, has been found guilty of sexual assault, child cruelty and allowing the death of a child. The pair will be sentenced on Thursday.

Warning: This article contains distressing information

Preston was adopted by Varley and McGowan-Fazakerley, a financial sales manager, in April 2023 and in the next four months he suffered sexual abuse and ill-treatment, the trial at Preston Crown Court heard. Preston was born in June 2022 and taken into care by Oldham Council. […] Varley and McGowan-Fazakerley were approved for adoption and Preston began living at their home in Blackpool in April 2023, when he was nine months old. But in the just under four months he was in their care, he was routinely ill-treated, sexually abused and physically assaulted, suffering 40 traumatic injuries. He also had indecent images and videos taken of him.

The trial heard Preston had been taken to Blackpool Victoria Hospital three times in the months before his death with suspicious bruises noticed by medical staff, but these were explained away [Occidental Observer’s comment: because leftists didn’t want to believe bad things about sacred gays]. Preston had also been seen by several social workers. Varley rushed Preston to hospital for a final time on 27 July, unresponsive. He claimed to have left the child in the bath for a couple of minutes and returned to find him submerged.

Det[ective] Ch[ief] Insp[ector] Andy Fallows said the two men were “pure evil”. “Almost from day one, they set about abusing Preston and making his short life a harrowing tale of misery and pain,” he said. “For the first nine months of his life Preston was a happy and healthy child but by the end he was a broken shell. This was due to the sordid and wicked acts of Varley and McGowan-Fazakerley.”

Karen Tonge for the Crown Prosecution Service said it was one of the “most shocking and horrific cases I have dealt with in my career”. Following an eight-week trial a jury spent about 14 hours considering the verdicts before returning to court. Varley was found guilty of murder, two counts of assault by penetration, five counts of cruelty to a child, grievous bodily harm, sexual assault of a child, 13 counts of taking indecent photos or videos of a child, one of distributing an indecent photo of a child, to his co-accused, and one of making an indecent photo. McGowan-Fazakerley was found guilty of allowing the death of a child, two counts of child cruelty and one count of the sexual assault of a child.

A spokesperson for Oldham Council said: “The death of any child is a tragedy, but this is a particularly heart-wrenching and disturbing case. We are thankful that the perpetrators of the sickening murder and abuse of an innocent child have today been convicted for their crimes.” They said an independent Child Safeguarding Practice Review was already under way, which would examine the handling of Preston’s safeguarding. “Our thoughts remain with Preston’s family, loved ones, and the many people affected by this case.” Regional adoption agency, Adoption Now, said it was a “deeply upsetting case, and our thoughts are with everyone affected by these truly awful crimes”. It said it followed “a strict and rigorous process… in the assessment and approval of adopters”. “An independent Child Safeguarding Practice Review is being completed.” (“Teacher guilty of sexually abusing and murdering adopted baby,” BBC News, 15th June 2026)

Yes, all those leftists are very sorry about what happened. They followed a “strict and rigorous process” of “assessment and approval,” but somehow handing a baby boy over to two gay men didn’t work out well. Accordingly, there’ll be a “Safeguarding Practice Review” in which leftists will examine the evil consequences of leftism, ignore the role played by leftism, and promise that it will never happen again until next time. And note that the full depravity of that child-murder was concealed by the leftist media. Leftists always say that we need to be “open about sex,” but that rule is suspended when sexual details put leftist pets in a bad light. That’s why the BBC and Guardian do not mention that “Preston had 30 external bruises, internal bruising in his mouth and throat, internal bruising to his anus, bowel and bladder, lacerations to his anorectum, and a perforated bowel.” Leftists are doing their best to conceal the fact that Preston Davey suffered regular oral and anal rape. He finally died of suffocation “by having an object placed in his mouth.”

Clear Christian duty

What was the “object”? The BBC, Guardian and other leftists do not want you to ask that question. Saintly gays must not be associated with such things and the truth must be obscured as much as possible. Sadly for leftists, the truth is still plain to see in that repulsive story. Preston Davey died by depravity because of leftism and its egalitarianism. Gay men should never be allowed to adopt babies, but for the left denying them that right was a crime against “equality.” The left demanded that gay couples be given the same rights as straight couples, because gays are “no more likely” to abuse children than straights are. That’s an obvious lie, because gays are obviously more likely to abuse. It’s partly because of the gay tendency to sexual depravity and partly because men in general are more likely to abuse. That doesn’t mean women never abuse, but it does mean that a male child is much safer when he is adopted by a straight couple, consisting of a man and a woman, than by a gay couple, consisting of two men. There is abundant evidence for that, but the left aren’t interested in evidence.

