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Charlie Kirk

February 5, 2026/4 Comments/in General/by Kevin MacDonald

Is this the reason Kirk was assassinated?

I didn’t know Charlie accepted the core argument Kevin MacDonald makes in The Culture of Critique. In the first and last sentence Kirk says:

1. “Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of hatred against Whites that they claim Whites to stop using against them.”

2.… pic.twitter.com/u1TbKHhRpg

— Dr. Ricardo Duchesne (@dr_duchesne) September 11, 2025

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‘No rules’: Gaza’s doctors say they were tortured, beaten and humiliated in Israeli detention

February 4, 2026/6 Comments/in General/by Kevin MacDonald

‘No rules’: Gaza’s doctors say they were tortured, beaten and humiliated in Israeli detention

February 25, 2025

 

Healthcare workers are protected under international law yet hundreds were detained during the war. Now, some of Gaza’s most senior doctors have spoken of the violence and abuse they say they faced

Dr Issam Abu Ajwa was in the middle of performing emergency surgery on a patient with a severe abdominal injury at al-Ahli Arab hospital in central Gaza when the soldiers came for him.

“I asked them what they were doing coming into the operating theatre,” he says. “One of the soldiers pointed at me and said: ‘Are you Dr Issam Abu Ajwa?’ I said: ‘Yes, that’s me.’ And then the beating began.”

Still in his surgeons’ scrubs, the 63-year-old Abu Ajwa says he was dragged from the operating room before being handcuffed, blindfolded and stripped.

He was then put in a military truck with other doctors, nurses and medical staff and driven away from the hospital. Less than 24 hours later he was in a detention facility in Israel, beginning what he describes as months of brutal and constant violence and abuse.

“There were no rules,” he says.

During interrogations, he says he was tortured and beaten. “They would throw me on the ground. One would hit me on the head while the other opened my ear and poured water inside,” he says.

“There was a bathroom [in the interrogation room] … [they] would take a toilet brush and tell me ‘today we are going to brush your teeth.’ I was tied up, blindfolded and three or four of them held my face, pinned it down and kept scrubbing.”

Abu Ajwa says they broke his teeth: “They have no humanity.”

Under international law, healthcare workers like Abu Ajwa should be protected from attacks by warring parties and be allowed to continue providing medical care to all who need it.

Yet by the time the January ceasefire came into effect, more than 1,000 medical staff across Gaza had been killed and many hospitals bombed to rubble – attacks which a UN Human Rights Council commission concluded amounted to war crimes.

Hundreds more medical staff who survived the airstrikes and ground assaults were arrested, illegally transferred across the border and disappeared into Israeli prisons, including dozens of doctors.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 297 doctors, nurses, paramedics and other healthcare workers from Gaza were detained by Israel during the war.

Palestinian medical NGO Healthcare Workers Watch says it believes the number is slightly higher and that it has verified that 339 healthcare workers from Gaza have been detained by the Israeli military, with at least 160 still inside Israeli prison facilities.

In interviews with the Guardian and the Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ), eight of Gaza’s most senior doctors have given harrowing testimonies of the torture, beatings, starvation and humiliation they say they suffered during months of detention.

All of those interviewed say they were targeted because they were doctors. Most were arrested inside hospitals as they worked; others were taken from ambulances or detained at checkpoints after being identified as healthcare workers. All those doctors interviewed were detained under Israel’s Unlawful Combatants Law, which grants the Israeli military sweeping powers to detain anyone from Gaza they say might pose a security threat.

They stripped me naked, put a blindfold over my eyes and handcuffed my feet. The beatings started from this first moment

Dr Mohammed Abu Selmia

Some, including Abu Ajwa, believe they were singled out for extreme violence by prison guards and interrogators because they were doctors.

“One of the senior interrogators had given instructions that because I was a senior consultant surgeon they should work hard to make sure that I lost [the use of my hands] and became unable to perform surgery,” he says.

He says he was handcuffed for 24 hours a day and interrogators used planks with chains to restrain his hands for hours at a time. “They said they wanted to make sure I could never return to work.”

None of the senior doctors interviewed say they were given an explanation for their detention. All were released without charge after months of imprisonment.

The UN Human Rights Office said the mass detention of healthcare workers has had a catastrophic impact on civilians, denying injured and sick patients – as well as junior medical staff – access to the decades of medical skills of senior medics and has been a clear contributing factor in the almost total collapse of Gaza’s healthcare system.

“Israel must immediately release all those held arbitrarily, including medical staff, and end all practices that amount to enforced disappearances, torture and other ill-treatment,” the UN said in a statement given to the Guardian. “Those responsible for crimes under international law must be held to account.”

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Dr Mohammed Abu Selmia: ‘I was immediately detained … as if they were waiting for me’

Dr Mohammed Abu Selmia, director of al-Shifa hospital in northern Gaza, was arrested at a checkpoint while travelling with a convoy of patients in ambulances after the Israeli army told him to evacuate the hospital in November 2023.

“When I told them my name, they pointed their weapons at me and their laser [sights] at my head and chest and I was immediately detained … as if they were waiting for me, as if they had seized a big prize,” he says.

“They beat me with rifle butts and chairs,” he says. “After that, they poured sand over my head and shoved dirt into my mouth.

“I was on the floor on my knees with a blindfold and they were beating me … after this I was put in a vehicle, myself and many others piled on top of each other in a humiliating and degrading way,” he says. “Everyone was screaming, everyone was crying out ‘we don’t know where we’re going.’ The beating was constant.”

All of the doctors interviewed by the Guardian and ARIJ reported the same pattern of identification, detention, transfer to Israel and incarceration, and then being moved multiple times between Israeli-run prisons during their captivity.

