Following the beating to death of a 26-year-old imam with Pakistani roots in the street of Ebersbach on the River Vils in the German state of Baden-Württemberg on Monday last week, the public outcry in Germany was very restrained. The usual speculation regarding a right-wing extremist or Islamophobic background to the crime did take place – but very cautiously. The police also kept a conspicuously low profile and only reported that they had started a manhunt for “two men”.For this reason – and also because the perpetrators were not properly described – attentive observers had suspected early on that it was more likely a matter of a domestic or milieu crime from the victim’s social environment than a xenophobic attack. The fact that the description of the witnesses was published instead of the description of the perpetrators seemed particularly absurd to many.Leading German newspapers like ” Bild” eagerly promoted the narrative of the evil right-wing radicals who allegedly lurked around every corner: “Anything is possible, a domestic crime, an act of revenge. Or a racist murder. The very idea is unbearable.” Equally interesting: Austrian media did not pick up on the murder until today. Probably because there was no document from the German press agency, which certainly knew from day one that it was not a xenophobic act.The murder victim was considered a “liberal, sincere, warm-hearted and completely peaceful person” among his fellow believers. He came to Germany as a refugee in 2012, worked part-time as a taxi driver in Esslingen and in the evenings as a pizza delivery man in Ebersbach. Now, one week later after the brutal crime, it is definite: As the public prosecutor’s office in Ulm announced, the brother and the life partner of the killed man have meanwhile been remanded in custody under urgent suspicion of the crime. He is said to have a four-year-old son and a daughter (6 months) with her. The woman had initially appeared as a witness to the police. She was quoted in the newspapers as saying that one of the masked attackers had a conspicuously large white nose.The woman with a migration background who possessed a German passport was married to the murdered man according to Islamic law. During house searches at her house and at the house of the imam’s Pakistani brother, various pieces of evidence were seized which confirmed the suspicion against both of them. The investigators suspect the motive to be “family-related” – the usual paraphrase in officialese for crimes of revenge or code violations in the broadest sense, such as honour killings or honour punishments. Religious reasons could also have played a role.Civil society campaigners in the “fight against the right-wing” have been unlucky once again with their storytelling: unfortunately, the case is no evidence of allegedly ubiquitous “racist” or “Islamophobic” violence. Rather, it was a purely “inner-Pakistani family affair” for which the south-west German province was only the picturesque backdrop.

https://www.wochenblick.at/mord-an-imam-deutsche-vertuschten-pakistanische-taeterherkunft/

A person died in Switzerland five days after receiving the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine. Authorities said a link with the vaccine was “highly unlikely”. German media called his doctor a “Coronavirus skeptic”.

Authorities in the Swiss Canton of Lucerne in the municipality of Ebikon, said on Wednesday that one of the first people to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in the country has died. Deutsche Welle noted that “the case was initially reported by a coronavirus-skeptic doctor”.

The first serious incident occured in the canton whose health director Guido Graf (CVP) wanted to be the first to start the Corona vaccinations. On Christmas Eve, vaccinations started on dementia patients.

The canton Lucerne was thus the site of the first vaccinations in Switzerlandwhich was launched last week, with injections given primarily to elderly people. Switzerland has received 107 000 vaccine doses and expects some additional 250 000 per month starting next year.

On December 26, the resident complained of urethral and abdominal pain. He kept getting restless, his blood pressure dropped and his pulse increased. The doctor in charge examined the vaccine recipient one last time on Sunday evening, December 27. He was calm, but his stomach was painful under pressure. On Monday, the nursing home did not report on the patient’s condition. On Tuesday morning the doctor was informed by email about his patient’s worsening general condition. The patient had already died when the doctor was eventually called. The patient, apart from having dementia, had been considered healthy before the shot.

The canton has not yet released any detailed information about the man’s death. “We are aware of the case,” a spokesperson said, before adding that the death had been referred to Swiss drugs regulator Swissmedic.

Pfizer/BioNTech’s vaccine is the only vaccine which has been approved so far in Switzerland. The EU has has also approved the vaccine on an emergency-use basis, with the first jabs starting earlier this week.

This death follows the death of a vaccine recipient in Israel.  A 75 year old man from Beit Shean died Monday morning around 2 hours after receiving the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine. He had waited for the customary time at the health clinic before he was released. But when he arrived home, he lost consciousness and was later confirmed dead.

