The West is facing an Islamic holy war By Melanie Phillips

A view of cars charred by Hamas terrorists during the massacre in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, at a field near the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, Nov. 26, 2023. Photo by Yossi Zamir/Flash90.

JNS : Governments and the public alike persist in a state of lethal timidity and denial, but they must start connecting the dots.

A documentary film released this weekend in more than 100 movie theaters across America explores the processes by which antisemitism exploded across university campuses, in street demonstrations and on social media following the Hamas-led atrocities in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

It shows how throughout this vast uprising, Hamas have been celebrated as freedom fighters rather than terrorists. The film’s director, Wendy Sachs, has also noted that this tsunami of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish hatred wasn’t a spontaneous eruption of feeling. It was orchestrated.

The Hamas narrative of murderous lies has been embedded into campuses by the vicious anti-Israel group, Students for Justice in Palestine. The film produces evidence that links SJP to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, the global Islamist group that spawned Hamas, ISIS and Al-Qaeda.

Sachs says she was shocked and surprised to discover that SJP wasn’t just another student group but connected to Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran.

What was most mind-blowing, she said, was the revelation from 1993 when the FBI wiretapped Hamas members in a Philadelphia hotel room and recorded them talking “about how to make their messaging more palatable to an American audience and how when they’re speaking to people on the left, they’re going to speak in terms of social justice and apartheid.”

Which, of course, is precisely what’s been carried out to devastating effect. And these activists aren’t just aiming to destroy Israel and murder Jews. They’re aiming to destroy America.

Last September, SJP tweeted: “True divestment necessitates nothing short of the total collapse of the university structure and American empire itself,” and that its aim was “to undermine and eradicate America as we know it.”

This aim is no secret. Jihadi warriors from both the Sunni and Shi’ite Islamic world in Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran have repeatedly threatened that, after they have destroyed Israel and the Jews, they’re coming for the West.

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