My Word: Crashing waves in Ceuta | The Jerusalem Post

Jpost · Aug 07, 2026 · 1402 words · By LIAT COLLINS

Global Jihadism Securitization of Migration National Sovereignty

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My first thought was: “What was that?” My second was: “It’s too early to tell.” The images, however, were striking and unforgettable.

Claims checked 14

Techniques found 5

Topics 3

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What happened

My first thought was: “What was that?” My second was: “It’s too early to tell.” The images, however, were striking and unforgettable.

Why it matters

Last weekend, some 80,000 people – mainly young men – swarmed across the border from Morocco into the Spanish town of Ceuta.

Common ground

Using a word like “swarmed” has probably already marked me in certain circles, and I should issue a trigger warning now that, at the risk of being accused of dehumanizing, I might describe the incident as an “invasion” or “incursion.” I’m aware that these…

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Name Calling / Labeling, Appeal to Fear: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

Follow-up questions

What new context would change how readers understand this Global Jihadism story?
What evidence would most clearly confirm or weaken the claim that Spanish courts had recently ruled that migrants who managed to reach Ceuta by sea would not be immediately turned back?
How does this story connect Global Jihadism with Securitization of Migration over the next few days?

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eFinder identified 5 propaganda techniques in this article. These signals explain how wording, emphasis, or missing context can shape a reader's interpretation.

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Loaded Language 90% confidence

Using words with strong emotional connotations to influence an audience.

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Why it matters: Recognizing loaded language helps readers compare the article's framing with the underlying facts and with coverage from other sources.

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Name Calling / Labeling 90% confidence

Attaching a negative label to a person or group to reject them without evidence.

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Appeal to Fear 85% confidence

Building support by instilling anxiety or panic in the audience.

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False Equivalence 80% confidence

Treating two vastly different things as equal to create a misleading comparison.

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Slippery Slope 70% confidence

Arguing that one event will inevitably lead to extreme consequences without evidence.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 14 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Spanish courts had recently ruled that migrants who managed to reach Ceuta by sea would not be immediately turned back.”

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Multiple sources, including NTD and other web results, confirm a Spanish court ruling that migrants intercepted at sea attempting to enter Ceuta or Melilla could not be immediately returned to Morocco.

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web search NEUTRAL — The court ruled that migrants intercepted at sea while attempting to enter Ceuta or Melilla could not be returned immediately to Morocco under the procedure used at the territories’ land borders.
https://www.nationthailand.com/news/world/40069309

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web search NEUTRAL — Many migrants who reach Ceuta or Melilla are immediately turned back, but others are held in migrant shelters while they apply for asylum in Spain. To reach Ceuta, people often swim from the Moroccan …
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/31/ceuta-spain-eu…

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web search NEUTRAL — After reports emerged online about a Spanish Supreme Court ruling earlier in July that migrants intercepted at sea while attempting to reach Ceuta or Melilla could not be immediately returned, many ca…
https://www.ntd.com/ceuta-under-strain-up-to-5000-migrants-r…

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Claim 2: “The Combat Antisemitism Movement found that within the first 72 hours of Ceuta’s storming, more than 100 million people on social media had been exposed to the idea that it was a ‘Jewish plot’”

INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE

No evidence was provided in the search results to evaluate this claim.

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Claim 3: “Angela Merkel opened Germany to migrants in 2015”

DISPUTED

While some sources describe an 'open-door policy' and 'opening borders' in 2015, a DW Fact check explicitly states that the claim that Merkel 'opened' the borders is not accurate because Germany's neighbors were already part of the Schengen area with no border controls.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Angela Dorothea Merkel (née Kasner; born 17 July 1954) is a German stateswoman and retired politician who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. She is the only woman to have held the offi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Merkel

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The family of Angela Merkel, the former chancellor of Germany, is of German and Polish descent. Merkel was born Angela Dorothea Kasner on 17 July 1954 in Hamburg. The Kasner name is derived from Jan K…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_of_Angela_Merkel

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Fourth Merkel cabinet (German: Kabinett Merkel IV) was the 23rd Government of the Federal Republic of Germany during the 19th legislative session of the Bundestag. It was sworn in on 14 March 2018…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Merkel_cabinet

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Claim 4: “Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who had previously said Spain would regularize the status of some 1 million refugees in the country”

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While Pedro Sanchez has discussed regularizing migrants, one source mentions he announced regularizing 500,000 illegal migrants, while another mentions a 'huge take-up' of a program without specifying the 1 million figure as a stated goal for refugees specifically. The claim's specific number (1 million) is not clearly corroborated as a stated goal for 'refugees' in the provided evidence.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón (Spanish: [ˈpeðɾo ˈsantʃeθ ˈpeɾeθ kasteˈxon] ; born 29 February 1972) is a Spanish politician who has been the Prime Minister of Spain since 2018. A member of the Spanish …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Sánchez

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The premiership of Pedro Sánchez began when he was sworn in as Prime Minister of Spain by King Felipe VI on 2 June 2018. Pedro Sánchez is the first prime minister in the recent Spanish history to reac…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premiership_of_Pedro_Sánchez

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The prime minister of Spain, officially the president of the Government (Spanish: Presidente del Gobierno), is the head of government of Spain. The prime minister nominates the ministers and chairs th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Spain

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Claim 5: “October 7, 2023, when thousands of terrorists, followed by waves of “ordinary civilians,” invaded southern Israel, murdering 1,200, abducting 251, raping, pillaging, and burning homes to the ground.”

