How the Revolutionary Left Embraced Radical Islam

How the Revolutionary Left Embraced Radical Islam

The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970sBy Jason BurkeKnopf, 768 pages, $40In 2006, in a public discussion of Israel’s assault on Lebanon, the feminist scholar Judith Butler characterized Hamas and Hezbollah as “part of the global left.” Butler’s remarks provoked a scandal at the time, but after the October 7 attacks, it became common to hear Western leftist protesters chanting slogans like “long live Hamas!” How di…