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Few books have examined what the late David Horowitz called the “unholy alliance” of radical Leftism and Islamic fundamentalism with the penetrating insight of Jamie Glazov’s United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny, Terror, and Hamas. First published in 2009 amid the Obama administration’s appeasement of the Iranian mullahs, Glazov’s signature work has now been revised and expanded for a 2026 edition by Bombardier Books that is tragically now more urgently relevant than ever before. It is an essential work for understanding the West’s existential enemies and understanding why, less than a quarter-century after the 9/11 attacks, we are reeling on the brink of self-immolation.
As U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee notes in his foreword, United in Hate explicates
the deep spiritual and ideological kinship between leftists and jihadis, and demonstrate[s] that, despite their superficial differences, the two camps actually have a great deal more that unites them than that divides them. Both are totalitarian forces, demanding absolute adherence from the faithful and the dedication of one’s entire life down to the last detail. Both are intransigent, intolerant of dissent, and enamored of bloodlust, destruction, and death.
Glazov – longtime editor of FrontPage Magazine, whose own family fled Soviet tyranny – describes how the ideological soulmates of this “red-green” marriage-made-in-hell are bound by a shared hatred of Western civilization, Judeo-Christian values, capitalism, and individual liberty. Both lust for the destruction of every facet of the existing order to pave the way for their utopian fantasies – one a social justice paradise, the other a global caliphate under Sharia.
This new axis of evil, however, is not merely a tactical alliance but a psychological and spiritual convergence. The Left derives an erotic thrill from the jihadists’ unapologetic savagery like the kind on display during the October 7, 2023 massacre in Israel, romanticizing it as righteous resistance. The jihadists, in turn, exploit the Left’s useful idiocy, knowing full well that their enablers will be the first to be put against the wall when the caliphate arrives.
As Glazov writes in the book’s preface, “I set out to write a book on the impulses that stimulate the radical mind and that have led to its love affair with radical Islam.” After opening the book with a succinct but in-depth dissection of the true believer’s mindset, he goes on to demonstrate how the Left carried on a long romance with anti-American tyranny, from Communist China and North Vietnam to the Soviet Union, Nicaragua, and Cuba. Glazov marshals a rogues’ gallery of fellow travelers: Walter Duranty venerating the Soviet Union’s Stalin, Susan Sontag whitewashing Castro’s gulags, Jane Fonda posing atop North Vietnamese anti-aircraft guns, and a parade of Hollywood elites and academic intellectuals swooning over Mao’s Cultural Revolution. These were symptoms of a “lust for destruction” that Glazov traces to the believer’s void, filled by the thrill of vicarious power. He catalogs the psychological traits of the leftist mind: moral superiority masking envy, guilt over privilege fueling masochism, and a genius for denying reality while projecting evil onto the free West. This section alone should be required reading for every bewildered parent watching their college-age child march for “decolonization.”
In the second half of the book— which includes a new final chapter—Glazov examines the Left’s “death cult cousin” Islamism, and traces how the red-green alliance has metastasized into a full-blown cultural cancer. From the Obama-era Iran deal to the Biden administration’s equivocations, from Black Lives Matter’s intersectional jihad to academic echo chambers, Glazov connects the dots with relentless logic. The rainbow flag-waving Left’s infatuation with the terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah, for example, is explained by their shared rejection of the West’s “oppressive” freedoms.
The new chapter, centered on the October 7 atrocities, confronts both Hamas’ barbarism and the Left’s obscene celebration of it. Glazov recounts the horrors of that day in unflinching detail. These were not acts of “resistance” but a pogrom of medieval depravity. Yet the Left celebrated and defended Hamas as heroes, and “From the river to the sea” became the genocidal anthem of jihad-supporting students on elite campuses from Columbia to Harvard. “Queers for Palestine” banners fluttered alongside keffiyehs, a spectacle of cognitive dissonance that would be comical were it not so grotesque, but Glazov observes that the Leftist position is “absurd and incoherent, because rationality and truth-seeking simply don’t matter.”
Glazov’s analysis exposes how the Left’s support for Hamas is the logical endpoint of their ideology. The same mindset that sanitized Stalin’s purges and Pol Pot’s killing fields now justifies Hamas’ charter—a document which explicitly calls for Jewish extermination. Glazov quotes the gloating tweets, the academic petitions, the media spin doctors reframing terrorists as victims. Our own political leaders like “Squad” members Cori Bush, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib cheerlead for jihadists against our ally Israel; “progressive” Jews like those at the Left-wing If Not Now organization betray their heritage in service to the cause. This chapter reveals the alliance’s endgame: the total eradication of Israel as prelude to dismantling the “Great Satan” America and ultimately the entire West. The Columbia encampments, Glazov notes, didn’t stop at “Free Palestine”—they demanded “the total eradication of Western civilization.”
Two-and-a-half years after October 7, the red-green momentum still surges. Antisemitic violence wracks Europe and America, with synagogues firebombed and Jews assaulted in broad daylight. Campus radicals, emboldened by faculty complicity, turn universities into no-go zones for Zionists. Corporate DEI initiatives funnel billions into “anti-Israel” activism, while politicians in blue strongholds defund police and platform Hamas sympathizers. Glazov’s warning—that ignoring the red-green threat invites civilizational suicide—has never rung truer.
Apart from its psychological and ideological insights, what sets United in Hate apart is Glazov’s courage to name the enemy and his refusal to traffic in comforting illusions about “moderate Islam.” This is a necessary first step toward launching a counter-revolution of truth in defense of our freedom.
Written with the passion of a dissident and the rigor of a scholar (his argument is bolstered with 40 pages of endnotes), Jamie Glazov’s United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny, Terror, and Hamas is endorsed by authoritative warriors in the clash of civilizations from General Michael Flynn and Ambassador Huckabee to Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer and Freedom Center CEO Daniel Greenfield. This updated volume is the clarion call the West desperately needs to rouse itself from near-capitulation to the evil red-green alliance. Read it and act upon it – the future of civilization demands nothing less.
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