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These ideologies no longer exist. Or, at the very least, there aren't many genuine Nazis and Communists left. Nonetheless, Grossman's dialectic has persisted because radical ideologues, even when ostensibly diametrically opposed, resemble one another more than anybody else. We've had a sobering reminder of this in recent days.For many years, certain people and groups in the West have been screaming about the return of 'fascist'. Donald Trump, the former president, was accused of fascism. Former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and former President George W. Bush were also involved, according to reports. I remember when Preston Manning, the Reform Party's founder, was referred to as a fascist or Nazi. Pope Benedict XVI was frequently referred to in the same way. Come to think of it, I doubt there has been a single conservative figure in the last twenty years who has not been labeled a Nazi or a fascist. So it was surprising to see Nazi supporters applauding on the largest mass murder of Jews in a single day since the Holocaust.

On October 7, Hamas terrorists ambushed the Supernova concert in

 

southern Israel, raped, murdered, beheaded, and burnt hundreds of people before continuing on a violent spree in the surrounding area, killing over a thousand more. This pogrom has a single purpose in mind. This was done to rally the entire Arab world (whatever that means now) in support of the Palestinian cause, thwarting the process of normalizing relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia. Unfortunately for Hamas, the Arab world has not unified behind them. An key evidence of this was a speech made by Saudi prince Turki al-Faisal, who sharply criticized both Hamas and Israel, but did not rule out Saudi-Israeli normalization discussions. So Hamas has failed, as its primary international backing is now limited to a coalition of a porn actress, Western faculty-lounge leftists, and public-sector union leaders.That last example comes from Fred Hahn, president of the Canadian organization of Public Employees, our largest organization. Despite the horrifying video evidence of Hamas' barbarism, Mr Hahn praised the "power of resistance" and the carnage as ushering in "progress." This was Mr Hahn's Thanksgiving message, as posted on Twitter. Despite widespread criticism, Mr Hahn doubled down and blamed the horrified reaction on "a highly organized pro-Israel lobby that seeks to control the anti-Palestinian narrative fed to Canadians and intimidate any person or organization that fails to comply with its agenda" — borderline Protocols-of-the-Elders-of-Zion-style nonsense. Surprisingly, only around two weeks ago, Mr Hahn stated his support for Antifa, a self-proclaimed anti-fascist, anti-racist movement with a worrisome proclivity for violence. So...down with fascism, up with antisemitic conspiracy theories and pogroms, I suppose?

Hamas supporters in Western universities have been as deranged. 

Russell Rickford, an associate professor at Cornell, described the Hamas pogrom as "exhilarating and energizing." He is arguably merely the most visible of many insane squatters among the rubble of the academic Left. Runners-up would include numerous tenured academics who justified the atrocities on Twitter with the phrase "decolonization is not a metaphor," as well as Zareena Grewal, an American-studies professor at Yale, who took to Twitter to announce that "settlers are not civilians," implying that it was acceptable for Hamas to kill Israeli civilians.One more thing about "decolonization." Until now, the phrase was considered to refer to things like restoring "Indigenous ways of knowing" or, as postcolonial thinker Gayatri Spivak put it, allowing the "subaltern to speak," which meant giving oppressed people a voice. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reportedly conducted a thorough examination of all government laws and practices in order to "decolonize" Canada. It was his intention, he stated, "to eliminate the elements that…have been impediments for opportunities for growth and success of Indigenous communities." Fine. However, as appealing as this may appear, the term "decolonization" has become soiled. It will take on a more sinister tone, based on a selected reading of Frantz Fanon's chapter on violence in Les Damnés de la terre, also known as The Wretched of the Earth in English. 

Today's activist-scholars, for whom "decolonization 

is not a metaphor," have obviously internalized Fanon's description of violence liberating "the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction," making him "fearless," and restoring "his self-respect." However, they appear to have tuned out the next segment, where Fanon warns that:"The militant who confronts the imperialist war machine with the absolute minimum of weapons understands that, while bringing down colonial oppression, he is establishing yet another system of exploitation. This realization is nasty, bitter, and nauseating, and yet everything seems so simple before." That discovery occurred recently in Rwanda and Bosnia. The violence of the Hutu Power Movement and the Bosnian Serb Army was designed to remove injustice and restore dignity, but, like Grossman's mirror-image of Nazism and Communism, it resulted in insensate cruelty and mass murder. Hamas follows the same ideology, and success would imply not self-respect, but genocide and totalitarianism. If "decolonization" implies what we've just been informed, the phrase will never be used again in mainstream politics.