Intifada Globalized

The West's Jew-free future?

On the first night of Hanukkah, two men dressed in black opened fire on families gathered at Sydney’s Bondi Beach for a community celebration. Twelve dead—including children, including a Chabad rabbi. Twenty-nine wounded. Improvised explosive devices recovered from a vehicle nearby. One attacker killed at the scene, another in critical condition.

“Globalize the Intifada” has been the chant echoing through Western streets since October 7th, 2023, and now, for years before that, if one was paying attention. It was painted, screamed, printed, and turned into our latest radical-chic incantation. The Israeli Foreign Minister’s statement in the attack’s aftermath rightfully made the connection: “These are the results of the antisemitic rampage in the streets of Australia over the past two years, with the antisemitic and inciting calls of ‘Globalise the Intifada’ that were realised today.”

“Globalize the Intifada” was never a metaphor. Intifada means what it has always meant in practice—acts of anti-Jewish violence. To globalize it simply means to do so globally.

For those of us who have spent years documenting the infrastructure of contemporary antisemitism/antizionism, this may be shocking but not surprising. The only surprise is the persistent capacity of others to be surprised. Australia, like many other Western countries in love with the exotic and the untamed, has spent two decades actively importing and financially and politically rewarding radical movements and then insisting that the resulting problems are the fault of those who notice them. This resulted in what is now likely an irreversible reality in many of these countries: large, active networks of Islamist and anti-Zionist organizations whose relentless activism naturally became the operational terrain of foreign intelligence services—Iranian, Qatari, Turkish, and perhaps others.

Any sober observer must be honest. Outside the United States, there is no Western political establishment with either the will or the capability to address this problem, let alone reverse its growth. The future of Western Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand is likely to be increasingly Jew-free and increasingly dysfunctional. As strange as it may seem to read the latest White House National Security Strategy distancing itself from Europe, the assessment is correct—and the distancing is prudent. The de-civilization of Europe, a program conceived by European elites over decades and for which mass migration and Islamic movements were recruited as instruments, is likely unstoppable. (American elites are no different. But the country is.)

This does not mean Western societies will be governed by Sharia law. That fantasy only contributes to the confusion. What it means is that Western societies will become their own versions of Third Worldist caste systems: autocratic, corrupt, stratified. Think less caliphate, more Latin America, national wealth sold by corrupt elites to Gulf investors and other foreign patrons, while populations are abandoned to navigate the wreckage on their own, just like many European women and Jews now have to do so.

The anti-Zionist derangement of the last two years was our final warning. In it, we saw the full legitimization of genocidal anti-Zionism within the commanding heights of Western institutional life and its enthusiastic adoption by large segments of the public. The protests themselves, as they began immediately on October 7th, were celebrations of the Hamas massacres, organized before the first IDF soldier entered Gaza. They revealed what had been constructed over decades. The encampments, the building occupations, the harassment campaigns against Jewish students, the open calls for intifada, the attacks on Jews and Jewish places–it is the new baseline, our new norm.

I am often a pessimistic writer. This is true. But I am not a defeatist. I use pessimism as a hammer—to shatter through the layers of liberal narcotics that have dulled people to the active decay of Western institutions, politics, and life. Not to induce despair, but to force some sight, some recognition. To make clear that our problems are compounding and that no one is thinking on your behalf. No one is working for your future. No one is protecting your children. There is no authority left to whom you can outsource the question of what to believe, how to raise your family, what dangers to take seriously and which to ignore. The competent Western institutions once tasked with these responsibilities have been dead for some time. Their places have been occupied by credentialed mediocrities milking ever-thinning cows. You are on your own. Act accordingly. Act responsibly. I’m with you.