Demanding the Liberation of the Final Hostages Held in Gaza by Hamas, Thousands of Demonstrators March Through Paris

To mark the second anniversary of the October 7 massacre and to demand the liberation of the Palestinians' remaining hostages, thousands of demonstrators marched through the boulevards of Paris last Sunday, singing "Shalom" and callback chanting such things as "Hamas / terroristes", "Hamas / assassins", and "Libérez! / les otages!"

There were pro-Israel demonstrations in Europe last Sunday, such as London and Paris — from la Place de la République to la Place Saint-Augustin — and elsewhere on the continent, such as Copenhagen, demonstrations are expected to be held next Saturday

According to TF1, there were 5,000 people in the streets, including Iranians waving the country's flag during the Shah era and gentiles like myself who chanced upon the demonstration by accident as they were marching behind l'Opéra Garnier. The march, brandishing  signs with the photos of the hostages, ended with the singing of the Israeli and the French national anthems (Hatikvah and La Marseillaise) — both of which are some of the most stirring anthems in the entire world. (Merci à Sarah pour l'Instalien.)

Three articles of note: 
• via Glenn Reynolds, CDR Salamander's Two Years Since the Oct. 7th Slaughter 
…what it tells us about non-Israelis…
• via Stephen Green, Naomi Nussbaum's Two Years After October 7, We Cannot Look Away.
• via myself, an article that took 12 days to write following the heinous attack: What Nobody Tells You About the Israeli Rave of October 7 — To Peacenik Protesters Everywhere (Pro-Palestinian or Other): The People that Hamas Slaughtered Mercilessly at Israel's Rave — They Are YOU!

 

A young girl sitting on her dad's shoulders
proudly waves le tricolore

A significant number of Iranian ex-pats joined
the march, waving Shah-era Iranian flags
or wearing clothes with the banner's colors

  

A couple of marchers recognized me (or, rather, my cat) from 
the Charlie Kirk homage and agreed to film me (us) in the march

 

Anti-Americanism in the 21st Century: Drama Queens on French TV Compare Attendees at the Charlie Kirk Memorial Service to "Fascists", "Religious Nuts", and Even "Taliban" Members, Reminding Them of "Nazi Rallies of the 1930s"

If you think — with good reason — that Some of the Liberal Media Reactions to the Charlie Kirk Memorial Service Were Insane (merci à Sarah Hoyt, aussi pour le hyperlien), and if you think — with good reason — that Iryna Zarutska and Charlie Kirk have exposed the media’s depravity (merci à Ed Driscoll), then you should see, and hear, the heights to which France's hysterical TV and radio channels climbed in their raving and ranting. 

After helping to organize an homage for Charlie Kirk in Paris two days before the TPUSA founder's memorial service, the ex-pat group Republicans Overseas France is back in the news, having decided to launch a major legal counter-attack. 

Indeed, during and in the wake of Sunday's memorial service, French TV channels were replete with a plethora of drama queens using the most foul language to describe the (entirely peaceful) crowds in Glendale, Arizona. You know the verbiage by now: fascists, Nazis, religious nuts, even members of the Taliban.

ROF collected a handful of the most depraved and insane comments in what can only be called a modern-day display of anti-Americanism (video at the hyperlinks):

• Appearing on France Info on September 21, former French Minister of Culture Aurélie Filippetti said of the Kirk Memorial event: “It inspires me with disgust and fear. All fascist movements have as a characteristic to victimize themselves and to instrumentalize their so-called heroes who died in battle” (The ministry of culture seemed determined to overlook the left's pantheon of larger-than-life heroes and martyrs during the past century, such as Lenin, Stalin, and Mao, not to mention Che Guevara.) 

• During the program C Politique broadcast on France Télévision’s France 5 on September 21, one Judith Perrignon declared, regarding the Charlie Kirk tribute: “American white supremacism is completely connected to Hitler’s racial ideology … The first time I watched the footage, I thought of the Nazi rallies that took place in the United States in the 1930s. There were large gatherings … The connection is still there.” Just as scandalous was the mere fact that the “C Politique” host, Thomas Snégarof, did not, in any way, attempt to contradict his guest, even partially.

• On September 22, during the program Les Partis Pris broadcast alive on TF1's LCI, Abnousse Shalmani said: "It was an evangelical mass of religious nuts — and I am carefully weighing my words — and all of this had nothing to envy of the Taliban before the launch of a crusade. Everything was soaked in an atmosphere of violence and a crusade barely contained…" (The word "crusade" comes from the word "cross" — thus, whether considered in a positive or in any other light, it only pertains to Christians; the word for Muslims and Islamists and other types of Taliban being "Jihad" — a word scrupulously avoided by the Frenchwoman born in Tehran.) In a registered letter on September 30, LCI responded to a ROF request for "un droit de réponse" (a right of reply) by turning it down. 

• Again on LCI, a former U.S. Ambassador to Finland, Charles Adams, compared Charlie Kirk’s death to the 1933 Reichstag Fire, which shortly preceded Adolf Hitler’s rise to power. A direct descendant of two of America's earliest presidents (John Adams and John Quincy Adams), the TDS-laden Democrat and vocal supporter of Barack Obama declared that “I would even say that for me this story of the murder, rightfully condemned, represents for Trump what the fire of the Reichstag represented for Adolf Hitler at the time. The parallel is absolute and obvious.”

