Sylvana Simons, once with the Islamist Denk party, is a black anti-racism activist calling for the “decolonisation” of education and the Dutch language. She is one of the hopeful candidates in the country’s general election.

The election program of her party BIJ1 is even more leftist on socio-economic issues than the Socialist Party, and more progressive than D66 on issues such as equality and inclusion.

The municipalities of Amsterdam and Rotterdam have recently had their own role in the slavery past investigated, and are now considering apologizing to the descendants of the enslaved. But the majority of Dutch voters do not think these apologies are necessary. Simons is a passionate supporter of reparations and sees it as proof of the necessity of the BLM movement in the Netherlands.

Other parties are still “insufficiently” aware of how deeply systemic racism is present in the Netherlands, she believes. She wants to tackle discrimination directly in education, in the labour market as well as the housing market. And she believes it is in everyone’s interest that the system of unequal treatment is tackled by the government as soon as possible, “because you yourself could also be the victim next time”.

According to Simons, BIJ1 has received thousands of hateful private messages, comments, emails, posts and tweets. The party has selected 52 messages for her “Black Manifesto”. The far-left Hotline for Discrimination in the Amsterdam Region helped the party to make a selection.

BIJ1 refers to online hatred and threats as part of a larger social problem, in which open racism and sexism go unpunished. According to the party, people are getting away with breaking the law on a large scale because the authorities now do not want or cannot deal with it properly. The legal possibilities and powers to prosecute people for online hatred are too currently limited. The party has called for mass censorship.

That is a political choice, according to BIJ1, who advocated more legislation to stop online hatred. “Anyone who speaks out in our country can expect extra hatred,” said Simons. “But enough is enough. This should stop now. I will continue to fight until the legal system works well for every woman of colour and for everyone else.” Simons was mocked by Geert Wilders in 2016 when she requested full-time security because of “hatred”. The round-the-clock isolation of Geert Wilders due to Islamist threats has lasted almost two decades already.

She told Culturu.com that she expected to receive a lot of resistance in the parliamentary Tweede Kamer specially from the the right-wing. “I know that the knives are already being sharpened in The Hague.”

Simons said she made the choice as a result of some divine intervention: “I experienced my vision as a divine experience […] I had no control over when or how the next intervention was going to come. It was not me. Something happened.”

Simons is a former television presenter, responsible for polarising national discourse on Zwarte Piet, racial profiling and the legacy of slavery dating back to the Dutch colonial era. The Black Lives Matter movement unsurprisingly provided fresh fodder for the racial activist.

“It was good to see that so many people said ‘enough is enough’ and they came out and spoke out,” Simons said of the 2020 BLM rallies in the Netherlands. “And I do also hope that they will use that same voice when we have our general elections,” she said.

“If your reality is that of a young Black person in this country, what you’ll find is that from the moment you enter school, you enter the system. There is bias and prejudice. People have lower expectations of you. People judge you differently,” Simons said.

When tax officials obtained dual nationality data to identify child benefit fraudsters last year, black activists cried “inequality”. As a result, Prime Minister Mark Rutte resigned in January after the country’s Data Protection Authority announced that the tax office’s use of dual nationality data was “unlawful and discriminatory”. Thousands of Moroccan, Turkish and Surinamese families were plunged into debt as a result of the probe. Simons clearly hopes to gain from this fact.

Simons has also complained about a quarter of the population being listed by the national statistics office as having a “migration background”. Polls currently suggest that her crusade against “systemic racism” will fall short of the threshold to enter into parliament despite a huge anti-racism demonstration on Museumplein in the middle of the lockdown last year showing that the anti-racism theme is also alive in the Netherlands.

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/03/16/systemic-racism-becomes-a-theme-in-dutch-election/

By Monica Showalter

After a slew of publicity at the expense of Britain’s queen, Meghan Markle, the Hollywood actress now the so-called Duchess of Sussex has decided she wants to be U.S. president, according to a Daily Mail report.

Meghan Markle will use the furore over her interview with Oprah to launch a political career which could take her all the way to the White House, if rumours circulating around Westminster last week turn out to be accurate.

One senior Labour figure – a veteran of Tony Blair‘s Downing Street administration with strong links to Washington – claimed to The Mail on Sunday that Ms Markle, 39, was networking among senior Democrats with a view to building a campaign and fundraising teams for a tilt at the US Presidency.

