Yeah, right, DE, you had no idea that the message you've been pushing on various threads (esp that 'Islamic fascism' thread) just happens to be one of the main pillars of Zionist 'hasbara'.<br><br>The "anti-semitism on the Left" and "antisemitism disguised as anti-Zionism" chorus has been a big Zionist propaganda talking point for years, reaching a crescendo during the past 4 years or so.<br><br>DE, you're either being dishonest, or you are too pitifully uninformed for your opinion to carry much weight. <br><br>I vote for the former. Somehow I doubt that it never occurred to you to do a Google search with the two words: "Left" and "anti-semitism". I did, and immediately got millions of hits, every single one of them a variation on the theme that the Left is, indeed, anti-semitic.<br><br>After the first few, frankly, I got too bored to go on, but not before noting that not one of them mentions at any time, international law, violations of UN resolutions and Geneva Conventions. <br><br>Most refer to Palestinian or 'Arab' (some actually deny that there is such thing as a Palestinian) "terrorism", contrasting it to Israel's 'struggle to survive', through such means as the "Defence Wall" (no mention of the land grab, home demolitions, isolation and financial destitution that the apartheid Wall is causing). The fact that the Wall has been declared illegal by the International Court of Justice at the Hague is cited as just one more example of 'international anti-semitism'.<br><br>Another recurring theme is that of a "double-standard": why does the Left condemn only Israel? As though Israel does not benefit from exceptional subsidies and privileges, including the abuse of the US veto power in the UN to silence criticism and official condemnation of Israel's crimes, and massive taxpayer-funded military and financial aid, not to mention the EU-Israel Association Agreement, that gives preferential treatment to Israeli exports. <br><br>Believe it or not, Israel actually taxes all foreign aid to the Palestinians under occupation, including the EU's (which has now been suspended, depriving the Palestinians of even that small income). Instead of feeding Palestinian children, or providing urgent humanitarian assistance, Israel uses this money to kill more Palestinians and build more settlements.<br><br>As they did two weeks ago, Israeli occupation forces have stolen millions of dollars from Palestinian banks and foreign exchange offices, making an already desperate situation even more hopeless.<br><br>But this is not relevant. If more and more voices are being raised against Israel, it's nothing to do with the nature and behaviour of the Zionist state, no, it must be due to anti-semitism...<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Contemporary empirical realities demonstrate one undeniable fact: anti-Semitism is no longer associated prominently with the Right. Instead, the primary source of the hatred of Jews now emanates from the Left. In fact, anti-Semitism has evolved into a cultural code and even a rallying cry for progressive radicals throughout the world. This reality is perfectly illustrated by contemporary efforts to pressure Western universities and institutions to divest from financial holdings in Israel.<br><br>What explains this phenomenon of growing Leftist anti-Semitism? Why has contempt for Jews become the mantle of Leftist politics – or was it actually always the case, but just more subtle? To discuss these and other aspects of Leftist anti-Semitism with us today, Frontpage Symposium has aligned a distinguished panel of experts. Our guests today are Michael Lerner, the editor of Tikkun magazine,
www.tikkun.org, rabbi of Beyt Tikkun synagogue in S.F., and author of eight books including The Politics of Meaning, Spirit Matters: Global Healing and the Wisdom of the Soul, and most recently Healing Israel/Palestine; Judith Klinghoffer, a senior associate scholar at the Political Science Department at Rutgers University, Camden, and the author of Vietnam, Jews and the Middle East; Leonard Dinnerstein, a professor of American history and director of the Judaic Studies Program at the University of Arizona. He is also the author of America and the Survivors of the Holocaust and Antisemitism in America; and Jonathan Kay, the editorials editor of the National Post who has written extensively on anti-Semitism and the academic Left.(
jkay@nationalpost.com)<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=6651">www.frontpagemag.com/Arti...sp?ID=6651</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Theodore Dalrymple<br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>The British Left Goes Anti-Semitic<br>Socialism and anti-Semitism are closely related worldviews.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>23 July 2002<br><br>There are other connections between left-wing thought and anti-Semitism (usually believed to be a disease of the Right alone). The liberal intellectual who laments the predominance of dead white males in the college syllabus or the lack of minority representation in the judiciary uses fundamentally the same argument as the anti-Semite who objects to the prominence of Jews in the arts, sciences, professions, and in commerce. They both assume that something must be amiss—a conspiracy—if any human group is over- or under-represented in any human activity, achievement, or institution.