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Order Jamie Glazov’s new book, United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny, Terror, and Hamas: HERE.
Few books have examined what the late David Horowitz called the “unholy alliance” of radical Leftism and Islamic fundamentalism with the penetrating insight of Jamie Glazov’s United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny, Terror, and Hamas. First published in 2009 amid the Obama administration’s appeasement of the Iranian mullahs, Glazov’s signature work has now been revised and expanded for a 2026 edition by Bombardier Books that is tragically now more urgently relevant than ever before. It is an essential work for understanding the West’s existential enemies and understanding why, less than a quarter-century after the 9/11 attacks, we are reeling on the brink of self-immolation.
As U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee notes in his foreword, United in Hate explicates
the deep spiritual and ideological kinship between leftists and jihadis, and demonstrate[s] that, despite their superficial differences, the two camps actually have a great deal more that unites them than that divides them. Both are totalitarian forces, demanding absolute adherence from the faithful and the dedication of one’s entire life down to the last detail. Both are intransigent, intolerant of dissent, and enamored of bloodlust, destruction, and death.
Glazov – longtime editor of FrontPage Magazine, whose own family fled Soviet tyranny – describes how the ideological soulmates of this “red-green” marriage-made-in-hell are bound by a shared hatred of Western civilization, Judeo-Christian values, capitalism, and individual liberty. Both lust for the destruction of every facet of the existing order to pave the way for their utopian fantasies – one a social justice paradise, the other a global caliphate under Sharia.
This new axis of evil, however, is not merely a tactical alliance but a psychological and spiritual convergence. The Left derives an erotic thrill from the jihadists’ unapologetic savagery like the kind on display during the October 7, 2023 massacre in Israel, romanticizing it as righteous resistance. The jihadists, in turn, exploit the Left’s useful idiocy, knowing full well that their enablers will be the first to be put against the wall when the caliphate arrives.
As Glazov writes in the book’s preface, “I set out to write a book on the impulses that stimulate the radical mind and that have led to its love affair with radical Islam.” After opening the book with a succinct but in-depth dissection of the true believer’s mindset, he goes on to demonstrate how the Left carried on a long romance with anti-American tyranny, from Communist China and North Vietnam to the Soviet Union, Nicaragua, and Cuba. Glazov marshals a rogues’ gallery of fellow travelers: Walter Duranty venerating the Soviet Union’s Stalin, Susan Sontag whitewashing Castro’s gulags, Jane Fonda posing atop North Vietnamese anti-aircraft guns, and a parade of Hollywood elites and academic intellectuals swooning over Mao’s Cultural Revolution. These were symptoms of a “lust for destruction” that Glazov traces to the believer’s void, filled by the thrill of vicarious power. He catalogs the psychological traits of the leftist mind: moral superiority masking envy, guilt over privilege fueling masochism, and a genius for denying reality while projecting evil onto the free West. This section alone should be required reading for every bewildered parent watching their college-age child march for “decolonization.”
In the second half of the book— which includes a new final chapter—Glazov examines the Left’s “death cult cousin” Islamism, and traces how the red-green alliance has metastasized into a full-blown cultural cancer. From the Obama-era Iran deal to the Biden administration’s equivocations, from Black Lives Matter’s intersectional jihad to academic echo chambers, Glazov connects the dots with relentless logic. The rainbow flag-waving Left’s infatuation with the terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah, for example, is explained by their shared rejection of the West’s “oppressive” freedoms.
The new chapter, centered on the October 7 atrocities, confronts both Hamas’ barbarism and the Left’s obscene celebration of it. Glazov recounts the horrors of that day in unflinching detail. These were not acts of “resistance” but a pogrom of medieval depravity. Yet the Left celebrated and defended Hamas as heroes, and “From the river to the sea” became the genocidal anthem of jihad-supporting students on elite campuses from Columbia to Harvard. “Queers for Palestine” banners fluttered alongside keffiyehs, a spectacle of cognitive dissonance that would be comical were it not so grotesque, but Glazov observes that the Leftist position is “absurd and incoherent, because rationality and truth-seeking simply don’t matter.”
