Intifada Here! Intifada Now!

The evil consequences of appeasement and enabling calls for violence

The Boulder Attack: Rhetoric Turns to Violence (Again)

On June 1, 2025, a horrific act of violence shook Boulder, Colorado, when Mohamed Sabry Soliman, a 45-year-old Egyptian national, allegedly used a makeshift flamethrower and Molotov cocktails to attack a peaceful Jewish community event. The gathering was a weekly walk to raise awareness for Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza since October 7, 2023. Eight people, aged 52 to 88, including a Holocaust survivor, were injured, some critically, as Soliman reportedly shouted “Free Palestine” while wielding a homemade flamethrower and hurling Molotov cocktails into the crowd.

Some might ask, “How did we get here?” The answer lies, in part, in the unchecked proliferation of inflammatory rhetoric that promotes the murder of Jews. Calls for “Intifada here, intifada now,” “From the river to the sea,” “Free Palestine,” and the like have become commonplace on so-called “elite” campuses where they permeate political protests. They all are thinly disguised calls for violence and even genocide. And it is not the skinheads or the Aryan Brotherhood who are the principal bad actors in the U.S. jihad. it includes the so-called students and academics in our formerly premier universities, and their enablers in the ancien régime media, corporate boardrooms, and halls of Congress.

Look at just a few of the hundreds of examples of such unchecked and terror-enabling acts and rhetoric cataloged by the Anti-Defamation League:

• After the killing of the head of Hamas, Ushuaia Sinwar, students at the University of Virginia posted a photograph of Sinwar pulling a pistol from his waistband, accompanied by this paean: “Peace be upon you, a prisoner, a leader, a fighter, a martyr.”

• At the University of California, Berkeley, the school’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter posted an image of Sinwar with the pistol and other messages glorifying him.

• Students from the City University of New York fell all over themselves in their haste, to praise their dearly departed terrorist leader, saying:

“The news regarding the great commander has left our hearts heavy and out [sic] chests breathless. Today, we mourn the loss and celebrate the martyrdom of the lion of Al Quds, the beloved Commander, President, Fighter, his eminence, Yahya Sinwar… Every kuffiyeh drawn on the neck of a CUNY student is tied to the neck of the great commander who woke up the world from their deep daze…. Indeed it is a Jihad of victory or martyrdom.”

That is how we got here. The “protestors,” who include a mix of blatant terrorists, amateur terrorists-in-training, privileged students imbued with self-importance, their media allies, and other apologists justify these calls to arms as just innocent and constitutionally protected free speech. As my Brit friends would say, “bollocks.”

“Intifada” – A Call to Arms

The term “intifada” refers historically to two Palestinian uprisings against Israel, marked by “indiscriminate acts of violence against Israelis, including suicide bombings, shootings and stabbings, targeting people on city buses, eating in restaurants or out at nightclubs – resulting in over 1,000 people killed.” This was long before the pre-medieval style atrocities of October 7, 2003.

When protesters in the U.S. chant “Intifada here, intifada now” or “Globalize the intifada,” there is no legitimate dispute that they are promoting and inviting that kind of murderous terrorism.

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Some apologists in the ancien régime media and elsewhere have attempted to whitewash the term “intifada” by claiming that it translates “uprising” or “shaking off” in Arabic. This calls to mind the attempt by Obama’s CIA director, the despicable John Brennan, when he attempted to justify “jihad” as nothing more than a “holy struggle” and a “legitimate tenet of Islam” that was merely intended “to purify oneself or one’s community.” Bollocks, indeed.

But just as Islamic terrorists use “jihad” not as a self-improvement slogan, but to describe and justify killing non-Muslims and even their perceived Islamic enemies, the demands for “Intifada here, intifada now” are not mere slogans but are widely understood as a call to murderous action.