It was not just the beatings [but] the way they treated us like we were not human. In Nafha prison, they kept telling us to howl like dogs

Dr Bassam Miqdad

In these facilities they say they were subjected to terrifying and inhumane treatment including being constantly beaten and kept in stress positions for hours at a time and having loud music played constantly to prevent them from sleeping.

“Frankly, no matter how much I talk about what I experienced in detention, it is only a fraction of what truly happened,” says Abu Selmia.

“I am talking about being clubbed, being beaten with rifle butts and being attacked by dogs. There was little to no food, no personal hygiene, no soap inside the cells, no water, no toilet, no toilet paper … I saw people who were dying there.

“Every day is a humiliation, every day is degradation. There you are just a number, you are not a hospital director or a human being. I was beaten so badly I couldn’t use my legs or walk. No day passes without torture.”

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Dr Mahmoud Abu Shehada. ‘We were stripped naked, it was cold, and they deliberately sprayed us with cold water,’ he says

In their testimonies, the doctors say they were also denied food and water, with some forced to eat toothpaste for lack of anything else. They said they were not allowed to wash or change their clothes, sometimes for months at a time.

Dr Mahmoud Abu Shehada, head of orthopaedic surgery at Nasser hospital, was arrested at work on 16 February 2024. “All the medical staff were told to leave. We [were] lined up between the administration building and the old Nasser building,” he says.

“We were subjected to severe beatings from Friday afternoon to the early hours of Saturday morning. It was a brutal night of assault and abuse. We were stripped naked; it was cold, and they deliberately sprayed us with cold water.”

Abu Shehada spent around three months in different detention centres, where he says he suffered “daily humiliations and torture” before being transferred to Israel’s desert Negev prison.

“In Negev prison, the detainees were suffering from skin diseases, scabies and severe infections with pus and discharge on the skin,” he says.

“After a while the infection spread to us. Weakness and fatigue took over to the point where many of us could barely stand.”

Dr Bassam Miqdad, head of orthopaedic surgery at the European hospital in Gaza, was detained after being stopped at a military checkpoint and spent seven months in Israeli prisons.

“There were Israeli nurses and doctors there but they wouldn’t even look at you,” he says. “I saw people with broken limbs and the guards would pull them around. They would ask, ‘where does it hurt?’ and then beat you on that injury.”

Miqdad said he found it very difficult to recount the violence and humiliation he says he was subjected to in Israeli prisons.

“It was not just the beatings [but] the way they treated us like we were not human,” he says. “In Nafha prison, they kept telling us to howl like dogs.”

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Dr Bassam Miqdad: ‘I saw people with broken limbs and the guards would pull them around’

Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a British-Palestinian associate professor of surgery, who volunteered as a doctor in Gaza during the early stages of the war, says the psychological impact of the “performative” nature of the humiliation and torture of senior medical staff in prisons is “beyond devastating”.

“These are some of the most revered, most respected and senior members of their communities,” he says. “It is nothing short of a deliberate attempt to subjugate and violate the whole of Gazan society.”

To date, two of Gaza’s most senior doctors have died in Israeli detention. Dr Iyad al-Rantisi, a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Kamal Adwan hospital, died at Shikma prison.

Dr Adnan al-Bursh, head of the orthopaedic department at al-Shifa hospital, died shortly after being transferred to Ofer prison in April 2024, with former detainees claiming that he died from torture and had suffered severe sexual violence in the hours before his death.

Reports of torture, violence and psychological abuse of healthcare workers have been verified by the UN and published in reports by organisations such as HWW, Human Rights Watch and Physicians for Human Rights Israel.

In a HWW report from October 2024, healthcare workers who had been locked inside Israeli detention facilities gave testimonies of being electrocuted, hung by their arms from ceilings, being sexually assaulted and having their genitals mutilated.

A doctor told the Guardian and ARIJ that he witnessed sexual assaults while in Israeli detention and tried to help treat a healthcare worker who had been raped by prison guards.

“A prisoner … had a baton inserted into him,” said Dr Khaled Serr, a surgeon at Nasser hospital, who was detained in Israeli prisons for more than six months before being released without charge.

“The assault was so violent that it caused severe muscle tears in his rectum. Even after his release, he continues to suffer. We performed multiple surgeries on him, but they have not been successful.”

Courtesy of Nir Debori/Channel 12, Muhannad al-Muqayed, Getty Images

Prof Nick Maynard, a senior surgical consultant at Oxford hospitals who worked in hospitals in Gaza during the war, said the arbitrary detention of hundreds of medical staff in Israeli prisons set a “chilling” precedent.

“We have just witnessed a war in which hundreds of medical staff, including some of Gaza’s most experienced medical staff, are dragged away from their patients and thrown in prisons for months at a time and tortured with impunity in breach of the Geneva conventions and other humanitarian laws,” he says.

“It is a deliberate attempt to terrorise, hollow out and disable an already depleted and traumatised healthcare workforce. It will have inevitably led to the deaths of many civilians,” the professor says.

Satellite images from 9-20 December 2023 reveal earth berms erected to hinder movement to the hospital and provide cover for soldiers, roadblocks and military activities around it, which in effect prevented anyone from accessing the medical facility, or delivering medicine and food.

Israel has defended its attacks on Gaza’s healthcare system by claiming hospitals were being used by Hamas as military command or operation centres.

Under international law, healthcare facilities can lose their protected status and become military targets if they are used for acts “harmful to the enemy”.

The UN high commissioner for human rights, Volker Türk, said: “If these allegations were verified, this would raise serious concerns that Palestinian armed groups were using the presence of civilians to intentionally shield themselves from attack, which would amount to a war crime.

