December 14, 2025

QUESTION: If, as Ed notes, the Intifada has been globalized, doesn’t that mean that it’s been, well, globalized on both sides? If it’s a global Intifada, then isn’t a mosque or Islamic “charity” that, say, provided the guns to the Bondi shooters a legit target for droning? If not, why not? Can you have a global war in only one direction?

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ANOTHER UPDATE (FROM GLENN): A friend writes: “I’d say Bondi is exactly what globalize the intifada looks like. Murdering Jews wherever they find them. And every leftie with a keffiyeh should be made to know it.”

Yep. Make them own it.

Posted at 8:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

LOOK, TIMES ARE STILL TOUGH FOR MOST PEOPLE:  But these people need heat. I don’t know why they don’t say it in the description, but their heat quit, and they’re at rock bottom and working as hard as they can. (And they’re decent people.)  Help the Gregorys with home repairs!

Posted at 8:29 pm by Sarah Hoyt

CITIZENS DON’T NEED GUNS. THE POLICE WILL PROTECT YOU!

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Posted at 8:20 pm by Glenn Reynolds

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Posted at 7:09 pm by Glenn Reynolds

MAKE CHILE GREAT AGAIN! Kast Wins: Migration and Crime Fears Prod Chile to the Right in Presidential Vote. “Regionally, Kast’s triumph represents the latest rebuke of the left in Latin America after Javier Milei’s party won midterm elections in Argentina and Rodrigo Paz ended 20 years of socialist rule in Bolivia. It also gives US President Donald Trump another ally in a region that has increasingly tilted toward China in recent decades.”

Posted at 6:45 pm by Glenn Reynolds

ROGER SIMON: Are Tucker and Candace Responsible for Sydney Terror?

Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, plus the whole metastasizing antisemitic crew infecting social media, are not directly responsible for the horrifying Chanukah carnage in Sydney that, as of now, killed 15 and injured 40.

Still, it’s hard to deny that they—putatively conservatives, once anyway—with their constant internecine hostility generate a zeitgeist that encourages such events near and far.

Save Sen. John Fetterman, one of the few courageous politicians who declared opposition to rewarding Palestinian violence with a state, on Maria Baritoromo this morning (Dec. 14), it’s also hard to deny that nearly the entire Democratic Party has turned against Israel,

But that’s an old story. At the 2012 Democratic Party convention, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa called for a voice vote in favor of moving the American embassy to Jerusalem. He got a salvo of furious catcalls in response.

By now, there’s hardly a defender of Israel in that party other than Sen. Fetterman. Most who may be are too afraid to say so.

Though smaller in number, the rise of antisemitism on the right is more recent and, to some extent, more ominous. It threatens to leave Jews and Israel without their only solid ally (and, not so parenthetically, the USA without its only reliable military partner in the Middle East).

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 4:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

ROBERT SPENCER: Australia Discovers What It Means to ‘Globalize the Intifada.’

What exactly would it mean to “globalize the intifada”? What would a globalized intifada even look like? At least twelve people are dead and 29 injured on Australia’s Bondi Beach Sunday, as two Muslims opened fire upon a Hanukkah celebration. And so now the world has yet another example of what looks like when an intifada is globalized.

“Intifada” means “shaking off” or “rebellion,” and refers to armed struggle against Israel, including Israeli civilians. The Jerusalem Post noted back in 2021, when there was a good deal of globalization of the intifada that went largely unnoticed, 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.”

And so it is clear: globalizing the intifada means doing violence to Jews the world over. When New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani refuses to condemn the term, he is tacitly admitting that he has no problem with violence against Jews who are not members of the IDF, not fighting in Gaza, but just going about their business on Bondi Beach and elsewhere.

Australia welcomed in the killers who decided to globalize the intifada on Bondi Beach. It welcomed them as “asylum seekers” and “refugees,” but they were actually Islamic jihadis, or became Islamic jihadis once in Australia. (Either way, it’s not a good advertisement for Australia’s immigration policy, which is essentially the same as immigration policies all over Europe and North America.) One of the mass murderers is named Naveed Akram. He is from Pakistan. The other is Khaled al-Nabulsi, who hails from Lebanon and pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS). Police said that they were “aware” of one of these grateful asylum seekers before he made the decision to murder Jews in large numbers in order to gain the favor of Allah. They did not, obviously, do anything to stop him.

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Posted at 4:10 pm by Ed Driscoll

DECLINE IS A CHOICE: The Blue Zones Are 38% Ruined: but next week it’ll be 39%. “There’s a lot ruin in a blue zone. People in neighborhoods work at the preservation of order while they vote for disorder. Ordinary lives keep the squalor sort of more or less at bay, even when government stops bothering. Blue Model governance is a metastasizing disaster, caring for nothing and going broke while doing it. If you gave Gavin Newsom a dozen bright red roses, I suspect the bouquet would die in his hands before he could put it down. The man is the angel of death. But California isn’t dying; California is sort of okay, because many people sort of still try. The implication is that the decaying places could be turned around pretty easily, even after years of appalling government failure.”

Well, we saw that in NYC under Giuliani.

Posted at 2:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

WELL, STAY TUNED:

Posted at 2:26 pm by Glenn Reynolds