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Piers Morgan asked former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to condemn Hamas on his TalkTV show on Monday evening .
Jeremy 's shocking reluctance to call out Hamas for what it is a violently repressive Islamist group committed to the annihilation of Israel and Jews is not just a personal failing.
It is also the failing of what passes for the left in general today , from Labour ’s Corbynista fringe.
Islamism could give a disoriented, opportunist left the appearance of radical agency, and how this could, in turn, whitewash Islamism as a progressive force.
Marriage of mutual convenience was consummated in the aftermath of 9/11 and the ensuing US -led war on terror.
Islamo -gauchisme has flourished in soil tilled by the 2000s anti-war movement.
Not just among the hard left of the SWP or the old Stalinists of the CPB .
It has taken hold among the middle-class left, too.
Take the posh postgraduates of Novara Media , who published a glowing profile of Mohammed Deif in 2014 .
Deif, as it happens, is the commander of Ezzedeen al-Qassam Brigades , Hamas ’s military wing.
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