Last night, a source close to the Duchess of Sussex declined to comment, but the couple have made little secret of their political beliefs.

Which on first thought, would be over Kamala Harris’s dead body, given that she’s the one tolerating Old Joe until the time comes. But as house-husband Harry says, “What Meghan wants, Meghan gets.”

Who knows what the heck this ambitious bounder has in mind?

The important thing to know is that she’s consorting and meeting with top Democratic political leaders, given that the lady of leisure in her Montecito mansion has lots of time on her hands.

One such meeting we know of is with California’s embattled Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Another possible may be with Team Obama.

After all didn’t both the Obamas and the Sussexes both get buku-bucks Netflix deals? Neither pair has any experience in film, but both somehow got the millions anyway. There doesn’t seem to be anyone else who got those deals. What’s more, Netflix as a company is larded up with Obama former officials.

And didn’t Meghan Markle glowingly “interview” Michelle Obama in a 2019 guest-editing session for limousine-liberal Vogue? Seems the two like each other and share the same leftist wokester values and given the gushiness, may have been working as a team.

It sure seems so, given that Harper’s Bazaar reports that Michelle was feating Meghan as “my friend” and a “thoughtful leader.” Here’s the gushing from Harper’s Bazaar:

When Michelle Obama hops on Instagram to give you a shoutout from the other side of the globe, you know you’re doing something right. Today, the former first lady took to the app to praise Duchess Meghan, whom she called “my friend,” for the work she’s doing during her royal tour of southern Africa.

Meghan and Harry’s trip abroad isn’t just about the meet and greets and photo ops; it’s also about recognizing and raising awareness about organizations doing inspiring work in the area. Last night, for example, the duke and duchess attended a reception for youth leaders, which included Obama Foundation Leaders based in Africa, who are notable rising change-makers in their communities.

The gushing wasn’t just confined to Michelle and Meghan. Harry and Obama figured in this, too. Here’s Vanity Fair with its own round of gushing, from 2017:

2017’s favorite bromance goes to Barack Obama and Prince Harry. They laughed it up at the Invictus Games in Toronto and filmed a charming interview that aired on BBC Radio 4’s Today program. But while it seems like a given for the Obamas to be invited to Prince Harry’s upcoming wedding to Meghan Markle in May, according to reports they may end up getting snubbed to avoid an outright diplomatic crisis.

Take a look at that picture.

They wanted the Obamas at their wedding but apparently the British prime minister at the time (or who knows, maybe the queen?) stopped it.

Bottom line, the Obamas and the Markles go way back, according to past fawning stories, all of them from the fashion press.

The political analysts over at the Conservative Tree House / Last Refuge seem to think the timing of the interview in which Meghan charged the entire royal family with racism, sounded like Classic Obama political hardball, which is to whip up racial divisions ahead of the trial of Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin, now that riotous public sentiment against cops has died down. Sundance writes:

Media stories often contain the fingerprints of motive, a slight truth hidden in a background of obfuscation, and you can find the leftist activity if you know what to look for.  The buried lede in the story is this short segment:

[…] “One senior Labour figure – a veteran of Tony Blair’s Downing Street administration with strong links to Washington – claimed to The Mail on Sunday that Ms Markle, 39, was networking among senior Democrats“… (read more)

There it is: “networking among senior Democrats.”  That’s the data point to focus on.

That’s the part of the story that tells us exactly what was going on in that Oprah interview; and it is exactly what we suspected it was HERE and HERE.

Of course she was “networking” with “senior Democrats”, specifically she was networking with Obama’s Chicago crew; and that leads to Oprah, Obama’s biggest narrative engineer.

The Markle interview was purposefully orchestrated, racism claims intentionally injected, recorded, and then timed to be released/broadcast the day before the trial against Derek Chauvin while the George Floyd protestors were activated.  This is how the Obama crew operate.  This is how the leftists work.  None of this is accidental and that statement by the “senior Labour figure” is 100% correct…. except for the cover story to hide the motive.

It’s well argued, and could be true.

