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The Art That We Keep Or Destroy

2026-04-06T23:53:00.004-04:00

The Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, has called for the removal of a mural of Iryna Zarutska, a young Ukrainian refugee whose brutal murder was caught on video, because, according to Mayor Smiley, because of its “misguided, isolating intent”.

Providence has a BLM street mural covering three blocks and a “Love is a Many Gendered Thing” mural, but Mayor Smiley urged supporting artists “whose work brings us closer together rather than divide us” and remembering Irina’s murder divides us.

Unlike BLM and “Love is a Many Gendered Thing” which bring us together.

In New York City, a mural of the murdered woman was vandalized after being up for less than two weeks. In Chicago, it was vandalized in less than a month.

But not all murals and acts of iconoclasm are created equally or treated equally.

Over in Milwaukee, a 74-year-old rabbi was sentenced for vandalizing a terrorist mural depicting the Star-of-David as a swastika. According to media reports, the Muslim ‘artist’ had to be removed from the courtroom after he “acknowledged his support for Hamas”.

People have gone to prison for driving over street BLM and LGBTQ murals while radical mobs have become heroes for tearing down Civil War statues and Columbus monuments. Write “Black Pre-Born Lives Matter” outside Planned Parenthood and you will be arrested, but scrawl “Black Lives Matter” and “Defund the Police” and you’ll get a grant. The two-tier culture war politicisation applies to our monuments and murals.

In D.C., ‘preservationists’ have expressed outrage and fought legal battles with the Trump administration over the White House State Ballroom, Eisenhower Office Building, and the Kennedy Center renovations. The latest such lawsuit comes from a coalition that includes the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States, the DC Preservation League and Cultural Heritage Partners who are complaining that the ugly seventies modernist mausoleum is “an iconic architectural treasure” whose structures “carry cultural and symbolic significance far beyond the nation’s capital.”

Where were these ‘preservationists’ when radical mobs were tearing down statues and monuments over a century old? They were cheering them on.

The National Trust not only backed taking down Confederate monuments, but actually cheered on the vandalism of the statue of Francis Scott Key, the writer of the poem that became America’s national anthem, while falsely claiming that the lines of the full poem, “No refuge could save the hireling and slave/From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave/And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave/O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave” were racist. Any actual historian knows that this was a reference to mercenaries and ‘impressed’ sailors, forced to serve, a major cause of the conflict.

Cultural Heritage Partners, a law firm, previously bragged that “we proudly represent clients who seek to have monuments removed from public lands, relocated, or recontextualized in order to be able to tell fully truthful history and create a more inclusive future.” Cultural Heritage Destruction Partners might be more accurate.

The DC Preservation League announced that it was “committed to the struggle for racial justice” by which it meant that “while some monuments are longstanding elements of historic landscapes or exemplify the work of master artists and craft persons, they may reinforce past values and ideologies which are repugnant today, and their continuing display in public spaces may be unacceptable.” Examples of monuments it opposed included the statue of Andrew Jackson and the Emancipation Memorial, known as the original Lincoln Memorial, showing President Abraham Lincoln freeing a slave.

According to the very selective preservationists, the Kennedy Center, dating back to the seventies, is a national treasure, but an 1876 statue of Lincoln ending slavery isn’t.

The monuments and the murals that are kept and those being destroyed have nothing to do with art, historicity or a respect for the past, only a culture war being fought for the future. This culture war flies the false flags of “inclusivity” with the vandals claiming that they are out to preserve inclusive art, as Mayor Smiley put it, those “whose work brings us closer together rather than divide us”, but it’s not about bringing us closer together.

The two-tier enforcement of public art is like everything else about the triumph of a cultural narrative. Much like the ancient pharaohs and caesars of old who vandalized old monuments to make way for the new, their idea of art is all about power. That their preferences end up upholding concrete ugliness, like the Kennedy Center, over classic statuary, is a symptom, and not an unintentional one, of the aesthetics of their politics.

Art is memory and they would rather that we remember George Floyd as an innocent victim of the police, rather than as a violent thug who robbed a pregnant woman at gunpoint, and they would rather that we not remember Iryna Zarutska or innocent crime victims at all. Columbus, Washington and Jefferson must go, but these days so must the statues of Cesar Chavez, because the power to erase the past is also the power to control the culture. Regular cultural cleansings, justified or not, put the ‘party’ in control of collective memory, constantly deciding what gets to stay and what must be purged.

The art that truly moves us isn’t political, but art has become infected with power.

Art talks to us about love, heroism and beauty. It asks us what we love and what we want to be. But in this Orwellian culture, everything, especially culture, is reducible to power. Art becomes ugliness. A means of bullying the public with the party’s repetitive slogans. History is constantly being warped by an ideology that constructs new narratives on top of the old. Art used to be inspiring: it’s now depressing. A radical movement incapable of celebrating anything except its own ideology has seized control of our culture. It doesn’t make art, all it does is make ideological idolatry.

And the right of the iconoclast, the monopoly on cultural violence, it reserves for itself.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.

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The Truth About Israel’s ‘Death Penalty for Terrorists Bill’

2026-04-06T01:39:00.003-04:00

In 2003, Limor Son Har-Melech was 7 months pregnant and driving home with her husband, Shalom, an ambulance driver, when Islamic terrorists attacked them. The car rolled over, killing her husband and injuring Limor. Seriously injured, the 24-year-old mother survived. So did her newborn daughter. Limor, still carrying the scars of the attack, married again, had children and decided to run for public office in Israel to protect others from what she had suffered.

Last year, MK Limor, a member of the Knesset, was stunned to learn that her husband’s killer was being freed as part of the disastrous deal trading 2,000 Islamic terrorists for hostages.

“This morning I woke up to the news that the terrorist who murdered my husband was released in a deal – no one told us about it,” she said.

So she sponsored a new bill, the ‘Death Penalty for Terrorists Bill’. The bill calls for the “death penalty” for anyone “who intentionally caused the death of a person in an act of terrorism”.

The bill was supported by family members of the victims of Islamic terrorist attacks in Israel.

Deborah Gonen, the mother of Danny Gonen, a young man murdered in a terrorist attack, who founded the ‘Choosing Life Forum’ to stop terrorist funding, endorsed the bill, saying, “We, the bereaved families, demand the death penalty so that there will be no more victims like my son Danny.”

Haim Smadar, a Jewish refugee from the Muslim world working as a security guard, and a father of deaf children, died stopping an Islamic terrorist from blowing up in a supermarket, telling him, “You are not coming in here. You and I will blow up here.”

“I call on all Knesset members to vote for this bill, as it saves lives, stopping those who are coming to kill us again and again,” his son said.

Eliyahu Libman, who lost his brother in a terrorist attack, and who lost his son, a security officer who was saving lives at the Nova festival, on Oct 7, declared that “a terrorist “doesn’t deserve to live after he took the lives of others. And I say this from my personal experience.”

“The killers of my brother were freed in the Shalit deal (during which over 1,000 Islamic terrorists were released in exchange for one hostage). They killed my son and all the others. The terrorists want to kill and go on killing. When they are executed, it saves many lives.”

When an Islamic terrorist burst into the Solomon home on the Sabbath, the family were celebrating the birth of their grandson. The terrorist stabbed to death the 70-year-old grandfather, Michal Solomon managed to hustle her three children, including two infants, into a room and held the door against the attacker. Her husband was murdered.

Dan Landau, Michal’s father, endorsed the bill saying, “Enough with terrorists who get vacations, enough with terrorists who receive good conditions in prison. It’s time they pay the full price for the blood they spilled.”

The parents of Rita Gusak, 21, murdered by Hamas terrorists at the Nova musical festival on Oct 7, spoke out in favor of the bill.” The terrorist standing before us doesn’t even try to hide it — he proudly publishes it and documents it.”

“I am in favor of the death penalty law for terrorists, because they murdered my father,” the son of Meir Lixenberg, a murdered father of 5, said.

Many other family members also spoke out in favor of a death penalty for terrorists.

However, once the bill was signed, it was immediately condemned by European governments and a social media campaign based on lies was quickly whipped up, claiming that the bill was racist because it would execute Arab Muslims rather than Jews. All of that is completely false.

The bill only applies to non-citizen terrorists who live under military jurisdiction. It doesn’t apply to Israeli citizens, Jews or Arabs, or whatever their religion may be. The legal basis for this is much the same as the Article III military tribunals that were used in Gitmo after 9/11.

Media and social media accounts chose to completely ignore MK Limor Son Har-Melech, whose bill it was, because her story was too sympathetic, in favor of retweeting a brief clip from a Hamas-linked account, featuring Itamar Ben Gvir, a leader of her party, celebrating the bill.

There was no mention that the bill had come from a survivor of terrorism, that it had been championed by family members of terror victims, or that it was made necessary by disastrous hostage deals like the Shalit deal and the Hamas hostage deal which freed thousands of Islamic terrorists to kill again and which incentivized future attacks and future hostage taking.

The European Union claimed that the bill was “deeply concerning” because “the death penalty is a violation of the right to life”. The terrorists facing the death penalty violated the right to life of others and will do so again if they are set loose. As the EU would indeed like to see happen.

The UK, French, Australian and German governments claimed that the bill was “discriminatory” and would undermine “Israel’s commitments with regards to democratic principles”, contending that “the death penalty is an inhumane and degrading form of punishment without any deterring effect.” If their countries had the death penalty, their crime rate wouldn’t be out of control.

The UK has resorted to banning kitchen knives rather than cracking down on criminals.

France last executed a Muslim pimp by guillotine in 1977 for running a sex grooming gang and kidnapping, torturing and strangling a French woman to death. Imagine if France were willing to do that today. And would thousands of girls have been raped in the UK if the Pakistani Muslim sex grooming gangs knew that they faced not a cushy few years in prison, but death?

European foreign ministers have had little to say about Saudi Arabia, Iran, Yemen, Brunei and Mauritania’s Islamic death penalties for gay people. They don’t mind when Muslim countries kill gay people in the name of Islam, only when Christians and Jews stand up to Islamic terrorism.

The ‘Palestinian Authority’ has a law on the books calling for the death penalty for their own people who sell land to Jews. And there are of course no objections to that racist decree.

Israel has lived through generations of Islamic terror and genocide. Only now, after the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, did it pass a death penalty bill. The law will almost certainly be blocked by Israel’s leftist supreme court and terror victims will be denied justice. Islamic terrorists will get fake life sentences that only last until the terrorists take a hostage.

If opponents of the ‘Death Penalty for Terrorists Bill’ had a legitimate argument to make, they wouldn’t have to lie about the bill, distort it, hide who it came from and who supports it. But the Left wants to pretend that it’s humane and decent even as it unleashes terrorists who stab, rape and kill their victims while running them through a revolving door system that rewards terrorism.

Limor Son Har-Melech refused to give up when the car rolled over and she lost her husband. Her courageous fight to hold Islamic terrorists accountable should be an example to us all.

Democracy is Racist

2026-04-05T02:00:00.002-04:00

California Democrats have a problem with their leading candidates. One doesn’t live in the state but allegedly lived, in the euphemistic sense, with a Chinese spy. Another has the looks and personality of a distempered boar and can’t stop screaming at staffers, reporters and anyone late with her lunch. A third is a billionaire who convenes events at luxury hotels to explain how he’ll fight against the billionaires for the working class he sometimes reads about in the paper.

And those are their most popular candidates.

But since this is California, the real problem is that all of those candidates are all the wrong color. Their skin lacks melanin. Two of them can’t even tan. Their distant ancestors probably came here on the Mayflower or some other European sailing vessel. Basically they’re white.

Much too white.

There are other more ‘diverse’ candidates like a Latino former Los Angeles mayor, a Chinese State Controller, a Black Jewish school superintendent, and Biden’s former Latino Secretary of Health and Human Services (he’s still Latino, but a former secretary), but the public isn’t interested in voting for them or giving them money and so they’re not viable candidates.

What are the Democrats to do when their voters just aren’t interested in diversity?

The crisis of the #TooWhite Democrat ticket came to a head when USC was forced to cancel the first gubernatorial debate because all of the candidates were white and mostly male. If the Oscars, the Golden Globes and hockey had to be revamped because there were too many white people, shouldn’t the candidates for the governorship of a diverse state be diverse?

The problem is that the voters don’t agree which means that democracy is racist.

Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, who insists he is not white, Senate President Monique Limon, who has also achieved the great distinction of not being white despite probably not being able to tan, along with the leaders of the Latino, Black, Asian, LGBTQ and numerous other caucuses, all signed a letter claiming that there was “growing alarm from California voters” because “every excluded leading candidate… is a person of color” and warned that if “USC does not do the right thing, we call on California voters to boycott this debate.” And then probably the election.

The candidates that the diverse leaders of the state claimed were excluded are polling respectively at 3%, 3%, 1% and 1%. The selection process of the gubernatorial debate that they claimed was biased is indeed biased. It’s biased against politicians polling between 1% and 3%.

Together all the diverse candidates add up to 8%. California voters aren’t ‘alarmed’, they’re not interested in the ‘diverse’ candidates who talk a lot about their diverse backgrounds as the children of immigrants who pulled themselves up by their bootstraps to becoming millionaire state officials. (One of the septuagenarian diverse candidates recently got to keep his $3.5 million mansion in the divorce, another diverse candidate has a net worth of over $7 million.)

Only the Latino candidates even crack 3%. The Black and Chinese candidates are at 1%.

Whose fault is this? If voters don’t like diverse candidates, what can be done to cure them? Gunpoint Drag Queen Story Hour? Electroshock therapy accompanied by Candace Owens podcasts? Mandatory tickets to WNBA games held in North Korean labor camps? Netflix?

Golden State Democrats have weeks in which to either convince voters that they need to be more diverse in their political choices or just do what the Oscars did and import a bunch of outsiders and make them voters in order to rebalance the system to manufacture diversity.

The problem with Plan B is that’s been the official policy of California Democrats for the last 35 years. Its elected officials have wrecked the state, bankrupted it, threatened law enforcement with several penalties and fought a near civil war against the federal government in order to keep the border open and fill every part of it with illegal aliens. Especially illegal alien criminals.

California Democrats also dismantled any kind of voter security measures and made it possible for a Venezuelan here for three weeks to still vote. And, despite all that, the party is too white.

What else is a party that already bitterly clings to demographic replacement supposed to do?

Opponents of the USC debate keep speaking in the name of “democracy” and “voters” when those are their leading obstacles. The only way to save California’s diversity is to get rid of the voters and democracy in the name of democracy and the voters because that’s what they would want if they weren’t such miserable racists. Sometimes you have to kill democracy to save it.

Democrats have flirted with various ways of sidelining democracy, like enabling voter fraud, inviting in illegal aliens to create ‘ghost districts’, ranked choice voting which gave us Zohran Mamdani, and late ballot dumps which gave us Karen Bass in Los Angeles and Katie Wilson in Seattle, but the current California candidate diversity crisis can’t be fixed with half-measures.

There are other options on the horizon, like proportional representation, which would finally ensure that the Communist Party would have some official legislative seats, but 1% only gets you so much. The truly anti-racist position may be to recognize that democracy is racist.

If democracy leads to minority candidates polling at only 1% while white men take the rest of the voters, it becomes all too obvious that letting the people elect their leaders is systemically racist.

Sure, 32% of California’s registered voters are Latino, 16% are Asian and 5% are black, making for a majority minority electorate that helped Democrats turn the state into a one-party system, but they must be suffering from internalized unconscious bias if they won’t vote for diversity.

When states are accused of systemic racism and disparate impact, they’re forced to sign consent decrees admitting to their racism and promising to implement specific policies to rig the system in favor of minorities. Each California voter must be forced to sign a similar consent decree acknowledging that he, she or xer was biased for not supporting minority candidates and promising to vote for them instead of whichever white person they were originally supporting.

Or California could just abolish elections. It’s the only truly anti-racist thing the state can do.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.

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Spain Euthanizes Girl Raped by Migrants

2026-03-30T11:20:00.001-04:00

“I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants,” Pedro Sanchez headlined his New York Times op-ed. “The West needs people. Currently, few of its countries have a rising population growth rate. Unless they embrace migration, they will experience a sharp demographic decline.”

Spain’s demographic decline is helped along by the nearly 1,000 euthanasia cases a year. Those who die are replaced with the growing flood of Muslim championed by Sanchez. The West needs people, but only certain kinds of people, and it euthanizes the wrong kind.

Spain’s population is set to shrink by one more as Noelia Castillo Ramos, a 25-year-old girl in a wheelchair, has her life ended before it even really began under the authority of the state.

Prime Minister Sanchez claimed that migrants “care for aging parents, work at small and large companies, harvest the food that’s on the table.”

Migrants also raped Noelia.

Her parents lost custody of her after they divorced when she was only thirteen and she bounced around between foster care and government shelters. At twenty-one, she was gang raped in a shelter that had been occupied by the migrants whom the Spanish government had welcomed into the country.

Noelia tried to commit suicide by jumping from the fifth floor, but survived and ended up as a paraplegic in a wheelchair. According to her father, she needs psychological help, but according to the Sanchez regime, the European Court of Human Rights and the elites, she needs to die.

An El-Pais article, Spain’s biggest papers, began with the sentence, “Noelia should be dead.”

The West needs Muslim migrants, but it doesn’t need Noelia or any of the other girls they assault. The West needs migrants, and it needs its native population to die off or be killed.

Noelia’s case has been Spain’s first legal battle over euthanasia. Her father, represented by a pro-bono Catholic legal group, has been fighting unsuccessfully for her life against the euthanizers. The girl had signed a document brought to her by two nuns requesting that she not be killed, but the hospital rushed to bring in a notary to annul the document and call for death.

After a two year legal battle, Noelia’s fate has been sealed. She has spent twelve years of her young life in the care of the state and now the state will kill her to make way for more migrants.

