The New York Times was savagely mocked for refusing to describe an Islamist attacker at a Berlin Pride event on Saturday who rammed his van into Tiergarten Park, killing one woman and injuring at least 29 others before he assaulted festivalgoers with what may have been a machete.
Online critics unloaded on the leftist outlet after it posted a whitewashed social media update about the deadly terror rampage. The paper&#8217;s bloodless bulletin on X casually reported that a &#8220;car plowed through a park&#8221; — completely ignoring the extremist monster behind the wheel and treating a deliberate, violent assault like a runaway vehicle accident.
“Breaking News: A car plowed through a park during Berlin’s biggest LGBTQ Pride event, killing at least one person and injuring more than a dozen others, city police officials said on Saturday,” the Times wrote.
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Breaking News: A car plowed through a park during Berlin’s biggest LGBTQ Pride event, killing at least one person and injuring more than a dozen others, city police officials said on Saturday. <a href="https://t.co/NlqLMjtJB1">https://t.co/NlqLMjtJB1</a>
&mdash; The New York Times (@nytimes) <a href="https://x.com/nytimes/status/2081163850829758543?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 25, 2026</a></blockquote>
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X users immediately slapped the paper with a harsh Community Note, pointing out the crucial facts the Left-leaning outlet conveniently left out: the vehicle was driven by a radical zealot with a deep rap sheet and known ties to violent extremism.
&#8220;Was the car a Chevrolet Radicalized Muslim?&#8221; Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro wrote.
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Was the car a Chevrolet Radicalized Muslim? <a href="https://t.co/fMUeYtn2C7">https://t.co/fMUeYtn2C7</a>
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&#8220;ARE YOU SUGGESTING A CAR AUTONOMOUSLY DROVE ITSELF INTO A CROWD OF LGBTQ PEOPLE?????&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/mattvanswol/status/2081457810609475739">wrote</a> social media commentator Matt Van Swol. &#8220;A MUSLIM INVADER WAS THE ONE WHO DROVE HIS CAR INTO THAT CROWD. WHY DO YOU CONTINUALLY HIDE THE TRUTH???? I TRUSTED YOU FOR YEARS, YOU ARE STRAIGHT GARBAGE!!!!!!!
&#8220;Hard to believe that the car got a mind of its own and plowed through the people. I also heard a knife stabbed someone this weekend in Chicago,&#8221; another person <a href="https://x.com/Jkylebass/status/2081515400001397153">commented</a>. &#8220;Headlines like this continue to decimate trust in the mainstream media. Awful…simply awful reporting.&#8221;
The actual story behind the media fail is far more chilling. German authorities launched an intense manhunt for 21-year-old Abdul Ballout after he weaponized the white van.
Officials swiftly raised the national threat level while warning of potential copycat violence. The manhunt eventually came to a lethal end in Berlin’s Spandau district, where law enforcement officers tracked down Ballout and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/berlin-terrorist-attacker-shot-and-killed-by-police?author=Jacob+Wheeler&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Berlin+Terrorist+Attacker+Shot+And+Killed+By+Police">shot him dead</a>.
It turns out Ballout was a walking red flag whom European authorities knew all too well. Born in Germany to a Lebanese mother, the young fanatic was a <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c3r2nz9ed3lt?post=asset%3A679975ea-dc63-4cff-b17e-cc95f0cbef6f">familiar face</a> to local law enforcement for his deep ties to the city&#8217;s extremist underworld. Even worse, he was a <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/07/26/abdul-ballout-berlin-pride-suspect-tried-join-islamic-state/">convicted terrorist</a> who had previously been snagged in Lebanon while attempting to cross into Syria to join the Islamic State.
After returning to German soil, he received a light slap on the wrist — sentenced to less than two years behind bars for plotting a major act of violence against the state. Prosecutors had begged for a longer stay behind bars, but the system let him walk free just months before he unleashed horror in the park.
Political figures across the globe slammed the attack, with critics pointing to the tragic incident as a grim wake-up call regarding the dangerous blind spots of Western political correctness.

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‘A Car Plowed’? NYT Shredded For Sanitizing Muslim Terrorist Attack

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An LGBTQ activist is doubling down, blaming white men after a Muslim man with known Islamist associations rammed a vehicle into Berlin’s Pride festival on Saturday before attacking bystanders with a machete, leaving one person dead and several others injured.
