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Tucker Carlson Backpedals Once Again

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Thoughts and Observations of the Spectacle That Is Turning Point USA

As most readers are doubtlessly well aware, the first day of the Turning Point Convention on December 18, 2025 was a notable event for the way that Erika Kirk and above all Ben Shapiro made spectacles of themselves. Vivek Ramaswamy also saw fit to tell Americans what their identity is and how it includes him and his kind. In that speecch he insisted that “There is no American who is more American than somebody else,” replete with more “magic dirt” nonsense. He even made the obligatory allusion to Martin Luther King, Jr” with talk about “content of your character.”

Watching Shapiro in particular was a most unenviable task. Concentrating on his speech is made all the more difficult because of the intrusive but utterly correct utterance from any sensible internal monologue: “how do you do, fellow whites?” That spectacle, replete with a devastating confrontation about the USS Liberty in the question and answer portion, was overshadowed by Tucker Carlson’s speech. Shapiro of course denounced Tucker Carlson for not in turn denouncing Candace Owens and more particularly for daring to have Darryl Cooper aka Martyrmade and above all Nick Fuentes on as guests. Shapiro’s speech seems part of a desperate bid to counteract the discrediting that has occurred over the past few weeks. Time will tell if it reverses that trend, but so far things seem to be turning against the Israeli shill. The very next evening, Steve Bannon skewered both Shapiro and America being beholden to Israeli and Jewish interests, culminating with the declaration that “Ben Shapiro is like a cancer that metastasizes.” Megyn Kelly then lambasted Shapiro in a sit-down with Jack Posobiec, even stating she no longer considers Shapiro a friend.

While Shapiro’s bold provocations and the reaction to it are certainly interesting, comments by Tucker Carlson are likely of far greater interest to this publication and its readers for various reasons, above all because this speech was part and parcel of Carlson’s propensity to hedge controversial comments with statements that negate, qualify, or “backpedal” from these statements, either in the same presentation or in the context of recent statements and presentations. Carlson’s speech is of course in the context of having the guests that Shapiro denounced, as well as the interview with Piers Morgan for which the foppish British twit has been rightly excoriated, including—among many other things—forsaking his nation and its posterity “for a good curry:” a particularly contemptible utterance for many different reasons, not least of which that curry of course originated from Britain and because, as Rowan Atkinson quipped in a famous skit, “now that we [have] the recipes, is there really any reason for them to stay?”

Carlson begins with a stern rebuke of Shapiro’s comments. His reproach of Shapiro’s denunciation of Carlson reads in pertinent part:

I watched [Shapiro’s speech]. I laughed. I laughed. that kind of bitter sardonic laugh that emerges from you and like upside down world arrives when your dog starts doing your taxes and you’re like, “Wait, it’s not supposed to work this way.” To hear calls for. . . DEPLATFORMING AND DENOUNCING PEOPLE AT A CHARLIE KIRK EVENT. . . “WHAT? This is hilarious.” [laughter] Yeah, this is hilarious.

That Carlson laughed at Shapiro (both as he delivered his comments and in the account of his immediate reaction) cannot be emphasized enough. Carlson commented further, urging that Shapiro’s rant was antithetical to what Charlie Kirk himself stood for:

I really thought that the impulse to deplatform people or even to use the word platform as a verb, which it’s not. It’s a noun. Don’t steal my nouns. Deplatform and denounce. Why haven’t you denounced somebody else? The whole. . .. red guard cultural revolution thing that we so hated and feared on the left that we did everything we could to usher in a new time where you could have an actual debate. I mean, this kind of was the whole point of Charlie Kirk’s public life. . . . I think that he died for it. I really believe that.

After this brief foray, Carlson focuses much of his attention mitigating or even disclaiming earlier sentiments in past presentations discussed above and doubtlessly others as well. These comments operate from the basic underlying “universal principle” against “hating” people for how they were born, that “it is immoral to hate people for how they were born.” These comments admonish against “hating everyone in a group.” He stressed that it is immoral to punish a people for crimes individuals in that group did not commit. He even asserts that this is a commandment under the Christian religion and morality: “[Y]ou are prohibited by. . . Christianity from hating people for how they were born because God created them with his spark in his image because they have souls.”

From these other assertions he condemned so-called “Islamophobia” and antisemitism. He did however use these admonitions as a vehicle to condemn prejudice and discrimination against white males, particularly in relation to college admissions practices and even hiring practices in recent years and even over the past several decades. As important as this message is, it is needlessly hampered, neutered even by talk about this supposed universal principle discussed above. Carlson unequivocally denounces (in this speech and elsewhere) in-group preferences for whites, a necessary ethos to protect white, European posterity for the evils he confronted Piers Morgan about as just one example. It is impossible, for example, to rectify and prevent The Great Replacement in Britain and Europe in any meaningful way without measures such as remigration which necessarily entails enacting policy based on group identity.

Carlson of course buttressed such rhetoric by absurd off-the-shelf appeals to civic nationalism. Such appeals include the ridiculous assertion that “Most Americans have more in common” than they do not, a demonstrably false assertion. He also asserted that racially conscious commentary should be denounced because “they are trying to divide the country,” a mindless slogan about as stupid as “The Democrats are the real racists.” None of this should be persuasive to anyone, but the crowd reaction suggests otherwise.

Many of these assertions and contentions require the firmest, most vehement repudiation, even as so much of this counterproductive rhetoric relies heavily on various norms and mores deeply embedded in the American tradition and traditional mainstream conservatism more particularly. To some limited extent, judging individuals as such is fine as far as it goes (not far at all, really). Such musings notwithstanding, to only judge individuals only as individuals without looking at the larger picture from the collective whole is to embrace willful ignorance at its worst. No society can function without making group judgment based on various criteria that define a group. Consider for example age requirements for things like driving, voting, and what not. There are doubtlessly youngsters under 16 who possess the maturity, skill, and even height necessary to drive responsibly and safely, and yet society nonetheless operates on a rule requiring an age of 16 because those youngsters who defy this general rule are outliers. Up until recently, society correctly precluded women from traditional male roles such as combat duty in the military, on-the-beat law enforcement and so on because humanity is a sexually dimorphic species and is so despite certain outliers such as women like Brigitte Nielsen being 6’1 that defy, to some limited extent, general differences between the sexes such as strength and height. There are black individuals who defy certain trends, such as an aggregate, collective IQ gap between one-to-two standard deviations, or who defy the collective racial resentment, even racial hatred that defines much of the black populace, or who are not part of “a racial commitment to crime” that characterizes and defines wild overrepresentation of blacks in crime statistics. The existence of such individuals—who are indeed outliers—does not negate the overall trend that defines a majority of the black population. Nor does it give cause to ignore these overall trends or to refrain from policy considerations based on these trends.

In very real, important ways, Carlson deludes himself and his audience by insisting that we are all just individuals. Innate characteristics that are inherent to any individual, most particularly race, matter a great deal. Differences in race are real—they are not just a social construct—just as race is a core, fundamental component of culture, identity, and any cohesive polity defined by common race, language, and history.

External factors such as cultural milieu, religious upbringing, and myriad others further dispel such naïve notions about individual autonomy. Even a cursory review of history and human nature demonstrates that individuals are profoundly determined and influenced by a variety of external factors, including the time and circumstance one is born into, just as they are influenced by what others do in a variety of ways that one can scarcely fathom. Consider as just one example that people often mimic what others do. This is reflected in various phenomena associated with social contagion, from suicide clusters, to transgender nuttery and bulimia rubbing off on a small group of individuals to others, to how a married couple is far more likely to divorce if other couples in the same social circle have divorced or are considering divorce. There are other phenomena, such as the “mere exposure effect,” which dictates that a critical mass of people will like music, cinema, and other expressions of culture merely due to exposure to these cultural expressions.

