What did y’all think "globalize the intifada" meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays? 🧵
It meant this sweet young couple, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, gunned down at an American Jewish Committee event at the Jewish Museum by radicalized monster Elias Rodriguez, chanting “Free, free Palestine.” (1/20)
We need to know how it came to this—how did Jew-hate become so normalized that the killer can be assured of widespread support from certain quarters? And what future awaits Jews in the West? TL;DR: It's grim. (2/20)
Already, voices blaming Jews and Israel, rather than the killer or the people who radicalized him, are spreading across the internet. Naturally, the people spreading these lies are the ones who incited such actions. (3/20)
When Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in February 2024, hailed as a hero by large parts of the left for his impotent act, further violent acts were guaranteed. (4/20)
When Qatar-funded astroturfed protests on campuses across America started calling for "Globalize the Intifada," and the fact that not-so-coded calls for the murder of Jews were normalized and excused, the murder of Jews became inevitable.
When Qatar bought off every journalist and politician they could find to ensure they would face no consequences for trying to undermine the USA, violence was assured. (5/20)
When, just one month ago, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro was nearly assassinated—burned alive in his bed on Passover—because of his Jewish faith, and the establishment media buried the story because it didn't benefit the anti-Zionist narrative they shared with the crazed attacker, more such attacks became likely. (6/20)
When, just the day before the attack, endless mainstream media outlets published the obvious lie that Israel was about to kill 14,000 babies, attacks on Jews became even more inevitable. (7/20)
When a bored college-radicalized trust fund kid, Luigi Mangione, decided to become a hero to the left by murdering a CEO, and then actually became a hero to the left, with mainstream figures like Taylor Lorenz elevating the murderer to the level of folk hero, and giving sad young men the idea that doing a Luigi was the way to win women's hearts, more left-wing political murder became inevitable. (8/20)
When the psychotic Kanye West began his campaign of threats against Jews, leading up to his latest "Heil Hitler" song, and prominent figures on the right—from Candace Owens to Joe Rogan—excused his behavior or even praised him as some free speech hero exposing nefarious Jewish schemes, the likelihood of such attacks approached 100%. (9/20)
When the US media establishment and parts of the Democratic Party elite made Mahmoud Khalil, a degenerate terror supporter, into a cause célèbre, the risk to Jews in the USA increased. (10/20)
When agents of Iran in the UK blurred the lines between Jewish and Zionist institutions—even kindergartens—while also openly calling for attacks on Zionists worldwide, and the UK police did nothing despite the obvious incitement to violence, violence against Jews in the UK became inevitable. (11/20)
When, as Drew Pavlou notes, left-wing influencer nepo babies like Hasan Piker hosted terror fans like George Ganitis (Bad Empanada), who encourages terror attacks against Israelis, and faced no consequences, Jews were going to get killed as a result. (12/20)
When the Nazi account of history was revived from the dead by self-taught morons, blaming Churchill and the Jews for starting World War II, platformed by mainstream figures like Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan, and faced no consequences, Jewish blood inevitably flowed. (13/20)
When Tucker Carlson could do more to popularize Hitler's own interpretation of WWII than any man since Hitler, but still stood on stage with the President's son, and got his own son a job with the Vice President, and be invited to the White House, Jew-hate was well and truly normalized on the mainstream right. (14/20)
When Joe Rogan could do the same and rely on the continued friendship of certain Jews, for their own personal benefit but to their eternal shame, the battle to keep Jew-hate away from the right was lost. (15/20)
The horror today is that nothing can be done. A large portion of a generation in the West has been radicalized by foreign-funded hate campaigns against Jews and Israel.
Enthusiasts of Islamic moral absolutism and Marxist social revolutionaries alike picked up the tools of postmodernist moral relativism and have used them to try and fracture the West from within. (16/20)
Almost half of the world's Jews now live in Israel—that number rises each year—and are protected under the umbrella of the IDF. The other half almost all live in Western nations: 6 million in the USA, and about 1.5 million in Europe.
These two groups face the same threat from radicals but for different reasons. In Europe and Canada, police forces tasked with controlling mobs are mostly institutionally captured by people either sympathetic to their cause or too afraid to resist pandering to the mob for fear of being accused of the ultimate crime, Islamophobia. (17/20)
In the USA, policing is mostly much more robust, but widespread gun availability means that lone wolf attackers are basically impossible to stop.
It will not work, but nevertheless, a large portion of the youth have been indoctrinated—tens of millions of young people in the West are sympathetic to political violence against Israel, Jews, capitalism, and the West. This is now baked into the future of the West.
These indoctrinated radicals, on the left and the right, won't be able to form an army and they don't agree on much (except Jew-hate), so there will be no Civil War II. But a globalized, decentralized intifada? That is inevitable at this point. (18/20)
No nation has done more to bring about this calamity than Qatar, which saw an open goal and stuffed it with as much money as the US education system could absorb. Their reckoning is coming.
It was obvious from October 8, as Jew-hating protests ran rampant around the world, that the Jews of Israel would be safer than Jews in the West—better facing Hamas from behind the IDF than their Western fan clubs behind various incompetent and lightly armed police forces. (19/20)
So what can be done? The answer, unfortunately, is not positive. Things will definitely get worse, perhaps much worse, and it might be a generation until this evil works its way out of the system.
In Europe, Jews should leave. It's that time again, folks. There is no sugarcoating this—it's that final scene from Fiddler on the Roof again: Pack your bags, and remember that Anatevka wasn't that great anyway. Nobody is going to protect you from the mobs who will get bolder and more violent as the 21st century rolls on and your home nations deal with their own decline.
