When the leftie kids go on marches shouting "globalise the intifada" alongside the geriatric tankies and the blood-thirsty Salafist and Wahhabist Islamists (who know what it mean), they probably think it means protest marches, blog posts and "deplatforming" Jews Israelis.

Well Bondi is what it means. A group of murderers out to target Jews in a place far away from the Middle East, living lives of peace. It's not just the 15 murdered by the fascist Islamists, it's the pipe bombs found and the car containing explosives. The intifada perpetrators wanted a bloodbath - in Bondi - because they hated Jews.

Whether it's about Gaza or Palestine, or the age old belief that Jews control the world, or whatever it is, doesn't matter so much.  When you call for a global holy war for your cause, then this is the result.  This, when Gaza is under a ceasefire.

Jews are frightened in Tel Aviv, London, Paris and Sydney, and everywhere, because politicians enable a small bunch of radicals to let fascist ideology take over marches and protests that started almost instantly after the 7th October pogrom was launched. 

Jews are always afraid of Nazis, so are Muslims, so are the many others Nazis hate, but they aren't the main cause of their fear. They fear the (Iranian supported) Islamists who want to wage war against them globally, and the far-left academics and students who cheer them on, or apologise for them, or now... say this is a false flag that Mossad set up. 

The problem is mainstream politicians, not just the far-left, have appeased it as well. 

If you don't think there is a direct line from the ghouls who were "elated" on Sydney streets after 7th October, or stood outside the Sydney Opera House shouting "where's the Jews" or "gas the Jews" (it hardly matters), then you're kidding yourself.

It's time for those politicians to come out, to make it explicitly clear that there shall be no intifada, that Jew hatred must be expunged from the public space AND from mosques that expound it, and that Australia is no place for anyone who justifies terrorism, or wants to make any peaceful citizens fear for their existence.

This weekend’s “Saturday Night Live” uncorked a sketch that left many viewers scratching their heads.

The clip poked fun at Variety’s “Actors on Actors” video series, an annual part of Oscar season. Movie buffs and entertainment reporters alike know about the interviews. Many viewers probably heard about it for the first time Saturday night.

The far-Left NBC show trotted it out all the same. It’ll pursue a topic even if it’s foreign to some in the audience.

Which brings us to Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens.

The former conservatives have all but declared war on the Right in recent months. Owens’ list of conspiracy theories is so long it’s hard to tally them all. Her biggest? Just about everyone save Tyler Robinson is connected to the Sept. 10 death of conservative icon Charlie Kirk.

Owens’ latest campaign is uncommonly cruel to those who knew and loved Kirk, including his widow Erika Kirk.

Candace Owens now has hardcore evidence that TPUSA betrayed Charlie Kirk and murdered him. The evidence came to her in a dream. If you don’t believe her, you’re a paid Israeli shill and a member of the Mormon Bee Cult. pic.twitter.com/6XguWP4Ke3

— Ian Miles Cheong (@ianmiles) October 7, 2025

Owens was once so mainstream that she called The Daily Wire home. Today, she’s a caricature of a conservative pundit, going down rabbit hole after rabbit hole without making much sense.

In short, she’s a perfect person for “SNL” to parody. Almost too perfect. And, chances are, more people know about her downfall than any Variety showcase.

The same holds for Tucker Carlson. The former Fox News superstar’s rants, punctuated by a creepy, insistent giggle, have chased many far, far away. He relentlessly attacks the state of Israel, slams the GOP and defends the indefensible (like Sharia Law).

Yes, Tucker Carlson has recently defended aspects of Sharia law in interviews, such as praising “submission to God” as life’s point and mocking concerns about it. For example, in an August 2025 clip, he contrasted it favorably with issues in U.S. cities. He previously warned…

— Grok (@grok) October 2, 2025

Both The Daily Wire and Fox News are breathing collective sighs of relief, no doubt.

Still, either Owens or Carlson is prime material for political satirists. Owens’ affinity for wacky conspiracies could lead in any number of directions. Carlson’s claim that a demon assaulted him in the middle of the night alone could make a killer sketch.

Yet “SNL” has yet to pounce and/or seize on either figure. Late-night comics, as cartoonishly progressive as “SNL” in the modern era, have also laid low on these oh, so ripe targets.

Why? It’s simple. Just ask Napoleon Bonaparte.

The French leader famously advised on the best approach when an enemy is suffering from self-inflicted wounds.

“Never interfere with an enemy in the process of destroying himself.”

The advice remains true to this day. Some suspect the MAGA movement is imploding, in part thanks to Owens and Carlson.

That explains why liberal comedians are missing comedy gold in front of their eyes. They see it, but they’d rather let MAGA collapse by itself.

Wait … aren’t they professional comedians first and foremost? Yes … and no.

