WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:05.000 Hello, everybody, Welcome back to history Impossible in twenty twenty six. 2 00:00:05.719 --> 00:00:10.359 I know the previous episode, the penultimate episode, as I 3 00:00:10.400 --> 00:00:12.960 was calling it, of the Muslim Nazi series, released at 4 00:00:12.960 --> 00:00:15.560 a very beginning on the first of twenty twenty six, 5 00:00:15.640 --> 00:00:18.519 but I recorded that a number of weeks earlier and 6 00:00:18.559 --> 00:00:22.120 released it early for patrons, so a lot of people 7 00:00:22.239 --> 00:00:25.399 were able to catch that before the year turned over. 8 00:00:25.679 --> 00:00:28.800 Now by now, I hope the rest of you who 9 00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:31.359 listened to this show at least with some regularity have 10 00:00:31.440 --> 00:00:33.960 gotten through it. If not, I don't blame you. It 11 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:36.079 can take a while to get through almost six and 12 00:00:36.119 --> 00:00:40.119 a half hours of material, I suppose, But yeah, I 13 00:00:40.159 --> 00:00:45.119 figured I would give you guys yet another special episode. 14 00:00:45.320 --> 00:00:47.679 This one's serving as a sort of addendum to what 15 00:00:47.759 --> 00:00:52.200 we talked about in the previous episode in the episode 16 00:00:52.280 --> 00:00:56.399 known as the Hanshar about the so called Muslim Nazis, 17 00:00:56.479 --> 00:01:00.320 and this one is a lot more modern in its 18 00:01:00.359 --> 00:01:04.599 history and gets into something that I think is pretty 19 00:01:04.640 --> 00:01:10.439 obviously a growing problem, particularly on the political right, at 20 00:01:10.519 --> 00:01:13.599 least in the United States, on its fringes. I know 21 00:01:13.760 --> 00:01:16.599 that fringes don't necessarily matter all that much when it 22 00:01:16.640 --> 00:01:19.920 comes to kitchen table issues. But you know, this isn't 23 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:23.239 a political podcast. This is a historical podcast that gets 24 00:01:23.239 --> 00:01:28.239 into political topics, and in this particular case, I think 25 00:01:28.920 --> 00:01:31.879 it fits for me to be talking about this growing 26 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:35.959 trend and where it arguably comes from, or at least 27 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:39.079 in part comes from, and it matches really well with 28 00:01:39.159 --> 00:01:44.159 what we just covered in the Muslim Nazi series so far. Again, 29 00:01:44.239 --> 00:01:47.560 we still have one more full episode of that series 30 00:01:47.640 --> 00:01:50.959 coming hopefully sooner rather than later, but I've learned not 31 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:54.079 to make promises about that before we get into the 32 00:01:54.239 --> 00:01:58.799 episode today. I want to thank everyone as always for 33 00:01:58.840 --> 00:02:02.640 supporting this show, supporting me, supporting what I'm doing here, 34 00:02:02.760 --> 00:02:05.359 especially those of you have been doing it for so long, 35 00:02:06.040 --> 00:02:09.400 like my supporters John Andre Saither and Mike Maylebin who've 36 00:02:09.439 --> 00:02:13.120 been supporting the show, you know, at the incredibly generous 37 00:02:13.159 --> 00:02:18.439 executive producer level for years now. 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So thank you again for listening, 54 00:03:15.080 --> 00:03:19.080 and let's get into some impossible history. 55 00:03:20.120 --> 00:03:21.599 I'll let me to tell you what you would have 56 00:03:21.639 --> 00:03:22.439 seen and heard. 57 00:03:22.759 --> 00:03:25.240 If we're not being pleasant listening, if you were at lunch, 58 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:27.000 or if you have no appetite. 59 00:03:26.479 --> 00:03:28.120 Now is a good time to switch off the radio. 60 00:03:33.960 --> 00:03:37.319 An ancestor of mine maintaine that if you eliminate the impossible, 61 00:03:37.479 --> 00:03:51.120 whatever remains, however improbable. Banji, I wish I could say 62 00:03:51.159 --> 00:03:54.319 tonight that a lasting piece is insight. 