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The alliance between the international left and Islamic groups has been strong for years, only suffering some strains recently over the left’s insistence on pushing the trans madness and related insanities upon the rest of us. But leftists have generally tended to ally with victimhood propaganda organizations such as the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), not with out-and-out jihadis. However, as we see an ugly recrudescence of antisemitism around the world in the wake of the Hamas jihad massacres of Oct. 7, one far-left American professor has crossed the line and unhesitatingly named Hamas and Hizballah as allies of the left.
On the face of it, what Berkeley professor Judith Butler says in a video that began making the rounds on Sunday but dates from before the present war began is howlingly absurd. Speaking haltingly, as if she has some residual hesitation about endorsing groups that are so open and even gleeful about their Jew-hatred and bloodlust, Butler said: “Um, uh, similarly, I think, uh, yes, uh, uh, understanding, uh, Hamas, Hezbollah as, uh, social movements that are progressive around, on the left, that are part of a global left, is extremely important.”
Butler went on to qualify her statement somewhat by adding: “That does not stop us from, uh, being critical of certain dimensions of, um, both movements. It doesn’t, um, it doesn’t stop those of us who are interested in nonviolent politics from raising the question of, um, uh, uh, of whether there are other options besides violence.” That’s swell, but are Hamas and Hizballah themselves interested in “nonviolent politics”? Obviously they aren’t, and Butler clearly doesn’t see that as a make-or-break issue for the left’s alliance with them.
Fittingly for someone who sees criminal gangs as “progressive” partners, a page on the Berkeley website that is devoted to touting Butler’s achievements is a veritable crime against language. It says of Butler: “They received their Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale University in 1984. They are the author of several books…” The reader might justifiably wonder what group is being referred to, but all these plural pronouns are meant, of course, to refer to the singular yet “non-binary” Professor Butler, whose name is apparently Legion, for they are many.
Foremost on a list of her research interests are “critical theory, gender and sexuality studies.” If all the Professor Butlers went over to Lebanon and Gaza to visit with her friends and allies, how would they receive this ethnically Jewish lesbian from the Great Satan (that is, the U.S.) who insists on referring to herself in the plural? The answer to that question is as obvious as it is gruesome, and so another question inevitably arises: how can Judith Butler be so myopic as to think that such people are in any conceivable way her allies?
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eximius says
Butler is a gender studies professor who has grifted aboard the non-binary train. She can’t “um, um, uh ” speak and obviously is mentally challenged by confusing singular with plural. She is defending Hamas’ violent torture and murder against civilians and children all because this group is part of the “global left”? This is her justification? Is she aware of what they would do to her non-binary status in Gaza? No matter, its the global left, so she will support it regardless of its racial genocide against Israelis and Jews. I still wonder why the left doesn’t see the frightening comparisons of the palestine movement (which is really an anti-Israel movement) and the German Nazi slaughter of millions of Jews in WWII. Perhaps they do?
Finally, why aren’t the Jewish professors at Berkeley, and all liberal colleges, standing up against these psychopaths? Why am I, a Christian, fighting so hard for Israel? Because its about freedom to be, freedom to speak, freedom to believe, and a religion based on good values. It’s not about death, greed, and fear like Islam. I’ll continue to fight with my voice, but please, all Jewish Americans must get in the game and stand against this throughout the USA.
abu taleb says
I am afraid, this is the kind of arrogancy in the west, not just the left. They think they know everything so they never bother to check the truth before they open their mouth.
If we ask muslims if they are progresive or part of the left, I am sure the muslims say ‘no, we are muslims’.
Hudders. says
Yet another leftie nutjob.
Sadly though, these lunatics are allowed platforms & positions of prominence.
& their adoring classes of already heavily indocrinated useful idiots, continue their journeys to full brainwashing.
How can anyone seen to be intelligent, believe themselves to be a friend of islam?
Her myopic ignorance is staggering!
Maybe send her on a fact finding mission to some muslim majority country;
& thus see how that works out for the good professor hey?
tgusa says
Scholar (snicker) and Jewish lesbian Judith Butler claims that islamists are her allies. She, as with 4 out of five Jewish Americans vote democrat and I have no sympathy for them regarding the antisemitism that is rearing its ugly head among the prog left and in its organizations institutions and communities around the country. It is true, you can avoid reality but you cant avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. She revels in putting non muslim Americans in peril through her ideologically suicidal world view. She says she has never been at home with being assigned female at birth. That is probably attributable to the fact that she looks pretty mannish and why she prefers to dress in male attire. In simple words, she is either very confused, out of her mind, or never had one to begin with. It is an us against them battle and she has chosen her side.
“In 1998, Denis Dutton’s journal, Philosophy and Literature, awarded Butler first prize in its fourth annual Bad Writing Competition.”
It might be a good idea to have the Army Corp of Engineers conduct a survey to see if there are any tunnels/ weapons caches under the Berkeley campus and surrounding areas.
Scotsman48 says
A Lesbian Professor at UC Berkeley is falling over herself to protect and defend a religious people that want to show her the view from the rooftop of her Apartment Building… Go figure..
My ex wife lives in Berkeley and she is Jewish though she loves Biden-Harris and hates Trump so perhaps she applauds this silly silly ”woman”.
This is the Useful Idiot Generation, UIG, in force.
James Lincoln says
Scotsman48,
Thanks for sharing about your ex-wife.
Hard to believe…
Rahul Goswami says
It’s good of you, Dr Spencer, to inject this subject with such humour. “whose name is apparently Legion, for they are many” and “If all the Professor Butlers went over to Lebanon and Gaza..” !
What boggles my brain is how so many thousands of students in so many colleges and universities in the USA, swallow balderdash of the kind that Butler (and other leftist professors, at Columbia, Cornell, Harvard and elsewhere) delivers apparently extempore. Do they truly think this is in any way sensible, or is an ‘education’ they are paying for? Very strange.
John Pepple says
The Judith Butlers on the left cannot wrap their heads around the idea that Hamas, and indeed most Muslims, are anti-progressive and are their enemies. They are religious conservatives. Butler is a traitor to the left.
John Pepple says
Also, I’m pretty sure that Hamas does not think of itself as part of the global left. Global jihad is what they are interested in.
James Lincoln says
You are correct, John.
The Left, however, does not believe it – yet.
Jim says
Leftists do not even consider the reality of idealized barbarism. They simply idealize the side that seems to match the Marxist pattern of the revolt of the oppressed masses.