A viral video circulating online shows an <a href="https://x.com/iAnonPatriot/status/2081229875361325146?s=20">unidentified pink-haired woman</a> lamenting not the terror attack, but the public&#8217;s reaction to it.
“I&#8217;m getting really, really sick of this. I&#8217;m getting really tired of having to repeat myself over and over again,” she said. “So the suspect is an Islamic extremist. That&#8217;s their suspect right now. That&#8217;s what I read. Okay, I&#8217;m not going to say anything about the rest of the Muslim population because of actions of this one person.”
Then, the leftist shifted her focus and hurled unfounded accusations towards another demographic: white Christian men.
“But what I can say is the people who were celebrating about this were all white men, young white men with crosses in their profiles because we&#8217;ve all seen it. We&#8217;ve all seen how you guys react towards gay people, and how you wish harm on them constantly,” she said. “I get a constant hate on my videos, especially about trans people. You&#8217;re not going to hide behind another scapegoat group and pretend that they&#8217;re actually the violent ones when it&#8217;s you.”
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OMG. Liberal women are blaming “white men” for the Islamic extremist who ran over people at an LGBTQ parade in Berlin.
“You’re not going to scapegoat the Muslim community like they’re the violent ones, when it’s actually you (white men).”
Can’t make this sht up. 💀💀 <a href="https://t.co/0nbsKYgqys">pic.twitter.com/0nbsKYgqys</a>
— American AF 🇺🇸 (@iAnonPatriot) <a href="https://x.com/iAnonPatriot/status/2081229875361325146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2026</a></blockquote>
The woman claimed white Christian men share the same ideology as Abdul Ballout, who police say deliberately drove a white van into Berlin’s Tiergarten Park around 10 p.m., killing one woman and injuring at least 29 others before attacking festival goers with what authorities said may have been a machete. The 21-year-old convicted terrorist had previously attempted to join the Islamic State in Syria and was released from German custody just months before Saturday’s attack, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/known-islamic-terrorist-on-the-run-unleashed-machete-attack-after-plowing-van-into-crowd?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Jacob+Wheeler&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Known+Islamic+Terrorist+On+The+Run+Unleashed+Machete+Attack+After+Plowing+Van+Into+Crowd">The Daily Wire reported</a>.
Migration levels in the European Union remain high, with approximately <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20260227-1">4.2 million</a> immigrants arriving in 2024 and total foreign-born residents reaching roughly 64 million. Spain and Germany recorded the largest absolute numbers of new arrivals, according to the <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Migration_to_and_from_the_EU">European Commission</a>.
“You hold the same exact beliefs that this man who did this attack did, and you&#8217;re trying to distance yourself from it. And you know why you&#8217;re trying to do that? Because you&#8217;re ashamed, and you should be,” she said in the video.
The passionate defense highlights the growing, confounding alliance between LGBT activist groups and Islamic ideology in Western countries.
“Ahmad attacks people at a Pride Parade because Islam. White liberal woman with aposematic hair coloring concludes white men are to blame. Suicidal Empathy is a fatal disease of the human spirit,” Gad Saad, an evolutionary behavioral scientist, <a href="https://x.com/GadSaad/status/2081359046775275807?s=20">said</a> on X.
“Queers for Palestine real quiet about this one,” Kangmin Lee, a conservative digital content creator, <a href="https://x.com/kangminlee/status/2081243091629904336?s=20">reacted</a> on social media.
Germany’s latest terror attack, which is said to have left a “horrific scene,” left Pride attendees reeling, including Ricarda Hofmann, a presenter at one of Europe’s largest LGBTQ celebrations.  “What happened today has changed something in me,” she <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DbPTNq6iDz4/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1">wrote on Instagram</a>.
On Sunday, organizers of the Berlin Pride festival vowed not to allow the Islamic terror attack to be used &#8220;for political ends.&#8221;
&#8220;People are trying to divide our society and set some people against others. As the CSD in Berlin, we will not allow this,&#8221; a representative for the group <a href="https://x.com/SkyNews/status/2081393662244646936?s=20">said</a> at a press conference.

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A Muslim man with known Islamist associations reportedly rammed a vehicle into Berlin&#8217;s Pride festival on Saturday before attacking bystanders with a machete, leaving one person dead and several others injured, according to German authorities.
A massive manhunt is underway for 21-year-old Abdul Ballout, who police say deliberately drove a white van into Berlin&#8217;s Tiergarten Park around 10 p.m., killing one woman and injuring at least 29 others before attacking festival goers with what authorities said may have been a machete.
