In addition to terror stabbings, for several years now Palestinian terrorists have deployed the deadly tactic of plowing vehicles into pedestrians and then attempting to continue their assaults with stabbings or shootings.
The same Europe that routinely condemns Israel for fighting terrorism should recognize that the export of Palestinian terror tactics now seems to be hitting European cities.
Black Lives Matter Goes International
Black Lives Matter’s muscle-flexing across Britain last week is the latest sign that the radical group has a significant international influence and is seeking to take its signature brand of troublemaking global.
The movement’s UK direct action on Friday included the shutdown of a road leading to the bustling Heathrow Airport.
The excuse for the latest civil disobedience was the fifth anniversary of the police shooting a 29-year-old unarmed black man in Tottenham. BLM has latched onto such shootings to stoke racial tension ever since its founding in the U.S. in 2013 to protest the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of teenager Trayvon Martin.
BLM’s latest platform, ratified last week, goes beyond anti-police sentiment and reaches into generalized, global Occupy-esque territory, including a call for “progressive restructuring of tax codes;” “public financing of elections and the end of money controlling politics;” and “universal access to the internet without discrimination and full representation for all.”
The new platform’s 40 policy proposals also include free tuition to public universities, reparations to black people for slavery, and socialist-style “protections for workers in industries that are not appropriately regulated.”
BLM further wades into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, outrageously and baselessly accusing Israel of “genocide” against Palestinians, while calling for activists to “build invest/divestment campaigns that ends US Aid to Israel’s military industrial complex.”
The platform was unveiled one week after BLM activists came here to Israel ostensibly to protest the Jewish state’s alleged “occupation” of so-called Palestinian land.
Last month, Washington Post foreign affairs writer Ishaan Tharoor noted at the newspaper’s “WorldViews” section that “Black Lives Matter is a global cause.”
That month saw Black Lives Matter solidarity rallies in the U.K., Germany, the Netherlands, and Canada. In Vancouver alone 500 people reportedly congregated at the Vancouver Art Gallery as part of a Black Lives Matter worldwide protest.
Writing last August at The Root, Janaya Khan, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Toronto, recognized “Black Lives Matter Has Become a Global Movement.” He wrote: “In the two years since its conception, the Black Lives Matter movement has transformed from a powerful, U.S.-based unifier to a globalized movement connecting black and oppressed people all over the world. Let’s be clear: The reach of anti-black racism is not confined to the borders of North America.”