The Far Right Is Distorting Ceuta
So closely did this incident resemble the “invasion” that MAGA and its European friends have long said is under way that it was hard not to suspect that it had been orchestrated.As I am writing this, much is still not known about the 60,000-odd people who swam from Morocco to Ceuta last week. But we do know that many of them saw social-media posts encouraging them to swim to Ceuta and, perhaps, to thereby precipitate a crisis. Ceuta has been a Spanish city since the 16th century, but it is not part of mainland Spain.
- ▪So closely did this incident resemble the “invasion” that MAGA and its European friends have long said is under way that it was hard not to suspect that it had been orchestrated.As I am writing this, much is still not known about the 60,000
- ▪But we do know that many of them saw social-media posts encouraging them to swim to Ceuta and, perhaps, to thereby precipitate a crisis.
- ▪Ceuta has been a Spanish city since the 16th century, but it is not part of mainland Spain.
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IdeasThe Far Right Is Distorting CeutaWe’ve seen this before.By Anne ApplebaumAbdel Majid Bziouat / AFP / GettyAugust 2, 2026, 4:43 PM ET ShareSave Mostly young, mostly male Moroccans crawling onto beaches, climbing hills, scaling walls, jumping over fences, surging past police in order to get into Europe: The photographs and videos that emerged from Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in North Africa, on July 29 and 30 looked very much like migrant-terror videos, deliberately designed to be broadcast by the international far right.
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