The culture of Western society is Judeo-Christian. Its respect for individuals, its humanitarian morality, the need for empirical evidence, and entreaties such as "Love thy neighbor as thyself"' (Leviticus 19:18) -- echoed by Mark and Matthew in the New Testament -- are the values that have formed the foundation for all education in the West.
As we have seen, however, as recently as this week, however, when two young innocent staffers at the Israeli Embassy in Washington D.C., were gunned down, there have been increasing attacks on these Judeo-Christian social values. Both anarchistic revolutionaries and many religious zealots apparently wish to eradicate and replace them, presumably on the way to a world order featuring themselves.
The Italian Marxist, Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937), instructed his supporters:
"Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. In the new Order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture through infiltration of schools, universities, Churches, and the media by transforming the consciousness of society."
In the neo-Marxist view of these ideologues, "Everything must be thrown into the supposedly great cause of social justice," as First Things editor R. R. Reno wrote. Social justice, according to them, incorporates the division of society into tribal, allegedly oppressed, racial, religious or gender-driven groups such as Black Lives Matter, pro-Palestinian groups, LGBTQ+ and so on. White males, for instance, are accused of "toxic masculinity," of benefitting from "white privilege" and of being "settler-colonialists," and are required to repent for a supposedly sinful status they were never given an opportunity to select.
In his books The Madness of Crowds and The War on the West, social commentator Doulgas Murray notes that "contemporary social justice movements often operate less as genuine quests for justice and more as vehicles for retribution or revenge."
In the formerly sacred halls of academia, traditional standards of social conduct, empirical biology, merit and achievement, facts, fairness and justice -- with some sort of due process and respect for others -- are irrelevant. What instead seems to be considered important is the great new cause to refabricate society in accordance with a skewed view of social justice, that consists not of individuals but identity groups, and that decides which of those may, or may not, be members of some private global "club." No wonder Western society, especially in Europe, seems to be bordering on implosion.
"The Jewish people brought morality to the world thousands of years ago and some people are still mad about it," remarked, Safra Catz, CEO of technology giant Oracle, by way of diagnosing the open resurgence of Jew-hatred and anti-Judeo-Christian vitriol in Western societies.
The most recent wave of protests can be traced to the contemporary infiltration of Marxism, with its fixed view of the world as oppressors vs. oppressed, combined with increasing Muslim Jew-hate. The latter is being funded lavishly throughout both higher and lower education by Qatar and other Islamist proselytizing supporters of "dawah": inviting both Muslims and non-Muslims to understand the worship of God (Allah) as taught in the Qur'an and the Sunnah (traditions of Islam's Prophet Muhammad), and to inform them about the teachings and example of Muhammad.
The success of Israel in defeating at least some centuries-old jihadist terrorism, which no Western nation would -- or should -- tolerate, has resulted in vociferous protests in the West. The attitude often seems to be: "How dare those settler-colonialists succeed against a minority. This is not social justice." Never mind that the Jews have resided on that land for nearly 4,000 years, or that the "minority" is not only bellicose but bloodthirsty, and that if this "minority" is oppressed, it is by their own leaders, not the Jews.
The plan by President Donald J. Trump to resurrect American civil rights laws that advocate colorblind equality and merit seems to have invigorated his domestic opposition.
To many, however, the eradication of a racist belief-system -- one that has devastated Western culture, governments and universities while dividing friends and families, and confusing the gender identity of countless vulnerable youths – could not come soon enough.
What they assumed they had been witnessing was the destruction of civilization from within. It was proposed in a May 22, 1991 Muslim Brotherhood document entitled "An Explanatory Memorandum On the General Strategic Goal for the Group In North America," written by an acolyte of the late Sheikh Yusuf al Qaradawi, who was head of the European Council for Fatwa and Research:
"The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands and by the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions."
The promotion of racial policies, initiated by the US government under President Barack Obama, then cemented under President Joe Biden, appeared to have become ingrained again in public life.
It was probably to be expected with the election of President Donald J. Trump, and with the fearless leadership of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, that a repudiation of those policies by opponents in both countries, would focus all their resources on bringing these two statesmen down.
A favorite tactic now seems to be the practice of "lawfare" – employing legal procedural tools, usually targeting process, to frustrate efforts by the elected executive, in both the US and Israel, to carry out the mandates for which voters had elected them.
Netanyahu, commenting on the highly-suspect criminal charges against him, recently wrote:
"In America and in Israel, when a strong right wing leader wins an election, the leftist Deep State weaponizes the justice system to thwart the people's will."
Netanyahu has been facing persecution by his opponents -- through legal channels and the media -- determined to remove him from office so that their policies, not voted for, can resume. During Israel's current struggle for its existence on many battlefronts, the trial court has insisted that Netanyahu continually make himself available for hours a day, several days a week, for cross-examination on charges that appear politically motivated and not to be holding up impressively in court -- to the detriment of Netanyahu's ability properly to prosecute a war that threatens Israel's survival. The prime minister has been compelled to attend court on many days while this 7-front attack on a country smaller than New Jersey is raging on Israel's borders.
