Europe’s left courts Muslim voters as anti-Israel politics reshape continent

It's known as the "Red-Green Alliance" — a political coalition between Europe's far-left parties and Islamist groups that is increasingly shaping policy, particularly regarding Israel as the continent experiences a worrying rise in antisemitism that critics are linking to this partnership.

With the rise of Muslim voters across Europe, many on the left and extreme-left are being influenced by this increasingly important voting bloc.

Just last week in the U.K., critics accused the left-wing Labour government of sanctioning Israel as a ploy to win back Muslim voters from the far-left, anti-Israel Green and Independent parties.

Conservative lawmaker Tom Tugendhat called the sanctions' announcement "performative politics ." In Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Sweden , exit polling from the state broadcaster shows that votes from non-European Swedes are giving an alliance of left-wing parties a narrow three-seat lead over a right-leaning coalition led by current Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson.

GERMAN OFFICIALS WARN ISLAMIST, FAR-LEFT RHETORIC DRIVING SPIKE IN ANTISEMITIC ATTACKS One Swedish political researcher, Tobias Hübinette, pointed to Mayor Zohran Mamdani's win in New York City and said that the numbers in the Swedish election show a growing divide not only between rural and urban voters but that this "election meant a 'Mamdanification' of urban Sweden, and the gap between city and country is now larger than ever before," he wrote on X .

"They should be in disagreement," Simone Rodan-Benzaquen, the senior envoy to Europe at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies told Fox News Digital, "but the Islamists are very capable of covering that up for political purposes… The antisemitism that we have today, in particular in Western Europe, is definitely fed far more (by) the far left's discourse." Alan Mendoza, executive director of the Henry Jackson Society Executive Director in the U.K. said that, "For a decade, Europe has trained its anxieties almost exclusively on the far-right, and while that vigilance is warranted, it has left a blind spot on the other flank… Antisemitism is not less dangerous because it arrives waving a progressive banner." Germany-based Dresden University of Technology research fellow Janek Treiber said that, "There is indeed an intriguing alliance between the supposedly progressive Left and regressive forces within Islamism." He told Fox News Digital that, "The unifying factor is a kind of victimization narrative.