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L'Taken Antisemitism Training ©

1. Which of these people are Jewish?

2. Where do you think they are from?

3. What type of Jews MIGHT THEY BE?

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Conversos, Sephardi Jews, Spain & Latin AmericaIn the 15th and 16th centuries, Spanish Jews (Sephardim) were the victims of the Spanish Inquisition, a concerted campaign to obliterate the Jewish religion and culture. Persecuted Sephardim were forced to convert to Catholicism, becoming “conversos”. Many fled their homes and the lives they had built. In today’s South America, descendants of Sephardim still exist - often unaware of their ancestry. Even so, many grow up unknowingly engaging in Jewish rituals passed down through generations, such as lighting candles on Friday night and not eating pork. Known as “crypto-Jews,” many have recently decided to embrace their religious heritage, sometimes at considerable personal cost. This photo, taken in Ecuador in 2007, shows a mother and daughter at her Bat Mitzvah, as both connect with their ancestors, reclaim their faith, and engage in their birthrights as Jews. Conversos are sometimes referred to by the word Marrano, a derogatory term meaning “pig” or “swine”.

Mizrachi Jews, Yemenite Jews Arriving In IsraelJews have lived in Yemen for over two thousand years. There are numerous stories passed down about how the community arrived - from non-Jews converting when the Queen of Sheba visited King Solomon, to Jews travelling to Yemen under the prophet Jeremiah. However they arrived, there were synagogues being constructed by the first century BCE, and by the fourth century CE, the leaders of the kingdom had converted to Judaism and expected their people to do the same. After the rise of Islam, the Jewish community experienced times of both flourishing and violent persecution. In 1679, all Jews were expelled to the Mawza region, where two thirds of the community died of starvation or disease. Those still alive were allowed to return a year later, but only to a Jewish quarter outside the citiy. Many Yemenite Jews moved to Palestine before the creation of the State of Israel. In 1947, Yemenite rioters, assisted by the police, engaged in a pogrom that killed 82 Jews and destroyed hundreds of Jewish homes and businesses. In 1948, a rumour of the Jewish ritual murder of two girls led to mass looting, leading to the majority of Yemen’s Jewish population being airlifted to Israel in Operation Magic Carpet. In the 1990s there were still hundreds of Jews living in Yemen, with a few synagogues and academies, but after two antisemitic murders in 2008 and 2012, yet more Jews were airlifted to Israel in a secret operation. Fewer than 90 Jews now live in Yemen.

Scarlett Johansson, USAScarlett Johansson is an actress. She was born to an American Jewish mother of Russian and Polish descent and a Danish non-Jewish father. Johansson identifies as Jewish and was raised observing Jewish festivals. Her maternal great grandfather, Saul Szlamberg, moved to America before the Holocaust, working as a grocer in New York. His brother and his brother ’s two daughters died in the Warsaw ghetto.

Jews of Kaifeng, ChinaThis photo is taken of the Jews of Kaifeng in the late 19th or early 20th century. Jews have lived in China for over a thousand years. It is thought the first Jews in China were merchants from Persia, Iraq, Iran and India. They may also have been European Jews fleeing the Crusades who received the Emperor’s blessing to reside in the city of Kaifeng, which was then an important hub in Silk Road trading route. The Ming dynasty (1368-1644) required Jews to have one of 8 surnames - Ai, Shi, Gao, Gan, Jin, Li, Zhang, and Zhao. Until the 17th century “Kaifeng Jews” had largely preserved their traditions and customs. They built synagogues and used chinese character prayer books. Later, intermarriage and cultural suppression meant their numbers severely dwindled. By the beginning of the twentieth century, the Zhang clan had converted to Islam. There remain a small number of Kaifeng Jews still in China, alongside many other Jewish communities now living in China.

Ofra Haza, YemenOfra Haza was an Israeli singer of Yemenite heritage. Born in Tel Aviv to Yemenite immigrant parents, she grew up in poverty and became a symbol of pride in Yemenite Jewish heritage, singing in Arabic and

JEWISH COMMUNITIES AROUND THE WORLD


Hebrew and often wearing traditional Yemenite Jewish clothing. She won a US Grammy, topped the Eurochart and was regularly played on MTV, before dying of AIDS related illness in 2000. In England she is best known as the singing voice of Miriam in the Disney movie Prince of Egypt.

Isro’il/Bukharan Jews, Central AsiaBukharan Jews historically spoke Bukhori, a dialect of Farsi. Their name refers to the former Emirate of Bukhara - modern day Uzbekistan. They call themselves Isro’il (Israelites). They were the largest Jewish community in Central Asia, settling there from at least the fourth century CE. Early Bukharan Jews shared a mosque with local Muslims, but by the eighteenth century they faced persecution and forced conversion. By the middle of the nineteen century the community started emigrating to Palestine. From 1865, under Russian rule, Bukharan Jews could practise Judaism but were relegated to the ghetto and forced to wear distinctive clothing. The vast majority emigrated after the end of the Soviet Union. Today, there are around 150,000 Bukharan Jews in Israel and 60,000 in the USA. A few thousand still remain in Uzbekistan. Despite a population of 15,000 in 1989, almost none remain in Tajikistan after the government destroyed the Synagogue, kosher butcher and Jewish school in 2008. Bukharan Jews have their own music called Shashmaqam, which is an ensemble of stringed instruments infused with Central Asian rhythms.

Bene Israel, IndiaBene Israel are one of the Jewish communities in India. They arrived in India sometime almost 2000 years ago when their ancestors were shipwrecked in western India, near the coast of Konkan, while on a trading voyage to the far east. The community reached its peak in 1948 when Bene Israel numbered 20,000. The majority have now emigrated to Israel, the US, Canada and Britain.

Beta Israel, Ethiopia Beta Israel are a group of Jews who lived in what is now Ethiopia and Eritrea. They are believed to have been isolated from mainstream Jewish communities for a thousand years, and so have slightly different practises known as ‘haymanot’. A significant portion were persecuted and forced to convert to Christianity during the 19th and 20th centuries. Their own origin stories include the idea that they were part of the lost tribe of Dan, or the tribes that came to Ethiopia with Menelik I, the child of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. In 1991, Ethiopia was facing dangerous political destabilisation and the Israeli military airlifted 14,325 Ethiopian Jews to Israel in 36 hours in Operation Solomon. 130,000 Beta Israel now live in Israel, with 4000 remaining in Ethiopia, and others living around the world. Beta Israel are sometimes referred to as Falasha, a derogatory term meaning “landless wanderers”

Edith Stein, GermanyEdith Stein was a Polish and German Jewish philosopher who converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Discalced Carmelite nun. She is canonised as a martyr and saint of the Catholic Church, and known by the religious name Teresia Benedicta a Cruce. After being baptised in 1922, she taught at a Catholic school in Speyer, but had to give up her position in 1933 as Christian converts were still counted as Jews by Nazi racial criteria and civil servants required an “Aryan certificate”. She joined a monastery in Cologne, but was soon sent to a monastery in the Netherlands for her safety. Theresia was arrested by the Nazis on 2 August 1942 and sent to Auschwitz, where she died in the gas chamber seven days later.

MaNishtana, USAMaNishtana is a New York-based African-American Orthodox Jew–born from two African-American Orthodox Jewish parents. He is a Rabbi and author of three books on the intersection of Jewish and African-American identity. MaNishtana was born and grew up Chabad-Lubavitch (a particular stream of Orthodox Judaism) and hails from a legacy of African-American Judaism stretching back to the 1780s.

Jason Biggs, USADespite playing Jews “almost exclusively” since childhood, Jason Biggs is actually Roman Catholic...


Ideological

refers to the system of beliefs and ideas. Often there’s an overall sense that one group is better than another and in some measure should have the right to control the other group.

Interpersonal

refers to individual members of the dominant group personally mistreating individuals in the oppressed group.

An important note here - people in dominant groups are often not consciously oppressive. We’ve internalised the negative messages about other groups, and consider our attitudes towards them quite normal.

Institutional

refers to how these ideas are embedded in the institutions of our society - the laws, the justice system, police practice, the education system, hiring policies, housing development, images shared in the media, distribution of political power, and so much more.

Internalised

refers to oppressed people internalising our ideology of inferiority and believing the negative messages about ourselves. The oppressor doesn’t have to exert any more pressure because we now do it to ourselves and each other.

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RADAR Project: Regulating Anti-Discrimination and Anti-Racism JUST/2013/FRAC/AG/6271

Pyramid of Hate

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Genocide

deliberate killing of a

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Acts of prejudice and bigotry

Acts of subtle bias

THE TRIANGLE OF HARM

The Anti Defamation League adapted the work of Gordon Allport and Gregory Stanton into this pyramid


THE CYCLE OF ANTISEMITISM


TROPE 1: JEWS & MONEYJews as money grabbing, greedy and cheap



JEWS & MONEY

April Rosenblum summarises the origins of the trope: “For centuries in Christian empires, Jews were not legally permitted

to work in mainstream professions. They often survived by working at trades forbidden to, or considered ‘beneath’,

Christians. During the Middle Ages, Christians were not allowed to lend money because the Church believed that

collecting interest from loaned money was a sin. At the same time Jews were not allowed to do many of the jobs

that Christians did – they were explicitly banned from Guilds, and most professions. Since the Jews were able to

collect interest from the Christians, many became money lenders and lots of rulers (including in Britain, with William

the Conqueror) required Jews to be tax collectors. Although some Jews benefited from economic privilege, most

remained poor, and the classic dynamic of anti-Jewish oppression went on: Jews who got to work did so at the price

of everyday exposure to the violence and anger of poor peasants in debt; rulers got to use them as scapegoats

in time of economic instability.”

Recent scholarship has made clear that even in the medieval era, most Jews weren’t involved in money lending,

and the majority of money lenders were actually Christian (which frustrated the church, resulting in increasingly hard

opposition to it). In order to enforce the idea that money lending was a negative, ‘unchristian’ practise, the Church

actively portrayed it as ‘Jewish.

New York organisation Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) breaks down myths about money and Jews in

contemporary America: “The very wealthiest individuals on the planet are predominantly Christian according to

non-partisan wealth research firm New World Wealth. In 2015, their study found that more than half of the world’s

millionaires identified as Christian and that there are more Hindu and Muslim millionaires than Jewish ones. Of the 13.1

million people in the world who are millionaires, 56.2% were Christians, while 6.5% were Muslims, 3.9% are Hindu and

1.7% are Jewish. Contrary to conspiracy theories about Jews - and conspiracy theories about economic dominance

in general - no single group controls the planet’s wealth.”

We don’t have similar data in Britain, but it may surprise you to know that in Reform and Liberal Synagogues, around

50% of members pay a ‘reduced fee’ subscription, and that there are at least two Jewish soup kitchens operating in

London today (because most food banks don’t supply Kosher food).

In Europe, antisemitic myths around Jews and money often are linked to the Rothschild family – a trope which allows

antisemites to combine depictions of Jews as rich, secretly powerful, and somehow not loyal to their country through

their ‘internationalism’. Rothschilds is a merchant bank. Many people, particularly progressives, may have critiques

of banking as an industry – but the bank remains statistically small compared to similar banks founded by white,

Christian, men that are not often conflated with the same stereotypes (e.g.. JP Morgan) and Rothschilds are not

bankrolling national banks, nor the World Bank, as often accused. In common with many of the antisemitic stories

about how Jews became linked to finance, the founder of Rothschild’s Bank, Mayer Amschel Rothschild, grew up

in poverty in a ghetto (an area of a city, normally too small, where Jews were forced to live), where his father had

been pushed into money lending because of restrictions on Jewish employment. How we talk about the Rothschilds

is evidence of the double bind Jews were in – required to take on these jobs because of antisemitic laws, but then

punished for having done so.


TROPE 2: JEWS & POWERJews as secretly controlling the Government, media, other minorities & world


Jews are Behind the “Legally Black” CampaignDiversity Macht Frei

March 4, 2018

The Legally Black campaign, which racially appropriates white culture by replacing white actors with

negroes in iconic movie posters, only kicked off a couple of days ago. But it’s already been endorsed by

prominent politicians and actors and been given extensive coverage on TV. When your message fits the

Establishment narrative, you get the fast-track to prime time.

Members of the campaign were interviewed on both Sky TV and the BBC this morning. The Sky News

interview is shown. Note the irony of two negro news presenters complaining about underrepresentation

of blacks in the media when they are only 2-3% of the UK population yet comprise 100% of the

participants in this conversation. The pathetic white cuck isn’t allowed to speak.

In the course of the interview, the blacks revealed that the funding and support for their billboard

campaign came from Advocacy Academy.

AdvocacyAcademy

According to their website, Advocacy Academy was founded by Amelia Viney. You won’t be surprised to

learn that she is Jewish.

This fits with a long tradition of Jews weaponizing other minorities against Christians and Europeans,

from Muhammad to Martin Luther King. And they wonder why they are hated.


JEWS & POWER

Antisemitic ideas about Jews often portray our community as the ‘secret power ’ in some way. The locus of this con-

trol varies, but often involves government, media or banking, but has extended to ‘shadowy groups’ of people who

are ‘really in charge’, and in some memorable cases, accusations of controlling the weather (see some excellent

responses here: www.heyalma.com/best-jokes-jews-controlling-weather).

Probably the most famous example of this trope is in a document called The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which

is a fabricated text pretending to be the minutes of the meeting where Jewish leaders discuss their goal of world

domination. This document was a hoax that first appeared in Russia in 1903 but has since been translated to mul-

tiple languages, and Henry Ford funded the printing of half a million copies to be distributed across the US in the

1920s. Despite this being totally fake and more than a century old, it is still widely available and believed today.

The Protocols are a basic template for many modern anti-Jewish conspiracy theories: sneaky, greedy Jews secretly

plotting to control the weather, manipulate financial systems, influence the media, destroy the Labour party, stage

the 9/11 terrorist attacks, or put Black people in charge of everything.

According to April Rosenblum,“The idea that Jews control the government or the world began with church au-

thorities passing down images of Jews as a group in league with the Devil, with special powers from the Devil that

gave them evil control over earthly events. In Europe, Christian rulers furthered the myth that Jews were in control, by

forcing Jews into roles where they appeared as “the face” of power with which everyday peasants interacted (i.e.

as tax collectors). As European culture grew more secular, the idea was modernised, and brought to a new level

of worldwide fame in the form of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion forgery. During the Nazi years, this European

propaganda was imported to non-European cultures, including the Arab countries, where oppression of Jews had

previously been based not on myths of Jewish world power, but on simpler notions that Jews ought to stay in their

place as second-class citizens.”

A few things are worth lifting up in this analysis. Firstly, this links to how Jews were used as a “buffer” by those in

power - sometimes literally, in the case of the Pale of Settlement. Jews are often used as the visible face of much

more complex systems of power, a role referred to as “the middlemen” or “middle agents”. It reflects the function of

antisemitism – which is for Jews to act as a decoy for whoever is in power - a group that is tolerated in order to, at

the right moment, act as scapegoats.

As Aurora Levins Morales, a Puerto Rican Jewish writer and poet, writes: “[Anti black] Racism is like a millstone, a

crushing weight that relentlessly presses down on people intended to be a permanent underclass. Its purpose is

to press profit from us, right to the edge of extermination and beyond. The oppression of Jews is a conjuring trick, a

pressure valve, a shunt that redirects the rage of working people away from the 1%, a hidden mechanism, a set up

that works through misdirection, that uses privilege to hide the gears. Unlike racism, at least some of its targets must

be seen to prosper, must be well paid and highly visible. The goal is not to crush us, it ’s to have us available for

crushing. Christian rulers use us to administer their power, to manage for them, and set us up in the window displays

of capitalism for the next time the poor pick up stones to throw. What is hard for the angry multitudes to see is that

Jews don’t succeed in spite of our oppression. We are kept insecure by our history of sudden assaults, and some


of us, a minority of us, are offered the uncertain bribes of privilege and protection. Privilege for a visible sample

of us is the only way to make the whole tricky business work. Then, when the wrath of the most oppressed, whether

Russian peasants starving on potatoes or urban US People of Color pressed to the wall, reaches boiling point,

there we are: The Tsar ’s tax collector, the shopkeeper and the pawnbroker, the landlord and the lawyer, the social

worker and the school administrator. And whether it ’s a Polish aristocrat watching the torches go by on pogrom

or the Episcopalian banker discreetly out of sight while working class people tell each other that Jews control the

economy, the trick works.”

Secondly, part of how Antisemitism often works is by suggesting that Jews aren’t vulnerable, or not as vulnerable as

other communities. This means often that, combined with segregation of Jews, or the deliberate opportunity to al-

low some Jews to rise to positions of power and prominence, we are often divided from the very people who would

normally be our allies. We’re seen as ‘not really at risk’ or ‘crying wolf ’. The most obvious undermining of the idea

that the Jews are so powerful is the fact that a third of Jews were murdered in the Holocaust - the Jewish community

has still not reached its pre -Holocaust numbers. This happened the last century and on our own continent - and

our country only let in a small number of children, despite Jewish communities begging the Home Office. This is why

Holocaust denial is such an important trope for antisemites – it seeks to “prove” that Jews aren’t really vulnerable,

as that would mean they can’t be all-powerful.

Thirdly, this trope often interplays with other kinds of racism, particularly anti-black racism. Eric K. Ward, author of

Skin in the Game who spent time with white supremacist groups, writes, “The successes of the civil rights movement

created a terrible problem for White supremacist ideology. White supremacism had been the law of the land, and

a Black-led social movement had toppled the political regime that supported it. How could a race of inferiors

have unseated this power structure through organizing alone? Some secret cabal, some mythological power, must

be manipulating the social order behind the scenes. This diabolical evil must control television, banking, enter-

tainment, education, and even Washington, D.C. It must be brainwashing White people, rendering them racially

unconscious. What is this arch-nemesis of the White race, whose machinations have prevented the natural and

inevitable imposition of white supremacy? It is, of course, the Jews. Jews function for today’s White nationalists as

they often have for antisemites through the centuries: as the demons stirring an otherwise changing and hetero-

geneous pot of lesser evils ”


TROPE 3: JEWISH BODIESJews as big-nosed, weak-bodied and pale or yellow skinned



JEWISH BODIES

As we have seen, there is no single way to “look” Jewish. However, there have long been historic tropes about how Jews

look – they normally are depicted as weak, big and hooked nose, with pale or yellow skin.

Part of this is an antisemitic trope of Jews as “foreign” or “other” - Jews are often portrayed xenophobically for the purpose

of being juxtaposed with a European, blonde haired, blue eyed, “Aryan” ideal. Historically (until the 1950s), even light-

skinned Ashkenazi Jews were not considered ‘white’ in Britain, America, or South Africa – and to white supremacists they

still are not. Deep in antisemitism is the idea that Jews are a foreign pollutant, and so antisemitic depictions of Jews often

portray us as that. In modern day imagery, Jews are often depicted as just very ‘other’ – photos of Charedi men from the

back have become the stock image used by even mainstream news channels.

Some tropes are worth being particularly aware of:

• Horns. Some of the imagery is simply to make Jews look unattractive and devil-like. Jews are often depicted in antise-

mitic cartoons as having horns – which combines both a Christian idea that Jews were in league with the devil, and

a deliberate mistranslation of a verse of Torah where Moses is described as coming down from Sinai with beams

of light coming out of his head.

• A large or hooked nose. The truth is, there is no Jewish nose. Where does this trope come from? Just to prove how

rooted this idea is in genetics, it doesn’t come about until the 12th century. At that time, a new Christian devotional

style becomes popular - one that focused on the suffering of a mortal Jesus on the cross. Ideas that Jews were

‘hard hearted’ to the suffering of Jesus result in the earliest depiction of a nose being symbolic of Jewish bodies.

Jews were portrayed as turning their head so as to highlight the lack of concern they were giving to Jesus’ suffering,

thus revealing a large nose in profile. In time, that idea was expanded to all Jews. Sara Lipton writes, “This image

served many purposes. In being so fleshily vivid and realistic, the Jew’s face seemed to embody for Christian viewers

the physical, secular, material world, a realm with which Jews had long been associated in Christian polemic. Four

centuries of seeing pointy-hatted, big-nosed, bearded Jews in art had conditioned Christians to regard Jews as

different and socially distant.” Other theorists have suggested other, psychological frames played a part – that the

nose is a stand in for a circumcised penis, somehow deformed in the Christian imagination. This idea has roots in the

European imagination all the way to back to Ovid, who wrote “noscitur e nano quanta sit hast viro” - “It is known

from the nose how much “haft” has the man”.

• Jewish men as weak. Some of the antisemitic imagery, perhaps unsurprisingly, has roots in real antisemitic experi-

ence. Jews were banned from carrying weapons under both Christian and Muslim regimes, and Jews repeatedly

experienced violence they were not able to defend themselves or their families from. This played a big part in the

re-imagining, post-Holocaust, of a militarised and secure Jewish ideal. Today, we often see images of Jewish men as

nerdy, weak or physically in contrast to the strong Aryan ideal.

• Jews as smelling bad. This is a trope that originated in the medieval era with the idea that Jews bodies smelled

as a result of drinking Christian blood. It has largely fallen out of use, but occasionally comes up in new ways – for

example, in a Swiss hotel that displayed a sign demanding Jewish guests had a shower before using the swimming

pool, the story of an airline removing a Jewish family for smelling bad, or in the phrase , “stinking Jews” that is still re-

peated today.


TROPE 4: Jews & murderJews as murderous child killers & blood-lusting



Jews & murder

One of the most famous antisemitic tropes is the Blood Libel. It began in the 12th century in Norwich – a Christian

child called William died, and Jews were accused of being the reason why. The trope, in its classic form, accuses

Jewish communities of seeking the blood of non-Jews – and normally non-Jewish children - to use in religious rituals

(e.g. as an ingredient in Passover matzah, or to recreate the crucifixion of Jesus.)

Whilst originating in England, this Blood Libel later repeats across Europe, and then across much of the rest of

the world -

• In 1250, the cult of Dominguito del Vals in Spain claimed the child was murdered by Jews

• Along with William of Norwich, Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln and Simon of Trent became objects of local

cults and veneration in the UK after similar accusations.

• Attacks on Jews after false accusations have occurred also in Bristol, Bury St Edmunds, Gloucester, York

and London.

• In 1910, Jews in Shiraz, Iran are killed for the same story

• Attacks occur across the Russian Empire with the same justification

• Even in 2005, 20 members of the Russian Duma called for all Jewish organisations to be banned because

of “ritual murder”

There have been repeated killing of Jews when this accusation has occurred. According to Walter Laqueur,

“Altogether, there have been about 150 recorded cases of blood libel (not to mention thousands of rumours)

that resulted in the arrest and killing of Jews throughout history, most of them in the Middle Ages. In almost every

case, Jews were murdered, sometimes by a mob, sometimes following torture and a trial.”

In England, the most famous account of libel was written by Chaucer in 1255 after a child named Hugh was

found dead. This lead to a number of Jews being executed by the Crown.

In the 16th century, Suleiman the Magnificant, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, issued a royal decree denounc-

ing blood libels. In 1955, Church of England leaders put up a plaque at Lincoln Cathedral to apologise for

“trumped up stories of ‘ritual murders’ of Christian boys by Jewish communities. . .These fictions cost many innocent

Jews their lives…Such stories do not redound to the credit of Christendom”. In Catholicism, the Vatican officially

banned the cult of Dominguito in 1965. Despite this, his icons still remain in cathedrals in Seville and Zaragoza.

In Judaism, the use of blood (human or otherwise) in cooking is prohibited by the kashrut (kosher dietary laws).

Blood from slaughtered animals may not be consumed, and it must be drained out of the animal (Leviticus

17:12-13).