“However, insufficient information has so far been made available to substantiate these allegations, which have remained vague and broad, and in some cases appear contradicted by publicly available information.

The Guardian put all the doctors’ allegations relating to their detention to the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), which did not respond to the individual cases but provided a general statement in which it said it was “operating to restore security to the citizens of Israel, to bring home the hostages, and to achieve the objectives of the war while operating by international law.

“During the fighting in the Gaza Strip, suspects of terrorist activities were arrested. The relevant suspects have been taken for further detention and questioning in Israel. Those who are not involved in terrorist activity are released back to the Gaza Strip as soon as possible.”

The IDF says that it provides each detainee with clothing, a mattress, regular food and drink, and that they have access to medical care. It said that handcuffing of detainees occurs in accordance with IDF policies. It was aware of incidents where people had died in detention and that investigations were conducted for each of these deaths.

“The IDF acts in accordance with Israeli and international law in order to protect the rights of the detainees held in the detention and questioning facilities,” it said.

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Dr Hussam Abu Safiya. ‘We are deeply worried about his fate as he was already injured [when he was detained],’ says his son

For the families of those doctors who have disappeared into detention, the absence of information about their loved ones is a daily agony.

In December, the Israeli authorities faced international condemnation for the arrest of paediatrician Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan hospital in Gaza’s Jabaliya refugee camp, who was last seen in Israeli drone footage in his white coat walking through the rubble of his hospital towards a line of Israeli tanks. His family say he was held in the notorious Sde Teiman detention camp. The Israeli authorities say they suspect him of being a Hamas militant.

A lawyer representing Abu Safiya was last week allowed to visit the doctor in Ofer prison for the first time and said Abu Safiya had been tortured, beaten and denied medical treatment.

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Dr Ahmad Mhanna. In a letter to his wife, he said: ‘I want you to stay strong. I know the burden is heavy but you can handle it’

“We are deeply worried about his fate as he was already injured [when he was detained],” says his son Elyas Abu Safiya, who has been campaigning for his release. “We are living in a state of shock.”

Dr Ahmad Mhanna, head of al-Awda hospital in northern Gaza, has been in Israeli detention for more than one year without charge.

Last November, Mhanna was able to dictate a letter to his family.

In it, he tells his wife: “I miss you so much and I am waiting for the moment I can see you and the children. I have so many plans for us to do together once I am out of prison.

“I want you to stay strong. I know the burden is heavy but you can handle it, I have complete faith in you. I love you very much.”

Since he was released from detention, Abu Ajwa has not managed to fix his broken teeth but has gone back to work in Gaza’s shattered healthcare system.

“As for the interrogator who was determined to make me lose sensation in my hands, I say: ‘no matter what you do … I am a doctor, and I will practice my profession. I will always continue, until my last breath, to be in the operating theatre.”

 

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Mondoweiss: Newly released Epstein files reveal further ties to Israel

February 4, 2026/2 Comments/in General/by Kevin MacDonald

Newly released Epstein files reveal further ties to Israel

The release of more Jeffrey Epstein files reveals further connections between the late, convicted sex criminal and the state of Israel.
By Michael Arria  February 3, 2026
Photo released by House Democrats on the Congressional Oversight Committee on December 12, 2025, showing Jeffrey Epstein and Alan Dershowitz. (Photo via House Oversight Democrats)Photo released by House Democrats on the Congressional Oversight Committee on December 12, 2025, showing Jeffrey Epstein and Alan Dershowitz. (Photo via House Oversight Democrats)

The release of more than 3 million new files connected to the late Jeffrey Epstein reveals further connections between the convicted sex criminal and the state of Israel.

Ehud Barak, the former Israeli prime minister, is mentioned numerous times in the files, with him and his wife seemingly maintaining a close relationship with the financier long after he pled guilty of sex crimes in 2008.

In a September 2016 email sent amid the presidential race, Barak informs Epstein that Democratic nominee Hilary Clinton was set to be interviewed by Israel’s Channel-2 and wonders if Epstein could inquire whether eventual President Donald Trump would have interest in being interviewed by rival station, Channel-10.

Barak tells Epstein that the Trump interview would attract a “huge percentage of Israelis and most U.S. citizens in Israel.”

The Department of Justice also released audio of a February 2013 conversation between the two men, in which Epstein tells Barak to “check out” the controversial analytics company Palantir.

“I’ve never met Peter Thiel,” Epstein tells Barak, referencing the right-wing billionaire who founded the company. “And everybody says he sort of jumps around and acts really strange, like he’s on drugs,” Epstein tells Barak of the co-founder of Palantir, with the former Israeli prime minister agreeing.”

“However, he has a company called Palantir… so he thought that Peter would put you on the board of Palantir… he’s going to come here next week so I wanted to talk to him, if I talk to you,” he continues.

Another email reveals that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought Epstein’s advice on arranging a diplomatic trip to Israel in 2017.

“Modi’s highly publicized visit to Tel Aviv—featuring unusually warm personal interactions with Israeli leaders—was widely read as a signal that India was openly embracing a U.S.–Israel–India strategic axis, particularly in defense, technology, and intelligence cooperation,” notes Drop Site News.

Epstein’s intervention had been requested by Indian billionaire and Modi ally Anil Ambani. Ambani told Epstein that leadership was requesting meetings with members of Trump’s inner circle, including Jared Kushner and Steve Bannon, ahead of the Modi meeting.

After the visit, Epstein emailed an individual he referred to as “Jabor Y” about the visit. “The Indian Prime minister modi took advice. and danced and sang in Israel for the benefit of the US president. they had met a few weeks ago.. IT WORKED. !,” he wrote.