In 2022, the year in which Noeila was gang raped and put on the path to ending her life, tens of thousands of migrants invaded Spain, and the country ‘gained’ nearly half a million new residents in just six months, while a quarter of a million immigrated out of the country.

Most of the migrant invaders are coming from the Islamic states of Algeria, Mali, Morocco, Senegal and Somalia: where rape is habitual and non-Muslim women are seen as fair game.

There were 1,249 rapes in Spain in 2016. In 2022, the year Noelia was gang raped, there were 2,865 rapes. In 2023, rapes climbed to 4,890. The quadrupling of rapes in a country in 6 years has been with suggestions that Spain needs more feminism, legal reforms and protest rallies.

And, of course, more of the Muslim mass migration that all of these leftist groups support.

After three American tourists from Ohio were raped by Afghan migrants in Spain, the United States Embassy in Madrid issued a warning about the risk of sexual assault. The embassy warned of systematic sexual assaults “against young U.S. citizen visitors and students throughout Spain” and reported that it had dealt with six sexual assault cases in just one month.

Muslim migrants who commit sexual assaults have little to worry about from the Spanish legal system which is weighed towards migrants and against their victims.

Last year, a Senegalese Muslim migrant who raped a 14-year-old girl was released with a fine.

This year, the Sanchez regime announced a plan to legalize 500,000 migrants even as the European Court of Human Rights approved the killing of Noelia Castillo Ramos.

Spain’s government has argued that it will need 25 million migrants over the next generation. A system for rapidly and smoothly killing their victims will be equally important for the transition.

How many will have to die, hundreds of thousands, millions, to make way for the migrants?

There are more Noelias across Europe.

In the Netherlands, Noa Pothoven’s case made headlines when she repeatedly applied for euthanasia after suffering multiple rapes, and eventually starved herself to death. In France, Lola Daviet, a 12-year-old girl, was found decapitated after she was raped by a female Algerian Muslim illegal alien, then stabbed to death with scissors and stuffed into a suitcase. Lola’s father died of grief. The Muslim grooming gangs in the UK and Finland led to suicides by their victims.

The dead include Charlotte Tetley who sat down on the tracks and waited for a train after begging the NHS for help. Charlotte had suffered severe trauma after being groomed by the Pakistani Muslim members of the Rochdale grooming gang. The police, who had been accused of a cover-up in the sex grooming gang case, refused to look for her before she killed herself.

Euthanasia is the easy and simple solution to all these awkward cases that raise questions about the complicity of the authorities in the mass migration and rapes across Europe.

Muslim mass migration has sent rapes skyrocketing across Europe, and the authorities now have the ability to efficiently dispose of the victims in a hospital setting before they make too much noise. There is a price to pay for everything and leaders like Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez have decided what the price is and who will pay it. It will not be the Afghans, Somalis and Algerian Muslim migrants, but the girls they rape and discard in the streets of Spain.

The state will legalize the migrants and kill the girls.

Sanchez claimed that he’s welcoming mass migration because “the West needs people”. The West has people. It has people like Noelia. It’s killing them to get the people that it wants.

The people who will do to the West what they are doing to its girls and its children.

Some say that mass migration is national suicide. That’s not true. It’s national euthanasia.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.

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It’s Not ‘ISIS’, It’s the ‘Allah Finger’

2026-03-28T23:27:00.003-04:00

When Emir Balat, accused of taking part in throwing IEDs at a rally against the Islamization of New York City near the mayoral residence, was being led out by an FBI agent, he raised his right finger upwards in what media accounts incorrectly described as an “ISIS salute”.

The New York Post called it “a universal salute for ISIS”. But there is no such thing as an ISIS salute. It’s the traditional Islamic salute used during prayers to their deity and, much like “Allahu Akbar” is used by Islamists proclaiming that they represent Allah and are combating infidels.

ISIS beheaders held up one finger after beheading their non-Muslim victims, but so do most Muslims. The ISIS flag, a terrifying black and white chimera to most westerners, simply declares that Allah is the only deity and Mohammed is his messenger: the founding premise of Islam.

The persistent myth of an ‘ISIS salute’ continues to crop up when media outlets try to distinguish between Islam and some imaginary ‘extreme’ version of it represented by Islamic terrorists. The BBC and a UK police force previously apologized for calling the ‘Allah finger’ an ISIS salute.

What the ‘ISIS salute’ lie really reveals is the length to which authorities and the media will go to cover up the Islamic theology behind Islamic terrorism. What the Gracie Mansion bombing suspect likely meant to convey was that the murderous attack had been carried out in Allah’s name, that he was operating under Islamic law, and had no regard for our justice system.

Islam is not an inward-facing faith. Its followers do not shout “Allahu Akbar” or hold up one finger as part of some ‘inner struggle’ of faith, as apologists have mischaracterized Jihad, but as symbols of their external struggle and a justification for violence against all non-Muslims.

The significance of the ‘Allah finger’ is not an inward acceptance of Allah’s supremacy, but a contention that the ‘fingerer’ is a monotheist while those outside the circle are ‘polytheists’ or pagans who, under Islamic law, may be freely killed, raped and enslaved by the followers of Islam. Much as ‘Allahu Akbar’ is a proclamation of Allah’s supremacy over non-Muslims and thus a triumphal declaration that Islam will defeat them, their religions and their ‘gods’, so too the ‘Allah finger’ easily becomes a justification for violence in the name of Islamic supremacism.

Islam is perpetually frozen in the moment of its founding Jihad. Its traditional followers see themselves as a small minority tasked with the primal Mohammedan mission of forcing their friends and neighbors to accept Islam, either through persuasion (Dawah) or force (Jihad.) Different Islamic movements, groups and individuals may vary in the tactics they use, how much they rely on one or the other, and how they pursue even violence, but the endgame is the same.

The ‘Allah finger’ helps us understand that mindset which bridges ISIS and the mosque next door. What may seem like a declaration of faith is actually a symbol of conquest. The constant need for expansion makes faith into an external expression and its preferred outlet is violence.

When Muslims praise Islamic terrorists, they are often mistranslated as “martyrs”. But “martyr” is a Greek term meaning “witness”. The martyr in Christianity testified to his faith in life or death. The martyrs of Christianity eventually became those who testified for their faith by giving up their lives. The equivalent term in Judaism is “Kedoshim” or “sanctified ones”. Much as Islam appears to share a common meaning with ‘peace’, the Arabic term “shaheed” appears to also mean ‘witness’, but the Islamic ‘Shaheed’ is most often used to refer to Muslims who murder in the name of Islam. The witnessing of Islam is not passive: it is a violent Jihad against all others.

What the Koran wants most from Muslim is not inner faith, but outer violence, best expressed through the subjugation of non-Muslims under Sharia law. Personal conduct matters less because all is forgiven and paradise is granted to Jihadis. That is why the worst possible men aspire to it. The man (or woman) who truly believes in Islam holds up his finger, shouts “Allahu Akbar” and throws an IED in order to make Islam “supreme over all unbelievers”.

ISIS in America does not exist as an organized force, but as a series of Telegram channels, Discord chats and other crowdsourced means of communication reaching young Muslims who have been inspired by the teachings of their religion to wage relentless war against infidels.

What has set ISIS apart all along is not that it invented some new ‘extremist theology’ as experts, politicians and the media have been desperately trying to convince us, but that it takes Islamic law seriously and unapologetically. People argue that Islam needs a reformation. ISIS is it. Every Islamic ‘reformation’, like Wahhabism, has brought Islam closer to what it once was. The mission of these reformations is to scourge out any western influences, eliminate any of the liberalizing tendencies of the late Ottoman period, and recommit to the caliphate mission.

ISIS is just unapologetic Islam. The ISIS salute is the traditional ‘Allah finger’ used in Islamic prayers. The attacks carried out by Muslim men who pledge allegiance to it is just Jihad.

The media outlets that describe the ‘Allah finger’ as an “ISIS salute” are eventually forced to retract, often under pressure from Muslim Brotherhood groups like CAIR, and admit it’s a traditional Islamic sign. They will add that it has nothing to do with terrorism. That part isn’t true.

What is more true is that there is no meaningful distinction between Islam and Islamic terrorism. The red line between some mainstream form of Islam and terrorism never existed and doesn’t exist. Most Muslims reject ISIS not because of attacks like the one outside Gracie Mansion, but because the Islamic terrorist group, originally operating as an Al-Qaeda affiliate in Iraq, claims exclusive religious authority and declared that all who do not accept it are fair game for terror.

That and that alone is what Muslims object to about ISIS.

If there were some fundamental theological differences between ISIS and Islam, Ahmed al-Sharaa, the former Al Qaeda and ISIS affiliated leader now in charge of Syria, wouldn’t be accepted and celebrated by most Sunni Muslims. And the Muslim Brotherhood, which dominates most mosques in America, wouldn’t have spawned Al Qaeda and then ISIS, while pressuring Congress to accept and drop all sanctions on Syria’s Al Qaeda regime.

Most ‘splits’ within Islam, including the primal Sunni and Shiite split, were not really formed around actual theological differences, but as power struggles between different Muslim factions. In Islam, religion is power and power is religion. That’s why the ultimate expression of Islam is Jihad.

The ‘Allah finger’ and “Allahu Akbar” are not mystical expressions of faith in an esoteric creator, but the chain of command in a military hierarchy that begins with Allah, goes through Mohammed and then down to any Islamic faction willing to wage war on the infidels.

The ‘ISIS salute’ may not be exclusive to that Islamic terror group, but it really is a military salute. The Gracie Mansion bomber was likely indicating his role in a military hierarchy at war with the United States of America and the entire non-Muslim world.

“The minarets are the bayonets, the domes are the helmets, the mosques are our barracks, the believers are the soldiers,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s Islamic dictator, once recited. With equal simplicity, the brutal mass murderer also stated that, “Islam cannot be either ‘moderate’ or ‘not moderate.’ Islam can only be one thing.” That thing may sometimes pretend to be other things, but in the end Islam is the same thing that Mohammed created over 1,000 years ago.

Islam is Jihad. And when we import Islam, we import an ancient war machine dedicated to conquering us through lies, through persuasion and finally through bombs and terror.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.

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NYC Sues Trump to Spend $5 Billion Per Mile of Track

2026-03-26T12:16:00.002-04:00

On May 10th, 1869, the first transcontinental railroad of almost 2,000 miles was completed and marked with a ‘Golden Spike’ driven in. Over 150 years and another 2,000 miles later, the New York City subway is struggling to finish its 10 mile Second Avenue line, underway in one form or another since the 1970s, and is suing Trump to help secure funding for $4 billion per mile.

That’s not a typo.

Houston’s entire budget is $7 billion. NYC wants to spend more than that on two stations.

The $7.7 billion second phase of the 10 mile Second Avenue line will run only 1.8 miles. That’s $4.27 billion a mile. That’s more than double the cost of the whole nearly 2,000 miles of the first transcontinental railroad in today’s dollars. All to build a walkable distance of subway tracks.

After $3.4 billion in grants from the Biden administration, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is suing the Trump administration for an immediate $58 million payout complaining that if the notoriously corrupt and inept agency doesn’t get the money right away it’ll lead to “‘a domino effect’ of delays and inflated costs” and the last thing anyone wants is to see what delays and inflated costs look like for a 50-year-old project spending over $4 billion a mile.

But that’s optimistic. The first phase of the Second Avenue Line already became the world’s most expensive project at $2.5 billion a mile and cost a total of $4.45 billion, but was originally budgeted at $3.8 billion, if the same thing happens to the second phase, it will cost $9 billion.

That would bring the final cost to over $5 billion a mile.

At that rate all the spikes might as well be made out of gold. Indeed, if New York City were to make the tracks out of silver, it would only cost a little over $1 billion, a net savings of $3 billion over the cost of the current project. (Note to the MTA, this is not serious, please don’t do this.)

Gov. Kathy Hochul blasted President Trump, clamoring that “his actions alone have put the commutes of over 130,000 New Yorkers and the jobs of thousands of union workers on the line, but New York will not back down.” Not back away from spending more than the budget of Houston or the budget of Armenia on two subway stations and thousands of ‘union jobs’.

But suppose 130,000 riders do use the new stops. That comes out to around $60,000 a rider. That’s enough money to buy each commuter their very own BMW 3 or Mercedes GLE Coupe.

Somehow I suspect the locals would rather have the car (“Oh Governor Hochul, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz) than a chance of getting stabbed by a recently released crackhead.

The second phase of the line will add two subway stations in East Harlem, a slum no one really wants to go to unless they have a great hankering to visit the Graffiti Hall of Fame. (Warning: Despite what Google Maps may tell you, the ‘Graffiti Hall of Fame’ is not an actual place.)

If we don’t spend another $7.7 billion to build two subway stations at 106th and 116th and 2nd Avenue, then people will have to either take the bus (the M15 runs on 2nd Avenue, but it’s too slow) or walk two blocks over to Lexington Avenue and then a few more blocks to the 106th or the 110th to grab the 4,5 or 6 trains, ride them down and transfer over at Lexington Avenue.

Surely a fate worse than death that is only occasionally fatal due to the regular stabbings and assaults on the subway by serial criminals and psychos ever since New York got rid of bail.

As a former New Yorker, I understand the inconvenience well enough. I had one memorable summer defined by having daily transfers at 59th Street and Lexington and I owe my leg muscles to the 139 step staircase of the 53rd and Lexington station (immortalized in a New York Times essay) and frantic headlong dashes through rabbit warrens of randomly interconnected staircases, ramps and tunnels linking stations that had been assembled by rival companies in the art deco age in the vain hope of catching a train only to see it pulling out of the station.

But most of the country and many of the people reading this article (some who stopped reading once I unspooled a New Yorkese litany of numbers and streets that define life in the city) are lucky to have a bus line that may show up once an hour and traverse a handful of major streets.

Spending $7 or $9 billion so the residents of East Harlem within a ten block radius don’t have to ride the M15 bus that’s right outside their door or walk 6 blocks over to a subway station is nuts.

New York Gov. Hochul and local politicians claim that they’re “helping the people of East Harlem”. But what the people of East Harlem seem to need the most help with is a 1 in 21 chance of being a crime victim in an area where a man in a COVID mask recently pled guilty to “discharging a machine gun” that killed a 69-year-old woman standing with a walker.

If only there had been a billion dollar subway station nearby.

Will spending $5 billion a mile to add two subway stations help the “people of East Harlem”?

Not the ones getting evicted to make way for the subway stations. As a certain New York Times Pulitzer Prize winner once quipped about Communist mass murder, “to put it brutally, you can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.” And, also to put it brutally, you can’t spend $9 billion on two subway stations to help black people without also kicking them out of their homes.

After exercising eminent domain last summer, tenants and shopkeepers have been in limbo, forced to spend money to move to make way for unnecessary massive aboveground glass stations so the remaining residents won’t have to walk six blocks or take a bus.

Where is all the money really going? The $5 billion a mile project was handed to the Connect Plus Partners consortium of FCC Construcción (aka Grupo FCC), a Spanish company, and Halmar International, which is part of the ASTM Group (Autostrada Torino-Milano), an Italian company, also Skanska Walsh Traylor, a joint venture of Skanska, a Swedish construction company, along with two American companies, Walsh and Traylor Bros, and much of the money will be spent on a 4.15 million pound German boring machine. So it’s as American as Mamdani.

A few years ago, ASTM co-chaired a gala of the Citizens Budget Commission at which Gov. Hochul was honored with the “Medal for High Civic Service”, along with special appearances by New York State Attorney General Letitia James, under federal investigation, and Mamdani ally and former comptroller, Brad Lander. And all it cost us was $7.7 billion. Or $9 billion. We’ll see.

But surely soon a federal judge will rule that American taxpayers are obligated to pay for it. Hopefully he gets a Medal for High Civic Service out of it too. All we’ll get is the bill.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.

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Birthright Citizenship is National Suicide

2026-03-24T15:00:00.004-04:00

Last year the Trump administration designated Mexico’s Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) as a terrorist group allowing the military to carry out strikes against it and its leadership, but the massive drug cartel across the border understands the weaknesses of our system all too well.

That’s why its new leader has American citizenship.

Law enforcement, intelligence agencies and the military will have to jump through all sorts of legal hoops to spy on, target or take out Juan Carlos Valencia Gonzalez, who has a $5 million bounty on his head, but the best protection in the world because he was born in California.

The new cartel leader’s drug dealing Mexican parents had a baby in America. That child became a Mexican citizen who runs a Mexican drug cartel that the government has designated as being at war with the United States, and yet we can’t simply remove his citizenship.

And targeting the cartel boss without removing his citizenship will set off wails from Democrats and the Tucker Carlson wing of the GOP who still whine that the United States took out Anwar Al-Awlaki, the head of Al Qaeda’s Yemeni operation, a sworn enemy of America, who happened to be born here when his father, a grad student, was in New Mexico on a Fullbright scholarship.

Americans of a century ago would have been baffled that foreign enemy leaders who happened to be born to foreign nationals in this country were somehow immune to being killed in battle or that their citizenship couldn’t be quickly and easily removed. Back then most of our modern problems were unthinkable because committing treason, aligning with any foreign government, including joining its army or voting in its elections, marrying a foreigner or just returning to your home country meant denaturalization. (As did dodging the draft or deserting from the military.)

Had the common sense provisions of the Expatriation Act of 1907 or even the milder Nationality Act of 1940 been in force today, we wouldn’t have the farce of cartel and terrorist leaders who still hold our citizenship, active traitors with citizenship, ‘refugees’ who spend most of their time back home or a Somali senator linked to fraud who is still voting in Minnesota elections.

Under these provisions, Bill Clinton would have lost his citizenship and the’ refugees’ and ‘migrants’ who maintain homes abroad, the women who marry foreign nationals for cash to give them citizenship, and the anchor baby would be as extinct as the dodo.

