Israel’s Push To Immigrate Muslims To The West Is Behind The Resurgence Of Islamic Terrorism

by | Dec 15, 2025

The fatal mass shooting of members of the Jewish diaspora congregated at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia is a tragedy more befitting of Tisha B’Av than Hanukkah. While the State of Israel, Australia, and other nations the world over have condemned the shooting and used the tragedy to highlight the rising tide of antisemitism, that narrative echoes the obliviousness those countries have about the role they have played in causing the resurgence of Islamic terrorism. Decades of fighting the futile War on Terror continue to result in the loss of innocent life as a price of the bloodlust of a foreign policy aimed at destabilizing the Middle East. While the ulterior motives behind the War on Terror have become clear, what remains lost is how much destabilizing the West is integral to continuing its mission. 

In his public remarks following the shooting, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu excoriated his Australian counterpart, Anthony Albanese. Netanyahu blamed the Australian government under his leadership for the attack, alleging it has failed to curb his perceived rise of antisemitism in the country. The Israeli Prime Minister claimed that Albanese had “abandoned Australia’s Jews” and characterized Australia’s official recognition of a Palestinian state under his leadership on September 21st as pouring fuel on the country’s “antisemitic fire.” Netanyahu’s remarks were distilled into a damning response from Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Ministry, which stated that the “blood of the victims is on the hands of the Australian government.”

Netanyahu’s claimed that the Australian government under Albanese has abandoned the interests of its Jewish population is a criticism entirely at odds with reality. In the months leading up to the shooting, Albanese’s government has taken increased measures to protect the country’s Jewish diaspora. Australia has effectively severed its diplomatic ties with Iran following its determination that the country helped orchestrate two separate arson attacks on a cafe and synagogue in Sydney that took place in October 2024. Upon reaching that conclusion in August, the Australian government subsequently expelled Iranian Ambassador Ahmad Sadeghi from the country despite Iranian officials denying any connection to the attacks. Last month, the Albanese government continued its diplomatic crackdown against Iran by naming its Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization.

In light of the disregard Netanyahu has shown for the enhanced efforts of Albanese’s government to act in the interest of Australian Jews, his vitriolic remarks echo the solipsistic undertones that have defined the rhetoric of Israel by entirely divorcing the nation from any agency in cultivating the social climate that laid the groundwork for the shooting. While criticism of the immigration policy of Australia and other Western nations has become a focal point of any discussions following events like the attack on Bondi Beach, that very immigration policy is the byproduct of Israeli influence. Israel has and continues to view Western nations as effective receptacles for the displaced Muslim populations fleeing the turmoil brought upon the Middle East in pursuit of the advancement of Zionist foreign policy.

The motive leading to an increase in antisemitism from the blowback Western nations face from being the destination for displaced Muslims was succinctly summarized in the words of Barbara Lerner Spectre, the Jewish founding director of the European Institute for Jewish Studies in Stockholm, Sweden. In a 2010 interview with IBA News discussing the rise of antisemitism in Sweden, Spectre stated:

I think there is a resurgence of antisemitism because at this point in time Europe has not yet learned how to be multicultural. And I think we are going to be part of the throes of that transformation, which must take place. Europe is not going to be the monolithic societies they once were in the last century. Jews are going to be at the center of that. It’s a huge transformation for Europe to make. They are now going into a multicultural mode and Jews will be resented because of our leading role. But without that leading role and without that transformation, Europe will not survive.

Spectre’s remarks not only highlight how immigration policy in Europe and elsewhere in the West being directed under the guise of promoting multiculturalism has accelerated the rise of the Muslim population in non-Muslim nations, but also how the clash of civilizations that has ensued from that pursuit has resulted in the resurgence of antisemitism effectively being imported into the countries.

While Spectre is not a member of the Israeli government, her argument that Western nations should be a destination for Muslim populations has long been echoed by its senior ministers. At no other time did this become more apparent than over the course of Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip. Numerous high-ranking Israeli politicians advanced plans to send Gazans to Europe in order to put the Palestinian territory under Israel’s control throughout the course of the conflict. National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir was consistently one of the most vocal of many politicians in the country who promoted the resettlement of Palestinians in Europe to facilitate the ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip. In January 2024, Ben-Gvir was quoted as saying, “We must promote a solution to encourage the emigration of the residents of Gaza.”