The same day he wrote to Ambani, “Your guys performance was both clever and executed well. Good work.”

The Indian Ministry of External Affairs dismissed Epstein’s analysis in a statement.

“Beyond the fact of the Prime Minister’s official visit to Israel in July 2017, the rest of the allusions in the email are little more than trashy ruminations by a convicted criminal, which deserve to be dismissed with the utmost contempt,” said spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal.

Another document seemingly reveals a plot to seize Libya’s frozen assets, months after Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi was ousted in a NATO-backed coup. The Epstein associate who sent the email suggests seeking support for the endeavor from MI6 and Mossad agents.

The email states that roughly $80 billion in Libyan funds were believed to be frozen, including nearly $33 billion in the U.S.

“And it is estimated that the real number is somewhere between three to four times this number in sovereign, stolen and misappropriated assets,” reads the email. “If we can identify/recover 5 percent to 10 percent of these monies and receive 10 percent to 25 percent as compensation we are talking about billions of dollars.”

“But the real carrot is if we can become their go-to guys because they plan to spend at least $100 billion next year to rebuild their country and jump start the economy,” it continues.

Pro-Israel U.S. groups also make appearances in the newly released files.

These include Harvard University’s Hillel group, which sought donations from Epstein in 2010 and 2011. In May 2010, then-Hillel president Bernie Steinberg wrote Epstein a letter thanking him for his “support of Harvard Hillel and the Harvard Jewish community during this important moment in history” and asked him to make additional contributions.

“The emails add to a growing paper trail linking Epstein to organizations and individuals connected to Harvard beyond the point at which the University said it cut financial ties,” notes the Harvard Crimson.

In recent months, multiple reporters have uncovered links between Israel and Epstein, including an ongoing Drop Site News series that focuses on his connections to Israeli intelligence. However, these facts are often omitted from mainstream coverage of the disgraced financier.

In December, Mondoweiss founder Phil Weiss wrote about a lengthy New York Times investigation on Epstein’s rise that ignored Israel’s role.

“Love of Israel was a lead criterion for inclusion in Epstein’s circle,” wrote Weiss. “I don’t think Epstein’s ‘marks’ were even fooled by him. They knew he was a conman who played fast and loose. But they also knew that the Israel lobby has a need for charmers who break the rules, so they looked the other way.”

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“Advocating Genocide”: Musk Slams Far-Left Spanish MP’s Demand 500,000 Illegals Be Made Citizens For ‘Population Replacement’

February 4, 2026/6 Comments/in General/by Kevin MacDonald

“Advocating Genocide”: Musk Slams Far-Left Spanish MP’s Demand 500,000 Illegals Be Made Citizens For ‘Population Replacement’

Via Remix News,

Irene Montero, a politician from the far-left, pro-immigration Podemos party, is arguing that after granting amnesty to 500,000 illegal immigrants, the Sanchez government should now make them Spanish citizens and amend the law to allow them to participate in elections. She specifically calls to replace the “fascists and racists with immigrants.” Now, she has faced backlash from a wide range of critics, including Elon Musk and a range of European politicians.

“I hope for replacement theory, I hope we can sweep this country of fascists and racists with immigrants. Whatever their skin color, whether Chinese, Black, or Brown,” Montero said, as quoted by the daily El Mundo. In her speech, she strongly criticized right-wing parties, including Vox and its leader Santiago Abascal, describing their rhetoric as “racist” and “anti-migration.”

Montero spoke on Saturday at a rally in Zaragoza, organised ahead of the regional elections in Aragon on Feb. 8.

The decision by Spain’s socialist government to legalize the stay of 500,000 illegal immigrants in the country has brought a fury of backlash.

Not only are many Spaniards furious at her remarks, but her remark also garnered international attention, including from Elon Musk, who said: “She is advocating genocide. Utterly contemptible.”

Polish politicians also provided their view on her remarks.

“This is exactly the goal of the left and the liberals ruling the EU. This is why they pushed through the migration pact. As many new citizens as possible, imported from outside Europe – this is their hope for additional votes in the elections and maintaining power,” commented PiS MP Paweł Jabłoński, according to Polish newspaper Do Rzezcy.

“Podemos is your ally in Europe, the Razem party, Adrian Zandberg? Do you also support the implementation of the ‘great replacement theory’?” asked MP Kacper Płażyński, also from PiS.

“Immediately exclude Spain from the Schengen Area!” called Piotr Czak Żukowski of the National Movement. “Granting citizenship to hordes of illegal immigrants from Africa is a threat to all of Europe,” emphasized the Confederation activist.

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White Papers Policy Institute: Sweden’s Experiment in Remigration Expands

February 3, 2026/5 Comments/in General/by Kevin MacDonald

Sweden’s Experiment in Remigration Expands

Sweden was once the poster child of open-border multiculturalism in Europe. Books were published on its success and the entire world looked to the ‘open borders welfare state’ to prove that the progressive and internationalist worldview was not only practical but led to prosperity. By now everyone knows the Swedish experiment in maximising multiculturalism has failed and for more than a decade has drawn scrutiny not just from the nationalist and national-conservative branches of the right but also from more self-reflective camps of progressives and liberals concerned that Sweden’s dismal failure as the poster child for multiculturalism was discrediting their political vision. After all, it is not good when your multicultural utopia has the highest rape rate, firearm homicide rate, and number of explosions in continental Europe. Now, as I have documented several times for White Papers, Sweden is undergoing one of the most dramatic policy reversals in modern Western history.

