Shortly after Hamas militants launched over 5,000 rockets from Gaza into Israel on Oct. 7 and attacked the Jewish state by land, sea, and air, with brutal killings and injuries, there was a shocking global reaction.
After the biggest one-day mass killing of Jews since the Nazi Holocaust, there were celebratory demonstrations, intense Jew-hatred, enthusiastic support for Hamas, and condemnation of Israel across the Western world and the Arab-Muslim world.
How could this be?
It’s one thing to understand the motivations and actions of an extremist group, but how do we explain the widespread pro-terrorist and anti-Jewish sentiment in traditionally Judeo-Christian societies like the United States, Great Britain, and Western Europe?
Here are some examples of the fervent pro-Hamas, anti-Israel, anti-Jewish sentiment:
* At New York’s Cornell University, a student made threatening remarks toward Jewish individuals and a professor praised a pro-Hamas rally.
* Jewish students at New York City’s Cooper Union had to protect themselves from pro-Hamas protesters, and a fire was investigated at a Jewish student’s dorm at Philadelphia’s Drexel University.
* Florida State University students hosted a protest calling for “Palestinian resistance” and the elimination of Israel.
* A professor at UC Davis made threatening remarks toward “Zionist journalists” on social media.
* Another professor called Israelis derogatory names on social media.
And it’s not just at schools and universities where pro-Hamas, anti-Israel, and anti-Jewish fervor has erupted. Even within the United States government:
* A Department of Homeland Security employee made anti-Israel social media posts.
And then there’s “the Squad,” a group of lawmakers:
* Rep. Ilhan Omar, D.-Minn., posted a misleading image about Palestinian children. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., expressed support for Palestinians but did not condemn the Hamas massacre. Rep. Cori Bush, D.-Mo., accused Israel of mass murder.“Millions of individuals without a place to go” are “being massacred” in Gaza. “We can’t stay silent about Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign,” she wrote on X. “Infants, deceased. Pregnant women, deceased. Seniors, deceased. Generations of families, deceased.”
* Even some media companies – including the BBC and the Associated Press, the world’s largest news organization – have instructed their reporters worldwide not to describe Hamas militants as “militants.” One AP reporter based in Gaza, named Issam Adwan, has a social media history of criticizing Israel as an oppressive apartheid regime, insisting it would be a triumph if Israel were “overthrown,” and likening the Jewish state to Nazis.
* And expectedly, just days after what many called “Israel’s 9-11,” a Black Lives Matter-affiliated organization called Black Lives Matter at School published a pro-Palestinian toolkit for schoolkids, to teach American children about the virtues of Hamas militants and the malevolence of Israel, the Middle East’s only democracy.
What is behind the widespread outpouring of anti-Israel, anti-Jewish, pro-terror sentiment – even in the United States, where Israel has long been one of America’s closest friends and allies?
Investigative journalist Christopher Rufo illuminates the appeal of jihad to the left, tracing the history of Black Lives Matter’s extremely anti-Israel stances, including how the group’s Marxist-lesbian leader says BLM actually modeled its mission after the Palestinians’ cause. Writes Rufo:
In 2015, BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors led a delegation to the Palestinian territories, so that the group’s activists could learn from the “Palestinian struggle.” She condemned Israel as an “apartheid state,” and the central theme of the trip was revolution, “from Ferguson to Palestine.” The same year, Cullors signed a statement drawing parallels between the Palestinian fight against Israel and the black one against America. During a speech at Harvard Law School, Cullors went further, telling the audience: “If we don’t step up boldly and courageously to end the imperialist project called Israel, we’re doomed.”
‘The enemy of your enemy is your friend’
Still, what is the ultimate reason for today’s “woke,” entitled, diversity-obsessed, leftwing infatuation with deadly jihadists?
Remember that what occurred in Israel was so exceptionally wicked, grisly, unimaginable, and ISIS-like that even young male Hamas militants – raised from birth to crave their own eventual “martyrdom” in the service of killing Jews – still had to be fortified with an illicit drug that could extinguish whatever small part of their God-given conscience might still remain in them. As the Jerusalem Post reported, “Hamas militants who carried out a surprise attack on October 7 were found to be under the influence of Captagon, a synthetic amphetamine-type stimulant” which Hamas members took “to help them slaughter Israelis.” Indeed, ISIS members have been known to take the same drug, the report explained, enabling militants “to commit heinous acts with a sense of calmness and indifference.”
Yet the hard left’s response to all this demonic depravity, both worldwide and specifically in America, is to blame Israel and all Jews, while praising Hamas.
Why, exactly, are Muslim extremists and young leftists marching arm in arm on college campuses all over America?
After all, pretty much everything Islamists believe – such as that homosexuals should be executed by being thrown off a tall building, that women should be virtual slaves of men, and that children should be taught to hate Jews and look forward to being a “martyr,” and so on – is completely contrary to everything leftists believe.
Well, almost everything.
There’s one area of agreement that is so powerful, deep-seated, and all-consuming that the rest of the two populations’ vast differences melt away into unity.
Both camps – fanatical jihadists and angry, deranged far-left radicals – HATE the “people of the book,” that is, Christians and Jews. Both Islamic and Marxist “true believers” are consumed by a deep, intense, enduring, and all-consuming spiritual hatred of Almighty God and His sacred laws of life.
“The enemy of your enemy is your friend,” goes the saying. And thus are radical terroristic Muslims and smug, entitled, narcissistic, perpetually enraged, and thoroughly brainwashed leftists, the kind that populate America’s elite university campuses, of one mind with regard to the current war on Israel and hatred of Jews.
This is just a tiny taste of what is found in the November issue of WND’s critically acclaimed Whistleblower magazine, titled ISRAEL VS. GLOBAL JIHAD: How Jew-hatred, radical Islam and Leftism are pushing us toward World War III. Beyond a deeply insightful dive into why the left is exploding in vicious antisemitism, Israel-hated and enthusiastic support for the equivalent of Nazi mass-murderers, this Whistleblower issue includes fantastic articles by everyone from Israeli analyst (and former Israel Defense Forces officer) Caroline Glick to Harvest Christian Fellowship’s Pastor Greg Laurie on the current war in Israel and biblical prophecies regarding the End Times – which he believes are now upon us.
“I believe, without a doubt,” writes Laurie in Whistleblower, “that we are living in the last days. All around us we see the signs that Jesus and the Hebrew prophets told us to look for, indications that His coming is near, even at the door. Interestingly,” Laurie adds, “it always comes back to Jerusalem. It’s the focal point of end times events. The Bible predicted thousands of years ago that end times events would revolve around Jerusalem – not Los Angeles, Moscow or Paris, but Jerusalem.”