FEED Validator

Congratulations!

This is a valid Atom 1.0 feed.

Recommendations

This feed is valid, but interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations.

• line 1, column 134: Use of unknown namespace: http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008 [help]

  ... r.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2 ...
                                               ^

• line 1, column 134: Unable to validate namespace: http://schemas.google.com/g/2005. See the Google Data specification at https://developers.google.com/gdata/docs/1.0/elements [help]

  ... r.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2 ...
                                               ^

• line 1, column 9802: Self reference doesn't match document location [help]

  ... rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgre ...
                                               ^

• line 1, column 10813: Avoid Namespace Prefix: xhtml [help]

  ... temsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><xhtml:meta content="noindex" na ...
                                               ^

• line 1, column 0: content should not contain data-original-height attribute (52 occurrences) [help]

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><?xml-stylesheet href= ...
  

• line 1, column 0: content should not contain data-original-width attribute (52 occurrences) [help]

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><?xml-stylesheet href= ...
  

• line 91, column 0: style attribute contains potentially dangerous content: box-sizing (1311 occurrences) [help]

  <p>Then the woke mega-publisher will have officially bought America’s  ...
  

• line 274, column 0: content should not contain imageanchor attribute (20 occurrences) [help]

  <p>They’re not anti-proliferation; they’re anti-civilization.</p&gt ...
  

• line 366, column 0: content should not contain data-pm-slice attribute [help]

  Trump could and did. He stopped Iran and only he can stop China.</p>&l ...
  

