European governments are using the coronavirus pandemic to grant mass amnesties to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East. While Europe is experiencing an economic shock without precedent, and tens of millions of Europeans have lost their livelihoods, migrants in Europe illegally are being showered with free housing and healthcare.

In Italy, where public debt is forecast to reach 160% of GDP this year, the left-wing coalition government has announced a plan to grant amnesty to at least 600,000 migrants in the country illegally. They would receive residency permits, initially valid for six months, that could be renewed in perpetuity.

The so-called Marshall Plan for Agriculture is the brainchild of Agriculture Minister Teresa Bellanova, who argues that the migrants are essential because they are picking crops and caring for the elderly during the coronavirus crisis. Opponents of the measure say that only a small fraction of the undocumented immigrants in Italy are currently working in agriculture or as care-givers for the elderly.

Approximately 100,000 farmhands from Eastern Europe work — legally — in Italy each year, but cannot this year due to coronavirus travel bans. Agriculture trade unions report a current shortage of 200,000 workers. This figure represents one-third of the number of migrants Bellanova says she would like to legalize.

Former Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, who now leads the opposition, said that he was in favor of temporarily granting work permits for those currently working as farmhands, but that a mass amnesty of hundreds of thousands of migrants cannot be justified. He proposed an alternative plan: unemployed immigrants who are in the country legally and receiving welfare payments should be recruited to work in the fields.

Salvini said that the regularization of hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants was “slap in the face” to millions of unemployed Italians. He warned that it would also spark a new wave of illegal immigration to Italy. Bellanova threatened to resign if she does not get her way.

Although calls for a mass amnesty predate the coronavirus crisis by several years, they were consistently blocked while Salvini and his League party were in the government. The current government, sworn into office in September 2019, has been more liberal in matters of illegal immigration. Bellanova, backed by activist groups, now appears to be using the democratic vacuum created by the coronavirus state of emergency to decree the amnesty without parliamentary approval.

In Portugal, the government announced on March 28 that all migrants with pending applications would be treated as permanent residents until at least July 1 to ensure that the migrants would have access to public services during the coronavirus outbreak. The migrants were granted access to the national health service, welfare benefits, bank accounts, and work and rental contracts. The move by Portugal has spurred similar calls for mass amnesties in other European countries.

In France, more than 100 French MPs signed a letter addressed to Prime Minister Édouard Philippe which called on the government to regularize all undocumented migrants due to the coronavirus. The letter, published in the newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche on April 12, stated:

“We solemnly ask the French government to implement the same measures as the Portuguese government. The health catastrophe we are suffering from compels us to act responsibly and without delay, as did our Portuguese friends.”

The actual number of illegal immigrants in France is unknown but was estimated to be between 300,000 and 400,000 in 2017, according to the Pew Research Center. Considering the waves of mass migration since then, the number is probably well above a half-million.

In Spain, where an astonishing one-half of the total population of 47 million people now depend on payments from the state for their livelihoods, 200 NGOs asked the government for an “extraordinary regularization process” for illegal immigrants due to the coronavirus. “The wide and extraordinary regularization of all migrants living in Spanish territory is the most agile and exhaustive measure to guarantee that all people can face this health and economic crisis,” they said in a statement dated April 14. The number of illegal immigrants in Spain is estimated to be well over 800,000, according to the nationwide radio broadcaster COPE.

In the United Kingdom, Catholic leaders, on May 3, called on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to offer asylum seekers and other “insecure” immigrants the ability to live freely and work in the country during the coronavirus pandemic. Britain has up to 1.2 million illegal immigrants, a quarter of all those that have unlawfully entered Europe, according to the Pew Research Center.

Meanwhile, the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, called on European governments to release rejected asylum seekers and irregular migrants from detention due to the coronavirus. In a statement dated March 26, she wrote:

“In the face of the global Covid-19 pandemic, many member states have had to suspend forced returns of persons no longer authorized to stay on their territories, including so-called Dublin returns, and it is unclear when these might be resumed. Under human rights law, immigration detention for the purpose of such returns can only be lawful as long as it is feasible that return can indeed take place. This prospect is clearly not in sight in many cases at the moment….

