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[Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
From Queers for Palestine to marchers carrying signs reading, “Palestine is a Reproductive Justice Issue”, the Hamas Nazi cause has been vertically integrated throughout the Left. Greta Thunberg was booed after injecting anti-Israel chants into environmental rallies. The BLM movement was a longtime foe of Israel, but Asian Studies departments recently joined in.
The leaders of March for Our Lives and the Sunrise Movement, a gun control group and an environmental protest group, signed a letter to Biden warning that young people wouldn’t vote for him unless he forced Israel to stop attacking Hamas Nazis.
How better to promote gun control than by defending mass murderers who used machine guns to kill innocent people and how better to champion the environment than by supporting terrorists who deliberately start fires in Israel. What does Hamas have in common with gun control advocates, environmentalists and abortion activists?
“I think something very bad is happening on the left,” Israel’s Labor leader Merav Michaeli complained. “People who consider themselves to be democratic, progressive, are supporting a totalitarian terror regime that oppresses women, the LGBTQ+ community… The more you go to the left, the more there’s a big mix-up. Something went very wrong on the way.”
The ‘something’ that went wrong is called ‘intersectionality’. That’s why abortion protesters, gay activists, environmentalists, gun control activists and the entire Left have to support Hamas. But intersectionality is also bait and switch. While gay activists have to support Hamas, the Islamic terrorist group doesn’t have to stop throwing them off buildings. Making sure Hamas has enough fuel to fire rockets at Israeli kindergartens may be a reproductive justice issue, but no one expects masked men armed with RPGs to shout, “Allahu Akbar” at a Planned Parenthood rally.
Rather than a daisy chain connecting all the leftist causes together, intersectionality is actually a hierarchy that prioritizes the worst causes. It’s how the entire gay rights movement, to the dismay of some gay men and many lesbians, was drafted into the transgender cause. It’s why the extreme wing of each individual movement, from BLM in civil rights to art vandals in the environmental movement, have come to dominate while the moderates have been shut down.
Intersectionality has sidelined both principles and tactical considerations while making protestations of victimhood into the only consideration that matters. The more violent the rhetoric and the more extreme the cause, the more it takes over the entire Left.
This would make little sense if leftists actually cared about feminism, gay rights or global warming. But then again if they actually cared about those things, wouldn’t the USSR, China and Communist China be utopias where benevolent gay people cleaned up the environment?
The first and foremost thing that Merav Michaeli and most leftists don’t understand about the Left is that causes, whether it’s gun control or men pretending to be women, are just leverage to recruit activists, tear up society and then seize power. And once that happens, the new regime will have as much use for transgenderism or environmentalism as the Soviet Union did.
When you understand that, it becomes quite obvious why the Left supports Hamas, how it can juggle support for Islamic terrorism with the LGBTQ movement, and why it demands that gay rights take a back seat to Jihad. Intersectionality is just a new suit of clothes on the very old leftist idea that all causes are ultimately subordinate to the overriding cause of the revolution.
Under Stalinism, American Jewish leftists were told to support a regime that was massacring Jews and had allied with Nazi Germany. American feminists advocating for reproductive rights were ordered to back Communist China which was forcibly breeding women and aborting their babies. The American Indian movement was expected to support the Sandinista regime which was burning its own Indian population alive. To be a leftist is to be a traitor to your own cause.
These crimes which scarred generations of leftists were whitewashed out of history by leftists and the movement was rebranded as identity politics narcissism. Much as the military tried to appeal to a self-identified generation with the slogan ‘Army of One’, the Left rebranded as a movement centered around the personal identity of each of its members. But just as the army is still a massive hierarchy, not a personal development seminar, the Left is a collectivist movement whose central idea is that it is the group, not the individual, that actually matters.
Intersectionality promised a more individualistic leftist movement, one that was highly attuned to the ‘lived experience’ of its members and the more complex, and less black and white nature of identity politics in a world of many ethnic groups and sexualities, but that was bait and switch. Instead of customizing the movement to its members, intersectionality customized its members to the movement and its overriding objectives of burning down everything and seizing power.
And thus Hamas.