Thanks to the X posts of the user Gustav Dahlgren I became aware that Sweden is once again expanding its criteria for deporting non-Western immigrants and thereby expanding remigration. Under the Tidö Agreement coalition government led by the Moderate Party and supported by the Sweden Democrats, Migration Minister Johan Forssell has outlined an ambitious package of twelve major migration reforms to be implemented before the September 2026 election.

Among the most significant is the proposal for a retroactive “bristande vandel” (lacking good conduct) requirement, which could strip residence permits from hundreds of thousands of non-citizens based on behavior dating back to their arrival in Sweden. Combined with plans to abolish permanent residence permits entirely, dramatically increase deportations for criminality, and tighten pathways to citizenship, these measures represent a powerful catalyst for remigration.

This shift builds on years of mounting public pressure over skyrocketing crime, welfare dependency, and demographic change. Due to reforms which I have covered for White Papers over the past two years the Swedish government has managed to radically reduce immigration flows. Recent data from Statistics Sweden (SCB) shows that in the first half of 2025, returning ethnic Swedes constituted the largest group of “immigrants,” surpassing inflows from traditional 21st century source countries like Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Somalia. Non-Western immigration has plummeted and reversed so that net outflows of approximately 20,000 non-European residents per year have been occurring for a couple of years now. To paraphrase Dahlgren in the summation of the data, Sweden in 2026 is already a more European, more ethnically homogeneous nation than it was in 2022. Yet the government’s new proposals signal that this trend is no accident—it is the manifestation of an era of remigration that I have been covered for the last two years when the government first announced its intentions to begin paying non-citizens of non-Western origins to leave Sweden.

Retroactive Conduct Requirements & Hundreds of Thousands of Deportations

In the wide-ranging interview with Svenska Dagbladet published on February 2, 2026, Minister Forssell revealed his intent to override the government’s own investigator and apply the “bristande vandel” rule retroactively. Currently, poor personal behavior and lacking public conduct can lead to the denial or revocation of residence permits, but the new proposal would extend scrutiny to behavior from the moment an individual migrant arrived in Sweden. Examples of disqualifying conduct include chronic alcohol or drug abuse, accumulation of large debts, welfare fraud, associations with criminal gangs, clan networks, or extremist organizations, and public support for movements that “seriously threaten fundamental Swedish democratic values” or undermine the legitimacy of public institutions.

Forssell explicitly noted that this retroactive application could encompass “several hundred thousand” additional individuals compared to a non-retroactive version. The Swedish Ministry of Justice estimates the broader scope would capture a vast pool of long-term residents who have not fully integrated or who exhibit patterns of antisocial behavior. Not to mention those who rely permanently upon the Swedish welfare state and other public services. Critics, including self-appointed “civil rights” groups and administrative courts, have raised concerns about legal certainty, but Forssell argues that guests in a country should “make an extra effort to live respectably and show they want to become part of their new homeland.” While I disagree anyone can simply adopt a “new homeland” this bit of pedantry feels unnecessary compared to the positive enormity of Forssell’s reforms.

This measure dovetails with several complementary reforms:

  • Abolition of Permanent Residence Permits: All existing permanent permits will be converted to temporary ones, and the system will be phased out entirely. Temporary permits are far easier to revoke or refuse renewal, creating ongoing leverage for encouraging departure.
  • 500% Increase in Crime-Based Deportations: Stricter enforcement of deportation for criminal convictions is expected to multiply removals fivefold.
  • Tighter Citizenship Requirements: New language, societal knowledge, and self-support mandates will raise the bar for naturalization.
  • Restrictions on Family and Labor Immigration: Reduced quotas and higher thresholds will curb future inflows.
  • Enhanced Return Incentives: While not detailed in the interview, these align with ongoing efforts to promote “återvandring” (remigration) through financial and logistical support.
  • Potential Retroactive Citizenship Revocation: Forssell hinted at exploring constitutional changes to allow revocation of naturalized citizenship in certain cases.

Taken together, these policies transform Sweden’s migration framework from one of permanent settlement to one of conditional presence, where continued residence depends on ongoing good behavior and integration.

Propelling Remigration

The retroactive character requirement is particularly potent for remigration because it targets non-citizens. Among non-Western individuals present in Sweden (who are 20% of the population) approximately 50% have yet to acquire Swedish citizen. Many arrived during the 2015-2016 migrant crisis or earlier waves from the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. An adult-heavy age structure (primarily 25-55 years old) means few have deep familial roots tying them permanently to Sweden, and a significant portion lack Swedish citizenship despite long residence. Very few of the left’s trite and overwrought excuses about “tearing families apart” or “removing people from their communities” will apply to Sweden’s remigration policies.

In applying conduct standards retroactively, the government can review historical records for welfare fraud, debt accumulation, or associations with problematic networks—issues disproportionately prevalent among certain migrant groups. Revocation of permits would trigger deportation proceedings, but in practice, many will opt for voluntary return to avoid forced removal, especially if paired with generous repatriation grants (currently up to approximately 350,000 SEK, or $37,000, per adult). The conversion of permanent to temporary permits amplifies this effect. Hundreds of thousands who assumed lifelong access to the Swedish welfare state and the right to live in the ordered society that the Swedes constructed for themselves will now face periodic reviews, creating uncertainty that encourages voluntary departure. Combined with stricter crime deportations, this could generate a snowball effect: as initial cohorts leave, community networks weaken, making remaining less viable and prompting further exits.

Recent trends already show this dynamic at work. With asylum inflows at historic lows and net non-Western emigration underway, Sweden is experiencing organic remigration. The new reforms will supercharge it, potentially repatriating hundreds of thousands over the coming decade and raising the ethnic Swedish share of the population from around 65-70% toward 80% or higher.

