The Omnicause (Briefly) Explodes

When Jew-hatred isn't enough to bind the contradictory red-black alliance

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The (deliciously) fierce arguments were always going to come, especially when you have been stewing at sea on small boats for weeks.

Tempers are going to fray. Dressing up as a keffiyeh pirate becomes less romantic when you have to unblock the loo for the dozenth time. And then there’s the fact that while the 350 terror propagandists on the ‘freedom flotilla’, on their way to ‘break’ the naval blockade surrounding Gaza, may be united by their Jew-hatred, in almost every other aspect, their world views are completely opposite.

This week, it emerged that some of the fundamentalist Muslims on the boat aren’t fans of gay people. Who’d have guessed, especially when Western cities are so full of ‘Queers for Palestine’?

Khaled Boujemaa, the Tunisian coordinator of the convoy, is said to have left the flotilla altogether after learning about gay activists on board. ‘We were lied to about the identity of some participants in the vanguard of the flotilla. I accuse the organisers of having hidden this aspect from us,’ he said.

Another prominent activist from the flotilla, Mariem Meftah, took to social media to accuse LGBTQ+ activists of ‘taking advantage’ of the pro-Palestine cause that is ‘sacred to us as Muslims’. She added: ‘Being a ‘queer’ activist means touching on society’s values and taking a path that risks placing my children and loved ones in a situation we reject.’

Presenter Samir Elwafi added: ‘Palestine is first and foremost the cause of Muslims and it cannot be separated from its spiritual and religious dimension. So why involve it in dubious activists serving other agendas that do not concern us and have nothing to do with Gaza?’

Presumably, he meant dubious activists like the convoy’s most famous traveller, eco warrior turned Palestine obsessive Greta Thunberg, who described the mission as ‘only part of a global movement for social and climate justice, liberation and decolonisation led by marginalised people.’ The Swedish activist was said to have moved boat after a fallout.

The flotilla fools may be briefly reconciled towards each other thanks to the horror of Israel jamming their communications system to play Abba music in the middle of the night, but the cracks are beginning to appear in the red and black alliance of Marxists and Islamists whose shared and sometime oppositional values are nicknamed the omnicause.

Being anti-Israel is the main ideological glue that binds these ideologies together. Misogyny is in there, too. And both groups want to create a revolution because they hate Western liberal democracy. But anarchy doesn’t always go with social conservatism. There’s no such thing as a progressive Islamist.

The problems endemic in the omnicause have already caused the Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana party – still awaiting a name other than Your Party or Fruit and Nut - to almost break up before it was due to start. First, there were problems over whether Jeremy hated Jews enough (how dare he agree to the IHRA definition of antisemitism when he was Labour leader?). And then came the much knottier issue of trans rights.

Sultana was furious when fellow Our Party founder, the pro-Gaza Independent MP Adnan Hussain, wrote that he believed ‘women’s rights and safe spaces should not be encroached upon’, adding that trans women are ‘not biologically women, hence trans women’.

She responded on social media with the demand that ‘Trans rights are human rights. Your Party will defend them – no ifs, no buts.’

If someone brings a pro-trans solidarity motion to the Your Party founding conference in November (if the hotel it is due to be at finds the booking), it could be game over before the party even begins.

Meanwhile, the Greens have a similar but perhaps even more startling red and black alliance (this omnicause merging with green on the outside and red/ black in the middle is known as the watermelon) with gay anti-Zionist pro-trans Jew Zach Polanski as leader and Mothin Ali as his deputy. Ali, is a Leeds councillor who said that the massacre of October 7 2023 was down to ‘indigenous people defending themselves’ and that condemnation of the attack was ‘white supremacy’.

You’ve certainly got to give it to these social conservatives – they know all the catchphrases that get the juices going for the idiotic ‘progressive’ far left.

And they are idiots because they only need to look at history to see what happens next. And it isn’t pretty for the left.

In 2023, leftists in Hamtramck, Michigan, who had once celebrated as their multicultural city attracted international attention for becoming the first in the United States to elect a Muslim majority city council, were shocked when that same council, now all male, banned Pride flags from being flown on city property. A year earlier, the council allowed backyard animal sacrifices to the horror of many residents.

Former Hamtramck mayor Karen Majewski said, ‘There’s a sense of betrayal. We supported you when you were threatened and now you’re the one doing the threatening.’

Sometimes it’s more than threats. The most famous red-black alliance was that which led to the 1979 Iranian Revolution against the rule of the corrupt, Western-backed King, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Within days, the Ayatollah Khomeini had created a dictatorship that restricted freedom and the rights of women.

Just a few weeks after the Revolution, tens of thousands of women flooded the streets of Tehran to protest against the forced veiling of women. Crowds chanted, ‘We did not have a revolution to go backwards.’ The women were told to suck it up. Those who refused, learned they didn’t have a choice. A year after the Revolution, Farrokhru Parsa, the first female cabinet minister in Iran, was hung for ‘violating Islamic morality’. She was followed by many leftists who had helped Khomeini take power.

This is an ongoing lesson.

Since the murder of Mahsa Jina Amini by Iran’s morality police in Tehran for wearing her hijab too loosely in September 2022, more than 600 mainly young people have been killed protesting the right of women to not wear their hijab as part of the #WomenLifeFreedom movement.

Many anti-regime Iranians have joined hands with pro-Israel activists. They know the danger of the red-black alliance. And that being a clueless activist is really is no laughing matter.

Further reading: Unveiled: Inside Iran’s #WomenLifeFreedom Revolt by Jonathan Harounoff