Understanding the Red and Green Alliance

So why do Western progressives and Islamists agree so much on Israel and Palestine, despite not agreeing on almost anything else that has to do with religion, sex, gender, family, and society as a whole?

In this video, I look at the Red-Green Alliance. I believe that the Red can supply the terminology, and the Green can help supply some of the story.

Progressives talk about colonialism, oppressed peoples, indigenous peoples, resistance, liberation, and decolonization. Islamists come from an entirely different background and can use concepts involving Muslim rule over land, holy land, Jerusalem, Al-Aqsa, jihad, and Islam as a whole.

So when some of these stories are used within the progressive realm, how does that happen?

I’ll be looking at:

* Concepts that Islam and Islamists use to describe Israel and Palestine.
* Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
* Holy land, Al-Aqsa, sovereignty, and resistance.
* How religious concepts can be applied to progressive ideas.
* Why progressives can support the Palestinian cause even if they don’t agree with traditional Islamic morals.
* Antisemitism and where it comes into play.
* Why criticism of Israel is not always antisemitic.

I’m not saying that progressives have turned into Islamists or that Islamists have become progressives. I also don’t think all Palestinian narratives come from Islam. Arab nationalism, Marxism, and many other movements have played a role in this story.

But I think it is interesting to see how certain concepts can be transferred from one side to the other while still maintaining some of the same story.

How can two ideologies that disagree with each other on so much start telling parts of the same story?

That’s what I’ll be covering in this video about the Red-Green Alliance.