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17 Av 5786 (31.07.26)


Not Illegal Immigration, an Islamic Invasion of Spain

The Moroccan Muslim invasion of Ceuta is not a matter of illegal immigration, but an Islamic conquest of Spain, and the Israeli government dropped the ball on its response to the situation.


Yesterday, on July 30th, 2026, close to 50,000 ‘illegal immigrants’ from Morocco invaded the Spanish city of Ceuta. The media treats these invaders as immigrants seeking a better life in a Western country rather than a North African Islamic one like Morocco. But illegal immigration occurs over a long period of time.

Millions of illegals from all over the world entered the United States, for example, during Joe Biden’s term as POTUS, but that invasion took place over 4 years. When tens of thousands of military-age men without women or children invade a country in a single day in a concentrated incident that overwhelms local authorities, that’s not a spontaneous, unorganized event. It must be a coordinated, preplanned, meticulous, organizational, and political move as part of a larger conquest of Spain, or, at the very least, of Ceuta.

Morocco is 99% Muslim. Spain is unique in that it is the only one of two countries, or rather territories, that Muslims once controlled and lost to the West. The only other country that Islam no longer controls is Israel, of course.

Founder of Jihad Watch and author Robert Spencer often attributes much of the Islamic resistance to the State of Israel to a single passage in the Quran, Surah Al-Baqarah, Ayah 191:

“And kill them wherever you overtake them and expel them from wherever they have expelled you, and fitnah (persecution/oppression) is worse than killing. And do not fight them at al-Masjid al-Ḥarām until they fight you there. But if they fight you, then kill them. Such is the recompense of the disbelievers.”

The passage places limitations on when and where Muslims should wage war, but it also commands them to do so – when they overtake their enemies and to expel them (referring to non-Muslims, us) from where they have been expelled. Parts of Spain were conquered by Muslims, who ruled those territories in the Iberian Peninsula for the better part of the Middle Ages, but were eventually defeated by the Crusaders in the 15th century.

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The spread of Islam during the Middle Ages, which includes modern Spain | Photo: Shutterstock

Ever since, Muslims have strived to retake those territories, which they named “Al-Andalus.” Retaking those territories is no different from “freeing ‘Palestine’.” And the response from the Israeli government to the invasion of Ceuta has been scathing, but completely misses the mark when it comes to the threat to the West.

Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, instead of calling the invasion of Ceuta what it is – an Islamic conquest – chose to criticize its “

colonial enclaves”

in Africa. The policies of the Sánchez government, which recognized a ‘Palestinian’ terror state, are directly opposed to Western colonialism. Danon’s argument here is that if Spain only handed over control of its North African territory to the Muslims, then the invasion could have been prevented, which shares the same basis for the “two-state solution” that his government is justifiably trying to prevent.

Foreign Minister Gideon Saar’s response was even worse. He didn’t even mention the invasion; instead, he chose to congratulate the king of Morocco on his 27th year as king. Israel must remember that while it’s located in the Middle East, it’s a Western country. We are a Jewish country, built on biblical values, many of which Christians share. Judaism and Christianity, while fundamentally different religions, are in fact compatible, and their followers coexist peacefully. Unlike Islam, they do not command to overtake outsiders by force. Israel cannot afford to surrender the West to the same Islamic enemies that threaten it.

We are in this fight together. The invasion of Ceuta, which is the consequence of Pedro Sánchez’s weak position on immigration, is a Western travesty and a victory for Islam. We in Israel should not cheer on the fall of our leftist enemies if it means that our Islamic ones win. We should have the moral clarity and fortitude that Western media lacks and call out leftist governments for the terrible policies that are hurting their constituents.


Marni Harow