I’m not in it for the clicks. Really. I know social media is addictive. As my wife can attest. As can the screentime usage calculator on my phone.
But I use X, Facebook, Truth Social, and Instagram to ingest news or post on things I hold to be important. I don’t agonize over how to “maximize engagement” or “hack the algorithm” as so many influencers are wont to do (The frequency of my typos can attest to that).
As a result, I am often caught unawares when one of my posts does go viral. Especially when it’s utterly unrehearsed and just raw. Such was the case when I posted a reaction to a 47-minute video I saw on Capitol Hill.
It was the unedited, horrific footage of the October 7 attacks.
I won’t summarize here what I saw. Here’s the post of my reaction after I saw it, which stands at more than one and a half million views to date.
Instead, I’ll take you back to that time, the greatest loss of Jewish life since the end of the Holocaust, the end of the Shoah. You will recall what decent people, who understood the civilizational juxtaposition between the West and barbarity, said after that horrific day. They believed even the godless Leftists and secular Jews of America would finally wake up. I was told this repeatedly by my Orthodox Jewish friends. But did they?
No, they didn’t.
How else can we explain what we witnessed a scant week ago in Washington, D.C., or just a few days ago in Boulder, CO? A beautiful young couple was gunned down by a man shouting “Free, free Palestine!” Or just days later an Egyptian illegal immigrant immolating Jewish American senior citizens as he called them “Zionists child-killers,” and likewise spat “Free Palestine!” One of the victims had survived the era of death camps and Holocaust ovens only to be burnt by a man who exploited Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ open borders and applied for “asylum” only after he’d overstayed his temporary B1/B2 visa.
We didn’t wake up as a nation after what happened so far away in Israel. Just look at how quickly the first attack in Washington, D.C. has been seemingly Memory Holed already.
The harsh fact is that Americans have allowed an ideological cancer to metastasize through our society and body politic. That is why a young couple and a group of pensioners are being shot and burnt alive on our streets.
That cancer is the ideology of Global Jihad and can be traced back directly to the Ikhwan Muslimeen, or Muslim Brotherhood, the organization that is the direct ancestor to every Islamist threat we face today. This is the organization created right after Kemal Ataturk, the first President of Turkey, dissolved the theocratic Caliphate of Islam after World War I in an attempt to integrate his nation with the West.
The Brotherhood saw the separation of Mosque and State as fundamentally “haram,” as blasphemous, and so decided to establish an overt and clandestine organization with chapters around the world which would subvert “democracy,” assassinate apostate heads of state, or simply cow innocents into submission through acts of terror. That is how we eventually got al Qaeda, that is how we got ISIS, that is how we got Hamas, which even admitted proudly in its founding charter that it is a chapter of the original Brotherhood, stating: “The Islamic Resistance Movement is one of the wings of Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine.”
We have been told that this is all about self-determination, this about post-colonial politics. It is not.
Think about the slaying of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim. Practically every headline describes the couple as “Embassy staffers” or the pair “who worked for the Israeli embassy.” But as Sarah Williamson has so trenchantly pointed out, Yaron and Sarah weren’t murdered leaving the embassy or a diplomatic function. They were killed leaving a Jewish museum. They were killed for religious reasons.
Just as Mohamed Sabry Soliman threw Molotov cocktails at the seniors in Boulder not because of some geopolitical argument but because the victims are Jews. This isn’t some form of geopolitical “resistance,” this is Intifada and Jihad on the streets of America, and President Trump has been as clear as he can be on that fact.
As the commander-in-chief stated after the last attack, we will not tolerate religious war in America. In response to not taking the threat seriously for four years, Secretary Noem has secured our borders. Tom Homan, our border czar, is locating the most egregious threats Biden and Harris allowed unvetted into our Republic and is having them deported. Stephen Miller, President Trump’s Homeland Security Advisor, is implementing a whole range of measures to secure the Continental U.S. Pam Bondi, Kash Patel and Dan Bongino are identifying the Jihadists who are plotting against the innocent, and my team at the NSC has prepared the president’s new draft of the U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy, which returns us to the truth about who the enemy is. To top all that, our military and intelligence assets have killed more than 160 ISIS and al Qaeda Jihadists around the globe, thanks to President Trump giving us the green light just 8 days into his second term.
America is finally back in the business of counterterrorism.