<br><br>The Middle East conflict has given respectability to old prejudices, especially in British academic circles. Two hundred British academics, some eminent, have selected Israel, of all the countries in the world, as the object of a total boycott, as if Israel were a uniquely evil state. While one can disagree strongly with the Israeli government’s policies without being anti-Semitic, the selection of Israel alone for a boycott in a world in which atrocity and suppression of freedom are routine must arouse suspicions of pre-existing animus—that is to say, of old-fashioned anti-Semitism.<br><br>...what is clear is that anti-Semitism is no longer (if it ever was) the preserve of the neo-Nazis. Because of the structural similarities between leftist thought and anti-Semitism, it remains a permanent temptation on the Left as well as on the Right.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon_7_23_02td.html">www.city-journal.org/html..._02td.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Left-Wing Antisemitism - An Overview</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->A. Campuses<br>B. Unification of Powerful Forces <br>C Focus points <br>A. Campuses <br><br>When violence erupted between Israel and the Palestinians on 29th September 2000, the Left rediscovered its pet cause. It had, since the late 1960s, perceived and presented the Palestinians as the victims of Israel. The David of the new millennium wears a keffiyah. Goliath drives a tank. <br><br>University College campuses worldwide became the breeding ground for a new generation of Left-wing antisemites.<br>Harvard University President, Lawrence Summers, caused a stir with a speech in which he charged that Antisemitism was making a comeback under the guise of criticizing Israel's conduct toward the Palestinians. <br><br>In the UK, Prof. Mona Baker of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology admitted that she fired two scholars from journals that she owns, solely because the two scholars were both Israeli citizens. [Article: <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.jafi.org.il/education/hasbara/headlines/nb16.html">www.jafi.org.il/education.../nb16.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> and <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,752523,00.html">www.guardian.co.uk/israel...23,00.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <br><br>In Canada, students rampaged through Montreal after a visit to Concordia University by Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. [Article: <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.jafi.org.il/education/hasbara/headlines/nb19.html">www.jafi.org.il/education.../nb19.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> ] <br>B. Unification of Powerful Forces <br><br>With The US invasion of Iraq, a new alliance was created. <br><br>The anti-war movement merged with a plethora of radical left and anti-imperialism/globalization groups as well as many Palestinian groups. Stop the Occupation of Palestine and Iraq became a popular call. Left and Arab Antisemitism began to merge. <br><br>As the Social Democratic Movement of America states:<br><br>“On April 20, nearly 80,000 people marched on Washington, DC to protest many things, from IMF/World Bank policies to US military action in Colombia to an end to the current war. But one issue stood out above all others: solidarity with the people of Palestine against the aggression of Israel. As ideological as well as practical activists, it is vital that we not let the desire to unite the largest numbers possible obscure the need to make some vital political demarcations within the emerging movement for Palestinian sovereignty.."<br><br>Statement Adopted by the Young Democratic Socialists Coordinating Committee on May 26, 2002. <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.ydsusa.org/statements/israel2.html">www.ydsusa.org/statements/israel2.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>C Focus points<br><br>Left-wing Antisemitism is particularly dangerous because it comes from the liberal/ intellectual/"progressive causes" world - and is therefore publicly palatable, but more importantly: it thus becomes acceptable to certain opinion and decision makers. <br><br>It is no longer a fringe movement, nor is it confined to the university campus. <br><br>It is often expressed by persons within politically correct circles, considered beyond the pale of racism and xenophobia, - and who therefore do not recognize their own sentiments as Antisemitism. <br><br>Today, left- wing Antisemitism is virulent and advances unabated.<br><br>“Israel has become the Jew among nations,” says Mort Zuckerman, who - in addition to his media holdings - is the former chairman of the Council of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. “It is both the surrogate — the respectable way of expressing Antisemitism — and the collective Jew.”<br><br>The Return of Antisemitism <br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/religion/features/n_9622/index1.html">www.newyorkmetro.com/nyme...ndex1.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.jafi.org.il/education/antisemitism/nf/left1.html">www.jafi.org.il/education...left1.