Glazov’s analysis exposes how the Left’s support for Hamas is the logical endpoint of their ideology. The same mindset that sanitized Stalin’s purges and Pol Pot’s killing fields now justifies Hamas’ charter—a document which explicitly calls for Jewish extermination. Glazov quotes the gloating tweets, the academic petitions, the media spin doctors reframing terrorists as victims. Our own political leaders like “Squad” members Cori Bush, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib cheerlead for jihadists against our ally Israel; “progressive” Jews like those at the Left-wing If Not Now organization betray their heritage in service to the cause. This chapter reveals the alliance’s endgame: the total eradication of Israel as prelude to dismantling the “Great Satan” America and ultimately the entire West. The Columbia encampments, Glazov notes, didn’t stop at “Free Palestine”—they demanded “the total eradication of Western civilization.”
Two-and-a-half years after October 7, the red-green momentum still surges. Antisemitic violence wracks Europe and America, with synagogues firebombed and Jews assaulted in broad daylight. Campus radicals, emboldened by faculty complicity, turn universities into no-go zones for Zionists. Corporate DEI initiatives funnel billions into “anti-Israel” activism, while politicians in blue strongholds defund police and platform Hamas sympathizers. Glazov’s warning—that ignoring the red-green threat invites civilizational suicide—has never rung truer.
Apart from its psychological and ideological insights, what sets United in Hate apart is Glazov’s courage to name the enemy and his refusal to traffic in comforting illusions about “moderate Islam.” This is a necessary first step toward launching a counter-revolution of truth in defense of our freedom.
Written with the passion of a dissident and the rigor of a scholar (his argument is bolstered with 40 pages of endnotes), Jamie Glazov’s United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny, Terror, and Hamas is endorsed by authoritative warriors in the clash of civilizations from General Michael Flynn and Ambassador Huckabee to Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer and Freedom Center CEO Daniel Greenfield. This updated volume is the clarion call the West desperately needs to rouse itself from near-capitulation to the evil red-green alliance. Read it and act upon it – the future of civilization demands nothing less.
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“Glazov – longtime editor of FrontPage Magazine, whose own family fled Soviet tyranny – describes how the ideological soulmates of this “red-green” marriage-made-in-hell are bound by a shared hatred of Western civilization, Judeo-Christian values, capitalism, and individual liberty. Both lust for the destruction of every facet of the existing order to pave the way for their utopian fantasies – one a social justice paradise, the other a global caliphate under Sharia.”
The idea of “social justice” comes from Judeo-Christianity.
Capitalism and individual liberty do not come from Judaism nor Christianity. Capitalism and individual liberty are SECULAR ideas.
All religions, including Judaism and Christianity, when practiced seriously lead to a totalitarian theocracy. The Puritans did NOT come to America to establish freedom of religion but to establish their own brutal Christian theocracy because the Christian theocracy of the Church of England was persecuting them much like the Sunni persecute the Shia.
The philosophical father of capitalism, individual liberty, and America is not Moses or Jesus but the Greek pagan Aristotle.
“Throughout history the influence of Aristotle’s philosophy (particularly of his epistemology) has led in the direction of individual freedom, of man’s liberation from the power of the state . . . Aristotle (via John Locke) was the philosophical father of the Constitution of the United States and thus of capitalism . . . it is Plato and Hegel, not Aristotle, who have been the philosophical ancestors of all totalitarian and welfare states, whether Bismarck’s, Lenin’s or Hitler’s.” – Ayn Rand
Your screed is complete hogwash … The vast majority of America’s founders (and founding citizens) took their Christianity VERY “seriously” and inaugurated freedom and liberty in the western hemisphere, and established a nation that was intentionally designed to be free of kings and popes — and they succeeded in spectacular fashion … It was the very opposite of what you say …
Those early settlers and founders went out of their way to NOT establish a theocracy, which is why today almost every Christian denomination on earth is headquartered in the United States … because of FREEDOM OF RELIGION, which is the opposite of a theocracy!