Carlson makes an even worse error, conflating in-group preference for hatred and asserting that whites advancing white, European interests on a collective basis—that is, having an in-group preference at all—is tantamount to hating individuals in a different group. Implicit in this statement is the absurd idea that such supposed hatred or what might be better described as animus in the context of very legitimate grievances is hatred for each and every individual in that group. Doubtlessly, more and more whites are harboring animus for other groups, and not without good reason. “Black fatigue” is real, and the phrase (as well as a more virulent variant with one racial epithet in particular) has become a familiar adage in Internet parlance for very good reasons: namely, that whites have legitimate grievances about the black collective, involving wildly disparate black involvement in violent and other forms of crime, the racial resentment if not ancient hatred that a critical mass of blacks harbor against whites, and a whole host of other grievances that render black people as a collective irredeemable and incompatible with white society. The same principle applies to Pakistanis, Indians, and other imposters and their role in the reverse colonization of the British Isles and the columns of black and brown hordes in Germany and Europe at large who have no right to even set foot on the sacred continent, let alone seek “refuge” there. A person can rightly hold very negative views about these and other groups collectively while still acknowledging there are outliers to these groups. That there are outliers to these trends, as there are for almost any phenomenon under the sun, does not negate the requirement for collective action, nor does it negate sensible observations and conclusions about the group as a whole. To save British and European posterity will require remigration and resettlement of all such imposters, or at least the vast majority of them. And this is true even if some of them are otherwise nice and decent people. The number of decent, upstanding black individuals does not negate the overall general trend at hand, easily observed and reinforced through centuries of experience and history, that the multiracial experiment has failed, is doomed to fail, and that there are irreconcilable differences between whites and blacks that cannot be solved except by divorce and separation, preferably on a mutually amicable basis.

These and other such utterances, including how Carlson stupidly deflated his confrontation with Piers Morgan about The Great Replacement with silly, pointless disclaimers that he likes Pakistanis and there are many nice individuals who are part of this or that group, demonstrates once again that figures like Carlson are of limited utility. Although some insist they serve no purpose, writings and presentations such as those by Tucker Carlson can be used to help persuade others on those matters they get right, leaving the work of others to explain how and why this sort of senseless pandering and equivocation is wrong. The principal utility of figures like Carlson is that they have helped normalize formerly scandalous topics like anti-white discrimination, The Great Replacement, and other topics that Carlson himself has emphasized but that were taboo even a couple short years ago. That utility must however be harnessed in a way that is separated and bifurcated from these sorts of cowardly, simplistic, and self-defeating qualifications and other sorts of “back-pedaling.”

This unfortunate propensity to backpedal—in comparison and contrast to more sensible utterances—again demonstrates how essential the vital faculties of reason, discernment and discrimination are. Ultimately, to what extent Tucker Carlson will be a net benefit by interviewing figures like Darryl Cooper or even the somewhat unsavory Nick Fuentes will depend on to what extent the larger audience possesses and utilizes these faculties, or more particularly how writers, streamers, and other thought leaders use these faculties and then apply them in any discussion or analysis about events like these. These faculties, used in concert, allow both the individual and a group to discern that Carlson’s denunciation of evils such as The Great Replacement anti-white discrimination, and even his repudiation of Ben Shapiro’s naked Zionism are laudable, but are of limited utility unless such pointless and counterproductive qualifications such as those discussed above are discarded and repudiated outright. The application of these essential faculties in turn allow both the individual and the white collective to discern that such comments against in-group preference, appeals that we are“all God’s children,” admonitions that people can only be judged as individuals are both preposterous and harmful. This underscores the vital role the new populist right has in highlighting when figures like Tucker Carlson “get it right,” while also undertaking the most vital task of arguing and persuading how and why this backpedaling could not be more erroneous or harmful.

Other articles and essays by Richard Parker are available at his publication, The Raven’s Call: A Reactionary Perspective, found at theravenscall.substack.com. Please consider subscribing on a free or paid basis, and to like and share as warranted. Readers can also find him on twitter, under the handle @astheravencalls.

End of an Era: Norman Podhoretz and the Much-to-be-Hoped-for-Decline of Neoconservative Power

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The neoocns captured George W. Bush and his administration, resulting in U.S. involvement in wars throughout the Middle East.

Norman Podhoretz, the pugnacious Jewish intellectual who transformed Commentary magazine into the engine room of neoconservatism and spent half a century waging ideological warfare against enemies foreign and domestic, died December 16, 2025, at age 95. His passing from pneumonia complications closes a chapter in American political thought that increasingly appears headed for the history books rather than the future.

The combative editor who guided Commentary for 35 years represented something increasingly rare in contemporary politics: a complete ideological metamorphosis from liberal literary critic to a neoconservative warrior who constantly advocated for Judeo-American primacy on the world stage. His journey from the working class streets of Brooklyn to the commanding heights of American intellectual life mirrored the broader fracturing of the American Left during the Cold War, when former progressives found themselves “mugged by reality” and remade as champions of military interventionism and unflinching support for Israel.

Podhoretz entered the world on January 16, 1930, in Brownsville, a Brooklyn neighborhood teeming with Jewish immigrants and left-wing sympathies. His parents, Julius and Helen Podhoretz, had fled Galicia in what is now Ukraine, settling into the working-class milieu that would later provide fodder for his most controversial writings on race and class in America.

The young Podhoretz distinguished himself at Boys High School in Brooklyn through his academic prowess, which earned him a scholarship to Columbia University. At Columbia, he studied under the legendary literary Jewish critic Lionel Trilling and simultaneously pursued Hebrew literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary, a dual education that would later inform his fierce defense of Jewish particularism. A Fulbright Scholarship carried him to Cambridge University, where he studied under F.R. Leavis, completing an education that positioned him at the center of postwar intellectual life.

In 1956, he married Midge Decter, herself a formidable thinker and writer. They formed an intellectual power couple whose influence radiated through American conservatism until her death in 2022. Their son, John Podhoretz, would eventually succeed his father as editor of Commentary, cementing a dynastic hold on neoconservative thought.

Podhoretz began writing for Commentary in the early 1950s, but his ascension to editor-in-chief in 1960 marked the beginning of his true influence. Initially, he steered the magazine leftward, publishing countercultural figures like Paul Goodman and early critics of American conformity. The intellectual atmosphere of early 1960s liberalism still seemed congenial to a young editor eager to challenge the status quo.

But the emergence of the New Left, with its embrace of Third World revolutionaries and its hostility to American power and the state of Israel’s supremacist ambitions in the Middle East, alienated Podhoretz profoundly. The counterculture of the 1960s, with its sexual revolution and drug experimentation, struck him as decadent and nihilistic. Most critically, the New Left’s anti-Americanism and sympathy for enemies of the West convinced him that the liberal movement had lost its way.

By the late 1960s and early 1970s, Podhoretz had transformed Commentary into the primary intellectual arsenal of neoconservatism. The magazine became a bastion of anti-Communism, a fierce defender of Western values, and an unrelenting critic of affirmative action, multiculturalism, and what Podhoretz saw as the excesses of the sexual revolution. Under his leadership, the magazine gave voice to a generation of former liberals who felt the Democratic Party had abandoned them for the radical fringe.

Podhoretz’s political evolution traced the rightward migration of the neoconservative movement itself. In the early 1960s, he identified as a liberal Democrat, supporting civil rights legislation and the Great Society programs. But the 1972 nomination of George McGovern by the Democratic Party represented a breaking point. McGovern’s isolationism and perceived anti-Americanism convinced Podhoretz that the Democratic Party had been captured by forces hostile to American—and Israeli—interests.

