The Mask Is Coming Off: The Radical Left's Vision For A World Without Israel

The Mask Is Coming Off: The Radical Left's Vision For A World Without Israel

PNW STAFF

For years, defenders of the increasingly anti-Israel radical Left have insisted that its activists are simply criticizing Israeli government policy. They don't hate Israel, we are told. They only oppose settlements, military operations in Gaza, or American military aid.

But sometimes someone says the quiet part out loud.

Megan Romer, national co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, did exactly that during a remarkably revealing interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick.

Asked what the DSA actually wants for Israel and the Palestinians, Romer replied that the organization supports "a free Palestine with the capital in Jerusalem." When Remnick pressed her on whether that meant a two-state solution or a single state replacing Israel, Romer acknowledged that her answer could "be safely read as a one-state solution."

That distinction matters enormously.

This isn't merely a dispute over where Israel's borders should be drawn.

It raises the far more fundamental question of whether the world's only Jewish state should continue to exist at all.

And Romer's comments became even more disturbing when the conversation turned to October 7.

When A Massacre Becomes "Inevitable"

Remnick asked Romer about an anti-Israel rally held in New York on October 8, 2023--the day after Hamas terrorists slaughtered approximately 1,200 people in Israel and abducted more than 200 hostages.

Would she have attended?

"Probably," Romer answered.

When Remnick emphasized that this was just one day after the massacre, Romer responded that October 7 was "largely inevitable," arguing that Palestinians living under Israeli policies could eventually be expected to revolt.

She insisted she was not defending attacks against civilians. But Remnick immediately challenged the contradiction: if you say you would have joined such a rally immediately after the massacre and then explain why the massacre was inevitable, where exactly does explanation end and justification begin?

This is one of the most dangerous transformations taking place in Western attitudes toward Israel.

October 7 is slowly being rewritten.

What began as the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust is increasingly being filtered through the language of "resistance," "decolonization" and "oppression."

The killers become revolutionaries.

The murdered become representatives of an oppressive system.

And Israel's attempt to defend itself becomes the greater crime.

The significance of the interview is that Romer isn't some anonymous activist with a megaphone.

She helps lead the Democratic Socialists of America, an organization enjoying growing electoral success.

Nor is her rhetoric disconnected from DSA's official positions.

On October 7 itself, while Israelis were still being murdered and kidnapped, DSA declared that the day's events were a "direct result" of Israeli policies, while also condemning civilian deaths.

The organization has since gone considerably further. A January 2025 statement called for the establishment of a "democratic secular state, from the river to the sea." In October 2025, DSA affirmed Palestinian "resistance" while demanding an end to American support for Israel.

And in May 2026, an official DSA statement declared its solidarity with efforts to establish a "liberated Palestine, FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA."

Romer merely made the implications harder to ignore.

That might once have been dismissed as campus radicalism.

Not anymore.

DSA itself celebrated Zohran Mamdani's 2025 election as mayor of New York City as the American socialist movement's most significant electoral victory in a century. The organization said thousands of DSA members helped power his campaign and promised to continue supporting socialist candidates throughout the country.

Its own reporting describes major electoral gains in 2026 and the prospect of an expanded socialist bloc in Congress.

That is why Romer's interview matters.

Ideas once confined to protest signs are moving closer to the machinery of government.

The progression is becoming increasingly clear:

First Israel's policies are condemned.

Then Israel is described as an apartheid or colonial state.

Then terrorism against Israelis is explained as inevitable resistance.

Then American support for Israel becomes morally unacceptable.

Finally, the solution becomes eliminating Israel's identity as a Jewish state altogether.

Romer herself described U.S. defense and economic support for Israel as a DSA "solid red line."

The mask is coming off.

For Christians who take biblical prophecy seriously, there is another element that should be impossible to miss.

Jerusalem keeps returning to the center of the controversy.

The Bible warned thousands of years ago that Jerusalem would eventually become a source of extraordinary international contention. Zechariah described a day when Jerusalem would become "a burdensome stone for all people."

Israel is increasingly being told that peace requires surrendering more than territory.

For a growing political movement, peace ultimately requires surrendering Israel itself.

And now its leaders are beginning to say so openly.

US Forces No Longer Allowed Into Strait of Hormuz – Iranian Army Commander

US Forces No Longer Allowed Into Strait of Hormuz – Iranian Army Commander

Sputnik

The United States has no right of passage through the Strait of Hormuz or access to the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, while control of Hormuz is a necessary condition for ending the military conflict with Washington, Iranian Army Commander Major General Amir Hatami said on Sunday.

“US forces have been expelled and are no longer permitted to enter the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman, or the Strait of Hormuz. Everyone should understand that American bases will never be able to return to their previous state, and Iran will never allow that to happen,” Hatami said as cited by Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB.