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStoriesBehindTheNews

1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:blogger="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628</id><updated>2025-07-03T01:13:28.657-04:00</updated><category term="recent"/><category term="Biden"/><category term="Israel"/><category term="Left"/><category term="Democrats"/><category term="Race"/><category term="Islam"/><category term="Important Posts"/><category term="Islamic terrorism"/><category term="Satire"/><category term="Racism"/><category term="Coronavirus"/><category term="Crime"/><category term="Terrorism"/><category term="Jewish"/><category term="Pro-Crime"/><category term="environmentalism"/><category term="immigration"/><category term="Big Tech"/><category term="California"/><category term="New York"/><category term="Parsha"/><category term="Kamala Harris"/><category term="Culture"/><category term="China"/><category term="Hamas"/><category term="Islamization"/><category term="socialism"/><category term="Black Lives Matter"/><category term="politics"/><category term="Afghanistan"/><category term="US Election"/><category term="culture war"/><category term="resistobama"/><category term="Hollywood"/><category term="iran"/><category term="War on Terror"/><category term="Media Bias"/><category term="big government"/><category term="history"/><category term="America"/><category term="Obama"/><category term="Antisemitism"/><category term="Anti-Semitism"/><category term="Russia"/><category term="future of the west"/><category term="Corporate America"/><category term="global warming"/><category term="military"/><category term="Bernie Sanders"/><category term="Palestinians"/><category term="Trump"/><category term="Europe"/><category term="Liberalism"/><category term="illegal aliens"/><category term="media"/><category term="riots"/><category term="Investigations"/><category term="black nationalism"/><category term="Hillary Clinton"/><category term="green energy"/><category term="censorship"/><category term="corruption"/><category term="feminism"/><category term="2024 election"/><category term="Abortion"/><category term="Los Angeles"/><category term="UK"/><category term="Woke"/><category term="education"/><category term="Cuomo"/><category term="economy"/><category term="gun control"/><category term="Supreme Court"/><category term="entertainment industry"/><category term="open borders"/><category term="urban model"/><category term="DEI"/><category term="Gaza"/><category term="Jewish Matters"/><category term="Tech"/><category term="Ukraine"/><category term="drugs"/><category term="videos"/><category term="9/11"/><category term="New Jersey"/><category term="Philosophy"/><category term="Russiagate"/><category term="transgender"/><category term="Al Qaeda"/><category term="Arabs"/><category term="Best Of"/><category term="Chicago"/><category term="Holocaust"/><category term="Islamophobia"/><category term="Taliban"/><category term="UN"/><category term="geopolitics"/><category term="identity politics"/><category term="unions"/><category term="ADL"/><category term="Justice Department"/><category term="Soros"/><category term="cancel culture"/><category term="homeless"/><category term="investigative"/><category term="political correctness"/><category term="universities"/><category term="Bill Clinton"/><category term="Elizabeth Warren"/><category term="International"/><category term="Michigan"/><category term="Middle East"/><category term="Murphy"/><category term="Portland"/><category term="Qatar"/><category term="San Francisco"/><category term="War"/><category term="Washington D.C."/><category term="foreign policy"/><category term="Africa"/><category term="Coup"/><category term="Florida"/><category term="ISIS"/><category term="Minnesota"/><category term="Muslim Brotherhood"/><category term="class warfare"/><category term="diversity"/><category term="humor"/><category term="rape culture"/><category term="sexism"/><category term="Baltimore"/><category term="Blinken"/><category term="EPA"/><category term="Freedom"/><category term="Germany"/><category term="Iraq"/><category term="Jamal Khashoggi"/><category term="Marxism"/><category term="Minneapolis"/><category term="Newsom"/><category term="Omar"/><category term="PLO"/><category term="Republicans"/><category term="Saudi Arabia"/><category term="South America"/><category term="Texas"/><category term="Venezuela"/><category term="Yemen"/><category term="foreign aid"/><category term="gender"/><category term="radicals"/><category term="society"/><category term="space"/><category term="Alexandria Ocasio Cortez"/><category term="Communism"/><category term="DOJ"/><category term="De Blasio"/><category term="Department of Defense"/><category term="Fake Hate Crimes"/><category term="Fake News"/><category term="Georgia"/><category term="Hezbollah"/><category term="Houthis"/><category term="Lebanon"/><category term="Ohio"/><category term="Pakistan"/><category term="Pelosi"/><category term="Pennsylvania"/><category term="Schumer"/><category term="Science"/><category term="Social Issues"/><category term="Somali"/><category term="Trump Derangement Syndrome"/><category term="Vermont"/><category term="Walz"/><category term="conspiracies"/><category term="globalism"/><category term="internet"/><category term="judicial activism"/><category term="medicine"/><category term="muslim"/><category term="totalitarianism"/><category term="ACLU"/><category term="Antifa"/><category term="Beto O'Rourke"/><category term="Bill Gates"/><category term="Buttigieg"/><category term="CAIR"/><category term="CDC"/><category term="Canada"/><category term="Cory Booker"/><category term="Dearborn"/><category term="FEMA"/><category term="Gillibrand"/><category term="Haiti"/><category term="Hawaii"/><category term="NASA"/><category term="Philadelphia"/><category term="Pope Francis"/><category term="Puerto Rico"/><category term="Putin"/><category term="Sports"/><category term="Sweden"/><category term="Syria"/><category term="UFO"/><category term="Virginia"/><category term="Whitmer"/><category term="business"/><category term="campus"/><category term="celebrities"/><category term="civil war"/><category term="demographics"/><category term="disinformation"/><category term="grooming gangs"/><category term="literature"/><category term="nursing homes"/><category term="olmert"/><category term="palestinian authority"/><category term="schools"/><category term="slavery"/><category term="socialized medicine"/><category term="#MeToo"/><category term="Arab Spring"/><category term="Arizona"/><category term="Atlanta"/><category term="Austria"/><category term="Bangladesh"/><category term="Barry Chamish"/><category term="Beirut"/><category term="Bend the Arc"/><category term="Bloomberg"/><category term="Bureau of Land Management"/><category term="Carter"/><category term="Cincinnati"/><category term="Colorado"/><category term="Constitution"/><category term="DHS"/><category term="Daniel Greenfield"/><category term="DeBlasio"/><category term="Detroit"/><category term="Egypt"/><category term="Ethics"/><category term="France"/><category term="GOP"/><category term="Granholm"/><category term="India"/><category term="Indian"/><category term="Ireland"/><category term="Jewish recent"/><category term="Kennedy"/><category term="Kerry"/><category term="Latin America"/><category term="Libya"/><category term="Lincoln"/><category term="Maine"/><category term="Mali"/><category term="Manchin"/><category term="Massachusetts"/><category term="Mueller"/><category term="National Lawyers Guild"/><category term="Nicaragua"/><category term="Nigeria"/><category term="North Dakota"/><category term="North Korea"/><category term="Obamacare"/><category term="Oregon"/><category term="Pentagon"/><category term="Personal"/><category term="Pierre Omidyar"/><category term="SJP"/><category term="Scam"/><category term="Seattle"/><category term="Senate"/><category term="South Africa"/><category term="South Carolina"/><category term="Star Trek"/><category term="State Department"/><category term="Steele"/><category term="Taiwan"/><category term="Tennessee"/><category term="Tlaib"/><category term="Tunisia"/><category term="UAE"/><category term="UNRWA"/><category term="USSR"/><category term="Utah"/><category term="VA"/><category term="WEF"/><category term="Washngton"/><category term="Women"/><category term="Zero Hussein"/><category term="aboutme"/><category term="academia"/><category term="amona"/><category term="anti-American"/><category term="cities"/><category term="congress"/><category term="conservative"/><category term="cults"/><category term="death penalty"/><category term="discrimination"/><category term="espionage"/><category term="finance"/><category term="gang violence"/><category term="invasion"/><category term="israeli police brutality"/><category term="labor"/><category term="law"/><category term="lgbtq"/><category term="morality"/><category term="photoshops"/><category term="refugee resettlement"/><category term="social justice"/><category term="victimhood"/><category term="welfare state"/><category term="white privilege"/><title type="text">Sultan Knish </title><subtitle type="html">News and Analysis from the US to Israel to Around the World</subtitle><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/feeds/posts/default" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default?redirect=false" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/><link href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" rel="hub"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25&amp;redirect=false" rel="next" type="application/atom+xml"/><author><name>Daniel Greenfield</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhRSvmnQijYr-BAX6Dhyjov7iV0exSO5_GeAmrS9KrDfyKL3VSV3Un-5pZhpzro8iWIUneqiL4ANYnGEUoTL0vy8NsLmlYYh-OMLsfNWslVjJgEd_c4FeGGK5dq-f2R63PGJTSDp-d1bMHg9mFKJEaV6Dfl20ZBX9rGmaVz8MlOTuPQ/s220/headshot%20bw4.jpg" width="30"/></author><generator uri="http://www.blogger.com" version="7.00">Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>4758</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><xhtml:meta content="noindex" name="robots" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"/><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-4677480413615764147</id><published>2025-06-30T20:39:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2025-06-30T20:39:03.399-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="recent"/><title type="text">A Radical Company is Paying Supreme Court Justices Millions</title><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggOby6VEb-jvjtrBUcmaOV5vM4H4OMdI-QBIIq_i4zQTU-YIkTydHLFnJTYwMIb9xzt-wt_oKn4Z9ya29TKH4ZWry4-syhcGDJXA7PN8CEcCRmMzWCqCXC7952x-lNZElBn-RvXlCgxfgTWD2rhGb5rnSC4d4Jk3PQuXCsQVbUdplQ8wwOIaiSTw/s1115/b%20frame.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="583" data-original-width="1115" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggOby6VEb-jvjtrBUcmaOV5vM4H4OMdI-QBIIq_i4zQTU-YIkTydHLFnJTYwMIb9xzt-wt_oKn4Z9ya29TKH4ZWry4-syhcGDJXA7PN8CEcCRmMzWCqCXC7952x-lNZElBn-RvXlCgxfgTWD2rhGb5rnSC4d4Jk3PQuXCsQVbUdplQ8wwOIaiSTw/w640-h334/b%20frame.png" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Last year, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, despite being in her early
2. 50s and having an undistinguished career before her affirmative action
3. appointment, published a memoir.</p>
4. <p>You might be forgiven for having missed it when “Lovely One” came
5. out. As the media politely notes, it was “briefly” on the New York Times
6. bestseller list and is now going for half price on Amazon. That is
7. mostly to be expected of the ghostwritten memoir of an obscure judge.</p>
8. <p>Except that Jackson received <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/ketanji-brown-jackson-reports-2-million-in-income-last-year-for-her-memoir-lovely-one/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">a $893,750</a>
9. advance for her memoir and is now reporting $2 million in profits last
10. year. These would be record numbers for a Supreme Court Justice’s
11. biography from a book that hardly anyone had noticed when it came out.
12. And while books can become unexpected successes once released, there was
13. little sign of that happening.</p>
14. <p>The actual sales figures have not been made public and perhaps
15. ‘Lovely One’ sold millions of copies even while hardly anyone noticed
16. before ending up in the remainder bin a year later. Certainly no one in
17. the same media that pursued every living member of the Thomas family to
18. find if anyone had ever done them a favor actually bothered obtaining
19. the sales figure.</p>
20. <p>Even when the money was coming from an avaricious foreign publisher
21. which has deluged Supreme Court justices with millions of dollars in
22. generous publishing deals.</p>
23. <p>After Jackson’s memoir, Penguin Random House will be publishing
24. Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s book for which she received a $2 million
25. advance. That’s money the publisher seems even less likely to recoup
26. considering that Barrett is hated among leftists and has a mixed
27. approval rating among conservatives. Past polls show that the majority
28. of the country can’t even name a single Supreme Court justice, yet they
29. are receiving celebrity level advances for books no one cares about.</p>
30. <p>Penguin’s payouts previously made headlines when five Supreme Court
31. justices, including Jackson and Barrett, had to recuse themselves from a
32. case involving allegations of plagiarism by racist Hamas supporter <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-ex-nazi-corp-behind-anti-racism-is-buying-up-book-publishing/">Ta-Nehisi Coates</a> whose works, including a book describing 9/11 firefighters as “not human to me”, were widely backed and promoted by Penguin.</p>
33. <p>The ‘Penguin’ recusals successfully allowed Coates to triumph in that latest court case.</p>
34. <p>Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor had been previously criticized
35. for not recusing herself in cases involving Penguin which had paid her
36. over $3 million. And the current Supreme Court is so badly conflicted
37. over its Penguin cash that it can no longer decide cases involving it.</p>
38. <p>And that’s a problem because Penguin is actually Bertelsmann: a
39. German ex-Nazi publishing giant that has waged war on American parents,
40. promoted racism and is trying to <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-ex-nazi-corp-behind-anti-racism-is-buying-up-book-publishing/">monopolistically gobble up</a>
41. all of American publishing. Ibram X. Kendi’s “How to Be an Antiracist”,
42. Robin DiAngelo’s “White Fragility”, Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Between the
43. World and Me”, and, during WWII, “The Christmas Book of the Hitler
44. Youth” all came out of  Bertelsmann.</p>
45. <p>While the ex-Nazi foreign corporation operates under familiar names
46. like Penguin, Random House, Doubleday, Ballantine, Knopf,Viking, Putnam,
47. Bantam, Del Rey, Golden Books and many others, it’s actually a foreign
48. company pushing deeply destructive products. Even as parents tried to
49. stop their children from being exposed to sexually inappropriate
50. content, former CEO Markus Dohle went to war against them with <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-ex-nazi-corp-behind-anti-racism-is-buying-up-book-publishing/">a $500,000 </a>legal fund.</p>
51. <p>Any corporation moving millions of dollars to Supreme Court justices
52. in a way that has already successfully advantaged it in the Ta-Nehisi
53. Coates plagiarism case would be suspect, but a foreign company that has
54. tried to completely monopolize American publishing by seizing control of
55. Simon and Schuster, and has intervened in American politics, is even
56. more deeply troubling.</p>
57. <p>Yet the Bertelsmann millions have gone mostly unexamined even as
58. ProPublica, a leftist advocacy group, launched a smear campaign against
59. Justice Thomas. The Thomas smears were repeated by every media outlet in
60. the country which pursued the 76-year-old justice’s 96-year-old mother
61. to find out where exactly she lives and who paid the tuition for his
62. grandnephew, yet shrug when the Supreme Court can’t even form a quorum
63. over millions from a multinational giant that has business before the
64. court being directed to justices.</p>
65. <p>No one in the media seems to have even bothered examining the sales
66. figures for ‘Lovely One’ to determine how many copies were sold and
67. which venues actually sold them. Sotomayor had become notorious for
68. high-pressure sales tactics aimed at compelling venues to buy her books.</p>
69. <p>Supreme Court justices used to write on mainly legal matters (with
70. notable exceptions such as Taft and Douglas) and reserved their memoirs
71. toward the end of their lives. Newly minted justices like Jackson
72. signing memoir deals is an obvious cash-in and Justice Sotomayor, after
73. publishing a memoir no one was asking for ‘My Beloved World’, began
74. writing children’s books.</p>
75. <p>Would Penguin really be publishing Sotomayor’s feeble efforts at
76. writing children’s books, ‘Just Help!: How to Build a Better World’,
77. ‘Just Ask!: Be Different, Be Brave, Be You’ and (coming soon) ‘Just
78. Shine!: How to Be a Better You’ if she weren’t a Supreme Court justice?</p>
79. <p>And Justice Jackson making millions for a ghostwritten memoir after
80. spending less time on the bench than most dustcloths is an equally
81. obvious exercise in cashing in, not literary inspiration.</p>
82. <p>Judges putting their names on things to make money is not illegal,
83. and maybe after this, Justice Jackson will have her own line of dish
84. towels, sneakers or crypto coins, but Bertelsmann has not only
85. monopolized the American publishing market, but has monopolized the
86. market for justices. And considering its radical politics and vast
87. ambitions, that is a major problem.</p>
88. <p>What happens when Bertelsmann triggers a court case with major legal
89. implications and once again a quorum of justices can’t be found to sit
90. on it?</p>
91. &lt;p&gt;Then the woke mega-publisher will have officially bought America’s legal system.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; font-size: large; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;Daniel Greenfield&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;Front Page Magazine&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;Click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;here to subscribe&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to my articles. And&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;click here to support my work with a donation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;" /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;Thank you for reading.&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" style="background-color: #fafafa; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="500" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2-8K1m-P7y4j4aL_AQBH6X3B5ugD56jdnVb1-TZ-Shobc6BR7h1ko7HfudfaWTKjF8QO4GqswsZLXjk0bSjONiDuu_3n8253fl8uizuSD4P8PG7VzDjiNsO5tM_dj-NERECSZWwBYC0RhQIv_-ejW5nrQZyou6S4kMx9tknaCbusrARxUCToe0A/w640-h230/%E2%80%9CA%20marvelously%20original%20and%20enlightening%20look%20at%20American%20history,%20with%20a%20host%20of%20insights%20for%20our%20own%20age.%E2%80%9D%20%E2%80%94Robert%20Spencer,%20Author%20of%20The%20Sumter%20Gambit%20How%20the%20Left%20Is%20Trying%20to%20Foment%20A%20Civil%20W%20(1).png" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Read my book&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;nbsp;'Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers' Fight Against the Left'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;to discover the true origins of the American Left.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/feeds/4677480413615764147/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/06/a-radical-company-is-paying-supreme.html#comment-form" rel="replies" title="0 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/4677480413615764147" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/4677480413615764147" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/06/a-radical-company-is-paying-supreme.html" rel="alternate" title="A Radical Company is Paying Supreme Court Justices Millions" type="text/html"/><author><name>Daniel Greenfield</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhRSvmnQijYr-BAX6Dhyjov7iV0exSO5_GeAmrS9KrDfyKL3VSV3Un-5pZhpzro8iWIUneqiL4ANYnGEUoTL0vy8NsLmlYYh-OMLsfNWslVjJgEd_c4FeGGK5dq-f2R63PGJTSDp-d1bMHg9mFKJEaV6Dfl20ZBX9rGmaVz8MlOTuPQ/s220/headshot%20bw4.jpg" width="30"/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggOby6VEb-jvjtrBUcmaOV5vM4H4OMdI-QBIIq_i4zQTU-YIkTydHLFnJTYwMIb9xzt-wt_oKn4Z9ya29TKH4ZWry4-syhcGDJXA7PN8CEcCRmMzWCqCXC7952x-lNZElBn-RvXlCgxfgTWD2rhGb5rnSC4d4Jk3PQuXCsQVbUdplQ8wwOIaiSTw/s72-w640-h334-c/b%20frame.png" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-8892277058692421370</id><published>2025-06-30T01:26:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2025-06-30T01:26:00.110-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="recent"/><title type="text">Who Really Bombed a Damascus Church?</title><content type="html">&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvbl_Kl55gZSEG1LUcTShM-4Dv3oN_xJYofC0zpFSAd3L6J0NjXbD_RZ4jqNqUqwAFdbbKW-0XoADgmR0_aWAI5_G6QnMy6Jf9y6pB3rqUE-JE4IbQZB9rBleErM5i1vAN95zR3FDkVCe21p1K8mOGipzv1HZBFnl8dAJ8vrxMdOEWR_Vv9B_VBA/s895/elias%20frame.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="546" data-original-width="895" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvbl_Kl55gZSEG1LUcTShM-4Dv3oN_xJYofC0zpFSAd3L6J0NjXbD_RZ4jqNqUqwAFdbbKW-0XoADgmR0_aWAI5_G6QnMy6Jf9y6pB3rqUE-JE4IbQZB9rBleErM5i1vAN95zR3FDkVCe21p1K8mOGipzv1HZBFnl8dAJ8vrxMdOEWR_Vv9B_VBA/w640-h390/elias%20frame.png" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After Muslim terrorists attacked the St. Elias church in Damascus, killing 25 Christians and wounding over 60 others, there were more questions than answers about the attack. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While the official Syrian government position is that it was a lone ISIS gunman, Christian witnesses report multiple attackers, and in Syria, ISIS is a term that conceals more than it reveals. Especially when the government is run by members of Islamic terrorist groups with their own ties to Al Qaeda and ISIS. A terrorist government that despite playing up to President Trump, to America and Europe is not actually very friendly to its Christian population. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some of that coolness was conveyed by former Al Qaeda warlord Ahmed al-Sharaa’s statement which, despite false claims by the media, failed to call the murdered Christians “martyrs”. Syria’s Christians are equally cool to Al-Sharaa whose Al Qaeda terror group, then going under the name Nusra Front, had murdered priests and kidnapped nuns before being welcomed by the United States and Europe into the community of civilized nations and world leaders. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While news reports blamed ISIS, the official claim of responsibility came from a supposed group calling itself ‘Saraya Ansar al-Sunnah’ or the Sunni Brigades which had previously claimed credit for massacring members of Syria’s former Alawite ruling class. While Ansar al-Sunnah is active on social media, it’s not at all clear that the supposed terrorist group actually exists. SAAS claims to be active all across Syria, but its online presence is amateurish and it keeps revising its logo. After 5 months of attacks, actual information and intel on the group is negligible. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That may be by design. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Syria’s Jihadist landscape is littered with Al Qaeda and ISIS affiliates that underwent name changes and that entered or left coalitions. The most famous of them is the Al Nusra Front which had been set up under Al Qaeda and the Caliph of ISIS and was led by Al-Sharaa who then went by Abu Mohammed Al-Jolani before cutting a series of deals with Turkey and Qatar to have his Jihadi coalition, now calling itself Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, seize power and become the new government. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The path that led Al-Sharaa from a $10 million dollar reward by the State Department on his head to a meeting with the president began when he pulled out of a proposed merger with ISIS. Reports suggest that Al-Sharaa had agreed to the merger before pulling out and staying with the more moderate Al Qaeda under Ayman Al-Zawahiri who had replaced Osama bin Laden. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This led to a power struggle between Al Qaeda and ISIS with Sharaa heading up the Al Qaeda side in Syria. As Al Qaeda turned into a spent force, Qatar encouraged Sharaa and his terror group to rebrand. The Nusra Front changed its name to Jabhat Fatah al-Sham and later to the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham coalition. It stopped mentioning its ties to Al Qaeda and took over Syria. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western nations then agreed to meet with and aid an Al Qaeda terror group once tied to ISIS. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Al-Sharaa or Al-Jolani’s entire story shows why names are illusory and can mean little. His terror group, which now runs Syria, underwent multiple name changes and is now considered a government. Who is actually lurking behind the SAAS name and who attacked the church? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When Al-Sharaa conducted his rebrand of the Nusra Front into JFS and then HTS, members of Nusra split off to form Hurras al-Din, a more explicit Al Qaeda affiliate, which was supposedly in conflict with HTS. But, curiously, Hurras al-Din announced it was closing down operations after HTS took over Syria. Next month, Saraya Ansar al-Sunnah or SAAS appeared out of nowhere. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SAAS may be Hurras al-Din or more exactly one of the operations rooms set up by HAD and other Jihadist groups to form a regional terror coalition. The throwaway name is a front. But the entire Syrian ‘opposition’ was one layer of fronts after another. One front would claim to be ‘secular’, ‘democratic’ and seeking to create a free Syria while another would be Al Qaeda. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The best way to understand Jihadist groups is not by which series of pseudonyms Al-Sharaa’s old allies are using while they massacre non-Sunnis in Syria, but by what they do. The most significant fact about SAAS is that they have avoided any attacks on HTS and its Jihadist ‘army’. The old Al Qaeda and ISIS groups targeted the Syrian military, SAAS however is killing Druze, Kurds, Alawites and Christians in a spasm of ethnic cleansing while avoiding fights with the same government and military that they have denounced as hypocrites and apostates. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If SAAS really believed its fatwas declaring Al-Sharaa and his government to be illegitimate apostates, it would be fighting them. Instead the Al Qaeda regime running Syria enjoys plausible deniability for the kind of massacres it was carrying out not all that long ago, while blaming the attacks on ISIS. Blaming the attacks on ISIS right now is as good as blaming them on the wind. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ISIS would not have given Al-Sharaa and his government a pass unless they had a backdoor arrangement. But the attackers are likely not ISIS, just members of the Jihadist coalition that we backed and continue to back, who are using a front to do what the ‘legitimate’ government can’t. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Listing the various front groups is an endless hobby for counterterrorism researchers, but is meaningless for anything except actionable targeting because the real backbone of Jihadist groups are smaller units, often from members of the same families, clans or tribes, or Jihadis who fought together frequently, who come and go from various branded terrorist groups. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As we have already seen with Al-Sharaa, who moved around Al Qaeda and ISIS, before becoming a moderate renaissance leader, a Jihadi can go through multiple incarnations and names which are just there to achieve his larger goals. HTS’s goal was to subjugate Syria under their particular flavor of Islamic law. That is what his government is dedicated to nothing no matter how it pretends otherwise. And what his government can’t do without alienating America and Europe, their fellow Jihadis who don’t wear suits and join the government will go on doing. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A decade after the whole Free Syrian Army hoax unraveled, we’ve fallen for a deadlier variant of the hoax all over again. And once again, Christians are being killed by the Jihadis we support, while we shake their hands and believe that they really are ‘moderates’. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The St. Elias church bombing is a test to see whether we will respond. If we do, then the Syrian government will go through a show of hunting down a few Jihadis to show off for us. Much as the Taliban play a game of hunting down ISIS-K members to blame for Islamic terrorism. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And if we don’t, the Jihadis in charge of Syria will know it’s open season on Christians. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But if we really don’t want to see more massacres of Christians, we should make it clear to Syria’s Al Qaeda government that we will hold it accountable for any future attacks on Christians by any Jihadists, no matter what names they go by or what identities they’re using right now. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We should also ensure that Syria’s Christians have the right to carry weapons in their own defense, rejecting any disarmament of Christians by the Al Qaeda government, and that they know America has their back. To do any less would be to add yet another betrayal to the list. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who really bombed the St. Elias church? Whoever really did it, there are good odds that we once backed them or the Jihadi coalitions they were part of. And we still might be.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; font-size: large; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;Daniel Greenfield&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;Front Page Magazine&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;Click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;here to subscribe&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to my articles. And&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;click here to support my work with a donation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;" /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;Thank you for reading.&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" style="background-color: #fafafa; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="500" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2-8K1m-P7y4j4aL_AQBH6X3B5ugD56jdnVb1-TZ-Shobc6BR7h1ko7HfudfaWTKjF8QO4GqswsZLXjk0bSjONiDuu_3n8253fl8uizuSD4P8PG7VzDjiNsO5tM_dj-NERECSZWwBYC0RhQIv_-ejW5nrQZyou6S4kMx9tknaCbusrARxUCToe0A/w640-h230/%E2%80%9CA%20marvelously%20original%20and%20enlightening%20look%20at%20American%20history,%20with%20a%20host%20of%20insights%20for%20our%20own%20age.%E2%80%9D%20%E2%80%94Robert%20Spencer,%20Author%20of%20The%20Sumter%20Gambit%20How%20the%20Left%20Is%20Trying%20to%20Foment%20A%20Civil%20W%20(1).png" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Read my book&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;nbsp;'Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers' Fight Against the Left'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;to discover the true origins of the American Left.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/feeds/8892277058692421370/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/06/who-really-bombed-damascus-church.html#comment-form" rel="replies" title="0 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/8892277058692421370" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/8892277058692421370" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/06/who-really-bombed-damascus-church.html" rel="alternate" title="Who Really Bombed a Damascus Church?" type="text/html"/><author><name>Daniel Greenfield</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhRSvmnQijYr-BAX6Dhyjov7iV0exSO5_GeAmrS9KrDfyKL3VSV3Un-5pZhpzro8iWIUneqiL4ANYnGEUoTL0vy8NsLmlYYh-OMLsfNWslVjJgEd_c4FeGGK5dq-f2R63PGJTSDp-d1bMHg9mFKJEaV6Dfl20ZBX9rGmaVz8MlOTuPQ/s220/headshot%20bw4.jpg" width="30"/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvbl_Kl55gZSEG1LUcTShM-4Dv3oN_xJYofC0zpFSAd3L6J0NjXbD_RZ4jqNqUqwAFdbbKW-0XoADgmR0_aWAI5_G6QnMy6Jf9y6pB3rqUE-JE4IbQZB9rBleErM5i1vAN95zR3FDkVCe21p1K8mOGipzv1HZBFnl8dAJ8vrxMdOEWR_Vv9B_VBA/s72-w640-h390-c/elias%20frame.png" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-4668475693959967893</id><published>2025-06-29T01:05:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2025-06-29T01:05:01.881-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="recent"/><title type="text">Only 5% of New Yorkers Voted for Mamdani</title><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBymEPSKyas5biyqxVmmWFYm1_cwi48uWZfusIGKBnEKJ6WyfXSuoYJQaHwG5xepEmcm0NR-qD5OY-DSctbN7UMpjhn5knyNGyaB6QnX-OBXSaQ8iadBNuytRaYZDBnSC4ht1B0avKh-GV5ghUZzg7XsJhX15Lc61FNHUzwHUk3YHeKRx5e0O2Iw/s1027/mamdani%20frame2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="743" data-original-width="1027" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBymEPSKyas5biyqxVmmWFYm1_cwi48uWZfusIGKBnEKJ6WyfXSuoYJQaHwG5xepEmcm0NR-qD5OY-DSctbN7UMpjhn5knyNGyaB6QnX-OBXSaQ8iadBNuytRaYZDBnSC4ht1B0avKh-GV5ghUZzg7XsJhX15Lc61FNHUzwHUk3YHeKRx5e0O2Iw/s320/mamdani%20frame2.png" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;After Zohran Mamdani secured the Democrat nomination for mayor,
92. millions of people around the country are wondering how the city that
93. lived through 9/11 could have done this?</p>
94. <p>The answer is it didn’t.</p>
95. <p>Less than 30% of Democrats voted in the mayoral primary. Of those,
96. supposedly, 43.5% voted for Mamdani. So some 12.9% of New York Democrats
97. voted for Mamdani.</p>
98. <p>56% of registered voters in the city are Democrats so some 7.2% of city residents voted for him.</p>
99. <p>New York City has a population of 8.2 million. Of those 432,305 or 5% voted for Mamdani.</p><p>This isn’t a mandate. It’s a city that tuned out the election because
100. it saw no one worth voting for and ceded the playing field to radicals
101. and extremists. The media is doing its best to hype those numbers
102. as a stunning mandate when what they really represent are high levels of
103. turnout by Mamadani’s base and low turnout by everyone else.</p><p>Who are those 5%? They aren’t New Yorkers because polls showed us
104. Mamdani performing poorly with anyone over 50, with African-American,
105. Latino and working class white voters. What’s left? White hipsters and
106. Muslim immigrants.</p><p>Mamdani’s base isn’t New Yorkers, it’s a coalition of white hipsters and
107. Muslim immigrants, most of them weren’t even in the city during 9/11,
108. like Mamdani, have no roots in the city, and no connection to its
109. history. The quintessential New Yorker, as envisioned by a thousand
110. Hollywood movies, TV shows and Broadway musicals, still exists, but is
111. harder to find than ever. The city of those movies and shows can be
112. glimpsed as a palimpsest under layers of chain stores, illegal migrants,
113. social justice projects and vegan eateries before it vanishes again in
114. the rain. </p><p>What happened to New York is what happened to legendary cities across
115. the country and around the world, from Philly to London, which is that
116. the revival of the 90s was the final act in driving out its working
117. class and middle class population. Rents soared until the only young
118. people who could afford to live there were white hipsters and third
119. world immigrants.</p>
120. <p>And their politics became based on coalitions between the hipsters
121. and the new arrivals. In New York City, as in London, it produced a
122. Jihadist coalition that paved the way for a Muslim mayor.</p>
123. <p>Even by 9/11, New York City already wasn’t ‘that city’. The Giuliani
124. revolution that swept out bums and criminals was a victim of its own
125. success. Much of the middle class had already left which was why so many
126. of the victims of 9/11 were commuters. Those who didn’t were soon
127. completely priced out. The working class, the Irish, Jewish and Italian
128. men and women who appear as comic characters in countless shows, were
129. soon priced out of everything except projects. Even as the world mourned
130. for New York, the New Yorkers were disappearing.</p>
131. <p>New York’s political system became a contest between establishment
132. crooks from the old Democrat political machine and radicals from the new
133. leftist insurgencies. Selecting Cuomo, an old crook with a venerable
134. political lineage, to go up against a young hip radical was a political
135. death wish. New Yorkers, with enough standards not to vote for Mamdani,
136. were expected to go out and vote for a man they were almost certainly
137. bound to hate and resent. The sudden unity behind Cuomo smacked of
138. hypocrisy and made Mamdani seem like a genuine revolutionary.</p><p></p><p>Most New Yorkers didn’t vote. They stayed home
139. and allowed the 5% to have their way.
140. Given a choice between two terrible candidates, in a city that has long
141. since proven to be utterly corrupt, they opted out. They may have failed
142. to protect the city, but the political establishment failed them badly
143. by putting up Cuomo and seems likely to fail all over again as it now
144. has to revert to holding up Mayor Eric Adams as the last best hope for
145. New York City.</p><p>In the 1991 Louisiana governor’s race between corrupt politicians
146. Edwin Edwards and Neo-Nazi leader David Duke, bumper stickers read,
147. “Vote for the crook, it’s important.” Voting for the crook may be
148. important once more in New York City, but it’s not an ideal choice you
149. want to give voters. Not unless you want below 30% turnout with the
150. numbers favoring those who are most enthusiastic about their
151. Neo-Neo-Nazi candidate and his plans to destroy the city.</p>
152. <p>New Yorkers needed a real choice and instead they got a choice
153. between eating a dead rat and committing suicide. Only 5% chose to
154. commit suicide, but most didn’t want to eat a dead rat either. And the
155. dead rat strategy is going to be a longshot in any political campaign.</p>
156. <p>The best way to beat an evil candidate is with a better choice, not with a lesser evil.</p>
157. <p>New York’s political system, without meaningful Republican
158. participation, has decayed into a one-party system. Its already corrupt
159. rules were further rejiggered to favor radicals with ranked choice
160. voting, and whose elections are as shady as those of Chicago, Philly and
161. Los Angeles.</p>
162. <p>There’s no particular reason to trust the Mamdani election results
163. than there is to trust the similar shady mayoral elections in Chicago
164. and Los Angeles that gave their respective cities two radical destroyers
165. in the form of Mayor Brandon Johnson and Mayor Karen Bass. It is all
166. too possible that they will have a third candidate elected in a dubious
167. election by a radical minority.</p>
168. <p>Maybe America and Europe’s big cities are beyond saving, but the low
169. turnout shows that the city that survived 9/11 hasn’t turned evil, its
170. people have either left or given up on politics.</p>
171. &lt;p&gt;New York City can be saved. But it will take a leader with a real message to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; font-size: large; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;Daniel Greenfield&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;Front Page Magazine&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;Click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;here to subscribe&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to my articles. And&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;click here to support my work with a donation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;" /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;Thank you for reading.&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" style="background-color: #fafafa; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="500" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2-8K1m-P7y4j4aL_AQBH6X3B5ugD56jdnVb1-TZ-Shobc6BR7h1ko7HfudfaWTKjF8QO4GqswsZLXjk0bSjONiDuu_3n8253fl8uizuSD4P8PG7VzDjiNsO5tM_dj-NERECSZWwBYC0RhQIv_-ejW5nrQZyou6S4kMx9tknaCbusrARxUCToe0A/w640-h230/%E2%80%9CA%20marvelously%20original%20and%20enlightening%20look%20at%20American%20history,%20with%20a%20host%20of%20insights%20for%20our%20own%20age.%E2%80%9D%20%E2%80%94Robert%20Spencer,%20Author%20of%20The%20Sumter%20Gambit%20How%20the%20Left%20Is%20Trying%20to%20Foment%20A%20Civil%20W%20(1).png" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Read my book&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;nbsp;'Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers' Fight Against the Left'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;to discover the true origins of the American Left.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/feeds/4668475693959967893/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/06/only-5-of-new-yorkers-voted-for-mamdani.html#comment-form" rel="replies" title="5 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/4668475693959967893" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/4668475693959967893" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/06/only-5-of-new-yorkers-voted-for-mamdani.html" rel="alternate" title="Only 5% of New Yorkers Voted for Mamdani" type="text/html"/><author><name>Daniel Greenfield</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhRSvmnQijYr-BAX6Dhyjov7iV0exSO5_GeAmrS9KrDfyKL3VSV3Un-5pZhpzro8iWIUneqiL4ANYnGEUoTL0vy8NsLmlYYh-OMLsfNWslVjJgEd_c4FeGGK5dq-f2R63PGJTSDp-d1bMHg9mFKJEaV6Dfl20ZBX9rGmaVz8MlOTuPQ/s220/headshot%20bw4.jpg" width="30"/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBymEPSKyas5biyqxVmmWFYm1_cwi48uWZfusIGKBnEKJ6WyfXSuoYJQaHwG5xepEmcm0NR-qD5OY-DSctbN7UMpjhn5knyNGyaB6QnX-OBXSaQ8iadBNuytRaYZDBnSC4ht1B0avKh-GV5ghUZzg7XsJhX15Lc61FNHUzwHUk3YHeKRx5e0O2Iw/s72-c/mamdani%20frame2.png" width="72"/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-7091496707931822401</id><published>2025-06-26T13:05:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2025-06-26T13:13:35.690-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="recent"/><title type="text">Anti-Nuke Activists Fight for Iran’s Nukes</title><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLql_v2oryR2oonJ3b1xuEA_KY2aw_CPp3nxrJe-A6HkHufPXiLeNTyne4JhOf-JnyybqGUytYuFitI7c6NMNQBFYu3hUplGRYujXLplFFwjqjhF-YczVLD54iOEdc2I673tNp9Z7rDkAMPlF_HSLRDdBmHwYMiQVyqTu_8VPruhLErv3-Td4ElA/s960/image(18).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLql_v2oryR2oonJ3b1xuEA_KY2aw_CPp3nxrJe-A6HkHufPXiLeNTyne4JhOf-JnyybqGUytYuFitI7c6NMNQBFYu3hUplGRYujXLplFFwjqjhF-YczVLD54iOEdc2I673tNp9Z7rDkAMPlF_HSLRDdBmHwYMiQVyqTu_8VPruhLErv3-Td4ElA/s320/image(18).jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;In the 1980s, Helen Caldicott, a key leader of Physicians for Social Responsibility leader, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/digitallibrary/smof/nscintelligence/degraffenreid/r27/40-139-39149351-R27-012-2019.pdf" rel=""&gt;compared a&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;
172. Trident nuclear missile to “a gas oven full of Jews burning up.” These
173. days, Caldicott’s social media feed is a stream of Iranian, Houthi and
174. Hamas propaganda denouncing the Jewish State and opposing strikes on
175. Iran. It wasn’t the US Navy that was set on burning Jews up in ovens but
176. the anti-nuclear activist.</span></p><p>The ‘Auschwitz’ slogan was popular among opponents of America’s nuclear weapons.</p><p>“I
177. say with a deep consciousness of these words that Trident is the
178. Auschwitz of Puget Sound,” Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen infamously
179. declared in 1981. </p><p>There was no such outrage about all the
180. ‘Auschwitzes’ being built by Hitler’s former allies in the USSR or his
181. former allies in the Middle East. A generation after accusing American
182. nuclear missiles of being “Auschwitz”, anti-nuclear groups defended the
183. Iranian nuclear ‘Auschwitzes’ publicly dedicated to “Death to America”,