Lessons from Prior White Papers Recommendations

The White Papers has long argued that remigration is the only viable path to restore Sweden’s social cohesion, fiscal health, and demographic vitality. Our analyses emphasized that half-measures such as modest incentives or limited deportations would fail against the scale of 21st century mass immigration. Sweden’s current trajectory validates much of this earlier work, but opportunities remain to strengthen and accelerate the process.

WPPI’s 2023 article “Sweden Can Only Be Cured by Repatriation” framed the nation’s violence epidemic—record shootings, bombings, and gang crimes—as a direct consequence of mass non-European immigration. It called for halting naturalizations, revoking refugee statuses en masse, and pursuing broad repatriation. The government’s current restrictions on inflows and increased deportations echo this urgency.

Sweden Can Only Be Cured by Repatriation

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September 29, 2023

On September 28th Sweden’s “Conservative” Prime Minister, Ulf Kristersson, gave a speech about the incredibe wave of violence sweeping the nation, he said, in part:
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In “Sweden Embraces Repatriation” (2024), WPPI praised the initial expansion of voluntary return support but recommended tripling proposed grants to $30,000+ and launching aggressive media campaigns targeting migrant communities. The state largely adopted these ideas, raising payments to $37,000 and implementing promotional efforts. Yet uptake has been constrained by municipal resistance and exclusion of naturalized citizens.

My further updates in early 2025 highlighted the $34,000-$37,000 grant program but critiqued its caps (e.g., lower amounts for families) and ineligibility for non-Western citizens of Sweden. WPPI suggested making grants available to naturalized individuals in exchange for voluntary citizenship relinquishment, a legally straightforward process under existing Swedish law and not requiring a change to the Swedish constitution, and increasing family payments substantially (up to $106,000 for larger households) to appeal to welfare-dependent groups.

On citizenship revocation, WPPI’s detailed advice in “So You Want to Revoke Their Citizenship?” urges expanding grounds beyond fraud and security threats to include serious criminality, welfare fraud & dependence, and gang involvement. We further recommended taking a page from the United Kingdom’s statutes and allowing the denaturalisation of people who qualify for another citizenship even if they do not actively hold it. This policy would capture second-generation migrants and vastly broaden the scope of remigration. Automatic inclusion of minor children in parental revocations would prevent family separations while facilitating complete household returns.

Further recommendations included time-limited amnesties allowing minor offenders or fraud cases to depart with full grants, construction of high-capacity detention facilities for recalcitrant cases, and legislation to compel municipal cooperation thereby overriding the 130+ localities currently refusing to assist in the government’s remigration goals.

Forssell’s retroactive ‘good character’ proposal aligns closely with White Papers emphasis on leveraging conduct and integration failures for permit revocations. Extending similar logic to citizenship – through the hinted constitutional amendments – would address many hundreds of thousands of naturalised and Swedish born non-Western people(s). Pairing revocations with enhanced voluntary incentives could yield massive voluntary compliance, minimising coercive deportations while maximizing humanitarian outcomes.

Toward a Post-Multicultural Sweden

Sweden stands at a historic inflection point. The Tidö government’s reforms, if fully implemented, could make it the first Western nation to meaningfully reverse Replacement Migration (The Great Replacement) through policy and prove that we do not need to descent into conflict and anarchy to undue the damage to the West. Retroactive conduct requirements and the dismantling of permanent settlement pathways will create powerful push factors, while existing grants provide pull toward dignified return.

To maximize impact, policymakers should heed WPPI’s prior counsel: dramatically scale incentives for families and citizens, broaden citizenship revocation criteria, enforce national uniformity by making local governments participate in remigration, and promote the remigration opportunities relentlessly within migrant communities. With political will sustained beyond the 2026 election, Sweden could achieve remigration on a scale that restores ethnic Swedes as an overwhelming majority in under a generation. Sweden stands a real chance of securing the peace, prosperity, and cultural continuity that Western leadership has so put at risk in the last several decades.

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Tore Rasmussen: Denmark’s Fourth Realization

February 3, 2026/1 Comment/in General/by Kevin MacDonald
Posted on November 25, 2025
The First Realization was the early, naïve belief that all migrants would naturally assimilate into European society. The Second Realization was that deliberate integration policies were required for many immigrants to adapt successfully. The Third Realization, as Frederik Vad, a Social Democrat member of the Danish parliament, recently admitted, is that some citizens with ethnic-minority backgrounds are now undermining democracy from within. The Fourth Realization, most recently articulated by Eva Selsing in the Danish newspaper Berlingske, goes further still: The entire experiment has failed. Integration has proven an illusion, and only repatriation, not further social engineering, can preserve Europe’s civilization.

Denmark’s Fourth Realization

Tore Rasmussen, American Renaissance, November 25, 2025


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Across Europe, a new political realism is taking shape, and nowhere is it clearer than in Denmark. While Norway still clings to the failed dogmas of multiculturalism, the Danes are beginning to articulate what philosopher Eva Selsing calls the Fourth Realization: the recognition that integration has not merely stumbled but collapsed entirely. From the halls of the Danish parliament to the streets where young activists unfurl banners demanding remigration, Denmark is redefining the boundaries of permissible speech and policy on the migration question.

In the following essay, Norwegian publisher Tore Rasmussen examines how this awakening came to be — tracing it from the intellectual groundwork of Martin Sellner’s Regime Change from the Right to the disciplined activism of Generation Identity in Denmark. Rasmussen argues that what is unfolding is not a local anomaly but the early expression of a wider European reorientation: from integration to remigration, from guilt to sovereignty, and from abstract moralism to civilizational self-defense.

