We’re confronting something more sinister than organic pro-Palestinian anger

Jews are facing a surge of hatred and violence stretching from Liège to London and as far as San Jose, California. But what they confront is more sinister than a spontaneous outpouring of pro-Palestinian anger. Beneath the surface, it’s a coalescence of anti-Western subversion around Jew-hatred by multiple foreign interests. Some incidents that have alarmed Jewish communities—such as the torching of Jewish ambulances in London and graffiti campaigns in Paris—are the work of state-sponsored provocateurs. Efforts to inflame anger into calls for the murder of Jews worldwide are not isolated—they are part of a darker and broader effort to corrode and destabilize Western society. What links them together is that they leverage the Islamist ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, which aims to build a global caliphate by expanding political and religious control in the West. In a world where the West has yet to develop a coherent strategy to check the Brotherhood and Islamist ideology, we Jews need to stare down a future of “normal” antisemitism and refuse to surrender their birthright.

Islamists are attacking the West by employing an inside-to-outside offset strategy. Their primary weapon is a multifaceted chimera of internal subversion that adapts its form and function to ingrain itself in Western society. They further the cause of Islamism (Political Islam) by exploiting structural vulnerabilities in the scaffolding supporting Western democracy. Their efforts are amplified by Russia and China, who have allied Islamist narratives and sentiment to advance their own campaigns to weaken Western societies. They boost their efforts by moving extraordinarily large sums of money into the US to fund a highly centralized influence pipeline. The West inexplicably fails to grasp the threat, and instead maintains a blinkered focus on physical terrorism and immigration screening, not ideological infiltration.

Ideological subversion is a process designed to break a society from within by paralysing and replacing its core fabric.  In its goal state, writes Yuri Bezmenov, a former agent for a propaganda and ideological subversion front for the KGB, Novosti Press Agency, and the KBG: 

[T]he target population no longer recognizes what interests it should defend, nor how to defend them. Individuals become unable to distinguish truth from propaganda, and even when confronted with factual evidence, their reactions are shaped by pre-programmed ideological responses.[1]

(This sheds light on the “Queers for Palestine” slogan brandished at anti-Israel rallies, in willful blindness to the gay and bi men hanged from Iranian cranes to slowly suffocate to death before the public.)

For Political Islam (which shares some overlap with Iran’s Shi’a theocracy), subversion is a strategy of necessity to further its “notorious agenda of establishing a caliphate throughout the world by actualizing the agenda of Islamic conquest in the “non-Muslim” nation,” with Jews and Israel as principal targets of its hatred.[2] Its primary tactic harnesses an ostensibly religious missionary activity, Da’wah (“an invitation to faith”), which allows them to operate in plain sight, led by cells pretending to be innocent groups of preachers. This project extends ”a strategic ‘invitation’ that builds loyalty, spreads ideology, and fuels terrorist networks across the world.”[3] Its global system of recruitment and control is advanced by charities, schools, and media who spread radical ideas and expand its reach–often with the help of allied local political parties, NGOs and think-tanks. Under the cover of religious activity, Islamist groups have enjoyed not only official protection but also sponsorship from government agencies “duped into regarding them as representatives of ‘moderate Muslims’ simply because they do not engage in violence.”[4] Ayaan Hirsi Ali warns that:

Dawa is to the Islamists of today what the “long march through the institutions” was to twentieth-century Marxists. It is subversion from within—the abuse of religious freedom in........

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