On the contrary, the left suppress evidence and are happy for gay men to carry on adopting and raping babies, sometimes to death. That’s why Sarah Mullally, the Arch-Invetebrate of Contemptible, will not be fulfilling her clear Christian duty and will not even mention, let alone condemn, the depraved murder of Preston Davey. She won’t  demand in God’s name that gays should be banned from adopting children. If egalitarianism was indeed spawned by Christianity, then Christianity has been consumed by its offspring. Like all mainstream leftists, the Arch-Invertebrate puts “equality” before morality. That is, she puts hierarchy before morality. She won’t condemn the rape-gangs because they’re Muslim; she won’t condemn those baby-rapists because they’re gay. For the left, silence and censorship are the best response to some kinds of rape. Here’s another example and another vibrant vignette from the Chronicles of Clown-World:

Within an hour of being transferred to Lambeth Hospital’s all-male psychiatric ward on 12 April 2022, an unnamed transgender man (i.e., a biological female) was pushed into a cupboard and raped. “No Adam’s apple,” the patients chanted when the woman arrived. As she went into a side room to avoid other patients asking, “Are you a girl?”, she was followed by 27-year-old Davointe Thomas. He proceeded to subject her to a sex attack. Last month, a London Crown Court convicted Thomas of rape and handed him an indefinite hospital order.

How could this have happened? How could a vulnerable woman have been placed in a secure psychiatric ward brimming with troubled, unstable men? The answer, of course, lies in the NHS’s embrace of trans ideology — an ideology in which a person’s gender identity is said to trump biological reality, safety be damned.

Indeed, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has confirmed as much. It insisted its decision to transfer the female patient to a male psych ward was in line with NHS England’s policy on gender at the time.

This was an incomprehensibly terrible decision. Perhaps even more unfathomable is the alleged behaviour of the NHS trust during the subsequent investigation. A source told The Times that, following the rape, the trust went “into self-preservation mode” and sought to obstruct the police investigation “from the outset”.

Reportedly, the trust ignored several information requests from detectives and even shared around an internal note reading “don’t give them any more”. It took a judge’s summons for internal reports (which had previously been redacted) to be shared with investigators in full. […] If the horror of this case is not a wake-up call for those who have lobbied to normalise gender self-ID within the NHS, I’m not sure what is. (“How the NHS’s gender lunacy led to a horrific sex attack,” Spiked Online, 20th May 2026)

Depraved Davointe: the psychotic Black rapist Davointe Thomas

I didn’t need the name of the rapist — Davointe Thomas — to guess something that received no mention in that hand-wringing article. And sure enough, the rapist was Black. Not only are Blacks much more likely to commit rape, they’re also much more likely to be on a “secure psychiatric ward.” In other words, “the horror of this case” is much more of a “wake-up call” about Blacks than it is about transgender ideology. I certainly agree that transgenderism is important, but it’s important more for what it reveals about the lunacy and illogic of leftism than for the harm it has done. Far more rape and murder has been caused by the leftist privileging of non-Whites than by the leftist privileging of trans-lunatics. Across the West, millions of White women have been raped because non-Whites are allowed to occupy public space that should be reserved for Whites.

That is, millions of White women have been raped because non-Whites have been allowed to enter and inhabit White nations. But how many women have been raped because trans-lunatics have been allowed to occupy private space that should be reserved for women? Far fewer. The same applies to all other forms of harm inflicted by non-Whites, on the one hand, and by trans-lunatics, on the other. Even when you throw the trans-inspired mutilation and sterilization of children into the balance, the harm done by egalitarian anti-racism far outweighs the harm done by transgenderism. But race isn’t mentioned in that article about the rape on a psychiatric ward in London. That’s because the author of the article, Georgina Mumford, is an egalitarian too. I admire the way she’s prepared to challenge trans-toxicity, but she should challenge mud-mania too.