TROPE 5: Jews & loyaltyJews as the conspiring fifth column: the enemy of Capitalism, Com-

munism, the Church and Christianity


Amelia Viney <[email protected]>

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Charlotte Fischer <[email protected]> 24 January 2020 at 15:40To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>

From: Charlotte Fischer Sent: 28 October 2016 07:22 To: Carina CrawfordRolt <Carina.Crawford[email protected]>; Human Resources CUK<[email protected]> Subject: Fwd: Muslims Refugees in Israel Just forwarding to you so there is a record. C Charlotte FischerCommunity Organiser, Barnet & the Jewish CommunityCitizens UKwww.citizensuk.org Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message:

From: Jen Greenberg <[email protected]> Date: 28 October 2016 06:05:29 BST To: [email protected] Subject: Muslims Refugees in Israel

Hi Charlotte, I saw the video of your fellow Jews advocating for more Muslim and black refugees in the UK. Why don'tyou jews put your money where your mouth is and send them all to Israel or to Saudi. Those are richcountries. Stop destroying the UK and Europe with your filthy cousins. Keep them all in Israel or theMiddle East. It was a big mistake bringing the Jews into the UK before WW2 and also fighting against Hitler. If onlywe knew how you rats would bite us in the behind, we would have not helped you. So stop yourfoolishness and now we know why you jews were kicked out of every country in the world. You tried todestroy them. Karma will one day destroy you destroyers. Jen.


Jews & loyalty

The function of Antisemitism is for Jews to act as a decoy for whoever is in power - a group that is tolerated in

order to, at the right moment, act as scapegoats. When there is unrest, Jews are presented as the ‘power ’ - the

reason why something bad is happening.

One of the tropes that allows this to work is of Jews as the ‘enemy’. This can be framed as Jews not being loyal to

a country, a political party, a ‘race’, a social class, or any other grouping.

In the 19th century, with the beginnings of nationalism and Jewish emancipation, these concerns of loyalty were

often framed around the fact Jews had behaviours that were not shared by secular people or Christians – they

kept dietary or religious practises, and the fact Jewish communities reached across nation state borders – so was

there true loyalty to each other?

As part of this concern around Jews and their loyalty, Jews are often portrayed as crafty or cunning. This also fits

into the cycle of antisemitism, where Jews are deliberately isolated from other communities who could be allies

by being seen as a problem instead. Most recently, this trope has been used by some members of the Black

Hebrew Israelites, who have portrayed Jews as the fake descendants of the twelve tribes of Israel (usurping the

true descendants, black and brown people).

Confusingly (for Jews too!) this trope of Jews and loyalty can mean Jews are – depending on whether the anti-

semitism is coming from the left or the right – depicted as both communist radical agitators or as the capitalists

behind structural oppression betraying working people. This played out recently when some Labour activists

described a Jewish community protest against antisemitism in the party as really being at the behest of ring wing

Conservative stooges, despite the Jewish Labour Movement, Jewish Labour members, and a number of Labour

MPs attending.

In left wing antisemitism, Jews are often portrayed as right wing, conservative, and associated with money. In right

wing antisemitism, Jews are often portrayed as agents of communism or socialism, a force allied to other minorities

and progressive communities, and behind civil rights, feminism, or multiculturalism.

As Ruth Wodak puts it, “You have sort of the communist - the revolutionary, and you have the capitalist - the rich

Jew. You have the intellectual, who’s sort of thinking about how to upheave, and destroy, and change society.

On the other hand, you have the greedy Jew, who’s only after your money and basically who only trades, who

doesn’t really work. So my theory about antisemitism is what I call the “Judeus ex machina,” which means whenever

you need an enemy image, you can produce one by instrumentalizing any clichés about Jews. And that seems

to work very well right now, that whenever you need some kind of cliché and stereotype, it ’s like if you would grab

into a big bag and you just pull out whatever suits this kind of political function. “


TROPE 6: JEWS, GOD & THE DEVIL Jews as the devil, demonic and the embodiment of evil


JEWS, GOD & THE DEVIL

Jews as the ‘source of evil’ is a common trope, and not unconnected to those around Jews and power or Jews

and appearance.

In the early days of Christianity, this was framed was a theological battle around Jews refusing to accept Chris-

tianity - if they wouldn’t accept this version of God then they are effectively rejecting salvation and must be in

support of the devil. And in our section on bodies, we’ve already covered tropes of the Jews as literally horned

like the devil.

Much of the sense of Jews as evil increases when the Roman Empire become Christian. From this point onwards, it

is no longer politic for the Roman authority to be responsible for Jesus’ death, and so the role of Rome is minimised

and Jews become responsible for Deicide.

Under Nazism, antisemitism was also framed as a battle against evil. ‘Redemptive antisemitism’ saw destroying

Jews as destroying a source of sin that must be eradicated to save the world. Nazis believed in a ‘natural hi-

erarchy’ of humans that Jews undermined, claiming that peace could only be achieved by murdering Jews and

returning to that order.

In 2017, white nationalists in the US marched in Charlottesville under the banner “Jews are Satan’s children”. In an-

other example about how the same antisemitic tropes can be used by both sides of the political spectrum, leaders

such as Louis Farrakhan in the Nation of Islam have also repeatedly invoked the imagery of “Satanic Jews”.

More recently, some members of the Hebrew Israelites, a black separatist church who are not considered Jewish

by the Jewish community (and are entirely unrelated to the many black Jews), have been in the headlines for

carrying out lethal antisemitic hate crimes. Some Hebrew Israelites hold antisemitic views as fundamental parts

of their ideology. Recently, a member was filmed verbally harassing a Jewish family on the Northern Line tube in

London and another member shoot dead three people in a kosher supermarket in New Jersey. Antisemitic He-

brew Israelite ideology draws on some of the same tropes we’ve seen before – it asserts that Jews are liars and

false worshippers of God, that they are working for and/or worship Satan, and that they have tricked their way

into being seen as the descendants of the Israelites when in fact Hebrew Israelites are the ‘true descendants’

of the Twelve Tribes.


LESSONS ON LANGUAGEWHAT IS SAID OR DONE The Jewish Litmus Test

WHAT MIGHT BE HEARD OR UNDERSTOOD This is when Jews have to effectively pass an additional test that other folks don’t, by relaying their politics on Israel-Palestine, or the Labour party, before they are allowed to participate.

There’s two major problems with this. One is obviously that it ’s racist. The fact we are Jewish shouldn’t in itself be cause for suspicion or additional checks. The second is that it harms our fight against antisemitism. A commitment to fighting antisemitism has to extend to all Jews, not just to Jews you agree with. Ditto racism, feminism, homophobia and so on - respecting women that you respect is not the same as respecting women. The reason for this is best framed by the academic an authour Keith Kahn-Harris, when he talks about a concept of ‘selective’ versus ‘consensus’ antisemitism:

“Consensus Antisemitism is easily identifiable - the open, unashamed, visceral hatred, disdain or abuse directed at Jews as Jews. It does not seek Jewish approval and has no place for anything other than the occasional, highly excep-tional, Jew within it. Consensus Antisemitism is indifferent to who Jews actually are and what they actually believe, and is sometimes entirely ignorant of them. The nexus of politics and identity is not a problem for consensus Antisemites as there is no politics that Jews could hold that would “save” them. Consensus Antisemitism is directed at all Jews and has no interest in Jewish diversity; it assumes that Jews themselves form a consensus. When Robert Bowers opened fire on worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh he shouted “All Jews must die”. In contrast, selective Antisemitism is intensely interested in and even knowledgeable about who Jews are and, in particular, what politics they hold. Se-lective Antisemites seek out Jews for approval or damnation; they make alliances with some Jews and hold them close.”

Here’s why only fighting antisemitism directed against Jews you like isn’t good enough: because no Jew, no matter how much you may disagree with them on Israel-Palestine, deserves to be killed for being Jewish. When a consensus anti-semite, a person who really hates all Jews, comes for us, every Jew is hurt by it. And picking and choosing the Jews you like, or finding one or a handful of Jews that agree with you, just builds the idea that some Jews are okay and some aren’t – when the commitment to fighting against racism has to be unconditional. No Jew deserves to experience anti-semitism no matter what other horrible politics they have that we may need to hold them accountable for – otherwise you end up applying rights for some but not all.

WHAT IS SAID OR DONE Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)

WHAT MIGHT BE HEARD OR UNDERSTOOD Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions is a non violent strategy that has been used in many struggles, from the Civil Rights Movement to the anti-apartheid movement. It is not innately an antisemitic strategy. The Palestinian BDS campaign, headquartered in Ramallah, does not ask for a boycott on Jews, it very specifically boycotts Israeli products and state organisations and their representatives. Not everyone who supports BDS necessarily understands that, but that is what the Palestinian call is for. We wanted to flag why, even with this specific framing, it is so painful to some people in our community. Specifically for Jews, a boycott often echoes his-torical experiences of boycotts of Jewish businesses, specifically but not exclusively under Nazi Germany (boycotts of Jewish businesses also existed in Canada, the US, Poland and Austria). From the 1st April 1933, the Nazi government announced a boycott of Jewish owned businesses, their first official act of discrimination against Jews. A star of David was painted on the doors and windows of many Jewish owned businesses, and SS officers stood outside of them to intimidate non-Jews not to go in. Signs went up saying, ‘don’t buy from Jews’, ‘ the Jews are our misfortune!” and, somewhat ironically now, ‘Go to Palestine!”. These boycotts resulted in a number of attacks on Jews and Jewish buildings. That doesn’t mean BDS is innately antisemitic or an illegitimate tactic – it just means that it can be quite traumatising for a lot of Jews and Jewish communities.


WHAT IS SAID OR DONE Stereotypes of Jews (Jewish Princess, Jewish Mother. . . )

WHAT MIGHT BE HEARD OR UNDERSTOOD I’d put this in the confusing box of things that are sometimes used by Jews, but should not be used by non Jews – like the n-word by black people. The image of a Jewish princess as a rich, greedy, spoilt, shallow young Jewish woman is just an ancient trope of Jews as money grabbing wrapped up in misogynistic clothing.

There is some odd gendered framing of Jewish women as “Jewish Mothers” – that we are somehow overbearing, hy-pochondriac worriers, obsessed with feeding, matchmaking and k’velling about our children. Jews actually invoke this trope all the time – but it may not be one for non-Jews to use. Partly that’s because it creates a box that Jewish women are then meant to fit into. As it so happens, I do like feeding people, but I’m not even a mother, and I’m definitely not your mother, so a non-Jew tying that quality to my Jewishness feels like I’m being forced into some weird performance of what Jews should be.

WHAT IS SAID OR DONE Comparing Jews or Israel to Nazis or Hitler

WHAT MIGHT BE HEARD OR UNDERSTOOD Let’s look at this through a feminist lens: we would never allow someone to use the worst thing that has happened to a person (where they were unarguably a victim) as the same stick to beat that person with. It is not appropriate to use the fact someone has been raped as a weapon against them - we wouldn’t say “as someone who has survived rape, how can you justify xyz”. People’s ideology and actions are open to criticism, but not by weaponising things they were victims of.

In the same vein, we recommend you don’t use language around Nazis, or comparisons to Nazism, to describe Jews or the state of Israel - 1) it ’s not accurate; 2) It causes harm by (re)traumatising people. Anything you want to point out about a person or a state’s behaviour you can say directly and clearly without comparing it to the party that perpetrated genocide against its people.

WHAT IS SAID OR DONE “Slur” or “smear”

WHAT MIGHT BE HEARD OR UNDERSTOOD As the Community Security Trust writes: “The implication of this ‘smear ’ allegation is not just that complainants are wrong about whether there is a significant problem of antisemitism. . . it is that they deliberately and maliciously invent, exaggerate or misrepresent alleged examples of antisemitism, in a coor-dinated and knowing way, for political purposes. This directly contradicts fundamental anti-racist principles, as set out in The MacPherson Report of the inquiry into the murder of Stephen Lawrence, that an allegation of racism should be taken seriously and investigated in good faith.

Even worse, [when in relation to Labour] the notion that Jews would lie about antisemitism in order to prevent the elec-tion of a Prime Minister who would care for ‘the many’ against ‘the few’ echoes antisemitic conspiracy theories that accuse Jews of dishonesty and manipulation in pursuit of goals that are opposed to the interests of the nation as a whole. It assumes bad faith, cunning and secret coordination: standard features of antisemitic conspiracy theories down the ages. . .”

According to academic Dr David Hirsh, writing about the ‘smear ’ allegation in 2018: “The standard response to Jews is not that they have misjudged the situation, perhaps for understandable reasons related to their history. . . The standard response to Jews is that they know that their claims of having experienced antisemitism are false, and they persist in making them anyway for selfish tribal reasons…Moreover this is the charge made against the community as a whole, not only against particular individuals… Make no mistake, the charge against the Jewish community is that it is involved in a conspiracy against the left. Any individual could get it wrong. But when a whole community gets it wrong together, in an organised and co-ordinated way, and in bad faith, then the allegation is one of Jewish conspiracy to lie and to smear.”


WHAT IS SAID OR DONE Zionist & Zio

WHAT MIGHT BE HEARD OR UNDERSTOOD First of all, the word Zionist is not always used as a negative. Lots of Jews will define themselves positively as Zionists. But there are a few things we want to say about the pejorative use of the term.

• Don’t use it as synonym or euphemism for Jew or Jewish

• Definitely don’t use the terms Zio, ZioNazi, Zio troll

• Zionism is a really broad church. Most simply, it is a form of nationalism that believes in a relationship between the Jewish people and the land that is now the modern states of Israel and Palestine. What that relationship looks like varies significantly from person to person - from settlers who believe in one Jewish-only state encompassing the whole of Israel/Palestine, to cultural Zionists or groups like Brit Shalom, who wanted to live in the land of Israel, but not in a Jewish state, sharing exactly equal status with Palestinians.

• If you repeat any of the tropes we’ve spoken about that have existed for hundreds of year, and you just change the word Jewish to Zionist, it will sound like you’re being antisemitic. This is partly because others have already played that game - language gets co-opted.

• Take a moment to think about this in the context of other struggles. Most of us are familiar with the term queer. When we were growing up, it was mainly used in a derogatory way, and has been deliberately reclaimed by LGBTQ communities. Ditto, if you think of the word n-e-g-r-o, which was not innately negative (it is the French for black and 100 years ago most black organisations referred to their own organisations with that in the title. These words got co-opted or reclaimed and the meanings changed. As a result, people who are not black should not use any of the n-words.

• Language is a social frame and so the meaning of your words is not only decided by you. Somebody can’t use the n-word and acceptably say “well, I didn’t mean it like that” – other people have imbued it with meaning that exists regardless of whether they mean it that way or not. And lots of people on the far right have already chosen to do that with the word Zionist.

• The far right uses the term Zionist in very problematic ways. They refer to the ZOG, or Zionist Occupation Government, not to refer to Palestine, but to refer to a conspiracy theory that Jews secretly control all western governments. Just in case they weren’t being subtle enough in that antisemitic trope, they sometimes refer to the JOG, or Jewish Occupational Government.

• Far right neo-Nazi websites use the word Zio or Zionist for Jew all the time, switching the word “Jewish” with “Zionist” but referring to the same conspiracies or tropes e.g. “Zionist media”. It ’s not good enough to say whatever you were going to say and defend it with the justification “I said Zionist, I didn’t mean Jew!”

• This means it is incredibly important to be specific. E.g. “I hate his Zio politics” versus “I don’t agree with an ethno-nationalist state that affords some groups within it more rights than others”.

• This doesn’t mean we can guarantee no one will ever find your words offensive, but it means you have a much better chance of advocating for an anti-racist cause that matters without invoking another form of racism.

• By the way, this isn’t the only euphemism for Jewish – Rothschilds, North London intellectuals, New York humour. . . Jewish is much shorter to say – just use it, then at least we’ll all be on the same page.


WHAT IS SAID OR DONE Blaming Israel for Antisemitism

WHAT MIGHT BE HEARD Violent and virulent antisemitism pre-existed the state of Israel by about 2000 years. It ex-isted before the modern form of Zionism, and in fact part of the reason the current form of Zionism came about was because of antisemitism. If the state of Israel disappeared, the idea antisemitism would miraculously end is false.

WHAT IS SAID OR DONE Israel has no right to exist

WHAT MIGHT BE HEARD OR UNDERSTOOD There are three main things that get brought up for some Jews when

they hear this phrase. The first is a feeling of exceptionalism - why does everyone else have the right to self-determina-

tion in the form of a nation state and the Jewish people don’t? We question other state’s governments and policies,

but rarely their continued existence, despite plenty of them being founded on war, colonisation, and genocide. For

some Jews, it ’s the double standard that can feel troubling.

The second is around the erasure of Jewish history. Jews have lived in Israel/Palestine for thousands of years, and it has

a central place in our story as a historic homeland from which our ancestors were forcibly exiled. Sometimes, the idea

of Israel not having the right to exist can be used as a way to deny the historic and religious connection of the Jewish

people to the land, and in turn can feel like co-option of the Jewish story.

The third is around safety. For many Jews the deep and difficult question is, “If Israel ceases to exist, then where do we

go when things fall apart again?” As a people, we’ve been thrown out of almost every country we’ve ever lived in.

Most of the time, no one took us in - we were met with closed doors. Even the Jews who would never move to Israel of

their own free will can see it as a safety net - something put to the test when Soviet and Ethiopian Jews faced perse-

cution in the countries they called home for centuries. No matter how we individually feel about it as a country, If Israel

ceases to be, many Jews fear that there will be no back up - we face the possibility of being stateless once again

and without options should we face attempted annihilation.

There are all sorts of very important arguments within the community about whether the state of Israel as it exists today

really does makes Jewish people safer. And there’s no consensus about whether a different incarnation of Israel/Palestine

would make Jewish people less safe. It is also true that there are plenty of Jews who strongly believe in Palestinian rights.

This is simply to say that questing the legitimacy of the state to exist has complex undertones because the phrase

has been used to mean everything from promoting a two-state solution - to one shared Republic which affords all

peoples equal rights and power - to calling for all Jews to be pushed into the sea. Because there are people who

use this phrase to mean the forcible removal of every Jewish person from Israel/Palestine, it ’s often the ambiguity of this

phrase that leads to it being complicated for some Jews. As before, we suggest being specific.

To be clear, it is absolutely possible to criticise the State of Israel without being antisemitic, but this requires intentionality.


AJO Anti-Jewish oppression; the systemic or institutional oppression of Jewish people.

Antisemitism A modern term coined in 1879 by German nationalist Wilhem Marr, to give a sense of scientific va-

lidity to the hatred of Jews. Has only ever been used to mean hatred and abusive behaviour towards Jews.

Ashkenazi Technically: of Central or Eastern European Jewish descent. Today, however, it is often used as a

catchall term that includes Western European Jews as well

Ashkenormativity The institutionally and socially enforced omnipresence of Ashkenazi culture and history within

Jewish spaces as well as society as a whole, resulting in the erasure, marginalization and diminution of other Jewish

traditions and narratives.

Assimilation A process by which non-dominant or non-mainstream people or cultures slowly take on more and

more features of the dominant culture, and slowly lose their native/original cultural markers.

Coded Language A way that racist or sexist ideas are expressed without explicitly being clear that they are

racist or sexist. In German Lopez’s definition, “the term describes phrases that are so often targeted at a specific

group of people, or a specific idea, that eventually the circumstances of a phrases use are blended into the

phrase’s meaning...since “thug” has been used so often to describe black men even when they’re doing nothing

wrong, it now carries a racist connotation.” Professor Haney-Lopez has written “The way these words play into

stereotypes without outright mentioning them gives the user some leeway….it allows people to say, ‘Hey, I’m just

criticizing the behaviour, not criticizing a racially defined group”. With antisemitism, terms such as Zionist, Zio, North

London elite, metropolitan elite, global media have all been used.

Christian Hegemony “The everyday, systemic set of Christian values, individuals and institutions that dominate all

aspects of U.S. society” and date back to hundreds of years of global history. According to author Paul Kivel, “It

is a complex and shifting system that benefits all Christians, those raised and those passing as Christian. It refers

to the concentration of power and wealth accumulated to a predominantly Christian power elite, while all others

experience exploitation and constant vulnerability to violence.”

Dog Whistle A subtly aimed political message which is intended for, and can only be understood by, particular

groups.

Ethnicity A social group that shares a common and distinctive culture, religion, or language.

Gentile/Goy A non-Jewish person. Goy literally means nation. Not pejorative, but sometimes wrongly assumed to

be by non-Jews.

Ghetto A part of a city, especially a slum area, occupied by a minority group or groups. The term was first used

in Venice, where in 1516 Jews were forced to live in a specific area (although this was not the first time that Jews

were forced to live in a segregated area of the city). The ghetto was a walled quarter with its gates locked at

night. Jews were forced to pay the cost of building the wall. Since then, ghetto has referred to any small area of

land that populations of Jews were forced to live in throughout history. Another infamous example was the Warsaw

Ghetto in World War II Nazi-occupied Poland.

GLOSSARY


Holocaust Denial Essentially just another conspiracy theory about Jews. Holocaust deniers claim that the murder

of 6 million Jews by the Nazis never took place or they minimize the number of Jews killed. They allege a secret,

massive conspiracy by Jews to fool the world, ignoring the obvious and overwhelming evidence to the contrary

and the basic absurdity of their clam. As with climate change deniers, 9/11 conspiracists, and birthers, they often

use rhetoric that calls for an “open debate” about the Holocaust, or describe the issue as a “controversy” when

in fact there is no disagreement about the tragic truth of the Jewish genocide anywhere outside of antisemitic

fringe groups and there is nothing to debate.

Ladino/Judaeo-Spanish A form of Spanish that was spoken by Sephardi Jews. It was historically written in the

Hebrew alphabet but is now normally written in the Latin alphabet. Once the trade language across most the

Balkans, it is now under threat with most of its speakers being very elderly.

Litmus Test Referencing chemistry, a pass-fail test, meaning to judge someone harshly based on a single belief

or other criteria.

Mizrachi Jews who were indigenous to the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia, and the Balkan region, many

for up to 2,500 years. Distinct from Sephardi Jews, many of whom migrated and settled in these same regions after

their expulsion from Spain, but historically many Mizrahi Jews have referred to themselves – or been referred to – as

Sephardi Jews

Neo Nazis A term that usually refers to individuals or groups who sub- scribe to white supremacist ideology, and

or specifically the ideology and rhetoric of Adolf Hitler and the German Nazi party, usually centered around

antisemitic beliefs.

Pogrom A violent riot including attacks, killing and/or persecution of an ethnic or religious group, sometimes in-

tended to purge that group from a town or region. (In our context, aimed at Jewish people.)

Scapegoat A person or entity onto which blame is unfairly and irrationally attached.

Scientific Racism/Racial Biology Scientific racism is a pseudoscientific belief that empirical evidence (such as

skull size, skin thickness, nose size, hair texture, blood colour) exists to support or justify racism, racial inferiority, or

racial superiority. Scientific racism was common from the 1600s to the end of World War II.

Sephardim Jews who trace their heritage to Spain and Portugal, but who after the Inquisition may have moved

to the Middle East, other parts of Europe, North Africa or the Americas.

Spanish Inquisition An extension of the Papal Inquisition, set up in 15th century Spain by Catholic monarchs,

Ferdinand and Isabella, who also sent Christopher Columbus on his expedition to the Americas. After forcing all

religious heretics to either convert to Christianity or leave Spain (thereby relinquishing all assets to the Church),

the Inquisition itself lasted hundreds of years with the goal of investigating, torturing, and killing Jewish, Muslim, and

Romani conversos. It did not legally end until 1834.

White Supremacy According to Frances Lee Ansley, writing in the Cornell Law Review, white supremacy is “A political,

economic and cultural system in which whites overwhelmingly control power and material resources, conscious and

unconscious ideas of white superiority and entitlement are widespread, and relations of white dominance and non-

white subordination are daily re-enacted across a broad array of institutions and social settings.” White supremacy

is the system of oppression that empowers white people at the expense of People of Colour.


White Supremacist People who are invested in actively perpetuating the ideology of white supremacy and who

generally believe that white Christians are genetically and culturally superior to other races and religions. White

supremacist groups often have long histories of antisemitic and racialized violence.

