You’ve heard the chant, now see the chilling result. If you want to know what “Globalize the Intifada” means, you probably don’t have to look too far. This is not just a mindless mantra for disaffected keffiyeh-wrapped protesters on college campuses.
Globalize the Intifada costs lives. It was seen in the shooting incident in Washington in May, when two young Israeli diplomats were killed, and the Molotov cocktail attack last month in Boulder, Colorado, which resulted in the murder of 82-year-old Karen Diamond.
Last week, the Intifada went global “Down Under,” when the front door of the historic East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation was set on fire while 20 congregants and guests sat down to a Friday night meal. Shortly afterward, a restaurant owned by an Israeli chef was trashed by a group of pro-Palestinian protesters shouting “Death to the IDF,” terrorizing the diners. Elsewhere in the city, antisemitic graffiti was spray-painted on the walls of a business, and three cars were torched outside.
“Globalize the Intifada,” “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free,” “Free, free Palestine,” “There is only one solution: Intifada, revolution,” and the latest hit – courtesy of rapper duo Bob Vylan – “Death, death to the IDF” – these are not slogans, they’re a form of brainwashing and indoctrination.
The chants take different forms, but they all ultimately have one meaning: Death to the Jews. They are a call to eliminate the Jewish state and the Jewish people.
The chants have another thing in common – they are not prayers for peace in the Middle East or for a better world. As we have seen, attacks might start with Jews, but they never end there. Calls to “Globalize the Intifada” light a very dangerous spark.
THE EYE ON Antisemitism watchdog group on July 5 listed 17 arson attacks on synagogues since October 7, 2023 – the Hamas-led mega-atrocity that led to the ongoing war in Gaza. The list is a global indictment. It starts with an attack in Tunisia on October 17, 2023, and includes arson attacks on Jewish houses of worship in Canada, Armenia, Germany, France, Russia, Poland, Ukraine, and the US. In some countries, including Australia, Canada, and the US, more than one synagogue was set on fire.
Although Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese went through the motions of condemning last Friday’s attacks, the response was subdued. Perhaps this was because, thankfully, no one was killed. Or perhaps, and this is a terrible feeling, it was because the victims were Jews. Imagine the – justified – outrage had a mosque been set on fire.
As Israeli writer and activist Hen Mazzig posted on X: “One night was enough to leave the entire Jewish community shaken, wondering if this city is still safe for Jews. Or if it’s time to leave again.
'This is Australia in 2025. Not Germany in the 1930s.'
Mazzig, who is gay, also called out the hypocrisy at recent Pride events. Last week’s London Pride parade could have been comic if it weren’t so tragic. Pro-Palestinian rioters from the Youth Demand movement disrupted the parade by pouring red paint on a float and blocking the route to protest the sponsorship by US tech company Cisco because of its Israeli ties. This is the same group that interrupted the London Marathon earlier this year with anti-Israel protests.
Incidentally, many members of the Jewish LGBT community skipped the main event for fear of being targeted by pro-Palestinian supporters; they held their own Pride rally elsewhere in the British capital. There is a sad irony in Jews feeling threatened at an event specifically aimed at expressing inclusion.
In Israel, this year’s main Pride Parade had to be postponed due to the Iranian missiles during Operation Rising Lion (the 12-day Israel-Iran War). The colorful event takes place annually in Tel Aviv, considered one of the most gay-friendly cities in the world. The pro-Palestinian protesters are siding absurdly with the anti-Israel Iranian and Hamas regimes – regimes that execute homosexuals. Good luck with globalizing the Intifada while preserving LGBT rights. Or any human rights.
Churches are frequently torched in Egypt and throughout Africa, where there is an under-reported ongoing campaign against Christians. This, too, is part of the globalized Intifada – the part where it meets “Global Jihad.” Shrug it off at your peril.
The UK this week commemorated the 20th anniversary of 7/7, when four British-born, Islamist suicide bombers simultaneously blew themselves up on three trains and a bus in London, indiscriminately murdering 52 people of different religions and backgrounds.
A DIRECT line, drawn in blood, connects 9/11, 7/7, and other acts of global jihad to the barbaric attack of October 7, 2023. On October 7, Iranian-sponsored terrorists from Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and other movements invaded southern Israel, murdering, raping, mutilating, and beheading victims. Entire families were shot or burned alive in their homes – 30 children were among the 1,200 murdered that day; 251 people – Israelis and foreign nationals – were abducted, of whom 50 remain in terrorists’ hands in Gaza, 20 of them are believed to be alive.
On Tuesday, First Lady Michal Herzog was presented with the findings of “The Dinah Report: A Quest for Justice October 7 and Beyond.” The project aims to attain recognition and justice for the victims and survivors of October 7, which “included widespread heinous acts of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence, all aimed at a total dehumanization of Israelis and Israeli society.”
The project is “based on a simple yet powerful premise: justice can and must be achieved, whether through criminal prosecutions, civil proceedings, or international tribunals.”
The need for the report partly stemmed from the way that international women’s organizations were strangely silent when it came to the harrowing evidence of rape, gang rape, sexual mutilation, and humiliation of women on October 7 and of those abducted to Gaza. Rape victims are always believed – unless they are Israelis. It’s been dubbed the “MeToo, Unless You’re a Jew” phenomenon.
Useful idiots are sucked in by Hamas’s slick propaganda and lies. This week, for example, there were reports of an Israeli military attack on Gaza’s al-Baqa Café. Palestinian sources declared more than 30 dead. But here’s food for thought: What kind of café operates in an area supposedly suffering from famine to the point that Israel has been accused of “genocide” and “war crimes” by starvation? If a café in Gaza is open and busy (and supplied with food) it is with the approval of Hamas – and likely with the help of international “humanitarian aid” hijacked by the terrorist organization.
The hostages, on the other hand, are starving in dark, airless terror tunnels. Hamas won’t set them free while it can benefit from using them as pawns and human shields. It remains to be seen what the latest rounds of negotiations for their release will bring. Moreover, Hamas, which abducted them and has held them hostage for more than 650 days, is not the victim, and the terrorists should not be rewarded and encouraged to commit future attacks.
Another reminder of the depths of Hamas’s depravity was evident in a video published this week by Gaza-born, American anti-Hamas activist Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib. The “Pallywood”-style footage shows men affiliated with Hamas and other “charities” cynically pretending to deliver food to children in Gaza and then taking it back after they’ve finished filming the charade. “Evil personified,” as Alkhatib put it.
But amid the darkness, there was also good news. Sparks of hope instead of sparks of arson.
This week, a delegation of 15 imams and Muslim community leaders from France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, and the United Kingdom came to Israel to promote a message of peace and coexistence.
Imam Hassen Chalghoumi, Chairman of the Conference of Imams of France and Imam of Drancy, led the delegation under the auspices of ELNET, the European Leadership Network.
At a meeting with President Isaac Herzog at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, Chalghoumi said, “What we have witnessed since October 7 is not merely a conflict between Israel and Hamas, nor between Israel and Hezbollah… Rather, it is a confrontation between two fundamentally different worlds. You represent the world of brotherhood, of humanity, of compassion. You stand for the values of democracy and liberty.”
Instead of joining the chants to “Globalize the Intifada,” the world should listen to the brave voice of reason.