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In 2024, climate activists in New York City protested alongside anti-Israel protesters at a rally headlined «Climate Justice Means Free Palestine.» Last year, climate change celebrity icon Greta Thunberg tried to storm Israel by sea on a flotilla protesting the country’s war in Gaza, yelling «Free! Free! Palestine!» when she was refused entry.
And, last week, activists from CodePink, a far-left feminist activist group that has received funds from an American expatriate, Neville Roy Singham, living in Shanghai, took a break from their rallies supporting the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Cuba Communist Party to circulate a video on Instagram, attacking a Utah data center project backed by investor Kevin O’Leary.
What connects these causes?
Climate activists, anti-Israel protesters and other activist movements with very different agendas have become strange bedfellows united by a shared disdain for America and funding from China, according to experts who warn the trend is weakening the United States amid a rapidly accelerating AI race.
Critics say the same activist ecosystem is now targeting America’s AI infrastructure and industrial power, in a development that experts warn could undermine the United States in its technological competition with China.
The growing convergence increasingly includes communist and Islamist activist movements, and it recently extended into campaigns targeting America’s artificial intelligence data centers, with activist and environmental groups helping delay or block dozens of such projects worth billions of dollars over concerns about energy use, water consumption and environmental impact amid rising power demand.
Fox News Digital has observed many of the movements protesting side-by-side at demonstrations across the country despite their otherwise stark ideological differences.
Climate activist Greta Thunberg, while wearing a keffiyeh scarf, speaks alongside pro-Palestinian activists in Catania, Italy, ahead of a Gaza flotilla-related event. (The Associated Press/Salvatore Cavalli))
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«What all of these protests have in common — the protests against AI data centers or the environmental protests or the protest against Israel — is that anti-American trend within them,» Hudson Institute fellow Zineb Riboua told Fox News Digital.
«Climate change was also one of those very trendy causes to protest for or against, and now there’s always this quest to find what is the next thing to revolutionize,» Riboua added. «And this revolution against the United States is always welcome, no matter what type of forms and shapes it takes.»
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Fox News Digital has previously reported that Singham, a U.S.-born tech tycoon living in Shanghai, funneled roughly $285 million into six activist nonprofits accused by lawmakers and analysts of promoting pro-China narratives and anti-American protest movements.
O’Leary accused local groups opposing the Utah project of being tied to China-linked funding networks and argued the backlash reflected a broader nationwide trend of activist campaigns targeting AI infrastructure, though Fox News Digital has not independently verified the Utah-related allegations.
Protesters react as the Box Elder County Commission approves a large AI data center project in Tremonton, Utah, on May 4, 2026. Activists opposed the proposed 40,000-acre development over concerns about water use, energy demand and environmental impact. (Natalie Behring/Getty Images)
‘Red-green-green alliance’
Riboua, who specializes in anti-West ideological movements and China’s influence in the Middle East, warned that the overlap between climate activists, anti-Israel protesters, communists and Islamists is being driven by a broader anti-American worldview she described as «Third Worldism,» an ideology that divides the world into «oppressors» and «oppressed» and casts the United States and the West as the primary source of global problems.
The ideology unites otherwise unrelated activist causes under a shared anti-Western framework, she said.
«Third Worldism drives anti-Americanism because the goal of Third Worldism is basically dismantling a cohesive Western society or Western country,» Riboua said.
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Energy expert Brenda Shaffer, a research faculty member at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, described the broader activist convergence as part of a «red-green-green alliance,» an ideological overlap between three elements: communist movements, characterized by the color red; Islamist activism, described as green; and environmental protest groups, symbolized as green.
They increasingly unite around anti-West and anti-American causes, she said.
Riboua said the alliance has become increasingly visible as activist groups move rapidly from one issue to another — from climate protests to anti-Israel demonstrations and now toward campaigns targeting AI infrastructure and data centers.
The overlap has also become increasingly visible on the streets. At a 2024 «Climate Justice Means Free Palestine» rally in New York City, climate activists and pro-Palestinian demonstrators protested side-by-side.
«There’s always this quest to find what is the next thing to revolutionize,» she said.
