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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com]

Earlier: For Immigration Patriot Nationalist Parties, The Fences Are Coming Down All Over Europe

There are flickers of sanity against the Great Replacement over in Europe—especially in Ireland, a proud member of the European Union and a popular destination for illegal aliens from Africa and the Middle East, there are actually flickers of rebellion.

On Thanksgiving Day and during the consequent Main Stream Media snooze here in the US, an immigrant from North Africa stabbed a woman and three children outside an elementary school in inner-city Dublin[Ireland Stabbing Suspect—What We Know as Dublin Riots, Newsweek,November 24, 2023].

The woman and one of the children—a five-year-old girl—are in a serious condition in hospital as I go to pixel here. The other two children, aged five and six, have less serious injuries.

When the news came out, people took to the streets. There have been major riots. A hotel housing illegal aliens has been burned, as well as a tram, a double decker bus and a police car.

There was kindling lying around before this spark landed in it, as VDARE noted in February:

From the Newsweek report:

There have been ongoing protests across Ireland against asylum centers amid a housing crisis. Many hotels and guest houses have been converted to asylum accommodation, leading to protests by people in towns affected by lower tourist income.

This violent street reaction to the school stabbing may have been inflamed by the fact that the Dublin elementary school attacked is run with the Irish language—Gaelic, that is. Dublin is far from the areas in Ireland where Gaelic is actually spoken, so this suggests a serious commitment to traditional Irish nationalism.

As a person born and educated in England, I well know how inflammable Irish nationalism is.

In fact I shall offer a word of advice, free of charge, to any illegals on their way to the Emerald Isle: Don’t mess with the Irish!

Oh, the Irish government’s response to the riots? T hey have promised more laws against “hate speech.” As Keith Woods tweeted, “The government is more concerned about natives expressing “hate” than they are about migrants stabbing children on the street. More new laws to silence the Irish people. This is a state at war with its nation. ”

The central fact of our time is that mass migration from the Barbarous to the Civilized Zone continues apace.

Regime Media in the Civilized Countries mostly prefer to say nothing about it; and of course politicians in those countries strongly prefer to do nothing about it.

There are some flickers of sanity in the gloom, though.

There was for example the election on Wednesday November 22 in Holland. The biggest share of votes was won by Geert Wilders’ PVV, the Party for Freedom. Wilders is a veteran of twenty years’ campaigning against Muslim immigration into Europe. If the Muzzies have a master list of targets for assassination somewhere, he’s got to be top of the list. (Wilders’s twenty year campaign started after his predecessor, Pim Fortuyn, was stabbed to death by a Muslim sympathizer twenty-one years ago.)

That biggest share of votes was 24 percent. It doesn’t actually sound very big; but there were eighteen parties on the ballot for voters to choose from [ Geert Wilders is the EU’s worst nightmare, Politico, November 23, 2023]. Holland is one of those proportional-representation parliamentary democracies that always ends up with a coalition government. There were, as I said, eighteen parties to vote for. The runners-up to Wilders’ 24 percent were parties with sixteen, fifteen, and thirteen percent.

Wilders’ populism doesn’t stop at immigration control. For years he’s been stamping on the toes of Dutch Goodthinkers. He’s scoffed at climate change as a Leftist fad. He wants Holland to leave the European Union, go back to having its own national currency, and stop sending weapons to Ukraine.

Dutch News, an English-language Leftist outlet, noted with dismay that less-educated voters favored Wilders by much higher margins than did those with college degrees. They sobbed that, sob

This election blew open the myth of the Netherlands as a land of equal opportunities and exposed a sense of despair at the lower end of the social and educational scale. For whatever reason, those voters connected more strongly with Wilders’s rhetoric blaming their difficulties on migrants than the concrete plans by other parties to raise minimum wages and ease the tax burden.

Analysis: Votes piled up for Wilders as migration became focus, by Gordon Darroch, Dutch News, November 23, 2023

In fact it seems that immigration patriotism is stirring all over Europe. In France, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally is at second place in the polls, nipping at the heels of President Emmanuel Macron [POLITICO Poll of Polls — French Polls]Germany’s AfD party is also now second in that country’s polls[Opinion: Europe’s right-wing drift takes its most alarming turn in Germany, by Lee Hockstader, Washington Post, October 3, 2023]. Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party is in power (perhaps disappointingly—as of now).

