It's interesting that in amongst the usual spewage of hate bile that right-wing and centrist extremists love to heap on socialist Jews, is the reference to 'kapos'; a derogatory term used to describe Jews who collaborated with the Nazis...
https://twitter.com/jrschlosberg/status/1444387169745965056
One of the great and tragic ironies is that the majority of Jews who were on the front lines of the ghetto uprisings, who confronted and fought the Nazi collaborators, who embodied the spirit and tradition of Jewish resistance, were almost entirely socialists...
It's a double irony that they were also ardent Zionists, who believed passionately in equality and cooperation between Jews and Arabs, a mutual right to self-determination or a binational state with equal rights for all...
At the heart of the ongoing furore over antisemitism and the Labour Party is thus a double blind spot engendered by a neglect of history...
Socialists generally refuse to accept that Zionism was ever or could ever be anything other than a racist settler-colonial project, whilst Zionists generally refuse to accept that Socialists critical of their ideology can be anything other than antisemitic.
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