63 00:03:54.479 --> 00:03:57.719 I alating dream, I feel a laughing like. 64 00:04:04.240 --> 00:04:05.479 If we hear for essure to. 65 00:04:05.479 --> 00:04:09.960 Gil, if we care for kill. Some say the world 66 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:12.080 will end empire. Some say anie. 67 00:04:12.639 --> 00:04:15.199 From what I've tasted of desire, I hold. 68 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:16.240 Of those of favor fire. 69 00:04:17.000 --> 00:04:19.680 But if it had to perish twice, I think I 70 00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:22.000 know m of of hate to say. 71 00:04:21.800 --> 00:04:25.160 That for destruction, ice is also great and look sufficed. 72 00:04:31.959 --> 00:04:34.160 This is history or possible. 73 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:42.439 Mankind today is on the brink of a precipice. Not 74 00:04:42.560 --> 00:04:46.120 because of the danger of complete annihilation which is hanging 75 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:49.279 over its head, this being just a symptom and not 76 00:04:49.399 --> 00:04:52.920 the real disease, but because humanity is devoid of those 77 00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:56.480 vital values which are necessary not only for its healthy 78 00:04:56.480 --> 00:05:01.240 development but also for its real progress. Even the Western 79 00:05:01.279 --> 00:05:04.879 world realizes that Western civilization is unable to present any 80 00:05:04.920 --> 00:05:09.519 healthy values for the guidance of mankind. The leadership of 81 00:05:09.560 --> 00:05:13.240 mankind by any Western man is now on the decline. 82 00:05:13.639 --> 00:05:17.319 Not because Western culture has become poor materially or because 83 00:05:17.319 --> 00:05:21.120 its economic and military power has become weak. The period 84 00:05:21.160 --> 00:05:24.920 of the Western system has come to an end primarily 85 00:05:25.000 --> 00:05:28.639 because it is deprived of those life giving values which 86 00:05:28.759 --> 00:05:33.279 enabled it to be the leader of mankind. Sayid Kutub, 87 00:05:35.959 --> 00:05:39.519 you are dying. I see in you all the characteristic 88 00:05:39.560 --> 00:05:44.720 stigma of decay. I can prove to you that your 89 00:05:44.759 --> 00:05:48.600 great wealth and your great poverty, your capitalism and your socialism, 90 00:05:49.079 --> 00:05:53.319 your wars and your revolutions, your atheism and your pessimism, 91 00:05:53.480 --> 00:05:57.519 and your cynicism, your immorality, your broken down marriages, your 92 00:05:57.519 --> 00:06:01.120 birth control that is bleeding you from the bottom and 93 00:06:01.240 --> 00:06:04.160 killing you off at the top. In your brains, I 94 00:06:04.199 --> 00:06:07.800 can prove to you that those were the characteristic marks 95 00:06:08.040 --> 00:06:12.279 of the dying ages of ancient states Alexandria and Greece, 96 00:06:12.519 --> 00:06:21.000 and neurotic Rome. Oswald Spengler, Dear Hitler, I welcome you 97 00:06:21.040 --> 00:06:24.079 back with all my heart. You have been defeated, but 98 00:06:24.199 --> 00:06:26.839 in fact one should regard you as the real victor. 99 00:06:27.439 --> 00:06:29.720 There will be no place in the world until Germany 100 00:06:29.759 --> 00:06:33.759 again takes first place. Your principal mistake was opening too 101 00:06:33.800 --> 00:06:37.000 many fronts. But everything is forgiven, for you are a 102 00:06:37.040 --> 00:06:41.000 shining example of belief in one's fatherland and people. You 103 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:43.920 are eternal, and we shall not be surprised if we 104 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:52.000 see you again. On Marl Sadat on the eve of 105 00:06:52.120 --> 00:06:57.120 his controversial election as mayor of New York City, Zornmumdani 106 00:06:57.480 --> 00:07:00.360 had his fair share of critics. It is safe to say, 107 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:06.000 and he still does having been inaugurated. While some criticisms 108 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:08.920 had more to do with his inability to sufficiently distance 109 00:07:09.000 --> 00:07:13.759 himself from his more inflammatory and just plain dumb previous 110 00:07:13.800 --> 00:07:17.560 comments and performances, as well as his supposedly planned policies, 111 00:07:18.639 --> 00:07:22.240 there was a common thread with some conservative and right 112 00:07:22.240 --> 00:07:27.680 wing commentators and critics of his namely that Mamdani was 113 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:31.959 not just a socialist but a closet Islamist or a Jihati. 