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Merkel, Germany and Europe: Sixteen Years of Missed Opportunities
Anyone assessing Angela Merkel’s sixteen years in office cannot avoid three concepts: Merkel, Germany and Europe. From 2005 to 2021, Merkel was regarded as the calm, rational leader who safely guided her country through every crisis. But behind that façade of stability, structural problems continued to accumulate. Merkel, Germany and, by extension, Europe too often chose delay over reform, cheap energy over geopolitical security, and crisis management over a vision for the fu
Redactie / Editors
Aug 176 min read
The Mecca Pact: A "Defensive" Alliance Looking for the Usual Enemy
Saudi money, Turkish military reach, and Pakistan's nuclear status do not yet make an Islamic NATO. They do, however, reveal a regional temptation Israel has seen before.
Tamas Vajda
Aug 124 min read
Illegal Migration, Ceuta and Morocco – Europe Allows Itself to Be Blackmailed Again
Illegal migration, Ceuta and migration from Morocco are once again dominating the European news this week. The events in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta show not only that Europe is losing control of its external borders, but above all that countries such as Morocco are deliberately using migration as a means of political pressure. Europe’s response has been the same for years: lots of words, lots of money, and hardly any consequences for the countries putting Europe under press
Redactie / Editors
Aug 76 min read
Ceuta Exposes Europe's Toothless Politics
It has been impossible to ignore. Over the past week, Ceuta dominated headlines after what can scarcely be described as anything other than a mass influx of illegal migrants. Tens of thousands of people, primarily from Morocco, entered the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, once again putting Europe Politics and border security under intense scrutiny.
Daniël de Liever
Aug 56 min read
Belgium-Israel Boycott: West Bank Israeli Settlements and Double Standards
The Belgium Israel Boycott of West Bank Israeli Settlements – Why Does International Law Apparently Not Apply Equally?
Belgium has taken another step in its policy toward Israel. Under a new government measure, products originating from West Bank Israeli settlements may no longer be imported into Belgium. According to the Belgian government, this is a principled decision based on international law.
Redactie / Editors
Aug 46 min read
Open Borders, Closed Eyes
Europe cannot preserve compassion by abandoning the borders, laws and civic confidence that make compassion politically possible
Tamas Vajda
Aug 26 min read
Nigeria’s silent killing fields
Tens of thousands have been killed or abducted in Nigeria, many of them Christians. Yet the world’s humanitarian conscience seems to have misplaced the file.
Tamas Vajda
Jul 65 min read
When NGOs’ Bias Becomes Policy: A Crisis of Credibility
Some international NGOs have now visibly drifted away from the very role on which they base their claim to moral authority.
Tamas Vajda
Jul 22 min read
Iran Football and the Iranian Regime - A Prop for Trump-Bashing
A talk show producer called me recently. Had I heard that FIFA had revoked ticket allocations for the Iranian Football Federation, and what did I think about it? Honestly, it seemed perfectly logical. We need to stop pretending that Iran is a normal country. We need to stop acting as if the average Iranian citizen can simply book a flight to the United States to watch a football match. There is a crucial distinction between Iran, the Iranian people, and the Iranian regime. Th
Keyvan Shahbazi
Jun 243 min read
Europe and Iran – The Cost of European Passivity
Europe and Iran – The Cost of European Passivity
Redactie / Editors
Jun 214 min read
A Rescue Package for Tehran?
If the leaked draft US-Iran memorandum looks even broadly like this, then from an Israeli perspective, it is hard to celebrate it as a diplomatic breakthrough. It looks more like a very familiar Middle Eastern genre: the West rewards a regime for perhaps, at some later point, being willing to talk about what it should have stopped doing long ago. According to the draft, Iran would receive a 60-day negotiation window. In the meantime, it could gain access to frozen funds, oil
Tamas Vajda
Jun 175 min read
Democracy vs. Dictatorship - The free world must form one united front
The battle between democracy vs dictatorship is no abstract ideological debate, it is an existential confrontation unfolding daily on the borders of Ukraine, in the Taiwan Strait, and around Israel. Free world cooperation is not merely a political choice but a matter of survival. Without peace through strength and without fundamental NATO reforms and expansion to include like-minded democratic nations, the West will fall one by one under the pressure of autocratic aggression.