But Meghan’s interview also served as a guided missile aimed at the British monarchy, which also is worth noting. Recall Obama’s weird fascination with the British rulers, and their amazing failure to impress? Remember Obama’s hideous gift of tapes of his own speeches delivered to the queen? Remember Michelle Obama touching the queen like she was her pal? Remember Michelle Obama’strain-wreck of an argyle outfit? Remember how the Obamas not so secretly hankered for that wedding invitation to Prince William and Duchess Catherine’s 2011 wedding and didn’t get it?

And most important, remember some of what was written at the time, that Obama held a deep-seated grudge from his father’s colonialist experience against Britain in general, which explained why he was always undercutting our ally? Dinesh d’Souza explored this topic in his 2010 book, “The Roots of Obama’s Rage.”

There’s no reason to think the royal family wasn’t a target, every bit as active as Meghan’s presidential ambitions. 

Who the heck would vote for her is another matter, but in this age of electoral fraud, apparently winning isn’t important. Being part of the Obama political machine is, as Joe and Kamala can explain. Whatever may be going on with Meghan’s political ambitions, we can see she’s acting as Joe Biden does to the Obama machine — she’s apparently a willing tool.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/03/so_now_meghan_markle_wants_to_be_us_president.html

“Suddenly you are shown a longer version of the video in which you can clearly see that the Syrian asylum seeker spat once again in the direction of the paramedic,” writes publicist Anabel Schunke on Twitter and asks: “Why was only a different version shown beforehand in which you didn’t get to see that?”
A good question.

It is completely normal that after a spectacular incident, first a video appears, then a second from a different perspective, a third and so on and so forth. The only thing is that the punching of a Syrian in an accommodation centre for asylum fraudsters, who is said to have rioted, punched, kicked and spat in advance, was not the 11th of September or anything like that, which means that there is only this one video that we know from tabloid BILD and the like.

So we really have to ask ourselves the question: Now that the Merkel-critical editor-in-chief Julian Reichel has been booted out, at least temporarily, is BILD becoming a pure propaganda tool of our “Refugees Welcome” government?

And where are the journalistic ethics? Where is the will for truthful reporting? And why are the paramedics being portrayed as the nation’s brutes and the police as his accomplices?

Is a Syrian who riots, beats, kicks and spits in return for admission, board, lodging and pocket money closer to the scumbags working for BILD than a hard-working paramedic and the German police?
Obviously.

Now the criminal also gets the opportunity to spread his lies !And the paramedic is of course the “beating paramedic”. Why isn’t the Syrian called the “spitting” Syrian in the same breath?

Also a good question, which those responsible at the BILD newspaper must justify themselves in accordance with their consciences.

Längeres Video beweist: Syrer spuckte den Sanitäter an!

When is murder allowed and when is a husband allowed to chastise his wife? This is the subject of a book that a Turkish publishing house is also distributing in German.

What do the Islamist Milli Görüs Community (IGMG), a Düsseldorf Salafist shop and the internet giant Amazon have in common? They are distributing a book calling for what happened to the teacher Samuel Paty in France: an Islamist bestially murdered him in October because he was said to have insulted the Prophet by showing Mohammed cartoons in the classroom.

The murderer committed what the book “Ilmihal für Frauen – Islamisches Grundwissen für Frauen” (Ilmihal = Catechism), published by the Uysal publishing house in Istanbul, postulates as a religious duty: “Someone who insults the Prophet, offends or denigrates his religion in any way must be killed”, it says on page 177. Even remorse does not spare the “perpetrator”.

The Thalia bookstore chain has already taken the book out of its assortment, at Amazon it was still available on Friday evening: the book “Ilmihal (=Catechism) for Women – Basic Islamic Knowledge for Women” published in German by the Turkish Uysal publishing house. According to the book, this basic knowledge includes – as reported exclusively by the newspaper VOLKSBLATT – the following: “Anyone who insults the Prophet, offends him or denigrates his religion in any way must be killed.” And: “If a woman rebels against her husband, the Koran allows the husband to chastise his wife as a last resort.” Further, “In the case of public indecency on the part of the wife, light beating on the part of the husband is permitted.” However, the husband is required to leave “no trace” of the beating.

Austria’s Integration and Women’s Affairs Minister Susanne Raab ( Austrian People’s Party) told VOLKSBLATT that she was “truly appalled”. “These contents are disgusting, abhorrent and absolutely unacceptable.”

