Glasgow, past ‘Second City of Empire’, is a hive of activity again, but not necessarily for the better. New steel-and-glass apartment blocks rise along the bank of the River Clyde, to the west of the ‘Highlandman’s Umbrella’ (the road passing under Glasgow Central Station).
The construction boom provides employment for Scots, but this is temporary. Increasingly, the jobs are going to foreigners, as immigrants build homes for more immigrants. The demography of Glasgow is changing at a pace that startles the occasional visitor like me. Asian and African incomers man the night-time economy of taxis and takeaways, also serving as security guards, cleaners and care staff.
In the outlying districts, shopping parades are filled with nail bars, ‘Turkish’ barbers and vape shops, while the formerly quintessential pubs are disappearing. Concrete blocks of flats that survived demolition are now refilling with immigrant families. The plethora of languages spoken outside the school gates gains extra local authority funding, and teachers are expected to celebrate the diversity, while white working-class kids are left behind.
The industrial heartland of Scotland went into decline decades ago, and while new service jobs arise from the Ponzi scheme of mass immigration, the occupational future is bleak. Artificial intelligence will reduce employment and push more people on to state handouts. Inevitably a basic universal income system will be introduced, but already there is limited financial advantage in working.
Scottish politicians, unlike many of their constituents, embrace the newcomers, who they describe as ‘asylum-seekers’ or ‘refugees’. Glasgow declared itself as a ‘sanctuary city’, a political gesture started by several Democrat-controlled cities in the USA. This sanctimony comes with a sneer at the English, who are cast as xenophobes. For the extreme Scottish Greens, no amount of immigration could ever be too high. If you think that relentless increase in consumption is antithetical, you have been misled on the real motives of Green politics. The SNP, Labour and other parties sing from the same hymn-sheet.
Until recently Glasgow was well over ninety per-cent white. Since the 1960s there was a diaspora from the Indian subcontinent to the south of the city centre, but it was not until the expansion of the European Union that significant demographic change happened. Poles came to Glasgow in their thousands, rejuvenating the Catholic chapels and schools. Many have returned to Poland. The current level of immigration is unprecedented, and it is mostly from what we previously termed the ‘Third World’.
There is another ethnic group in Glasgow that often eludes the observer. When I went to the Central College of Commerce in Glasgow in the 1980s, my best friend was from the exclusive Whitecraigs area of Giffnock, a posh suburb on the southern fringe of the city. He was a Jew, as were several others in my cohort. I had not known of this Jewish community before.
Glasgow Jewry is affluent and, as I have more recently discovered, highly influential. Professor David Miller, an outspoken supporter of the Palestinian cause, has meticulously studied the Zionist activities of the Jewish enclaves of Giffnock and Newton Mearns, which he dubs the ‘Caledonian Cousinhood’.
Miller, who came to prominence after his dismissal by the University of Bristol for alleged antisemitism, subsequently winning his case at an employment tribunal, recently wrote a detailed article on the Iranian Press TV broadcaster’s website on the tightly knit, intermarrying Jewish community concentrated in three leafy avenues. Although merely 0.1% of the Scottish population, Jews punch far above their weight, owning swaths of businesses.
In another article, written with Jill Thomson for UK Column website, Miller described how Glasgow Jews took control, behind the scenes, of Celtic Football Club. This would have come as a surprise to the legions of Celtic fans who wave Palestinian flags at matches. Mostly residing in the south of Glasgow, Jews had tended to support Third Lanark FC, a club based near the national stadium of Hampden Park. When that club folded in the 1960s, some directors shifted allegiance to Celtic, where they succeeded in organising a charity match against Real Madrid, with the proceeds going to Jewish settlers in Palestine.
Miller notes enthusiasm from Glaswegian Zionists for the genocidal onslaught by the Israeli military forces in Gaza. Since the Hamas attack of 7th October 2023, which critics regard as a false-flag orchestration by the Israelis to justify removal of the Palestinian people, Jewish consciousness has been raised throughout the West, emphasising the threat of antisemitic prejudice and violence.
On my last visit to the west of Scotland I found, in a tourist leaflet rack at the local pier, marketing for the Jewish museum in Glasgow. Based at Garnethill Synagogue, the Glasgow Jewish Heritage Centre is involved in education and Holocaust memorials, but another prominent activity is refugee welfare. This is not because any refugees are Jewish. Instead, Glasgow Jewish societies associate their religious minority status and history of persecution with that of Muslims. Islamophobia is highlighted almost as much as antisemitism in their messaging, as related scourges in society. There is nothing wrong in advocacy for the Jewish community, which is woven into the social fabric of Glasgow, but such bodies are prone to exploitation for the subversive ideology of Cultural Marxism and globalist nation-wreckers.
This is David Miller’s blind spot. He exposes Zionism in Glasgow’s gold-paved streets, but he overlooks the Jewish role in mass immigration: while Jews are killing Muslims in Gaza, a multitude of Muslims are being brought to Glasgow with Jewish support.
Scotland’s population is now rising, despite the falling birth rate and high mortality. Glasgow has a higher proportion of ‘asylum-seekers’ than any other city in the UK. White Glaswegians are being overwhelmed numerically and culturally, and soon there will be more mosques than churches. If you want to know why Zionists want Muslim immigration, I refer you to my recent article on the Cloward-Pliven Plan.
Muslims, whatever their number, will never be in power; they are unwittingly deployed as foot-soldiers in the desecration of the hitherto Christian West. Glasgow is yet another city to fall.
This article first appeared in Niall McCrae’s Substack here: https://speculatives.substack.com/p/anniesland-to-abdulstan-the-zionist
Links
David Miller: Neighbours: Inside the tight-knit Caledonian Cousinhood of Scottish Zionism
Jill Thomson & David Miller The Day that Celtic Football Club Played To Raise Money for Land Theft in Palestine | UKColumn
Niall McCrae: Secret strategy: how the Cloward-Pliven plan is deliberately destroying our welfare system
