Editing Fifth column (section)

===Later usage===
[[File:Smash Communism's Fifth Column.jpg|thumb|Australian Prime Minister Menzies proposed a [[1951 Australian Communist Party ban referendum|federal referendum on 22 September 1951]] asking voters to give the Commonwealth Government the power to make laws regarding communists and communism.]]

* German minority organizations in [[Czechoslovakia]] formed the [[Sudetendeutsches Freikorps|Sudeten German Free Corps]], which aided [[Nazi Germany]]. Some claimed they were "self-defense formations" created in the aftermath of [[World War I]] and unrelated to the German invasion two decades later.<ref>Robert G.L. Waite, ''Vanguard of Nazism: The Free Corps Movement in Post-War Germany, 1918-1923'' (1952), 88</ref> More often their origins were discounted and they were defined by the role they played in 1938–39: "The same pattern was repeated in Czechoslovakia. [[Konrad Henlein|Henlein]]'s Free Corps played in that country the part of fifth column".<ref>Yale Law School: [http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/12-20-45.asp Nuremberg Trial Proceedings Volume 4, 215, December 20, 1945]. Retrieved July 19, 2012</ref>
* The [[United Front Work Department]] has been used by the Chinese government to influence elite individuals and organizations especially among [[Taiwanese people|Taiwanese]] and [[overseas Chinese]] communities around the world.<ref>United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee, [http://www.zytzb.cn/publicfiles/business/htmlfiles/tzb2010/gathw/200911/574135.html '华侨、华人工作的基本任务] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402183749/http://www.zytzb.cn/publicfiles/business/htmlfiles/tzb2010/gathw/200911/574135.html |date=2012-04-02 }}, March 23, 2009.</ref> UFWD has been accused of promoting pro-unification sentiment in Taiwan as well as election interference in some countries.<ref>{{Cite news |date=July 11, 2024 |title=Songs, pandas and praise for Xi: how China courts young Taiwanese |url=https://www.economist.com/china/2024/07/11/songs-pandas-and-praise-for-xi-how-china-courts-young-taiwanese |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-07-12 |work=[[The Economist]] |issn=0013-0613 |archive-date=2024-07-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240711232322/https://www.economist.com/china/2024/07/11/songs-pandas-and-praise-for-xi-how-china-courts-young-taiwanese |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Cooper |first=Sam |author-link=Sam Cooper (journalist) |title=Canadian intelligence warned PM Trudeau that China covertly funded 2019 election candidates: Sources |url=https://globalnews.ca/news/9253386/canadian-intelligence-warned-pm-trudeau-that-china-covertly-funded-2019-election-candidates-sources/ |access-date=2022-11-11 |website=[[Global News]] |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-11-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221110223407/https://globalnews.ca/news/9253386/canadian-intelligence-warned-pm-trudeau-that-china-covertly-funded-2019-election-candidates-sources/ |url-status=live }}</ref> On September 2024, [[Linda Sun]], a staffer for New York governor [[Kathy Hochul]] was arrested for accusation of being a foreign agent due to her affiliation with UFWD affiliated organization that is [[Henan Association of Eastern America]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Areddy |first=James T. |date=October 21, 2024 |title=How Beijing Recruited New York Chinatowns for Influence Campaign |url=https://www.wsj.com/world/china/beijing-chinatown-influence-campaign-3f7914f0 |url-access=subscription |access-date=October 21, 2024 |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]]}}</ref>
* In 1945, a document produced by the [[US Department of State]] compared the earlier efforts of Nazi Germany to mobilize the support of sympathizers in foreign nations to the superior efforts of the international communist movement at the end of World War II: "a communist party was in fact a fifth column as much as any [German] Bund group, except that the latter were crude and ineffective in comparison with the Communists".<ref>Thomas G. Paterson, ''Meeting the Communist Threat: Truman to Reagan'' (Oxford University Press, 1988), 10</ref> [[Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.]], wrote in 1949: "the special Soviet advantage—the warhead—lies in the fifth column; and the fifth column is based on the local Communist parties".<ref>Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., ''The Politics of Freedom'' (Heinemann, 1950), 92-3</ref>
