Glenn Beck is sounding the alarm, and he’s right to do so: the debate over Israel and Hamas has ripped the scab off a deeper rot in our national conversation, showing us who stands with civilization and who flirts with its destruction. Beck warns that the enemy Israel fights today is not a distant problem — it is the same ideology that will try to come for the free world tomorrow, and America’s elites are dangerously soft in their response. Americans who still believe in national survival cannot afford to look away while campus mobs and media moral equivocation normalize the enemies of freedom.
The horrors of October 7, 2023 were a wake-up call: Hamas’s calculated massacre and hostage-taking revealed the true face of modern jihadi terror and set off a war that exposed global fault lines. Israel’s response to recover its people and dismantle terror networks has been forceful because its very existence is on the line — a lesson the West should heed rather than criticize from the comfort of bureaucratic salons. If we confuse moral equivalence with justice, we will be the architects of our own decline.
Meanwhile, the American left and much of the establishment media have treated protests and agitprop as worthy of moral cover while Jews in our own cities and on our campuses feel threatened and abandoned. Instances like Jewish students being effectively barricaded for their safety during pro-Palestinian rallies demonstrate how quickly civil society can fray when one side’s rage is excused and the other’s safety is ignored. This is not abstract; it is happening in our communities, and patriotic Americans must call it out.
Glenn Beck has also pointed to troubling institutional failures — from U.N. duplicity to international aid networks that have been compromised — showing that enemies hide behind the very organizations meant to restrain them. When aid channels and international bodies become vectors for terror influence, the response cannot be more hand-wringing and moral preening; it must be hard-nosed reform and accountability. Those who still trust the global technocracy to self-correct are dangerously naïve.
The polling is clear: American opinion has shifted and the consensus that once sustained unambiguous support for Israel is fraying, especially among the young and on the left. That political drift is part of the risk Beck describes — when a nation’s elites and mass institutions lose clarity about friend and foe, policy becomes indecisive and our enemies gain leverage. Conservatives who love America must turn polling anxiety into political mobilization, not surrender.
The Biden administration and its foreign-policy posture have been rightly criticized for muddled signals that embolden adversaries and confuse allies, a reality Beck underscored when he questioned Washington’s handling of Iran and regional threats. Whether you agree with every tactic Israel adopts or not, abandoning our historic support for a democratic ally and failing to deter Iran’s proxies is a strategic mistake that endangers American lives and interests. Strength through clarity and strength through conviction is the only policy that will keep the republic and the West standing.
This moment demands courage from conservatives and every patriotic American: defend Jewish Americans from intimidation, stand with Israel against existential terror, and push Washington to put clear American interests and existential threats ahead of cheap moralizing. The choice is stark — double down on the values that built the West, or watch those values be eroded by appeasement, cowardice, and bureaucratic compromise. Glenn Beck is right to call this a time for choosing; we would do well to answer with resolve, not retreat.
