The French Intifada. By the editorial team at The Australian.

[What began as student] protests, as British writer Brendan O’Neill reported in the New York Post on Wednesday, may be attracting hundreds of thousands on to the streets across France, but they are increasingly being “morphed into an orgy of Islamo-leftist violence”.

O’Neill says we are witnessing something extraordinary: an intifada in the heart of Europe.

“Surely no one can now deny the lethal error of throwing open a nation’s borders to the world, while sacrificing the ideals of integration at the altar of multiculturalism,” he said. …

Donald Trump was widely criticised on Tuesday when he warned that the French student riots were the inevitable result of “out of control mass migration … this isn’t about schools, this is about Islam wanting to take over a once great country”, he wrote on his Truth Social website.

Mr Trump has a point. There is far more to the student riots than the condition of French classrooms.

Brave AI on the meaning of Intifada:

Intifada is an Arabic term meaning “uprising” or “shaking off,” derived from a verb meaning to shake off dust or lethargy.

In the context of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, it refers to popular uprisings by Palestinians against Israeli occupation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

While the word can describe various uprisings globally (such as the 1916 Easter Rising or the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising), in English it primarily denotes these Palestinian resistance movements.

It’s been going on for a while:

But it’s made a big step up in the last week.