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Europe’s left courts Muslim voters as anti-Israel politics reshape continent
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It’s known as the «Red-Green Alliance» — a political coalition between Europe’s far-left parties and Islamist groups that is increasingly shaping policy, particularly regarding Israel as the continent experiences a worrying rise in antisemitism that critics are linking to this partnership.
With the rise of Muslim voters across Europe, many on the left and extreme-left are being influenced by this increasingly important voting bloc.
Just last week in the U.K., critics accused the left-wing Labour government of sanctioning Israel as a ploy to win back Muslim voters from the far-left, anti-Israel Green and Independent parties. Conservative lawmaker Tom Tugendhat called the sanctions’ announcement «performative politics.»
In Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Sweden, exit polling from the state broadcaster shows that votes from non-European Swedes are giving an alliance of left-wing parties a narrow three-seat lead over a right-leaning coalition led by current Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson.
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Election campaign posters from the Social Democrats and Communist parties are displayed in a public area during Sweden’s general elections in Stockholm, Sweden, on Sept. 13, 2026. (Atila Altuntas/Anadolu via Getty Images)
One Swedish political researcher, Tobias Hübinette, pointed to Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York City and said that the numbers in the Swedish election show that this «election meant a ‘Mamdanification’ of urban Sweden, and the gap between city and country is now larger than ever before,» he wrote on X.
«They should be in disagreement,» Simone Rodan-Benzaquen, the senior envoy to Europe at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies told Fox News Digital, «but the Islamists are very capable of covering that up for political purposes… The antisemitism that we have today, in particular in Western Europe, is definitely fed far more (by) the far left’s discourse.»
Alan Mendoza, executive director of the Henry Jackson Society in the U.K. said that, «For a decade, Europe has trained its anxieties almost exclusively on the far-right, and while that vigilance is warranted, it has left a blind spot on the other flank… Antisemitism is not less dangerous because it arrives waving a progressive banner.»
Germany-based Dresden University of Technology research fellow Janek Treiber said that, «There is indeed an intriguing alliance between the supposedly progressive Left and regressive forces within Islamism.» He told Fox News Digital that, «The unifying factor is a kind of victimization narrative. For the Left that supports the Palestinian cause, Muslims are the oppressed and the West – including Israel – are the oppressors… Whether Muslims hold conservative-religious views in this context is irrelevant.»
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Protesters hold up flags and placards during a pro-Palestinian demonstration in London, Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)
Voters in Berlin head to the ballot box this coming Sunday, with polls showing the far-left Die Linke party, literally translated as the «The Left», leading the center-right Christian Democratic Union by two points.
«In Berlin, a party polling at the top of the field has factions that share platforms, demonstrations and slogans with networks the German security services themselves link to Hamas and the PFLP,» Mendoza claimed. «When ‘Death to the IDF’ and ‘Intifada’ are chanted at an election event, and the response from parts of the party is to defend the man who led them, the red line has been erased, not crossed.»
Rodan-Benzaquen says that while Germany’s political «firewall» against far-right parties like the AfD «seems to work more or less on the right, it doesn’t on the left,» because, «there is a perception that whatever comes from the left, even the far-left, is not morally as repugnant as anything that comes from the right.»
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DUBLIN, IRELAND – MAY 18: Pro-Palestinian activists from the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, supported by members of left-wing parties including People Before Profit and the Socialist Party and students, participate in the National March for Palestine from the Garden of Remembrance to Connell Street and Leinster House, on May 18, 2024, in Dublin, Ireland. (Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Germany and the U.K. are not alone. The far-left Sumar party in Spain is part of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s ruling coalition. Their support in the last election was strongest in areas with high Muslim populations, with party members attending demonstrations with Muslim Brotherhood-adjacent groups and Gaza protests organized by Islamist-leaning networks. Members have also pushed for Spain to recognize a Palestinian state while also referring to Israel as an «apartheid state.» Spain recognized a Palestinian state in 2024.
The far-left La France Insoumise (LFI) party in France has been accused by academics and ministers of «Islamo‑leftism» after their de facto leader, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, refused to call Hamas a terrorist organization and party members marched with Islamist-linked NGOs during Gaza protests. The LFI’s popularity has been on the rise in polling ahead of next year’s presidential election and, according to French newspaper Le Monde, the LFI’s electoral strength lies in Muslim-majority suburban districts.
The Israeli Ambassador to France, Joshua Zarka, recently told Fox News Digital that, «The way [LFI leader] Jean-Luc Mélenchon speaks in front of a crowd reminds me of Hitler. The way he uses the idea of uniting against one enemy by speaking of Israel is similar to the way Hitler used to speak about the Jews.»