He also stressed that the Strait of Hormuz represents a geopolitical opportunity for Iran and that the situation in the waterway will never return to what it was before.

“This leverage [the Strait of Hormuz] is one of the necessary conditions for ending the war with the United States,” Hatami added.

Earlier, Saudi broadcaster Al-Hadath reported that Iran and Oman had reached an agreement on the full reopening of the Strait of Hormuz to shipping, pending approval by Iran’s Supreme National Security Council. According to the channel, the agreement is expected to be officially announced in the coming days.

In recent weeks, Washington and Tehran, with the involvement of Middle Eastern mediators, have been trying to agree on the terms of a new deal to end the conflict. On August 9, US President Donald Trump said Washington was conducting negotiations with Tehran only “half-heartedly,” while claiming that Iran’s economic situation was deteriorating.

EU Net Zero Regulations Are Killing Off Agriculture

Dutch farmers rolled up with HUNDREDS of tractors to protest the government trying to shut down 5 poultry farms.

—The Whatfinger  News Team: Alex and Luke

Dutch farmers rolled up with HUNDREDS of tractors to protest the government trying to shut down 5 poultry farms. Their excuse? “Too much nitrogen.” These farms had valid permits and followed the rules… Now the province wants to strip them because of EU-driven nature regulations that treat farmers like environmental criminals. Dutch agriculture has been suffocating under this kind of regulatory overreach for years. Brussels writes the rules, local politicians enforce them, and working farmers get screwed… Writer: Sol – Mario Nawfal Post

Hundreds of Dutch farmers rolled into Den Bosch this past Friday with tractors, blocking roads and surrounding the provincial government building. Their target: North Brabant’s plan to revoke nature permits for five poultry farms over “too much nitrogen.” These farms held valid permits and followed the rules. The province wants to strip them anyway because they sit near protected Natura 2000 areas. Brussels writes the nitrogen rules. Local politicians enforce them. Working farmers get the bill.

This is not an isolated spat. It is the latest chapter in the European Union’s long campaign to shrink, regulate, and ultimately break independent farming under the banner of climate and nature protection. The Dutch nitrogen crisis has already forced hundreds of livestock operations off the land through buyout schemes. Government packages still aim for deep cuts in agricultural nitrogen emissions—figures in the 42-46% range by the early 2030s—while courts and Brussels pressure keep the pressure on. Farmers Defence Force and other groups keep the tractors rolling because the alternative is watching family businesses get legislated out of existence.

The same script played out in 2024 and 2025 with tractor blockades from the Netherlands to France, Belgium, Germany, and the streets outside the European Parliament. The stated reasons were the Green Deal and Farm to Fork strategy: slash pesticide use, cut fertilizer, force land out of production, shrink livestock herds, and hit ambitious nutrient-loss targets. When the political cost became too high, Brussels walked back some of the most aggressive pesticide targets. The underlying machinery—Nitrates Directive limits, Natura 2000 designations, emissions trading pressure, and the push for “nature restoration”—never went away. Dutch farmers still face manure limits, permit uncertainty, and the threat of more buyouts. Irish plans once floated large-scale cow culls. Elsewhere the squeeze continues through regulation, subsidy conditions, and import competition that ignores the same standards European producers must meet.

Call it environmental policy if you want. The practical effect is fewer farms, higher costs, greater reliance on imports from countries that do not play by the same rules, and more power concentrated in the hands of unelected officials and activist NGOs. Productive land is treated as a problem to be managed rather than the foundation of food security and rural communities. When governments offer “generous” buyouts, the message is clear: exit the industry on our terms or get regulated into failure.

The climate and biodiversity language is cover. The operating theory is central planning dressed up as planetary emergency. Reduce domestic production capacity, control the remaining operators through permits and targets, open the door to favored global supply chains, and call the whole process “justice.” Traditional farming families—independent, rooted, skeptical of urban ideology—are obstacles to that vision. Nitrogen becomes the new lever. Livestock becomes the villain. Family land becomes a resource to be reallocated.

This is the same impulse that treats energy production, housing, and free speech as threats to be managed by experts. In the EU it runs through Brussels first. Member-state politicians then do the dirty work while pretending their hands are tied. Farmers who followed every rule suddenly discover the rules can be rewritten after the fact. Valid permits become temporary favors. Public support for the protests shows ordinary people see through the theater.

America should pay attention. The same network of foundations, bureaucrats, and activists pushes similar land-use, emissions, and “sustainable” food agendas here. The difference is that American farmers still have political room to fight, and voters in farm country have repeatedly rejected the full package. Europe is the live demonstration of what happens when those restraints disappear: tractor convoys, empty barns, and officials insisting the destruction is for the greater good.

