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The pogrom comes to Washington The murder of Sarah Lynn Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky exposes the savagery of ‘anti-Zionism’. Brendan O’Neill

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/05/22/the-pogrom-comes-to-washington/

Two Israeli embassy staffers gunned down in the prime of their lives. Young lovers shot to death for the ‘crime’ of taking pride in Jewish heritage. He had bought a ring and was planning to propose to her next week in Jerusalem, the capital of the Jewish people’s homeland. We need to speak frankly about the vile slaying of Sarah Lynn Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky in Washington, DC last night. It was, in President Trump’s words, ‘obviously based on anti-Semitism’. It was an act of racist savagery that speaks to the anti-civilisational delirium that pumps in the veins of Israelophobia. It was the pogrom come to Washington.

Ms Milgrim and Mr Lischinsky were staff members at the Israeli Embassy in DC. Last night, they were shot dead as they left an event at the Capital Jewish Museum. It was a cocktail-fuelled reception for ‘young diplomats’ aimed at ‘fostering unity and celebrating Jewish heritage’. The suspect in this sick crime was reportedly wearing a keffiyeh. ‘Free Palestine’, he hollered as he allegedly put bullets into the embassy staffers. ‘Globalise the intifada’, the drones of the Israelophobic mob have been shouting since Hamas’s pogrom of 7 October 2023. Well, here it is, being globalised: Hamas-style savagery in the beating heart of the Western world.

America’s politicians are not mincing their words. This was a ‘deadly act of anti-Semitic violence’, says Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic leader in the House of Representatives. It’s hard to see what else it could be. If you lurk with a gun outside an event at a Jewish museum devoted to celebrating Jewish heritage, and callously butcher those who come out, it’s pretty clear what your motives are. That the suspect was allegedly wearing a keffiyeh and yelling about Gaza is not surprising: Jew hate comes gussied up in the Palestine colours these days. The fascist imagination disguises itself in faux-progressive talk about Palestine.

We await more information about the suspect. It remains to be seen if he worked alone or with others. So far as we know, one man bears responsibility for this savage act: the person who pulled the trigger. But it would be wrong, catastrophic in fact, to overlook the context in which this crime against the Jewish people unfolded. We cannot close our ears to the mood music in our societies – the screeching surround sound, in fact – that at the very least makes outrages like this one that bit more likely.

Gaza Comes to D.C. A keffiyeh-clad terrorist pulls a trigger. by Aynaz Anni Cyrus

https://www.frontpagemag.com/gaza-comes-to-d-c/

On a quiet May evening in Washington, D.C., two Israeli embassy workers were gunned down outside the Capital Jewish Museum. They weren’t soldiers. They weren’t “occupiers.” They were a couple—Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim—who had just left a humanitarian event. They were planning to get engaged.

Instead, they were executed in cold blood on American soil.

The shooter? A 30-year-old named Elias Rodriguez, wrapped in a red keffiyeh and screaming “Free, free Palestine” as he opened fire. Not in Gaza. Not in Tehran. Right here—in the heart of the United States capital.

This wasn’t some random act of violence. It was a political assassination. A hate crime. And a terrorist attack fueled by a narrative the West keeps feeding.

Rodriguez wasn’t a mentally ill loner. He had a trail:

He marched in BLM protests.
He dabbled in radical activism with the Party for Socialism and Liberation—the same group that has called for “Intifada” in the U.S.
And like so many today, he was infected with the delusion that terrorism is resistance—and murder is justice when the target is Israeli.

And where is the Left now?

Silent. Absent. Complicit.

INVESTIGATION: Uncovering Chinese Academic Espionage at Stanford

https://stanfordreview.org/investigation-uncovering-chinese-academic-espionage-at-stanford/

This summer, a CCP agent impersonated a Stanford student. Under the alias Charles Chen, he approached several students through social media. Anna*, a Stanford student conducting sensitive research on China, began receiving unexpected messages from Charles Chen. At first, Charles’s outreach seemed benign: he asked about networking opportunities. But soon, his messages took a strange turn.

Charles inquired whether Anna spoke Mandarin, then grew increasingly persistent and personal. He sent videos of Americans who had gained fame in China, encouraged Anna to visit Beijing, and offered to cover her travel expenses. He would send screenshots of a bank account balance to prove he could buy the plane tickets. Alarmingly, he referenced details about her that Anna had never disclosed to him.

He advised her to enter China for only 24 to 144 hours, short enough, he said, to avoid visa scrutiny by authorities, and urged her to communicate exclusively via the Chinese version of WeChat, a platform heavily monitored by the CCP. When Charles commented on one of her social media posts, asking her to delete screenshots of their conversations, she knew this was serious. 

Under the guidance of experts familiar with espionage tactics, Anna contacted authorities. Their investigation revealed that Charles Chen had no affiliation with Stanford. Instead, he had posed as a Stanford student for years, slightly altering his name and persona online, targeting multiple students, nearly all of them women researching China-related topics. According to the experts on China who assisted Anna, Charles Chen was likely an agent of the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS), tasked with identifying sympathetic Stanford students and gathering intelligence.

