Revolution and Revenge: The Socialist-Jihadist Alliance

The campus protesters do not merely critique America; they despise it. They live within its borders, yet what they seem to value most is its power: its ability to give life or take it. Every protest is framed as a matter of life and death, and they know full well that the government - and its affiliated academic institutions - holds the authority to decide both.

Their recent rallying cries, such as “Free Palestine” and “From the river to the sea,” are not just genocidal in content. They go further: they demand that the United States government itself adopt a genocidal stance toward Jews, whom they portray as genocidal oppressors that must, at minimum, be dismantled or destroyed. This is not the rhetoric of the moderate left (assuming such a thing still exists), but rather of two ideologically driven forces: revolutionary socialists and jihadists. For them, revenge is not a personal or emotional response - it is a structural principle. Terror is vengeance, and vengeance is justice.

Islamist and socialist ideologies share a disturbing number of commonalities:

By identifying enemies in advance, they construct in-groups in advance. And with clear lines drawn, violence becomes not only possible but ideologically necessary. Ironically, this is the very behavior they accuse others - especially Israel - of committing.

Here, socialists and Islamists become natural allies in a "revenge coalition." Their obsession with Israel serves a dual purpose: it allows them to portray Jews, once the archetypal victims, as now the ultimate oppressors - thereby justifying total struggle, beyond good and evil. Only these radical coalitions, they claim, can bring balance by “putting the nations = and the Jews - in their place.” This is not about justice for Palestinians. It is about using Israel as a symbol to reinsert themselves into the global order, as if to say: Give us the Jews, and we will leave the rest alone. But it is never just that.

A deeper problem lies in the contradiction at the heart of their worldview. On the one hand, America is cast as irredeemably evil - a colonial, imperial, capitalist power. Yet on the other, they demand that America intervene to stop another supposed evil: Israel. The only way this contradiction makes sense is through antisemitism. Why else would one demand that “evil” America stop Israel, unless Israel is perceived as so utterly demonic that even America - its presumed ally - must be awakened to its satanic nature?

This is not just political. It is theological. And it is dangerous.