Unfortunately a series of poorly grounded Supreme Court decisions unconstitutionally seized the powers of the executive and legislative branches to withdraw citizenship on most grounds based on a misreading of the notoriously poorly written Fourteenth Amendment.

The Warren Court’s deliberate misreading of the Fourteenth Amendment’s awkward attempt to define all black people as citizens “all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power… are declared to be citizens” somehow trumped the clear language of Article I, Section 8, Clause 4 that Congress has the power “to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization”. In a series of bad decisions, Supreme Court rulings argued that serving in a foreign military, desertion, marrying foreigners, voting abroad did not merit denaturalization.

These rulings relied on now widely discredited premises, such as defining the Constitution’s ‘cruel and unusual punishment’ term as being anything that the justices disapproved of, and “evolving standards of decency” which allowed judges to redefine the law to fit liberal mores. These abuses of judicial activism that reached their peak during the Warren Court also gutted the constitutional powers of Congress and made denaturalization a dead letter in the law.

By the time Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez held that a Mexican born in the United States who returned to Mexico to avoid military service couldn’t be stripped of his citizenship because it violated his due process, denaturalization was a dead letter that could hardly be utilized except for naturalization fraud by immigrants who had lied about not committing war crimes abroad.

This was not strictly true because the provisions punishing treason or allegiance to an enemy power with denaturalization are theoretically still in effect, but administrations haven’t had the stomach to try them out. The Trump administration may be willing to take on ‘treason citizenship’ and a more conservative Supreme Court may be willing to overturn Earl Warren.

Indeed even the Fourteenth Amendment had emphasized “not subject to any foreign power”.

Both the left and the right tend to misunderstand ‘birthright citizenship’. The Fourteenth Amendment’s accidental introduction of the foreign concept into American law helped demolish citizenship as a meaningful participatory act rather than the involuntary one it was elsewhere.

‘Birthright citizenship’ is neither an immigrant ideal nor ‘magic dirt’. Rather it was the principle of ‘Jus Soli’ or ‘Right of the Soil’ which, in British law, was limited by those “born under the obedience, power, faith, ligealty or ligeance of the King”. America’s Founding principles were highly skeptical of both notions that were rooted in monarchial, rather than republican principles.

Monarchy made everyone born under the jurisdiction and sovereignty of the Crown into a ‘subject’. Allegiance to the Crown was not voluntary the way that it was in America. That was why the Founding Fathers, including Thomas Jefferson, labored to defend the right of ‘expatriation’ which still remains the only unquestioned form of denaturalization.

The American Revolution was predicated on the idea of citizenship as a voluntary action rather than an involuntary compact created by a place of birth. The growing intrusion of ‘Jus Soli’ began with the Fourteenth Amendment which, rather than quickly naturalizing freed black slaves, clumsily made everyone born here and “not subject to any foreign power” citizens.

By the late 19th century, the Supreme Court had begun dismantling any meaningful limitations on citizenship with United States v. Wong Kim Ark embracing the British notion that the sovereignty under which a child was born made him a citizen. But if sovereignty makes a child a citizen, then Anwar Al-Awlaki and Juan Carlos Valencia Gonzalez are fully American.

And that’s not only absurd: it’s national suicide.

The prototype for American citizenship is neither ‘Jus Solis’ nor the ‘Sovereignty of the Crown’, but the concluding words of the Declaration of Independence in which we “pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor”. A nation built on anything else is either a tyranny or an absurdity. Some on the left and the right now argue for tyranny or absurdity.

Birthright citizenship is not a liberal idea, but an illiberal one. It was liberal only relative to the even more illiberal idea that citizenship came from personal allegiance to a monarch. America was based on neither tyranny nor absurdity, but a voluntary community of mutual allegiance that it is possible to join and to withdraw from, and to be tossed out of and barred from for disloyalty.

Past Supreme Court decisions reversed the tyrannical one-way allegiance of monarchy and instead replaced it with a one-way allegiance in which the state was obligated to do everything for the citizen, but nothing at all was required from the citizen. Not even allegiance. Even asking them not to run terrorist organizations and drug cartels at war with America is asking too much.

No nation can survive on such principles.

America is not a monarchy or a tyranny and there are legitimate concerns about giving the state the easy power to strip away citizenship, but if citizenship can’t even be removed from the people who pledge allegiance to Al Qaeda and ISIS then, to paraphrase Kennedy, what does it ask of us to do for our country and what does it even mean beyond a set of legal complications?

The only pathway to reviving America is to make citizenship into a meaningful act of allegiance, not an accident of birth. Immigration in this regard is not the problem, immigration without allegiance is the real crisis, but so is the citizenship without allegiance of the likes of Bill Ayers of the ‘Weather Underground’ who can trace his ancestry back to John Ayer who came to this country from England in 1635 and was one of original settlers of some of the Puritan towns.

America needs to exercise the traditional ability it once had to make citizenship meaningful by also making it selective, controlling immigration, ending the automatic grants of citizenship for happenstance births and once again making citizenship conditional on ongoing allegiance.

Anything else is not citizenship: it’s a national death wish.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.

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Mamdani Proposes ‘White Homes’ Estate Tax

2026-03-23T11:34:00.002-04:00

Zohran Mamdani campaigned on a promise to “shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods”. His tenant official Cea Weaver tweeted that she wanted to “impoverish the *white* middle class” because “homeownership is racist”, declared that “private property is a weapon of white supremacy” and warned that, “we’ll transition from treating property as an individual good to a collective good. Whites especially will be impacted.”

Now Mamdani has shown the first sign of implementing these systemically racist proposals.

Hidden at the bottom of the first page of his proposals to increase revenue through various gimmicks and taxes is a call to increase the estate tax “by lowering the exemption to $750,000 from its current value of $7.1 million” and massively raising the “top rate from 16% to 50%.”

Why specifically $750,000? Why is that the magic number? The proposal doesn’t explain but the demographics do: New York is already one of the few states with its own estate tax. Mamdani’s proposed changes to the state estate tax would make it the state that taxes middle class homeowners the hardest.

While a $750,000 house in many parts of the country might be a mansion, it’s the average price of a home in New York City. The median selling price of a house in New York City in recent years has been between $764,000 and $800,000. The official community survey figure is at $778,600. That means Mamdani’s estate tax would hit more than half of homeowners.

“Under Hochul and Mamdani’s death tax of 50%, children will lose half the value of their parents’ home and family businesses will have to be sold off just to pay this cruel tax,” Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman,a New York Republican official who’s running for governor, warned.

“With property values where they are today, families could be forced to sell the very homes they hoped to pass on to their children,” Councilman Phil Wong, a Democrat, warned.

The numbers are actually worse than 50% because within New York City, as many as 90% of homes will be hit with Mamdani’s confiscatory tax, as many as 60% of homes in Brooklyn and Queens, but fewer than a quarter in other boroughs. This matches Mamdani’s campaign promise to shift the tax burden towards white homeowners in inner boroughs.

But the real issue for the racially obsessed Mamdani administration is always race. And the estate tax proposal is specifically geared to target and seize the homes of white homeowners.

Not only do Asians (44%) and white people (41%) have the highest homeownership rates in the city compared to black (27%) and Hispanic (17%) residents, but the American Community Survey median home value rates for white homeowners perfectly match Mamdani’s ‘magic number’ of $750,000. Call it Zohran Mamdani’s ‘owning a home while white’ tax.

The $750,000 number was featured in the New York City comptroller’s report on the ‘Racial Wealth Gap in New York City’. Brad Lander, the comptroller at the time, is a key Mamdani ally who connived to help him become mayor. The report was promoted by other Mamdani allies.

It is wildly implausible that the Mamdani administration was unaware of a key DEI report or that it played no role in the planning of a self-consciously DEI and equity focused administration.

Mamdani campaigned on taxing white homeowners. A key housing official talked of eliminating white homeownership. And the administration put forward an estate tax that is an exact match for the median white home values in a report produced by one of Mamdani’s closest allies.

Cases for systemic racism have been made based on a fraction of these ‘coincidences’.

Targeting white homeowners with a massive estate tax will help ensure that they will be unable to pass on their homes to their children. The more homes the Mamdani government can seize and then ‘socialize’, the closer it will come to, as a Mamdani housing official said, turning homes into “a collective good” in which “whites especially will be impacted.” That’s systemic racism.

The Justice Department and the Department of Housing and Urban Development have investigated alleged ‘racial’ housing practices in the past for which a fraction of the evidence for any kind of racial intent existed that it does for Mamdani’s white homes tax. But more recently, they’ve been taking a closer look at DEI discrimination in the urban policies of major cities.

In December 2025, HUD had warned Boston’s racist Wu administration that their DEI program pushing racial preferences violates civil rights laws. Boston’s program utilized “the percentage of ‘residents who are non-white’ to identify ‘high-risk’ areas worthy of public investment.”

The Mamdani administration promised to do the inverse of that in New York City, identifying white neighborhoods to tax higher rates. After initially denying that he intended to do this, “it’s not driven by race. It’s more of an assessment”, Mamdani chose a tenant official who had urged eliminating white homeownership, and has now come out with an estate tax proposal that matches the median home value for white homeowners from his own ally’s report.

While the proposal has to be moved forward by Gov. Hochul and state Democrats in Albany to become law, the DOJ and HUD have every reason to closely scrutinize this proposal and to warn New York State Democrats that adopting Mamdani’s ‘white homes’ estate tax risks triggering a civil rights investigation.

Mamdani’s tax proposal is his first effort to follow up on his promise to tax white homeowners and white neighborhoods harder. Even if this racist proposal does not move forward, the next one might. That’s why the Justice Department needs to impose close monitoring on the policies of this systemically racist administration where officials have promised to not only discriminate by race, but to eliminate homeownership in general and white homeownership specifically.

There is no room for Mamdani’s racist campaign against white homeowners in America.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.

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Paul Ehrlich is Dead and Nobody is Eating Him

2026-03-19T20:50:00.002-04:00

Different people believe in different things. Some believe that we go to paradise after we die. Others that we disappear into cosmic dust. But environmentalist prophet Paul Ehrlich believed mankind would be reduced to cannibalism unless we stopped having children. Right away.

And Ehrlich never gave up hope of seeing cannibalism in his lifetime.

In ‘The Population Bomb’, the 1968 bestseller that became one of the foundational texts of the environmentalist movement and helped inspire the population reduction industry, Ehrlich opened with the statement that “the battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now.”

After going through a dozen printings, later editions postponed the mass deaths and Armageddons to a safely more ambiguous, at least for the era, time “the 1970s and 1980s”.

It got less cheerful from there.

“Will we be willing to slaughter our dogs and cats?” the book backed by the Sierra Club and published by a Stanford University professor inquired. Then it mentioned the “addition of temporary sterilants to water supplies or staple foods” or have the government “impose penalties designed to discourage reproduction” with “luxury taxes placed on… cribs, diapers” and “considering the savings in school buildings” it would be a “money making proposition.”

The media and the cultural elites hailed ‘The Population Bomb’ as an urgent warning for mankind. It inspired assorted disastrous policies, including population control, and some bad science fiction like ‘Soylent Green’ which imagined that cannibalism would be official policy.

The Chalton Heston movie was based on an even worse novel, ‘Make Room, Make Room’, which featured an introduction by Ehrlich (since deleted out of some latent sense of shame) claiming that it “presents a gripping scenario of where current trends may be leading.”

“If the post-1950 rates of urban growth continue to 1984, half of the human race will be living in cities. By 2023 everyone would live in an urban area,” Ehrlich warned in his introduction.

Like a reverse Cassandra, the more wrong Ehrlich’s predictions were, the more he insisted on making them, and the more they were taken seriously by the rapidly discredited expert class.

“Sometime in the next 15 years, the end will come,” Ehrlich told CBS News in 1970. And “it’s very difficult for me to picture things holding together for more than another decade or so.”

In ‘How To Be A Survivor’, Ehrlich and his co-author insisted that “since we have only about one year’s reserve supply of food in the United States, famine could come to this nation and could come relatively soon.” Hopefully crossing his fingers, he added that “the blight in the corn belt in 1970… may be a foretaste of things to come.” Sadly for Ehrlich it wasn’t. Millions of Americans did not die in a corn famine and they did not take to eating each other, but went on reproducing.

“No one has yet presented a sound argument for having more than 150 million Americans,” the book contended, and suggested that “the government would eventually place criminal sanctions on overbreeding”, argued “there is no sacred right to have children” since the “the government tells you precisely how many husbands or wives you can have and claims you in jail if you exceed that number. Having a third child may some day produce that same unhappy result.”

In an interview with CBS News, Ehrlich had compared children to garbage. The idea that every woman should have as many babies as she wants is, to me, exactly the same kind of idea as everybody oughta be permitted to throw as much of their garbage into their neighbor’s backyard as they want..”

This was followed by proposals to ban ads for cars and soap, forcible social justice reeducation and an assertion that communism would have to be imposed on Americans in a ‘subtle’ way.

“The new men must come through gentle conversion and natural replacement. Certainly the antisocial activities of the old men and technology will have to be quickly stopped, but this should be done with a maximum of subtlety. There is no point in waving a red flag in front of the bulls. If the new men in the United States demand a replacement of ‘capitalism’ with ‘socialism’, (or ‘Marxism’ or ‘communism’), the old will recoil in horror. They have not the vaguest notion what either capitalism or socialism is all about. They have however been indoctrinated to react negatively to the words ‘socialism’ and ‘communism’”. That was always the end game.

Ehrlich’s apocalypse follies, like the postmodern climate change discourse, was the ghoulish stick to convince Americans and the rest of the free world to submit to government control.

None of his predictions came true, but that never stopped him from throwing them around.

“By the year 2000 the United Kingdom will be simply a small group of impoverished islands, inhabited by some 70 million hungry people,” Ehrlich told the British in a 1971 speech. “If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.”

Had Ehrlich predicted mass migration instead of famine, he might not have been that far off.

Despite the lack of mass deaths in the previous decades, Ehrlich and his wife bounced back with a sequel, ‘The Population Explosion’, that began with a first chapter titled “Why Isn’t Everyone As Scared As We Are” and linked ‘global warming’ to ‘overpopulation’, demanding that “the human birthrate must be lowered to slightly below the human death rate as soon as possible” because inaction had “already condemned hundreds of millions more people to premature deaths from hunger and disease”. Still Ehrlich’s famines never seemed to arrive.

By 2014, with the UK still persistently here and mankind still not dead, Ehrlich had stopped teasing cannibalism and fully turned to it. “I don’t think there’s going to be the centuries to come with our kind of civilizations,” he told the Huffington Post. “I think the issues are more likely to be “is it perfectly OK to eat the bodies of your dead because we’re all so hungry.”

When the interviewer expressed shock, Ehrlich doubled down on the dead, claiming, “It’s moving in that direction with ridiculous speed.”

By 2016, Ehrlich was complaining that Trump was “pig-ignorant” of “destruction—increasing overpopulation and overconsumption”. In 2018, he declared that a “shattering collapse of civilization” was “a near certainty in the next few decades”.

In 2023, 60 Minutes brought him back and falsely claimed that Ehrlich “may have lived long enough to see some of his dire prophecies come true.”

“Humanity is not sustainable,” he told his favorite news network. Humanity has turned out to be more sustainable than either CBS News or Ehrlich.

Paul Ehrlich is dead and nobody is eating him because, despite his predictions, mass famine and cannibalism have yet to reach Palo Alto, California.

According to the New York Times orbit, “his predictions proved premature” meaning that the paper of record is still convinced that the mass famines and cannibalism are on the way. They’ve been merely held up a bit. Just because we’re not eating each other now is no reason to give up hope of a worse tomorrow. Sure the mass famines didn’t arrive in the 1970s or 80s, but environmentalists managed to convince a new generation that they’re coming any day now.

One day perhaps someone in California will finally get around to eating Ehrlich.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.

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What Are You Doing on the ‘International Day to Combat Islamophobia’?

2026-03-18T11:28:00.002-04:00

14 days after a Muslim terrorist shot up a bar in Austin, 8 days after two Muslim terrorists threw IEDs at an anti-Islamization rally in New York City, 7 days after Muslim terrorists bombed the U.S. embassy in Sweden, 3 days after Muslim terrorists attacked a college in Virginia and a Jewish preschool in Michigan, and days after Muslim terrorists bombed a synagogue and school in the Netherlands, politicians marked the ‘International Day to Combat Islamophobia’.

The ‘International Day to Combat Islamophobia’ was brought into being at the request of Pakistan, which harbored Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of 9/11, at the request of its former leader, Imran Khan, nicknamed ‘Taliban Khan’, who had referred to Bin Laden as a “martyr”.

Christians in Pakistan can be casually killed by Muslims or locked up by the regime if they are accused of the ‘Islamophobic’ crime of blasphemy. A year before ‘Taliban Khan’ and the United Nations gave us the ‘International Day to Combat Islamophobia’, Pakistan finally allowed Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who had been sentenced to death for blasphemy, to flee the country.

Bibi had spent nearly a decade in solitary confinement while mobs cried, “Kill her, kill her! Allahu Akbar!” The only Christian member of Pakistan’s cabinet was murdered for defending her. So was a Christian governor. 100,000 Muslims rallied for his killer and threatened more Christians.

While one of the dwindling number of Christians in Pakistan was fleeing the Muslim mobs screaming for her death and the murder of any Christians who defended her, Khan addressed a UN ‘Islamophobia’ group alongside Turkey’s Islamist tyrant and warned against “attempts to equate Islam with terrorism” and then any “attempts to denigrate” Mohammed.

Next year, Khan said, “I will never forget how we Pakistanis were embarrassed when the Americans came into Abbottabad and killed Osama Bin Laden, martyred him.”

That same year, he addressed the UN General Assembly and claimed that there was a grave crisis of Islamophobia in which “our prophet (sic) insulted”, “the ‘holy’ Koran burnt”, and “republication of blasphemous sketches by Charlie Hebdo” done in “in the name of freedom of speech”. And freedom of speech would have to go in the name of fighting ‘Islamophobia’.