There are counter-currents elsewhere. Leftist Pedro Sánchez remains Prime Minister of Spain after the July election, although not without huge populist protests, still ongoing [Violent clashes in Madrid as far-right protests Sanchez reelection, by Alyssa McMurtry, AA.com.tr, November 17, 2023].

Last month’s election in Poland will likely produce a Center-Left government, although a coalition is still being negotiated; while on the upside, a concurrent referendum turned up a 97 percent vote against mass Third World immigration.

And in all these multiparty parliamentary democracies, coalition governments are the rule, with all the compromises that involves.

There are Deep States to be reckoned with, too, as I spoke about last week in relation to Britain .

“Man proposes, God disposes,” goes the old saying, with equivalents in every language known to me.

  • French: L’homme propose, Dieu dispose.
  • German: Der Mensch denkt’s, Gott lenkt’s, … and so on.
  • Oh, you want the Chinese? Móushì zài rén, chéngshì zài tiān—there you go.

In the managerial state, which is today the style of government all over the civilized world, voters and politicians propose, human-rights lawyers and bureaucrats dispose. Giorgia Meloni learned that in the Lampedusa crisis two months ago.

Still, there are these flickers of sanity, though. I’ll take what I can get.

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John Derbyshire [email him] writes an incredible amount on all sorts of subjects for all kinds of outlets. (This no longer includes National Review, whose editors had some kind of tantrum and fired him.) He is the author of We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism and several other books. He has had two books published by VDARE.com com: FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT (also available in Kindle) and FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT II: ESSAYS 2013.

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  1. François says:

    You seem to be promoting the kosher nationalists as if they’ve made their countries any better. Meloni recent made a deal with Albania to take in immigrants. That’s not cool. Deportation is what’s supposed to be done. In the US, you’ve got idiots like Zion Con Ron and Greg Abbott doing the same thing claiming they’re anti-immigration when actually keeping them in the country. Complete foolery! I am a person who believes in population limitation. It is unhealthy to not have any living space. We’re full!

    “Far-right” leaders are ALL Zionist scumbags. Israel will come before the nations they were born in.

    • Agree: Catdompanj
    • Replies: @Bookish1
    , @Brooklyn Dave
  2. How to grasp at straws when living in the terrorist USEUNATO conglomerate.

  3. Bookish1 says:
    @François

    Perhaps their reasoning is to keep jews in middle east that would otherwise be flooding Europe

    • Replies: @François
  4. Nico X says:

    The Irish better accept Crowley or Hitler as their new Messiah, & Mein Kampf or The Book of the Law as their new ‘Bible’, if they want to end the alien Semitic-Commie control & simian-mongrel-muslim invasion of their ‘nation’ & secure the existence of their race. Otherwise the Christianized white dum dums will eventually vanish from a pernicious epidemic of simian sports, hedonism, negrophilia, drugs & miscegenation. Once the simians & mongrels are in, they’re in, & unless they’re forcibly ejected or liquidated –Whiteocide is inevitable.

  5. Jett Rucker says: • Website

    Still, wouldn’t it be at least interesting to learn how/why our Algerian/Irish terrorist chose the time, place, and victims for his attack? He’d been living in Ireland for 20 years; did he know any of his victims? Does he have some beef with the Gaelic language? Children? Does he have any of his own? He’s no hot-blooded teenager (52 years old). Is he religious (Muslim)?
    I wonder if anyone will bother to find these things out, or even publish them.

    • Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
  6. François says:
    @Bookish1

    In my statement, I was referring to the kosher nationalists of the EU that would do more for Israel than the indigenous or native ethnic groups representing whatever country in Europe it may be. Much like the US. The West already has more than a handful of dual-Israeli citizens. Israel doesn’t even belong to the Jews. They are swindling wanderers without a homeland and are desperately trying to steal what was once Palestine.

  7. Napocalypse Now

    In FUTURE NOIR – MAKING OF BLADE RUNNER, it says Ridley Scott is(or was) something of a ‘conservative’. Does that account for the rather glum portrait of Nappy as the unstable emperor of the French Revolution? Scott being a good englishman with the old historical/cultural biases?


    Video Link

  8. Lloyd says: • Website

    I noted that this article only makes one reference to Moslems and that in reference to Geert Wilders’ historic campaign against them. The knife attacker might have been just demented. Why would he attack an Irish nationalist school while the Irish solidly support Palestine? Or less likely because of its relative small scale, he was put to it by Mossad as a recent Irish poll suggests. The secrets are coming out. It ain’t a Moslem problem in Europe, or at least not primarily. It is the racial origins of the immigrants and Zionist deceptions.