Dutch farmers are not anti-nature. They are against being sacrificed so that distant policymakers can claim moral victory while food security and rural economies erode. The nitrogen numbers are real. The selective enforcement, the moving targets, and the refusal to treat agriculture as a strategic asset rather than a pollution source reveal the priorities. When the same institutions that lecture about food systems quietly accept lower production and higher import dependence, the environmental concern is secondary.

The tractors in Den Bosch are a reminder. European farmers keep showing up because the alternative is quiet extinction by regulation. The woke green project has never been about saving the planet. It is about who controls the land, the food, and the people who produce it. The Dutch farmers just refused to go quietly this week. More will follow.

Hezbollah awaits green light from Tehran to escalate Lebanon-Israel tensions

Hezbollah awaits green light from Tehran to escalate Lebanon-Israel tensions

Shachar Kleiman

A Lebanese source said Sunday that Hezbollah is deliberately seeking to derail direct negotiations between Israel and Lebanon, claiming the terrorist organization is stepping up its military activity while awaiting a green light from Iran to escalate further.

Lebanese newspaper Nidaa al-Watan cited a local political source as warning of Hezbollah's plans. The source said the organization was trying to disrupt the US-sponsored negotiations and was waiting for instructions from Tehran before broadening the military confrontation, against the backdrop of tensions between Iran and the US administration.

According to the Lebanese source, the current escalation in southern Lebanon is opening the door to dangerous scenarios that could lead to renewed war and the collapse of diplomatic talks. At the same time, the source also pointed a finger at Israel, claiming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was seeking a military achievement on the southern Lebanon front. The source claimed Netanyahu's goal was to improve his political standing ahead of the upcoming Israeli elections and to use developments on the ground to pressure the Lebanese side in the negotiations.

Meanwhile, Lebanese security officials told the Saudi-owned Asharq Al-Awsat that any Hezbollah attempt to repel the IDF's advance in the Ali al-Taher Ridge area would likely be met with an expansion of Israeli strikes deeper into Lebanon. The officials said the aim was to increase pressure on both Hezbollah and the Lebanese state. They added that Lebanon continued to maintain that the ceasefire should be consolidated and that additional pilot zones should be designated for an IDF withdrawal.

The warnings came after a tense weekend in southern Lebanon. Three IDF soldiers were seriously wounded Saturday when an explosive drone launched by Hezbollah struck a force operating in the Ali al-Taher Ridge area, in violation of the ceasefire. In response, the IDF struck a series of targets, including a Hezbollah headquarters from which the attack order had been issued. In one strike in the Deir al-Zahrani area, Abu Hassan Alaa, a senior commander in Hezbollah's Badr Unit, was killed.

Following the attack on the soldiers, the Prime Minister's Office issued an unusual English-language statement accusing Hezbollah of using civilians as human shields, after Lebanese authorities reported that 11 people had been killed in the Israeli strikes. The United States backed Israel, with a State Department spokesperson saying Hezbollah bore sole responsibility for the Israeli military presence on Lebanese soil and that the terrorist organization must be disarmed to ensure long-term stability.

Hamas, Hezbollah coordinating attacks with Iran as IDF warns of rebuilt ‘axis of evil’

Hamas, Hezbollah coordinating attacks with Iran as IDF warns of rebuilt ‘axis of evil’

AMIR BOHBOT

Hamas and Hezbollah have begun coordinating their increased activity with Iranian assistance in recent weeks, the IDF has assessed, as the military has identified increased friction between Israeli forces and terrorists on both the northern and southern fronts.

The IDF has expressed that the coordination is likely an effort to rebuild its axis of evil that would increase pressure on Israel.

According to a military source, a ‘battle of wits’ is taking place around the Ali Taher ridge between the Northern Command and Hezbollah. 

The terrorist organization is trying to determine where IDF troops are positioned, and when it detects movement, it attempts to attack in a "gray area," as it did early Saturday morning with a fiber-optic drone. Three soldiers from the IDF's Yahalom special engineering unit, operating under the Commando Brigade combat team, were wounded as a result.

At the same time, according to reports, Hezbollah is attempting to resupply its operatives who are trapped in underground infrastructure. The IDF, meanwhile, is trying to locate Hezbollah infrastructure and terrorists on the Ali Taher ridge and destroy them.

"Whoever comes out of the underground and surrenders will be taken for questioning in Israel, and whoever remains underground will either die, or we will kill him," a senior military source said.

The Northern Command is also conducting a complex intelligence effort to locate all hidden supply routes and drone activity intended to resupply Hezbollah operatives in the area.

"We are blocking access to the area where they are located. They will not be able to hold out forever," a senior military source familiar with the details said.

According to reports, the operatives have been emerging from underground to search for food.

"What happened on Saturday was that they exposed us with a drone. Whoever is more determined will win. A lot of patience is needed," the source added.

In response, the IDF struck in the Nabatieh area and within territory under the IDF's operational control. Beirut and senior officials from the Shi'ite organization who are hiding there have remained off-limits due to a US demand.