“The Assembly should declare an “International Day to Combat Islamophobia”, Khan insisted, before defending the Taliban, Islamic terrorism against Hindus, demanding Muslim control of Jerusalem, comparing India to Nazi Germany, and threatening nuclear war over Kashmir.

Rather than lock him up, the UN gave in to a politician with nuclear weapons who considered Osama bin Laden a martyr, a state sponsor of the murder of Hindus, and head of a regime that persecuted its Christian minority, and created an “International Day to Combat Islamophobia”.

Because why would anyone possibly be afraid of Islam?

Under the auspices of the United Nations, the “International Day to Combat Islamophobia” has become a global event that nearly every country and city has come to collaborate in.

“Let’s eradicate the scourge of Islamophobia from every country and community,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged this year. The UN’s definition of Islamophobia includes Muslim men being “portrayed as the embodiment of extremism and terrorism” and Muslim women wearing burkas as “a sign of gender subjugation in Islam”. The UN’s 2024 Islamophobia Resolution 78/264 defined discrimination as “manifested in the increasing number of incidents of desecration of their holy book”. Eradicating the ‘scourge’ means suppressing any criticism of Islamic terrorism, the Sharia Islamic law’s abuse of women or the Koran.

That’s not ‘Islamophobia’, it’s Blasphemyphobia, Speechophobia and Realityphobia.

A report by the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion Ahmed Shaheed, complained that “in over 600,000 news items published in 2016 and 2017 in the Netherlands, the adjectives most used to describe Muslims were ‘radical’, ‘extremist’ and ‘terrorist'”. The Europol agency noted that there had been 718 arrests for terrorist offenses with 135 people killed in 2016.

That was the year that an Islamic terrorist killed 49 people in a Florida nightclub, Islamic terrorists set off bombs across Belgium, killing 32 and wounding 340, an Islamic terrorist ran over people at a Bastille Day event in France with a truck, jamming the wheel wells with their body parts, killing 86 and wounding 458, and a Muslim refugee drove a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin in front of a church, killing a dozen people and wounding another 56 victims.

These massacres did not embody any kind of phobia that we need to remember annually, but according to the United Nations, noticing this rash of Islamic mass murders is Islamophobic.

And we must remember every year to forget.

After 9 Islamic terrorist attacks in America and Europe just this month, and coming off the recent Muslim mass murder of people at a Chanukah beach party in Australia, we are all to pay dutiful attention to Khan and the UN’s ‘International Day to Combat Islamophobia’ and pay no attention.

A week after the Muslim bombing of the U.S. embassy in Oslo, the Swedish Foreign Ministry marked the day and a little over a week since two terrorists tossed IEDs outside Gracie Mansion, the New York City Council hailed ‘International Day to Combat Islamophobia’ and the City Council Speaker vowed to fight “Islamophobic hate in all its forms.” Whatever that is.

Pakistan, which had gifted us the whole thing, also popped up with a statement from Minister for Science and Technology Khalid Hussain Magsi who “stated that Islam is a religion of peace, compassion, and justice, and linking it with extremism reflects a lack of understanding”.

Should anyone doubt that the U.S. Commission on Religious Freedom found such peaceful Islamic events in Pakistan as the lynching and burning of a tourist accused of burning a Koran (after his death, he turned out to be Muslim), the lynching of a 70-year-old Christian man accused of blasphemy, a Christian man being sentenced to death for blasphemy and Roshni Shakeel, a 13-year-old Christian girl being kidnapped and forcibly converted and married to a Muslim man twice her age. The Pakistani courts approved of this and when she ran away back home, had her father arrested for sheltering her from her Muslim pedophile kidnapper.

This is the kind of case that could only happen in Pakistan, a Muslim country or the UK.

Noticing the Muslim persecution, discrimination, murder, kidnapping and rape of non-Muslims under Islamic law and by Islamic states is an unforgivable case of ‘Islamophobia’.

All that’s left for New York City and other countries and cities that have submitted to ‘International Day to Combat Islamophobia’ is how to best commemorate the event.

On a cold Sunday morning (but not so cold as to send drugged-out vagrants to the morgue in Mamdani’s Manhattan) I took a walk downtown, turned around Trinity Church, where George Washington had once attended services, stayed well clear of Wall Street, and then walked down to the plaza dominated by the shadows of two great towers soaring cubistically to the sky.

I chose the North Tower, the first to be had and yet held out the longest, and took the elevator all the way up. Surely, if Islamic terrorism didn’t exist, then I should be able to do that. Shouldn’t I?

It was my way of marking the ‘’International Day to Combat Islamophobia’.

What are you doing to commemorate the ‘’International Day to Combat Islamophobia’?

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.

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NYC Council Threatens Councilwoman for Condemning Terrorism

2026-03-17T20:38:00.002-04:00

A generation after the Islamic terrorist attacks of September 11, not only is a supporter of Islamic terrorism ensconced in Gracie Mansion, but the New York City Council is preparing to purge one of the few remaining critics of Islamic terrorism from its already depleted ranks.

One of the five men convicted in the brutal rape of the Central Park jogger is a New York City councilman while another is running for his own spot on the council, but the City Council’s ethics committee is instead charging Councilwoman Vickie Paladino with “disorderly” behavior for criticizing Zohran Mamdani and his raft of appointees sympathetic to Islamic terrorism.

The New York City Council Committee on Rules, Privileges, Elections, Standards and Ethics, whose members include 8 Democrats and only 1 Republican, has taken no action over the fact that a New York City Council employee, Rafael Bohorquez, turned out to be a criminal illegal alien who had been arrested for assault, but is charging a 71-year-old Republican elected official with “disorderly” behavior because it doesn’t like her tweets criticising Islamic terrorism.

And Zohran Mamdani.

The committee hasn’t launched investigations into any other councilmembers over their tweets.

There were calls for an investigation of Councilwoman Paladino after she condemned the Muslim massacre of 15 people, most of them Jews, at a Chanukah party. But there has been no investigation of Shahana Hanif, a Bangladeshi Muslim councilwoman affiliated with the DSA, which has defended the Hamas massacre of Jews, for appearing at a rally where Hamas was cheered, blaming Israel for the Oct 7 attacks, initially refusing to condemn the massacres, and endorsing the Columbia encampment which targeted Jewish students and faculty members.

When Councilwoman Hanif was arrested at a pro-terrorist rally, that was not “disorderly behavior”, but Councilwoman Paladino’s tweets against terrorism are somehow “disorderly”.

The same councilmembers who have claimed that Paladino’s tweets were “deplorable” and “inflammatory” have failed to describe Shahana Hanif in the same way after she blamed the Oct 7 attacks on Israel, for refusing to support an end ‘Jew-hatred’, and for refusing to condemn antisemitic graffiti and vandalism in her district, claiming instead that Israel was ‘vandalizing’ Gaza. They have instead come after a councilwoman who has consistently stood up for America, for New York City and for its beleaguered Jewish community.

The targeting of Councilwoman Paladino began in earnest when she criticized Mamdani’s pick of Faiza Ali, who had worked for CAIR, an unindicted co-conspirator in terrorist funding, which supported the Oct 7 attacks. Islamic terrorism isn’t ‘disorderly’, but criticising it somehow is.

“New York is under foreign occupation. There’s really no other way to put it,” the councilwoman tweeted. “Does this administration have one single actual American in it?”

Council members denounced Councilwoman Paladino as “Islamophobic” and claimed that her tweet violated the city council’s “harassment” policy. The speaker falsely claimed that “this deplorable, inflammatory conduct negatively affects Council employees and people across our city … and we will not tolerate behavior that targets or demeans any community based on their faith, background, or immigration status — particularly from our own members.”

Harassment policies govern the behavior of employees. Abusing them to selectively restrict the public speech of elected officials in the opposition is the kind of government misconduct that the Bill of Rights was created to prevent. Previous crackdowns had already reportedly limited the councilwoman’s participation on committees after she criticised ‘drag queens’ grooming children through ‘story hour’, but the City Council can impose fines and even expel members.

The question is whether the Islamization of New York City politics is so complete that an elected official can be expelled for questioning Mamdani and the radical members of his administration.

“I have every right under the United States Constitution to engage in political speech on any platform I see fit. No administrative policy supersedes the Constitution, and no government entity may sanction an elected official — or anyone else — for participation in political discourse in the public square, online or otherwise,” Councilwoman Paladino warned.

If Democrats are able to craft ‘harassment’ policies that criminalize any political speech that they disagree with and then selectively apply them to opposition elected officials, then only Democrats, and more specifically, Democrats on the farthest left, will be able to hold public office.

The case against Councilwoman Paladino rests on the argument that her criticism of Islamic terrorism is “disorderly”. No such standard is applied to supporters of Islamic terrorism who now run the city or to actual criminals who sit on the council or work for it. Likewise the contention that her criticism of Islam is “harassment” of City Council employees not only perverts workplace regulations to silence political speech in the marketplace of ideas, but has not been applied to any of the councilmembers who have denounced Jews and endorsed terrorism.

Is speech violence? It’s worse than violence because the same council members who rallied to the defense of Rafael Bohorquez, a New York City Council illegal alien employee who had reportedly assaulted a man, are claiming that a tweet criticizing a radical Mamdani pick with ties to pro-Hamas groups is “disorderly” behavior and more deserving of punitive action.

Condemning Islamic terrorism and its supporters is worse than physical assault.

“None of the posts cited by the committee contain threats of violence. No elected official, ideology, or religion is above criticism and debate. I have every right to speak my mind on social media without fear of retaliation by my government, as does every American. The fact that this egregious disregard for the Constitution was allowed to proceed to this point is a stain on our Council, and on New York City. Actions like this are meant to intimidate both elected officials and individuals against speaking their conscious on matters of public import and controversy, and the chilling effect on speech is undeniable,” Councilwoman Vickie Paladino contended.

There’s no room for the Constitution, for criticism of Islam or patriotism in New York. We tried to liberate Afghanistan and Iraq, when we should have really liberated New York City.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.

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How Gov. Newsom Funneled Millions to Himself

2026-03-15T00:45:00.002-04:00

Gov. Gavin Newsom had helped set up a state government agency for his wife and then a quasi-government non-profit to which he has directed millions of dollars which in turn helped promote yet another non-profit that puts millions of dollars in the pockets of the Newsoms.

That convoluted arrangement may explain why Newsom won’t turn over his tax returns.

Gov. Newsom promised to be the first California governor to release his tax returns every year, but media outlets have been grumbling that the last time he released a tax return was quite a few years ago when he was legally required to because he was running for reelection.

The questions got louder when he bought a $9 million house in addition to their $6 million house. The new 5,609 square foot estate comes with a spa, sculptures and Brazilian decks, and was bought from a member of the billionaire Pritzker clan, who have been one of Newsom’s major donors, and carries a $6.5 million mortgage with $600,000 in annual payments plus over $100,000 in property taxes. Some have been asking where all that money was coming from.

This may only be the tip of the iceberg considering that in 2019, the Newsoms had paid their household staff $288,000 alone. Assuming that the staffing costs have kept pace, California’s first family should be looking at very some very huge bills to maintain their outrageous lifestyle.

As of last fall, Newsom still hasn’t released a tax return. We do know that Newsom’s income shot up by $500,000 to $1.7 million in his first year in office. Back then, his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, was earning $151,000, through her ‘non-profit’, The Representation Project, which set out to teach children, especially boys, about the evils of gender roles and masculinity.

Since then Newsom’s gubernatorial salary grew from $210,000 to $242,295: a sizable raise, but even with his winery, restaurant and investments in a blind trust, it may not explain his spending.

Jennifer Siebel Newsom, whose boutique causes include gender pay parity, however has been earning a higher salary than her husband as her non-profit took in $1.5 million in 2024 and 20% of that money went to her with $150,000 going directly to her as salary and another $150,000 going to her Girls Club Entertainment LLC for compensation as “Writer/Producer/Director”.

Girls Club Entertainment is listed as an “independent contractor” even though it also admits on the same tax filing that “Girls Club Entertainment LLC (GCE), a single member LLC, is owned by Jennifer Siebel Newsom” and also claims that she serves as the writer, producer and director of the various ‘documentaries’ that she licenses to her non-profit which then reimburses her.

Since the non-profit, originally titled ‘Miss Representation’ after the name of one of her ‘documentaries’, was set up to promote them, the arrangement appears to exist to allow her to benefit from non-profit funding while diverting a significant amount of the funds to herself.

An arrangement under which Newsom’s wife is simultaneously the CEO, board member and an ‘independent contractor’, who manages to cash out a significant percentage of its revenues, is legally dubious and risks falling under the IRS prohibitions against self-enrichment.

In 2023, Newsom’s non-profit took in $1 million and again paid out $300,000 or around a third to her. In 2020, it took in a little over $800,000 and she received the same amount or 37%. The Daily Mail estimated that her total came in at over $3.7 million in the decade.

Where was all that money coming from to what would normally be just another obscure organization? The answer in part is the government and government lobbyists and contractors. The ‘films’ made by Newsom’s wife have been shown in thousands of schools and received millions in revenues. More money has come through donations from major companies that do business with the state or are lobbying the state for some favorable treatment.

At the Project’s most recent ‘Flip the Script’ benefit, “celebrating the 10th anniversary of Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s groundbreaking film, Miss Representation”, the co-chair was Gavin Newsom’s sister, who runs their joint company, the other co-chairs were Lori Puccinelli Stern, the wife of the San Francisco Airport Commissioner, who heads a PR firm, and Joanna Rees, a venture capitalist who was appointed to a board by Newsom.

Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s outsized media presence is partly funded by California taxpayers.

After taking office, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that he was creating an ‘Office of the First Partner’ for his wife led by two senior staffers with combined salaries of over a quarter of a million dollars. The most recent organizational chart for the office shows 7 staffers including two communications staffers just for Newsom’s wife: all with six figure salaries.

Jennifer Siebel Newsom co-created yet another non-profit for the Office of the First Partner, the California Partners Project: a 501(c)(4). The partisan non-profit, which regularly attacks Republicans, is directly linked to and promoted by the California governor’s site. Its board includes Becky Beland McNaught who was originally hired as the chief of staff at the Office of the First Partner. McNaught made opening remarks at a screening of one of her ‘films’ that was sponsored by the California Partners Project and the Representation Project.

The California Partners Project claims a semi-official status, stating that it operates “in partnership with the people of California.” What it does is promote Newsom’s wife and her non-profit which provides millions in income to Gov. Newsom and his wife.

In 2022, the LA Daily News reported that The California Partners Project had collected $1.6 million in ‘behested payments’ through Gov. Newsom. These are payments that were requested by Newsom on behalf of his wife’s organization. By 2023, the amount had risen to $2.4 million.

Newsom requested that one donor, an Indian tribe seeking to block a rival’s casino, donate $500,000, before intervening on its behalf. By 2025, the amount was up to $2 million.

Is Gov. Newsom pressuring and rewarding companies for donating to his wife’s non-profit and does that non-profit then help promote his wife’s other extremely profitable ‘non-profit’?

Other state agencies have also worked to promote Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s lucrative non-profit including the California Commission on the Status of Women and Girls, in theory a non-partisan state agency, which pushed her ‘documentary’ Miss Representation.

Holly Martinez, the executive director of the Commission, switched to serving as the executive director of Mrs. Newsom’s Representation Project and then as her Chief of Staff in the Office of the First Partner, illustrating how government agencies, the paid non-profit and the First Lady’s office have become an interchangeable game of musical chairs all to promote one woman.

And her organization that has put millions of dollars into the pockets of the Newsoms.

Jennifer Siebel Newsom has proven to be quite adroit at moving money and influence from non-profits and foundations that she controls to herself. For example, the Siebel Family Charitable Foundation, a family foundation where she acts as a director, provided $23,000, one of its largest grants, as of its last tax filing, to The Representation Project.

Newsom was an honorary board member of the International Museum of Women, that was set to be launched in San Francisco and that was supposed to be publicly funded, but instead burned through millions of dollars, but did partner with The Representation Project. Gavin Newsom and his wife had served as honorary co-chairs for the museum’s fundraiser.

She was a board member of KQED, the local PBS affiliate, which provided gushing coverage of not only her husband’s administration, but also promoted her ‘documentaries’. Like so much else, this arrangement appears to have been useful for both halves of the power couple.

The networks of non-profits, some state, some funded by those who have business with the state, has clearly played a role in allowing the Newsoms to afford their lavish lifestyle.

Many of these questions could be cleared up if the Newsoms would release their tax returns.

In 2019, Gov. Newsom championed a law forcing presidential candidates to release their returns. The purpose of the law was to target Trump. Fortunately for Newsom, the law was found to be unconstitutional, and so he won’t have to release his tax returns or address the many conflicts of interest and the ways that he has grown even richer while governor.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.

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The Big Lie of “Greater Israel”

2026-03-10T15:04:00.005-04:00

Tucker Carlson, who has defended Islam, Sharia law, Hamas and Hezbollah, flew into Israel for a few hours, only long enough to put out a fake claim that he was harassed by Israeli security (later disproven by video footage) and to berate Trump’s Ambassador Mike Huckabee with assorted Islamic propaganda, like his claim of a “Greater Israel”.

The former FOX News talking head, who now seems to spend much of his time in the Muslim world and spoke of buying a home in the terrorist state of Qatar, has spent the last few years bringing on increasingly disreputable figures like Soros-funded UN official Jeffrey Sachs, George Stephanopoulos’s sister, and John Mearsheimer to push this particular lie.

The premise of the lie is that Israel is starting wars to expand its territory across the Middle East.

Knowing that Ambassador Huckabee is an evangelical Christian who believes in the literal truth of scripture, Tucker challenged him over the ‘from the Nile to the Euphrates’ in Genesis 15:18 as his idea of ‘Greater Israel’. (Deuteronomy alternatively states that the borders will be “from the wilderness to the Lebanon and from the river – the Euphrates – to the Western Sea.”)

