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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On set today with Inbal Rabin-Lieberman, the 26-year-old heroine whose quick thinking and IDF weapons training meant that her village, Nir Am, was the only one along the Gaza border where none of the residents was killed.
She’s watching today as they film a reenactment of her actions on October 7. She and her team, with only light weapons, killed 70 heavily armed, drugged-up terrorists as they came to murder their families—twelve civilians held the line for four hours.
Remember: this is why they chant "Death to the IDF"—they want these pesky heroes out of the way so the savages can have their fun unmolested.
How do the "Death to the IDF" kids at Glastonbury hold up to young women like Inbal? What have they ever done to protect their families, their communities? What would they do when the barbarians come to scale the fence?
Her 700 neighbours owe her their lives. Including her then unborn nephew, now 18 months, who will one day get to watch the movie about his aunt and how she saved his life.
There are 100 stories like Inbal that could be dramatised into full-length movies, with no need for even a drop of embellishment.
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. (1/7)
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. (2/7)
They worked out which colleges fed into critical nodes—like Georgetown and the State Department—and ploughed money in. Many new recruits in sensitive government departments come fresh from the mad rantings of people like Jonathan AC Brown.
They trained a generation of journalists at their Al Jazeera propaganda network. They bought right-wing and left-wing media, and when they didn’t buy them, they made themselves indispensable—becoming, as with the UK’s failing Sky News, their only major advertising partner. (3/7)
A week into one of the most audacious military operations in history, what is the state of play? Iran is petulantly lashing out, flailing, while Israel is tearing its way through the regime, inflicting 2 to 3 orders of magnitude more damage on Iran than vice versa. 🧵(1/7)
Their attacks are simply depleting their remaining stocks, exposing their launch sites, but doing no damage at all to Israel’s military apparatus. They have killed 22 Israeli civilians, as well as 5 Ukrainians, and done perhaps $50 million worth of property damage.
The cost to them of these attacks, when all is said and done—including the sanctions they forced their people to bear over decades, the R&D, the opportunity cost? Certainly hundreds of billions of dollars. Most of what they built up over 40 years has disappeared in a week. (2/7)
Almost comically, they have sent over 1,000 drones against Israel in the past week, and not a single one has made it through. On their drones, they are zero for a thousand. (3/7)
MEHDI: "Wow! All you had to do to make me like Nazi-apologia fan, & fellow Qatari teet-suckler Tucker, was to stop the IRGC, who promised for 50 years to genocide the Jews, from getting the tools to actually do it! It's almost like a horseshoe!" (1/6)
This is not a coincidence: you can learn a lot about what really matters to someone by what they are willing to compromise on. For example, Netanyahu and Lapid are bitter rivals—but faced with the threat of nuclear annihilation, they come together, because that is the most important issue.
And so too with Mehdi and Tucker: they can also come together around the issue of the nuclear annihilation of Israel. Because that is the true core of their belief systems; everything else is peripheral, secondary. (2/6)
They didn’t realize that their patron in Qatar was just playing a game. Qatar is more threatened by an Iranian nuke than anyone. It isn’t a real country in the traditional sense—it has no real army—and a nuclear Iran would mean the disappearance of the American base that protects it, and the arrival of Shia domination over their Sunni statelet with just 0.5% of the citizenry.
Qatar only wanted Iran to play the bad cop in its great game against Israel, the West, and its Saudi and Emirati rivals. Part of that strategy included Tucker and Mehdi—useful idiots they hired—who genuinely dreamed of a nuclear Iran, not realizing they were merely being used as one of Qatar’s many instruments.
But just as Hamas didn’t realize it was meant to be only a proxy for Iran and went rogue—bringing down the entire Axis of Resistance—the influencers didn’t realize they were just pawns on the chessboard. (3/6)
It's a landscape of broken glass here at the end of my street in Tel Aviv where my friend, the journalist, @ShannaFuld had her apartment trashed by an IRGC missle, as she explains to CNN's Jeremy Diamond. Iran attacks random civilians, Israel eliminates generals.
Some photos from the scene, edited to remove any information about the precise location.
As @ShannaFuld told me, if she hadn't been inside the concrete safe room she wouldn't be alive. If these innacurate terror weapons were fired at the average wood build American city, the devastation would be massive.
Nobody has noticed Netanyahu’s deeply symbolic choice of the name “Rising Lion” for the operation he’s dreamed of for 30 years.
Iran, like Israel, has been a symbolized by a lion for 2,500 years. And now history comes full circle: it was Persia that, after 50 years of Israelite exile, enabled the restoration of Israel in Jerusalem. Now, 2,500 years later, Israel—reborn—repays the favor with perfect symmetry. Persia’s great civilization will be restored, and its occupiers vanquished, after 50 years. Isn’t that beautiful?
So, Sinwar's attack will indeed achieve its stated goal: It will end the occupation... of Iran...
The next domino is the IRGC: Sinwar's folly will end with Reza Pahlavi coronated on his father's throne, returned to the land he was exiled from as a boy, with the Israeli prime minister in attendance. Bookmark this.