Leader of French left-wing La France Insoumise (LFI) party Jean-Luc Melenchon delivers a speech during an electoral campaign meeting of the local LFI candidate for French municipal elections in Marseille, southern France, on March 7, 2026. (Miguel Medina / AFP via Getty Images)
Commenting on the sanctions imposed by the U.K. government on Israel, Britain’s Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis called the announcement on X «a truly dark day for British Jews.» His statement continued in part, «Gesture politics of this kind feeds into an increasingly hostile discourse about Israel,» he wrote, warning that the cumulative effect of such policies could «further embolden those, at home and abroad, who use hatred as a weapon against Jews.»
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Former Conservative cabinet minister Michael Gove, Reform UK Deputy Leader Richard Tice and Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis lead a ‘march against antisemitism’ demonstration in central London, on September 7, 2025. (Carlos Jasso/AFP via Getty Images)
Pointing to the U.K., Rodan-Benzaquen said the alliance grew while Jeremy Corbyn was the Labour Party leader. «You have this far left anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist, opposition to American power and, of course, to Israel itself. An alliance with Islamist organizations and movements that sort of adopt a common language, despite the fact that on many topics they are in certain disagreement… They have basically turned themselves from a party that cared about class, that cared about improving (lives), social rights, etcetera, into a party that is basically looking at identity politics and is trying to appeal to certain voters.»
She said the red-green alliance is nothing new. «We’ve seen it for a long time. We’ve actually seen it in the Islamic Republic of Iran when the Islamic Revolution happened.»
LONDON, ENGLAND – OCTOBER 07: Protesters from a number of London universities attend an anti-Israel demonstration on Oct 7, 2025 in London, England. On the same day as people mark the second anniversary of the Hamas attacks on Israel which led to more than 1200 deaths and 251 hostages taken. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
Europe’s Muslim population is estimated to be 45–46 million, up by 15.9% from 2010, based on Pew Research Center projections. That same study revealed the population of European Jewry had fallen to under 1.3 million — down 8% from 2010.
Rodan-Benzaquen says of European Jews, «electorally, we don’t weigh,» so they have again become a political football. She says when left and far-left parties say, «Oh, we want to fight against antisemitism. The only reason why they’re saying it is because it’s a tool to attack the far-right.»
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Supreme Court begins new term with high-profile look at clean air and federal authority
The Supreme Court launched its new term Monday with a blockbuster oral argument over whether federal or state laws and courts should handle civil lawsuits against energy companies for alleged climate change harms.
Eight justices debated for nearly two hours on a key gateway over environmental liability — who decides and where. It was unclear after the public session how the court might rule.
Absent was Justice Samuel Alito, who recused last week after calls to step aside because he owns stock in oil companies, but not the two at the center of Monday’s appeal.
Local and state governments seek civil damages totaling billions of dollars, arguing it is necessary to help pay for rebuilding after wildfires, rising sea levels, and severe storms worsened by fossil fuel pollution.
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Colorado’s highest court let the case brought by Boulder County proceed.
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The companies — backed by the Trump administration — counter emissions are a national issue that should be heard in federal court, where similar suits have been tossed out.
The justices will also decide whether they have jurisdiction to hear this dispute, or whether it belongs in state courts.
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Chief Justice John Roberts could be the deciding vote. He asked tough questions of both sides and his vote could produce a 4-4 tie with Alito not participating.
That would mean the specific lawsuit moves ahead in state courts. He said the court in the past has allowed similar claims to be decided outside the federal venue.
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«There are a lot of familiar situations where conduct outside of the state has broad effects among other states, and yet we allow state courts in a particular state to bring litigation,» said Roberts. «I guess I’m not quite sure what makes this situation different from all those other ones, where we’ve allowed them to proceed in state court.»
Justice Elena Kagan compared the climate change lawsuits to previous claims against tobacco and opioid companies brought by states on behalf of their citizens.
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«This is the same kind of lawsuit against the same kind of actors for the same kind of harm,» said Kagan. «Where does this principle come from, that states can’t regulate in the air and water space?»
But Justice Brett Kavanaugh seemed to speak for many of his conservative colleagues, on the implications for multi-jurisdictional lawsuits to play out, potentially for decades.
» It is going to bankrupt – if there are enough of these [lawsuits] — bankrupt these various defendants and certainly other defendants out there. Anyone is a potential defendant for a suit like this. Any manufacturer, any business,» suggested Kavanaugh.