“The release of the most vulnerable should be prioritized. Since the immigration detention of children, whether unaccompanied or with their families, is never in their best interest, they should be released immediately. The authorities of member states should also refrain from issuing new detention orders to persons who are unlikely to be removed in the near future.”

In Spain, where a coronavirus state of emergency was declared on March 14, the government has released thousands of illegal immigrants held in so-called Internment Centers for Foreigners (Centro de Internamiento de Extranjeros, CIE). Spanish law stipulates that migrants cannot be held in a CIE, a temporary holding facility prior to deportation, for more than 60 days. Because coronavirus travel bans have made deportations impossible, the Interior Ministry let them go. Many migrants have been sent to so-called Refugee Reception Centers (Centro de Acogida a Refugiados, CAR), where they will be provided with room and board for six months.

In Belgium, the government released several hundred migrants from detention centers. The Brussels Times reported:

“The 300 detainees, mainly men, were released from detention with an order to leave Belgium within 30 days. In such cases, the sans-papiers, as they are known, are not forcibly placed on a flight to their homeland, but simply allowed to go out of the front door of the detention center. It is to be expected that many will disappear into clandestinity. Since they are without papers, tracing them from now on will be difficult if not impossible.”

In the United Kingdom, the government released more than 700 migrants from Immigration Removal Centers (IRC) because they cannot be deported due to the coronavirus pandemic. Judicial tribunals forced the Home Office to release dozens of migrants despite fears that they could pose a risk to the public. “More than 40 countries to which the Home Office planned to deport them have either closed their borders or imposed travel restrictions, making deportation impossible,” according to The Telegraph.

The UK’s leniency appears to have sparked another wave of illegal immigration. Since the coronavirus lockdown began on March 23, nearly 900 people have illegally crossed the English Channel from France, according to Migration Watch UK. On May 8, border patrol officers stopped eight boats carrying 145 people, a record for a single day, according to the Home Office. More than 1,200 illegal immigrants are believed successfully to have crossed the English Channel illegally so far in 2020.

The National Crime Agency told Parliament that the aim of both migrants and smugglers is now to be “intercepted” by British authorities and taken to a UK port where a large majority of those arriving (possibly over 90%) will claim asylum.

“The biggest incentive for those attempting the dangerous Channel crossings is the knowledge that being picked up by a British Border Force vessel or managing to set foot on our soil provides a strong chance of a permanent stay,” according to Migration Watch UK.

On May 8, the German newspaper Die Welt reported on a leaked document from the European border protection agency, Frontex, which is bracing for a new influx of migrants at the border between Greece and Turkey once the Turkish government lifts its coronavirus restrictions:

“The restrictions on Covid-19 have been gradually lifted in most Aegean provinces, but not yet in Canakkale, Istanbul and Izmir. If freedom of movement is restored in these areas, massive movements of migrants towards the Greek-Turkish border can be expected.”

In an interview with Die Welt, the Interior Minister of Saarland, Klaus Bouillon (CDU), said that the German public would not look kindly on another wave of illegal immigration:

“The willingness and acceptance in the country to accept people has decreased. We probably would not be able to activate enough volunteers anymore. In addition, the absorption capacity is a big problem.

“There is great discontent among the population because everyone who arrives here immediately has many or even higher rights and rights to benefits or medical care than someone who has worked here for their entire life.

“There is great resentment and frustration, which I hear in conversation every day. Basic amounts of benefits are established by law. Even if someone throws away their passport and does not cooperate with the authorities, their benefits can be reduced only minimally.”

The German government continues to take in more migrants. The Chancellery recently announced that it was seeking a “coalition of the willing” from across Europe to take in children from refugee camps in Greece. The plan was to help 1,500 children identified as being particularly in need: unaccompanied children under the age of 14 or children in need of urgent medical assistance. The German government pledged to take in 350 children and stressed that its top priority was to rescue young girls. When the first flight carrying 47 children arrived in Hanover on April 18, only four were girls.

