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Ben Shapiro: Ill-Assimilated Muslims Are Contributing to the Rise of Anti-Semitism in Europe

As Ben Shapiro filled in for “The Glenn Beck Radio Program” on Friday, he raised a critical issue facing Jews in Europe that surprisingly made headlines in the left-leaning, mainstream media. The article Ben referenced on the program, “Anti-semitism is still alive in Germany as Jews face ‘disturbing’ discrimination,” delved into the evidence that, due to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to allow nearly 1 million Muslim refugees into Germany, anti-Semitism from ill-assimilated Muslims is now contributing to disturbingly high rates of discrimination against Jews in Europe.

“I visited France a couple of years ago with my wife,” said Ben, “and there are certain districts in France where you do not want to travel if you are a Jew wearing a yarmulka.”

The article stated that “Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision in 2015 to open the nation’s arms to 1 million mostly Muslim refugees has created a double threat for Germany’s roughly 120,000 Jews: rising anti-Semitism from the newcomers and a resurgent right-wing nationalist movement spawned by the arrival of so many immigrants.”

Surge of Jewish Center Bomb Threats Reminds Us 'Never Again' Has Never Mattered More

The article focuses on Mikhail Tanaev, a Jew who emigrated to Germany in 1998 from Russia. He told USA Today, ” When I arrived in Germany … I never saw such displays.” The displays he’s referring to occurred in the middle of Berlin where Israeli flags were burned in the middle of the streets following the U.S.’s decision to move the capital of Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

“I never thought that could happen in the middle of Berlin. That’s something you see in other parts of the world. It’s really disturbing,” Tanaev said. “It feels like we’re being threatened because you never know how people will react further when something like this occurs.”

Watch above hear what Ben thinks of the rise of anti-semitism.

This article provided courtesy of TheBlaze.

BEN: This is Ben Shapiro in for Glenn Beck, talking about the UN resolution 120 to nine yesterday. Against the United States. Saying the United States should remove its embassy from Jerusalem in Israel.

Again, it's insulting that we're paying the bills, paying the freight for this wretched hive of scum and villany. Why in the world we would pay for these people to Occupy a building in downtown New York, so that they could blow through parking ticket, make crimes, get (?) seems like a waste of time to me. Because our interests are the best interests. I understand that we're not supposed to say it. I understand that would at that would be to take too little the interest of other countries. Except for the fact that those interests have led to human suffering (?) while America's generally to human happiness abroad.

If it were not for the United States presence in the world, countries would be poor, countries would remain dictatorial. The United States has been a force for good in the world. I think that's a fundamental disconnect between how some people in the United States think of the United States and how people are traditionally conservative think about the United States.

And that goes back to a root view of what the US is. There are hope (?) the hurts inview, that the United States is a country (?) that the United States is built on the back of slave labor. That the United States was built with certain principles of exploitation. That that were essentially enshrined in the Constitution. (?), but failing. It's sort of the Barack Obama view of the universe.

Then there's the conservative view which is that the Constitution is the greatest document deadvised by human hands. That the Constitution enshrines certain rights. And that it represents eternal values both here and abroad. And the Declaration of Independence does the same.

And that (?) it's tragic. But that's the point. Without those principles, without the veracity of those principles, without the truth and the strength of those principles, the world becomes a darker place.

And imagine if the United States had not been there for World War II. Imagine how that would have gone.

Folks in Britain would now be speaking German. Imagine if the United States had not been there for the Korean War. South Korea would now look like North Korea.

Imagine if the United States had not been there. Yes, in Iraq.

Saddam Hussein would either still be in charge or the place now would be in charge of ISIS and Iran. The fact is when the United States does withdraw, the world becomes a worse place.

