The Red-Green Alliance Poses a Dual Threat to the West and Israel

On May 21, 2025, two young Washington, DC, Israel embassy workers, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, were murdered in an assassination-style terror attack by Elias Rodriguez, a 31-year-old radical activist.¹ Rodriguez was captured on video chanting “Free Palestine” as justification for his deadly attack. Just over a week later, on June 2, 2025, in Boulder, Colorado, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, an Egyptian American who has expressed Islamist opinions online and in a video he made, carried out a fatal terror assault, hurling incendiary devices at Jewish solidarity marchers supporting hostages kidnapped during Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on 1400 Israelis and foreign citizens in Southern Israel. 

These two incidents exemplify the two sides of the Red-Green Alliance—the partnership of convenience between Marxist radicals (the “Reds”) and Islamists (the “Greens”)—which has fueled both violent criminal acts and broader subversive efforts against the United States, Western civilization, and Israel through anti-American and anti-Zionist indoctrination and violent action.² Since October 7, the effects of the Red-Green Alliance are ever more present with pro-Hamas protests on campus and in the streets, increased Boycott Divestment and Sanctions calls against Israel, antisemitic rhetoric online, and the meteoric rise of violent Jew hatred.

The Red-Green Alliance describes a tactical collaboration between two groups that, despite their differences, share a common goal: the dismantling of Western liberal democracy and the destruction of the Jewish state. The Reds, rooted in Marxist and communist ideologies, envision a global revolution that upends capitalist systems, often viewing Jews and Israel as symbols of Western oppression. The Greens, driven by Islamist ideologies such as those of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Iranian Islamic Revolution, seek a global Islamic caliphate or messianic “Mahdism,” seeing the West and Israel as primary obstacles to their vision.

The alliance operates on two fronts: inspiring individual acts of violence, as seen in the actions of Rodriguez and Soliman, and engaging in subversive efforts through indoctrination in schools, mainstream and social media, and protests, that spread anti-American and anti-Zionist narratives. Qatar and in Iran have led in “globalizing the intifada.”³ The influence of Muslim Brotherhood-linked Qatar has come to light in their sponsoring of academic programs that further the postcolonial narrative, a cornerstone of the progressive agenda, that has also been found to increase campus antisemitism.⁴ Qatar’s giant Al-Jazeera news channel, AJ+, and other media venues such as Middle East Eye, work equally well to push Muslim Brotherhood and progressive propaganda, both against the United States and Israel, in both Arabic and English, as do influential Qatar-funded American think tanks.⁵ China and Iran – the ultimate exemplars of “Reds” and “Greens,” respectively – have also promoted antisemitic rhetoric and social media content, including via bot farms, to further their general anti-Western agenda, especially after October 7.⁶

Rodriguez’s cold-blooded murders exemplify the Reds’ radical “any means necessary” ideology, reminiscent of that touted by George Habash’s Marxist-Leninist terror organization, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.⁷ Indoctrinated through American academia, Rodriguez’s social media posts reveal the depth of his declared socialist affiliation and radicalization: “Don’t Blame Me, I Voted For Hamas,” “violence does not have to happen, but if it does, then it should,” and “Death 2 Amerikkka.” These rejections of the West align with Mao’s “people’s war,” in which a global revolution rises from the periphery: Palestinian Marxists adopted this approach to frame their struggle against Zionism, perpetrated through terrorism.⁸

Soliman’s attack in Boulder, meanwhile, highlights the Greens’ role in the alliance. Steeped in the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, Soliman viewed his attack as jihad against Western imperialism and Jewish influence. The Muslim Brotherhood, founded by Hassan al-Banna in 1928 in Egypt, advocates a three-stage method – dawa (missionizing), siyasa (political activism), and inqilab (military action through jihad) – to spread Islamic dominance. Soliman’s social media activity was saturated with endorsements of Muslim Brotherhood content and the slogan “Islam is the solution.”⁹ Before the attack, he recorded a video in which he said that jihad was more beloved to him than his “mother, wife, and children” and that “Allah is greater than the Zionists and America.”¹⁰

These individual acts of violence by Rodriguez and Soliman can be framed in a broader view, considering the Red-Green Alliance’s more insidious cultural threat as a synergistic, subversive effort to undermine Western civilization, with Israel as a first hurdle. Mao’s and Marxist Antonio Gramsci’s objective was to transform culture through reeducation. Mao revolutionized China’s educational institutions to this end. It seems that the pro-Hamas movement has drawn inspiration. In American universities, terrorist-aligned groups like Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)¹¹ promote anti-Zionist and anti-Western rhetoric. Tarek Bazrouk, the Columbia University “protester” indicted for three federal hate crimes against Jews, was part of a group that received regular updates directly from Hamas.¹² Academic indoctrination and activist radicalization have led to the creation of “Zionist Free Zones” on campuses, effectively barring Jewish students from accessing libraries, classrooms, and housing – an act of exclusion that mirrors the alliance’s broader goal of “cancelling” Jewish presence.

Mainstream and social media amplify these narratives, with platforms like X, TikTok, and Instagram platforming posts that glorify violence against Jews and the West, as seen in Rodriguez’s statements. Protests with a strong leftist and Islamist presence, praised and encouraged not only by progressives,¹³ but by Hamas leader Khaled Mashal¹⁴ and the Iranian regime’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei,¹⁵ further illustrate how the Red-Green Alliance deliberately works in symmetry to undermine both Israel and the West, in protests where chants of “Free Palestine” and “Death to America” are common.¹⁶

The Reds’ revolution requires revolutionary momentum, which Islamists provide through the religious compulsion of jihad, while far left progressives serve as “useful idiots” by Islamists whose objective is religious totalitarianism. Just as in the Iranian Islamic revolution of 1979, when Iranian Marxists supported Islamists but were later executed and expelled by their comrades, similarly, the West is currently seeing a seemingly bizarre idealization and fetishization of Islamic culture within progressive circles. Examples abound: a trans person on social media gushing about the Koran and claiming “Allah is nonbinary,”¹⁷ academic radical activist Marc Lamont Hill stating he has read the Koran “thousands of times in Arabic,”¹⁸ groups like Queers for Palestine, and Queer critical theorist professor Judith Butler’s assertion that Hizbullah and Hamas are part of “the global Left.”¹⁹ These statements reflect a deeper ideological alignment where the Reds romanticize Islam as a viable revolutionary force with momentum, amplifying the alliance’s subversive power against the West.

In 1992, political scientist Francis Fukuyama published The End of History and the Last Man, arguing that the fall of the Soviet Union would usher in a new world order where Western liberal democracy would be the final form of government. He implied an end to nondemocratic ideology, but he was wrong: ideological trends are cyclical, providing spiritual and intellectual identity and purpose to adherents who are willing to sacrifice, often others’ lives, for their goal. To the detriment of the West, the “woke” agenda’s adoption of Red-Green rhetoric, has eroded democratic values and fostered antisemitism,²⁰ evidenced in the DC murders and the Boulder attack. These ideologies must be directly confronted in education, the media, and public discourse to protect the democracy, tolerance, and coexistence that they seek to destroy.

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