Writing for the German blog Die Achse des Guten (“The Axis of Good”), political commentator Anabel Schunke described the long-term problems facing Germany by allowing in millions of mostly uneducated males. In an essay titled, “Many Men and Few Women — The Problem with Immigration,” she wrote:

“It has been a while since the issue of immigration has been as heated as in recent days…. The reason for this was the admission of ‘unaccompanied minor refugees’ from Greece as agreed to by a ‘coalition of the willing.’ Yesterday, 47 of them landed in Hanover. Earlier, twelve youths had arrived in Luxembourg. In addition to Germany and Luxembourg, France, Ireland, Finland, Portugal and Croatia have also agreed to accept unaccompanied asylum seekers from the camps in Greece. A total of 1,500 children are to be flown out in this way. Germany alone has announced that it will accept between 350 and 500 of them….

“This number may seem insignificant compared to the refugee crisis of 2015/16 and what has happened since then in uncontrolled, illegal migration. It was said that the children were primarily seriously ill or girls. Most of them under the age of 14.

“As we know today, the reality is different, and the outrage is correspondingly great. The first images from Luxembourg suggested that things would not be much different in Germany. There was not a single girl among the twelve young people flown in. By contrast, ten boys from Afghanistan and two from Syria. Among the 47 unaccompanied persons who arrived in Hanover yesterday, there were only four girls….

“Such an admission of ‘unaccompanied minor refugees’ (UMF) is expensive. Depending on the region, a UMF costs the taxpayer between 5,000 and 7,000 euros per month. In Hesse, every unaccompanied minor costs 101,515 euros a year and thus just under 8,460 euros per month.

“Even if you take the lowest cost of 5,000 euros, this alone results in costs of 235,000 euros per month for the 47 minors who entered yesterday. This is not a trifle.

“The enormous costs that result from the fact that every social worker would like to have a piece of the cake and that that could be fundamentally questioned, especially in times of an impending economic crisis, is not our only problem.

“The proportion of male asylum seekers has been significantly higher than that of women in every age group since 2015. No fewer than 93% of the children and adolescents in the Greek refugee camps are male, and it can be assumed that the Interior Ministry was aware of this when, for general reassurance, it was announced that they would primarily take in the seriously ill and girls….

“Sixty-seven percent of asylum seekers between 18- to 25-years-old are male; 63.9% of those between 16- and 18-years are male; and 64.9% of those between 25- and 30-years are male…. If you add all the age groups, you get a share of over 50% for those under 30.

“Muslim countries currently have 300 million males under the age of 15. This is not a forecast, but already a reality. Scientists like Gunnar Heinsohn assume that a maximum of 100 million can obtain a position in the society of their home country. The remaining 200 million will try to emigrate or otherwise fight for their place.

“Religious, ideological fanaticism thrives on this breeding ground for young men who are ready to fight, which only serves as justification for their own struggle for a piece of the cake. So, what we see today in terms of crises and conflicts will not be less in the next 15 years, but probably more. Against this background, the migration flows we are experiencing today are only the beginning….

“Where there are many men with fewer women, there is a higher level of sexual frustration on all sides, which in turn leads to conflicts between locals and immigrants and leads to increased sexual assault and general hatred of women. Many young migrants are in constant contradiction between strict Islamic sexual morals and the sexual freedom of Europe. This immigration also influences the portrayal of women and the security of women living here. It is all the more tragic that it is precisely the women here who are largely in favor of this immigration. Perhaps the increasing loss of freedom and security among women living here will eventually lead to more empathy with the fate of tormented women in radical Islamic countries like Afghanistan. Maybe one day they will see that it does make a difference whether it is mostly boys and men or girls and women who come to us.

“If you look at the comment sections of German news sites, many citizens still cannot seem to get enough of the current wave of immigration. In any event, it will become interesting when the economic crisis has accelerated after the corona shutdown. It remains to be seen whether the current supporters of mass migration will still be willing to let their ‘moral’ superiority cost so much. We will find out after the corona crisis.”