A plagiarist and rape-enthusiast

“Mud-mania” is what you could call the left’s worship of non-Whites, whom leftists pamper and privilege in the name of “equality.” Although some dissident leftists criticize the regnant version of anti-racism, they do so because it offends against “equality” and egalitarianism. They say that we need to treat all races equally, to ignore color, to promote or punish purely on merit or lack of it. Yes, let us recall those noble words of Martin Luther King: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” Well, I’m not a leftist any more and I don’t think those words are noble. No, I think they’re narcissistic and deceitful. MLK was a Jew-controlled plagiarist and rape-enthusiast. He and his cult are an excellent example of how Blacks blight the White West. His egalitarian campaign for “Civil Rights” unleashed murder and misery on White America. The impossible quest to “uplift Blacks” has swallowed trillions of dollars that could have gone to benefit Whites and continue the exploration of outer space.

As the great Paul Kersey has said: We could’ve conquered Mars. Instead, the left have coddled countless muds. They’ve also allowed gays to rape babies. And allowed a Welsh choir-boy to slaughter White girls. “Welsh choir-boy” is how Southport stabber Axel Rudakubana was portrayed by the leftist media after he added another vibrant vignette to the Chronicles of Clown-World in July 2024. Yes, his parents are from Rwanda, but little Axel was born in Wales. And he sang in a church choir when he was younger. Therefore he’s a Welsh choirboy. He’s 100% British. Who but a bigot could disagree? And who but a bigot could have raised concerns about Axel before he started stabbing? When one of Rudakubana’s teachers said she was concerned about his obsession with violence and knives, she was told by her leftist colleagues that “my attitude towards risk was because I perceived him to be a black boy with a knife, they thought I was racially profiling him.” At another time, entirely accurate references to Rudakubana being “cold, calculating” and “angry” were dropped from his “care plan.” Should we tell the truth about dangerous Blacks? Or should we leave dangerous Blacks free to kill Whites? Leftists have clearly shown which option they prefer.

Dead Whites are preferable to “restricted” Blacks: two psychotic Black killers, six White victims.

Leftists showed it again with another future triple-killer, the psychotic Black Valdo Calocane in the English city of Nottingham. When Calocane showed clearer and clearer signs that he would murder someone, more leftists worked to keep him out of secure detention because there are “too many young black men in custody.” And because they “felt a pressure to avoid restrictive practice because of his ethnicity.” All over the West, leftists have avoided “restrictive practice” for dangerous Blacks, even though Blacks are much more likely to commit murder even when they don’t succumb to their much higher likelihood of psychosis. For leftists, ruining White lives is much better than restricting Black liberty.

But let’s be fair. Even when Blacks are oppressed by “restrictive practice,” they can still find ways of creating a vibrant vignette for the Chronicles of Clown-World. Davointe Thomas was “restricted” on that secure, male-only psychiatric ward in London, but was still able to commit rape when Clown-World put a deluded and probably White girl on the same ward. And let’s be fair again: it’s not just Blacks whose crimes are enabled by leftism. Salman Abedi, the Manchester bomber, looked in-bred, not Black, as he prepared to trigger his bomb and blow Whites to bits.           As the seconds ticked away, a White security-guard, marinated in leftist propaganda since childhood, thought Abedi seemed “dodgy” (that is, suspicious) but didn’t act on his instincts. Why not? As the guard later said: “I felt unsure about what to do. It’s very difficult to define a terrorist. For all I knew he might well be an innocent Asian male [in fact, Abedi was a Libyan Arab]. I did not want people to think I am stereotyping him because of his race.”

Slaughter is better than stereotyping: inbred-looking Salman Abedi and his 22 victims (Abedi is making the Islamic tawhid gesture).

Stereotyped non-Whites? Or slaughtered schoolgirls? Leftists have clearly shown which option they prefer. It’s slaughtered schoolgirls every time. The words of that security guard were reported in the Guardian, but the Guardian will never admit that its own egalitarianism and anti-racism have led directly to murder and rape. Here’s the Guardian mulling over the schoolgirls slaughtered by the psychotic Black Axel Rudakubana in Southport:

The fatal stabbings that turned a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport, Merseyside, into a nightmare on 29 July 2024 would never have happened if public bodies had done their jobs properly. Sir Adrian Fulford’s conclusion, at the end of phase one of the inquiry into the murders, was blunt. The deaths of Bebe King, six, Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and injuries to 10 other people, were the result of grave failures by police and council officers, health professionals and the anti-terrorism Prevent programme. The multi-agency systems that are meant to link them together turned out to have deadly flaws.

