They hate America and the West.

That is the common thread uniting radical college students with terrorist
members of Hamas. It is why we see marches by �Queers for Palestine,� despite
the fact that queers would summarily be murdered in any �Palestine.�

Their differences don�t matter.

They are, in the words of radical revolutionary author Frantz Fanon, �The
Wretched of the Earth,� rising up to smite the hierarchies of power.

In 1961, Fanon, a black radical member of the Algerian National Liberation
Front, put forth a shockingly violent treatise calling for the revolution of
the colonized. Pointing out the evils of colonial administration, Fanon
didn�t merely call for the end of colonialism, a la Gandhi. Instead, he
called for violence, which he saw as purifying, in all of its varied forms.
His book, �The Wretched of the Earth,� posited that revolutionary violence
would usher in The New Man, free of the evils of the West.

�Decolonization,� he wrote, �is always a violent event.�

�Decolonization,� he wrote, �which sets out to change the order of the world,
is clearly an agenda for total disorder.�

�In its bare reality,� Fanon wrote, �decolonization reeks of red-hot
cannonballs and bloody knives.�

Violence. Disorder. Bloody knives.

That�s the essence of Fanon�s decolonization. The colonized must take
everything from the colonizer in the name of restoring himself as a human
being. Fanon writes, �The gaze that the colonized subject casts at the
colonist�s sector is a look of lust, a look of envy. Dreams of possession.
Every type of possession: of sitting at the colonist�s table and sleeping in
his bed, preferably with his wife. The colonized man is an envious man.�

Colonialism justifies any response. In fact, it requires any response.

The West must be destroyed, for the West has colonized: �When the colonized
hear a speech on Western culture they draw their machetes or at least check
to see they are close at hand,� Fanon says.

Such hatred of colonial power was at least somewhat understandable in
Algeria. But Fanon wasn�t making the case for revolutionary violence merely
in Algeria. He was making the case for revolutionary violence everywhere.

The man who made that clear was existentialist and Marxist Jean-Paul Sartre,
the French intellectual. Sartre�s introduction to Fanon�s �The Wretched of
the Earth� makes the case not only that the colonized have an ultimate right
to violence, but also that the entire West must be collapsed from within for
its great sins. Violence, says Sartre, �is man reconstructing himself �
killing a European is killing two birds with one stone, eliminating in one go
oppressor and oppressed: leaving one man dead and the other man free.� The
only honorable thing for the West to do is join in on its cultural suicide:
�You who are so liberal, so humane, who take the love of culture to the point
of affectation, you pretend to forget that you have colonies where massacres
are committed in your name,� writes Sartre. �Fanon reveals to his comrades �
especially to those who remain a little too Westernized � the solidarity of
the metropolitans with their colonial agents.�

Sartre says he has carried Fanon�s �dialectic through to its conclusion: we,
too, peoples of Europe, we are being decolonized: meaning the colonist inside
every one of us is surgically extracted in a bloody operation.� We must
recognize we are all complicit in �a thousand-year-old oppression. � Our
beloved values are losing their feathers; if you take a closer look there is
not one that isn�t tainted with blood.� How do we recover? By joining in the
violence against our own civilization: �Violence, like Achilles� spear, can
heal the wounds it has inflicted.�

And how can we tell the enemy? Simply by attacking the powerful.

The colonizers are the powerful; the colonized are the powerless.

Therefore, the powerful must be colonizers and the powerless their victims.
This is how, for example, Israel � the ultimate case of decolonization in
human history, after the return of a native population to its homeland and
its battle to throw off the shackles of the British Empire � became today�s
hottest �decolonization� cause.

Sartre�s radical call has been taken up sporadically, both at home and
abroad. As critical theorist Homi Bhabha points out in his Foreword to
Fanon�s book, the Black Panthers found inspiration in Fanon. So did the
Iranian Revolution that ended with the rise of the mullahs: those
revolutionaries transmuted Fanon�s distinction between oppressor and
oppressed into a distinction between �the arrogant� and �the weakened,�
translating Fanon�s Marxist-tinged radicalism into radical Islamism.

But the coalition of Fanon�s �The Wretched of the Earth� could not
materialize until the generation of Sartre came to full maturity, until the
institutions of the West poisoned themselves slowly with the imbecilic
suicidality of weakness. The West remained strong enough to fend off the
radical alliance when it faced down the Soviet Union. But then it had nothing
to stand for.

And so it began to fall.

Fast forward 60 years, and Sartre�s radicalism has now become a mass movement
� a movement uniting Hamas and campus radicals, the far-Left, and the
terrorists.

Cornel West, the black Marxist radical, calls Fanon �the greatest
revolutionary intellectual of the mid-20th century.� According to West, �he
compels us to acknowledge colonialism is a sustained barbaric war waged
against colonized people sanctioned by Western values.� What�s more,
colonialism isn�t a far from home problem � it means the West must be
completely demolished. �For Fanon,� West says, �revolutionary
internationalism � anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist, anti-colonialist,
anti-patriarchal, and anti-white-supremacist � yields a new humanism that
puts a premium on the psychic, social, and political needs of poor and
working peoples � a solidarity and universality from below.� Explains West:
�In our present-day moment of imperial decay and capitalist decrepitude � the
spirit of Fanon is most manifest in my American imperialist context in the
revolutionary internationalist wings of the Black Lives Matter Movement and
the Palestinian Lives Matter movement aligned with the Boycott, Divestment,
and Sanctions effort.�

The coalition is complete. The alliance of the supposedly marginalized march
together, arm in arm, toward the destruction of the West � and particularly,
the United States. After all, the United States, even according to Fanon in
1961, had become the chief colonizer thanks to its power: �Two centuries ago,
a former European colony took into its heads to catch up with Europe. It has
been so successful that the United States of America became a monster where
the flaws, sickness, and inhumanity of Europe have reached frightening
proportions.�

The alliance to destroy the West spans the globe. And it�s right here at
home, too, threatening everything we stand for. If decolonization is merely a
code word for attacking �the powerful� and the systems that supposedly
sustain them, then �Queers for Palestine� begins to make a lot of sense.
That�s why the same people caterwauling over the use of the wrong pronoun
celebrate the burning of babies. As Washington Post writer Karen Attiah
recently retweeted after the slaughter of 1,500 Jewish civilians, �What did
y�all think decolonization meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays? Losers.�

She might be evil, but she isn�t wrong.

>They hate America and the West.

That's because all rightists are Queers, starting with Putin.