The American Left originally embraced third world liberation movements. When what it thought were secular Arab Socialist movements, including the PLO, turned out to be Islamist, it went along without missing a beat. After 9/11, liberals and Democrats in a fit of schismogenesis countered Bush’s War on Terror with a war for terrorists. Islamists became an oppressed group and a vital part of the leftist coalition not in spite of their destructiveness, but because of it.
If the Left actually cared about the things it claims to care about, it would be natural for it to side with Israel. But if the Left actually cared about those things, it would wave the American flag and condemn the Third World. Instead the Left acts like America is the worst place in the world and that every backward dictatorship is morally superior to us.
The hostility of the Left to the countries it’s in is the best evidence that it doesn’t believe in its causes. The diversity of the causes are a pretext for the true cause of mass destruction.
The inner purpose of any leftist cause is to create division and sow mistrust. The specificity of the cause is only a means of recruiting activists from a particular part of the spectrum. The more causes, the more races, ethnicities, sexualities, classes and belief systems, it can recruit from. Intersectionality is ultimately an academic term for demanding that the outer purpose, the official cause, must be subservient to the inner purpose.
How are abortion rights, gay rights or gun control served by supporting Hamas? The outer purpose of those movements is not served, but the inner purpose is advanced. And the inner purpose is the same as that of Hamas. The gun control advocates, environmentalists and other leftist activists are not here to improve our society, like Hamas they want to destroy it.
Well, I’m glad liberal Jews are finally waking up to what has happened to the Democrat party and Northeastern colleges and universities. It warms the cockles of my heart.
Successful Jewish people are extraordinarily generous in donating their money to fine educational institutions, charities, hospitals, and, unfortunately, Democrat candidates. This situation with Israel, Hamas, and the OUTRAGEOUS Pro-Palestinian protests taking place in this country will hopefully be a wake up call to our Jewish friends to start pulling their money out of these left wing sewers.
Who caused all this? Obama and his gangster henchmen.
Labor in Israel may be waking up BUT lefty Jewish groups in the US definitely are not. This is an unfortunate situation but critical thinking skills are sadly missing in todays college student and twenty something.
The irony is these fools will only learn the consequence of their actions and nano thinking skills right before they are tossed off the roofs.
Great article by Mr Greenfield.
Lately the Islamo-Marxist activist machine has really kicked it up a few gears.
Straight from a strange but highly effective marriage of the unholy koran & Alinskys’ Rules For Radicals,
Their evil influence has recently become widespread & dangerously effective.
Brainwashing the ubiquitous ever eager ‘useful idiots’ & inciting their muslim friends to further criminal acts.
These groups have grown in size greatly recently.
It is surely only a matter of time before we see mass ‘actions’ that involve extreme violence as the norm, rather than a rarity.
As bizzare as this marriage is, the dangers they pose can not be downplayed nor overlooked.
The Islamo Nazis using their blm/antifa/enviro-terrorists useful idiots to further their own cause, only to be wiped out when the time comes.
The biggest colonists are muzlims who started with nothing and now have conquered through forced conversion, 57 nation states.
An “intersectionality” of violence? 🙂
Intersectionality is based on fantasy and racist hatred. The Alphabet people, women, islamopithecines, blacks and the poor, are all interconnected demographics who suffer disadvantage and oppression from evil whitey?: Those demographics are all privileged and pampered. Only white men are real victims of society and government.
One thing that struck me reading the article, is that Trotsky was even more of a revolutionary than Stalin.
I think Stalin was just a thug who seized power. Trotsky was a dumbass who thought a revolution would be great rather than horrific, that’s for sure. Like Stalin, Lnin only wanted power and control. He didn’t give a shit about the proletariat and more than Stalin did.
Newly elected President of Argentina, Javier Milei, had some poignant, highly appropriate words to say about Marxism and the lefties there and around the globe. Similarly, El Salvador’s President, Nayib Bukele. Ecuador did too. Idiot lefties are beside themselves over these brilliant, nation saving, political thinkers. Hopefully, we are able to follow suit.
Trotsky believed in permanent revolution. That was the idea of worldwide revolution. Stalin called his policy “socialism in one country.” That was the idea that the revolution could succeed in Russia without revolution in the modern western nations. That was against Marxist theory.