Israeli health authorities denied any link to the vaccine however:  “Initial examination does not show a link between the unfortunate incident and the vaccination.”

The American drug control authority FDA (Food and Drug Administration) lists a number of side effects that can occur in the first few days in its fact sheet on the vaccine from Pfizer/Biontech. The focus is on acute allergic reactions, which now apparently also occur with the vaccine from Moderna, as the New York Times reported.

V-Safe , the reporting system for side effects of vaccines from the American disease protection agency CDC (Centers for Disease Control) shows a toxicity rate of 2,8 percent after five days for vaccination with the active ingredient from Pfizer/Biontech.

In the case of 112 807 vaccinations, some 3 150 “Health Impact Events” had occurred that made work impossible and had required medical treatment (as of December 18, 2020).

The CDC, apparently concerned by the high number of side effects, no longer publishes the figures.

https://freewestmedia.com/2020/12/31/vaccinated-on-christmas-eve-dead-five-days-later/

On December 16, the Istanbul metropolitan municipality, led by Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), named a park in Istanbul after Hüseyin Nihal Atsız, a racist anti-Semite and one of Turkey’s most prominent Nazi sympathizers. The request was made by members of another Turkish opposition party, “The Good Party” (Iyi). Atsız (1905-1975) was known for “measuring skulls” to determine people’s “amount of Turkishness.”

In March, a member of the Good Party presented a motion to the Istanbul municipal assembly, calling for a park in Istanbul’s Maltepe district to be named after Atsız. The motion stated that Atsız spent most of his life in the Köyiçi region of Maltepe, and the subject was put on the assembly’s agenda in November. After the motion was passed by the assembly, the park in the Yalı Neighborhood officially received Atsız’s name.

According to the official website of the Istanbul metropolitan municipality, the motion passed unanimously. In a video published on social media, the Maltepe branch of the Good Party thanked Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoğlu, a member of the CHP, for his support.

Sadly, Atsız still has many fans in Turkey. On December 11, for instance, Meral Aksener, the head of the Good Party, posted on Twitter:

“I commemorate with respect and grace Hüseyin Nihal Atsız, one of the valuable representatives of the idea of Turkish nationalism and a translator of our feelings, on the anniversary of his death.”

So what are Atsız’s worldview and legacy?

Atsız promoted Pan-Turanism, also known as Turanism, Turkism or Pan-Turkism, a nationalist, expansionist ideology that emerged in Ottoman Turkey during the Young Turks era (1908–18). Turanism believes in the supremacy of Turks and aims to unite all “Turkic peoples” from Hungary to the Pacific under one roof. The Ottoman Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), which organized the first phase of the 1914-23 Christian genocide in Ottoman Turkey, was also pan-Turkist-Turanist. Turkey’s continued aggression towards Armenia, Israel, Cyprus, Greece, and other nations in the region today is also motivated by Turkism, among other extremist ideologies.

In her book Turkey, the Jews, and the Holocaust, scholar Corry Guttstadt describes Atsız as a “Turkish apologist for German Nazism”:

“Nihal Atsiz was an avid Nazi sympathizer. He called himself a ‘racist, pan-Turkist and Turanist’, and was an open anti-Semite. From 1934 onward, Atsiz published the Turanist journal Orhun, in which he advocated a Greater Turkish Empire extending from the Mediterranean to the Pacific. His Turkism was based on ties of blood and race; he advocated a return to pre-Islamic Turkish beliefs.”

Professor Jacob M. Landau notes:

“Atsiz was a great admirer of the race theories of Nazi Germany, expressing some of them repeatedly in his own works during the 1930s and 1940s (with the Turks labelled as the ‘master race’). His articles insisted, again and again, that Pan-Turkism could – and should – be achieved by war. For years, his haircut resembled Hitler’s and his own personal posture had a military way to it.”

Atsız’s writings led to violence when the Jewish communities of eastern Thrace were attacked during the 1934 anti-Jewish pogrom. Atsız was a literature teacher in the region back then. Guttstadt writes:

“Immediately prior to the events of 1934, threatening articles directed against Jews had also appeared in the journal Orhun, published by Atsiz.”

After a trip to the city of Canakkale, for instance, Atsız wrote:

“The Jew here is like the Jew we see everywhere. Insidious, insolent, malevolent, cowardly, but opportunistic Jew; the Jewish neighborhood is the center of clamor, noise and filth here as [the Jewish neighborhoods] everywhere else…. We do not want to see this treacherous and bastard nation of history as citizens among us anymore.”

