Hezbollah recruiting Brazilian criminals to launch terror attacks against Latin American Jews and Israeli

Hezbollah recruiting Brazilian criminals to launch terror attacks against Latin American Jews and Israeli

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Hezbollah is reportedly relying on criminal networks in Brazil to recruit agents, finance its activities, and prepare operations against Israeli and Jewish interests

Hezbollah is said to have found a new pool of recruits in Latin America far from its traditional recruitment networks, according to an analysis published by the Washington Institute.

Hezbollah is seeking to enlist convicted criminals, notably in Brazil, by exploiting their financial difficulties and their resentment towards the justice system.

This strategy emerged from Operation Trapiche, an anti-terrorist investigation launched in November 2023 by the Brazilian federal police with the support of Israeli Mossad. The investigations uncovered a recruitment and funding mechanism intended, according to the investigators, to develop clandestine operational capabilities on the continent.

The presumed operation of the network is particularly concerning. Men with no prior connection to Hezbollah are approached in Brazil, then sent to Lebanon to receive training. Upon their return, some were tasked with monitoring synagogues, Israeli diplomatic missions, and figures in the Jewish community.

For Lucas Gualtieri, a Brazilian federal prosecutor specialized in organized crime, this method would allow Hezbollah to conceal its involvement in potential attacks. By recruiting individuals motivated by money rather than ideology, the organization could attempt to portray certain operations as isolated criminal acts.

The investigation is particularly focused on the background of Lucas Passos Lima, who was recruited through a network established in Brazil. After two trips to Lebanon in 2023, he allegedly filmed three synagogues, a Jewish cemetery, the Israeli embassy, and a rabbi in the Brasília region. The investigations also revealed weapons handling training and the acquisition of surveillance equipment.

The investigators also uncovered a financial aspect. Brazilian tobacco businesses are believed to have helped finance the recruits' travel to Beirut, where they were allegedly trained in clandestine communication techniques. Some are said to have learned to exchange information via unsent email drafts in order to limit traces of their communications.

The financing of these activities would also involve cryptocurrencies. In a separate case, a São Paulo broker, Dante Felipini, is accused of having set up several digital wallets for the benefit of Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. He is notably being prosecuted for money laundering and financing terrorism.

The analysis finally highlights a major judicial issue. In Brazil, the courts have confirmed that a financial motivation does not exclude the classification of terrorism when an individual knowingly participates in a terrorist project. This interpretation could strengthen prosecutions against criminal networks working for foreign armed organizations.

For the Brazilian authorities and their international partners, the challenge now is to identify these networks before they lead to attacks. Investigators in particular recommend strengthening financial surveillance, monitoring shell companies, and tracking cryptocurrency transactions.

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China earthquake RECAP: Tibet rocked by horror 7.1 tremors as Nagqu shakes

Charlie Bradley

A huge earthquake has rocked the Nagqu region of Tibet in China, with a 7.1 tremor recorded. According to initial reports, the tremor originated at a shallow depth of 10-16km.Reports said the earthquake was also felt in northern India. The authorities have not yet commented on the extent of damage or any casualties.The earthquake struck about 400 km from Tibet's capital, Lhasa. 

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The Narrative Changes In France As Looters Boast About Stolen Haul

Watch: Paris Looters Boast About Stolen Haul

Steve Watson

Masked groups in Paris are openly bragging on social media about the designer goods and electronics they just looted, turning what began as student complaints about school conditions into a free-for-all that media outlets have had to repackage as a cost-of-living cry.

The clip shows looters displaying their take while the official story has shifted from teacher shortages and dilapidated classrooms to broader "economic hardship."

Luxury stores, grocery shelves, and pharmacies became the practical target once the chaos spread.

Looters in Paris are boasting about their stolen haul on social media https://t.co/qidBPSMSZT

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 21, 2026

The movement started in mid-September at high schools in Paris's working-class northern suburbs, including Lycée Saint-Exupéry in Créteil. Students and teachers cited missing staff, clogged toilets, leaky buildings, classes of 30-plus, and classrooms that became unbearable in heatwaves.