184. “Death to Israel” and killing millions of Jews.</p><p>The International
185. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, founded in part by the
186. International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and
187. Physicians for Social Responsibility  won a Nobel Peace Prize for its
188. opposition to the existence of nuclear weapons. Its slogan was ‘We must
189. eliminate nuclear weapons before they eliminate us.’ Unless the nukes
190. are in the hands of Islamic terrorists.</p><p>After Israel launched its
191. campaign to end Iran’s nuclear weapons program, ICAN denied that Iran
192. was developing nuclear weapons and instead condemned Israel for striking
193. Iran’s nukes.</p><p>International Physicians for the Prevention of
194. Nuclear War condemned Israel and instead urged it to create “a Middle
195. East Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone.” Then IPPNW laid the blame
196. on America and other countries for having caused the whole problem by
197. refusing to give up their own nuclear weapons. And, contravening
198. reality, the leftist group argued that “there is no military solution to
199. the growing risk of nuclear proliferation.”</p><p>No doubt if America and Israel unilaterally disarm, Iran would never nuke both of them.</p><p><span>During the Cold War, IPPNW </span><a href="https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP86T01017R000100310001-5.pdf" rel="">promoted</a><span>
200. Soviet arms control proposals, now it promotes Iran’s proposals for
201. “negotiations” and “diplomacy”. Physicians for Social Responsibility,
202. which helped found the movement, was accused of being a Communist front
203. group. The Soviet Union may be gone, but ICAN, IPPNW and PSR believe
204. that only American nukes are bad nukes.</span></p><p>Other campaigners for nuclear disarament have been behaving the same way.</p><p>The
205. Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, which claims to be fighting for a
206. “nuclear-free world”, is campaigning to scrap nuclear weapons in the UK
207. and the US, but to keep them in Iran. Alongside calls to end nuclear
208. weapons elsewhere, it demands “No war in Iran” and urges the “US and the
209. UK to step back from the brink”. The ‘brink’ being ending Iran’s
210. nuclear weapons.</p><p>According to CND, which spent 70 years warning
211. that the UK’s nuclear weapons posed a threat to mankind, Iran’s nuclear
212. program does not pose a threat and we should just leave it alone.</p><p>“Instead
213. of taking steps to disarm its nuclear weapons,” CND complained that the
214. UK is updating its launch platforms. After calling for “diplomatic and
215. economic pressure on nuclear-armed, genocidal Israel” with sanctions and
216. an embargo, and demanding that the UK abandon its nuclear capabilities,
217. the group had nothing to say about Iran’s nukes.</p><p>Turns out that the only bomb that the “Ban the Bomb” campaign wanted to ban was ours.</p><p>Back
218. From the Brink claimed that Israel’s strikes on Iran were an example of
219. “brute nuclear force” demonstrating that the group, which also goes by
220. Prevent Nuclear War, can’t define “nuclear”. “No country, including
221. Israel, the United States, Russia nor China should have nuclear
222. weapons,” it insisted, and then urged members to attend ‘No Kings’
223. rallies.</p><p>Beyond Nuclear Power, working for “a world free from
224. nuclear power and nuclear energy”, put up a post with a poster urging
225. “Don’t attack Iran” and then cited Al Jazeera, a terrorist propaganda
226. network run by Iran’s ally, Qatar, to argue that Iran wasn’t really
227. building a bomb. A day earlier, BNP had claimed that President Trump’s
228. plan for nuclear power was “unhinged” and that the ‘Golden Dome’ defense
229. program “spells doom for US taxpayers and world peace”.</p><p>According
230. to the anti-nuclear group, a plan to block missiles “threatens to
231. trigger another nuclear arms race and risks war in space” while Iran’s
232. nuclear program is just misunderstood.</p><p><span>The position of the
233. Ploughshares Fund was never in doubt. The organization, funded by the
234. Rockefeller Brothers Fund, was a key part of the Obama ‘echo chamber’
235. that used every dirty trick to push the Iran nuclear sellout. One of the
236. radical groups funded by Ploughshares published </span><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/iranian-foreign-agent-used-obamas-media-echo-daniel-greenfield/" rel="">Kaveh Afrasiabi</a><span>, later arrested as an Iranian foreign agent, who was traded to Iran in a hostage deal. Ploughshares</span><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/iranian-lobby-democratic-party-alliance-discover-networks/" rel=""> funded the National Iranian American Council:</a><span> accused by many of being Iran’s lobby in the United States, making Ploughshares rather close to an Iran front.</span></p><p>Since
237. hypocritical anti-nuclear organizations proliferate even as the actual
238. risk of a nuclear war continues to drop, there’s also the Nuclear Threat
239. Initiative founded by CNN’s Ted Turner.</p><p>NTI’s current head is
240. Ernest Moniz, Obama’s Energy Secretary, who helped sell the Iran nuclear
241. deal with distortions and misstatements, is back at it, telling PBS
242. that “we cannot bomb the program out of existence.” Eric Brewer, an NTI
243. honcho who formerly served on Obama’s National Security Council,
244. paradoxically insisted that Israel’s attacks on Iran’s nuclear weapons
245. program “make an Iranian bomb more likely.” This is in keeping with
246. Obama’s inversion rhetoric.</p><p><span>The Center for Arms Control & Non-Proliferation, headed by former Rep. John Tierney, who had taken part in </span><a href="https://keywiki.org/John_Tierney" rel="">a NIAC meeting</a><span>, promoted similar claims that Israel’s attacks “could finally push Iran to go nuclear.”</span></p><p>The
247. one thing virtually every anti-nuclear group has is a relentless
248. conviction that every Western nuclear program, no matter how peaceful,
249. will lead to Armageddon, and a childlike faith that the nuclear programs
250. of America’s enemies are peaceful unless we provoke them.</p><p>The only possible reason a terrorist state that chants “Death to
251. America” and has cheap energy coming out of the ground might possibly
252. turn its otherwise mostly useless nuclear program into a nuclear bomb
253. would be if we or the Israeli provoke the otherwise peacefully nuclear
254. Iranians.</p>
255. <p>Even America’s defenses against nuclear weapons are worse than Iran’s nukes.</p>
256. <p>The Arms Control Association, officially dedicated to eliminating the
257. threat of nuclear weapons, claims that President Trump’s call for zero
258. enrichment is “an unnecessary, unrealistic objective to prevent an
259. Iranian bomb” but that the Golden Dome is “a misguided and dangerous
260. approach to securing the American homeland.”</p>
261. <p>The Golden Dome is dangerous and misguided, but Iran’s nuclear enrichment is of no concern.</p>
262. <p>What the nuclear hypocrisy of the anti-nuke activists reveals once
263. again is that they were never opposed to nuclear proliferation, only to
264. the ability of free nations to defend themselves against the Communist
265. regimes and Islamic terrorists who threaten them. Anti-proliferation was
266. always a leftist trojan horse for empowering the enemies of
267. civilization to encircle and destroy it.</p>
268. <p>When anti-nuclear activists go into the streets to protest for Iran’s
269. nukes, they reveal that none of their hysteria about nukes was serious
270. or sincere. It was only a trick to dismantle our defenses and aid our
271. enemies. The same ‘anti-proliferation’ organizations that acted to
272. advance the USSR’s agendas now plot to aid the nuclear arsenal of an
273. Islamic terror state.</p>
274. &lt;p&gt;They’re not anti-proliferation; they’re anti-civilization.&lt;/p&gt;</content><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/feeds/7091496707931822401/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/06/anti-nuke-activists-fight-for-irans.html#comment-form" rel="replies" title="1 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/7091496707931822401" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/7091496707931822401" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/06/anti-nuke-activists-fight-for-irans.html" rel="alternate" title="Anti-Nuke Activists Fight for Iran’s Nukes" type="text/html"/><author><name>Daniel Greenfield</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhRSvmnQijYr-BAX6Dhyjov7iV0exSO5_GeAmrS9KrDfyKL3VSV3Un-5pZhpzro8iWIUneqiL4ANYnGEUoTL0vy8NsLmlYYh-OMLsfNWslVjJgEd_c4FeGGK5dq-f2R63PGJTSDp-d1bMHg9mFKJEaV6Dfl20ZBX9rGmaVz8MlOTuPQ/s220/headshot%20bw4.jpg" width="30"/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLql_v2oryR2oonJ3b1xuEA_KY2aw_CPp3nxrJe-A6HkHufPXiLeNTyne4JhOf-JnyybqGUytYuFitI7c6NMNQBFYu3hUplGRYujXLplFFwjqjhF-YczVLD54iOEdc2I673tNp9Z7rDkAMPlF_HSLRDdBmHwYMiQVyqTu_8VPruhLErv3-Td4ElA/s72-c/image(18).jpg" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-7136367561032967195</id><published>2025-06-23T21:32:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2025-06-23T21:32:00.109-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="recent"/><title type="text">President Trump Kept 30 Years of Broken Promises</title><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGmc-8Jwf41AvArUCgxTk5BlaSc5eiyoAe-_UGBbxH2FRsG2N7PWcfzXo8th3lXfnXNkqH9bJZo2q9766hZ6NAdwLq66Vx0GQOgVWEatCmriY_fwJPToBaCq3IikASJAiUWzWQ8BN5Z05gbH9HVVqcvon4oB6MWU4kwb6hQKCBQwOOyGshmTwDdA/s916/GuFFdnpWkAAk1Dn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="790" data-original-width="916" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGmc-8Jwf41AvArUCgxTk5BlaSc5eiyoAe-_UGBbxH2FRsG2N7PWcfzXo8th3lXfnXNkqH9bJZo2q9766hZ6NAdwLq66Vx0GQOgVWEatCmriY_fwJPToBaCq3IikASJAiUWzWQ8BN5Z05gbH9HVVqcvon4oB6MWU4kwb6hQKCBQwOOyGshmTwDdA/s320/GuFFdnpWkAAk1Dn.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“Iran’s appetite for acquiring and developing nuclear weapons and the
275. missiles to deliver them has only grown larger,” Bill Clinton claimed
276. in 1995. “We have tried to stop its quest to acquire weapons of mass
277. destruction, which would make it a threat not only to its neighbors but
278. to the entire region and the world.”</p>
279. <p>“For the sake of peace, the world must not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon,” George W. Bush declared.</p>
280. <p>“America is determined to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon,
281. and I will take no options off the table to achieve that goal,” Barack
282. Obama promised.</p>
283. <p>“Here is my message to Iran’s leaders, the United States will never
284. allow you to acquire a nuclear weapon. As president, I will take
285. whatever action is necessary to protect the United States and our
286. allies,” Hillary Clinton assured.</p>
287. <p>“We will not let Iran acquire a nuclear weapon. Period. Period. End
288. of discussion. It will not happen on our watch,” Joe Biden assured.</p>
289. <p>“Let me be clear, we will not allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon. Period,” Kamala Harris said.</p>
290. <p>The real ‘period’ was placed by President Trump who cut through 30
291. years of empty talk and ended the discussion. After decades of worthless
292. promises by presidents, vice presidents, and presidential candidates,
293. he took decisive action to actually prevent Iran from acquiring nukes.</p>
294. <p>Operation Midnight Hammer did the opposite of what presidents had
295. been doing since the 90s. President after president had promised to stop
296. Iran from deploying a nuclear bomb only to do nothing. Trump said he
297. was negotiating with Iran even while planning to take out its nukes.</p>
298. <p>Democrats, including Sen. Chuck Schumer, who had been taunting Trump
299. only days ago as chickening out on Iran, are furious because Trump
300. actually kept all the promises they broke.</p>
301. <p>“We must do everything we can … to avoid a nuclear Iran. And we will
302. be leading the charge to make sure that the Iranians know that they will
303. not go nuclear or face the most severe of consequences,” Sen. Schumer
304. had promised Now he bemoans Trump for actually doing it.</p>
305. <p>“We will do whatever it takes to make sure Iran does not get a
306. nuclear weapon,” Rep. Jerry Nadler had boasted. “No matter what, even if
307. it takes military action, Iran must be prevented from getting a nuclear
308. weapon.”</p>
309. <p>After President Trump actually took out Iran’s nukes through military
310. action, Rep. Nadler furiously urged that the strikes “must be condemned
311. in the strongest possible terms.”</p>
312. <p>“All Members of Congress, regardless of party, agree: a nuclear Iran
313. is simply unacceptable. It is a threat to the region, to the United
314. States, and to our allies across the globe,” Rep. Nancy Pelosi had once
315. asserted. “We must all use all the tools at our disposal to stop Iran’s
316. march toward nuclear capability.”</p>
317. <p>Now, Pelosi assailed President Trump’s accomplishment of just that by
318. contending that it “risks further escalation and dangerous
319. destabilization of the region”</p>
320. <p>For 30 years, Democrats and some Republicans lied about stopping Iran. Trump did it.</p>
321. <p>That’s why they hate him. President Trump once again kept a promise
322. he had made while Democrats, their media, the woke left and the woke
323. right condemned him for doing it. The strikes taking out Iran’s nuclear
324. program didn’t just smash the radioactive infrastructure of death, it
325. also once again demonstrated the hypocrisy and double dealing so common
326. in D.C.</p>
327. <p>The politicians who promised to secure the border, turn around the
328. economy, unleash the private sector, cut government agencies, move the
329. embassy to Jerusalem, and a thousand other promises never meant any of
330. them. But President Trump, in the teeth of nearly universal opposition
331. from the media and always online tweeting class of influencers, kept his
332. promise.</p>
333. <p>Again.</p>
334. <p>The real question isn’t the one being posed by these politicians
335. complaining why President Trump didn’t go to them to authorize a war
336. with an Islamic terrorist state that had been attacking us since the
337. Carter administration, it’s why they lied all these years to the
338. American people.</p>
339. <p>If they had been opposed to taking out Iran’s nukes, why did they keep telling us otherwise?</p>
340. <p>In keeping 30 years of broken promises, President Trump showed how
341. untrustworthy the same politicians condemning him are. Operation
342. Midnight Hammer wasn’t just a strike on Iran, but on D.C. whose version
343. of enriched uranium stockpiles are piles of broken promises and lies.</p>
344. <p>And if they couldn’t be trusted on the border or on a terror state
345. with nuclear weapons, what can they be trusted on when it comes to our
346. national security or any of the promises they make?</p>
347. <p>The Iran strikes have sent a message to the American people and to
348. China and our enemies abroad that the era of hollow threats and empty
349. assurances are over. Operation Midnight Hammer gave us real deterrence
350. again, not just when confronting terrorists, but China.</p>
351. <p>A week ago, the People’s Republic of China was contemplating the odds
352. of taking Taiwan and betting that America would do nothing. After a few
353. extremely unpredictable weeks, Xi is much less likely to gamble that a
354. nation that sent B2s from Missouri to take out nuclear plants without
355. any further warnings, leaks or notice is a paper tiger that will do
356. nothing if he attacks.</p>
357. <p>We are no longer a feckless nation governed by liars and hypocrites whose word is worthless.</p>
358. <p>For <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/iran-has-been-at-war-with-us-for-46-years/">46 years</a>, Iran had two slogans, “Death to America” and<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/iran-has-been-at-war-with-us-for-46-years/"> “America can’t do a damn thing against us.” </a>The
359. two slogans went hand in hand. As long as Iran could kidnap, torture
360. and kill Americans, it could safely chant “Death to America” because it
361. believed America was helpless.</p>
362. <p>Trump buried “America can’t do a damn thing against us” as deep as its reactors of death.</p>
363. <p>That’s a message not only to Iran, but to China and our enemies at
364. home and abroad. The politicians who broke thirty years of promises to
365. stop Iran couldn’t stand up for our country or keep us safe. President
366. Trump could and did. He stopped Iran and only he can stop China.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; font-size: large; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease 0s;" target="_blank"&gt;Daniel Greenfield&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease 0s;" target="_blank"&gt;Front Page Magazine&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;Click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease 0s;" target="_blank"&gt;here to subscribe&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to my articles. And&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease 0s;" target="_blank"&gt;click here to support my work with a donation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;" /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;Thank you for reading.&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" style="background-color: #fafafa; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="500" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2-8K1m-P7y4j4aL_AQBH6X3B5ugD56jdnVb1-TZ-Shobc6BR7h1ko7HfudfaWTKjF8QO4GqswsZLXjk0bSjONiDuu_3n8253fl8uizuSD4P8PG7VzDjiNsO5tM_dj-NERECSZWwBYC0RhQIv_-ejW5nrQZyou6S4kMx9tknaCbusrARxUCToe0A/w640-h230/%E2%80%9CA%20marvelously%20original%20and%20enlightening%20look%20at%20American%20history,%20with%20a%20host%20of%20insights%20for%20our%20own%20age.%E2%80%9D%20%E2%80%94Robert%20Spencer,%20Author%20of%20The%20Sumter%20Gambit%20How%20the%20Left%20Is%20Trying%20to%20Foment%20A%20Civil%20W%20(1).png" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Read my book&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;nbsp;'Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers' Fight Against the Left'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;to discover the true origins of the American Left.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/feeds/7136367561032967195/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/06/president-trump-kept-30-years-of-broken.html#comment-form" rel="replies" title="2 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/7136367561032967195" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/7136367561032967195" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/06/president-trump-kept-30-years-of-broken.html" rel="alternate" title="President Trump Kept 30 Years of Broken Promises" type="text/html"/><author><name>Daniel Greenfield</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhRSvmnQijYr-BAX6Dhyjov7iV0exSO5_GeAmrS9KrDfyKL3VSV3Un-5pZhpzro8iWIUneqiL4ANYnGEUoTL0vy8NsLmlYYh-OMLsfNWslVjJgEd_c4FeGGK5dq-f2R63PGJTSDp-d1bMHg9mFKJEaV6Dfl20ZBX9rGmaVz8MlOTuPQ/s220/headshot%20bw4.jpg" width="30"/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGmc-8Jwf41AvArUCgxTk5BlaSc5eiyoAe-_UGBbxH2FRsG2N7PWcfzXo8th3lXfnXNkqH9bJZo2q9766hZ6NAdwLq66Vx0GQOgVWEatCmriY_fwJPToBaCq3IikASJAiUWzWQ8BN5Z05gbH9HVVqcvon4oB6MWU4kwb6hQKCBQwOOyGshmTwDdA/s72-c/GuFFdnpWkAAk1Dn.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-2973618464846272150</id><published>2025-06-19T19:37:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2025-06-19T19:37:00.223-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="recent"/><title type="text">Iran Has Been at War With Us for 46 Years</title><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhil5lKR7X_XFZ22Oq5ubQJzcWMtpsAnNREPpuqLWKcwtynxTv5FTwPzDDyWxVl4R_jV0ekZ8LxAoeUMh4BwZxs-ZIYW8c8-F_z25wJ9yAHGf6RDjZjVmM33_zguV1uyxMxL0hnPZTw3Fa52vHYorhK6_BIx3wASbC0q5G40PDVPBvPMy8BsqIYEA/s1276/iran%20hostage1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="842" data-original-width="1276" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhil5lKR7X_XFZ22Oq5ubQJzcWMtpsAnNREPpuqLWKcwtynxTv5FTwPzDDyWxVl4R_jV0ekZ8LxAoeUMh4BwZxs-ZIYW8c8-F_z25wJ9yAHGf6RDjZjVmM33_zguV1uyxMxL0hnPZTw3Fa52vHYorhK6_BIx3wASbC0q5G40PDVPBvPMy8BsqIYEA/w640-h422/iran%20hostage1.png" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p data-pm-slice="1 1 []"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;“America can’t do a damn thing against us,” Ayatollah Khomeini bragged while holding our hostages.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;The Carter administration had undermined the Shah’s government in favor of the Islamists who seized power and then prevented the embassy’s Marine guards from defending the facility and the people inside against the Muslim ‘student’ groups who claimed to be coming in peace.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;The “peaceful” student activists took over our embassy and held our people hostage.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei taunted President Trump with the same slogan in June after being asked to give up Iran’s nuclear weapons program. “Our response to the US nonsense is clear: they cannot do a damn thing in this matter,” he echoed his regime’s founder.’&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Carter’s failure to defend Americans had turned Khomeini’s taunt into a confident slogan.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;America couldn’t stop its diplomats and soldiers from being taken hostage and paraded through the streets. In subsequent decades, future administrations couldn’t stop other Americans from being taken hostage again, tortured and executed. By the end of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Iranian IEDs alone had accounted for as many as 1,000 American victims.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s IRGC terror mastermind, &lt;a href="https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/01/03/iran-leader-killed-in-strike-linked-to-years-of-attacks-killing-of-more-than-1000-us-troops-during-iraq-war/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"&gt;had thought&lt;/a&gt; that America couldn’t do a damn thing. In January 2020, President Trump taught him otherwise with a Reaper drone.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;It was the first time in a long time that America had done a “damn thing” about Iran.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;In 1983, Iranian backed terrorists set off truck bombs in Beirut that killed 220 US Marines and 21 other servicemembers. Mohsen Rafiqdoost, Khomeini’s bodyguard who helped found Iran’s IRGC terror force, boasted that, “both the TNT and the ideology, which in one blast sent to hell 400 officers, NCOs, and soldiers at the Marines headquarters, were provided by Iran.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Beyond a few airstrikes, America didn’t do a “damn thing” because the intelligence proving Iran was behind the attack was suppressed so that it never reached Reagan. Eventually we placed multimillion dollar rewards on the heads of Hezbollah’s Ibrahim Aqil and Fuad Shukr who continued to live without a care in the world until Israel took them out after Oct 7.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;The Biden administration assured the media that it &lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/biden-admin-promises-it-didnt-help-israel-take-out-marine-barracks-bomber/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;had nothing to do&lt;/a&gt; with the Israeli strikes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Over the decade, Iran’s Hezbollah proxies took dozens of American hostages. Some were released after months or years in exchange for concessions, while others were killed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;In 1984, Hezbollah kidnapped, tortured and killed CIA Station Chief William Francis Buckley whose identity they learned from classified documents seized from the embassy in Tehran. Buckley was &lt;a href="https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP91-00587R000100200029-0.pdf" rel="noopener" target="_blank"&gt;transferred to Iran&lt;/a&gt; and tortured there, before being returned to Lebanon. Videos distributed by Iran’s Jihadists&lt;a href="https://www.dailyrepublic.com/opinion/local-opinion-columnists/memory-of-buckley-deserves-better/article_c90710ab-09b4-5419-93e0-3d5e7a48cd69.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank"&gt;showed him&lt;/a&gt; in agony. “Buckley was close to a gibbering wretch. His words were often incoherent; he slobbered and drooled and, most unnerving of all, he would suddenly scream in terror, his eyes rolling helplessly and his body shaking.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihyphenhyphenu60mKNkQfFkGWuTTiAqS896hMZGRHax2iPkWTvXAm8fbiHSbKDpqu2nP8_Yf0nYpqOC251Yy2oGUfOVpomi2MXonhv-_15PlkcosxoWaVlWTtDvlhEa0ynRh3ONwGm4DLeiWdDJhaDEgqeBYWressGR1sRyG6K6D6YlfAl2LcQpKK4LepPtFQ/s3156/buckley.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="2371" data-original-width="3156" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihyphenhyphenu60mKNkQfFkGWuTTiAqS896hMZGRHax2iPkWTvXAm8fbiHSbKDpqu2nP8_Yf0nYpqOC251Yy2oGUfOVpomi2MXonhv-_15PlkcosxoWaVlWTtDvlhEa0ynRh3ONwGm4DLeiWdDJhaDEgqeBYWressGR1sRyG6K6D6YlfAl2LcQpKK4LepPtFQ/s320/buckley.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;America once again did not do a “damn thing”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;In 1985, Hezbollah hijacked TWA Flight 847. One of the terrorists was Imad Mughniyeh who had also interrogated Buckley. Navy diver Robert Stethem was beaten and kicked to death before his body was dumped on the tarmac.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi224S0FyWDyjqhVvF1K4j5_Cwf-rva_XgVLR4Zlqm3AIToqmZpJWeGpwyOtd6ObqR37NXwa9aOps_euf2-FdT7gNA7keG1YVaGGOQUDuo0noGIVabGiaeK6buJXY_gCl2H9MVVykAZnYrzYqjXah5DG1k5lfwff6TLKPdGcIkKcEy-g6mrc-XeFQ/s1500/stethem.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1091" data-original-width="1500" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi224S0FyWDyjqhVvF1K4j5_Cwf-rva_XgVLR4Zlqm3AIToqmZpJWeGpwyOtd6ObqR37NXwa9aOps_euf2-FdT7gNA7keG1YVaGGOQUDuo0noGIVabGiaeK6buJXY_gCl2H9MVVykAZnYrzYqjXah5DG1k5lfwff6TLKPdGcIkKcEy-g6mrc-XeFQ/s320/stethem.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;“They were jumping in the air and landing full force on his body. He must have had all his ribs broken,” Uli Derickson, the stewardess, described. “I was sitting only 15 feet away. I couldn’t listen to it. I put my fingers in my ears. I will never forget. I could still hear. They put the mike up to his face so his screams could be heard by the outside world.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Instead of sending a message and holding Iran and its terrorists accountable, the United States made a deal to have Israel free hundreds of Jihadists.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi26sQZyJqsw131EotSL_-mhWYWOy55KzspVMgHgWQrDb_9a7yJusT2Ru9dDNrXVUmxBT9eGxjgJTvNP1kMoY85sM0eveuAaQ8fqKMKJC0ZX-GxqZZO-ewrNlEnwHQAsz_JMgfCZke1OlIyHlKTsjvdBx3eilWkrG_ywLQipkha4pbNCR9r63QGQg/s426/higgins.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="426" data-original-width="350" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi26sQZyJqsw131EotSL_-mhWYWOy55KzspVMgHgWQrDb_9a7yJusT2Ru9dDNrXVUmxBT9eGxjgJTvNP1kMoY85sM0eveuAaQ8fqKMKJC0ZX-GxqZZO-ewrNlEnwHQAsz_JMgfCZke1OlIyHlKTsjvdBx3eilWkrG_ywLQipkha4pbNCR9r63QGQg/s320/higgins.jpg" width="263" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;In 1988, Hezbollah kidnapped Colonel William R. Higgins and&lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/american-blood-iranian-hands-daniel-greenfield/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;tortured him for months.&lt;/a&gt; An autopsy found that he had been starved, the skin on his face had been partially removed along with his tongue and he had also been castrated. Finally his body was dumped near a mosque.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;“I am one of a small handful of Americans who knows the exact manner of Rich’s death. If I were to describe it to you now – which I will not – I can guarantee that a significant number of people in this room would become physically ill,” a friend of Higgins stated.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Finally, decades later, in the last days of the Bush administration, the CIA teamed up with Israel to take out Mughniyah with a car bomb. America had finally done a “damn thing”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;But Iran continues to hold American hostages today like former FBI agent Robert Levinson.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;In 1996, Shiite terrorists backed by Iran bombed the Khobar Towers killing 19 American servicemembers, but Iran was also pursuing other options including a new Sunni terror group.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Al Qaeda built a relationship with Iran. The 9/11 Commission &lt;a href="https://www.meforum.org/middle-east-quarterly/irans-link-to-al-qaeda-the-9-11-commissions" rel="noopener" target="_blank"&gt;noted&lt;/a&gt;, “Iran facilitated the transit of al Qaeda members into and out of Afghanistan before 9/11” (with the aid of Soleimani, later taken out by Trump) and “Al Qaeda members received advice and training from Hezbollah.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;After 9/11, some Taliban leaders&lt;a href="https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2010/09/06/iran-pays-bounties-to-taliban-for-dead-americans/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"&gt; relocated to Iran&lt;/a&gt; to fight America. By 2010, Iran was &lt;a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna39014669" rel="noopener" target="_blank"&gt;paying $1,000 for each American soldier &lt;/a&gt;killed and Iranian IEDs were claiming American lives.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;After losing in Afghanistan, Al Qaeda relocated much of its operations to Iran.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, Al Qaeda’s second-in-command, responsible for the bombings of American embassies across Africa, was taken out in Tehran in a joint Israeli-American operation during the first term of the Trump administration.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Saif al-Adel, the current leader of Al Qaeda, lives in Tehran and has been there for two decades. Even while supposedly in Iranian custody, he ordered the 2003 bombings in Saudi Arabia that killed 9 Americans.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;As recently as last year, Iran and its terrorist proxies continued murdering American soldiers and contractors including Scott Patrick Dubis in 2023 and Sgt. William Rivers, Specialist Kennedy Sanders, and Specialist Breonna Moffett in 2024.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZTFHf2ck2Co60EuIB1CV2R9qClxl1ULEg7Kd1l6LDVx5gR6nlP-G0aCy2XzXobJLzM0nRZcCUhKgwC9EOQX9kjF27CHY9mX5gHAurOIEgf3SHfVB1i8ITldvB-sWj8vcwY57vyCC9-Z8nydPVGd2WqhTi8mVTTgM1C6SIxzh05keS3Zvt7j6cpw/s1200/22b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZTFHf2ck2Co60EuIB1CV2R9qClxl1ULEg7Kd1l6LDVx5gR6nlP-G0aCy2XzXobJLzM0nRZcCUhKgwC9EOQX9kjF27CHY9mX5gHAurOIEgf3SHfVB1i8ITldvB-sWj8vcwY57vyCC9-Z8nydPVGd2WqhTi8mVTTgM1C6SIxzh05keS3Zvt7j6cpw/s320/22b.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;No matter how much politicians and social media influencers may insist that we’re not at war with Iran, the Islamic terrorist state has been at war with us for 46 years. And is still fighting us.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;It only takes one side to have a war. Fighting back isn’t what makes the war endless.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Refusing to fight back or to fight back effectively is what makes wars endless.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;The Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush administrations for the most part failed to act. The Obama and Biden administrations took it one step further by aiding Iran. President Trump first stood up to Iran and showed the Islamic terrorist state that there would be consequences.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;“America can’t do a damn thing against us,” the ayatollahs mocked us as they killed our people.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;For the first time in two generations, the smirks have been wiped off their murderous faces.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Those complaining that President Trump is too tough on Iran aren’t upset because the president isn’t keeping his campaign promises, but because he is, they’re not upset because he changed his foreign policy, but because they want the old Carter and Obama appeasement of Iran back.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;America is not contemplating bombing some “random middle eastern country.” After 46 years of kidnapping, terrorism, torture and murder, we’re fighting back against Iran’s war on us.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; font-size: large; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;Daniel Greenfield&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;Front Page Magazine&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;Click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;here to subscribe&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to my articles. And&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;click here to support my work with a donation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;" /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;Thank you for reading.&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" style="background-color: #fafafa; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="500" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2-8K1m-P7y4j4aL_AQBH6X3B5ugD56jdnVb1-TZ-Shobc6BR7h1ko7HfudfaWTKjF8QO4GqswsZLXjk0bSjONiDuu_3n8253fl8uizuSD4P8PG7VzDjiNsO5tM_dj-NERECSZWwBYC0RhQIv_-ejW5nrQZyou6S4kMx9tknaCbusrARxUCToe0A/w640-h230/%E2%80%9CA%20marvelously%20original%20and%20enlightening%20look%20at%20American%20history,%20with%20a%20host%20of%20insights%20for%20our%20own%20age.%E2%80%9D%20%E2%80%94Robert%20Spencer,%20Author%20of%20The%20Sumter%20Gambit%20How%20the%20Left%20Is%20Trying%20to%20Foment%20A%20Civil%20W%20(1).png" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Read my book&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;nbsp;'Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers' Fight Against the Left'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;to discover the true origins of the American Left.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/feeds/2973618464846272150/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/06/iran-has-been-at-war-with-us-for-46.html#comment-form" rel="replies" title="7 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/2973618464846272150" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/2973618464846272150" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/06/iran-has-been-at-war-with-us-for-46.html" rel="alternate" title="Iran Has Been at War With Us for 46 Years" type="text/html"/><author><name>Daniel Greenfield</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhRSvmnQijYr-BAX6Dhyjov7iV0exSO5_GeAmrS9KrDfyKL3VSV3Un-5pZhpzro8iWIUneqiL4ANYnGEUoTL0vy8NsLmlYYh-OMLsfNWslVjJgEd_c4FeGGK5dq-f2R63PGJTSDp-d1bMHg9mFKJEaV6Dfl20ZBX9rGmaVz8MlOTuPQ/s220/headshot%20bw4.jpg" width="30"/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhil5lKR7X_XFZ22Oq5ubQJzcWMtpsAnNREPpuqLWKcwtynxTv5FTwPzDDyWxVl4R_jV0ekZ8LxAoeUMh4BwZxs-ZIYW8c8-F_z25wJ9yAHGf6RDjZjVmM33_zguV1uyxMxL0hnPZTw3Fa52vHYorhK6_BIx3wASbC0q5G40PDVPBvPMy8BsqIYEA/s72-w640-h422-c/iran%20hostage1.png" width="72"/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-7913152080939800941</id><published>2025-06-18T00:42:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2025-06-18T20:07:49.374-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="recent"/><title type="text">Israel is Killing Gaza With Obesity</title><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixaw0PZMSp_O0OgN9O9FkjAX2idOeVRM9INHj5mQUx_fPZMdLETjj771xj8c4ob4uRnJAUqDPcSOpKYjqvhd1OG6-VTnHOx9dm6SgLXgQFHno75pmAvZ4K11CNOqqx3GsgVzcccKGlsFLV0b3KaY_P_OzYeSL11ZhZY2KclDNMXfmdfPBMjW0o0w/s690/hind.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="403" data-original-width="690" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixaw0PZMSp_O0OgN9O9FkjAX2idOeVRM9INHj5mQUx_fPZMdLETjj771xj8c4ob4uRnJAUqDPcSOpKYjqvhd1OG6-VTnHOx9dm6SgLXgQFHno75pmAvZ4K11CNOqqx3GsgVzcccKGlsFLV0b3KaY_P_OzYeSL11ZhZY2KclDNMXfmdfPBMjW0o0w/w640-h374/hind.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 2015, a decade after Israel had withdrawn from Gaza leaving it, as terrorist apologists in the media insisted, an “open-air concentration camp”, weight loss centers began to pop up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gaza’s Arab Muslim population was overeating badly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A 2013 study found 1 out of every 5 adolescents in Gaza was overweight or obese which was comparable to rates in the United States. By 2020 in the combined ‘Palestinian’ occupied areas of Gaza, Judea and Samaria, overweight rates shot up from 20% to 34% among boys and from 24% to 32% among girls. If the Arab Muslim populations were living under oppression and terror, how had their adolescent obesity rates gone from 1 in 4 to as much as 1 in 3?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And it’s not just the adolescents.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A global nutrition report found that nearly 30% of men and 42% of women in the combined areas are obese. In Gaza specifically, 64% of mothers were overweight or obese. How could this wave of obesity be reconciled with the simultaneous claim that 60% of households in Gaza are “food insecure’” The mothers of quite a few of those “food insecure households” are obese.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The shortage of research studies being carried out under Hamas rule makes it difficult to estimate how fat Gaza’s occupiers were, but a revealing data point is&lt;a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7699327/"&gt; that a study &lt;/a&gt;conducted in 2019 estimated that among adults over the age of 42, 45% had Type 2 Diabetes and 16.8% had undiagnosed Type 2.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another Gaza report citing Hamas Ministry of Health numbers claimed that 9.6% of the population in Gaza has diabetes and it’s the cause of 11.2% of one out of nine deaths. If Gazans were living in hunger, why do their diabetes rates look like those of America or Europe?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 2015, a decade after Israel had withdrawn from Gaza leaving it, as terrorist apologists in the media insisted, an “open-air concentration camp”, weight loss centers began to pop up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gaza’s Arab Muslim population was overeating badly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A 2013 study found 1 out of every 5 adolescents in Gaza was overweight or obese which was comparable to rates in the United States. By 2020 in the combined ‘Palestinian’ occupied areas of Gaza, Judea and Samaria, overweight rates shot up from 20% to 34% among boys and from 24% to 32% among girls. If the Arab Muslim populations were living under oppression and terror, how had their adolescent obesity rates gone from 1 in 4 to as much as 1 in 3?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And it’s not just the adolescents.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A global nutrition report found that nearly 30% of men and 42% of women in the combined areas are obese. In Gaza specifically, 64% of mothers were overweight or obese. How could this wave of obesity be reconciled with the simultaneous claim that 60% of households in Gaza are “food insecure’” The mothers of quite a few of those “food insecure households” are obese.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The shortage of research studies being carried out under Hamas rule makes it difficult to estimate how fat Gaza’s occupiers were, but a revealing data point is&lt;a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7699327/"&gt; that a study &lt;/a&gt;conducted in 2019 estimated that among adults over the age of 42, 45% had Type 2 Diabetes and 16.8% had undiagnosed Type 2.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another Gaza report citing Hamas Ministry of Health numbers claimed that 9.6% of the population in Gaza has diabetes and it’s the cause of 11.2% of one out of nine deaths. If Gazans were living in hunger, why do their diabetes rates look like those of America or Europe?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; The suffering of diabetes patients in Gaza during their Jihadist campaign against non-Muslims has been one of the narratives put out by the pro-Hamas humanitarians, none of whom have thought to ask why the condition is so prevalent in a place that supposedly has no food.What was the cause of these high rates? According to the study, “Palestinians consume large amounts of homemade desserts, cakes, sweetened tea, and coffee” and have a massive sugar intake. They eat too much and too well despite supposedly being “refugees” while starving to death in an “open air concentration camp” complete with lavish malls, restaurants and hotels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since Hamas launched the Oct 7 genocide campaign, its occupying population in Gaza has been painted as victims and bombarded with massive amounts of food supplies. Over the course of the war, the terrorist population was sent &lt;a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/31/israels-war-against-hamas-is-succeeding-despite-the-west/"&gt;92,000 truckloads of aid&lt;/a&gt;. The amount of aid coming into Gaza actually doubled after its residents began a genocidal campaign of murder, rape and kidnapping of regional minority groups. Compare that to &lt;a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/31/israels-war-against-hamas-is-succeeding-despite-the-west/"&gt;1,500 truckloads of aid &lt;/a&gt;for Sudan and even less for many struggling African populations dealing with actual famine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Massive amounts of food were dumped on Gaza. The Biden administration, falsely claiming that there was an urgent famine and the population, according to Vice President Kamala Harris, had been reduced &lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-incredible-hunger-in-gaza/"&gt;to eating “leaves”&lt;/a&gt;, air dropped supplies which the local population rejected and &lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-incredible-hunger-in-gaza/"&gt;criticized on social media&lt;/a&gt;. It built a failed $250 million pier to deliver aid that cost the life of an American soldier and injured many others all to deliver food to the non-starving Gazans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What’s been the result of this massive outpouring of free food? Hamas leaders, terrorists, spokesmen and media operatives have grown unmistakably fat as food has become a form of currency. Not only is there no famine, but Gazans are gorging themselves and even Hamas’ own dubious numbers show Americans&lt;a href="https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2025/04/according-to-hamas-own-figures.html"&gt; are three times as likely &lt;/a&gt;to die of malnutrition as they are.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.jns.org/1-8-million-tons-of-supplies-delivered-to-gaza-since-war-began/"&gt;1.8 million tons of aid&lt;/a&gt;, including 1.3 million tons of food, have been delivered to Gaza since the launch of their genocidal Hamas campaign. That’s over 1 ton of aid for every adult in Gaza.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is this good for the enemy population in Gaza? Probably not. When deaths due to diabetes and out of control glycaemic rates are soaring, the last thing it needs is more free food. The UN’s WFP deliveries included snack bars and the current GHF program overseen by the U.S. and Israel is likely also delivering foods not ideal for a population already eating itself to death.