Mainstream media talking heads asking religious people if they believe in the truth of biblical prophecies is an old cynical liberal media gotcha game. And Tucker was using it to prop up the Islamic ‘Big Lie’ that Israel was expanding when it’s actually been shrinking for 50 years.

It’s a matter of simple math.

Israel was at its largest size in the seventies when it controlled some 33,000 square miles: a territory around the size of South Carolina. As part of Carter’s 1978 Camp David peace accords, which Egypt has spent the last decade flagrantly violating, Israel turned over the Sinai, some 23,000 miles, a territory the size of West Virginia, leaving it with around 10,000 square miles.

That’s the size of Massachusetts.

(Egypt’s territory is over 380,000 square miles. And yet after losing several wars to Israel, it demanded massive territorial concessions from a country less than 3% its size.)

During Bill Clinton’s Oslo Accords, Israel directly turned over 1/10th of its remaining land, around 1,000 square miles, also known as ‘Area A’ to the control of the PLO, Area B, making up around 500 square miles, was to be under joint control, with further concessions expected as part of a final agreement. That shrank Israel down from Massachusetts to New Hampshire.

Meanwhile, Israel reached an agreement with Jordan that ceded yet more land as part of the ‘Island of Peace’ that was supposed to be under Jordanian sovereignty but with Israeli access.

(Jordan has a territory of over 34,000 square miles or over three times the size of Israel.)

In 1997, a Jordanian Muslim soldier opened fire on a group of seventh and eight grade Jewish girls touring the area, killing 7 and wounding 5. The terrorist is considered a hero in Jordan, with the majority of the Jordanian parliament calling for his release. He has been freed. Two years later, Jordan cut off the access of Israeli farmers to the land.

Meanwhile no final agreement was ever reached with the PLO because its leader Yasser Arafat and his Communist-trained successor Mahmoud Abbas broke up multiple negotiations efforts, and continued carrying out and funding terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians.

Still, Israel went on turning over territory to be occupied by the Islamic terrorists.

At the Wye River summit in 1999, Netanyahu agreed to turn over another 11% of Judea and Samaria while the Clinton administration demanded 13% in exchange for an end to terrorism. The withdrawal became much more limited when the Islamic terrorist attacks continued.

In response, Bill Clinton worked to bring down the Netanyahu government and replaced him with Prime Minister Ehud Barak, currently in disgrace over his ties to Clinton pal Jeffrey Epstein.

Barak agreed to a multi-stage handover of 18% of Judea and Samaria. That included a single handover of 400 kilometers.

At the Camp David summit in 2000, Barak, accepted the ‘Clinton Parameters’ for, in Bill Clinton’s words, “a Palestinian state in roughly 97 percent of the West Bank, counting the swap, and all of Gaza” along with the land swap that would annex Israeli communities in exchange for more land in Israel. Arafat rejected it and launched another war. Barak did go ahead with a ‘unilateral withdrawal’ from Lebanon that allowed Hezbollah to seize the formerly Christian country.

In 2003, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and later Prime Minister Ehud Olmert implemented a unilateral withdrawal from Gaza, violently expelling the Jewish population, and allowing Hamas to come to power. This added 141 square miles of Israeli land to the control of the terrorists.

By the time that Obama was elected, Israel had shrunk to 8,986 square miles or the size of New Jersey. More negotiations with John Kerry followed and so did more Islamic terrorism.

Since then, President Trump recognized Israeli control over the Golan Heights, around 400 square miles, and all of Jerusalem, another few dozen miles. This was land that Israel already controlled, but it at least validated that land as legitimately being a part of Israel.

Over the last 50 years, the amount of territory under Israeli control shrank from around 33,000 square miles to 10,000 square miles to around 9,000 square miles. It’s possible to dispute these exact numbers and decades have been spent debating exactly how to calculate them, but it’s indisputable that Israel has not only not been growing, but it’s been steadily shrinking down.

Over the last two generations, Israel made ‘peace’ deals with the PLO and Jordan that traded land for peace (without ever getting peace) and unilaterally withdrew from Gaza and Lebanon, turning over yet more land to Islamic terrorists, and certainly not getting peace out of it.

Not only isn’t Israel growing from the ‘from the Nile to the Euphrates’: it’s continually shrinking.

When Tucker Carlson claims that Israel is fighting Hamas in Gaza after the massacres of Oct 7 to create a ‘Greater Israel’, he’s ignoring the fact that Israel withdrew from Gaza in the first place. If its goal was to create a ‘Greater Israel’, it sure had a funny way of doing it.

But the purpose of a ‘Big Lie’ is to invert the truth. To swap perpetrators and victims, good and evil, and truth and lies. For the last 50 years, Israel’s territory shrank while that of the Muslim entities on and inside its borders has increased. Telling the truth about that would make it all too clear who is expanding, who is colonizing and who is really building a ‘Greater’ territorial entity.

‘Greater Israel’ is a lie put out by Muslim countries and their pawns to justify their invasion and colonization to create an ‘Ummah’, a Greater Islam, to dominate the entire Middle East.

And then the world.

The only part of the Middle East that is still not under the dominion of Islam, is Israel.

Anyone who talks to you about ‘Greater Israel’ is out to distract you from ‘Greater Islam’. And the intended boundaries of Greater Islam, as Islamic clerics and leaders have said over and over again, are the entire planet. It is in the name of this ‘Greater Islam’ that Europe and America have been flooded with Muslim mass migration just as Israel once was.

Europe, America and the West, like Israel, are becoming ‘lesser’, their lands bisected and segregated into ‘No-Go Zones’ where Islamic law and Islamic terror reign violence and death.

The Christian and Jewish realms have been steadily shrinking while Islam has been growing. And anyone who notices this is accused of ‘Islamophobia’, of plotting wars against Islam, rather than recognizing a war that has been going on for over 1,000 years.

“Is Islam really evil?” Tucker asked on a recent broadcast. “Or is that how they’re framed by the political elite to create perpetual wars.”

Who is fighting those perpetual wars? How did Constantinople become Istanbul? Why was Spain occupied by the Moors? What happened to the Christians of the Middle East? Where did Israel’s Muslim population come from? Where did London and New York’s Muslims come from?

Instead of asking about ‘Greater Israel’, what is the position of our leaders on ‘Greater Islam’?

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.

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Are Latinos Staying at Home Out of Fear of Trump?

2026-03-08T21:34:00.002-04:00

“Fear of deportation keeps Chicago Latino immigrants home from Mass,” the National Catholic Reporter claims.

“Deportation fears add to mental health problems confronting Colorado resort town workers,” Colorado Newsline warns.

“As Trump administration’s deportation policies sow fear, Hispanic businesses suffer,” the Beacon News contends.

The coordinated nationwide media propaganda campaign paints a picture of a terrified Latino population afraid to leave the house because they’re afraid Trump’s men will lock them up.

Tell the average liberal that 39% of Latinos are afraid that they or someone close to them will be deported and she’ll organize a rally outside the local Target or drive around Holiday Inn in an oversized SUV screaming “F___ ICE” faster than you can blow a whistle.

There’s one problem… that statistic actually came from the Biden administration.

The Biden administration was the friendliest to illegal aliens in history. It opened the border wide and allowed millions to flood into the country. Despite that nearly 4 in 10 Latinos were worried about government deportations.

When Trump first took office, the number increased slightly to 42%. That’s less than the 46% of Latinos who feared being deported under Obama.

But after months of nonstop media propaganda and nationwide riots, claims that ICE was raiding schools and kidnapping kids, the statistic shot all the way up to… 52% in November.

Media headlines reported this as “over half of Latinos fear deportation”. That’s technically true, but it’s also an increase of only 13% over Biden. The ratio of Latinos afraid that they or someone they know will be deported only climbed from 4 in 10 to 5 in 10. Not a huge change.

Are these numbers unprecedented?

Under President George W. Bush, the Republican administration that was probably the friendliest to illegal aliens, 53% of Latinos were also worried about deportations.

Latinos were still slightly more afraid of being deported by a president who spoke Spanish and had Latino relatives than they are of Trump.

The simple statistical fact is that between 40% to 50% of Latinos on average are always worried that they or a member of their family will be deported. They fear Republicans more than Democrats, but 4 out of 10 will fear deportation even under the most liberal Democrats.

The underlying issue isn’t a ‘wave of terror’ by ICE, it may not even be a rationally calculated sense of risk, but legitimate worries that they or their family members are breaking the law.

And a key variable is that the percentage of Latinos who are illegal aliens fluctuates.

The Latinos most worried about deportation are young ‘immigrant’ women with no high school degree. Many of these women are likely illegals and more fearful than the men of enforcement.

American-born 3rd generation Latinos with college diplomas are the least worried about it.

Some of the expansion however has come from a younger and more liberal Latino citizen population that has the least reason to be concerned, but has been pushed into hysteria by a barrage of media propaganda. This is why larger numbers of Latinos usually express these fears during Republican administrations, no matter how friendly, and even though the deportation of illegal aliens poses no possible personal risk to their own status.

How worried are Latinos who are legally in this country that Trump will deport them?

The Pew surveys of Latinos ask a question that offers an easy test. During the first weeks that President Trump was in office, Latinos were asked how many of them carry a document that proves their legal status. According to the survey, 12% of Latinos said that they do.

(There are no comparable figures from the Biden administration and therefore no way to know how many Latinos also carried identifying documents back then.)

That same survey again asked Latinos how many of them carried documents in the fall of 2025.

After all the deportation actions, the number carrying documents had actually fallen to 11% suggesting that growing numbers realized there was less for them to actually be afraid of.

While a 1% difference is well within the margin of error, it’s fairly obvious that the Latinos who fear being deported are the same ones who fear being deported under any administration.

The artificial identity politics trick of collapsing large and diverse populations of people from Latin American countries into one subgroup ‘Latinos’ and then assuming they share common views and worries is a cynical gambit that failed during the 2024 election, but Democrats and their media operations are trying it again because it’s the only way they know to win votes.

In 2024, they missed the fact that Latinos cared more about the economy than immigration. Now they’re emphasizing the polls that show a majority of Latinos disapprove of Trump on immigration, but that even larger numbers disapprove of him on the economy.

The person who is the most worried about illegal aliens being deported is not the average Latino, but the average liberal white woman who was worried about black men being shot by police in 2020, about children starving to death in Gaza in 2024 and who will be outraged about whatever she is told to be outraged about by the New York Times or Bluesky in 2027.

Latinos, like a lot of Americans, are not happy that the economy hasn’t recovered from the Biden Depression, and they care far more than about illegal alien deportations. A majority supported mass deportations before the election. Many still support deportations today.

The media headlines claiming that churches are deserted and businesses stand empty because Latinos are afraid to leave the house conflate illegal aliens and citizens while implying that Latinos in general are living in terror because criminals are worried about being deported.

And shouldn’t criminals rightly be afraid of law enforcement?

This is the same dishonest racist playbook that was used to claim that every black man was in danger of being shot by police because of a few high-profile shootings of violent criminals.

The numbers are in and the media has been once again caught pushing a false racial panic in order to stir up riots, tear apart society and help the media’s preferred party win elections.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.

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The Epstein Files Have Become Another #MeToo

2026-03-07T21:36:00.004-05:00

The arrest of Prince Andrew in the UK made worldwide headlines. What made fewer headlines was the tenuousness of the charges: “misconduct in public office”. Andrew was one of the few Epstein associates who could be most directly linked to the dead sex offender’s hobby. But “misconduct in public office” is an ambiguous charge based on his association with Epstein rather than any crimes against girls that he may have committed. And that’s par for the course.

Apart from Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted of charges related to Epstein’s abuse of underage girls, no one has been held accountable for those crimes. Certainly not the abusers.

The hysteria and manipulation of the Epstein Files has become a new #MeToo movement in which people whose names simply appeared in a document, sometimes without having any relationship to the man himself, have been dragged into the spotlight and had their lives destroyed by social media grifters and political frauds like Rep. Ro Khanna and Rep. Thomas Massie whose very recent interest in the Epstein Files is limited to destroying President Trump.

A coterie of ‘Epstein Survivors’, some of whom were really smaller versions of Maxwell, helping traffic girls to Epstein, have been put forward by Democrats like Rep. Khanna, who was funded by an Epstein pal, LinkedIn billionaire Reid Hoffman, who visited Epstein’s island, and Never Trumpers like Rep. Massie and the Bulwark crew, as well as through an ad campaign backed by everyone from the UN to abortion groups to the Carter Center, targeting Trump.

Meanwhile Bill and Hillary Clinton were dodging a congressional subpoena over Epstein.

People who should actually be going to jail are being treated like heroes and ‘survivors’ while Trump, who was one of the first to blow the whistle on Epstein, is being smeared at the behest of Democrats, Never Trumpers and the Left by women who helped traffic girls to be abused.

This cynical circus has entirely obstructed any hope of actual accountability for the abusers.

The Epstein Files have become another #MeToo, which began with the takedown of known abusers like Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby, who had appeared untouchable, but quickly turned into a witch hunt with fake accusers, smear campaigns against innocent people, information operations by powerful international players and a fake organization, ‘Time’s Up’, that protected the abusers and the industry while trying to redirect attention to Trump. In reality, the people behind Time’s Up were working with multiple sex abusers including Epstein.

What began with actual legal cases became cancel culture aimed at fading entertainment industry figures, who were not actually accused of committing any crimes, but of making their supposed victims feel ‘uncomfortable’. Some may well have acted badly while others fell afoul of politically motivated hit jobs by rivals, former friends, PR flacks and malicious journalists.

It wasn’t until Stephen Elliott won a six-figure settlement over his appearance on the ‘Sh___y Media Men’ list that had destroyed so many careers, and Chris Avellone won a settlement forcing his ‘accusers’ to admit that they had lied that consequences arrived for #MeToo smears.

And the fever broke.

But many careers were still permanently ruined, for which no amount of money can compensate, and more importantly, the prosecutions of actual abusers had come to an end. The original #MeToo cases were refought in the courts to a near draw with nothing to show for it.

The Epstein case followed the same trajectory, the initial arrest of Jeffrey Epstein, who had been protected from above for too long, and the arrest and trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, and then, instead of leading to actual arrests and trials, it became fodder for the same kind of #MeToo cancel culture industry and political exploitation based on lies, smears and PR campaigns.

The powerful people who (unlike Trump) chose to associate with Epstein long after his crimes were known should face a certain amount of disgrace, especially those in positions of political power (Obama’s White House counsel), who developed troubling ties to Epstein (Bill Gates), or advocated for him (Noam Chomsky), but this isn’t actual accountability for crimes against girls.

And, much like #MeToo, this kind of cancel culture has dragged in the more obviously guilty with a range of people who did little wrong, and people who did nothing wrong at all. Some people have been targeted because their name or a name that might have been theirs was mentioned in an email. People who had nothing to do with Epstein had their names spread around over it.

Rep. Ro Khanna and Rep. Thomas Massie put on a show of demanding the DOJ “unredact” the names of six “powerful men”. Rep. Khanna read their names in Congress. Four of the men turned out to be nobodies who had nothing to do with Epstein. “Rep Ro Khanna and Rep Thomas Massie forced the unmasking of completely random people selected years ago for an FBI lineup – men and women. These individuals have NOTHING to do with Epstein or Maxwell,” the DOJ revealed.

The Epstein Files have done wonders for Khanna and Massie’s ambitions for higher office, as they did wonders for the politicians and activists who had falsely accused Trump of being a rapist, but much like the #MeToo lists, they’ve done nothing to bring actual offenders to justice. That ship was sunk by unreliable and unstable witnesses, deals with ‘survivors’ who turned out to be traffickers and a fruitless search for damning photo and video evidence of actual abuses.

But the burning unanswered question in both #MeToo and the Epstein case was who had arranged to protect the powerful abusers. Those are the questions no one really wants to ask.

Take for example, the common denominator in the cases of Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein, former Manhattan DA Cy Vance, accused of going easy on both Weinstein and Epstein (while vigorously prosecuting Trump).

The Manhattan DA’s office petitioned to keep Epstein’s name off the sex offender registry, in an incident that the judge had found baffling (“I have never seen a prosecutor’s office do anything like this,” she said), and after a model reported an assault by Weinstein, Vance’s office chose not to prosecute. One of Weinstein’s lawyers was Vance’s former law partner who had donated $24,000 to the DA and then another $10,000 after the case was dropped.

Vance is currently working at a prestigious law firm. But no one seems interested. The media isn’t camping outside his house. No one is reading his name on the floor of Congress.

And that in its own way says it all.

Unlike videos of sex crimes that may never have existed, the legal system has extensive paper trails for every interaction that Epstein (and some of the offenders in the #MeToo cases) had with the law and with elected officials. Instead of dumping random emails involving Epstein, the thing to have done would be to lay hold of every document and communication around the time that prosecutors in Florida, New Mexico and New York were protecting Jeffrey Epstein.

That would be genuinely dangerous territory. It wouldn’t just cancel a few aging intellectuals and corporate players whose star had faded a decade ago, but shatter the corrupt networks that made the abuses of #MeToo and the Epstein case possible. That’s why it will never happen.

I recently dug up an article that I wrote about Jeffrey Epstein and the Clintons back in 2015. (Long before the cast majority of the grifters and leeches who fastened on to the subject after his death were interested.) Front Page Magazine’s coverage of Hillary Clinton led to six years of IRS investigations. 11 years later, we’re still not supposed to talk about Epstein and the Clintons.

We’re supposed to look everywhere and at everything except the close Epstein allies who were the only ones with the nationwide political network that could have protected him in 3 states.

The conspiracy isn’t in some hidden vault. Telling you to look everywhere else is the conspiracy.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.