While the report does not single out individual police or council officers in Lancashire, where Rudakubana lived, this does not make them any less culpable. On the contrary, their collective failure to take “ownership of risk” is the single most disturbing conclusion. Ministers must not wait for the inquiry’s second phase to explain how they plan to bring this dangerous culture of buck-passing to an end. It is impossible to ignore parallels with the Nottingham inquiry into the killings carried out by Valdo Calocane in January 2024. Significant differences between the two cases include Calocane’s age (32) and severe mental illness. But both include alarming instances of serious threats to public safety going unaddressed.

[T]his inquiry and its brave participants have performed a valuable public service. First, they have provided a clear account of the dreadful sequence of events leading up to the murders. Second, they have unearthed a large amount of material with broader relevance to the way that our society deals with — and fails to deal with — individuals with a disturbing interest in violence. (“The Guardian view on the Southport inquiry: buck-passing led to three girls being killed,” The Guardian, 13th April 2026)

The Guardian is lying when it says it “is impossible to ignore parallels with the Nottingham inquiry into the killings carried out by Valdo Calocane.” It’s entirely possible to do that. That very “Guardian view” ignores the two most important parallels: that both Rudakubana and Calocane were Black and that the “collective failure” lamented by the Guardian was a direct result of their Blackness. The “collective failure” was caused by the fear of an accusation that the Guardian has flung again and again at White officials and White institutions: the accusation of “Racism!” Having worked so hard to create that fear, the Guardian refuses to admit its own culpability. The editorial about Southport is full of weasel-words: “nightmare … grave failures … deadly flaws … single most disturbing conclusion … dangerous culture of buck-passing … alarming instances of serious threats to public safety going unaddressed … dreadful sequence of events … individuals with a disturbing interest in violence.”

No, Rudakubana and Calocane cannot accurately or honestly be described as “individuals,” because they were not treated as individuals by the leftist system that enabled their triple-killings. Instead, they were treated as part of a non-White collective sacralized and privileged by the Guardian and the rest of the left. They were able to murder Whites because leftists did not want to “restrict” obviously dangerous Blacks. As it so often does, the Guardian is wringing its hands over the poisonous fruit of its own ideology. It’s lamenting a “collective failure” by leftists that sprang directly from the leftist “collectivism” that collects non-Whites under the banner of virtuous victimhood and Whites under the banner of violence and villainy.

An ideology of ugliness and evil

That separation of Black and Whites contradicts egalitarianism, of course, but egalitarianism naturally — or unnaturally — always leads to its own contradiction. Liberté, égalité, fraternité — “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity” — was the fake motto of the French Revolution. It’s the fake motto of modern leftism too. What it means in practice is that Blacks and gays are at liberty to pursue equality by committing depravity. That’s not a lethal corruption of egalitarianism: it’s the logical culmination of egalitarianism. The ideology is corrupt at root, because it’s based on fantasies and lies.

Human beings are not and never will be equal. Like different breeds of dogs, different races, sexes and sexualities of human will never be the same in their potentials or propensities or pathologies. Wanting to make them so is like wanting to raise valleys and lower mountains. It’s impossible to achieve and would ruin the world if it were achieved. Egalitarianism is an ideology of ugliness and evil that claims to seek “equality” while privileging non-Whites and punishing Whites. Egalitarianism is why Kriss Donald was incinerated, Mary-Ann Leneghan was butchered, and Henry Nowak bled to death in handcuffs. Egalitarianism has led directly to slaughtered schoolgirls and babies being raped to death. Non-Whites do not belong in the White West and homosexuals should never be allowed to adopt children. For abundant proof of that, just consult the Chronicles of Clown-World.

Ronald Lauder has gained renewed attention in Donald Trump’s second term thanks to his six-decade friendship with the president and his family connection to Treasury Secretary Kevin Warsh, who is married to Lauder’s daughter Jane. As Politico reported when Warsh first emerged as a contender for Federal Reserve chair in 2017, Trump biographer Tim O’Brien observed that “Anytime someone has a connection to someone who’s powerful or famous, it matters immensely to Donald Trump.”

But grasping Ronald Lauder requires recognizing him as one of the most influential figures in world Jewry. Since 2007, Lauder has held the presidency of the World Jewish Congress. His affiliations encompass the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, the Jewish National Fund, the Anti-Defamation League, Yad Vashem, and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. In May 2025, Israeli President Isaac Herzog presented Lauder with Israel’s Presidential Medal of Honor.