Vietnam was a worse place because the United States withdrew. Cambodia was a worse place because -- now, I'm not talking about what's in America's interest to do. I'm not talking about whether we should have been in these places. The point I'm making, that where (?) where American boots do not step, freedom is less likely to follow. That doesn't mean we have to put American boots everywhere. It doesn't mean we should put American boots everywhere. It does mean, however, seeing the United States as a force in the world is necessary in order to understand why the United States really has no (?) and granting that are dictatorial and tyrannical.

And this is amazing to watch the Europeans try and suggest they have some sort of moral authority over what our view of Jerusalem and Israel. That's bizarre to me. There are more and more stories these days coming out of Europe. Jews are moving out of Ypres. Again, again, it's like the 1930s. They're moving out of Europe. Now they have a place to go because Israel exists. Before they didn't. But the fact is, the Jews are moving out of Europe in record numbers. And there's a reason for that.

There's an article in USA Today, from Berlin, (?) immigrated to Germany in 1988. (?) his Jewish faith didn't matter to classmates and neighbors. That's because Germany (?) to atone for the Holocaust and prevent anti-Semitism (?) reparations of Nazi persecution, erected (?) and turned anti-Semitic speech into a crime. (?) decision in 2015 to open the nation's arms to 1 million, mostly Muslim refugees. (?) 120 Jews. Rising anti-Semitism. Spawned the arrival by so many immigrants. There's another threat, which I will talk about in a second. Which is the secularist (?) that threatens Jews as well as Christians. The anti-Semitic (?) when I arrived in Germany, I never saw such a displace. Last week, (?) burned Israeli flags to protest President Trump's decision on December 7th to recognize Israel as (?) prompted a national outcry.

I never go to thought (?) it's something you see in other parts of the world, it's really disturbing. Other instances of anti-Semitism in Germany have become motion and brazen. (?) cobble sized plaques, embedded in sidewalks, (?) the German military and soldiers bakers over the summer. In 2016, (?) anti-Semitic incidents in increase (?) Jewish community on edge.

According to a repeat survey, 62 percent of Jewish respondents said they experienced (?) in France, Jews have been moving out at record rates.

I visited France a couple years ago with my wife. And there are certain districts in France where you do not want to travel if you're a Jew wearing a yarmulke. She put it inside her shirt. (?) because she was concerned. Because of the violence levels that have occurred in Paris.

In Sweden, the threat is not just from the rising anti-Semitism of the Muslim population in places like Sweden and (?), for example.

It's also coming from the left. Commentary magazine today reporting the firebombing of a (?) for Sweden's anti-Semitism (?) for years, Swedish Jews have lived in fear of such violence. (?) and ill assimilated Muslim minority. According to a 2013, (?) four out of five Jews declined to publicly identify as Jewish in Sweden. A damning indictment of a country that likes to portray itself as one of the countries most tolerant. \street\{#N}{|-}Street level thuggery point (?) Swedish Jews also find themselves pressed by raining (?) solicitude after anti-Semitic attacks. But it also (?) through the their freedom to practice their faith.

Consider rabbi (?) to homeschool the four youngest of his 11 children in Sweden. The rabbi and his wife Leia arrived in the country in 1991. (?) a Jewish outreach movement. 400,000 Jews in Goth up Untilburg. (?) out of the question.

So what happened?

Sweden basically tried to force these people to put their kids into government schools.

They ended up on the sharpened of the (?) soon after it came into effect the local (?) and they were fined for failing to send their kids to Christian schools. The assault on religion in Europe demonstrates, again, you believe so trust human rights to the Europeans. You believe so trust freedom of religion to the Europeans. And you certainly can't trust protections of Jews to the Europeans. As we continue, let's talk a little bit about American foreign aid. Where are we spending it? Where? And (?) Ben Shapiro in for Beck.

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Meet the pro-Intifada candidate NYC Democrats just elected

New York City Democrats just elected 33-year-old Zohran Mamdani, a "socialist Muslim", as the Party's candidate for mayor. But Glenn Beck argues that his radical beliefs are actually communist and Islamist.