Sorry, Total Horse Excrement 11-30Hate, you’re a lousy historian …
The USA was founded during the Age of Enlightenment when serious Christian belief had been diminished and diluted by the ascendancy of reason over faith. Before that age, reason had been considered the mere handmaiden of faith, i.e., if reason contradicted Holy Scripture then the conclusions of reason were rejected and silenced. But during the Age of Enlightenment if the conclusions of reason contradicted Holy Scripture, the conclusions of reason were generally respected and accepted, over and above the Holy Scripture. In other words, faith now took a backseat to reason.
“Many of the Founding Fathers, of course, continued to believe in God and to do so sincerely, but it was a vestigial belief, a leftover from the past which no longer shaped the essence of their thinking. God, so to speak, had been kicked upstairs. He was regarded now as an aloof spectator who neither responds to prayer nor offers revelations nor demands immolation. This sort of viewpoint, known as deism, cannot, properly speaking, be classified as a religion. It is a stage in the atrophy of religion; it is the step between Christianity and outright atheism.
This is why the religious men of the Enlightenment were scandalized and even panicked by the deist atmosphere….
Point for point, the Founding Fathers’ argument for liberty was the exact counterpart of the Puritans’ argument for dictatorship… ” – “Religion versus America” by Leonard Peikoff
The Enlightenment = Communism.
The result was the success of an Anti-West, Anti-Christian, and Anti-Jewish set of lunatics no different than the Left.
Uploading the Atheist poison into the Christian cyberspace has led to all of the wars, all of the false economics, all of the cults, all of the Big Lies, and all of the disasters that have befallen the West since 1789.
You refuse to see it because you do not like facts or reality.
Atheists are in charge.
The Religion of Atheism is the Religion of Social Justice.
Anyone who refuses to acknowledge that is ignorant, stupid, or lying.
The idea of social justice comes directly from Judeo-Christianity. The core message of Jesus is not to pursue your own happiness but to sacrifice yourself for others, to give all your wealth away to the poor, to love your enemies, to be your brother’s keeper.
“The roots of America’s welfare state lie in the Populist-Progressive Era of the late 19th century and early 20th century, especially with the Protestant social gospel movement, which held that Christian ethics and “social justice” should drive public policy, including wealth redistribution, trust-busting, graduated tax rates to punish the rich, cradle-to-grave handouts, and missionary-style imperialistic ventures abroad to spread the faith and make the world “safe for democracy.” The concept of social justice, which jettisoned the idea that we actually earn and deserve what we get in life, was first adopted by the Jesuit Luigi Taparelli in the 1840s, as drawn from the work of St. Thomas Aquinas.” – “Holy Scripture and the Welfare State” by
Richard M. Salsman
THX always is and was a lousy ‘historian’.
He picks and simplifies history narratives to fit into his “I hate God, Catholics and Lutherans, and I love the Greeks and their Little Boys.”. He really hates altruism. All he has is his repetitive narratives that he endlessly cuts and pastes, always from his collection of Objectivist “writers”
He’s one of those miserable people who just can’t fit in, no matter how hard he tries.
THC has tourette’s syndrome.
The subject in an article can be anything, but his post will be a 95% chance of posting the same tired bullshit, that he seems the need to post yet one more time.
If you miss something he writes, don’t worry – he’ll be sure to post the same thing several more times.
Several more times? I have seen his repetitive tripe at least 100 times over the years. This fool has nothing to say other than to bash Christianity and Judaism. But he always seems to give Islam a lukewarm pass. And he loves him those little boys that the Greek philosophers were fond of.
This might be the single dumbest thing I’ve ever read.
whats your point THX? You have none. You appear to be here to poison the well.
My point is that every religion, including Judaism and Christianity, when practiced seriously, results in a THEOCRACY, not freedom, liberty, and capitalism.
In order to defend the American way of life, the American SECULAR values of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, i.e., Laissez-Faire Capitalism, it is absolutely necessary to defend these secular values with a reason-based, rational and secular argument, nothing else, and nothing less will do.