Redactie / Editors
Jun 25 min read
Gazalighting, hostages, accountability and double standards - On the selective outrage dominating our society, media and politics
There is a word that captures precisely what has been happening in our media and politics for the past two years: gazalighting. Just like gaslighting, the psychological manipulation of someone's grip on reality, gazalighting inverts the facts and turns perpetrators into victims. The starting point of this conflict, the bloody terrorist attack carried out by Hamas on October 7, 2023, in which more than 1,200 innocent civilians were murdered and over 250 people taken as hostage
Redactie / Editors
May 304 min read
When the Platform Outgrows the Knowledge - Expertise overreach media responsibility
Marc van Ranst is an expert on viruses. Anuna de Wever has certain knowledge about the climate. Greta Thunberg has CO₂ graphs memorised. That is important knowledge, each of them in their own fields, they deserve attention, recognition, sometimes even admiration. But somewhere between the platform and the microphone, something has gone wrong. Because today those same figures, with that same confidence, are offering their opinions on the Middle East, one of the most complex ge
Redactie / Editors
May 273 min read
Keyvan Shahbazi Wins the Pim Fortuyn Prize 2026 - The Iranian Cause in the Dutch Media
With Keyvan Shahbazi winning the Pim Fortuyn Prize 2026, a powerful voice for the Iranian cause in the Dutch media receives the recognition it deserves. For years, Shahbazi has spoken out with clarity, courage and conviction about Iran, freedom of speech, political Islam and the struggle for a free Iran. He is not a distant commentator observing events from the sidelines. He speaks from personal experience, history and belief. His voice was shaped by Iran, but his message has
Redactie / Editors
May 224 min read
BeNews Podcast: U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Bill White
BeNews Podcast: U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Bill White
Sigal Rabinovitz
May 181 min read
Hamas, October 7, and Israeli Victims: How Belgian Media Turned the Story Upside Down
The Hamas attack of October 7, 2023 was not a normal escalation and not a tragic incident in an endless conflict. It was an organised terrorist attack on civilians: on families, young people, the elderly, women and children. Yet over the past years, Belgian media have shifted the moral focus of their reporting from the very beginning. Hamas, October 7, the hostages and the Israeli victims did not remain central. Instead, the focus became almost exclusively Israel as the alleg
Redactie / Editors
May 136 min read
Belgium’s Moral Crusade Against Israel Has a Price – Stop (H)arming Israel
There are moments when a government must stand firm. But there are also moments when it mainly poses as morally superior, while reality is more complex and dangerous than a press conference in Brussels. Belgium’s policy banning the export and transit of defense material to Israel increasingly falls into the second category. It is presented as principled, humane, and legally cautious. In reality, it risks turning into symbolic politics, selective outrage, and strategic self-ha
Redactie / Editors
May 96 min read
The Belgian secret service was no longer a secret to Beijing
In February 2025, a report shocked Belgium and the entire European intelligence community. Chinese hackers had had access to the email system of the State Security Service (VSSE) for years. For three years, Beijing was reading along with Belgian State Security. Not figuratively, but literally. Between 2021 and May 2023, Chinese hackers intercepted around ten percent of all incoming and outgoing emails from the VSSE, our intelligence service, which was no longer much of a secr
Thijs Jansen
May 55 min read
The Quantum Growth of Global Antisemitism - A World on Edge
The horrific events of yesterday have sent a seismic shock through Jewish communities worldwide, with a chilling resonance here in Belgium. In Northwest London’s Golders Green, a 45-year-old man was arrested after allegedly hunting for "visibly Jewish" individuals, leaving two men—aged 34 and 76—with serious stab wounds. Simultaneously, across the Atlantic in Los Angeles, a Jewish man was brutally assaulted and nearly strangled outside the Adas Torah synagogue in Pico-Roberts
Shifra Senderowicz
May 14 min read
“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
— Ayn Rand
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