«We don’t have to reinvent the wheel because we’ve said this multiple times,» he added, «and Congress, presumably, when doing the Clean Air Act and doing the Clean Air Act amendments, has relied on this Court’s precedents establishing that this kind of pollution is a federal law matter unless Congress speaks otherwise.»
The current litigation is part of dozens of lawsuits brought by states and municipalities across the country.
Boulder County, located north-west of Denver, sued in 2018.
Among the defendants is Suncor, a Canadian-based energy giant that operates the only major oil refinery in Colorado. ExxonMobil, the largest oil company in the U.S., is also a defendant.
Local officials claim the energy firms have misled the public about their role in climate change, and say financial penalties are necessary to mitigate ongoing harms in their communities, including recent forest fires and worsening air pollution.
Some states also accuse the current administration of rolling back mandated protections in the Clean Air Act and thereby abdicating their regulatory authority.
But the companies and the Trump Justice Department argue climate change should be addressed by the national government in federal court, and that the Clean Air Act limits what individual states and counties can do.
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They say this global problem is not limited to any one energy sector or country, and cannot be resolved by what they call local «power grabs.»
Some litigators believe the companies could fare better in federal court since they would not have to juggle dozens of ongoing lawsuits in multiple jurisdictions.
«Interstate air pollution is an inherently federal area,» Sarah Harris, a Justice Department lawyer, told the court. «This suit egregiously exceeds constitutional limits on state authority,» Harris told the justices.
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With the possibility of an evenly divided court, the eight justices may not have to reach the merits of the federalism question.
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The Supreme Court specifically asked both parties to address at argument whether it should even hear the case, at least at this stage. That procedural «exit ramp» could put the larger issues off for another day.
«I understand that you have several other federal issues that you have raised that are still pending in the state court,» Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson asked the oil companies lawyer Kannon Shanmugam. «So why shouldn’t we wait and hear all of these claims once the state courts are done with their federal considerations?»
The case is Suncor Energy Inc. v. Commissioners of Boulder County, CO (25-170).
A decision is expected by next spring.
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El posible hallazgo médico que un grupo de especialistas detectó en tres cuadros de Rubens conservados en el Prado
Una simulación por computadora descartó que la marca azul en el pecho izquierdo de Betsabé, en el famoso cuadro de Rembrandt, sea producto de un cáncer de mama, aunque el debate médico sobre la obra lleva más de cuatro décadas abierto y otras hipótesis todavía compiten por explicar la anomalía.
En 1983, los cirujanos P. A. Braithwaite y D. Shugg analizaron Betsabé con la carta del rey David —terminada por Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn en 1654 y conservada en el Museo del Louvre de París— y publicaron una hipótesis que cruzó el arte con la medicina: las alteraciones visibles en el pecho izquierdo de la figura femenina podrían ser compatibles con un cáncer de mama. La coloración azulada en la parte inferior del seno y una hinchazón perceptible bajo la axila izquierda fueron los elementos que sustentaron su lectura clínica.
Desde entonces, el cuadro se convirtió en un símbolo recurrente de la enfermedad y fue citado en publicaciones oncológicas de todo el mundo. La hipótesis ganó peso adicional por la identidad probable de la modelo: Hendrickje Stoffels, compañera del pintor, cuya representación corporal el artista habría tomado del natural con la minuciosidad característica del realismo barroco neerlandés.
Las simulaciones de la Universidad de Twente pusieron en duda la teoría del tumor
Investigadores del instituto MIRA de la Universidad de Twente decidieron someter la hipótesis a una prueba computacional. Simularon millones de fotones con distintas longitudes de onda que incidían sobre un pecho con tumor y analizaron cuántos regresaban y qué color percibiría el cerebro humano a partir de esa luz.
El proceso de cálculo demandó 700 horas de analisis mediante computadoras. El resultado fue concluyente: una coloración azul de esas características solo podría producirse si el tumor estuviera ubicado entre uno y tres milímetros bajo la superficie de la piel. En la práctica, los tumores mamarios se desarrollan a una profundidad considerablemente mayor, y a esas profundidades no generan alteración alguna del color superficial. Los investigadores concluyeron que era “muy improbable” que la pigmentación registrada por Rembrandt tuviera su origen en un carcinoma.
Otras enfermedades también fueron propuestas para explicar la anomalía
Antes de que la Universidad de Twente publicara sus simulaciones, otros especialistas ya habían cuestionado el diagnóstico de cáncer por razones clínicas. Hendrickje Stoffels sobrevivió casi diez años después de que se pintara el cuadro, una trayectoria difícil de conciliar con un cáncer avanzado sin ningún tipo de tratamiento eficaz disponible en el siglo XVII.