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Feminists for Killing Feminists

2026-03-05T23:24:00.002-05:00

While tens of thousands of protesters were being killed in Iran, many of them authentic feminists, young women demanding equal rights and freedom from the oppressive compulsory ‘hijab’, the Women’s March remained silent. So did the National Organization for Women.

The Women’s March stayed quiet as young women in Iran were gang raped by masked men at gunpoint, much as it had remained quiet during the rapes by Iran’s Hamas allies on Oct 7.

Instead the social media feed for the Women’s March and the National Organization for Women were filled with hysterical attacks on ICE for deporting rapists like Yonis Mohamud, a Somali who had kidnapped and raped a woman in Ohio, Shayan Kahhal, whose record listed sex assaults and the sodomy of a woman, a girl and a boy in Virginia, and Asirullah Khalid-Khan, a rapist from Afghanistan, taken into custody in Austin, Texas.

Considering that under Trump, the ratio of male ICE detainees, who form a larger percentage of violent criminals, rose from 78% to 90%, ICE was actually reducing the gender ratio of women being detained, leaving the Women’s March to protest for male rapists.

And while the killing and the rapes went on in Iran, as women and girls risked their lives to take off their hijabs, protest child marriage and campaign for actual feminism, the Women’s March and the National Organization for Women fumed with outrage and organized rallies against the deportation of male rapists from the Muslim world without saying a word about Iranian women.

The Women’s March took a brief break to attack Israel in the name of what it claimed was feminism while propping up a Hamas lie, before calling for boycotts of Starbucks and Target and then celebrating ‘Bad Bunny’.

The death toll in Iran had reached over 30,000, and families were being forced to pay thousands to get back the bodies of their loved ones. The victims included underage girls.

The National Organization for Women however was outraged that Trump had criticized Bad Bunny.

Finally, after the United States and Israel took out the regime leaders responsible for the massacres of women, the Women’s March responded with a poster of a woman in a “Feminists vs Fascists” jacket raising a fist and the slogan “No War On Iran”.

Feminism had been redefined as support for the mass murder of feminists while fascism had been redefined as support for a fascist regime in Iran. The poster pretending to speak for Iranian women had actually come from Gianluca Costantini: an Italian man.

The Women’s March repeated the lie that “the US and Israel bombed a girl’s elementary school in Iran”. In fact it was an Iranian rocket that misfired.

In the comments, women, some of them Iranian, blasted the Women’s March for repeating Iranian regime propaganda and propping up a regime that was massacring women.

“I am an iranian woman and we want this war. we are thankful our freedom is finally coming! please do not speak for us!” one comment said. Another added, “I am an Iranian and we want the war!!! I consider myself a feminist and a democrat but trust me not just me but my entire country is celebrating today!!!!”

To understand why this happened, it helps to understand who runs the Women’s March.

The Women’s March lists a gift shop and protest events, but not its COO, that’s because, as Freedom Center Investigates had exclusively revealed, he’s actually a gay Muslim man.

Aquib Shaheed Yacoob cut his teeth on early BLM activism and became the chief of staff to Tamika Mallory, one of the three March leaders, just as controversy broke out over her support for Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan who had praised Hitler. After Mallory’s departure, Yaqoob climbed the ladder and eventually became the chief of staff for a “women-led” group.

The Women’s March seems to have stopped filing reports, including apparently tax forms, but hasn’t stopped loudly attacking ICE and promoting Islamic causes. Including Iran.

The March however was not the only group of feminist leftists to come out for killing feminists.

The National Organization for Women had said nothing about Iran’s massacre of women protesting, but when the United States bombed the regime, it rallied to defend their killers.

“Humanity’s only hope lies in the decent people of this country rising together—nonviolently, but with determination and unshakeable resolve—to drive the Trump f—st regime from power. NOW is the time to meet this grave escalation together in the streets in massive nonviolent protest and resistance,” it declared.

Women in Iran had been killed trying to drive the same region from power NOW was defending.

“STOP the U.S. WAR on IRAN!” NOW demanded.

Eve Ensler, who currently goes by ‘V’, of the Vagina Monologues, repeated the same Iranian propaganda describing our government as “devilish”, in an echo of Iran’s regime calling us the ‘Great Satan’, claiming that the equally fictional “genocide continues in Gaza” and urging an end to the war to remove the ayatollahs and mullahs killing women and girls from power.

Ensler had previously rallied for the Marxist regime in Venezuela, attacked ICE and Israel, but had made no comments about Iran’s brutal massacres and rapes of female protesters.

The ugly truth about American feminism is that its members ignored the massacres of Iranian women and girls, not because they were far away, but because they supported the regime.

The moment that the United States moved against the theocratic regime, they rallied.

Whether it comes to preventing ICE from deporting rapists and child abusers, rallying to keep men in women’ s sports or fighting to keep the killers in Tehran in power, the country’s professional feminists support the oppression, abuse and murder of women and girls.

And when it comes to Iran, these fake feminists support the murder of actual feminists.

While the leftist feminists posture as if their rallies against Trump represent actual courage and risk, women and girls in Iran have been fighting and dying to bring down a truly evil regime.

American feminists have stayed silent and now are working to lend their killers a hand.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.

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Jesse Jackson’s Criminal Son Wants Back in Congress

2026-03-04T20:06:00.001-05:00

The death of Jesse Jackson, who got his start lying about holding MLK’s body in his arms, shaking down companies with fake racism accusations to get franchises for his sons, and subsidize his affair and his out-of-wedlock baby, has given a boost to his criminal son.

Jesse Jackson Jr, a former Obama campaign co-chair, had been busted and sent to prison for making off with $750,000 in campaign cash and spending over $10,000 on Michael Jackson memorabilia, including $8,500 on two fedoras, not to mention $800 on a mink cashmere cape, is relaunching a campaign for his old House seat in Chicago, while exploiting his father’s death.

“We’ve got a lot of work to do,” Jesse Jackson Jr told Sharpton on MSNBC (MS NOW) and remembered how amazing it was that “on any given Saturday, Michael Jackson might stop by.”

Jesse Jackson Jr didn’t specify if it was to molest one of the kids or ask for his fedora back.

Jackson Jr. told Sharpton that if Jesse Jackson were alive today, “he would stand against any kind of conflict with the Iranian people. He would have opposed the engagement that the United States under the president’s leadership had in Venezuela and the threats of big gunboat diplomacy that the president is advancing. He would have fought against ICE in our cities.”

Mostly though he would have threatened to block corporate mergers by accusing the companies of racism unless they gave franchises to his kids and funded his mistress through his ‘charity’.

“If I were fortunate enough to have the opportunity to return to Congress,” Jackson Jr. told Sharpton without mentioning what it is that caused him to depart the hallowed House halls.

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife, Chicago Alderwoman Sandra Stevens Jackson, who served as his treasurer, campaign manager and consultant, ‘redistributed the wealth’ from the ‘Jackson for Congress’ campaign to the poor and the needy.

$60,857 went to poor and needy nightclubs, $17,163 went to the poor and needy tobacco stores plus a lot of Michael Jackson, Bruce Lee, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and Jimmy Hendrix memorabilia, along with a mink cashmere cap, a cashmere cape, and a mink reversible parka.

Jesse Jackson Jr. had portrayed them as loving parents and asked the court to stagger their sentences so that one of them could always stay with the kids. Then Jackson Jr. managed to get early release after only two years in prison and then served his wife, who went to prison, with divorce papers over “irreconcilable differences”. The difference being she was in prison.

After $1.8 million in debt, former Rep. Jackson Jr. got out of prison and despite only being 52-years-old went back to living off taxpayers with $138,400 in workers’ comp and Social Security Disability Insurance after having been diagnosed with depression. He told reporters he wasn’t sure when he might get a job.

The good news is he’s now looking for a job. It’s in Congress.

But first the messy divorce case had to be settled. Highlightsincluded Jesse Jr’s wife demanding a list of all his “sex partners” while they were married and called a strip club owner and a bikini model who was described as a “social acquaintance” and Rev. Jesse Jackson, an expert on infidelity, as well as multiple police officers, as witnesses. Jesse Jr however claimed that he found something on her computer while she was in prison that made it “impossible for the marriage to continue.” By 2018, they finally settled the case of which “no aspects of the settlement will be public” because it would have inspired at least one BET series.

During the divorce, the former congressman explained that he couldn’t be expected to get a job because of the “emotionally draining” divorce case.

“He’s not a slacker,” insisted Jackson’s lawyer, claiming that the politician is totally disabled.

Now, Jesse Jackson Jr. is working on his congressional comeback after having presumably been cured of his total disability. There’s already one Jackson in Congress, Rep. Jonathan Congress, who claimed that white firefighters let black homes burn, was caught violating stock trading disclosure laws, and who endorsed Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s campaign while quietly getting a $13,000 consulting contract from him and then his construction company got a $750,000 contract from a Pritzker’s state program. But at least no Michael Jackson fedoras or mink capes were bought with campaign cash. That we know of.

When Joe Biden was pardoning his crooked family members, Jesse Jackson Sr. pleaded with him for a “full and absolute pardon for your son, and for mine, former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr” who had “devoted his life to what he refers to as his ministry – to public service, and to fighting for equality and equity in civil and human rights for all Americans.”

Considering Biden and Jackson’s history of philandering, it’s probably best not to inquire too closely into how Jesse Jr. might be the son of both men.

“I’m asking for it, but I didn’t ask just for myself,” Jesse Jackson Jr. insisted. “When I was elected in 1995 I had a big name, but I had no money. I didn’t realize quite the gravity of what it meant to live in Chicago and live in Washington. So to the tune of about $75,000 a year, I lived in my campaign. $75,000 a year to live in two cities — Chicago and Washington, to go to work every day, to not miss a vote in nearly 17 years as a congressman. Yes, I lived in my campaign fund and I owned my behavior for that.”

It’s tough when you have no money, even though your dad is a millionaire, and you’re trying to live on $75,000 a year while buying cashmere capes and mink caps (or is it cashmere caps and mink capes) not to mention Michael Jackson memorabilia and spending $17,000 at tobacco shops while just trying to get by as an ordinary working class congressman. Is that a crime?

(Editorial note: yes it is.)

“Lots of members of Congress find themselves in a similar situation. Some of them live in their offices. Some of them live literally in their cars,” Jesse Jackson Jr. complained. And some like Jesse Jackson Jr. owned a 1921 era D.C. townhouse off Dupont Circle valued at $2.7 million with 4 stories, 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, with a rooftop deck with a jacuzzi and a copper roof.

In 2024, Jesse Jackson Jr claimed that he has a “ministry” and that he wants to “work in broadcast journalism” and wasn’t thinking about politics. But now he wants to get back to Congress on a promise to build a third airport in Chicago. “The one thing that is missing from this congressional district is access to the global economy”. With flights to Hong Kong.

Who in Hong Kong doesn’t want to experience daily drive-by shootings in Chicago?

His crooked philandering father’s slogan was “keep hope alive”. Jesse Jr’s is a “new hope”.

“I’ve cried enough. I’m divorced now. I’ve lost my home in foreclosure,” former Rep. Jackson insisted. Now he’s ready to take another try at the brass ring or the mink cape.

Among his campaign promises, Jesse Jackson Jr wants to “advance sensible criminal justice and prison reform” and supports “legislation to remove the check box that asks if job applicants have a criminal record.” Especially when they’re applying for a job in politics.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.

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“America Can’t Do a Damn Thing Against Us”

2026-03-03T22:21:00.004-05:00

(Marine Barracks bombing - Beirut)

In June 2025, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei told his regime at the mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini that Iran’s nuclear program would go on regardless of President Trump. “Our response to the US nonsense is clear: they cannot do a damn thing in this matter.”

A few weeks later, Iran’s underground nuclear program was rubble and a year later, Khamenei, who mocked any American efforts to negotiate, has joined his beloved nukes under the ground.

In early February, a top adviser to the commander of the regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps dismissed the buildup of U.S. forces. “Even if America brings 12 aircraft carriers to the region, it can’t do anything,” he bragged. “America is defeated and incapable of any aggression.”

His commander is now dead along with Khamenei and elements of the regime’s leadership.

The Islamic Revolution that took over Iran had two slogans, “Death to America” and “America can’t do a damn thing against us”. Or “Marg bar Amrika” and “Amrika hich ghalati namitavanad bokonad.” The Ayatollah Khomeini had coined the latter slogan after raiding the American embassy and taking its people hostage while Jimmy Carter did nothing.

And America indeed did not do a damn thing.

Khomeini had outfoxed everyone, his former Marxist allies, the French and the Carter administration which was full of radicals eager to swap the Shah for Islamist rule. The Islamic theocrat had assured the Kennedy administration and then the Carter administration that he would be friendly to America and that Muslims and Christians made natural allies.

“You will see we are not in any particular animosity with the Americans,” Khomeini, who would later make ‘Death to America’ into the regime’s slogan, assured Carter’s people.

“We would do a disservice to Khomeini to consider him simply as a symbol of segregated education and an opponent to women’s rights,” Philip Stoddard, the head of the State Department’s Intelligence Bureau, who had come out of the Saudi-funded Middle East Institute, argued.

For the next forty something years, Khomeini and his successor, Khamenei, went on killing Americans, murdering at least 869 U.S. military personnel across the Middle East, from the truck bombings in Lebanon to airline hijackings and IEDs across the Muslim world.

And “America can’t do a damn thing against us” remained an unchallenged slogan. Iran’s Islamic regime appeared to have Allah at their backs because they were able to brutally torture and murder Americans, make videos and recordings of it, and distribute them to the world.

While we did nothing.

The Obama administration’s negotiations with Iran to legitimize its nuclear program were greeted with the triumphal slogan, “America can’t do a damn thing against us” appearing on billboards and banners across Tehran and at speeches by Khamenei. By the time, Iran abducted and paraded around U.S. Navy sailors, the slogans appeared indisputable.

Then in 2020, Qasem Soleimani, the evil genius behind Iran’s worldwide terrorist networks, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was taken out near Baghdad by an American drone. In the regime’s eulogy, it declared that Soleimani had “deeply believed that America can’t do a damn thing against us.” Soleimani’s end was proof that his deeply held belief was worthless.

America’s inaction wasn’t a product of Allah’s intervention, but of moral weakness.

The Iran Lobby had invested deeply in Biden, going back to 2006, and saw in him another Carter. Iranian hackers intervened to help him win in 2020. Once Biden was in power, Iran launched a series of major escalations, targeting Israel with the Oct 7 attacks and international shipping with Houthi piracy out of Yemen. The Biden administration initially resisted, but then crumbled, pressuring Israel to make a deal with Hamas, and then refusing to go on the offensive against the Houthis in any consistent way, leading to the humiliation of the U.S. Navy.

In 2025, Trump was back, but last June the ayatollah was still assuring the faithful that America “cannot do a damn thing.“ Other clerics echoed him, in Bushehr, a major site of Iran’s nuclear program, a cleric claimed that “the US cannot do a damn thing to stop Iran’s nuclear progress.”

The airstrikes that soon followed proved them wrong.

America can do quite a bit. We didn’t. And that’s how we got an ‘endless war’. The more that Carter, Obama and Biden backed off and tried to make a deal, the more the Islamic regime became convinced that we were impotent and that it was invulnerable. Iran was never all that tough. Our leaders were simply weak and corrupt. The more aggressive Iran became, the more they backed down and looked for an exit ramp. Is it any wonder that Iran’s terror grew worse?

President Trump has taken the opposite approach, punishing Iran’s intransigence, instead of rewarding it, and making a mockery of its beloved slogan, “America can’t do a damn thing against us”. Iran never had Allah on its side. It had Carter, Obama and Biden.

Without appeasers in the White House, America can do a whole lot and the Islamic terrorists can do very little. The ayatollahs and their regime had gambled on the fecklessness and cowardice of their non-Muslim enemies. Over the last 6 years, their bets have started to fail. They’re popular at Columbia, UCLA and Harvard, but hated in their own cities, and President Trump has shown how weak they are underneath their cruelty and theological boasting.

The monsters who once hijacked, kidnapped, tortured and murdered Americans are afraid. They’re hiding out in their own capital because America is doing some damn things to them.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.

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The Ages of Purim

2026-03-02T22:35:00.002-05:00

Tonight the celebration of the holiday of Purim begins. Purim is a Jewish holiday often neglected outside the more religious communities in America and Israel because it commemorates an attempt to exterminate the Jews.

If Purim had concluded with a lesson on tolerance, liberal Jews might be more inclined to celebrate it. Unfortunately it ends with a genocidal madman being hung from a tree and the Jews fighting for their lives, winning and slaughtering their enemies.

And instead of feeling guilty about it, their descendants eat pastries, dress up in costumes and get drunk. At least those of their descendants who believe in survival instead of surrender.

Leftist Jews complain about the difference of values they have with Israeli Jews who insist on survival instead of surrender. They have an even bigger difference of values with the Jews of the Bible. And with Jews throughout history.

Not to mention with the religion of the Jewish people.

The more liberal a Jew is, the less likely he is to celebrate the substance of his people's holidays as they conflict with his worldview and virtues. Moshe, the Maccabees and Mordechai don't seem like role models, not even if you rebrand them as community organizers and claim that they were fighting prejudice.

That's why Jewish leftists have made Vashti, the wicked queen who oppressed the Jews and forced them to violate the Sabbath, into their heroine in Esther's place.

There is something relentlessly bloody-minded about those Jews of the Bible. They care very little about a sustainable environment or LGBT rights, and instead walk through the corpses of their enemies with no regrets or apologetic winces. They stand up for their own people in a regrettable show of tribalism that perpetuates the cycle of violence instead of preaching about Tikkun Olam.

The story of the Megillah, the Scroll of Esther, is the story of how Mordechai, the descendant of the first Jewish king of Israel, snubbed the Grand Vizier of a multicultural empire by refusing to bow to him. The obstinate Benjaminite so infuriated the Vizier that he plotted to kill all the Jews. The smart thing to do would have been to bow to Haman. To invite him to the ADL and let him give a pre-written speech and then give him a standing ovation.