People participate in a «Climate Justice Means Free Palestine» rally outside Citibank headquarters in New York City on June 18, 2024. Protesters carried pro-Palestinian signs and climate justice messaging during the demonstration. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Riboua pointed to Thunberg’s evolution into a vocal anti-Israel activist as an example of the growing ideological overlap between climate activism and broader anti-West protest movements.
«Greta is not an Islamist, and I think that she never read Karl Marx, but she has all the good instincts of a revolutionary against the evil oppressor, Westerner, and the United States,» Riboua said.
China, energy and the AI race
Shaffer warned the growing convergence is increasingly affecting industries critical to America’s economic and technological competition with China.
«Energy is crucial to the AI race, to the data centers,» Shaffer told Fox News Digital via a Zoom interview.
Shaffer argued that while activist groups in the West target fossil fuels, AI infrastructure and industrial development, China continues rapidly expanding coal production, manufacturing capacity and energy generation.
«So we’re truly by adopting international climate policies, we’re weakening the West,» Shaffer said.
«China really benefits from these policies that we adopt and we just let them keep forging ahead with coal.»
Shaffer compared the trend to Soviet-backed anti-nuclear activism during the Cold War, arguing that adversarial powers have historically benefited from anti-energy movements in the West.
Racks of servers with colorful wires are seen in a data center as AI expansion strains the power grid, prompting a proposal for tech firms to fund their own energy needs. (Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP via Getty Images)
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«You saw traditionally the Soviet Union funding movements against nuclear energy in Europe so that Europe would remain dependent on Soviet and later Russian gas,» Shaffer said.
She also warned that increasing Western dependence on Chinese renewable-energy supply chains could create new strategic vulnerabilities because China dominates major parts of the global solar and inverter market.
Shaffer argued many activist campaigns focus on delaying or blocking energy and infrastructure projects in the United States while China rapidly expands coal consumption and industrial production.
Riboua added that many ordinary protesters are not necessarily driven by ideology, but by simplified narratives amplified through social media clickbait and activist messaging.
«Some people are generally good people and they want to have a moral position,» she said. «They know headlines … there’s a lot of ignorance.»
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Shaffer warned that artificial intelligence infrastructure requires enormous amounts of reliable electricity and said the West risks falling behind China if energy costs continue rising and infrastructure projects continue facing activist opposition.
«You can’t have an arms industry built on solar energy,» she said.
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Israel fears Trump weary of ‘highly suspicious’ Netanyahu and could ‘flip’ amid Iran deal: analyst
Trump calls out Netanyahu over Israeli strikes on Hezbollah targets
Rising Middle East tensions threaten President Donald Trump’s push for an Iran peace deal. Fox News details military pressure on Iran, including US strikes and a naval blockade, alongside Israel’s recent strikes on Hezbollah in Beirut. Discussions center on proposed deal terms, verification mechanisms, and skepticism about Iran’s commitment.
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A regional analyst says fears that President Donald Trump could «flip» on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amid a critical push for a U.S.-Iran peace agreement are growing in Jerusalem, a concern highlighted Sunday after the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) struck Beirut for a second time.
Despite U.S. warnings that any strikes would derail a breakthrough with Tehran, the strikes came as Netanyahu prepared to convene Israel’s Security Cabinet and after Trump announced a new U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding (MOU) was expected to be signed imminently.
«The strikes today in Beirut are creating issues with finalizing the deal,» a diplomat involved in the talks with Tehran told Fox News Chief Foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst, adding that they were «a clear attempt by Israel to sabotage the president’s deal and drag the United States back into war.»
Trump went on to condemn Israel’s strikes in a post on Truth Social, also telling Axios that Netanyahu had «no f—ing judgment.»
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President Donald Trump welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Fla., on Dec. 29, 2025. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Natan Sachs, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute, noted there was «absolutely this fear in the Israeli government,» calling it «a rational and healthy fear» over the pending deal.
He said a strategic chasm existed between the two allies, contrasting Netanyahu’s doctrine of sustained, long-term military pressure with Trump’s pursuit of immediate diplomatic victories.
«Now there is a sense in Israel that Trump may be growing weary of Netanyahu and the Israelis, and many others believe that if he got sick and tired of him, he could break norms in other directions and flip on Israel,» Sachs, an Israeli foreign policy expert, told Fox News Digital.
