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Does any Jewish person outside of Israel feel completely safe celebrating a holiday in a public space right now? It’s unlikely. And that’s the point of terrorism.

“Globalize the intifada” isn’t a phrase rich in history or subtext, despite the contentions of its many apologists. Its meaning is clear. To “globalize” a thing is to make it international. That thing is “intifada,” an explicit call for violence against Jews. Intifada, “uprising” in Arabic, is just Palestinian for “jihad,” rebranded for credulous and malevolent Westerners.

Technically, the first “intifada” began in 1987, a wave of violence meant to attract Western audiences. It worked. So, Palestinians did it again with the “Second Intifada,” cresting with the 2001 Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing in Jerusalem, during which 16 people, including seven children and a pregnant woman, were murdered — one of them an American citizen. The third intifada has been by far the most successful due to its globalization.

Intifada is when a pro-Palestinian Marxist murders evangelical Christian Yaron Lischinsky and his American girlfriend, Sarah Milgrim, in front of the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, before chanting, “Free, free Palestine.” Their sin was working at the Israeli Embassy.

Intifada is when a terrorist rams his car into a Manchester, England, synagogue on Yom Kippur and begins stabbing worshippers. The mass rape and murder of Oct 7, 2023, incidentally, was perpetrated on Simchat Torah.

The intifada........

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