Americans aren't taught history, and because of that, much of what happens around us seems incomprehensible or even unbelievable.
Queers for Palestine? Huh?! What? On its face, it makes no sense. Palestinians would relish hanging gays from cranes or throwing them off of rooftops. Everybody knows that, right?
Except...these alliances have a long history going back many decades, and the connection is not that hard to make once you understand how people engaged in revolutionary movements think.
Of course, you first have to realize that you aren't facing "protesters," but revolutionaries, and because Americans (and most Westerners) don't have a grasp of history, they blandly assume that those mobs in the streets aren't much different than the suffragettes or the moderates in the Civil Rights movements. The very concept of a very active revolutionary left in the West is beyond their ken.
There are lots of examples to choose from when looking at what are often called "Red-Green," "Red-Black," or "Red-Black-Brown" coalitions of revolutionaries, which describe coalitions of seemingly opposed groups uniting to bring down a liberal government. But for my purposes, the best one may be the 1979 Iranian Revolution that brought the Ayatollah Khomeini to power.
Now I am no expert on the Revolution, and don't pretend to be one. But it doesn't take one to know the basics. An overwhelmingly Islamist movement in Iran did not remove the Shah, but rather a coalition between dedicated Marxists and Islamists who were a distinct minority in the country by the late 1970s. Iran was rapidly modernizing and was a highly educated and sophisticated country, integrating into the West.
Girl in the front was executed.
— 𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 ♛ ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) October 28, 2025
Girl in the back fled to Sweden where she lives in exile to this day.
They both actively worked towards and celebrated their own demise.
I am begging the West to stop thinking this could never happen to you, because it can and it 100% will. https://t.co/c3jewoGzrR
You probably know that the core group who held Americans hostage under Carter were students who were very Westernized. A lot of resources were poured into Iran to support Marxist movements, and the Marxists eagerly allied with the Islamists because they shared a common enemy: the Shah. The Shah was allied with the United States and Israel and was a dominant military power.
There's a reason why only one country still fields the F-14 Tomcat, once the most sophisticated fighter in the world: the US sold no other country the fighter. It was operated solely by the US and Iran, and not a single NATO country. The alliance was that strong. Of course, the communists wanted the Shah toppled.
As did the Muslim countries, who rightly saw the Shah as a counterbalance to their power in the region.
So the Red-Green alliance was born, and the Marxists worked hard to put the Ayatollah in power, thinking they could seize power from within.
Obviously, that was not a great strategy for them, since they got themselves killed and exiled, but revolutionaries always make such bargains because they rarely agree on anything other than hatred for the regime in power. The first up against the wall, at least after the regime is wiped out, are fellow revolutionaries.
Revolutionaries killing each other off is almost a tradition. Robespierre made a career of killing his former allies, and it was his "current" allies who killed him off in turn.
Portland (Sept. 1) — Antifa and far-left rioters brought out a guillotine with a sharpened blade to the anti-ICE riot. The nightly violence has been happening for months, with the city washing its hands. Video by @KatieDaviscourt: pic.twitter.com/Z9q7ctE8bk
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) September 3, 2025
From the outside of revolutionary movements, it makes no sense to ally with people who are scheming to kill you, but that's why most of us are on the outside of revolutionary movements. A lust for violence and destruction drives them.
🔥BREAKING: Lucy Martinez, the Chicago School Teacher seen in the now viral video below mocking the ass*ssination of Charlie Kirk, has been FIRED!!!
— Jack Danger (@AmericazOutlaw) October 20, 2025
America let their voice be heard & they said this is NOT the type of person who should be educating young minds! pic.twitter.com/GqO2gc2PRK
Wow. The left are dressing up as dead Charlie Kirk for Halloween.
— Hazel Appleyard (@HazelAppleyard_) October 28, 2025
I can’t imagine being so… heartless? Evil? Psychopathic? pic.twitter.com/ykBxKjOvuE
What unites revolutionaries is hatred and resentment. The ideologies are secondary, and only matter once the revolution is "successful."
This sort of thing is common enough in wars, which is why the West allied with the Soviet Union to defeat the Nazis, even though a Cold War was the inevitable result.
Which tells you what you need to know. The alliance we see between the Islamists and the Radical Progressives is natural, as long as you understand that it is a wartime alliance and not ideological. Queers identify with Islamists not because they agree with them, but because their overriding goal is killing us, either metaphorically or literally.