Prior to that, the presenter of France Culture, Guillaume Erner, wrote an editorial called "Je suis Charlie." That lead to outrage in the journalists' union, la Société des journalistes de France Culture, and Guillaume Erner, a former writer at Charlie Hebdo no less (where the phrase originated in the wake of the 2015 shootings), felt he had no choice but to apologize when confronted by the union's denunciation: "By obscuring Kirk's extreme verbal violence, which contributes to endangering already vulnerable minorities, this post tends to elevate the influencer into a symbol of freedom of expression," said the SDJ, which fears that this stance will cast "discredit and suspicion on our entire network" in a context of "repeated attacks" against public broadcasting. As for the title, France Culture decided to change it.

Of course, this brings us all the way back to square one: the murder of someone like Charlie Kirk is What Is Bound to Happen When You Constantly Refer to Your Adversaries as "Fascists" and as "Threats to Democracy".

As PJMedia's Matt Margolis points out,  

The left’s habit of slapping labels like “fascist” or “Nazi” on its political opponents isn’t just name-calling; it’s a green light for violence. [Greg] Gutfeld spelled it out with brutal clarity: “You label someone a fascist or a racist or a Nazi, it makes you free to attack them, and that has been the ideology from the start.”

Glenn Reynolds adds that

“Nazi” just means “political opponents the left has marked for death.” We all know that now.  

As for Ed Driscoll, he quotes John Nolte: 

“Remember this: The corporate media, Democrats, and Hollywood don’t call us Nazis because we’re Nazis. They call us Nazis to justify their ongoing murder campaign against us.”

You assassinate us. Then you celebrate our assassination. Then you call us evil while we mourn.

There will be no unity. https://t.co/BkBpkEZ9X7

— John Ocasio-Rodham Nolte (@NolteNC) September 22, 2025

 
All of which led one ROF spokesman to appear on Morandini's CNews show Tuesday morning, in order to inform the French public that the group of ex-pats was filing complaints with ARCOM (l'Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique or the Regulatory Authority for Audiovisual and Digital Communication, France's administrative agency responsible for both audiovisual and digital communications).

Nicolas Conquer, spokesperson for Republicans Overseas France, was Jean-Marc Morandini's guest on "Morandini Live" on CNews. He notably discussed a segment broadcast Sunday evening on C Politique on France 5 …

While discussing the memorial service for Charlie Kirk, journalist and novelist Judith Perrignon said on the show: "The first time I saw the footage, I thought of the Nazi rallies that took place in the United States in the 1930s. There were large gatherings."

"I jumped out of my seat when I heard this comparison," declared Nicolas Conquer, "while we were attending this tribute, which was magnificent and poignant. We see this contrast, which is disconnected and truly an aberration […] The moderator, Thomas Snégaroff, doesn't correct his guest. He agrees with her. It demonstrates this ideological bias."

He added: "I'm obviously contacting ARCOM. We're also going to file a complaint for incitement to hatred against a group — Christian conservatives, MAGA supporters. By normalizing this comparison with Hitler and Nazism, they're targeting activists. This is extremely serious!"

"We are calling on Arcom to take responsibility rather than tracking down the statements of [exclusively right-wing] activists. It should monitor what is said about the public service," he concluded.

As Randy Yaloz and Paul Reen prepare the official statements of Republicans Overseas France, allow us to inject a bit of humor, with the Babylon Bee and Cynical Publius providing a touch of tongue-in-cheek sarcasm 
— CNN: Charlie Kirk Memorial 'Mostly Hateful' and 
Nazi Rally Inspires Millions To Forgive And Love Their Enemies; plus:

That's true. I totally remember that rally where Hitler publicly forgave the plotters who tried to assassinate him and then he called upon them to give their hearts to Jesus.

In fact, that was pretty standard at most Nazi medals.

History remembers.

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) September 21, 2025

25 Years Ago — Fate of 12-Year-Old Palestinian Led to 911 Attack and the Invention of the Word Pallywood: "If we ignore how images propagate and mutate, we hand the moral high ground to those who traffic in outrage"

Today’s rising tide of Jew-hatred from all directions – Right, Left, Muslim, Christian, secular, knowing and unknowing – started on September 30, 2000 
— Richard Landes

UPDATED: Tuesday marks the quarter-century anniversary of the beginning of one of the biggest scandals of the past 50 years, the Mohammed al-Dura affair, which saw French television video and photos of a 12-year-old Palestenian and his father being supposedly felled by Israeli bullets in Gaza, and which led to the creation of a new word — Pallywood.

Chief among those instrumental in debunking the hoax was a young free-thinker by the name of Philippe Karsenty, and so it was natural that, 25 years later, Alexandre Gilbert of the Times of Israel would wish to interview him.

In the interview, the man who has since become the spokesman for le Comité Trump France gave to the Isreali newspaper, he spoke about the media wars — regarding Daniel Pearl, etc, but most notably the al Durrah affair which had its start on September 30, 2000; which Karsenty himself was instrumental in helping to debunk; and whose lawsuits No Pasarán covered over the years. (Shookhran for the instalink, Sarah.)