By 1980, Podhoretz and his fellow neoconservatives threw their support behind Ronald Reagan, seeing in him a leader who would restore American confidence and confront Soviet expansionism. Reagan’s presidency validated the neoconservative worldview, as the Cold War wound down with the Soviet Union in retreat.

Neocons in the media—most notably David Frum, Max Boot, Lawrence F. Kaplan, Jonah Goldberg, and Alan Wald—have often labeled their opponents “anti-Semites.” An early example concerned a 1988 speech given by Russell Kirk at the Heritage Foundation in which he remarked that “not seldom it has seemed as if some eminent neoconservatives mistook Tel Aviv for the capital of United States”—what Sam Francis characterizes as “a wisecrack about the slavishly pro-Israel sympathies among neoconservatives.” Midge Decter, who, as noted, was a prominent neocon writer and wife of Commentary editor Norman Podhoretz, labeled the comment “a bloody outrage, a piece of anti-Semitism by Kirk that impugns the loyalty of neoconservatives.” If the shoe fits …

The September 11, 2001 attacks gave Podhoretz a new crusade. He argued that the Cold War had been World War III and that the War on Terror represented World War IV. He became one of the most vocal intellectual supporters of the Iraq War, defending the Bush Doctrine with the same fervor he had once directed against Soviet Communism. In 2004, President Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.

His support for Barack Obama’s opponents in 2008 and 2012 reflected his view that Obama sympathized with America’s enemies and sought to diminish American power. He famously declared he would “rather be ruled by the Tea Party” than by Obama, a statement that captured his alarm at the direction of American liberalism.

The rise of Donald Trump presented Podhoretz with a dilemma. In the 2016 Republican primaries, he initially backed Marco Rubio. But faced with a choice between Trump and Hillary Clinton, Podhoretz endorsed Trump as the lesser evil. Despite private reservations about Trump’s character and temperament, he publicly defended Trump’s policies, particularly his hawkish stance toward Iran and his unwavering support for Israel. The Times of Israel would later describe him as “the last remaining ‘anti-anti-Trump’ neocon.”

No issue animated Podhoretz more than Israel. He viewed the Jewish state not merely as a refuge for persecuted Jews but claimed that Israel was a frontline defender of Western civilization. He served on the executive committee of Writers and Artists for Peace in the Middle East, using his platform to rally American support for Israeli military action.

Podhoretz harbored deep skepticism about the Oslo Accords in the 1990s, viewing Yitzhak Rabin’s negotiations with Yasser Arafat as dangerously naive. He long believed that Arab hostility toward Israel was existential and could not be appeased through land concessions. He argued that anti Zionism represented merely the latest manifestation of ancient anti-Semitism, prompting him to get into a public feud with conservative gatekeeper William F. Buckley Jr. over the conservative movement’s tolerance of anti-Israel rhetoric.

Podhoretz thrived on intellectual combat and described himself as a provocateur. His 1963 essay, “My Negro Problem—And Ours,” remains one of the most controversial pieces ever published in an American magazine. In brutally honest prose, he confessed to the fear and envy he felt toward black youths while growing up in Brooklyn, challenging the liberal pieties of the Civil Rights movement. He concluded with a radical suggestion that only complete racial amalgamation through intermarriage could solve America’s racial divide. It was never clear if that meant intermarriage with Jews.

On Iran, Podhoretz advocated military action with characteristic bluntness. “If we were to bomb the Iranians as I hope and pray we will,” he stated in a 2007 interview, “we’ll unleash a wave of anti-Americanism all over the world that will make the anti-Americanism we’ve experienced so far look like a love fest.”

Podhoretz’s death arrives at a moment when neoconservatism itself appears embattled. The American public has grown weary of the endless wars that Jewish neoconservatives championed. The Iraq War, which Podhoretz defended to the end, stands as a cautionary tale about the limits of American power and the dangers of ideological hubris. Even support for Israel, long a bipartisan consensus, has frayed, particularly among younger Americans disturbed by Israel’s recent genocidal campaign in Gaza.

Podhoretz’s passing follows the recent deaths of Michael Ledeen and David Horowitz, fellow travelers in the neoconservative movement. Together, these losses mark a generational transition. The intellectual architecture that Podhoretz and his Jewish contemporaries built over decades faces an uncertain future. Populist Republicans show little interest in the democracy promotion and nation-building projects that animated the neoconservative foreign policy consensus.

The movement that Podhoretz helped create now finds itself orphaned, embraced fully by neither political party. His death symbolizes not just the loss of a single thinker but the twilight of an entire worldview that dominated American foreign policy for a generation. Whether neoconservatism will find new champions or fade into historical memory remains an open question, but the era of Podhoretz’s influence has unmistakably ended.

He is survived by his son, John Podhoretz, and his daughters. His legacy endures in the pages of Commentary, in the foreign policy debates that continue to roil American politics, and within the corridors of American Jewish discourse.

Like Michael Ledeen and David Horowitz before him, Podhoretz exits the stage without eliciting mourning from those who bore the consequences of the wars and doctrines he championed. History will record his influence, but it will also reckon with the wreckage left in its wake.

Rating Trump: 14 viewpoints on the right

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Talk radio host James Edwards assembled a special panel of accomplished academics and activists to evaluate President Trump’s first year back in office. The panel included a diverse mix of both American and international respondents. Listed alphabetically, each participant was asked to assign a grade to Trump’s first year on a scale of 1-10 and provide a brief explanation for their rating. 

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Dr. Virginia Abernethy, professor emerita of psychiatry at Vanderbilt University (U.S.): 7/10. I would give a higher rating, but his uneven foreign policy has brought Trump down a bit. I think it was very bad to bomb Iran, and wrong to provide Zelensky with so much rope. By disfavoring Russia, we push Russia and China closer together than they would otherwise be, which is dangerous. China is our most dangerous, possibly impulsive, and aggressive adversary.

Recall that the US and our allies had been promising, for decades, that Ukraine would never join NATO. Then, suddenly, President Biden invited Ukraine to join NATO, and Ukraine appeared delighted to accept. One cannot blame Russia for feeling betrayed by the United States and our allies. In this light, Russia’s attack on Ukraine seems almost reasonable. Also, recall that Ukraine was part of Russia until Krushchev declared its independence sometime, I think, in the 1950s. Trump is trying to settle the mess, but he has not pushed Zelensky hard enough and has allowed too much money and military material to flow Zelensky’s way.

Peter Brimelow, former editor of Forbes, Wall Street Journal, and VDARE (U.S.): 10/10. He gets a 10 because he’s not Joe Biden or Kamala Harris. It really is that simple. The Biden administration was an absolutely catastrophic, incipient communist coup–communist in content but fascist in form because it often worked through private sector entities. It turns out, for example, that it was the federal government that was pressuring banks to force payment processors to drop Dissident Right content creators. (My wife, Lydia, and I mentioned we suspected this in our VDARE swan-song videos). A second Biden/Harris administration would have been worse. Appropriate symbol: the J6 martyrs would still be in jail.

Trump is infuriating in many ways, such as the rhetorical flip-flopping, Zionist whoring, and apparent inability to get Congressional Republicans to actually do anything. But from my immigration-obsessed perspective, he has already triggered a serious exodus — the foreign-born population has fallen by more than 2 million in 10 months. He seems to be hampering legal immigration through regulatory changes (which also occurred during his first term). And he’s surfacing issues that VDARE.com was writing about going back 25 years–Birthright Citizenship, the refugee racket, cultural incompatibility of Third World immigration, etc. It adds up.

Rev. Jim Dowson, pastor of the Church of St. Mary Magdalene (Ireland): 7/10. Trump has revolutionized politics not only in the United States but has shocked Europe out of its slumber. His ICE initiative has given us Brits hope and ended the government’s mantra of “There is nothing we can do about illegals here.” He has also sparked a massive reawakening of British patriotism and the belief that “We ain’t done yet” among our people, which has manifested in the incredible rise of right-wing parties across many European nations.