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>The New Anti-Semitism</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>September 28th, 2005<br><br>I never thought I would see an open anti-Semitic political campaign in my lifetime. But after fifty years of skulking in the shadows, the old hatreds are rising like Count Dracula from his mouldy grave. According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, The London Guardian is reporting that the academic boycott against Israel’s universities is being revived in Britain. It is all part of the tireless campaign against the existence of Israel, presumably financed by the Saudis behind the scenes, with the collusion of the United Nations, and driven most of all by the ideological Left. In spite of all denials, it is beginning to look like the old, discredited race hatred, barely disguised.<br><br>The new anti-Zionist campaign calls for the abolition of Israel as a nation, but its supporters on the Left assure us it has nothing to do with racism. It was George Orwell who once wrote that the first obligation of decent people is to say the obvious. Well, here is my obvious thought for the day: in spite of what the Left says, anti-Zionism equals racism, pure and simple. In fact, anti-Zionism, now spreading like wildfire among leftist churches, shows a particularly despicable kind of racism.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=4858">www.americanthinker.com/a...le_id=4858</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>In their war against globalization, the browns on the far right have also found common cause with the greens of the new left. Matt Hale, the leader of the U.S. white supremacist World Church of the Creator, praised the 1999 antiglobalization protests in Seattle as ìincredibly successful from the point of view of the rioters as well as our Church. They helped shut down talks of the Jew World Order WTO and helped make a mockery of the Jewish Occupational Government around the world. Bravo. To lure in activists planning to protest the 2002 G-8 summit in Calgary, the National Alliance, the largest neo-Nazi organization in the United States that maintains ties with white supremacist groups worldwideóset up a Web site called the Anti-Globalism Action Network, dedicated to ìbroadening the anti-globalism movement to include divergent and marginalized voices.<br><br>Antiglobalization activists find themselves fighting a two-front battle, simultaneously protesting the World Trade Organization (WTO), IMF, and World Bank, while organizing impromptu counter-protests against far-right extremists who gate-crash their rallies. A bizarre ideological turf war has broken out. Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) voice alarm about neo-Nazis ìmasquerading as anti-globalization activists. On the Web site of the white supremacist Church of True Israel, an aggrieved Walter Nowotny retorts: This accusation implies that we are late-comers to this movement and only associate with it to jump on a bandwagon that already has considerable momentum. But who are the real infiltrators and trespassers? <br><br>History is repeating itself. As in the 19th century, the far right is plagiarizing left-wing dogma and imbuing it with racist overtones, transforming the campaign against the capitalist ìNew World Orderî into a struggle against the ìJew World Order. The antiglobalization movement is, however, somewhat culpable. It isnít inherently anti-Semitic, yet it helps enable anti-Semitism by peddling conspiracy theories. In its eyes, globalization is less a process than a plot hatched behind closed doors by a handful of unaccountable bureaucrats and corporations. Underlying the movementís humanistic goals of universal social justice is a current of fear mongering; the IMF, the WTO, the North American Free Trade Agreement, and the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) are portrayed not just as exploiters of the developing world, but as supranational instruments to undermine our sovereignty. Pick up a copy of the 1998 book MAI and the Threat to American Freedom (wrapped in a patriotic red, white, and blue cover), written by antiglobalization activists Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, and you'll read how 'Over the past twenty-five years, corporations and the state seem to have forged a new political alliance that allows corporations to gain more and more control over governance. This new ëcorporate rule poses a fundamental threat to the rights and democratic freedoms of all people. At an even more extreme end of the spectrum, the Web site of the Canadian-based Centre for Research on Globalization sells books and videos that 'expose' how the September 11 terrorist attacks were ìmost likely a special covert action to 'further the goals of corporate globalization.' <br><br>Unfortunately, conspiracy theories must always have a conspirator, and all too often, the conspirators are perceived to be Jews. It takes but a small step to cross the line dividing the two worldviews. 'If I told you I thought the world was controlled by a handful of capitalists and corporate bosses, you would say I was a left-winger,' an anarchist demonstrator told the online Russian publication Pravda. 'But if I told you who I thought the capitalists and corporate bosses were, you'd say I was far right.' <br><br>...