I really don't understand why the Bulwark is throwing it's back out trying to find the "antisemitic left". Two members of Congress and student organizations on "college campuses" (do they even really exist anymore? Isn't it mostly zoom?) have absolutely ZERO say. Why not just attribute random stuff written in bathroom stalls to "the left"?
I really don't understand why the Bulwark is throwing it's back out trying to find the "antisemitic left". Two members of Congress and student organizations on "college campuses" (do they even really exist anymore? Isn't it mostly zoom?) have absolutely ZERO say. Why not just attribute random stuff written in bathroom stalls to "the left"?
Does reading the Atlantic and the New York Times count as "throwing one's back out" to find leftist antisemitism?
Is acknowledging antisemitism on the left an unfair attack on "the left" even when OTHER PEOPLE ON THE LEFT write about it because they see enough of it to disturb them?
The existence of antisemitism on the left has hardly been a secret, except perhaps to those who don't want to acknowledge anything ethically bad coming from the left at all. And the idea that college student organizations -- and faculty and administrators -- have nothing to do with "the left" at large is a bit strange.
The antisemitism doesn't always take the form of straight-up defense of Hamas terrorism (or marching around in Nazi garb). More often, it's a matter of holding Israel -- i.e., the Jews -- ultimately responsible for any evils that Palestinian Arabs commit against them. It might be hedged a bit, e.g. "I don't justify what the terrorists did, but they were provoked!"
IOW, the Jews made the Arabs do terrible things -- but the Arabs could not have provoked the Jews to do unpleasant things in this calculus.
That way of thinking has been rather commonplace in left-wing commentary on the Middle East. Maybe the horror and scale of the recent Hamas attack made some people rethink the matter of moral accountability, though there's still a lot of "Yes it was horrible, but ...."
Pointing at 4 people calling it "the left" is a pure straw man. Who cares what a couple of students (who never actually remember to vote anyway) say? Meanwhile there are actual neo-nazis speaking at Republican party rallys. The only way you find antisemitism on the left is if you work really really hard.
I really don't understand why the Bulwark is throwing it's back out trying to find the "antisemitic left". Two members of Congress and student organizations on "college campuses" (do they even really exist anymore? Isn't it mostly zoom?) have absolutely ZERO say. Why not just attribute random stuff written in bathroom stalls to "the left"?
Does reading the Atlantic and the New York Times count as "throwing one's back out" to find leftist antisemitism?
Is acknowledging antisemitism on the left an unfair attack on "the left" even when OTHER PEOPLE ON THE LEFT write about it because they see enough of it to disturb them?
The existence of antisemitism on the left has hardly been a secret, except perhaps to those who don't want to acknowledge anything ethically bad coming from the left at all. And the idea that college student organizations -- and faculty and administrators -- have nothing to do with "the left" at large is a bit strange.
The antisemitism doesn't always take the form of straight-up defense of Hamas terrorism (or marching around in Nazi garb). More often, it's a matter of holding Israel -- i.e., the Jews -- ultimately responsible for any evils that Palestinian Arabs commit against them. It might be hedged a bit, e.g. "I don't justify what the terrorists did, but they were provoked!"
IOW, the Jews made the Arabs do terrible things -- but the Arabs could not have provoked the Jews to do unpleasant things in this calculus.
That way of thinking has been rather commonplace in left-wing commentary on the Middle East. Maybe the horror and scale of the recent Hamas attack made some people rethink the matter of moral accountability, though there's still a lot of "Yes it was horrible, but ...."
Pointing at 4 people calling it "the left" is a pure straw man. Who cares what a couple of students (who never actually remember to vote anyway) say? Meanwhile there are actual neo-nazis speaking at Republican party rallys. The only way you find antisemitism on the left is if you work really really hard.