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Has it really been seventeen years since United in Hate first came out? Jamie Glazov’s definitive book about the red-green alliance has now been updated and expanded, and remains the most cogent book on the topic. It’s also more relevant than ever – which is unfortunate, because that means that the ties between the Western left and jihadist Islam have only grown stronger. After all, before the Hamas atrocities of Oct. 7, 2023, how many sensible, civilized people would have imagined that the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust could be followed by months of demonstrations in European and American streets in which leftists acclaimed Hamas and spewed vitriol about Jews?
How to make sense of obscenity? Well, if you want to understand the left’s infatuation with Islam, you’ve first got to understand the left itself. Hence, the first half (roughly) of United in Hate recounts the history of the left’s enthusiasm for tyranny, beginning with the early days of the Soviet Union. It’s largely a litany of famous, fatuous fellow travelers – and what’s appalling is that most of them, despite their perfidy, are still extolled today. Lincoln Steffens, for instance, continues to be revered for his pioneering 1904 work The Shame of the Cities, even though, after three weeks in the USSR in 1919, he notoriously said: “I have seen the future, and it works.”
In 1957, the New York Times made Fidel Castro famous – and when the New Left came along soon after, it worshiped him. So did Jack Nicholson, Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, and other useful Hollywood idiots. Glazov quotes at length from the then doyenne of the leftist intelligentsia, Susan Sontag, who in 1969 assured her American readers, after a visit to Cuba, that “No Cuban writer has been or is in jail, or is failing to get his work published.” That same year, as it happens, my best friend in eighth grade was a boy named Jose Diaz, who’d recently fled Cuba with his parents, his father having been a journalist whom Castro not only imprisoned but tortured and blinded. Was Sontag a liar or a fool?
Sontag also celebrated North Vietnam. But by the late 1960s, she was far from alone in that regard. It was the left’s heyday. The year I turned fifteen, All in the Family began lecturing to us every week that working-class white patriots were ignorant bigots, and David Halberstam, one of America’s most honored authors, published Ho, a paean to Ho Chi Minh. And Jane Fonda’s love for the North Vietnamese earned her the everlasting wrath of millions but only enhanced her career: two Oscars, a lucrative workout business, and a marriage to America’s largest landowner and media mogul. Communism pays!
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jerry glenn says
Great review. Thank you. I am going to order Jamie’s book.
More than one threat says
The connection between the Western left and jihadist Islam makes the Left Wing the most dangerous and traitorous political ideology in the world, wthether in the USA, UK, Australia, France, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Spain or elsewhere.
The Left encourages Muslim immigrants to act as a voter base for the Left.
The Left fails to investigate or take action in response to the many Muslim-related issues, whether welfare fraud in Minnesota or Grooming Gangs in the UK.
The Left downplays,overlooks or turns a blind eye when Muslims display anti-Semitism or Christianphobia. Or they claim that valid criticism of Islam is Islamophobia or not permitted.
Western nations can’t tackle the global problems arising from Islam without first ridding their respective countries of Left Wingism.