Less than a year after the IDF's dastardly Jews' alleged murder of the 12-year-old Arab — not, as it turns out, at all incidentally — the world witnessed the 911 attacks on New York and Washington.

Before we take a look at the Philippe Karsenty interview, a must-read is the piece that Richard Landes penned in The Jerusalem Post five years ago — as the Abrahamic accords were being signed — about the twentieth (20th) anniversary of "one of the most disastrous events in the year 2000". It's a hard, indeed a mind-boggling, read — check out RL's blog, The Augean Stables — especially coming three years before the October 7th massacre.

The image of Muhammad al-Dura via the narrative that the IDF had targeted him became the global symbol of Palestinian suffering at the hand of Israeli cruelty. It rapidly became an “icon of hatred” that had a greater immediate and long-term effect on the new century than any other such vehicle of incitement.

A cry arose, for some of pain, for some of rage, but for all a clear sign that the Infidel, led by the twin Satans Israel and USA, were making war on Muslims. Indeed, no single event so far has done more to arouse the spirit of jihad against the West than this footage, which, as Bin Laden quickly pointed out in his recruiting video for global jihad, demanded vengeance against al Yahud and their allies.

 … the Muhammad al-Dura icon fed an apocalyptic jihadi narrative: to #GenerationCaliphate Israel was the Dajjal (Antichrist).

The West followed suit. Lethal journalists like Robert Fisk quickly affirmed the charge of deliberate murder. Where before such comparisons were considered ugly if not worse, now comparing Israel to the Nazis became common. A prominent French news anchor, speaking for many, declared that al-Dura “erased, replaced the image of the boy in the Warsaw Ghetto.” It was a new, post-modern “replacement narrative.”

Instead of Christians or Muslims replacing Israel as the true Chosen People, it was the former chosen people replacing the Nazis, and the poor Palestinian victim suffering the fate of the Jews. The progressive refrain, “Israel has lost the moral high ground.” … 

 

 … Al-Dura justified terrorist attacks on Israel in the minds of both Muslims and non-Jews, especially Europeans. “What choice do they have?” progressives responded when Palestinians targeted Israel civilians. They were merely resisting …

 

 … At the height of the suicide terror campaign, siding with the Palestinians was a “litmus test of liberal credentials.” Suggesting this heinous violence was genocidal aspiration, not state-deprived desperation, was a ticket to cancellation.

 

 … ANGRY PROTESTS in the West accused Israel of genocide, and a large plurality of Europeans believed it.  … the Western legacy media constituted one of the most potent weapons in the cognitive war “Caliphaters” waged against the West. 

 

 … The icon of al-Dura was the first successful blood libel in the West since the Nazis rode their ecumenical Jew-hatred to mega-death for all in 1930s and ‘40s. Unlike earlier versions, this was spread by a Jew and carried by the professional news media, and its primary impact was on progressive, leftist circles, giving birth to a “new antisemitism” in its 21st-century avatar, eliminationist “anti-Zionism.” Today’s rising tide of Jew-hatred from all directions – Right, Left, Muslim, Christian, secular, knowing and unknowing – started on September 30, 2000. 

 

 … Whether we know it or not, those of us entering this very grim-looking third decade of the 21st century are the inheritors of this al-Durah-triggered new wave of Jew-hatred and its accompaniments: fake news, conspiracy theories and violence.

 

 … As some honest Arab journalists point out, #FakeNews is something of an Arab specialty, and for far too long public opinion has been manipulated by dishonest and malevolent actors masquerading as journalists. 

And this brings us, full circle, to Alexandre Gilbert's Times of Israel interview with Philippe Karsenty.

Alexandre Gilbert: Osama bin Laden explicitly cited the Al-Dura case as justification both for the assassination of Daniel Pearl, a journalist from the Washington Post, who was about to find him, in Abbottabad in 2002, and for the 9/11 2001 aircraft hijack and attacks on the United States. How do you interpret that?

Philippe Karsenty: Bin Laden invoked Al‑Dura very directly. He pointed to the footage as proof that Jews and the West were child‑killers. He then used that grievance as a pretext to justify Daniel Pearl’s murder — presenting it as vengeance for Al‑Dura. And he cited the same image again as moral cover for 9/11, claiming that the attacks on New York and Washington on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, were retaliation for the supposed killing of a Palestinian child. In his rhetoric, one short televised clip became the excuse both for executing a single journalist and for massacring thousands of civilians. 

That’s how far the reach of this image went: from Gaza, to Karachi, to the Twin Towers. Modern media ecosystems — from satellite networks to the social platforms that would come later — are accelerants. An emotionally charged image, broadcast without context, can spiral into a global narrative within days. Bin Laden’s invocation was not the origin of that mechanism, but it displayed how effectively extremists could harness it. That is why accountability, forensic analysis, and the willingness to pursue uncomfortable inquiries are vital. If we ignore how images propagate and mutate, we hand the moral high ground to those who traffic in outrage.

It’s crucial to understand that we moved from the notion of “deicide” to “genocide.” In Christian tradition, Jews were stigmatized as “Christ-killers.” With the Al-Dura case, the Jews were recast as child-killers, genocidal by nature. This image of Mohammed Al-Dura, supposedly shot by Israeli soldiers in 2000, became the ultimate weapon of demonization against the Jewish people. And honestly, if you search through every existing representation, you won’t find anything more powerful or more destructive than that image. Everyone knows it, even people completely detached from politics or the conflict.

