New Delhi, Oct. 29 -- As Europe inches closer to a dangerous escalation with Russia, French, Belgian, Italian, Spanish, Albanian, and Serbian streets are burning. In France, rioters resorted to arson and robbery, and set ablaze historical monuments that defined and symbolised France's rich civilizational, cultural, and historical legacy. Italy's fashion capital, Milan, witnessed masked rioters vandalising high-end shopping galleries and designer boutiques in central Piazza del Duomo.
Initially, the students protested poor education quality, shoddy school conditions, slow economic growth, soaring fuel prices, and rising living costs; however, soon the protests turned into riots, looting, and arson. The ongoing violent riots, marking a sharp departure from Europe's traditional protest legacy- a symbol of robust democratic credentials and free speech- are an organised attempt to create chaos, disruption, and anarchy, and make the state dysfunctional and defunct. And guess who masterminds-cum-orchestrates this- the red-green alliance, i.e., a fluid transnational network of Islamists, immigrants, and leftists. According to a recent Fox News study, only 15 out of the 50 active organisations in the French protests are student outfits. The rest include 12 labour unions, eight communist or socialist organisations, environmental, tax, and parental advocacy groups, five civil rights and human rights organisations, and four political parties, including far-left La France Insoumise, the French communist party, and a Palestinian advocacy group. International socialist media organisations such as Breakthrough News are amplifying these protests that emerged over local issues to further larger political agendas like austerity, capitalism, military spending, and Israel. Mike Gonzalez, senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation (US), told Fox News that this Red-Green alliance, active in European protests, is largely the same "ecosystem that disrupts infrastructure chokeholds in our country such as the Brooklyn Bridge, college campuses, and congressional hearings." Reportedly, US universities have witnessed widespread anti-Israel demonstrations after the October 7 Hamas attack.
A crucial segment of these protests is immigrants. The protestors' ranks are swelled by 1st- and 2nd-generation Muslim immigrants. US President Donald Trump has blamed "out-of-control mass migration" and the EU's open-borders and pro-migration policies for these protests. They provide the numbers and a street force trained in vandalism and violence, a quintessential requirement for generating impressive optics. As a result, their leftist partners offer adequate space for their Islamist agendas in these protests, which are propelled under the guise of civil rights activism. One can find anti-Israel demonstrations and pro-Palestine sloganeering as a key theme of these protests. Activists of the far-left Student Trade Union Federation waved red flags, Palestinian Keffiyeh scarves, communist hammer-and-sickle flags, and banners reading "French for Against Imperialist Wars," openly demonstrating this red-green alliance.
In its online campaigns, the French Communist Party has demanded that arms to Israel under provocative headlines like "stop arming Palestinian genocide." Islamist proxy groups, such as the Muslim Students of France and Urgence Palestine, are at the forefront of these protests, with a vigorous focus on an anti-Israel campaign. French lawmaker Louis Boyard of the far-left La France Insoumise waved a Palestinian flag while protesting at Paris-Est-Creteil University with students as they created a ruckus on campus. Further, rabid Israel-hater tech billionaire Neville Roy Singham and his well-funded activist network, including globally operating leftist organisations such as Breakthrough News, Indian Alliance Paris, and People's Forum, are at the heart of these protests, amplifying local issues and linking them to a transnational activist network. Reportedly, Indian Alliance Paris and People's Forum are also active in India, facilitating, supporting, and connecting the ongoing anti-government CJP protests for "egalitarian and democratic India" with the European protests. Reportedly, these organisations have ties with India's communist and far-left political groups, who are the backbone of the CJP protests. Another critical player in the European protests, Progressive International, is also a part of Neville Roy Singham's network. Progressive International has a track record of supporting Islamist causes and entities in India in the guise of human rights promotion. Notably, Progressive International has strong ties to Tides Foundation, which lists the pro-Hamas Arab Resource and Organising Centre as one of its key members. Massive anti-Israel sloganeering and demonstrations have strengthened, rationalised, and mainstreamed anti-semitism among these protesters. In Paris, a Jewish synagogue was destroyed, and in Marseille, protesters selectively vandalised Jewish shops.
As regards Europe's immigration crisis, it must be mentioned that transnational Islamist organisations, such as Jamaat-i-Islami, Tableeghi Jamaat and, most importantly, the Muslim Brotherhood, have planned for the Islamization of Europe long before the current immigration crisis began after the upsurge of ISIS-orchestrated violence in the Middle East. Most of these immigrants, despite enjoying the freedom, economic prosperity, and welfare of the West, nurture deep-rooted hatred for the West. Backed by a sophisticated network of the intelligence organisations of Islamist regimes like Qatar, Pakistan, and Turkey, Islamist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood have made deep inroads in European institutions and compromised state authorities, who increasingly follow anti-Israel policies. To appease Islamists, European countries like France recognised Palestine, condemned Israel's genuine military actions against Hamas, and disallowed their territory from being used in the war against Iran. However, Karma is hitting them back, as the Islamists are in mission mode now to destroy the West at a critical time, when European borders face a serious threat from Moscow.
Views expressed are personal. The writer is CEO and founder of Usanas Foundation, a geopolitics and security affairs think tank
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