pjmedia.com By Bruce Bawer
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…
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