 … You stress that you weren’t the first to discover the Al-Dura fabrication. Who was?

Philippe Karsenty: It was Nahum Shahaf, an Israeli researcher. He was the one who opened my eyes. When I saw his analysis, it struck me as obvious. So I approached France 2, expecting them to correct their mistake. Instead, they dismissed me. I went to the CRIF, to the Israeli ambassador—everyone brushed me off. Ambassador Daniel Shek even refused to shake my hand, calling me a “conspiracy theorist.” That was the environment I was up against.

Let’s talk about the legal battle. How did it begin?

Philippe Karsenty: Since I had no legal standing to sue, I published a deliberately provocative article, hoping France 2 would sue me for defamation. They did. In 2006, at my first trial, the prosecutor said I had presented convincing evidence of a staged event and should be acquitted. Yet I was convicted. On appeal, the court demanded France 2 release its raw footage. I had obtained 18 minutes of it. The footage exposed blatant inconsistencies. I was acquitted, and the case made global headlines—even appearing in US diplomatic cables later revealed by WikiLeaks.

But the story didn’t end there, did it?

Philippe Karsenty: No. France 2 appealed to the Court of Cassation. Despite the Attorney General’s conclusions in my favor, I lost—on a procedural point. The court ruled that I didn’t yet have the footage when I published my article, and therefore my claim was defamatory at the time, even if later proven correct. In 2013, at the retrial, I brought experts from around the world—architects, analysts. France 2 was demolished in court. But once again, the verdict went against me. I was ordered to pay €11,000. At that point, I decided to stop. The system was hopelessly politicized.

So where does that leave you today?

Philippe Karsenty: Today, I continue to say openly that the Al-Dura video was staged. France 2 can no longer sue me. Their only argument—that I lacked proof at the time of publication—has expired. I have the evidence, and I speak freely. The irony is that the more they tried to silence me, the more the affair spread—the Streisand effect in action.

How do you respond to being associated with conspiracy figures like Alex Jones, Steve Bannon, or Alain Soral?

Philippe Karsenty: I reject that completely. I have no connection to those people. In fact, they despise my work. Why? Because it disrupts their antisemitic narratives. I expose Palestinian propaganda as fraudulent, which doesn’t serve their agenda. Unlike others who were co-opted by conspiracy networks, I remained isolated—especially in the pre-social media era. That isolation made the fight very lonely. But it also kept me clean. 

 … The distorted vision of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is mostly in France a quarrel between Alsatian Ashkenazi and Algerian Berbers, isn’t it ? 

Philippe Karsenty: Yes. And a conflict suggests two equal sides fighting each other. That’s not the case. Israel never wakes up in the morning deciding to kill its neighbors. What exists is a war: the Arab attempt to destroy Israel, ongoing for 75 years. They tried conventional wars, terrorism, rockets—all failed. Where they succeeded was in waging media warfare. And in that realm, Israel doesn’t fight. The Al-Dura case was their greatest victory. That’s why I insist: this is not a conflict, it’s a war fought on a different battlefield—the media.

Karsenty Debates Charlie Kirk Tragedy and Trump's UN Speech

Hommage national pour Charlie Kirk: pour Philippe Karsenty, porte-parole du comité "Trump France", Charlie Kirk "était un homme de dialogue" pic.twitter.com/W9iD0uxB9h

— BFMTV (@BFMTV) September 20, 2025

Philippe Karsenty was in the media several times this week, mostly about the Charlie Kirk tragedy and Donald Trump's UN speech. But perhaps his most interesting appearance had nothing to do with current events, but with a hoax a quarter of a century ago that he helped debunk, when a new word — Pallywood — had, of necessity, to be dreamed up. 

Earlier: "It Should Not Be Considered Free Speech" Says Karsenty on French TV of the Left's Anti-Kirk Rants; "It Is the Glorification of Terrorism"

The night before the tribute for the founder of TPUSA, the spokesman for le Comité Trump France was on BFMTV not once but twice. Here he pointed out that Charlie Kirk had been "a man of dialogue."

Hommage national pour Charlie Kirk: pour Philippe Karsenty, porte-parole du comité "Trump France", Charlie Kirk "était un homme de dialogue" pic.twitter.com/W9iD0uxB9h

— BFMTV (@BFMTV) September 20, 2025

Five days later, Karsenty participated in a debate on Sud Radio about Donald Trump's United Nations speech — notably immigration, Russia, Palestine, and the climate — comparing it to Emmanuel Macron's UN speech. The spokesman for le Comité Trump France, incidentally, doesn't believe that there is any way the Nobel committee will ever give Trump the Nobel Prize.
 

Immigration, Russie, Palestine, climat : Trump est-il efficace ?

Sud Radio

1,701 views Sep 25, 2025 La vérité en face

Avec Philippe Karsenty (porte-parole du comité Trump France) et Arthur Kenigsberg (spécialiste de l'Europe centrale et fondateur d'Euro Creative, auteur de 'L'Europe de l'Est n'existe pas : Ces pays oubliés où se joue notre avenir" aux Editions Eyrolles)

What is it with the Euro itch for war? And not just any war, but war with Russia bristling with nuclear weapons?

