The ironies of “social justice” leftists supporting Hamas, self-proclaimed genocidal jihadists, are indeed endless. “Colonizer!” is one of the leftists’ favorite words to shout at those they’re told to hate, including Israel. The fact that Arab countries are historically the world’s biggest colonizers—and that the main intent of Hamas is global colonization in the form of a caliphate—are merely inconvenient truths.

Then there’s the fact that followers of sharia law have a well-documented history of throwing gays off of rooftops, “honor killing” women who don’t obey the hyper-patriarchal codes, and enslaving and persecuting blacks. Indeed, one could argue that the only two things truly shared by some leftists and jihadists is a fondness for dead babies and unthinking conformity.

But perhaps the most humorous cognitive dissonance is that these neo-Marxists are willing to be jailed for supporting billionaires who rule over an impoverished group of people. It’s Jihadi Marxism: empower the rich, pampered, and privileged while their people starve and are used as human shields. Stalin would certainly have approved.

Hamas’s three top leaders alone are worth a stunning $11 billion, enjoying a life of luxury in the sanctuary of Qatar. Hamas runs an “office” in Qatar’s capital, Doha, and leaders Ismail Haniyeh, Mousa Abu Marzook and Khaled Mashal maintain an opulent lifestyle that Western jet-setters would envy.

Qatar provides Hamas with between $120 million and $480 million per year, according to the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD). “These funds benefit Hamas leaders directly through payroll and kickback schemes and indirectly through social services and government operations that help Hamas maintain political control over Gaza,” according to its October report.

Iran is believed to provide Hamas leaders with a $100 million expense account. Hamas earns an estimated $450 million annually from Gaza’s black market trade. Hamas leadership controls an investment portfolio at close to $1 billion, with assets in Sudan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt.

Hamas also took in nearly $400 million in the last two years from the United Nations, which does not recognize Hamas as a terrorist organization. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) provided Hamas with $380 million since 2021, according to the FDD. Much of that cash came from the Biden administration, which has provided $1 billion to UNRWA since 2021.

Hamas leader Haniyeh, a father of 13, is worth more than $4 billion. His son Maaz Haniyeh is known as “the father of real estate” in Gaza for his collection of villas and buildings. He lives a playboy lifestyle in Turkey.

Marzook, 72, is estimated to be worth $3 billion. And Mashal, 67, who issued a global threat against Jews after the October 7 atrocities, is worth more than $4 billion.

Lebanese newspaper Al-Majlah reported in 2021 that Mashal and his deputy, Mousa Abu Marzouk, used international aid funds to build a valuable collection of real estate holdings in Egypt, Qatar and the Persian Gulf, while Marzouk controls ten large companies that deal in finance.

The presence of Hamas leaders in Qatar has long been justified by the emirate as part of its support for turning the terror group into “a responsible governing power,” according to the FDD. But Qatar is also one of the most important military bases for the U.S. in the Middle East.

In the wake of October 7, U.S. Representative Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) is sponsoring a bill that would strip Qatar of its status as a key U.S. ally unless it kicks out the Hamas leadership. “As Hamas terrorists continue to wreak havoc on the lives of innocent Israeli civilians, the United States must ensure there is no ally supporting them. Sadly, the State of Qatar is still funding and supporting Hamas as its leadership enjoys political refuge in Doha,” said Ogles.

Qatar is also home to the Al Jazeera news channel, which the FDD alleges “spreads anti-Semitism, anti-Americanism, and incitement to violence throughout the Arab world.”

No doubt Arab funding for academia (already at $8 billion) will soon focus on the creation of a new course: Jihadi Marxism. Of course, self-declared Marxists have a proven track record of resorting to mass repression and genocide. But for so many leftists today, facts, history, truth—they’re all so annoying. Better to just repeat what’s trending and focus on getting the best jihadi selfies.

Marxism is when leaders have vast amounts of money, and the more money, the more Marxist it is - carl marks :marx:

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    No doubt Arab funding for academia (already at $8 billion) will soon focus on the creation of a new course: Jihadi Marxism.

    lol holy shit they really are just doing antisemitism now

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    The author of this article edits a magazine she calls White Rose Magazine. Named after the resistance against the nazis. It’s mostly about the “woke mob” , the greatness of zionismand how we need to return to classical liberalism.
    She rose to “fame” by criticising womens studies as a field and being against third wave feminism.

