Violence Works? Leftist Pol Mistakenly Emails Own Notes to Media; Makes STUNNING Admission

“For internal use only” might have been the intention when mayoral candidate Elif Eralp wrote some notes for staff recently. But that’s not how it turned out.

And now we all know what she really believes about some of her Muslim enablers — as opposed to what she tells the world.

Eralp, a member of Die Linke (the “Left Party”), is a leading candidate for Berlin, Germany’s mayorship. She holds the usual left-wing positions, too. These include “anti-racism” and anti-discrimination efforts, housing-policy progressivism and, to the point here, elevating people with “migration backgrounds.”

But Eralp’s private notes, accidentally sent to a newspaper, reveal that she fears some of her allies and constituents. The issue: They have ties to the Hamas terrorist group.

It’s also clear that the politician, who could become Berlin’s first Turkish-descent mayor, is afraid to speak out against the individuals. She’s worried about her and her family’s safety.

Let not your heart be troubled, however. It was announced after the revelations that she’d be getting police protection during her party’s conference today (10/31).

Oh, but she’ll still support the importation of the kind of people she’s afraid of into Germany. This is necessary to win power — for herself — at the moment.

Why Politicians Have Their Reputation

The Times of Israel reported on the story yesterday, writing that Eralp

inadvertently admitted during a recent interview with German newspaper Der Spiegel that she was afraid of some of her supporters due to their ties to the Hamas terror group.

Eralp … accidentally made her fears public when she sent Der Spiegel an authorized transcript of an interview conducted earlier this week without first removing comments and annotations she and her spokesperson had added.

Next to a question about antisemitism among pro-Palestinian German supporters of her party, in which one such supporter, Ibrahim Ibrahim, was mentioned by name, the Die Linke politician wrote, “Neither my husband nor I want to mention specific names; he is afraid of these people, and so am I.”

Note that it’s media practice in Germany to send transcripts of interviews to participants prior to their appearance. And some of the planned questions left the Left Party candidate with a dilemma. Per the Times again:

According to Der Spiegel, Eralp’s spokesperson noted in the annotations that they couldn’t just delete the journalist’s question, as rules dictate that the interviewee can change only their answers and not the questions when authorizing final transcripts.

“What do I do now?” Eralp wrote in response. “I should never have agreed to this interview.”

Know here that Eralp bills herself as the leader best able to counter the Alternative for Germany (AfD). This is the country’s patriotic, anti-immigrationist party, which has been burgeoning politically of late. Of course, though, her private notes will only aid the AfD — reflecting fear of the very forces the party has long warned about.

There’s more, too. Regarding the antisemitism, “Eralp acknowledged that boundaries had been crossed at some campaign events,” wrote Politico Europe on Thursday. It was then that Ibrahim’s name came up, with Der Spiegel asking the candidate if she was alluding to him. She initially responded, “Yes” — but then wanted the answer deleted.

Explaining herself in her “private,” self-leaked comments, Politico also informs,

Eralp referred to advice she said she had previously received from Berlin’s State Criminal Police Office (LKA) about publicly naming individuals linked to organized crime: “The LKA said at the time that they recommend never naming specific individuals. Back then, it was about organized crime. Now it’s about people with connections to Hamas.”

She added: “I cannot put myself and my family in danger for SPIEGEL. What do we do now? Cancel the entire interview?”

Relevant tweets below.

When Cowardice Meets Convenience

Critics were quick to note Eralp’s hypocrisy. “She’s worried about putting her family in danger,” noted the Western Journal’s Joe Saunders on Friday. But she “has no problem with putting her people at risk if it’s the means to power.” Saunders later opined:

Politics might be a rough-and-tumble business, but worries about physical threats are not exactly the norm among healthy democracies.

The fact that a leftist politician — a movement that has courted Islamist support on a global basis — is privately admitting fears about a “pro-Palestinian activist” tells a lot.

The fact that this same politician, according to Politico Europe, wants to reduce the number of police officers in Berlin (what is it with leftists and the “defund the police” fetish?) tells even more about her concern for her personal security versus the safety of her people.

… [Eralp] also identifies as Muslim, according to the Turkish outlet Yeni Safak. In fact, she’s referred to in some quarters as “Berlin’s Mamdani,” after New York’s first (and already disastrous) Muslim mayor.

Of course, Eralp’s fears are well founded if a study conducted in her own country is any indication. Reported in 2010, the researchers evaluated more than 16,000 youths and identified an interesting phenomenon. With increasing religiosity, Christian youths became less violent.

Increasing religiosity among Muslim youths, however, actually made them more violent.

Despite all this, though, Eralp would surely be enthusiastic about using hate-speech law to punish any German daring to speak ill of Muslim jihadism. It can make one wonder, too:

How often is “compassionate” wokeness just a cover for political-expediency desires and cowardice?

After all, the Truth will set you free. And the Truth on this issue could set society free from leftism — the very vehicle the world’s Eralps rely on to gain power.

Oh, how tragic it is when people would rather reign in Hell — temporarily — than serve in Heaven.