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This article was written by the editors and appeared in La Razón. Hermann Tertsch: “El 7 de octubre fue un acto de terrorismo genocida”.
Featuring Hermann Tertsch, Distinguished Fellow (Honorary), Gold Institute for International Strategy
The journalist and Member of the European Parliament for VOX, Hermann Tertsch, said that “October 7 was an act of genocidal terrorism,” but that, unfortunately, “Judeophobia, antisemitism and anti-Zionism, which is hatred of Israel, have soared in Europe.”
“Europe and the left have taken up the defense of Hamas’s terrorist executioners and a grotesque demonization of the victims,” he said.
The vice president of the Patriots for Europe group in the European Parliament said that “it is impossible to forget the diabolical cruelty of Hamas’s assault from Gaza, its unprecedented murderous frenzy in the massacre, the rapes, torture, mutilations and dismemberment of children, the elderly, women and men.”
In that sense, he said that October 7 and its effects are a wake-up call for the West. “Those who do not know how to defend themselves will be overrun by those who come to the West to colonize it and impose the cruelest and most totalitarian religious ideology,” he warned.
THREE YEARS
“Three years have passed since the greatest genocidal action against the Jewish people since the Holocaust. It is impossible to forget the diabolical cruelty of Hamas’s assault from Gaza, its unprecedented murderous frenzy in the massacre, the rapes, torture, mutilations and dismemberment of children, the elderly, women and men. Nor the kidnapping of 251 Israelis taken to Gaza, including the elderly, children and infants, most of whom would not return. Three years later it is clear that that massacre has radically changed the political map of the region and is changing that of the world, short of the fall of the regime in Iran, which bears ultimate responsibility for October 7, 2023,” he noted.
“It has also become very clear, to the displeasure of many, that Israel’s will, determination and capacity to defend itself are today the same as those that led it to victory in all the wars the Arabs launched to destroy the Jewish state. Despite the modernization of Israeli society and the effects of a left inevitably given over to wokeism, national consciousness and the sense of duty and service, those virtues that seem to be disappearing in some Western nations, are strong and firm. Unfortunately, these three years have also shown the extent to which Europe’s current rulers and broad sectors of public opinion, shaped by the published opinion that depends on those rulers, have taken positions defending Hamas’s terrorist executioners and grotesquely demonizing the victims,” he said.
WARNING
In that sense, he warned that “Judeophobia, antisemitism and anti-Zionism, which is hatred of the nation of Israel, have soared in Europe, conditioned by the massive Muslim penetration of its society, driven by the powerful influence of centers of power and buyers of goodwill such as Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood, and stirred up by a left that has placed its last hope of survival in its alliance with Islamism and the Muslim invasion of the West.”
“Under the banner of glorifying the October 7 massacre, the forces of Islamism and socialism have taken to the streets of European cities, with immense violence when they wished. As now in France, in what the media disguise as student protests and is a forceful demonstration of the destructive power of the alliance of Islamism with the far-left Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s La France Insoumise (LFI) party. Or as during the 2025 Vuelta a España, when the Sánchez government used illegal African immigrants mixed with ETA sympathizers and other far-leftists to attack a team with Israeli shareholders with unusual violence,” he charged.
GENOCIDE
“October 7 was an act of genocidal terrorism. Of the only genocide that has been proposed and has never stopped being prepared in the Middle East since 1948, that of wiping the State of Israel and the Jews off the map. By contrast, the accusations of genocide constantly made by Islamism and leftism and the usual useful idiots in the service of the West’s enemies are absurd. First, because having the means to perpetrate a genocide if there were the will, it never did so and does not do so, as proven by the fact that the Palestinian population under Israel’s control has grown from 1.2 million in 1948 to 7.5 million now, and close to two million of them with Israeli nationality,” he pointed out.
Therefore, he said that “October 7 should have meant total international isolation for Hamas, for Hezbollah, for Iran and to a large extent for Qatar. And yet the response in Europe and the U.S., after a few weeks of official solidarity with the victims, has been the multiplication of demonstrations in favor of the terrorists, of Islamism, of sharia and of the call for genocide against Israel.”
“This criminal call, contained in the phrase ‘From the river to the sea’ for the Palestinian state, that is, with Israel already gone, has been uttered even by members of the Spanish government, the one that has gone furthest in Europe in its solidarity with the terrorists and harassment of Israel. The truth is that the social-democratic globalist majorities, whatever their parties call themselves, are alarmed at the spectacular growth of patriotic forces in Europe and America. These defend the nation, sovereignty and identity against invasions, multiculturalism, aggression and the open attempt to put an end to nations and their identity, which is the policy of the European Union with its current shrinking majority and a European Commission that has failed at everything except destroying, as is the current one of Ursula von der Leyen,” he lashed out.
“The last thing Von der Leyen, George Soros, Bill Gates, Macron or Friedrich Merz want to see is the European nations awaken to the imminent threat of total destruction of their social fabric, their culture, their identity and their rights. All of this is already happening because of the policies imposed from Brussels and the invasion it promotes. Brussels agrees with Qatar (what a coincidence, Qatargate) in wanting to prevent at all costs the European nations from understanding that Israel is fighting an enemy that is also theirs. That Spain, look at Ceuta, is a target of Muslim conquest, not after Israel but at the same time. And that immediately after come all the lands that have not been under Muslim rule,” he said.
USEFUL IDIOTS
At another point he said that “Israel has lost sympathizers and allies (bad allies, as has been shown) after being the victim of that monstrous assault, while the flags of the murderers fill the streets of European cities. The globalist rulers say that the Israeli armed response is judged ‘disproportionate’ in a comfortable Europe that no longer remembers what war is and treats terrorists like lost sheep. That is why they have adopted and spread all the lying propaganda generated by Hamas, and the Western media have presented it as revealed truth.”
He noted that “Hamas uses the civilian population as a human shield to maximize the number of victims of Israeli attacks. Because every Palestinian civilian death is a success for Hamas and a misfortune for Israel. The population takes on this role (some forced and others voluntarily), raised and indoctrinated in the culture of hatred, death and martyrdom in a fanaticized Gaza. But, mind you, financed with tens of billions in international aid. They could have made it a Mediterranean tourist spot. What they made was an immense underground terrorist base fed by the indoctrinated children on the surface.”
EFFECTS
Along those lines, he warned that “October 7 and its effects are a wake-up call for the West. Those who do not know how to defend themselves in a future that is already here (Ceuta is one proof, the French cities another) will be overrun by those who come to the West not to work or fleeing anything, but to colonize it and impose the cruelest and most totalitarian religious ideology. Europeans give examples of defenselessness every day. The European is harmless and defenseless in attitude and resources in the face of the invader’s aggression. Which is how the enemies of civilization want them.”
“Israel has never been able to afford that attitude because it would have ceased to exist as soon as it was born. That is why it is an example in self-defense and in forging national consciousness. The globalists, more conditioned every day by the Muslim Brotherhood, believe Israel is a bad example. For those of us who believe that the invaded European and Western nations can no longer afford defenselessness either, Israel is an ally, a friend and an example,” he concluded.
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Hermann Tertsch is a Distinguished Fellow (Honorary) at the Gold Institute for International Strategy, a Washington, D.C. foreign policy and defense think tank.