I think he still has much to do to free America and his own administration from the steel grip of the Zionists and the Israel lobby, but given his position and their strength, I think he is doing as much as he possibly can at present without dodging another assassin’s bullet. It is my earnest prayer that Donald Trump avoids the next election by whatever means, i.e., national emergency powers or martial law, so he can have another four years to crush the woke and the left. May God guide him and defend him in the years ahead, and may God truly bless America. If you fall, we all fall. That’s a fact.

Andrew Fraser, professor emeritus of law at Macquarie University (Australia): 6/10. I live in a small town at the top of the Blue Mountains, about 50 miles from downtown Sydney. The people here are generally Anglo progressives in outlook. So, back in 2016, I received a lot of dirty looks as I walked around proudly wearing a MAGA hat. But Trump’s first term was a bitter disappointment. And, so far, his second term hasn’t been much better. He often talks big about immigration, for example. Unfortunately, he never follows through with a consistent program of legislative and executive action. For example, let’s see a serious campaign to repeal the demographically disastrous 1965 Hart-Celler Act. Or how about penalizing corporations employing illegal aliens in flagrant disobedience of laws already on the books?

Even in that department, it gets worse. Trump’s mind seems to wander all over the map, even on immigration. He criticizes European countries for their immigration policies. But then, he turns around and calls for an infinite H-1B Indians, apparently because there aren’t enough white Americans possessing the stellar skills displayed by folks such as Kash Patel and Vivek Ramaswamy. And what was the point of those up one day, down the next, tariff policies? Still, I give him 6 out of 10 for showmanship.

Paul Fromm, director of the Canadian Association for Free Expression (Canada): 8/10. President Trump has done more for White Americans than any American president since Calvin Coolidge, whose administration passed the strict Immigration Act of 1924, which sought to preserve the racial balance in America. Trump has banned the anti-White DEI in the federal government and its institutional funding. He has closed the border to illegals and has begun the Herculean task of deporting at least the worst of Biden’s invasion of illegals. He has announced at least a temporary end to immigration from utterly incompatible Third World countries. He is currently taking on the criminals, thieves, and grifters in the Somali community.

Sadly, Trump remains a captive of the Israeli lobby. He has permitted Netanyahu to devastate and commit genocide in Gaza. Netanyahu’s assassins shamelessly storm into Lebanon, Syria, and the West Bank — sovereign nations — to kill perceived enemies. National boundaries mean nothing to the Israelis, who recently broke the ceasefire in Gaza by killing more civilians.

Brad Griffin, editor of Occidental Dissent (U.S.): 7/10. The Big Beautiful Bill, which delivered tax cuts and border security, passed Congress through budget reconciliation in the summer. World War III with Iran, Russia, and China didn’t happen in 2025. Trump quickly brought the border under control. There have been multiple “Overton Window victories” that have made it easier to talk about racial realities.

Trump succeeded in stopping illegal immigration. The Supreme Court had a good ruling on anti-White discrimination, and major legal battles over the Voting Rights Act and birthright citizenship are pending. We avoided getting sucked into any new wars. These are all good things.

Trump’s second term has been far from perfect, though. He bungled the Epstein files, attacked Iran for Israel, purged Marjorie Taylor Greene from Congress in a petty fight, and lacks a solution to economic anxiety and malaise. Mass deportations have also been underwhelming so far. My only regret is being too optimistic in the spring that Trump would break out of the pattern of thermostatic politics in his second term and build a durable governing majority.

Nick Griffin, former Member of the European Parliament (England): 8/10. This score is specifically from a British/European perspective. Big pluses: The significant shift in policy pertaining to Ukraine/Russia, slamming the European Union, protecting American industry, intervening on behalf of the Boers, and bringing humor (intentional and inadvertent) into international affairs.

Minus points: The dithering over Epstein, pushing to steal Venezuela’s oil, and signs of continued subservience to the Zionist lobby all pull the rating down, although he did slap down Netanyahu and block the attempt to exterminate or expel the whole of Gaza.

Ruuben Kaalep, former Member of Parliament (Estonia): 5/10. As a nationalist, I view Trump’s emphasis on the foundations of a strong nation-state: border security, cultural cohesion, and resistance to the dominance of globalist elites, positively. His election gave voice to those who understand that great nations fail not because of external enemies, but because of internal cultural and political decay. Trump challenged entrenched media power, questioned prevailing ideological dogmas, and reaffirmed the principle that the American people – not transnational structures or unaccountable bureaucracies – should decide the fate of their country. Yet a contradiction runs through his presidency: nationalism and imperial habits do not go easily together. Large, centralized power structures tend to weaken rooted, trust-based national communities and favor bureaucratic expansion. A consistent nationalist course would require greater respect for decentralization at home and genuine national self-determination abroad.

On the world stage, Trump entered office with a genuine desire to reduce conflict and pursue peace while limiting direct American military involvement. That instinct is understandable and, in many ways, healthy. However, lasting peace cannot exist without justice, and justice would require containing imperial aggression by great powers against their neighbors. Trump’s record here is mixed. Positively, he challenged European complacency and pressed the European Union to take greater responsibility for its own defense, aligning with a sober understanding of national sovereignty. His efforts in the Middle East also show potential, though it remains uncertain whether they can lead to a durable settlement that respects the national self-determination of both sides. Negatively, occasional rhetoric about territorial expansion or the use of force for adventurist purposes risks undermining his own nationalist logic. His first year has revealed strong instincts, but also strategic inconsistencies that limit their realization.

Jason Kessler, author of Charlottesville and the Death of Free Speech (U.S.): 8/10. Trump’s second term has had so many successes it impossible to list them all: pardoning the J6ers, ending the war in Gaza, reducing border crossings to the lowest levels since the 1970s, shrinking the foreign born population for the first time in generations, advocating for White South Africans, ending affirmative action, possibly ending birthright citizenship, and gutting state funding of leftist patronage networks like USAID.

The criticism boils down to “there aren’t enough deportations,” and Trump isn’t hostile enough to Israel. The first is totally unfair and belies the facts. Trump has about 120 nationwide injunctions against his policies, including immigration, more than every other modern president combined. The Israel issue is totally subjective. I think it is dangerous to attack the central person with power and will to fight the Great Replacement over Israel, when, if they just wait a generation, the support for Israel will collapse on its own.

Dr. Kevin MacDonald, professor emeritus of evolutionary psychology at California State University-Long Beach (U.S.): 7/10. On the good side, Trump has been tough on immigration — shutting down illegal immigration and deporting illegals (2.5 million have left whether via ICE or self-deporting — a good start), shutting down the endless refugee flow but exempting White South Africans, requiring increased vetting of student visa and H-1B visa applicants and attaching a $100,000 fee to admitting H-1B visa holders (now being litigated by 20 blue or purple states). He has condemned the immigration policies of Western Europe as leading to “civilizational erasure.” Europe’s immigration policies have resulted in increasingly authoritarian practices, such as suppressing free speech, aimed at containing public discontent on immigration and multiculturalism (especially in the United Kingdom, which must be the most unhappy country in the world).
Meanwhile, Trump is litigating the birthright citizenship boondoggle at a time with a conservative SCOTUS majority. Additionally, he is making a strong effort to repatriate American manufacturing and jobs, strongly encouraging foreign investment in the United States as an alternative to disastrous free trade policies and massive trade deficits. He is ending DEI policies across the government and pressuring universities and private companies to scale back DEI policies, amid a more positive legal atmosphere created by Trump’s DOJ. He is preventing transgenders from serving in the military and preserving women’s sports from transgender female opportunists. I think he has done the best possible regarding Ukraine, given strong opposition from European countries and Ukraine to any reasonable settlement in the face of non-negotiable but reasonable Russian demands for territories it has conquered (and perhaps the small part of the Donbas it has not conquered), keeping Ukraine out of NATO, and making it a neutral buffer zone country. These are reasonable demands given aggressive NATO expansion and the CIA’s role in toppling the previous pro-Russian government. I believe Zelensky and friends will happily fight to the last Ukrainian and then abscond with their stolen millions.

