Oliver Sears, Former trustee of Holocaust Education Trust Ireland, talks to Joe Duffy about some graffiti he noticed opposite his local Omniplex cinema in Rathmines. Sears was going to to see Lenny Abrahamson’s new film ‘The Little Stranger‘ with his wife when he spotted the words “Kalergi Plan” in large black capitals sprayed on a wall opposite the cinema, together with a Star of David in the blue colour of the Israeli flag.
In a letter to the Irish Times, he wrote:
“Saturday’s message was a new one for me and required a little digging. Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi was a count of Austrian, Dutch, Greek and Japanese extraction. He was the founder of the Pan-European Union and a strident advocate for European federalism.
His goal was to create a Europe that was ethnically inter-connected and heterogeneous. This was designed as an antidote to the rising forces of nationalism in Europe. He was also a committed pacifist.
It is with depressing predictability that this philosophy has been hijacked by far-right groups who have distorted the message and repackaged it as a Jewish conspiracy. A brief search online led me to Golden Dawn’s website, the Greek version of neo-Nazism, and a Dutch website of equivalent credibility, both promoting the Kalergi Plan.
Here, in their racist philosophy, Jews are attempting to dilute and “mongrelise” the purity of nations by encouraging the mass immigration of refugees to destabilise countries and in order to benefit financially.“
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Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi was a count of Austrian, Dutch, Greek and Japanese extraction. He was the founder of the Pan-European Union and a strident advocate for European federalism.
In his book Praktischer Idealismus (Practical Idealism), written in 1925, he describes the future of Jews in Europe and of European racial composition with the following words:
“The man of the future will be of mixed race. Today’s races and classes will gradually disappear owing to the vanishing of space, time, and prejudice. The Eurasian-black race of the future, similar in its appearance to the Ancient Egyptians, will replace the diversity of peoples with a diversity of individuals. […]
Instead of destroying European Jewry, Europe, against its own will, refined and educated this people into a future leader-nation through this artificial selection process. No wonder that this people, that escaped Ghetto-Prison, developed into a spiritual nobility of Europe. Therefore a gracious Providence provided Europe with a new race of nobility by the Grace of Spirit. This happened at the moment when Europe’s feudal aristocracy became dilapidated, and thanks to Jewish emancipation.“
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Kalergi won the first Charlemagne Prize in 1950. It is a prize awarded for work done in the service of European unification and integratiion. Emmanuel Macron, Herman Van Rompuy, Donald Tusk, Angela Merkel and Tony Blair have also been winners of the prize.
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After the Good Friday Agreement was signed in 1998 granting a constitutional right to birthright citizenship to anyone born in Ireland, regardless of background pregnant women from all over the world started to fly into to Dublin to claim citizenship, with many first filing a spurious asylum claim to gain entry. Their numbers were so many, maternity hospitals begged the govt to do something.
A referendum on birthright citizenship was subsequently held in 2004. 80% of Irish voters voted to oppose the practice. According to the 2016 census, 3.3% of 12-14 year olds in Ireland are African, largely as a result of this period when birthright citizenship was allowed.
Dr Ronit Lentin, a Jewish associate professor of sociology,in Trinity College, Dublin was one of the voices opposed to stopping the practice, writing:
Instead of a language of ‘integration’ and ‘interculturalism’, I propose an interrogation of how the Irish nation can become other than white (Christian and settled), by privileging the voices of the racialised and subverting state immigration but also integration policies. Stage one of such interrogation would be to do all we can to defeat the citizenship referendum on June 11.
From racial state to racist state | Ronit Lentin | Variant 20
A majority of Israelis oppose taking in refugees according to a recent poll.
Israel's opposition to accepting refugees is highest in West -- poll …
In January 2018, Israel said it would pay thousands of African migrants $3,500 to leave Israel, or face internment in a migrant detention camp in the Negev desert. The government says it wants to preserve Israel’s ethnic character
Israeli government to pay African refugees $3,500 to leave | The Inde…
Broadcast: Sep 27, 2018 | RTÉ Liveline