UPDATED Over in the Richmond area of Virginia, Damian Bennett has his doubts regarding the countries of the Old Continent. (Spasibo za giperssylku, tovarich Sarah.)

There is a kulture shift happening, a great turning. Sadly we may not live to see it.

• French Hospitals Told To Prepare For A “Major Military Engagement” Within Six Months September 6, 2025
• Former Polish President Andrzej Duda Belatedly Confirmed That Zelensky Tried To Manipulate Poland Into War With Russia September 11, 2025
• Did The Polish Deep State Try To Manipulate The President [Duda] Into War With Russia? September 17, 2025
• Finland’s President Says Security Guarantees For Ukraine Must Include Willingness To Fight Russia September 21, 2025
• UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper: British Warplanes Will ‘Confront’ Russian Jets That Enter NATO Airspace Without Permission September 22, 2025
• ‘This Will Be Huge’ European Hospitals Preparing For War: British Intel September 22, 2025

I could go on.

What is it with the Euro itch for war? And not just any war, but war with Russia bristling with nuclear weapons? No Euro-NATO-Russian war will be neatly confined to a few drone strikes, a few lobs of ordnance, a few nukes. A Euro-Russian war immediately will default to global war, which will immediately default to nuclear war. Who wants this other than the globalists, the militarists, the profiteers? 

Russia is no altar boy, but NATO was squarely behind the Russo-Ukrainian war of attrition -- a war NATO KNEW/KNOWS Ukraine can not hope to win without NATO escalation, and NATO is just an army on paper without America. So the endgame is WWIII. 

The world is off its nut.

From Greenwich (CT), Duncan Hill joins the conversation:

Sort of feels like between WW I and WW II.

I agree whole heartedly that Biden and NATO suckered Putin into invading Ukraine. Just imagine what we could have achieved if Harris had won.

You probably have seen the news that today Trump admonished the UN delegates for their imbecilic policies. Ukraine should have all their territory returned to them. And Trump said that NATO countries should shoot down Russian aircraft violating of their air-space. Clearly, Trump has coordinated with NATO in turning up the heat on Russia. This should give Putin pause...a big pause.

So, I wonder if Macron is adding credibility to Trump's escalation? No doubt Trump's shift was discussed with NATO before he made the statements.

Whatever the reality, at least we don't have Neville Chamberlain to worry about.

UPDATE: Duncan Hill returns a couple of days later with this Anton Troianovski news item: Longtime Putin Aide Who Opposed Ukraine War Is Granted Rare Resignation 

I wonder if this had anything to do with Trump's change in position on the Ukraine war. Putin double crosses Trump and, in addition, fires..."voluntarily" resigns...the guy who perhaps was for negotiations. 

 Is this another giant step toward WWIII? I don't know...that's the peacenik [with the purple tie]. They all look like cuddly folks. Kind of reminds me of the guys at the corner table at Dominic's on Arthur Ave.

This allows for Damian Bennett to shoot back:

The Russo-Ukraine tea leaves are hard to read. Kozak's resignation is a departure from the usual accidental self-defenestration job vacancy. I can think of dozens of unobvious reasons why Kozak has been, for the time being, spared -- some dark, some 3D chess jooks.

Suffice to say, Trump's unexpected positional shift is strategic, not tactical. I think Putin knows he misplayed his patty-cake approach to DJT. 

The Kremlin's Tepid Response To Trump's 'Paper Tiger' Comment Indicates They Know They've Gone Too Far September 24, 2025

DJT wants a result (think Fordow, Isfahan, Natanz), not a long endless string of phone calls, stalls, and peace conferences with open bar and hot canapés. Neither Putin nor NATO nor anybody else is used to this -- an approach that doesn't feed the grift of diplomacy. Unlike Putin, unlike NATO, unlike EU and its sputtering hawks with butter-but-no-guns economies, America has the muscle and, in Trump, the political will to produce a desired result -- peace. 

When Trump leaves office Departments of State worldwide had better've rewritten their American playbook, because JDV48 is DJT 3.0.

Google Caves: "The silenced are a rapidly growing movement with loud voices"

In the wake of No Pasarán's's restoration to the internet, astounding news from Ashley Oliver of Fox News: Google to reinstate banned YouTube accounts censored for political speech.

Google vowed on Tuesday to offer YouTube accounts that were permanently banned for political speech the ability to be reinstated, and the big tech giant admitted that it once faced pressure from the Biden administration to remove content about COVID-19. 

 … "Reflecting the Company’s commitment to free expression, YouTube will provide an opportunity for all creators to rejoin the platform if the company terminated their channels for repeated violations of COVID-19 and elections integrity policies that are no longer in effect," the lawyer representing Google wrote.

 … The document from Google also noted that YouTube "values conservative voices on its platform" and acknowledged that the creators "have extensive reach and play an important role in civic discourse."

 … Google's revelations came in response to a yearslong Republican-led investigation by the committee into big tech companies, including Google, that censored and suppressed content on their platforms related to COVID-19, the 2020 election and Hunter Biden.  

Our ol'-time friend Damian Bennett — who helped me write some of the registered letters to Google (in fact, one of them was just about entirely his doing) — had the same reaction as I did.