As a Norwegian, I follow Danish politics closely. Our histories and languages are deeply intertwined, from the Reformation and the long shadow of the Kalmar Union to Norway’s eventual independence from Denmark in 1814. That old bond matters again today because Denmark is articulating a truth the rest of Europe must face: integration has failed, institutions are being hollowed out from within, and remigration is the only measure commensurate with the crisis. Philosopher Eva Selsing has called this the Fourth Realization. She is right.

The First Realization was the early, naïve belief that all migrants would naturally assimilate into European society. The Second Realization was that deliberate integration policies were required for many immigrants to adapt successfully. The Third Realization, as Frederik Vad, a Social Democrat member of the Danish parliament, recently admitted, is that some citizens with ethnic-minority backgrounds are now undermining democracy from within. The Fourth Realization, most recently articulated by Eva Selsing in the Danish newspaper Berlingske, goes further still: The entire experiment has failed. Integration has proven an illusion, and only repatriation, not further social engineering, can preserve Europe’s civilization.

This awakening did not arise spontaneously. It was forced into the public square by Generation Identity (GI) in Denmark — young activists who, despite repression and misrepresentation, have kept the national conversation anchored to first principles: demography, sovereignty, and ethnocultural continuity. What is often missed abroad is how they have done it. Much of GI’s effectiveness comes from applying Martin Sellner’s metapolitical framework from Regime Change from the Right: campaign-based activism, asymmetric pressure, and disciplined message control designed to shift the nation’s overall political stance to the right without violence.

Mr. Sellner argues that movements win by structuring their activism as focused, time-bound campaigns with a single clear demand. The Danish chapter of GI has done exactly that, using Remigration as its unifying banner. Instead of scattering energy across countless grievances, they run serial campaigns, such as the Fourth Realization, that maintain message discipline and make media framing predictable.

Mr. Sellner also emphasizes actions that are lawful, visual, and impossible to ignore. Generation Identity’s banner drops are textbook examples: drops are done by small, coordinated teams, using banners that employ striking visuals and institutional backdrops and voice a single, uncompromising demand. The photographs and videos are pre-planned deliverables, not afterthoughts, and convey the strategic core of the operation.

 

Another of Mr. Sellner’s key insights is timing actions to piggyback on existing news cycles. Generation Identity activists executed this perfectly earlier this year when they appeared at a conference held by MP Frederik Vad at the Danish parliament. As Mr. Vad was presenting his “Third Realization,” the activists reframed the moment on-site as being insufficient, instead steering journalists toward the Fourth Realization. As Mr. Sellner puts it: Don’t create the wave, surf it.

Martin Sellner also warns that slogans must be specific. Generation Identity’s Remigration booklet, which lays out particular concrete measures, such as an asylum moratorium, deportation of criminals, repatriation incentives, and a pause on new citizenships, serves as a model. It translates moral intuition into administrative reality, giving journalists and politicians something quotable and concrete, on the movement’s own terms.

At the continental level, Action Radar Europe, a Europe-wide platform for discussing identitarian issues and announcements, mirrors Mr. Sellner’s idea of a “federated network”: shared aesthetics and messaging, locally executed actions, and cross-border amplification. This structure keeps operations resilient under national repression while advancing a coherent European narrative.

Finally, Martin Sellner insists on limiting risks and designing actions that are lawful, camera-friendly, and morally clear. The young Danish activists follow that script faithfully. This is why attempts to label them “extremist” so often backfire, exposing instead the system’s soft totalitarian reflex against dissent.

As a Norwegian, I am grateful for the Danish activists’ clarity. From 1537 to 1814, we were formally under Danish rule. Today, we face a more subtle, yet more sinister subordination: this time a subordination to white guilt, demographic arithmetic, and the dictates of the European Union. The lesson of our shared past is clear: sovereignty must be defended anew in every era. The Danish Fourth Realization is not merely an acknowledgement; it is a lighthouse for the rest of us in Northern Europe.

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Alexander Dugin: Pedophile Presidents and the Epstein Files

February 2, 2026/9 Comments/in General/by Alexander Dugin
Pedophile Presidents and the Epstein Files

… not only Trump but also Elon Musk, as well as many representatives of the Republican Party and even members of Europe’s royal families, were part of this system. The entire Western elite has been discredited. Epstein functioned as a kind of “personnel department” for a world government. Candidates for global power passed through certain rituals and crimes there—including the abuse of minors, murder, and cannibalism—all recorded on film for subsequent control.

The Western world has collapsed. Not a single Western political leader, whether in the United States or the European Union, retains any moral authority. This is a coming out: virtually the entire Global West appears as a pedophilic satanic organization. It is the end of any claim to leadership. …

in order to condemn today’s criminals, humanity would effectively have to conquer this collective West. These perverts themselves will never repent. They would sooner resort to a global provocation, nuclear war, or at the very least an explosion at the Capitol, a false flag operation, in order to conceal the evidence.

In effect, this is the end of the West. By publishing the Epstein files, this civilization has signed its own sentence. Yet if we—all of sane humanity—do not defeat this satanic elite now, it will continue to rule over us.

Alexander Dugin on the implosion of Western legitimacy and the geopolitical storm now gathering.

The publication of three million Epstein files is a foundational event of such magnitude that it provokes genuine bewilderment: why are domestic media outlets failing to give it the attention it deserves? This is a true event—if you will, an anticipated yet still shocking “black swan,” or what political analysis calls a “game changer,” a transformation of the conditions of the game.