His ties to Israeli politics extend even deeper. Lauder is widely credited with helping Benjamin Netanyahu secure victory in the 1996 Israeli election, when Netanyahu trailed incumbent Shimon Peres by 30 points. In 1998, Netanyahu personally asked Lauder to conduct Track II negotiations with then Syrian leader Hafez al Assad, and Lauder’s draft peace treaty became part of subsequent Israeli-Syrian diplomatic efforts.

One of the clearest demonstrations of Lauder’s willingness to intervene directly in the internal affairs of sovereign nations came in Greece, where he led an international campaign to pressure the government to ban Golden Dawn, a nationalist party that rose from obscurity to become the country’s third largest political force during the debt crisis of the 2010s.

Lauder traveled to Thessaloniki on March 17, 2013, addressing a ceremony that commemorated the deportation and destruction of that city’s 50,000-strong Jewish community by Nazi Germany in 1943. During his remarks, Lauder publicly demanded that Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and the Greek government take a tougher position against Golden Dawn, explicitly stating the party should be considered for a ban because it threatened Greek democracy. As the World Jewish Congress later reported, Lauder also met personally with Samaras in March and then traveled to Hungary in May to issue similar warnings about the resurgence of national socialist movements across Europe.

Golden Dawn’s American branch retaliated almost immediately, issuing a statement calling for a boycott of Estée Lauder cosmetics and accusing Lauder of launching a “hostile attack on Greek sovereignty, freedom, and interests” The party’s statement portrayed the World Jewish Congress as an alien institution demanding Greece suppress its “third-largest party,” asking rhetorically why Samaras would side with “5,000 Jews over 1 million Greeks.” The World Jewish Congress responded by calling the push for a boycott “reminiscent of Nazi actions against Jewish stores in the 1930s.”

Lauder himself acknowledged that for months after his public demand, not much happened. The promised Greek hate speech legislation stalled. Everything changed later that year with the murder of rapper Pavlos Fyssas.

Golden Dawn traced its origins to 1980, when Nikolaos Michaloliakos, who had served in the Greek armed forces and was convicted, after a July 1978 arrest, of illegally carrying weapons and explosives as a member of a nationalist group,  launched a magazine called Golden Dawn (Chrysi Avgi) espousing national socialist ideology. He founded the Golden Dawn movement in 1985 (registered as a political party in 1993), emerging from the milieu of antisemitic far-right figures including Konstantinos Plevris and his “4th of August Party,” itself named after the date of the August 4, 1936 coup that paved the way for the dictatorship of Ioannis Metaxas. The party’s leadership had ideological and, in Michaloliakos’s case, direct personal ties to the military junta that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974 and drew on the older current of the Greek nationalist right rooted in the wartime alliance with National Socialist Germany. For years Golden Dawn was not electorally relevant: it first contested elections in 1994, winning less than 1% of the vote, and as late as the October 2009 election it remained below 1%.Then came the Greek economic catastrophe.

The party’s platform fused ethnonationalism with fierce hostility to mass migration and other efforts to dilute the ethnic stock of the historic Greek polity. Members ran neighborhood patrols that protected Greek communities from migrant misbehavior, and the party condemned the international bailout deals, portraying the Greek political class as corrupt traitors. Golden Dawn MP Ilias Kasidiaris read from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in parliament in October 2012 and indicated he was a Holocaust denier.

Golden Dawn’s voter base was heavily shaped by the economic collapse. Before the crisis, the party received only about 0.5% of the vote; by 2013 it was polling around 13%. According to Human Rights First, an estimated 16.6% of Greece’s unemployed voted for the party in the September 2015 election. Greece’s overall unemployment reached nearly 28% in 2013, with youth unemployment hitting 62%, and about 29% of Golden Dawn’s own voters described their vote as a “protest” against the established political system.

The criticism of Golden Dawn came from across the political spectrum. All mainstream Greek parties condemned the party. The Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muiznieks in April 2013 formally described Golden Dawn as “a neo-Nazi and violent political party,” stating that Greece was “fully within its rights under international human rights law” to ban it. He called for tougher measures against racist violence.

