In recent months, we have witnessed a troubling acceleration of rage-fueled activism on American campuses and in our streets—activism that goes far beyond political disagreement with Israeli policy. What we’re seeing is not about justice, but about destruction.
“Globalize the Intifada” is the chant now echoing across elite American universities, plastered on posters, shouted at rallies, and even inscribed on Molotov cocktails. Let’s be clear: intifada is not a metaphor. It’s not a slogan for peace or reform. It’s a call for violent uprising. The same ideology that led Hamas terrorists to butcher civilians on October 7 now animates movements in the West that claim to be about human rights but actually function as campaigns of civilizational sabotage.
We are not dealing merely with protests. We are facing a campaign—well-funded, ideologically rigid, and increasingly violent—that aims to normalize hatred of Jews, hatred of Israel, and hatred of America under the guise of “decolonization.” The real agenda? To dismantle not just the Jewish state, but the moral and cultural foundations of the free world.
The infection is worst where it should be least welcome: our universities. The academy, once a haven for rigorous inquiry, has become a training ground for grievance-driven extremism. Israel is smeared as a “settler colonial apartheid regime,” and America is denounced as systemically evil. In this worldview, Western Civilization is a sickness to be cured, not a heritage to be preserved.
But what exactly is being rejected?
- The belief that every human being is created in the image of God.
- The dignity of individual rights.
- The rule of law and equality under it.
- The right to worship freely.
- The liberation of women.
- The defeat of slavery, Nazism, and Communism.
- The miracle of democratic self-governance.
All of this—the best of what Judeo-Christian civilization has brought to the world—is now treated as suspect or even evil by those who chant for “liberation.”
At CJUI, we believe in moral clarity. It is not moral to ignore terrorism because it comes from fashionable corners of the political spectrum. It is not just to blame the victims of Jew-hatred while shielding their persecutors. And it is not courageous to conform to the ambient radicalism of our cultural institutions.
We believe that Christians and Jews must stand shoulder to shoulder in defending the values that made our nations—and our freedoms—possible. That means defending Israel not only as a Jewish homeland but as a frontline defender of Western values in the face of jihadist aggression. It means telling the truth, even when it’s unpopular. It means naming the enemy: an ideology that sees Jews as scapegoats, America as irredeemable, and faith as a relic.
The campaign to “globalize the intifada” is a campaign against everything good, everything noble, and everything sacred in the civilization we share.
It must not succeed.