In another article during the same period, Atsız wrote:

“The creature called the Jew in the world is not loved by anyone but the Jew and the ignoble ones… Phrases in our language such as ‘like a Jew’, ‘do not act like a Jew’, ‘Jewish bazaar’, ‘to look like a synagogue’… shows the value given by our race to this vile nation. As the mud will not be iron even if it is put into an oven, the Jew cannot be Turkish no matter how hard he tries. Turkishness is a privilege, it is not granted to everyone, especially to those like Jews… If we get angry, we will not only exterminate Jews like the Germans did, we will go further….”

Motivated by the writings by Atsız and other anti-Semitic authors, Turks targeted the Jews of eastern Thrace in pogroms from June 21- July 4, 1934. These began with a boycott of Jewish businesses, and were followed by physical attacks on Jewish-owned buildings, which were first looted, then set on fire. Jewish men were beaten, and some Jewish women reportedly raped. Terrorized by this turn of events, many Jews fled the region. According to historian Rifat Bali, many of Atsız’s followers participated directly in the riots.

Atsız contributed a lot to intoxicating Turkish minds with Jew-hatred. According to Dr. Fatih Yaşlı’s book, Our Hate is Our Religion: A Study on Turkist Fascism, Atsız wrote:

“Can a child of the Turkish nation who swung swords and spent their lifetime on battlefields for centuries and a child of the Jewish nation who lived their lives in dishonesty and fraud for centuries be equal? Even if they take a Turkish child and a Jewish child born on the same day to the same education institution and teach them only the Esperanto language and give them the same education under the same conditions, the Turkish child will definitely be brave again, and the Jew will be cowardly again.”

Atsız often made dehumanizing statements about other non-Turks, as well. Referring to Greeks, for instance, and conveniently disregarding the Turkish genocide of Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks, he wrote:

“Can Greeks be regarded as human beings?… Greek means a scorpion. Just as the scorpion stung the turtle who helped it cross the river to do it a favor and then said ‘what can I do? This [betrayal] is my habit’, the Greeks are also shaped by a habit of enmity against Turks.”

Atsız hated almost all non-Turkish peoples. In his will, addressing his then one-and-a-half-year-old son, Yagmur, Atsız wrote, in part:

“The Jews are the worst enemy of all nations. The Russians, the Chinese, the Persians, the Greeks are our historical enemies.

“The Bulgarians, the Germans, the Italians, the British, the French, the Arabs, the Serbs, the Croats, the Spanish, the Portuguese, the Romanians are our new enemies.

“The Japanese, Afghans and Americans are our future enemies.

“The Armenians, the Kurds, the Circassians, the Abkhaz, the Bosnians, the Albanians, the Pomaks, the Laz, the Lezgins, the Georgians, the Chechens are our enemies within [Turkey].

“One must become well prepared to combat so many enemies.”

His son Yagmur, however, grew up to be an individual critical of his father’s views. In a book he penned in 2005, he described how his father measured skulls in an attempt to determine people’s “rate of Turkishness.”

“Nihal Atsız was dreadfully [into] skullcaps. He measured the skulls of people he did not know at all – beside the skulls of his immediate surroundings and neighbors. He then calculated the skulls meticulously, and informed them whether they were Turkish or not. For example, he told them if they were Turkish 37 percent, nine out of ten or 69.4 percent. For those with a low rate of Turkishness, he always had words of ‘consolation’ on his lips. For instance, he said, ‘But you can partially eliminate your innate deficiency through an extraordinary voluntary effort and vigilant national consciousness.’

“Of course, those with a low rate of Turkishness, according to the skull measurement, would leave [our] home extremely distressed.”

Yagmur Atsız added that the “tool” that his father used to measure skulls was a kind of a caliper, about 45 centimeters long, and it was always on his writing desk. Atsız added that his father continued the skull measurement activity for decades.

Atsız also continued to affect Turkish political life in the next decades. Guttstadt notes:

“Anti-Semites and fascists, inspired by the German example, became a constant in Turkey’s political system in the period after World War II. In 1962, Nihal Atsız, along with like-minded people, founded the Türkçülük Derneği [Turkism Association], a forerunner of the fascist National Action Party (Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi, MHP), which was responsible for countless murders of leftist students, unionists, and intellectuals during the seventies. The leader of this movement was Atsız’s comrade in arms Alparslan Türkeş.”