Xenophobia A fear or hatred of foreign people or ideas.

Yiddish The historical language of Ashkenazi Jews, and a combination of Hebrew and German and Aramaic. It

is written in the Hebrew alphabet. Before the Holocaust, 11-13 million of the 17 million Jews alive spoke Yiddish;

85% of Jews who were killed in the Holocaust were Yiddish speakers. For many of the Chasidic Jews in London, it

will be the language the speak.

Trope A significant recurring theme or motif.

Zionist An extremely complicated and often confusing term, as it can be used quite legitimately in political discus-

sion. Zionism is simply the belief of the Jewish people in their right to exist, free from persecution, in their own country.

Those claiming to be only anti-Zionist, not antisemitic are denying Israel’s right to exist, which is considered to be one

of the manifestations of antisemitism. Criticism of specific policies of the Israeli government is not antisemitic.

Zionism According to Wikipedia: Zionism is the national movement of the Jewish people that supports the re-es-

tablishment of a Jewish homeland in the territory defined as the historic Land of Israel (roughly corresponding to

Canaan, the Holy Land, or the region of Palestine). Modern Zionism emerged in the late 19th century in Central

and Eastern Europe as a national revival movement, in reaction to antisemitic and exclusionary nationalist move-

ments in Europe. Soon after this, most leaders of the movement associated the main goal with creating the desired

state in Palestine, then an area controlled by the Ottoman Empire.

Advocates of Zionism view it as a national liberation movement for the repatriation of a persecuted people

residing as minorities in a variety of nations to their ancestral homeland. Critics of Zionism view it as a colonialist,

racist and exceptionalist ideology that led advocates to violence during Mandatory Palestine, followed by the

exodus of Palestinians, and the subsequent denial of their right to return to property lost during the 1948 war.

‘Zionist’ is increasingly being used as a way of avoiding saying Jew. People who do this will usually exhibit other

forms of antisemitic behaviour. The use of modifications, such as Zio, ZioTroll, and especially ZioNazi is always

Antisemitic in intent.


IDEOLOGICAL

Tune your ears. This is our first and most important job. Commit to becoming literate in antisemitism, Judaism, and

the Jewish community. This takes time and energy and requires an active choice to understand the roots and

realities of an incredibly complex system of oppression. Read, discuss, reflect, and repeat.

Avoid talking about the Jewish community as a monolith. Don’t erase Jews of colour by perpetuating the

idea that all Jews are white and Ashkenazi. Avoid falling into the trap of assuming all Jews share the same

socioeconomic status, beliefs, access to power, voting record, or traditions. Challenge the assumption that the

Jewish community has anything in common beyond that one unifying truth that we’re all Jewish.

Don’t underestimate the danger facing the Jewish community when we tell you that everything is not OK.

INTERNALISED

When we hear people reference their internalised Antisemitism, how do we respond? Firstly, we don’t take it as permission to repeat those tropes ourselves. We might hear Jews telling Jewish jokes, but that’s not an invitation

for us to do the same, or even to laugh. Our job here is to (1) identify that internalised antisemitism is at play

and (2) be sure not to compound any harm that is occurring by laughing, agreeing, or amplifying antisemitic

sentiment - even if it ’s coming from a Jewish person.

INTERPERSONAL

When you hear people using antisemitic tropes, exercise your agency and say something. Confidently interrupt

wherever tropes appear, and explain to the people using them where they come from and why they’re so egre-

gious. We’ve included a cribsheet below with language you can pick up and use to disrupt antisemitism the

moment it happens. Expect to make mistakes. It can be hard to find the right words to navigate these messy mo-

ment, and acknowledge you might say the wrong thing. Speaking out can be scary (especially in a professional

context), but antisemitism thrives, in large part because people ignore or deny its existence.

Listen to, and take the lead from, your Jewish colleagues. In moments when antisemitism is in the news, be

conscious of the pain and strain this can cause. If appropriate to your relationship, check in with them to

acknowledge what’s going on and express your support. In equal measure, avoid putting the burden on your

Jewish colleagues to explain antisemitism to you - even seemingly innocuous questions can be exhausting,

uncomfortable, and unsafe to answer - so navigate the conversation with sensitivity.

Wherever you can, cultivate meaningful relationships with Jewish people.

INSTITUTIONAL

Ensure your organisation has an anti-racist code of conduct which makes it clear that interpersonal antisemitism

is not acceptable. Hold more trainings like this one so every employee or member has a common language

to talk about antisemitism before it happens, and understands the agreed process to interrupt and be held

accountable when it does (and it will) in your spaces.

what to do tomorrowHow to start dismantling Antisemitism in your relationships & organisations


If your organisation has to depict Jews as part of its work - either through illustration or photograph - be

careful not to repeat antisemitic tropes about the ‘Jewish body’. Similarly, avoid erasing, obsessing about,

dehumanising, or generalising Charedim (strictly-Orthodox Jews), whose images are so often used to portray

us as “different” and “other”.

If Christians get to take off their religious festivals without taking annual leave, consider a process for other communities to do the same (and please don’t suggest that Jews should make this up by working on Christmas!) Also, make sure Jewish holidays are in your organisational calendars and if you wouldn’t plan a big event over Christmas, avoid doing so over the major Jewish festivals.

Ensuring you consider the need for kosher food and prayer breaks in programming, and recognise that programming on Friday evening and Saturday may make it difficult for observant Jews to attend.

Make sure your messaging doesn’t perpetuate antisemitic tropes - train your communications team to understand and avoid these, especially if your organisation speaks about inequality, oppression,

banking, religion, power, Israel/Palestine, and any other sensitive areas that cut close to the bone for the

Jewish community.

If you want to wish people well over a Jewish festival, make sure you know a little something about it. For example, don’t use the image of a loaf of bread in a Passover post when the festival explicitly bans bread (it will be seen as superficial...)


Interrupting AntisemitismCalling Out• When we need to let someone know that their words or actions are unacceptable and will not be tolerated• When we need to interrupt in order to prevent further harm• Will likely feel hard and uncomfortable, but necessary• Allows us to hit the “pause” button and break the momentum

Ouch. I need to stop you there. That word/comment is harmful. Would you like to pick a different word?

I’m going to push back against that. I disagree. I don’t see it that way because…

Okay, I am having a strong reaction to that and I'd like to let you know why.

I don’t find that funny. I wonder if you’ve considered the impact of your words?

Hmmm.. I think you may want to think this one through a bit more. How about we hit pause and speak about this later?

I want you to know how your com-ment just impacted me.

That’s not our culture here. Those aren’t our values.

Is sex/gender/gender identity/gen-der expression/race/class/ ethnicity/religion/ability/ immigration status/ body type/ marital status/ age/ pregnancy relevant to your point? How?

It sounded like you just said _______. Is that really what you meant?

I feel obligated as your peer/col-league/friend to tell you that your comment wasn’t okay.

Remember, it is a powerful thing for the target of oppression to hear these words from the mouth of an ally!

Calling In• When there is an opportunity to explore more deeply and come to a mutual sense of understanding• When we are seeking to grow and learn• When we want to help imagine different perspectives, possibilities, or outcomes• Provides for multiple perspectives and encourages shifts in thinking• Focused on reflection and response, not reaction• Is not just a suggestion (Don’t you think you should…?)

I’m curious. What do you mean by ____?

What was your intention when you said ____? How might the impact of your words/actions differ from your intent?

What sort of impact do you think your decision/comment/action might have?

Is it possible that someone might understand your words/actions differently? How might someone else experience what just happened?

How might your own comfort level, assumptions, expectations, prior experiences be influencing your beliefs, decisions, process in this moment?

How is ____ different from ____? What is the connection between ____ and ____?

How did you decide, determine, conclude ___?

When did you start thinking/acting/speaking this way? Why?

What would have to change in order for ____?

Why do you assume ____ to be true?

What were you trying to achieve by doing ____? Is this the best way? What other approaches have you considered?

Do you know why I am stopping you? Do you want to have a go at thinking through how I might re-spond?

Remember to think about how to call out the behaviour while calling in the person

Adapted from Seed The Way & The Oregon Center for Educational Equity: What Did You Just Say? Responses to Racist Comments Collected from the Field & the School Reform Initiative Pocket Guide to Probing Questions & Seed The Way


As a next step introduction

• Understanding Antisemitism, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) An Amerocentric guide to

antisemitism by a NYC based collective advocating for economic and social change Jfrej.org/wp-content/

uploads/2017/11/JFREJ-Understanding-Antisemitism-November-2017-1.pdf

• The Past Didn’t Go Anywhere, April Rosenblum A 2007 pamphlet for left wing movements created by an

American activist Archive.org/details/ThePastDidntGoAnywhere

• Strange Hate, Keith Kahn-Harris A British sociologist’s insight into how to approach tackling antisemitism

as part of a broader anti-racist outlookAntisemitism on the left

• That’s Funny, You Don’t Look Antisemitic by Steven A. Cohen A very funny 1980s guide to the history

and practises of antisemitism within the British left Libcom.org/files/thats_funny.pdf

• My Left Side Hurts more by Benji Lanyado Medium.com/@benjilanyado/my-left-side-hurts-more-

910b850ff70b

• Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution by Brendan McGeevor

• Socialist antisemitism and its discontents in England, 1884–98 A deep look at antisemitism within British

socialism at the turn of the century Core.ac.uk/download/pdf/83960427.pdf

• Antisemitism here and now by Deborah Lipstadt This is a very accessible introduction to some ideas in

antisemitism, framed as a series of letters between Professor Lipstadt and her students

Jews and race

• The Colors of Jews by Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz A book designed to challenge assumptions about the

Jewish community, by presenting the voices of Black Jews, Indian Jews, Sephardi Jews, Mizrahi Jews, and many

other Jewish communities.

• How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America by Karen Brodkin

• The Jew’s Body by Sander Gilman An examination of the historic tropes around Jews’ bodies

• The Invention of the Jewish Nose by Sara Lipton www.nybooks.com/daily/2014/11/14/invention-jewish-nose

Antisemitism, white supremacy, and anti-black racism

• Skin in the Game by Eric K. Ward An exploration of why antisemitism is so foundational to white nationalism

www.politicalresearch.org/2017/06/29/skin-in-the-game-how-antisemitism-animates-white-nationalism

• “Negroes are antisemitic because they are anti white” by James Baldwin Archive.nytimes.com/www.

nytimes.com/books/98/03/29/specials/baldwin-antisem.html

Antisemitism & Christianity

• Living in the Shadow of the Cross: Christian Hegemony by Paul Kivel A look at the idea of ‘Christian

hegemony’ and its impact, including on antisemitism

• Jewish-Christian Relations 1000-1300 by Anna Sapir Abulafia This academic book details key centu-

ries in western europe in the Christian development of antisemitic ideas and practices

INTROductory Reading List

How The Left Does Not Fight Anti‐Semitism

Left Modesty

There is one particular response from the Left, when presented with accusations of its own anti‐semitism, that is almost liturgical in its repetition. This is the vanity which leads not merely to protestations that the socialist movement has actually opposed anti‐semitism, but to the claim that it has consistently been in the vanguard of all such opposition. For instance, John Nolan (letters Socialist Challenge 1.1.81) made the modest claim that ʺin the struggle against all forms of oppression, including anti‐semitism, the I.M.G. and Socialist Challenge have proved themselves to be amongst the best of working class fightersʺ. The Stalinists have made a similar claim about their own organisations. Hyman Lumer in his preface to Lenin On the Jewish Question states that the official Communist Parties ʺhave been the most resolute fighters against all national and racial discrimination and oppressionʺ. The sect may change, but the catechism remains the same!

Enough has already been presented to reveal the misplaced arrogance of this. How could a socialist practice which has internalised so much anti‐semitism be in the forefront of resistance to it? However, it is relevant to go beyond this and to criticise much Left practice even on those occasions when it is apparently opposing anti‐semitism. The point is that this opposition often, at its best, severely underestimates anti‐semitism and, at its worst, is complicit in it by accepting its terms. Either way, it ultimately rests on a refusal to see anti‐semitism as an ideology.

Complicity in Anti‐Semitism

There have been periods in this country, as elsewhere, when sections of the Left, far from fighting anti‐semitism have threatened to unleash pogroms against Jews. An article in Justice claimed that socialists

ʺhave no feelings against Jews as Jews, but as nefarious capitalists and poisoners of the wells of public information we denounce them. It would be easy enough to get up a capitalist Jew‐bait here in London if we wished to do soʺ (21.1.1893).

It is, incidentally, not insignificant that the medieval accusation of Jews poisoning the water wells reappears under a different guise in imperialist

85 Thatʹs Funny You Donʹt Look Anti‐Semitic

THAT'S FUNNY YOU DON'T LOOK ANTISEMITICby Steve cohen, 1984

England. Moreover the S.D.F, like many other ʹsocialistsʹ believed that pogroms were a prelude to an anti‐capitalist revolution. Thus Hyndman applauded popular attacks on Jews in Austria on the grounds that:

ʺThe attack upon Jews is a convenient cover for a more direct attack upon the great landlords and Christian capitalistsʺ (The Historical Basis of Socialism, 1883).

However, the reality is that even where the Left has purported to struggle against anti‐semitism it has frequently compromised itself with anti‐Jewish feelings.

For instance the most classic form of compromise is to appeal to anti‐semites to fight fascism! If Hyndman could call upon anti‐semites to destroy capitalism (as represented by Jews), then it is equally ʹlogicalʹ to call upon anti‐semites to fight fascism as a manifestation of capitalism. In 1937 the Left Book Club published a book by G. Sacks entitled The Jewish Question. This proclaimed:

ʺHate the Jew if you must but do not allow your hatred to make you the victim of the fascist who, on the plea that he also hates the Jew, makes you his accomplice in worse crimesʺ.

Sacks then went on to point out that what was wrong with fascism was not its attacks on the Jews but that these attacks were no guarantee of a better society, thus:

ʺIf fascism really meant the end of the class struggle, then the humiliation and destruction of sixteen million Jews would be worthwhile, for the ultimate benefit to humanity would transcend that of a small minority of people who would scarcely be missedʺ.

In other words the ʹexplanationʹ we have previously examined, that anti‐semitism is just a series of ʹmistakesʹ, appears here in its ultimate form—namely as a total concession to anti‐semitic ideology.

It would be wrong to see this form of complicity as being confined to the Stalinist and social democratic tradition around the Left Book Club. Thus the Big Flame editorial of September 1982 actually stated that as a socialist response to the Israeli invasion of the Lebanon ʺit would be a serious error to participate in or help incite the emergence of a new wave of anti‐semitismʺ. The use of the word ʹerrorʹ implies that the question of unleashing pogroms is merely one of tactics.


The perverse logic of this is that if anti‐semitism acted as a break on the Israeli government then it would in some way be legitimate.

Even amongst those on the contemporary Left fighting fascism, there is occasionally a residual belief that Jews are somehow legitimate targets for popular hatred. For instance Ed Rosen in an article in Peace News (21.3.80) wrote that the Nazis used anti‐semitism in order ʺto break the power of a privileged Jewish economic communityʺ. In other words, German Jews were supposedly rich and powerful—so what else could they expect? They asked for it. Indeed, we have already seen that advocating assimilation, as an answer to anti‐semitism, itself rests on the assumption that there exists something actual and tangible in Jewish behaviour to which the anti‐semite is merely responding.

Denying The Significance Of The Material Consequences Of Anti‐Semitism

Anti‐semitism is essentially a view of the world, an ideology, yet of course it does have material and atrocious consequences for Jews—witness the ʹfinal solutionʹ. However the Left has systematically under‐estimated these material consequences as can be seen in the following examples.

The holocaust is seen as unique and without any historical precedent. Thus Nigel Ward has stated that anti‐semitism did not exist in Eastern Europe until the penetration of capital in the last century (Socialist Challenge 2.10.82). He ignores centuries of pogroms, often sanctioned by the Orthodox churches, not the least of which were the atrocities perpetrated by Chmielnicki in 1648, when an estimated one million Jews were killed—only those accepting baptism being spared. Chmielnicki is still regarded in the Ukraine as a national hero. Similarly, Ward claims that the economic position of Jews in Western Europe was ʺthreatened by the development of early capitalismʺ after the eleventh century. Quite apart from the historical error of an assumed Jewish economic position—the word ʹthreatenedʹ suggests some minor material decline. The reality was the constant attacks on Jewish communities throughout the Crusades. These in fact were repeated shortly afterwards, during the period of the Black Death (1348‐9) when Jews were blamed in popular mythology for the plague. In Germany alone, over 200 communities were exterminated whilst attacks took place on a smaller scale in Poland, Catalonia and in the north of Italy.

The other side to the perverse view that the holocaust was without precedent, is the equally perverse notion that anti‐semitism disappeared with the holocaust.


Big Flame criticised those whom it claims ʺhark back constantly to the history of anti‐semitismʺ (October 1982). In other words anti‐semitism exists only in ʹhistoryʹ—though Big Flame does have the grace to admit that the ʹtiniest elementsʹ might still be around today. This is not simply reactionary. It is ahistorical and seems to be based on the liberal and social democratic myth that anti‐semitism was defeated by the bourgeoisie in World War Two ... as though this were somehow seen by the Allies as a war against anti‐semitism. The same politics occurred in the propaganda slogan of the Anti‐Nazi League in the middle of the 1970s—ʺYesterday it was the Jews, today it is the blacksʺ, This imagined that somehow anti‐black racism didnʹt exist at the time of pre‐war fascism and that anti‐semitism disappeared after, and as a result of, imperialist war.

There is another particularly insidious aspect to this constant under‐estimation of anti‐semitism. This is the appalling attitude by the Left that Jews will have to have one foot in the grave before it will respond. By this time, of course, it will be too late anyway. Thus Uri Davies (Peace News 26.1.79) was anxious to stress that

ʺGiven the current social and political circumstances prevalent in Britain, anti‐semitism does not feature as a prominent element in British racism ... Jews in Britain are not the first nor the worst victims of racism. There is no denial that in future, given certain social and political developments, racism directed against Jews could figure more prominently in British society. But this is a contingent possibility and not a present development nor a likely development in the near futureʺ.

It is not claimed that Jews are either the ʹfirstʹ or the ʹworstʹ victims of racism—and such was certainly not claimed in the article to which this was a reply. However, it is remarkable that any attempt to draw attention to the existence of anti‐semitism can result in such slanderous assertions. The message appears to be that there is a queue or hierarchy of victims, and Jews will have to wait till they get to the front before anyone will take any serious political notice. Uri Davies seems to have a touching faith in the present social order. He should remember the misassessment of August Bebel who, in spite of his active opposition to anti‐semitism, said in 1906 that ʺIt is comforting that in Germany it will never have a chance to assert a decisive influence on the life of state or societyʺ (quoted by Silberner in an article on German Social Democracy, Historia Judaica 1953).


Paradoxically, although the reality of Jewish oppression is often denied, the Left still persists in defining the Jew as a victim, but in a purely abstract way. However, this status is a surrogate one to play us off against different groups. A coarse example was the statement by Ken Livingstone, the Labour leader of the Greater London Council, that the suffering of the Irish at the hands of the English was worse that the Nazi holocaust of European Jewry. Who are statements like this supposed to help? Certainly not the Irish, who have an autonomous existence, and donʹt require their oppression to be validated by a league table with other groups. Neither do they help the Jewish people who are in any event being constantly told that their oppression is near the bottom of any league table.

Even when certain socialists claim that the Left has constantly fought anti‐semitism, they have a totally restricted meaning of what anti‐semitism is. They ignore and leave unopposed the anti‐semitism of daily life on which fascism is ultimately built. For the Left, anti‐semitism only seems to exist, if at all, when matters get to the stage of organised violence on a mass scale. There is absolutely no recognition of the profoundly anti‐semitic culture which underlies these physical manifestations. It is as though major physical violence against Jews is an aberration which springs out of nowhere. There is a reverse side to all this. This is that anti‐semitism without physical violence is deemed simply not to exist. Cultural imperialism is just ignored. As has been emphasised, the Left actively advocates assimilationism.

Denying The Significance Of Anti‐Semitism As An Ideology

Central to the socialist compromise with anti‐semitism, and the underestimation of its material consequences, is the failure to perceive anti‐semitism as an ideological force existing in daily life. It has already been emphasised in the previous chapter how anti‐semitism is wrongly seen as a series of ʹmistakesʹ made by its proponents. There is a reverse side, though, to this analysis. Anti‐semitism is viewed as a series of tactical manoeuvres by the bourgeoisie designed to mislead the workers. The conventional wisdom of the Left is that ʹpogromsʹ are simply a diversionary tactic by the ruling class: for tactical considerations the ruling class spreads false propaganda about Jews in order to induce erroneous perceptions in the rest of the workers. It is often presented as openly as this. For instance, the Daily Worker, then the paper of the Communist Party, stated that anti‐semitism was a vehicle ʺto divert the attack upon the capitalist class as a whole into an attack upon a section of that class—the Jewish section (2.3.1933). In similar vein and in the same period, A.M. Wall, the


Secretary of the London Trades Council, in addressing a meeting called by the Jewish Peopleʹs Council in Londonʹs East End, said

ʺAnti‐semitism has always been used for the same purpose—in order to give the masses an enemy to attack so they wonʹt discover the real enemyʺ (Jewish Chronicle 16.10.36).

This analysis permeates every single part of the Left and can easily be found today. Thus Big Flame in its editorial of September 1982 explained anti‐semitism by asserting that Jews are used as ʹscape‐goatsʹ in periods of crisis. Newsline, as has already been seen, described anti‐semitism as a ʹtrump‐cardʹ which the Tories have ʹup their sleevesʹ. In other words, anti‐semitism is viewed as some form of magic trick that is kept hidden until a period of capitalist crisis, and is then used to divide the workers—who apparently have not been previously divided by it.

This is a nonsense. People are already divided by reactionary ideas of all kinds. Anti‐semitism exists in daily life. It does not need a conspiracy of the bourgeoisie to convince people. Anti‐semitism may be, in Marxist terms, ruling class ideology, in that it arguably serves the interests of any particular governing class. However, it has also developed a relative and extremely strong autonomy over the last two millennia. It is genuinely believed by all classes.

One of the reasons why Nazism was so successfully expansionist right through Europe and into parts of the USSR, was because there was a large measure of popular support for the anti‐semitism that was explicitly central to it. For instance, Polish Jewry was under increasing attack in the years prior to the Nazi take‐over, and at least one village to which Jews returned after the Nazi defeat suffered massacres in 1945. The myth that Jews went like sheep to the slaughter is parallel to the myth that the mass of the local populace throughout Europe was either ignorant or immobilised through fear. The holocaust had popular support in many places in the occupied countries. Indeed, complicity in the ʹfinal solutionʹ is now a national scandal in France today.

However, just as people like G. Sacks tried to win anti‐semites to the anti‐fascist cause, so today some of the Left seek to deny the popular appeal of the Nazi anti‐semitism. They do this by disputing the centrality of anti‐semitism to Nazi theory. Thus Ed Rosen in his article in Peace News wrote that anti‐semitism was a ʺsideshowʺ with Nazism. He also stated that ʺboth before and after Hitler came to power anti‐semitism was never a mass movement in Germanyʺ and that it


occurred only ʺperiodicallyʺ under the Nazis. The assumption is that the Nazis did not believe their own anti‐semitic ideology. It was just a tactic—and not an important one—that could be turned on and off like a tap. This is almost the ʹreductio ad absurdamʹ of the denial of the mass appeal of the ideology of anti‐semitism as an explanation of the world. To present this ideology as a tactical ʹinventionʹ by fascist demagogues to divide the workers, simply misunderstands the depths of its roots.