114 00:07:32.240 --> 00:07:38.319 Even figures as prominent as Aonhirsi Ali, herself a strident 115 00:07:38.399 --> 00:07:42.279 and longtime critic of Islamism and even Islam itself, were 116 00:07:42.319 --> 00:07:45.519 more than willing to claim that Mamdani was quote an 117 00:07:45.639 --> 00:07:49.480 Islamist clad in socialist garb unquote, as Ali stated on 118 00:07:49.519 --> 00:07:53.959 her ex page. Figures like Sequoia partner Sean MacGuire what 119 00:07:54.120 --> 00:07:57.360 even further earlier on in twenty twenty five, claiming that 120 00:07:57.439 --> 00:08:01.600 quote Mamdani comes from a culture that lies about everything unquote, 121 00:08:01.680 --> 00:08:04.639 because quote it's literally a virtue to lie if it 122 00:08:04.680 --> 00:08:09.240 advances his Islamists agenda unquote, echoing what I would consider 123 00:08:09.279 --> 00:08:12.680 at least simplistic claims of Takaya that are often quoted 124 00:08:12.680 --> 00:08:17.279 by drive by critics of Islam. This kind of commentary 125 00:08:17.319 --> 00:08:21.160 prompted a lot of criticism, including from opponents of Mamdani, 126 00:08:21.720 --> 00:08:25.519 mostly because it was largely seen as missing the point 127 00:08:25.920 --> 00:08:28.720 to essentially use the words of the New York Post 128 00:08:28.839 --> 00:08:32.240 editorial board when they stated on July second, twenty twenty five, 129 00:08:32.480 --> 00:08:35.159 not to quote unquote, go down the Islamist rabbit hole. 130 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:39.759 Socialism is what makes Mamdani toxic unquote. And this is 131 00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:43.279 to say nothing of a lot of these claims being 132 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:48.120 completely inaccurate factually speaking, and arguably even Islamophobic at least 133 00:08:48.159 --> 00:08:52.960 in the case of Maguire's commentary rather than Ali's. Now however, 134 00:08:53.080 --> 00:08:56.960 ultimately untethered from reality, this fear of a leftist Islamist 135 00:08:56.960 --> 00:09:02.679 blob monster was it was actually pretty understandable, especially from 136 00:09:02.720 --> 00:09:05.279 figures like Ayon heir Cili who have been on the 137 00:09:05.279 --> 00:09:09.799 proverbial Islamism be for so long and having literally survived 138 00:09:09.840 --> 00:09:13.960 its assaults. As Satanan Dume at The Wall Street Journal 139 00:09:14.039 --> 00:09:17.039 pointed out in response to these claims of Mundani's plan 140 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:21.039 to quote establish a caliphate on the Hudson unquote, there 141 00:09:21.120 --> 00:09:24.559 is a troubling synergy that has been seen and that 142 00:09:24.600 --> 00:09:27.799 I've even talked about with Islamists and far left activists, 143 00:09:28.279 --> 00:09:30.559 particularly when it comes to the issue of Israel, and 144 00:09:30.679 --> 00:09:34.320 often Jews in general, though usually with the Zionist filter 145 00:09:34.440 --> 00:09:39.840 lane over everything. Now this has become very well covered territory, 146 00:09:40.039 --> 00:09:43.159 especially in the wake of the campus and street protests 147 00:09:43.200 --> 00:09:47.000 against alleged genocide preemptively launched while the bodies from the 148 00:09:47.039 --> 00:09:50.879 October seventh, twenty twenty three program were still warm. It's 149 00:09:50.879 --> 00:09:54.679 even reignited a fair bit given events in Iran in 150 00:09:54.720 --> 00:09:58.399 which we're either looking at another Tianum and Square situation 151 00:09:58.960 --> 00:10:02.159 or possibly a second Iranian revolution as of this recording. 152 00:10:02.279 --> 00:10:05.399 It's very hard to say, but it definitely has revealed 153 00:10:05.399 --> 00:10:11.120 the ideological confluences and inconsistencies one could say, between Islamists 154 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:15.000 and leftists, but the willingness to make common cause, however incoherent. 155 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:18.759 Now this alliance, if we want to call it that, 156 00:10:19.480 --> 00:10:23.240 has even gotten serious academic and think tank treatment, with 157 00:10:23.399 --> 00:10:26.200 report from the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism 158 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:29.639 and Responses to Terrorism being published in the journal Terrorism 159 00:10:29.720 --> 00:10:32.759 and Political Violence as far back as twenty thirteen that 160 00:10:32.879 --> 00:10:36.559 covers this phenomenon, and like I mentioned earlier, even I 161 00:10:36.639 --> 00:10:39.879 as many of you listening, no doubt remember, have taken 162 00:10:39.919 --> 00:10:43.240 a stab at explaining elements of the I guess we'll 163 00:10:43.240 --> 00:10:45.679 call it the newest incarnation of this alliance via the 164 00:10:45.919 --> 00:10:49.960 soft imperialist strategy employed by Islamist groups calling it their 165 00:10:50.039 --> 00:10:53.360 velvet gie Hod, as well as if you remember discussing 166 00:10:53.399 --> 00:10:58.799 the concept with Spikes Brendan O'Neil. However, I will defer 167 00:10:59.360 --> 00:11:03.799 to the renowned British Israeli historian Robert Wistrich in summarizing 168 00:11:04.120 --> 00:11:08.840 both of the contradictions, the shared values and ultimately the 169 00:11:08.879 --> 00:11:12.960 overall obsessions in what he calls the red Green Axis 170 00:11:13.399 --> 00:11:16.799 in his massive Tone, a lethal obsession anti Semitism from 171 00:11:16.840 --> 00:11:21.960 antiquity to the global Gihad, where he writes the following quote. 172 00:11:22.159 --> 00:11:28.440 Islamists may sharply disagree with their far left allies about feminism, homosexuality, religion, secularism, 173 00:11:28.679 --> 00:11:31.720 and the validity of socialist ideals, but they share a 174 00:11:31.759 --> 00:11:37.440 common anti Western, anti globalist, and anti Zionist agenda. Radical 175 00:11:37.480 --> 00:11:40.559 Islamists are not, of course interested in the traditional class 176 00:11:40.559 --> 00:11:44.080 struggle of the proletariat, but like the far left, they 177 00:11:44.159 --> 00:11:47.000 hate America, revel in the myth of a Jewish world 178 00:11:47.039 --> 00:11:52.279 conspiracy and are determined to eliminate Israel. Palestine is the 179 00:11:52.440 --> 00:11:55.720 issue where their cooperation with the left is most harmonious. 180 00:11:56.879 --> 00:12:00.360 In Britain, as in France, the anti globalist left and 181 00:12:00.399 --> 00:12:04.600 the Islamic fundamentalists also share a common rejection of liberal 182 00:12:04.639 --> 00:12:10.000 modernity and the entire Enlightenment project. Yet ironically both want 183 00:12:10.039 --> 00:12:15.759 to globalize the Middle East conflict, demanding humanitarian intervention by 184 00:12:15.759 --> 00:12:20.159 the wicked Western imperialists if only to stop Israel, while 185 00:12:20.200 --> 00:12:23.759 at the same time threatening it with UN and EU sanctions. 186 00:12:25.080 --> 00:12:28.200 Nowhere is the morbid emotionalism and self indulgence of a 187 00:12:28.279 --> 00:12:32.000 victim centered culture more palpable than in the pro Palestinian 188 00:12:32.080 --> 00:12:39.679 partisanship of the International Solidarity movement. To simplify that into 189 00:12:39.799 --> 00:12:42.480 the parlance of our times, we could say it is 190 00:12:42.519 --> 00:12:47.720 without question that even now, despite all the complications arising 191 00:12:47.879 --> 00:12:52.799 from the current potential second revolution in Iran, the Palestine 192 00:12:52.840 --> 00:12:56.360 issue has become the omni cause for what passes as 193 00:12:56.440 --> 00:12:59.519 the left in the West in recent years, with the 194 00:12:59.519 --> 00:13:02.279 only globebization they seem to support seeming to be the 195 00:13:02.399 --> 00:13:08.000 so called decolonialization struggle. Even Zora Mamdani himself made this 196 00:13:08.120 --> 00:13:10.720 clear when back in twenty twenty three, while speaking on 197 00:13:10.759 --> 00:13:14.559 a panel called Socialist Internationalism the Solution to the Crisis 198 00:13:14.559 --> 00:13:19.600 of Capitalism, he claimed the following quote. For anyone to 199 00:13:19.679 --> 00:13:22.919 care about these issues, we have to make them hyper low. 200 00:13:23.000 --> 00:13:25.879 We have to make them hyper We have to make 201 00:13:25.960 --> 00:13:29.759 clear that when the food of the mipe is on 202 00:13:29.799 --> 00:13:34.080 your neck, it's been laced by the idea. If we 203 00:13:34.200 --> 00:13:37.320 have to make not specifically that example, all the time, 204 00:13:37.600 --> 00:13:40.159 just to say that for working class people who have 205 00:13:40.320 --> 00:13:42.919 very little time, who have so many stresses, who are 206 00:13:43.039 --> 00:13:47.960 under so many pressures, there isn't that much time for symbolism. 207 00:13:48.480 --> 00:13:51.639 We have to make it materially connected to their life. 208 00:13:52.120 --> 00:13:55.240 And I think that what an opportunity we have is 209 00:13:55.240 --> 00:13:59.440 that we are in a country where those connections abound. 