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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/opinion/mamdani-intifada-israel.html
What "Globalize the Intifada" Really Means
(New York Times) Bret Stephens - I was a journalist living and working in Jerusalem when I got a taste of what the word "intifada" means in practice. I had just moved into the Rehavia neighborhood when in March 2002 my local coffee shop, Cafe Moment, was the target of a suicide bombing. My wife, whom I hadn't yet met, was due to be in the cafe when it blew up but had changed plans at the last minute. 11 people were murdered and 54 were wounded that night. Two weeks later, I was at a Passover Seder when the news filtered in that there had been a bombing of a Seder at a hotel in Netanya. 30 civilians were murdered there, including three Auschwitz survivors, and 140 were injured. Two days later there was an attack on a Jerusalem supermarket. A security guard, a father of six, who stopped the bomber from coming into the store, and a high school senior were murdered. Life in Jerusalem was punctuated over the following months by suicide bombings that occurred with almost metronomic regularity. There were many more atrocities in Israel over following years, but the intifada also was globalized. Jews were murdered in Seattle in 2006; in Mumbai, India, in 2008; in Paris in 2015; in Washington in May 2025; and in Boulder, Colorado, in June. A major political candidate who refuses to condemn the phrase "globalize the intifada" isn't participating in legitimate democratic debate; he is giving moral comfort to people who deliberately murder innocent Jews.