Soon after his remarks, a dozen Israeli cabinet ministers from the Netanyahu government participated in the “Settlement Brings Security” conference held by Israeli illegal settlement advocacy group Nachala. Nachala is one of many NGOs that pushes the prospect of increasing immigration to the West in order to achieve Israel’s annexation of Gaza who have the support of members of the Israeli government, many of whom rank in the highest echelons of the Netanyahu administrationTheir intentions demonstrate how promoting immigration of Muslims from the Middle East is less about advancing multiculturalism in places like Europe and more about solidifying Jewish ethnocentrism in Israel.

​​The extent to which groups like Nachala have become intertwined with the leadership of the Israeli government was made clear in a 2024 documentary on the Israeli illegal settler movement titled Holy Redemption. The filmmakers behind the documentary revealed that Nachala leader Daniella Weiss was on the phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu so often that it interrupted filming.

The intersection between non-governmental and governmental interests pursuing their shared pursuit of resettling Palestinians blurred the line between the mission of NGOs and the policies of the Israeli government to a point where it was entirely indiscernible. In February 2025, Israel announced the creation of a Voluntary Emigration Directorate that would come to work in concert with NGOs like Nachala, led by retired IDF colonel Yedioth Ahronoth, with the vision of facilitating the emigration of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from Gaza. Less than two months after the directorate was established, Ahronoth spoke about the success of its mission, stating, “More than 16 flights have departed from Ramon Airport carrying Gazans who requested to leave the Strip—and this is only going to increase.”

For as long as the directorate’s operations have continued, the Israeli government has not officially disclosed the number of Palestinians being resettled through its efforts. With immigration reform becoming a more pronounced part of the Western political discourse, the idea of resettling Palestinians in Europe, the US, and other countries was met with increasing opposition from citizens of those nations. The untenable idea of mass immigration of Palestinians led to a departure from rhetoric between the US and Israel that initially viewed it as a core tenet of bringing an end to the conflict. By the time a plan for bringing an end to the war was agreed upon, the US support for any mass relocation of Palestinians had waned.

Despite a tentative peace deal between Israel and Hamas being brokered in October 2025 by the Trump administration with the vision of rebuilding Gaza to keep its native Palestinian population in the region, the aims of Israeli-linked NGOs to send displaced Palestinians to the West have continued. One such group continuing this mission is Al-Majd Europe, an NGO founded in Germany in 2010 that has operated under the auspices of the IDF in Gaza. The Al-Majd website Despite being founded in 2010, Al-Majd Europe did not register its website domain until February 2025. Al-Majd Europe is led by Tomer Janar Lind, a dual Israeli-Estonian national who previously served in the IDF in operations dedicated to sending Palestinians out of Gaza. Those military connections appear to be crucial to Al-Majd’s operations, as the Israeli Defense Ministry’s Voluntary Emigration Bureau has worked with the NGO to coordinate the departure of Palestinians from Gaza.

Israel’s continued efforts to resettle Palestinians in Western nations demonstrate how its foreign policy aims are inextricably tied to the immigration policies of its allies. That dynamic increasingly jeopardizes the national security of those countries, as Muslim immigrants coming to them arrive with a disdain for the foreign policy that has destroyed their homes and displaced their people. Antisemitism, being an expression of that discontent, is less of a manifestation of abject racism and more of a byproduct of their understanding that the subservience of Western nations, who mold their foreign policy to advance Israel’s interests, has been the fundamental catalyst behind the displacement from their homelands.

This outcome isn’t just evident in the shooting of the Jewish community in Sydney, Australia, who congregated in Bondi Beach to celebrate Hanukkah. It was just as apparent in the wake of the shooting of US National Guard troops US Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom and US Air Force Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe committed by Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal. Their shooting, like that of the one targeting Australia’s Jewish diaspora, was only possible because of the broken immigration system implemented to accommodate the decades-long doomed foreign policy of Western nations that has destabilized the Middle East at the behest of Israel.

The question that remains is whether or not the resurgence of Islamic terrorism in the West is blowback from the failures of the War on Terror or if it is by design to conjure support for continuing to wage the war. Violence of Islamic extremists unleashed upon Western nations continues to be used to justify the perpetual military operations waged in the War on Terror that is its root cause. Though to the detriment of the national security of the countries continuing to fight that war, that foreign policy continues to advance the interests of Israel in the region. That disturbing symbiotic relationship demonstrates the disregard the War on Terror has had for human life, blurring the lines between who the real terrorists are and amplifying the question of whether Israel is an ally to the western world at all.

Reprinted with permission from ZeroHedge.

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