210 00:13:59.840 --> 00:14:02.320 Is actually in New York City, you have so many 211 00:14:02.440 --> 00:14:07.159 opportunities to make clear the ways in whish fast trumble 212 00:14:07.200 --> 00:14:09.200 over there is tied to capitalism. 213 00:14:10.919 --> 00:14:15.200 Clearly, when your chosen method of highlighting the alleged injustices 214 00:14:15.240 --> 00:14:18.159 by the Israeli Defense Forces is to quote unquote make 215 00:14:18.200 --> 00:14:21.759 them hyper local and by the way, thus missing the 216 00:14:21.840 --> 00:14:26.480 point by citing a shared training exercises program that also 217 00:14:26.519 --> 00:14:30.360 included police forces from places like Jordan and Katar, not 218 00:14:30.440 --> 00:14:33.919 just Israel, as part of the NYPD's international liaison program, 219 00:14:34.000 --> 00:14:37.840 which is what Mamdani was referencing. When you're doing that, 220 00:14:38.279 --> 00:14:41.600 you're basically just inflating the importance of your own personal 221 00:14:41.720 --> 00:14:46.840 cause by marrying that cause to more global events and associations, 222 00:14:46.879 --> 00:14:51.960 hence an omni cause. And given what active opposition to 223 00:14:52.039 --> 00:14:55.399 Israel has largely become in the last two years, it 224 00:14:55.480 --> 00:14:59.000 is clear that this cause has constituted an unholy marriage 225 00:14:59.039 --> 00:15:02.960 of values on to the Western left. To go back 226 00:15:02.960 --> 00:15:07.039 to the scholar Robert Wistrich, he further explains as follows quote. 227 00:15:07.600 --> 00:15:11.480 In the pro Palestinian narrative of liberals and Marxists, remarkably 228 00:15:11.480 --> 00:15:14.679 little attention is paid to the crazed ideology, the poison 229 00:15:14.759 --> 00:15:18.679 culture of martyrdom, or the violently anti Semitic hatred emanating 230 00:15:18.919 --> 00:15:24.159 from much of contemporary Islamism. Instead, terrorism and Islamist suicide 231 00:15:24.200 --> 00:15:27.960 attacks are explained away as a product of social conditions 232 00:15:28.279 --> 00:15:34.960 and the general misery induced by Israel's policies. However, this 233 00:15:35.240 --> 00:15:39.519 marriage of values, that of functionally supporting a theocratic terrorist 234 00:15:39.639 --> 00:15:44.159 government and social progressivism, is built upon moral contradictions that 235 00:15:44.240 --> 00:15:47.639 have also been well covered territory, including again by yours 236 00:15:47.639 --> 00:15:51.080 truly over the pages of Quillette in Queer Majority. In 237 00:15:51.159 --> 00:15:54.240 other words, there really is no need for me to 238 00:15:54.440 --> 00:15:58.759 further litigate the self evident absurdity of Queers or Palestine, 239 00:15:59.200 --> 00:16:02.039 or any of the self it and absurdities of people 240 00:16:02.080 --> 00:16:05.519 who consider themselves leftist activists marching in the streets in 241 00:16:05.559 --> 00:16:09.759 support of the Ayatola Homini. In the end, there is 242 00:16:09.919 --> 00:16:13.000 plenty of well written history covering the rise of the 243 00:16:13.000 --> 00:16:16.759 PLO and the leftist activists and terrorists who allied themselves 244 00:16:16.799 --> 00:16:19.000 with them during the height of the radical era of 245 00:16:19.039 --> 00:16:22.320 the late nineteen sixties and early nineteen seventies. It's well 246 00:16:22.360 --> 00:16:27.480 covered territory, in other words, thanks largely to the resurgence 247 00:16:27.480 --> 00:16:30.840 of this strange red green alliance in the wake of 248 00:16:30.879 --> 00:16:36.120 October seventh, this has perhaps understandably overshadowed the story of 249 00:16:36.519 --> 00:16:41.360 the other alliance that Islamism has formed and with whom 250 00:16:41.399 --> 00:16:45.759 they found a home in the margins of Western political society. 251 00:16:46.360 --> 00:16:50.759 In fact, as undeniable as it has become that there 252 00:16:50.799 --> 00:16:54.080 have been plenty of Western leftists willing to make common 253 00:16:54.120 --> 00:16:58.080 cause with Islamists. There is a sturdy history of the 254 00:16:58.120 --> 00:17:04.240 far right making common cause with Islamists. In two thousand 255 00:17:04.240 --> 00:17:07.400 and two, less than one year into the United States 256 00:17:07.400 --> 00:17:12.240 Global War on Terror, the geopolitics professor Alexandra d Vallier 257 00:17:12.759 --> 00:17:17.119 real name Mark Donna, coined a provocative term, the Red, Green, 258 00:17:17.279 --> 00:17:24.359 Brown Alliance. Del Vallier had been controversial in his assessments before, 259 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:27.200 