Ballout is said to have fled the &#8220;horrific scene” on foot. German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt <a href="https://x.com/SkyNews/status/2081357342902300677?s=20">connected</a> the attack to Islamist ideology, according to CBS News. 
&#8220;Everything we see here indicates that this was an Islamist terror attack,&#8221; Dobrindt said at the scene. 
The BBC reported Sunday <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3r2nz9ed3lt?post=asset%3Af7bf096b-0bc4-4496-b0f8-d2def8c5a207#post">Ballout</a> is a German citizen of Lebanese background who was known to police for being part of Berlin&#8217;s &#8220;Islamist scene&#8221; and had previously &#8220;<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3r2nz9ed3lt?post=asset%3A679975ea-dc63-4cff-b17e-cc95f0cbef6f#post">committed a number of crimes</a>.&#8221; Ballout was born in Germany, and his mother became a naturalized German citizen in 2002, three years before his birth, police told the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/germany-berlin-lgbtq-pride-parade-van-ramming-3ba5e3f1becffd0da5f47b29aa08da9d">Associated Press</a>.
<a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/07/26/abdul-ballout-berlin-pride-suspect-tried-join-islamic-state/">The Telegraph</a> reported Ballout is a convicted terrorist who tried to join the Islamic State terror group. German authorities previously arrested Ballout in Lebanon after accusing him of attempting to join the Islamic State in Syria and plotting a terrorist attack. Then, he was returned to Germany, where, according to Die Welt, he was sentenced to one year and 10 months in prison for plotting a “serious act of violence that threatened the state.” Prosecutors had sought a sentence of two years and 10 months, the newspaper reported. He was released just months prior to Saturday&#8217;s attack.
With the manhunt underway, German authorities warned the suspect may be armed and dangerous, and issued a stark warning to the public. 
&#8220;We cannot rule out the possibility of copycat attacks,&#8221; the interior minister said, announcing the country’s threat level will be raised as a result, according to the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c3r2nz9ed3lt">BBC</a>. 
The terror attack left Pride attendees reeling, including Ricarda Hofmann, a presenter at one of Europe&#8217;s largest LGBTQ celebrations.   
“What happened today has changed something in me,” she <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DbPTNq6iDz4/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1">wrote on Instagram</a>.
International leaders across the political spectrum swiftly condemned the attack, with some arguing it highlighted what they described as a growing alliance between Western LGBTQ activist groups and Islamist ideology.
&#8220;Horrendous attack in Berlin last night,&#8221; Nigel Farage, leader of the U.K.&#8217;s right-wing Reform UK party, said. &#8220;The strange left-wing alliance between Islamists and the LGBT community in this country cannot last.&#8221;
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The mayor of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/berlin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Berlin, Germany</a>, gave a no-nonsense answer when asked why his office had Israeli flags flying in front of it.
The questioner claimed Israel was perpetrating a “genocide,” asking Mayor Kai Wegner, “The genocide taking place in Palestine does affect us, even if geopolitics is now perhaps more important than the office of a small mayor, I say. Nevertheless, we cannot duck away from a genocide. But why, why, for example, are there Israeli flags hanging in front of our Berlin town halls?”
Wegner decried those who have called Israel’s actions “genocide,” firing back, “So it’s not happening. Period. And I won’t allow it, either.”
Wegner implicitly referred to the effort by Germans to atone for the terrible crimes of the Nazis against the Jews in World War II, saying, “This is a massive, one-sided propaganda campaign by certain circles, where I simply say, I thought we were further along. I thought we had moved on and learned other lessons from our history, too. So apparently, some people haven’t yet. And I can tell them that the Israeli flag will hang outside my red town hall until we know the fate of the hostages, who are being held in the most cruel, atrocious conditions, in agonizing suffering in the tunnels of Hamas terrorists. As long as there is still hope that one of these hostages will be returned to their families, the Israeli flag will hang in front of the ruling mayor’s official residence.”
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Seit fast einem Jahr hängt die israelische Flagge vor dem Roten Rathaus. Es gibt Menschen, die dieses Symbol der Solidarität ablehnen. Einige von ihnen waren bei „Kai Wegner vor Ort“. Der Reg. Bürgermeister <a href="https://twitter.com/kaiwegner?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kaiwegner</a> hat klar gemacht, welche Haltung er bei diesem Thema hat. <a href="https://t.co/UZFgzz5vYZ">pic.twitter.com/UZFgzz5vYZ</a>
&mdash; Senatskanzlei Berlin (@RegBerlin) <a href="https://twitter.com/RegBerlin/status/1837060886940287153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2024</a></blockquote>
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In February, Wegner stated on X, “Berlin has a clear stance when it comes to freedom. Berlin stands firmly on Israel&#8217;s side. There is no doubt about that. Full responsibility for the deep suffering in Israel and the Gaza Strip lies with Hamas.”