Islamist and misogynist texts, she said, “have no place in our society and are to be absolutely condemned”. Raab finds it “right and without alternative that individual book chains (Thalia, ed.) reacted immediately and removed the title from their catalogue”.

The Milli Görüs Community (IGMG), represented by at least one religious community in the Islamic Religious Community in Austria (IGGÖ), had also sold the book over its online book club “Kitap Kulübü” registered in Cologne.

Only after the VOLKSBLATT reported on it did the title disappear from the range. However, both the IGMG and the IGGÖ did not respond to requests for statements on the extremist content of this work.

https://www.tageblatt.lu/non-classe/tuerkisches-glaubensbuch-legitimiert-mord-und-zuechtigung-von-frauen/ – https://volksblatt.at/widerwaertig-und-abscheulich/

After denigrating Christmas last year and other verbal lapses, Ozan Ceyhun is once again causing a stir – and this time from Vienna to the Bosporus. As the Turkish daily “Yeniçağ Gazetesi” reports, the ambassador in Vienna visited the headquarters of the ultra-national Grey Wolves in the Danube city at the end of February and was welcomed by their president Ali Can.

Why exactly a book entitled “The Hagia Sophia – Great Mosque” was chosen by him as a gift – the conversion of which, as is well known, led to worldwide protests – is a puzzle. The monumental house of worship was converted into a mosque after the conquest of Constantinople (Istanbul). State founder Kemal Atatürk made a museum out of it, which it was until 2020. Another mystery is why this photo was so proudly shared on the social media by the Grey Wolves, who have been spreading their ideology under the code name “Avusturya Türk Federasyon” since 1994.

The picture has the following caption: “Our Austrian Ambassador, Mr. Ozan Ceyhun, visited us with his team at our headquarters of the ‘Turkish Federasyon’ and thus honoured us. I would like to thank the ambassador on behalf of our community for his kind visit.”

https://www.krone.at/2364553?fbclid=IwAR3bumyj0AcVymSpjGfh3F3KWjlJRdYZG7o5TjqVW-rnNLLOPBOLt80dmjI

Austria and Denmark will be cooperating with Israel when it comes to vaccines. Italy will produce the Russian Sputnik V vaccine and Hungary is taking its own path and is vaccinating its citizens with Chinese and Russian doses.

The OSW Center for Eastern Studies expert Konrad Popławski explained that Austria and Hungary’s actions are a serious argument in favor of a Europe of Fatherlands, as the EU has started to take responsibility for matters in which it has no competencies. The vaccine fiasco shows that people without expert knowledge dealt with the matter while on the other side there were the experienced negotiators of pharmaceutical companies.

The slow speed of the EU vaccination program was criticized by Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz who alongside Danish Prime Minister Mette Fredriksen signed an agreement concerning developing and producing a new generation of vaccines with Israel. French diplomacy criticized this move, claiming that EU states should base its vaccine policy on cooperation within the EU.

Popławski pointed to a crucial element which is lacking in EU cooperation.

“If the EU took responsibility for the vaccine purchase program, then it should also bear political responsibility. In every normal company or state, following such mistakes which have cost lives, someone would be held responsible. Meanwhile, nothing seems of the sort in the EU. If Ursula von der Leyen wasn’t German, she would’ve lost her position,” says Popławski.

He emphasized that it is embarrassing for the EU that countries such as Serbia are more advanced when it comes to vaccinations. He believes that this is proof that EU competencies should not expand and that integration should only take place where it brings additional benefits.

Despite the systemic failure of the EU in relation to the vaccine, on Feb. 25, David Sassoli, the European Parliament president and a left-wing politician from Italy, called for member states to delegate more of their competencies to the EU level to prevent further crises caused by the pandemic. In his opinion, the European Commission had passed its test during the coronavirus.

Popławski warns that this line of thought is unrealistic and if politicians are unable to reflect on their failures then this line of thinking may cause even larger mistakes in the future.

“It is interesting that politicians whom Brussels tried to blame for all the evils of the world, like Boris Johnson or Donald Trump, were able to achieve results for their countries. EU politicians are unable to do so and this takes us back to the question concerning political responsibility,” he said.

https://rmx.news/article/article/von-der-leyen-wouldve-lost-her-job-over-vaccine-fiasco-if-she-wasn-t-german-says-polish-expert