The Asynchronous Audience At Jihadists’ Auto-da-Fe

Hamas’s grotesque butchery of people in Israel on October 7, 2023 was seemingly from another time and place. Burning babies in ovens. Chopping off fingers of young boys and amputating feet of young girls. Cutting off breasts of women and raping them. The sickening depravity of the Palestinian jihadists seemed born in hell.

These Islamic extremists were not simply invading Israel to take land; they came to embarrass, to dehumanize, to torment the infidels.

Like the Spanish Inquisition of hundreds of years ago, religious fanatics tortured and burned Jews whom they deemed to be “heretics”.

Heretics to Christians. Infidels to Jihadists.

Jews.

The latest assault on Jews was launched from Gaza quickly with no cheering crowds. The Hamas terrorists had to call their parents to share WhatsApp videos of killing Jewish families to get some applause. While the jihadi butchers clearly wanted everyone to know they were “heroes,” the murderers did not get the exciting thrill of burning Jews alive in front of large crowds like Christians at an auto-da-fe in the 16th century.

So they brought back some corpses to parade through the streets of Gaza. Some 240 live people too.

Modern technology enabled their barbarity to be captured and shared with the world very quickly. From Australia to the United States, antisemites shouted their joy at watching the massacre of Jews.

In Sydney, Australia the crowds yelled “Gas the Jews,” “F–k the Jews.” Cornell professor Russell Rickford said the spectacle was “exhilarating” and “energizing.” A junior at the University of Pennsylvania asked the crowd whether they remembered “the several other joyful and powerful images which came from the glorious October seventh?… I remember feeling so empowered and happy, so confident that victory was near and so tangible. I want all of you to hold that feeling in your hearts. Never let go of it. Channel it through every action you take. Bring it to the streets!”

The butchering of Jews eventually brought out the crowds, albeit asynchronous to the slaughter. They cheered the guilty verdict and incineration of Jews.

The antisemites gathered in the streets with fellow Jew-haters to reminisce and pray for more days like October 7. They tore down “kidnapped” posters, staged walk-outs, blockaded streets and lobbied members of congress to protect their heroes in Gaza. They wanted to see the second, third and fourth wave of torturing Jews, as Hamas promised.

Maybe live next time.

The Catholic Church once tortured and paraded Jews before burning them at the stake for the local crowds amusement. Today’s religious devils are radical jihadists appealing to a global audience to hunt and torment diaspora Jews for sport and to gather support for their war effort against the Jewish State.

The biblical Samson did not die alone but was staged in a large theater to mock and kill for the crowd’s pleasure.

Recognize that today’s pro-Hamas “protests” are not silent, holding vigil for Palestinian civilians. They are a mob looking for the next Jewish Samson to eliminate.