Batya Ungar-Sargon put it succinctly off the top:



She was referring to New York mayor Zohran Mamdani, of course, who has been leading the way in today’s antisemitism mega-virus.

It’s getting so strong that in this case the alleged perpetrator wasn’t even Muslim. He was just some crazy druggie picking up the popular racist rhetoric of the times coming from seemingly… everywhere.

Or as the NY Post put it: ‘A deranged attacker yelling ‘Allahu Akbar’ stabbed two men in separate attacks on the Upper West Side Thursday afternoon, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said.

‘Investigators were probing whether the suspect, Raul Morales, 51, was motivated by hate, though Tisch also said: ‘The initial investigation suggests that mental health may have been a factor.’

“Detectives are continuing to work the case and determine motive, but according to victim and witness statements, Morales yelled ‘Allahu Akbar,’ meaning ‘God is the greatest, ' in Arabic, during both attacks, the top cop said in a statement.’

One of the victims was Asian, but the other was indeed Jewish, emerging from a synagogue attended by people with whom I am personally close, where they were celebrating the saddest of Jewish holidays

Although these may not be the greatest of crimes compared to others, these stabbings occurred on Tisha B’Av, which G-d declared a perpetual day of mourning for the Jewish people. That can sound like folklore, but the 9th of Av on the Jewish calendar is not only the day, hundreds of years apart, when the two Jewish Temples in Jerusalem were destroyed. It was also the same day the Jews were expelled from Spain after the Inquisition and the first day of World War I that many believe led inexorably to the Holocaust.

Go figure.

It’s hard to admit this, but we are now at a similar juncture. Jews are not safe around the world, but particularly in New York, a city to which they made huge, one could almost say unparalleled, contributions in finance, architecture, city planning, medicine, education, theater, music, radio and television, museums and art, and virtually every field of science and culture you can think of.

That’s indisputable.

But, ironically, it is time for the Jews to go.

They must leave New York not only to save it but also to save themselves.

Not all will do so. Some are too frightened or too embedded in fusty left-wing politics that has repeatedly failed.

But those who do go, not just titans of Wall Street but regular middle-class folks, will take with them such a significant portion of the city’s tax base that Mamdani’s not-so-Democratic Socialist goals will be more unattainable than they already are.

New York will no longer be the country's economic capital. Miami and/or Dallas will be, if they are not already.

Lessons might even be learned. Meanwhile, they can go be antisemites by themselves.

Living in Miami Beach, I can see this migration happening around me in real time. For a long time, when I have been talking to New York (and California) friends on the phone, they have been asking me, at first tentatively, what it’s like beyond their blue state bailiwicks. Now I detect an urgency in their voices.

At the higher end of the scale, following in the footsteps of Jared and Ivanka, we have this report about Jared’s father:



Regarding Rama, just how antisemitic is she? Olivia Reingold wrote for The Free Press:



Nice folks, the Mamdanis.

Note to Zohran: Capitalist Miami Beach initiated a free rubber-tire trolley back in 2014, expanding it all over in 2017. You’re late to the party, comrade.

UPDATE: Some in the comments (restricted to paid subscribers) and others in email noted the great division within the Jewish community that I referred to briefly in the text and quite broadly in the illustration. It is an old story and a lethal one. Leftism is a kind of blindness to reality, which some grow out of but too many hold on to at their own peril. I highly recommend this article by Dan Greenfield on “The Night of the Murdered Poets.” The faces of those Soviet Union Jewish poets look all too familiar.

I also deal with this subject throughout my recent novel EMET and will again in the sequel.

Anyone who thinks a ground invasion of Iran is a serious possibility needs to watch this...

Matt Bracken is a former Navy SEAL and spec ops veteran, and he just delivered one of the most sobering comparisons I've heard yet:

Kharg Island is the size of Iwo Jima, where the U.S. pounded the island with battleships for WEEKS before landing 70,000 Marines... and still lost 7,000 lives and had 19,000 wounded in a single month.

