On Thursday, an Oscar winner, an Emmy winner, a New York City Council member, and a Democratic congressional nominee sat down on First Avenue.
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winner → sit → Avenue
Around them marched communists bankrolled from Shanghai, Islamist-aligned activists, and protesters waving the flag of a terrorist organization.
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communists → march → organization
They called it a stand for peace.
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They → call → peace
It was the Red-Green alliance on parade, and Washington should treat it as the influence operation it is.
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it → treat → operation
A federal grand jury in Manhattan is examining Neville Roy Singham’s money.
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jury → examine → money
Singham is a Shanghai-based tech mogul whose nonprofit network members of Congress accuse of advancing the interests of the Chinese Communist Party.
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members → base → Party
On Thursday, that network’s street machine delivered Hollywood’s biggest names to the curb.
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machine → deliver → curb
Susan Sarandon, Hannah Einbinder, Caleb Hearon, and Chelsea Manning were led away in zip ties.
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Sarandon → lead → ties
Cynthia Nixon, Elliot Page, Julien Baker, and Lucy Dacus joined them in the street.
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Nixon → join → street
These performative activists had political company.
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activists → have → company
Democratic congressional nominee Darializa Avila Chevalier, New York City Council member Chi Osse, and activist Linda Sarsour were also arrested, and Brad Lander, another Democratic congressional nominee, joined the protest.
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Lander → arrest → protest
New York’s own mayor set the stage.
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mayor → set → stage
Zohran Mamdani, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, has spent months branding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a war criminal on television and social media.
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Mamdani → spend → television
He even promised to have the New York Police Department arrest him under an International Criminal Court warrant, a power
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Department → promise → warrant
he never had and later admitted he lacked.
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he → have → ?
It was theater for the manipulated masses, and on Thursday, the street performed the sequel.
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street → manipulate → sequel
The sit-in was run by Jewish Voice for Peace, an organization that is neither Jewish nor for peace, with co-sponsors including the DSA, the Palestinian Youth Movement, and New York’s Muslim American Society chapter.
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sponsors → run → DSA
The larger march was led by the Palestinian Youth Movement and the People’s Forum, which has received $22 million from Singham.
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which → lead → Singham
The Party for Socialism and Liberation arrived with wagons of professionally printed signs.
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Party → arrive → signs
Protesters waved the flag of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, designated a terrorist organization by the U.S., the European Union, and Canada.
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Protesters → wave → U.S.
They chanted “globalize the intifada,” a call to spread the jihadi terrorism that killed thousands of Jews, Christians, Druze, and foreign workers, along with Muslims branded collaborators or dissenters.
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that → chant → Muslims
They hung Netanyahu in effigy from a noose and called Jews “Zios,” a slur popularized by white supremacists.
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They → hang → supremacists
That is bigotry dressed up as activism.
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That → dress → activism
The picture is plain: Palestinianist, Islamist, communist, socialist, and progressive movements, Democratic officeholders and Hollywood celebrities, marching as one behind a terrorist flag.
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picture → march → flag
What binds them is Palestinianism, an ideology that turns the Palestinian cause into a political identity aimed at Israel’s elimination rather than Palestinian statehood or welfare.
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that → bind → statehood
It gives Marxists a revolution, Islamists a jihad, and celebrities a costume.
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Islamists → give → costume
Analysts call this partnership the Red-Green alliance: the communist and socialist left (red) joined with Islamist movements (green), bound by shared enemies (America, Israel, and liberal democracy) rather than shared values.
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Analysts → call → values
The Soviet bloc armed and trained the PFLP, whose flag flew on First Avenue.
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flag → arm → Avenue
Today, Beijing hosts Hamas diplomatically and buys Iran’s oil, and Singham’s network is the alliance’s domestic arm.
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network → host → oil
These celebrities claim to champion LGBT equality, women’s rights, and dissent.
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celebrities → claim → equality
The regimes that their movement shields crush all three.
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movement → shield → three
Under Hamas, gay men are imprisoned, raped, and killed.
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men → imprison → Hamas
Tehran hangs gay men and jails women for showing their hair.
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Tehran → hang → hair
Beijing jails dissidents and has detained an estimated 1 million or more Uyghurs.
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Beijing → jail → Uyghurs
Havana imprisons protesters for decades.
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Havana → imprison → decades
None of these victims got a sit-in.
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None → get → in
History shows how this alliance ends.
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alliance → show → ?
In 1979, Iran’s communists and leftists marched with Khomeini’s Islamists to topple the Shah.
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communists → march → Shah
The Islamic Republic then banned its party and, in 1988, executed thousands of leftist political prisoners.
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Republic → ban → prisoners
The Islamists always turn on the reds, and the gay people, women, and dissidents in the coalition go first.
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people → turn → coalition
…and 17 more, not listed.
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