This just isn’t true. There are definitely right wingers who do this, but there IS antisemitism on the left. I don’t know if you’re Jewish, but I know that I have experienced it. So have a LOT of leftist/non-Zionist Jews.
The sharp, fast turn I have heard many leftists take from anti-Zionism (a stance I firmly, profoundly hold & believe to be the only ethical one) to "Isreal is controlled by a worldwide cabal of evil Jewish masterminds" (some real gross antisemitism!!!!) is astonishing.
I don’t think it’s possible, tautologically, to be antisemitic (or to be a settler or another kind of jingoist/chauvinist) and a leftist. But, of course, that’s a normative claim and can’t speak to ur own experience of the present reality of people who at least claim to be leftists.
🎯🎯🎯🎯 In the end, we always are viewed as conditional allies and always abandoned first.
yep! my friend just wrote this great oped about it: "I dedicated my life to the progressive movement. The Left's anti-Zionism left me behind" www.denverpost.com/2023/11/05/p...
I’m not naive to think anyone who wants to publicly preserve their progressive persona would even dare speak up about Israel’s right to defend herself. But to not even offer a response on a human ...
A very vocal leftist friend was upset the American military-industrial complex destroyed the art and architecture of Dresden. I got a bit loud after that.
imagine if brigades of people were out there saying like “there’s no misogyny on the left” or “there’s no racism on the left,” people would look at them like they were insane
the left is part of society at large and thus the same bigotry you find in general society also exists in the left and it does no one any good to pretend the only people capable of being bigoted are conservatives
Oh, nononono, not denying there are Jew-haters on the left at all, forgive me for not making that clear. Those scumbags are real and cannot be ignored.
Two things can be true though. This thread on the other site got me thinking about how the right wing has used these tactics before. The part about bot farms felt very familiar. Antisemitism on the left definitely exists but it serves the far right’s purposes to stoke it x.com/jmj/status/1...
I have seen a lot of really ugly stuff on this site in the last month and it’s pretty disheartening