The Risks of Ending the Gaza War
The hostages are Hamas’s best leverage, and it knows it.
July 8, 2025
On college campuses, Marxists and Islamists fuse their hatreds of the West.
In Mosaic’s July essay, Hussein Aboubakr Mansour argues that the jihadists of today, in their embrace of nihilism and fetishization of violence, have more in common with the American and European radical left than they do with any of their precursors in Islamic history—and indeed, that they share the same intellectual inspiration. This analysis of the anti-Zionist left, by Jacob Howland, supports that contention:
The hostages are Hamas’s best leverage, and it knows it.
On college campuses, Marxists and Islamists fuse their hatreds of the West.
Does it really make sense to speak of these often-rival religions in the same breath?
Baffling reversals and trust in redeeming God.
Finchleystrasse.
In Mosaic’s July essay, Hussein Aboubakr Mansour argues that the jihadists of today, in their embrace of nihilism and fetishization of violence, have more in common with the American and European radical left than they do with any of their precursors in Islamic history—and indeed, that they share the same intellectual inspiration. This analysis of the anti-Zionist left, by Jacob Howland, supports that contention:
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