Red-Green Alliance
Not to be confused with the Danish political party the Red-Green Alliance (Danish party).
The term Red-Green Alliance denotes a conspiracy theory of an alliance between the radical left and radical Muslims. (Similar concepts are expressed in the terms Regressive left, Islamo-Leftism, and Red-Green-Brown Alliance). The concepts has a number of variants, some point to the alleged actual or potential of leftist groups to work directly with Muslim groups, whether at the level of political violence and insurrections or at the level of electoral politics. Other versions point to the alleged similarities or common traits between the left and radical Muslims (and sometimes the far right (Brown) to assert, in the absence of any concrete evidence of collaboration a sort of affinity. One key alleged similarity is said to be antisemtism.
Thus an early instance of this latter approach was a speech by Roger Cukierman, president of the French Jewish/pro-Israel organization CRIF, to a CRIF banquet on 25 January 2003, and given wide circulation by a 27/28 January 2003 article in Le Monde. Cukierman used the French term "alliance brun-vert-rouge" to describe the antisemitic alignment supposedly shared by 'an extreme right nostalgic for racial hierarchies' (symbolized by the color brown), 'an extreme left [which is] anti-globalist, anti-capitalist, anti-American [and] anti-Zionist' (red), and followers of José Bové (green).
The same usage of the concept (minus the 'brown') was floated in 2004 by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.[1]
It was further developed in 2007 by Lorenzo Vidino, in the pages of Terrorism Monitor[2] the journal of the Jamestown Foundation a neoconservative outfit alleged in the past to be connected to the CIA[3] and a publication of one of the core US Islamophobic groups, the Investigative Project on Terrorism.[4]
It has later been endorsed in 2013 by researchers in START at the University of Maryland, a largely US government funded research centre[5] and again flagged in 2019 by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.[6]
Notes
- ↑ Ben Cohen The Persistence of Anti-Semitism on the British Left Jewish Political Studies Review 16:3-4 (Fall 2004)
- ↑ Lorenzo Vidino and Andrea Morigi, Italy's Left-Wing Terrorists Flirt with Radical Islamists’, Terrorism Monitor, Volume 5, Issue 17 (September 13, 2007). Accessed 10 April 2020.
- ↑ Militarist Monitor, ‘Jamestown Foundation.'
- ↑ Lorenzo Vidino, Evidence on Red-Green Alliance in Italy IPT News, 6 November 2007. Accessed 10 April 2020.
- ↑ Karagiannis, M,. & McCauley, C. 2013. "The emerging Red-Green Alliance: Where political Islam meets the radical left." Terrorism and Political Violence, 25, 167-182.
- ↑ Joel Fishman, ‘The Red-Green Alliance and the War against American Jewry, the American-Israel Alliance, and the Foundations of American Democracy’, Jewish Political Studies Review. June 25, 2019.