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16013/european-lockdown-illegal-immigrants

The debate over the Swedish model has been concentrated around whether countries should battle the coronavirus pandemic by locking down everything or adopting the more liberal approach. This debate is as irrelevant to the actual causes of coronavirus deaths as the inhabitants of Constantinople debating whether angels have genders while the Islamic invaders were preparing to breach the city walls.

Preventing teenagers from going to the beach, as many American states and European countries have chosen to do, is going to have a very limited impact on a disease that is killing people in nursing homes.

While Sweden does have a higher rate of virus deaths than Norway or Finland, it’s not because the bars are open. 90% of the dead in Sweden were over 70 and half of them lived in special housing.

Sweden has a higher rate of deaths in care homes than Norway or Finland, and lockdown enthusiasts have struggled to explain why keeping bars open would be killing people in housing for the elderly.

But there is a crucial difference between Swedish, Norwegian, and Finnish care homes.

A decade ago, in Sweden, 13% of the workers in care homes were immigrants, while only 5% in Norway and 1% in Finland were. Currently, 28% of care home workers in Sweden are foreigners, but in Stockholm, where the real dying has occurred, 55% of the care home workers are foreign immigrants.

Stockholm has been ground zero for the outbreak with more deaths than the rest of the country combined. And half of those deaths took place in care homes making for a very troubling pattern.

In an interview, Johan Giesecke, Sweden’s former Chief Epidemologist and Chief Scientist of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), let slip the formerly unspeakable.

Giesecke admitted that Sweden had failed to protect the elderly, and noted that, “many of the people working in nursing homes are from other countries, they’re refugees or asylum seekers.”

The epidemiologist then suggested that many of them might not understand Swedish and may not have been aware of what precautions they should be taking to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

He also noted that Sweden tended to have larger nursing homes than Norway. While he did not say so, in a larger facility, a staff member can potentially spread the virus around to far more residents.

Anders Tegnell, the current state epidemiologist, the Fauci of Sweden, a cult figure whose face appears on everything from smartphone covers to tattoos and caps, dismissed the suggestion that immigrants, who have a much higher rate of coronavirus, could be responsible as, “purely speculative.”

He also insisted that, “we’d best not point fingers” yet for the death toll in Sweden’s nursing homes.

Sweden has a higher death toll than Norway or Finland, but it also has a far higher immigrant population. Finland’s much smaller immigrant population may be one reason why its pandemic never really got off the ground. Not only does Sweden have a larger immigrant population, but it has an especially sizable percentage of an immigrant population that appears most vulnerable to the virus.

In early April, some medical experts estimated that Somalis represented 40% of the coronavirus deaths in Stockholm and 18% of the death toll in Sweden. That may be because of Stockholm’s first 15 coronavirus deaths, 6 of those who died were Somalis. The Somalis have been followed by Iraqis, Syrians, and Afghans as being significantly overrepresented among the ranks of coronavirus cases.

Stockholm’s immigrant suburbs were some of the hardest hit by the pandemic. In Rinkeby-Kista, where almost the entire district is populated by immigrants, infection rates were twice as high as the rest of Stockholm. Rinkeby is home to Somalis, Iraqis, Pakistanis, and Moroccans. The area has been a hub for violent Islamic riots, hateful mosques, and secret memberships in Islamic terrorist groups.

In early April, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health revealed that immigrants made up 1 in 5 cases of the virus and that 1 in 100 Somalis in Norway had tested positive for the virus. A week later, it was 1 in 4. Somalis made up 6% of confirmed cases. And in Helsinki, Finland, Somalis accounted for 17% of cases.

The coronavirus is a recent phenomenon and we don’t have all the answers as to why some groups appear to be more vulnerable to it than others. Researchers have proposed varying explanations for Somali vulnerability from ethnic benign neutropenia, to low vitamin D levels, dense living conditions, intergenerational households, high rates of smoking, and poor language skills.

It’s difficult to know whether any or all of these might be potentially relevant.

In an International Center for Violent Extremism survey, some Somalis blamed a refusal to take health warnings seriously. One respondent from Stockholm claimed that the community had been listening “to wrong information with extremist ideas from religion (sic) scholars”.

