Judith Butler has defended Islam as a global left movement and refused to criticize or condemn Islamic violence.
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The Charlie Kirk ShowJul 30, 2026
Sources confirm Butler called Hamas and Hezbollah 'progressive' and part of 'a global Left' and described the October 7 attack as 'armed resistance' rather than terrorism, so the claim's left-movement and non-condemnation elements have some support.
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… you know, to someone who's logical, that may not make any sense, but when you start to look into it, you start to realize very quickly that they actually have almost all the same goals, except for the end state. And so there is an alliance between them. In fact, academics like Judith Butler have routinely defended Islam as a global left movement and refuse to criticize or condemn Islamic violence, and they're really putting it through an oppressor or oppressed framework and trying to insert Islam into their critical theory frameworks. …
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Contradicts. Butler's own 2012 statement says 'I do not endorse practices of violent resistance and neither do I endorse state violence,' and that she does not endorse all groups on the global left, which undercuts the claim that she refused to condemn violence.[1][2]
Supports. Butler described Hamas and Hezbollah as 'social movements that are progressive, that are on the Left, that are part of a global Left' in a 2006 Berkeley talk, as quoted by Tablet and Middle East Transparent.[2][3][4]
Supports. In 2024 Butler called the October 7 attack 'an act of armed resistance' that was 'not a terrorist attack' and 'not an antisemitic attack,' which critics say amounts to refusing to condemn Hamas violence.[5][6]
Context. Butler's defenders argue her 2006 remarks were taken out of context and that her views on nonviolence were misrepresented, and sources describe her remarks as being about Hamas and Hezbollah specifically rather than Islam as a whole.[2][7]
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- 1Judith Butler: 'I affirm a Judaism that is not associated with state ...criticallegalthinking.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 2Islamism and the Left - Middle East Transparentmiddleeasttransparent.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts, supports, context
- 3How Professor Judith Butler Helped Stoke a Dangerous Misunderstanding of History in Germanytabletmag.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4Judith Butler - Influence Watchinfluencewatch.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5Hamas supporter appears in NYT ad by Jews opposing Trump Gaza planjns.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 6Judith Butler, the immediate rewriting of history and the apology of ...decolonialisme.fr · not rated · cited for: supports
- 7Judith Butler - Wikiwandwikiwand.com · not rated · cited for: context
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