The 'Multicultural' Terrorist Threat Inside Europe: The Exported War No One Wants to Name
by Pierre Rehov • December 17, 2025 at 5:00 am
Peaceful protesters certainly exist, but in many instances, the same marchers who cry "from the river to the sea" also provide cover, logistics and recruitment spaces for operatives who work closely with Hamas or other terrorist organizations.
A report from the University of Indiana shows how a transnational network of NGOs and campus groups spread antisemitic and pro-Hamas narratives, coordinated across borders and amplified by social media. The message is simple: Israel is "colonial," Jews are "settlers," and violence against them is "resistance."
European rallies have repeatedly featured Hamas flags, praise for the October 7 attackers and calls to "repeat" the massacre – all under the label of "human rights."
Law enforcement sees the problem more clearly than politicians. The same EU reports that speak delicately of "violent extremism" in public also describe behind closed doors how online propaganda, diaspora networks and Middle Eastern conflicts interact to create hybrid terrorist ecosystems in Europe.
Even so, on the political level, Europe still refuses to name the ideological enemy: an Islamist project that openly seeks the eradication of Israel and spills over to advocate eliminating the United States and the West. "The one Jewish state is the first to suffer," notes Jerusalem Post reporter Liat Collins, "but the nearly 50 Muslim-majority countries and the nominally Christian world are all in the line of fire."
European governments rush to recognize a Palestinian state even as Hamas thanks them for rewarding its "resistance." This same cognitive dissonance runs through EU institutions that condemn "terrorism" in the abstract while lavishly funding NGOs that glorify its perpetrators.
Europe's retreat into denying intangible threats staring them in the face unfortunately has extremely tangible results.
Studies of Hamas funding stress that social and religious front organizations are integral to the movement's terrorist attacks: they launder money, recruit sympathizers and create safe spaces where support for terrorism can flourish under a "humanitarian" cover.
When Germany bans Samidoun or a small local front group, NGOs and academics denounce the act as a "repression" of civil society. When Belgium moves against a man praising the October 7 massacre, activist networks cry that "solidarity" is being criminalized. In this narrative, it is always the state – never the terrorist infrastructure – that is on trial.
The war that has been exported from Gaza to Europe has three pillars: money, indoctrination and operational cells. All three are embedded in structures that call themselves "Palestinian solidarity" or "human rights organizations."
As long as European governments accept this masquerade, the continent will remain both a financial base and a potential battlefield for Hamas and its Qatari, Turkish and Iranian sponsors.
What would a serious policy look like?... No more American or European funding, period, for organizations that celebrate terrorist "martyrs" and teach children to hate Jews, Christians, or any other racial or religious group.
When demonstrators chant "globalize the intifada," they are not calling for peace, they are calling for the expansion of a global jihadist war.
Finally, Europeans must abandon the illusion that the "Palestinian cause" is a harmless protest disconnected from terrorism. Hamas itself, backed by Qatar, Turkey and Iran, has explained over and over that Europe is part of their battlefield. The only question is whether European leaders will listen to their own police and intelligence services, and Israel's Mossad, or whether they will continue pretending that a war raging against them has no name and does not exist.
When Israel's Mossad intelligence agency publicly revealed in November 2025 that it had helped European countries expose a Hamas terrorist infrastructure "in the heart of Europe" – including weapons caches and plans to hit Jewish and Israeli targets – it simply confirmed what intelligence professionals have warned since October 7, 2023: The war in the Gaza Strip is no longer local. It has been exported, operationally, to European soil.
As early as December 2023, German, Dutch and Danish authorities had already arrested Hamas operatives accused of preparing attacks on Jewish institutions in several European countries. Prosecutors described long-standing members of Hamas, directed to stockpile weapons in Berlin. Since then, intelligence and security reports have spoken of a "realistic possibility" that the Hamas-Israel war will embolden networks across Western Europe to move from propaganda to mass-casualty attacks.