After the completion of the evidentiary stage in "Case 4000" -- that has persisted for ten years -- pertaining to a corruption charge, two of the PM's aides, in a criminal case having nothing to do with Netanyahu -- were arrested on further charges of involvement in assisting Qatar. Netanyahu himself said in April:
"This is a political witch-hunt aimed solely at one thing—preventing the dismissal of the head of the Shin Bet and bringing about the downfall of a right-wing prime minister."
In March 2025, Israel's governing Likud Party accused the Attorney General of "concocting false cases" in charging the prime minister and his staff of supposed corruption:
"As the cases concocted against Prime Minister Netanyahu crumble in court, new and false cases are concocted against his people out of the personal interests of those leading the investigation."
Netanyahu filed a defamation lawsuit against Yair Golan, leader of one of Israel's opposition parties, regarding messages he had sent to supporters accusing the PM of peddling the country's security for money from Qatar.
For years before October 7, 2023, Netanyahu, as well as Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Prime Minister Yair Lapid, had permitted Qatar to fund the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers with $30 million a month, in the hope, it seems, that if Hamas felt financially comfortable, it would remain quiet. This was similar to Biden's policy toward Iran. The Biden administration disregarded sanctions, enriching Iran with approximately $100 billion -- which the Iranian regime then used for funding its proxies to attack Israel.
The supposed quiet between Gaza and Israel before October 7 2023, one which Hamas had gone to great lengths in order to lull Israel into complacency, was solidly in place. A few years earlier, for instance, when Gaza's Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist group attacked Israel, Hamas deliberately did not join, claiming it was now interested only in building security and peace.
As Netanyahu's detractors bring one charge after the other in a continual attempt to bring him down, one cannot but wonder who Israel's real enemies actually are.
It appears that some prominent politicians and high-level officials are possibly prepared to destroy their own nation in pursuit of their ambitions for power, and to impose their own ideologies on its people. Netanyahu and others no doubt see through their bogus proclamations they are "protecting democracy." Their actions are anything but. As Netanyahu stated recently, compared to Israel's deep state, America's is "a puddle."
Trump has also been forced to contend with countless legal challenges, all of which, so far, he has overcome. Upon his re-election, in command once again, his first actions were to issue executive orders eliminating all woke policies in government departments and federal agencies. Hundreds of officials have been dismissed; and whole departments and agencies shut down to eradicate divisive racist policies that are so damaging to the innovation, growth and democratic nature of America.
As in Israel, Trump and his newly appointed officials have been facing numerous legal challenges to prevent policies he was elected to implement, but that to many seem intolerable.
More than 119 of the Trump's directives have faced legal challenges, mainly, it seems, in cases presided over by partisan judges in cherry-picked district courts, who hold to a "progressive" outlook. In April 2025, for instance, a district court judge ordered the government to "re-import an MS-13 member they deported," Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal alien, who had been convicted and ordered deported but had been granted a stay, which held until his criminal gang was designated as ta Foreign Terrorist Organization, at which point the stay no longer legally applied.
Columnist Matt Vespa reported in April:
"These judges are getting out of control. That's becoming an unfortunate evergreen statement ever since members of this gavel Gestapo have decided to engage in a campaign to wrest away authority explicitly outlined for the executive on numerous areas, like immigration policy. It's reached new levels of absurdity."
Now that an ultra-socialist sector of the Democratic Party has publicly come forth, something that, in the words of Stanley Kurtz in National Review, reveals that "Explicit leftist radicalism is so deeply rooted in the party that efforts to disguise it are at once unavoidable and impossible" -- the future of the party looks dim. The majority of America voted against these destructive tribalist theories, seemingly based on circumstances over which the bearer had no control, such as skin color, gender and ethnicity, rather hard work or merit, when they elected a determined Trump to the presidency.
The battle against for truth, morality and freedom, however, begun in antiquity, will likely continue.
"Hate never wins the final victory," said the late UK Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, "freedom does" -- the freedom of respect for one another and to "love thy neighbor as thyself."
Nils A. Haug is an author and columnist. A Lawyer by profession, he is member of the International Bar Association, the National Association of Scholars, the Academy of Philosophy and Letters. Dr. Haug holds a Ph.D. in Apologetical Theology and is author of 'Politics, Law, and Disorder in the Garden of Eden – the Quest for Identity'; and 'Enemies of the Innocent – Life, Truth, and Meaning in a Dark Age.' His work has been published by First Things Journal, The American Mind, Quadrant, Minding the Campus, Gatestone Institute, National Association of Scholars, Jewish Journal, James Wilson Institute (Anchoring Truths), Jewish News Syndicate, Document Danmark, and others.
