Last week, tens of thousands of migrants—predominantly young, military-age men from Morocco—swarmed the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. In a matter of hours, an estimated 50,000 to 60,000 people overwhelmed a territory of roughly 84,000 residents. They swam, walked, and pushed through border controls. Dozens died. Spanish forces eventually restored order with Moroccan cooperation, and most were returned, but the images were unmistakable: a sudden, large-scale incursion of fighting-age males testing Europe’s resolve.
This was a live demonstration of what happens when a country determines that its borders have no meaning. This is what we’ve seen in America for years, especially during the tenure of Joe Biden, and it’s what we will see again if we forget how bad it was. But the issue is not simply that it is happening, but who is storming these Western countries. Europe’s recent experience with large-scale Muslim migration over the past two decades offers data, not theory: elevated rates of specific violent crimes, parallel societies, and repeated Islamist terror attacks. Ignoring those patterns is not compassion. It is suicide.
Britain’s grooming gang scandals remain the clearest documented example. The 2014 Jay Report on Rotherham found that at least 1,400 children—overwhelmingly white girls, some as young as 11—were systematically raped, trafficked, and intimidated between 1997 and 2013. The perpetrators were predominantly men of Pakistani Muslim heritage. Similar networks operated in Rochdale, Oxford, Telford, and other towns. Officials and police repeatedly failed to act decisively, citing fears of being labeled racist. Analyses of convictions in these organized, group-based cases consistently show that the large majority of offenders carried distinctively Muslim names, far out of proportion to the Muslim share of the population. There has been no movement to slow this down in the last decade, and the current number of victims is unknown, although some estimate it to be in the tens of thousands.
This was not isolated “poverty” or “racism” driving the behavior. Cultural attitudes toward non-Muslim girls, combined with clan networks and institutional cowardice, produced industrial-scale sexual exploitation. The pattern repeated across multiple English towns for years while authorities prioritized “community relations” over child protection. What it truly shows is that Islam is incompatible with the West, but many Western authorities are too ashamed of Western success to protect their own interests.
Terrorism followed a parallel track. The 2015 Charlie Hebdo massacre, the Bataclan theater attack that same year, the 2016 Nice truck attack, the Manchester Arena bombing in 2017, and the London Bridge and Barcelona attacks—all were carried out by Islamist perpetrators, many with roots in migrant communities or radicalized within Europe. Europol’s recent data continues to show jihadist terrorism accounting for the largest share of attacks and arrests across the European Union. Recent years have seen further stabbings, vehicle attacks, and plots, including the 2026 Berlin Pride assault by an ISIS-linked individual. These are not random acts of “extremism.” They track with the importation of populations that either adhere to radical Islam or are accepting of it.
Rather than confront the migration failure or the dangers of importing radicalized populations into the country by the tens of thousands, large segments of the online left and right immediately pivoted to an older, uglier explanation: It must be Israel’s fault.
Within 72 hours of the Ceuta surge, conspiracy theories blaming Jews and the Jewish state flooded X. According to an analysis by the Combat Antisemitism Movement’s Antisemitism Research Center, 173 high-impact posts from 119 influencer accounts recast the border crisis as a Jewish plot. Those posts reached an estimated 103 million people, generating tens of millions of views and hundreds of thousands of shares.
The claims were shameless. Some depicted Bibi Netanyahu with migrants pouring from his mouth onto Spanish beaches. Others asserted that Mossad engineered the crossing, that Morocco is an Israeli puppet, or that the surge was punishment for Spain’s criticism of Israel over Gaza. Far-left voices framed it as a plot by Israel, the United States, and Morocco to destabilize Pedro Sánchez’s progressive government. Far-right voices revived the Kalergi Plan and declared that “Israel launched an Islamic invasion of Spain.” The same toxic explanation appeared across ideological lines.
One post captured the phenomenon cleanly: “This is not a story about a few bad actors. It is a story about a platform whose design rewards the fastest and most inflammatory explanation available, and on X that explanation is increasingly a Jewish conspiracy.” That observation is accurate. The platform’s incentives reward speed and outrage. In this case, the outrage defaulted to the oldest scapegoat in the European playbook.
This is Israel Derangement Syndrome in its purest form. When a real policy failure appears—porous borders, demographic pressure, security risks—the response is not to examine migration incentives, Moroccan politics, Spanish court rulings, or European asylum rules. It is to search for the Jewish hand. Left- and right-wing versions differ in rhetoric but converge on the same conclusion: The Jews did it.
There are two major problems going forward. The first is the invasion of people incompatible with Western ideology who seek to destroy it, coupled with a weakened Western world unwilling to defend itself. The second is the increasing prominence of those who will blame Israel and the Jews for every single world event, regardless of how far-fetched it is. Both of these problems stem from the same root cause—a hatred of Western ideology and a desire to see it replaced. The world has gotten exponentially better under that ideology, but it will disappear if we are unwilling to fight for it.
Moshe Hill is a political analyst and columnist. His work can be found at www.aHillwithaView.com and on X at @HillWithView.