“When it comes to immigrant communities, we have established good communication with them,” Tegnell had said.

But communications are not the same thing as compliance.

Sweden’s relaxed social distancing depended on the country’s communal values. But immigration had undermined those communal values which assumed that most people care about the welfare of others. An immigrant population that did not see itself as part of the larger national community might not care enough to take the steps needed to avoid infecting people in restaurants or nursing homes.

Another Somali living in Sweden related that, “a former colleague called me, who had a cold and flu and COVID-19 symptoms. He was told to remain in the house, but yet went out and visited restaurants in Bellevue, Gothenburg to relax and socialize. My friend said, the Somalis were still there.”

“Many people said that this disease is only meant to kill for non-Muslims thus, it cannot affect Muslims,” a third Somali living in Sweden said. “I’ve watched shows from Somali National TV televised where the reporter asked people playing and socializing at Lido beach in Mogadishu if they are unaware of corona virus. So many of those people answered, ‘We are Muslims! This disease will only kill non-believers.’”

Islamic clerics have indeed spread the message that the pandemic is meant to kill non-Muslims.

“Thank you corona!” an Egyptian Imam had even been caught on video, while praying that, “Allah, relieve the Islamic nation of the coronavirus, and use it to annihilate the infidels.”

There are no definitive answers as to the exact cause of the outbreak among Muslim immigrants. But Swedish authorities knew early on that it was more prevalent among certain immigrant groups and yet did nothing to protect the elderly Swedes living in care homes from a migrant care worker population.

Any such steps would have been seen as Islamophobic.

Sweden, like other European countries, chose political correctness over the lives of its people. And the elderly, who had given the most to their children and grandchildren, paid the price.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/05/sweden-cared-more-about-islamophobia-saving-daniel-greenfield/

The cries of Hamza, a pseudonym, echoed through the corridors of the military hospital after Dr. Alaa Moussa set fire to his genitals, leading to severe burns and damage that is, according to a urologist, Dr. Mohamed Wahbi, is impossible to undo. 

Dr. Wahbi, who started working in the same hospital in February 2011, has previously revealed that Alaa Moussa, who recently moved to Germany, harbored a great hatred of the demonstrators and enjoyed torturing the injured as a show of loyalty to the regime. 

Moussa, originally from central Homs city, left Syria through Lebanon to take refuge in Germany, in the town of Bad Wildungen, where he was seen several times, working as an orthopedist in a local clinic.

Tens of pro-regime fighters have arrived in Europe after committing horrendous war crimes and human rights violations in Syria. 

Anwar al-Bunni, Director of Syrian Center for Legal Studies and Research in Berlin, told The New Arab newspaper that his center is collecting evidence and witnesses against a number of persons accused of human rights violations, so that they can be prosecuted in specialized courts.

Activist Mohammed al-Kurdi confirmed that the doctor has lived in the city of Kassel, in Germany for 4 years. A number of refugees stated that he is collecting information on Syrian refugees and activists for the regime, the nature and purpose of which is unknown. Previously, Moussa has publicly threatened a few refugees with their property and their relatives in Syria, indicating his affiliation with the security services. 

In 2012, Channel 4 broadcasted a video that was filmed secretly over the first three months of the revolution from inside Abde Qader Shaqfa Hospital, and that showed shocking scenes of torture from inside the hospital in al-Waer neighborhood, west of Homs, committed by doctors and medical and security staff against the injured. 

In the video, a number of people, who were injured in the demonstrations, were brought there blindfolded and tied to beds to be whipped, beaten, and electrocuted, they were left with no food for days, their legs twisted and broken, and their penises tied, preventing them from urinating and causing intense kidney pain.

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A Syrian asylum seeker who murdered an 82-year-old pensioner in Cottbus in cold blood does not have to go to prison. He was acquitted without any further ado.