On the bad side, the Trump administration has cooperated with the Gaza genocide, continued to give Israel weapons used in the genocide, and forced a ceasefire in Gaza that Israel routinely violates with impunity and continues to limit aid severely, cooperated with Israel in bombing Iran, and stands by as Israel continues its aggression and ethnic cleansing on the West Bank. A lot of his pressuring of universities has been motivated by preserving Jewish influence — essentially banning free speech and peaceful protests from pro-Palestinian protesters, those protesting the Gaza genocide, and deporting pro-Palestinian activists. I am also doubtful about Trump’s anti-Venezuelan adventure, apart from it being a naked expression of U.S. power that could easily backfire if the U.S. invades — another foreign war that Trump has often said he is against.

Sheriff Richard Mack, founder of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (U.S.): 9/10. First and foremost, President Trump inherited a horrible mess left behind by a treasonous and corrupt Biden administration. Within the first few months, Trump and his team pulled off some real miracles; they had the border safe and secure with a complete cessation of illegal immigration. Of course, there is a great deal yet to be done, but the first year has been a huge step in the right direction.

Second, the worst thing any government can ever do is put innocent people in prison. Yes, I am referring to the J6 lies and distortions. Due to the lies and dishonesty of many DC corrupt politicians and their bed partners in the media, over 1200 people were arrested by the Federal Government. Some were given extreme sentences for simple trespass. President Trump stood firm and courageously pardoned all the J6 Biden/Pelosi victims.

Amazingly, on September 23, Trump stood before the United Nations and tore them a new one. It was about time that a leader of our country accused the UN of what it genuinely is, corrupt and worthless. Thank you, President Trump!

José Niño, journalist and political analyst (U.S.): 4/10. While his administration has not fully collapsed or descended into chaos, it has failed to deliver on its most consequential America First promises. There has been no immigration moratorium, no move to end birthright citizenship or chain migration, no nationwide E-Verify mandate, and no serious overhaul of the legal immigration system. It is true that border crossings are at historic lows, and the deployment of the National Guard to cities such as Memphis has restored a basic level of order. Yet even the border crackdown largely originated under the late Biden administration as a cynical election-year maneuver, not as part of a bold Trump-led reset.

On foreign policy, Trump has been equally disappointing. While he has avoided launching new prolonged wars, he remains firmly aligned with Israel, even to the point of bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities on its behalf. His promise to end the Russia-Ukraine war in 24 hours has gone unfulfilled. Although he has not authorized new aid packages, the United States continues to provide intelligence and targeting support, suggesting a concern with optics rather than a commitment to decisive disengagement. Trump appears unwilling to accept that the Ukraine project has failed, fearing an Afghan or Saigon-style collapse. Likewise, despite his skepticism toward NATO, he has taken no steps toward a complete U.S. withdrawal. Overall, Trump’s first year reflects a presidency that plays it safe, prioritizes image management, and increasingly resembles a conventional Republican administration rather than the transformative America First force voters were promised.

Sascha Roßmüller, journalist and board member of Die Heimat (Germany): 5/10. Given that I would rate the previous Biden presidency with a zero, Trump’s score here is relatively respectable. I appreciate his extraordinary dynamism immediately after taking office, his clear language when naming political opponents or grievances, and his courage to break new ground, for example, in tariff policy, thereby breaking with globalist doctrines. Most importantly, I believe that Trump has increasingly opened the door to discourse on topics that were previously more or less taboo, such as criticism of migration and Antifa crime. Furthermore, I hope that Trump’s involvement will bring an end to the war between Ukraine and Russia.

However, I am very concerned that the excessively Zionist character of the Trump administration is a sign that the Deep State is not being dried up, and that ultimately the key architects of the woke replacement of Western culture are still pulling the strings.

Dr. Tomislav Sunic, former diplomat (Croatia): 9/10. From my neck of the woods in Croatia, and from my childhood in what was once communist Yugoslavia, I am grateful to President Trump for discerning the pathology of the communist mindset and its postmodern, diverse, woke, hybrid, transgender avatars in America — such as non-European mass migrations and the failed multicultural experiment. Such utopian globalist DEI promiscuous dreams, once tested in communist multiethnic Yugoslavia, ended in chaos. President Trump deserves credit for realizing the nightmarish side of such modern-day proto-communist experiments.

Trump and his team — especially Tom Homan and ICE — are doing a fantastic job. Unlike any politician in the Western hemisphere, Trump has been able to reject the fraudulent name-calling used by the Western media and leftist academics; their arsenal of shut-up words like “fascists,” “Nazis,” and “white supremacists” no longer sounds credible.

In order not to sound too laudatory, I would advise him not to try to be less generous to the state of Israel. If MAGA means America First, billions of dollars sent to Israel (and other countries) should instead be spent on impoverished, jobless, and ailing Americans.

Recap: This panel consisted of 14 contributors: 7 from the United States and 7 living abroad. The American contributors rated Trump’s performance in 2025 at 7.4/10, while the European, Canadian, and Australian contributors rated his performance at 6.8/10. The overall combined average score for Trump’s first year back in office was thus assessed at 7.1/10.

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When not interviewing newsmakers, James Edwards has often found himself in the spotlight as a commentator, including many national television appearances. Over the past 20 years, his radio work has been featured in hundreds of newspapers and magazines worldwide. Media Matters has listed Edwards as a “right-wing media fixture” responsible for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton personally named him as an “extremist” who would shape our country.

Overlooked No More: Inclusive Bullies!

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Man Bites Dog: NYT’s Rules for Covering Crime

The New York Times must have thought it had died and gone to heaven when it discovered a group of violent high school bullies — and they weren’t all black! Members of Arizona’s “Gilbert’s Goons” were not only multiracial — white, Hispanic and black — but they victimized one student who appears to be half-black. The featured victim, Tristan, who was regularly wailed on by the Goons, is at least a “person of color,” judging by the multiple photos of him that ran with the article.

Meanwhile, white kids at majority black high schools are subjected to daily beat-downs; internet videos regularly show black teenagers sadistically torturing their white classmates — never the other way around; and “the community” responds by saying the white victims had it coming.

The Department of Justice’s aggregate statistics are troubling but indisputable. From 2008 to 2021, per capita data show that blacks commit violence against whites 25 to 30 times more often than the reverse. In raw numbers, blacks assault whites 6.4 times more often than whites commit violence against blacks.

Thus, for example:

— Just last week at North Atlanta High School, a black student attacked a white special needs kid with scissors, repeatedly stabbing him in the eye. As he walked away, the assailant hissed, “white bitch.” This suggests, at least to me, a racial dimension to the attack. The special needs kid never even fought back.

— In June, a black girl at a Cape Cod high school slapped around a 15-year-old white girl, dragged her by the hair and forced her to lick the bathroom floor. An accomplice filmed the whole thing and posted it on Snapchat, naturally.

— In April, a white student, Austin Metcalf, was stabbed to death by Karmelo Anthony, a black competitor at a track meet in Frisco, Texas. The assailant’s family raised half a million dollars on GiveSendGo — for “legal expenses.” The victim’s family raised half that sum — for funeral expenses.

But the Times didn’t mention any of these attacks.

So you can imagine my surprise when that same paper gave a whole magazine cover story — 6,400 words! — to some school toughs in Arizona. These used to be called “man bites dog” stories. Now we call them “white kid bullies black kid” stories.