<br><br>Anti-Globalizionism<br><br>The greens and the browns share another common cause: opposition to Israel. Given the antiglobalization movement's sympathy for Third-World causes, it's not surprising that French activist Jose Bove took a break from trashing McDonald's restaurants to show his solidarity with the Palestinian movement by visiting a besieged Yasir Arafat in Ramallah last year. <br><br>But, in the case of the new left, the salient question is not: What do antiglobalization activists have against Israel? Rather, it is important to ask: Why only Israel? Why didn't Bove travel to Russia to demonstrate his solidarity with Muslim Chechen separatists fighting their own war of liberation? Why are campus petitions demanding that universities divest funds from companies with ties to Israel, but not China? Why do the same anti-globalization rallies that denounce Israel's tactics against the Palestinians remain silent on the thousands of Muslims killed in pogroms in Gujarat, India? <br><br>Israel enjoys a unique pariah status among the antiglobalization movement because it is viewed as the world's sole remaining colonialist state; an exploitative, capitalist enclave created by Western powers in the heart of the developing world. 'Theyíre trying to impose an apartheid system on both the occupied territories and the Arab population in the rest of Israel,' says Bove. 'They are also putting in place, with the support of the World Bank, a series of neoliberal measures intended to integrate the Middle East into globalized production circuits, through the exploitation of cheap Palestinian labor.' <br><br>....<br><br>Such displays portray Israel as the sole perpetrator of violence, ignoring the hundreds of Israelis who have died in suicide bombings and the role of the Palestinian Authority in fomenting the conflict. And equating Israel with the Third Reich is the basest form of Holocaust revisionism, sending the message that the only 'solution' to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is nothing less than the complete destruction of the Jewish state.<br>...<br><br>Given its long experience adapting to new contingencies, the Jewish community is confronting global anti-Semitism with global solutions. <br><br>...<br><br>Jewish organizations are also becoming more of a presence in the antiglobalization movement. Last year, there were fears that the Johannesburg-hosted World Summit on Sustainable Development would turn into a replay of the ill-fated 2001 U.N. World Conference Against Racism in Durban, where anti-Semitic rhetoric culminated in a draft resolution adopted by the NGO forum singling out Israel as guilty of 'genocide.' <br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.aijac.org.au/updates/Oct-03/311003.html">www.aijac.org.au/updates/...11003.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Many so-called "progressives" openly traffick in antisemitism: "In recent ABC "Nightline" coverage of a rally in Berkeley, Calif., a reporter took a certain pride in telling viewers that "Nightline" chose not to run the image of a young woman holding up a caricature of Ariel Sharon, wearing a swastika prominently displayed on his armband, giving the Hitler salute. He found it too offensive. Notes Ron Rosenbaum in the New York Observer, that kind of "cover up" prevents us from observing how much "anti-Israel protests have become antisemitic.""(Fields)<br><br>"This great new surge of European antisemitism--if that is what these events signify--solves a puzzle that has been taxing a lot of Americans. Israel is a victim of terrorism, much as America was a victim of terrorism in September. Israel is defending itself against pitiless murderers with all available means, much as America is defending itself. Right and wrong in the matter, or so most Americans believe, could hardly be clearer. Why, then, Americans ask, is Europe taking the side of Palestine's suicide bombers, passing lightly over their crimes, while vilifying Israel's government for its restrained (under the circumstances) assault on the terrorist infrastructure of the West Bank? These perverted sympathies seem quite inexplicable--unless the answer, albeit painful to contemplate, is obvious. Anti-Semitism, it is argued, explains it all." (Leaders: Europe and the Jews; Anti-Semitism - (05-04-2002)-The Economist)<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END-->...<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Antisemitism lives and there is often a deafening silence....from the Left: "Antisemitism is alive and well and living in the 21st century. Of course, now it is all couched in anti-Israel rhetoric, the new cover for the old malady, and somehow socially acceptable. But it is not only in the one-sided media that I hear its echoes. Its very real manifestations are being played out in firebomb attacks on synagogues and community centres and Jewish school buses around the world. And where are the politicians and religious leaders? Deathly quiet." (Michele Mandel, "Silence Greets the New Antisemitism\and Israel Left to Fight Alone Again" - 04-14-2002 The Toronto Sun)<br><br>...<br><br>What you do hear is the mythology of Israeli mistreatment of Palestinian terrorists who are intent on destroying them. What you do hear is the antisemitism of the left which is very vocal in the anti-war movement.