Giulio Meotti:
The Pope who did not love the West (or the Jews)
Pope Francis expressed distrust of the West and support for Israel’s declared enemies. Opinion.
Giulio Meotti is an Italian journalist with Il Foglio and writes a twice-weekly column for Arutz Sheva. He is the author, in English, of the book "A New Shoah", that researched the personal stories of Israel's terror victims, published by Encounter and of "J'Accuse: the Vatican Against Israel" published by Mantua Books, in addition to books in Italian. His writing has appeared in publications, such as the Wall Street Journal, Gatestone, Frontpage and Commentary.
Pope Francis expressed distrust of the West and support for Israel’s declared enemies. Opinion.
This is the tragic truth: European governments who realize that their fifth column is now too big to be governed are using the repression of critics as appeasement. Opinion.
Trump is right to declare war on Harvard’s woke antisemites. They have declared war on Western civilization. Opinion
The 1,000-year-old university has been awarding degrees in Latin since the 12th century, but now it’s time for deconstruction. Opinion.
From Marseille to Moscow, the “multi” will eventually give way to a single “uni.” Or, more precisely, a single ummah. Faster than you think. Look at the numbers. Opinion.
If you ask Wikipedia, the great lying and manipulated encyclopedia, how many Muslims there are in France, it will answer “from 3 to 5.7 million,” but the PM says there are 9 million....Opinion.
Children win wars, not generals. Europe and West-leaning Asia do not seem to know that simple truth. Israel does. Opinion.
When Natan Sharansky asked French intellectual Alain Finkielkraut whether “European Jewry has a future in Europe,” the philosopher responded with a question: “Does Europe have a future in Europe?” Opinion.
I looked at Patel’s photo several times and then pinched myself, thinking it was a joke. A mufti with a Salafi beard and in Islamic robes appointed to head the UK’s most important education body? Opinion.
A new regime ruled by a former jihadist who until December had a $10 million bounty on his head, who is building an Islamic dictatorship and who has just organized a religious pogrom of Alawites is getting flooded with money from Europe. A scandal. Opinion.
The German Jewish philosopher Leo Strauss said, lashing out at progressive relativism, "if everything is the same, then cannibalism is just a matter of taste". Opinion.
History, which is a teacher, never has students. When Israel defends itself from cutthroats, global indignation. When entire Syrian villages are erased, only silence. Opinion.
The voices calling out against the genocide of Christians are more Jewish than Christian. A paradox that tells us a lot about the state of the West. Op-ed.
There must be a moment when we understand the logic of multicultural madness. And this should be one of them. Opinion.
Hamas is a conscious adherence to abomination. Not to a mistaken vision of good, but a deliberate and religious celebration of evil. Opinion.
"Humanitarian" NGOs could not find the time to demand the release of the Bibas children, and the Mayor of Milan would not turn on the lights of the Palazzo Marino for them. Op-ed.
The little Bibas brothers were kidnapped not only by terrorists in uniforms and balaclavas, but also by ordinary people from Gaza, the famous “civilians” who went to watch the Islamic terrorist show. Op-ed.
Our progressives do not seem very shaken by the disturbing similarities with the events that shook pre-war Europe. But Islam is out to get all the infidels, including woke progressives. Opinion.
The love and hope of multiculturalism was especially obvious on the faces of the two Australian Arab nurses who vowed to murder Jewish patients. Also on the face of the Syrian murderer of a 14 year old in Austria. Opinion.
In Sudan, there are no Jews to blame. There are “only” mass massacres of thousands of blacks, rapes, atrocities and millions of displaced people, and most of the killers are Arabs. Opinion.
The order to kill priest Georgios Tsibouktzakis was given by Marwan Barghouti, who is serving 5 life sentences, but 20 French cities have granted the arch-terrorist honorary citizenship. Op-ed.
Strange, is it not? No "disproportionate response" is mentioned in the UN about this lopsided equation. And just look at the precedents. Opinion.
A trail of blood runs through Europe's cities, as more and more places, even the most idyllic and sleepy, turn into crime scenes. A trail of migrants runs through the list of perpetrators. Opinion.
There are no reports of complaints from the “special rapporteur” Francesca Albanese or the International Red Cross. No Jews no news. Opinion.
Musk was turned into a Nazi by the choristers of the funeral orchestra that plays 'from the river to the sea'. Opinion.
The Germans tried to hide their genocidal plans for the Jews, but the Arab mobs surrounding the freed Israeli women needed no such compunctions because they know the media are on their side. Opinion.
Quadrupling and, at the very least, doubling the number of deaths reported by Hamas must really be a “difficult but essential task” for the Lancet, Opinion.
Today Qatar wants to take over Europe with money and propaganda. And they certainly don't hide it. Opinion.
At woke universities, the capitulation of the cultural establishment to woke progressivism appears complete. They are offended by the literary rapes in Ovid, but hail the real rapes of Hamas. Opinion.
Europe and America gave many terrorists everything: educational and job opportunities, entertainment and sexual freedom, salaries and social assistance and religious freedom. The terrorists below have never seen a day of poverty in their lives. Opinion.
Asking asylum seekers about their beliefs is a waste of time. Lying to deceive the enemy is allowed by their religion. The result is that the loss of border control is being followed by the loss of internal control. Opinion.
For whom the bell tolls? Make that for whom the muezzin calls. Opinion.
She has revealed herself as a tragic figure who is being exploited by unscrupulous powers to propagate their sinister agenda. Op-ed.
The new Syria will be no better than Afghanistan, it will take some time and the jihadist rebels will start applying Sharia - and who knows what else they have planned. Opinion.
Yesterday it was called Al Nusra, today it is called Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), an offshoot of Al Qaeda. Opinion.
Khan has transformed the Court into an Islamist instrument used to wage a judicial war against non-Muslims on behalf of the Umma. And now Amnesty International charges Israel, the people who survived Auschwitz and Treblinka, of “genocide” in Gaza. Opinion.
Distinguishing the right Syrian rebels from the wrong ones is a bit complicated. Opinion.
The free world is collapsing. Opinion.
The Migration Research Institute in Budapest, linked to the prestigious Matthias Corvinus College, estimates 900 uncontrolled areas throughout Europe. A Europe of open borders has ended up filled with no-go zones.Op-ed.
The repression of the few who still dare to speak out about the ongoing disintegration reminds me of the treatment the cultural establishment reserved for anti-Soviet writers in the 1950s. A knock on the door with poice outside. In 2024 Europe. For criticizing Islam. Opinion.