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What are the mobs in Washington defiling iconic federal statues with impunity and pelting policemen protesting?
What are the throngs in London brazenly swarming parks and rampaging in the streets angry about?
Occupations?
They could care less that the Islamist Turkish government still stationed 40,000 troops in occupied Cyprus. No one is protesting against the Chinese takeover of a once-independent Tibet or the threatened absorption of an autonomous Taiwan.
Refugees?
None of these mobs are agitating on behalf of the nearly 1 million Jews ethnically cleansed since 1947 from the major capitals of the Middle East. Some 200,000 Cypriots displaced by Turks earn not a murmur. Nor does the ethnic cleansing of 99% of Nagorno-Karabakh’s ancient Armenian population just last year.
Civilian casualties?
The global protestors are not furious over the 1 million Uighurs brutalized by the communist Chinese government. Neither are they concerned about the Turkish government’s indiscriminate war against the Kurds or its serial threats to attack Armenians and Greeks.
The new woke jihadist movement is instead focused only on Israel and “Palestine.” It is oblivious to the modern gruesome Muslim-on-Muslim exterminations of Bashar al-Assad and Saddam Hussein, the Black September massacres of Palestinians by Jordanian forces, and the 1982 erasure of thousands in Hama, Syria.
So woke jihadism is not an ecumenical concern for the oppressed, the occupied, the collateral damage of war, or the fate of refugees. Instead, it is a romanticized and repackaged anti-Western, anti-Israel, and antisemitic jihadism that supports the murder of civilians, mass rape, torture, and hostage-taking.
But what makes it now so insidious is its new tripartite constituency.
First, the old romantic pro-Palestine cause was rebooted in the West by millions of Arab and Muslim immigrants who have flocked to Europe and the U.S. in the last half-century.
Billions of dollars in oil sheikdom “grant” monies swarmed Western universities to found “Middle Eastern Studies” departments. These are not so much centers for historical or linguistic scholarship as political megaphones focused on “Zionism” and “the Jews.”
Moreover, there may be well over a half-million affluent Middle Eastern students in Western universities. Given that they pay full tuition, imbibe ideology from endowed Middle Eastern studies faculty, and are growing in number, they logically feel that they can do anything with impunity on Western streets and campuses.
Second, the Diversity/Equity/Inclusion movement empowers the new woke jihadis. Claiming to be non-white victims of white Jewish colonialism, they pose as natural kindred victims to Blacks, Latinos, and any Westerner now claiming oppressed status.
Black radicalism, from Al Sharpton to Louis Farrakhan to Black Lives Matter, has had a long, documented history of antisemitism. It is no wonder that its elite eagerly embraced the anti-Israeli Palestine movement as fellow travelers.
The third leg of woke jihadism is mostly affluent white leftist students at Western universities. Sensing that their faculties are anti-Israel, their administrations are anti-Israel (although more covertly) and the most politically active among the student body are anti-Israel, European and American students find authenticity in virtue-signaling their solidarity with Hamas, Hezbollah, and radical Islamists in general.
Given the recent abandonment of standardized tests for admission to universities, the watering-down of curricula, and rampant grade inflation, thousands of students at elite campuses feel that they have successfully redefined their universities to suit their own politics, constituencies and demographics.
Insecure about their preparation for college and mostly ignorant of the politics of the Middle East, usefully idiotic students find resonance by screaming antisemitic chants and wearing keffiyehs.
Nurtured in grade school on the Marxist binary of bad, oppressive whites versus good, oppressed nonwhites, they can cheaply shed their boutique guilt by joining the mobs.
The result is a bizarre new antisemitism and overt support for the gruesome terrorists of Hamas by those who usually preach to the middle class about their own exalted morality.
Still, woke jihadism would never have found resonance had Western leaders — vote-conscious heads of state, timid university presidents, and radicalized big-city mayors and police chiefs — not ignored blatant violations of laws against illegal immigration, vandalism, assault, illegal occupation, and rioting.
Finally, woke jihadism is fueling a radical Western turn to the right, partly due to open borders and the huge influx into the West from non-Western illiberal regimes.
Partly the reaction is due to the ingratitude shown their hosts by indulged Middle-Eastern guest students and green card holders.
Partly, the public is sick of the sense of entitlement shown by pampered, sanctimonious protestors.
And partly the revulsion arises against left-wing governments and universities that will not enforce basic criminal and immigration statutes in fear of offending this strange new blend of wokism and jihadism.