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The false claims that Israel is killing the invasive population in Gaza with hunger is false, but the massive truckloads of aid being brought in to save the Hamas supporters from a famine that doesn’t exist may be even more lethal. Gaza, like the rest of the ‘Palestinian-occupied’ territories is a massive welfare state subsidized by the U.S., the UN and the Europeans. And people in welfare states tend to do very little work, eat all the free food they can get, grow fat and violent, and then go off looking for something to destroy. Gaza may be the worst welfare state in the world, but it is a welfare state and its own habits are deadlier to it than Israel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If Israel is killing Gaza’s enemy population with anything, it’s not hunger, it’s obesity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the obesity epidemic in Gaza is fed by the UN, international pressure from world leaders and diplomats, and their own lies about being reduced to eating leaves and dirt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gaza’s Arab Muslims are eating themselves to death on their own lies. The torrent of free food will lead to greater obesity, worse diabetes trends and other dietary diseases. And it’s their political allies and international enablers who are killing them with endless free food.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The UN and the EU can promise to save Gaza, but no one can save them from themselves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; font-size: large; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;Daniel Greenfield&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;Front Page Magazine&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;Click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;here to subscribe&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to my articles. And&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;click here to support my work with a donation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;" /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;Thank you for reading.&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" style="background-color: #fafafa; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="500" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2-8K1m-P7y4j4aL_AQBH6X3B5ugD56jdnVb1-TZ-Shobc6BR7h1ko7HfudfaWTKjF8QO4GqswsZLXjk0bSjONiDuu_3n8253fl8uizuSD4P8PG7VzDjiNsO5tM_dj-NERECSZWwBYC0RhQIv_-ejW5nrQZyou6S4kMx9tknaCbusrARxUCToe0A/w640-h230/%E2%80%9CA%20marvelously%20original%20and%20enlightening%20look%20at%20American%20history,%20with%20a%20host%20of%20insights%20for%20our%20own%20age.%E2%80%9D%20%E2%80%94Robert%20Spencer,%20Author%20of%20The%20Sumter%20Gambit%20How%20the%20Left%20Is%20Trying%20to%20Foment%20A%20Civil%20W%20(1).png" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Read my book&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;nbsp;'Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers' Fight Against the Left'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;to discover the true origins of the American Left.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/feeds/7913152080939800941/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/06/israel-is-killing-gaza-with-obesity.html#comment-form" rel="replies" title="3 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/7913152080939800941" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/7913152080939800941" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/06/israel-is-killing-gaza-with-obesity.html" rel="alternate" title="Israel is Killing Gaza With Obesity" type="text/html"/><author><name>Daniel Greenfield</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhRSvmnQijYr-BAX6Dhyjov7iV0exSO5_GeAmrS9KrDfyKL3VSV3Un-5pZhpzro8iWIUneqiL4ANYnGEUoTL0vy8NsLmlYYh-OMLsfNWslVjJgEd_c4FeGGK5dq-f2R63PGJTSDp-d1bMHg9mFKJEaV6Dfl20ZBX9rGmaVz8MlOTuPQ/s220/headshot%20bw4.jpg" width="30"/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixaw0PZMSp_O0OgN9O9FkjAX2idOeVRM9INHj5mQUx_fPZMdLETjj771xj8c4ob4uRnJAUqDPcSOpKYjqvhd1OG6-VTnHOx9dm6SgLXgQFHno75pmAvZ4K11CNOqqx3GsgVzcccKGlsFLV0b3KaY_P_OzYeSL11ZhZY2KclDNMXfmdfPBMjW0o0w/s72-w640-h374-c/hind.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-4862453618457117510</id><published>2025-06-16T05:59:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2025-06-16T05:59:00.110-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="recent"/><title type="text">The Stories We Tell</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHC1rBbGZm_3ikpL3gu8J4mksDdYFo1XBeuL5dHzDBmYQ6u4qO5U5DJGuP3GA_NodpG5Y4PbUoa7wglUw3YtQIGMlQFWfEuYJ-1HRlTVz3HEWOOruCwT15GLnEU4xOMkLzEQsBWvgyV5kzTm41i-4_vJbGfRTo8f6jRECdIDKWyUNb-lBIy2_m5w/s960/image(4).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHC1rBbGZm_3ikpL3gu8J4mksDdYFo1XBeuL5dHzDBmYQ6u4qO5U5DJGuP3GA_NodpG5Y4PbUoa7wglUw3YtQIGMlQFWfEuYJ-1HRlTVz3HEWOOruCwT15GLnEU4xOMkLzEQsBWvgyV5kzTm41i-4_vJbGfRTo8f6jRECdIDKWyUNb-lBIy2_m5w/w240-h320/image(4).jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Over 150 years the concept of the Great American Novel was invented in The Nation magazine. The mission of this proposed literary “American epic” was to capture “the ordinary emotions and manners of American existence.” Today, The Nation is a hodgepodge of woke rants. The magazine no longer believes in the greatness of America. And how can there be a great American novel without a great America? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America, as a recent essay at the magazine mocking the idea of the Great American Novel puts it, is an “absurdity.” The American novels that the magazine and its leftist ilk praise are either outrages or absurdities. The topics under discussion are identity, race and class, that indeed appear to make any notion of a single America singularly absurd. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That now ancient essay calling for a Great American Novel in the aftermath of the Union’s supremacy in the Civil War had assumed that there was to be a unified America, but the Confederacy’s multicultural great-grandchildren reject the Union as anything but a tool for forcing their preferred radical policies on the country. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But if indeed there is no America, if we’re just Yugoslavia with a variety of unhappy warring tribes struggling against oppression, why not break the whole thing up? Without the rationale of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the conviction that America is a grand experiment worth fighting for, why fight for her at all? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Officially the ongoing purpose of America is to atone for the existence of America, redistributing wealth, power and rights, and reallocating them to the formerly ‘oppressed’ and redistributing narratives, replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day, the national anthem with the black national anthem, and American history with the 1619 Project. Only the complete inversion of America can atone for America. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But why not take a short cut to this tribalist utopia by just breaking up America? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ‘People’s History’ reading of America as a race and class based tyranny is universally accepted now among the NPR and Harvard set and yet the same regional bureaucrats who begin their sessions with land acknowledgements to vanished Indian tribes never give a thought to breaking up the United States. They are not out to undermine the national governing structure of the country: only its culture. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s that notion of an American epic grounded in a national identity, at times tragic but ultimately heroic, that they are coming after. They don’t want to destroy America as a state, but as a nation. When we talk about them wanting to destroy America, we don’t mean that the Left wants to destroy FEMA, the Department of Education, the FBI, local state governments, the local community public schools and parking authorities or any of the structures that they falsely claim are “systemically racist”. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What they want to destroy is the idea of America, the spirit of it, while leaving the dead bones of it intact. They want American power, without the American soul. It’s the machinery of government that they want, the stone and the steel, untethered from any limits, constitutional or electoral, retasked with the mission of building a totalitarian state. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That’s why the Left chose a cultural war rather than a civil war. It’s not the government they’re at war with… it’s with us. As long as there are people who call themselves Americans and have it mean something, the leftist grip on power will be threatened. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To subjugate us, they have to destroy our culture and our identity through our stories. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And so they’ve replaced the national epic with a national anti-epic that anyone who has been to school or college in the last quarter century is already intimately familiar with. Instead of discovery, there is colonialism, instead of hard work, there’s slavery, instead of the journey westward, there’s genocide, and instead of progress, there’s oppression. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The search for the Great American Novel was a foolish proposition. America was always its own story, too great and intimate, overarching and personal, to limit to the pages of any book. The Great Anti-American Novel is a simpler narrative in the way that the antithesis to greatness, the dark mirror and satirical distorted image, is cruder than the work they set out to tear down, but that makes it easier to grasp. America in its true form is hard to encompass, but call it racist and it becomes all too easy to sum up. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America, they’ve been telling us for at least a century, is stupid, ugly, greedy and mean. It’s slave ships, not frontiers, imperialistic wars not patriotic last stands, genocidal massacres of Indians, not pioneers carving out homesteads from the wilderness. We’re racists who tell ourselves dumb stories about liberty, and we’re the mass murderers who bombed the innocent of Dresden and Hiroshima. We do not deserve to exist. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only thing to do, they tell us, is to let go. Stop fighting. Stop believing. As Oprah put it, we just have to die, as individuals and as a nation, and let our enemies take over &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That way they don’t have to go to the actual trouble of killing us if we erase ourselves. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Great Un-American Story is genocidal in that way. It’s meant to wipe out a people. Us. It’s a poisonous epic that dominates art, literature, music and film. It pervades academia as thoroughly as Marxism-Leninism filled the Soviet university. Patriotism never had a fraction of its grip on our society at any time in American history. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And if we are to survive unto the next generation and the one after that, we must meet that culture of death with a culture of life. It is not enough to attack the Left, we must affirm what America was, is and shall be, to write our own Great American Novel, not perhaps in words, but much more importantly, in the stories we pass down to our children and grandchildren, because if we do not tell our story, they will. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Left got this far in no small part by telling a compelling story. Telling stories is at the heart of what it does. And it understands, sometimes better than we do, that the stories we tell make us who we are. Once upon a time the stories we told were of the Bible, of Valley Forge, of Andrew Jackson and Pearl Harbor, now they’ve been displaced by pop culture, and some rage and complain that the pop culture, always liberal anyway, is now ‘woke’, and that it promotes an even more extreme version of the Un-American Story. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But that is what happens when we outsource our stories to corporations, to their class of leftist writers and actors, and then complain that they don’t like us, rather than telling our own stories, singing our own songs and taking root in our history and our faith. The culture is not Hollywood or Amazon, that’s consumer culture, the true culture is us. The key to reviving America is not out there, it’s in us: it’s in the stories that we tell ourselves. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We can still tell our Great American Story. And we can make it great once again.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; font-size: large; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;Daniel Greenfield&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;Front Page Magazine&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;Click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;here to subscribe&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to my articles. And&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;click here to support my work with a donation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;" /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;Thank you for reading.&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" style="background-color: #fafafa; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="500" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2-8K1m-P7y4j4aL_AQBH6X3B5ugD56jdnVb1-TZ-Shobc6BR7h1ko7HfudfaWTKjF8QO4GqswsZLXjk0bSjONiDuu_3n8253fl8uizuSD4P8PG7VzDjiNsO5tM_dj-NERECSZWwBYC0RhQIv_-ejW5nrQZyou6S4kMx9tknaCbusrARxUCToe0A/w640-h230/%E2%80%9CA%20marvelously%20original%20and%20enlightening%20look%20at%20American%20history,%20with%20a%20host%20of%20insights%20for%20our%20own%20age.%E2%80%9D%20%E2%80%94Robert%20Spencer,%20Author%20of%20The%20Sumter%20Gambit%20How%20the%20Left%20Is%20Trying%20to%20Foment%20A%20Civil%20W%20(1).png" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Read my book&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;nbsp;'Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers' Fight Against the Left'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;to discover the true origins of the American Left.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/feeds/4862453618457117510/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/06/the-stories-we-tell.html#comment-form" rel="replies" title="4 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/4862453618457117510" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/4862453618457117510" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/06/the-stories-we-tell.html" rel="alternate" title="The Stories We Tell" type="text/html"/><author><name>Daniel Greenfield</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhRSvmnQijYr-BAX6Dhyjov7iV0exSO5_GeAmrS9KrDfyKL3VSV3Un-5pZhpzro8iWIUneqiL4ANYnGEUoTL0vy8NsLmlYYh-OMLsfNWslVjJgEd_c4FeGGK5dq-f2R63PGJTSDp-d1bMHg9mFKJEaV6Dfl20ZBX9rGmaVz8MlOTuPQ/s220/headshot%20bw4.jpg" width="30"/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHC1rBbGZm_3ikpL3gu8J4mksDdYFo1XBeuL5dHzDBmYQ6u4qO5U5DJGuP3GA_NodpG5Y4PbUoa7wglUw3YtQIGMlQFWfEuYJ-1HRlTVz3HEWOOruCwT15GLnEU4xOMkLzEQsBWvgyV5kzTm41i-4_vJbGfRTo8f6jRECdIDKWyUNb-lBIy2_m5w/s72-w240-h320-c/image(4).jpg" width="72"/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-4497334095236192531</id><published>2025-06-15T03:23:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2025-06-15T03:23:45.244-04:00</updated><title type="text">Death to Iran’s Regime</title><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg96fjWebZ_1UD2E87xBtpEzCvSAydiJAQlNr6vTqb5iO9ID6oNqiw0wXqyfLWpnxKUnPbvsTgUokez5B-Z3tMvXAMvIjSbarWjJ0t0ABnQKwS90Ou4AiMVXyAMeBXR3HOQOowCHPheZ1Z6K9yZDMqU8lRbHmLFAtKu4xvRaavkx_NJYZDfeR6vDA/s1189/tehran%20frame.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="747" data-original-width="1189" height="402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg96fjWebZ_1UD2E87xBtpEzCvSAydiJAQlNr6vTqb5iO9ID6oNqiw0wXqyfLWpnxKUnPbvsTgUokez5B-Z3tMvXAMvIjSbarWjJ0t0ABnQKwS90Ou4AiMVXyAMeBXR3HOQOowCHPheZ1Z6K9yZDMqU8lRbHmLFAtKu4xvRaavkx_NJYZDfeR6vDA/w640-h402/tehran%20frame.png" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Last month, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei &lt;a href="https://www.memri.org/tv/khamenei-trump-lied-iran-power-death-to-america-israel-dismantled" rel="noopener" target="_blank"&gt;told an enraged crowd &lt;/a&gt;of Islamists that President Trump’s statements weren’t even “worthy of a response.”&lt;/p&gt;
367. <p>As the crowd chanted “Death to America”, Iran’s leader called Trump a
368. liar, and warned that, “America should leave the region, and leave it
369. will.” Then he called for the destruction of the Jewish State while the
370. crowd chanted, “Death to Israel.”</p>
371. <p>The only question was whether America and Israel would take the regime’s threats seriously.</p>
372. <p>That question was answered when Israel, after two decades of trying
373. to get the mostly fictitious “international community” to do something
374. about Iran’s nuclear program, finally took action.</p>
375. <p>The endless negotiations in pursuit of an impossible deal that would
376. somehow allow Iran to have nuclear technology without nuclear weapons
377. were based on refusing to listen to what the Islamist terror regime
378. said, as recently as weeks ago, and refusing to believe that it meant
379. it.</p>
380. <p>To believe in a nuclear deal, you also had to believe that a terror
381. state that gets its electricity from its abundant natural gas resources
382. for a fraction of the cost of our electricity wanted a <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/iran-isnt-building-a-civilian-nuclear-program/">civilian nuclear program</a>.
383. To believe in any kind of deal with Iran, you had to believe, as the
384. New York Times insisted to sell Obama’s nuke deal, that Iran “has a
385. complicated relationship with the phrase” and that when it says, “Death
386. to America” and “Death to Israel”, it doesn’t really mean it.</p>
387. <p>“The situation between America and Iran is this: When you chant
388. ‘Death to America!’ it is not just a slogan – it is a policy,” Ayatollah
389. Khamenei explained in 2023.</p>
390. <p>What did that policy look like in practice?</p>
391. <p>“‘Death to America’ means death to Trump,” Khamenei previously warned.</p>
392. <p>Last year, an Iranian operative was charged in a plot by the IRGC,
393. Iran’s terror arm, to assassinate Trump before Election Day.  The
394. “complicated relationship” wasn’t so complicated and it’s not a
395. metaphor. “Death to Trump” literally meant trying to kill the president.
396. “Death to America” means the destruction of America. And “Death to
397. Israel” means just what it says.</p>
398. <p>Apologists for the Jihadist regime in Tehran try to pretend that it’s
399. about our foreign policy, but beyond chanting for the destruction of
400. America, Israel and England, the chants at the Khamenei speech included
401. “Death to the hypocrites and infidels” (meaning the deaths of all
402. non-Muslims and insufficiently devout Muslims) and death to those who
403. oppose the supreme power of Sharia Islamic jurisprudence in the form of
404. its Ayatollahs, Mullahs and other theocratic tyrants.</p>
405. <p>According to Ayatollah Khomeini anyone who did not believe that
406. Mohammed, Islam’s genocidal warlord prophet was a messenger of Allah, is
407. defined as an infidel, and the only thing to do is to convert him,
408. enslave him or kill him. “If one permits an infidel to continue in his
409. role as a corrupter of the earth, the infidel’s moral suffering will be
410. all the worse. If one kills the infidel, and this stops him from
411. perpetrating his misdeeds, his death will be a blessing to him.”</p>
412. <p>Opposing the Ayatollahs just made America one of the first ‘infidels’ in line for destruction.</p>
413. <p>Iran kidnapped our diplomats, bombed our Marines, abducted and tortured our people, <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/american-blood-iranian-hands-daniel-greenfield/">brutally killing them in the most grotesque ways</a>, because its regime believes in “Death to America.”</p>
414. <p>Not as a metaphor or a complicated relationship, but as violently
415. graphic as the Muslim terrorists jumping up and down on the body of Navy
416. diver Robert Stethem and then putting up a microphone to his face to
417. broadcast the screams or <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/american-blood-iranian-hands-daniel-greenfield/">removing the skin from the face</a> of Colonel William R. Higgins before castrating, killing him and dumping his body near a mosque.</p>
418. <p>That’s ‘Death to America’.</p>
419. <p>The Israelis, who live much closer to Iran than we do, did not decide
420. to escape into the extended Carter administration diplomatic
421. dreamworlds about a deal with Iran. They understood that Iran was
422. serious and they acted. Whatever we do or don’t do about Iran, we would
423. be fools to pretend that the Islamic terrorist regime isn’t serious
424. about wanting us dead.</p>
425. <p>And bigger fools to act like we can bribe or negotiate our way out of the threat.</p>
426. <p>Right now, Israel is doing our work for us in fighting Islamic
427. terrorists. It’s doing it even though our elected officials keep sending
428. mixed messages, undermining Israel, calling for restraint and
429. pretending that the Middle East would be more stable if it were
430. dominated by the terrorists.</p>
431. <p>Obama already tried that with the Arab Spring. It turned out the same
432. way Carter’s Iran tampering and every experiment in nation building and
433. democracy by the Bushes, Clinton and other administrations did. Instead
434. of standing up to Muslim terrorists, we let ourselves be intimidated by
435. them, by their sheer numbers, by their destructiveness and willingness
436. to die.</p>
437. <p>But Israel, far smaller than us, a country tiny enough that you can
438. walk its width, stood up to an entire region. Iran is 80 times Israel’s
439. size, has 9 times its population and yet Israel did what so many of our
440. administrations feared to do. Why? Because Israel understood what we
441. deny.</p>
442. <p>Israel knew that the calls for genocide are real and that the alternative to action is death.</p>
443. <p>Faced with the threat of death, Israel instead brought death to the
444. IRGC leaders of Iran’s death machine, to its commanders and struck at
445. the machinery of its ballistic missile and nuclear program meant to kill
446. millions. Its secret wasn’t just its brilliant strategy, but its grip
447. on reality.</p>
448. <p>Israel took Iran seriously and acted seriously. It faced down death
449. threats and delivered death to the terrorist enemies of civilization.
450. That is what serious nations do. Unserious ones play word games and take
451. refuge in wishful thinking. As we confront not only Iran, but Islamic
452. terrorists around the world and in our own country, it’s time we get
453. serious too.</p>
454. &lt;p&gt;If our enemies want to kill us, we have a choice between killing them or letting them kill us.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; font-size: large; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;Daniel Greenfield&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;Front Page Magazine&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;Click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;here to subscribe&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to my articles. And&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;click here to support my work with a donation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;" /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;Thank you for reading.&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" style="background-color: #fafafa; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="500" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2-8K1m-P7y4j4aL_AQBH6X3B5ugD56jdnVb1-TZ-Shobc6BR7h1ko7HfudfaWTKjF8QO4GqswsZLXjk0bSjONiDuu_3n8253fl8uizuSD4P8PG7VzDjiNsO5tM_dj-NERECSZWwBYC0RhQIv_-ejW5nrQZyou6S4kMx9tknaCbusrARxUCToe0A/w640-h230/%E2%80%9CA%20marvelously%20original%20and%20enlightening%20look%20at%20American%20history,%20with%20a%20host%20of%20insights%20for%20our%20own%20age.%E2%80%9D%20%E2%80%94Robert%20Spencer,%20Author%20of%20The%20Sumter%20Gambit%20How%20the%20Left%20Is%20Trying%20to%20Foment%20A%20Civil%20W%20(1).png" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Read my book&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;nbsp;'Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers' Fight Against the Left'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;to discover the true origins of the American Left.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/feeds/4497334095236192531/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/06/death-to-irans-regime.html#comment-form" rel="replies" title="3 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/4497334095236192531" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/4497334095236192531" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/06/death-to-irans-regime.html" rel="alternate" title="Death to Iran’s Regime" type="text/html"/><author><name>Daniel Greenfield</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhRSvmnQijYr-BAX6Dhyjov7iV0exSO5_GeAmrS9KrDfyKL3VSV3Un-5pZhpzro8iWIUneqiL4ANYnGEUoTL0vy8NsLmlYYh-OMLsfNWslVjJgEd_c4FeGGK5dq-f2R63PGJTSDp-d1bMHg9mFKJEaV6Dfl20ZBX9rGmaVz8MlOTuPQ/s220/headshot%20bw4.jpg" width="30"/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg96fjWebZ_1UD2E87xBtpEzCvSAydiJAQlNr6vTqb5iO9ID6oNqiw0wXqyfLWpnxKUnPbvsTgUokez5B-Z3tMvXAMvIjSbarWjJ0t0ABnQKwS90Ou4AiMVXyAMeBXR3HOQOowCHPheZ1Z6K9yZDMqU8lRbHmLFAtKu4xvRaavkx_NJYZDfeR6vDA/s72-w640-h402-c/tehran%20frame.png" width="72"/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-6808922617609293005</id><published>2025-06-12T14:09:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2025-06-12T14:09:30.949-04:00</updated><title type="text">It’s Not About Biden. It’s About the Left.</title><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh17RVSjtZarlxr73_ri-6ZYfMSfkHyEBUP4QQX9EYlB1ko0Do5vd7TjaFKfO00WtiVai6Cn9PrPJzi7d0ga6tm89AP3bFcwaknJmWVdzoZ35CF5Cq2vRtl8RpcRtnkyqb3KXQ7_UTzABlB_G1KS7knMCxV1D1j67f9Dt48qDnbC6uDiyWovypYxg/s960/image(12).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh17RVSjtZarlxr73_ri-6ZYfMSfkHyEBUP4QQX9EYlB1ko0Do5vd7TjaFKfO00WtiVai6Cn9PrPJzi7d0ga6tm89AP3bFcwaknJmWVdzoZ35CF5Cq2vRtl8RpcRtnkyqb3KXQ7_UTzABlB_G1KS7knMCxV1D1j67f9Dt48qDnbC6uDiyWovypYxg/w480-h640/image(12).jpg" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2024 might as well have been 2004 or 1984. In the two-decade cycle,
455. Democrats wake up shocked to discover that their policies of treason,
456. taxation and social collapse are unpopular and retreat to summits at
457. expensive hotels with consultants to discover what went wrong.</p>
458. <p>The party’s public discourse blames everything on Biden. And Biden,
459. whose picture will be featured in next year’s political encyclopedia
460. under “Senile Old Coot”, is an easy target. But it’s not as if Biden was
461. at the top of his game in 2020 or 2016 when Obama discouraged him from
462. running in favor of the much more popular and crowd-pleasing charms of
463. Hillary Clinton.</p>
464. <p>Biden isn’t the reason the Democrats lost. He’s the fall guy for it.
465. Swapping in Kamala didn’t save the Democrats. And after the election,
466. the party remains historically unpopular. Most of the country votes for
467. candidates based on core issues, usually economic, not how well they
468. speak.</p>
469. <p>Running two presidential candidates in one election, neither of whom
470. you would trust to watch your dog overnight, let alone run your country,
471. didn’t help, but the Democrats lost on policies. Most Americans did not
472. believe that the economy would get any better under Democrats and they
473. blamed them for high crime, mass migration and crazy social policies
474. like transgenderism.</p>
475. <p>And the Dems know it. That’s why internally they’ve come up with
476. three answers that they deliver at retreats for party operatives,
477. prospective 2028 candidates and major donors.</p>
478. <p>The consultants urge adopting whatever policies are popular
479. regardless of ideology. The activists urge doubling down on the crazy.
480. Political gurus find the craziest thing this election cycle and urge the
481. Democrats to make a show of backing away from that one thing.</p>
482. <p>But what no one in the party wants to discuss is where the “crazy stuff” came from at all.</p>
483. <p>Democrat insiders blame some of the crazier stuff, police defunding,
484. drag queen story hour and marching with Hamas, on the vague and poorly
485. defined “interest groups”. Why these “interest groups” have become so
486. influential, they can’t explain because they can’t talk about the Left.</p>
487. <p>It’s easier to blame a few “interest groups” than to talk about the
488. larger ideological war. A few interest groups couldn’t compel half the
489. country to adopt the belief that women didn’t exist.</p>
490. <p>After the BLM riots, there was a limited reckoning among Democrats,
491. not about the destruction and violence (which can never be discussed or
492. acknowledged among the faithful), but about the impact of adopting the
493. unpopular ‘Defund the Police’ program which they now mostly deny ever
494. existed. Similarly there is now a very limited reckoning about the most
495. unpopular element of transgenderism, men competing against women, with a
496. few aspiring candidates like California’s Newsom and Arizona’s Gallego
497. coming out against it in principle, but not in practical policy.</p>
498. <p>After 2024, a cottage industry of Democrat consultants telling
499. politicians how not to talk about transgenderism boomed. Most tell
500. candidates to describe it as a divisive non-issue, to (“as a father”)
501. hypothetically disavow boys playing against girls and then focus on
502. “potholes not potties”.) Whether these cynical performances work, it’s
503. still a matter of putting lipstick on a pig, a donkey or a 300 lb man
504. who wants to be called ‘Suzy’. Much as with BLM, the Democrats aren’t
505. reckoning with what happened, but with how unpopular some of their
506. policies are.</p>
507. <p>The intellectual underpinnings of the movements responsible remain
508. unaddressed. Internally, consultants blame “interest groups” as if that
509. could explain the sheer havoc and insanity that their party adopted,
510. championed and is now running away from without actually talking about
511. it.</p>
512. <p>When Democrats talk about “interest groups”, what they really mean is
513. that the big money, from Soros to the Ford Foundation to numerous other
514. billionaires not even on the radar, has financed large networks of
515. organizations that push ideological and policy trends like BLM and
516. Trans. They can’t actually mention the donor level because that’s where
517. their own money comes from.</p>
518. <p>But blaming the donors would also fall far short of a meaningful critique of the party’s problem.</p>
519. <p>Major donors and foundations are not just financing interest groups
520. or trends, but a larger ideological program. BLM and transgenderism are
521. part of intellectual frameworks that conservatives and some liberals
522. will name and shame, like ‘critical race theory’, but that Democrats
523. refuse to analyze in terms of their impact on what their party has
524. become.</p>
525. <p>The frameworks are those of the Left by whatever name it’s going by this week.</p>
526. <p>Past Democrats were willing to disavow and criticize the Left.
527. Today’s Dems deny it even exists. Much as they deny that socialism is
528. far more popular with their base than anything else. After being pulled
529. so far leftward that their presidential nominee had to defend
530. taxpayer-funded sex changes for illegal alien criminals, all they can do
531. is blame a few “interest groups”.</p>
532. <p>What do the Democrats actually believe? Nothing. They have no defense
533. against being pulled leftward because their entire belief system
534. consists of fossilized cliches from the 60s about the virtues of civil
535. rights, immigration and unions. (These also form the core of their
536. voting blocs.)</p>
537. <p>Biden was the perfect candidate for a party that hasn’t updated anything in 60 years.</p>
538. <p>If the Democrats were to take a hard look at the Left, they would
539. also have to decide what they believe. Instead, they employ consultants
540. who tell them to either minimize the craziness of their policies without
541. addressing the craziness of the underlying ideology or to adopt
542. whatever good government policies the public likes at any given moment
543. (DOGE reforms, cut spending) from Republicans and then work out
544. afterward how they’ll reorient themselves ‘Bill Clinton’ style.</p>
545. <p>Ever since the Clintons, Democrats adopted the motto that beliefs and
546. policies don’t matter, values do. When trying to reconcile extremist
547. views, they keep talking about how those values are theirs because they
548. are rooted in progress, love and equality even if in practice they
549. involve burning down neighborhoods and denying that women exist. Obama
550. beat the ‘values’ language to death and the Hillary and Biden campaign
551. proved how little reach it has with American voters.</p>
552. <p>Values are very nice, but not when they lead to cities being overrun
553. by illegal aliens and girls having to shower with ‘Suzy’ who can bench
554. press the entire team with one of his hands.</p>
555. <p>A real party reckoning wouldn’t involve teasing out the various
556. details about Biden’s infirmity, a reality that only CNN anchors and
557. Democrat politicians could pretend to be ignorant of, and deal with the
558. much larger issue of what they believe and what they don’t believe. The
559. party is historically unpopular with leftists, who believe it’s not
560. radical enough, and with everyone else, who believe it’s too radical,
561. and the Dems have no answer except a deeper level of denial.</p>
562. <p>Democrats had to push the denial button pretty hard to pretend that
563. Biden was at the top of his game when he couldn’t walk a straight line
564. or finish a coherent sentence in less than 10 minutes, but they’re in
565. even deeper denial when they pretend that their unpopularity is just a
566. minor messaging problem and that they haven’t adopted objectively insane
567. positions.</p>
568. <p>The Left took over the Democrats because it’s a core of fanatics that
569. excels at taking over institutions, but those institutions have to be
570. vacuously lacking in identity and awareness. It’s a whole lot easier to
571. brainwash people who don’t believe in anything than those who do.</p>
572. <p>The Democrats fell into leftist radicalism because they stopped
573. believing in anything. The old moderates died or, like Joe Biden, became
574. living fossils who went along with whatever their younger aides told
575. them. The party became as much of a puppet as Biden was in his last
576. years.</p>
577. <p>And that’s the real reason why the image of an out-of-touch confused
578. old man in the White House is so painful for Dems. It wasn’t just Biden
579. that was a senile puppet, it’s his whole party.</p>
580. <p>What happens when you’re part of a party of puppets? You don’t ask questions.</p>
581. <p>You don’t notice when your president is out of his mind because you
582. already learned not to notice when your party is out of its mind. What
583. you do is chant “Black Lives Matter” and “No Human Being is Illegal” and
584. “Men are Women” along with other simple-minded slogans so that you
585. don’t think. And then you see that everything is in ruins and wonder
586. what happened.&lt;/p&gt;</content><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/feeds/6808922617609293005/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/06/its-not-about-biden-its-about-left.html#comment-form" rel="replies" title="3 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/6808922617609293005" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/6808922617609293005" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/06/its-not-about-biden-its-about-left.html" rel="alternate" title="It’s Not About Biden. It’s About the Left." type="text/html"/><author><name>Daniel Greenfield</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhRSvmnQijYr-BAX6Dhyjov7iV0exSO5_GeAmrS9KrDfyKL3VSV3Un-5pZhpzro8iWIUneqiL4ANYnGEUoTL0vy8NsLmlYYh-OMLsfNWslVjJgEd_c4FeGGK5dq-f2R63PGJTSDp-d1bMHg9mFKJEaV6Dfl20ZBX9rGmaVz8MlOTuPQ/s220/headshot%20bw4.jpg" width="30"/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh17RVSjtZarlxr73_ri-6ZYfMSfkHyEBUP4QQX9EYlB1ko0Do5vd7TjaFKfO00WtiVai6Cn9PrPJzi7d0ga6tm89AP3bFcwaknJmWVdzoZ35CF5Cq2vRtl8RpcRtnkyqb3KXQ7_UTzABlB_G1KS7knMCxV1D1j67f9Dt48qDnbC6uDiyWovypYxg/s72-w480-h640-c/image(12).jpg" width="72"/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-3757558517180886690</id><published>2025-06-08T05:19:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2025-06-08T05:19:39.143-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="recent"/><title type="text">California’s Oligarchy</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQHLMU65aMF_6R28FvgTWpZdicp1aiUgYuX7PC3X5MAk9uBfwEtqjj924O_zYQ0G4vVyfM1xqslIUzV0K5Avawo2j-rDQTx5JDGMKIKxfAN8OKtRK6D1RhVb2FZysqwbgdX_9mmiuIOsdIV9K5yM9JUUuW7OfDv4wWD_i-yVtljtvzo0aNJgJX9g/s780/newsom%20bonta%20masks.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="502" data-original-width="780" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQHLMU65aMF_6R28FvgTWpZdicp1aiUgYuX7PC3X5MAk9uBfwEtqjj924O_zYQ0G4vVyfM1xqslIUzV0K5Avawo2j-rDQTx5JDGMKIKxfAN8OKtRK6D1RhVb2FZysqwbgdX_9mmiuIOsdIV9K5yM9JUUuW7OfDv4wWD_i-yVtljtvzo0aNJgJX9g/w640-h412/newsom%20bonta%20masks.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt; “It is an American oligarchy,” Gov. Gavin Newsom accused the Trump administration.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But it’s California’s Democrat elite who much more closely resemble an oligarchy. Take Gov. Newsom, the son of Judge William Alfred Newsom III a friend and lawyer of the Getty clan, whose father Newsom II had been a crooked political machine man who financed and ran future Gov. Pat Brown’s campaign. Gov. Pat Brown held down two terms in office. His son, Gov. Jerry Brown also held two terms and his daughter, Kathleen Brown became the State Treasurer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Newsom II’s daughter, Barbara Newsom-Pelosi, married Ron Pelosi, the brother of former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for twelve years. Newsom III, Gavin’s dad, and Ron Pelosi both ran for state senate. And Rep. Nancy Pelosi is the daughter of Thomas D’Alesandro Jr, a congressman and the 41st mayor of Baltimore and the sister of Thomas D’Alesandro III, the 44th mayor of Baltimore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Newsom-Pelosi families made a good deal of their money from a crooked arrangement with Gov. Pat Brown’s administration in which Newsom II and John Pelosi, Nancy’s father-in-law, partnered together on a former 1960 Winter Olympics site that was summed up as California&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“paying for everything and getting nothing.” Pat’s son &lt;a href="https://calmatters.org/commentary/2019/01/gavin-newsoms-keeping-it-all-in-the-family/"&gt;Jerry then appointed Gavin’s father&lt;/a&gt; to a judgeship and Gavin later replaced Brown as governor of California.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Democracy might be the formal identity of the state’s political system and the party that dominates it, but it’s as inappropriate a term when applied to California politics as it is when applied to North Korea. California isn’t a democracy: it’s much more aptly an oligarchy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The convoluted relationship of the Newsom and Pelosi families is all too typical in California and is filled with enough drama to make up a dozen seasons of a Mexican soap opera.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take&lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/californias-legislature-hides-fbi-investigations-in-the-public-interest/"&gt; the Calderon family&lt;/a&gt;. Assemblyman Tom Calderon passed the seat on to his brother Ron. Sen. Ron Calderon later joined his brother Sen. Charles Calderon, a former assemblyman who became a state senator, in the state senate. Ron and Tom were busted by the FBI on various bribery charges. Former Sen. Charles Calderon’s son Ian then served in the State Assembly. He was in turn replaced by Charles’ wife, Lisa Calderon, and Ian’s stepmother, who had formerly worked for Willie Brown.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sen. Ron Calderon, who had formerly chaired the Senate Insurance Commission, was replaced by Sen. Susan Rubio, a former illegal alien also reportedly also under federal investigation. Susan used to be married to former Assemblyman Roger Hernandez. Then Susan accused Roger of domestic abuse and while his political career collapsed, in a move worthy of the Borgias, her sister, Blanca, stepped cooly and neatly into Roger’s old seat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Former State Sen. Mark Ridley Thomas, a Mayor Karen Bass crony, was found guilty in a bribery and fraud scheme on behalf of his son, former Assemblyman Sebastian Ridley-Thomas who had been forced to resign after sexual harassment complaints.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Yes, having a parent can help significantly open doors, but you have to be able to walk through those doors,” Sebastian Ridley-Thomas &lt;a href="https://calmatters.org/politics/2016/04/family-ties-run-strong-in-the-california-capitol/"&gt;had claimed&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By some estimates, 10% of California’s legislators are family members of other legislators so it seems as if quite a few sons, daughters and spouses (Assemblywoman Mia Bonta is the wife of Attorney General Rob Bonta who was a former member of the Assembly), not to mention sisters and brothers, nephews and nieces, along with sons-in-law keep walking through that open door.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take State Sen. Dave Cortese who is the son of Assemblyman Dominic Cortese.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or take the Papan and Mullin families in San Francisco. After the district was held by Assemblyman Lou Papan ‘the Dean of the Assembly’ and Assemblyman Gene Mullin, the district went to Kevin Mullin, Gene’s son, who was then succeeded by Diane Papan, Lou’s daughter. This is a level of political incest that the Hapsburghs might have been ashamed of.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then head on over to Fresno where Assemblyman Joaquin Arambula, the son of Assemblyman Juan Arambula who held the same district, survived a trial on charges of wilful cruelty to a child. Arambula II had replaced Assemblyman Henry Perea whose father Henry R. Perea was a member of Fresno’s Board of Supervisors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last year, a local news outlet celebrated the fact that three members of Assemblywoman Esmeralda Soria’s family were running for various offices. “Four Valley Siblings Running for Office. Are the Sorias a California Political Dynasty in the Making?” the headline cheered, claiming that the Sorias are “living the American Dream.” This seems less like the American Dream and more like the California of the old Dons dominated by powerful clans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;California Democrats don’t have a democracy, from the top on down, they have an oligarchy run by clans with longstanding relationships where family members rise to political power. Or as the Los Angeles Times summed up the transition from Gov. Jerry Brown to Gov. Gavin Newsom, “Brown and Newsom are members of a political fraternity that dominated their shared hometown of San Francisco for much of the 20th century.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And as the Pelosi and Newsom clans remind us, California’s oligarchy doesn’t stay in California.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some may remember the pre-9/11 scandal that engulfed Congressman Gary Condit over the disappearance of an intern he had been having an affair with. While Rep. Gary Condit’s career ended, his son Chad ran unsuccessfully for office, a number of his grandsons have gone into politics, and his son-in-law Rep. Adam Gray is now in Congress. Sometimes having a different last name helps.