TERRORISTS GOTTA TERRORIZE: Group claiming Europe antisemitic attacks tells CBS News it will target “U.S. and Israeli interests worldwide.”

A group that has claimed responsibility for a series of attacks targeting Jewish institutions across Europe told CBS News it will continue targeting U.S. and Israeli interests a day after three men were captured by security cameras torching ambulances used by a global Jewish medical organization in London.

Hours later, the little-known group claimed responsibility for another attack, in which a car was burned in a Jewish neighborhood in Antwerp, Belgium.

“We’ll keep threatening U.S. and Israeli interests worldwide until we’ve avenged every child in Gaza, Iran, Lebanon, and the resistance nations,” a person representing the Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia group (which translates as: The Islamic Movement of the Companions of the Righteous) told CBS News late Monday. “We urge people to stay away from Zionist and American interests and individuals to keep themselves safe.”

Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia first announced its existence in early March, after the U.S. and Israel launched the ongoing war on Iran. In the 25 days since, it has claimed a series of antisemitic attacks across Europe.

Stay alert.

PUTIN’S STUPID WAR:

It’s a fascinating thread with eye-popping numbers — even for people who have followed this war closely for four-plus years.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Sound GOP Strategy for November — Let Dems Keep Getting in Their Own Way. “There aren’t any Democrats who are going to be moving towards the center in order to appeal to moderate voters. James Talarico in Texas is being touted as a great moderate hope in his race for the United States Senate but he’s one of those climate change hysterics who thinks that we have to stop eating hamburgers in order to save the planet.”

ISAACMAN IS PROVING TO BE ANOTHER ONE OF TRUMP’S “SURPRISINGLY” SMART HIRES:

Exit quote: “It’s a new era. I’m not sure everyone realizes this, but Isaacman and his team have eyes wide open to a lot of the major challenges facing NASA and they’re trying to fix them. They’re working long days. Weekends. It’s inspiring to see our government work like this, especially in an era when so much seems broken. I don’t know what will happen. Maybe this Moon base all will fade away. But I do know that NASA’s chance for success in the next couple of decades is a lot higher today than it has been for a long, long time. What we were doing was decidedly not working. This has a chance.”

I LOVE A HAPPY ENDING: Mamma Mia! Italian Anarchist Couple Blow Themselves Up While Trying to Engineer Mass Casualty IED. “If you don’t find this case nauseating enough on its own, take a look at how Pakistan TV, that nation’s official state-owned English news and current affairs channel, framed it. We often rail against our Democrat propagandist mainstream press, but this is truly special: it was a ‘tragic accident’ that just so happened to strike a lovely couple who were just ‘preparing a protest.'”

“Play stupid games, win stupid prizes” is the proper framing.

GOOD NEWS:

UNRWA is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hamas.

WHO’S IN CHARGE THERE, ANYWAY?

HMM: Trump says Iran gave the US ‘a very big present’ related to oil and gas.

“They gave us a present and the present arrived today. It was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money,” Trump said of Iran.

“It wasn’t nuclear-related, it was oil and gas-related,” he added, though he did not offer further details.

He described it as “very significant.”

Asked if it was related to the Strait of Hormuz, a key oil shipping channel that has been effectively blocked since the war began, Trump answered affirmatively.

“It was related to the flow” and the strait, he said.

The White House did not immediately respond to a question from The Hill about what exactly the gift was.

Well, stay tuned.

CONGRATULATIONS TO INSTAPUNDIT READER, AND LONGTIME BLOGGER, JEFFREY CARTER, who is running for Nevada State Treasurer. He just received the endorsement of Joe W. Brown.

TRUMP IS A LIVING UNO REVERSE CARD:

OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.

NOW IT’S A PATRIOTIC SONG? Bruce Springsteen Lets ACLU Use America Trashing “Born in the USA” for Birthright Citizenship Case Ads.

Trump-hating rocker Bruce Springsteen is allowing the American Civil Liberties Union to use his iconic, if often misunderstood, America trashing Vietnam War anthem “Born in the USA” for the ACLU’s ad campaign promoting the leftist group’s birthright citizenship case set for an April 1 Supreme Court hearing challenging President Donald Trump’s 2025 executive order restricting who is eligible for birthright American citizenship.

The use of Born in the USA as a patriotic song is a 180 degree reversal for Springsteen who has long downplayed the notion the song is patriotic.

When Born in the USA was released in mid 1984 as an album title and later a single, both promoted with Springsteen in front of a large American flag, it was embraced by conservatives, including President Ronald Reagan and columnist George Will, for it’s boisterous chest pounding chorus.

The song’s theme of a disgruntled Vietnam veteran who was used, abused and forgotten by his countrymen, ending up in prison, was overshadowed at concerts by the blaring stadium rock anthem arrangement and singalong chorus that audiences in the U.S. and around the world proudly sang: “Born in the USA!!! Born in the USA!!!”

Flashback: ‘Born In the USA’ Now Fits The Conservative Message.

It’s a trenchant commentary on the failures of the Great Society and radical environmentalism.

VDH: Who Was Cesar Chavez—and Who Will He Become?

So, the Left is on the horns of a dilemma. It was one thing to erase a liberal jurist like Earl Warren or a progressive president like Woodrow Wilson, given that they were white guys whose alleged sins came from their “privilege” as white males.

But what does the Left do in these cases of intersectional conflicts of interest, when a noble male of color is accused of violating noble women of color, and there is not a white male oppressor to be found amid this sordid mess?

In the case of the civil rights giant Martin Luther King Jr., it had long been alleged by his close aide Ralph Abernathy that King watched—and did not intervene, perhaps even egging on the attacker—when one of his subordinates raped a woman in a hotel room. And his biographer David Garrow has reluctantly chronicled the dark side of Reverend King as a promiscuous serial adulterer who, again, allegedly got violent with some of his liaisons.

Yet for the Left, the world retains a Manichean divide between all the noble oppressed, now defined by their innate race, gender, and sexual orientation, and all the evil oppressors, mostly white, male, and heterosexual.

Leftists toppled or removed statues of genuine heroes like Christopher Columbus, Ulysses S. Grant, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and George Washington; what, then, will they do with Chavez, who, as a figure of the modern age, was well aware of the norms, mores, laws, and customs of the late twentieth century?

The Left has ended any talk that a person’s life is a sum of good and bad, to be weighed somehow one against the other. In their past record of blanket ostracism, they were incapable of assessing anyone outside their ideological circle as a terrible private person, but one who, nevertheless, as a public figure, did some good things, much less consider the context of the times in which the fallen hero had lived.

But will they then apply that reductionism to Chavez or King, or even to John F. Kennedy or Bill Clinton?

It’s a sort of negative intersectionality — Chavez’s #metoo violations and doubleplus ungood comments on illegal immigration meant that he became an unperson last week virtually instantly: