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[Order Daniel Greenfield’s new book, Domestic Enemies: HERE.]
Just as every cell in the human body has a complete copy of our genetic code, so too every terrorist rally is a microcosm of the entire movement threatening America, Israel and the world.
The mob that converged on Congregation Adas Torah in a Jewish neighborhood in West LA was smaller than the thousands that had terrorized communities in New York and London, but all the elements that make up the pro-terror side were represented outside the synagogue.
The PLO terror flags waved by the rioters represented more than just the cause to destroy Israel, but the red-green alliance: the Marxists and Islamists who marched under its banner.
There were the embittered red diaper babies with ragged gray curls over worn t-shirts, scowling middle aged Muslim men off from their day jobs as government employees or laundromat managers, the UCLA ‘bros’ with blonde hair, ski goggles and keffiyahs, and the Muslim twenty-something young men who came masked, armed and eager for violence.
The mob besieging the synagogue on Pico Boulevard past which a children’s parade had recently passed to celebrate the Lag Baomer interregnum between the biblical Passover and Pentecost came accompanied by all the infrastructure developed over the years of leftist riots.
The younger leftist thugs wore ski goggles and masks, carried skateboards and metal water bottles, ‘legal’ weapons typically seen during Antifa clashes, and some were likely among those who had previously terrorized Jewish students at the UCLA terror encampment. And it did not take much time before they were assaulting Jewish community members in the neighborhood.
The terrorist supporters had brought their own legal aid with them in the form of the sneering ‘observers’ from the National Lawyers Guild, a Communist Cold War era organization, in their caps and shirts. They also had human shields in the form of activists in black face masks holding up handwritten signs claiming that they were Jewish and opposed to the Jewish State.
A handful of women (who were by far the minority) circulated between the Jewish community members and the LAPD officers and the terrorist supporters to also provide cover for the repeated terrorist assaults in the ‘chicks out front’ doctrine from the Marxist riots of the 1960s.
In a small scale recreation of the Gaza war in the middle of Los Angeles, Muslim teenagers and men masked in keffiyahs gathered near an alley and launched sorties, attacking Jewish community members, then using bear spray to cover their retreat, hiding behind the women, the leftist activists and the ‘Jewish’ opponents of Israel who turned around and played victim.
The stakes might be smaller but here was Hamas, here were the Jewish targets, and here also was the support infrastructure of leftists activists, lawyers and ‘journalists’ covering for them.
The whole Islamic terrorist strategy of Jihadists masking up, attacking and then hiding behind human shields was playing out on a normal street between two synagogues, a tailor shop, a dress shop, a watch repair place, and several restaurants.
The microcosm of clashes outside the synagogue became a citywide and then a national story. Public officials were forced to condemn it, but the media, led by the LA Times, whitewashed the attacks, quoted officials from CAIR, whose leaders had celebrated the Oct 7 atrocities by Hamas, and then editorialized against security for synagogues and a terror mask ban.
By the time the LA Times, the rest of the media and the leftist allies of the Islamic thugs were done, attacking a synagogue and assaulting Jewish community members had become a virtue.
Much as the only person to face serious charges after the Hamas encampment at UCLA terrorized Jewish students was a Jewish high school student, so too the only person arrested by the police when terrorist supporters attacked a synagogue was a Jewish community member.
The ‘Israel’ model was playing out the same way in L.A. And it can play out this way anywhere.
That is the most important lesson of the assault on a previously unknown synagogue in a neighborhood that most people ignore while passing between Santa Monica and Downtown LA.
Many of us take comfort in the idea that the horrors we’ve seen in Israel are a local phenomenon. We believe that occasional acts of terrorism can happen in America, but not the endless slow burning generational conflicts that define life in Israel and the Muslim world.
What is happening in Israel is not an aberration but the essence of the Islamic conflict strategy.
Israel can be anywhere. And every country with a large Islamic colonizing population and Marxist activist class will face the same problems. America is not ready for the fight of its life.
After Oct 7, Islamists and Marxists launched a bid to mainstream Islamic violence.
Before the Hamas attack on Israel, Islamic violence in America was mostly made up of terrorist attacks by individuals or very small cells. The exceptions occurred on college campuses. Islamist organizations advocated for terrorists but did not actively engage in street violence.
All of that has changed now.
The attack on the LA Synagogue was part of a larger wave of Islamic street violence that is no longer confined to college campuses, but has spread into Christmas tree lightings, parades, coffee shops and random public spaces. What some view as the ‘BLM-ization’ of the Hamas cause is more than that. It’s the inevitable next step before the rise of domestic terror groups.
Large scale Islamic protest violence, known as the ‘Intifada’, enabled the Islamic terrorist groups in Israel. The ‘cartoon’ protests and other forms of Muslim street violence in Europe enabled the wave of terror attacks attributed to foreign groups such as ISIS.
The Oct 7 Hamas rallies in America are bringing together the Jihadists who will carry out large scale attacks in America. And the Marxists who will enable them and cover up for them.
After 9/11, we smashed Al Qaeda’s networks and the Islamic terror group along with counterparts like ISIS resorted to online recruitment in America and Europe. The problem was that it was all too easy for the FBI and other law enforcement organizations to pretend to be ISIS. Many aspiring Islamic terrorists in America ended up sharing their plans to shoot up churches and synagogues with informants. Others had to ineptly launch attacks on their own.
Successful Islamic terrorist attacks were carried out by Jihadists who acted on their own and did not try to join ISIS online or who had a trusted family member to help them, like the San Bernardino husband and wife team and the Boston Marathon bomber brothers.
Islamic street violence after Oct 7 is likely to change all that by creating a cadre of Muslim men who have committed crimes together in the name of Islam and know they can trust each other.
The normalization of Islamic street violence under the leftist umbrella is a national threat.
What we have been seeing in America since Oct 7 is the emergence of a new terror movement.
And what I saw outside a synagogue is that the terrorists of tomorrow are enabled by the Left.
Similar situation in Australia. The Muslims and the Left stage protests which are violent. They also smash windows and glass doors of some politician’s offices and graffiti the walls with anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian comments. Our politicians and police do nothing to stop this. Why not? Their actions are criminal
Your quote,” Our politicians and police do nothing to stop this. Why not?”
It seems to me that they are Communist & Islamist sympathizers, that want overthrow your country & then take control, & once in control the real battle begins to find the top dog, is it Marxism or Islam?
For the world to live, Islam must die.
Or, at least, the world should be divided, sad to say. Dar-al-Islam and Dar al Harb. Count me in the latter. It really may happen, and there may be no other choice. Glad I will be dead.
Thank you for sharing your epiphany with us.
I look forward to hear what must the world do if Islam refuses to die. Start with yourself. What are YOU planning to do to assure its demise?
And the government, local & national on the side of this new form of threat not working to alleviate it.
That’s the aspect that makes me want to leave this country and why I can no longer identify with it or respect it and certainly can never love it.
Where would you go?
America used to be indispensable, and it could be again.
No other nations show any potential.
OK Cat. No one will be bugging you to help us.
I share your sentiments. I often think I’d like to just leave here but I’m old and there’s really no place to go. Although I do hold out hope the true American spirit will prevail I’m afraid I won’t live to see it.
We saw this yesterday in Queens but thankfully the protest was nowhere as violent as the riot in LA
For laws to have any meaning you need one thing, the will to enforce them.
The fact that Democrats have no will to enforce laws to protect actual minorities tells you all you need to know about who is the true law and order party (hint, it aint Democrats).
Appears both the Marxists and Islamists think they can use the other group for now to destroy Western society and then later crush their temporary ally. No matter who would win, humanity would lose.
Thank you for sharing your epiphany with us.
I look forward to hear what must the world do if Islam refuses to die. Start with yourself. What are YOU planning to do to assure its demise?
Fair point.
There is nothing we can do which would offer assurance, but perhaps we could smuggle lightweight guns to distribute to muslim women.
I can’t imaging that Muslim women actually LIKE being chattel-cattle.
“…we could smuggle lightweight guns to distribute to muslim women.”
I very much hope you’re joking.
“I can’t imaging that Muslim women actually LIKE being chattel-cattle.”
That’s of little consequence as long as moslem men LIKE to treat them as cattle.
unfortunately allan they do .. recent clip of muslim women cheerfully admitting they pump out kids so that they can send them off to be martyrs .
Were their husbands behind the camera when those clips were being made?
The idea of using little guns is stealth….the better to plug then as they sleep.
Absolutely on target. If only American Jewish leaders read your columns instead of the New York Times…
America’s (nominal) Jewish leaders have sold themselves out because they are treated like Jacks by America’s kings, queens and Aces.
As a frequent observer of protests in person, most all of these mobs are organized and led by ANSWER and The Party for Socialism and Liberation, and The Revolutionary Communist Party, and their signs prove it. (I have photos of their signs including some blaming Biden and Democrats for giving aid to Israel, which is a first in my forty years of observations.) Many signs have the Hammer and Sickle Flag. The leader, Joel Marcos Gallegos, Facebook, “Marxist-Leninist”!
A new powerful group is THEREDNATION.ORG which is a Native American group that started here in Albuquerque when they first started to protest against the UNM seal with a Spaniard Conquistador on a horse. UNM removed it, then now ANTI-COLUMBUS which is now national with the name change. They’re next target: THANKSGIVING and the white invaders. It’s just starting and it will catch on. THIS GROUP has protested WITH BLM in Ferguson, Minneapolis, Portland, and Seattle, the major ones. LOOK AT THAT LINK! THEY OPENLY SAY THEY ARE REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNISTS. UNM’S Student Union now has a large banner that says the land where UNM sits was STOLEN! A large mural in the library, there since the ’50s, showing the peoples of the area living in harmony, PAINTED OVER due to Native’s land STOLEN! LOOK THEM UP! KNOW THY ENEMY! READ THEIR MISSION STATEMENT and support for HAMAS!
JEWISH VOICES FOR PEACE… same middle-aged activists recruiting the next generation of Communists, organized an encampment on UNM campus and then the mob took over the Student Union, $40,000 in damages, and no police report filed by the SUB director who also didn’t file a report of damages during an appearance by Tomi Lahren, cut off after fifteen minutes due to the mob banging and putting holes in the wall and pulling the alarm! “We took care of it internally.” (At Lahren’s, I called 911 three times, due to female students screaming and crying if the mob got in!) I filed a police report, and I wanted police videos from lapel cameras, THEY SENT ME CODES with no film!)
I grew up in a liberal Reform Jewish community. None of the Jews I know belong to Jewish Voice For Peace.
A few of them donated small money at first, but quickly sniffed out that they are phoney.
THEREDNATION.ORG at a DC rally. “LAND BACK!” Okay, I want the money your casinos stole from me! (I don’t gamble but so many people lose everything for False Dreams of quick riches and cars.)
They’re anti-Capitalist so why don’t they protest their Casinos built on, love this one, “ON SACRED LAND!”
islamic warriors went from Istanbul to Kabul killing slaughtering and beheading everybody in their wake and ‘stole” the land from the people previously living there…
Do the Indians in America know about conquering, enslavement or do they think America would be America today if they were not conquered as they certainly have freedom for slavery within the USA today than they did when their own people engaged in the slavery of other Tribes.
Im just sayin.
And the daughter of our Secretary of the Interior is one of them.
Those terrorists have leaders, planners and organizers.
They must be identified and sent to prison for hate crimes.
Yeah, Majorkas is gonna get right on that.
Yay! What a great article…
Yes… BLM riots laid the foundation for Jihadist terrorism coming in mass…
Most BLM Protests were headed up by satanic worshiping muslims at the podiums…
Everything taking place in the world today is deigned to advance satanic islam…
What we see as ‘Communism’ is actually Islamofascism…
Beware !!! Get your homes in order…
O great Leader! What should we do? Help us Obe-Wan. You’re our only hope.
Vote for Trump and persuade everyone you know to vote for Trump. Remember that he whacked Soleimani, the head of the Iranian revolutionary guards. He will not hesitate to nuke select targets in Iran before Iran develops nuclear weapons.
The real threat to democracy
Strength is often developed through adversity. Our many liberal Jews here in the USA, Israel and the remainder of the diaspora really do need to become knowledgeable about the Haganah (the defense) a Paramilitary group of Jews during the British Mandate in Palestine active from 1920 until Israel was declared a sovereign nation in 1948 and the Haganah was absorbed into what became the IDF..
These Zionists were tough, smart, resourceful, innovative and passionately committed and willing to fight for our homeland. Today, rather than fighting and being prepared to do so, too many Jews have adopted an internal conciliatory attitude that smacks of cowardice masked as inclusion and tolerance!
Every Jewish child should be trained in practical self defense (Krav Maga). Jewish adults everywhere should be trained and own firearms. Both instill meaningful understanding that YOU are responsible for protecting your life and that there are effective ways to do so..
While we can engage in Tikkun Olam,
we should never set it as a replacement for self defense! Israel now has youth refusing to serve in the IDF as their uber-liberal values place them at odds with reality. October 7 is a wake-up call for all we Jews everywhere. Our enemies consistently use our weak-kneed attitudes beneficially to assault us repeatedly, extracting from us greater and greater concessions that leave us in precarious and dangerous positions. Islam via Iran,Hamas and Hezbollah are practiced in the astute propaganda that masks their psychopathic behavior in a pseudo-religious victimhood that has led most of the Western world to accept this evil as good….and unless we wake up immediately, the Islamic Caliphate for which they aim will leave humanity in a 7th century hell that only G-d Almighty will be able to address!!
It’ll take a true leader, a modern-day Charles Martel, to turn back the Horde and restore peace to the country. Do we have one?
“America is not ready for the fight of its life.”
Daniel, you shouldn’t mistake patience for unpreparedness.
Or lack of will.
Just saying.
islamism is the new nazism.
Ya except this has been going on for 1,400 years non-stop. Conversion by the sword, or ied.
Islamists acting like Nazis since 600 A.D. until the whole world is subjugated to Islam.