In the West, particularly in the United States, two conflicting ideologies have formed an alliance of convenience: the liberal left and radical Islam. The irony, of course, is that countries governed by strict Islamic law would never tolerate many of the things liberals openly champion—such as abortion, same-sex marriage, gender ideology, drag queen story hours, or even the right to insult religion. In fact, the women leading liberal protests would not even be allowed to drive, speak publicly, travel, or work without a male family member’s permission or presence.
And of course, covered in burkas and hijabs, their facial piercings and tattoos would not be visible. Despite these contradictions, the two have formed a united front against the very foundations of Western civilization. What binds them together is not a shared theology or worldview, but a common enemy. Both seek to dismantle American institutions, culture, and values.
Ironically, one of the key forces uniting the left with the jihadists is their shared antisemitism. The October 7 Hamas massacre served as a catalyst, pushing the alliance into open and deeply institutionalized form. Campus encampments quickly turned into platforms for glorifying jihadist violence, chanting genocidal slogans, and threatening Jewish students. Protesters waving Hezbollah flags and shouting “intifada revolution” now occupy the same universities that once prided themselves on civility and critical thinking.
A bonus for both of these groups is that they can use their hatred of Jews as a jumping-off point for broader attacks on Christians who support Israel. And since, statistically speaking, most of the people pushing back against them, whether clearing encampments, arresting rioters, or cutting funding to campuses, are Christian, the jihadists and liberals have seized the opportunity to throw around terms like “Christian nationalist” and voice their contempt for the Founding Fathers and anyone who upholds traditional morals, values, or the rule of law.
They hit a bit of a roadblock when claiming all Christians are racist, considering African Americans and Latino Americans are overwhelmingly Christian. But the beauty of their ideology is that it doesn’t need to make sense. They call Jews Nazis while claiming to fight fascism. They say that ICE enforcing immigration law is a threat to law and order, yet celebrate open borders and chaos. They insist all cultures are equal, except for Western civilization and Jews, whom they single out for condemnation. They proclaim that science is sacred, except when it comes to gender or the definition of life.
At the same time that liberals are calling for the dismantling of America’s traditional values and morals, Islamist movements like Hamas, Al-Qaeda, and ISIS promote a form of antisemitism that is explicitly genocidal. Their worldview, rooted in the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood and shaped by figures like Hajj Amin al-Husseini, a Nazi collaborator and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, casts Jews not only as enemies of Islam but as conspirators behind every perceived corruption in the modern world.
This strain of genocidal antisemitism was fueled by Nazi propaganda in the Arab world during World War II and later amplified by Soviet disinformation. The USSR repackaged Nazi conspiracy theories as anti-Zionist doctrine, portraying Israel as a fascist, colonial state and spreading the Protocols of the Elders of Zion globally. These narratives found a home in leftist ideology, where “Zionist” became a stand-in for “Jew,” allowing antisemitism to thrive under the banner of social justice. Today’s activist left routinely casts Jews as white oppressors and capitalist elites, turning them from victims of bigotry into symbols of systemic injustice.
Even the Civil Rights movement wasn’t immune. By the late 1960s, as black liberation groups became more radical, some started pushing antisemitic themes. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, once closely allied with Jewish activists, turned on them after the Six-Day War and began comparing Zionism to Nazism. That kind of rhetoric, portraying Jews as greedy, violent colonialists, still shows up in today’s leftist movements, just rebranded through the language of decolonization and oppression.
The same anti-colonial narrative that paints Israel as an illegitimate occupier is now used to attack the United States, fueling liberal hostility toward America, patriotism, and national identity. What is happening on U.S. campuses is a fusion of Islamist antisemitism with leftist grievance politics. On college campuses, this has taken root in groups like Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace, which receive support from Islamist-aligned networks and big-name liberal donors, including American Muslims for Palestine, the Tides Foundation, and George Soros’s Open Society Foundations.
Foreign influence plays a major role. Qatar alone has poured billions into American universities, many of which have become breeding grounds for antisemitic agitation. At Cornell, a Qatari-funded professor declared the Hamas massacre “exhilarating.” Studies show that antisemitic incidents are three times more frequent at institutions that receive such funding.
The alliance between the far left and Islamist extremists is not about justice. It is a campaign for the destruction of American values.
