Then you can exclude yourself from that, but if you don't think that the left is resonant with antisemitism, I suggest you visit a college near you.
I've been a partisan Democrat my entire life, been active in party politics, and been a state central committee member. I'm just as much part of "the left" as anyone else.
Then you can exclude yourself from that, but if you don't think that the left is resonant with antisemitism, I suggest you visit a college near you.
I've been a partisan Democrat my entire life, been active in party politics, and been a state central committee member. I'm just as much part of "the left" as anyone else.
And yet I have never supported the activist fetish for terrorists, like The Nation magazine et al., whether it was blaming America for 9/11 or blaming Israel for this. This is more of a betrayal, because the left has been 100% identity issues for the last 10 years. Somehow Jews don't count for all that.
Substack pushed into my feed today a restack by a (self-described) college professor who asserted Israel is committing "genocide," with a link to a Hamas terrorism-rationalizing screed from the U.K. In the restack the professor stated people should be able to accuse Israel of genocide without being accused of being antisemitic and challenged readers to respond to the assertions in the article. It took about three seconds of scrolling to find multiple comments under the linked article peddling literal neo-Nazi propaganda about "globalist bankers" starting all the wars and profiting off the deaths of "the people they call 'goyim.'"; and those comments had the most likes of any responses. So--a leftist professor complains about the unfairness of being labeled antisemitic, while linking to an article that's responded to approvingly by overt antisemites peddling neo-Nazi ideology. Anyone not seeing what is on our side (or what I thought was our side) is willfully blind. I would love it if it could be easily dismissed as fringe, but that seems extremely irresponsible.
Then you can exclude yourself from that, but if you don't think that the left is resonant with antisemitism, I suggest you visit a college near you.
I've been a partisan Democrat my entire life, been active in party politics, and been a state central committee member. I'm just as much part of "the left" as anyone else.
And yet I have never supported the activist fetish for terrorists, like The Nation magazine et al., whether it was blaming America for 9/11 or blaming Israel for this. This is more of a betrayal, because the left has been 100% identity issues for the last 10 years. Somehow Jews don't count for all that.
Substack pushed into my feed today a restack by a (self-described) college professor who asserted Israel is committing "genocide," with a link to a Hamas terrorism-rationalizing screed from the U.K. In the restack the professor stated people should be able to accuse Israel of genocide without being accused of being antisemitic and challenged readers to respond to the assertions in the article. It took about three seconds of scrolling to find multiple comments under the linked article peddling literal neo-Nazi propaganda about "globalist bankers" starting all the wars and profiting off the deaths of "the people they call 'goyim.'"; and those comments had the most likes of any responses. So--a leftist professor complains about the unfairness of being labeled antisemitic, while linking to an article that's responded to approvingly by overt antisemites peddling neo-Nazi ideology. Anyone not seeing what is on our side (or what I thought was our side) is willfully blind. I would love it if it could be easily dismissed as fringe, but that seems extremely irresponsible.