En 2000, el oncólogo R. G. Bourne propuso como alternativa una mastitis tuberculosa o un absceso asociado a la lactancia. Otros investigadores señalaron una mastitis vinculada al embarazo. Y en 2020, el especialista vascular Paolo Zamboni planteó en su estudio la enfermedad de Mondor, una tromboflebitis superficial que afecta los vasos linfáticos y venosos de la mama y que sí podría generar una coloración visible en la superficie de la piel.
Rubens también plasmó signos similares en tres cuadros del Prado
El caso de Betsabé no es el único en la pintura barroca en el que los médicos han identificado posibles indicios de patología mamaria. Un artículo publicado en 2001 en Medicina Clínica por los investigadores Juan J. Grau, Miguel Prats y Matías Díaz-Padrón —este último del Museo del Prado de Madrid— analizó tres obras de Peter Paul Rubens conservadas en ese museo: Las tres Gracias, Orfeo y Eurídice y Diana y sus ninfas perseguidas por sátiros.
En Las tres Gracias, pintada hacia 1636, los autores describieron en la figura de la derecha una tumoración en el cuadrante superior externo del pecho izquierdo, con extensión hacia el hueco axilar, retracción del pezón y signos inflamatorios, elementos que consideraron compatibles con un cáncer localmente avanzado, estadio T4b o IIIb según la clasificación actual. Los investigadores destacaron que esa zona del cuadro, pintada sobre tabla, se conservaba en perfecto estado y que los restauradores no habían introducido cambios en el aspecto de la axila de la modelo.
El realismo barroco hace difícil separar el arte del testimonio
La polémica médica alrededor de estas obras está alimentada, en parte, por las propias convenciones estéticas del Barroco. Tanto Rubens como Rembrandt practicaban el realismo pictórico, una tradición en la que el artista buscaba reproducir con fidelidad lo que tenía ante sus ojos. Sus modelos eran personas reales, y sus cuerpos —con sus particularidades y asimetrías— quedaban registrados con una precisión que, siglos después, permite a los médicos especular sobre diagnósticos retroactivos.
Que Hendrickje Stoffels fuera realmente la modelo de Betsabé tampoco está confirmado con certeza absoluta, lo que introduce una variable adicional de incertidumbre. Lo que sí permanece es el debate: cuatro décadas después de que dos cirujanos australianos fijaran su mirada clínica sobre un lienzo del siglo XVII, la ciencia sigue sin cerrar el expediente.
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Lula prepara su estrategia para enfrentar a Flávio Bolsonaro en el balotaje y apunta a aumentar la participación electoral
El presidente de Brasil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, se enfrenta a un escenario adverso de cara a la segunda vuelta electoral, después de quedar detrás de Flávio Bolsonaro en los comicios de este domingo.
El mandatario se reunía este lunes en Brasilia con su equipo de campaña para empezar a diagramar una nueva estrategia, distinta de la que se implementó durante los últimos meses.
Lula ya anticipó el cambio de etapa frente a sus seguidores y allegados el domingo por la noche, en el hotel de San Pablo donde la dirigencia esperó los resultados. Allí reconoció que desde hoy comenzaba “una nueva campaña”.
Flávio Bolsonaro ganó la primera vuelta con 47,03% de los votos válidos, mientras que Lula obtuvo 45,16%. El balotaje está prevista para el próximo 25 de octubre.
“Las claves son dos: disputar la segunda vuelta con la premisa de cambiar para mejor y negativizar a Flávio, con foco en los cambios que hizo en el pasado su padre, Jair Bolsonaro, y la idea de un cambio para peor”, dijo a TN el analista brasileño Antonio Lavareda, presidente honorario de la Asociación Brasileña de Investigadores Electorales.
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La nueva estrategia de Lula tendrá tres ejes centrales. En primer lugar, la campaña buscará confrontar de manera directa con Flávio Bolsonaro y establecer comparaciones entre los dos espacios políticos.
El discurso del vicepresidente brasileño, Geraldo Alckmin, luego de conocerse los resultados, dio una muestra de la estrategia que podría desplegar el oficialismo durante las próximas semanas.
La intención será contrastar al lulismo con el bolsonarismo, incluso recuperando temas de la gestión del expresidente Jair Bolsonaro, como el manejo de la pandemia de coronavirus, y enfrentar esos antecedentes con las políticas implementadas por el actual Gobierno.
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