[De Ben Norton] Among these UK military collaborators is the scholar Gilbert Achcar, a frequent contributor to Jacobin Magazine and Democracy Now who teaches international relations at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies.[...]
Borrowing rhetoric familiar to neoconservatives, Achcar was careful to point out that, «when I say ‘regime,’ I am actually referring to the Russia-Iran-Assad axis.» While attacking what he described as «campist ‘anti-imperialism’ (which by the way is exclusively anti-American, and often even pro-Russian),» Achcar has even defended US military intervention in Syria.
«There are in fact cases,» Achcar claimed in a 2018 interview with a Trotskyite publication, «where the United States supports, as in Syria today, a progressive force in its fight against a reactionary enemy.» That same year, Achcar joined a who’s who of regime-change activists in signing an open letter published in the New York Review of Books that demanded that the «The World Must Act Now on Syria.» (thegrayzone.com)