Jewish leaders no doubt hurried to reassure Haman that this fanatic was in no way representative of their values of tolerance and appeasement. Hadn't they attended the feast where the sacred vessels of their own people were used to serve wine and spirits to the mob? Rather than anticipating the return to their land at the end of the prophesied 70 year period of exile, they had cheered the brutish tyrant and made Sushan, his capital, into their new holy city.

A few tens of thousands had gone back to Israel, which the empire had repopulated with other peoples. There they struggled to survive, building half the day and keeping watch with their spears from the time the stars came out until the sun rose. Most Jews however had remained behind in the Persian Empire. The struggling settlements of the Jews under the last of the prophets seemed like a futile proposition. The future belonged to empires, to Babylon, Persia and Rome.

There was no room anymore for the sort of pride displayed by Mordechai. This was Haman's hour. Israel was gone and would never return. Rebuilding the Temple was a fool's dream. Why go off to some place your ancestors had come from, to slave in the hot sun, to choke on dust and sleep with a spear by your side expecting an attack from the nomads that had settled in the land?

In Sushan, the wine is plentiful, the bazaars are never closed and the empire will never fall. There is no room for ancient dreams in the new empire. No room for old fables about slavery and freedom. Perhaps in ancient times some deity had liberated them from Egypt, but here in the modern present, it was the fall of the Babylonian Empire which had raised them up out of slavery and given them a place among the subject peoples of a new empire. They bowed to Haman and to the new order. They gave up their dreams and their religion and drank headily of the wine at the festival of the king. On their couches, they dreamed they saw a new world opening before them.

Mordechai knew that all this would pass away. He had seen through the illusion that every age brings with it the end of history, a new age whose achievements break with the past and usher in a boundless future. The shadow crosses the sundial, the walls come crashing down and the new era of history ends up buried under the rubble of time.

The confrontation between Mordechai and Haman was a collision between two different conceptions of history. It was a contest for the Jewish soul.

Mordechai defied Haman to remind the Jews, who had abandoned religion and nation for the new age of the Persian Empire, of the ugly and bloody truths under the hollow glories of that new age.

In every age, the Jewish soul is nearly lost and then redeemed. The people seem on the verge of vanishing, but then survive. Mordechai understood that the future of the Jews did not depend on the Persian Empire. It depended on their willingness to remember who they were. And so he defied Haman and brought on a Holocaust. And at the end of it, the Jews fought for their survival.

Purim, a holiday preceded by a fast kept by the men going into battle and their loved ones, is not about forgiving your enemies, progressive taxation or coming out of the closet. It is about survival. Not mere survival, but the skin of the teeth sense of how close we came, that moment of revelation which pulls back the curtains of the material world and reminds us of the impossibility of our survival under all the ordinary rules of the world that new ages are found on. It reminds us that behind the scenes of the brick and mortar, steel and steam world, is something else entirely. A force that breaks apart the towers of history, that saves us when we should have died, that has entrusted us with a mission. It reminds us of what the world is and reminds us of Itself and of what we are.

When you stand on the edge of death, life is a revelation. It is not our deaths under the Egyptian sun, the blades and bullets of a thousand empires and kingdoms, or the ovens of Dachau that we are obsessed with. It is that moment of survival. The revelation that even amid the horrors of all that we have witnessed and the terrible things that we had to do to survive, we have risen out of the ground, watched the flesh cover our bones and stood alive again upon the earth. Every time we survive, we are reminded of the fragility of the world and of our enemies who wielding every power and trick, have failed to destroy us. Each time we rise, we transcend the world, in confronting our dead, we confront our immortality.

It is not a purely joyous experience. The day of Purim is preceded by a day of fasting. Before the celebration comes a day of battle as the struggle to survive, the long decline into the abyss, the final desperate hours, suddenly give way to the upheaval of an impossible salvation. We remember the pain, the sense of the grave closing over us, the bodies lying everywhere, the certainty that we will be next. We accept the hopelessness of our situation and then we walk out of the grave and praising G-d, sit down to the feast.

This is Jewish history. It is an alien one to the New Age Jew who clings tightly to the new era and its rules, to its pieties and its mores, who scowls at the old ones for refusing to come and join the imperial festivities where the vessels of the temple are used to serve drinks and the mob toasts that the 70 years have come and gone, and still there is no chance of the Jews returning to their Jerusalem and reclaiming the lost history. "The past is the past," says the New Age Jew. "The past is the present is the future," says the Jew.

The feast of the New Age is the celebration of the end of history, a golden time when there is an unlimited bounty for all, where the wine and the free health care will never run out, where everyone will live together under one government in perfect brotherhood for all time. Many Jews are drawn to this feast, its golden vessels, its vast bounty and its glorious ideals. But then enters the Grand Vizier and some of them begin to frown for though he wears rich garments and speaks soothing words, he is a monster. They don't always know how they know it, but it is a nagging feeling that creeps into them that there is something rotten at the heart of this new age.

Most of them still bow to him, touching their heads to the floor, some even embrace him and celebrate his vision. They assure others that he is our friend, the only man who can realize the promise of this age, a wise and noble leader whose vision of change brings new hope. But one or two stay away from the feast and refuse to bow to him. Instead they look to Jerusalem, to where the battle between good and evil was once fought, and where it will be fought again. They know him for what he is.

The Grand Vizier knows that he must destroy them, must destroy them all, because they have seen through what he is, and they have seen through the shallow trappings of the golden age of fools. They know that there is more to the world than the might of men and the cornucopias of kings. They know that he is not all-powerful and when he looks at them, a scowl wrinkles his face, because he knows it too.

So he casts a lot, random chance in a random world where chance is supreme and the whim of every ruler outweighs the weight of history. The bills are signed, the laws are passed, the decrees go out, the officers from the vast imperial bureaucracy are assigned to inform every citizen that their new age will be inaugurated with blood. A people who are not a proper part of the multicultural empire of laws must be wiped out in a properly democratic fashion. Crowd-sourced genocide.

And then the Grand Vizier ends up dangling from a rope, the tanks break through to Berlin, the chariots fall into the sea, the mustachioed dictator dies in a bedroom in Moscow his clothes soaked in his own urine-- and everything has gone completely wrong.

It's an old story and a new story. We tell it over and over again because it is always happening. It is our story and the story of the world. It is the story we have accepted from our parents and it is the story that we will pass on to our children. It is the story of the blood sacrifice of the New Age that goes wrong. The sacrifice survives, bloodied and scarred, the New Age goes down to ruin.

Purim exists because Queen Esther asked the Jews of Israel to write of her for generations. The Persian Empire she had become a part of, the sacrifice she made by leaving the physical stream of Jewish history to be repaid by becoming a vital part of its spiritual history, would fall. Not in her time, but it would. The memory would be carried on by the Jews. Purim is that memory.

Jewish holidays celebrate the interconnection of Jewish survival and productivity with G-d. The Second Commonwealth fell. Israel may fall. A thousand years from now, the world may little resemble anything we can imagine. And yet, somewhere, Jewish children will celebrate Purim as they have for thousands of years.

They may even celebrate other holidays, still unimagined, other memories of salvation from horrors yet to come and remembrances of tragedies yet to be experienced. And if we look through history, as Mordechai did through Haman and the Persian Empire, we may be able to see them on the other side, the descendants of those who survived the whips of Egypt, the slave markets of Babylon, the armies of Rome, the sword and the flame, the concentration camp and the suicide bomber, celebrating a million holidays yet to come.

Iran Has Been at War With Us for 47 Years

2026-03-01T12:33:00.002-05:00

“America can’t do a damn thing against us,” Ayatollah Khomeini bragged while holding our hostages.

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.

The “peaceful” student activists took over our embassy and held our people hostage.

Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei taunted President Trump with the same slogan 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.’

Carter’s failure to defend Americans had turned Khomeini’s taunt into a confident slogan.

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.

Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s IRGC terror mastermind, had thought that America couldn’t do a damn thing. In January 2020, President Trump taught him otherwise with a Reaper drone.

It was the first time in a long time that America had done a “damn thing” about Iran.

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.”

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.

The Biden administration assured the media that it had nothing to do with the Israeli strikes.

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.

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 transferred to Iran and tortured there, before being returned to Lebanon. Videos distributed by Iran’s Jihadistsshowed him 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.”

America once again did not do a “damn thing”.

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.

“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.”

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.

In 1988, Hezbollah kidnapped Colonel William R. Higgins andtortured him for months. 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.

“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.

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”.

But Iran continues to hold American hostages today like former FBI agent Robert Levinson.

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.

Al Qaeda built a relationship with Iran. The 9/11 Commission noted, “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.”

After 9/11, some Taliban leaders relocated to Iran to fight America. By 2010, Iran was paying $1,000 for each American soldier killed and Iranian IEDs were claiming American lives.

After losing in Afghanistan, Al Qaeda relocated much of its operations to Iran.

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.

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.

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.

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 47 years. And is still fighting us.

It only takes one side to have a war. Fighting back isn’t what makes the war endless.

Refusing to fight back or to fight back effectively is what makes wars endless.

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.

“America can’t do a damn thing against us,” the ayatollahs mocked us as they killed our people.

For the first time in two generations, the smirks have been wiped off their murderous faces.

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.

America is not contemplating bombing some “random middle eastern country.” After 47 years of kidnapping, terrorism, torture and murder, we’re fighting back against Iran’s war on us.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.

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Gov. Newsom Frees the Worst Child Rapists in America

2026-02-26T13:00:00.000-05:00

Even while Epstein drama is consuming the country, David Allen Funston is being set loose.

Funston became notorious for luring children as young as four years old in Sacramento into his car with candy and dolls then raping them. A little girl had a knife held to her throat while he raped her so badly she bled. One 5-year-old girl was raped, beaten and left by the side of the road. He raped a little boy and kidnapped two sisters, 4 and 5, before he was finally stopped.

Funston was known as “the monster parents fear the most” and was sentenced to three life terms in prison in 1999. But in 2020, even as he was having surfers arrested and small business owners shut down, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 3234 into law which took the state’s already generous ‘elder parole law’ and redefined ‘elder’ as being any criminal over the age of fifty.

Now, Funston, who was convicted of 16 counts of kidnapping and child molestation, is being granted ‘elder parole’ under Newsom’s law to the horror of the children he once abused.

California’s original ‘elder parole’, passed by state Democrats and signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown, had jettisoned life sentences for criminals over sixty. Newsom’s expanded addition lowered the age to fifty and effectively eliminated life sentences for most criminals.

Including the child rapists now potentially headed for the exits.

Other child rapists who benefited from Newsom’s free pass for pedophiles included Israel Ceja, a Mexican convicted in 2000 of over 20 counts of forcible rape for crimes that began when his victim was 11-years-old and included attempted murder and other assaults to induce a miscarriage, who qualified for parole despite a sentence of 139 years in prison.

Michael Dausey, who raped his 14-year-old niece at knifepoint, and had previously raped a minor in Oregon, has also qualified for parole.

Cody Woodsen Klemp, who was sentenced to 170 years in prison after raping at least 5 women and girls, after charges that included 20 counts of committing a lewd and lascivious act on a child, 10 counts of rape, and 10 counts of forced oral copulation on a child, was deemed by the parole board to be at ‘low risk for violence’ and was set for release. The decision was only overturned after major protests by victims, one of whom warned, “He will absolutely rape again. He has been committing rapes since he was eighteen years old. The only time he did not rape was when he was in prison.”

Republican Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones introduced SB 286, also known as Mary-Bella’s Law, in an attempt to block rapists, child abusers and murderers from qualifying for elder parole at an appearance with key victims including those who had been assaulted by Charles Mix, sentenced to 350 years in prison for the 2005 kidnapping of a 5-year-old girl, and Cameron Hooker, of the ‘girl in the box’ story, also suspected of the murder of Marie Elizabeth Spannhake.

As of February 2026, the bill has been blocked in the California state senate.

While most of these predators have not yet been released, Alvin Ray Quarles, known as the ‘Bolder Than Most Rapist’, who had raped a series of women and was diagnosed with sexual sadism disorder, voyeuristic disorder and antisocial personality disorder, was released despite the pleas of his victims, only to be rearrested again for an undisclosed parole violation.

Merle Wade Wakefield, convicted of lewd acts on a child and rape by force, who was also classified as a violent sexual predator, was released and has not yet been rearrested.

While individual communities, victims and DAs continue to fight the tidal wave of rapists and child molesters headed for the exit because at the age of fifty they’re considered ‘elders’, and pleading with Gov. Gavin Newsom for mercy, many California Democrats are doubling down.

Aubrey Rodriguez (he/they), a former legislative director with State Sen. Catherine Blakespear, and a legislative advocate for the state ACLU, claimed that he would feel comfortable living next door to a rapist. “We believe people have the capacity to change, and that we don’t want to sentence them for the rest of their lives for a mistake that they committed in the past.”

Kim Su, of Uncommon Law, a pro-crime group backed by the Obama Foundation that represents some of the criminals being set loose, suggested that victims, some of whom had been sexually abused as children, were just suffering from irrational “stranger danger”.

Even while victims have to go it alone, pro-crime groups like Uncommon Law are backed by millions in funding from radical groups and taxpayers.

Uncommon Law received a $3 million grant from the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development. Gov. Newsom has not been able to answer what exactly freeing sex predators and other criminals to commit more crimes has to do with business development.

Gov. Gavin Newsom, whose eyes are on the 2028 presidential election, has been careful to skirt parole approvals for truly controversial cases like the RFK assassin, and Frederick Woods, the millionaire kidnapper who buried a bus full of kids under the earth and had Newsom’s father lobby for him, but set loose David Weidert, who forced a developmentally disabled man to dig his own grave, beat him with a shovel, stabbed him with a knife, choked him with a telephone wire and then buried him alive. And he may play a game of blocking parole for individual child predators if the protests are loud enough, but it was his signature that enabled all of this.

A 50-year-old child rapist is not an “elder” and the only reason that the monsters sentenced to over a century in prison are being tracked for parole is Newsom’s signature on a bill.

Gov. Gavin Newsom, like other California politicians, including Rep. Ro Khanna, have tried to exploit the Epstein case, but California Democrats have paved the way for the release of abusers who make Epstein look like Mother Teresa, monsters who abused little girls and boys, who used knives and weapons, who made them bleed and locked up victims for years.

Newsom has a lot to say about Epstein, but the Clinton-linked sex predator was 66-years-old at the time of his death and 54-years-old during his original arrest. Under Newsom’s law, California would not have considered him a dangerous predator to be locked away for life in prison, but an “elder”.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.

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Murdering Husband of Illegal Alien Muslim Councilwoman Freed

2026-02-25T12:55:00.002-05:00

Councilwoman Tania Fernandes Anderson made history by becoming the first illegal alien Muslim councilwoman in Boston history. Then she made history again by marrying a convicted murderer serving life in prison with no parole. Then she made history yet again by becoming the first illegal alien Muslim councilwoman married to a lifer serving on the Boston city council while under indictment when she was charged in an illegal kickback scheme involving fraud and theft.

And she made history by being convicted of corruption charges and being sent to prison, but on the way out passed a resolution that changed July from a commemoration of the American Revolution to a commemoration of the African country she illegally came to America from.

Now she’s about to make history one more time as she’s about to be reunited with her murdering husband, who was sent away to prison for life without parole, but is now being set loose on Boston for a ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ moment. (If Bonnie were a Muslim illegal alien.)

It’s a real Valentine’s Day miracle.

Tanzerious Anderson robbed and killed a small business owner in Brighton back in 2000.

Anderson’s girlfriend had been used to lure the victim into a trap. Then Anderson and his partners had robbed him, getting away with $46 and the life of a human being.

Anderson had told the victim, who owned a landscaping company, to keep his hands up and warned him not to look back, but the man had reached for the doorknob and the ex-councilwoman’s husband thought that he said, “Police, police.” So he shot him in the back of the head.

“I got my body for the summer,” Tanzerious Anderson later bragged.

The killer was sentenced to life in prison without parole. And that should have been it.

After marrying Anderson (and becoming Councilwoman Tania Fernandes Anderson), the future convicted politician launched a campaign to free her previously convicted husband. Advocates for the killers falsely claimed that Anderson was innocent and the real killers had been three white kids. At his parole hearing, Anderson admitted he did it, making the entire campaign that had preceded it a lie that should have led to consequences for those responsible for it.

In 2022, Judge Robert Ullman, who had been nominated by Obama crony Gov. Deval Patrick despite having botched the Whitey Bulger case, ruled that Anderson and his fellow killer were entitled to new sentencing hearings because the adult men had been reclassified as “emerging adults”.

“Emerging adults” are murderers between the ages of 18 and 20. The Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that sentencing adult killers to life is now “cruel and unusual punishment”.

Suffolk DA Kevin Hayden, whose site claims that his mission is “keeping communities safe and vibrant”, hailed the move putting the two killers on a path to freedom because “the practice of putting a person behind bars forever, without paying attention to decision-making ability based on age and the science of brain development, should end.”

The DA’s woke rant has to do with the discredited myth that adult killers have to be treated like their children because their brain hasn’t fully developed and so they can’t not murder someone.

Hayden then “thanked his predecessor, U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins, for her ‘early leadership on this issue.'” Rollins’ leadership included listing crimes that she would not prosecute, ranging from shoplifting, to stealing anything under $250, malicious destruction of property, threats, and drug possession with intent to distribute. She had defended BLM rioters, claiming that “buildings can be fixed” and resigned in disgrace after multiple investigations at every possible level

“It is never easy to retread the past, but it is vital that we do so to correct past wrongs and ensure that they are never repeated,” DA Hayden claimed.

