by Grégoire Canlorbe • Gatestone Institute • June 10, 2025
“The networks organizing the EU’s migration policy wrap themselves in a humanitarian ambiguity that conceals their financial sources.”(Photo by DTRocks – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0)
- The networks organizing the EU’s migration policy wrap themselves in a humanitarian ambiguity that conceals their financial sources.
- [A] fractured Christianity, devastated by wars and the hatreds they develop and nurture, has always been an easy prey to jihadist aggressions…. This was particularly the case with the Islamization of the Byzantine Empire….
- In the Eurabian context, the hatred and delegitimization of Israel provide a spiritual and theological weapon for the European trends of Islamophilia and anti-Semitism to abandon Judeo-Christianity and rally to Islam. The current war aims to replace Israel with Palestine, an entity that has never had historical existence and a creature forged by Christian anti-Semitism from the 1970s.
- As for the Muslims, the word and notion of Palestine is absent from the Quran; their war against Israel is based on the jihadi ideology, which requires that Islamic law rule the planet.
- None of the sacred Arab and Muslim texts mentions a geographical location in the biblical Hebrew territories, nor any historical episode that would justify a connection with land in today’s Israel.
- Europe never condemned the military invasions by five Arab States that seized and colonized Jewish lands, according to both the Balfour and San Remo Declarations. There, their millenary old Jewish population were killed or expelled, their houses pillaged, their synagogues burned. Europe felt no need to provide help. It is true that just three years before, it was busy deporting Jews to the extermination camps spread over its territory.
- [T]he 1923 Lausanne Treaty…. legitimized a sovereign State for the Jewish people in their historic homeland with secure borders from Gaza to the Jordan River…. Those decisions ratified by the League of Nations are endorsed by its successor, the UN, and cannot be nullified.
- In Islam, Jews and Christians are cut from the same cloth. What is done to Jews is done to Christians as well, and vice versa…. This is the great lesson given to us by the knowledge of dhimmitude and, for this reason, forbidden. Yet we can see by our own eyes Europe collapsing….
Bat Ye’or is an Egyptian-born British author and historian, who has focused on the history of religious minorities in the Muslim world and on the geopolitics of the European Union. She is known for introducing the West to the concept of dhimmitude [see below] and the concept of Eurabia.
Canlorbe: Could you start by reminding us of the motivations of the networks that orchestrate the EU’s migration policy and its anti-Israeli stance?
Bat Ye’or: The motivations of the networks in these two areas — the EU’s migration policy and anti-Zionism — are different but converge in their cumulative harmful effectiveness. This cumulative effect results from the deliberate policy of the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to link their relations with EU countries at every level to a European anti-Israeli policy.
I read The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam: From Jihad to Dhimmitude: Seventh-Twentieth Century, in 2000, shortly after the Second Intifada broke out. It was one of the first books I read to better understand Islam, the religion, culture, and history, and what would possess people to strap explosives to their bodies to murder and maim scores of innocent men, women and children. In the process I also learned about the treatment of non-Muslims, namely “Dhimmis”, in Muslim countries over the past 1400 years. Things like having to pay the “jizya”, the equivalent of protection money paid to the Muslim mob by people of the book, Jews and Christians, to avoid being abused, molested or murdered, whose places of worship couldn’t be repaired, whose testimony in a court of law was worth half of a Muslim’s, who were required to ride donkeys, not horses, as well as identifiable clothing, and various other discriminatory and humiliating laws, enshrining the second class citizenship of such people.
Fast forward to today and these same sharia supremacists (and their useful idiot fellow travelers and assorted antisemites) have the chutzpa to accuse Israel of being an apartheid state, when no Jew in the Arab or Muslim world ever had equal rights to Muslims in every one of their countries, unless they were “Court Jews“ or presumably “ Court Christians“, whom the rulers at certain places and times gave them an unofficial “get out of jail” card in return for greatly benefiting the rulers, financially and/or politically, while Israeli Arab Muslims today are able to serve in the judiciary (in addition to having equal rights in a court of law), the military, every profession, and rather strangely have far more rights and freedoms in the State of Israel than they have in just about any other Muslim majority country.
I subsequently read The Dhimmi: Jews & Christians Under Islam as well as the book Sebastian referenced, Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis, in which Bat Ye’or astutely predicted what would happen thanks to the unholy alliance the European elites made with the Arab world, formalized by the Euro-Arab Dialogue in the wake of the 1974 oil embargo. 50 years later Eurabia is no longer prophecy, it’s reality.
The people who murdered six million Jews have imported significantly more Muslims to replace them and are finally reaping the bitter fruits they sowed with and since the Shoah.
Makes one wonder if there may be cosmic justice at work, with a divine plan playing itself out, slowly, but surely. God only knows.
her groundbreaking work, ” Eurabia” is a classic, a must read. Availble as ebook.