Is the Jihadist Trojan Horse Winning? By Eileen F. Toplansky

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/04/is_the_jihadist_trojan_horse_winning.html

Thirteen years ago, Daniel Greenfield pointed out that

Murfreesboro, a city in the heart of Tennessee, and, Marseille, France’s second-largest city and its largest city on the Mediterranean coast, have few things in common. The two cities are separated by nearly 5,000 miles, and by equally wide divisions of language and culture. And yet Murfreesboro and Marseille are connected by a common challenge. Both cities have struggled against the creeping rise of the mega mosques.

The mega mosque business is booming around the world. The Marseille mega mosque has a proposed capacity of 7,000 seats which would make it the largest mosque in France, overshadowing the Ervy mosque which has a mere 5,000 seats. Both of these French mega mosques would have been dwarfed by a proposed London mega mosque with 12,000 seats and usability targets as high as 40,000. If the London mosque is ever built, it will dominate the Mosque of Rome, currently the most mega of all the mega mosques of Western Europe.

At that time, Eric Allen Bell questioned why it was such a big deal “that a Muslim community [was] simply trying to build a house of worship.”  But Bell did wonder “why … a 53,000 square foot mega mosque” was needed for 250-plus Muslim families living in the area at that time.  And, he asked, “where is all this money coming from?” 

Most puzzling, why is it that after the horrific 9-11 attacks, mosque construction in America has nearly doubled?

The Alien Enemies Act, ‘Public Safety,’ the Separation of Powers, and That Little Word ‘Or’ by Lawrence Kadish

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21508/alien-enemies-act-public-safety

The only matter about which there seems no dispute in President Donald J. Trump’s administration having officially designated Tren de Aragua and Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, is that they are a threat to public safety.

The text of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, written 10 years after the Constitution was ratified, states:

§21 Restraint, regulation, and removal

Whenever there is a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion OR predatory incursion is perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the United States by any foreign nation or government, and the President makes public proclamation of the event, all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of the hostile nation or government, being of the age of fourteen years and upward, who shall be within the United States and not actually naturalized, shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed as alien enemies. The President is authorized in any such event, by his proclamation thereof, or other public act, to direct the conduct to be observed on the part of the United States, toward the aliens who become so liable; the manner and degree of the restraint to which they shall be subject and in what cases, and upon what security their residence shall be permitted, and to provide for the removal of those who, not being permitted to reside within the United States, refuse or neglect to depart therefrom; and to establish any other regulations which are found necessary in the premises and for the public safety.
(R.S. §4067; Apr. 16, 1918, ch. 55, 40 Stat. 531. Emphases added)

The decision to deport alien enemies when a “predatory incursion is perpetrated, attempted, or threatened,” is clearly mandated to the president, who recently ordered deportations of members of Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua, and Latin America’s MS-13.

If anyone was deported unjustly, he can file from abroad for a writ of habeas corpus, to protest having been unjustly imprisoned.

Is Tren de Aragua a Military Incursion? You Bet! Judge Boasberg blocks Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Tren de Aragua, despite intelligence linking the gang to Venezuela’s government and acts of sabotage in the U.S. By Bart Marcois

https://amgreatness.com/2025/03/27/is-tren-de-aragua-a-military-incursion-you-bet/

As President Trump fulfills his campaign promise to deport criminal illegal aliens, a blatantly corrupt judge is trying to stop him. Judge James Boasberg, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, has abandoned all pretense to fairness. I will leave it to others to focus on his conflicts of interest (the FISA Court, his wife, his daughter) and his double standard of justice.

This article is based on an intelligence briefing and refutes Boasberg’s central argument—that it is inappropriate for President Trump to apply the Alien Enemies Act against Tren de Aragua (TdA). Boasberg said TdA is not a foreign government against whom the United States has declared war. But that is a deliberate misreading of the text of the law. The law is quite simple. Here it is, in its entirety:

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever there shall be a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion shall be perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the United States, by any foreign nation or government, and the President of the United States shall make public proclamation of the event, all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of the hostile nation or government, being males of the age of fourteen years and upwards, who shall be within the United States, and not actually naturalized, shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured and removed, as alien enemies. [Emphasis added]

The law states clearly that the predicates for invoking the Act include “any invasion or predatory incursion attempted … by any foreign nation or government” and that “the President shall make public declaration of the event.” Are those conditions met?

The president made the required declaration. On March 15, he issued the official proclamation: “I find and declare that TdA is perpetrating, attempting, and threatening an invasion or predatory incursion against the territory of the United States. TdA is undertaking hostile actions and conducting irregular warfare against the territory of the United States both directly and at the direction, clandestine or otherwise, of the Maduro regime in Venezuela.”

Hamas in America It’s not a protest movement; It’s an invading enemy.Daniel Greenfield

https://www.frontpagemag.com/hamas-in-america/

Sen. Chuck Schumer, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Tim Kaine, Sen. Chris Van Hollen, Sen. Peter Welch, Sen Dick Durbin, Sen. Tammy Baldwin, and 103 House Democrats rallied in support of Mahmoud Khalil: an organizer in a Columbia University terrorist movement that called for “Death to America” and “the total eradication of Western civilization”

Half the House Democrat delegation, the party’s Senate minority leader, its former VP nominee in 2016, and two of its top 3 presidential candidates in 2020 now support the “rights” of this alien enemy to pursue its agendas of destroying Israel and exterminating its Jews, and destroying its indispensable ally America along with the rest of the civilized world.