Put down your coffee to avoid hot lap spills and a nose snort fountain...

• Alphabet Admits It: Biden Pressured Google And Youtube To Silence Conservatives September 23, 2025
• Google Admits Political Censorship on YouTube, Promises to Embrace Free Speech September 23, 2025

I like to think ¡No Pasarán! shin-kicking Google was some small part of this. 

To quote Abraham Lincoln: Agreed for once, a thousand times agreed.

 

Mutual pal Duncan adds:

Oh, damn! Coffee all over my lap!

These admissions by Alphabet are huge. Castrates these faux-offended Lefties over canceling Colbert and Kimmel. My one big question is when will the continuous collapsing of the narratives cause the Dem voters to start questioning their "leaders?"

And I have no doubt ¡No Pasarán! and Erik's supporters...mainly you [Damian Bennett]...made Google realize that the silenced are a rapidly growing movement with loud voices.

 

Instapundit has more, holding the left to the flames:

Joe Scarborough: "OMG watch out conservatives, what would happen if a Democrat admin went after your speech??"

Three hours later: https://t.co/Lfk3cvs9fB pic.twitter.com/BsmrgPZrXp

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) September 23, 2025

Stephen Green ends with these words: 

The Left projects. Always.

Hundreds of French Charlie Kirk Fans Commemorate the TPUSA Founder's Death by the Seine River

Erik Svane, blogueur, et le chat Jixie en renfort du trumpisme français, 
Paris, 19 septembre 2025 © Wilson T

Will France end up getting a Turning Point Paris? asks Causeur's Lucien Rabouille hopefully as hundreds of right-leaning Frenchmen and Americans (plus one cat hailing from the Swiss Alps) flocked to the Lafayette statue on le Cours de la Reine by the Seine Friday to pay homage to Charlie Kirk (my photos at the bottom of this post; merci à Sarah pour le hyperlien).

In the words of a Frenchman, Causeur's Lucien Rabouille:

On Friday, September 19th, at 6 p.m., the statue of La Fayette, located a stone's throw from the Place de la Concorde and the Grand Palais, was feeling less isolated than usual. At its feet, around 500 participants had come to pay a Trumpian tribute to Charlie Kirk, the young star of American conservatism assassinated on September 10th in the middle of a speech. 

Halfway between a Trumpist liturgy and a Protestant revival, the atmosphere was decidedly American: star-spangled banners, a minute of silence, prayers, speeches punctuated with biblical references, quotes from Burke and Tocqueville… All punctuated by the American anthem, regularly performed by an Italian singer already in demand during the NBA tournament in Paris.

Organized in the urgency of emotion, the rally brought together the entire galaxy of French Trump supporters, familiar with Charlie Kirk's videos long before his assassination made him an icon of global conservatism. Philippe Karsenty, former deputy mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine and spokesman for the Comité Trump France, was among those who took turns at the microphone, followed by Kate Pesey, director of the Tocqueville Fellowship, which "perpetuates the intellectual legacy of Alexis de Tocqueville" by sending promising young people each year to discover the American political model. …/…

American Bible Culture and the Spirit of "I Am Charlie"

In France, politics and religion are readily separated. That evening, the right had tuned into American time and blurred the boundaries. Feminist activist Marguerite Stern, fist and rosary raised, spoke of Charlie Kirk's "martyrdom" and invoked his "mystical" presence, while drawing thunderous applause for Donald Trump's decision to classify Antifa as a terrorist organization. Randy Yaloz, for Republicans Overseas (an association that brings together expatriate members of the Republican Party), recalled Kirk's taste for tough debates—the young man had made confrontation in hostile academic terrain his trademark. One speaker recalled that Moses, who began his career as a stutterer, had to learn to speak well to convince Pharaoh: "One sharpens one's arguments better when ideas are confronted." 

 ... A singular syncretism: a touch of America's Bible culture mixed with France's Voltairian spirit. 

A Turning Point à la française ?

Franco-American Nicolas Conquer, master of ceremonies, actively disseminates the ideas of the American right in France. With his easily identifiable style and language, he has become the face and voice of French Trumpism since the 2024 elections. In his closing remarks, he called for Charlie Kirk's fight for freedom of expression and conservatism to be revived in France. Is there a need to consider a French-style Turning Point USA, named after the political platform founded by Kirk? From the podium, Conquer praised Kirk's ability to raise funds and disrupt traditional media. 

... Across the Channel, the project has already resonated with Turning Point UK. Why not here? "The sooner the better," confided one participant. "We need to organize ourselves," says Nicolas Conquer, who sees the GOP as a model of political organization capable of inspiring French and European right-wing parties, which are often too centralized and incapable of launching vast platforms for disseminating ideas.

"What if the best tribute to the deceased wasn't to extend his fight and his role model in France?" Lucien Rabouille ends by asking in Causeur. Among other media also present were Frontières and Europe 1. 

Just in case you think of this as an entirely positive event, understand that the ceremony was held outdoors precisely because, in spite of dozens of phone calls from Republicans Overseas France (whose members were instrumental in organizing the event), it was impossible to find a single church, protestant or catholic, which would accept to hold a ceremony inside their walls. ROF organizers were looking to approach a synagogue when word came that the Paris préfecture had agreed to allow the ceremony to be held near the Grand Palais.