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No amount of scandals or sleaze stops California’s political clans. They may skip a generation, but they always rebound because their power comes from powerful families, not the people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What does California’s future hold? Almost certainly more incestuous political oligarchy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And the ultimate pureblooded dynastic heir of California oligarchy may be California Speaker Pro Tempore Josh Lowenthal. Josh’s father, Alan Lowenthal was the former assembly member, state senator and Congressman Alan Lowenthal, while his mother was Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal. With that kind of pedigree, whoever his children are, they will inherit California.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unless a Newsom or a Pelosi gets in there first.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; font-size: large; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;Daniel Greenfield&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;Front Page Magazine&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;Click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;here to subscribe&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to my articles. And&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;click here to support my work with a donation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;" /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;Thank you for reading.&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" style="background-color: #fafafa; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="500" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2-8K1m-P7y4j4aL_AQBH6X3B5ugD56jdnVb1-TZ-Shobc6BR7h1ko7HfudfaWTKjF8QO4GqswsZLXjk0bSjONiDuu_3n8253fl8uizuSD4P8PG7VzDjiNsO5tM_dj-NERECSZWwBYC0RhQIv_-ejW5nrQZyou6S4kMx9tknaCbusrARxUCToe0A/w640-h230/%E2%80%9CA%20marvelously%20original%20and%20enlightening%20look%20at%20American%20history,%20with%20a%20host%20of%20insights%20for%20our%20own%20age.%E2%80%9D%20%E2%80%94Robert%20Spencer,%20Author%20of%20The%20Sumter%20Gambit%20How%20the%20Left%20Is%20Trying%20to%20Foment%20A%20Civil%20W%20(1).png" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Read my book&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;nbsp;'Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers' Fight Against the Left'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;to discover the true origins of the American Left.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/feeds/3757558517180886690/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/06/californias-oligarchy.html#comment-form" rel="replies" title="2 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/3757558517180886690" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/3757558517180886690" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/06/californias-oligarchy.html" rel="alternate" title="California’s Oligarchy" type="text/html"/><author><name>Daniel Greenfield</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhRSvmnQijYr-BAX6Dhyjov7iV0exSO5_GeAmrS9KrDfyKL3VSV3Un-5pZhpzro8iWIUneqiL4ANYnGEUoTL0vy8NsLmlYYh-OMLsfNWslVjJgEd_c4FeGGK5dq-f2R63PGJTSDp-d1bMHg9mFKJEaV6Dfl20ZBX9rGmaVz8MlOTuPQ/s220/headshot%20bw4.jpg" width="30"/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQHLMU65aMF_6R28FvgTWpZdicp1aiUgYuX7PC3X5MAk9uBfwEtqjj924O_zYQ0G4vVyfM1xqslIUzV0K5Avawo2j-rDQTx5JDGMKIKxfAN8OKtRK6D1RhVb2FZysqwbgdX_9mmiuIOsdIV9K5yM9JUUuW7OfDv4wWD_i-yVtljtvzo0aNJgJX9g/s72-w640-h412-c/newsom%20bonta%20masks.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-7403802770951526779</id><published>2025-06-06T01:06:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2025-06-06T01:06:26.475-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="recent"/><title type="text">He Set a Holocaust Survivor On Fire for Allah</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlYKzUItU3fB1uBRqw41OYK8XVnPozzUXDFBQ5l_7m6BvHysklHbQwKvS9aiouPoAML_SY3FUcxBVJozHGBTjPh2jZ0uqGZttmdAwkAa0C97iwANmH3wOlPh9I-DWxJ01xU8p5AQ33ISf7seZiTDP9gTLyrJsCQap60tEefCa6oh7jOBeYuGLPyQ/s1600/mohamad3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlYKzUItU3fB1uBRqw41OYK8XVnPozzUXDFBQ5l_7m6BvHysklHbQwKvS9aiouPoAML_SY3FUcxBVJozHGBTjPh2jZ0uqGZttmdAwkAa0C97iwANmH3wOlPh9I-DWxJ01xU8p5AQ33ISf7seZiTDP9gTLyrJsCQap60tEefCa6oh7jOBeYuGLPyQ/w640-h400/mohamad3.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 2021, a Syrian Muslim gunman opened fire at a Boulder supermarket killing ten Americans. Ahmad Al-Issa, the gunman, had been convinced that Americans were ‘Islamophobic’ and his family had moved from what would become the &lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/muslim-terrorist-capital-isis-shot-supermarket-daniel-greenfield/"&gt;ISIS capital in Syria&lt;/a&gt;. The Al-Issa family lived in Arvada, a refugee sanctuary city near Boulder that had also previously produced &lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/did-colorado-mosques-influence-boulder-supermarket-daniel-greenfield/"&gt;Shannon Conley&lt;/a&gt;, an American convert to Islam who tried to join ISIS and scouted a local church.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Boulder authorities blamed gun violence and mental illness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, an Egyptian Muslim, set elderly Jews on fire at a march to free hostages held by the Hamas terrorists whom he supported, while shouting “Free Palestine”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“We are not calling it a terror attack at this point,” Boulder Police Chief Steve Redfearn &lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/boulder-police-chief-still-searching-for-motive-of-islamic-terrorist-who-shouted-end-zionism/"&gt;told the media.&lt;/a&gt; “It is way too early to speculate a motive.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But Mohamed not only shouted his motive during the attack, he&lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/boulder-muslim-who-set-jews-on-fire-open-your-heart-to-the-koran/"&gt; recorded a video&lt;/a&gt; explaining that he did it for Allah. “Allah is greater than the Zionists, Allah is greater than America and its weapons, Allah is greater than the F-35 planes,” he raved. “What about Allah, who says to us every day, dozens of times: ‘Allah Akbar.’ Do not forget: Allah Akbar.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To an audience of non-Muslims, Mohamed shouted slogans about “Palestine” and “Zionism”, but to a Muslim audience he talked about what really motivated him. Islam and Jihad. This is what Muslim terrorists routinely do. They talk about politics to us and religion to themselves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“I attest before Allah and before you that Allah, His Messenger, and Jihad for Allah’s sake are more beloved to me than you and the whole world are,” Mohamed told his family who are now set to be deported.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In his car, the authorities who are still searching for a motive, found gasoline, rags and a Koran.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of these three incendiary elements, the Koran was by far the most explosive of them all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When Al-Issa had murdered ten people at a supermarket around Passover, Obama and Biden had blamed gun violence, but Mohamed didn’t use a gun, he used gasoline for his 18 Molotov cocktails. What are liberals supposed to blame now for the terrorist attack? Fossil fuel violence?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mohamed did his best to spell out his motive. Islam. But no one in power will talk about it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gov. Jared Polis and Attorney General Phil Weiser blamed antisemitism and while Mohamed clearly targeted Jews and his social media showed support for Hamas, he didn’t turn to Islamic terrorism because he hated Jews, he hated Jews because he believed the words of the Koran and the teachings of his religion which declare that Jews are the ultimate enemies of Islam.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;President Trump correctly pointed out that Mohamed was an illegal alien who should not have been here, but only called him a “radical”. FBI Director Kash Patel and NSC Director Tulsi Gabbard correctly called it a “terror” attack, but also made no mention of Islam. And there is no way to understand the horror that happened in Boulder without understanding Islam.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On his Facebook page, Mohamed had urged his followers, “open your heart to the Koran.” In his video rant, he emphasized “Allahu Akbar”, the battle cry of countless Islamic terrorists, which proclaims the supremacy of Islam over America, and over all other peoples and religions. The way that Muslims show that supremacy is through acts of violence against non-Muslims.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The more horrific the violence, the better.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where did Mohamed get the idea to set elderly Jews, including an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor, on fire? Apologists have taken to claiming that it has no basis in Islam, but ISIS famously used fire as a means of killing those it considered infidels. The Koran repeatedly promises that non-Muslims will burn in hellfire. Non-Muslims are described as “inmates of the fire”. And Jews are specifically condemned to burning in Koran 4:55 and 98:6 which describes Jews and Christians as “the worst of all beings” who will burn in hellfire forever.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mohamed didn’t attack elderly Jews with a gun, but with fire, because he wanted them to suffer more. Like ISIS, he wanted the world to witness a horrifying spectacle in Allah’s name. That horror would show the infidels, Jews, Christians and all others, the greatness of Allah.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He wanted to show everyone the judgement of Allah executed on an 88-year-old woman.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Shout, ‘Allahu Akbar,’ because this strikes fear in the hearts of the non-believers,” a document carried by a 9/11 hijacker urged. Mohamed set out to cast fear into the hearts of non-Muslims.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did he succeed? The simple answer is that if we are too afraid to mention Islam, then he won.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In past times, President Trump clearly and forthrightly defined Islam as the problem. He spoke truths about Islam that no other politician was willing to say. But now Islamists and their allies are crawling into the administration the way that they did into the Bush administration. And their presence undermines our national security and President Trump’s mission to save America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/trump-puts-terrorist-on-commission-for-religious-liberty/"&gt;Ismail Royer, a former terrorist &lt;/a&gt;and member of the Virginia Jihad Network, and Sheikh Hamza a Yusuf who &lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/new-york-times-whitewashes-islamist-zaytuna-ryan-mauro/"&gt;had declared that&lt;/a&gt;, “I reside in this country not by choice but by conviction in attempting to spread the message of Islam in this country” were appointed to the Religious Liberty Commission. And &lt;a href="https://gellerreport.com/2025/06/vetting-catastrophe-another-terror-tied-jihadi-to-white-house-post.html/"&gt;other Islamist figures&lt;/a&gt; have gotten access to the White House.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All the while ‘counterjihadists’, the dedicated men and women who have spent decades in the wilderness telling the truth about the Jihad against America, are still being kept outside.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That is why it is more urgent than ever to speak the truth about what happened in Boulder.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This was not just terrorism and it was not just antisemitism. It was Islamic terrorism. Mohamed Soliman was a devout Muslim who following the teachings of his religion tried to murder a group of elderly people in the most horrifying way possible. He was a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood, a group whose branches encompass ISIS, Al Qaeda, CAIR and most political Islamist groups in America, and which is long overdue to be banned in the United States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mohamed is only one man. If we have learned anything in the past decades, it’s that there is a never-ending supply of Mohameds who will go on running over Americans with cars, planting bombs, opening fire with guns, attacking with machetes and waging war on us in Allah’s name.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;President Trump’s message was that we cannot solve problems until we tell the truth about them. We must tell the truth about what happened in Boulder. We must tell the truth about Islam.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before it’s too late.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; font-size: large; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;Daniel Greenfield&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;Front Page Magazine&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;Click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;here to subscribe&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to my articles. And&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;click here to support my work with a donation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;" /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;Thank you for reading.&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" style="background-color: #fafafa; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="500" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2-8K1m-P7y4j4aL_AQBH6X3B5ugD56jdnVb1-TZ-Shobc6BR7h1ko7HfudfaWTKjF8QO4GqswsZLXjk0bSjONiDuu_3n8253fl8uizuSD4P8PG7VzDjiNsO5tM_dj-NERECSZWwBYC0RhQIv_-ejW5nrQZyou6S4kMx9tknaCbusrARxUCToe0A/w640-h230/%E2%80%9CA%20marvelously%20original%20and%20enlightening%20look%20at%20American%20history,%20with%20a%20host%20of%20insights%20for%20our%20own%20age.%E2%80%9D%20%E2%80%94Robert%20Spencer,%20Author%20of%20The%20Sumter%20Gambit%20How%20the%20Left%20Is%20Trying%20to%20Foment%20A%20Civil%20W%20(1).png" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Read my book&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;nbsp;'Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers' Fight Against the Left'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;to discover the true origins of the American Left.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/feeds/7403802770951526779/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/06/he-set-holocaust-survivor-on-fire-for.html#comment-form" rel="replies" title="4 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/7403802770951526779" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/7403802770951526779" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/06/he-set-holocaust-survivor-on-fire-for.html" rel="alternate" title="He Set a Holocaust Survivor On Fire for Allah" type="text/html"/><author><name>Daniel Greenfield</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhRSvmnQijYr-BAX6Dhyjov7iV0exSO5_GeAmrS9KrDfyKL3VSV3Un-5pZhpzro8iWIUneqiL4ANYnGEUoTL0vy8NsLmlYYh-OMLsfNWslVjJgEd_c4FeGGK5dq-f2R63PGJTSDp-d1bMHg9mFKJEaV6Dfl20ZBX9rGmaVz8MlOTuPQ/s220/headshot%20bw4.jpg" width="30"/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlYKzUItU3fB1uBRqw41OYK8XVnPozzUXDFBQ5l_7m6BvHysklHbQwKvS9aiouPoAML_SY3FUcxBVJozHGBTjPh2jZ0uqGZttmdAwkAa0C97iwANmH3wOlPh9I-DWxJ01xU8p5AQ33ISf7seZiTDP9gTLyrJsCQap60tEefCa6oh7jOBeYuGLPyQ/s72-w640-h400-c/mohamad3.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-3345093695264141735</id><published>2025-06-04T02:21:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2025-06-04T02:21:46.506-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="recent"/><title type="text">IRS Lets Terror Fundraiser That Praised D.C. Attack Get Tax-Exempt Donations</title><content type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0WWrALPEU4-Z94YcvRh0jb9BLghnJAEhVoQTMX3s53bLjj-hxcOtwU33GP55eGwIwwoBFBH7bdCGXxz_ahzhgOck-F0SdnT0DRKl88CI6jn9Xr-A7VzxhRmeaqKIT1pOn7-sZRU65McHRcAxhTAx_fd7sPTTC8SJx5ShL26HeWZCzmqi8NSSQVA/s1020/blood%20money%20dle1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="877" data-original-width="1020" height="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0WWrALPEU4-Z94YcvRh0jb9BLghnJAEhVoQTMX3s53bLjj-hxcOtwU33GP55eGwIwwoBFBH7bdCGXxz_ahzhgOck-F0SdnT0DRKl88CI6jn9Xr-A7VzxhRmeaqKIT1pOn7-sZRU65McHRcAxhTAx_fd7sPTTC8SJx5ShL26HeWZCzmqi8NSSQVA/w640-h550/blood%20money%20dle1.png" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Samidoun, a group that the United States Treasury described as a “sham charity” that serves as a fundraiser for terrorists, had some thoughts on the recent D.C. leftist terrorist attack.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It &lt;a href="https://x.com/GileadIni/status/1927803542695198890?t=B58ECYHnwZwaxQbYCrz3og&amp;amp;s=09"&gt;reposted &lt;/a&gt;an open letter to its Telegram group declaring that “Elias Rodriguez’s act was fully justified” when he shot Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim in the back. “It is justice.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“May it redound to teach a lesson and set an example,” the letter wrote of the brutal murders while describing Islamic terrorist supporters as “struggling behind enemy lines, inside the US”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Samidoun leaders &lt;a href="https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-855947"&gt;described&lt;/a&gt; the killings as a “natural consequence” and warned that “genocide has to have consequences.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is no shortage of terrorist supporters in this country, but this group of terrorist supporters continues to benefit from tax-exempt donations despite years of reporting by the David Horowitz Freedom Center and even sanctions being imposed by the Treasury Department.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Samidoun was designated as an arm of the PFLP terrorist group &lt;a href="https://ngo-monitor.org/reports/global-samidoun-network/"&gt;by Israel in 2021&lt;/a&gt;, by Germany in 2023 after its members handed out candy after terrorist attacks, and in the U.S., Canada and the Netherlands in 2024. In 2023, &lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/irs-allows-pflp-terrorists-to-fundraise-through-leftist-nonprofit/"&gt;the Freedom Center’s report predicted&lt;/a&gt; that despite the growing crackdown, the IRS would continue to allow it to benefit from tax-exempt status. The same government agency that spent six years harassing the David Horowitz Freedom Center has spent four years refusing to stop tax-exempt donations from going to a terrorist front group.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Treasury Department imposed sanctions on Samidoun last year declaring that it “provides financial support to the sanctioned PFLP” and stating that “all property and interests in property” are “blocked and must be reported” and finally prohibited all “transactions by U.S. persons or within (or transiting) the United States that involve any property or interests in property of designated or otherwise blocked persons.” The sanctions extended to a ban on the “making of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services by, to” at risk of “civil sanctions” and “secondary sanctions” on those providing funding to the terrorist front group.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those would potentially include George Soros, Ben &amp;amp; Jerry’s and the IRS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How does a front for a terrorist group get tax-exempt donations anyway? Through a dubious practice known as fiscal sponsorship in which yet another front group accepts tax-exempt donations for it making it the front group for a front group for a terrorist organization.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/alliance-for-global-justice-afgj/"&gt;Alliance For Global Justice&lt;/a&gt; was created to&lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/celebs-backed-blm-fund-bailed-out-blm-assassin-daniel-greenfield/"&gt; support Marxist Sandinista terrorists&lt;/a&gt; in Nicaragua, but it has served as a fiscal sponsor for over 140 groups including a major BLM umbrella group, a Cuban front group and a bail fund that sprang an assassin from prison in Louisville, Kentucky, and for Samidoun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AFGJ describes itself as the “Accounting Department for the Movement”, solicits for groups to ‘fiscally sponsor’ and even solicits donations to subsidize its fiscal sponsorship program for various radical groups. After extensive reporting by the David Horowitz Freedom Center, House members and IRS employees are well aware of the situation and have been for years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why has nothing been done? One answer may be that the AFGJ’s role as the “Accounting Department for the Movement” provides it with impunity because of its role in sponsoring major leftist organizations including, for a time, the Movement for Black Lives, one of the two big BLM umbrella groups, and the money that has come through it including from George Soros, the Tides Foundation, the Ben and Jerry’s Foundation, and other wealthy leftists and foundations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Its last available IRS form for 2022 reported over $10 million in contributions and grants.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take down a mob accountant and you take down the mob. Taking down AFGJ may take down too much of the ‘movement’ with it. And so the AFGJ still retains its nonprofit status, the IRS continues to list it as a legal non-profit, despite receiving complaints, and the AFGJ still continues to solicit tax-exempt donations even when everyone else has cut it off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AFGJ’s sponsorship of Samidoun led credit card companies and PayPal to stop processing donations to it, but the IRS continued to stick with the leftist organization. Even though the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control had sanctioned Samidoun, the IRS, an agency of the same department, continues providing nonprofit status to Samidoun’s sponsor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One part of Treasury is sanctioning a terrorist front group while another is helping to fund it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Samidoun’s statements in defense of the D.C. terrorist attack shows all too clearly why the United States and other countries cracked down on it. Private financial institutions appear to be in compliance with sanctions. The only organization still not in compliance is the IRS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That raises the question of whether the United States government can sanction the IRS?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The David Horowitz Freedom Center’s ‘Internal Radical Service’ project had previously documented IRS complicity in allowing not only Samidoun, but domestic terrorists, &lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/how-the-irs-enables-a-pro-pedophile-organization/"&gt;pedophiles &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-court-says-theyre-pirates-the-irs-says-theyre-a-nonprofit/"&gt;pirates&lt;/a&gt;, and even &lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/shoot-up-at-irs-nonprofit-crackhouses/"&gt;crackhouses&lt;/a&gt; to benefit from nonprofit status. The refusal of the IRS to act is undermining foreign policy and even existing terrorist sanctions by the Treasury Department.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That’s why bills such as the ‘No Tax Dollars for Terrorists Act’ and the ‘Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act’ have been introduced only to be blocked by Democrats and some Republicans. And so for now a terrorist front group that praised a terrorist attack in D.C. is able to continue taking tax-exempt money thanks to bureaucrats and politicians in Washington D.C.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; font-size: large; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;Daniel Greenfield&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;Front Page Magazine&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;Click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;here to subscribe&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to my articles. And&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;click here to support my work with a donation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;" /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;Thank you for reading.&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" style="background-color: #fafafa; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="500" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2-8K1m-P7y4j4aL_AQBH6X3B5ugD56jdnVb1-TZ-Shobc6BR7h1ko7HfudfaWTKjF8QO4GqswsZLXjk0bSjONiDuu_3n8253fl8uizuSD4P8PG7VzDjiNsO5tM_dj-NERECSZWwBYC0RhQIv_-ejW5nrQZyou6S4kMx9tknaCbusrARxUCToe0A/w640-h230/%E2%80%9CA%20marvelously%20original%20and%20enlightening%20look%20at%20American%20history,%20with%20a%20host%20of%20insights%20for%20our%20own%20age.%E2%80%9D%20%E2%80%94Robert%20Spencer,%20Author%20of%20The%20Sumter%20Gambit%20How%20the%20Left%20Is%20Trying%20to%20Foment%20A%20Civil%20W%20(1).png" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Read my book&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;nbsp;'Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers' Fight Against the Left'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;to discover the true origins of the American Left.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/feeds/3345093695264141735/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/06/irs-lets-terror-fundraiser-that-praised.html#comment-form" rel="replies" title="3 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/3345093695264141735" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/3345093695264141735" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/06/irs-lets-terror-fundraiser-that-praised.html" rel="alternate" title="IRS Lets Terror Fundraiser That Praised D.C. Attack Get Tax-Exempt Donations" type="text/html"/><author><name>Daniel Greenfield</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhRSvmnQijYr-BAX6Dhyjov7iV0exSO5_GeAmrS9KrDfyKL3VSV3Un-5pZhpzro8iWIUneqiL4ANYnGEUoTL0vy8NsLmlYYh-OMLsfNWslVjJgEd_c4FeGGK5dq-f2R63PGJTSDp-d1bMHg9mFKJEaV6Dfl20ZBX9rGmaVz8MlOTuPQ/s220/headshot%20bw4.jpg" width="30"/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0WWrALPEU4-Z94YcvRh0jb9BLghnJAEhVoQTMX3s53bLjj-hxcOtwU33GP55eGwIwwoBFBH7bdCGXxz_ahzhgOck-F0SdnT0DRKl88CI6jn9Xr-A7VzxhRmeaqKIT1pOn7-sZRU65McHRcAxhTAx_fd7sPTTC8SJx5ShL26HeWZCzmqi8NSSQVA/s72-w640-h550-c/blood%20money%20dle1.png" width="72"/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-5447424870761932842</id><published>2025-06-01T10:43:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2025-06-01T10:45:50.023-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="recent"/><title type="text">America Doesn’t Need ‘International Students’</title><content type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdKInhfEsg9zCBJNdJCkOWiRb6SYsq1OxWBBy8XEj-Nh6hFTv1jeWaXETw6ZO51sKp1xjDjnhp0mya2CvONVe3WD9xhN2jgwbNafnJ27NVXsLSubOw5zlZKVRP-kbQ4B1kek0u9z36e7AGhzzq2X26xfE-UoHTOhU-__1e_AF_n5Lz9roi7whmow/s998/image_2025-06-01_074541800.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="694" data-original-width="998" height="446" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdKInhfEsg9zCBJNdJCkOWiRb6SYsq1OxWBBy8XEj-Nh6hFTv1jeWaXETw6ZO51sKp1xjDjnhp0mya2CvONVe3WD9xhN2jgwbNafnJ27NVXsLSubOw5zlZKVRP-kbQ4B1kek0u9z36e7AGhzzq2X26xfE-UoHTOhU-__1e_AF_n5Lz9roi7whmow/w640-h446/image_2025-06-01_074541800.png" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;There are over 1 million foreign students in the United States. The largest group by far are Chinese students whose numbers have fluctuated between a third and a quarter of a million. These students are in America to gain training in this country, not only at top universities like Harvard, but at tech companies, before taking their knowledge and skills back to China.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saudi Arabia, the tenth largest source of foreign students, had the single most famous foreign students of any country who didn’t win any Nobel prizes, but did successfully fly passenger planes into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, but didn’t quite make it to the White House.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Despite that, the Saudis continue to send tens of thousands of their students to America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With Bangladesh in 13th place, Iran in 14th, Pakistan in 16th, Turkey in 19th and Indonesia in 22nd, a lot of foreign students come from the Muslim world and were involved in the pro-terrorist riots calling for the destruction of America, Israel and all of Western civilization.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Notably, few of America’s foreign students are westerners. No European nation even shows up in the top 10 countries for foreign students. The UK is in 15th place and France is only in the 20th. Only Canada, right across the border, is in the top 5, but accounts for only 2.6% of foreign students. Nigeria accounts for three times as many foreign students as France, Iran sends more foreign students than the UK and Pakistan far more than Spain. While most American students who study abroad go to Europe, European students are not going to America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;International students are mostly non-westerners and that’s by design. The Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations, after extensive lobbying by Ivy League colleges, began bringing &lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/how-the-kennedy-family-caused-todays-immigration-crisis/"&gt;third world students to America&lt;/a&gt; to counter Communist influence. Beneficiaries included Barack Obama Sr and Shyamala Gopalan, the mother of Kamala Harris, along with other radicals, who found positions in the United States and left behind radical children who undermined America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whatever benefits we may gain from foreign students are more than outweighed by 8 years of Obama and by the destruction wreaked by the wayward children of other ‘international students’. And those benefits are at the heart of the debate taking place right now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Outrage and protests followed the Trump administration’s crackdown on foreign students. America, we were told, would be absolutely lost without those 1 million foreign students.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to NAFSA, the Association of International Educators which promotes foreign students, foreign students contributed $43.8 billion to the U.S. economy. NAFSA did not mention its support for nearly $1 billion in federal subsidies for “international education” appropriations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are told that “international students” pay their way, but that’s not actually true.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 2023, around 20% (or 207,788) of foreign students benefited from university subsidies, 1,684 foreign students were funded by the U.S. government and 2,351 by other domestic sponsors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://opendoorsdata.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Open-Doors-2023_Fast-Facts.pdf"&gt;Only 56.8% &lt;/a&gt;of foreign students were mostly using their or family money to pay their way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Federal student aid is also extended to ‘refugees’, Afghans, Ukrainians, Haitians and any number of other groups seen as distressed, also victims of human trafficking, children of foreign domestic abuse victims, and anyone who spends enough time complaining about their life.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s hard to track exactly how much student aid is going to foreign nationals, but it very likely outweighs the very limited impact of foreign student spending on the broader economy outside of a few college towns in Boston, D.C. and a handful of big cities in California and New York.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is painfully clear is that the costs of foreign students, whether it’s 9/11, the Hamas campus riots, Obama administration, a hypothetical Kamala administration or Chinese intellectual property theft far outweighs whatever limited benefits they provide to anyone outside Harvard, Yale, Columbia or Georgetown. America doesn’t need international students, colleges do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And as has been obvious for a long time: what’s good for colleges, isn’t good for America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;American taxpayers subsidized wealthy nonprofit institutions. These institutions demand an unlimited flow of foreign students to further enhance their revenues. And these foreign students, whatever tuition they pay or don’t pay, are benefiting from taxpayer-subsidized institutions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s a good deal for Harvard, but it’s not a very good deal for America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The original idea of bringing foreign students to America was that they would learn about ‘democracy’ and our way of doing things, then go back to their countries imbued with the American spirit. This hasn’t worked very often because foreign students are usually members of foreign elites, like the Obamas or Kamala’s family, who despise America. Rather than teaching the rest of the world about America, we import foreign and domestic enemies into our country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Foreign students haven’t Americanized the world, they’ve radicalized, Islamized and terrorized America. Many of those third world students who moved here undermined America and even those who went back home, returned with an insider’s understanding of our weaknesses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And American campuses, in their current state, are hardly likely to do anything other than radicalize foreign students and teach them to hate America. The original purpose of the foreign students programs introduced under Eisenhower and Kennedy failed even as the number of foreign students shot up from 400,000 in the 1990s to over 1 million.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instead of making America or the world, foreign students set up Muslim Brotherhood operations, Chinese spy organizations and radical groups calling for the destruction of America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There’s a place for foreign students in America, but the Trump administration is right to closely scrutinize Chinese students and the social media of students from Islamic terrorist states like Saudi Arabia, Iran and Pakistan, while trying to cut back on the number of foreign students.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The truth is that America doesn’t need foreign students, foreign students need America.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; font-size: large; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;Daniel Greenfield&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;Front Page Magazine&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;Click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;here to subscribe&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to my articles. And&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;click here to support my work with a donation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;" /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;Thank you for reading.&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" style="background-color: #fafafa; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="500" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2-8K1m-P7y4j4aL_AQBH6X3B5ugD56jdnVb1-TZ-Shobc6BR7h1ko7HfudfaWTKjF8QO4GqswsZLXjk0bSjONiDuu_3n8253fl8uizuSD4P8PG7VzDjiNsO5tM_dj-NERECSZWwBYC0RhQIv_-ejW5nrQZyou6S4kMx9tknaCbusrARxUCToe0A/w640-h230/%E2%80%9CA%20marvelously%20original%20and%20enlightening%20look%20at%20American%20history,%20with%20a%20host%20of%20insights%20for%20our%20own%20age.%E2%80%9D%20%E2%80%94Robert%20Spencer,%20Author%20of%20The%20Sumter%20Gambit%20How%20the%20Left%20Is%20Trying%20to%20Foment%20A%20Civil%20W%20(1).png" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Read my book&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;nbsp;'Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers' Fight Against the Left'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;to discover the true origins of the American Left.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/feeds/5447424870761932842/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/06/america-doesnt-need-international.html#comment-form" rel="replies" title="3 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/5447424870761932842" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/5447424870761932842" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/06/america-doesnt-need-international.html" rel="alternate" title="America Doesn’t Need ‘International Students’" type="text/html"/><author><name>Daniel Greenfield</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhRSvmnQijYr-BAX6Dhyjov7iV0exSO5_GeAmrS9KrDfyKL3VSV3Un-5pZhpzro8iWIUneqiL4ANYnGEUoTL0vy8NsLmlYYh-OMLsfNWslVjJgEd_c4FeGGK5dq-f2R63PGJTSDp-d1bMHg9mFKJEaV6Dfl20ZBX9rGmaVz8MlOTuPQ/s220/headshot%20bw4.jpg" width="30"/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdKInhfEsg9zCBJNdJCkOWiRb6SYsq1OxWBBy8XEj-Nh6hFTv1jeWaXETw6ZO51sKp1xjDjnhp0mya2CvONVe3WD9xhN2jgwbNafnJ27NVXsLSubOw5zlZKVRP-kbQ4B1kek0u9z36e7AGhzzq2X26xfE-UoHTOhU-__1e_AF_n5Lz9roi7whmow/s72-w640-h446-c/image_2025-06-01_074541800.png" width="72"/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-8359531225950107735</id><published>2025-05-30T00:33:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2025-05-30T00:36:55.797-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="recent"/><title type="text">Remembering the 14,000 People Killed by BLM</title><content type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcaSxkx9fc8Rg2eb-TulYHvOrkcJU04mR9wi3fMDyXxXqoLfJKOUtEgbA72snyN6C0UEOSJvP0-nf5Q1rTjtv674KQbQ78DzBtTlAoeCByL7IV6JjJVUHgjCkUGMJabN8tHUBrfcYYkiku_-zdn3BAUemcL2kPC8LLWg5VBa-2xpm8VvF3bbdwgw/s1280/coffins%20line%20urban%20dle2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1280" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcaSxkx9fc8Rg2eb-TulYHvOrkcJU04mR9wi3fMDyXxXqoLfJKOUtEgbA72snyN6C0UEOSJvP0-nf5Q1rTjtv674KQbQ78DzBtTlAoeCByL7IV6JjJVUHgjCkUGMJabN8tHUBrfcYYkiku_-zdn3BAUemcL2kPC8LLWg5VBa-2xpm8VvF3bbdwgw/w400-h400/coffins%20line%20urban%20dle2.png" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;In 2019, the FBI recorded less than 17,000 homicides. After George Floyd died of a drug overdose while violently resisting arrest, we would not see numbers like that again.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4,870 more people were murdered in 2020. Those excess deaths meant that Floyd and BLM killed nearly as many people that year as AIDS. And those nearly 5,000 deaths were part of a total of nearly 14,000 more excess homicides in the FBI crime database since then. (And those numbers are still incomplete because of reporting changes made by the FBI.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The anniversary of Floyd’s overdose death on May 25th, 2020 led to an outpouring of political&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;commemorations of his death and musings about the need for yet more ‘racial justice’, none of which accounted for the 2,000 more black people killed in 2020 than in 2019.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Floyd reckoning killed more black people than Hurricane Katrina did. The real legacy of the BLM race riots were 2,000 dead black people. The real legacy of the fists and kneelings were entire cemeteries filled with dead black bodies over the course of only one single year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And coffins being placed in cemeteries across the country, planted there by the ‘reckoning’.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More Americans died in the BLM wars than were killed in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars combined. Or at Pearl Harbor. To find a conflict that was more lethal to Americans, you would have to go back to Vietnam. Far more were killed by the BLM crime wave than perished in Hurricane Katrina, not to mention Sandy, Harvey, Maria, Ike and the California wildfires.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;George Floyd’s death was the single deadliest non-drug or disease event of any war or natural disaster in the United States in the last 40 years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 14,000 dead, many of them black, are Floyd’s true legacy. Those 14,000 did not tour the nation in golden coffins. There were no multi-million dollar payments to their families. Members of Congress in cheerfully colored outfits did not kneel by their gravesides. Most simply disappeared and became footnotes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Floyd’s hometown of Minneapolis, 48 people were murdered in 2019. In the Year of Floyd that shot up to 82, then 94 in 2021, 82 in 2022, 70 in 2023, and 76 in 2024. That adds up to 164 more people murdered in the years since Floyd’s drug overdose. Shootings in Minneapolis increased 105% and the number of &lt;a href="https://alphanews.org/105-increase-in-shootings-70-increase-in-homicides-in-minneapolis-last-year/?utm_source=chatgpt.com"&gt;gunshot victims nearly&lt;/a&gt; doubled in 2020.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Five years later, Minneapolis politicians remember that one accidental death, not the 164 murders that they were complicit in while they promoted a ‘reckoning’ on racial justice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Murders once again went up in Minneapolis last year even as politicians hail a safer city.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A cottage industry of pro-crime groups has spent the last 5 years denying that there’s a crime wave. The media will periodically run stories accusing the public of falsely believing that crime is a problem even as people are randomly slashed on the New York City subway and dozens of victims die in weekend shootings. The Biden administration tainted the FBI’s data collection so that it can no longer be trusted past a certain point, and yet the bodies do not go away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The public expresses concern about crime in poll after poll. Voters came out for Trump in 2024 in part because of their worries about crime. The only counter-argument by a party that had told Americans that fighting crime was racist was to tell them that they were imagining the murders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But no one imagined it when LA and San Francisco booted Soros pro-crime prosecutors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Five years after their last reckoning killed nearly 14,000 people, caused billions in damage, destroyed small businesses and livelihoods and set back race relations decades, they want another ‘reckoning’.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Americans deserve a reckoning, not with the fictitious claim that racist police officers are roving the streets looking to choke black men to death, but with the forces behind a destructive movement that took a bunch of amateur activists and their hashtag, and used them to destroy the criminal justice system and unleash rioters and criminals on innocent Americans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A political movement backed by top foundations, including the Ford Foundation, and leading corporations, led to the deaths of the equivalent of the population of St. Augustine, Florida.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That’s the reckoning that should be happening.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the drug overdose death of one career criminal led to a national reckoning, what should the murders of 14,000 human beings lead to?