In the USA, Jews need to get guns to protect themselves and buckle up for tough times. Things will get worse before they get better. But again, the best protection against Jew-hate is to get behind, literally, the Israeli Army: Only they are actually "fighting" antisemitism. (20/20)
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Jews: we gather together tonight for Seder this Pesach at an extraordinary moment in Jewish history. Our grandparents could not have believed it, let alone the ancestors before them for 100 generations. This year is a Passover of gratitude and wonder. (1/6)
Never since the Maccabees have Jews managed to stand up against the beasts trying to kill us, pillage us, and push us around. This is a new thing.
We are the luckiest Jews to have ever lived, and it’s not even close. There are new rules, and we set them: Israel eliminated the IRGC thugs, who dedicated their lives to building nukes to murder eight million Jews, was a sort of “Nuremberg in advance,” and with guns. That's how it works from now on. (2/6)
What Jews are asked to do once a year is to sit down with their families, the unit that ties us 100 generations into the past but also the far future, and understand where we are. It’s never looked better than this year. Can you beleive it?
All the enemies arrayed against us have been pushed back, and never again will any enemy be allowed to build themselves up on our borders. Khameini should have read more Isaiah: “No weapon formed against you will succeed; and you will condemn every tongue that accuses you in judgment.”
Those that took up weapons are dead, and those who ran their propoganda for them will be repudiated too. (3/6)
It’s starting to look like this hunch was correct and that the IRGC, in a desperate attempt to set the region on fire and rally jihadists behind them, is trying to blow up the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount. This cluster munition flew directly over Al-Aqsa and landed just 200 meters away. This shell would have destroyed the domes. This seems to be their plan. It is the only possibile reason they are repeatedly targeting the Old City of Jerusalem. There are no military targets there, and most of the population is Muslim.
This shows exactly how close they came to destroying the Al Aqsa mosque on Temple Mount. Alarming.
This is the damage that the cluster shell did to a roadway. Al-Aqsa Mosque would have been destroyed. The shell landed about 200 meters west; it was fired from directly east, and so whistled over the roof of the dome, which is just out of sight behind the police vehicles.
“...it’s just a shame the world couldn’t know Larijani as I knew him... Larry—as his friends called him—once he’d wiped the blood of tens of thousands of protesters off his jackboots and ended a long day of signing execution orders for suspected homosexuals, was the kind of chap who’d have been an asset at any dinner party—full of witty repartee and hilarious anecdotes about why the world would be so much better without immodest women.”
Thoughts and prayers with John Simpson and all Larijani’s other friends at the BBC. 🙏
The thing about the kind of people who run the BBC, like John Simpson here, is that they imagine themselves to be a cut above the rest of us mere mortals. They can’t help but brag that they know, on a personal level, the people the rest of us simply vilify from afar. It's a sort of wierd, patrician attitude. They imagine themselves as saviours, well menaing T.E. Lawrence types who truly understand the put upon people of the world.
Anyway, can you imagine Simpson saying of say, Netanyahu that he was "clever and reasonable"? Looks who's clever and reaosnable now.
The Qatari pivot towards Israel & the Abraham Accords was probable since Trump’s election, inevitable once Iran was exposed as a paper tiger in June, and now that the IRGC is exiting the realm of geopolitical relevance, Qatar’s pivot is actually happening. Poor Medhi & Tucker.🧵
Qatar's Machiavellian schemes have reached a dead end. Can it make a U-turn?🧵
Nobody did more to support Hamas than Qatar—money, propaganda—so when this video of Qataris running from Iranian missiles in terror was shared in a Hamas group, what was the universal reaction? Laughter & joy. (2/8)
Qatar’s strategy was so clever. Whoever thought it up and implemented it is some true genius—or perhaps a very sharp team of Western consultants. They picked every point of influence in the West and made them their dependents.
It's almost as if they read "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion", believed it was real, and decided it to try it themselves. Who knows? That might actually be true, since The Protocols is a bestseller across the Arab world. (3/8)
While the Israeli successes in the Middle East over the last 2 years are astonishing, how has Israel done meeting its war goals in the Gaza Strip?
1. Destroy and disarm Hamas 2. Free the hostages 3. Ensure Gaza no longer threatens Israel
What will be happening in Gaza? (1/8)
1. Destroy and disarm Hamas (≈90% achieved)
Hamas has lost around 55% of its territory and about 90% of its initial trained fighting force of 35,000 through death, capture, or defection. While they may have recruited some new men, these recruits are low-quality, and the real bottleneck is arms. They have been hermetically sealed off from resupply for two years. They have lost almost all their heavy weapons and are reduced to IEDs and light arms, using ammunition very sparingly.
Their only real weapons are the Gazan people—more on that below. (2/8)
2. Free the hostages (≈99% achieved)
These are the only three hostages still held in Gaza, and all are confirmed dead: Dror Or, Ran Gvili, and Sudthisak Rinthalak. On October 6, 2023—and for many years prior—there were four Israelis held in Gaza, two of them alive. Israel did not go to war for the four; it will not go to war for the three.
So if Israel lacks sufficient motivation to disarm the dregs of Hamas, and the oppressed population lacks the ability, who will? Answer: nobody. So what’s the plan? (3/8)
Trump doesn’t get Europe. Trillions spent on windmills that need subsidies, raise electricity prices for everyone, and place an undue burden on the poorest—that’s money well spent, as it allows Europe to restore the landscapes that inspired so many artists like Constable… (1/6)
Sicne they also only provide occasional power, you still need all the coal plants, sitting and waiting to be used. But Van Gogh's classic, The Starry Night, is so much better in the original, with the turbines. (2/6)
People say that these windmills—sorry, turbines—are hideous and pointless, but who can argue that Da Vinci's masterpiece isn't improved by them? What could possibly make Tuscany more beautiful than more of these? (3/6)