Moreover, behind this lies a completely cynical amoralism which exists today with respect to the struggle by Left groups against anti‐black racism. The suggestion is that racism of any kind is not to be opposed for its own sake, but because it divides the class. Socialist ideologues are apparently immune to it by definition. Within the class, it is simply an ʹerrorʹ. The logical conclusion of this is that Jewish people, along with everyone else, should not be fighting anti‐semitism because it is anti‐Jewish, but because it divides the class! Indeed, A.M. Wall actually did say that in the struggle against fascism ... ʺIt was necessary for the Jews not to talk of themselves as Jewsʺ as this was somehow divisive. There is another logical conclusion to this: where there are no Jews, or where all Jews have been massacred and there is no longer a danger of class division, then presumably anti‐semitism is permissible.


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ents

and

the

indi

vidu

al a

ctiv

ists

who

take

up

soci

al ju

stic

est

rugg

les.

You

don'

t hav

e to

iden

tify

with

this

spe

cific

term

-- it

's a

usef

ulw

ord

here

mai

nly

beca

use

it's

shor

t.

The

wor

d “a

ntis

emiti

sm”

will

be

used

her

e sp

ecifi

cally

to

refe

r to

oppr

essi

on a

gain

st Je

ws.

(For

bac

kgro

und

on w

hy th

e te

rm w

orks

this

way

,se

e p.

9.)

Thi

s de

finiti

on s

houl

d no

t be

use

d to

dow

npla

y th

e on

goin

gop

pres

sion

aga

inst

Ara

b pe

ople

, w

ho,

like

Jew

s, ha

ve b

een

labe

led

Sem

ites.

An

alte

rnat

ive,

mor

e ac

cura

te te

rm is

“an

ti-Je

wis

h op

pres

sion

.”It’

s us

eful

for a

ctiv

ists

to g

ain

expe

rienc

e w

ith b

oth

term

s.

Agl

ossa

ryis

loca

ted

at th

e en

d of

this

pam

phle

t.Se

efo

otno

tes

at w

ww

.thep

ast.i

nfo.

THE PAST DIDN'T GO ANYWHEREby APRIL ROSENBLUM, 2007

Ukr

aine

, A

ugus

t 20

05:H

alim

i’s w

as o

nly

the

mos

t pu

blic

ized

of

perio

dic

stre

etat

tack

s on

Jew

s. V

isib

ly r

ecog

nize

able

Jew

s w

ere

mos

t vu

lner

able

, w

ith f

requ

ent

atta

cks o

n ra

bbis

nea

r syn

agog

ues.

Whe

n ra

bbin

ic st

uden

t Mor

dech

ai M

oloz

heno

v w

asbe

aten

, st

abbe

d an

d se

nt i

nto

a co

ma

by s

kinh

eads

sho

utin

g an

ti-Je

wis

h sl

urs,

top

Ukr

aini

an p

olic

e of

ficia

ls d

ecla

red

it a

case

of

mer

e 'h

oolig

anis

m,'

not a

ntis

emiti

sm.

Thirt

y ra

bbis

beg

ged

for

actio

n, s

ayin

g, "

Cal

ls to

vio

lenc

e ag

ains

t Jud

aism

and

Jew

sar

e pu

blis

hed

in t

he p

ress

, fre

ely

dist

ribut

ed a

nd s

old.

On

the

wal

ls o

f sy

nago

gues

,bu

ildin

gs, b

us st

ops a

nd a

long

the

road

, ant

i-Sem

itic

sym

bols

appe

ar m

ore

and

mor

e of

ten.

"

Arg

entin

a, J

uly

2005

:In

Latin

Am

eric

a's la

rges

t Jew

ish

com

mun

ity, w

here

the

coun

-try

’s o

nly

maj

or te

rror

atta

cks

hav

e ta

rget

ed J

ewis

h si

tes,

mor

e ne

ws

emer

ged

abou

tth

e bo

mbi

ng o

f the

cou

ntry

's ce

ntra

l Jew

ish

com

mun

ity c

ente

r in

1994

, whi

ch k

illed

86

and

inju

red

300.

The

gov

ern-

men

t ha

d re

sist

ed i

nves

tigat

-in

g, a

nd p

olic

e an

d of

ficia

ls a

rew

idel

y su

spec

ted

of p

erm

ittin

gor

aid

ing

in t

he b

ombi

ng.

InJu

ly, t

he p

resi

dent

adm

itted

tha

t of

ficia

ls h

ad f

or t

en y

ears

bee

n ac

tivel

y de

stro

ying

evid

ence

from

the

case

. To

this

day

, eve

ry s

uspe

ct h

as g

one

free

. Not

har

d to

imag

ine

in a

cou

ntry

whe

re e

leve

n ye

ars e

arlie

r, th

e m

ilita

ry d

icta

tors

hip

that

kill

ed 3

0,00

0 pe

o-pl

e di

spro

porti

onat

ely

targ

eted

Jew

s fo

r arr

est a

nd d

isap

pear

ance

, and

rese

rved

spe

cial

tortu

re fo

r Jew

ish

pris

oner

s.

In 2007, w

hat is

anti-

Jewish oppr

ession?

It’s

cent

urie

s of

ins

titut

iona

l an

ti-Je

wis

h do

ctrin

es t

hat

get

cata

lyze

d in

pub

licw

hen

the

moo

d hi

ts. I

t's a

per

vers

e fo

rm o

f stre

et c

red:

a po

litic

al c

onse

nsus

that

cro

ss-

es b

ound

arie

s, u

sed

by m

ains

tream

pol

itici

ans

and

rebe

l for

ces

alik

e w

ho e

xpos

e “t

heJe

ws”

to p

rove

they

will

spe

ak tr

uth

to p

ower

. Eve

n in

the

U.S

., w

here

Jew

s ha

ve h

ad20

0 ye

ars

of e

xcep

tiona

l phy

sica

l saf

ety,

it’s

a b

ackg

roun

d hu

m:b

e it

rum

ors

plac

ing

Jew

s or

Isr

aelis

beh

ind

9/11

, th

e hi

t fil

m t

hat

rest

aged

the

“Pa

ssio

n pl

ays”

whi

chsp

arke

d an

nual

Eas

ter m

assa

cres

of J

ews

in m

edie

val E

urop

e, o

r the

orie

s ar

isin

g am

idgr

owin

g pu

blic

dis

ench

antm

ent

with

the

Ira

q w

ar t

hat

it w

as f

ough

t fo

r Je

wis

h or

Isra

eli i

nter

ests

.

The

poin

t is

not t

hat t

he s

ky is

falli

ng, o

r tha

t the

Hol

ocau

st is

on

its w

ay b

ack;

infa

ct, s

ever

al o

ther

opp

ress

ed g

roup

s ar

e in

mor

e im

min

ent d

ange

r as

we

spea

k. B

ut a

stat

us q

uo in

whi

ch a

nti-J

ewis

h th

eorie

s ar

e ‘c

omm

on s

ense

’in

coun

tries

aro

und

the

wor

ld is

a s

erio

us th

ing.

It’s

not

an

issu

e th

e Le

ft ca

n af

ford

to ‘p

ut o

ff’u

ntil

late

r.

The

pas

t did

n't g

o an

ywhe

re. A

ntis

emiti

sm d

idn’

t som

ehow

nat

ural

ly d

isap

pear

afte

r its

wor

st o

utbr

eak.

Our

who

le a

ctiv

ist l

ives

are

bas

ed o

n th

e un

ders

tand

ing

that

oppr

essi

on d

oesn

't go

aw

ay b

y its

elf.

You

have

to ta

ke a

ctio

n. W

hole

peo

ples

’mov

e-m

ents

hav

e to

, col

lect

ivel

y, f

or a

rea

l shi

ft to

occ

ur. W

hen

was

ther

e a

mas

s ef

fort

byra

dica

l mov

emen

ts to

edu

cate

our

selv

es a

nd th

e w

orld

and

ove

rturn

ant

isem

itism

?

Oh.

W

ell..

.then

whe

n w

ill th

ere

be?

33

awor

ldpro

blem

Som

etim

es p

eopl

e on

the

Left

thin

k th

e op

pres

sion

of

Jew

s st

oppe

d be

ing

a pr

oble

maf

ter t

he H

oloc

aust

. Tha

t’s e

asy

to th

ink

if w

hat y

ou k

now

com

es m

ostly

from

the

U.S

.,w

here

Jew

s ha

ve b

een

unus

ually

saf

e. T

o re

ally

mea

sure

whe

ther

ant

isem

itism

has

pow

er, y

ou h

ave

to w

atch

the

glob

al p

ictu

re. T

ake

this

sm

all s

ampl

ing:

Anti-

Jewis

h agita

tion

in the halls of pow

er:

Rus

sia,

Jan

uary

200

5: 2

0 pa

rliam

ent m

embe

rs a

nd 5

00 p

rom

inen

t citi

zens

ask

ed th

eco

untry

's Pr

osec

utor

Gen

eral

to b

an a

ll Je

wis

h or

gani

zatio

ns in

Rus

sia.

Cal

ling

Juda

ism

anti-

Chr

istia

n, e

xtre

mis

t and

inhu

man

e, th

e gr

oup

cite

d th

e m

edie

val m

yth

that

Jew

s rit-

ually

mur

der

Chr

istia

n ba

bies

as

fact

, and

sai

d, "

the

who

le d

emoc

ratic

wor

ld is

und

erfin

anci

al a

nd p

oliti

cal c

ontro

l of t

he in

tern

atio

nal J

ewry

."

Mal

aysi

a,

Oct

ober

2003

:Add

ress

ing

the

wor

ld’s

Mus

lim le

ad-

ers,

pr

ime

min

iste

rM

ahat

hir M

oham

ad d

ecla

red

that

"th

e Je

ws

run

this

wor

ld b

y pr

oxy.

The

y ge

t oth

ers

tofig

ht a

nd d

ie fo

r the

m,"

and

"ha

ve n

ow g

aine

d co

ntro

l of t

he m

ost p

ower

ful c

ount

ries.

"

Iran

, D

ecem

ber

2005

:Pr

esid

ent

Mah

mou

d A

hmad

inej

ad d

ecla

red

the

Hol

ocau

st a

myt

h cr

eate

d by

Jew

s. W

hen

a R

ight

-win

g D

anis

h ne

wsp

aper

spo

nsor

ed c

arto

ons

that

dem

eane

d Is

lam

, de

mon

stra

tors

in

a go

vern

men

t-sup

porte

d pr

otes

t pr

ocla

imed

the

Zion

ists

had

pus

hed

Den

mar

k to

it. H

amsh

ahri

, Ira

n's

stat

e-fu

nded

, wid

est-r

ead

new

s-pa

per,

spon

sore

d an

inte

rnat

iona

l car

toon

con

test

to e

ncou

rage

deb

ate

on "

alle

ged

his-

toric

al e

vent

s lik

e th

e H

oloc

aust

.” In

a c

onfli

ct w

here

Jew

s pl

ayed

no

part,

it w

as J

ews

who

wer

e fa

ir ga

me.

Stree

t-lev

elviolence,

high-lev

el denia

lsFr

ance

, Ja

nuar

y20

06:

Ilan

Hal

imi,

a 2

3 ye

ar-o

ldJe

w f

rom

a w

orki

ng-c

lass

subu

rb

of

Pari

s,

was

stal

ked

and

kidn

appe

d by

aga

ng th

at a

ssum

ed, b

ecau

sehe

was

Jew

ish,

he

wou

ld b

eric

h. H

alim

i w

as t

hen

tor-

ture

d to

de

ath

over

th

eco

urse

of

th

ree

wee

ks.

Res

iden

ts f

rom

thro

ugho

utth

e bu

ildin

g jo

ined

in w

ithth

e ga

ng in

a g

ame-

like

atm

osph

ere

of to

rture

. Hal

imi's

mot

her

war

ned

Fren

ch p

olic

eof

seve

ral r

ecen

t kid

napp

ing

atte

mpt

s on

loca

l Jew

s, b

ut th

ey to

ld h

er to

igno

re th

e da

ilyth

reat

s to

kill

her

son

, an

d th

e or

ders

to

colle

ct r

anso

m f

rom

syn

agog

ues.

Afte

rH

alim

i's m

urde

r, th

e go

vern

men

t res

iste

d ac

know

ledg

ing

it as

an

anti-

Jew

ish

killi

ng.

22

Fed

up w

ith a

nti-J

ewis

h ha

rras

smen

tin

Bu

enos

Ai

res,

ar

tist

Mar

iana

Scha

piro

pho

togr

aphe

d th

e gr

affit

i she

awok

e to

on

her d

oor ,

and

put

it o

n th

ew

eb fo

r ev

eryo

ne to

face

. (M

ar. ‘

05)

HER

ELI

VES

A

¡JJEW

ESS!

WE

DO

N’T

WA

NT

HER

INTH

EN

EIG

HB

OR

HO

OD

antisemitism isstill

- Jew

s ha

ve a

bnor

mal

or s

uper

natu

ral a

mou

nts

of p

ower

- Jew

s ar

e m

yste

rious

, or a

ct s

ecre

tly b

ehin

d th

e sc

enes

- Jew

s are

disp

ropo

rtion

atel

y th

e ca

use

of h

arm

in th

e w

orld

- Jew

s are

disl

oyal

to, o

r see

k th

e de

struc

tion

of, t

he so

ciet

y th

ey li

ve in

Ove

r its

hist

ory,

anti-

Jew

ish o

ppre

ssio

n ha

s sh

ifted

for

ms

betw

een

relig

ious

, ra

cial

and

pol

itica

l pe

rsec

utio

nba

sed

on t

hetim

es. B

ut so

me

belie

fs h

ave

beco

me

fairl

y co

nsist

ent:

- Je

ws

are

the

“bra

ins”

behi

nd th

e ac

tion

- Jew

s ar

e w

ealth

y or

gre

edy

RIGHT:A classical image of Jewish power.

In a

wor

ld t

hat’s

ver

y di

ffic

ult

to c

hang

e, a

nti-

sem

itism

mak

es th

ings

seem

eas

y to

solv

e. It

lets

us f

ixou

r ga

ze o

n an

im

agin

ed g

roup

of

gree

dy, p

ower

ful

Jew

s at

the

root

of

the

wor

ld’s

pro

blem

s, an

d m

oves

our

eyes

rig

ht p

ast

the

syst

ems

that

act

ually

kee

pin

just

ice

in p

lace

: ca

pita

lism

, w

eapo

ns d

eale

rs,

oil

com

pani

es,

you

nam

e it.

.. an

d th

e ov

erw

helm

ingl

yno

n-Je

wis

h ru

ling

clas

ses

who

ben

efit

from

it a

ll.

- Jew

s are

unl

ike

the

rest

of h

uman

ity (a

t bes

t); o

rin

here

ntly

evi

l, or

tied

to th

e de

vil (

at w

orst)

(And

what

exactl

y aarree

Jews

, any

way?)

Jew

s ar

e a

glo

bally

-dis

pers

ed, m

ulti

-eth

nic

cult

ure

whi

ch is

link

ed b

y a

shar

ed h

isto

ry o

f di

aspo

ra, a

nd a

rel

igio

n (J

udai

sm).

Man

y Je

ws

prac

tice

the

relig

ion;

oth

ers

are

ethn

ic, s

ecul

ar(=

non-

relig

ious

)Je

ws.

With

in th

e cu

lture

are

man

y Je

wis

h et

hnic

gro

ups,

suc

h as

: Miz

rach

im(c

omm

uniti

esof

Jew

s w

ho n

ever

left

the

Mid

dle

East

afte

r anc

ient

Isra

el w

as d

estro

yed

by c

onqu

est,

but

settl

ed in

reg

ions

suc

h as

toda

y’s

Iraq

, Ira

n, S

yria

, etc

.), A

shke

nazi

m(w

hose

anc

esto

rsm

ade

thei

r way

to E

urop

e an

d fo

unde

d co

mm

uniti

es th

ere)

, Sep

hard

im(w

hose

anc

esto

rsfo

rmed

com

mun

ities

in

Spai

n an

d Po

rtuga

l be

fore

bei

ng d

ispe

rsed

wor

ldw

ide

by t

heIn

quis

ition

), th

e C

ochi

n Je

ws

of In

dia,

Bet

a Is

rael

of E

thio

pia,

Ibo

Jew

sof

Nig

eria

, and

man

y m

ore.

With

inea

ch e

thni

city

lie

plen

ty o

f diff

eren

ces

as w

ell.

Still

oth

er J

ews

shar

e th

e re

ligio

n bu

t not

the

fam

ily li

neag

e, a

nd th

roug

h co

nver

sion

have

bec

ome

part

of th

e Je

wis

h pe

ople

. Alth

ough

orth

odox

relig

ious

law

def

ines

a J

ew a

son

e w

ho h

as a

Jew

ish

mot

her o

r has

had

an

orth

odox

con

vers

ion,

man

y Je

ws

reje

ct th

is -

belie

ving

, for

inst

ance

, tha

t a p

erso

n w

ho h

as s

ome

Jew

ish

ance

stor

s an

d w

ho id

entif

ies

with

and

car

es a

bout

the

cultu

re, i

s a

Jew

.

Due

to h

ow o

ften

in h

isto

ry J

ewis

h co

mm

uniti

es h

ave

had

to h

ide

thei

r id

entit

ies

toes

cape

per

secu

tion,

ther

e ar

e al

so m

illio

ns o

f pe

ople

glo

bally

with

unr

ecog

nize

d Je

wis

han

cest

ry. I

n re

cent

yea

rs, r

elat

ive

safe

ty fo

r Jew

s ha

s al

low

ed m

ore

open

con

vers

atio

nab

out J

ewis

h or

igin

s, a

nd a

gro

win

g nu

mbe

r of c

omm

uniti

es a

re “

com

ing

out”

as Je

ws.

55

“But

Jew

s are

one

of t

he m

ost w

ell-o

ff gr

oups

in th

is co

untry

!”

How

coul

d Je

ws be

opp

resse

d?!

Wha

t co

mes

to

min

d w

hen

you

thin

k of

opp

ress

ion?

Pove

rty?

Mas

s im

priso

n-m

ent?

Expl

oita

tion

of a

gro

up’s

labo

r?Th

eft o

f a

coun

try’s

reso

urce

s?If

you

expe

ctev

ery

oppr

essi

on to

look

like

thos

e th

ings

, it m

ay b

e ha

rd to

spot

this

one.

The

opp

res-

sion

of Je

ws o

ften

look

s ver

y di

ffere

nt. B

ut w

hen

you

know

the

signs

, you

can

see

how

the

oppr

essio

n of

Jew

s tod

ay is

aliv

e an

d w

orki

ng th

e w

ay it

has

for c

entu

ries.

The

opp

ress

ion

of J

ews

has

a lo

t in

com

mon

with

the

oppr

essi

ons

that

all

kind

s of o

ther

peop

le a

re st

rugg

ling

with

toda

y. R

acis

m, c

lass

ism

, sex

ism

, hom

o-ph

obia

and

all

oppr

essi

ons

serv

e tw

in fu

nctio

ns:t

hey

cont

rol,

enda

nger

and

dis

em-

pow

er th

e ta

rget

ed g

roup

, and

at t

he s

ame

time,

they

hel

p to

kee

p a

wid

er s

yste

m o

fex

ploi

tatio

n an

d in

equa

lity

runn

ing

smoo

thly

. With

antis

emiti

sm,i

t wor

ks li

ke th

is:

-Je

ws

are

isola

ted,

esp

ecia

lly f

rom

oth

er e

xplo

ited

grou

ps -

peo

ple

who

mig

htno

rmal

ly b

e ex

pect

ed to

team

up

with

them

and

def

end

them

in ti

mes

of d

ange

r.

-Oth

erop

pres

sed

grou

psge

t man

ipul

ated

out

of i

dent

ifyin

g an

d fig

htin

g th

e so

urce

sof

thei

r exp

loita

tion,

inste

ad b

eing

enc

oura

ged

to ch

anne

l the

iran

gera

t Jew

s.

- Je

ws

are

targ

eted

for

vio

lenc

e or

oth

er d

ange

r, w

heth

er in

tent

iona

lly b

y lo

cal

rule

rs, o

r spo

ntan

eous

ly a

t the

gra

ssro

ots o

f soc

iety

.

- In

hope

s of g

aini

ng sa

fety

, Jew

s are

pre

ssur

ed to

coop

erat

ewith

rule

rs, t

o sil

ence

them

selv

es a

nd to

not

rise

up

agai

nst t

he p

ower

ful,

for f

ear o

f gre

ater

targ

etin

g.

In th

e ba

sic

way

s tha

t it p

lays

out

, ant

isem

itism

is n

ot so

diff

eren

t fro

m th

ew

ays

that

man

y di

aspo

ra c

omm

uniti

es g

et s

cape

goat

ed th

roug

hout

the

wor

ld.

Eve

ry o

ppre

ssio

n is

als

o un

ique

in so

me

way

s. In

ant

isem

itism

’s c

ase,

it’s

how

the

oppr

essi

on w

as b

orn:

Ear

ly C

hris

tian

lead

ers

portr

ayed

the

Jew

s as

the

kille

rs o

fJe

sus,

an id

ea th

at g

ot in

stitu

tiona

lized

whe

n, in

eve

ry la

nd R

oman

impe

rialis

m c

on-

quer

ed a

nd c

onve

rted,

a p

opul

ar c

once

ptio

n w

as s

prea

d of

Jew

s as

the

“kill

ers

ofG

od”

in le

ague

with

secr

et, d

iabo

lical

forc

es. L

ater

, as E

urop

ean

soci

etie

s mod

ern-

ized

and

gre

w m

ore

secu

lar,

imag

es re

mai

ned

of Je

ws a

s the

sour

ce o

f ulti

mat

e ev

il.

Ant

isem

itism

as

we

know

it,

with

its

im

ages

of

spec

ial,

evil

Jew

ish

pow

er,

bega

n as

a C

hris

tian,

Eur

opea

n ph

enom

enon

; tho

ugh

Jew

s fac

ed m

istre

atm

ent i

nM

uslim

land

s, it

was

a m

ore

gene

ric 2

nd-c

lass

citi

zens

hip

appl

ied

to a

ll no

n-M

uslim

s.H

owev

er, w

ith E

urop

ean

colo

niza

tion

and

inro

ads

the

Naz

is m

ade,

Eur

opea

n-st

yle

antis

emiti

c th

eorie

s hav

e in

crea

sing

ly a

lso

ente

red

Ara

b, A

sian

and

oth

er so

ciet

ies.

AD

EFIN

ITIO

N:

Ant

isem

itism

, or a

nti-J

ewis

h op

pres

sion

,is t

he sy

stem

of i

deas

pass

ed d

own

thro

ugh

a so

ciet

y's

inst

itutio

ns to

ena

ble

scap

egoa

ting

of J

ews,

and

the

ideo

logi

cal o

r phy

sica

l tar

getin

g of

Jew

s th

at re

sults

from

that

.

44

Ara

bs a

nd M

uslim

s w

orld

wid

e ar

e ex

perie

nc-

ing

a se

rious

ly d

ange

rous

tim

e. W

hat

does

thi

sm

ean,

for t

alki

ng a

bout

the

thre

ats

faci

ng J

ews?

ABO

VE:

Sign

ou

tsid

e U

.S.

chur

ch;

Flor

ida,

200

5. B

ELO

W:

Youn

g M

uslim

wom

en p

rote

st th

e Fr

ench

law

s, 20

04. 77

Ate

rm w

e di

dn't

free

ly c

hoos

e:"A

ntis

emiti

sm"

was

a w

ord

popu

lari

zed

in 1

879

by so

meo

ne w

ho w

as n

ei-

ther

Ara

b no

rJew

ish,

Wilh

elm

Mar

r. Fr

om th

e be

ginn

ing

it w

as c

hose

n as

a c

hic,

new

scie

ntifi

c wor

dto

show

that

Jew

s wer

e an

infe

rior r

ace

(not

a re

ligio

n th

at th

eyco

uld

conv

ert o

ut o

f), a

nd to

repl

ace

the

wor

d Je

w-h

atre

d (J

uden

hass

) so

that

Jew

-ha

ters

cou

ld e

njoy

sou

ndin

g m

ore

soph

istic

ated

.