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Berlin hat eine klare Haltung, wenn es um Freiheit geht. Berlin steht fest auf der Seite Israels. Darüber gibt es keinen Zweifel. Die volle Verantwortung für das tiefe Leid in Israel und dem Gazastreifen liegt bei der Hamas.
&mdash; Kai Wegner (@kaiwegner) <a href="https://twitter.com/kaiwegner/status/1761777008483181045?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 25, 2024</a></blockquote>
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In May, Wegner defended police who had removed pro-Hamas demonstrators from buildings at Humboldt University. He accused the demonstrators of supporting Hamas; Germany, as well as the United States, considers Hamas a terrorist organization. “I will not let this pass, we do not tolerate anti-Semitism, hatred and agitation at our universities,&#8221; Wegner <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/berlins-mayor-defends-police-crackdown-153005527.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a>. “Jewish students must be able to study at universities without fear. &#8230; I attach great importance to academic freedom and freedom of opinion, but anti-Semitic crimes are not an opinion.”

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On Thursday, the United States and its allies secured a deal with Russia in order to return some 16 people, including multiple Americans, from the Russians. The Russians have basically taken several Americans hostage over the course of the last several years, and the United States traded a bunch of murderers as terrorists and spies for these hostages.
This is being treated as a massive win for the Biden administration by the media and the Biden administration itself. In return for Evan Gershkovich and former Marine Paul Whelan, Russia retrieved eight people, including a convicted murderer who shot dead a former Chechen rebel leader in Berlin, a Russian agent accused of helping give sensitive American electronics and ammunition to Russia, a man involved in what American authorities <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/01/world/who-are-detainees-russia-us-prisoner-swap-intl/index.html">called</a> “an elaborate hack-to-trade scheme that netted approximately $93 million through securities trades based on confidential corporate information stolen from US computer networks,” and four other convicted spies.
Republican Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/lawyer-ex-us-marine-whelan-jailed-russia-says-she-cannot-confirm-his-whereabouts-2024-07-31/#:~:text=%22I%20remain%20concerned%20that%20continuing,Committee%2C%20said%20in%20a%20statement">said</a> in a statement, “I remain concerned that continuing to trade innocent Americans for actual Russian criminals held in the U.S. and elsewhere sends a dangerous message to Putin that only encourages further hostage-taking by his regime.”
It&#8217;s great that we&#8217;re getting back our people; that is a wonderful and good thing.
But the treatment of this as a massive triumph by the Biden administration betrays an enormous amount about the way that Americans think about foreign policy, particularly on the Left and in the hallowed precincts of the State Department. The West has become accustomed to looking at foreign policy as though the best foreign policy ends in trading murderers and spies for innocent people. That is the best-case outcome.
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That is an extension of a generalized world view that the best foreign policy for America is to lose slowly and with the least possible cost, not to actually push to victory. It&#8217;s part and parcel of a broader worldview that says, for example, that Afghanistan was a triumph, which is something Joe Biden and Kamala Harris said, despite the fact that pulling out of Afghanistan left 13 American service people to be killed, hundreds of Americans behind, tens of thousands of American allies to be slaughtered by the Taliban, and millions of women to be dragged back into basements so they can&#8217;t go to school.
According to Biden, his State Department team, and Harris, that was a triumph. To them, the best form of foreign policy involves losing very, very slowly and with the least amount of cost; the worst foreign policy is where you win.
This is not unique to Biden or Harris. This has been an essential element of American foreign policy strategy on the Left for decades. It&#8217;s why America has not won a full-scale victorious war since World War II. It&#8217;s been a long time in America since we won a full-scale victorious war because we&#8217;re always fighting to stasis; we&#8217;re always looking for a way out.
What this did was incentivize Vladimir Putin to take more Americans hostage.
The West has been sucked into the morass of never winning victories and treating what are, by any standard of the imagination, losses as victories.
Two things can be true here: It is incredibly good that Americans are coming home, and it is a diplomatic loss to trade murderers for innocents.
