April 7, 2025
The Radicalism of the “Free Palestine” Agenda
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The Radicalism of the “Free Palestine” Agenda
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The ‘Free Palestine’ movement rocking university campuses in the West is a social justice movement calling for both the dismantling of Israel and of the West.
Here are four points you need to know to understand the dangers that this movement presents.
1. Free Palestine’s Role in The Civilizational War
With the rise of Islamism and those who seek to impose it, an ongoing civilizational war has begun in Europe as the West fights to maintain its values, such as freedom and pluralism.
Islamism is a movement in Islam that seeks to combine political and clerical rule over a state. Extremists in the movement seek to dominate societies and dismantle Western governments – something which is now spreading to the U.S. and particularly to university campuses.
Free Palestine’s ideological alignment with Islamism in its call to dismantle the West is paving the way for this extremist ideology.
2. Israel and Palestine: Oppressor and Oppressed
The Free Palestine movement is rooted in a neo-Marxist worldview fixated on viewing history in an oppressor and oppressed paradigm.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has become a central symbol of the movement. Israel is the “colonialist oppressor,” while all forms of Palestinian resistance are justified because of their oppression.
In this narrative, once Palestinians are freed from Israel’s oppression, their liberation will proliferate to all who are unjustly burdened.
The Free Palestine movement in the West is not only inaccurate in its simplification of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but it exclusively calls for the dismantling of Israel without proposing viable paths for a Palestinian state.
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3. Radicalized Universities
American Universities are prime examples of Free Palestine’s radicalization of the West.
Students are not just supportive of Palestinian nationalism, but they outright support Hamas by distributing flyers, wearing Hamas merch, parroting genocidal slogans, and attacking Jewish students.
Their movement is defined by ideological contradictions such as “Queers for Palestine,” revealing a clear disconnect between what Hamas actually stands for and what their rhetoric idealizes.
These university students cheer the terrorist group on, oblivious to the nuances of the Palestinians’ plight.
4. Dangers of the Victimhood Narrative
Key to such rhetoric is a victimhood narrative that Palestinians, and all who may feel oppressed, are victims of a system stacked against them and, therefore, justified in any type of resistance, including Hamas’ atrocities on October 7th.
Such narratives are highly dangerous to impressionable college students and result in an endless cycle of grieving and victimhood.
It also creates a lack of accountability for actions taken by students or for acts of outright terrorism.
What to do about it:
Campuses nationwide are calling to dismantle the West, voicing complete disdain for Western values, and rejecting America.
They are rapidly embracing jihad and ultimately undermining national security.
Understanding the threats from these radical narratives equips us to hold those inciting extremism accountable through conversations with our communities, engaging on social media, and showing up in person to stand for our values.