Mar

r and

his

col

leag

ues u

sed

the

term

ant

isem

ites f

or th

emse

lves

as s

omet

hing

to b

e pr

oud

of. T

hey

built

an

orga

niza

tion

to a

dvoc

ate

disc

rimin

atio

n ag

ains

t Jew

s,th

e A

ntis

emite

s' Le

ague

. W

hen

Mar

r an

d hi

s m

ovem

ent

desi

gned

thi

s te

rm t

ode

grad

e a

who

le p

eopl

e, th

ey c

ould

n't c

are

less

that

they

wer

e us

ing

it in

accu

rate

lyby

des

igna

ting

it fo

r Jew

s sp

ecifi

cally

.

Alth

ough

Jew

s di

dn't

get

to c

hoos

e th

e te

rm f

orth

eir

oppr

essi

on -

and

oppr

esse

d gr

oups

rare

ly d

o- o

ver

year

s bei

ng a

ttac

ked

by it

, the

y ha

ve a

ccep

ted

the

term

to d

escr

ibe

the

hist

oric

al e

xper

ienc

e of

bei

ng ta

rget

ed fo

r bei

ng J

ews.

Ther

e is

n't

real

ly o

ne o

ppre

ssio

n th

at t

arge

ts a

ll th

ose

who

wer

e la

bele

d“S

emite

s” in

a si

mila

r way

.**B

ut th

ere

isa

larg

er o

ppre

ssio

n th

at b

oth

grou

ps e

xpe-

rienc

e:O

rien

talis

m. F

rom

the

Chi

nese

Exc

lusi

on A

ct a

nd th

e Th

ird R

eich

to th

eR

ed S

care

and

the

War

on

Terr

or,t

he "

Wes

t" h

as h

isto

rica

lly t

arge

ted

Asi

ans,

Ara

bs a

nd J

ews

as m

yste

rious

, dis

hone

stly

and

man

ipul

ativ

ely

inte

llige

nt, o

verly

sens

ual,

war

like,

and

bar

baric

ally

loya

l to

thei

r 'tri

be' i

nste

ad o

f to

hum

anki

nd.

May

be th

is s

houl

d be

obv

ious

.B

ut it

isha

rd to

gra

sp, a

nd e

ven

hard

er to

kno

w h

ow to

act

on.

Ever

y op

pres

sion

is

diffe

rent

,an

d ev

ery

oppr

esse

d gr

oup

dese

rves

our

tim

e an

d co

mm

it-m

ent t

o le

arni

ng w

hat t

heir

spe-

cific

exp

erie

nce

is l

ike,

and

how

we

can

best

sup

port

thei

rst

rugg

le fo

r lib

erat

ion.

Tha

t tw

o op

pres

sion

s ca

n ha

ppen

at t

he s

ame

time.

* It

is so

mew

hat m

islea

ding

to d

istin

guish

bet

ween

Ara

bs a

nd J

ews.

Mill

ions

of J

ews a

re o

f Ara

b (&

Per

sian)

desc

ent,

and

expe

rienc

e th

e pr

ofili

ng o

ther

Ara

bs a

re su

bjec

t to,

as w

ell a

s rac

ism in

the

Jewi

sh c

omm

unity

.

** T

he te

rm ‘S

emite

” wa

s itse

lfan

inve

ntio

n of

Eur

opea

n O

rient

alist

s,im

pose

d on

Jew

s and

Ara

bs.

Ofte

n, p

eopl

e he

ar th

e w

ord

‘ant

isem

itism

’and

they

shut

dow

n.Th

ey sa

y, “

You

talk

abo

ut a

ntise

miti

sm li

ke it

’s ju

st ab

out J

ews..

.

That

's rig

ht:t

he te

rm ‘S

emite

’has

got

ten

used

on

both

Ara

bs a

ndJe

ws.*

A

nd A

rabs

and

Mus

lims

- pl

us g

roup

s w

ithin

them

, lik

ePa

lest

inia

ns -

are

targ

ets

of in

tens

e vi

olen

ce a

nd o

ppre

ssio

n.

- Afte

r 60

year

s of

fost

erin

g di

ctat

ors

and

repr

essi

ngde

moc

ratic

mov

emen

ts i

n A

rab

coun

tries

, th

e U

.S.

now

has

mad

e it

clea

r to

Ara

b ci

tizen

s wor

ldw

ide

that

they

are

sub

ject

to U

.S. b

ombi

ng a

nd o

ccup

atio

n at

will

. Hun

dred

s of

tho

usan

ds o

f Ir

aqi

civi

lians

hav

ebe

en k

illed

with

out t

he U

.S. s

o m

uch

as c

ount

ing

the

dead

; hu

ndre

ds o

f pr

ison

ers

tortu

red;

and

the

U.S

.ca

lls it

a g

ift: d

emoc

racy

for t

he b

enig

hted

Ara

bs.

- U

.S.

Ara

bs a

nd M

uslim

s si

nce

9/11

hav

e fa

ced

forc

ed r

egis

tratio

n, t

hous

ands

of

dete

ntio

ns w

ithou

tch

arge

s, de

porta

tion,

and

pop

ular

vio

lenc

e.

- Is

rael

con

tinue

s its

vio

lent

40-

year

occ

upat

ion

of P

ales

tinia

n la

nd il

lega

lly h

eld

since

196

7. A

sIs

rael

toda

y an

nexe

s ev

en m

ore

Wes

t Ban

k la

nd,

the

U.S

. go

vern

men

t fu

nds

it,

chee

red

byA

mer

ica's

pow

erfu

l Chr

istia

n R

ight

. Mea

nwhi

le,

Isra

el

resp

onds

to

H

izbo

llah

by

bom

bing

Leba

non’

s in

frastr

uctu

re to

pie

ces,

killi

ng m

ore

than

1,0

00 a

nd f

orci

ng m

ore

than

one

mill

ion

Leba

nese

peo

ple

into

exi

le.

- A

nd E

urop

e,w

here

the

leg

acy

bega

n, w

ithC

rusa

der

mas

sacr

es o

f M

uslim

s an

d Je

ws

from

Euro

pe t

o th

e M

iddl

e Ea

st.

Mod

ern

times

brou

ght

150

year

s of

Eur

opea

n co

loni

alis

m t

oA

rab

land

s, an

d im

mig

rant

s fr

om t

he f

orm

erco

loni

es h

ave

suffe

red

deca

des o

f rac

ist v

iole

nce

and

scap

egoa

ting

in E

urop

e. N

ew F

renc

h la

ws

purp

orte

dly

aim

ed a

t pa

cify

ing

tens

ions

hav

eno

w o

utla

wed

Mus

lim d

ress

in s

choo

ls.

All

this

has w

orse

ned

the b

urde

n al

read

y fa

ced

by m

any

Ara

bs a

nd M

uslim

s w

ho s

trugg

le w

ith s

ever

e re

pres

-sio

n an

d in

equa

lity

unde

r the

ir ow

n go

vern

men

ts.

Prot

estin

g fo

rced

regi

strat

ion

in th

e U

.S.

Pale

stini

an p

hoto

grap

her N

asse

r Ish

taya

hold

s his

newb

orn

daug

hter

, Dun

ya. S

hedi

ed

afte

r Is

rael

i ro

adbl

ocks

stalle

d he

r am

bula

nce f

or 3

hou

rs.

Iraq

i fam

ilies

pro

test

and

pra

you

tsid

e of

Abu

Ghr

aib

pris

on.

66

“But

Arabsare

Semite

s!”

the “

mid

dlem

an”

-Rul

ers u

sed

Jew

s for

“mid

-dl

emen

”job

s tha

t put

Jew

s in

dire

ct co

ntac

t with

the

expl

oite

d, d

isgru

ntle

d pe

asan

try,

shie

ldin

g ru

lers

from

the b

ackl

ash

for t

heir

unju

st po

licie

s. A

peas

ant

mig

ht li

ve a

life

time

with

out s

eein

g th

e no

blem

anw

ho d

ecid

ed h

er fa

te; i

t was

Jew

s w

ere

the

face

of

pow

er a

t her

doo

r co

llect

ing

taxe

s an

d re

nt, J

ews

who

seem

ed in

cont

rol,

and

Jew

s who

face

d th

e vio

-le

nce

whe

n pe

asan

ts in

pov

erty

dec

ided

to re

sist.

the b

uffe

rzon

e - Si

nce J

ews n

eede

d sp

ecia

lpe

rmiss

ion

to l

ive

in E

urop

ean

area

s, m

any

rule

rs to

ok a

dvan

tage

of t

hem

by

settl

ing

them

in th

e are

as m

ost v

ulne

rabl

e to

mili

tary

atta

ck, o

rw

here

restl

ess s

ubje

cts w

ere

likel

y to

rebe

l. Fo

rth

e priv

ilege

of a

hom

e, Je

ws h

ad to

acce

pt th

eir

role

as t

he p

opul

atio

n th

at c

ould

be

sacr

ifice

d.

the

Cou

rt J

ew -

Hist

ory

is fu

ll of

unpo

pula

r kin

gs w

ho m

anag

ed to

sav

eth

eir a

sses

by

turn

ing

the c

row

ds ag

ains

ta t

rusty

(but

disp

osab

le) C

ourt

Jew.

As a

king

’s ag

ent,

a Co

urt

Jew

mig

ht g

ain

grea

t pe

rson

al p

rivile

ge,

even

som

epo

wer

. But

whe

n pr

oble

ms a

rose

, rul

ers

coun

ted

on b

eing

abl

e to

div

ert

mas

sbl

ame

and

viol

ence

to th

e Co

urt J

ew.

the

“pre

ssur

e va

lve”

- O

nly

a fe

wm

ight

be t

ax co

llect

ors o

r Cou

rt Je

w. B

ut al

lof

an

area

’s Je

ws

wer

e a

rule

r’s h

andy

tar-

get:

Whe

n th

e eco

nom

y or

oth

er co

nditi

ons

beca

me

unbe

arab

le, J

ewish

hom

es p

rovi

d-ed

a w

hole

nei

ghbo

rhoo

d w

here

gen

tile

mas

ses c

ould

riot

and

let o

ff ste

am.

For

cent

urie

s, Je

wis

h co

mm

uniti

es c

ould

be

expe

lled

from

Eur

opea

n to

wns

at a

ny ti

me,

for a

ny re

ason

and

mad

e ho

mel

ess.

Perm

issi

onto

stay

last

ed o

nly

as lo

ng a

s an

area

’s ru

lers

saw

loca

l Jew

s as ‘

usef

ul.’

Rul

ing

clas

ses

deve

lope

d an

d pa

ssed

dow

n st

rate

gies

to m

ake

good

use

of

Jew

s’vu

lner

abili

ty.

Toda

y, it

’s im

porta

nt fo

r us

to lo

ok fo

r the

way

s th

ese

stra

tegi

es a

re s

till b

eing

use

d.

TThhee

““UUsseeffuull

JJeeww””

In a

dditi

on, m

uch

deve

lopi

ng re

volu

tiona

ry th

eory

saw

the

grou

ps th

at m

atte

red

in c

re-

atin

g so

cial

cha

nge

as th

e in

dust

rial l

abor

ers

or p

easa

nts.

But

Eur

opea

n Je

ws,

havi

ngbe

en e

xclu

ded

from

man

y tra

ditio

nal t

rade

s, of

ten

didn

’t fit

nea

tly in

to th

ose

cate

gorie

s.

From

bot

h di

rect

ions

, Jew

s le

arne

d w

e di

dn’t

mat

ter;

our o

nly

mea

ning

ful r

ole

inch

angi

ng th

e w

orld

wou

ld b

e su

ppor

ting

othe

rpe

ople

s’st

rugg

les;

in m

akin

g ou

rsel

ves

usef

ul. A

ll th

is h

as c

ompo

unde

d th

e bi

gges

t pie

ce o

f in

tern

aliz

ed a

ntis

emiti

sm: A

fter

cent

urie

s of e

xper

ienc

ing

othe

r peo

ple

not c

omin

g to

our

def

ense

whe

n w

e w

ere

targ

et-

ed b

y vi

olen

ce a

nd p

erse

cutio

n, Je

ws h

ave

inte

rnal

ized

the

idea

that

ther

e’s n

o ho

pe o

fge

ttin

g ot

her

peop

le to

sta

nd w

ith u

s.

ForJ

ews w

ho st

rugg

le fo

rsoc

ial j

ustic

e,th

at m

eans

we

ofte

n st

ay q

uiet

abo

ut a

nti-

Jew

ish

oppr

essi

on: W

e le

arn

to fi

ght i

n su

p-po

rt of

oth

er g

roup

s w

ithou

t re

ques

ting

the

solid

arity

we,

our

selv

es, n

eed.

For J

ewis

h co

mm

uniti

es, i

t mea

ns w

e lo

sesi

ght o

f bui

ldin

g a

stra

tegy

for

our

liber

a-tio

nby

fin

ding

alli

es i

n ot

her

gras

sroo

tsco

mm

uniti

es. I

nste

ad, w

e de

pend

on

thos

e in

pow

er, h

opin

g th

at if

we

are

usef

ul to

them

,th

ey w

ill p

rote

ct u

s. A

t tim

es th

at le

ads u

sto

coo

pera

te in

the

oppr

essi

on o

f oth

ers.

II kknnoo

ww wwhhaatt aannttiisseemmiittiissmm

ccaann bb

ee aanndd

ddoo,, ww

hheenn ww

eeiinntteerrnn

aalliizzee

iitt.. Ant

isemitism

humilia

tes,

isolat

es,

and

silence

s us; m

utes our

loud

proud

Jewish en

ergy. How can

we fight

injustice

powerf

ully

if we

fear our

powe

r?-

MMeellaann

iiee KKaayyee//KKaannttrroowwiittzz

99

Meet t

he A

mazin

g, Dis

appea

ring Oppress

ionA

nti-J

ewis

h op

pres

sion

has

bee

n ar

ound

a lo

ng ti

me

- it

beca

me

gove

rnm

ent

prac

tice

in C

hris

tian

soci

ety

abou

t 1,7

00 y

ears

ago

and

onl

y st

oppe

d ha

ving

offi

cial

Vatic

an a

ppro

val i

n 19

65. B

ut w

hen

anti-

Jew

ish

oppr

essi

on is

n’t a

t its

mos

t bru

-ta

l, it

can

be r

eally

har

d to

see.

How

com

e th

is o

ppre

ssio

n ca

n se

em so

invi

sibl

e?

Part

ly it

’s th

at it

allo

ws

Jew

s su

cces

s.M

any

oppr

essi

ons

rely

on

keep

ing

ata

rget

ed g

roup

of

peop

le p

oor,

uned

ucat

ed, d

esig

nate

d no

n-w

hite

, or

othe

rwis

e 'at

the

botto

m.’

Ant

i-Jew

ish

oppr

essi

on d

oesn

’t de

pend

on

that

. Alth

ough

at m

any

times

it h

aske

pt J

ews

in p

over

ty o

r de

sign

ated

non

-whi

te,

thes

e ha

ve b

een

“opt

iona

l” f

eatu

res.

Bec

ause

the

poin

t of a

nti-J

ewis

h op

pres

sion

is to

kee

p a

Jew

ish

face

in fr

ont,

so th

atJe

ws,

inst

ead

of ru

ling

clas

ses,

beco

me

the

targ

et fo

r peo

ples

’rag

e, it

wor

ks e

ven

mor

esm

ooth

lyw

hen

Jew

s ar

e al

low

ed s

ome

succ

ess,

and

can

be p

erce

ived

as

the

ones

“in

char

ge”

by o

ther

opp

ress

ed g

roup

s.

Part

ly it

’s th

at it

mov

es in

cyc

les.

Bec

ause

it c

an a

llow

Jew

s to

‘m

ove

up,’

antis

emiti

sm is

cyc

lical

: Atta

cks

com

e in

wav

es; b

ut e

ach

time

thin

gs c

alm

dow

n an

dJe

ws a

re a

ble

to b

lend

in o

r suc

ceed

in so

ciet

y ag

ain,

it g

ives

the

appe

aran

ce th

at a

nti-

sem

itism

is 'o

ver.'

In s

ome

of th

e m

ost f

amou

s ex

ampl

es o

f ant

i-Jew

ish

expu

lsio

n an

dm

ass

mur

der

(ie, m

edie

val S

pain

or

mod

ern

Ger

man

y), j

ust p

rior

to th

e at

tack

s, Je

ws

appe

ared

to b

e on

e of

soci

ety’

s mos

t suc

cess

ful,

com

forta

ble,

wel

l-int

egra

ted

min

oriti

es.

Internalized O

ppress

ionA

noth

erfa

ctor

that

kee

ps a

nti-J

ewis

h op

pres

sion

und

erw

raps

is in

tern

aliz

edop

pres

sion

:the

fals

e ne

gativ

e vi

ews t

hat m

embe

rs o

f opp

ress

ed g

roup

s com

e to

bel

ieve

abou

t our

selv

es a

nd o

ur p

eopl

e, a

ndth

e w

ays t

hat w

e ac

t in

the

wor

ld to

acc

omod

ate

our

oppr

essi

on a

s no

rmal

or a

ccep

tabl

e, in

stea

d of

cha

lleng

ing

it.

Inte

rnal

ized

opp

ress

ion

affe

cts

all o

ppre

ssed

gro

ups.

The

form

it ta

kes

depe

nds

onea

ch g

roup

’s h

isto

ry. F

orin

stan

ce, o

n an

indi

vidu

al le

vel,

Jew

ish

peop

le -

espe

cial

lym

en -

ofte

n pe

rcei

ve th

emse

lves

as p

hysi

cally

wea

k. W

e w

ere

lega

lly b

anne

d fr

om b

eing

allo

wed

to

carr

y w

eapo

ns f

or s

ubst

antia

l pe

riods

und

er C

hris

tian

and

Mus

lim r

ule.

Euro

pean

soci

ety

excl

uded

us f

rom

mai

nstre

am p

rofe

ssio

ns (f

arm

ing,

etc

.)th

at st

reng

th-

ened

the

body

. We

wer

e lit

eral

ly u

nabl

e to

pro

tect

our

selv

es a

nd o

ur fa

mili

es fr

om m

ass

viol

ence

and

rap

e.

Jew

ish

peop

le -

esp

ecia

lly w

omen

- o

ften

feel

dis

gust

abo

ut o

ur-

selv

es a

nd o

ur b

odie

s, be

caus

e, a

s th

e m

ain

raci

al ‘O

ther

’in

Euro

pe, E

urop

ean

soci

ety

and

popu

lar

cultu

re c

reat

ed it

s im

ages

of

wha

t was

ugl

y an

d di

sgus

ting

base

d on

our

Jew

ish

face

s, an

d its

fant

asie

s of

wha

t our

bod

ies

look

ed li

ke.

Our

polit

ical

dec

isio

ns a

re a

lso

affe

cted

.His

toric

al a

ttitu

des

tow

ard

Jew

s ta

ught

us t

o be

lieve

our

ow

n st

rugg

le w

as n

ot w

orth

whi

le.

Gen

tile

Euro

pean

int

elle

ctua

ls,

incl

udin

g th

inke

rs w

ho h

eavi

ly in

fluen

ced

the

Left,

like

Heg

el, t

augh

t tha

t Jew

s w

ere

ape

ople

‘out

side

’of h

isto

ry; p

rom

inen

t the

orie

s hel

d th

at b

ecau

se Je

ws h

ad n

o la

nd o

fou

r ow

n, w

e w

ere

a de

form

ed g

roup

with

out a

role

to p

lay

in h

isto

ry a

nd re

volu

tion.

88

is a

lrea

dy h

ere

in o

ur

mov

emen

ts.

If y

ou li

ked

CO

INTE

LPR

O, y

ou’ll

love

the

Prot

ocol

s of

the

Elde

rs o

f Zio

n.R

emem

ber

CO

INT

EL

PRO

, the

US

gove

rnm

ent's

cov

ert c

ampa

ign

to w

ipe

out

the

mos

t pr

omis

ing

mov

emen

ts o

f th

e '5

0s, '

60s

and

'70s

?It

used

stra

tegi

cru

mor

s, fo

rged

lette

rs a

nd o

ther

tact

ics

to s

ucce

ssfu

lly d

ivid

e an

d de

stro

y vi

tal p

arts

of th

e B

lack

Pow

er m

ovem

ent,

the

Am

eric

an In

dian

Mov

emen

t, an

d ot

hers

.

The

Pro

toco

ls o

f the

Eld

ers

of Z

ion

was

the

sam

e th

ing,

60

year

s be

fore

. Afo

rged

text

cla

imin

g to

be

min

utes

fro

m a

sec

ret m

eetin

g of

pow

erfu

l Jew

s, it

was

circ

ulat

ed b

y of

ficer

s of

Rus

sia's

Cza

rist s

ecre

t pol

ice,

who

wer

e w

orrie

d ab

out t

hegr

owin

g re

volu

tiona

ry m

ovem

ent i

n R

ussi

a. K

now

ing

how

muc

h of

the

mov

emen

t'sgr

assr

oots

mom

entu

m w

as c

omin

g fr

om J

ews,

and

know

ing

how

eas

ily th

ey c

ould

divi

de th

e m

asse

s if t

hey

kind

led

alre

ady-

exis

ting

antis

emiti

sm, p

olic

e ag

ents

pla

gia-

rized

ano

ther

aut

hor’s

wor

k of

fic

tion

and

rew

rote

it a

s th

e im

agin

ary

proc

eedi

ngs

of a

sec

ret J

ewis

h pl

anni

ng m

eetin

g fo

r wor

ld d

omin

atio

n. T

he P

roto

cols

, in

dist

ri-bu

tion

sinc

e ar

ound

190

3, d

escr

ibe

thei

r pla

n to

take

ove

r the

wor

ld th

roug

h co

mm

u-ni

sm, c

apita

lism

, im

mor

ality

- al

l pos

sibl

e an

gles

. In

fact

, it’s

from

this

doc

umen

tth

at th

e m

oder

n ve

rsio

n of

the

myt

h of

Jew

ish

wor

ld d

omin

atio

n go

t its

sta

rt.

Expe

rienc

ed a

ctiv

ists

will

cau

tion

you

not t

o as

sum

e C

OIN

TELP

RO

’s ta

ctic

sev

er e

nded

. Wel

l, yo

u ne

edn'

t eve

n w

onde

r abo

ut th

e Pr

otoc

ols.

They

are

bei

ng p

utto

use

aro

und

the

wor

ld: i

n so

me

coun

tries

taug

ht a

s st

ate-

sanc

tione

d tru

th, b

ut s

old

wor

ldw

ide,

and

bou

ght

by r

ecor

d nu

mbe

rs o

f pe

ople

. Bu

tth

e gr

aves

t in

sult

toac

tivist

s is t

hat t

his f

raud

, cre

ated

with

the

spec

ific

inte

nt to

des

troy

activ

ists a

nd m

ove-

men

ts lik

e our

selv

es, i

s par

rote

d by

som

e of o

ur v

ery

own

colle

ague

s, in

our

ow

nsp

aces

. 1111

NO

TE:I

n th

is p

amph

let,

Ihav

e ch

osen

, whe

re p

ossi

ble,

not

to sh

ow p

eopl

es’f

aces

or u

se a

ctiv

ists

’and

org

aniz

atio

ns’

nam

es. F

irst

, man

y pe

rpet

uate

ant

i-Jew

ish

beha

vior

uni

n-te

ntio

nally

; sec

ond,

our

goa

l sho

uld

be n

ot to

shi

ft bl

ame

to in

divi

dual

s, bu

t to

deal

with

the

who

le p

atte

rn.

R IG

HT:

One

of t

he a

nti-J

ewish

flye

rs th

at m

ade

the

roun

ds a

t the

U.N

.’s W

orld

Con

fere

nce A

gain

st Ra

cism

in D

urba

n, A

ug. ‘

01.

The r

adic

al U

.S. a

rtist,

who

se p

oste

rs fi

ll th

e ant

i-gl

obal

izat

ion

mov

emen

t, w

ho c

reat

ed a

n en

tryab

out P

ales

tine

for

Iran's

Hol

ocau

st-de

nial

car

-to

on c

onte

st.

