POLITICS: Toxic fuel for far-left terrorists came straight from our colleges

“Intersectionality” is the mother’s milk of the anti-American, anti-capitalist and anti-Western ideologues who have been ramping up their violence this year.

But few Americans are focusing on this threat — just look at the sparse coverage of the recently indicted Turtle Island Liberation Front.

On Tuesday, a bombshell grand-jury indictment alleged that the group plotted to use “weapons of mass destruction” to “completely pulverize” tech companies and other targets.

That means we’d better start paying attention — because intersectionality fuels the coalition of leftists, anarchists and Islamists intent on tearing down our country.

Intersectionality theory was developed in the late 1980s by law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw, who also coined the better-known term Critical Race Theory.

Crenshaw promoted CRT as a factor in employment law, arguing that black women face both race and sex discrimination in the workplace due to their intersecting identities.

Intersectionality advocates pushing the “marginalized” to take “collective action,” based on a narrative that casts every issue in terms of oppressors and oppressed.

“Structures of oppression are related,” Crenshaw held — and therefore, “struggles are linked.”

Crenshaw’s concept was a revolutionary wolf in sheep’s clothing, designed to fracture society into competing identities as a means of gaining leftist control — and it morphed into a monster, giving birth to diversity, equity and inclusion practices.

Every time someone claims a person or group is “marginalized,” that’s intersectionality at work, whether the speaker knows it or not.

This group-identity mindset urges the “marginalized” to unite against oppressors, using a toxic mix of economic, sexual and racial/ethnic identities as its fuel.

Intersectionality has been the dominant ideology on campus for two decades, and in recent years it’s chosen Israel as its point of attack.

It does so by bringing “marginalized” groups that have nothing in common together — for example, proclaiming “Palestine is a feminist issue” even though Palestinian society is one of the most patriarchal and misogynistic in the world.

It’s what fuels “Queers for Palestine” — even though actual gays and lesbians wouldn’t last a day in any Palestinian city or village.

We see it up close at Cornell, where the graduate student union recently announced a boycott of Israel, asserting “We free Palestine, and Palestine frees us.”

Campus student groups organize based on color and ethnicity to combat Israel, the supposed white oppressor.

Intersectionality is the gateway drug isolating Jewish students on campus.

But like so many other toxic ideologies, what started on campuses didn’t stay on campuses — and what started with Jews and Israel has spread to a more general hatred of the United States, capitalism and Western civilization.

We have intersectionality to thank for the widespread rot in higher education, as it works to “dismantle the persistent colonial structures and Eurocentric biases” of academia.

Worse, intersectionality has become the ideology of terror — the next logical step for a worldview that pits people against each other based on group identity.

Enter the Turtle Island Liberation Front and its heavily transgender membership, a walking embodiment of intersectionality.

This month, five members of the group were indicted for allegedly planning to bomb multiple targets in California beginning on New Year’s Eve, and accused of plotting to target ICE agents as well.

“Turtle Island” is the intersectional term used for North America, a name based on Native American lore.

The United States has no legitimacy under TILF’s intersectional creed, and tearing it down by any means is its goal.

The Justice Department’s criminal complaint describes TILF as an “anti-capitalist, anti-government movement” that calls for “liberation of their lands and people, and decolonization and tribal sovereignty.”

“From Turtle Island to Palestine, occupation is a crime,” its members declare — and as their well-developed terror plans indicate, they are serious about forcing “revolutionary change.”

The TILF indictment should be a warning siren to President Donald Trump, whose administration has worked to defang CRT and DEI — but has paid little attention to intersectionality.

Yet CRT and DEI are the symptoms; intersectionality is the source.

As Trump heads into his second year, he must confront this radically dangerous ideology.

Intersectionality must be incorporated into existing executive orders and administrative actions focused on unwinding DEI.

Issuing a new order clarifying that DEI expressly includes intersectionality would help mitigate the damage being done, both within government and through government-funded programs.

Intersectionality’s toxic influence must be confronted head-on: The future of our education system and the safety of our nation depend upon it.

If not, we’ll certainly see more Turtle Island Liberation Fronts — and more violence.

William A. Jacobson is a clinical professor of law at Cornell University and founder of the Equal Protection Project, where Kemberlee Kaye is managing director.