The Diplomatic Intifada Is Coming For America

America is filled with anti-Americanism, support for terror groups, political violence, and shocking polarization. This is no accident but a well-orchestrated attack — the bastard grandchild of Soviet Political Warfare: the Diplomatic Intifada.

On October 7, 2023, the Hamas terror organization perpetrated the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. On October 8, long before Israel had even mounted a response, America’s campuses and streets erupted with protests…not against the mass murder, rape, torture, ritualistic Islamic beheadings or hostage taking that Israel had suffered, but against the Israeli victims…and against the United States.

A Wall Street Journal exposé revealed that many of the protesting groups, including the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), were ready just hours after the massacre with pre-printed signs, equipment, matching gear and organized training — some provided by internationally designated terror organizations. An ongoing lawsuit by victims of October 7 includes compelling evidence that protest leaders knew of the massacre in advance.

This was not a “protest,” it was not a response to any world event: this was a meticulously pre-planned attack on American society, and it was a quarter century in the making.

Durban, 2001

It began at the cynically named “United Nations World Conference Against Racism” which paradoxically featured Nazi swastikas, Der Stürmer style icons, and other viciously racist symbols, marches and chants.

Held in Durban, South Africa in 2001, the conference initiated what later came to be known as the “Diplomatic Intifada,” an effort by numerous partners, including the Palestinian Authority, Iran, Qatar, and a whole slate of Muslim Brotherhood linked organizations. Their goal? To strategically weaken Israel, the United States and the West in every possible sphere: political, diplomatic, lawfare, education, communications, grassroots, and more. 

The Diplomatic Intifada was meant to change the world — not in a year or even 10 years — but rather to indoctrinate an entire generation that hadn’t even been born yet: today’s 18-24 year old cohort. That demographic’s especially widespread vitriol toward America and the West was never an accident, it was a plan.

The Diplomatic Intifada is working

Fast forward twenty five years to this month: when the Senate Judiciary Committee conducted a hearing entitled, “Hidden in Plain Sight: Confronting the Muslim Brotherhood Network in America.”

The Muslim Brotherhood is a violent international movement that declares as its model slogan: “Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope. Allahu-Akbar!” The group stands behind numerous terror organizations, such as Hamas, ISIS and Al Qaeda. According to its internal documents, the group’s stated goal in the United States is “Civilizational Jihad,” the transformation of America into an Islamic state.

Under the leadership of Senator Ted Cruz, the Senate hearing revealed an enormous body of evidence detailing the Brotherhood's American infrastructure, including influence in nonprofits, political organizations, universities, courts, and taxpayer-funded programs. One such organization is the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), whose leadership helps to fund political candidates such as New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and much of the DSA.

This is not remotely “free speech” - a whole suite of laws make it profoundly illegal for terror organizations, such as those linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, to engage in American civil society or political life - whether directly or through proxies. 

Soviet Political Warfare

Paul Sperry of RealClearInvestigations notes that the American dream includes immigrating, assimilating and eventually contributing positively to the country’s political life, but that what we see today is something else entirely. Another RealClearInvestigations article by Benjamin Weingarten was entitled, “How Hamas’ Attack on Israel Is Transforming American Politics.” The transformation actually started even earlier, and its implications are far more sinister.

The Diplomatic Intifada is the result of a quarter-century of planning and billions of dollars in investment. But we shouldn’t be surprised - we’ve seen this before: the Soviet Political Warfare of the Cold War, like the Diplomatic Intifada of today, was designed to destabilize democracies by exploiting their political fault lines with every weapon available - including cynical manipulation of democracy itself. 

But we can win.

America does not need new laws, but to actually enforce its existing laws: against terrorism and incitement, against political violence, money laundering, and non-profit manipulation. America does not need McCarthyism, but does need diligent and proper investigations of actual illegal activity. Americans need not become intolerant or racist, but we must not allow violence, hatred and criminal activity to go unchallenged on the altar of being “anti-racist.”

America won the Cold War: intact, democratic and free. The Soviet Union, for all its machinations, did not. Whether America succeeds this time is entirely up to us.

Daniel Pomerantz is the CEO of RealityCheck, a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to restoring public trust in information. An expert on the Middle East and international law, Daniel also serves as an adjunct professor at Israel’s Reichman University (the “IDC” in Herzliya). Daniel and RealityCheck can be found at www.realitycheckresearch.org or at contact@realitycheckresearch.org.