The MHP also includes the far-right, racist Grey Wolf movement (Bozkurtlar), which was recently banned in France after a memorial to victims of the 1914-23 Armenian Genocide was defaced. Officially known as Idealist Hearths (Ülkü Ocakları), the movement has been involved in many acts of violence against civilians as well as political and religious figures. This includes the Alevi massacrein the city of Maras in southeast Turkey in 1978 and the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II in 1981.

Atsız’s racist worldview has led to deaths and destruction for so many. Nevertheless, at least three other parks in Ankara and Antalya and a street in the city of Amasya have been named after him.

So, what is it in Atsız’s thoughts and activities that many in the Turkish opposition — including Istanbul’s mayor — find worth promoting? Is it his “skull measurement,” Nazism, racism, Turkish supremacism and hate on which the Turkish opposition also agrees?

Today, behind many of Turkey’s continued aggressive policies such as its anti-Armenian, anti-Greek, anti-Cypriot, anti-Jewish, anti-Kurdish, anti-Western, and anti-Israeli activities lie the racist views of Atsız and the like. Millions of Turks have for decades been poisoned with Atsız’s Nazi-like views.

Apparently, the opinions of many members of the Turkish opposition do not seem so different from Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s violent, supremacist mindset. Until the Turkish opposition leaders and politicians honestly face and criticize Turkey’s history of crimes, slaughter and systematic racism, true democracy there will remain just a dream.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16886/turkey-nazi-sympathizer

John Lott, who was hired by the Justice Department in October as Senior Adviser for Research and Statistics at the Office of Justice Programs, has published a study concluding that as many as 368,000 “excess votes” tipped the election outcome to favor Joe Biden in two consequential battleground states.

“Increased fraud can take many forms: higher rates of filling out absentee ballots for people who hadn’t voted, dead people voting, ineligible people voting, or even payments to legally registered people for their votes,” reads the study’s summary. “The estimates here indicate that there were 70,000 to 79,000 ‘excess’ votes in Georgia and Pennsylvania.”

The best estimate shows an unusual 7.81% drop in Trump’s percentage of the absentee ballots for Fulton County alone of 11,350 votes, or over 80% of Biden’s vote lead in Georgia. The same approach is applied to Allegheny County in Pennsylvania for both absentee and provisional ballots. The estimated number of fraudulent votes from those two sources is about 55,270 votes.

The study aimed to quantify how large of a problem voter fraud and other election irregularities were in the 2020 election. “The process is applicable to other states where precinct-level data is available on voting by absentee and in-person voting,” explains the study’s introduction.

Lott concludes that the discrepancies in absentee voting is not likely to have been caused by a shift by Democrat to vote absentee because of the pandemic, as the study controlled for in-person voting.

“In layman’s terms, in precincts with alleged fraud, Trump’s proportion of absentee votes was depressed – even when such precincts had similar in-person Trump vote shares to their surrounding countries,” Lott explains. “The fact that the shift happens only in absentee ballots, and when a country line is crossed, is suspicious.”

“The precinct level estimates for Georgia and Pennsylvania indicate that vote fraud may account for Biden’s win in both states,” Lott concludes.

Lott also looked at voter turnout rates in Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, and Wisconsin, comparing counties where there was alleged fraud and those were there wasn’t.  When those states are included, Lott estimates that as many 289,000 fraudulent votes in the 2020 election were counted.

The study, called “A Simple Test for the Extent of Vote Fraud with Absentee Ballots in the 2020 Presidential Election: Georgia and Pennsylvania Data” was published on Tuesday.

Lott is considered a controversial figure by the left-wing media. He is the founder of the Crime Prevention Research Center, a pro-Second Amendment nonprofit, which has published studies concluding that communities with higher rates of gun ownership have lower rates of crime. Lott left the organization to serve in the Trump administration. Andrew Pollack, the father of Meadow Pollack, who was killed during Parkland shooting in 2018, has since taken over as president of the organization.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2020/12/30/doj-adviser-says-368000-fraudulent-excess-votes-tipped-election-to-joe-biden-n1293011

An independent appeals panel at London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) has recommended an investigation into allegations of a “toxic, antisemitic environment” at the school.

The appeal was made by Noah Lewis, an SOAS student who said he was profoundly affected by the antisemitic environment fostered by the school.