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VOICE: Z10852. Something weird is going on. The World Trade Center is on fire.

VOICE: Seriously the top of the building. We're trying to get information.

VOICE: Top level of one of the --

VOICE: To unfold from New York City.

VOICE: A plane crashed just --

VOICE: My sister is in that believe. I hope she's okay. I have to come to New York.

VOICE: It's pandemonium.

VOICE: It's raining papers.

VOICE: Wait a minute! Stop just a second. Why are we -- why are we -- I've got breaking news. Breaking news, yesterday. New York City just elected as their mayoral candidate for the left. And the Democrats, a -- a Muslim radical, who is also a communist!

So, you know, it only took you 25 years. It only took you 25 years, New York, to go completely insane.

Somebody who is -- well, I mean, if I might quote Michael malice today. I am old enough to remember when New Yorkers endured 9/11 instead of voting for it.

But you've got a -- you've got a communist jihadist apologist now.

Who was -- you know, well, CAIR put $100,000 behind his bid for New York City mayor.

So you have somebody who is endorsed by CAIR. That's really good.

He also was somebody who said, you know, he was -- he was for the shooting of the United Health Care CEO.

Said he was looking forward to driving down magnum Joan avenue. I don't know. Sounds like supporting people in the streets. Maybe it's just me.

Then he also said that he was going to globalize the intifada, which I think that's -- maybe -- maybe that's just me.

I mean, what do I know?

Tim Miller who is a podcaster. Asked him a few weeks ago. Asked him about his pro Palestinian slogan. Globalized the intifada. And he said, for me, ultimately, what I hear in so many, is a desperate desire for equality and equal rights, in standing up for Palistinian human rights. Oh, is that what you hear, Mr. CAIR?

Really? Huh, that's interesting.

Right. So globalize the intifada.

I mean, I mean, sure, that's -- I mean well, let me go on.

Because I don't want to take him out of context.

He then delved into the semantics of the intifada, citing the United States Holocaust memorial museum's use of a word for a translation for uprising, in an Arabic version of an article, a museum published about the Warsaw ghetto.

Oh!

So this is just a comparison, about the -- the armed rebellion against the Nazis!

I don't know if that makes me feel better!

I mean, if we're globalizing that.

We're the Nazis in this scenario.

Because I don't think it's the Palestinians.

I certainly don't think it's anybody who is like, hey.

Global jihad. I don't think it's those guys.

Or the Nazis. Who are the Nazis in that?

And it seems, if that's what you mean, then it's not just a harmless kind of slogan about human rights. It is a call for violence on the streets.

Because I don't know if you know, that's what happened when the Jews had their uprising against the Nazis.

I'm just saying!

But, hey, hey, free Palestine.

Oh, that's not what that means, gang. That is not what that means, but don't worry about it. He's just going to be possibly the new mayor.

And that's great. By the way, the Columbia faculty members signed a letter defending Hamas.

They were also among the donors to his mayoral campaign.

So, you know, you don't have anything to worry about.

And his father, who used to work at Columbia. Do you know, Stu?

Is his Dad -- is he still a professor at Columbia University?

He said that -- this violent terror thing of Islam, is not a part of Islam. Now, I've read the Koran, and much of the hadith.

And I'm pretty sure the violence is a part of that. But no.

No. This is something entirely new.

And his father while at Columbia university, wanted everybody to know, that this is actually -- this is something that came out of America!

America is really responsible for this.

And, you know, it really started with the Reagan administration, you know, when he started -- when he started with his very religious terms, to finish the war against the evil empire.

So, you know, that's where -- that's where 9/11 came from.

Is what -- don't worry about it! Don't worry about it!

Because who am I? I'm clearly just -- am I an anti-Semite today, or am I an Islamophobic? I can't remember which one.

Oh, it's probably both. Anyway, Islamophobia. Let me just explain Islamophobia. I haven't even gotten to the Communist part of it. Which is really, really -- New York, you're in one for hell of a ride. Buckle up.