Let's look at an exa

mple of

how antisemit

ism work

s.In

the

198

0s, a

s ag

ribu

sine

ss g

obbl

ed u

p m

ore

and

mor

e pr

ofits

, fam

ilyfa

rms

acro

ss t

he M

idw

est

faile

d. W

ith f

arm

ers

in d

espe

rate

stra

its,

whi

tesu

prem

acis

t gro

ups

step

ped

in a

nd s

aved

the

day

by o

rgan

izin

g re

lief.

Alo

ng w

ithai

d, th

ey p

rovi

ded

farm

ers

with

vita

l inf

orm

atio

n: I

t was

"Je

wis

h ba

nker

s" w

how

ere

at fa

ult f

or th

e fa

rm c

risis

, and

that

's w

ho p

oor,

whi

te A

mer

ican

s wou

ld h

ave

to ta

rget

for a

real

end

to th

eir p

robl

ems.

I cou

ldn'

t hel

p bu

t thi

nk o

f thi

s whi

le w

alki

ng th

e st

reet

s of A

rgen

tina,

a c

oun-

try th

at c

olla

psed

afte

r dro

wni

ng in

deb

t to

the

IMF,

whe

re a

maz

ing

soci

al m

ove-

men

ts h

ave

blos

som

ed i

n re

spon

se t

o cr

isis

, but

als

o w

here

gra

ffiti

thro

ugho

utB

ueno

s Aire

s pro

clai

ms,

"IM

F =

.....J

ews."

Som

etim

es y

ou w

ant t

o sa

y, "P

ssst

! It's

not J

ews..

. It’s

cap

italis

m."

Tha

t's t

he n

atur

e of

ant

i-Jew

ish

oppr

essi

on:

Toco

ver

up t

he r

oots

of

inju

stic

e. T

o m

ake

peop

le t

hink

they

've

figur

ed o

ut w

ho's

real

ly p

ullin

g th

e st

rings

. Thi

sis

one

of t

he b

igge

st re

ason

s why

it's

impo

rtant

for s

ocia

lju

stic

e m

ovem

ents

to fi

gure

out

and

con

fron

t ant

i-Jew

ish

oppr

essi

on, f

or th

e m

ovem

ent's

ow

n sa

ke: b

ecau

se a

nti-

Jew

ish

oppr

essi

on is

des

igne

d as

a w

ay to

kee

p pe

ople

from

und

erst

andi

ng w

here

the

pow

er li

es. A

nd it

wor

ks.

It's

als

o w

hyyo

u'll

see

mor

em

anife

stat

ions

of

anti-

Jew

ish

oppr

essi

on p

oppi

ng u

p as

soci

al ju

s-tic

e m

ovem

ents

aro

und

the

wor

ldgr

ow s

tron

ger,

and

mor

e pe

ople

com

e to

bel

ieve

tha

t ra

dica

lch

ange

is

nece

ssar

y: P

eopl

e ar

e se

ekin

g w

ays

tolib

erat

e th

emse

lves

and

tryi

ng to

iden

tify

who

has

caus

ed th

e in

just

ice

arou

nd th

em.

“FM

I=

J

udio

s,”Ju

ly 2

005.

An

d, t

hou

gh i

t’s

pain

ful

to a

ckn

owle

dge,

anti

sem

itis

m

TThhee

eexxaamm

pplleess

rraannggee

ffrroomm tt

hheehhiigg

hh-pprrooffiillee

......

1100

The

Adb

uste

rs m

agaz

ine

issu

e th

at r

an a

list

of

50pr

omin

ent n

eo-c

ons

and

prou

dly

expo

sed

its in

ves-

tigat

ion

of w

hich

of

them

wer

e Je

wis

h, m

arki

ngea

ch J

ew w

ith a

sym

bol.

The

Wor

ld C

onfe

renc

e A

gain

st R

acis

m i

n 20

01,

whe

re a

ctiv

ists

, in

the

nam

e of

sol

idar

ity w

ithPa

lest

inia

ns, h

ande

d ou

t viru

lent

ly a

nti-J

ewis

h fly

-er

s and

car

icat

ures

of d

emon

ic, m

oney

-hun

gry

Jew

s.

LEFT

:Gra

ffiti,

Buen

os A

ires:

“Kirc

hner

Fuck

ing

Jew

of th

e IM

F.”

Kirc

hner

,Ar

gent

ina’

spr

esid

ent,

isno

t Jew

ish.

* Se

e w

ww.

pint

eley

id.c

om/m

arx.

Mar

x w

ords

con

tras

ted

shar

ply

with

Jew

s' re

ality

; Je

ws

in M

arx’s

ow

nPr

ussi

a ha

d st

ill b

een

in v

ast p

over

ty a

s of

the

earl

y 18

00s.

Mar

x hi

mse

lf ha

d be

en b

aptiz

ed C

hris

tian

by h

is Je

wis

h pa

rent

s to

avoi

d th

e ant

i-Jew

ish

disc

rim

inat

ion

that

so o

ften

barr

ed Je

ws f

rom

empl

oym

ent.1133

Not r

eally

- be

caus

e it's

not

sonew

.U

nfor

tuna

tely

, ant

isem

itism

has

n’t j

ust b

een

a to

ol o

f elit

es. R

adic

als

and

resi

stan

cem

ovem

ents

hav

e ta

ken

part

in it

at m

any

times

in h

isto

ry. C

heck

out

a fe

w e

xam

ples

:

- So

me

of t

he m

ost

impo

rtant

ear

ly f

igur

es i

n th

e Le

ft pe

rpet

uate

d an

tisem

itism

.A

narc

hist

fore

fath

er P

ierre

Pro

udho

n’s t

reat

ises o

n ca

pita

lism

use

d an

tisem

itic

imag

ery

that

calls

to m

ind

fasc

ist th

eory

mor

e tha

n m

oder

n-da

y an

arch

ism. K

arl M

arx,

in an

early

deba

te a

gain

st an

ant

isem

itic

colle

ague

, mad

e us

e of

viru

lent

ly ra

cist

imag

es o

f Jew

s,pa

intin

g a

deta

iled

pict

ure

of J

ews

as c

olle

ctiv

ely

gree

dy, s

oul-l

ess

and

loya

l onl

y to

mon

ey,*

and

insu

lted

oppo

nent

s with

ant

isem

itic

and

raci

st jib

es in

his

priv

ate

writ

ings

.

- In

the

1880

s, le

adin

g ra

dica

lsan

d so

cial

ist

new

spap

ers

inR

ussi

a en

cour

aged

R

ussi

anpe

asan

ts e

ngag

ing

in p

ogro

ms

(mas

s vi

olen

ce a

gain

st J

ewis

hto

wns

).N

arod

nik

inte

llect

uals

wro

te th

at an

ti-Je

wis

h po

grom

sw

ere

a fir

st s

tep

tow

ard

real

anti-

capi

talis

t co

nsci

ousn

ess,

and

shou

ld b

e ce

lebr

ated

.

- In

WW

2, a

s ar

med

Jew

ish

resi

ster

s fo

ught

bac

k ag

ains

t th

e N

azis

and

Eas

tern

Euro

pean

s re

sist

ed th

e G

erm

an o

ccup

atio

n, s

igni

fican

t num

bers

of

gent

ile f

ight

ers

acte

d ou

t ant

i-Jew

ish

oppr

essi

on a

t the

Jew

s fig

htin

g be

side

them

- re

fusi

ng to

team

up in

bat

tle, e

ven

mur

derin

g Je

ws

as th

ey s

ough

t hid

ing

plac

es in

thei

r vic

inity

.

- In

the

early

20th

cent

ury,

gro

win

g A

rab

self-

dete

rmin

atio

n m

ovem

ents

(in

clud

ing

Ara

b Je

ws)

stru

ggle

d to

wre

st in

depe

nden

ce fr

om th

eir E

urop

ean

occu

pier

s. B

ut w

ithH

itler

's ris

e, k

ey a

nti-c

olon

ial f

orce

s so

ught

to b

olst

er th

eir a

nti-B

ritis

h re

sist

ance

by

bond

ing

with

the

Naz

i reg

ime.

Som

e, li

ke I

raq'

s R

ashi

d A

li al

-Kay

lani

, int

egra

ted

antis

emiti

c rh

etor

ic, a

nd s

ever

al A

rab

Jew

ish

com

mun

ities

suf

fere

d m

assa

cres

. Ant

i-co

loni

al g

over

nmen

ts c

ame

to p

ower

, but

inst

ead

of b

ringi

ng th

e pa

n-A

rab

equa

lity

of w

hich

so

man

y ha

d dr

eam

t, m

any

used

Isra

eli a

ctio

ns a

s an

exc

use

to ta

rget

thei

rin

dige

nous

Jew

ish

popu

latio

ns. F

acin

g vi

olen

ce a

nd sc

apeg

oatin

g, h

undr

eds o

f tho

u-sa

nds o

f Jew

s fle

d - o

ften

strip

ped

of th

eir p

rope

rty a

nd so

met

imes

, for

cibl

y ex

pelle

d.

Nor i

s Lef

tist a

void

ance

, den

ial an

d sil

ence

new

. Fo

r ye

ars,

prou

d ra

dica

ls d

ism

isse

d ch

arge

s of

ant

i-Jew

ish

oppr

essi

on in

the

USS

R. P

eopl

e ra

isin

g co

ncer

ns w

ere

ridic

uled

as

bour

geoi

s or

acc

used

of

bein

gan

ti-C

omm

unis

t pro

paga

ndis

ts. W

hen

offic

ial r

evel

atio

ns f

inal

ly s

tarte

d em

ergi

ngin

the

195

0s a

bout

spe

cial

ly-ta

rget

ed p

oliti

cal

viol

ence

and

cul

tura

l re

pres

sion

agai

nst J

ews

in th

e So

viet

Uni

on, i

t sha

ttere

d a

gene

ratio

n of

Jew

ish

prog

ress

ives

.

Jew

ish

kids

kille

d in

a 1

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om; Y

ekat

-er

inos

lav,

Russ

ia.

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activ

ist f

ilmm

aker

, wel

com

ed b

y K

PFA

radi

o an

d La

Peñ

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ultu

ral

Cen

ter

for

her

wor

k on

Pal

estin

ian

right

s, w

ho s

ells

vide

os o

n ho

w J

ews

have

des

igne

d ev

eryt

hing

fro

m M

arxi

sm to

Neo

-Con

serv

atis

m to

cov

ertly

adv

ance

thei

r ow

n in

tere

sts,

pub-

lishe

s ar

ticle

s on

Jew

ish

exag

gera

tion

of t

he H

oloc

aust

, an

dar

gues

for q

uota

s to

lim

it Je

ws

in jo

urna

lism

.

The

econ

omic

just

ice

orga

niza

tion

that

sho

ws

a vi

deo

whi

ch p

ur-

ports

to e

xpla

in w

ealth

ineq

ualit

y --

but

inst

ead

focu

ses l

arge

ly o

nth

e R

oths

child

s* a

nd p

aint

s m

ajor

(gen

tile)

fina

ncie

rs a

nd w

hole

natio

ns a

s m

ere

paw

ns o

f a d

evio

us J

ewis

h fa

mily

.

The

anti-

polic

e br

utal

ity d

emon

stra

tion

whe

re a

n in

vite

d co

mm

u-ni

ty g

roup

cal

ls fo

r Jew

s and

que

ers t

o be

kill

ed, a

nd n

o on

e sp

eaks

out -

- not

the

dem

o's

lead

ers,

not a

ny m

embe

rs o

f the

aud

ienc

e.

The

stat

emen

ts m

ade

in p

ublic

mee

tings

and

on

Indy

med

ia, t

o lit

-tle

or n

o cr

itica

l res

pons

e, th

at th

e ge

noci

de in

Dar

fur i

s an

act

of

the

Zion

ists

, and

that

effo

rts to

get

peo

ple

to fi

ght a

gain

st th

e ge

no-

cide

are

plo

ys b

y th

e Zi

onis

ts to

dis

tract

atte

ntio

n fr

om P

ales

tine.

The

com

men

ts o

ne g

row

s num

b to

: how

we

don'

t get

med

ia c

over

-ag

e be

caus

e th

e Je

ws,

or th

e Zi

onis

ts, c

ontro

l the

med

ia...

how

the

D.A

. who

's de

stro

ying

this

com

mun

ity is

, by

the

way

, Jew

ish.

..and

so o

n.

But

the

num

ber

of L

eftis

ts w

ith r

eal a

nti-J

ewis

h be

liefs

is ti

ny. W

hat

has

the

bigg

er im

pact

is n

ot th

ose

indi

vidu

al L

eftis

ts w

ho p

rom

ote

anti-

Jew

ish

belie

fs, b

ut th

e w

ay th

at in

stitu

tiona

lly, p

eopl

e an

d or

gani

zatio

nson

the

Left

are

so si

lent

, unc

omfo

rtab

le, d

efen

sive

, and

eve

n ac

cusa

to-

ryw

hen

som

eone

brin

gs c

once

rns

abou

t ant

isem

itism

up.

It's

the

eye

-rol

ls,

insu

lts o

rch

ange

s of

sub

ject

whe

n so

meo

ne r

aise

s an

ti-se

miti

sm in

a m

eetin

g or

even

t...T

he re

fusa

ls to

incl

ude

antis

emiti

sm o

n th

e lis

t of

oppr

essi

ons a

coa

litio

n st

ands

aga

inst

...O

ur c

orre

ct w

ork

to p

reve

nt w

ar o

n Ir

an, b

utou

r dea

d si

lenc

e ab

out t

he a

ntis

emiti

sm Ir

an's

lead

ers

are

prom

otin

g to

the

wor

ld...

Crit

ics

have

sug

gest

ed th

at in

cide

nts

like

thes

e on

the

Left

mea

n th

ere’

s a

“new

ant

isem

itism

” af

oot.

Is all

this

"the new antisemitism

"tha

t som

e obs

ervers

have

mad

e so m

uch o

f ?

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HT:

List

pub

lishe

d by

Adb

uste

rs w

ith th

e art

icle

, “W

hyW

on’t

Anyo

ne S

ay T

hey

Are

Jew

ish?

”(M

arch

/Apr

il 20

04)

* A

Jew

ish

fam

ily, h

ighl

y pr

omin

ent i

n ba

nkin

g, p

artic

ular

ly in

the

19th

cen

tury

.1122

It w

as a

bar

gain

no

self-

resp

ectin

g lib

erat

ion

mov

emen

t tod

ay w

ould

touc

h - a

nd th

eon

ly o

ffer J

ews

had.

Jew

s ke

pt w

orki

ng to

ass

imila

te fo

r the

nex

t 150

yea

rs, a

s ch

ance

sat

inte

grat

ion

slip

ped

in a

nd o

ut o

f the

ir ha

nds.

At a

t the

sam

e tim

e, th

ey so

ught

free

dom

by o

ther

mea

ns:t

hrou

gh c

onsi

sten

tly h

igh

invo

lvem

ent i

n m

ovem

ents

for r

efor

m a

nd re

v-ol

utio

n. F

rom

Sal

onic

a to

Mos

cow

, Bag

hdad

, Bue

nos A

ires

and

New

Yor

k, J

ews

help

edfo

rm th

e ba

se o

f rev

olut

iona

ry m

ovem

ents

. The

re, t

hey

wer

e al

low

ed to

succ

eed

and

wel

-co

med

into

lead

ersh

ip a

s had

nev

er o

ccur

red

in jo

bs a

nd u

nive

rsiti

es -

but i

t was

ass

umed

they

had

to tr

ansc

end

thei

r pe

tty J

ewis

h ro

ots.

In r

adic

al c

ircle

s, as

am

ong

thei

r lib

eral

eman

cipa

tors

, Jew

s wer

e to

ld th

at th

eir J

ewis

h id

entit

ies s

houl

d be

a re

mna

nt o

f the

pas

t.

1950s -

American Jews Push

Their E

thnicity

Underg

round

In th

e 19

30s

and

40s,

Jew

ish

cultu

re -

relig

ious

and

irre

ligio

us -

coul

d be

see

n an

dhe

ard

on th

e st

reet

s of

any

Am

eric

an c

ity w

ith a

Jew

ish

pres

ence

. In

the

afte

rmat

h of

Wor

ld W

arII

and

the

Hol

ocau

st,t

his

was

to c

hang

e.

The

U.S

., no

w h

ome

to th

e w

orld

’s la

rges

t rem

aini

ng Je

wis

h po

pula

tion,

app

eare

d to

be th

e sa

fest

cou

ntry

left.

Am

eric

an Je

ws k

new

they

’d b

ette

r not

rock

the

boat

. Plu

s, w

ithth

e G.

.I. B

ill, m

any

wer

e fin

ally

mak

ing

it to

the

mid

dle

clas

s. In

the

new

subu

rbs,

whe

reJe

ws

lived

on

the

insi

de o

f whi

te s

ocie

ty fo

r the

firs

t tim

e, it

was

fine

to h

ave

a di

ffere

ntre

ligio

n, b

ut n

ot to

see

m to

o "e

thni

c.”

Even

for a

thei

sts,

syna

gogu

es b

ecam

e th

e pl

ace

togo

to h

ang

out w

ith o

ther

Jew

s. Je

wis

h id

entit

y w

as b

eing

mol

ded

into

the

guis

e of

a m

ere

relig

ion,

with

the

ethn

icity

and

cul

ture

that

had

nou

rishe

d Je

ws

shov

ed o

ut o

f sig

ht.

The

n,ju

st a

s Am

eric

an Je

ws w

ere

still

reel

ing

from

new

s of t

he E

urop

ean

geno

cide

,M

cCar

thyi

sm e

xplo

ded.

Pro

gres

sive

Jew

s be

cam

e on

e of

the

cen

tral

targ

ets.

Jew

sar

ound

the

U.S

. cam

e un

der s

uspi

cion

at w

ork;

man

y lo

st th

eir j

obs

or w

hole

car

eers

. In

one

of w

orld

his

tory

’s m

ost p

ublic

ized

tria

ls, t

wo

Bro

okly

n Je

wis

h C

omm

unis

t par

ents

,Et

hel a

nd J

uliu

s R

osen

berg

, wer

e ch

arge

d an

d ex

ecut

ed a

s sp

ies.

The

once

-larg

e an

d ac

tive

Jew

ish

Left

was

hit

hard

. Rifk

e Fe

inst

ein

of th

e C

ongr

ess

of S

ecul

ar J

ewis

h O

rgan

izat

ions

rem

embe

rs th

at w

hen

McC

arth

yism

hit,

"w

hole

com

-m

uniti

es o

f us [

Lefti

st, Y

iddi

sh-s

peak

ing,

secu

lar J

ewis

h sc

hool

s and

org

aniz

atio

ns]

just

trie

d to

go

unde

rgro

und,

to d

isap

pear

. But

whe

n it

was

ove

r and

we

poke

d1155

JER

RYFA

LWE

LL,w

ho p

reac

hes

that

the

Anti-

Chr

ist i

s al

ive

as a

mal

e Je

w:

One

of

man

y Ri

ght-w

ing

figur

es w

ho p

aint

them

selv

es a

s fr

iend

s to

Isra

el.

and

the “Generous Offer”

Bec

ause

the L

eft h

asn'

t tak

en a

nti-J

ewis

h op

pres

sion

on.

Whe

neve

r th

e Le

ft is

qui

et a

bout

an

issu

e th

at m

atte

rs to

peop

le, i

t lea

ves

a va

cuum

for t

he R

ight

to w

alk

into

. The

yus

e it

to th

eir

adva

ntag

e, to

dra

w in

peo

ple

wor

ried

abou

tth

at is

sue,

and

as

mor

al a

mm

uniti

on fo

r the

ir cr

usad

es.

Wha

t’s r

eally

new

isn'

t abo

ut th

e Le

ft -i

t's a

bout

the

Rig

ht. E

ver s

ince

Isra

elw

on th

e '6

7 w

ar, a

nd s

udde

nly

look

ed to

the

U.S

. lik

e a

hand

y lit

tle f

riend

in th

eM

iddl

e Ea

st, t

he R

ight

has

put

on

a ne

w c

ostu

me:

Def

ende

rs o

f Isr

ael a

nd th

e Je

ws.

It w

ould

be,

shal

l we

say,

an

unde

rsta

tem

ent t

o no

te th

at in

the

vast

swee

p of

his

-to

ry, J

ewis

h lib

erat

ion

has

not e

xact

ly b

een

a pe

t cau

se o

f the

Rig

ht. S

o w

hy h

ave

they

got

ten

away

with

mak

ing

fight

ing

antis

emiti

sm in

to a

nob

le R

ight

-win

g is

sue?

We

see

the

Rig

ht a

ctin

g ap

palle

d at

ant

isem

itism

, and

thin

k of

it a

s a R

ight

-win

g is

sue.

We

don'

t rea

lize,

the

Rig

ht g

ot to

take

it b

ecau

se th

e Le

ft w

as s

ilent

.

We

see

the

Left

not t

akin

g on

ant

i-Jew

ish

oppr

essi

on, a

nd w

e as

sum

e th

at m

eans

it’s

not

a si

gnifi

cant

soc

ial

just

ice

issu

e. W

e fo

rget

tha

t ev

ery

oppr

esse

d gr

oup

we

talk

abou

t tod

ay- p

eopl

e of

col

or, w

omen

,qu

eers

- go

t on

the

agen

da o

nly

afte

rth

ey fo

ught

like

hel

l aga

inst

the

esta

b-lis

hed

voic

es o

f the

Lef

t to

show

that

thei

rop

pres

sion

mat

tere

d.Th

e O

ldLe

ft's

pers

pect

ive

that

all

stru

ggle

sw

ere

seco

nd t

o th

e cl

ass

stru

ggle

mea

nt a

ll ki

nds o

f gro

ups w

ere

shut

up,

dism

isse

d an

d di

sres

pect

ed...

all

in th

ena

me

of u

nity

for t

he re

volu

tion.

Thi

ngs

have

beg

unto

cha

nge

only

due

to th

e st

rugg

les

and

cont

ribu-

tions

of

Bla

ck p

eopl

e as

serti

ng t

heir

auto

nom

y an

d bu

ildin

g in

depe

nden

t lib

erat

ion

mov

emen

ts,

fem

inis

ts,

wom

anis

ts w

hofo

rced

the

whi

te-d

omin

ated

fem

inis

t mov

emen

t to

face

its

raci

sm, t

he A

mer

ican

Ind

ian

Mov

emen

t, C

hica

no/a

s, qu

eers

, and

so

man

y ot

hers

on

the

New

Lef

t who

, em

pow

ered

by

thei

r exa

mpl

es, a

sser

ted

right

s to

spa

ce, r

espe

ct a

nd s

uppo

rt fr

om o

ther

s.

The

Lef

t's p

robl

em o

f sile

ncin

g op

pres

sed

grou

ps co

mes

in p

art f

rom

how

Wes

tern

Eur

opea

n ge

ntile

rev

olut

iona

ries

resp

onde

d to

oppr

esse

d gr

oups

on

thei

rho

me

turf

.W

hen

Fren

ch R

evol

utio

narie

s loo

ked

at th

e Je

ws,

who

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four

teen

cen

turie

s, su

ffere

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olen

ce, e

xpul

sion

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verty

and

lock

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cide

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them

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ates

beg

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Wes

tern

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abou

t whe

ther

to g

rant

equ

al ri

ghts

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sum

ed th

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e th

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ews

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ht b

e pe

rmitt

ed th

eir r

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they

’d b

e ex

pect

ed to

trad

e in

Jew

ish

lang

uage

s, cl

othi

ng a

nd d

istin

ctiv

e cu

lture

s if t

hey

wan

ted

real

mem

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perio

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ture

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1903

:the

faith

that

our

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n w

as c

omin

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geth

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ll th

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. We'v

e se

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whe

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man

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rved

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mew

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ble

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tim

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Lef

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Lef

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rite

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rren

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pres

sion

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fake

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min

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s not

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verty

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n co

lor o

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oniz

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atus

. But

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exac

tly th

at d

iffer

-en

ce in

our

opp

ress

ion

that

mak

es J

ews

a re

volu

tiona

ry fo

rce.