Diplomacy is a tactic. It is not a strategy. The foreign policy establishment is constantly suggesting that diplomacy is in and of itself a strategy, that talking is a strategy.
Talking is a means to an end. Sometimes it’s useful; sometimes it’s not.
When you treat diplomacy as the strategy, what you end up with are bad deals and lost wars.
Which is the name of the game when it comes to Joe Biden.
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Jewish-owned houses are being marked with the Star of David by anti-Semites in Berlin in images <a href="https://mjhnyc.org/blog/jewish-badges-during-the-holocaust-the-othering-of-jews-across-nazi-europe/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reminiscent</a> of 1930s Nazi Germany, according to multiple reports. 
German outlet Tagesspiegel <a href="https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/berliner-staatsschutz-ermittelt-unbekannte-spruhen-davidstern-auf-eingangstur-10619689.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> Friday that Berlin Police confirmed it was aware of an incident where a Star of David was painted on a Jewish woman&#8217;s door. German State Security is investigating the marks on suspicion of incitement and hatred. The Jewish resident whose house was graffitied said she called the police, but authorities told her to report it online. 
“They advised me to remove the Star of David because leaving it at the door could cause further reactions,” the woman said. She explained that she has a mezuzah on her doorframe, which is a piece of parchment inscribed with verses from the Torah in Hebrew. The Jewish woman said she is now afraid to go to synagogue and to be seen in public wearing her necklace that has a Star of David pendant. 
“And I won’t speak Hebrew on the street today,” she added. 
Three more incidents involving the apparent intimidation of Jewish residents were reported on Saturday.
“It is now the subject of our investigation to find out whether the other houses have a Jewish resident and whether the incidents are connected,” the police said, <a href="https://archive.ph/vcKPd#selection-2963.126-2963.271">according</a> to The Telegraph.
Posts on social media showed multiple other doors in Berlin being marked with the Star of David. 
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More and more reports of an ongoing intimidation campaign in Berlin targeting Jews.
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Human rights attorney Brooke Goldstein posted another photo of a door that had been marked.
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“In Berlin, Jewish homes are being marked by pro-Hamas Jew haters. IN GERMANY, 2023,” Goldstein wrote. 
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In Berlin, Jewish homes are being marked by pro-Hamas Jew haters. 
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The reports of anti-Semitism out of Berlin come as anti-Israel protestors gather in cities across the world to voice their support for Palestinians after Hamas brutally attacked Israel, slaughtering over 1,300 Israelis.
A large group of demonstrators hit New York City streets on Thursday to condemn Israel. Anti-Israel rallies were held at Brooklyn College, Hunter College, and Columbia University, where a Jewish student <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dont-feel-safe-jewish-columbia-student-says-he-was-attacked-by-pro-palestinian-activist">told The Daily Wire</a> he was attacked on campus by a pro-Palestinian activist who was tearing down fliers raising awareness about Israelis who have been taken hostage by Hamas.
Hamas terrorists invaded Israel last Saturday, slaughtering Israeli families. Over the course of the week, the scale of Hamas’ atrocities against the Israelis has become more evident. During their attack, the terrorists targeted the most vulnerable, including raping and killing young women and slaughtering children and infants.

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In the latest address to world leaders, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on the German parliament to tear down the new &#8220;wall&#8221; being built by Russia in Europe, dividing Western and Eastern Europeans over the subject of freedom.
&#8220;Dear [German chancellor Olaf Scholz], tear down this wall,&#8221; Zelensky <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/zelensky-ronald-reagan-scathing-speech-germany-1688930">pleaded</a>, echoing Ronald Reagan’s famous 1987 speech when the American president called on the then-President of the Soviet Union, ​​Mikhail Gorbachev, to bring down the Berlin wall.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not a Berlin Wall — it is a wall in central Europe between freedom and bondage and this Wall is growing bigger with every bomb,&#8221; Zelensky said, also calling on Scholz to “​​give Germany the leadership role that you in Germany deserve.”
Zelensky then argued that Germany was more concerned about its own economy than the security of Ukraine prior to the Russian invasion.
“We turned to you,” Zelensky <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10622875/Zelensky-urges-Germany-tear-new-Wall-Europe-that.html">said</a>. “We told you that Nord Stream was a kind of preparation for the war.”
“And the answer we got was purely economic — it is economy, economy, economy but that was the mortar for the new wall,” he said.
Zelensky also discussed the slogan “never again,” in reference to the Holocaust.