Let us proceed in order. First, the publication of the Epstein files was one of the key elements of Trump’s election campaign. He promised to release them in order to expose a pedophile network within the leadership of the United States implicated in savage crimes. Until a certain moment, the subject of Epstein’s island—with its monstrous orgies, satanic masses, abuse of minors, cannibalism, and human experimentation—had belonged only to conspiratorial circles. It was treated unseriously, as a conspiracy theory, yet over time it became clear that the matter was far more serious.

At some point, the body of evidence grew so substantial that Jeffrey Epstein himself was arrested, along with his closest associate Ghislaine Maxwell—the daughter of one of the Mossad station chiefs in the United States. The fact that Epstein allegedly committed suicide in his cell under unclear circumstances (although there is a strong probability that he was eliminated) only intensified suspicions.

It became clear that extremely influential circles—which had established control not only over the United States but also over global elites—were drawn into his dark network of total degeneracy, populated by maniacs, murderers, rapists, and spies.

At first, only conspiracy theorists made such claims; then Trump voters joined them, believing that with his rise to power the entire truth would come to light. Yet last year, after the publication of a tiny portion of the dossier that contained virtually nothing, disappointment set in. The U.S. Department of Justice attempted to satisfy Trump supporters with a “dummy.” When everyone declared this insufficient, Trump moved to the next stage: he began asserting that the Epstein dossier did not exist at all, promised clemency for Ghislaine Maxwell, and effectively attempted to bury the case.

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This triggered a split among supporters of the MAGA movement. From that point began the decline of Trump, who is now at the lowest point of his second presidential term. Much of this is connected precisely to his position on the Epstein dossier (which Trump ultimately claimed had been “invented by the Democrats”). Accusations emerged that Trump himself had participated in orgies on the island and was therefore slowing the process of publication.

Yet at last, despite the shameful political maneuvers he performed around these documents, the files were released. To a considerable degree, figures such as Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna stood behind this, insisting that the case must not be suppressed.

The publication became an absolute bombshell. The Department of Justice, under the leadership of Trump appointee Pamela Bondi, posted a fragment of the dossier for several hours containing testimony about Trump’s personal participation in these pedophile orgies and the intimidation of victims by his security detail. Photographs of Melania Trump in Epstein’s embrace were made public, implicating her in a trafficking network involving women and children who were abused and killed. Although the documents concerning Trump were removed after a couple of hours, the remaining three million files stayed online (possibly only a portion as well).

This alone is sufficient to understand that not only Trump but also Elon Musk, as well as many representatives of the Republican Party and even members of Europe’s royal families, were part of this system. The entire Western elite has been discredited. Epstein functioned as a kind of “personnel department” for a world government. Candidates for global power passed through certain rituals and crimes there—including the abuse of minors, murder, and cannibalism—all recorded on film for subsequent control.

The Western world has collapsed. Not a single Western political leader, whether in the United States or the European Union, retains any moral authority. This is a coming out: virtually the entire Global West appears as a pedophilic satanic organization. It is the end of any claim to leadership.

Now anyone entering into agreements with a Western politician must understand that they may be sitting beside a maniac and a murderer (and many leading Western intellectuals, experts, scientists, and others—both left and right—are implicated in this pedophile network). This is the West. Therefore, after the publication of this evidence, either humanity will destroy this system, this monstrous totalitarian sect, or the West will destroy humanity by transforming the entire planet into something resembling Epstein’s island, which has already become a symbol of the modern West as a whole.

The second fundamental and equally shocking point is the leading role of Israeli intelligence services within Epstein’s system. The materials show that Epstein was a representative of Zionist racism, arrogantly mocking the “goyim” (non-Jews perceived as “subhumans”) who took part in his orgies. Against the background of current events in Gaza, Zionism has likewise finally lost any claim to moral legitimacy.

For decades after the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust, the world sympathized with the Jewish people. Yet humanity is now shocked by how this cult of reverence for the memory of Jewish suffering was used by the State of Israel and a global Zionist network to construct a system of worldwide blackmail and governance. To the racism of the Nazis, the Zionists responded with the same racial superiority towards all humanity (most visibly in Palestine). This is a genuine explosion—a shock for American society.

Various political forces will now begin manipulating these data. Democrats who were not tainted in the Epstein dossier will attempt to use it against Trump. Perhaps even some Republican MAGA activists will try to remove Trump, understanding that an aging pedophile cannot lead America to greatness or serve as any kind of moral authority. Democrats may sacrifice Bill Gates, Barack Obama, the deviant Clinton couple, and many other representatives of their own ranks who were involved in Epstein’s orgies, if only to unseat Trump.

Message Alexander Dugin

The fact that materials discrediting Trump appeared on the website of his own department is considered by many to be the work of Mossad, attempting to push Trump towards a direct attack on Iran—something he has so far refrained from doing. Yet these are particulars. Globally, this is the total failure of the West, which has transformed into a branch of the pedophile lobby.

I repeat: against this backdrop, it is very strange that our media remain silent, even though there is no “Russian trace” in these publications (aside from a few insignificant figures, including prostitutes, as well as Russophobic statements by individuals in the dossier). It gives the impression that someone has issued instructions not to stir the waters.

Yet all of this appears absolutely insignificant compared with the scale of the abyss that has opened—comparable in magnitude to the crimes revealed at the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals.

The only difference is that, in order to condemn today’s criminals, humanity would effectively have to conquer this collective West. These perverts themselves will never repent. They would sooner resort to a global provocation, nuclear war, or at the very least an explosion at the Capitol, a false flag operation, in order to conceal the evidence.

In effect, this is the end of the West. By publishing the Epstein files, this civilization has signed its own sentence. Yet if we—all of sane humanity—do not defeat this satanic elite now, it will continue to rule over us.

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