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ress

ed g

roup

s (in

clud

ing

us)

can

ofte

n be

foo

led

into

thi

nkin

g th

at i

f th

ey j

ust

obta

in su

rfac

e re

form

s the

y’ll

be o

n th

eir w

ay to

free

dom

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ting

thei

r gro

up o

ut o

f pov

er-

ty, e

lect

ing

lead

ers

who

look

like

them

, eve

n w

inni

ng a

cou

ntry

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in th

e ca

se o

f Jew

s,it

is c

lear

that

the

dang

ers

to u

s w

ill e

xist

as

long

as

ther

e ar

e 'h

aves

' and

'hav

e-no

ts'

in th

e w

orld

at a

ll. T

hat's

bec

ause

we'r

e no

t jus

t opp

ress

ed b

y th

e pe

ople

at t

he to

p - w

ear

e co

ntin

uous

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ver

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essi

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orse

for o

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t esc

ape

the

cycl

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our

opp

ress

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aslo

ng a

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stem

s of

ineq

ualit

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n th

e w

orld

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ish

oppr

essi

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s all

Jew

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all

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omic

cla

sses

, and

our

opp

ress

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cann

otbe

end

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ithou

t fig

htin

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nsfo

rmin

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cial

inj

ustic

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hole

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his

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n?It

mea

ns th

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a re

serv

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utio

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pot

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babl

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re o

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war

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gre

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ady

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Lef

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anti-

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this

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Lef

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ifica

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pot

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h Je

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at w

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to g

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foug

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nly

beca

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we

long

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ora

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mor

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autif

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orld

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l-ly

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puni

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or th

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volu

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ctiv

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as b

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shar

ed n

ot o

nly

by ra

dica

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t by

quie

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ho tr

ied

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o m

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wav

es. W

e ha

ve c

olle

ctiv

ely

been

follo

wed

aro

und

the

glob

e by

the

accu

satio

n th

at w

e're

subv

ersiv

es te

arin

g up

the

soci

etie

s we

live

in. F

or o

urre

al a

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agin

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al a

ctiv

ities

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e be

en ja

iled,

tortu

red,

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mur

dere

d by

gov

ern-

men

ts an

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ti-Je

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ting

ed m

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ents

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nd th

e w

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Yet J

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mm

uniti

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lled

with

peo

ple

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onc

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ade

thei

r hom

e in

the

Left,

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to b

ack

away

afte

r con

tinua

l enc

ount

ers t

here

with

ant

isem

itism

. We'v

e no

w h

ad th

ree

gene

ratio

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f Jew

ish

activ

ists

pul

l bac

k fr

om th

e Lef

t for

this

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on: F

irst i

n th

e '50

s, co

m-

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to te

rms w

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isem

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t, th

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oung

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atio

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nti-w

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solid

arity

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emen

ts.

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till t

ons

of J

ews

on th

e Le

ft. B

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lot e

asie

r to

be th

ere

if yo

u do

n't f

eel

soJe

wis

h (o

r if y

ou s

hape

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iden

tity

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nce

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r con

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s af

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el li

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mun

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stitu

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ain

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ics t

oget

her.

But

we’

re b

eing

rep-

rese

nted

by

a m

ix o

f off

icia

l Jew

ish

lead

ers,

who

we

don’

t ele

ct, a

nd b

usin

ess l

eade

rsan

d ph

ilant

hrop

ists

, the

info

rmal

lead

ers

who

se d

esire

s sh

ape

our c

omm

unity

’s a

gend

abe

caus

e th

ey c

an m

ake

or b

reak

Jew

ish

non-

prof

its th

at d

epen

d on

thei

r sup

port.

We

have

a lo

t to

corr

ect -

bot

h in

the A

mer

ican

Jew

ish

com

mun

ity, a

nd in

Isra

el,

hom

e to

alm

ost h

alf o

f the

wor

ld’s

Jew

s. W

e ne

ed to

talk

abo

ut th

e O

ccup

atio

n of

the

Pale

stin

ian

peop

le, t

he s

uppr

essi

on o

f dis

sent

abo

ut it

insi

de th

e or

gani

zed

Jew

ish

com

-m

unity

, and

the

deni

als i

n m

any

of o

ur fa

mili

es th

at it

’s q

uite

that

bad

. We

need

to e

xpos

eth

ose

Jew

ish

lead

ers

budd

ying

up

to th

e C

hris

tian

Rig

ht.

We

need

to c

omm

it ou

rsel

ves

to fi

ghtin

g ra

cism

now

in th

e U

.S.-

eve

n as

we

take

prid

e in

the

activ

e ro

le o

f man

y Je

ws

in th

e C

ivil

Rig

hts

era.

(One

of t

he w

ays

we

coul

dst

art i

s to

help

ope

n di

scus

sion

s abo

ut A

mer

ica

conf

ront

ing

and

mak

ing

repa

ratio

ns fo

r the

dam

age

done

by

slav

ery.

We

coul

d m

odel

for o

ther

Am

eric

ans

wha

t it l

ooks

like

to ta

keth

is is

sue

on, b

y ac

know

ledg

ing

that

ther

e w

ere

Jew

s who

par

ticip

ated

in th

e tra

nsat

lant

icsl

ave

trade

.*) W

e ne

ed to

aw

aken

to o

ur o

wn

dive

rsity

, and

bri

ng J

ews

of c

olor

, wor

k-in

g-cl

ass,

quee

rand

secu

larJ

ews i

nto

the

hear

t of o

urco

mm

unity

, whe

re th

ey b

elon

g.

Faci

ng t

he O

ccup

atio

n is

the

grea

test

cha

lleng

e; e

spec

ially

bec

ause

Jew

s do

face

dang

er, a

nd Is

rael

is su

ppos

ed to

be

the

one

thin

g th

at k

eeps

us s

afe.

Man

y of

us h

ave

been

train

ed to

thin

k th

e be

st w

ay to

pro

tect

our

selv

es is

to g

o al

ong

uncr

itica

lly w

ith Is

rael

ipo

licy,

and

cha

nnel

our

ene

rgy

into

hal

ting

any

criti

cism

of

it. L

et u

s be

gin

to c

onfr

ont

antis

emiti

sm it

self

- and

cal

l unj

ust p

olic

ies

wha

t the

y ar

e, w

hile

we

sear

ch fo

r sol

utio

nsth

at c

ould

real

ly m

ake

us s

afe.

We

have

the

righ

t and

the

duty

to s

tand

up

for

this

.

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e

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gmen

t of p

rim

arily

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nish

and

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tugu

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s to

ok p

art,

alon

gsid

e w

hite

gen

tiles

,in

the

slav

e tr

ade.

Jew

s’di

scom

fort

with

ack

now

ledg

ing

this

has

hel

d ba

ck o

ur a

bilit

y to

build

alli

ance

s of t

rust

with

Afr

ican

Am

eric

an a

ctiv

ists

, and

som

e in

thos

e co

mm

uniti

es h

ave

chan

nele

d th

eir

disa

ppoi

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ent i

nto

antis

emiti

sm, b

lam

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s fo

r sl

aver

y as

a w

hole

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wha

t you

opp

ose,

and

cri

tique

act

ions

and

pol

icy

as u

njus

t -- n

ot p

eopl

e or

natio

nsas

evi

l.A

nd w

hen

peop

le su

gges

t tha

t the

y se

e ta

rget

ing

of Je

ws i

n so

met

hing

you

’re

say-

ing

or d

oing

, don

’t sh

oot t

hem

dow

n; s

eek

out u

sefu

l inf

orm

atio

n in

wha

t the

y’re

say

ing

that

mig

ht h

elp

you

give

you

r mes

sage

eve

n m

ore

clar

ity a

nd im

pact

.

Israe

l has

a re

peate

d &

ongo

ing re

cord

of hu

man

rights

offe

nses

.

Many

Isra

eli s

oldier

s jus

tify th

eir a

ction

stow

ard P

alesti

nians

by sa

ying t

hey’r

e ‘jus

tfol

lowing

orde

rs.’

The

Zionis

t mov

emen

t has

inclu

ded

ele-

ments

of r

acism

from

its e

arly

days

, suc

has

the

claim

that

Pales

tine

was

“a la

ndwi

thout

a pe

ople

for a

peo

ple w

ithou

t alan

d.” M

ajor Z

ionist

facti

ons

have

imple

-me

nted

cons

cious

, inte

ntion

al ra

cist p

oli-

cy.

Rega

rdles

s of

ind

ividu

al Zi

onist

s’int

entio

ns,Z

ionism

as

a wh

ole h

as h

adra

cist

& op

pres

sive

resu

ltsfo

r th

ePa

lestin

ian pe

ople.

AIPA

C,*

weap

ons

lobbie

s &

other

s giv

eU.

S. p

olitic

ians

incen

tives

to p

ush

anti-

Pales

tinian

polic

ies, &

attem

pt to

silen

ce &

intim

idate

both

Jews

& n

on-Je

ws w

hora

ise al

terna

tives

.

In thi

s iss

ue, a

s in s

o man

y, the

corp

orate

media

pro

vide

one-

dimen

siona

l, se

nsa-

tiona

lized

cove

rage

, usu

ally b

iased

towa

rdwh

ateve

r sid

e the

U.S

. go

vern

ment

isba

cking

- wh

en th

ey co

ver it

at al

l.

Lack

of

a re

solut

ion b

etwee

n Isr

ael &

Pales

tine

is on

e of

seve

ral m

ajor r

egion

alco

nflict

s pre

venti

ng ju

stice

& st

abilit

y in t

heMi

ddle

East.

Outs

ide p

ower

s suc

h as

the

U.S.

& E

urop

e ha

ve p

layed

& p

lay a

role

in sp

arkin

g & pe

rpetu

ating

thes

e con

flicts.

“Isra

el is

a wo

rse h

uman

srig

hts vi

olator

than

mos

t or a

lloth

er co

untrie

s.”

“Isra

elis a

re ju

st lik

e Naz

is.“

“Zion

ismis

racis

m.”

“The

‘Isra

el Lo

bby’

is wh

at is

push

ing A

meric

a off

trac

k &

away

from

its

true

inter

ests,

or ca

used

us to

go to

war.

”

“The

med

ia, c

ontro

lled

byZio

nists,

neve

r talks

abou

t the

pligh

t of th

e Pale

stinia

ns.”

“The

Isra

el-Pa

lestin

e co

nflict

is the

root

of vio

lence

& in

sta-

bility

in th

e Mi

ddle

East

/ of

Amer

ica’s

bad

relat

ionsh

ipwi

th Ar

ab co

untrie

s.”

"Isra

el is

the r

oot o

f the

world

's pr

oblem

s.”

"Isra

el is

worse

than

the

Nazis

,” “Th

is wo

uldn't

have

happ

ened

if

the N

azis

were

succ

essfu

l," etc

.

"The

Zion

ist c

onsp

iracy

isbe

hind

this,"

“Zio

nism

isthe

roo

t of

the w

orld’

spr

oblem

s tod

ay,”e

tc.

“Isra

el /

The

Zionis

ts /

The

Jews

/ Th

e Je

wish

Lob

by...

is co

ntroll

ing th

e U.

S.

/ the

wor

ld.”

“Zion

ist c

ontro

l of

the

media

is p

art

of a

vast

web

of Zio

nist p

ower

ove

rba

nks

& wo

rld

gove

r-me

nts, in

their

cons

pirac

yto

rule

over

hum

anity

.”

“Eve

rythin

g wo

uld b

e be

tter i

f Isra

el wa

sde

stroy

ed,"

etc.

Clea

r crit

icism

s of

Israe

li pol

icy &

its b

acke

rs

Antis

emiti

c ide

as

ofte

n re

peat

ed by

activ

ists w

ith n

o an

ti-Je

wish

inte

ntio

ns

Line

s em

ergi

ng

dire

ctly

from

neo

-na

zi &

ant

isem

itic

orga

niza

tions

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rican

Isra

el Pu

blic A

ffairs

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mitte

e, a

major

Righ

t-wing

, pro

-Isra

eli e

xpan

sionis

m lob

by g

roup

.

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It's

true

- ev

eryt

hing

in C

olum

n 1

take

s lon

gert

o sa

y, a

nd is

less

cat

chy.

But

whe

n yo

u ch

oose

to m

ake

accu

rate

, spe

cific

crit

icis

ms o

f Isr

aeli

polic

y, y

ou d

o yo

ursm

all p

art t

o de

crea

se th

e lik

elih

ood

that

I w

ill b

e ki

lled

in a

syna

gogu

e by

som

eone

who

, mis

guid

ed b

y an

ti-Je

wis

h op

pres

sion

, tho

ught

they

wou

ld b

e he

lpin

g Pa

lest

ine.

"You'r

e not

pro-Pales

tinian

.. ...

You’

re a

ntis

emiti

c!”

If y

ou w

ork

to su

ppor

tPa

lest

inia

n se

lf-de

term

inat

ion,

you

’ve

hear

dth

is s

ort o

f thi

ng c

ount

less

tim

es. S

omet

imes

it co

mes

fro

m R

ight

-win

g id

eolo

gues

who

seai

m is

to s

hut d

own

deba

te a

bout

Pal

estin

ian

right

s. O

ther

tim

es it

com

es f

rom

Jew

s w

hoar

e so

sca

red

of r

eal

antis

emiti

sm t

hat

they

can'

t tel

l whe

n a

criti

cism

of I

srae

l is n

ot d

riv-

en b

y ha

tred

of Je

ws.

Eith

er w

ay, i

t's in

sulti

ngto

act

ivis

ts a

nd -

abov

e al

l - to

Pal

estin

ians

.

Yet

inst

ance

s of

ant

i-Jew

ish

beha

vior

do c

ome

up in

Pal

estin

e w

ork

mor

e th

an m

any

parts

of t

he L

eft:

Why

?It'

s no

t bec

ause

Pale

stin

ian

or A

rab

activ

ists

are

mor

e an

ti-Je

wis

h th

an o

ther

peo

ple.

In

fact

, the

y of

ten

have

a s

harp

er e

ye th

an o

ther

s fo

r cat

chin

g an

d in

terr

uptin

g an

ti-Je

wis

h th

inki

ng.

One

rea

son

is si

mpl

e:A

ny is

sue

whe

re Je

ws a

re v

ery

visi

ble

will

brin

g ou

t the

ant

i-se

miti

sm th

at a

lread

y ex

ists

in th

e w

orld

. Ano

ther

is m

ore

com

plex

: In

an is

sue

whe

reso

me

Jew

s do

have

rea

l pow

er; i

t can

get

har

d to

tell

wha

t's a

n ac

cura

te o

bser

vatio

n of

unju

st a

ctio

ns th

ey h

ave

done

, and

wha

t's a

ntis

emiti

c th

inki

ng. F

or in

stan

ce, i

f Isr

ael g

ets

cont

inua

lly a

llow

ed to

flou

t int

erna

tiona

l law

; if p

ro-P

ales

tine

activ

ists

suf

fer c

enso

rshi

por

are

rule

d ou

t for

fund

ing

or jo

bs b

ecau

se o

f con

trove

rsy

this

issu

e ra

ises

, som

e ac

tivis

tsst

art t

o m

ista

ke J

ews

for a

vas

t pow

erfu

l net

wor

k, o

r a c

onsp

iracy

that

cal

ls a

ll th

e sh

ots.

Ath

ird

prob

lem

ari

ses

from

nor

mal

act

ivis

t tac

tics.

We

ofte

n fig

ht c

ampa

igns

by

mak

ing

our o

ppon

ents

look

as

bad

as p

ossi

ble.

The

Lef

t doe

sn't

have

tons

of m

oney

, or

mus

cle

on C

apito

l Hill

. One

of t

he st

reng

ths w

e do

hav

e is

mor

al p

ower

to m

ake

the

othe

rsi

de lo

ok b

ad e

noug

h th

at th

e w

orld

sham

es th

em in

to re

vers

ing

thei

r pol

icy.

In c

ampa

igns

for A

IDS

fund

ing,

fair

hous

ing,

pris

on ri

ghts

, you

nam

e it,

one

of o

ur m

ain

tact

ics

is to

mak

e ou

r opp

onen

ts o

ut to

be

cold

, cru

el a

nd in

hum

an.

But

whe

n yo

u us

e ta

ctic

s lik

e th

at o

n a

grou

p th

at's

his

tori

cally

bee

n po

rtra

yed

as ev

il an

d in

hum

an,w

here

that

imag

e ha

s bee

n us

ed fo

r cen

turie

s as a

tool

to in

cite

mas

svi

olen

ce a

gain

st th

em, y

ou ta

p in

to a

larg

erhi

stor

ical

pow

er.A

pow

er th

at's

bigg

er th

anth

e Le

ft, a

nd h

as it

s ow

n m

omen

tum

.

At t

he v

ery

birth

of t

he P

ales

tinia

ns' c

atas

troph

e lie

s ant

isem

itism

, the

forc

e th

at c

re-

ated

the

Jew

ish

sear

ch fo

r a m

oder

n st

ate.

And

bui

ldin

g a

wor

ld th

at fi

ghts

the

oppr

essi

onof

Jew

s, an

d al

l hum

ans,

is th

e ul

timat

e so

lutio

n to

toda

y's c

ondi

tion,

in w

hich

Jew

s clin

gso

har

d to

a ti

ny p

lace

of s

afet

y fo

r the

mse

lves

at t

he c

ost o

f opp

ress

ing

Pale

stin

ians

. Yet

Pale

stin

ians

don

’t h

ave

the

luxu

ryof

wai

ting

for a

ntis

emiti

sm to

be

erad

icat

ed to

stru

g-gl

e fo

r the

ir ow

n fr

eedo

m. S

o le

t's g

uara

ntee

the

shor

t-ter

m b

attle

sup

ports

the

long

-term

goal

s, by

con

scio

usly

bui

ldin

g sa

fegu

ards

to J

ews

into

tact

ics

for P

ales

tinia

n lib

erat

ion.

It's

abso

lute

ly p

ossi

ble

to c

ritiq

ue Is

rael

with

out b

eing

ant

isem

itic

- but

it's

not

auto

mat

ic. Y

ou k

eep

thin

gs c

lear

whe

n yo

u de

scri

be a

ccur

atel

y an

d sp

ecifi

cally

APa

lest

inia

n gi

rl m

eets

her

rela

tive,

pre

viou

sly

impr

ison

ed b

y Is

rael

, at T

ulka

rem

che

ckpo

int.

2200

iinnnnooccuullaattee

your P

alestine w

ork

against

antisemitism

- If y

ou'r

e w

hite

, und

erst

and:

Whe

n yo

u ta

ke n

o ac

tion

to s

top

anti-

Jew

ish

pat-

tern

s in

our m

ovem

ents

, you

set P

ales

tinia

ns, A

rabs

and

Mus

lims u

p to

take

the

fall.

Thou

gh h

isto

ric L

eft m

istre

atm

ent o

f Jew

s ha

s la

rgel

y be

en a

lega

cy o

f whi

te,

Euro

pean

/Am

eric

an m

ovem

ents

, Ara

bs a

nd M

uslim

s ar

e th

e on

es w

ho to

day

get

publ

icly

sca

pego

ated

for c

harg

es o

f Lef

t ant

isem

itism

. Don

't le

t the

m p

ay th

e pr

ice.

Take

the

stru

ggle

on.

-Bew

are

of s

ayin

g Is

rael

is th

e on

ly c

ount

ry d

oing

any

thin

g, o

rth

e w

orst

cas

eof

any

giv

en in

just

ice;

it’s

ofte

n no

t tru

e, a

nd it

get

s us

ed to

just

ify g

loba

l vio

lenc

eag

ains

t Jew

s. K

now

and

spea

k ab

out c

ount

ries

guilt

y of

sim

ilar o

ffens

es. T

his n

oton

ly g

uard

aga

inst

dan

ger t

o Je

ws;

it b

rings

a g

loba

l per

spec

tive

that

str

engt

hen

the

fight

s of

all

peop

les,

even

whi

le w

e fo

cus

on P

ales

tinia

ns.

-Be

spec

ific

abou

t the

inju

stice

you

're ta

lkin

g ab

out.

For i

nsta

nce,

don

’t ju

mp

into

gene

raliz

atio

ns li

ke “

Isra

elis

are

like

Naz

is.”

Focu

s on

the

orig

inal

thou

ght t

hat l

edth

ere;

ie, “

Isra

eli p

olic

ies l

ike

[bla

nk] t

reat

Pal

estin

ians

as i

f the

y’re

not

hum

an.”

- R

emem

ber

that

, as

with

eve

ry o

ppre

ssio

n, i

t’s p

ossi

ble

to s

prea

d an

tisem

itic

idea

s w

ithou

t nec

essa

rily

harb

orin

g an

y ill

will

tow

ard

Jew

s. St

ay o

pen

to re

-eva

l-ua

ting

tact

ics,

even

thou

gh y

ou k

now

you

r int

entio

ns a

re p

ositi

ve a

nd ju

st.

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on't

casu

ally

use

one-

dim

ensi

onal

, ch

aric

atur

ed p

ortra

yals

of

crue

l Is

rael

is.

Rat

her t

han

sens

atio

naliz

ing

Isra

elis

, and

com

poun

ding

ant

i-Jew

ish

oppr

essi

on in

aw

orld

that

alre

ady

pain

ts Je

ws a

s evi

l, he

lp p

eopl

e se

ePa

lest

inia

ns: r

eal p

eopl

e, su

f-fe

ring

daily

inju

stic

e, b

oth

mun

dane

and

ext

rem

e, a

nd d

eser

ving

of g

loba

l atte

ntio

n.

-At t

he c

ente

rof

Pal

estin

ians

’str

uggl

e fo

rfr

eedo

m a

nd h

uman

dig

nity

is th

eir

hum

an a

nd le

gal R

ight

to R

etur

nto

thei

r lan

d. B

ut th

ere

are

real

reas

ons w

hy Je

ws

arou

nd th

e w

orld

fear

losi

ng m

ajor

ity c

ontro

l of I

srae

l. (S

ee p

. 25.

) If y

ou fi

ght f

orth

e R

ight

to R

etur

n, u

nder

stan

d th

e im

plic

atio

ns it

cou

ld h

ave

for

Jew

s in

a w

orld

whe

re a

nti-J

ewis

h op

pres

sion

has

not

bee

n so

lved

. Con

side

rw

hat

role

you

can

play

in b

ringi

ng a

bout

glo

bal s

afet

y fo

r Jew

ish

peop

le.

-If

peo

ple

use

oppo

sitio

n to

the

term

'ant

isem

itism

'to

shut

dow

n di

scus

sion

, by

all

mea

ns,

spea

k of

ant

i-Jew

ish

oppr

essi

on.

But

spea

k of

it.

Don

't le

t fe

llow

activ

ists

sile

nce

conv

ersa

tion

abou

t ant

isem

itism

by

com

plai

ning

that

the

wor

d is

wro

ng, a

nd b

lam

ing

Jew

s fo

r the

pro

blem

. (Se

e pa

ge 6

.)

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id a

nti-J

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pres

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twee

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ople

and

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eli

mis

deed

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tar

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men

ts a

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aism

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ewis

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ly, t

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ause

maj

or, o

rgan

ized

ant

isem

itic

mov

emen

ts a

lso

use

the

term

, for

the

oppo

site

pur

pose

: to

spre

ad a

nti-J

ewis

h id

eolo

gy w

ithou

t loo

king

so b

ad. T

hat's

why

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nter

natio

nal c

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renc

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gest

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any

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c gr

oups

, “Zi

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Jew

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ntro

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the

wor

ld, P

roto

col-

styl

e; a

nd “

Zion

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the

gene

ral b

ody

of e

vild

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by

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se w

e ac

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tsar

e on

ly s

uspi

ciou

s of

Jew

-bas

hing

, no

t at

tack

s on

“Zi

onis

ts,”

the

ir an

tisem

itic

imag

ery

mak

es it

s w

ay r

ight

into

our

circ

les.