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We don’t need more racial reckonings, diversity commitments and pledges to end policing that killed 14,000 people. What we need is a reckoning for the reckoning. We need a reckoning with the billionaires and foundations, like Soros and Ford, that led us here. Their radical tax shelters need to be stripped from them, their fortunes garnished to cover the losses suffered by families and shopkeepers across the country. We need a reckoning with every politician that tweeted, attended and enabled the violence that continues to claim lives every single day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We need a reckoning with the “fiery but mostly peaceful” media that could position a reporter in the middle of a firestorm and still claim that the riots which claimed countless lives were peaceful. And finally we need a reckoning with prosecutors and law enforcement who practiced the two-tier policing that allowed violent criminals to run rampant across entire cities. The ongoing violence by Hamas supporters and whatever shape the riots of tomorrow take are a warning that while the BLM riots have ended for now, they legitimized the idea of rioting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It will take a comprehensive national legal reckoning to shut down rioting once and for all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A true reckoning with the 14,000 victims of George Floyd’s legacy will begin with unleashing the police to get back to enforcing the ‘broken windows policing’ and other measures that he[ped make America safe in the 90s, and filling the prisons with career criminals using measures like ‘three strikes’ to end the revolving door crime wave enabled by not only leftists or Democrats, but Republicans who went along with ‘criminal justice reforms’ promoted by the Kochs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The reckoning of the 14,000 should bury liberal and libertarian pro-crime policies along with those bodies. We should never allow ourselves to be fooled into buying the idea that closing prisons and freeing criminals is a ‘conservative’ policy or good for America. The cost of prisons is cheap compared to the cost of a massive crime wave. The cost of preventing a crime is always cheaper than the crime itself. And when we forget that, criminals will remind us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May 25th should not be the day we mourn a violent criminal who robbed a pregnant woman at gunpoint, it should be the anniversary of the day we pledge to be merciless to criminals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because when we are kind to criminals, we are cruel to their victims. When we kneel at the coffins of criminals, they will bury us in them. Forget George Floyd, remember the 14,000.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; font-size: large; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;Daniel Greenfield&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;Front Page Magazine&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;Click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;here to subscribe&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to my articles. And&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;click here to support my work with a donation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;" /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;Thank you for reading.&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" style="background-color: #fafafa; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="500" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2-8K1m-P7y4j4aL_AQBH6X3B5ugD56jdnVb1-TZ-Shobc6BR7h1ko7HfudfaWTKjF8QO4GqswsZLXjk0bSjONiDuu_3n8253fl8uizuSD4P8PG7VzDjiNsO5tM_dj-NERECSZWwBYC0RhQIv_-ejW5nrQZyou6S4kMx9tknaCbusrARxUCToe0A/w640-h230/%E2%80%9CA%20marvelously%20original%20and%20enlightening%20look%20at%20American%20history,%20with%20a%20host%20of%20insights%20for%20our%20own%20age.%E2%80%9D%20%E2%80%94Robert%20Spencer,%20Author%20of%20The%20Sumter%20Gambit%20How%20the%20Left%20Is%20Trying%20to%20Foment%20A%20Civil%20W%20(1).png" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Read my book&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;nbsp;'Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers' Fight Against the Left'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;to discover the true origins of the American Left.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/feeds/8359531225950107735/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/05/remembering-14000-people-killed-by-blm.html#comment-form" rel="replies" title="2 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/8359531225950107735" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/8359531225950107735" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/05/remembering-14000-people-killed-by-blm.html" rel="alternate" title="Remembering the 14,000 People Killed by BLM" type="text/html"/><author><name>Daniel Greenfield</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhRSvmnQijYr-BAX6Dhyjov7iV0exSO5_GeAmrS9KrDfyKL3VSV3Un-5pZhpzro8iWIUneqiL4ANYnGEUoTL0vy8NsLmlYYh-OMLsfNWslVjJgEd_c4FeGGK5dq-f2R63PGJTSDp-d1bMHg9mFKJEaV6Dfl20ZBX9rGmaVz8MlOTuPQ/s220/headshot%20bw4.jpg" width="30"/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcaSxkx9fc8Rg2eb-TulYHvOrkcJU04mR9wi3fMDyXxXqoLfJKOUtEgbA72snyN6C0UEOSJvP0-nf5Q1rTjtv674KQbQ78DzBtTlAoeCByL7IV6JjJVUHgjCkUGMJabN8tHUBrfcYYkiku_-zdn3BAUemcL2kPC8LLWg5VBa-2xpm8VvF3bbdwgw/s72-w400-h400-c/coffins%20line%20urban%20dle2.png" width="72"/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-3655078858429801955</id><published>2025-05-29T01:26:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2025-05-29T01:26:30.458-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="recent"/><title type="text">How Soros Bought the ‘Voice’ of the Jewish Community</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_7DOm9_uE_K6CwXGYfKPQzYZ0mpS7NXJqgHeyCZyq5ObnnP9yQ_5fxFzctRLl0VOUmbxfV_6oeG6Be1EkILVu8f1lMfoq23cQsJuw4_zkZWxOHOF_oyh5pJiI6RQmPwq_jYGhNdyGMnmbVrBmN_K6ggN96GGLL3rxPc_nxYM64WAHUc8QdSC5Ww/s1847/soros%20evil%20frame.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1230" data-original-width="1847" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_7DOm9_uE_K6CwXGYfKPQzYZ0mpS7NXJqgHeyCZyq5ObnnP9yQ_5fxFzctRLl0VOUmbxfV_6oeG6Be1EkILVu8f1lMfoq23cQsJuw4_zkZWxOHOF_oyh5pJiI6RQmPwq_jYGhNdyGMnmbVrBmN_K6ggN96GGLL3rxPc_nxYM64WAHUc8QdSC5Ww/w640-h426/soros%20evil%20frame.png" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt; After a belated crackdown on campus antisemitism, some were surprised to see the Jewish Council for Public Affairs leading a campaign in support of &lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-liberal-betrayal-of-the-jews/"&gt;college Hamas enthusiasts&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Observers of Jewish organizational life remembered the JCPA as a representative of local Jewish ‘federations’, the organization had always been liberal, but it had never taken so blatant a stance in defense of antisemites or so overt a stance.against the American Jewish community.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In reality though the JCPA had not existed since 2022. The organization using the JCPA name is a leftist activist group funded by George Soros and headed by a member of his anti-Israel lobby. The crucial break came when the JCPA endorsed the Black Lives Matter racist hate group whose associated mobs attacked synagogues, assaulted Jews and denounced Israel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jewish federations were uncomfortable with the JCPA leadership’s seeming support for antisemitism and racism. JCPA boss David Bernstein initially defended the move along with engagement with far-left antisemitic groups, including the Women’s March, before leaving the organization and founding the Jewish Institute for Liberal Values (the group is &lt;a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2025/02/jewish-institute-for-liberal-values-rebranding-north-american-values-institute/"&gt;now known &lt;/a&gt;as the North American Values Institute) to fight wokeness and institutional capture of liberal groups.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The JCPA however was ground zero for institutional capture. Instead of the federations taking control of the JCPA which they had funded and lent their name and support to for so long, a plan was developed to make the JCPA independent. The problem was that most people did not realize that an organization that had formerly spoken for sizable portions of the liberal Jewish community was now detached from the community and funded by one of its worst enemies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 2023, as the JCPA became “independent”, the group received a $250,000 grant from the Soros Open Society Foundations. While that amount might not have been so impressive for a major organization, the JCPA had lost most of its funding when it left the ‘federations’ and its budget was less than $2 million so that the Soros grant represented a sizable part of its cash.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It also helped pay the salary of its new CEO: Amy Spitalnick. Spitalnick was a veteran of Democratic and leftist organizations, but her only previous role in a Jewish organization had been serving as a spokeswoman for Soros’s anti-Israel lobby: J Street. The JCPA added new board members like Kiyomi Kowalski, the “Afro-Latin queer” founder of ‘Jewbian Princess’ to deliver DEI training to Jewish organizations. Kowalski had come through Soros’s Bend the Arc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rori Picker Neiss, the JCPA’s Senior VP for Community Relations, was a leftist activist who had argued that America was systemically racist, claimed to have a transgender 11-year-old girl, was a former board member at HIAS, which specializes in resettling Muslims in America and was the “Rabbi in Residence at the Holy Communion Episcopal Church” in St. Louis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Other incoming JCPA staffers included Benjamin Suarato, the former spokesman for USAID, and Emily Graham, a Gillibrand staffer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;None of this was normal and the JCPA, which had been a generically liberal group, became a radical leftist one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The old JCPA had responded to Israel’s elections by describing them as evidence of democracy, the new JCPA however repeatedly attacked Israel and Prime Minister Netanyahu, declaring a “fight for democracy” in Israel and America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Days after the Oct 7 attacks, Amy Spitalnick, who had worked with the anti-Israel lobby J Street, organized a statement against ‘Islamophobia and anti-Arab hate’.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“We unequivocally reject those targeting our Muslim, Arab, and Palestinian American neighbors with bigotry, threats, and violence,” Spitalnick declared. The signatories included multiple Soros anti-Israel and anti-Jewish groups including J Street, Bend the Arc, T’ruah and the New Israel Fund which &lt;a href="https://ngo-monitor.org/funder/new_israel_fund/"&gt;subsidizes BDS &lt;/a&gt;hate groups.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Spitalnick jumped on&lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-greatest-islamophobia-hoax-in-america-exposed/"&gt; the Burlington shooting hoax &lt;/a&gt;to issue a press release declaring that “we are praying for a swift and full recovery for Hisham Awartani, Kinnan Abdalhamid, and Tahseen Ahmed.”  The shootings had nothing to do with Israel or Islam, but the three Muslim men used their platform to repeatedly denounce Israel with the political aid of the new JCPA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No one could mistake the new JCPA’s priorities when it issued two statements condemning the Oct 7 attacks, three statements condemning Islamophobia after the attacks and five statements condemning the Trump administration’s crackdowns on campus antisemitism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While the JCPA assembled a list of signers to its campaign against Islamophobia, it offered no such response to Oct 7. What made the JCPA jump into some kind of action wasn’t the mass murder of Jews, but any report of any violence, no matter how random, as in the case of the Burlington shootings, involving Muslims.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The JCPA claimed that its militant defense of campus antisemitism was motivated by its concern for ‘free speech’ and other democratic values, but the organization had previously demanded the removal of hate speech from Twitter and social media. Its sudden concern for free speech existed only when it came to Hamas supporters targeting Jewish students on college campuses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The new JCPA defends even the worst campus antisemitism while leveraging a vintage brand of the liberal Jewish establishment. The JCPA had started life as the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council. Many people who encounter its initials still think that it represents some sort of ‘grassroots’ coalition of liberal community groups when all it represents is the Left.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And the Soros political machine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In announcing its new identity, the JCPA stated that it “traditionally operated on a consensus model among 125 national JCRCs and 16 National Jewish organizations”, but in “today’s political climate, however, consensus is harder to obtain” and so the “JCPA is moving from a consensus and general membership model to the coalition model where policy will be driven and overseen.” The JCPA no longer represents anyone except its bosses and major donors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That includes at least a quarter-million dollar investment from the billionaire funder of anti-Israel groups &lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/soros-war-against-jews-daniel-greenfield/"&gt;who had once urged&lt;/a&gt;, “America and Israel must open the door to Hamas.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And whose former employee runs the JCPA and speaks for it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The JCPA is certainly not the first liberal Jewish group or personality Soros bought, what is surprising is how cheap the price of one of the crown jewels of the old liberal establishment was.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; font-size: large; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;Daniel Greenfield&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;Front Page Magazine&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;Click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;here to subscribe&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to my articles. And&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;click here to support my work with a donation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;" /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;Thank you for reading.&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" style="background-color: #fafafa; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="500" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2-8K1m-P7y4j4aL_AQBH6X3B5ugD56jdnVb1-TZ-Shobc6BR7h1ko7HfudfaWTKjF8QO4GqswsZLXjk0bSjONiDuu_3n8253fl8uizuSD4P8PG7VzDjiNsO5tM_dj-NERECSZWwBYC0RhQIv_-ejW5nrQZyou6S4kMx9tknaCbusrARxUCToe0A/w640-h230/%E2%80%9CA%20marvelously%20original%20and%20enlightening%20look%20at%20American%20history,%20with%20a%20host%20of%20insights%20for%20our%20own%20age.%E2%80%9D%20%E2%80%94Robert%20Spencer,%20Author%20of%20The%20Sumter%20Gambit%20How%20the%20Left%20Is%20Trying%20to%20Foment%20A%20Civil%20W%20(1).png" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Read my book&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;nbsp;'Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers' Fight Against the Left'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;to discover the true origins of the American Left.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/feeds/3655078858429801955/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/05/how-soros-bought-voice-of-jewish.html#comment-form" rel="replies" title="1 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/3655078858429801955" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/3655078858429801955" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/05/how-soros-bought-voice-of-jewish.html" rel="alternate" title="How Soros Bought the ‘Voice’ of the Jewish Community" type="text/html"/><author><name>Daniel Greenfield</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhRSvmnQijYr-BAX6Dhyjov7iV0exSO5_GeAmrS9KrDfyKL3VSV3Un-5pZhpzro8iWIUneqiL4ANYnGEUoTL0vy8NsLmlYYh-OMLsfNWslVjJgEd_c4FeGGK5dq-f2R63PGJTSDp-d1bMHg9mFKJEaV6Dfl20ZBX9rGmaVz8MlOTuPQ/s220/headshot%20bw4.jpg" width="30"/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_7DOm9_uE_K6CwXGYfKPQzYZ0mpS7NXJqgHeyCZyq5ObnnP9yQ_5fxFzctRLl0VOUmbxfV_6oeG6Be1EkILVu8f1lMfoq23cQsJuw4_zkZWxOHOF_oyh5pJiI6RQmPwq_jYGhNdyGMnmbVrBmN_K6ggN96GGLL3rxPc_nxYM64WAHUc8QdSC5Ww/s72-w640-h426-c/soros%20evil%20frame.png" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-4930676933363193233</id><published>2025-05-28T02:33:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2025-05-28T02:33:01.783-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="recent"/><title type="text">America Shouldn't Be Propping Up An Al Qaeda Terror State</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisCa9QRA3IAFdeFe9GlQkFQ8zGT8cmXjFtJlffBOCmgWJykCnxYmrY_sWnBlpsDqH_S20kFViCXt6jd_XgmLKTTPnF1LSRo0UiAoeuVK3i7Qo3AytC_ulQ2uqeW6WBrcsNH8oy9wtuCc0VNEarhjAan2yLrRaD5XUrLwYwSuWetaP8hDlwQt1jow/s1920/jolani%20frame.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisCa9QRA3IAFdeFe9GlQkFQ8zGT8cmXjFtJlffBOCmgWJykCnxYmrY_sWnBlpsDqH_S20kFViCXt6jd_XgmLKTTPnF1LSRo0UiAoeuVK3i7Qo3AytC_ulQ2uqeW6WBrcsNH8oy9wtuCc0VNEarhjAan2yLrRaD5XUrLwYwSuWetaP8hDlwQt1jow/w640-h360/jolani%20frame.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt; In March, the Trump administration laid out conditions for ending sanctions on Syria.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The new Islamic terrorist regime led by a former Al Qaeda terrorist that had taken over Syria was warned to “exclude foreign terrorist fighters from any official roles”, difficult to imagine considering that the country was being run by domestic and foreign terrorists, “and ensure the security and freedoms of Syria’s religious and ethnic minorities”. Especially Christians.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Any adjustment to U.S. policy towards Syria’s interim authorities will be contingent on all of those steps being taken,” the terrorist regime was warned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This position was reaffirmed by the Trump administration in April at the UN Security Council.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Syria’s Jihadi government not only refused to expel its foreign Jihadi allies, but gave members of Al Qaeda and &lt;a href="https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2025/05/20/trump-tells-syria-to-expel-foreign-fighters-but-sharaa-gives-them-army-divisions/"&gt;ISIS linked terrorists&lt;/a&gt; ranks in its new ‘military’. Syria not only harbors terrorist networks from as far away as China and Albania, but also Muslim terrorists from Western nations like Omar Diaby, listed by the United States as linked to Al Qaeda, who was “responsible for recruiting 80% of the French-speaking jihadists who went to Syria or Iraq” and who are at high risk of carrying out terrorist attacks in Europe and the United States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With Al-Qaeda and ISIS Jihadis in control of Syria, the country’s Christians live in fear.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The new terrorist regime was supposed to protect Syria’s Christians as a precondition to dropping sanctions. And while Al-Jolani has made all sorts of assurances, Islamic terrorists remain in control of some Christian property seized during the war (many other churches were destroyed) and Christians have been warned to become Muslims or face the consequences.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Leaflets bearing the message “death to the pork eaters” and other threats against Christians continue to circulate. Selective curfews were imposed on Christians who defended themselves against Muslim violence and t&lt;a href="https://www.thetimes.com/world/middle-east/article/we-fear-that-violence-will-come-the-way-of-the-christians-next-l7m6kh3wr"&gt;hey were disarmed&lt;/a&gt; in at least one community.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Syria’s Christians are expected to entrust their security to the Al Qaeda and ISIS terrorists who massacred their families, took nuns hostage and destroyed churches. They’re terrified of what the future holds and they have every reason to be in a country run by terrorists whose religion commands the oppression, enslavement and or killing of everyone who isn’t a Sunni Muslim.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While the sanctions were imposed on the previous Assad regime, the Trump administration had tried to use them as leverage to convince the Al-Jolani regime to expel foreign Jihadis and protect Christians. Instead the towel was thrown in at the infamous meeting in Saudi Arabia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And what is the United States getting in return for lifting sanctions and losing its leverage?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Secretary of State Marco Rubio claimed that the sanctions had to be lifted because of an urgent need to get aid into Syria. This argument, already deployed everywhere from Gaza to Yemen to Afghanistan to drop restrictions on delivering aid to terrorists has only made terrorism worse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sending aid to Syria, an enemy nation whose governments have been terrorists of one kind or another, is not a vital national interest. Ending the use of Syria by Islamic terrorist groups, some of whom pose a threat to the United States, is. And protecting Christians is a cultural interest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rubio also argued in the Senate that sanctions needed to be dropped because Syria was weeks or months “away from potential collapse and a full-scale civil war of epic proportions, basically the country splitting up.” Why this would be any worse than the current state of affairs in which Al Qaeda and ISIS terrorists run the country was not made clear.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“We want to help that government succeed, because the alternative is full-scale civil war and chaos, which would, of course, destabilize the entire region,” he argued.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do we really want terrorists to succeed in ruling Syria? Is that in our national interest?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why is keeping Syria united under Turkish, Al Qaeda and ISIS rule preferable to letting the various ethnic and religious groups forced at gunpoint to pretend they’re part of one country get their independence? Syria’s Christians would be more likely to benefit from independence than rule by an Islamic terrorist coalition with a history of committing atrocities against Christians.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s obvious why Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other participants in the coalition of state sponsors of terror, including 9/11, and who helped engineer the Arab Spring, and the Jihadi takeover of Syria would want to keep the power they seized. And we know all too well why Republican globalists like McCain adopted those same positions and got the United States into the business of backing the Syrian ‘rebels’ no matter how often they showed their true Jihadi colors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But why is the Trump administration adopting this rebooted Arab Spring?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The biggest evidence that dropping sanctions on the Al Qaeda regime and the $10 million reward for its leader, Al-Jolani, was a grave error was that it was immediately adopted by the EU.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Today, we took the decision to lift our economic sanctions on Syria. We want to help the Syrian people rebuild a new, inclusive and peaceful Syria,” European Commission VP Kaja Kalla tweeted. Followed by her declaration that “Sanctions are working. They hit Russia’s economy hard and hamper its capacity to wage war.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why do sanctions work in Russia but not in Syria? Because the EU and globalist forces support the Al Qaeda takeover of Syria. And that’s already a good reason for us not to join them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But from the Iran negotiations to a concern about “humanitarian aid” for Gaza, our foreign policy is starting to resemble Europe’s foreign policy and that of the Obama administration. What’s missing is any sense of why this is in our national interest. Obama and the EU reject the idea that national interests matter, only an amorphous concept of “values” that favors our enemies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We should be able to do better than this 99 cent store globalism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The best Rubio could do was to assert some sort of domino theory, arguing that, “When Syria is unstable, the region becomes unstable.” It’s hard to see what could destabilize the region more than Al Qaeda terrorists in charge of a country, but even taken at face value, that commits the Trump administration to perpetually maintaining stability across the Middle East by propping up any government, no matter how awful, and then watching the whole thing spin out of control anyway, and recapitulating the worst days of the Clinton, Bush and Obama years. Again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Trump era was supposed to restore foreign policy based on national interests and an end to the United States playing the world’s policeman. Cutting a deal with Al-Jolani just showcases the foreign policy disasters that led us into allying with Islamic terrorists in Syria a decade ago in the name of such vague concepts as international law, human rights and regional stability.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Democrats and Republicans got played by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, Turkey and other Islamic states into embracing the Arab Spring. Now we’re being roped into supporting Jhadis taking over Syria all over again. And then where to next? Libya? Gaza? America?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We dropped sanctions on Syria in order to keep it in the hands of Al Qaeda while abandoning our best leverage for protecting Syria’s Christians and keeping terrorist groups from using Syria as a base. After Qatar stabbed us in the back in Afghanistan, we’re back to trusting it in Syria and Gaza. And we’ve forgotten that making deals with Islamic Jihadis only ends one way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The same way it did for us in Afghanistan…with dead Americans and American hostages.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; font-size: large; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;Daniel Greenfield&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;Front Page Magazine&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;Click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;here to subscribe&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to my articles. And&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;click here to support my work with a donation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;" /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;Thank you for reading.&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" style="background-color: #fafafa; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="500" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2-8K1m-P7y4j4aL_AQBH6X3B5ugD56jdnVb1-TZ-Shobc6BR7h1ko7HfudfaWTKjF8QO4GqswsZLXjk0bSjONiDuu_3n8253fl8uizuSD4P8PG7VzDjiNsO5tM_dj-NERECSZWwBYC0RhQIv_-ejW5nrQZyou6S4kMx9tknaCbusrARxUCToe0A/w640-h230/%E2%80%9CA%20marvelously%20original%20and%20enlightening%20look%20at%20American%20history,%20with%20a%20host%20of%20insights%20for%20our%20own%20age.%E2%80%9D%20%E2%80%94Robert%20Spencer,%20Author%20of%20The%20Sumter%20Gambit%20How%20the%20Left%20Is%20Trying%20to%20Foment%20A%20Civil%20W%20(1).png" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Read my book&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;nbsp;'Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers' Fight Against the Left'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;to discover the true origins of the American Left.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/feeds/4930676933363193233/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/05/america-shouldnt-be-propping-up-al.html#comment-form" rel="replies" title="2 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/4930676933363193233" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/4930676933363193233" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/05/america-shouldnt-be-propping-up-al.html" rel="alternate" title="America Shouldn't Be Propping Up An Al Qaeda Terror State" type="text/html"/><author><name>Daniel Greenfield</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhRSvmnQijYr-BAX6Dhyjov7iV0exSO5_GeAmrS9KrDfyKL3VSV3Un-5pZhpzro8iWIUneqiL4ANYnGEUoTL0vy8NsLmlYYh-OMLsfNWslVjJgEd_c4FeGGK5dq-f2R63PGJTSDp-d1bMHg9mFKJEaV6Dfl20ZBX9rGmaVz8MlOTuPQ/s220/headshot%20bw4.jpg" width="30"/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisCa9QRA3IAFdeFe9GlQkFQ8zGT8cmXjFtJlffBOCmgWJykCnxYmrY_sWnBlpsDqH_S20kFViCXt6jd_XgmLKTTPnF1LSRo0UiAoeuVK3i7Qo3AytC_ulQ2uqeW6WBrcsNH8oy9wtuCc0VNEarhjAan2yLrRaD5XUrLwYwSuWetaP8hDlwQt1jow/s72-w640-h360-c/jolani%20frame.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-1715945974358829462</id><published>2025-05-27T02:28:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2025-05-27T02:30:00.326-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="recent"/><title type="text">L.A. Raises Sales Tax to 11% Over Stolen ‘Homeless’ Billions</title><content type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip_dCKmfb4oVf67jQ-KpsvAZ23S5DE9salfCY6J63VpSjQCwrHjAJT_KLVycmOQtxb88Ht95Kp7CulM35rczlGuIrXZRs0wCBMX9aUYSb1EdeI3H4l2Sp99DQ0bpYqvM4kP5vfUp5ug3kQYny-G1Rk2-292jffetOB5L1okXiF_7qesLLp57TqdA/s977/image_2025-05-26_232951957.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="573" data-original-width="977" height="376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip_dCKmfb4oVf67jQ-KpsvAZ23S5DE9salfCY6J63VpSjQCwrHjAJT_KLVycmOQtxb88Ht95Kp7CulM35rczlGuIrXZRs0wCBMX9aUYSb1EdeI3H4l2Sp99DQ0bpYqvM4kP5vfUp5ug3kQYny-G1Rk2-292jffetOB5L1okXiF_7qesLLp57TqdA/w640-h376/image_2025-05-26_232951957.png" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;In Los Angeles County, spring is in the air and so are higher taxes. Beyond the usual punishing ritual of April 15, county residents also now face some of the highest sales taxes in the country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sales taxes in the area have shot up from 9.75% to as high as 11.25% to fund still more services for the ‘homeless’. The permanent sales tax increase is supposed to raise $1 billion a year to replace the stolen billions spent by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Families will pay even more for food so that LA’s politicians and nonprofits can steal even more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 2016 and 2017, LA voters approved $4.6 billion in homeless tax hikes on themselves that included a sales tax increase and Measure HHH, a $1.2 billion bond measure to build 10,000 housing units for the homeless, that taken together were supposed to end homelessness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“We need to seize this opportunity to make good things happen,” Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas promised at a ‘victory party’ for the massive spending package. “It is very, very important that we do this work in a way that the voters of the city feel they have done something good and going forward they will be rewarded by our results.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ridley-Thomas, who led LA’s homeless policies, and championed HHH, was charged with bribery and corruption. After his arrest, Ridley-Thomas vowed that he would continue “addressing the homeless and housing crisis.” The charges against the close ally of Mayor Karen Bass involved a scheme in the same USC social work school that also gave Bass a free&lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/real-usc-scandal-how-democrat-politicians-not-daniel-greenfield/"&gt; “unsolicited $95,000 tuition award”&lt;/a&gt;. Ridley-Thomas was sentenced to 42 months in prison, but continues &lt;a href="https://lapublicpress.org/2024/10/mark-ridley-thomas-appeal-conviction-scotus/"&gt;appearing at &lt;/a&gt;public events with &lt;a href="https://x.com/MRTempower/status/1803219762295791929"&gt;Mayor Bass&lt;/a&gt; while appealing his conviction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Ridley-Thomas was at the center of L.A.’s fight against homelessness. What happens now?” the LA Times wondered, quoting Va Lecia Adams Kellum, the future head of the LA Homeless Services Authority who has now been forced to resign after $2.5 billion in unaccounted spending.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ridley-Thomas had claimed that through Measure HHH, “we can help 45,000 men, women and children move from homelessness to stable housing in the next five years.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Within the next three to six months, with all the work we’ve done, we will see an improvement,”  Councilman Jose Huizar promised. “And in two years … we’ll see a significant reduction in people living in the streets.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Huizar, one of the “architects” of Measure HHH and had co-authored the Comprehensive Strategic Plan to Combat Homelessness, was sentenced to 13 years in prison for soliciting $1.5 million in bribes from developers including trips and prostitutes. The money included a $600,000 bribe from a fugitive Chinese real estate developer&lt;a href="https://abc7.com/post/disgraced-former-la-city-councilman-jose-huizar-due-to-begin-prison-sentence/15401128/"&gt; to settle a&lt;/a&gt; sexual harassment lawsuit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The number of homeless not only didn’t go down, but shot up, and despite billions of dollars, the annual shortfall was being estimated &lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/homeless-hole-ate-los-angeles-daniel-greenfield/"&gt;at $270 million&lt;/a&gt;. Homeless housing was being approved at a cost of $479,000 an apartment and total development cost for Measure HHH hit $869 million.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By 2020, the average cost of apartments for the homeless was at &lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/la-apartments-homeless-cost-746000-each-daniel-greenfield/"&gt;$531,000&lt;/a&gt; and by 2022, a city audit found that one project was running to&lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/apartment-homeless-cost-837000-la-daniel-greenfield/"&gt; $837,000 &lt;/a&gt;for each unit. An audit blamed “a lot of consultants”. After 4 years of this, only 228 apartments for the homeless had been built.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Los Angeles then launched a pilot program to build &lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/richest-homeless-world-daniel-greenfield/"&gt;8×8 aluminum sheds&lt;/a&gt; for the homeless for only&lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/richest-homeless-world-daniel-greenfield/"&gt; $130,000 eac&lt;/a&gt;h and then tent encampments for the homeless for&lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/richest-homeless-world-daniel-greenfield/"&gt; only $2,600 per tent &lt;/a&gt;each month. The homeless services complex had managed to take something the homeless were already doing for themselves and charge as much for it as a decent apartment rental.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 2018-2019 city budget included $430 million in homeless spending (more than $300 million on road maintenance) and the 2024-2025 budget is up to $961 million in homeless spending.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Los Angeles homeless count for 2019 was 35,550 homeless. The 2024 count found 45,252 homeless in the city. LA County’s homeless population had risen from 58,936 to 75,312 during that same period. The county’s 2024 Homeless Initiative was at nearly $600 million in spending.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After billions raised and spent to end homelessness, the crisis was worse than ever. More money was being spent and more homeless were popping up everywhere in a vicious cycle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But what no one could find out was where all the homeless billions were going.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An audit of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA), which gets money from the city, county and the federal government, found that it couldn’t account for $2.5 billion in spending. It also illegally refused to release information about $800,000 in payouts over abuses at the agency.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LAHSA CEO Va Lecia Adams Kellum, a crony of Mayor Karen Bass, who was being paid $430,000 a year, blamed the problems on COVID, and claimed that the billions spent with no paper trail or receipts were “an essential investment that contributed to achieving critical public health and service delivery outcomes.” That may have included the multi-million dollar contract she had signed with her husband’s nonprofit. A spokesperson claimed that she had only &lt;a href="https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/los-angeles-homeless-services-authority-lahsa-va-lecia-adams-kellum-contracts-upward-bound-house"&gt;“inadvertently&lt;/a&gt;” signed the contract.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Critics said that LAHSA’s homeless count can’t be trusted, making it impossible to know how bad the problem that the agency’s nearly billion dollar budget was supposed to tackle really is..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Despite Mayor Bass’ protests, Kellum has resigned from LAHSA as the organization is wound down, but Gov. Newsom had previously appointed her to the Department of Housing’s ‘No Place Like Home Program Advisory Committee’ where there’s no sign that she’s being ousted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The LA City Council mistrusts Bass so much that it’s refusing to fund her ‘homeless’ program. Most of last year’s $1.3 billion homeless budget, including $150 million from the ‘mansion tax’, was never spent because LA is taxing residents to fight homelessness faster than it can spend the money.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The LA County Board of Supervisors which had initiated the audit to seize control of the homeless program and its vast pot of cash from the mayor’s office are assembling a new county agency to spend it all. Measure A replaced the previous Measure H with a permanent sales tax.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And Los Angeles County residents walked into stores and are surprised that they’re suddenly being charged as much as 11% in sales tax to fund the latest plan to end homelessness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Supervisor Jance Hahn praised LA voters for being “willing to continue to tax themselves” with Measure A to end homelessness. In reality, less than 2 million, or barely 1 in 5, of LA County residents, had voted for Measure A’s highest sales taxes in the country. And with LA elections and their notorious ballot harvesting, it’s unclear how many of those votes are even real.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can the LA County Board of Supervisors be trusted any more than the city? Hahn and other BOS members had targeted former Sheriff Alex Villanueva after he raided the home of their former colleague Supervisor Sheila Kuehl in another nonprofit corruption investigation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Supervisor Hahn had accused the sheriff of “using his office to go after political opponents”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Board of Supervisors seized power over the sheriff’s department making its members immune to any future raids. While the Supervisors amass control over another nearly billion dollar budget that promises to end homelessness once and for all, families are struggling with their higher sales taxes on top of the already high price of food and other necessities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Homelessness keeps rising, homeless taxes keep rising and the money disappears.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Over the last 5 years, California spent $24 billion on ending homelessness. A statewide audit found that no one knew whethether the money was doing anything. The California Interagency Council on Homelessness &lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/california-spent-24-billion-to-fix-homelessness-who-knows-where-it-went/"&gt;didn’t even bother to analyze&lt;/a&gt; any spending after 2021.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When it comes to homeless spending, $24 billion can disappear as easily as $2.5 billion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile after the worst fires in LA history, partly caused by an underfunded fire department, Los Angeles is spending more money on ‘homelessness’ than on the fire department. The two are more related than you might think because the ‘homeless’, in reality drug-addicted mentally ill vagrants, are responsible for starting at least 17,000 fires in just one year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Homeless fires made up a third of all LA fires last year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Several of those proved devastating and the cause of some of the serious blazes that threatened the city and made worldwide news over the winter still remain unknown.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mayor Bass is promising to counter that with even more homeless spending.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“We know that the cost of doing nothing is far greater,” her spokesman claimed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And as long as LA voters continue to believe that, the endless homeless spending will continue, the homeless encampments will go on rising and the homeless fires will go on burning.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; font-size: large; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;Daniel Greenfield&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;Front Page Magazine&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;Click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;here to subscribe&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to my articles. And&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;click here to support my work with a donation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;" /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;Thank you for reading.&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" style="background-color: #fafafa; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="500" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2-8K1m-P7y4j4aL_AQBH6X3B5ugD56jdnVb1-TZ-Shobc6BR7h1ko7HfudfaWTKjF8QO4GqswsZLXjk0bSjONiDuu_3n8253fl8uizuSD4P8PG7VzDjiNsO5tM_dj-NERECSZWwBYC0RhQIv_-ejW5nrQZyou6S4kMx9tknaCbusrARxUCToe0A/w640-h230/%E2%80%9CA%20marvelously%20original%20and%20enlightening%20look%20at%20American%20history,%20with%20a%20host%20of%20insights%20for%20our%20own%20age.%E2%80%9D%20%E2%80%94Robert%20Spencer,%20Author%20of%20The%20Sumter%20Gambit%20How%20the%20Left%20Is%20Trying%20to%20Foment%20A%20Civil%20W%20(1).png" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Read my book&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;nbsp;'Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers' Fight Against the Left'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;to discover the true origins of the American Left.