Jewish organizations mounted sustained pressure. Then-ADL National Director Abraham Foxman repeatedly condemned Golden Dawn. When a former Nazi punk rocker was sworn in as a Golden Dawn MP in July 2012, Foxman said it “It is outrageous, but not surprising, that the latest member of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party to join the Greek parliament has a history of promoting anti-Semitism and racism through his music.” After Kasidiaris openly identified as a Holocaust denier in parliament in June 2013, the ADL urged Greece to immediately pass anti-racism legislation and called the statements “appalling.”

The turning point came in September 2013, when Golden Dawn member Giorgos Roupakias stabbed rapper Pavlos Fyssas to death. Police raided the homes of Golden Dawn politicians across Athens, and leader Nikos Michaloliakos and several lawmakers were arrested in connection with a criminal organization. The Greek parliament voted 235 to 0 to suspend state funding for parties whose leadership is charged with criminal-organization membership, freezing Golden Dawn’s state subsidy.

The criminal trial ran for five and a half years—described by Al Jazeera as the biggest trial of fascists in Europe since Nuremberg. On October 7, 2020, a three-judge appellate panel convicted all 18 of the party’s former MPs on trial on charges of being involved in a criminal-organization—seven of them, including Michaloliakos, accused of directing the organization, and the other 11 of simply being a member. Roupakias was convicted of Fyssas’s murder. At sentencing a week later, the seven leaders received 13 years each, the other former MPs five to seven years, and Roupakias was given life imprisonment. In March 2026, a five-judge panel at the Criminal Appeal Court unanimously upheld the 2020 convictions of 42 members and associates on final appeal.

As a result of this repression, Golden Dawn as a formal entity is effectively dead, but its political current continues to adapt. After the party failed to cross the 3% threshold in the July 2019 national elections and lost all its seats, Kasidiaris attempted to keep the movement alive through proxy parties. The Greek Supreme Court banned his Hellenes party before the 2023 elections. It then banned the Spartans party from the 2024 European Parliament elections. In June 2025, an electoral tribunal stripped three Spartans MPs of their parliamentary seats, ruling voters had been “deceived” because Kasidiaris was the true leader in violation of election law.

Kasidiaris himself remains imprisoned, serving his 13-year sentence. He continues to broadcast from prison, attracting tens of thousands of YouTube viewers, and remains the ideological hub for what remains of the Greek national socialist political current.

Ronald Lauder’s 2013 intervention did not ban Golden Dawn by itself. Only the Greek judiciary could do that. But his Thessaloniki speech is widely cited as a turning point in international pressure on the Samaras government, and the World Jewish Congress maintained sustained advocacy throughout the decade-long process that ultimately brought Golden Dawn to its end.

By leveraging his immense influence to demand the destruction of Golden Dawn, Lauder has once again demonstrated the global ambitions of a Jewish power configuration committed to the neutralization of national sovereignty within the West. One wonders how much money was distributed by Lauder (net worth around $4.8 billion) and his fellow activists to Greek politicians to attain this goal. As we stare down the barrel of total demographic oblivion, it is increasingly clear that the current wave of populist movements will never achieve anything for our people. They are effectively managed by the same Jewish interests that successfully weaponized state power to silence Greek nationalists, proving that only total detachment from this compromised system is the only path forward.

When private security guards physically assaulted environmental activists on the Zvernec Peninsula in late May 2026, video of the confrontation spread rapidly across Albanian social media and ignited a nationwide uprising that has forced uncomfortable questions about who truly owns Albania’s future.

The full scale of Albanian discontent became clear on May 30, 2026, when environmental activists trekking to the Zvernec Peninsula discovered heavy machinery already tearing through protected coastal dunes and Mediterranean pine forest. Newly installed concrete barriers and barbed wire fencing surrounded the site, guarded by a private security firm that forcibly removed protesters. Police were present but did not intervene as one demonstrator was dragged inside the fenced area.

Within days, thousands poured into Tirana’s streets chanting “Albania is not for sale” and “Cancel the project,” with many brandishing inflatable pink flamingos as a symbol of the threatened wildlife in the protected wetlands—home to flamingos, seals, and sea turtle nesting sites—and banners reading “Ivanka, go home.” Protesters rallied nightly outside the office of Prime Minister Edi Rama. A parallel demonstration broke out in Zvernec itself, where locals from the country’s Greek minority clashed with private security, prompting Greece’s Foreign Ministry to express “grave concern” and confirm that a Greek citizen was among the injured residents, with the Greek Embassy in Tirana formally filing representations to the Albanian government.

