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[Make sure to read Robert Spencer’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
The alliance between the international left and Islamic groups has been strong for years, only suffering some strains recently over the left’s insistence on pushing the trans madness and related insanities upon the rest of us. But leftists have generally tended to ally with victimhood propaganda organizations such as the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), not with out-and-out jihadis. However, as we see an ugly recrudescence of antisemitism around the world in the wake of the Hamas jihad massacres of Oct. 7, one far-left American professor has crossed the line and unhesitatingly named Hamas and Hizballah as allies of the left.
On the face of it, what Berkeley professor Judith Butler says in a video that began making the rounds on Sunday but dates from before the present war began is howlingly absurd. Speaking haltingly, as if she has some residual hesitation about endorsing groups that are so open and even gleeful about their Jew-hatred and bloodlust, Butler said: “Um, uh, similarly, I think, uh, yes, uh, uh, understanding, uh, Hamas, Hezbollah as, uh, social movements that are progressive around, on the left, that are part of a global left, is extremely important.”
Butler went on to qualify her statement somewhat by adding: “That does not stop us from, uh, being critical of certain dimensions of, um, both movements. It doesn’t, um, it doesn’t stop those of us who are interested in nonviolent politics from raising the question of, um, uh, uh, of whether there are other options besides violence.” That’s swell, but are Hamas and Hizballah themselves interested in “nonviolent politics”? Obviously they aren’t, and Butler clearly doesn’t see that as a make-or-break issue for the left’s alliance with them.
Fittingly for someone who sees criminal gangs as “progressive” partners, a page on the Berkeley website that is devoted to touting Butler’s achievements is a veritable crime against language. It says of Butler: “They received their Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale University in 1984. They are the author of several books…” The reader might justifiably wonder what group is being referred to, but all these plural pronouns are meant, of course, to refer to the singular yet “non-binary” Professor Butler, whose name is apparently Legion, for they are many.
Foremost on a list of her research interests are “critical theory, gender and sexuality studies.” If all the Professor Butlers went over to Lebanon and Gaza to visit with her friends and allies, how would they receive this ethnically Jewish lesbian from the Great Satan (that is, the U.S.) who insists on referring to herself in the plural? The answer to that question is as obvious as it is gruesome, and so another question inevitably arises: how can Judith Butler be so myopic as to think that such people are in any conceivable way her allies?
The answer to that question takes us right to the heart of the left’s habits of thinking. Butler is a leading gender studies theorist who complains that the “system” tries to impose upon us “constructions of binary asymmetric gender.” If she can ignore obvious reality and leap into fantasy to that extent, seeing Hamas and Hizballah as “progressive” forces is child’s play. But her affinity for these groups also reveals what the left is all about: it wants to see the destruction of what remains of Judeo-Christian civilization as much as Hamas and Hizballah do. The left shares the jihadis’ taste for authoritarianism and intolerance of dissent. Whenever the far-left has gained political power, it has never hesitated to use terror as a means to keep people in line.
And so it’s useful to remember, when leftists such as Judith Butler speak of themselves and their allies as “progressive,” exactly what they think that they are progressing toward. They want to establish a socialist state in which economic uniformity is enforced through state theft and terror. Terrorist groups might well come in handy to help usher in this workers’ paradise. The fact that those whom she favors might turn on her and her fellow non-binary fantasy-addicted academics never enters into her considerations, any more than the reality of sex and gender do. The left-fantasists among us, such as the eminent Professor Butler, would be comical, if they weren’t so very dangerous.
‘Her name is Legion because they are many.’ Hahahahahaha!
Now would be a good time to review David’s book “Unholy Alliance.” I reviewed it in 2004: http://libertyandculture.blogspot.com/2004_11_01_archive.html
It’s amazing about how much of the left’s nihilistic hatred David got right … and, of course, the instinctually kinship between Islamists & the far left … united by a shared hate.