going so far as to claim that the United States 260 00:17:27.359 --> 00:17:32.359 was using no joke Islamist organizations to destroy Europe in 261 00:17:32.400 --> 00:17:35.480 his first book, Islamism in the United States, An Alliance 262 00:17:35.519 --> 00:17:40.200 against Europe, originally published in nineteen ninety seven at Landish 263 00:17:40.240 --> 00:17:43.359 has This claim was and likely informed by del Vallier's 264 00:17:43.400 --> 00:17:47.240 extreme hostility toward the Clinton and Reagan administrations, in particular 265 00:17:47.359 --> 00:17:50.359 for all sorts of reasons that aren't really worth getting 266 00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:54.359 into right now. Del Vialler's later assessment that of an 267 00:17:54.359 --> 00:17:59.000 ideological alliance, however unofficial, between the far right, the far left, 268 00:17:59.240 --> 00:18:04.279 and Islamism, ultimately gained some legs thanks to its relative 269 00:18:04.319 --> 00:18:09.480 soundness based on the evidence that was available at least now. 270 00:18:09.519 --> 00:18:14.119 Far from claiming that there were some shadowy backroom deals 271 00:18:14.480 --> 00:18:18.559 being forged between representatives of the American Nazi Party, the 272 00:18:18.599 --> 00:18:23.240 Communist Party USA, and his Abutarir. Del Valler was more 273 00:18:23.279 --> 00:18:27.640 interested and characterizing this phenomenon as, in his words, a 274 00:18:27.720 --> 00:18:31.440 convergence of totalitarianisms, or also, in his words from a 275 00:18:31.480 --> 00:18:33.920 later article that he wrote on the subject quote, a 276 00:18:33.960 --> 00:18:40.759 coalition of longtime losers and a syndicative universal hatred unquote. 277 00:18:40.880 --> 00:18:45.000 In other words, del Vallier was taking note where there 278 00:18:45.000 --> 00:18:49.559 are usually divergent values overlapped, similar to Robert Wistrich's read 279 00:18:49.599 --> 00:18:55.680 green axis, but with a greater ideological and intellectual scope. 280 00:18:56.079 --> 00:19:00.559 As del Valler writes, quote, it is evident that is Islamism, 281 00:19:00.640 --> 00:19:04.920 the third totalitarianism after Nazism and Communism, echoes to a 282 00:19:05.000 --> 00:19:09.400 definite extent the aspirations of its two predecessors, seizing the 283 00:19:09.440 --> 00:19:12.799 struggle of civilizations and religions, then declaring war on the 284 00:19:12.839 --> 00:19:16.359 Judaeo Christian world in the name of the dispossessed of 285 00:19:16.400 --> 00:19:19.960 the rest of the planet. Islamism seduces as much those 286 00:19:20.000 --> 00:19:23.920 nostalgic for the pagan Third Reich resolve to eradicate Judaism 287 00:19:23.920 --> 00:19:27.119 in Christianity, as it does to those partisans of the 288 00:19:27.119 --> 00:19:30.200 Hammer and Sickle determined to come to blows with the 289 00:19:30.240 --> 00:19:37.759 bourgeois and capitalist West, and continuing later, Davalla writes the 290 00:19:37.799 --> 00:19:44.160 following quote from the outset, One asks oneself, what could 291 00:19:44.200 --> 00:19:48.000 be able to unify movements as ideologically antagonistic as the 292 00:19:48.039 --> 00:19:52.880 Reds atheist and materialists, the Greens, theocrats and Islamists, and 293 00:19:52.960 --> 00:19:56.839 the Browns believers in the War of the races. To 294 00:19:56.880 --> 00:20:00.119 believe that such an alliance would be philosophically impossible and 295 00:20:00.200 --> 00:20:04.079 strategically improbable, and therefore from the get go doomed to 296 00:20:04.160 --> 00:20:07.160 checkmate would be to forget that Islamism is not only 297 00:20:07.160 --> 00:20:10.720 the third totalitarianism to come about, but is also equally 298 00:20:11.039 --> 00:20:13.960 in a number of points, the inherited unifier of the 299 00:20:14.000 --> 00:20:18.279 two predecessors. In so far as Islamism is not only 300 00:20:18.359 --> 00:20:23.079 simply a religious fundamentalism, but also and above all, a 301 00:20:23.160 --> 00:20:30.680 subversive revolutionary totalitarianism, an ideology of mass destruction comparable to Nazism, Maoism, 302 00:20:30.799 --> 00:20:38.000 or Stalinism. This green fascism prolongs the anterior totalitarianisms. What 303 00:20:38.119 --> 00:20:41.720 distinguishes the Green version essentially is that it brings to 304 00:20:41.759 --> 00:20:47.680 the historical totalitarian hatreds, a theological justification and a divine Benediction, 305 00:20:49.039 --> 00:20:54.359 whether it concerns the Lebanese Hezbalah, Palestinian