  9. @François

    Meloni –what a genius! A bunch of Ndrangheta are sentenced to harsh sentences in Calabria (good thing), but she wants to bring in a shit load of Albanians – practically the same thing as the Ndrngheta. Albania itself (being an independent country) didn’t go through the things many places in ex-Yugoslavia have gone. After Communism, they remained a shithole because the criminals are in charge. Now the Italians have to suffer.

  10. Daniel H says:

    >>But the patriots don’t like being called “racists” or “far right” for trying to keep Ireland Irish.

    We must own the insult. There can be no true progress made until and unless the based defiantly and indifferently (not proudly, that’s emotional, and emotion is weak in politics) claim the racist moniker.

    “RACIST!”

    “So what, I am (and so are you, ha, ha, ha) , and you’re gonna deal with it.”

    How easy matters will be, how they will effortlessly fall into place if people can just understand this.

  11. In 2015, Canada’s Justin Trudeau campaigned on a platform promise to bring in electoral reform. Upon taking office, he promptly reneged on his pledge to switch the country to a proportional representation system.

    He’s since revealed why. His handlers do not want right wing parties to exist. It’s much easier for them to keep conservative nationalists cooped up in a centrist version of a ‘mainstream’ party, where globalists can pull the strings.

  12. Pendragon says:
    @Daniel H

    Racism: The desire to live, work, marry and mingle with one’s own kind: A nearly-universal desire and virtual law of nature, often expressed as ‘Birds of a feather flock together’, and denied only by liberals who live and work in areas much too expensive to have any more than a token number of minorities. Racism is so ingrained and universal that it is reflected not once but twice in our language: The word kind (type) and kind (nice) have the same origin, as does the word like (similar) and like (appreciate), from which we infer that we like those whom we are like, and we are kind to those of our own kind.

    Prejudiced: Less willing to believe what the government tells you about minorities than what you are told by family, friends, or your own eyes.

    Discrimination: (1) Preferring the desirable to the undesirable; (2) A policy insufficient to prevent the success of immigrants such as Jews, Asians and Irish, just as affirmative action is a policy insufficient to prevent the failure of blacks.

  13. There is nothing wrong with hate. Hate is a human right!

  14. @Jett Rucker

    Well, Jeff, we only got a glimpse of the tranifesto of that freak near Nashville, Tenn. half a year later and only due to someone’s having leaked it.

    If they don’t want us to know what the crazy Algerian/Albanian/whatever’s motive is, they’ll squash the info. They want to make sure we all know that there are White Irishmen rioting out there. That’s the real problem!

  15. Pastit says:

    I’m hoping Wilders lives up to his words. As far as Meloni goes she has A LOT to prove as thus far she has cucked to the EU and globalist Jews. She has done Italy no favors.

  16. François says:
    @François



    Video Link

    Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar attends his first Seder

    Seder night was very different from other nights at Bertha and Maurice Cohen’s Dublin home as their guests included the Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar.

    Mr Cohen – chair of the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland – said the Taoiseach was “interested in reaching out to smaller, especially immigrant, communities, he being the son of an immigrant. His father is from Mumbai.” It was his first Seder.

    “Initially the suggestion was that he would attend services on Friday evening for Shabbat and Yomtov,” Mr Cohen added. “I felt it would be better for him to attend a Seder as obviously it is the focal point.”

    The Cohens were told that Mr Varadkar would be with them for two hours. In the event, he stayed for almost double that time, tweeting: “Delighted to join the extended Cohen family for Passover Seder. Shabbat Shalom.”

    The small gathering also included a four-year-old girl and friends “we have Sedered with for over 40 years”.

    Mr Varadkar “appeared fascinated by the symbolism of it all and the shared memories across so many generations and thousands of years”, Mr Cohen reported. “He said when he left that it had been the highlight of his week.

    “Of course it was an honour to host the Taoiseach. But more importantly, it was an honour for the whole community.”

    https://www.thejc.com/news/community/irish-prime-minister-leo-varadkar-attends-his-first-seder-lx41emlv

  17. Merloni let in more illegals than her predecessor did the previous year.
    Wilders’ nickname is Bibi.
    Some movement. Oy veh.

  18. @Lloyd

    On October 27, Mr. Derbyshire characterized as a “Muslim protest” a rally in England against Israel’s indiscriminate destruction of Palestinian homes and people.

    Oh, so dissident, right?