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No evidence was provided in the search results to evaluate this claim.

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Claim 6: “the devastating image of the lifeless body of toddler Aylan Kurdi on a Turkish beach after his family tried to cross the waters to Greece.”

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Multiple independent web sources and Wikipedia confirm the death of Aylan Kurdi, a toddler found on a Turkish beach after attempting to reach Greece.

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web search NEUTRAL — Alan Kurdi, initially reported as Aylan Kurdi, was a two-year-old Syrian boy of Kurdish ethnic background whose image made global headlines after he drowned on 2 September 2015 in the Mediterranean Se…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Alan_Kurdi

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web search NEUTRAL — A Turkish rescue worker identified the boy as Aylan Kurdi, 3, one of 12 Syrians who died when their boats sank between Turkey and Greece. The bleak image was circulated under the hashtag "KiyiyaVuranI…
https://www.dw.com/en/refugee-childs-body-on-beach-shocks-eu…

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web search NEUTRAL — The toddler whose lifeless body on a Mediterranean beach sent shock waves around the world has a name: Aylan Kurdi.This young migrant, who drowned in a failed attempt to reach the Greek island of Kos,…
https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/europes-border-crisis/ayla…

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Claim 7: “the Moroccan highway to Western Sahara was renamed after the US president.”

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Al Jazeera reports that the Tiznit-Dakhla highway was named after Trump, but another source notes that Trump claimed this on Truth Social while Moroccan officials had not confirmed it at the time of reporting.

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web search NEUTRAL — Morocco has controlled most of Western Sahara since 1975, while the Algeria-backed Polisario Front continues to seek an independent Sahrawi state. Image may contain Horizon Nature Outdoors Sky Road Fr…
https://www.admiddleeast.com/story/the-dollar1b-morocco-high…

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web search NEUTRAL — President Donald Trump on Sunday took to his Truth Social platform to claim that a highway in Morocco has been named after him. Yet in the several hours since, officials in the country haven’t made a …
https://www.buzzfeed.com/benblanchet/trump-morocco-highway-t…

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web search NEUTRAL — Crucially, the Trump Highway runs through Western Sahara, a UN-designated non-self-governing territory that Morocco calls its “southern provinces” and where it has invested heavily in roads, ports and…
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/31/morocco-names-tizni…

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Claim 8: “Last weekend, some 80,000 people – mainly young men – swarmed across the border from Morocco into the Spanish town of Ceuta.”

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Wikipedia explicitly confirms that since late July 2026, an estimated 80,000 people, mainly young men, crossed the border from Morocco into Ceuta.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since late July 2026, an estimated 80,000 people, mainly young men, have illegally breached and crossed the border from Morocco into the Spanish autonomous city of Ceuta in North Africa, with smaller …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Ceuta_migrant_crisis

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ceuta (UK: , US: ; Spanish: [ˈθewta, ˈsewta] ; Moroccan Arabic: سَبْتَة, romanized: Sabtah) is an autonomous city of Spain on the North African coast. Bordered by Morocco, it lies between the Mediterr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceuta

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The border between Morocco and Spain consists of three non-contiguous lines totalling 18.5 km (11.5 miles) around the Spanish territories of Ceuta (8 km; 5 miles), Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera (85 metr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morocco–Spain_border

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Claim 9: “Ceuta and Melilla aren’t included in the Schengen Area”

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Claim 10: “last month’s car-ramming by a suspected Islamic State member at the Berlin Gay Pride parade.”

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Claim 11: “Morocco, an Abraham Accords ally with Israel, is a relatively stable country under the rule of King Mohammed VI.”

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Wikipedia confirms Morocco is ruled by King Mohammed VI and that it signed a normalization agreement with Israel as part of the Abraham Accords.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Abraham Accords are a set of agreements that established diplomatic normalization between Israel and several Arab states, beginning with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. Announced in August a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Accords

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Israel–Morocco normalization agreement is an agreement announced by the United States government on December 10, 2020, in which Israel and Morocco agreed to begin normalizing relations. On Decembe…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The State of Israel and the Kingdom of Morocco formally established diplomatic relations in 2020, when both sides signed the Israel–Morocco normalization agreement in light of the Abraham Accords. Whi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel–Morocco_relations

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Claim 12: “Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni immediately suspended the Schengen agreement with Spain on security grounds”

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Claim 13: “Palestinians swarmed into the Golan Heights from Syria in May 2011”

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Claim 14: “Belarus apparently permitted an influx of mainly North African and Middle Eastern refugees along the borders with Lithuania, Poland, and Latvia in 2021.”

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Wikipedia and multiple web sources confirm that in 2021, the government of Belarus sponsored/facilitated an influx of migrants from the Middle East and North Africa to the borders of Lithuania, Poland, and Latvia.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In August 2021, the government of Belarus began sponsoring an influx of migrants, mostly from the Middle East and North Africa, to the borders of Lithuania, Poland and Latvia. Although Belarus denied …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus–European_Union_border_…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) is a geographic designation used by institutions, governments, global marketing, media, and business sectors—especially in North American business circles—whe…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A list of Luftwaffe "Luftflotten" (Air Fleets) and their locations between 1939 and 1945.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Air_Fleets_in_World_War…

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