“To live, man must use his mind; he must think. All human values — from money to art to love — are based on and require unbroken commitment to rationality. This is why, in the Objectivist ethics, rationality is the primary virtue.
‘If I were to speak your kind of language, I would say that man’s only moral commandment is: Thou shalt think. But a “moral commandment” is a contradiction in terms. The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.’
As to those on the “right” who seek to combine reason, individualism, and individual rights with the religious faith and the primordial view of man as an object of sacrifice, Rand was clear: “In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.”
To those who seek such a compromise, we say: if you think you can reconcile reason and faith in your personal life, go ahead and try. But we urge you not to base your support of freedom and capitalism on religion: to say freedom stems from faith is to say that reason is on the side of dictatorship.
The enemies of freedom could hardly hope for a bigger boost.” – Harry Binswanger
The Religion of which you complain is Atheism.
Atheism is communism. Atheism is socialism.
Atheism is the religion of ‘social justice,’ and the ideology of the Anti-West.
Not posting to correct your ignorance, but to serve notice to the fools who think otherwise.
Atheism is NOT a religion, it is the lack of belief in the supernatural, the lack of belief in a magical creation mythology, lack of belief in an Allah or Yahweh, or Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva.
Maybe you’re confounding atheism and communism? Communism does claim to be atheistic but correlation is not causation.
“You are probably wondering here: “What about Communism? Isn’t it a logical, scientific, atheistic philosophy, and yet doesn’t it lead straight to totalitarianism?” The short answer to this is: Communism is not an expression of logic or science, but the exact opposite. Despite all its anti-religious posturings, Communism is nothing but a modern derivative of religion: it agrees with the essence of religion on every key issue, then merely gives that essence a new outward veneer or cover-up.
The Communists reject Aristotelian logic and Western science in favor of a “dialectic” process; reality, they claim, is a stream of contradictions which is beyond the power of “bourgeois” reason to understand. They deny the very existence of man’s mind, claiming that human words and actions reflect nothing but the alogical predetermined churnings of blind matter. They do reject God, but they replace him with a secular stand-in, Society or the State, which they treat not as an aggregate of individuals, but as an unperceivable, omnipotent, supernatural organism, a “higher unseen power” transcending and dwarfing all individuals. Man, they say, is a mere social cog or atom, whose duty is to revere this power and to sacrifice every thing in its behalf. Above all, they say, no such cog has the right to think for himself; every man must accept the decrees of Society’s leaders, he must because this is the voice of Society, whether he understands it or not. Fully as much as Tertullian, Communism demands faith from its followers and subjects, “faith” in the literal, religious sense of the term. On every account, the conclusion is the same: Communism is not a new, rational philosophy; it is a tired, slavishly imitative heir of religion.” – Leonard Peikoff, “Religion versus America”
The threshing has begun, The separating the wheat from the chaff is not as much GOD ALMIGHTY but our own mindsets.
Not so long ago, I watched a short video of a muslim protest in London. There was someone standing on the side-lines filming it, who shouted to the muslims as they passed by that ‘we are on the same side’, to which the muslims replied ‘no you’re not’.
That encapsulates the delusion of the left. I wish they would read some history of islam, how it conquered once Christian lands and the masses of people who were massacred in the process, over many centuries. Perhaps then they would see islam for what it is and not what they want it to be, and be cautious of it, if not completely terrified.
Purchased the new book. Likely I will give it away, as I did with my copy of the first edition.
We have known the Atheists hated the West for decades. I literally remember my grandmother schooling me on this in the 60s, and granddad explaining how the Nazis loved Islam.
Jamie’s book is an excellent piece of work, but it needs to be put into the hands of people who have no idea how anything works.
THX-h3ll might want to read it … he might learn something.
Thank you NANC. I appreciate it,
There’s no such thing as Judeo-Christianity. One is either Born Again according 1 Peter 1:23, 2 Corinthians 5: 17 – 21, or they are not Born Again at all.