&#8220;I address all of you who heard politicians say every year &#8216;never again,&#8217; but I can see these words are worth nothing. Now, our whole nation is being exterminated in Europe, why?&#8221; Zelensky said. &#8220;I address the older people among you who have survived the Second World War, who were rescued during the occupation, who survived Babyn Yar, where President Steinmeier visited last year for the 80th anniversary of the tragedy, and where Russian missiles struck.”
&#8220;It was there that families were killed. Again, 80 years later,&#8221; Zelensky continued. &#8220;You are also behind the wall, a wall that separates you from Ukrainians that are dying in Ukraine with every bomb that is landing on our land.&#8221;
Zelensky’s speech to Germany was notably more critical than his address to the British and American governments. However, Zelensky did invoke the memory of Pearl Harbor and September 11 in his speech to the United States Congress, as part of his call for a no-fly zone.
&#8220;Friends, Americans, in your great history, you have pages that would allow you to understand Ukrainians, understand us now, when we need you right now,&#8221; Zelensky said in his speech to Congress, according to a <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/zelensky-speech-congress-read-address-transcript-b2037126.html">translation</a>. &#8220;Remember Pearl Harbor, terrible morning of December 7, 1941, when your sky was black from the planes attacking you,&#8221; Zelensky said. &#8220;Just remember it, remember, September the 11th, a terrible day in 2001 when evil tried to turn US cities into battlefields, when innocent people were attacked from air, just like nobody else expected it and you could not stop it. Our country experiences the same, every day, right now.”
“Russia has turned the Ukrainian sky into a source of death for thousands of people,” Zelensky continued. “Russian troops have already fired nearly 1,000 missiles at Ukraine, countless bombs they use drones to kill us with precision. This is a terror that Europe has not seen, has not seen for 80 years and we are asking for a reply for an answer to this terror from the whole world is there’s a lot to ask for to create a no fly zone zone over Ukraine to save people.”
“Is this too much to ask humanitarian no fly zone, something that Ukraine it that Russia would not be able to terrorize our Free Cities,” Zelensky asked. “Is this too much to ask? We offer an alternative: you know what kind of defense systems we need. 300 and other similar systems, you know how much depends on the battlefield on their ability to use aircraft. Powerful, strong air aviation to protect our people with freedom or learn aircraft that can help Ukraine help Europe and you know that they exist and you have them but they are on earth not in Ukraine in the Ukrainian sky.”
“They don’t defend our people. I have a dream,” Zelensky added. “These words are known to each of you today. I can say I have a need. I need to protect our sky. I need your decision. Your help. Which means exactly the same. The same you feel when you hear the words. I have a dream.”
Ian Haworth is a writer for The Daily Wire and contributor to Morning Wire. Follow him on <a href="https://twitter.com/ighaworth">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ighaworth">Facebook</a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/IanGHaworth">YouTube</a>.

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A large chunk of the Berlin Wall placed at Chapman University in southern California to serve as a symbol of freedom has been defaced, university officials announced earlier this week.
According to <a href="https://www.ocregister.com/2020/07/27/chapman-universitys-piece-of-berlin-wall-is-vandalized/">The Orange County Register</a>, Chapman University officials revealed this week that someone vandalized the memorial with brown paint, which covered the historical graffiti on the bottom portion of the wall.
“I am outraged by this senseless attempt to destroy a priceless piece of history and heartbroken that this can happen on our own campus,” Daniel Struppa, president of the university, said in a statement, reports the news agency.
Back in 1998, when the wall fragment was first put up, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-sep-29-me-27513-story.html">The Los Angeles Times</a> reported that Chapman President Jim Doti got the idea for it after seeing another piece of the Berlin Wall standing at the Ronald Reagan Library.
“It’s a symbol of the end of the Cold War and a symbol of freedom,” Doti said at the time. “I was asking students about it and they said, ‘We were just little kids when this came down.’ Well, I was just a little kid when this went up.”
“I remember Ronald Reagan standing at this wall and saying, ‘Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall,’” said a university finance professor at the time, reports The L.A. Times. “And now a piece of it is sitting in our backyard.”
“Let this terrible act of vandalism be turned into a time to celebrate how fortunate we are to be the home to an important piece of history,” said Struppa, The Orange County Register reports.
While Chapman officials have not determined a motive, the act of vandalism has emerged amidst a national trend whereby left-wing activists target statues of historical figures or national leaders in the name of fighting oppression.