Speaking of synagogues: Incidentally, Kirk — whose name means Church in Scottish and the Scandinavian languages (not in German, Don Trump Jr, where it is Kirche, although it obviously derives from the same root word origin) — vowed, after discussions with Dennis Prager (of The Rational Bible fame), to honor the Sabbath and its Jewish customs (no phones for 24 hours, etc…) every Saturday.

Florian et Laurent, Canadiens, familiers de l’Amérique du Nord ont sorti 
l’outfit trumpiste pour l’hommage à Kirk. Photo: Lucien Rabouille 
In the background, far left, sporting a MAGA cap: ROF's Paul Reen

Lucien Rabouille dans Causeur :

Vendredi 19 septembre, à 18 h, la statue de La Fayette, située à deux pas de la place de la Concorde et du Grand Palais, s’ennuyait moins que d’habitude. À ses pieds, environ cinq cents participants étaient venus rendre un hommage trumpiste à Charlie Kirk, la jeune star du conservatisme américain assassinée le 10 septembre en plein discours.

À mi-chemin entre liturgie trumpiste et revival protestant, l’ambiance était résolument américaine : banderoles étoilées, minute de silence, prières, discours ponctués de références bibliques, citations de Burke et de Tocqueville… Le tout rythmé par l’hymne américain, régulièrement interprété par une cantatrice italienne déjà sollicitée lors du tournoi de NBA à Paris.

Organisé dans l’urgence de l’émotion, le rassemblement a réuni toute la galaxie des trumpistes français, familiers des vidéos de Charlie Kirk bien avant que son assassinat n’en fasse une icône du conservatisme mondial. Au micro se sont succédé Philippe Karsenty, ancien adjoint à la mairie de Neuilly-sur-Seine et animateur du comité Trump France, puis Kate Pesey, directrice de la bourse Tocqueville, qui « perpétue l’héritage intellectuel d’Alexis de Tocqueville » en envoyant chaque année de jeunes gens prometteurs découvrir le modèle politique américain. …/… 

Biblisme américain et « Je suis Charlie »

En France, on sépare volontiers politique et religion. Ce soir-là, la droite s’était mise à l’heure américaine et brouillait les frontières. La militante féministe Marguerite Stern, poing et chapelet levés, évoqua le « martyre » de Charlie Kirk et invoqua sa présence « mystique », tout en faisant applaudir à tout rompre la décision de Donald Trump de classer les Antifa comme organisation terroriste. Randy Yaloz, pour Republicans Overseas (association qui regroupe les membres du Parti républicain expatriés), rappela le goût de Kirk pour les débats difficiles – le jeune homme avait fait de la confrontation en terrain universitaire hostile sa marque de fabrique. Un orateur rappela que Moïse, bègue à ses débuts, dut apprendre à bien parler pour convaincre Pharaon : « On affûte mieux ses arguments dans la confrontation d’idées. » 

… Singulier syncrétisme : un brin de biblisme américain mêlé à l’esprit voltairien français.

Nicolas Conquer, maître de cérémonie a eu l’occasion de 
rendre hommage à Kirk sur les médias ces derniers jours. 
Et si le meilleur hommage rendu au défunt n’était pas 
de prolonger son combat et son modèle en France ? 

Un Turning Point à la française ?

Le Franco-Américain Nicolas Conquer, maître de cérémonie, diffuse activement les idées de la droite américaine en France. Par son style et son verbe facilement identifiables, il est devenu depuis les élections de 2024 le visage et la voix du trumpisme hexagonal. Dans sa conclusion, il a appelé de ses vœux à reprendre en France le combat de Charlie Kirk pour la liberté d’expression et le conservatisme. De là à envisager un Turning Point USA à la française, du nom de la plate-forme politique fondée par Kirk ? À la tribune, Conquer a loué la capacité qu’avait Kirk à lever des fonds et à bousculer les médias traditionnels.

 … Outre-Manche, le projet a déjà trouvé un écho avec Turning Point UK. Pourquoi pas ici ? « Le plus tôt sera le mieux », confie une participante. « Il faut nous organiser », assure Nicolas Conquer, qui voit dans le GOP un modèle d’organisation politique capable d’inspirer les partis de droite français et européens, souvent trop centralisés et incapables de lancer de vastes plateformes de diffusion d’idées. 

In front of Paris's Lafayette statue

Along le Cours de la Reine on the right bank of la Seine in Paris

The Eiffel Tower on the horizon

 

As they walk by, two Eastern Europeans ignore 
the Fuck Kirk letters that some locofoco has 
printed beforehand on le Cours de la Reine

"Being right-wing kills" or, alternatively,
"Being right-wing is a deadly endeavour"

Two American ex-pats join the commemoration

A French woman has taken the Left's 2015
"I am Charlie" sign and added "Kirk" on the bottom

Echoing TPUSA itself, many attendees and speakers
hailed from youth organizations of French students
unhappy with the left's dominance of culture and institutions

No, "No Pasarán" Is Not a Pro-Communist Blog and Never Was; On the Contrary, Its Mission Is to Denounce Anti-Americans of All Stripes

As the blogosphere rallies in support of ¡No Pasarán!'s restoration to the Internet, some commenters have misunderstood the very title of the blog, going as far as to wonder whether, based on its title (“They shall not pass” or "None shall pass", aligned with the Left during the Spanish Civil War), ¡No Pasarán! isn't a pro-communist blog or even a communist blog.