With discussions underway through Pakistani mediation, the Israeli prime minister’s office released a statement shortly after Trump announced the possible deal with Tehran on June 11.
Jerusalem «is not a party to the memorandum of understanding» between Washington and Tehran, Netanyahu said before reiterating on June 12 that Iran was «working to destroy the Jewish state.» He assured Israelis he had dedicated his life to «preventing them from doing so.»
On Sunday, a senior Israeli official also said Hezbollah attacks had targeted Israeli civilians for the previous three days as Israel prepared for Iranian retaliation.
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President Trump’s push for a U.S.-Iran deal is fueling concern in Jerusalem that he could turn on Netanyahu as Israeli strikes in Beirut threaten to complicate negotiations. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Trump had already criticized Netanyahu during a phone call earlier this month, reportedly calling him «crazy» over a first strike on Beirut that was complicating the administration’s negotiations with Iran.
«It’s not just that there seems to be a crisis — and there were clearly expletives used by the president toward the prime minister on the backdrop of a joint and large military operation,» Sachs said.
«Israel and Netanyahu had first looked at Trump and saw both enormous carrots and enormous potential sticks,» Sachs said of the start of Operation Epic Fury and Roaring Lion on Feb. 28.
«Trump was a huge opportunity for Netanyahu because he was willing to break the mold on anything, but Israel has made a potentially strategic, historic mistake in putting all its eggs in one basket,» he added.
«Netanyahu was always prepared for the long haul,» Sachs said. «And the long haul is not four months; the long haul is years. Trump likes quick wins. Once the quick win did not materialize — and it did not — now you have a whole new set of problems.»
«Trump’s preference seemed far from pursuing a much broader campaign aimed at achieving the goals that Israel prefers, and he also has a much narrower conception of what a deal would be,» he added.
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Lebanese civil defense workers search for victims in the rubble of a building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in central Beirut, Lebanon, on April 9, 2026. (Hassan Ammar/AP)
Sachs noted, however, that Trump and Netanyahu broadly shared goals on curbing Iran’s nuclear ambitions, eliminating Hezbollah’s armed presence in Lebanon and establishing a post-Hamas future for Gaza.
But he said, «having that wish list is not the same as having a strategic goal. They haven’t both committed to them as strategic goals that dictate concerted action going forward.»
Sachs also argued that tensions between Trump and Netanyahu reflect different temperaments.
«Netanyahu thinks of himself as a strategic thinker — very able, and of course, he has a very high opinion of himself — but he is completely different,» he observed.
«Netanyahu is an erudite, well-educated, patient, highly suspicious and extremely pessimistic man by nature. His self-image is more, ‘I have thought everything through in ways you could not, because I’m smarter than you.’
«He’s very suspicious of everyone around him, and he’s been surrounded by this same coterie of individuals for decades.»
«In terms of personality and where they come from, their worldview is also actually very different,» Sachs added.
«You can’t imagine Netanyahu spending hours at night on social media. He doesn’t go on it himself, and it’s hard to imagine President Trump spending hours reading books, which Netanyahu likes to portray himself as doing. I doubt he has time for it, but that is an image he projects, and I think it is partially true.»
«Netanyahu also believes you live with a problem, you manage it, and you kick the can down the road. Trump is the opposite.»
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«The U.S. may turn away and be uninterested; Israel simply does not think it has that privilege,» Sachs said.
«Netanyahu and Trump have very different time horizons, and that is partly geography and interest — and partly personality.»
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Irán amenazó con tomar represalias tras el bombardeo de Israel contra Hezbollah en Beirut: “La respuesta está llegando”
El régimen de Irán lanzó este domingo nuevas amenazas contra Israel después del bombardeo israelí sobre los suburbios del sur de Beirut, una zona considerada uno de los principales bastiones del grupo terrorista Hezbollah. Funcionarios políticos y militares del régimen persa afirmaron que habrá una respuesta a la operación y advirtieron que sus fuerzas permanecen listas para intervenir si se producen nuevos ataques.
La amenaza llegó desde el Consejo Supremo de Seguridad Nacional, el máximo órgano encargado de coordinar la política de defensa y seguridad de la República Islámica. Su secretario, Mohammad Baqer Zolqadr, aseguró que la represalia ya está en marcha.