<br><br>"For weeks, Palestinian homicide bombers strapped with dynamite have targeted crowds of vulnerable civilians. Day after day after day, in pizza parlours and ice cream shops and discos. My, how quiet the world is. Where is the condemnation from church groups? Where are the non-Jewish protesters?" (Mandel)<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Resurgent Antisemitism? - Consider what follows from "The Left's Anti-Semitic Chic", Washington Post, 2/25/2004; George F. Will - Will is not Jewish. He is a conservative writer but in this case the facts he outlines in his article are indisputable.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>If Israel is not the Great Satan, it is allied with him -- America. European anti-American demonstrations often include Israel's blue and white flag with a swastika replacing the star of David, and signs perpetuating the myth, concocted by Palestinians and cooperative Western journalists, of an Israeli massacre in Jenin: "1943: Warsaw / 2002: Jenin."<br><br>Omer Bartov, a historian at Brown University, writes in the New Republic that much of what Hitler said "can be found today in innumerable places: on Internet sites, propaganda brochures, political speeches, protest placards, academic publications, religious sermons, you name it."<br> <br>Certainly there are abuses and overreaction by some in Israel, but consider what you would do if threatened with constant suicide bombings and mortar attacks on your towns and settlements. Consider how you might feel if you lost a child or a brother or mother or father and the enemy is clearly visible and teaches it's children to kill you. Consider that most Palestinians are not progressives and they do not show the same concern for civilian life that many in Israel do, and consider that there has been no one to talk to about reconciliation. Fortunately this position of antisemitism on the left is a fringe of the most ignorant, least informed, least read, least intelligent among them. Reason must prevail. And peaceful coexistence with Palestinians must prevail. <br>Israel is a democracy and criticism is expected in a democracy. The government is constantly examining it's policies and subjects itself to constant criticism and changes in policy. No other country in the Middle East is as open and as self-critical as Israel - yet every criticism is magnified and repeated by the left and Israel's other detractors. But the left is quiet about the obvious contravention of human rights and abuses of the totalitarian Islamic regimes. Israel is called racist because it is a "Jewish" State (a term denoting nationalism) whereas every one of the Islamic countries in the region, all 22 of them are Islamic and the term denotes religion yet they are never labeled racist by the left and the world community. The charge of racism against Israel was overturned and was not appropriate in the first place, yet those on the left, while quiet about the racism of Muslim countries continues to accuse Israel of a charge which does not apply and never did.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://pnews.org/PhpWiki/index.php/ResurgentAntiSemitism">pnews.org/PhpWiki/index.p...tiSemitism</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>The anti-semitic left today, which depicts Israel as the hyper-imperialist power — either controlling US policy, or acting as its chief instrument, the story varies — is in the grip of an “anti-imperialism of the fools”. And that in practice leads to a comprehensive hostility to Jews not far from what Bebel called the socialism of fools.<br><br>One of the great tragedies of today is that many young people, whose initial instincts to oppose Bush and Blair in Iraq and to support the Palestinians are healthy, are being poisoned with “left-wing” anti-semitism through the “anti-war movement”.<br><br>“Left-wing anti-semitism” is, in short, a comprehensive hostility to most Jews alive, branding them as “Zionists” and seeing that description as akin to “racist" or “imperialist”. It excepts only those Jews who agree that Israel is racist imperialism in its most concentrated essence, and oppose its continued existence.<br>...<br><br>There is an immediate “antidote” to left-wing anti-semitism too, and it is a very important task for Marxist socialists like those who publish Solidarity: relentless exposure and criticism of their politics and antics — without fear of isolation, ridicule, or the venomous hostility of the vocal and self-righteous left-wing anti-semites.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.workersliberty.org/node/5041">www.workersliberty.org/node/5041</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>The appallingly brief eclipse of anti-Semitism after Auschwitz demonstrates how beguiling is the simplicity of pure stupidity. All of the left's prescriptions for curing what ails society — socialism, communism, psychoanalysis, "progressive" education, etc. — have been discarded, so now the left is reduced to adapting that hardy perennial of the right, anti-Semitism. This is a new twist to the left's recipe for salvation through elimination: All will be well if we eliminate capitalists, or private property, or the ruling class, or "special interests," or neuroses, or inhibitions. Now, let's try eliminating a people, starting with their nation, which is obnoxiously pro-American and insufferably Spartan.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0204/will_2004_02_25.php3">www.jewishworldreview.com...02_25.php3</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i></i>
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