of figures who are celebrated by by the left people like judith butler, a celebrated gender philosopherourse, jeremy corbyn described hamas as his friends. what can the left do about this when their figureheads seem to be so intent on supporting? well, let's put it , frankly, terrorists, you it, frankly, terrorists, you know, it's the left is quite lost at the moment, and i feel sad about that. >> as someone who originally comes from the left, i used to think the left was a pro—freedom pro enlightenment, pro—democracy movement, and it was once upon a time. but it has changed dramatically. it now takes the side of anti—enlightenment against enlightenment and i think the commonality. people always say, how can we have queers for palestine and all these gender fluid idiots supporting a movement that would throw them off the roof of a building given half a chance? it's a good question. i think the commonality between the progressive left and hamas and hezbollah is that both of them have a burning hostility to the west, to modernity , to reason, west, to modernity, to reason, and increasingl