One student union and supporting teachers demanded more teachers, building repairs, smaller classes, and changes to the Parcoursup admissions system. Education Minister Edouard Geffray later announced the deployment of roughly 3,000 substitute teachers to the worst-affected schools.

Blockades and marches quickly spread to Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux, Lille, Nantes, and elsewhere. Early clashes produced injuries and thousands of arrests, many of them minors.

By mid-October the framing had changed. The October 17 nationwide day brought together students, unions, and Yellow Vest supporters under the banner of living costs, fuel prices, inequality, and proposed budget freezes on public-sector pay. Interior Ministry figures put turnout near 550,000.

These riots, call them what they are, produced arson, clashes, and systematic looting.

Looters hit Louis Vuitton on Place Vendôme, Hermès, Yves Saint Laurent, Rolex, Dior, Burberry, Apple stores, Sephora, pharmacies, supermarkets, and smaller retailers across Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Nice, Bordeaux, and other cities.

This is the new normal in France. pic.twitter.com/MWbSUGd5f6

— Subodh Kumar (@kumarsubodh_) October 19, 2026

In Nice, CCTV captured a mob entering a phone-case store.

CCTV footage from Nice, France shows the moment a mob of looters broke into a phone case store over the weekend, destroying displays and stealing merchandise.

The incident comes after largely peaceful anti-government protests in many cities across France descended into riots,… pic.twitter.com/8Xn2OMxZRy

— CBS News (@CBSNews) October 20, 2026

In Lyon, footage showed activity at a jewelry store.

Video of looters hitting a jewellery store in Lyon, France

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Macron Exposes the Schizoid-Pathological Depth of Globalist Progressive Delusions

Macron Exposes the Schizoid-Pathological Depth of Globalist Progressive Delusions

JUPPLANDIA

Above: When it comes to a Globalist address on chaos they have caused, you have to read between the screens.

In an address to the nation after a full month of devastating riots, looting, and arson which has engulfed at least 19 French cities, President Emmanuel Macron gave what will go down in history as one of the most deluded and clueless public addresses ever given by a serving Western leader. 

Here is the full test in English of what Macron said:

“My dear compatriots, I am addressing you tonight in a moment of extreme gravity, after what we experienced yesterday in many French cities, in mainland France as well as in our overseas territories. Yesterday, Saturday 17 October, seditious elements from radical far-left groups, joined by numerous delinquents, unleashed unbridled violence in our cities......"

I have highlighted in bold the key points in the address, and this is what I have to say about them, in turn:

“Seditious elements from radical far-left groups”. This comment makes it very clear that the French authorities and Macron personally knows that violent Communist groups are massively active in these coordinated riots. Essentially, France has a severe Communism problem, and all Communists want violent Revolution. But the French generally have always, since the French Revolution, legitimised violent rioting, mass destruction, and property damage from the Left due to a romanticised view of the Revolution. French communists (especially academic philosopher-Communists) have been the best in the world at presenting bestial savagery and gleeful destruction as an enriching tradition of active democracy. This historic legacy of justifying left wing violence completely dominates the thinking of French Globalists….even if the violence is aimed at them. Macron acknowledges the leftist influence on these riots, but simultaneously tries to downplay it as only ‘elements’, meaning that the rest of the Left (including all Globalists) aren’t really at fault. 

“How can French people do this to France?”. Possibly the most hilariously delusional part of the address. Everyone knows that very large numbers of the rioters aren’t in any traditional or meaningful way French. The riots are concentrated and build in areas with high immigrant populations. The cities most affected are the cities with high immigrant populations. Anyone watching footage of the riots can see instances where everyone rioting is black, and other instances where everyone looks Arabic or Muslim. The address resolutely refuses to admit the majority racial and religious composition of the riots, as if they might be mostly enacted by ethnically French white youths who are firmly religious Catholics. Globalists have to pretend that every imported sub Saharan African looting a store is as French as Charles de Gaulle, onion sellers in striped black and white shirts, and the Palace of Versailles because admitting anything else would be to admit that 80 years of mainstream mass immigration and racial dishonesties are key creators of the riots being seen today. Even the white youths involved aren’t culturally French the sense of having a deeply felt loyalty to France and having been taught that France is special and sovereign, since they are Communists and no communist has national loyalty to any nation. Macron himself, as a Globalist, doesn’t possess, value or understand Frenchness as something of value and possessed by a specific people (the French). 