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      White Rose was obv not just an inner-nazi power struggle like staufenberg, but it says smth about libs that they elevate this specific group above a bunch of other ones. They appealed to german honour or something in their leaflets.

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    Yet another ignoramus that thinks every Muslim is ISIS. Or they’re just repeating it for their brainless audience

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    This is basically the updated version of those articles which claimed Stalin was the richest man alive because they counted all USSR state assets as his personal assets.

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      Not many Communists know this, but famines in the USSR were not caused by it being a developing country facing the devastation of a civil war, two world wars, and constant imperialist sabotage - it was just Stalin eating 80% of grain output. He also made himself giant and covered in gold

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        I’m pretty sure I read somewhere millions died in one incident because he hoarded the year’s grain supply to make the world’s largest pizza bagel

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    Liberals really do just stack chains of words that make them mad together.

    A huge portion of mainstream news propaganda is just tying pairs of negatively associated words together to whatever current thing needs bad press. 95% of editor jobs at these rags could be done by using word2vec to find related words that maximize for negative sentiment.

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    And Mashal, 67, who issued a global threat against Jews after the October 7 atrocities, is worth more than $4 billion.

    I wanted to see what his antisemitic threat was and it’s just the call for protests against the occupation. What is actually disgusting to me is that apparently due to these “threats” the police in America mobilized in full force on Friday, and other orgs did similar shit bracing for antisemitism. The west is governed by fear, while all the terror is entirely invented by themselves.

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    Karen Lehrman Bloch is editor in chief of White Rose Magazine.

    White Rose is a non-partisan magazine dedicated to exposing extremism and reteaching classical liberalism. Named after the 1942 group of German students who tried to disseminate the truth about the Third Reich, the mission of White Rose is to encourage bravery in the face of fascist ideologies and to illuminate the sacred alignment of aesthetics and liberalism, showing that together they can transcend differences, honor humanity, & exalt the soul.

    lmao

    Non-partisan but it’s dedicated to being partisan? huey-wut

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    It’s Jihadi Marxism… Stalin would certainly have approved.

    War against fascism is indeed holy. chad-stalin

    Stalin enlisted the help of Muslim leaders to mobilize muslims in the war effort. With his blessings, the rehabilitation of Islam saw Soviet Muslim leaders declaring a “Holy War” against Hitlerism. The Muslim elite framed this as a global Islamic struggle, not just a Soviet war.

    Elites described Soviet patriotism as exemplary of religious virtue. In this characterization, the USSR established the state where one could best live out the example of the Prophet. And they condemned the “criminal hitlerian state” who saw the “eastern peoples” as animals

    This new Soviet Islamic propaganda was jarring for everyday people. These same comments would result in serious repression just a few years earlier. Yet it was a mutually advantageous arrangement. The declaration of a “sacred struggle” produced a wildly successful mobilization.

    And Muslim leaders used the opportunity to reassert muslim identity and advance pan-Islamist, internationalist positions. They successfully negotiated a space for Muslim identity within a atheist state.

    Citation https://twitter.com/After__History/status/1583999572497805312 and “God Save the USSR” by Jeff Eden

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    The ironies of “social justice” leftists supporting Hamas, self-proclaimed genocidal jihadists, are indeed endless. “Colonizer!” is one of the leftists’ favorite words to shout at those they’re told to hate, including Israel. The fact that Arab countries are historically the world’s biggest colonizers—and that the main intent of Hamas is global colonization in the form of a caliphate—are merely inconvenient truths.

    As opposed to Nationalistic Israelis with double citizenship and the PM’s son not being in Israel to support their nation building?

    You know the author is a bottom feeder when she believes that people’s right to not getting bombs is transactional (because that’s how liberals views rights and priviledges) but don’t point to the authors or liberals that there are Ultra Nationalists in Israel because ‘‘that’s just complicated’’

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    Some outstanding straw grasping gaslighting copuim biaoqing-copium

    dril We’re not a Euro-American colonizer project! We’re not a Euro-American colonizer project! We’re not a Euro-American colonizer project!