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/feeds/1715945974358829462/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/05/la-raises-sales-tax-to-11-over-stolen.html#comment-form" rel="replies" title="0 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/1715945974358829462" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/1715945974358829462" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/05/la-raises-sales-tax-to-11-over-stolen.html" rel="alternate" title="L.A. Raises Sales Tax to 11% Over Stolen ‘Homeless’ Billions" type="text/html"/><author><name>Daniel Greenfield</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhRSvmnQijYr-BAX6Dhyjov7iV0exSO5_GeAmrS9KrDfyKL3VSV3Un-5pZhpzro8iWIUneqiL4ANYnGEUoTL0vy8NsLmlYYh-OMLsfNWslVjJgEd_c4FeGGK5dq-f2R63PGJTSDp-d1bMHg9mFKJEaV6Dfl20ZBX9rGmaVz8MlOTuPQ/s220/headshot%20bw4.jpg" width="30"/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip_dCKmfb4oVf67jQ-KpsvAZ23S5DE9salfCY6J63VpSjQCwrHjAJT_KLVycmOQtxb88Ht95Kp7CulM35rczlGuIrXZRs0wCBMX9aUYSb1EdeI3H4l2Sp99DQ0bpYqvM4kP5vfUp5ug3kQYny-G1Rk2-292jffetOB5L1okXiF_7qesLLp57TqdA/s72-w640-h376-c/image_2025-05-26_232951957.png" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-683062386378657590</id><published>2025-05-26T01:51:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2025-05-26T01:51:46.998-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="recent"/><title type="text">The Warrior's Tale</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigPM81JkyAX-YM2k0di9QW4UEoUatJWN_pn5LhHy1VmeB4G0hJBAvvKtuEdwjF06l0lSl5QoqEBvay11gyn2s7cS3-Gwu4avem6s0oA0EQojByDeLCAG4MPaYTJi2ZU3seyUJFxRrA-ep0jG7oWc-grwZt0RIDkYmjAGdsxocnW6czknZnVokSXQ/s1005/image_2025-05-25_225134059.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="888" data-original-width="1005" height="566" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigPM81JkyAX-YM2k0di9QW4UEoUatJWN_pn5LhHy1VmeB4G0hJBAvvKtuEdwjF06l0lSl5QoqEBvay11gyn2s7cS3-Gwu4avem6s0oA0EQojByDeLCAG4MPaYTJi2ZU3seyUJFxRrA-ep0jG7oWc-grwZt0RIDkYmjAGdsxocnW6czknZnVokSXQ/w640-h566/image_2025-05-25_225134059.png" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The warrior's tale is a simple enough thing. Strong as steel, but fragile as chance. It is the wind in his soul and the wall we build around ourselves to tell us who we are.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Before there were cities or nations, and railways and airports, computers and telephones-- the tale was told around campfires. Acted out in pantomime, dressed up in animal furs and cave paintings. But the tale was the same. The people were confronted with a threat and they called upon the best and strongest of their men to go out and fight it. These were their warriors. What they did in the face of that threat is the tale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The tale has many variations. Sometimes there are many warriors, sometimes only a handful. They march into the village of the enemy in triumph, or they make a last stand on a rocky outcropping, spending the last of their heart's blood to buy time they will never know. There is the weak man who becomes strong, the strong man who becomes weak, the woman who mourns the man who will never return, and the man who goes off to battle with nothing to lose. These tales have been told countless times in the ages of men, and they will be told again for as long as men endure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is not only the warriors who need the tale, or those left behind. Future generation learn who they are from this tale. "We are the people who died for this land," is the unseen moral of each tale. "We bled for it. We died for it. Now it is yours to bleed and die for."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The warrior's tale tells each generation that they stand on the wall against a hostile world. And that the wall is made not of stones, but of their virtues. Their courage, their integrity and their craft.&amp;nbsp; Theirs is the wall and they are the wall-- and if they should fail, then it will fail. And the land and the people will be swept away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What happens to a people who forget the warrior's tale and stop telling it around their campfires? Worse , what of a people who are taught to despise the figure of the warrior and what he represents? They will not lose their courage, not all of it. But they will lose the direction of that courage. It will become a sudden unexplained virtue that rises to them out of the depths of danger. And their wall will fail.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is the warrior's tale that makes walls. That says this is the land that we have fought for, and we will go on fighting for it. It is sacrifice that makes mere possession sacrosanct. It is blood that turns right to duty. It is the seal that is above law, deeper still to heritage. Anyone can hold a thing, but it is sacrifice that elevates it beyond possessiveness. And it is that tale which elevates a people from possessors of a land, to the people of the land.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Universalism discards the warrior's tale as abomination. A division in the family of man. Their tale is of an unselfish world where there are no more divisions or distinctions. Where everyone is the same in their own way. But this tale is a myth, a religious idea perverted into totalitarian politics. It is a promise that cannot be kept and a poison disguised with dollops of sugar. It lures the people into tearing down their wall and driving out their warriors.&amp;nbsp; And what follows is what always does when there is no wall. The invaders come, the women scream, the children are taken captive and the men sit with folded hands and drugged smiles dreaming of a better world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The warrior's tale explains why we fight in terms of our own history. The Great Swamp Fight. The Shot Heard Round the World. The Battle of New Orleans. Gettysburg, San Juan Hill, Belleau Wood, Pearl Harbor, Heartbreak Ridge, the Tet Offensive, Kandahar, and Fallujah. Generations of sacrifices must be defended. And those who wage war on us must be made to pay.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Universalism demands that war must answer to universal aims and objectives. That there is a universal law higher than war. But this is a children's story. The laws of men derive from their own interests. Those who can rule by force or coalition make their laws to serve their own ends. This is the way of the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those who pretend to live by universalism will still fall to the law of steel. Rhetoric is no defense against fire and lead, and international codes have no defense against those who will break them. The talk may go on, but it is the warriors who will end it. It is still the warrior's tale to tell, even if all others have forgotten it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;The warrior's tale is no happy thing. It is bitter as bile and dark as death. But it is also a grand and glorious thing. For even in its full naked truth, it is the story of perseverance in the face of every agony and betrayal. It is the tale of how we live and why we die.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even when all others forget their tale, the warriors remember. Even when they are called peacekeepers and turned into an army of clowns for the satisfaction of their political masters. The armies may decay, but warriors still remain in their cracks, on their edges-- men who are not wanted, but are needed because they are the only ones who can do the grim work and do it well. They may only be a hundredth of an army, or a thousandth. A fraction of a fraction. But without them there is no army, only empty uniforms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When the warrior's tale is forgotten, then they become shadows. Dangerous men despised and feared. Thought of as killers, dismissed as monsters and stared at like beasts in a cage. But the society cannot deny them. It cannot deny that part of them. When the warrior diminishes, the energy is directed elsewhere. Sport becomes an obsession and matches end in bloody violence. Crime increases. Prisons fill up. So do police forces.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As the external war fades, the internal one begins. Barbarians come from without. Buildings burn, mobs rage and there is a savagery in the air.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No law can protect a society that has forgotten the warrior's tale. It will turn outward, and adopt the warriors tales of outsiders. The samurai will replace the cowboy. The sports star will be an outsider. Its heroes will become foreigners. Men who will do understand the virtue of violence and will do what their own have been forbidden. Who have the vital energy that a society without a warrior's tale lacks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When a people give up their own warrior's tale for that of others, they lose the ability to resist them. For each people's warrior's tale says that we are people, and they are enemies. We are warriors and they are murderers. When a people have no other warrior's tale but that of their enemies, they will come to believe that they are monsters. And that their enemies are brave warriors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The day will come when they are asked who they are, and they will not know. They will point to their possessions and the names of their streets and cities. They will speak of higher ideals and cringe for not living up to them. They will be asked why they fight, and they will say that they do not want to fight. That all they want is peace at any price.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even the most powerful of civilizations with the mightiest of cities becomes prey when it forgets the warrior's tale. It takes more than weapons to defend a city, it demands the knowledge of the rightness of their use. It is no use dressing men in uniforms and arming them, if they are not taught the warrior's tale. And it is nearly as little use, sending them off to watch and keep, if the men above them discard the warrior's tale as violent and primitive gibberish.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An army of millions is worth little, without the warrior's tale. Strategy is technique, firepower is capacity, both begin and end with the human mind. "Why do we fight," is the question that the warrior's tale answers far better than any politician could. "We fight because this is ours. It is our honor, our duty and our war. We have been fighting for hundreds and thousands of years. This is what makes us who we are."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;We are the people, says the warrior's tale. But we are every people, says the universalist's tale. All is one. There is no difference between us and them. And we will prove it by bringing them here. Then the walls fall and it falls to the warriors to make their last stand. To tell another warrior's tale with their lives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the quiet war between the philosopher merchants who want trade and empire, and the warriors who know that they will be called upon to secure the empire, and then die fighting the enemy at home. It is how the long tale that begins with campfires and ends with burning cities goes. The story that begins with cave paintings and ends with YouTube videos. Whose pen is iron, lead and steel. And whose ink is always blood.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have been here before. Told and retold the old stories. The forest, the swamp, the hill and the valley. And behind them the lie, the maneuver and the betrayal. The war that becomes unreasoning and the people who forget why they fight. And one by one the warriors slip away. Some to the long sleep in the desert. Others to secluded green places. And still others into the forgetfulness of a people's memory. The hole in the heart of a people who forget themselves and become nothing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; font-size: large; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;Daniel Greenfield&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;Front Page Magazine&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;Click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;here to subscribe&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to my articles. And&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;click here to support my work with a donation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;" /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;Thank you for reading.&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" style="background-color: #fafafa; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="500" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2-8K1m-P7y4j4aL_AQBH6X3B5ugD56jdnVb1-TZ-Shobc6BR7h1ko7HfudfaWTKjF8QO4GqswsZLXjk0bSjONiDuu_3n8253fl8uizuSD4P8PG7VzDjiNsO5tM_dj-NERECSZWwBYC0RhQIv_-ejW5nrQZyou6S4kMx9tknaCbusrARxUCToe0A/w640-h230/%E2%80%9CA%20marvelously%20original%20and%20enlightening%20look%20at%20American%20history,%20with%20a%20host%20of%20insights%20for%20our%20own%20age.%E2%80%9D%20%E2%80%94Robert%20Spencer,%20Author%20of%20The%20Sumter%20Gambit%20How%20the%20Left%20Is%20Trying%20to%20Foment%20A%20Civil%20W%20(1).png" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Read my book&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;nbsp;'Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers' Fight Against the Left'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;to discover the true origins of the American Left.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/feeds/683062386378657590/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/05/the-warriors-tale.html#comment-form" rel="replies" title="5 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/683062386378657590" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/683062386378657590" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/05/the-warriors-tale.html" rel="alternate" title="The Warrior's Tale" type="text/html"/><author><name>Daniel Greenfield</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhRSvmnQijYr-BAX6Dhyjov7iV0exSO5_GeAmrS9KrDfyKL3VSV3Un-5pZhpzro8iWIUneqiL4ANYnGEUoTL0vy8NsLmlYYh-OMLsfNWslVjJgEd_c4FeGGK5dq-f2R63PGJTSDp-d1bMHg9mFKJEaV6Dfl20ZBX9rGmaVz8MlOTuPQ/s220/headshot%20bw4.jpg" width="30"/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigPM81JkyAX-YM2k0di9QW4UEoUatJWN_pn5LhHy1VmeB4G0hJBAvvKtuEdwjF06l0lSl5QoqEBvay11gyn2s7cS3-Gwu4avem6s0oA0EQojByDeLCAG4MPaYTJi2ZU3seyUJFxRrA-ep0jG7oWc-grwZt0RIDkYmjAGdsxocnW6czknZnVokSXQ/s72-w640-h566-c/image_2025-05-25_225134059.png" width="72"/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-5886096274797519541</id><published>2025-05-25T03:45:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2025-05-25T03:45:21.881-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="recent"/><title type="text">Anti-Israel Activists Cheer D.C. Murder of Israeli Couple</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK6sa67CBSlhlO8zfnmVrQxV1__2Jc61otgqtexJGOQCNltOXFvXmQCw6YYhmZnU82gycqnc2wJNr3DdZ5QgoSdCmv-87Tj44sh0aUgT1Jifjr2cxE0poDqq0VGJ51fhHeWlCpX9V1Y7xDtQ3O8AIJP_MjwSXe1JNPNr41Q-d5YFbKTWyWntzeDQ/s740/milgrim.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="494" data-original-width="740" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK6sa67CBSlhlO8zfnmVrQxV1__2Jc61otgqtexJGOQCNltOXFvXmQCw6YYhmZnU82gycqnc2wJNr3DdZ5QgoSdCmv-87Tj44sh0aUgT1Jifjr2cxE0poDqq0VGJ51fhHeWlCpX9V1Y7xDtQ3O8AIJP_MjwSXe1JNPNr41Q-d5YFbKTWyWntzeDQ/w640-h428/milgrim.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Elias Rodriguez opened fire outside the Capital Jewish Museum, killing two, a soon to be engaged Israeli couple, and wounded two others, but few media outlets reported his political orientation and his background. Or the outpouring of support from the anti-Israel Left.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 2023, stickers reading&lt;a href="https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2025/05/you-cant-chant-to-globalize-intifada.html?m=1&amp;amp;s=09"&gt; “Exterminate Zionists”&lt;/a&gt; and the name of the Party for Socialism and Liberation appeared at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Rodriguez had been a member of the affiliated University of Illinois at Chicago and had been a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. According to Rodriguez’s manifesto, he became radicalized 11 years ago and was convinced that killing Israelis, Americans and Jews was the right thing to do. That was the same year that he was being quoted as taking part in protest rallies and speaking on behalf of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PSL claims that Elias Rodriguez only had a “brief association” with the Communist group, but even according to their timeline, the terrorist was with the organization for at least 3 years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And likely more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rather than disavowing him, members of the pro-terrorist movement cheered his crimes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Palestine Action US, which currently uses the Jihadist name ‘Unity of Fields’, distributed an illustrated version of the D.C. killer’s manifesto under his headline of “Escalate for Gaza”. It described the murder of an Israeli couple attending an event at a Jewish museum as “the rightful execution of the two nazi pigs” and hailed “the resistance that Elias will inspire.“&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rep. Rashida Tlaib had previously held an anti-Israel event featuring Palestine Action US, the Campaign for Palestinian Rights, Jewish Voice for Peace and the Islamist group EMGAGE.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Bronx Anti-War Coalition declared correctly that “what Elias Rodriguez did is the highest expression of anti-Zionism” and “we need more Elias Rodriguez in this world.” Its rallies have featured banners with pictures of&lt;a href="https://x.com/neuroticjewgay/status/1918433114575323398"&gt; Islamic terrorist leaders &lt;/a&gt;and calls for joining Iran’s ‘Axis of Resistance’.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PSL tried to deny its link to the murderer, but did not condemn it. Rodriguez was simply implementing the PSL’s enthusiastic support for the mass murder of Jews, and the Communist terrorist switched from cheering the attacks from the sidelines to actually engaging in them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Party for Socialism and Liberation is a Communist party with Trotskyist roots. Its most publicly visible face are the anti-war ANSWER coalition protests after 9/11. After Oct 7, PSL focused heavily on anti-Israel rallies. At a rally after the Hamas Oct 7 attacks, a PSL speaker celebrated that Hamas had “liberated an area that is actually larger than the Gaza Strip.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He joked about the Nova festival massacre that “there was sort of rave or desert party where they were having a great time, until the resistance came in electrified hang-gliders.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Participants gleefully &lt;a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/socialist-rally-in-times-square-praising-hamas-terror-attack-draws-widespread-condemnation-204123785.html"&gt;chanted “700”&lt;/a&gt; in reference to the then reported number of Israeli victims.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of Rodriguez’s reposts was titled, “Don’t Blame Me, I Voted For Hamas.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He also&lt;a href="https://x.com/talk2trav/status/1925436573991997762"&gt; reposted speeches &lt;/a&gt;by former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah along with Iranian slogans such as “De@th 2 Amerikkka” and “Death to Israel”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PSL’s official response on Oct 7 described the Hamas atrocities as “a counter-offensive by Palestinian resistance forces” and argued that the “actions of the resistance over the course of the last day is a morally and legally legitimate response.” And it declared that, “resistance to apartheid and fascist-type oppression is not a crime!”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rodriguez’s manifesto was titled “Escalate for Gaza. Bring the war home.” That’s been the premise of the pro-terrorist rallies, including by his old organization.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While PSL may seem obscure to most Americans, its presidential candidate appeared on t&lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/resistance-leaders-chinas-man-in-america/"&gt;he ballots of 7 states&lt;/a&gt;, including California, New York and Florida, Its presidential candidate Claudia De La Cruz however works for an organization funded by a Maoist millionaire operating out of Communist China which has been accused of acting as a front of the regime.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like PSL, the People’s Forum described Oct 7, as an “unprecedented liberation struggle” by “Palestinian resistance factions”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“We give our heart, we give our life, we give our blood to the Palestinian people,” Manolo De Los Santos, a founding director of The People’s Forum declared at a pro-terrorist rally in Manhattan. “We will use whatever we have in our hands. A rock or something else. We will defend the Palestinian people.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The anti-Israel Left is rapidly rationalizing and even celebrating the murder of an Israeli couple because that is what they intended all along. They were never going to draw the line at blocking highways while glorifying Hamas. The goal was to get useful idiots like Elias to carry out attacks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why did a Latino man travel across the country to murder the couple? Because he had been indoctrinated into believing that it was the right thing to do by a network of terrorist groups pretending to be “pro-palestinian” or concerned about “human rights”, when what they actually wanted was a pretext for street and then terrorist violence and finally a revolutionary takeover.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While America has seen numerous Islamic terrorist attacks, the rate of individual Communist attacks has declined. The red-green alliance between leftists and Islamists is partly a means of revitalizing the terrorist capabilities of the Left. That’s why they’re celebrating Rodriguez’s murders because they’re not an outlier, the murders are where they want America to go.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; font-size: large; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;Daniel Greenfield&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;Front Page Magazine&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;Click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;here to subscribe&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to my articles. And&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;click here to support my work with a donation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;" /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;Thank you for reading.&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" style="background-color: #fafafa; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="500" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2-8K1m-P7y4j4aL_AQBH6X3B5ugD56jdnVb1-TZ-Shobc6BR7h1ko7HfudfaWTKjF8QO4GqswsZLXjk0bSjONiDuu_3n8253fl8uizuSD4P8PG7VzDjiNsO5tM_dj-NERECSZWwBYC0RhQIv_-ejW5nrQZyou6S4kMx9tknaCbusrARxUCToe0A/w640-h230/%E2%80%9CA%20marvelously%20original%20and%20enlightening%20look%20at%20American%20history,%20with%20a%20host%20of%20insights%20for%20our%20own%20age.%E2%80%9D%20%E2%80%94Robert%20Spencer,%20Author%20of%20The%20Sumter%20Gambit%20How%20the%20Left%20Is%20Trying%20to%20Foment%20A%20Civil%20W%20(1).png" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Read my book&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;nbsp;'Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers' Fight Against the Left'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;to discover the true origins of the American Left.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/feeds/5886096274797519541/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/05/anti-israel-activists-cheer-dc-murder.html#comment-form" rel="replies" title="0 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/5886096274797519541" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/5886096274797519541" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/05/anti-israel-activists-cheer-dc-murder.html" rel="alternate" title="Anti-Israel Activists Cheer D.C. Murder of Israeli Couple" type="text/html"/><author><name>Daniel Greenfield</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhRSvmnQijYr-BAX6Dhyjov7iV0exSO5_GeAmrS9KrDfyKL3VSV3Un-5pZhpzro8iWIUneqiL4ANYnGEUoTL0vy8NsLmlYYh-OMLsfNWslVjJgEd_c4FeGGK5dq-f2R63PGJTSDp-d1bMHg9mFKJEaV6Dfl20ZBX9rGmaVz8MlOTuPQ/s220/headshot%20bw4.jpg" width="30"/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK6sa67CBSlhlO8zfnmVrQxV1__2Jc61otgqtexJGOQCNltOXFvXmQCw6YYhmZnU82gycqnc2wJNr3DdZ5QgoSdCmv-87Tj44sh0aUgT1Jifjr2cxE0poDqq0VGJ51fhHeWlCpX9V1Y7xDtQ3O8AIJP_MjwSXe1JNPNr41Q-d5YFbKTWyWntzeDQ/s72-w640-h428-c/milgrim.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-2744301474903002339</id><published>2025-05-23T02:32:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2025-05-23T02:35:22.205-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="recent"/><title type="text">China Isn’t Taking Over Manufacturing, It’s Taking Over Retail</title><content type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl2mSeApBCoLXQK5BhFtxBwYdcfec_jn1jidJ_cTEFydwpslU-ObeJ3JpMBqjkNMmkARNk6amVUIgMRPnqwFHf7Cdmpyzj2a1JQzce_R7Nui0cqTnN_Oj4ebM3PBvJK__uWJAjJ0_yZggOEjxJP6S9HJ1KDTklHmqJNeXMuXEp09wQEERKfflI_A/s1012/image_2025-05-22_233514227.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="770" data-original-width="1012" height="486" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl2mSeApBCoLXQK5BhFtxBwYdcfec_jn1jidJ_cTEFydwpslU-ObeJ3JpMBqjkNMmkARNk6amVUIgMRPnqwFHf7Cdmpyzj2a1JQzce_R7Nui0cqTnN_Oj4ebM3PBvJK__uWJAjJ0_yZggOEjxJP6S9HJ1KDTklHmqJNeXMuXEp09wQEERKfflI_A/w640-h486/image_2025-05-22_233514227.png" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;American officials usually accuse China of trying to take over our manufacturing, but that’s old news. China took over our manufacturing long ago. And the parts it still hasn’t taken over are usually the parts that it doesn’t want or that are too uneconomical to be worth taking over.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taking over America’s manufacturing was never China’s endgame. Taking over our economy is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Undercutting, stealing and dumping its way to manufacturing supremacy was how China got its foot in our door. Americans came to think of China as an assembly line for cheap junk, but the cheap junk built China’s production capacity. The next step was moving up to components for bigger products and then the products themselves. Once the components were being made in China, it made more sense for the companies to simplify by moving everything to China.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;China’s undercutting of American manufacturers convinced many of them that profitability and survival lay in closing down U.S. factories and moving their production eastward, lured by the promise of lower costs and access to a growing market. But China quickly demonstrated that it could copy any product, no matter how large or sophisticated, and rip off any brand or IP.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By moving their production to China, American companies gave away their intellectual property and their R&amp;amp;D and all of their methods allowing China to rapidly produce copycat products.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At every stage, American leaders and companies refused to take China’s ambition to be more than our 99-cent store seriously. When China stopped going after our manufacturing and came after retailers, it took them by surprise. China had been signaling its intention to move away from low-end manufacturing businesses, sticking them in Vietnam, experimenting with Africa and focusing on Xinjiang whose large Turkic Muslim population were rapidly turned into a cheap and dirty labor workforce for the western markets in what human rights activists misleadingly describe as ‘concentration camps’. China had bigger plans for its own people and economy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And for us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go to Amazon and sign up as a third-party seller for the United States market and you’ll find more Chinese banks than American ones. Amazon dominates American retail and Chinese third-party sellers dominate Amazon, along with eBay and other American ecommerce platforms. Disguised by its obnoxious billion dollar shows, its founder’s mega-yacht and the ubiquity of its smiley swoosh boxes, Amazon long ago became a platform for Chinese sellers. But China quickly showed the ability to create their own successful platforms like Temu and Shein.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While American social media platforms, which weren’t allowed to operate in China, believed that at least those Chinese companies would be dependent on them to harvest big data and advertise their wares to customers, the launch of TikTok and China’s takeover of gaming platforms showed that hope was also futile. Chinese retailers use Chinese social media platforms to hawk products to Americans. Even as President Trump tried to fight back with tariffs, Chinese manufacturers turned to TikTok, recruiting American influencers to urge Americans to download Chinese shopping apps and buy copycat products directly from them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Much like COVID-19, this can be seen as a test and in economic terms, a more crucial one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;China has assembled all the building blocks for taking over our economy. It has hijacked our manufacturing from the ground up. What began with 99-cent store fare now includes high-end smartphones, ebikes and laptops. Its hackers and employees from Silicon Valley to our defense industry provide pipelines of stolen techniques, trade secrets and R&amp;amp;D to supplement whatever we haven’t exported already to provide China with assured manufacturing supremacy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After swallowing our manufacturing, China began consuming our retail sector. Amazon cannibalized our brick and mortar retail by dumping Chinese products in America on a massive scale, but Chinese retailers cannibalized Amazon and turned it into a front for their products. China’s retailers have been figuring out how to rapidly move products into this country, how to set up warehouses and eventually how to master rapid last-mile delivery. And then Amazon will have nothing more to offer Americans than a billion-dollar woke version of Lord of the Rings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But if Chinese retailers need to, they can also make a diverse show with transgender elves and black dwarves. And they’ll be able to do it at a fraction of the cost that Amazon did.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even the dot coms that drive the stock market have not proven to be immune from China’s reach. The Chinese employees who serve as cheap labor in Silicon Valley took the secrets and techniques home with them. TikTok proved that China could launch social media platforms aimed at dumb teens. Recent games and gaming company acquisitions show that China can compete in gaming and esports. If this goes on, Chinese companies will dominate content consumption for American teens even as Amazon spends $10 billion a year on woke shows.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chinese social media platforms will drive American teens to Chinese shopping apps and platforms to buy Chinese products using Chinese AI tech. The only role American workers will have in this economy will be to drive the delivery trucks over to your house. And even that will be supplemented by Chinese drones and autonomous delivery vehicles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And what will happen to America’s economy? We’ll be reduced to a third world country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After gobbling up manufacturing and retail, China will continue to nibble away at whatever parts of our service economy that it wants to outsource. Finance will also move to China as those Chinese products will be bought from Chinese platforms with Chinese loan apps. American objections to these intrusions will be steamrolled the way that objections to the destruction of our manufacturing were with lectures about the virtues of free trade, of the incredible wealth that a trade deficit blesses us with and with the American cutouts for China’s economic invasion whose businesses will depend on carving up the rest of our economy and shipping it eastward.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If this sounds too fantastic, much of this is already here. Gen X bought ‘Made in China’ products in American stores, Millennials bought them on Amazon, Gen Z buys them in Chinese apps. Gen X watched ads on network television from American companies for products made in China. Millennials clicked on Amazon affiliate links to Chinese products on American websites. Gen Z watches TikTok videos of American influencers pitch them on installing Temu.  Once generative AI is fully up to speed, the influencers, as the last to be eaten, will also be replaced.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;American retail is turning into a wasteland just like the Rust Belt did. Today’s department store is yesterday’s defunct manufacturing plant. Coastal cities are promising to bring back retail the way that midwestern towns once promised to bring back factories. The Amazon warehouses dotting the landscape seemed to offer some relief allowing American workers to pick up a few dollars packing up Chinese junk before putting it on trucks. But those warehouses are only an intermediate step in destroying American retail by pandering to American consumers. Once there’s no competition, free one-day shipping won’t be needed to dump products in America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That is why President Trump launched another bid to stop China before it’s too late. There have been plenty of warnings about China’s economic warfare over the years, but too few of them understood what was at stake or the scale of their plans to destroy our economy. Like a virus, China parasitically infiltrated our economy while at every stage always moving upward.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If we don’t decouple our economy from China soon, we’ll have no economy left to decouple.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; font-size: large; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;Daniel Greenfield&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;Front Page Magazine&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;Click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;here to subscribe&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to my articles. And&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;click here to support my work with a donation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;" /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;Thank you for reading.&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" style="background-color: #fafafa; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="500" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2-8K1m-P7y4j4aL_AQBH6X3B5ugD56jdnVb1-TZ-Shobc6BR7h1ko7HfudfaWTKjF8QO4GqswsZLXjk0bSjONiDuu_3n8253fl8uizuSD4P8PG7VzDjiNsO5tM_dj-NERECSZWwBYC0RhQIv_-ejW5nrQZyou6S4kMx9tknaCbusrARxUCToe0A/w640-h230/%E2%80%9CA%20marvelously%20original%20and%20enlightening%20look%20at%20American%20history,%20with%20a%20host%20of%20insights%20for%20our%20own%20age.%E2%80%9D%20%E2%80%94Robert%20Spencer,%20Author%20of%20The%20Sumter%20Gambit%20How%20the%20Left%20Is%20Trying%20to%20Foment%20A%20Civil%20W%20(1).png" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Read my book&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;nbsp;'Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers' Fight Against the Left'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;to discover the true origins of the American Left.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/feeds/2744301474903002339/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/05/china-isnt-taking-over-manufacturing.html#comment-form" rel="replies" title="2 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/2744301474903002339" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/2744301474903002339" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/05/china-isnt-taking-over-manufacturing.html" rel="alternate" title="China Isn’t Taking Over Manufacturing, It’s Taking Over Retail" type="text/html"/><author><name>Daniel Greenfield</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhRSvmnQijYr-BAX6Dhyjov7iV0exSO5_GeAmrS9KrDfyKL3VSV3Un-5pZhpzro8iWIUneqiL4ANYnGEUoTL0vy8NsLmlYYh-OMLsfNWslVjJgEd_c4FeGGK5dq-f2R63PGJTSDp-d1bMHg9mFKJEaV6Dfl20ZBX9rGmaVz8MlOTuPQ/s220/headshot%20bw4.jpg" width="30"/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl2mSeApBCoLXQK5BhFtxBwYdcfec_jn1jidJ_cTEFydwpslU-ObeJ3JpMBqjkNMmkARNk6amVUIgMRPnqwFHf7Cdmpyzj2a1JQzce_R7Nui0cqTnN_Oj4ebM3PBvJK__uWJAjJ0_yZggOEjxJP6S9HJ1KDTklHmqJNeXMuXEp09wQEERKfflI_A/s72-w640-h486-c/image_2025-05-22_233514227.png" width="72"/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-5172098766925312909</id><published>2025-05-20T09:37:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2025-05-20T09:37:00.108-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="recent"/><title type="text">$3.5B From 9/11 Victims Being Held by U.S. for the Taliban</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz0LeI3DCG-hp3pt_NXTwRoPyQIxNfrJ5uxrlf2r5LNQvq46_ZBi-LUzEUf52bzXRv3h8rXN1geiqnp8MfiiyOCmWLij5vpIjwJ7yBPyzPwo4T_CPxoOymPQlVnx8Ux7ZTDA209YEMrlDn8D9-s7wuH-Ygh0__Jn5ww_aIwfbQJnHob50qEwg9bw/s960/image(7).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz0LeI3DCG-hp3pt_NXTwRoPyQIxNfrJ5uxrlf2r5LNQvq46_ZBi-LUzEUf52bzXRv3h8rXN1geiqnp8MfiiyOCmWLij5vpIjwJ7yBPyzPwo4T_CPxoOymPQlVnx8Ux7ZTDA209YEMrlDn8D9-s7wuH-Ygh0__Jn5ww_aIwfbQJnHob50qEwg9bw/w480-h640/image(7).jpg" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, the United States has sent over $3.8 billion to Afghanistan. While President Trump has frozen most U.S. aid to Afghanistan, $120 million was still dispatched this quarter. And, more problematically, the UN continues to send billions in &lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/how-usaid-laundered-money-to-the-taliban/"&gt;American hundred dollar bills&lt;/a&gt; to ‘capitalize’ the Taliban’s bank. The Taliban have been auctioning off this money in currency auctions to keep the Afghan currency high against the dollar. This money, along with billions in seized weapons provided by the United States to the former Afghan government, has allowed the Taliban to finance Al Qaeda’s terrorist operations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another $3.5 billion in funds stolen by the Biden administration from 9/11 survivors continues to be held in the Afghan Fund that will potentially also be used to capitalize the Taliban’s bank.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These shocking events, first&lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/biden-paying-osama-bin-ladens-old-airline-fly-out-daniel-greenfield/"&gt; reported by&lt;/a&gt; the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s i&lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/biden-prints-money-for-the-taliban/"&gt;nvestigative journalism&lt;/a&gt; in the aftermath of Biden’s panicked retreat, have been confirmed yet again by the Afghan war government watchdog known as SIGAR &lt;a href="https://www.sigar.mil/Portals/147/Files/Reports/Quarterly-Reports/2025-04-30qr.pdf"&gt;in its latest report on Afghanistan&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The USAID shutdown has kept billions of dollars in taxpayer money from continuing to go to Taliban controlled territories, but the UN and its nonprofits, some of which receive massive amounts of taxpayer funding for other projects, continue to feed a fortune into Afghanistan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The UN’s World Food Programme, headed by Cindy McCain, after lying about a famine in Gaza to benefit the Hamas Islamic terrorist group, has taken to claiming that millions will die unless we continue funding its operations in Afghanistan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The WFP claimed that President Trump’s aid pause “could amount to a death sentence for millions of people facing extreme hunger and starvation.” Similar false claims were made on behalf of the Houthi terrorists in Yemen and the Hamas terrorists in Gaza. In both cases there was no actual famine and the terrorist groups were seizing and profiting from foreign aid while using the false claims of famine to deter counterterrorist operations by the Saudis and Israel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And while most U.S. direct funds have been currently cut off, the American University of Afghanistan continues to spend money even though it is no longer in Afghanistan. Instead it operates in the Islamic terrorist state of Qatar, an ally of the Taliban, Hamas, and the Muslim Brotherhood, and taxpayers continue to subsidize Afghan students in Qatar and Turkey.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But ending US foreign aid to the Taliban terrorist state is only the beginning. SIGAR quotes UN reports confirming that the “Taliban utilized al Qaeda” and other Islamic terrorist groups “in operations against armed anti-Taliban opposition groups” and that “Al Qaeda affiliates in Afghanistan” still “continued to have access to weapons seized from the former Afghan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;National Army” and that an Al Qaeda affiliate had gotten its hands on BGM-71 TOW missiles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Furthermore, “the Taliban army chief of staff said the regime planned to provide the army with more advanced weapons and equipment, but did not specify from where or whom it could come.” The Taliban, in violation of its promises in the Doha accords in Qatar, from which it has since withdrawn, is not only harboring, but arming and equipping Al Qaeda.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That was the cause of September 11 and our subsequent intervention in Afghanistan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While the United States need not directly go to war with the Taliban over it, we should at the very least block all further money from organizations that benefit from our funding, including the UN, from going to Afghanistan, and should treat any money being directed to Afghanistan, especially in U.S. dollars as a violation of the laws banning the funding of terrorism even if that money is supposedly being used for humanitarian aid. When humanitarian aid has been used to cover printing money on behalf of the Taliban and shipping money to the Taliban, the term has become a meaningless excuse for propping up an Islamic terrorist state sponsor of Al Qaeda.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The UN should be blocked from accessing further dollars from the Federal Reserve Bank in New York to ship to Afghanistan. According to SIGAR, the World Bank also reported that the Taliban’s currency rose sharply around Islamic holidays due to the “increased inflows of U.S. dollars during Ramadan and Eid,” which “boosted the supply of U.S. dollars and increased&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the demand for local currency.” This is likely due to Afghan ‘refugees’ in the United States contriving to send money home. The Trump administration has taken the right course in seeking to remove the over 100,000 Afghan ‘refugees’ illegally imported by Biden during his retreat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recent outbreaks of Afghan violence in the United States with several stabbing incidents in &lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/after-afghan-stabbing-resettlement-agency-urges-welcoming-more-refugees/"&gt;Michigan&lt;/a&gt;, Texas and even &lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm-plus/afghan-violence-comes-to-amish-country/"&gt;Pennsylvania Dutch Country&lt;/a&gt; make their removal more urgent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyone residing in the United States directing money to Afghanistan through any means should be prosecuted, deported if they are not a citizen, and denaturalized and deported if they are.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally, President Trump can remedy one of the most outrageous historic injustices imaginable by the Biden administration which fought 9/11 victims in court and seized $3.5 billion that should have gone to compensate the families of victims and placed it in an ‘Afghan Fund’ for the benefit of the murderous Islamic regime that harbored the killers of their families.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 2022, &lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/biden-fights-911-victims-court-protect-taliban-daniel-greenfield/"&gt;Freedom Center Investigates&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/biden-fights-911-victims-court-protect-taliban-daniel-greenfield/"&gt; exclusively reported &lt;/a&gt;that the Biden administration had seized $3.5 billion in wealth now owned by the Taliban in the United States to keep it from being awarded in a judgement to 9/11 family members. The money has now appreciated to nearly $4 billion and should be brought back to the U.S. and used to benefit Americans. Not terrorists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Biden, who became the first president to skip a 9/11 commemoration, was uniquely friendly to Islamic terrorists and uniquely hostile to the memory of the September 11 attacks, had focused on closing Gitmo, freeing many Al Qaeda terrorists including an&lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/biden-frees-alternate-911-hijacker-and-military-daniel-greenfield/"&gt; alternate 9/11 hijacker&lt;/a&gt;, an Al Qaeda ally who plotted to &lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/biden-frees-al-qaeda-ally-who-plotted-smuggle-daniel-greenfield/"&gt;smuggle nukes&lt;/a&gt; into the country and many other major terrorists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The billions sent to Afghanistan under Biden were a betrayal. While most of the money, like most of the weapons left behind, cannot be recovered, the Afghan Fund money can.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Trump administration did the right thing by ending most of the flow of our money to the Taliban. SIGAR’s audit found that nearly half of the “implementing partners” distributing “aid” in Afghanistan had signed memorandums of understanding with the Taliban. Outrageously, the State Department allowed this to go on and the audit found that “State is not required to review the MOUs that implementing partners sign with the Taliban.” The humanitarian aid groups claiming that everyone in Afghanistan will die unless we fund them have been in bed with terrorists. And all of this went on with the complicity of the Biden administration whose USAID staffers actively obstructed any investigations of their ties to terrorists. They can never be trusted again. Neither can any of the organizations that signed memorandums with the Taliban.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The United States officially left Afghanistan, yet remained behind providing billions in foreign aid, printing and shipping currency to the state sponsor of Al Qaeda. It’s time for the American presence, including the the American University of Afghanistan, which is no longer in Afghanistan, to leave. It is not America’s business to provide foreign aid to the Afghans, to maintain a fund on their behalf or to allow organizations that we fund to aid Islamic terrorists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Any money sent to Afghanistan aids the Taliban which in turn aids Al Qaeda. It’s time for us to leave Afghanistan and take the last of our money with us before we finance another 9/11.&lt;/span&gt;