Intifada is asymmetrical and unconventional warfare. It may utilize large and well-trained paramilitary forces but does not rely exclusively on a central command authority or conventionally armed killers. Its planners and perpetrators may rely on small, autonomous cells or “lone wolf” single attackers. Some may use C-4 or potassium nitrate explosives or conventional firearms, while the weapons of choice for others may be a knife, truck, explosive drones, or, as in Boulder, fire. In fact, fire is high on their list as a weapon of choice.

GTCS’s Homeland Security has documented how the ISIS practitioners of Jihad teach their followers to wage the intifada war.

The 4-minute video “Incite the Believers” issued by Al-Hayat Media Center, released in both English and Arabic, shows items such as a power drill and a handgun ….

It shows ISIS publications including Dabiq magazine … that have included calls for lone jihadists to act or offered tactic tutorials.

In its video the ISIS group takes note of a slight problem: Some would-be jihadists may “look around yourself and you do not find a weapon that you can use to subdue the enemy of Allah.”

What’s a poor weaponless jihadist to do? Fear not for ISIS has some helpful hints for the ill-equipped terrorist:

“Consider which you can use easily and without drawing attention to yourself and making the result be death, destruction and heavy losses to the enemies,” the narrator states. “Yes, my brother, it is that weapon which is within reach of every hand and even children are proficient using it, and people have used it since ancient times to harm their enemies — yes, it is fire.”

A graphic lists explosives, pistol, machine gun, hand grenade, sniper rifle, and RPG as “unavailable,” followed by another graphic listing as “available” knife, electrocution, “hunting gun,” “rope for strangulation,” “firestarter,” “car for ramming,” and “toxic substance.” The graphic includes star ratings for each tactic, giving the firestarter five stars, the car four stars, three stars for the hunting gun, and just two stars for the rest.

Just an internal struggle for self-betterment and to “purify oneself”? Yet more bollocks.

Intifada Here? Now? A Culture of Incitement

The Boulder attack by fire is not an isolated incident. The intifada in the U.S. has already begun.

How many such actors are now in the U.S.? How many terrorist cells are waiting for the best time to strike. We have no better answer to this than did the citizens and police in Boulder before last Sunday.

What we do know is that enabled by the open borders policies of the Biden/Harris administration and with the connivance of many of our “elites” including those wielding the autopen, such terrorists are here. Tens or hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied military-aged men crossed our border, aided by the Biden administration, shady NGOs, and countless others. We know that some of them are in terrorist cells. They want to kill Americans, especially Jews. Absent a central commander, lone attackers inspired by the “kill the Jews” rhetoric will continue to launch such attacks at times and places of their own choosing. As for the organized cells? Well, the worse is yet to come.

There are an ample number of fools and worse who support them. We have seen Columbia University students supporting the intifada:

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When the real intifada comes to town:

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The jihadists and their enablers are not merely here among us, trying to make a better life for themselves. They are already acting on their hatred. The Anti-Defamation League has documented a sharp spike in antisemitic incidents since Hamas launched its murderous and sadistic jihad on October 7, 2023, including multiple terrorist plots or attacks targeting Jews. And the perpetrators are not all Palestinians. Other sympathizers and mentally unbalanced people who have fallen for the Hamas propaganda also are motived by the hate speech. They, too, are acting.

There have been at least three violent terror attacks in less than the last two months. Two followed the ISIS playbook by employing fire as a weapon. The Boulder atrocity by fire followed the arson attack on Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s home, and the Washington, D.C., murder of two young Israelis. These acts are not isolated one-off incidents. They reflect a growing acceptance of antisemitic violence enabled by provocateurs employing the guise of innocent political activism.

When a deranged actor attempted to burn down the residence of Josh Shapiro, the Governor of Pennsylvania, Shapiro and his family were asleep inside and could easily have been burned to death. A previous unknown, one Cody Balmer, has been charged with the attack. After the attack the would-be killer made clear that the attempted murder by fire was motivated by the rhetoric that he had absorbed. He reportedly called 911 spouting that, “Governor Josh Shapiro needs to know that he ‘... will not take part in his plans for what he wants to do to the Palestinian people.’”