Hamas, the Alcatic combatants, 306 00:20:54.599 --> 00:20:58.920 or the Iraqian Palestinian resistors, it must be recognized that 307 00:20:58.960 --> 00:21:02.240 in the marketplace of globe revolution, the Islamists and the 308 00:21:02.279 --> 00:21:06.160 Arab Muslim Moujacchedeen in general are the most effective and 309 00:21:06.200 --> 00:21:11.599 ferocious adversaries of quote unquote Israeli American imperialism. They are 310 00:21:11.640 --> 00:21:14.200 the ones who are inflicting the most damage on the 311 00:21:14.359 --> 00:21:18.599 colonialist and capitalist powers, whom the Reds and the Browns 312 00:21:18.640 --> 00:21:22.759 detest above all. Being the third moment of totalitarianism, an 313 00:21:22.759 --> 00:21:26.880 avenging Islamism leading the assault on the capitalist democracies and 314 00:21:26.920 --> 00:21:30.880 the Judeo crusader forces. Knows now such an ascension throughout 315 00:21:30.920 --> 00:21:33.880 all corners of the globe, and in particular in europe 316 00:21:34.240 --> 00:21:39.359 An ascension facilitated by the planetary and unprecedented mediatization which 317 00:21:39.359 --> 00:21:41.759 it has enjoyed since the shock of September eleventh, two 318 00:21:41.799 --> 00:21:44.200 thousand and one, that it has been attracting like a 319 00:21:44.240 --> 00:21:47.960 magnet the attentions of those nostalgic for the Communist and 320 00:21:48.039 --> 00:21:52.920 Nazi totalitarianisms, drawing at the same time from the vulgate 321 00:21:53.240 --> 00:21:56.400 of the extreme right and from an Islamically correct template 322 00:21:56.440 --> 00:21:59.960 that is pro Arab and third worldist. This new revolutionary, 323 00:22:00.039 --> 00:22:04.480 very implanetary hatred henceforth seduces the latest anti Jewish and 324 00:22:04.480 --> 00:22:13.599 anti American militants of the extreme radical right. Daviller has 325 00:22:13.640 --> 00:22:17.640 more to say about the formation of this alleged unholy alliance, 326 00:22:17.640 --> 00:22:20.839 but in short, when one examines the contours of the 327 00:22:20.960 --> 00:22:25.759 radical ideologies that inflame so much of modern political discourse, 328 00:22:26.640 --> 00:22:30.200 one begins to realize that the supposed contradictions within these 329 00:22:30.319 --> 00:22:35.000 radical ideologies matter far less than their shared broader visions 330 00:22:35.000 --> 00:22:39.119 of the world. More with one another can come later. 331 00:22:40.119 --> 00:22:45.440 In the meantime, they all have the same enemy, and 332 00:22:45.559 --> 00:22:49.480 just as radical leftists and revolutionary Marxist Leninists can leave 333 00:22:49.519 --> 00:22:54.599 aside their supposedly progressive social values and supposedly secular worldview 334 00:22:55.000 --> 00:22:59.079 to make common cause with theocratic Islamists, their many radical 335 00:22:59.200 --> 00:23:03.799 right and self styled neo fascist dissidents who have just 336 00:23:03.839 --> 00:23:07.119 as little difficulty doing the same, all in the name 337 00:23:07.440 --> 00:23:11.480 of defeating their shared enemies. Though there is almost always 338 00:23:12.000 --> 00:23:15.480 a single shared enemy at the center of this radical nexus, 339 00:23:18.480 --> 00:23:21.680 the question of this shared enemy is not a mystery 340 00:23:22.799 --> 00:23:25.880 because it has been the shared enemy of ideological radicals 341 00:23:25.920 --> 00:23:29.920 for well over a century, and arguably far longer if 342 00:23:29.960 --> 00:23:35.039 one looks at theological developments across time. To name this 343 00:23:35.119 --> 00:23:38.640 shared hatred has become unfortunately a bit of a cliche 344 00:23:38.720 --> 00:23:41.400 at this point, and one destined to fall on deaf ears, 345 00:23:41.880 --> 00:23:44.759 but for clarity's sake, it does need to be stated. 346 00:23:45.599 --> 00:23:50.119 It is a hatred, or perhaps more commonly, chronic distrust 347 00:23:50.680 --> 00:23:55.920 of Jews. It could be said that the skeleton key 348 00:23:56.000 --> 00:23:59.599 for radicals and radicalism is the Jew, the eternal Jew, 349 00:24:00.039 --> 00:24:03.480 as Joseph Gerbels might have put it, thanks to his 350 00:24:03.519 --> 00:24:07.160 rejection of Christ or the prophet Mohammed, thanks to his 351 00:24:07.359 --> 00:24:11.559 murder of Gentile children, thanks to his stateless cosmopolitanism, and 352 00:24:11.599 --> 00:24:14.960 now thanks to his state sanctioned genocide, all of the 353 00:24:15.000 --> 00:24:19.039 things that you've probably heard various figures on the far 