The “wrong” in question according to the woke DA wasn’t the murder of a man, it was that his adult killers were locked up for too long afterward. Releasing them from prison is the best way to ensure more murders happen. But at least the area will be all the more “vibrant” for it.

Over the summer, Tanzerious Anderson appeared before the parole board. The brother of the victim rightly walked out because he did not believe he would get a fair hearing. The victim’s parents had not been told what was happening because “it would break their hearts.”

“He wasn’t 13 or 14 years old at the time when he killed my brother, and he knew what he did,” the victim’s brother said in a statement. “I was told after the conviction that he will never come out of prison… he chose to be evil and he killed my beloved brother for $40. He wasn’t happy that it was only $40, and that was enough for him to take my brother’s life.”

In January 2026, the parole board granted parole to the killer.

Now in a Valentine’s Day miracle, a murderer can finally be united with his criminal wife.

The board falsely claimed that Anderson, who is married to a recently convicted criminal, can “remain at liberty without violating the law.” He’s a criminal going off to life with another criminal.

And if he shoots and kills someone else, the Massachusetts Supreme Court, DA Hayden and the entire pro-crime political establishment that runs Massachusetts will no doubt find that middle aged men lack sufficient brain development to be held accountable for their crimes.

Former Councilwoman Tania Fernandes Anderson had pocketed $7,000. Her husband killed a man for $40. As they begin their happy life together on the outside, she’ll have much to teach him about life, love and crime. And maybe before long, he can become the first murderer married to a Muslim illegal alien convicted of corruption to become a Boston city councilman.

Just think of how wonderfully ‘historic’ that will be.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.

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Did DEI Cause D.C. Sewage Disaster?

2026-02-24T10:39:00.003-05:00

After complaining about a water industry that was terrible because it “had too many white men at the top”, DC Water CEO David Gadis bragged that, “My executive team, you know, looks exactly like the community… people of color.”

7 out of 9 members of the DC Water leadership team are black. 5 are women.

This hasn’t done anything to get the sewage back in the pipe. Or decontaminate the Potomac.

The DC Water 2023 report was titled ‘Water Equity for All’ and had Gadis bragging that “in recent years, DC Water has established itself as the national gold standard when it comes to delivering water equity.”

DC Water is now at the epicenter of the massive Potomac sewage spill in which hundreds of millions of gallons of wastewater poured into the river in one of the worst sewage spills in American history. But at least the D.C. Water’s executive team “looks exactly like the community” whose lives they’re wrecking.

Or do they?

CEO Gadis had pitched his focus on contracting with “minority and women-owned businesses”. The report promised that “infrastructure decisions” would be made “equitably” so that rather than just analyzing “the risks of infrastructure failures”, the Authority would be looking at them within the context of social and environmental vulnerabilities” and would “protect the needs of the most vulnerable communities from impacts such as flooding and sewage overflows.”

Did DC Water let the Potomac disaster happen because it prioritized sewage management around equity and the ‘Interceptor’ that dumped massive amounts of sewage may have been seen as a risk, but not a sufficient risk to a sufficiently diverse “vulnerable community”?

The areas affected by the sewage spill are primarily in Montgomery County which are less ‘diverse’ than D.C. itself with only a 18% black population and nearly half white population.

Did DC Water prioritize infrastructure risks to more properly ‘diverse’ areas leading to this disaster? Even with the disaster underway, DC Water has been accused of stonewalling and refusing to cooperate with other agencies, including the Potomac riverkeeper, trying to figure out the magnitude of the disaster. That is highly suspicious behavior for an innocent organization.

As federal investigators look for answers, they may want to consider starting with that question.

DC Water described its mission not as delivering water, but as “delivering equity”. Now DC Water may have “delivered equity” by filling a less diverse area with sewage.

But it’s not as if the DC Water leadership doesn’t have some experience with that sort of thing.

David Gadis, the first black CEO of a “major water utility”, had last been in the news during his tenure with Veolia Water. During that time, Veolia was accused of helping cover up the water disaster in Flint, Michigan in that city’s water crisis.

Veolia later paid out $78 million to tens of thousands of Flint residents.

“We are honored to support your community with our technical expertise so that together we can ensure water quality for the people of the city of Flint,” Gadis had promised Flint residents.

Gadis had assured Flint residents that the water was safe even as emails mentioned the presence of lead. Why, after that disaster, did D.C. Water choose him out of 100 candidates?

One might think that the priority would be picking a CEO who wasn’t at the center of the most notorious tainted urban water crisis (including one involving minorities) in the whole country.

But as the DC Water press release mentioned, Gadis “was the first African American CEO to lead a major utility in Indianapolis.” And really, who cares about anything else?

Perhaps taking a man who had a basketball scholarship to Southern Methodist and had been “entirely focused on the prospect of a basketball career” before losing the NCAA National Tournament and then being lucky “that the abilities he developed on the basketball court—such as leadership, responsibility, and preparation—also applied well to the… water industry” was not a great plan. Even if Gadis had the supreme virtue of looking “exactly like the community.”

DC Water, like many cities, had badly aged infrastructure. Instead of focusing on that, Gadis bragged about his commitment to meaningless buzzwords like “sustainability” and “equity”.

The ‘Authority’ would have done better to focus on functionality and safety instead.

While DC Water focused on its “first-ever appearances at the Capital Pride Block Party”, the “Women of Water” (WOW) program and celebrating “the many cultures, languages, and ethnicities represented at the Authority”, a disaster was approaching that could not be met with DEI, but with real-world hard work before the Potomac river was full of sewage.

Rather than discuss the magnitude of its actual tasks, DC Water’s reports redefined everything as equity. When DC Water described its water hookups, it rebranded this system as “one of the most direct ways DC Water delivers equity to customers is through the service lines that connect the water mains in the street to their homes and businesses.” This cultlike Marxist language fundamentally shifted away from its actual mission to a symbolic ideological one.

And ideology, as the Soviet Union could have told the DEIrs, is no substitute for results.

DC Water may have had “82% BIPOC representation”, but what it didn’t have was a plan to safely move around water and sewage through a badly aging system that needed thorough overhauls and close monitoring. And sadly enough it’s not at all unique in that regard.

Many government and private organizations have developed a leadership class that neglects its actual responsibilities and spends all of its time babbling about its commitments to environmental sustainability and equity to the exclusion of doing anything that might be useful.

Political virtue signaling is often a convenient cover for incompetence in failing organizations.

This politicization of everything is a systemic threat to the economy and to public safety and lives. Americans deserve organizations that prioritize their jobs, not their own politics.

Areas whose organizations drown in political sewage will eventually drown in real sewage.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.

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California Politicians Propose Law Hiding Corruption from the Public

2026-02-21T21:33:00.001-05:00

California’s ‘train-to-nowhere’ program started with a $10 billion budget in 2009 which shot up to $135 billion with no end in sight. The Trump administration has tried to cut off billions in federal funds for the money pit on rails and there are signs that even state voters are growing sick of it.

But California Democrats had an answer.

Around the same time that the CEO of the California High-Speed Rail Authority, was arrested on suspicion of domestic battery after an appearance with Gov. Gavin Newsom celebrating the progress of the ‘train-to-nowhere’, Democrats were moving forward a bill to ban the public from getting crucial information about the project whose budget is more than 5 times that of NASA.

The cost of returning to the moon is estimated at under $100 billion. California is spending more than that on a rail project that still hasn’t gotten anywhere and which no one is interested in.

California Democrat legislators had already become infamous for covering up their own corruption. The California legislatures claimed that disclosing how much they were spending on defending their members against investigations would “violate attorney client privilege”.

The California State Senate had refused to release records of federal law enforcement subpoenas and search warrants, claiming that “the public interest served by not making the record public clearly outweighs the public interest served by disclosure of the record.”

The public interest in this case is that of members of the legislators being raided by the FBI.

The secrecy around the California Capitol Annex for legislators, where costs shot up from an estimated $543 million to around $1.2 billion, has become equally infamous. The project’s leaders found an innovative way to keep the public from learning about what was going wrong by forcing over 2,000 people, including senior government officials, to sign non-disclosure agreements. Who weren’t they allowed to disclose it to? The general public. Obviously.

Only in California would top legislators sign NDAs so the public won’t find out that they’re shipping granite to Italy at a cost of over $5 million to build a lavish palace for themselves.

Assemblywoman Blanca Pacheco claimed that, “while I believe transparency is critical to maintaining public trust and did not sign this agreement lightly, it was necessary in this instance to protect sensitive information related to the project’s security.” Like the security of the two million pounds of granite being shipped to Italy from California which Assemblywoman Lia Lopez actually claimed was done to reduce the “spending of taxpayer dollars.”

Using the same facade of legality to ban the public from learning about their abuses, California Democrats introduced California Bill 1608 under the innocuous title of ‘Office of the Inspector General, High-Speed Rail’ which bars disclosing details about investigations into the project.

Buried in te technical verbiage, the renewed office of the Inspector General for High Speed Rail would be exempted “from all contract requirements of the Public Contract Code that require oversight, review, or approval by the Department of General Services or any other state agency” for “a contract up to $1,000,000 in value.” The new office will be doing the one thing the train project already does all too well: spend insane amounts of money without any oversight.

When million dollar spending by an inspector general’s office is treated as chump change, that’s a symptom of how a $10 billion project somehow turned into a $135 billion project. But this is a bill that casually mentions “additional activities, not to cumulatively exceed five hundred million dollars ($500,000,000), that maximize the efficiency of delivering the project.”

The project has been underway for 17 years and was due in 2020. But surely dumping another $500 million into the hole on wheels will “maximize the efficiency of delivering the project.”

Why specifically $500 million? KCRA’s Ashley Zavala, one of the few indefatigable investigative reporters left in the local media, has suggested that the entire bill is meant to cover up a $537 million ‘change order’ to the contract as part of a settlement.

But who knows because the whole point of the exercise is hiding things from the public.

By the time you get to Sec. 10 (b), California Dems write in this truly extraordinary piece of legislative legerdemain ordering that “none of the following items or papers of which these items are a part shall be released to the public by the Inspector General or the employees of the Inspector General” which include “papers, correspondence, or memoranda pertaining to any audit or review”, internal staff discussions and “any record of an investigation conducted under this division” unless the Inspector General decides to issue an official report if he determines “it necessary to serve the interests of the state.” It’s an official bill banning disclosures of abuses in the single most wasteful and corrupt government project in California history.

The public gets no say in any of this. Instead, the whole thing is routed through a government official who gets to determine what if anything is released, and only if he “has substantiated a violation of laws, rules, or regulations, or mismanagement, gross waste of funds, abuse of authority, or a substantial and specific danger to the public health and safety.”

Notably, it needs to be a “gross abuse of funds”, not a plain old abuse of funds and a “substantial” danger to public health and safety, not just an ordinary sort of danger.

A $135 billion train, a $1.2 billion capitol annex and FBI raids all form part of the same picture.

“This is a good thing for the public,” Assemblywoman Lori Wilson insisted. “We want maximum transparency and maximum accountability for this project.”

And nothing says maximum transparency like a literal ban on government transparency.

What is ominous about this is that the new bill no longer even uses the ‘fig leaf’ terminology of the “public interest”, but instead substitutes a different term; “the interests of the state.”

The “interests of the state”, a phrase more commonly associated with Communist dictatorships, recurs throughout the bill, such as “the Inspector General determines it necessary to serve the interests of the state” or ” individuals attempting to harm the interests of the state”.

California’s ruling class is starting to admit, in legalese if not in its press releases, that the public interest and the interests of the state are not the same, and that the latter preempt the former.

The absurdity of claiming that hiding FBI investigations of their members of the cast of Italian bricks for their political palace is in the public interest was a bit much. Like hiding abuses in their $135 billion ‘train-to-nowhere’, that’s not in the public interest, but in the interests of the state.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.

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Japan Fights Back Against Muslim Migration

2026-02-19T09:31:00.000-05:00

A few months before his assassination, Charlie Kirk visited Japan and warned that mass migration was seeking to “replace and eradicate Japan by bringing in Indonesians, by bringing in Arabs, by bringing in Muslims”.

With over 100 mosques and over 400,000 Muslims already occupying Japan, even though 95% of Japanese voters oppose Muslim mass migration, a political explosion was bound to occur.

Now, Japanese voters have delivered a striking defeat to the forces of mass migration with a stunning win for Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, whom the media has already taken to describing as a ‘Trumpian’ figure for opposing mass migration, her Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which won its largest victory to date, as did a number of other right-wing parties, including the one Kirk was addressing, demonstrating that voters were tired of mass migration.

In Kawaguchi City, where so many Turkish Muslims now live on welfare that a Turkish candidate announced a run for mayor last year on a platform of “multiculturalism”, another conservative candidate candidate, Yuriko Okamura won with record turnout on a platform of cracking down on foreigners after statistics showed Muslims were 1,000% more likely to commit crimes than the native Japanese population. The media however blamed ‘misinformation’ and claimed that Kawaguchi was the central point for the spread of anti-Muslim xenophobia across Japan.

By contrast, Reiwa Shinsengumi, a far-left party which welcomed mass migration, called for multiculturalism and spent much of its energy campaigning against Israel and for Islamic terrorists, fell from 8 parliamentary seats to only 1 in a crushing defeat for its agenda.

95% of Japanese voters oppose Muslim mass migration, 60% describe Muslims as “radical”, “aggressive” or “backwards” and 62% view them as a “security risk”. The Japanese Left found itself on the wrong side of a debate about setting a cap on mass migration to the country and had no other response except to lecture the majority about its “xenophobia” and “intolerance”.

While Japan has traditionally been highly restrictionist when it came to immigration, its poor birth rate (the average birth rate is 1.15 babies per woman and there were less than 690,000 births in 2024) has forced it to rely more and more on foreign labor. And much of that foreign labor, as Charlie Kirk described, is coming out of Indonesia and other Islamic supremacist countries.

There were 100,000 Muslim occupants in Japan in 2005. By 2023, that shot up to 350,000 and by 2024 it was estimated as having reached 420,000 and is rapidly headed towards the crucial tipping point of half a million. This rapid hypergrowth of Muslim migrant populations is troublingly typical and it’s why so many first world countries across Europe have been so rapidly occupied.

The Japanese were slow to wake up to what was happening as mosques exploded in unexpected places and overflow Islamic ‘prayer’ services began occupying neighborhoods.

The Islamic call to ‘prayer’ and the damnation of infidels (according to Islamic law, most Japanese are ‘pagans’ and can be killed or raped out of hand) now echoes from ‘mega-mosques’ like the Tokyo Mosque with its massive towers and domes where over 5,000 Muslim migrants show up. And this was quickly followed by other demands, for fundamental changes to the Japanese diet, which is extremely ‘non-Halal’ and for Muslim burial plots inside Japan, as well as other ways in which Japan was expected to accommodate Islam.

To many Japanese people, the over 100 mosques occupying parts of their land (up from a dozen a generation ago), the Islamic schools for a growing population of Muslim youth and the expanding demands to change the nature of Japan signal that the Muslim workers are not coming to the country temporarily, but they mean to stay. Over 50,000 Muslims have already obtained permanent resident status and that number appears likely to increase dramatically.

Japan’s low birth rate and aging population at once leaves it in need of foreign labor but also vulnerable to foreign invasion. But Japanese voters pushed back against the occupation.

Prime Minister Takaichi ran on a promise to toughen residency laws and immigration controls. Even as Somali fraud became a nationwide story in America, welfare and visa fraud by migrants was becoming a growing controversy in Japan. As was the abuse of animals by foreigners.

While foreigners were initially not eligible to take part in Japan’s generous welfare state, the growing numbers of migrants in major cities have been able to get themselves and their families on the welfare rolls. And once on the welfare rolls, the invasion subsidizes itself.

Takaichi’s message countered the growing calls for mass migration by many Japanese politicians. For example, Tokyo’s Guidelines for the Promotion of Intercultural Cohesion reads like boilerplate DEI material from any western government, complete with buzzwords about “diversity”, being a “global city” and “a tradition of respect for people with diverse values”.

Last year the ‘Aomori Declaration’ was issued by Japan’s National Governors’ Association which called for the integration of foreign workers, condemned ‘xenophobic’ criticism of mass migration and urged creating an infrastructure to build a “multicultural coexistence”. The ultimate goal was to transform Japan into a “multicultural community” in which the Japanese would be slowly edged out by foreign migrants in the name of “integration” and “multiculturalism.”

The governor of Nara claimed that there were “baseless criticisms targeting foreign residents that are spreading online” and dismissed a “vague anxiety” by “Japanese people, mainly young generations.” While the governor of Miyagi had argued that a Muslim cemetery was necessary and “must happen in spite of the criticism” because “as the number of foreigners increases, so are people who get married and have kids. There are also Japanese people converting to Islam who want an Islamic burial.”

Japanese voters however rejected the proposals for mass migration and multicultural integration and signaled that they want their country to remain Japanese. That will however require more than minor adjustments. Muslim migrants have been able to marry women with citizenship And with the presence of over 100 mosques and nearly half a million Muslims, they will consider Japan to be another outpost of the growing imperial ‘ummah’ of Islam bestraddling the world.

The Muslim Brotherhood and other global Islamist networks have already established a presence in Japan through the mosques, schools and ‘community centers’ that have been set up. Jihadist figures now brag about spreading Islam in Japan. They are not about to give up.

Japanese voters took an important step by choosing their country over an illusory multiculturalism that would allow those who hate them to overrun their country and destroy its culture, its values and its people. But the leftist supporters of mass migration and the Islamic ideology that uses them as a springboard for its conquests will not give up easily.

Japan has a long way ahead of it. And the only way forward is to restore its culture, rebuild its birth rate and to stop being reliant on foreign labor. And if it must rely on foreign labor, fellow Asian nations are a much better choice than importing Indonesian, Pakistani and other laborers from the Muslim world who don’t come to work, only invade plant the conquering flag of Islam.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.

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