“La respuesta de los soldados del Islam está llegando”, declaró el funcionario en un mensaje difundido por canales oficiales iraníes.
Zolqadr vinculó además la situación en el Líbano con la estrategia regional de Teherán y destacó la cooperación entre los grupos aliados de la República Islámica en Medio Oriente. Según sostuvo, esa red constituye una estructura de defensa común frente a las amenazas externas.
“La unidad de los frentes de la Resistencia ha creado una cadena de seguridad para la defensa de toda la región”, afirmó.
El dirigente también dejó un mensaje dirigido directamente a Israel al referirse al ataque sobre Beirut.
“El Líbano es nuestra vida, y la violación de las líneas rojas de la República Islámica no será tolerada”, señaló.
Las declaraciones se produjeron pocas horas después de que aviones israelíes atacaran el sector de Dahye, en el sur de la capital libanesa. Las autoridades de emergencia locales informaron que al menos tres personas murieron y varias más resultaron heridas como consecuencia de los bombardeos.
Israel justificó la operación como una respuesta a lanzamientos efectuados previamente desde territorio libanés contra el norte del país. Sin embargo, la acción provocó una inmediata reacción de Irán, principal respaldo político, financiero y militar de Hezbollah.
La advertencia iraní fue reforzada por altos mandos de las fuerzas armadas. El general Ali Abdollahi, comandante del Cuartel General Central Jatam al-Anbiya, aseguró que las capacidades militares del país se encuentran en condiciones de responder a cualquier escenario.
“Nuestras capacidades de combate, defensa, misiles, fuerzas navales, drones y defensa aérea son más poderosas que nunca”, afirmó el oficial.
Abdollahi sostuvo además que las tropas iraníes están preparadas para actuar de manera inmediata si consideran que existe una nueva agresión contra los intereses de la República Islámica o sus aliados regionales.
Según el militar, los efectivos permanecen con “el dedo en el gatillo” y listos para atacar “el corazón del enemigo”.
En otro tramo de su mensaje, lanzó una advertencia contra Israel. “Estamos esperando el más mínimo desliz del enemigo agresor para darle una lección inolvidable y definitiva”, expresó.
Las amenazas también fueron acompañadas por declaraciones de otros funcionarios iraníes. El subcomandante del Comando Unificado de Operaciones Jatam al-Anbiya, Sardar Asadi, afirmó que la ofensiva israelí no quedará sin consecuencias.
“Sin duda estos crímenes no quedarán sin respuesta”, manifestó.
En paralelo a las amenazas cruzadas, el régimen iraní suspendió las operaciones aéreas en el oeste del país, la región más próxima a Israel. La restricción fue establecida por tiempo indefinido y permanecerá vigente hasta nuevo aviso.
Aunque la Organización de Aviación Civil indicó que no se emitieron nuevas alertas formales para la navegación aérea y que continúan aplicándose las disposiciones ya existentes, la decisión fue interpretada como una señal de preparación ante un posible deterioro de la situación de seguridad.
La escalada se produce en un momento especialmente delicado para la región. En paralelo a las tensiones militares, Washington y Teherán mantienen negociaciones destinadas a cerrar un entendimiento que permita poner fin a meses de enfrentamientos y reduzca el riesgo de una guerra más amplia en Medio Oriente.
El ataque sobre Beirut introdujo nuevas dudas sobre ese proceso diplomático. El presidente del Parlamento iraní y uno de los principales referentes involucrados en las conversaciones, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, cuestionó la continuidad de las negociaciones tras los bombardeos.
“Si careces de la voluntad o la capacidad para cumplir tus compromisos, es imposible hablar de seguir adelante”, escribió.
Las críticas también alcanzaron indirectamente a Estados Unidos. Desde Teherán consideran que la ofensiva israelí pone en duda la capacidad de Washington para garantizar el cumplimiento de los compromisos asumidos durante las conversaciones.
El presidente estadounidense, Donald Trump, también tomó distancia del ataque. El mandatario afirmó que la operación israelí “no debería haber ocurrido”, especialmente cuando las partes se encontraban cerca de concretar un acuerdo destinado a reducir las tensiones en la región. Mientras tanto, las amenazas cruzadas y la incertidumbre sobre una eventual represalia iraní mantienen en alerta a Medio Oriente.
(Con información de AFP y EFE)
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