The logic behind lefties making their bed with Muslim maniacs: "my enemy’s enemy is my friend"

Meet one the Left's lovable teddy bears, Sheik Raed Saleh


Alan Johnson writing at TheTelegraph:
....The extremist Islamist Sheik Raed Saleh  has been at it again. Watch this hate-filled rant  from the leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel, broadcast on Al-Jazeera on September 21......

.....Astonishingly, when Saleh won his appeal against deportation from the UK earlier this year, many on the liberal-Left celebrated. Jeremy Corbyn MP called a press conference and proclaimed: "He is far from a dangerous man. He is a very honoured citizen, he represents his people extremely well, and his is a voice that must be heard." Corbyn added a personal message: "I look forward to giving you tea on the terrace because you deserve it!"

As CIF Watch noted, the Guardian "produced a plethora of articles, all eerily similar in their support for Salah and his British patrons and in the whitewashing of who Salah is". Sarah Colborne, director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) defended Saleh, saying "before coming to Britain, he faced horrific allegations of anti-Semitism, which he completely refuted". Mehdi Hasan, then Political Editor of The New Statesman, prettified Salah as "the Palestinian leader of the largest civil society body in Israel," and argued the hostile media treatment of Salah was an example of the media's “lazy and simplistic coverage (demonisation?) of Muslims.”.....

......In 2007 Saleh gave a speech in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Wadi Joz which peddled the medieval blood libel (the anti-Semitic myth that Jews bake their Matzo bread with the blood of Gentile children):

We have never allowed ourselves to knead [the dough for] the bread that breaks the fast in the holy month of Ramadan with children’s blood. Whoever wants a more thorough explanation, let him ask what used to happen to some children in Europe, whose blood was mixed in with the dough of the [Jewish] holy bread.

Given all this, why did parts of the liberal-Left support Saleh? Mostly, it was case of "my enemy’s enemy is my friend" – a corrosive political logic that has been eating away at the soul of the Left for many decades now.....