354 00:24:19.119 --> 00:24:20.960 left and the far right say over the last couple 355 00:24:21.000 --> 00:24:26.799 of years. The Jew has always been framed as the outsider, 356 00:24:27.240 --> 00:24:31.480 and outsiders are often the greatest threat to a utopian project, 357 00:24:32.559 --> 00:24:37.839 a utopian project that is Christian, Muslim, nationalist, communist, or 358 00:24:38.039 --> 00:24:42.680 a truly globalist one. Outsiders are the enemy that is 359 00:24:42.720 --> 00:24:45.160 always how it's framed, and that's why the Jew has 360 00:24:45.200 --> 00:24:48.160 often been targeted. This is why it is a mistake, 361 00:24:48.599 --> 00:24:51.759 in my opinion at least, to place anti Semitism in 362 00:24:51.799 --> 00:24:56.960 the same category as rank racism or general bigotry, and 363 00:24:57.160 --> 00:25:03.200 more in the same category as conspiracy. They The journalist 364 00:25:03.240 --> 00:25:07.200 David Reeaboy recently wrote about this in Tablet magazine while 365 00:25:07.200 --> 00:25:11.079 discussing what is appearing to be this newest incarnation of 366 00:25:11.119 --> 00:25:15.119 the strange radical Alliance ideological alliance, I should say that 367 00:25:15.200 --> 00:25:20.880 we're about to discuss explaining the following quote. What unites 368 00:25:20.920 --> 00:25:24.559 these audiences isn't ideology so much as a way of seeing. 369 00:25:25.480 --> 00:25:30.240 In this world of theirs, nothing happens by accident. Every war, election, 370 00:25:30.559 --> 00:25:34.720 or scandal confirms the existence of an unseen hand. The 371 00:25:34.799 --> 00:25:39.279 more elaborate the theory, the more convincing it feels. The current 372 00:25:39.319 --> 00:25:42.920 peddlers of this theory didn't invent this pattern. They inherited 373 00:25:43.079 --> 00:25:46.640 and updated it into a modern vernacular of globalist plots, 374 00:25:47.039 --> 00:25:52.119 unipolar elites, and foreign lobbies. The content changes, but the 375 00:25:52.119 --> 00:25:57.119 structure never does. This is a cognitive map built entirely 376 00:25:57.160 --> 00:26:01.720 on lies. Yet most people, including many Jews, still describe 377 00:26:01.720 --> 00:26:08.359 antisemitism as anti Jewish racism. That mistake is fatal. Racism 378 00:26:08.519 --> 00:26:14.680 begins with emotion. Anti Semitism begins with explanation, its logic 379 00:26:14.720 --> 00:26:17.559 as counterfeit, but it poses as reason all the same. 380 00:26:19.200 --> 00:26:22.720 This confusion has deep roots. After the Civil Rights era, 381 00:26:23.119 --> 00:26:26.839 hate became the moral grammar through which all prejudice was understood. 382 00:26:27.759 --> 00:26:32.759 Jewish institutions eager to speak that language adopted at wholesale. 383 00:26:32.960 --> 00:26:36.799 Once anti Semitism was redefined as an emotional or linguistic offense, 384 00:26:37.240 --> 00:26:41.640 its conspiracy core was buried under tropes. In that bucket, 385 00:26:41.880 --> 00:26:45.880 the falsehoods that launched pograms and genocides, blood libel, world 386 00:26:45.960 --> 00:26:51.440 Jewish control were lumped together with trivial stereotypes. The result 387 00:26:51.720 --> 00:26:55.680 was a flattening of meaning. Even the International Holocaust Remembrance 388 00:26:55.720 --> 00:26:59.759 Alliance as official definition adopted by governments and many Jewish groups, 389 00:27:00.079 --> 00:27:05.599 reflects this collapse. It's warning against mendacious, dehumanizing or demonizing 390 00:27:05.599 --> 00:27:10.559 allegations about Jews treats antisemitism as a moral failure rather 391 00:27:10.599 --> 00:27:19.160 than an epistemic one. Indeed, the more I have learned 392 00:27:19.200 --> 00:27:23.039 about antisemitism throughout history, the less it has appeared to 393 00:27:23.079 --> 00:27:27.480 me to be some strained social construct akin to racism, 394 00:27:28.079 --> 00:27:32.200 and more like something of a tradition. This is a 395 00:27:32.240 --> 00:27:37.440 tradition of conspiracy theory, and conspiracy theories are the bedrock 396 00:27:37.640 --> 00:27:41.880 of radicalism. Whether we're describing religious or secular radicalism, left 397 00:27:41.960 --> 00:27:46.319 or right doesn't matter. Anti Semitism is the bigotry that 398 00:27:46.400 --> 00:27:50.519 comes in with grand post talk justifications, rather than a 399 00:27:50.559 --> 00:27:54.880 bigotry that forms them on the fly. There is, in 400 00:27:54.920 --> 00:27:58.720 other words, a relatively robust internal logic to anti Semitism, 401 00:27:59.440 --> 00:28:03.400