Reporter: I have a story about high school bullies who killed a kid.

New York Times: Ho-hum.

Reporter: The perps aren’t black.

New York Times: I’m listening.

Reporter: One of their victims is dusky.

New York Times: DROP EVERYTHING! KILL WHATEVER YOU PLANNED FOR THE SUNDAY MAGAZINE AND SPLASH THIS STORY ACROSS THE COVER.

It’s not obvious why the Arizona story was more Times-worthy than the one about the student athlete fatally stabbed in Texas, or the disabled kid whose eye was gouged out last week.

Nor is it apparent why the featured victim in the Times story was a person of color. The same gang killed another kid. But he was white.

Doesn’t it ever get tiring being so predictable, New York Times?

What is the point of enforcing a total embargo on stories about the epidemic of black-on-white violence — as is evident in the crime statistics — while billboarding a one-off story about a multiracial gang that beats up multiracial victims?

To fool their readers? But what if they ever accidentally encounter the real world?

I couldn’t help wondering a couple weeks ago if an elderly Queens couple, Frank and Maureen Olton, were Times readers. Perplexingly, they admitted a complete stranger, a 42-year-old black man, Jamel McGriff, to their home, allegedly to borrow their phone charger. He proceeded to tie up the couple, torture them for five hours, then murder them and set their house on fire.

McGriff had tried the phone charger ploy on others, but no one else fell for it. (The neighbors were probably Daily Mail readers.)

Or maybe the Times is simply determined to keep fanning the flames of black resentment. The paper’s lusty promotion of BLM fantasies in 2020, liberating black criminals from having to listen to the police, got thousands additional blacks killed — more excess deaths than any other ethnic group.

The Times has been a real friend to black people, except for everything the paper has ever said or done.

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The Evidence is Clear: Poverty Does Not Cause Criminality

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We all know why certain areas have high crime rates, right? It’s because the people who live there are poor and they’re either forced to commit crime to make ends mean or their poverty makes them so unhappy that they start taking drugs and this induces them to commit crime. Alternatively, being poor causes a kind of psychological strain which makes such people angry and resentful and, hence, more likely to be criminals. If you ask, “What has made them impoverished in the first place?” then the answer is that “It’s bad luck.”

Even though twin studies have shown that the genetic component for criminality is about 50%, the key personality traits that predict criminality – low impulse control, low empathy and altruism, high mental instability – are around 50% genetic, and even though the other key predictor, low intelligence, is around 80% genetic, falling into criminality is, essentially, a matter of bad luck. Even though some people, raised in the same environment as a criminal is raised do not fall into criminality, it’s just bad luck, okay? All you have to do to get rid of criminality is to get rid of poverty . . . so runs the leftist argument. Well, there’s great news for all of us. A study in Sweden has finally put this argument to the test.

The study, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, is entitled “Does Wealth Inhibit Criminal Behavior? Evidence from Swedish Lottery Winners and Their Children.” The players used information on the winners of four Swedish national lotteries and matched them to data on criminal convictions and child delinquency among the offspring of lottery winners in order to discern what effect, if any, an increase in wealth had. This is a particularly useful sample because poorer people are more likely to gamble via mechanisms such as the National Lottery.

You say, “That’s because they have nothing to lose” (they can lose their stake) or “That’s because they’re desperate.” However, according to the study “The relationship of pathological gambling to criminality behavior in a sample of Polish male offenders,” gambling is associated with psychopathy – poor impulse control, the need for immediate thrills – which is, in turn, associated with poverty. Further, the study “Estimated verbal IQ and the odds of problem gambling,” finds that gambling is associated with low intelligence, which also predicts poverty. Low IQ people cannot comprehend how unlikely it is that they will ever win. They also tend to “live in the now;” enjoying the thrill in the moment.

The authors had access to a national database which included all criminal convictions on those aged 15 or over between years 1975 and 2017. Each Swede has a unique identity number and this could be matched to the identity number that appeared in the lottery data. The result is a large and highly representative national sample. Their definition of juvenile delinquency was whether a child accrued a criminal conviction within 10 years of the lottery event or within 10 years of turning 15. For adults, they focused on whether there was a criminal conviction up to 7 years after the lottery event.

All this being so, what do they find? Fascinatingly, they find that winning the lottery actually very slightly increases the likelihood that a person will obtain a criminal conviction, although this misses statistical significance. They certainly did not find that winning the lottery reduces the likelihood that you will receive a criminal conviction. Put simply, if you give someone money, it will have no impact whatsoever on whether they will commit a crime. Similarly, parental wealth, obtained via a lottery win, has zero impact on delinquency among their children.

This finding, interestingly, is consistent with evidence presented in Gregory Clark’s book A Farewell to Alms, that sudden increases in wealth in a family, such as winning the lottery, wash out within a few generations. He observes that across many generations the heritability of socioeconomic status (SES) is about 0.75 if not higher. The reason is that SES is predicted by personality and intelligence, these traits are strongly genetic, people marry assortatively for these highly genetic traits in order to maximise the extent to which their genes are passed on and, so, social classes are, to some extent, genetic castes. If a low-IQ person wins the lottery, he is likely to make very poor decisions with that money, as are children, meaning that his family will return to their original status within a few generations.

The Swedish study completely refutes the idea that poverty causes crime. If you give people a large amount of money it has absolutely zero impact on whether or not they will receive a criminal conviction. The obvious explanation is that such a big part of criminal behaviour is genetic. A lottery win may possibly make a person less likely to steal or embezzle, though even that is open to question, but will make them no less criminal in any other respect. Moreover, there are very poor people who do not steal or embezzle, which raises the question of why some very poor people do.

Thanks to this study, we can now put to bed the idea that poverty causes crime. It does not. There are certain strongly genetic psychological traits which cause, independently, both criminality and poverty.

Villains of Judea: Ronald Lauder and his War on American Dissent

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Villains of Judea: Ronald Lauder and his War on American Dissent

For Lauder, Israel always comes first.

World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder likes to present himself as a civic minded elder statesman, a sober billionaire warning America about a rising tide of antisemitism.

At the Israel Hayom Summit on December 2, 2025, he framed the moment as a crisis of the West itself, calling it “a full-scale assault on truth, on democracy, and on the safety of Jewish people everywhere,” and insisting, “This is not normal. And it is not ‘just criticism of Israel.’ It is the world’s oldest hatred, once again wearing political clothing.”

Lauder was referring to the rise of antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment worldwide in the wake of Israel’s 2-year bombing campaign in Gaza.

Then he sharpened the spear and aimed it at domestic enemies like Tucker Carlson, who has been one of the most vocal critics of Israel in the post-October 7 reality we live in. He told the audience, “Tucker Carlson is the Father Coughlin of our generation.” In the same speech he warned that complacency is over, because “antisemitism is rampant throughout our culture,” and he demanded a political and institutional counteroffensive.

That is the Lauder formula in its purest form. He wraps a totalizing political program in the language of safety and moral emergency, then treats America’s public life as territory to be reorganized around his crusade. The target is never merely hatred. The target is dissent, drift, and disobedience from the priorities he has chosen, priorities that consistently put Israel first.

Lauder did not arrive at this posture late in life. He was born into power in New York City in 1944, the heir to the Estée Lauder fortune, raised in elite institutions, and trained for international influence through business and foreign policy study. He entered the family company early, then moved into government in the Reagan era, where he served at the Pentagon as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO policy.

Ronald Reagan then tapped him as U.S. ambassador to Austria in 1986. In Vienna, he did not behave like a neutral American emissary. He turned his diplomatic post into a stage for historical confrontation and political signaling. Lauder refused to attend the inauguration of Austria’s president Kurt Waldheim amid allegations of him being involved in or being aware of National Socialist atrocities in the Balkans during his service as a German army lieutenant in World War II. He also fired U.S. diplomat Felix Bloch for engaging in suspected espionage activities.