Lewis had won a previous judgment against SOAS, but appealed it because it did not address the issue of institutionalized antisemitism and a toxic atmosphere directed against Jewish students.

According to UK Lawyers for Israel, which assisted Lewis with his appeal, the student described a series of alleged incidents of antisemitic and anti-Zionist racism, including that: the Student Union (SU) consistently touted its commitment to the antisemitic BDS movement; all Jews on campus who were not anti-Israel were pejoratively labelled “Zionists”; Lewis’ proposed dissertation examining UN bias against Israel resulted in harassment from his peers, including being called a “Nazi”; students in SOAS refused to refer to Israel by name, instead calling it the “Zionist regime”; Lewis was told by another student that he shouldn’t be in SOAS due to his Zionist opinions; and that any factual defense of Israel was dismissed as “Zionist propaganda.”

Evidence was also presented from other Jewish SOAS students, who said they were “shocked by the amount of antisemitic attitudes on campus;” felt “unwelcome and uncomfortable at SOAS”; and called the attitude toward Israel “radically oppressive.”

One said, “The Student Union which represents the total student body, consistently fails to respect the identities of Jewish students on the same level as other minority groups.”

SOAS has reached a settlement with Lewis of 15,000 British pounds, after he asked for a refund of his tuition fees and expenses following his experience at the school.

The settlement will not affect any further investigation of institutionalized antisemitism at the school.

According to the minutes of a March 26th hearing, the panel stated that it had “considered the objection that it would be inappropriate for every complaint from any individual student to trigger a full scale and meticulous, perhaps external, investigation of the whole culture at the School and the Student Union. … But it also came to the view that in this instance, there was a prima facie case which did warrant such a full investigation.”

The panel recommended that the new investigation be conducted by a panel composed of people unconnected to SOAS or the SU, and should have the “confidence of the Jewish community.” It added that the selection process should involve the Union of Jewish Students (UJS) and the UK government’s Independent Antisemitism Advisor, as well as an academic specializing in contemporary antisemitism.

Jonathan Turner, executive director of UK Lawyers for Israel Charitable Trust, commented, “The panel grasped the nettle and has set a benchmark of best practice which should be followed in other cases where there is prima facie evidence of an antisemitic environment.”

“We congratulate Noah Lewis on pursuing the complaint and hope that other students who experience antisemitism at universities will now be encouraged to object,” he added.

Brooke Goldstein, executive director of The Lawfare Project, which was also involved in the appeal, said, “What happened to Noah Lewis should never be considered acceptable at a place of higher learning. The Lawfare Project is glad to see that, with this settlement and continued investigation, SOAS is working to right this wrong and ensure that its Jewish students and faculty members can feel safe and welcome on campus.”

https://www.algemeiner.com/2020/12/29/panel-calls-for-new-investigation-into-toxic-antisemitism-on-london-university-campus/

In Hagen ( North Rhine-Westphalia), as in many other cities, there will be a ban on the burning of fireworks on public streets and squares on New Year’s Eve. However, it is already apparent that this ban will not be as easy to enforce as it has been imposed by politicians. At least not in Hagen and especially in the Altenhagen district. In the past few days, mainly young migrants and serial offenders have attacked policemen and rescue workers with fireworks.

But this is only the beginning, suspects police director Hubert Luhmann of the Hagen police. He assumes that members of the said group of people are by no means willing to accept the rules as binding. The contrary is to be expected. According to Luhmann, massive attacks are currently being planned against security, law enforcement and rescue forces. “There was even talk of a ‘war against the police’,” Luhmann says in a report in the newspaper Westfalenpost. “Their aim is to injure as many police officers as possible on New Year’s Eve. We have reliable statements in writing.”The police in Hagen will deploy more officers for the coming nights, a judge will be on duty on New Year’s Eve, and the public prosecutor’s office is also on standby. According to Luhmann, the aim is to take intensive offenders into custody in advance and keep them in custody on New Year’s Eve. However, it remains to be seen whether this will have any effect and whether it will be possible to stop the massive attacks on the police by mostly juvenile and young adult migrants that have happened in the past.

https://www.freiewelt.net/nachricht/kriegsankuendigung-jugendlicher-migranten-an-die-polizei-in-hagen-10083426/?fbclid=IwAR2SJ-SuIz4BDeQp4c4D-tua1IYBwkR0GcyUAbFkEZ7jFSpj1JSZoN9FDLU