* In 1979, [[Saddam Hussein]], the [[President of Iraq]], orchestrated a [[1979 Ba'ath Party Purge|purge]] of political dissidents within the [[Ba'ath Party (Iraqi-dominated faction)|Ba'ath Party]]. Hussein claimed that he had uncovered a fifth column within the organization and ordered [[Muhyi Abdul-Hussein Mashhadi]] to confess his alleged involvement and that of 68 other politicians, who were promptly arrested.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Batatu |first=Hanna |title=Syria's Peasantry, the Descendants of Its Lesser Rural Notables, and Their Politics |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=1999 |isbn=0-691-00254-1 |location=Chichester, West Sussex, UK |pages=282–283}}</ref> Twenty-two of the arrested, including Mashhadi, were executed.<ref>Bay Fang. "[https://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/040719/19iraq.htm When Saddam ruled the day]." ''US News & World Report''. 11 July 2004. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116075402/http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/040719/19iraq.htm |date=16 January 2014}}</ref><ref>Edward Mortimer. "[http://www.nybooks.com/articles/3519 The Thief of Baghdad]." ''New York Review of Books''. 27 September 1990, citing Fuad Matar. ''Saddam Hussein: A Biography''. Highlight. 1990. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080723145337/http://www.nybooks.com/articles/3519 |date=23 July 2008}}</ref>
* [[Zainichi Koreans]] living in [[Japan]], particularly those affiliated with the organization [[Chongryun]] (which is itself affiliated with the government of [[North Korea]]) are sometimes seen as a "fifth column" by some Japanese, and have been the victims of verbal and physical attacks. These have occurred more frequently since the government of [[Kim Jong Il]] acknowledged it had [[North Korean abductions of Japanese|abducted Japanese citizens from Japan]] and [[List of North Korean missile tests|tested ballistic missiles]] near the waters of and over mainland Japan.<ref>{{cite web|last=Greimel |first=Hans |date=October 24, 2006 |url=http://www.plesserholland.com/pdf/10.24.06-Kang-AP-NK.pdf |title=Test sparks N. Korea backlash in Japan |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070205074933/http://www.plesserholland.com/pdf/10.24.06-Kang-AP-NK.pdf |archive-date=February 5, 2007 |url-status=dead |access-date=April 3, 2024 |quote=North Koreans in Japan have long been vilified as a communist fifth column}}</ref>
* A significant number of [[Arab citizens of Israel|Israeli Arabs]], who compose approximately 20% of [[Israel]]'s population, identify more with the [[Palestinian nationalism|Palestinian cause]] than with the State of Israel or [[Zionism]]. As a result, many [[Israeli Jews]], including politicians, [[rabbi]]s, journalists, and historians, view them (and/or the main Israeli Arab political group, the [[Joint List]]) as a fifth column.<ref>"... they hurl accusations against us, like that we are a 'fifth column'." (Roee Nahmias, "[http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3285075,00.html Arab MK: Israel committing 'genocide' of Shiites]", [[Ynetnews]] August 2, 2006)</ref><ref>"... a fifth column, a league of traitors" (Evelyn Gordon, "[http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1157913624780 No longer the political fringe]{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}", ''[[The Jerusalem Post]]'' September 14, 2006)</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Lieberman goes after Arab Joint List: They are a fifth column |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-lieberman-goes-after-arab-joint-list-they-are-a-fifth-column-1.8061036 |access-date=1 November 2020 |work=Haaretz.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Krauss |first1=Joseph |title=Israel's Arabs poised to gain new voice after tight election |url=https://apnews.com/article/4afb54069bff44a1b0e0564dd5adb917 |access-date=1 November 2020 |work=AP NEWS |date=18 September 2019 |quote=Arab citizens have close family, cultural and historical ties to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, and largely identify with the Palestinian cause. That has led many Israelis to view them as a fifth column and a security threat.}}</ref>
* [[Counter-jihad]] literature has sometimes portrayed Western Muslims as a "fifth column", collectively seeking to destabilize Western nations' identity and values for the benefit of an international Islamic movement intent on the [[Eurabia|establishment of a caliphate in Western countries]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Akbarzadeh|first1=Shahram|last2=Roose|first2=Joshua M.|title=Muslims, Multiculturalism and the Question of the Silent Majority|journal=Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs|date=September 2011|volume=31|issue=3|pages=309–325|doi=10.1080/13602004.2011.599540|s2cid=145595802}}</ref> Following the 2015 attack by French-born Muslims on the offices of ''[[Charlie Hebdo shooting|Charlie Hebdo]]'' in Paris, the leader of the [[UK Independence Party]] [[Nigel Farage]] said that Europe had "a fifth column living within our own countries".