(THREAD 👇) In my second part of “stuff Jews constantly get accused of”, I’m talking about us being labelled “right wingers”....
If Jews mention antisemitism on the left, we are commonly accused of being right wing.
It is an accusation of Jews acting in bad faith due to a political agenda. This accusation mirrors the racist stereotype of the lying, conspiratorial Jew...
It is an accusation of Jews acting in bad faith due to a political agenda. This accusation mirrors the racist stereotype of the lying, conspiratorial Jew...
Of course, racism isn’t political. And using more racism to deny it and silence the complainants doesn’t just prove the point, but exacerbates it...
Tribal loyalties on the left are considered far more important than admitting to racism issues within it. So they try to silence “dissent” from Jews by using malicious accusations...
The “Right wing” accusation is frequently accompanied by “Zionist” as a pejorative term. Zionist is someone who agrees with the concept of Jewish self determination, and is nothing to do with political views....
For example, I know a Jewish socialist from a communist family who is a Zionist, and so was his family....
But it was the Russian communist regime who politicised antisemitism, and linked it to Zionism which it made into a crime.
Purges such as The Doctors Plot and the execution of Slansky with many others was an excuse to kill loyal Jews. The crime levelled at them was “Zionism”...
Purges such as The Doctors Plot and the execution of Slansky with many others was an excuse to kill loyal Jews. The crime levelled at them was “Zionism”...
Antisemitic material thinly disguised as being about Zionism was pumped out by the Russian state, and even became mandatory reading....
Jews were erased from the Holocaust and erased from being victims of the Nazis.
Instead Jews were accused of being collaborators with the Nazis - far right. Accused of dual loyalties on behalf of a foreign power....
Instead Jews were accused of being collaborators with the Nazis - far right. Accused of dual loyalties on behalf of a foreign power....
The left are deeply unoriginal in this regard. The old white cranks you see spreading these ideas were the recipients of this Nazi inspired Russian propaganda in the late 60s....
So those accusing Jews of being “far right Zionists” is nothing new at all. They do it because prefer Jews silent, compliant and without a safe space....
These accusations Jews regularly get thrown at us are the same old racist stereotypes and the same old propaganda from antisemitic regimes. You can read part one here
https://twitter.com/omgstater/status/1358377104077905920
And a nice Ken Loach example pops up here
https://twitter.com/TimesCorbyn/status/1359239226349527040
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