My latest in PJ Media:
On Saturday in Brooklyn, a few hundred supporters of the Palestinian cause held a rally that demonstrated how overheated the Left’s rhetoric has become: Demonstrators weren’t even trying to hide their bloodlust and thirst for violence. And they went away, no doubt, nevertheless believing themselves to be on the side of righteousness.
The demonstration, which was organized by a group that calls itself “Within Our Lifetime – United for Palestine,” featured banners proclaiming: “Zionism is terrorism,” “We will free Palestine within our lifetime,” and “Globalize the intifada.”
“Intifada” means “shaking off” or “rebellion,” and refers to armed struggle against Israel, including Israeli civilians. The Jerusalem Post notes that “during the Second Intifada from 2000-2005, Palestinian terrorist groups, including Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and some affiliated with Fatah, carried out hundreds of terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians and security personnel, killing more than 1,000.”
What would it mean to globalize an intifada? It is hard to escape the conclusion that it would mean violence against Jews the world over, as we have seen recently. Around the time of the recent conflict between Hamas and Israel, Palestinian Muslims and their supporters committed acts of violence against Jews and supporters of Israel all over the United States. In New York City, a Muslim mob screaming “Allahu akbar” attacked a Jewish man in midtown Manhattan. Also in Manhattan, Palestinians threatened violence and screamed anti-Semitic slurs at Jews. One threw a mini-firebomb. Pro-jihad protesters stormed a restaurant and spat on Jewish patrons; one of the thugs threw a bottle. A Muslim, Waseem Awawdeh, was arrested for viciously beating a Jew in Times Square.
In Los Angeles, Palestinian protesters asked people dining at the Sushi Fumi restaurant if they were Jewish, and proceeded to attack them with knives. Elsewhere in Los Angeles, two cars festooned with Palestinian flags chased a Jewish man down a street as he was leaving his synagogue. In Florida, a van also bearing a Palestinian flag and emblazoned with the slogan “Hitler was Right” drove past a pro-Israel demonstration. In Skokie, Illinois, a pro-jihad vandal wearing an Arab headdress smashed a synagogue window and left a Palestine flag and a pro-jihad sign inside. And in Boston, an anti-Semitic Muslim migrant named Khaled Awad approached a rabbi outside a Jewish day school and stabbed him eight times.
From the looks of all this, the intifada is already well on the way to being globalized. Meanwhile, when the protesters declared their intention to “free Palestine within our lifetime,” they made it very clear that they were not referring to the establishment of a Palestinian state that would live in peace with Israel, as so many presidents have fondly hoped for. Rather, they had in mind the total destruction of Israel, which would necessarily involve the violent deaths of millions of Jews. The demonstrators made this clear when they screamed, “We don’t want no two states, we want all of it.”
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Madeleine Dunn says
9/11 was global intifada. Not only Jews, all those who stand for western civilization.
Infidel says
Precisely!
gravenimage says
Too true.
Mount Zion says
Why were they not rounde up in Brooklyn and charged with incitement to violence . Can you imagine if someone had called for worldwide violence against muslims . In virtually every western country there is gang rapes , honor killings , forced marriage , FGM , beheadings and other unspeakable crimes against humanity by the most beautiful religion of peace on the face of the earth and yet , there is still no action beeing taken when they openly call for worldwide violence against jews .
Tony Said says
Of course there should be no violence against Jews or against anybody else in the whole world. But let us add: no violence against Palestinians. including no theft of Palestinian lands guaranteed to them by international treaties. Is that so hard to understand?
gravenimage says
The Balfour Declaration did indeed found a modern Israel–just a tiny sliver of their ancestral land. The “Palestinians” never identified as such before the 1967 war–this is a Soviet invention. they just considered themselves local Muslims–Jordanians or Egyptians. And no–defending against Jihad terror is not “violence”
Previously he has sneered at Israelis for not, among other things, murdering homosexuals. Here he is, ranting about the “Synagogue of Satan”:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/04/irans-foreign-minister-kerry-informed-him-about-covert-israeli-actions-in-syria-at-least-200-times#comment-2339842
He has also claimed that Muslims welcomed the Jews with open arms–hoping that we are ignorant of Islam’s genocidal hatred of Jews, as well as the history of the Levant.
Tony Said used to pose here as an Anti-Jihadist–but of late all he has done is condemn democratic Israel. Ugly stuff.
mortimer says
SOLICITING VIOLENCE AGAINST JEWS IN BROOKLYN ??? Normative Islam, rather than an aberration.
Hadith: ” … Jews (will) hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him!”
The Hamas Charter explicitly abjures negotiated settlements as mechanisms for peaceful coexistence:
“There is no other solution for the Palestinian problem other than jihad. All the initiatives and international conferences are a waste of time and a futile game.” According to the Charter, those against whom jihad is to be directed are the Jews. “The Nazism of the Jews,” it says, “does not skip women and children, it scares everyone. They make war against people’s livelihood, plunder their moneys and threaten their honor.” Hamas seeks to fulfill the Qur’anic scripture which reads: “The prophet, prayer and peace be upon him, said: The time will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews (and kill them); until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him!”
The Hamas Charter further states:
“Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it”; “The day the enemies usurp part of Moslem land, Jihad becomes the individual duty of every Moslem. In the face of the Jews’ usurpation, it is compulsory that the banner of Jihad be raised”; “Ranks will close, fighters joining other fighters, and masses everywhere in the Islamic world will come forward in response to the call of duty, loudly proclaiming: ‘Hail to Jihad!’. This cry will reach the heavens and will go on being resounded until liberation is achieved, the invaders vanquished and Allah’s victory comes about.”
