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We've seen deadly terrorist attacks that have been mobilized by jihadist ideology.

We've seen a lot of them in Europe, whether it's France or Denmark or Belgium.

We've seen right-wing extremism lead to deadly attacks against Jews here in the United States, Tree of Life, Pauway in Southern California.

But we haven't seen this before.

We haven't seen a deadly terrorist attack where far-left-wing extremism was the mobilizing ideology. That's something new here.

It's 8.30 p.m. on Thursday, May 22nd here in New York City. It is 3.30 a.m. on Friday, May 23rd in Israel, as Israelis transition to a new day. Last night, on Wednesday, May 22nd, two employees of Israel's embassy in Washington,

Sarah Milgram and Yaron Lyshinsky, were shot dead in cold blood by Elias Rodriguez,

a radical left-wing activist.

I did it for Palestine.

I did it for Gaza, he said, after being taken into custody and charged with first-degree murder.

It was only today, after their daughter had been murdered, that Sarah Milgram's parents learned that her boyfriend,

Yoran, who she'd met while working at the Israeli embassy, had bought an engagement ring and was days away from proposing to her.

It's been almost two years since the chant, Globalized the Intifada, has gone mainstream.

Is what happened last night in D.C. a manifestation of that chant, the logical extension

of what we have been watching over the last year and a half, or was it just an outlier,

a lone wolf incident, not connected to anything larger? If we look around the world today,

from Canada to France, to Germany, Sweden, the UK, Denmark, Australia, it looks like the

U.S. might be joining an already established club, albeit a bit later than the rest of them. How should the Jewish community in the U.S. might be joining an already established club, albeit a bit later than the rest of them.

How should the Jewish community in the U.S. and Jewish communities around the world prepare?

If this is indeed the beginning of, or maybe not the beginning, of a global intifada.

Which brings us to our guest today, Mitch Silber.

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