🧵[1/11] This is the most important piece I’ve ever written — I’ve put it into a thread on X.

@guardiannews' latest ‘documentary’ isn’t journalism. It’s propaganda: the Der Stürmer playbook, recycled to agitate, manipulate, and turn people against Jews.

If you want to understand how Neo-Nazism and Islamist antisemitism are being mainstreamed today, you need to read this. Please share — the danger is real.

The Substack link for the full article is in the last post of the thread. [2/11] Once a Vice journalist, @matthewcassel has become a full-time anti-Israel propagandist, smuggling his agitprop into the BBC, NYT, and The Guardian. His latest film, Our Genocide, masquerades as a documentary. In reality, it is a sly exercise in omission, distortion, and demonization.

The film opens with Cassel strolling along Tel Aviv’s beach, marveling at families enjoying the summer sun. Then comes the hammer: just sixty kilometers south, he tells us, lies Gaza, where “rights groups are saying there’s a genocide and famine.” The camera does the rest — bikinis and cocktails here, rubble and suffering there. No context, just a moral trap.

[1/9] Although I was not alive to feel the relief the world must have experienced when Nazi Germany collapsed and Hitler’s death was headlined in newspapers across the globe, I am old enough to remember the emancipation and unity we felt when the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989, crushing the suffocating grip of communist Russia on Eastern and Baltic Europe. I had arrived in Germany just three years earlier as an Iranian refugee child, fleeing the Islamic fascism of the mullahs and the devastation of the Iran–Iraq war. Both the end of WWII and the fall of the Wall were moments when humanity seemed to agree on the necessity of defending democracy and pluralism against the hydra of totalitarianism — and two of its most wicked heads: National Socialism and Communism.

And yet, less than a century later, the old demons are back. History has repeated itself, proving how little we have learned. [2/9] Some ideologies behave like parasitic spirits. They do not vanish when their hosts are destroyed; they hover, waiting for a body already weakened by humiliation, hatred, or hunger for revenge. German National Socialism should have died with Hitler in his bunker, just as Communism should have faded with the implosion of the Soviet Union. Instead, their ghosts crossed into the Arab world — a region primed by wounded pride, dreams of lost empire, and the supremacist certainties of Islam. Amin al-Husseini and Gamal Abdel Nasser opened the door, and Yasser Arafat became the perfect vessel. The parasite adapted to its new host, mutating Islam's doctrinal antisemitism into Arab National Socialism — the same demons from Berlin and Moscow, now speaking Arabic and waving the pan-Arab "Palestinian" flag instead of the red-framed swastika.

🧵[1/13] After the latest massacre of the Druze by Al Jolani's jihadists in southern Syria, Mosab Hassan Youssef—the son of a Hamas leader—shared an image I had nearly forgotten. It was Mohamed Elomar, the Australian Muslim who left his country to join ISIS and decapitate "infidels" for Allah. In the 2021 photo, Elomar stands triumphant, clutching two severed heads and grinning like a demon. Mosab captioned the image with a chilling verse from the Quran, Al-Anfal 8:12: 'I will cast terror into the hearts of the disbelievers. So strike their necks and strike their fingertips.'

And once again, the same questions surged: How can anyone—after 47,000 Islamic terrorist attacks since 9/11—still believe that Islam is a religion of peace? What happened to common sense? More urgently: what happened to our survival instinct? [2/13] We are told—almost ritually—that Islam is merely misunderstood. Yet its sweeping claim to govern everything from diet to sex to the afterlife rests on two deeply problematic foundations: the idea that Muhammad was the perfect man, and that the Quran is the perfect book. If the Quran is infallible and final, why does it produce such radically different interpretations—from quietist scholars to bloodthirsty jihadists? Why is the Islamic world so persistently trapped in cycles of violence and so uniquely resistant to reform? These aren't abstract theological puzzles. They are civilizational and moral failures—and they demand reckoning.

🧵 [1/7] It’s crucial to focus on Medvedev’s intention to understand his latest post—
A masterclass in Soviet-style performative deterrence, cloaking imperial panic in bluster.

Let me explain.

https://twitter.com/MedvedevRussiaE/status/1936765645498257620

[2/7] On one hand, he mocks the U.S. strike as ineffective, suggesting Iran wasn’t truly harmed. On the other hand, he threatens nuclear escalation: “Countries may supply nuclear warheads to Iran.”

So which is it?
- The U.S. failed—Iran is fine.
- But strike again, and we’ll make Iran unstoppable?

🧵 [1/10] There isn't a day that passes without some headline or viral post exposing the subversive machinations and soft power jihad of Qatar — a tiny, oleaginous state with a population of just 2.6 million, roughly half the size of Berlin's, of which only 400,000 are ethnic Qataris. The rest? A precarious mix of expats and imported labor. Since the late 1990s, Qatar has been tirelessly infiltrating Western academia, higher education, and political institutions with billions in oil and gas money, all while buying up real estate in the most coveted quarters of Western metropolises.