After government service, Lauder tried to convert his vast wealth into formal power at home. In 1989, he ran for mayor of New York City as a Republican, where he spent big bucks to get his name out and campaign to the right of Rudy Giuliani, only to lose the primary. Even in defeat, the pattern held. He treated politics as an arena where money does all the talking, and he kept looking for levers that could bend public life to his will.

He found one in term limits. During the 1990s he poured resources into imposing term limits on New York City officials, selling it as a democratic reform and a check on machine party politics. Yet in 2008, when Mayor Michael Bloomberg wanted a third term, Lauder reversed course and supported extending those limits, a turn that mainstream critics interpreted as a billionaire bargain dressed up as civic necessity. However, from the perspective of long-time observers of Jewish behavior, Lauder’s support for Bloomberg reflects a pattern of co-ethnic solidarity among Jewish power brokers.

While Lauder played these games in New York, his real career was consolidating leadership in the organized Jewish political world. Notably, Lauder was a member of the Mega Group—a mysterious network of Jewish oligarchs that worked behind the scenes to advance Jewish interests and strengthen pro-Israel bonds among Jews in America. Leslie Wexner, founder of The Limited and Victoria’s Secret, and the late Jewish sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein were among the most prominent members of this Jewish consortium. By 2007, Lauder had become president of the World Jewish Congress, a position that turned him into a roaming power broker who meets heads of state and treats international politics as a permanent lobbying campaign.

From that perch, he repeatedly framed Western security architecture as a vehicle for Israeli priorities. In 2011, he publicly argued that Israel should be admitted into NATO, insisting, “Israel needs real guarantees for its security,” and pressing NATO states to bring Israel into the alliance.

In 2012, he attacked European pressure campaigns on Israel with maximalist rhetoric. When Irish officials floated an EU ban on goods from Israeli communities in the West Bank, Lauder called boycott talk “cynical and hypocritical,” and declared, “Minister Gilmore is taking aim at the only liberal democracy in the Middle East while keeping quiet about those who really wreak havoc in the region: the Assads, Ahmadinejads and their allies Hezbollah and Hamas.” He added that the West Bank was “legally disputed and not illegally occupied.”

He carried the same posture with respect to Iran — enemy #1 for world Jewry at the moment. In 2013, as Western diplomats negotiated with Tehran, he mocked their perceived softness and conjured Munich analogies, warning, “Just as the West gave up Czechoslovakia to Hitler in Munich in 1938, we see what is happening again and the world is silent,” and boasting, “Frankly, only France stands between us and a nuclear Iran.” In 2015, he escalated again, attacking the nuclear deal with a moral curse, saying, “The road to hell is often paved with good intentions,” and arguing that the agreement could revive Iran economically without stopping long term nuclear ambitions.

The story kept darkening as his proximity to Israeli power deepened. In 2016, Israeli police questioned Lauder in connection with “Case 1000,” the Netanyahu gifts affair. Reports said investigators sought his testimony because of his closeness to Netanyahu and the broader allegations involving luxury gifts and favors. Lauder was not charged, but the episode revealed how near he operated to Israel’s governing circle, not as an outside friend, but as part of the broader, transnational Jewish network.

By 2023, he openly wielded donor money as a disciplinary weapon in American institutions. After the October 7 attacks and campus controversies, he warned the University of Pennsylvania that, “You are forcing me to reexamine my financial support absent satisfactory measures to address antisemitism.” The message was simple. If a prestigious American university fails to police speech and activism the way he demands, he will squeeze it financially until it complies.

In 2025, Lauder continued supporting Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza. He categorically rejected the idea that Israel bears any responsibility for ending the conflict, insisting, “The truth is simple: the war could end tomorrow if Hamas were to release the remaining hostages and disarm.” On education and propaganda, he stopped pretending the solution is persuasion alone. At the World Jewish Congress gala in November 2025, he argued that the education pipeline must be rebuilt from the ground up, declaring, “The entire education system — K-12 to college — must be retaught,” and adding, “It’s time we fight back with stronger PR to tell the truth.”

He also made the threat explicit. In a widely shared clip, he vowed, “Any candidate running for a seat… whose platform includes antisemitism, we will target them as they target us.”

Like most of the Israel First set, Lauder was ecstatic about the toppling of Bashar al-Assad’s government in Syria in late 2024. In September 2025, he met former al-Qaeda terrorist-turned Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly and afterward said, “We had a very positive discussion about normalization between Israel and Syria.” Lauder seems to think he has political power in Israel.

Seen in order, the picture is not complicated. Lauder builds influence through money, embeds himself in elite institutions, and uses both to steer policy and culture toward a relentless Zionist agenda. He does not talk like a man defending American sovereignty. He talks like an agent of world Jewry who expects America’s parties, schools, media, and alliances to function as enforcement arms for a foreign cause.

That is why his December 2025 sermon about antisemitism matters. It is not only a warning. It is a blueprint. When Lauder says “If we don’t tell our own story, others will rewrite it,” he is not describing a cultural debate. He is declaring ownership over the narrative, and claiming the right to punish anyone in American life who refuses to repeat it.

In the end, Ronald Lauder emerges not as a guardian of American civic life but as a disciplined enforcer of a foreign political creed, using wealth, intimidation, and moral blackmail to bend institutions to his will. What he calls a fight against hatred looks increasingly like a campaign to subordinate American sovereignty, speech, and policy to the imperatives of Israel and the transnational Jewish clique that sustains it.

Bondi Beach Bloodbath: How Jews Are Exploiting What Their Own Activism Created

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Australia and Britain are on opposite sides of the globe. But mind annihilates distance and the mind of a leading Irish ethicist has recently pondered events in these two widely separated countries. Yes, the Trotskyist libertarian Brendan O’Neill has raised two very interesting questions about two pairs of energetic Muslims, one pair in Australia, the other in Britain. Alas, I can’t say Brendan has supplied good answers, so I’ll try to do so for him. Anyway, let’s review his questions. After a pair of Muslims slaughtered Jews on Bondi Beach,[1] Brendan asked: “Is nowhere safe from the pox of Jew hate?” And after another pair of Muslims raped a White girl in Leamington Spa, Brendan asked: “Why were these Afghan rapists even in Britain?”

The Jewish recipe for societal bliss

The questions are very easy to answer, but Brendan declined do so. Here’s the answer to the first: Yes, there are many places safe from the pox of Jew hate. There’s Hungary, for example. That’s the birthplace of Brendan’s guru, the Jewish sociologist Frank Furedi. Jews don’t get massacred there for a very simple reason. It’s because Hungary has never followed the Jewish recipe for societal bliss. Jews don’t like living as an obvious minority in homogeneous White nations, because they fear that Whites will turn on them for absolutely no reason, as Whites have so often in the past. Accordingly, Jews throughout the West have worked hard for non-White immigration, especially by Muslims. Jews have long seen Muslim immigration as “Good for Jews.” And what other consideration matters? In Britain, the Jew Dr Richard Stone has said “Muslims and Jews are natural allies.” In Holland, the Jew Arnon Grunberg has said “Joden en moslims […] zijn natuurlijke bondgenoten,” which means the same. In Australia, Jews led the campaign to dismantle the “White Australia” policy that prevented immigration by Muslims and other non-Whites (see also Brenton Sanderson’s 5-part series on the Jewish campaign to end the White Australia policy) . In America, Jews like Emmanuel Celler exploited the ethnic resentments of the Irish Catholic Teddy Kennedy, who fronted the campaign to open America’s borders to Third-World enrichment.