It will be a fun rollercoaster for you. My gosh, I've never been happier that I've been away are if New York.

Anyway, I just want I to know, there is Islam. And then there is Islamists. Now, an Islamist is somebody who really wants Sharia law.

That's political Islam!

That's not a faith. That's political Islam.

Now, let me make really -- something really clear. Criticizing Islamism, is not Islamophobia. Pointing out the dangers of, oh. I don't know.

Political Islam. The ideology that seeks to use the tools of democracy, ultimately to destroy democracy, is not an attack on Muslims.

No. Uh-uh.

You know why?

Because Muslims are often the first people in line.

The first victims of the ideology.

So let's draw a bright, bright line between Islam as a faith, millions of people can practice that faithfully and peacefully.

It's mostly peaceful, okay?

Then there's the Islamism.

Islamism is something entirely -- that's a political project.

A theocratic political -- oh. Left loves theocracies. They love it.

Of course, you never see a problem with it.

See it when an Islamist is touting it. Anyway, it's not about prayer. It's not about fasting. It's not about spiritual life.

It's all about power. It's about merging of mosque and state. It's about implementing Sharia, not as a personal code of conduct. But as a governing legal system.

And it's -- it's supremacy.

Absolutely. Faith.

Religion.

It's -- there's one thing that's supreme.

It's misogynistic.

Deeply intolerant of all kinds of things.

Descent. Secularism. Other faiths. Even competing interpretations from inside the faith itself.

It will behead them too.

So let's -- let's be honest here for a second.

You know, CAIR should be labeled an international terror organization.

In my opinion. In my opinion.

Oh, does that make me -- that makes me an Islamophobe. I'm sure. I'm sure they will start a campaign against me on being an Islamophobe.

Stand in line, guys. You've been doing it since 2001, okay?

I don't really care. And I don't think the American people. I think that record, all the grooves are worn-out on that one, okay?

This is not a religion we're talking about. When we're talking about Sharia law. And we're talking about globalize the intifada. What does that mean, actually, to globalize it?

Does that mean we now want to do what is happening to Israel? All over the world?

Has the Palestinian plight become our plight you now, as Americans?

That there has to be an intifada here!

Because it's the kind of the same. You know. It's kind of the same over, you know, with what the Palestinians are going through.

Well, it's very much like what the Jews went through with the Nazis.

That's a weird one. That one makes my head hurt. It's very much the same as that. And very much the same as the fight against Donald Trump.

Oh, this is going to be fun. It's fun!

Really fun. You know, the irony here is, the ones that will scream Islamophobia the most, are the ones in the progressive left, the champions of feminism, LGBTQ rights. And secularism.

They're going to -- no. You want -- they're going to stand with the people, who want to kill them first.

See, this is how smart they are!

This is why it's going to work out well, in New York City.

Let me just say. If you have an ounce of common sense, you run a business, you have an ounce of wealth. And I don't mean wealth like, you know, hey, Lovey.

Let's get on the boat for a three-hour tour with a suitcase full of cash. I mean you saved anything, anything, get the hell out of New York City.

I mean, this is about survival. This is about free speech. This is about women's rights.
Religious pluralism. Secular legal systems. Liberal democracy.

But it's also about failed principles of Communism. Okay?

First, you have to call out political Islam for what it is. Okay?

And we have to do it with the clarity that we call out white nationalism.

Got to do it with that. Got to -- you know, the Klan. Really bad people.

Really bad people.

Anybody who is shouting for globalized intifada?

Pretty bad. Pretty bad people.

Okay?

Now, let's get to communism.

Because that's another cool, cool angle of the new Democratic candidate for -- for mayor of New York City.

That I just -- I think is cuddly and cute. Sure, it led to 100 million deaths. But this time, New York is going to be radically different. Oh, did I use the word radical?

I didn't mean to use that. What's radical about this guy?