A new justice scandal unsettles everyone in Germany. Once again the murder of a German woman goes unpunished. The victim: Gerda K. (82 years old). Tied up and with a bag over her head, her brother found the pensioner in her Cottbus apartment at the end of 2016. The old lady was apparently suffocated, all cupboards and drawers had been rummaged through. A gruesome robbery and murder. Three months later, the police arrested a young Syrian (allegedly 17 at the time) on strong suspicion! The whole community was upset. At that time, Lord Mayor Holger Kelch ( Christian Democratic Union) had nothing better to do than to stand by the Syrian murderer. He strongly condemned protests in the city and apparently wanted to make it clear that as a German citizen you have to keep your mouth shut when a pensioner is murdered by an illegal immigrant. The citizens in Cottbus, however, made it clear to him in over 500 letters to the editor how they assessed his antisocial behaviour. In 2019, the judges at the Cottbus Regional Court had a great deal of sympathy for the Syrian murderer even during the ongoing investigations and released him without further ado. The Regional Court had released him from custody on the grounds that further imprisonment would be disproportionate in view of the age of the accused and the fact that a conclusion of the trial at short notice was not foreseeable. Now the accused was also finally acquitted of the murder of Gerda K. Although a clear DNA trace of the Syrian was found on the clothes of the murdered woman, the court did not consider it proven that the young man had sent the senior citizen into the great beyond in cold blood. Thanks to the help of the unscrupulous Cottbus lawyer Christian Nordhausen, the immigrant now left the court as a free man.According to court spokeswoman Susanne Becker, the public prosecutor’s office had asked for a conviction for murder in a crime unit with robbery with fatal consequences. The public prosecutor’s office pleads for a prison sentence of ten years – the highest sentence provided for under juvenile criminal law. That alone would have been a mild sentence for the Syrian, who, strangely enough, like almost all immigrants, is said to have been under age. In his home country he would hardly have been given a few years with PlayStation and flat screen TV and full board for such a cruel murder. But now the Syrian even won the jackpot and went completely unpunished for the brutal robbery and murder of Gerda K. In Angela Merkel’s Federal Republic of Germany today, all you seem to need is the right skin colour and you can do whatever you want without having to fear any real consequences. The bereaved of the murdered pensioner are understandably completely shocked by this scandalous judgement from Cottbus.

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Malta’s ambassador to Finland has had to resign his post after saying that Germany’s Angela Merkel had  “fulfilled Hitler’s dream” to “control Europe” on social media.

“75 years ago we stopped Hitler,” wrote Michael Zammit Tabona in a Facebook post commemorating Victory in Europe Day.

“Who will stop Angela Merkel? She has fulfilled Hitler’s dream! To control Europe,” he added.

Malta, as a former Crown Colony of the British Empire, was the lynchpin of the Allied presence in the Mediterranean for much of the war, and its population was bestowed with a collective George Cross — which still adorns the national flag today — for the long siege it suffered at the hands of the Axis powers.

The modern-day ambassador’s remarks, however, were not well received either in Berlin or the Maltese capital of Valetta, with foreign minister Evarist Bartolo telling the Times of Malta that he had been told to take down the post and promising the Germans would receive an apology for its “insensitive” nature.

Despite the florid terms in which they were expressed, the sentiments of the ambassador — now confirmed to have stepped down — are not unique in Europe, with commentators such as Britain’s Peter Hitchens having suggested that the European Union, in particular, is “the continuation of Germany by other means”.

Germany does indeed appear to have an outsize influence within the EU, with Chancellor Merkel — currently enjoying her fourth consecutive term in office, albeit with her party forced into a so-called “grand coalition” with its traditional Social Democratic Party rivals — having made a particularly large impact on the bloc with her unilateral decision to let in an unlimited number of supposed refugees in 2015.

While her invitation was, technically speaking, only to Germany, the move had an enormous impact on the EU’s border states and the states standing between them and Germany — many of which ended up stuck with large numbers of illegal migrants when the crisis grew out of control and Berlin closed the floodgates somewhat.