Qeshm Island is bigger than Okinawa, which took 3 months and cost 12,000 American lives.

Iran has had decades to tunnel these islands, study U.S. tactics, and prepare for precisely this scenario, and unlike Japan in WWII, they have precision missiles that can reach every inch of the Persian Gulf.

"If we went into Iran, I think we will lose everybody we send in, the more we send in, the more we lose, and the Iranians have been very open about saying, come on in, we welcome you."

Matt ended by saying rationality is out the window, and that this started with a February 28th sneak attack, so nothing should be considered off the table.

Great talking to you, @Matt_Bracken48

#BREAKING @PaulSperry_
reports: The "really big news" President Trump plans to announce in Thursday's primetime address, according to an administration source who's read a draft of his speech, includes bombshell evidence China interfered in the 2020 election to help Joe Biden win, including hacking into state voter registration databases and stealing information on tens of thousands of voters ostensibly to manufacture mail-in ballots for Biden.

The evidence, which details "alarming vulnerabilities" of election infrastructure, is based on four (4) sets of declassified documents (set for release Friday) which were recently unearthed from suppressed FBI, CIA and ODNI records, according to the well-placed source. The intelligence had been buried in a "massive cover-up" of Beijing's hacking capabilities and influence operations aimed at supporting Biden.

Other vulnerabilities compromising the U.S. election system, according to a draft of the president's speech, include the existence of more than 100,000 non-citizens, including illegal immigrants, on voter rolls.
#ElectionIntegrity #SaveAct @RCPolitics

This weekend a Ukrainian crew pushed the Wovkulaka Spitfire FPV interceptor out to 84.7 km before it smoked a SuperCam whose operators thought they were safely parked somewhere in the south. Manufacturer's previous record was 69 km. That is not a incremental upgrade. That is the kind of leap that rewrites operational math on the entire theater.

Every extra kilometer we add to the reach of cheap, mass-produced Ukrainian drones is another chunk of Russian rear area that stops being a safe haven. It is not glamorous. It is not the kind of thing that gets NATO generals excited in PowerPoint slides. But it is exactly the asymmetric grind that turns Moscow's quantitative advantage into an unaffordable liability. They lose more meat trying to take villages that had fewer residents before the war than the monthly body count we are stacking with systems like this. Their "meat is cheap" doctrine only works until the bill comes due in rubles, barrels, and replacement pilots they no longer have.

This is why the endless Western hand-wringing about "escalation" and "negotiated settlement" sounds so hollow from Kyiv. Every new Ukrainian long-range strike capability demonstrated on the battlefield is proof that the cheaper European security architecture is the one where we keep handing Ukraine the tools to finish the job, not the one where we let Moscow consolidate gains and then face the same threat again in five years at triple the cost. Arming Ukraine is not charity. It is the discount bin on continental defense. Moscow wins and the price tag for Poland, the Baltics, and everyone behind them goes vertical. Their hybrid war, their information sewage, their axis with Tehran and Pyongyang, all of it gets oxygen as long as the Kremlin believes it can outlast Western attention spans.

The crew that just set this record does not need lectures about "peace processes" from people who still cannot name a single Ukrainian city on a map. They need scaled production, components that do not get slow-walked by bureaucratic cowardice, and the political cover to keep pushing the frontier of what cheap autonomous systems can do. Because every additional kilometer we own is another square kilometer of Ukrainian sky that Russian recon birds no longer fly with impunity, another logistics node that burns at night, another data point proving that imperial projects die when the math no longer works.

Ukraine is not waiting for permission to exist. We are building the future European defense model in real time while half the continent still debates whether it is polite to admit that. The Spitfire record is just the latest receipt. Moscow keeps pretending it is winning by capturing ruins at grotesque cost. We keep extending the kill chain until their empire runs out of both ruins and the bodies required to take them. The trajectory is clear to anyone not paid to look away.