Nothing. He's just like you!

Well, not exactly.

But let's talk about communism, next!

Now, the new mayoral candidate that's running there in New York City. That so many young people rushed to defend and vote for. He's promising free buses.

That's going to work out.

Where are you going to get the money for free buses.

It's free!

City-run grocery stores.

Oh, rent freezes. And finally somebody has done it. A 30-dollar minimum wage.

So under the banner of equity. And, you know, we will tax the wealthy. And the corporations. You know, we're going to squeeze another $10 billion out of them.

Really?

Because they're going to call a U-Haul.

You know, they will call something like U-Haul. There will be a lot of -- there will be a lot of movers that are like, how do I get the truck back from Texas or Florida back up to New York? Nobody is moving up there.

But he's going to do it.

Now, his vision isn't really new. You know, just -- just tax people, so we could have city-run grocery stores. You know, I remember -- I'm old enough to remember those city-run grocery stores in Moscow.

They were great.

The shelves were empty.

But that's just Moscow.

It worked out completely different in Venezuela.

Where, oh, no.

It didn't. That's right. The grocery store.

They were eating the zoo animals.

But it will be different in New York.

Because they have rent controls too.

And that will just choke the housing supply, but don't worry. As a young family.

You know, you voted for it.

You know better.

It will work this time.

So, you know, I like building ideas, I just don't like usually building on the graves of 100 million people.

But, you know, why not? Why not?

You know, use this dogma.

And this time, it will be different. It's not like it was in China. Where the great leap forward, was a gross -- a gross parody of progress. Venezuela, which was oil rich. One of the richest nations in the hemisphere now sees 90 percent of its population in poverty!

Yeah. Darn it. You know what they did?

They decided to take state control of things.

You know, like grocery stores. And it worked out well. How is that free busing working out in Venezuela?

I just want to -- I just want to know.

Anyway, then you've got the globalize the intifada. Which is going to drop a little violence in, and anti-Semitism in with your communism.

Which is weird!

Because violence and anti-Semitism, always happen. When it -- when it comes to -- when it comes to communism.

This is weird!

I've got to play something for you. Because this has talked about on me earlier this morning.

Oh, wow.

Wait a minute. This is -- this is the whole coalition coming together here.

So this is going to be good. New York, this is going to be great.

It's going to be great for you.

No. He's going to uplift you. Then the social fabric of New York City is just going to be -- just one.

It's going to be fantastic. Don't worry about your 120 billion dollars in debt. Or your 10 billion-dollar deficit that you have right now.

You are going to charge the rich more taxes, and they will stay right there.

They will be like, you know what, that 46 percent in taxes that I'm paying, this is just not enough. It's just not enough.

I need to pay 60 or 70 percent to be able to pay my fair share. So that's good. That's good. That's good.

You know, they're not risking 100 million people. It's just 8 million people.

This time, it's just 8 million people.

But, hey. For those of you in upstate New York. That aren't going to be part of this experiment.

Don't worry, you get to pay for it. Because they'll kick it up to the state. The state will have to subsidize everything. And don't you love it?

Really, don't you want to subsidize the really crazy ideas of New York City?

I mean, why don't you have a -- why don't you have a democratic socialist. A/k/a communist mayor.

Why haven't you done that? Are you not progressive enough? Are you not looking into the future?

Are you stuck in the past?

I don't know. I don't know. The graveyard is pretty big. I have a hard time getting past that one. You know, yeah, so I'm stuck in the past. Because I can't seem to pass that graveyard, and get to be down the path with you. But it's going to be a paradise.

Forget arithmetic. You know, or human nature. This time, it's going to work. It's going to work. So all right!

Wish I lived in this morning.

No wait. Nope. I don't. Nope, I don't.

And Ted Cruz, stop it. Stop writing, hey, come to Texas. No. No. Don't come to Texas. Don't come to Florida. Go to California. It's beautiful this time of year. Go there. Go there.

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