587.  
588. &lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; font-size: large; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease 0s;" target="_blank"&gt;Daniel Greenfield&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease 0s;" target="_blank"&gt;Front Page Magazine&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;Click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease 0s;" target="_blank"&gt;here to subscribe&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to my articles. And&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease 0s;" target="_blank"&gt;click here to support my work with a donation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;" /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;Thank you for reading.&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" style="background-color: #fafafa; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="500" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2-8K1m-P7y4j4aL_AQBH6X3B5ugD56jdnVb1-TZ-Shobc6BR7h1ko7HfudfaWTKjF8QO4GqswsZLXjk0bSjONiDuu_3n8253fl8uizuSD4P8PG7VzDjiNsO5tM_dj-NERECSZWwBYC0RhQIv_-ejW5nrQZyou6S4kMx9tknaCbusrARxUCToe0A/w640-h230/%E2%80%9CA%20marvelously%20original%20and%20enlightening%20look%20at%20American%20history,%20with%20a%20host%20of%20insights%20for%20our%20own%20age.%E2%80%9D%20%E2%80%94Robert%20Spencer,%20Author%20of%20The%20Sumter%20Gambit%20How%20the%20Left%20Is%20Trying%20to%20Foment%20A%20Civil%20W%20(1).png" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Read my book&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;nbsp;'Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers' Fight Against the Left'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;to discover the true origins of the American Left.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/feeds/5172098766925312909/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/05/35b-from-911-victims-being-held-by-us.html#comment-form" rel="replies" title="2 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/5172098766925312909" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/5172098766925312909" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/05/35b-from-911-victims-being-held-by-us.html" rel="alternate" title="$3.5B From 9/11 Victims Being Held by U.S. for the Taliban" type="text/html"/><author><name>Daniel Greenfield</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhRSvmnQijYr-BAX6Dhyjov7iV0exSO5_GeAmrS9KrDfyKL3VSV3Un-5pZhpzro8iWIUneqiL4ANYnGEUoTL0vy8NsLmlYYh-OMLsfNWslVjJgEd_c4FeGGK5dq-f2R63PGJTSDp-d1bMHg9mFKJEaV6Dfl20ZBX9rGmaVz8MlOTuPQ/s220/headshot%20bw4.jpg" width="30"/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz0LeI3DCG-hp3pt_NXTwRoPyQIxNfrJ5uxrlf2r5LNQvq46_ZBi-LUzEUf52bzXRv3h8rXN1geiqnp8MfiiyOCmWLij5vpIjwJ7yBPyzPwo4T_CPxoOymPQlVnx8Ux7ZTDA209YEMrlDn8D9-s7wuH-Ygh0__Jn5ww_aIwfbQJnHob50qEwg9bw/s72-w480-h640-c/image(7).jpg" width="72"/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-370405392114417185</id><published>2025-05-19T16:02:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2025-05-19T16:02:12.507-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="recent"/><title type="text">How Gov. Gavin Newsom Killed 30 People</title><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOVESkIF-HcjSVOWb8CFjCrcYeRCj_Gr6L7ztPRJvTOKelDTYBvb0SxVzCCAUcpQlqA6Us5rfZvIlRjzJynSUE5EICveUghWEqkIUKt9fU60aNam59panoqSOeImlkR6Re0WgijopFcHhdSMo56hn16bmF2YwWm6CPekqPqgomIkYLMkY06HPbJA/s750/newsom-podcast-frame-750x420.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="750" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOVESkIF-HcjSVOWb8CFjCrcYeRCj_Gr6L7ztPRJvTOKelDTYBvb0SxVzCCAUcpQlqA6Us5rfZvIlRjzJynSUE5EICveUghWEqkIUKt9fU60aNam59panoqSOeImlkR6Re0WgijopFcHhdSMo56hn16bmF2YwWm6CPekqPqgomIkYLMkY06HPbJA/w640-h358/newsom-podcast-frame-750x420.png" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;On a warm spring night in ‘21, Tonya Molina was found strangled to
589. death in a motel room. Molina, a 43-year-old mother, had been on
590. vacation. She met Santiago Contreras, a transgender criminal who had
591. been serving time for stalking and assault, before being released by
592. Gov. Gavin Newsom with nothing but an ankle monitor. Contreras, a man
593. who had told prison officials that he was struggling as a transgender
594. woman, cut off the monitor and killed Tonya.</span></p>
595. <p><span style="font-size: medium;">Tonya Molina was one of 30 people killed by Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ‘early releases’ of criminals.</span></p>
596. <p><span style="font-size: medium;">Even as Gov. Newsom engaged in an unprecedented lockdown of the
597. state, as local officials chased surfers off beaches, filled skate parks
598. with sand, roped off benches and cut power to small businesses, he also
599. began releasing criminals to terrorize the state.</span></p>
600. <p><span style="font-size: medium;">“It’s always been top of mind, it’s always been a point of concern,”
601. Gov. Newsom said of reported COVID cases at San Quentin prison,
602. promising to expedite the release of what he claimed were “low-risk”
603. criminals. Contreras would have been considered “low risk”.</span></p>
604. <p><span style="font-size: medium;">Those releases ultimately amounted to 14,800 criminals freed and many
605. more that were not even held because Newsom also suspended the intake
606. of new criminals into prisons.</span></p>
607. <p><span style="font-size: medium;">1 in 4 of Newsom’s criminals were back behind bars in less than three
608. years. 1 in 3 are back in prison in total. And these numbers continue
609. to grow. 4,600 of the released criminals have been put back behind bars
610. on charges ranging from murder to rape to assault and robbery.</span></p>
611. <p><span style="font-size: medium;">Some preyed on children.</span></p>
612. <p><span style="font-size: medium;">The “low risk” criminals released by Newsom included a man who had
613. “unlawful sex with a victim under 16″, another man who had “sold drugs
614. to more than 100 minors” and was then sent back to prison for “rape with
615. force / violence / fear of a minor 14 years of age or older”.</span></p>
616. <p><span style="font-size: medium;">While the full number of victims on Newsom’s crime wave is unknown, we do know that there were <a href="https://x.com/OCDAToddSpitzer/status/1922722364145737847" target="_blank">30 murders </a>committed by the men freed by the governor in response to pandemic fears.</span></p>
617. <p><span style="font-size: medium;">The so-called “COVID-outbreak” in San Quentin that led to nationwide
618. media coverage, condemnations and calls for action resulted in 26 deaths
619. in a prison population of over 3,000..</span></p>
620. <p><span style="font-size: medium;">More people were killed by COVID prison releases than by the San Quentin “outbreak”.</span></p>
621. <p><span style="font-size: medium;">An ‘outbreak’ at Folsom State Prison, made famous by Johnny Cash, had
622. only 2 deaths out of over 3,000. Nevertheless it was targeted for early
623. release because of the “large populations of high-risk patients.” Other
624. outbreaks proved equally underwhelming.</span></p>
625. <p><span style="font-size: medium;">There were nearly 10,000 COVID deaths in California nursing homes and
626. only 265 deaths in California prisons. The vast majority of inmates who
627. died of COVID were older. There <a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10165538/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">were only </a>34
628. COVID deaths among criminals under 55, 80 deaths among the 55-64
629. population, 83 deaths among those 65-74 and 43 deaths among criminals
630. over 75.</span></p>
631. <p><span style="font-size: medium;">Had Gov. Newsom limited early releases to criminals over 55, he would
632. have dealt with the age range at risk for 86% of COVID prison deaths.</span></p>
633. <p><span style="font-size: medium;">Newsom and California Democrats chose not to do that because the
634. purpose was not to save criminals from COVID, but to use COVID as an
635. excuse to free as many criminals as possible.</span></p>
636. <p><span style="font-size: medium;">The full total of Gov. Newsom’s victims is unknown, but in addition
637. to the 30 murders, there were fatal drunk driving incidents and some 460
638. assaults with an unknown total number of victims, but we should assume
639. that in addition to the murders there were at least 460 assault victims.</span></p>
640. <p><span style="font-size: medium;">Newsom’s criminals also carried out at least 400 burglaries with a
641. similarly unknown number of victims that begins at 400. There were at
642. least 180 or so second degree robberies, car thefts and domestic abuse
643. cases each from Newsom’s total. Combined together that sets a toll of at
644. least 1,430 crime victims. And those are only the 1,430 crimes for
645. which we have any kind of statistical information among the 4,600 repeat
646. offenders.</span></p>
647. <p><span style="font-size: medium;">Since other crimes, especially sexual assault and child abuse, are
648. not listed and criminals typically commit more than one crime before
649. being arrested, the actual numbers of Newsom’s victims would be much
650. higher than this partial list of crimes.</span></p>
651. <p><span style="font-size: medium;">However even these 1,430 crime victims represent over 800 violent assaults on Californians.</span></p>
652. <p><span style="font-size: medium;">Gov. Gavin Newsom said of freeing criminals that “we still have a lot
653. more work to do in that space and we recognize our responsibility to do
654. so.” The over 800 victims of Newsom’s violent crime spree are a tragic
655. testament to his hard work in freeing criminals across California.</span></p>
656. <p><span style="font-size: medium;">During COVID, Gov. Newsom locked down ordinary citizens and unlocked
657. prison doors to set loose murders, rapists, robbers and the worst
658. monsters to prey on a helpless citizenry which had been discouraged from
659. leaving their houses or making contact with their fellow human beings.
660. Isolated and afraid they fell victim to thousands of criminals who did
661. not care about wearing masks, practicing social distancing or any of the
662. other regulations imposed by Newsom.</span></p>
663. <p><span style="font-size: medium;">While children were prevented from going to school and small
664. businesses were forced to shut their doors, parks were gated off and
665. people were warned against strolling through the beach, California’s
666. criminals, set loose by Gov. Newsom, enjoyed an unprecedented crime
667. spree.</span></p>
668. <p><span style="font-size: medium;">In one year, murders shot up from 1,679 to 2,202, car thefts from
669. 140,372 to 168,046, and arsons from 8,266 to 11,759. Californians
670. learned to live in terror of disease, of each other and of crime.</span></p>
671. <p><span style="font-size: medium;">There are at least 30 deaths on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s hands, and
672. unknown numbers of sexual assaults, including against children as young
673. as 14 years old who had their lives destroyed.</span></p>
674. <p><span style="font-size: medium;">Now Gov. Newsom claims that crime in California is down. What he
675. forgets to mention is that it’s only going down because the criminals he
676. released are slowly being sent back to prison.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; font-size: large; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease 0s;" target="_blank"&gt;Daniel Greenfield&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease 0s;" target="_blank"&gt;Front Page Magazine&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;Click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease 0s;" target="_blank"&gt;here to subscribe&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to my articles. And&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease 0s;" target="_blank"&gt;click here to support my work with a donation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;" /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;Thank you for reading.&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" style="background-color: #fafafa; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="500" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2-8K1m-P7y4j4aL_AQBH6X3B5ugD56jdnVb1-TZ-Shobc6BR7h1ko7HfudfaWTKjF8QO4GqswsZLXjk0bSjONiDuu_3n8253fl8uizuSD4P8PG7VzDjiNsO5tM_dj-NERECSZWwBYC0RhQIv_-ejW5nrQZyou6S4kMx9tknaCbusrARxUCToe0A/w640-h230/%E2%80%9CA%20marvelously%20original%20and%20enlightening%20look%20at%20American%20history,%20with%20a%20host%20of%20insights%20for%20our%20own%20age.%E2%80%9D%20%E2%80%94Robert%20Spencer,%20Author%20of%20The%20Sumter%20Gambit%20How%20the%20Left%20Is%20Trying%20to%20Foment%20A%20Civil%20W%20(1).png" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Read my book&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;nbsp;'Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers' Fight Against the Left'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;to discover the true origins of the American Left.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/feeds/370405392114417185/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/05/how-gov-gavin-newsom-killed-30-people.html#comment-form" rel="replies" title="1 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/370405392114417185" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/370405392114417185" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/05/how-gov-gavin-newsom-killed-30-people.html" rel="alternate" title="How Gov. Gavin Newsom Killed 30 People" type="text/html"/><author><name>Daniel Greenfield</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhRSvmnQijYr-BAX6Dhyjov7iV0exSO5_GeAmrS9KrDfyKL3VSV3Un-5pZhpzro8iWIUneqiL4ANYnGEUoTL0vy8NsLmlYYh-OMLsfNWslVjJgEd_c4FeGGK5dq-f2R63PGJTSDp-d1bMHg9mFKJEaV6Dfl20ZBX9rGmaVz8MlOTuPQ/s220/headshot%20bw4.jpg" width="30"/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOVESkIF-HcjSVOWb8CFjCrcYeRCj_Gr6L7ztPRJvTOKelDTYBvb0SxVzCCAUcpQlqA6Us5rfZvIlRjzJynSUE5EICveUghWEqkIUKt9fU60aNam59panoqSOeImlkR6Re0WgijopFcHhdSMo56hn16bmF2YwWm6CPekqPqgomIkYLMkY06HPbJA/s72-w640-h358-c/newsom-podcast-frame-750x420.png" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-7360093281975501675</id><published>2025-05-15T21:43:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2025-05-15T21:43:06.563-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="recent"/><title type="text">Skin Color Is Not a Viewpoint</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0R87Au_yb8G_Ggdvjws4Zd0EHWrAXl7fGPAxYN2YPAZRB_3x2V-Xf6zQM_PGos9NvhDFJZvA6ITbC1g1l2c2FWBI1ASciVaUoRx2hp2pYlX6xtqii_lEIKf3-9AzoTZ9frYvCQHmwVQjAjOFd6N-syUNaFuiLHb9ALb8qjOopmyr9J9o0T87Fjg/s1011/image_2025-05-15_184228781.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="949" data-original-width="1011" height="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0R87Au_yb8G_Ggdvjws4Zd0EHWrAXl7fGPAxYN2YPAZRB_3x2V-Xf6zQM_PGos9NvhDFJZvA6ITbC1g1l2c2FWBI1ASciVaUoRx2hp2pYlX6xtqii_lEIKf3-9AzoTZ9frYvCQHmwVQjAjOFd6N-syUNaFuiLHb9ALb8qjOopmyr9J9o0T87Fjg/w640-h600/image_2025-05-15_184228781.png" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Trump administration has pressed Harvard and other academic institutions to open themselves up to more “viewpoint diversity”. And, if nothing else, Harvard’s leadership has for the first time committed themselves to “viewpoint diversity”, but what they mean by that may be very different.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everyone is familiar with the negative argument for DEI, affirmative action and similar diversity programs which claim that our country and its institutions suffer from “systemic racism” that has to be remedied through equity programs that discriminate in favor of underrepresented groups and against those groups deemed to be overrepresented. Mostly white people and Asians.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyone who has sat through corporate or government diversity training in the past few years probably also encountered the positive argument for DEI which is that a diversity of races, cultures, sexual identities and genders also provides viewpoint diversity. That was the argument that the Biden administration made in defense of its diversity mandates.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Cognitively diverse teams are better at solving complex problems when compared to more homogenous teams even when the homogenous teams are composed of top performing highly capable individuals,” Army Secretary Eric Fanning had argued. The Biden official contended that it takes members of “different ethnic or cultural” groups to produce better results.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“People who are different from one another in race, gender and other dimensions bring unique information and experiences to bear on the task at hand,” Berkeley’s Greater Good Center contended. “A male and female engineer might have perspectives as different from one another as an engineer and a physicist.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While that’s no doubt true in any number of areas, is that really true in science? Have women or men made major scientific discoveries about the way the world works that the opposite sex could never have uncovered? And could women have never duplicated male discoveries? The discovery of DNA is fittingly attributed to two men and one woman. Did Marie Curie succeed in isolating radium because she had a fundamentally different perspective on account of her sex or because she was a dedicated researcher? Does the nature of the universe have a gender? Is the scientific method different for men and women?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And, more absurdly still, is it different for members of different races and ethnic groups?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The idea that individuals, no matter how innovative, intelligent or creative, are still “homogenous” as long as they have the same skin color is not only racist, but is mindlessly collectivist. And the notion that ideas are the products of biology, of ethnicity and of skin color, rather than of individuals insists on the primacy of the group over the individual.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Left not only suffers from groupthink, it suffers from the belief that only groups think. And if only groups think, then intellectual or viewpoint diversity only requires that members of different groups take part. It doesn’t matter who the individuals are so long as the group has a diverse representation of every group. A group with the dumbest possible white man, black man, lesbian and transgender man is inherently better than a “homogenous” group of geniuses because the geniuses lack diversity and therefore can’t come up with any new ideas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just don’t tell that to the researchers at the Manhattan Project.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People don’t come up with ideas, as Biden’s former Army Secretary already told us, groups do. A white man, no matter what his personality, his interests or skillset, can only come up with ‘white man ideas’ and a Latino woman with ‘Latino woman ideas.’ Unless someone diversely  puts the two of them together, they’ll be hopelessly trapped in their homogenous boxes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama and Biden officials dismissed the threat of China because, they claimed, the People’s Republic was not a true competitor because it lacked diversity. It couldn’t come up with new ideas because everyone was Chinese. Universities, including Harvard, struggled to keep out Asian students because they lacked diversity and would trap colleges into echo chambers full of students who only had ‘Asian ideas’. Harvard and other colleges engaged in racist admissions practices driven by racist ideas because they were convinced diversity was anti-racist rather than racist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Scale up the racist credo that the only way to succeed is to have the widest possible mix of groups and you end up with everything from open borders to systemic racism. America, many liberals came to believe, could not succeed without maximizing its diversity. Any institution that was not diverse was doomed. And, retroactively, anything that was not diverse was worthless.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most culture, science and history that occurred before DEI’s eternal Year Zero has been deemed worthless because they were not diverse. Art museums jettison classical paintings. The work of Nobel Prize winners is written off because they were white men who could not truly understand the universe because they were not diverse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And that which is not diverse is inherently flawed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America is only as good as it is diverse. The Constitution, the Renaissance and most mathematics are bad because they are not diverse. Had more diverse groups put them together, they would have been far better and will soon be replaced by diverse output.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rather than measuring diversity by its accomplishments, accomplishments are defined by diversity, and as a result, much of what we produce has become worthless. Rather than producing new ideas, diversity rehashes the same old ideological ones. Academia became less intellectually diverse even as it became more racially and sexually diverse. By making diversity its supreme value, universities adopted a dogma and the political monoculture that goes with it. You can have intellectual and racial diversity as long as they operate within a competitive environment and a marketplace of ideas. Diversity’s only real idea however is diversity. And by diversity it means people, of different races and backgrounds, who believe the same things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Diversity has little disagreement because the only kind of diversity it values is external. It substitutes external diversity for internal diversity. The only diverse people allowed inside are those who already agree with its fundamental beliefs. And if they disagree, it can only be a limited disagreement in one direction. There is room for intellectual diversity between socialists, Communists and the occasional free market liberal who leaves a lot of room for government intervention. There’s likewise some room for viewpoint diversity between those who believe America is a colonial settler state forever tainted by its original sins and those who contend that it can be redeemed through more diversity. But there’s no room for going out of this leftist box.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Diversity is not an intellectual value, it’s a political one, and therefore it cannot tolerate intellectual diversity and it also cannot be debated. Intellectual ideas can be debated, political ones must be accepted. The only way to maintain a climate of political debate is to have intellectual diversity. The more politics determine the nature of ideas, the fewer ideas there are.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And diversity’s real underlying concept is that the only worthwhile ideas proceed from the political conditions produced by diversity and through the conditions created by politics. Testing this theory in any kind of way is forbidden because that would be bigoted. Questioning it is also bigoted. Any disagreement at all is bigoted and therefore unacceptable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is not an argument, it’s a political dogma meant to enforce conformity by banning any arguments against its own premises. An academic institution that accepts it, as virtually all of academia has, ceases to function as anything except a totalitarian political organization with its own thought police, mobs and machinery for outing and ousting all forms of political dissent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And that is what modern universities have become.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Skin color is not actually a point of view, but the argument that skin color is a point of view is a useful political line for enforcing conformity under the guise of diversity. To argue that groups think and individuals don’t is to dismiss every non-conforming individual as a representative of old non-diverse ideas if he’s white or as non-representative of his group if he’s non-white.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Diversity is the enemy of intellectual diversity because it is the enemy of individuals. Challenging it is the only hope for the return of a country where people think for themselves.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; font-size: large; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;Daniel Greenfield&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;Front Page Magazine&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;Click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;here to subscribe&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to my articles. And&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;click here to support my work with a donation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;" /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;Thank you for reading.&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" style="background-color: #fafafa; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="500" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2-8K1m-P7y4j4aL_AQBH6X3B5ugD56jdnVb1-TZ-Shobc6BR7h1ko7HfudfaWTKjF8QO4GqswsZLXjk0bSjONiDuu_3n8253fl8uizuSD4P8PG7VzDjiNsO5tM_dj-NERECSZWwBYC0RhQIv_-ejW5nrQZyou6S4kMx9tknaCbusrARxUCToe0A/w640-h230/%E2%80%9CA%20marvelously%20original%20and%20enlightening%20look%20at%20American%20history,%20with%20a%20host%20of%20insights%20for%20our%20own%20age.%E2%80%9D%20%E2%80%94Robert%20Spencer,%20Author%20of%20The%20Sumter%20Gambit%20How%20the%20Left%20Is%20Trying%20to%20Foment%20A%20Civil%20W%20(1).png" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Read my book&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;nbsp;'Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers' Fight Against the Left'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;to discover the true origins of the American Left.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/feeds/7360093281975501675/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/05/skin-color-is-not-viewpoint.html#comment-form" rel="replies" title="1 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/7360093281975501675" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/7360093281975501675" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/05/skin-color-is-not-viewpoint.html" rel="alternate" title="Skin Color Is Not a Viewpoint" type="text/html"/><author><name>Daniel Greenfield</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhRSvmnQijYr-BAX6Dhyjov7iV0exSO5_GeAmrS9KrDfyKL3VSV3Un-5pZhpzro8iWIUneqiL4ANYnGEUoTL0vy8NsLmlYYh-OMLsfNWslVjJgEd_c4FeGGK5dq-f2R63PGJTSDp-d1bMHg9mFKJEaV6Dfl20ZBX9rGmaVz8MlOTuPQ/s220/headshot%20bw4.jpg" width="30"/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0R87Au_yb8G_Ggdvjws4Zd0EHWrAXl7fGPAxYN2YPAZRB_3x2V-Xf6zQM_PGos9NvhDFJZvA6ITbC1g1l2c2FWBI1ASciVaUoRx2hp2pYlX6xtqii_lEIKf3-9AzoTZ9frYvCQHmwVQjAjOFd6N-syUNaFuiLHb9ALb8qjOopmyr9J9o0T87Fjg/s72-w640-h600-c/image_2025-05-15_184228781.png" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-7554675975940483043</id><published>2025-05-14T10:12:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2025-05-14T10:12:03.560-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="recent"/><title type="text">Iran Isn’t Building a Civilian Nuclear Program</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif3_2gHkLgw2Izg9ClDyHrrtEEahAIYi9wBm7p2JCGd0DC6qljSWbDIrQdK-op4ge6dUxUPHt60pYTWI2dcD2sAjEdzd-Xoz54sQEscK8z0BtxfEFUaoSmehGz1a2pYMIa9vKBo8mSRU2gqi5uF1YGZgsBuWXeXkik__yKFexzLJqAJ1It-XmGwg/s1280/me%20city%20dle.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1280" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif3_2gHkLgw2Izg9ClDyHrrtEEahAIYi9wBm7p2JCGd0DC6qljSWbDIrQdK-op4ge6dUxUPHt60pYTWI2dcD2sAjEdzd-Xoz54sQEscK8z0BtxfEFUaoSmehGz1a2pYMIa9vKBo8mSRU2gqi5uF1YGZgsBuWXeXkik__yKFexzLJqAJ1It-XmGwg/w640-h640/me%20city%20dle.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Iran has some of the cheapest electricity prices in the world. The average cost of electricity in the United States per kilowatt hour is $0.181.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Iran it’s $0.004.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A country where electricity is vastly cheaper than America isn’t looking to lower power costs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iran joins Libya, Kuwait, Iraq, Oman, Qatar and other oil-rich countries as having some of the cheapest electricity prices in the world. Countries with vast energy reserves and production don’t need nuclear energy the way that Germany or France, which depend on imports, do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saudi Arabia, with $0.053 electricity, did not begin pursuing a nuclear program because it needed to lower its energy costs. Neither did the UAE. The Saudis and Emiratis became interested in developing a “civilian” nuclear program only as Iran’s nuclear program took off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If Iran were developing a nuclear program to lower energy costs, it would have long ago dropped the program after sanctions cost its economy an estimated $1 trillion. Losing $1 trillion to shave a few more fractions of a cent off the average cost of a kilowatt makes no sense.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iran is not interested in peaceful applications of nuclear energy, but in nuclear weapons. That’s why it’s been willing to lose $1 trillion and go to war to protect its nuclear program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Despite these obvious common sense facts, the Obama administration and some figures in the current administration insist on pretending that a deal can be made to keep Iran’s nuclear program peaceful. The idea is just as false in 2025 as it was in 2015 when Obama pushed his Iran deal premised on the idea that an Islamic terror state with oil coming out of the ground has lost $1 trillion and gone to the brink of war to lower electricity costs from $0.004 to $0.003.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Consider Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant. Under construction since the 90s, its 1,000 megawatts is a drop in the bucket compared to the billions spent on constructing it. (Iran has variously claimed to have spent either $1.7 billion or $4 billion on the plant.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the world’s largest energy producers would not be going to war to add 1,000 megawatts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Despite Bushehr and the rest of Iran’s extensive and growing nuclear infrastructure, Iran gets &lt;a href="https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profiles/countries-g-n/iran"&gt;only 1%&lt;/a&gt; of its electricity from nuclear power. Iran gets most of its actual electricity (86%) from natural gas. And Iran’s natural gas cost is&lt;a href="https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/Iran/natural_gas_prices/"&gt; $0.001&lt;/a&gt; per kWh for residential customers (vs $0.081 on average in the world).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With 1.2 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, one of the biggest reserves in the world, Iran has all the energy it needs under its feet. Even without adding the $1 trillion cost of sanctions, the numbers for using nuclear power plants to generate electricity for homes and businesses make no economic sense.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Over 95% of Iranian households depend on gas. And Iran has so much power that it exports electricity to nearby Iraq. Despite putting on a facade of power and gas shortages to justify its nuclear power program, that’s not because Iran doesn’t have enough gas, but because it prioritizes exports over its domestic market, and uses the revenues for international terrorism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iran is the world’s third largest natural gas producer after America and Russia. Where does that money go? It certainly doesn’t go to the Iranian population which gets little to no say in it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iran’s trillions of cubic feet of natural gas produced each year also help finance its extremely expensive and devastating nuclear program. Is Iran planning to spend another $20 billion building nuclear plants (in an economy with a GDP of only $404 billion) because it wants to make sure that its civilian population and businesses have everything that they need?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If Iran really cared about the welfare and prosperity of its civilian population, it would have stopped its nuclear program and ended the international sanctions imposed on it which have hit its consumer goods, and business exports and imports hardest, while doing less to stop its core energy exports and construction businesses that the regime derives much of its wealth from.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When Trump reimposed sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, ballistic missiles and terrorism, its GDP growth fell from as high as 8.8% after the Obama deal to 2.4%.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Was adding some megawatts to the grid in a country powered by its gas reserves worth that?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iran is not pursuing a nuclear program because (1) it needs the electric power (2) because it makes any economic sense or (3) because it cares about its civilian population.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No one in the Middle East is building nuclear power plants because they want a civilian nuclear industry. And certainly not countries that can get all the energy they want just by drilling.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those who oppose any crackdown on Iran’s nuclear program should be honest and say so rather than promoting the Obama fiction that one of the world’s largest energy producers with dirt-cheap electricity lost $1 trillion to be able to slightly boost its electric generation capacity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iran is not building its deep underground Natanz uranium enrichment complex so far in the earth that it’s supposed to be unreachable by U.S. strikes because it wants a civilian nuclear program. And that much is obvious to everyone. But there are those who still insist on an imaginary separation between Bushehr and Natanz, between Iran’s supposedly civilian and military nuclear program, and using that as the basis for a deal limiting Iran’s capacity to civilian uses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But all of that is premised on the idea that Iran wants a civilian program and would therefore accept and honor an arrangement that would limit it to a civilian program with no possibility of weapons development. That premise which Obama accepted and sold to Congressional Democrats quickly fell apart only for Witkoff and other administration players to try and revive it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iran isn’t looking to trade a weapons program for a civilian program. It’s doing what it has done from the very beginning which is disguising its military program as a civilian program. Obama, like a number of figures in political office and the intelligence community, knew that and chose to pretend otherwise. They are the reason why Iran has become a bigger threat over the years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Defenders of rebooting Obama’s Iran Deal have taken to calling critics “globalists” and claim that bringing back Obama’s old policy is somehow “America First”. They insist that being realistic about Iran’s nuclear program is a plot by the military-industrial complex and the CIA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But it was the CIA and the ‘intelligence community’ that bailed out Iran during the Bush administration by falsely declaring that “we judge with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program” in the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Trump administration can do what it chooses about Iran’s nuclear program. It can maintain sanctions, it can take out the program or it can do absolutely nothing. But it should be clear-eyed about what Iran’s nuclear program is and what it’s for. Deals with terrorists and terror states are worthless. Any agreement with Iran can only end one way and that’s with a terror state whose motto is “Death to America” gaining the ability to carry out that threat against us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iran’s civilian nuclear program is as much of a front as a mob chain of pizza parlors. Negotiating with Islamic terrorists is a waste of America’s power and credibility. And it seduces those who negotiate with terrorists into believing that a deal is possible no matter how high the red flags fly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The United States can choose to ignore Iran, but it should stop humiliating itself by negotiating with a terror state that has tortured and murdered Americans, and now treats us like suckers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; font-size: large; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;Daniel Greenfield&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;Front Page Magazine&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span face="&amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"&gt;Click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;here to subscribe&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to my articles. And&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.1s;" target="_blank"&gt;click here to support my work with a donation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;" /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #17161a; font-family: &amp;quot;Plus Jakarta Sans&amp;quot;, sans-serif, FontAwesome, &amp;quot;Font Awesome 6 Free&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; outline: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;; outline: none;"&gt;Thank you for reading.&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" style="background-color: #fafafa; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="500" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2-8K1m-P7y4j4aL_AQBH6X3B5ugD56jdnVb1-TZ-Shobc6BR7h1ko7HfudfaWTKjF8QO4GqswsZLXjk0bSjONiDuu_3n8253fl8uizuSD4P8PG7VzDjiNsO5tM_dj-NERECSZWwBYC0RhQIv_-ejW5nrQZyou6S4kMx9tknaCbusrARxUCToe0A/w640-h230/%E2%80%9CA%20marvelously%20original%20and%20enlightening%20look%20at%20American%20history,%20with%20a%20host%20of%20insights%20for%20our%20own%20age.%E2%80%9D%20%E2%80%94Robert%20Spencer,%20Author%20of%20The%20Sumter%20Gambit%20How%20the%20Left%20Is%20Trying%20to%20Foment%20A%20Civil%20W%20(1).png" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Read my book&lt;a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;nbsp;'Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers' Fight Against the Left'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;to discover the true origins of the American Left.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/feeds/7554675975940483043/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/05/iran-isnt-building-civilian-nuclear.html#comment-form" rel="replies" title="2 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/7554675975940483043" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11368628/posts/default/7554675975940483043" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/05/iran-isnt-building-civilian-nuclear.html" rel="alternate" title="Iran Isn’t Building a Civilian Nuclear Program" type="text/html"/><author><name>Daniel Greenfield</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhRSvmnQijYr-BAX6Dhyjov7iV0exSO5_GeAmrS9KrDfyKL3VSV3Un-5pZhpzro8iWIUneqiL4ANYnGEUoTL0vy8NsLmlYYh-OMLsfNWslVjJgEd_c4FeGGK5dq-f2R63PGJTSDp-d1bMHg9mFKJEaV6Dfl20ZBX9rGmaVz8MlOTuPQ/s220/headshot%20bw4.jpg" width="30"/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif3_2gHkLgw2Izg9ClDyHrrtEEahAIYi9wBm7p2JCGd0DC6qljSWbDIrQdK-op4ge6dUxUPHt60pYTWI2dcD2sAjEdzd-Xoz54sQEscK8z0BtxfEFUaoSmehGz1a2pYMIa9vKBo8mSRU2gqi5uF1YGZgsBuWXeXkik__yKFexzLJqAJ1It-XmGwg/s72-w640-h640-c/me%20city%20dle.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry></feed>

If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:

1. Download the "valid Atom 1.0" banner.

2. Upload the image to your own server. (This step is important. Please do not link directly to the image on this server.)

3. Add this HTML to your page (change the image src attribute if necessary):

   <a href="http://www.feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A//feeds.feedburner.com/FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStoriesBehindTheNews"><img src="valid-atom.png" alt="[Valid Atom 1.0]" title="Validate my Atom 1.0 feed" /></a>

If you would like to create a text link instead, here is the URL you can use:

http://www.feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A//feeds.feedburner.com/FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStoriesBehindTheNews

Home · About · News · Docs · Terms