Today’s progressive comics see themselves as part of The Resistance. It’s why the term “clapter” is on people’s lists in the modern era. The Narrative matters more than laughter, even though they are paid millions to make viewers smile.

“SNL” repeatedly attacks President Donald Trump for his alleged dementia after ignoring President Joe Biden’s obvious cognitive decline.

Need more proof? 

Imagine a world where Jasmine Crockett exists and no one on “SNL” will go near her.

This also may explain why CBS was willing to lose millions per year on “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert before finally pulling the plug on the program earlier this year. They cared more about Colbert’s progressive messaging than their bottom line.

That is, until a mega company, Skydance, took a peek at the books.

One wonders if ABC is similarly losing millions by keeping “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on the air. The show has drawn lower ratings than “The Late Show” in recent years.

“SNL” could skewer either Owens, Carlson or both and make just about everyone howl – Left, Right and Center. That could hasten their collective declines, something that a viral comedy sketch can do without any coordinated campaign or fundraising measures.

Here’s betting “SNL” scribes and those on late-night TV payrolls would rather see Owens and Carlson continue to splinter the Right.

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MELBOURNE — To stem the growing tide of violence against Jewish citizens, the Australian government has moved to officially ban the celebration of Hanukkah.

MEGAN MCARDLE: Why does anyone want to buy Warner Brothers, anyway?

Break out the popcorn and a jumbo box of Raisinets, because just when we thought the Warner Bros. Discovery drama was over, it turned out we had barely gotten started. The suspense over the company’s pending sale is mounting, and new questions are developing faster than writers can resolve old ones. Which suitor will shareholders choose? Will regulators block the deal? Will any of these characters find happily ever after?

If you remember last week’s episode, Netflix beat out Comcast and David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance to buy WBD — or at least its studio and streaming business, which are the bits everyone really wants. If you kept following the show, you’ve seen the action heat up: Ellison has launched a hostile bid for WBD, arguing that its shareholders would do better by taking $30 per share from him to buy the whole company, including its cable television stations — CNN, TNT, TBS and lifestyle outlets such as HGTV — than by getting $27.75 per share from Netflix for just the studio and streaming.

Spoiler alert: Cord-cutting is decimating the cable business so rapidly that this is a reasonable argument, even though the cable stations currently generate higher revenue and gross margins than streaming or studio. Between WBD’s debt and declining cable subscribers, there’s just not much future value left in those assets.

So stay tuned for more twists and turns! Eventually writers might resolve the biggest mystery: Why does anyone want to buy this company, anyway?

Fortunately, one august institution is dedicated to saving Warner Brothers from its ignoble fate: British cinemas demand Labour intervene against Netflix’s Hollywood takeover.

Cinemas have urged Labour to intervene in the planned takeover of Warner Bros by Netflix, warning that the deal would result in a “much thinner” selection of films for audiences.

Industry bosses have written to media minister Ian Murray to raise concerns about the streaming giant’s $83bn acquisition of the Hollywood studio behind major franchises such as Harry Potter, arguing that it could result in fewer films being released in cinemas.

In the letter sent to MPs on both the culture select committee and business and trade committee, Phil Clapp, the chief executive of the UK Cinema Association, said the takeover would be a “significant blow” to the industry – which is still struggling to recover from the pandemic.

Mr Clapp warned that audiences would be the biggest losers from the proposed deal, adding that it would also lead to significant job losses.

The trade group urged Mr Murray to take an active interest in the takeover and called on both committees to launch an inquiry.

Yes, launch an inquiry – write some really stern letters, England. That ought to do the job! But as John Podhoretz noted last week, we could be witnessing the “end of moviegoing” as we used to know it:

So the rap on Netflix buying Warners is this could be the end of moviegoing. That's wrong. Moviegoing is already over.

— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) December 5, 2025

History will record that COVID killed the movie as we had understood it. The trend line of shrinking audience was already there, but the whole industry was ballasted in the 2010s by the blockbuster success of two kinds of films–animated movies and superhero movies.

— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) December 5, 2025

And in a thread Twitter/X McArdle explained why she didn’t bother going into details in her Washington Post article about Ellison’s goal of acquiring CNN along with Warner Brothers, as aging viewers and declining numbers mean that technology is also reaching its twilight years as destination viewing:

My latest column is on the WBD merger drama, and why anyone wants to buy this company. My commenters are extremely mad that I focused on strategy and market economics rather than the specter of David Ellison controlling CNN. So here's why I didn't write about it.

— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) December 13, 2025

The CNN angle is getting so much play because media folks and political hobbyists who read a lot of news cannot imagine how little their hobby matters to the rest of the world. Also, like I said, they are old and to them 1995 is like yesterday. They can't quite believe it's over

— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) December 13, 2025

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