Russell Means, a man of considerable integrity, was a foe of the Sandinistas.
If my memory is accurate, the Sandinistas regime tried – and failed – to kill him
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-01-30-mn-2154-story.html
You can tell Daniel Greenfield you are well-versed in the history of totalitarian governments, and how they operate on the masses to convince them to buy a noose to hang themselves with..
Such a brilliant, concise article that should be read to young people that will put them in an alternate universe from what they were exposed to.
Your deep knowledge of how the French revolution prototype, the haunting tales of Orwell iand history of the Middle East was displayed succinctly in this article
Just getting over my disappointment of losing Tucker Carlson on national television you’ve become a surrogate with your deep thinking. Look forward to your articles on a daily basis. Thank you.
The israeli socialist quote is funny because it is not that something bad is happening on the left: the left itself is bad in and of itself. Problem with the left is the left. As johnny and waylonsaid, ‘there aint no good chain gang’
Excellent column! Unfortunately, few people understand that, for the Left, the issue is never the issue.
For the useful idiots it is but for the rest it’s definitely about tearing the country down and taking over.
How do we defeat socialism if our own social attitudes ae already tainted by theirs? References to the “LGBTQ+ community” ,as if that’s something normal and acceptable, show how far we’ve gone down the wrong path.
Queers for Palestine=Homos for Hamas
HOW COLUMBIA LOST ITS SOUL
Edward said, It is not for you
To criticize the smallest part
Of the things we do
Things from the heart
You see our fascination
Inflicting devastation
In eyes clouded by despair,
A crescent rotted beyond repair
Pillage and rape without blame
In praise of Allah’s name
Such is duty
(Don’t forget the booty)
To slaughter Jews, and gays, the infidel
To send them all to hell
Is our measure
As well as pleasure
These are things best left unsaid
That’s what Edward said
Jews for Hamas/Sheeps for Wolves yes the Useful Idiots are there all ready to feed the Dragon then ger eaten themselves the Fools are everywhere
All the tactics of the Left have been eroding American society for a long
time. They have morphed into takedowns where the average American
would have to be blind not to see them: acceptance of transgenders
and pedophilia – White is bad, everyone Black and Brown is good – J6
outrageous prosecution and sentencing while Hunter Biden and the
Big Guy skate free – high crime – high prices – destroyed Fentanyl-
saturated cities now inundated with third-worlders who’ll soon have
nowhere to go and nothing to eat. What then?
There is indeed the global communist revolution to destroy Western
civilization – and that includes Israel. “You will own nothing and will be
happy”. Or else! Pursuit of your own happiness will be out if the question.
It makes perfect sense that there is an intersectionality of Islamic terror
group Hamas with anti-American, anti-freedom tactics of the Left.
Amidst all the civilizational carnage and barbarism, they have drawn so
much of the gullible world into the emotionally-charged lies of the
poor Palestinians with their so-called right to return to their occupied
and stolen land.
The Jewish state and Jews everywhere and soon the rest of us are now
in their cross hairs. May God guide and lead us out of this.
I have learned so much from Daniel Greenfield. If I had read his articles before my college exams, I am sure I would have gotten better grades. Unless the professors were the far leftists that seem to be taking over academia.
“Queers for Islam”.
You can’t make it up, or maybe you have to.
Just remember, the American people voted for these people who became Presidents over the last several decades. Just look at ourselves and the way we act in our society today. There is no point in listing everything that is wrong with this country because it will not change the outcome, in the future. Besides, I don’t think anyone would be interested in reading such a long list.
Do any of you really see any hope for this country of ever becoming a better place to live, work, and raise a family? I for one, do not see that happening in the future. What I see is a nation that will fail and finally collapse. Just my understanding of what I see all around me.
america is now under judicial judgement , it comes when you ignore the bible and its warnings . same thing happened to israel when it copied the corrupt nations around them . it’s called a reprobate mind . it is now too late to reverse the decline regardless of who is in charge , its just a little faster with dementia joe making out like he is in the drivers seat . just like the titanic , it hits iceberg biden and will break in two and head for the bottom . the only lifeboat available is jesus christ as saviour .
Like freeing the Lion from the zoo and getting Eaten. Liberal halfwits will never learn their lessons