They say that politics makes for strange bedfellows. It seems that terrorism makes for even stranger ones. Who would have thought that an American far-left radical terrorist group would make common cause with Islamic terror groups, when the two groups' agendas seem so misaligned?

And yet, that seems to be what is happening. On Wednesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio took to his official X account to warn the American people of a connection between Portland Antifa, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and Hamas. But more to the point, SECSTATE is telling us that the American government is digging deeper, beyond the Antifa foot soldiers and Hamas goblins, to find the people behind the scenes who are enabling them.

SECSTATE writes:



A Fox News exclusive, also published Wednesday, has more details on the connections between a far-left tech group and the terrorists, foreign and domestic. These are interesting indeed:



This isn't an ordinary sanction. With this action, the United States of America is casting a very, very wide net. This is bigger than Antifa, the ground-level goblins who attack independent journalists like Andy Ngo and Nick Sortor. This is bigger than Hamas goblins, even after October 7th. This action is going against a shadowy international organization that enables those, and other far-left groups, Islamic terror groups, and who knows what else.

We might also note that Antifa isn't all about throwing bottles at cops. They have engaged in lawfare as well, and it's not inconceivable that the A/I Collective is providing some support there as well. One infamous example comes from an independent journalist, C.K. Bouferrache, known on X as @honeybadgermom, who was served papers for a legal action stemming from a pepper-spraying incident. The details read a lot like an attacker suing his victim because he bruised his knuckles on the victim's face. This sweeping sanction may well have the potential to change some of these legal calculations.

As someone once said, this is a big freaking deal.



We should note that these kinds of actions don't happen overnight. Months of work go into an action of this size and scope. But what's great about this is that it's working up the chain. It's still important to bust the street-level goblins and break up terror cells, be they Antifa or Hamas. But this action goes to the root cause. More to the point, it hurts these terror enablers where it counts - in the wallet. Add to that the fact that it makes it this much easier to toss our home-grown leftist terrorists where they belong, namely, in the pokey.

I spent many years in my previous life as a corporate consultant teaching cause analysis to medical and biotech companies, many of which you would recognize. Cause analysis is tricky, and the key to a successful root cause analysis is drilling down far enough. Somebody, or more accurately some bodies, at the State Department, at the Treasury Department, and also very likely the Department of War and the Department of Homeland Security, have done their homework here. They have drilled down into this issue and have arrived at the common link binding all these disparate groups together. This enables them to take legal and financial actions against not only the A/I Collective, but also against any groups or individuals who are tracked down and who have been supported by the A/I Collective.

This has been a very, very fine example of cause analysis, identification, and corrective action. Well done.

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.
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