  19. @Lloyd

    Lloyd, yes it is a Moslem problem, an African problem, an Albanian (not necessarily Moslem) problem, and lot of others that make one big problem. That problem is that the country of the Irish is being changed into a Tower of Babel against the will of the Irishmen. Sometimes, Towers of Babel are not so peaceful.

    You’re giving the murderer a lot of credit in his having a real plan to draw attention to Palestine or something. All his horrible act of violence does is draw attention to the fact that there are foreigners of MANY types living in Ireland that shouldn’t be there! GET! THEM! OUT!

    .

    And for Greta, this post is about Ireland and the invasion of hostile immigrants. FOCUS, Greta.

    • Replies: @Greta Handel
  20. @Achmed E. Newman

    This post is about Ireland and the invasion of hostile immigrants because the rusty racebaiting tool wants readers NOT to FOCUS on the imperialist Establishment that has brought so much of it about. Never will he dissent when the invaders and ordnance are American or British and the innocent victims are slaughtered by the hundreds in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, Gaza, …

    Is that why you would rather not be reminded of the fealty shown his adopted Uncle Sam by this columnist over the years?

    • Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
  21. Pendragon says:

    Ógra Shinn Féin
    @Ogra_SF
    You don’t get to be racist and Irish.

    Very true that is why sinn fein is associated with Marxism AFAIK. Edmund Burke penned tracts against the French revolution but was actually an Englishman. My last name is Burke but my DNA says : British/Dutch rather than Gaelic plebeian simian.

    Dutch News, an English-language Leftist outlet, noted with dismay that less-educated voters favored Wilders by much higher margins than did those with college degrees. They sobbed that, sob…

    Derb, you have fooled by American propaganda. I was born in Lennox Hill hospital, Manhattan, but I feel more English than you. The American idea that any genetic peasant can be elevated to the middle class via a college degree is a sham and crazy delusion. The left needs to censor me because I can defeat their college graduates in any debate. How can someone who took meaningless classes in “14th Century Lesbian Pygmy Sculpture” or “Diversity and Ethno-Centrism Privileged Studies.” defeat me in a fair debate ? THEY CANNOT ! The Pendragon needs to be unleashed pronto olde bean ! :

    The ‘racists’ are RIGHT and I can PROVE IT IN JUST ONE SENTENCE.

    THERE IS NO REASON TO SUPPRESS A VIEWPOINT UNLESS IT IS TRUE, because a false viewpoint can easily be combatted with facts and logic, while truth cannot be combatted except by lies which are vulnerable to refutation.

    College is now high school 2.0 e.g. you can be a computer programmer in 2023 without a college degree with a high enough IQ and tenacious attitude.

  22. …All the continent

    Suffered thus, as his coils would not relent

    But rather tightened as its populations

    Fought for breath against the depredations

    Of the Enemy’s protected columns.

    By the millions his bestial golems

    Came, with his unholy blessing and the funds

    Wrung from their native hosts, whose nations’ guns

    Were trained on their own folk should they protest.

  23. @Greta Handel

    This post is about Ireland and the invasion of hostile immigrants because….

    .. because that’s WTF Mr. Derbyshire wanted to write about. These immigration invasions are THE most pressing problem for the West.

    Now, as for his opinions in the past, I agree with you, Miss Handel. I was too young then to see the stupidity of the Iraq war, though it sure didn’t make any sense to me. (I just figured these big shots knew something I didn’t. Again, I was young.) I’m against the Neocon warmongering by the Regime, as Mr. Derbyshire is too.

    I pasted in a paragraph of J. Derbyshire’s recent writing to demonstrate this in one of these threads, but I can’t remember if it was in a reply to you or someone else.

    No, he’s not trying to distract people’s attention from other Potomac Regime stupidity. Look at the home page, Greta. You may or may not have noticed that there is a usually clever short description of each writer. (Who makes that up, Mr. Unz, or the writers themselves?) John Derbyshire’s one is IMMIGRANT DOOMSAYER. See that?

    That’s his main concern. There are quite a few writers that discuss Regime warmongering – Paul Craig Roberts is pretty good*, but I recommend Dr. Ron Paul, (REPUBLICAN REVOLUTIONARY**) because he is right about almost all else he discusses too!

    .’

    * He doesn’t allow comments most times, though.

    ** He must have gotten that moniker around ’12, when he was a GOP candidate. Otherwise, he’s had not too much to do with the GOPe, other than be officially in that party to be a Libertarian Congressman.

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