The Palestinian flag was once a symbol of solidarity with the suffering people of Gaza, but has become a banner of hatred. Wherever it is displayed, barbarism looms:
In the French riots, where the streets are lit up by burning cars, where shops are looted, residents attacked, the police driven off, where the beautiful town hall in Limoges burns to the ground – everywhere the Palestinian flag flies. In the charred heart of the Republic, banners of rage flutter over the crowds.
What does Gaza have to do with Limoges? Nothing and everything. Mélenchon and his far-left party, La France Insoumise, are fanning the embers, and the anger is directed at the nation, the state and Western civilisation.
The symbolism of the flag
And this is where the Palestinian flag takes on its new symbolic meaning. It has lost its connection to the state it was meant to represent and has become an all-encompassing symbol of hatred towards the West. The masses of barbarism gather beneath these banners.
This also applies to the hundreds of demonstrations in support of Hamas that we see on the streets of Western Europe. And it applies at festivals such as the Glastonbury Music Festival, where the Palestinian flag was part of the festival paraphernalia alongside the rainbow flag. What an irony!
At Bob Vylan’s concerts, the audience can sing along to the chorus calling for the death of the Israeli army whilst raising the Palestinian flag.
The flag is used by Islamists, the far left and nihilists, who are less concerned with the Holy Land than with a vague hatred of the West. The flag has become a wardrobe of offence, where any form of discontent can find a costume to suit.
In Birmingham and London, the flag serves as a marker of territory. ‘This is not England’ is the message. When the peoples of Europe, on the other hand, raise their own flags, they are told that these are racist symbols.
The new coalition: Islam-Left
Behind the flag lies the alliance between Islamism and the Left. La France Insoumise in France, the Greens under Zack Polanski in the UK, the Left Party in Sweden, Die Linke in Germany and the Democrats, featuring figures such as Zohran Mamdani in the US, are the most prominent.
This unwholesome mix is based on socialist economics, identity politics and the Palestinian cause, where the focus has shifted from race and gender to Israel and Gaza, steeped in hatred and bitterness. In this alliance of offence, secular progressives and religious Muslims join forces in a common struggle against the West.
This has recently been documented by Eric Kaufmann, Professor of Politics and Director of the Centre for Heterodox Social Research at the University of Buckingham, which was founded as an alternative to the one-sidedness and political correctness of the established universities.
The new report ‘Third Worldism in American Politics’ outlines the ‘geography of victimhood’ of the Islamic Left, in which the globe is divided into Western oppressors and non-Western oppressed, and where blame is apportioned according to the corners of the world.
The study documents that attitudes towards Israel, the US, the West and socialism are closely intertwined among the two groups. This applies to dogmas such as the claim that the West’s wealth is built on exploitation, that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, and that the colonial powers owe reparations. An alarmingly high number (one in five) answer in the affirmative when asked whether Jews are legitimate targets for violence.
The Muslim population is the left’s new voter base, where the Palestinian flag flies. The flag’s long shadow falls from Gaza across the French suburbs and all the way into New York City Hall.
