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The left had long flirted with anti-Semitic Islamists and other Islamic activists, but 7 October truly solidified it. Since then, this grim Islamo-leftist coupling has become a prominent feature of the Western political landscape. That’s certainly been the case in Britain over the past year. Our cities have continued to fill up on a near monthly basis, as plummy-voiced Guardianistas have marched hand in hand with Islamists, issuing calls to ‘globalise the intifada’ and ‘put the Zios [Jews] in the ground’. They did so even on the same day as two British Jews were slain at their Manchester synagogue by an Islamist. Posh campus ‘radicals’, their privilege now draped in the flag of Palestine, have continued to throw their lot in with the Islamist cause. Some went so far as to stage quasi-celebratory events on last year’s 7 October anniversary to ‘honour the resistance’. One student society even advertised a ‘Palestine bake sale’, complete with the menacing strapline, ‘Time for dessert’.

The phenomenon of Islamo-leftism did not come from nowhere. From the 1960s onwards, a combination of disillusionment with Soviet Communism and a growing estrangement from the working class prompted a then emergent New Left to look elsewhere for a challenge to capitalism and increasingly the West itself. And so they looked to anti-colonial movements in the so-called Third World. Islamism, a thoroughly anti-Western form of religionised politics, born in colonial Egypt and India in the early 20th century and resurgent in the 1970s, soon began to make inroads in the West – and not just among the Muslim population. Think of the admiring glances some Western leftists cast on the Ayatollah Khomeini on the eve of the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Or more recently, think of the coalitions and alliances left-wing groups sought to form with assorted militant Muslim groups during the 1990s, and again in opposition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan during the 2000s. Indeed, the very term ‘Islamo-left’ emerged to refer to the left’s bridge-building efforts of this period.