Yet the more violent campuses and streets become, the more clueless the mobs seem about the cascading public antipathy to what they do and what they represent.
SumOne says
So, basically they are morons. Got it.
SPURWING PLOVER says
Time to totally end all funding of the United Nations and Ham-A**
Judith says
The Woke Jihad is nothing more than aimless rage, the consequence of a shallow life, lived without spiritual depth or meaning, as is Islam itself. Muhammad was a dude who styled an imitation religion because he imagined greatness in social control for his own benefit.
Chaya says
Jew hate sells. VDH, you don’t address how comfortable `”Christian” America is with blaming, lying about, and targeting Jews. It’s a flaw in Western civilization. It will not credit Jews accurately and refuses to look into the mirror and see its own hatred. Only when this hate is dissolved will the West triumph over current enemies. So, maybe it never will.
sumsrent says
The so called “Arab Spring” led to BLM…
Both to lay the foundations for islamic terrorism in the West…
And now… the satanic worshiping muslims take any excuse to rise up…
Angel Jacob says
There is no other words attached to jihad.
Jihad = Genocide.
The most perfect and to the point translation of the Arabic word. That’s how muslims understand it, and act on it.
It’s best to use proper English words for jihad. Jihadist = Genocidal. It’s been proven beyond any doubt for 1,400 years.
The same goes for the biggest lies of our time. The made up word “moderate islam.” There is no such a thing.
The so called moderate muslims main purpose and ultimate goal is to facilitate the genocide.
There are millions and millions of proof and evidence to back up this simple fact. The genocidal muslims know this better than anybody else. That is why they’ve plotted to destroy rule of law, destroy social norms and create chaos everywhere.
They’ve planted their genoicidal agents into government positions on top of the educational system and the media. The counter-genocide strategy must start the defnse of the nations right there. By removing all all genocidal muslims from top positions first.
Using force and violence is a must to counter the followers of the ideology of force and violence. Self defense is fully justified. It’s either that, or just surrender and die.
Jim Daniel says
I’ve recently watched a you tube video by an older Yale PhD, whose well degreed in Islamic and Quran studies. He was too well versed and hard to follow. Essentially he made a case for Mohammed being a figment of Islamic imagination stating the term refers to the annointed one and makes a polemic that it could even refer to Christ. He discussed that there are multiple Qurans and that standardization is problematic.
His presentation had a credibility to it but well above my frame of reference. He essentially said the belief system was FOS. But they have a billion adherents. How?
Angel Jacob says
How?
Islam is based on two main parts. Lies and Violence. One supports the other.
Low IQ and ignorant people easily fall for the lies. And anybody who sees through the lies and questions the evil ideology is marked for death.
One billion low IQ and ignorant people is just about right.
Very few among them can be educated and shown the light to move out of the darkness. Low IQ people just can’t understand anything very well.
Those who can have already left islam, or they are too scared to publicly announce they don’t follow muhammad’s orders anymore.
Beez says
Jihad means “struggle.” There are four forms of jihad; only one is violent: speech, writing, money, and jihad of the sword (violence). Each and every believer is required to engage in at least one form, and not everyone is expected to pick up the sword.
hijra is the “peaceful migration” of Muslims into non-Muslim lands.
hijra > jihad > sharia
Angel Jacob says
There’s terrorists who kill people, and there’s others who cover it up with their endless lies. And then there’s those who pay for it all.
All parts of the same purpose: Genocide.
Since you are stating the islamic version of cover up” for jihad. You should also mention the fact that islam means “surrender.” And muslims see the world as two parts. The part of the world who has surrendered. And the part who are “enemies/sub-humans” calling it world of war. Thus the need for genocide.
Just to clarify what it really is and has been.
Muslims have killed more than half a billion non-muslims in 1.400 years of genocidal invasions. Enslaving women and killing anybody who won’t “surrender.”
There is that for “peaceful migration.” That joke of the translation is not even funny.
They have utterly destroyed several nations and civilizations. Plundering everything on their path. Their leaders becoming billionaires like muhammad did, and the followers being half starved and instructed to invade and plunder more civilized nations.
That’s been the real cycle of muhammad’s followers.