Merkel’s proposed solution to this crisis was to force compulsory migrant redistribution quotas on other EU member-states at the European Council, even if they had completely opposed her decision to open the borders in the first place — a move which is still being fought out in the EU courts to this day.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/05/11/malta-ambassador-says-merkel-has-fulfilled-hitlers-dream-to-control-europe/

Thirty-seven Israeli and Jewish scholars have called for the firing of Germany’s anti-Semitism commissioner, Dr. Felix Klein, over his opposition to the participation of a pro-BDS professor at a publicly-funded German cultural event.

In April, Klein cancelled the appearance of pro-BDS Cameroonian professor Achille Mbembe who was slated to speak in August at the popular Ruhrtriennale festival in Germany, asserting that Mbembe’s anti-Israel views were tantamount to anti-Semitism.

Mbembe, an outspoken anti-Israel critic, has charged that Israel is worse than the former apartheid regime in South Africa and should be “globally isolated.”

In the letter sent to the Germany’s Chancellor, Interior Minister, and Foreign Minister on April 30th, the 37 Jewish scholars, including 29 Israelis, called to fire Klein “following his shameful attack on Prof. Achille Mbembe.”

They accused Klein of “the ‘weaponization’ of antisemitism against critics…[who] protest Israel’s violations of basic rights of the Palestinians,” and of being “clearly obsessed by the BDS campaign.”

“It is deplorable but unsurprising that the Israeli government is waging war against BDS,” continued the academics, who asserted that “this anti-BDS crusade is undeniably contributing to the marginalization of non-white voices and minorities in Germany.”

“Our views on BDS differ, but it is entirely clear: BDS as such is not antisemitic and is essentially protected by freedom of speech and freedom of assembly,” added the academics.

Signatories of the letter included nine academics from Tel Aviv University, eight from Hebrew University, and three from Ben-Gurion University.

Matan Peleg, CEO of the Zionist watchdog group Im Tirtzu that revealed the letter, said: “This is yet another unfortunate example of how damaging the ‘BDS from within’ phenomenon is to Israel.”

“While tremendous amounts of resources are invested in Israel and throughout the world to combat the international BDS movement, these radical Israeli professors are undermining these efforts by promoting BDS from within Israel.”

“Israeli academia must immediately work to root out this severe phenomenon. The writing is on the wall,” Peleg added.

In June 2019, 240 Jewish academics, including some 80 Israelis urged the German government to reject its law defining BDS as anti-Semitic.

“We all reject the deceitful allegation that BDS as such is anti-Semitic and maintain that boycotts are a legitimate and non-violent tool of resistance,” the academics said.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/280028

Germany’s top court decision last week to put national law above European law is “one of the most important [decisions] in the EU’s history”, said Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.

The recent decision from Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe German Constitutional Court may have had to do with bond purchasing, but it is sending waves through the European Union and may, over the long-term, significantly alter the power of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to influence affairs within member states.

Morawiecki issued high praise for the German Constitutional Court’s verdict on European Central Bank (ECB) where it put state law above European law when determining the legality of ECB purchases of government bonds, according to polskieradio24.pl.

The court’s judges ruled that the European Court of Justice (ECJ) exceeded its competencies. This verdict is being heavily questioned by the German opposition and the European Commission (EC).

In a statement, the European Commission wrote, “Notwithstanding the analysis of the detail of the German Constitutional Court decision today, we reaffirm the primacy of the EU law, and the fact that the rulings of the European Court of Justice are binding on all national courts.”

The Polish prime minister believes that the verdict of the German court is one of the most important ones in the EU’s history because it fundamentally changes the relationship of member states to the EU.

German Constitutional Court decision may have major consequences for Hungary and Poland

“The Federal Constitutional Court, just like the Polish Constitutional Court, took the position that the ECJ does not possess unlimited authority,” the prime minister said in an interview for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

The head of the Polish government emphasized that in his view, member states should draw out the limits of the competencies of EU institutions, including the ECJ. The German court case appears to reaffirm Morawiecki’s view.

The Polish prime minister hopes that the verdict of the German court will initiate a real debate concerning a democratic and mature separation of powers, as well as how to control that separation within the EU.

