Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Monday that elements of the progressive movement in Europe and the United States have allied with radical Islamists who have “invaded” the West in order to wage war “against the Jews.”
Netanyahu addressed the Second International Conference on Combating Antisemitism, held at the Jerusalem International Convention Center and featuring Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Amichai Chikli alongside dozens of guests from around the world, including Leo Terrell, special envoy of the Trump administration for combating antisemitism on college campuses; Rob McCoy, the pastor of Charlie Kirk, who accepted a posthumous Award of Honor on Kirk’s behalf; Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama; former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz; former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison; Brazilian senator and presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro; and Argentinian Minister of Justice Mariano Cúneo Libarona.
During his speech, Netanyahu accused far-left elements of colluding with “radical Muslims” to wage “World War Jew,” the first stage in what the Israeli premier described as a larger attack on Western civilization.
“What we see now is that our common free democratic civilization is under threat,” Netanyahu said. “In the past two decades – since radical Muslims have invaded every country in Western Europe and in America.”
The West, Netanyahu continued, is “being invaded not by people of a different color or faith – that’s not the point. They are people with a focused ideology, and the ideology is to destroy the West.”
Despite their religious and political differences, Islamists “have made common cause” with “ultra anti-Western progressives” in order to undermine the West, beginning with Israel, Netanyahu argued.
“They have united, and they supposedly should disagree on everything, but they don’t. They agree on one thing: World War Jew – to conduct the war first against the Jews and against the Jewish state.”
“The radical Muslims are right, because there would be no West in the Middle East if the Jewish state is eradicated. There would be no obstacle to the further invasion of Europe if the Jewish state doesn’t exist,” he said.
“Jews in the Diaspora were targeted because two qualities combined to make them vulnerable: prominence and weakness.
“Prominence breeds envy, and when envy is fused with vulnerability – especially during times of societal change – it becomes the deadly formula of antisemitism, leading again and again to attacks preceded by virulent vilification.”