The short answer is No (or, in Spanish, "¡No!") — not at all. On the contrary: thumbing its nose at leftists — by appropriating their battle cry — the blog's raison d'être is to denounce anti-Americans of all stripes — domestic as well as foreign.

Certainly, if you are familiar with the blog's banner, you would agree that it is highly unlikely that a (pro-)communist would ridicule the famous photo of Che Guevara by having El Che (or, as we called the Dissident Frogman's doctored photo, Mi-Che) wear Mickey Mouse ears on the top of his noggin. 

In keeping with the cheeky and irreverent element, recall that "None shall pass" is also the motto of the black knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (although we hope to have been more successful than John Cleese).

The blog was born in 2004 — when a number of ex-pats living in France (mainly Paris), most of them on the right, one single left-leaning member, grew increasingly outraged over the amount of anti-Americanism in French media and French society rising in spite of (or because of) the horrendous attacks on 911; and continuing with the George W Bush decision to invade Iraq in order to remove Saddam Hussein. They adopted the slogan: This (i.e., this anti-Americanism, French or other) will not go unanswered. 

Having said that, here is some historical background: Although best remembered as the war cry of the Spanish republicans (sic — a misnomer if there ever was one; actually a mix of socialists and communists) against Franco’s army during the Civil War in the 1930s, the origin of “They shall not pass” or "None shall pass" actually has nothing to do with communism or any political leaning.

It was purely military, originating a generation earlier when the French poilus in World War I made a vow regarding the German invaders, notably at Verdun: “Ils ne passeront pas!”

And No Pasarán has never shied from telling the atrocious truth about leftists, in Spain, in France, in America, or anywhere else. (Indeed, that is (was?) the blog's raison d'être.) As Paul Johnson put it, 

Throughout the Spanish war, Stalinism was assisted not only by superb public relations but by naivety, gullibility and, it must also be said, the mendacity and corruption of Western intellectuals.

That was from a No Pasarán post on Victims of Communism (!) Day (May 1) in 2024, "In Spain in 1937 and 1938, many thousands of Leftists of all descriptions, were executed or tortured to death in Communist prisons (one who escaped was George Orwell)."

"It Should Not Be Considered Free Speech" Says Karsenty on French TV of the Left's Anti-Kirk Rants; "It Is the Glorification of Terrorism"

Messages anti-Charlie Kirk: pour Philippe Karsenty, porte-parole du comité (Trump France), "c'est de l'apologie du terrorisme" pic.twitter.com/moHVMvNDc7

— BFMTV (@BFMTV) September 14, 2025

In the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Philippe Karsenty joined the guests of a BFMTV debate, where he heard the usual platitudes about right-wing censorship of  free speech. 

"I have been hearing about such things as 'insensitivity' towards simple 'detractors'," said the Frenchman, who went on to illustrate his points by making comparisons with the original "Je suis Charlie" motto, i.e., the machine-gunning of Charlie Hebdo personnel in 2015. "It has strictly nothing to do with free speech; it is the glorification of terrorism" (the best excerpt on X). 

Moreover, when asked if the founder of TPUSA should not be considered "a martyr of the far right", the spokesman of le Comité Trump France answered No — since it was too reminiscent of the voices considering the perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo bloodbath as martyrs (as Muslim martyrs, in that case) — and that, besides, the husband of Erika Kirk had been "a conservative, not a reactionary." 

Charlie Kirk: "Il était conservateur, pas réactionnaire", assure Philippe Karsenty, porte-parole du comité "Trump France"

Charlie Kirk, 31 ans, a été assassiné par balle mercredi lors d'une réunion publique en plein air dans une université de l'Utah, dans l'ouest des États-Unis. Un suspect a été identifié et interpellé, ont annoncé les autorités ce vendredi.

Related: "My liberal friends are completely oblivious about how radicalizing the last week has been for tens of millions of normal Americans; Zero clue"

• RIP Charlie Kirk — This Is What Is Bound to Happen When You Constantly Refer to Your Adversaries as "Fascists" and as "Threats to Democracy"  

• What News Does the Front Page of the "International New York Times" Feature? Nothing About the Charlie Kirk Murder But a Story About a Provocateur Rapper

Messages anti-Charlie Kirk: pour Philippe Karsenty, porte-parole du comité (Trump France), "c'est de l'apologie du terrorisme" pic.twitter.com/moHVMvNDc7

— BFMTV (@BFMTV) September 14, 2025

The day prior to the assassination, Philippe Karsenty appeared (misspelled) on the Qualita TV channel where he spoke of the far left and wokism, in Israel and America as well as in France.

Les institutions juives de France mettent en danger les juifs de France - L'invité du 9 Sept 2025

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Philippe Karsenti, porte-parole Trump-France, qui explique la position du président américain face à Israël et critique l'attitude hostile d'Emmanuel Macron envers l'Etat hébreu ainsi que le comportement trop complaisant selon lui des institutions juives communautaires en France: "Les Juifs de France ne sont pas défendus par leurs institutions. Au contraire, celles-ci les mettent en danger.