The German opposition is a staunch opponent of the verdict, claiming that it is a bad example for countries such as Poland and Hungary.

The European Commission has warned that it will initiate procedures against Germany for infringement of a member state’s obligations.

The Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe ruling means that the ECB had illegally purchased government bonds since 2015 without much intervention from the German government and parliament.

In 2018, the ECJ ruled in favor of the process. Last week, the Federal Constitutional Court ruled that such actions were illegal – placing state law above European law.

The case might have serious consequences for the EU’s legal campaigns against both Hungary and Poland. In the case of Poland, the country argues that the ECJ has no authority to influence Poland’s judicial system. Currently, the EU is accusing both countries of violations of rule of law. The countries contend that the attacks are politically motivated and supported by pro-migration forces that are determined to bring down the conservative governments in Hungary and Poland.

EU Central Bank’s program jeopardizes monetary union

The German court decision dates back to 2015 when a group of Euroskeptic German politicians and activists brought a case before the German Constitutional Court. They argued that the European Central Bank’s huge purchase of government bonds to prop up the euro currency and poorer Eurozone countries was unlawful.

These politicians and activists demanded that the German government and the Bundestag cease partaking in the ECB’s activities, claiming it violated German sovereignty and amounted to a transfer in German taxpayer money to other countries. They also wanted an end to the Bundesbank’s participation in the Public Sector Purchase Programme (PSPP), which involves purchasing bonds for other EU countries.

Germany’s top court agreed with the plaintiffs on Tuesday of last week, arguing that the bond purchases were unlawful. The German judges gave the EU three months to issue an appeal.

In many ways the decision is unsurprising, as the German Constitutional Court has never recognized as the ECJ’s authority over German law, which would be a violation of Germany’s Basic Law (Grundgesetz), a law created in 1949 to ensure no authoritarian power such as the Nazi regime could ever regain power in the country.

The Constitutional Court argues that the EU’s Public Sector Purchase Program (PSPP) has a dramatic effect on citizens and companies, and threatens financial stability within Europe and for its companies.

The German Constitutional Court’s final quote in its verdict states that the PSPP “affects the commercial banking sector by transferring large quantities of high-risk government bonds to the balance sheets of the Eurosystem, which significantly improves the economic situation of the relevant banks and increases their credit rating. The economic policy effects of the PSPP furthermore include its economic and social impact on virtually all citizens, who are at least indirectly affected, inter alia as shareholders, tenants, real estate owners, savers or insurance policy holders. For instance, there are considerable losses for private savings. Moreover, as the PSPP lowers general interest rates, it allows economically unviable companies to stay on the market. Finally, the longer the program continues and the more its total volume increases, the greater the risk that the Eurosystem becomes dependent on Member State politics as it can no longer simply terminate and undo the program without jeopardizing the stability of the monetary union.”

“The Federal Government and the German Bundestag have a duty to take active steps against the PSPP in its current form,” the German Constitutional Court concluded.

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The ivory tower moonbats who control the courts are waging war against their own countries. In Britain, judicial oligarchs have ruled that dangerous foreign criminals cannot be deported if the healthcare system back in the savage hellholes that spawned them are not up to NHS standards.

Via the Daily Mail:

The ruling came in the case of a 33-year-old Zimbabwean father of one who arrived in the UK in 2000 and was later granted indefinite leave to remain.

The Zimbabwean contributed to British society with a string of crimes too long to list here. Now they can’t deport him, because he has AIDS. Zimbabwe can’t afford to finance his extravagantly expensive treatment for a disease that is almost always contracted by indulging in degeneracy. Supposedly, British taxpayers can.

The landmark judgment – which risks throwing the Government’s deportation policy into chaos – has already delayed the case of gang rapist Yaqub Ahmed…

Ahmed, who hails from Somalia, took part in the gang rape of a 16-year-old girl. He says he has mental health problems. This makes it the duty of British society to care for him. Or so liberal elite judges are likely to rule.

On the whole, the French Revolution was one of the worst things that ever happened. But these days the appeal of sending an entire ruling class to the guillotine is undeniable.

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