How radical Islam taught the progressive left to blame the Jews

Published: July 30, 2019, 4:04 p.m.

It's less than four years since Jeremy Corbyn's hard-left sect seized control of the Labour Party, and yet already its anti-Semitic views \u2013 so alien to Labour tradition \u2013 seem too deeply rooted to eradicate.
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\n\n\nToday's 'Holy Smoke' podcast puts this sinister development in the broader context of the 'Red-Green' alliance \u2013 the love affair between the progressive Left and the Jew-haters of jihadist Islam.
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\n\n\nOn the face of it, this is an unlikely, even surreal, relationship. But as Damian's guest, the historian Richard Landes, argues, the two have something in common: millennialism, the belief that some sort of Heaven on Earth, is not only imminent but historically inevitable.
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\n\n\nIn theory, progressives believe that this transition to a new era will be peaceful; Jihadists, by definition, don't. But, as Landes explains, it's not as simple as that...