Just over a month later, on May 21, another killer succeeded in murdering two young people Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. Yaron and Sarah were engaged to be married. He also had been radicalized by what he had been taught by the radicals on TV. According to one witness, after murdering both, the killer “reached into his backpack, pulled out a keffiyeh and said, "I did this for Gaza, free Palestine."’ After being taken into custody, Elias Rodriguez began to chant, "Free, free Palestine."

Then came Boulder with another Mohammed trying to do his duty to Allah (as he had been taught to conceive it) by setting people on fire, including an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor. Evil personified. But it is an evil enabled and encouraged by, among others, young fools whose parents are shelling out hundreds of thousands of dollars for an Ivy League education.

These killings are a direct result of such rhetoric that has been spewed and amplified on our “elite” college campuses and in political demonstrations where activists often frame their protests as expressions of solidarity with Palestinians. While advocating for Palestinian rights is not inherently antisemitic, the endorsement and encouragement of “intifada” in these contexts carries a clear implication: Violence against Jews or others those perceived as supporting Israel is not only right but is necessary. When such violence is endorsed over and over, murders should not come as a surprise.

This . . . .

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leads to this.

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Denials of responsibility by well-fed academics ring hollow.

A Call for Accountability

The normalization of such rhetoric on college campuses and other activist/terrorist training grounds has created an environment where extreme actions are rationalized as necessary to achieve a just cause. Many supporters who see and hear protests glorifying violence through calls for “intifada” are thereby inspired to act with bloody results.

When campuses tolerate or amplify slogans that implicitly or explicitly call for violence, they contribute to a culture where individuals like Mohammed Soliman will feel emboldened to translate words into actions.

The Boulder attack is a tragic reminder that words have power. “Intifada” chants are not neutral. In the context in which they are shouted, they should not be regarded as protected speech under the First Amendment. Their historical and ideological weight inspires not only hatred but violence. While free speech is a cornerstone of democratic society, it must not extend to incitement to murder. Although we may be forced to tolerate some unpleasant, even hateful, speech, in some contexts it is the equivalent of shouting “fire” in a crowded theater. The FBI’s investigation into the Boulder attack as an act of terrorism should prompt a broader national reckoning with how protest rhetoric is contributing to deadly acts.

Current law protects inflammatory, even threatening speech as a First Amendment right unless it is a “clear and present danger.” The “present danger” requirement has been held to require that to forfeit constitutional protection, speech must incite “imminent” violence or other lawless action. Given the present environment and the nature of the war we are in (whether all know it or not), DOJ may need to encourage courts to reconsider the context and what constitutes “imminent” danger in light of modern warfare and terrorist tactics.

The responsibility for curtailing the effects of such hatred, even speech, extends beyond law enforcement and the government. Universities, political leaders, and tuition-paying parents must confront the consequences of rhetoric that vilifies an entire community. They each have their own tools and leverage but must develop the will to use them. The Trump administration is trying to force such a reckoning, but many, such as the Harvard swells, are fighting for freedom to shelter those who promote jihad, death and destruction.

The Jewish people across the U.S. deserves to live without fear of being targeted for their identity or beliefs. Campus and political leaders must not tolerate slogans that glorify or imply harm; they must foster dialogue that respects differing views without demonizing entire groups; they must hold accountable those who cross the line into incitement. Those who refuse must be rightfully held to account by the Administration, by prospective students and their parents, and in the case of political leaders, their party leadership and voters. The path forward requires not just sympathetic words, but action to dismantle the narratives and policies that fuel such attacks. And those who are determined to wage war upon us must be destroyed.

The ongoing intifada provides a potential turning point, if only our professed leaders will see it. They must recognize that the line between rhetoric and violence is thinner than we think and that the calls for intifada in this country are not just innocent slogans, but a clear and present danger. The present crisis — and it is a crisis — should inspire a serious and sustained call to arms to oppose jihad and intifada here. The fight will necessarily take many forms, some of which the Trump administration is already implementing. They will not all be popular. But they are necessary. Our national security requires no less.

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