[WashingtonFreeBeacon] Spenser Rapone, who was booted from the Army after the graduation photos were made public, is now embracing Islamic extremism and cruel dictators
The notorious West Point graduate who wrote "communism will win" on his cap during graduation—and who now openly praises Oct. 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar, Hezbollah boss Hassan Nasrallah, and Syria's sadistic Assad family—is now a Ph.D. student at the prestigious University of Chicago, all expenses paid.
By who?
Spenser Rapone, a self-described "revolutionary socialist" who was drummed out of the Army after declaring his support for communism and calling for violence against Republicans, has taken up residence at the University of Chicago, where he specializes in "modern Arab intellectual history" and the "history of the modern Middle East," among other subjects.
In addition to his well-known communist bona fides, Rapone has also picked up a taste for Islamic extremism—which he now freely posts about on his public X page. His most inflammatory public pronouncements are in Arabic and remain live on X.
"Glory to the martyred leader Yahya Sinwar," he said on Oct. 18, 2024, shortly after Israel killed the Hamas boss, who masterminded the Oct. 7 massacre.
When Israel killed Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah—who was behind thousands of terror attacks, including some that killed Americans—Rapone was similarly mournful.
"Glory to the martyr Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, symbol of dignity for the Arab homeland and all free peoples around the world. May God have mercy on him," Rapone said.
"Long live the resistance, and glory to the martyrs," Rapone posted on the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 slaughter.
Rapone's study of Arab history has also led him to more baroque extremes—including a bizarre affection for Syria's sadistic, now-deposed Assad regime, which presided over a shocking reign of cruelty over its own people.
"The eternal leader Hafez al-Assad tried to crush this mentality in 1982, and his approach was correct at that time, just as it remains correct today," Rapone wrote in October 2026, in response to a now-deleted post.
The statement from Rapone is almost certainly a reference to the former dictator's ruthless suppression of a rebellion in the city of Hama that same year, which left up to 40,000 dead.
"Zionist control over the United States imposes on the United States, through the American administration, a policy in this region that is not linked to the interests of American citizens, but rather linked solely to Israeli interests, and especially to Israeli expansionist interests," he said in May 2026, alleging it was a quote by "the immortal leader Hafez al-Assad."
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