By June 4, Al Jazeera reported that protests were growing rather than subsiding after Rama rejected protesters’ demands and told parliament that no final development permit had yet been issued. Demonstrators countered that construction machinery was already in the field and insisted on the removal of all heavy equipment and restoration of habitats before any talks. Rama characterised the widening unrest as a “hybrid war” being waged by “enemies of Albania and Israel.” In a significant legal development, OCCRP reported that Albania’s Special Prosecution Against Corruption and Organized Crime ordered a preventive seizure of assets belonging to Albania Land Development, the company that purchased the disputed Zvernec beachfront plots.

The project at the center of the uprising has two components. The first involves a luxury resort on the 5.7 square kilometer uninhabited island of Sazan—a former Italian, Soviet, and Albanian military base at the mouth of the Bay of Vlorë, where the Adriatic meets the Ionian Sea—earmarked for a €1.4 billion development accessible by ferry. The second involves a sprawling complex of hotels and villas in the Vjosa-Narta protected landscape near Zvernec, a UNESCO-recognized area home to flamingos, monk seals, loggerhead sea turtles, and other protected species. Estimates for the combined projects have risen to as much as €4 billion, with up to 10,000 hotel rooms and villas proposed.

Jared Kushner’s ties to Albania run deeper than many initially understood. His investment vehicle, Affinity Partners, a private equity firm backed by approximately $4.6 billion primarily from Saudi Arabian and other Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds, assembled this two-pronged Albanian mega-project through its affiliate Atlantic Incubation Partners LLC. Kushner visited Albania multiple times and described the coastline as a “magnificent” and “incredible canvas” for luxury development. Albania’s Strategic Investment Committee, chaired by Rama, approved the Sazan project on December 30, 2024, granting it “strategic investor” status that expedites permits and access to state land—just weeks before Donald Trump’s inauguration.

The Zvernec land was reportedly acquired by a company called Albania Land Development, owned by Qatari businessmen Moutaz and Ramez Al-Khayyat, who were prior partners of Kushner in Brooklyn real estate deals. On June 2, 2026, Albania’s Special Prosecution Against Corruption and Organised Crime announced a formal investigation into the financial transactions used to acquire land titles and their sale to investors and froze the bank accounts of Albania Land Development. The probe targets allegedly fraudulent property titles and the controversial 2024 reclassification of environmentally protected zones that opened the door to construction.

This Albanian saga closely mirrors Kushner’s Belgrade, Serbia venture—a planned $500 million luxury hotel and residential complex on the bombed-out ruins of the former Yugoslav Army General Staff headquarters, destroyed by NATO in 1999. That project also faced massive public opposition and a government corruption indictment before Affinity Partners withdrew on December 16, 2025, announcing: “Because meaningful projects should unite rather than divide, and out of respect for the people of Serbia and the City of Belgrade, we are withdrawing our application.” Critics saw the Albanian project as Kushner simply pivoting south after Belgrade fell apart.

The protests are not happening in a vacuum. They intersect with a broader, simmering debate inside Albania about whether Rama’s government is surrendering Albanian sovereignty, environmental patrimony, and the country’s Muslim identity to powerful foreign interests. Understanding that tension requires examining Albania’s historically unique relationship with Israel and how that relationship has frayed since October 7, 2023.

Albania’s peculiar bond with Israel is rooted in one of the most extraordinary episodes of wartime solidarity in European history. During World War II, while virtually every other occupied European country handed over Jewish residents to German authorities, Albania did the opposite—hiding Jewish residents from Germany, Austria, Greece, and Yugoslavia, forging identity documents and providing shelter under Besa, an ancient Albanian code of honor meaning “to keep the promise.”

This legacy of collaborating with Jewry has been heavily exploited diplomatically in the modern era. Albania formally recognized Israel in 1949, though under the communist dictatorship of Enver Hoxha from 1946 to 1991, Albania’s stance flipped sharply. The regime outlawed all religions in February 1967—including Judaism—and reviled Israel as “the little devil” of the United States. Formal diplomatic relations were restored on August 19, 1991 after the fall of communism.

