Ceuta is an 18.5 sq.km. peninsula on the North African coast, owned by Spain since 1415. An example of multi-religious coexistence, the Spanish enclave suffered an unarmed invasion in July by tens of thousands of Moroccans, who arrived with just the clothes on their backs.
The incident reflects the profound crisis confronting the West, as this was not an ordinary migration influx. It was a coordinated, engineered breach facilitated by Morocco and tolerated by Madrid.
Over the last two days of July, Ceuta, with a population of about 85,000, was stormed by some 70,000 people entering from Morocco. Although the majority have been returned to the North African kingdom, some 15,000 remain, causing chaos and an end to life as the Ceutíes once knew it.
Some are young Moroccans, looking for a better quality of life and believing that Spain offers it, since its leader is desperate for future voters to maintain his position in the next election. Others are from conflict areas further afield, for whom Morocco is just a transit station en route to the West.
Local citizens are begging for help while Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, turns a blind eye and a deaf ear, interrupting his summer vacation for only one day to spend a couple of hours in Ceuta and then returning to tanning in the Canary Islands, leaving Ceuta’s citizens exposed to murder, rape, theft, violence, and human excrement in the streets.
This abandonment is the direct result of the nihilist government’s policies, which are tied to a higher goal that sees Spanish citizens, in this case Ceuta’s residents, as pawns in a greater game of catch-the-millions-while-you-can, which those in Sánchez’s entourage have been playing.
His immediate inner circle has imploded due to severe corruption trials. Even representatives of his own party, the PSOE, have rejected him, most notably the legendary Spanish socialist and friend of Israel, Felipe González.
Europe hoodwinked by extreme Islam
Meanwhile, human rights NGOs, such as No Name Kitchen, are determined to facilitate the migrants’ entry and support the invaders. To understand why such organizations are willing to contribute to the aggressive dismantling of the borders of a democratic nation, we have to look beyond the concept of “charity.”
The Ceuta episode reflects what is happening all over Europe: the manifestation of an illogical ideological alliance, a partnership between the progressive Left and the forces of radical Islam. Secular, progressive volunteers staff such NGOs, prioritize LGBTQ+ rights, radical feminism, and absolute individual liberty.
Yet, incredibly, they do not understand that allying themselves with agents of Islamist governance will not end well for them.
In Europe, the Left is no longer an originator of social change to improve the lives of citizens. It has become the logistical compass for the expansion of Islamism.
This is not new. In 1979, the Islamic Revolution in Iran was supported by secular Marxist intellectuals and leftist student groups who wanted to overthrow the Western-allied capitalist shah, naively believing that they could achieve a post-capitalist utopia. Once the Islamists secured power, however, they imprisoned, executed, and subdued their leftist allies.
Shockingly, history appears to have taught nothing. Today, a modern version of this delusion plays out on the beaches of Ceuta.
It mirrors the psychological pathology of progressives who drape themselves in the mantle of moral righteousness as they take an explicitly antisemitic stance, rebranding it as anti-Zionism and obscenely equating Zionism with Nazism.
They do so instead of acknowledging that it is simply the fundamental right of Jews to a secure homeland of their own. In both cases, the radical Left targets the foundations of democratic sovereignty.
New Left’s self-sabotaging antics
While still feeding off the capitalist gains of the West, this new Left views the modern nation-state, Western borders, and traditional European identity as in need of deconstruction. Mass migration has become a tool.
The results of this ideological blindness are catastrophic for the people who actually have to live with the consequences. Spain’s Prosecutor General’s Office recently confirmed that the sudden collapse of order in Ceuta has resulted in dozens of judicial investigations into sexual assaults, rapes, and other violence.
Many local businesses have closed in fear. A once peaceful community, built on mutual respect between Christians, Muslims, Jews, and Hindus, is afraid of letting their children go out alone, even during the day, and is in constant fear of violent attacks.
When NGOs such as No Name Kitchen provide the logistics, legal loopholes, and material support to sustain a lawless population on Ceuta’s beaches, they are not practicing charity.
It is ideological subversion and the prioritization of abstract globalist theories over the concrete safety of Spanish citizens.
True humanitarianism requires order, infrastructure, and respect.
By inviting chaos in the name of compassion, and by aligning with forces that reject Western democracy, border activists are repeating the fatal mistake of the 1979 revolutionaries. Unless they are stopped, the fire they are fanning will consume the progressive values they say they are protecting.
Charity must begin at home, not because of a lack of empathy for others but because if home no longer exists, neither does our capacity to help anyone else.
The writer is an editor at The Jerusalem Post.