That’s why David Horowitz’s message was that, “Mahmoud Khalil and his followers are self-declared enemies of America and should be treated as such.” And that’s also the message of the David Horowitz Freedom Center which has always been clear about who the enemy is.

That includes not just the Jihadist allies who terrorized Columbia, scrawling swastikas on its walls, taking janitors hostage and demanding the destruction of America and Israel, but all of their supporters from the street level to the highest levels of political power in Washington D.C.

“When the enemy is US imperialism, then absolutely anyone the US calls an enemy is my friend,” Momodou Taal, the latest foreign student to be targeted for deportation and defended by leftists, declared. That’s a coalition of America’s enemies that potentially includes China, Iran, Russia, Al Qaeda, ISIS, the American Left, and the top leadership of the Democrat Party.

‘Death to America’ is not just a protest slogan and the support of it by top Democrat leaders shows how the radicals who launched their 50-year assault on it succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. From the days of Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden, the Weathermen and their bombs, what people used to call the ‘lunatic left’ is now in command and control of the Democrats.

Media Rallies Against Deportation of Student Who Urged Taking “Cue” from Hamas “My hatred of the US empire knows no bound” Daniel Greenfield

https://www.frontpagemag.com/media-rallies-against-deportation-student-who-urged-taking-cue-from-hamas/

Momodou Taal had a simple plan. Come to America on a student visa to destroy it from within.

In one post, he wrote, “The end of the US empire in our lifetime in sha Allah.” Months later, he celebrated receiving his student visa, writing, “Student Visa issued. We going to America baby! Alhamdulillah!” Shortly thereafter, he tweeted, “My hatred of the US empire knows no bound. Wallahi.”

“When the enemy is US imperialism, then absolutely anyone the US calls an enemy is my friend,” he posted in July. “My hatred for US imperialism and the global system it reproduces knows no bounds,” he wrote one month prior. “At this point; any movement, nation, people who are working to decrease the impact and effects of US imperialism on the world has my support.”

Any sane country would never have let the likes of Momodou Taal inside. But we let him in and welcomed him in every possible way as he chanted support for Islamic terrorism.

While leading an anti-Israel campus demonstration last year, Taal called on his fellow student protesters to take their “cue from the armed resistance in Palestine.”

That is to say Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other Jihadist groups.

Taal made a similar statement hours after the October 7 attacks, writing, “The dialect demands: That wherever you have oppression, you will find those who [are] fighting against it. Glory to the resistance!”

‘Minnesota Men’ Hate U.S., Yearn to Wage Jihad And die as Islamic martyrs. by Lloyd Billingsley

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm-plus/minnesota-men-hate-u-s-yearn-to-wage-jihad/

Abdisatar Ahmed Hassan was arrested on February 27 and charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. As the Department of Justice explains:

Hassan attempted to travel from Minnesota to Somalia to join ISIS on two occasions, neither of which were successful. Hassan attempted to disguise the purpose of his travel as visiting family despite having none in Somalia and was traveling with his birth certificate, naturalization certificate, and high school diploma. The FBI’s investigation established that Hassan publicly supported ISIS on social media through multiple posts and communicated with a Facebook account for the Manjaniq Media Center, which encouraged individuals to travel to join ISIS and touts itself as a media organization of the Islamic Caliphate.

As the investigation revealed:

Hassan praised Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the perpetrator of the ISIS-inspired terrorist attack in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Jan. 1. On Feb. 21, Hassan also posted a video of himself driving while holding a small ISIS flag inside the vehicle, as well as another video of himself driving with an open knife on his lap. On Feb. 26, FBI observed Hassan driving while again holding the ISIS flag.

Compare the account of ABC news, which calls Hassan a “Minnesota man” who “allegedly expressed admiration for the truck attack in New Orleans.” The Minnesota truck attack admirer was not alone in his enthusiasm for the Islamic State. As the Associated Press noted, Abelhamid Al-Madioum, 27, was “among several Minnesotans suspected of leaving the U.S. to join the Islamic State group,” their names available at this link.

Texas: Muslim cleric announces construction of new Muslims-only enclave near Dallas Robert Spencer

https://jihadwatch.org/2025/02/texas-muslim-cleric-announces-construction-of-new-muslims-only-enclave-near-dallas?utm_source=

Allahu Akbar, Texas… A New Sharia City Near Dallas! THIS is how no-go zones begin. THIS is how the West falls… Radical Imam Yasir Qadhi—a terror-linked extremist—is now building EPIC City, a 1,000+ home Islamic stronghold just 30 minutes from Dallas, complete with Sharia-compliant schools, a mosque, and commercial hubs. And he’s selling it to non-Americans, pushing an Islamic separatist agenda right in the heart of Texas.

For many years I warned that Sharia enclaves would be established, and would continue to expand until conflict became inevitable. This was, of course, denounced as “Islamophobia.”