Glenn Beck put it bluntly this week: the enemy Israel fights abroad is already finding sympathizers and footholds inside our own country, and that should wake every patriot up. His warning — that “the enemy that Israel is currently facing today will be the enemy that the free world will face tomorrow” — isn’t alarmism, it’s a sober answer to what we’re watching unfold on our streets and college quads. The man is right to call out the moral rot that cheers for murderous ideologies while pretending it’s merely “protest.”
Across America, campus encampments and street rallies that began as demonstrations have too often slid into lawless occupations, property destruction, and open displays of sympathy for groups that celebrate terror. Administrations that once protected free speech and campus safety have wavered, and police have been forced to step in to restore order at Columbia, Stanford and other schools — arrests and felony charges followed when protests crossed the line into vandalism and violent obstruction. This is not principled dissent; it’s mob behavior, and universities must stop coddling it.
The result of this permissive environment is predictably ugly: antisemitic incidents in the United States have spiked, and Jewish communities are living with heightened fear. Independent trackers and national outlets documented thousands of incidents in the year after October 7, and federal agencies have warned of a heightened threat environment that could fuel violence and cyber attacks at home. When political rhetoric melts into calls for violence, we cannot pretend it’s only a “foreign” problem.
Make no mistake: this spread of hostile ideology is being normalized by sympathetic elites — media, campus administrators, and certain politicians — who either refuse to call out antisemitism or who rebrand it as legitimate political expression. The result is a generation educated to confuse moral clarity with fashionable outrage, and communities forced to hire private security while ambivalence reigns in power corridors. Conservatives should stop being polite about this: protect the innocent, defend allies, and stop rewarding lawlessness with silence.
What must happen next is simple and nonnegotiable: law enforcement and university leadership must enforce the law and campus codes without partisan wobble, Congress and DHS must treat threats to religious communities as real security issues, and the American people should stand unapologetically with nations that defend Western values. We need real consequences for those who incite violence or shelter terrorists’ sympathizers on our soil, and we must stop allowing ideological theater to become cover for hate.
This is a moment of choosing. Either we stand firm with Israel and with every American under threat, defend the rule of law, and call evil by its name — or we let the disease spread until our own streets look like the battlefields we claim to condemn. Glenn Beck is sounding the alarm because he sees the crossroads; now it’s time for patriots to act, to defend Western civilization here at home, and to make clear that America will not tolerate the celebration of barbarity.