For example, in the past couple of months, activists have set their sights on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/portland-leftists-topple-george-washington-statue-burn-american-flag-on-it-twice">statues</a> of President George Washington, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rioters-in-california-tear-down-statue-of-ulysses-s-grant-he-defeated-the-confederacy-devastated-kkk">Gen. Ulysses S. Grant</a>, who helped win the Civil War, and President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boston-weighs-removing-replica-emancipation-memorial-of-lincoln-freed-slave-slaves-paid-for-the-original-memorial">Abraham Lincoln</a> himself.
While not technically a national figure, the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus has also been the subject of ire for radical activists, despite the fact that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/two-gop-senators-propose-recognizing-juneteenth-as-federal-holiday-swapping-out-columbus-day">Columbus Day</a> was first federally recognized in the 19th century as an homage to Italian Americans.
Over the Fourth of July weekend, vandals toppled a statue of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/after-columbus-statue-destroyed-pelosi-says-people-will-do-what-they-do-mccarthy-responds">Christopher Columbus</a> near Little Italy in Baltimore and then tossed the fragment into water connected to the nearby harbor. About a week later, a Columbus statue in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rioters-tear-down-christopher-columbus-statue-in-minneapolis-an-immigrant-built-it-gave-it-as-a-gift">gifted by</a> Italian Americans was destroyed.
Even more recently, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot temporarily removed a Columbus statue from Grant Park after dozens of officers were injured defending it against extremists the week prior. According to <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-chicago-christopher-columbus-statue-grant-park-lori-lightfoot-20200724-2hsbobbt7ndmpmkgyh6vfl7cvq-story.html">the Chicago Tribune</a>, the mayor removed the state “in part to avoid another high-profile confrontation between police and protesters.”
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Piece Of Berlin Wall Vandalized In Southern California

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A college in Florida had an interesting idea: build a replica of a segment of the infamous Berlin Wall that separated East and West Germany for 44 years. The wall was scheduled to be destroyed with sledgehammers by students on Friday to mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of the actual Berlin Wall.
But the professor who organized the project at New College in Florida, Lauren Hansen, apparently has another message she also wants to impart. According to <a href="https://www.sarasotamagazine.com/articles/2019/11/7/remembering-the-berlin-wall">Sarasota Magazine</a>, she wants the fall of the wall to represent “national and international experiences of separating groups of people, cities and countries.”
Hansen stated about the replica wall, “It has become a place where students and faculty from the entire university can come to discuss borders and the divisiveness we encounter today in the U.S. and other parts of the world.”
Sarasota Magazine reported:
<blockquote>The project was organized by professor Lauren Hansen, who is currently teaching a course called The Berlin Wall in German Literature and Film. In January, Hansen led an independent study about the portrayal of the Berlin Wall in German literature, and the idea for the replica wall was created by her small group of students. While other universities have created replica walls in the past, New College students also reenacted historical speeches, presented film screenings, and held graffiti sessions and poster presentation sessions. Creating the wall also turned into a timely project about national and international experiences of separating groups of people, cities and countries, notes Hansen.</blockquote>
The replica stands eight feet tall and 16 feet wide and was placed so that students would be forced to walk around it to get to class. As radio host Rod Thomson <a href="https://therevolutionaryact.com/mangling-truth-berlin-wall/">cogently noted </a>regarding the college&#8217;s project:
<blockquote>Germany was formally divided in 1949 and the wall went up in 1961. The East German communist party never had popular support, distrusted its citizens and ruled with an iron fist. Refugees left East Germany for economic and political reasons, causing a brain drain. In the intervening years, more than 3 million East Germans “voted with their feet” by moving to West Germany.
To equate that wall to our border wall would have meant the West Germans would have put up the Berlin Wall to keep the East Germans out. But it was the East Germans who did so, to stem the flow out of East Berlin. There’s a fundamental difference between a wall that locks people in like a prison wall and the Berlin Wall, and a wall that protects and establishes legal borders, such as movie theaters, sporting events, Disney and national borders.</blockquote>
The New College of Florida states on its <a href="https://news.ncf.edu/news/with-public-event-new-college-students-will-commemorate-the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall/">website</a>:
<blockquote>New College of Florida has educated intellectually curious students for lives of great achievement since its founding in 1960. As the State of Florida’s designated honors college, New College provides an exceptional education that transforms students’ intellectual curiosity into personal accomplishment. The 110-acre campus on Sarasota Bay is home to more than 800 students and 80 full-time faculty engaged in interdisciplinary research and collaborative learning.</blockquote>

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Professor Organizes Building And Destruction Of Berlin Wall Replica, Hints It’s Partly About Trump

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Two young men wearing yarmulkahs on the streets of Berlin were attacked by three young thugs, one of whom, an Arabic-speaking man, whipped out a belt and started to whip them, but there was one additional piece of evidence the attackers didn&#8217;t know: one of the victims was <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/jewish-man-attacked-in-germany-admits-he-s-an-israeli-arab-1.6012220">a young Israeli Arab</a> who was testing his friend&#8217;s statement that wearing a yarmulkah in Germany is dangerous.