Rob Porter says
Mortimer, Cowardice and ignorance in the West toward this ‘Islamophobia’ fraud is appalling. In Canada a Canadian soldier in Quebec was run down and killed – by a Muslim. A soldier standing duty alongside a war monument outside parliament was shot and killed – by a Muslim. (The Royal Canadian Mounted Police then made strenuous efforts to conceal his Islamic beliefs. So did Canada’s utterly gutless media). Two or three soldiers were stabbed inside a military recruitment office in Toronto – by a Muslim from Somalia. Faisal Hussain, conducted a jihad attack in the Danforth area of Toronto; he shot 13, killing two girls. Just a few weeks ago a Muslim ran down and murdered a veteran police officer in Toronto.
Never in Canada’s media and from politicians are these crimes connected to Islam, to Islamic teachings or the Qur’an. There is no talk of Muslim terrorism, let alone Islamic ‘jihad’.
But when a young man in London, Ontario, ran down and murdered four Muslims the howls of ‘Islamophobia’, hatred of Muslims, and ‘racism’, all a lie, were endless – and still are. All of Canada’s wondrously gutless political party leaders rushed to London to attend a vigil and to express politically correct rubbish. The world’s champion victimizers, Muslims’, were presented as the ‘victims’ and millions of dollars given to Muslim to combat ‘islamophobia’.
All of this insane refusal by Western cowards and fools to address ‘jihad’ is only going to get worse as Muslims capitalize on Western cowardice, stupidity, and willful ignorance.
James Lincoln says
Grimly true, Rob…
gravenimage says
Pro-Palestinian Demonstrators in Brooklyn Call for Worldwide Violence Against Jews
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And it is no coincidence that this call for genocide was held in NYC–one of the places with the largest Jewish population outside of Israel. Damn barbarians.
mortimer says
First those barbarians will burn us in effigy. Then they will burn us for real. Islam cannot be satisfied by half measures. Muslims in the US are starting by targeting Israel, then they will target Jews, then they will target everyone else. Are American Jews still not aware that the Dems are allowing this Jew hatred in their party unchecked? How bad must it get?
I think of Jews in Europe who refused to see the signs of Hitlerism and when they realized they were trapped, it was too late. Very few Jews are participating in organizations that defend Jews from slander and persecution. They are mostly in denial of how bad it is.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Mortimer.
Rarely says
Grimly untrue.
gravenimage says
Rarely, Mortimer wrote:
Islam cannot be satisfied by half measures. Muslims in the US are starting by targeting Israel, then they will target Jews, then they will target everyone else.
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How is this untrue? Muslims are indeed targeting Jews *in this very story*–unless you are saying that the Jerusalem Post is lying about this story? Did FNTV somehow stage the footage of this demonstration? Did they have the approval of the NYPD? Citations, please.
Johnny B says
I’ve noticed a lot of people seem to think all of this has nothing to do with them. Now, I’m Christian and have a different perspective on it than most of my fellow-countrymen. But if anybody, who’s not affiliated with any religion believes this will continue to be irrelevant for them, they’re in for a rude awakening sooner or later. They can keep silencing Islam-critics all they want, but that would be like killing the Canary in the coal-mine before it’s able to warn anybody of impending danger.
Alfredo says
The real invaders are the Arabs who under the warlock Umar swept across the Holy Land in 641.
There is no record of a kingdom called Palestine unlike the kingdom of Israel, with a long tradition going back thousands of years. It was the Romans who started using the term Palestine to deride the Jews because of their refusal to worship images of their Cesar. That is blasphemy to the Jews.
In fact, King David insisted on paying and he paid a generous amount, 50 Silver Shekels for the threshing fields on Mount Moriah upon which Jerusalem now stands, to the Jebusite Araunah, even though Araunah offered it to King David for free! Now, that’s how an honourable man comports himself!
Therefore the real usurpers are the Arabs calling themselves Palestinians. The Arabs have 22 countries already, but as they and their ignorant, gullible and misguided useful idiots chant in the streets of Brooklyn, New York “We don’t want (sic) no two states, we want all of it.” That says it all.
Alfredo says
Time to point out a few uncomfortable facts to those tempted to swallow the deceitful narrative spewed by the hate mongers.
The real Invaders were the Arabs who under warlock Umar swept across the Holy Land in 641. There is no record of a kingdom called Palestine.
It was the Romans who started using the term to deride the Jews for their refusal to worship images of Cesar.
That is blasphemy to the Jews.
In fact king David insisted on paying for the threshing fields on Mount Moriah upon which Jerusalem now stands to the Jebusite Araunah.
He payed 50 Silver Shekels, a generous sum, even though Araunah offered it to him for free!
The Arabs have 22 countries already, but that’s not enough, now calling themselves Palestinians and their useful idiots, parade down the streets of Brooklyn, New York chanting “We don’t want sic no two states, we want all of it.” That says it all.
OLD GUY says
The leaders of the Palestinian Authority probably don’t want the problem to go away as they are banking millions of dollars off of this. On top of which the islamic hate for the Jewish people is over the top. The Muslim leadership want world control and are chipping away at it. There is no negotiation when one side is unwilling to accept a compromise. This fight will continue until one side destroys the other.