“…to listen to the anger and address its causes”. Again, the ostensibly condemning speech is actually validating and legitimising the rioters by claiming they have legitimate grievances. They don’t. French schools are well funded and supplied. These aren’t mistreated scholars demanding more pencils and textbooks and teachers. The causes of the riots are that millions of low IQ savages have been imported who enjoy doing savage things, that Globalists like Macron imported such people, and that successive French governments have funded and pampered them. The secondary cause is the Muslim-Leftist alliance and the fact that Communists are desperate to prevent a Le Pen Presidency in the event of a victory for her party (Rassemblement National, who are 35-37% in the polls). The riots are therefore a show of force intended either to take over now or terrify people into not voting for Le Pen in six months time. Macron is saying he will listen to the causes, meaning he will give concessions to the rioters while not changing or acknowledging the real causes. 

“….nor allow violence to prevent these demands being met.” Astonishingly, but not surprisingly, the Globalist President of France is assuring rioting leftists and imported savages destroying his country that he will meet their demands. It’s not a condemnation of the riots. It’s a public submission to the rioters in the hope that this will restore the illusion of peace.

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Yishmael’s mobs drive France’s Jews home as Israel readies for a new wave of aliyah

Yishmael’s mobs drive France’s Jews home as Israel readies for a new wave of aliyah

Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz

Schools set on fire in the Paris suburbs, students hurling objects at police in Rennes and Grenoble, and nearly 5,000 arrests have pushed Israel’s government to plan for something it has seen before: French Jews heading for the airport. The Bible named the force behind this moment four thousand years ago. Ishmael, Yishma-El in Hebrew, means “God will hear,” and the Sages taught that the pressure from Ishmael’s descendants at the end of days would bring the cry of the Jewish people before God and the Jews of the exile back to their land. 

At the cabinet meeting on Tuesday, October 6, Aliyah and Integration Minister Ofir Sofer told ministers that Israel should prepare to absorb a potential mass wave of immigration by French Jews, according to two sources who attended the meeting. 

“We need to remove the barriers in order to allow them to come here,” Sofer said, adding that the plan should also help less affluent members of France’s Jewish community. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed Sofer, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli to prepare a joint plan. Smotrich said funding should go toward economically vulnerable immigrants and toward housing projects for the expected wave.

National Missions Minister Orit Strock warned in the same meeting that the unrest could turn on France’s Jews. “Jews are currently afraid to walk the streets,” Strock said.

The protests quickly turned violent. According to the French Education Ministry, around 24 schools have been set on fire or looted and 78 education staff members have been injured. The Justice Ministry reported that 735 of France’s roughly 3,700 schools have been affected by the violence, and about 85% of those arrested are minors. Critics have accused the far-left La France Insoumise party, led by staunchly anti-Israel politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon, of inciting the violence, and have pointed to the involvement of immigrants and the children of immigrants in the street clashes.

The cabinet discussion came as French aliyah (immigration to Israel) is running at a pace not seen in nearly a decade. Nearly 4,000 French Jews have immigrated to Israel so far this year, 40% more than in the same period last year, a figure the Jerusalem Post described as a record. The year is on pace to be the strongest for French aliyah since the great wave of 2014 to 2016, when surging antisemitism and Islamist terror drove 7,231 French Jews to Israel in 2014, a record 7,900 in 2015, and 5,000 in 2016

The current climb began with the Hamas massacre of October 7, 2023. In 2023, 1,097 French Jews made aliyah. That figure more than doubled to 2,234 in 2024 and climbed to 3,357 in 2025. In all, more than 7,000 French Jews have moved to Israel since the war began. Of the roughly 80,000 Jews worldwide who have opened aliyah files with the Jewish Agency since October 7, about 20,000 are from France.

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