That young Arab, Adam Armoush, told the Israeli broadcaster Kann, &#8220;They kept cursing us and my friend asked them to stop cursing. They started to get angry and one of them ran to me and I knew it was important to film it because there would be no way to catch him by the time police arrived. Honestly, I&#8217;m surprised a thing like this could happen.&#8221;
Amoush told the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle, &#8220;I&#8217;m not Jewish, I&#8217;m an Israeli, I grew up in Israel in an Arab family.&#8221; He said he had been skeptical when his friend suggested that wearing a skullcap out put him at risk, adding, &#8220;I was saying it&#8217;s really safe and I wanted to prove it, but it ended like that.&#8221;
A <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mike.delberg/videos/10155388848788309/">video</a> of the attack in the city&#8217;s trendy Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood went viral. It showed the attacker yelling &#8220;Yahudi!&#8221; or &#8220;Jew&#8221; in Arabic.

Israeli Arab Doubts That Wearing A Yarmulkah Is Dangerous In Berlin. Then This Happens.

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On Sunday, German officials evacuated hundreds of travelers from one of the largest airports in the country after reports of eye irritation and breathing difficulties began circulating. People gathered in the security and luggage-check area of the Hamburg Airport reported symptoms consistent with pepper spray irritation, causing authorities to shut down the airport temporarily.
According to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/hamburg-airport-briefly-closed-after-dozens-injured-by-unidentified-substance/2017/02/12/7371809c-f129-11e6-a9b0-ecee7ce475fc_story.html?utm_term=.7a3ca207df30">The Washington Post</a>, 68 people were injured. None of the injuries were life threatening.
Based on initial assessments, police don&#8217;t believe that the incident was related to terrorism.
There was &#8220;no evidence&#8221; that the airport was struck by a terror attack, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/hamburg-airport-briefly-closed-after-dozens-injured-by-unidentified-substance/2017/02/12/7371809c-f129-11e6-a9b0-ecee7ce475fc_story.html?utm_term=.7a3ca207df30">said</a> Hamburg police spokesman Rene Schönhardt, adding that a cartridge of pepper left inside a trash bin near the security check was likely the cause of the incident.
&#8220;Nothing else has been found,&#8221; he emphasized. &#8220;The fire department didn&#8217;t detect any dangerous substances.&#8221;
Hamburg fire department spokesman Werner Nölken echoed what the police said, reassuring the public that no terrorist links have been identified.
&#8220;We are not assuming a terrorist attack,&#8221; the spokesman affirmed. &#8220;Some clown, for whatever reason&#8221; may have dumped pepper spray into an air-conditioning vent in the airport, allowing the the irritant to permeate through the air and injure travelers.
&#8220;The cartridge found in the bin was only the size of a lipstick&#8230;so it wouldn&#8217;t have been possible to injure so many people without the air-conditioning system diffusing the gas,&#8221; the Post reported, citing Nölken.
Germany has been in a state panic since last spring when <a href="http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/652765/Terrorist-attacks-Germany-Terrorism-Foiled-plots-Threat-Security-Islamic-State-ISIS">a slew of Muslim refugees conducted terror attacks throughout the country</a>. From Berlin to Munich, Islamic radicals, using knives, machetes, and motor vehicles, have killed German citizens with unprecedented brutality. The most horrific attack occurred on Dec. 19, 2016 when a terrorist rammed his truck into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12.
While Sunday&#8217;s incident wasn&#8217;t a terror attack, the ease at which an unknown person was unable to release an irritant gas into an air-conditioning vent and injure nearly 70 people should alarm authorities considerably. At the very least, German airports should reassess security protocol.

German Airport Evacuated After Irritant Gas Released Into Air. 68 Injured.

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