KenPF says
Let’s take a little trip in time shall we? Here’s how it works. Watch the movie Exodus (1960) with Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint. In the pivotal scene the two are having lunch and she asks Newman’s Jewish character where he’s from. He replies, “I’m a native born Palestinian”. At that time “Palestinian” meant a Jew born in Eretz Israel also known as the “Palestinian Mandate”. This is the territory that became the Nation of Israel. Yep, even as late as 1960, the original Palestinians were Jews.
Now flash ahead ten years to the Dawson’s Field hijackings of September 1970. This was the first major airline hijacking done by Arab “Palestinians”. No one had ever thought about Arabs having their own state before; there were a dozen or more Arab states all around Israel. But … a new kind of Arab was minted out of thin air, so they could claim that they, like Israel, needed their own “homeland”. I’m old enough to remember all of this from the vivid news coverage of the time. The hijackers spectacularly blew up the airliners on the ground in front of the news cameras. The fact that this brand of “Palestinian” was a complete fabrication by Yasser Arafat and the KGB made no difference.
So remember, the only original inhabitants of that territory “from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea”, we’re always the Jews. For 3.000 years … the Jews.
Kasandra says
During WW2, the British Army had a Palestinian Brigade. It was made up.exclusively of Jews from the British Mandate in Palestine. The Palestine Symphony Orchestra, same thing. The Fakestinians are just appropriating Jewish history. They start with claiming Palestine was historically Arab even though if you were able to ask a First Century AD Roman Legionaire who lived there he’d tell you “the Jews.” They turned the Jews Shoah into the Arabs nakba, and the Israeli “right of return” into the “Palestinian right of return.”. I guess when you have no history of your own you have to steal one from other people.
sjam says
“they can cheaply shed their boutique guilt”
Brilliant writing!
Jim Daniel says
You are so correct.
The West is in an existential war of civilizations and is too stupid to understand.
Nothing dumber than bringing a knife to a gunfight.
Domenic Pepe says
America and Europe and the West should never succumb to the the 1400 year historical scourge and threat and aggressions of depraved psychopathic murderous berserk intolerant violent hate-filled Freedom crushing Islam.
Islam today, under the leadership and authority of the various corrupt murderous Islamic “Royal” families, such as the Saudi, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait … etc.etc.etc. … and the berserk Ayatollahs of Iran, is still the enemy of America, Europe and the West.
They effectively control the chokepoint of the world’s oil supply, and they have been using that to harm America and the West at every opportunity.
Islam itself must be recognized as the major source of evil and hatred and aggression, and the promoter of Freedom crushing and mind destroying brainwashing and indoctrination of its psychopathic murderous ideology.
Islam is the enemy of America and the West, and all Freedom loving people.
Make no mistake about that.
I assure you that China and Russia will never succumb to depraved psychopathic murderous berserk Islam.
America and the West, I am not too sure about its capacity and commitment to preserve, protect and defend itself against the Islamic monstrosity which has been a scourge on humanity for 1400 years and counting.
Islamic leaders know how to successfully subvert and buy off the elite ruling class in America and the West which is only too happy to betray and stab in the back their own citizens, just as Biden and the democrats have been doing regarding the Israel–Hamas war, and the Mexican INVASION of America and the murdering of more than 100,000 US citizens every year with Mexican manufactured drugs pushed into America by Mexican cartels and the Mexican government itself.
The treachery of the elite oligarchic American and European ruling class against their own citizens is truly something evil and despicable and must be exposed and ended without further. delay and additional treacheries..
Beez says
End it, THEN expose it.
Domenic Pepe says
I stand corrected.
Thanks.
Jim Daniel says
I’ve recently watched a you tube video by an older Yale PhD, whose well degreed in Islamic and Quran studies. He was too well versed and hard to follow. Essentially he made a case for Mohammed being a figment of Islamic imagination stating the term refers to the annointed one and makes a polemic that it could even refer to Christ. He discussed that there are multiple Qurans and that standardization is problematic.
His presentation had a credibility to it but well above my frame of reference. He essentially said the belief system was FOS. But they have a billion adherents. How?
SKA says
Watch Jay Smith’s YouTube presentations on the origins of the Quran and of Mecca. Hint: before 400 ce no maps ever referred to some imaginary center of trade called “Mecca”
Jim Daniel says
Prof. Hanson, again you’ve skillfully set out the case that the West has an abundance of fools and useful idiots.
Ann says
We are full into Islamomarxism with Islam fully intending to cut off the latter.
9:33,Ann Islam must triumph over all.