Since 1991, the two governments have developed robust bilateral ties in technology, cybersecurity, agriculture, energy, and tourism. Under Rama, Albania has cultivated one of the closest European relationships with Israel outside of a handful of Central European states. In January 2026, Rama addressed the Knesset in a historic address, opening with “I will do my best, dear Bibi, to survive your judgment”, invoking Albania’s World War II record, and declaring that “the jailer of Gaza is Hamas, no one else but Hamas.” He received a standing ovation from Israeli lawmakers. Arab members of the Knesset boycotted his speech in protest.

Yet Albanian public opinion is sharply divided between the government’s official pro-Israel posture and a more complex, often Palestine-sympathetic grassroots sentiment—a divide that has widened dramatically since October 7, 2023. As of Albania’s 2023 census, Islam is the country’s largest religious affiliation but no longer a clear majority: about 45.9 percent identified as Muslim (overwhelmingly Sunni) and a further 4.8 percent as Bektashi, together roughly 51 percent—down sharply from about 56.7 percent who identified as Muslim in 2011. A Jewish Telegraphic Agency report from October 2023 found that pro-Israel sentiment was already dropping in the immediate aftermath of the October 7 Hamas attack and Israel’s subsequent military response in Gaza, even as the government in Tirana opened two new Jewish heritage museums.

Notably, on late August 2025, nearly 300 Albanian Muslim religious leaders—imams, scholars, and community leaders—signed an unprecedented joint declaration condemning Israel’s war on Gaza as genocide and calling on Muslims worldwide to boycott companies complicit in Israel’s military campaign. Albanian historian Olsi Jazexhi told Middle East Eye that the declaration “reflects growing frustration within Albanian civil society over the Albanian state’s silence” and Prime Minister Edi Rama’s stance, even as Tirana continues to cooperate fully with Israel.

The most visceral public expression of shifting sentiment came on June 3, 2026, when Albania hosted Israel for an international football friendly at Air Albania Stadium in Tirana. Israel’s national anthem, Hatikvah, was met with loud booing and whistling from sections of the Albanian crowd.

Israeli nationals have also found themselves at the center of multiple Albanian controversies. The highest profile case involves Yoel Kaplan, an Israeli-American dual citizen who has served as Albania’s chief rabbi since 2010. In September 2024, a video surfaced of Kaplan celebrating devastation in Gaza and leading Israeli troops in prayer at the front. Kaplan confirmed to Middle East Eye that he had fought in both Gaza and Lebanon, adding “I’m very active [in the military], and I think it’s the time to be active because if not in this war, when?” He was photographed wearing a military uniform with the 55th Paratroopers Battalion of the 98th Division of the Israeli army, a unit that operated in Khan Younis during some of the heaviest phases of the Gaza campaign.

Yoel Kaplan

In September 2025, the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians, a UK based rights organization, filed a formal complaint with Albania’s prosecutor general urging the arrest and prosecution of Kaplan for war crimes and crimes against humanity, citing Albania’s obligations as a signatory to both the Rome Statute and the Genocide Convention. As of mid 2026, Albanian authorities had not publicly committed to acting on the complaint.

Rama’s January 2026 Knesset speech—where he called Netanyahu one of the world’s top speakers and said his “knees are trembling” in the Israeli parliament—was warmly received in Israel but deepened a domestic legitimacy crisis. Analysts in Albania publicly called the speech “one-sided” and noted that Rama had not mentioned the deaths of tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians. The controversy is compounded by the fact that Albania has confirmed an invitation to join Donald Trump’s proposed “Board of Peace” for Gaza’s transitional governance, further aligning Tirana with Washington and Tel Aviv in ways that many Albanians find deeply uncomfortable.

Rama has declared that “there is not a single chance [Kushner’s project] will be stopped for as long as I am here” and dismissed the protests as politically motivated. He told Politico, at the European-Western Balkans summit in Montenegro, that “If it was not Jared, they would not give a sh— about what is happening in Albania.” Greece has warned that protecting minority property rights and ecological areas is “a prerequisite for progress in the accession process,” and the European Commission echoed those rule-of-law and environmental concerns, urging Tirana to “act without delay” to align with EU environmental law.

The machinery operating in Albania is the same machinery that operates everywhere Jewish capital achieves sufficient political capture. The Belgrade project collapsed under public pressure, so the network simply pivoted south to Tirana, where the prime minister was more thoroughly owned. For world Jewry, every country is a playground. Every protected area is a development site. Every goyim who objects is an enemy of Israel. The system works perfectly until the people decide they have nothing left to lose and vigorously resist these Jewish machinations.