I’ve read it twice and it is excellent. Even so, I still cannot fathom how Leftists can ally themselves with Islam. I realize that they are united in their zeal to destroy Western Civilization but cannot understand how the Left believes that, if it and Islam succeed in doing so, Islam would allow the Left to continue to exist given that its beliefs are antithetical to those of Islam and Islam doesn’t take partners. I guess it’s true – you simply cannot fix stupid.
It’s the bow down to mohamid or I have to kill you bit that gets me …
I’m always amazed when liberal pro muslims don’t understand, that’s what mohamid told them to do ..
“If she can ignore obvious reality and leap into fantasy to that extent, seeing Hamas and Hizballah as “progressive” forces is child’s play. But her affinity for these groups also reveals what the left is all about: it wants to see the destruction of what remains of Judeo-Christian civilization as much as Hamas and Hizballah do.”
Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden with a Talking Snake is fantasy-thinking and magical-thinking. So is Noah’s Ark, the Parting of the Red Sea, an Immaculate Conception, a Virgin Birth, the Resurrection, the Ascension Into Heaven, the Second Coming.
When Christianity ruled the West the Jews were persecuted and put in ghettos, that wasn’t categorically different from Muslim dhimmitude. When Christianity ruled the West there could be no truce or reconciliation between Judaism and Christianity.
It is BECAUSE we live in a modern age after the Aristotelian Renaissance (the rebirth of reason) and the Aristotelian Age of Enlightenment (the light of Aristotelian reason and logic) that the vast majority of Jews and Christians are highly secularized without even realizing how highly secularized they are.
The Socialist-Collectivist-Totalitarian Left would be fine with Christianity as a tool for establishing totalitarianism, but the fact is today’s modern Christianity is too weak, diluted, and secularized to be useful for that purpose.
Not so with Islam which never went through a Renaissance or an Age of Enlightenment.
Judaism prepared the ground for Christianity, and both, prepared the ground for Islam and Marxism. Marxism is religion disguised as rational science, it is a fish out of religious waters, in order to survive Marxism must jump back into, must merge again, with religion.
Because Christianity, at this point in time, has become so diluted and secularized, it is Islam, which is still in its medieval state, that is the better fit for Marxism to merge with.
The Catholic Church knows this and Pope Francis is hedging his bets and is jumping on the bandwagon with Marxism and Islam. The three will fight their common enemy. Laissez-Faire Capitalism, with the unstated understanding that when the enemy is defeated, they will fight each other to the death for power.
And the downvote derby is off and running.
What a surprise….yet another comment bashing Christianity and Judaism. And the article is not remotely about what you posted about.
You even included your list of Judeo-Christian horribles:
Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden with a Talking Snake is fantasy-thinking and magical-thinking. So is Noah’s Ark, the Parting of the Red Sea, an Immaculate Conception, a Virgin Birth, the Resurrection, the Ascension Into Heaven, the Second Coming.
I can always tell when you are getting desperate. You start repeating yourself.
“A fool does not delight in understanding, but only in airing his opinions.” Proverbs 18-2
You are obviously in love with the sound of our own voice.
Correction: “your own voice”
Do you have any clue the culture upon which you enjoy is due in large part on the diligence of Christian monks who worked hard to preserve Western Civilization?
The Constitution was crafted by God-fearing Christian men who desired freedom.
Is anything in this world perfect? No! And even the Church wasnt perfect anymore than YOU are.
Socialism/Communism/Authoritarianism has a massive bloody history, that along with Islam which has butchered its way through 1400 years.
Christianity is not ‘diluted’ its quite crystal clear just as the culture you enjoy (even in its debased form is still better than non-Christian, non-western cultures
“Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden with a Talking Snake is fantasy-thinking and magical-thinking.”
THX 1138, you of all people should be able to recognize an allegory when you see and read it. Search “Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden may just as well have been Adam and Steve,” published in News Ghana, August 13, 2023.
THX believes that Christians and Jews think it’s literally true. It’s a myth, just like the ancient Greeks.