<ref>{{cite news|work=National Review |url=http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/395914/ukips-farage-multiculturalism-creating-fifth-column-west-brendan-bordelon |first=Brendan |last=Bordelon |title=UKIP's Farage: Multiculturalism Creating 'Fifth Column' in West |date= January 7, 2015 | access-date= January 8, 2015}}</ref> In 2001, Dutch politician [[Pim Fortuyn]] talked about Muslim immigrants being a "fifth column", on the night he was dismissed as leader of [[Liveable Netherlands]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.historischnieuwsblad.nl/nl/artikel/32279/fortuyn-ramp-voor-politiek-en-vaderland.html|title=Fortuyn: ramp voor politiek en vaderland|date=November 18, 2013|language=nl}}</ref>
[[File:Совещание о мерах социально-экономической поддержки регионов.webm|thumb|right|200px|start=18:12|Putin says (on 18'23"): "Yes, of course, they will back the so-called fifth column, national traitors – those who make money here in our country but live over there, and 'live' not in the geographical sense of the word but in their minds, in their servile mentality", and mentions the fifth column two more times, on 19'57" and 20'33"<br><small>(Closed captions available)</small>]]
* In 2022, Russian president [[Vladimir Putin]] called Russian citizens [[2022 anti-war protests in Russia|who are against]] the [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine|Russian invasion of Ukraine]] as fifth columnists and "national traitors".<ref>{{cite news|last1=Radnitz |first1=Scott |last2=Mylonas |first2=Harris |title=Putin's warning about Russian 'fifth columns' has a long, sordid lineage |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/30/putin-fifth-column-traitors-russia-arrests/ |access-date=7 April 2022 |work=washingtonpost.com |language=en}}</ref>
* Members of the American and European [[far-right]] have been widely described as fifth columnists in light of Russian interference in the [[2016 United States presidential election]] and presidency of [[Links between Trump associates and Russian officials|Donald Trump]] and leading up to the [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine]]. American conservative journalist [[Tucker Carlson]], in particular, has faced allegations of fifth columnist behavior, especially after he decided to visit Russia and [[The Vladimir Putin Interview|interview Vladimir Putin]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.americanprogress.org/article/russias-5th-column/ | title=Russia's 5th Column | date=March 15, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0263395718776215 | doi=10.1177/0263395718776215 | title=Who is the modern 'traitor'? 'Fifth column' accusations in US and UK politics and media | date=2019 | last1=Chernobrov | first1=Dmitry | journal=Politics | volume=39 | issue=3 | pages=347–362}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/russian-federation/disturbing-return-fifth-column | title=The Disturbing Return of the Fifth Column | journal=Foreign Affairs | date=August 26, 2022 | last1=Mylonas | first1=Harris | last2=Radnitz | first2=Scott}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/opinion/the-brief-putins-fifth-column-in-the-eu/|title=The Brief — Putin's fifth column in the EU – Euractiv|newspaper=www.euractiv.com |date=September 26, 2022 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://abovethelaw.com/2022/02/this-is-what-a-fifth-column-looks-like/ | title=This is What a Fifth Column Looks Like - Above the Law | date=February 24, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.salon.com/2024/02/08/hillary-clinton-drags-useful-idiot-tucker-carlson-for-putin-interview/ | title=Hillary Clinton drags "useful idiot" Tucker Carlson for Putin interview | date=February 8, 2024}}</ref>
* In 2024, following claims that taxpayer funds were [[UNRWA October 7 controversy|improperly given to the UNRWA]] due to family interests in Gaza during the [[Gaza war]],<ref>{{cite news |last1=Turner |first1=Camila |title=Humza Yousaf gave £250k to Gaza after overruling his officials |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/03/08/humza-yousaf-gave-250k-gaza-despite-official-advice/ |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=8 March 2024}}</ref> [[Humza Yousaf]], the [[First Minister of Scotland]], revealed that he had been subjected to "smears" throughout his political life including allegations he was a "fifth columnist" because of his faith and race.<ref>{{cite news |title=Humza Yousaf: Scottish first minister denies conflict of interest over £250K Gaza donation |url=https://news.sky.com/story/humza-yousaf-scottish-first-minister-denies-conflict-of-interest-over-250k-gaza-donation-13090590 |work=Sky News |date=9 March 2024}}</ref>