@Martin_Kramer @DrAlexJoffe @BernieSanders is a shallow mob-pandering socialist who mocks the great socialist Jews of the past. He is a Stalinist provocateur. Compare his easy trampling over Jewish national rights with Trotsky's thoughtful engagement with it to understand the vacuity of his "justice". 1/x
@Martin_Kramer @DrAlexJoffe @BernieSanders "Trotsky now also embraced the rights of a ‘Jewish nation’ which he believed would ‘maintain itself for an entire epoch to come’.[32] Trotsky came to believe the Jews had a democratic right to a Jewish national home," 2/x
@Martin_Kramer @DrAlexJoffe @BernieSanders "By 1937, aware of the Zionist movement, Trotsky argued that ... (Zionism) will ... take on a real and salutary meaning,’ asking ‘how could any Marxist or even any consistent democrat object to this’?" 3/x
@Martin_Kramer @DrAlexJoffe @BernieSanders "One can detect absolutely nothing in Trotsky of the contemporary Left’s tendency to treat the Jews as some kind of a ‘bad people’ undeserving of the collective rights of other peoples. 4/x
@Martin_Kramer @DrAlexJoffe @BernieSanders For example, when invited in 1934 to define the clashes in Palestine between Jews and Arabs as what would today be called ‘progressive’ or ‘anti-imperialist resistance to Zionism,’ Trotsky refused. " 5/x
@Martin_Kramer @DrAlexJoffe @BernieSanders "Trotsky learned early that antisemitism could be irrational, murderous, and popular.[-] When a Jewish student from Nikolayev asked to meet Trotsky to discuss self-defence he was told by Trotsky, ‘You should know that we have entered into an agreement with the heads of the 6/x
@Martin_Kramer @DrAlexJoffe @BernieSanders local Zionists [to] establish[-] a common self-defence organisation. This will consist of your Zionist friends and members of the Russian Social-Democratic Party.’ Later, Trotsky advised the student to link up with Ze’ev Jabotinsky’s armed Zionist self-defence group" 7/x
@Martin_Kramer @DrAlexJoffe @BernieSanders To explain anti-Semitic savagery he wrote this about pogromists: "The gang rushes through the town, drunk on .. the smell of blood. .. A trembling slave an hour ago.. he now feels himself an unlimited despot. Everything is allowed to him, he is capable of anything," 8/x
@Martin_Kramer @DrAlexJoffe @BernieSanders "The Jew, he wrote, was the ‘lightening rod for the indignation of the exploited,’ ... For Romania as a whole, antisemitism had become ‘a state religion – the last cementing factor of a feudal society rotten through and through’." 9/x
@Martin_Kramer @DrAlexJoffe @BernieSanders "The revolution taught Trotsky about the ubiquity of antisemitism. He saw that it was present among the revolutionary as well as the counter-revolutionary armies." 10x
@Martin_Kramer @DrAlexJoffe @BernieSanders "[as became] common to all episodes of Left antisemitism, there were plenty of left-wing pro-Stalin Jews in Russia and abroad who ...went on the offensive, attacking Trotsky for smearing Stalin with false charges. These ‘Jewish Voices for Stalin,’ ... were useful idiots. " 11/x
@Martin_Kramer @DrAlexJoffe @BernieSanders "In .. 1938 Trotsky issued this warning. ‘The number of countries which expel the Jews grows without cease. The number of countries able to accept them decreases. It is possible to imagine without difficulty what awaits the Jews at the mere outbreak of the future world war 12/x
@Martin_Kramer @DrAlexJoffe @BernieSanders ... But even without war the net development of the world reaction signifies with certainty the physical extermination of the Jews.’" 13/x
@Martin_Kramer @DrAlexJoffe @BernieSanders To understand fully the hollowness, ignorance, venality of @BernieSanders' viciousness about Israel today, read this article about Trotsky.
Bernie is nothing but a straw-filled scarecrow in comparison. 14/14
fathomjournal.org/the-fathom-lon…
Bernie is nothing but a straw-filled scarecrow in comparison. 14/14
fathomjournal.org/the-fathom-lon…