Myths point to greater truths than historical events. Nihilists hate myths.
Butler is one of the high priests of the intersectional woke cult
Fascism has always been a product of the left. Anyone that has actually read Mussolini can see it plain as day.
Wasn’t Italian Fascism borne out of Mussolini’s eventual rejection of his prior embrace of socialism? If that is so then Fascism is not a product of the Left as such it’s a rejection of left-wing socialism.
Mussolini did not reject Socialism . . . he rejected the brutality of the Bolchiviks who killed off the wealthy & management class.
Instead he took their businesses and left them to manage as an employee of the State . . . which was why Fascism worked so much better than the Soviet Model.
All were far to the left of Winston Churchill . . . then and now.
“It was inevitable that I should become a socialist, indeed a communist. I carried about a medallion with Marx’s head on it in my pocket. I think I regarded it as a sort of talisman… Marx had a profound critical intelligence and was in some sense even a prophet.” —Mussolini
Churchill was originally a Liberal.
A classical liberal … not Labor Party stuff.
“ Foremost on a list of her research interests are “critical theory, gender and sexuality studies.”
How would that play out in Gaza or any other Muslim majority state? Not well I suspect.
Although when Israel has succeeded in pummelling Gaza into the ground there wont be any high rise blocks to throw “ Queers for Palestine” off!
Queers for Palestine…Chickens for KFC, Roadrunners for Coyotes. .
Jews at universities don’t feel safe? Try wearing a MAGA HAT! Pro-Life? Christian? Straight Pride? Imagine the profs who WILL lower grades with good grades going those that agree with them! It Happens!
“Millions take Pride in those Coming Out of the Closet, while those same millions make others run into one!” SC
Democratic Socialists of America. National Socialists of Germany. In the long run, the same damn thing.
I miss the fiery Oriana Fallaci. Hers was the first voice that aroused me to the onslaught of Islam against the world. She had eyes in her head to see. She said that Palestinian’s glorious leader ‘Yassir Arafat was the most repulsive human being she had ever interviewed. He made Qaddafi look like Abraham Lincoln .
She was also one of the first who saw the rise of the fascist cult of homosexuality.
This should come as no surprise. The Dems/libs in the US have been the party of DEATH for years!
Death of the unborn.
Death of innocent helpless victims at the hands of criminals
Death of the Elderly due to Covid in care homes,
Deaths of blacks of all ages in inner cities and elsewhere.
So of course barbaric savages that kill innocents are part of their tribe
Once again we see the leftism of National Socialism (Nazism) on full display. Hamas are the new Einsatzgruppen. Does Butler hesitate, hem and haw because her conscience is bothering her on some deep level? Or is she afraid of being called a Nazi? She is a Nazi, in all but official party membership.
Not since 1945 have we seen such a massive revival of Nazi ideology across the entire world. That’s what Butler is supporting. The left may think that by destroying civilization they can build a worker’s “paradise” on the ashes. The rest just want o watch the world burn. The world burners are the majority and they are the ones in charge. If Butler isn’t nervous about that …
… she sure as hεll ought to be.
The globalists use islam like the Vikings used berserkers.
Using her twisted logic, Judith Butler probably views the murderous Mexican and Central American drug cartels as social do-gooders. Like how registered sex offenders are prohibited from parks and school grounds, lie-spreading idiots like Butler should be restrained from being anywhere near naïve college kids.
Dear THX1138: If you are still there and if you are a logical thinker you must believe in at least one of the following miracles:
– The Universe created itself;
– The Universe was created by nothing;
– The Universe was created by something or someone that had no beginning.
Do you care to respond ?
Let me summarize; she’s a raving loon. A literal witch in academic clothing.
“Berkeley Professor: Hamas and Hezbollah are ‘Progressive…” And so were Lenin’s, Stalin’s, and Mao’s communism. And over 120,000,000 of their countrymen died. Progressives kill people while calling it progress.
Its refreshing to see that not all those Collage Professors are ready to tow the line