Some of the Jews who worked to end the White Australia policy

In Britain, Irish Catholics like Brendan O’Neill have been exploited by the Jew Frank Furedi in the same way. When they operated as the Revolutionary Communist Party, Frank and his resentment-filled, revenge-hungry disciples demanded “an end to all controls on immigration.” In 2015, under the no-nonsense title of “Let Them In,” Brendan issued a moving plea on behalf of energetic Muslims aspiring to enter Europe:

We shouldn’t demonise or infantilise African migrants. We should welcome them. […] We shouldn’t pity these migrants; we should admire them, for using guile, gumption and perseverance to come here. They’re precisely the kind of people sluggish Europe needs more of, an antidote to our students who can’t even clap without having a mental breakdown and our new generation who think that being told to ‘get on your bike’ to look for a job is tantamount to abuse. Let’s relax the borders and let them in to try their luck in our countries and see how they fare. If we do that, we’ll put the traffickers out of business, end the deaths in the Mediterranean, and, more importantly, do our part to enable the aspirations of human beings who have committed no crime other than wanting to realise their potential in our towns, our cities, alongside us. (“Let Them In,” Spiked Online, 21st April 2015)

That was ten years ago. In 2025 Brendan has seen — but not admitted — the error of his ways. Where once he waxed lyrical in support of open borders for sluggish Europe, he now lists that very support among the three worst examples of the “cranky shite” urged upon sane folk by the woke left: “transwomen are women, open the borders, Israel is bad.” You see, Brendan has belatedly realized that some unsluggish and guileful migrants have “aspirations” to be “fascist filth.” That, at least, is how Brendan described Sajid and Naveed Akram, the Muslim father and son who massacred Jews at Bondi Beach. I think that his description is both ideologically inaccurate and ethically inane. Calling one’s ideological opponents “filth” might be fun for the woke left and other self-righteous adolescents, but it’s not a label I expect to see used by ethically serious adults. A label like that justifies stripping people of their rights and torturing or murdering them (à la Frank and Brendan’s hero Leon Trotsky, in fact). Perhaps Brendan should have a word with himself, because he piped a very different tune in another of his articles:

One Afghan human being is worth more than a million Afghan dogs

There have been many disturbing things about the manner in which American and NATO forces have withdrawn from Afghanistan. It has been chaotic and bloody. The US has left a vast cache of weapons and humvees and helicopters for the Taliban to claim. But for me, one of the most disturbing things has been the British media elite’s warped focus on Afghan pets, on getting animals out of Afghanistan. I have always felt a little perplexed by British people’s soppy relationship with beasts; nothing reminds me of my foreignness more than seeing full-grown British adults cooing over their cats or snogging their dogs. And yet even I have been shocked by the undue emphasis — scrap that: the immoral emphasis — that the British media have given to Afghanistan’s four-legged creatures. It is a disgraceful failure of humanity to fret about animals when so many human beings are in mortal danger. […]

To my mind, every human life is almost immeasurably valuable, for the sentience and consciousness and promise that it embodies. One human life is worth a million animal lives. If saving just one Afghan person’s life might somehow have entailed condemning every dog in that country to destitution or death, I would not hesitate to do it. Until we rediscover what is different and important about humanity, we will be forced to inhabit the cesspit of moral relativism in which 150 cats and dogs tug at our heartstrings more than the cries of our desperate and scared human allies. (“One Afghan human being is worth more than a million Afghan dogs,” Spiked Online, 31st August 2021)

It’s interesting that Brendan regards himself as “foreign” to Britain but still feels entitled to lecture the British on how to conduct their affairs. As folksy Brendan himself might comment: Arrogant, much? It’s also interesting that Brendan thinks that “every human life is almost immeasurably valuable.” But what about the lives of “fascist filth,” Brendan? Did you ever stop to consider whether those “scared and desperate” Afghans might hold “fascist” views on Jews, women and homosexuals? Apparently not.

The “fascist filth” and Afghan rapists whose lives are “almost immeasurably valuable” to the mind of Brendan O’Neill

Anyway, Brendan’s article waxing lyrical in support of Afghans supplies the simple answer to his second question: “Why were these Afghan rapists even in Britain?” It’s because of leftists like Brendan O’Neill, who regard Afghans not as autonomous human beings with their own agency but as faceless, fungible tokens in a narcissistic game of moralistic posturing. As for me: I would have welcomed Afghan dogs into Britain and refused entry to Afghan humans. This is because, unlike Brendan O’Neill, I take humans seriously and properly understand their “promise” and “potential.” You see, I’ve noticed that dogs from Afghanistan don’t commit rape or throw flesh-eating chemicals into women’s faces or stab women to death and lick the bloody knife afterwards. Dogs from Afghanistan enrich the lives of British Whites. Humans from Afghanistan blight the lives of British Whites. The same applies, mutatis mutandis, to animals and humans from other vibrant Third-World countries. That’s why I say “Yes, by all means” to the dogs or cats, and “No, absolutely not” to the humans.

Hamas-hating fascist Itamar Ben-Gvir at a Jewish Power rally

Does my preference for Third-World animals over Third-World humans make me “fascist filth”? If it does, then the same label must apply to Viktor Orbán, the Hungarian prime minister who has kept Hungary free of the “pox of Jew hate” by declining to “Let Them In” when Hungarian leftists and libertarians have called for Third-World enrichment. And if Brendan is so concerned about “fascist filth,” perhaps he should investigate some of the ministers in the Hamas-smiting Israeli government he has just spent two years loudly supporting. There’s Itamar Ben-Gvir, for example. He’s the current Israeli Minister for National Security and heads a party called Otzma Yehudit, which means “Jewish Power.” Does that name sound a trifle fascist to you, Brendan? It should, because Otzma Yehudit is the direct “ideological descendant” of a now banned party called Kach (“Thus”), which was headed by a notorious Jewish fascist called Rabbi Meir Kahane. Before Ben-Gvir entered politics and had to clean up his image, he proudly displayed a portrait of someone called Baruch Goldstein in his living room. As I described in “Fingernails and Fascism,” Goldstein was a martyr with a machine-gun. He entered a mosque on Purim Day in 1994, murdered dozens of innocent Arab Muslims, and was beaten to death by the survivors.

That obviously racist massacre surely makes Goldstein and his admirers “fascist filth” to Brendan O’Neill. If it does (and how can it not?), then Brendan should note that Goldstein has a lot of admirers in Israel. The Jerusalem Post has reported that “10% of Israeli Jews think terrorist Baruch Goldstein is a “national hero’.” By Brendan’s logic, there must be huge amounts of “fascist filth” in Israel, including powerful government ministers like Itamar Ben-Gvir. And yet Brendan is a firm supporter of Israel and only ever applies the label “fascist” to Hamas. Inconsistent, much? As for me: I’m happy to call Ben-Gvir “fascist,” because that’s what he is.[2] But I would never describe him as “fascist filth.” I’m not a self-righteous adolescent or a member of the woke left, you see, and I don’t want to think or act as though I am. You should try it, Brendan. It’s much easier than it might look. It might also help you understand how Jews and their “natural allies” are very bad for something you claim to hold very dear. Jewish activism created the Bondi Beach Bloodbath and Jewish activists are now exploiting the bloodbath to further restrict free speech. Otzma Yehudit!

[1]  The Jews on Bondi Beach were “celebrating” Hanukkah, the minor Jewish festival that Jewish ethnonarcissists have used to compete with and dilute the significance of Christmas.

[2]  I don’t think Hamas and other Islamists are fascist, however. Fascism is racially exclusive and supremacist in a way that Islamism isn’t. For example, Itamar Ben-Gvir and other fans of Baruch Goldstein follow venerable Jewish tradition in regarding Blacks as halfway between humans and monkeys (see the teaching of the great Jewish scholar Maimonides). In complete contrast, Islamism regards Blacks as fully human and welcomes them as recruits and fighters.