Opinion maker Wierd Duk argued that open support for Hamas in Amsterdam, threats of violence in French cities and communists taking power in Berlin showed that European societies were under threat. He said extreme-left and pro-Hamas activists were trying to overthrow the democratic order and called the survival of the free West at stake. Duk praised US Secretary of State Marco Rubio for a speech in Athens about Western culture, history and the mission to defend it. The account did not provide further details about the events he cited or Rubio’s speech.