But the Qatari project extends far beyond real estate and elite capture. They've bought their way into major media corporations, cultural institutions, and the film industry. Simultaneously, they've funneled billions into Islamic NGOs, schools, and mosques across Europe and North America — while also financing far-left NGOs that agitate against Western values from within. [2/10] Qatar's support for terrorism and its efforts to destabilize the West has become so conspicuous that even Donald Trump — a man who made plenty of deals with Doha — publicly called them out for funding terrorism, explicitly referencing their support for Hamas, Al-Qaeda affiliates, and the Muslim Brotherhood. This wasn't Trump's first warning shot. During the Gulf diplomatic crisis in 2017, he sided with Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt in their isolation of Qatar, stating that Doha had "historically been a funder of terrorism at a very high level."

To understand the ambitions of this ultra-nationalist, pan-Islamic kingdom, where Holocaust denial stands at 79%, among the highest in the world, we must take a step back. How did this modest fishing tribe morph into the most influential financier of global terrorism? What ideology fuels its ambitions?

🧵[1/7] European governments are walking a tightrope over an active volcano. After decades of importing tribal, theocratic, and antisemitic ideologies, our societies have fragmented in ways we haven't seen since the Second World War. The only political beneficiaries are the far left and far right, whose appeal grows exponentially as the establishment erodes its credibility.

At the heart of this breakdown lies a uniquely European neurosis—post-WWII guilt—and its ideological offspring, neo-Universalism. Made in Germany, this moral and psychological phenomenon is the source of Europe's refusal to deal honestly with Islamic extremism and uncontrolled migration and defend its own cultural identity. [2/7] A History of Extremes

Germany has long been a crucible of powerful ideological systems—some brilliant, others catastrophic. One must understand the German need for predictability, moral order, and system-building to understand its post-war mindset. This national character has produced both Beethoven and bureaucratic genocide.

When ideas take hold in the German mind, they're rarely moderate. They are developed with rigorous precision, often to their logical—and illogical—extremes. Calvinism and Lutheranism, though born in Wittenberg and Geneva, both took deep root in German soil. These traditions embedded notions of moral rigor, predestination, and an inseparable relationship between divine order and political authority. Centuries later, we see echoes of these traits in ideologies like Nazism—with its twisted sense of moral destiny—and Marxist communism, conceived by another German thinker, Karl Marx. Today’s neo-Universalism, which tries to erase all differences in the name of equality, is merely the latest chapter—an eerie mirror image of old German universalism. Instead of one Reich, we are now offered one global justice paradigm.

Each new ideology emerges as a "corrective" to the last—but always with a new blind spot, a new form of moral arrogance, and a new potential for destruction.

🧵 [1/9] I recently had a passionate debate with a German friend about whether Islam lies at the root of the dysfunction in Islamic societies and whether it can be reformed. Like many of my privileged Western liberal friends, his understanding of the Islamic world seems to rest on a brief visit to the Egyptian pyramids and perhaps a guided city tour through Istanbul. He offered the usual well-meaning but tired arguments I've heard countless times. When I asked whether he had read the Quran or the Hadiths, he admitted he hadn't yet insisted that Islam wasn't the problem—it was merely a matter of interpretation. He proceeded to recite the familiar affirmations that most Muslims are peaceful, that Christianity, too, had a violent past, and that the Jewish and Christian scriptures were no better than the Quran.

Not long ago, I would have grown impatient with this confident display of theological, historical, and cultural ignorance. But over time, I've learned to remain composed. After years of dealing with modern Orientalism and the soft bigotry of low expectations, I've decided to become the most annoying educator of these oblivious, suicidal fools. I am convinced—beyond doubt—that Islam has become the most dangerous ideology of our time due to its theological impossibility to reform. [2/9] Claiming to be more than just a spiritual path, Islam explicitly defines itself as a perfect, final, and all-encompassing truth. Sura 3:7 states that only Allah knows the true interpretation of its verses—effectively closing the door to human reinterpretation. Sura 5:3 states that Islam is a perfected religion. Sura 11:1 describes the book as flawless in wisdom and clarity, and Sura 2:2:16 denies the human ability to judge. These verses assert divine authorship and inaccessibility; thus, the Quran cannot be altered, questioned, or reinterpreted. It is a closed loop impervious to reform.

Despite claims made by the German press, Taleb Al Abdulmohsen is not an ex-Muslim atheist, nor is he a fan of the AfD or Elon Musk. While he may have spread this misinformation himself, it aligns with the practice of Taqqiye, an Islamic doctrine that permits lying and deception to advance Islamic objectives.

In reality, he is a radical Shia Muslim, as evidenced by his name and numerous tweets and chat leaks circulating on Arabic-speaking platforms like X. Disturbingly, his plans to carry out mass killings of Germans were brought to the attention of German authorities by a Saudi woman. Tragically, the police ignored her warnings.

The links are added in the thread.

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https://x.com/NiohBerg/status/1870353000855728546