by Rachel Stewart

On last week’s show, I anticipated that October 7 would be bastardised by the ‘globalise the intifada’ sheep, and sure enough the flock delivered.

The protests were part of a highly coordinated global movement that took place across most major international cities. Emphasis on the highly coordinated.

A coalition of over 200 activist organisations under the Global Alliance for Palestine organised a synchronised “Global Day of Action” which resulted in more than 250 demonstrations across 60 countries.

In New York, hundreds of pro-Palestinian – code for pro-Hamas – protesters overran a vigil marking October 7 attended by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Upon learning Mamdani was in attendance, the protesters booed and broke into a chant of “Traitor!” and “Zohran, what do you say? How many boots did you lick today?”

The organisers, Israelis for Peace, moved the vigil to a nearby spot in the park surrounded by police barricades as speakers struggled to be heard above the protesters.

This is the environment Jews and politicians and your average citizen are operating in every day. The mainstream media shows little of this, but does show you lovely, unicorn-like protesters marching in solidarity with those poor Palestinians on an endless loop. As if it’s all sustainable, and just another day in a functioning Western society.

Except it’s not. All-out civil war is especially close in Europe, but the media doesn’t want you to know that. Or if they do show you the happenings that they can’t really get away with not showing you, simply because it’s so serious and violent, it’s framed somewhat differently.

Take the “student” protests in France. The narrative has been consistently flattened. Those “students” are just unhappy about their conditions, or fees, or concerned about teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms, and deteriorating school facilities.

The Associated Press – always one of the worst media offenders – provides the perfect example here of downplaying what’s really going on. Just another day in Paris, right?

Nothing to see here except that citizens with cameras and functioning eyes and a brain inconveniently do capture the truth. These are not protests by students alone, or even much at all.

In the last week, evidence has emerged to back up what the rest of us could see. That it’s extremely organised, aggressive, and involves way more groups than just “students”. Why wave Palestinian, Hamas, and CCP flags if your protest is solely about student concerns? I mean, even Greta Thunberg has joined in the protests, so what does that tell you?

The financial backing driving the current unrest in France comes from a combination of domestic institutional resources and an international network of far-left organisations.

Rather than isolated student cash, investigators and media tracking have mapped the funding into three main categories. Firstly the French National Labor Unions and student syndicates are funding the day-to-day material costs of the blockades—including printing, legal defence funds for arrested minors, and sound equipment—are directly financed by France’s established, state-subsidized student unions.

Next, France’s hard-left opposition party, La France Insoumise or LFI, has deployed its huge taxpayer-funded party infrastructure to sustain the movement and has utilised its national political communication networks, legal resources, and staff to organise, shield, and validate the blockades.

Investigative mapping found that of the 50 major organisations running the street actions in Paris, 35 are adult-led political operations, including the French Communist Party and various socialist organisations, providing the professional logistics that a youth movement typically lacks.

Then there’s the transnational far-left media funding. A major component of how the movement has become a global phenomenon involves international financing. An investigation by Fox News has uncovered a pipeline backing the protests to Neville Roy Singham, a U.S. tech multi-millionaire currently based in Shanghai who has funnelled over $278 million into far-left nonprofits and media outlets since 2017.

Basically, if you do your own research on Neville Roy Singham, he makes George Soros look like an innocent lamb by comparison. Which is pretty impressive.

And if you apply those learnings to the I.C.E. and Los Angeles riots as just two examples, and the pro-Palestinian protests going on all over the West all of the time, you’ll be getting a firm sense of what’s really going on. None of it good.

That was me this week ……. Au revoir.

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