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nd, b

ecau

se it

rep

lace

s on

e on

e-di

men

sion

al i

mag

e of

a '

bad

guy'

with

ano

ther

.It

bypa

sses

the

act

ual

wor

k of

avoi

ding

ant

i-Jew

ish

oppr

essi

on:

resh

apin

g ho

w w

e th

ink

and

talk

abo

ut J

ews

and

Isra

elis

to s

ee th

em a

s 3-

dim

ensi

onal

hum

an b

eing

s, ca

pabl

e of

wro

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like

any

othe

rs.F

inal

ly, u

sing

the

term

"Zi

onis

ts"

does

n't p

rote

ct J

ews.

Itju

st m

akes

peo

ple

who

bom

b Je

wis

h sc

hool

s, sy

nago

gues

, etc

., ca

ll th

e pe

ople

they

're k

illin

g Zi

onis

ts.

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cipl

ed a

nti-Z

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sm h

as li

ttle

to d

o w

ith th

e fa

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hat a

ntis

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slik

e D

uke

atta

ck. T

here

are

man

y ra

tiona

l rea

sons

why

som

e pe

ople

are

opp

osed

to th

eph

iloso

phy

that

ther

e sh

ould

be

a Je

wis

h st

ate,

just

as l

ots o

f rat

iona

l rea

sons

mot

ivat

eot

hers

to b

elie

ve a

Jew

ish

stat

e is

nec

cess

ary.

*

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nism

is n

ot a

n in

sult.

It's

nota

cat

ch p

hras

e, a

cod

e w

ord

for

raci

sm o

rim

peri

alis

m,o

r the

nam

e fo

r unp

leas

ant t

hing

s do

ne b

y Je

ws.

It's

a n

atio

nalis

m,

and,

as o

ften

happ

ens w

ith n

atio

nalis

ms,

it ha

s not

fully

libe

rate

d its

peo

ple

and

has

oppr

esse

d ot

hers

in th

e pr

oces

s. It

stan

ds fo

r a h

uge

rang

e of

bel

iefs

and

bel

ieve

rs:

from

the

Rig

ht-w

ing

raci

st w

ho w

ants

to ‘t

rans

fer’

(for

cibl

y ex

pel)

all P

ales

tinia

ns,

to th

e pe

rson

who

wan

ts J

ews

to h

ave

a se

lf-de

term

ined

sta

te in

the

only

land

tow

hich

Jew

ish

dias

pora

eth

nici

ties a

roun

d th

e w

orld

hav

e sh

ared

a c

ultu

ral t

ie, t

o th

epe

rson

who

wan

ts to

kee

p liv

ing

as a

Jew

in th

e “L

and

of Is

rael

”bu

t is o

pen

to li

v-in

g in

a b

inat

iona

l, Pa

lest

inia

n-Je

wis

h st

ate.

Ther

e's n

o sh

ame

in th

inki

ng c

ritic

ally

tow

ard

Zion

ism

. But

in a

wor

ld o

f unr

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lved

ant

isem

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, the

re's

also

no

getti

ng o

ut o

f fig

htin

g th

is o

ppre

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n he

ad o

n.

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reth

ink.

oonn ttaarrggee

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r ins

tanc

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n an

ti-Zi

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t mig

ht ra

tiona

lly o

ppos

e Zi

onis

ts' h

avin

g co

nsci

ousl

y es

tab-

lishe

d a

stat

e w

here

they

did

, kno

win

g th

at th

is w

ould

lead

to d

ispo

sses

sing

the

Pale

stin

ian

peop

le. A

Zion

ist m

ight

obs

erve

that

Jew

s' vu

lner

abili

ty w

as li

nked

to b

eing

a p

erm

anen

tlysm

all m

inor

ity a

nd s

uppo

rt J

ews

havi

ng o

ne p

lace

whe

re th

ey a

re th

e go

vern

ing

maj

ority

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trol

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the

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ish

wor

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pler

not

ions

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ht to

stay

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eir p

lace

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ts e

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‘Isr

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tern

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mor

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riel S

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on Is

rael

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dio:

"W

e, th

e Je

wis

h pe

ople

con

trol A

mer

ica,

and

the

Am

eric

ans

know

it.”

2255

Why d

o ma

ny Jew

s fi

ght so

hard a

gain

st

the

Right

to

Retu

rn?

(See

p. 2

3.)

The

fact

that

man

y Je

ws f

ierc

ely

oppo

se th

e Pa

lest

inia

n R

ight

to R

etur

n, a

nd th

ere

late

d vi

sion

of a

pea

cefu

l bi-n

atio

nal s

tate

, bef

uddl

es m

any

activ

ists

, who

see

a sh

ared

dem

ocra

cy w

here

bot

h Je

ws

and

Pale

stin

ians

rece

ive

resp

ect a

s on

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the

mos

t hop

eful

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solu

tions

imag

inab

le. B

ut, a

long

with

Isra

el's

deni

als o

f its

resp

onsi

bilit

y fo

r the

refu

gee

cris

is, t

here

is

a se

cond

, and

dee

per

issu

e in

volv

ed:

Jew

s ha

ve h

ad c

onvi

ncin

gex

perie

nces

that

lack

ing

a pl

ace

to r

un to

can

hav

e lif

e-or

-dea

th c

onse

quen

ces.

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natio

ns m

et i

n Ev

ian-

les-

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ns, F

ranc

eto

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cuss

whe

ther

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opea

n Je

ws,

desp

erat

e to

flee

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is, i

nto

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rco

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l cu

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atio

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pts t

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e fo

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e an

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puls

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to w

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e vu

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sm

all d

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they

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e m

inor

ities

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very

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ce, a

t the

mer

cy o

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ites.

Man

y fe

ar th

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Pal

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ians

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urn

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rael

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rs, w

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igra

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rael

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afeg

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ase

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ence

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ter

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stin

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cou

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rael

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ate

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le i

n K

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ver o

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srae

l doe

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s and

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the

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the

m.

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t m

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eric

ans

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ivis

ts in

clud

ed) s

o un

awar

e of

the

wor

ld b

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r bor

ders

that

we

belie

ve Is

rael

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eon

ly c

ount

ry c

omm

ittin

g th

e vi

olat

ions

it h

as. I

t doe

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need

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se lo

ng b

efor

e Is

rael

or Z

ioni

sm e

xist

ed, t

he ta

rget

ing

of J

ews

was

wel

l ent

renc

hed

in th

ese

land

s.

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pro

blem

atic

way

this

occ

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n th

e L

eft i

s whe

n ac

tivis

ts te

ach

that

thin

gs fo

rJe

ws i

n A

rab

land

s wer

e fin

e un

til Is

rael

cam

e al

ong.

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s did

live

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reat

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rmon

yin

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b la

ndst

han

in E

urop

e. B

ut a

s rel

igio

us m

inor

ities

, the

y al

so e

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ienc

ed o

ppre

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hich

cou

ld ra

nge

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mild

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tine

degr

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ion

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iole

nt m

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s. Th

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gacy

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poun

ded

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olon

izin

g re

gim

es, w

ho b

roug

ht E

urop

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e re

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the

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iffer

ent i

n ea

ch c

ount

ry a

nd e

ach

time;

and

in th

e he

arts

of

man

y of

the

Jew

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ho li

ved

ther

e, A

rab

cultu

re w

ill a

lway

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mai

n ho

me.

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n A

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men

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ur-

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ow to

even

find

oth

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ews

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gai

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cou

rage

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ome

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as J

ews

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ork

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nth

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actio

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ay n

ot a

lway

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pos

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in th

e U

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nd a

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it in

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bla

min

g Je

ws

for

brin

ging

them

into

"th

e Je

ws'

war

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pla

ces

like

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nd, H

oloc

aust

sur

vivo

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ere

mur

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as th

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ft th

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mps

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ho b

lam

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r the

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anti-

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mun

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atte

ntio

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Jew

ish

prog

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ives

as a

susp

ecte

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ifth

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king

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o th

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berg

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the

Sovi

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b Je

ws

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r go

vern

men

ts; a

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very

whe

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uspe

cted

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l loy

al-

ties.”

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s hav

e so

ofte

n be

en a

ccus

ed o

f shi

rkin

gw

artim

e du

ty th

at Je

ws i

n m

any

coun

tries

mai

ntai

n co

mm

ittee

s w

hich

def

end

Jew

ish

vete

rans

and

kee

p re

cord

s of

the

nam

es a

nd n

umbe

rs o

f Jew

s w

ho s

erve

d an

d di

ed in

the

line

of d

uty,

kno

win

gth

ey w

ill li

tera

lly n

eed

to p

rove

thei

r sac

rific

e ne

xt ti

me

the

accu

satio

ns re

turn

.

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t Exa

mpl

e: C

laim

s tha

t the

U.S

. wou

ldn't

be

in Ir

aq if

it w

eren

't fo

r a n

efar

i-ou

s Jew

ish in

fluen

ce (t

he st

ate

of Is

rael

and

its l

obby

con

trolli

ng u

s, a

cliq

ue o

f Jew

ishne

o-co

ns w

ho've

got

ten

the n

atio

n al

l off

cour

se, e

tc.).

Any

one w

ho's

been

pay

ing

atte

n-tio

n to

Bus

h's o

wn

visio

n, o

r to

U.S

. for

eign

pol

icy

since

189

8, co

uld

have

gue

ssed

we'd

be tr

ying

to sc

ore

one

for t

he e

mpi

re --

with

or w

ithou

t tho

se n

eo-c

ons.

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lway

s, th

ebi

g w

inne

r fro

m th

ese

accu

satio

ns is

the

corru

pt g

over

nmen

t at f

ault

for t

he w

ar.

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sing

the

Loss

of W

ars

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ebod

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ould

writ

e a

pam

phle

t for

act

ivis

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st a

bout

how

to re

spon

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hen

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s get

bla

med

for w

ars -

it h

appe

ns so

regu

larly

you

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set y

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wat

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defa

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lway

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r-ge

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n th

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t wro

ng. W

hat's

mor

e, J

ews

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e tre

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man

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asy

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the

Jew

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hed

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her c

ount

ry w

ould

take

ove

r and

chan

ge th

eir c

ondi

tions

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can

see

this

as

early

as 7

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whe

n th

e M

uslim

Moo

rs c

onqu

ered

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n. C

hris

tian

Span

iard

s th

erea

fter c

laim

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eJe

ws

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ted

the

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rs in

.

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he p

ast

cent

ury

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e've

had

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ranc

e ex

plod

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ith a

nti-J

ewis

h vi

triol

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e 19

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ccus

atio

ns b

y G

erm

ans

that

the

y ha

d lo

st t

he W

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ause

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coun

try's

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spire

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back

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t Ger

man

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ist a

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pro

test

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cher

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r ow

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lture

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cula

rJe

ws,

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ing

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mpt

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ess

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Juda

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one

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the

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sing

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g ou

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tisem

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hen

peop

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aise

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antis

emiti

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trai

n yo

urm

ind

to n

ot g

o au

tom

atic

ally

to th

e Is

rael

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estin

e co

nflic

t; co

nsid

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the

issu

e in

its o

wn

right

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h ar

e se

para

te, v

ital i

ssue

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t dem

and

our c

once

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htin

g an

ti-Je

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opp

ress

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l org

aniz

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agai

nst b

ad th

ings

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and

sayi

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at w

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elp

end

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ns a

ctiv

ely

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batin

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th a

nti-J

ewish

act

ions

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bel

iefs

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heth

er t

hey

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vertl

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tisem

itic

mov

emen

ts or

gro

ups y

ou th

ink

are

cool

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wan

t to

team

up

with

pol

itica

lly.

- Mai

nstre

am Je

ws o

ften

feel

mor

e ent

itled

than

they

shou

ld to

accu

se y

our w

ork

of an

ti-se

miti

sm. B

ut m

any

radi

cal J

ewsh

ave t

he o

ppos

ite p

robl

em: W

e ten

d to

dou

bt a

nd d

is-m

iss o

urse

lves

whe

n w

e no

tice

anti-

Jew

ish p

atte

rns

happ

enin

g. T

his

hold

s ou

r who

lem

ovem

ents

back

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p us

out

: Giv

e us t

he sp

ace a

ll op

pres

sed

grou

ps sh

ould

get

, by

let-

ting

us e

rron

the

side

of n

otic

ing

antis

emiti

sm "

too

muc

h"as

we

figur

e it

out.

-Und

erst

and

that

Jew

ishne

ssis

a cu

ltura

lide

ntity

, an

ethn

icid

entit

y an

d a

reli-

giou

s (or

non-

relig

ious

) ide

ntity

. Und

erst

and

that

raci

sm p

lays

a k

ey p

art i

n an

ti-Je

wish

opp

ress

ion,

eve

n if

you

reta

in th

e w

ord

raci

sm to

refe

r to

peop

le o

f col

or.

-Lea

rn a

bout

and

sup

port

Jew

s of

col

or.E

duca

te y

ours

elf a

bout

glo

bal J

ewis

hco

mm

uniti

es a

nd h

isto

ries

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spe

ak o

ut in

you

r or

gani

zing

to e

nsur

e th

at th

evo

ices

of J

ews

of c

olor

are

hea

rd --

incl

udin

g th

e Je

ws

of c

olor

who

are

sitt

ing

infr

ont o

f you

, ask

ing

you

to li

sten

. Don

’t as

sum

e th

at th

e Je

w y

ou’r

e sp

eaki

ng to

isA

shke

nazi

, or t

hat t

he p

erso

n of

col

or y

ou’r

e sp

eaki

ng to

is n

ot J

ewis

h.

-In

ant

irac

ism

tra

inin

gs, a

ckno

wle

dge

that

ant

isem

itism

has

his

toric

ally

bee

n a

maj

or fo

rm o

f rac

ism

, and

can

still

take

the

form

of r

acis

m, a

s whe

n pe

ople

cha

rac-

teriz

e Je

ws a

s sub

-hum

an o

r dem

onic

. Don

't as

sum

e th

at so

meo

ne b

ringi

ng u

p an

ti-se

miti

sm is

tryi

ng to

avo

id f

ocus

ing

on r

acis

m. T

akin

g a

mom

ent

to a

ffir

mth

eim

porta

nce

of r

adic

al o

rgan

izin

g ag

ains

t an

tisem

itism

stre

ngth

ens

your

ana

lysi

s,an

d al

low

s yo

u to

mai

ntai

n yo

ur c

hose

n fo

cus

on ra

cism

aga

inst

peo

ple

of c

olor

.

-Hav

e a

plan

in y

our o

rgan

izat

ions

for

wha

t hap

pens

whe

n it

appe

ars s

omet

hing

antis

emiti

c(o

r rac

ist,

hom

opho

bic,

etc

.)ha

s bee

n sa

id o

rdo

ne. W

hat w

ill b

e sa

idan

d w

ho w

ill s

ay it

? H

ow w

ill p

eopl

e ch

eck

in w

ith th

e Je

ws

pres

ent l

ater

to s

up-

port

them

and

/or c

orre

ct h

arm

don

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e se

rious

abo

ut c

arry

ing

it ou

t eve

ry ti

me.

- Jew

ish

inte

rnal

ized

opp

ress

ion

is in

tens

e, a

nd it

's of

ten

invi

sibl

e to

thos

e of

us w

hoar

e m

ost a

ffect

ed b

y it,

or w

hose

anc

esto

rs w

ere

deep

ly im

pact

ed b

y it.

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't to

k-en

ize

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s by

choo

sing

one

s who

don

't th

ink

antis

emiti

sm is

a b

ig d

eal t

o re

p-re

sent

the

Jew

ish

pers

pect

ive

in y

our e

vent

s.

-Rec

ogni

zeth

at e

ither

antis

emiti

sm w

ill b

e fo

ught

and

end

ed b

y th

e L

eft,

by o

urgr

assr

oots

just

ice

& li

bera

tion

mov

emen

ts, o

rit

will

not

be

ende

d.N

om

atte

rw

hat t

he R

ight

pre

tend

s to

car

e ab

out,

it is

not

in th

e R

ight

's in

ter-

est t

o en

d an

ti-Je

wis

h op

pres

sion

. Sto

p w

aitin

g fo

rso

meo

ne e

lse

to d

o it.

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n m

ore:

It ge

ts e

asie

r to

iden

tify

and

reje

ct a

ntis

emiti

sm w

hen

you

reco

gniz

e th

e cl

assi

c m

yths

and

thei

r his

tory

. Tak

e tim

e to

edu

cate

you

rsel

f on

myt

hssu

ch a

s:th

at J

ews

cont

rol H

olly

woo

d or

the

med

ia, t

hat J

ews

kille

d Je

sus,

that

Jew

ski

ll an

d/or

eat

gen

tile

child

ren

(the

Blo

od L

ibel

), th

at J

ews

wer

e at

faul

t for

the

cre-

atio

n of

raci

sm (t

he ‘H

amiti

c cu

rse’

char

ge),

and

mor

e.

as a

peo

ple

that

’s h

adso

man

y re

ason

s to

hid

e,re

clai

min

g be

love

d la

ngua

ges

and

cultu

re th

at g

enoc

ide,

expu

lsio

n an

d as

sim

ilatio

nha

ve s

epar

ated

us

from

.

asob

serv

antJ

ews,

stru

gglin

g to

mai

ntai

n ou

r tra

-di

tions

with

out

getti

ng le

ft ou

tof

our

sec

ular

frie

nds’

lives

.

...to name

a few

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trol

ling

the

Ban

ksM

any

myt

hs, s

uch

as th

at Je

ws c

ontro

l the

med

ia, t

heba

nks

and

Hol

lyw

ood,

cam

e fr

om t

he c

once

ntra

tion

ofJe

ws

in c

erta

in f

ield

s du

e to

inst

itutio

nal d

iscr

imin

atio

n.Fo

r cen

turie

s in

Chr

istia

n em

pire

s, Je

ws

wer

e no

t leg

ally

perm

itted

in m

ains

tream

pro

fess

ions

. The

y of

ten

surv

ived

by w

orki

ng a

t tra

des f

orbi

dden

to, o

r con

sider

ed ‘b

enea

th’

Chr

istia

ns -

like

prof

essio

nal a

ctin

g, o

r col

lect

ing

taxe

s or

rent

. O

ne s

uch

job

was

mon

eyle

ndin

g. A

lthou

gh s

ome

Jew

s w

ere

mon

eyle

nder

s an

d be

nefit

ed f

rom

eco

nom

icpr

ivile

ge, m

ost r

emai

ned

poor

, and

the

clas

sic d

ynam

ic o

fan

ti-Je

wish

opp

ress

ion

wen

t on:

Jew

s w

ho g

ot to

wor

k di

d so

at t

he p

rice

of e

very

day

expo

sure

to th

e vi

olen

ce a

nd a

nger

of p

oor p

easa

nts

in d

ebt;

rule

rs g

ot to

use

them

as

scap

egoa

ts in

tim

es o

f eco

nom

ic in

stab

ility

. The

atta

cks t

hat g

ot c

hann

eled

tow

ard

Jew

sw

ere

abso

rbed

by

the

few

mon

ey-le

nder

s and

the

pove

rty-s

trick

en m

ajor

ity a

like.

asqu

eer

Jew

s, w

ishi

ngw

e di

dn’t

have

to h

old

one

side

of o

urse

lves

bac

k de

pend

ing

onw

hich

com

mun

ity w

e’re

with

.

2288

But

ther

e’s

anot

her

futu

re i

n ou

rgr

asp.

One

that

follo

ws i

n th

e fo

otst

eps

of t

he m

any

radi

cals

who

hav

est

ood

up a

gain

st a

ntis

emiti

sm,

like

Fren

chSo

cial

ist J

ean

Jaur

es a

nd le

sbia

n fe

m-

inis

t Bla

ck ra

dica

l Bar

bara

Sm

ith.

Cle

arsi

ghte

d ac

tivis

ts f

or g

ener

a-tio

ns h

ave

unde

rsto

od t

hat

ther

e’s

abo

nus

that

com

es f

rom

tak

ing

this

stru

ggle

on:

Ant

isem

itism

is

a w

arni

ngsi

gn t

hat

tells

us

we’

re n

ot g

ivin

g pe

ople

a c

lear

answ

er a

bout

whe

re in

just

ice

orig

inat

es, a

nd w

hat w

ould

solv

e it.

Fig

htin

g it

shar

p-en

s our

ana

lysi

s and

forc

es u

s to

get b

ette

r at a

rticu

latin

g ou

r bel

iefs

to a

mas

s aud

i-en

ce. I

f we

say,

‘The

pro

blem

s in

the

wor

ld d

o no

t com

e fr

om th

e Je

ws,’

it fo

rces

us to

ans

wer

:Wha

t do

they

com

e fr

om?

Whe

n th

e L

eft t

akes

on

antis

emiti

sm, i

tw

ill b

e st

reng

th tr

aini

ng to

hel

p us

gai

n th

e ab

ilitie

s we

need

to re

shap

e th

e w

orld

.

Atr

uly

radi

cal r

emak

ing

of th

e w

orld

will

incl

ude

Jew

ish

liber

atio

n:th

e co

n-di

tion

in w

hich

Jew

s in

eve

ry p

lace

in th

e w

orld

will

live

free

from

fear

, fre

e fr

omth

reat

of b

eing

targ

eted

as J

ews,

and

whe

re o

ur sa

fety

nev

er d

epen

ds o

n pl

easi

ng o

rre

mai

ning

use

ful t

o an

y 'si

de', b

e it

pow

erfu

l elit

es o

r peo

ples

' mov

emen

ts. I

n w

hich

we

will

live

fre

e of

pre

ssur

e (f

rom

our

selv

es o

r ot

hers

) to

ble

nd in

or

assi

mila

te;

unas

ham

ed o

f ou

r Je

wis

h lo

oks,

lang

uage

s, rit

uals

and

dis

tinct

ive

beha

vior

s; a

ndJe

wis

h cu

lture

will

be

nurtu

red

in a

ll its

div

ersi

ty. I

n w

hich

thos

e Je

ws w

ho w

ish

tow

ill b

e ab

le to

par

ticip

ate

in c

olle

ctiv

e se

lf-de

term

inat

ion

as a

peo

ple,

and

/or l

ive

inau

tono

mou

s Je

wis

h sp

ace.

In

whi

ch J

ews

will

be

capa

ble

of d

efen

ding

our

selv

es,

but w

ill b

e de

fend

ed a

nd s

how

n so

lidar

ity b

y gr

oups

aro

und

the

wor

ld.

True

Jew

ish

liber

atio

n re

quire

s th

e co

mm

itmen

t and

act

ion

of b

oth

Jew

s an

dno

n-Je

ws

wor

ldw

ide,

and

is in

com

patib

le w

ith th

e op

pres

sion

of a

ny o

ther

gro

up:

beca

use

no h

uman

gro

up is

exp

enda

ble

in re

volu

tiona

ry c

hang

e.

Whe

n th

e L

eft f

inal

ly g

ets

that

- no

t jus

t abo

ut J

ews

but a

bout

libe

ratio

nits

elf -

then

our

effo

rts w

ill tr

uly

mak

e an

othe

rw

orld

pos

sibl

e.B

ecau

se th

e Le

ftis

not

a m

erce

nary

arm

y: W

e're

not j

ust i

n th

is to

win

, cho

osin

g si

des a

nd th

en fi

ght-

ing

blin

dly

for w

hate

ver s

ide

we'r

e on

. We'r

e in

this

to m

ake

a di

ffere

nt w

orld

. And

taki

ng o

n an

ti-Je

wis

h op

pres

sion

is th

e ac

t of b

uild

ing

a Le

ft no

t con

fined

to re

ac-

tion,

but

pro

pelle

d by

a d

eepe

r vis

ion

of a

wor

ld w

e w

ould

act

ually

wan

t to

live

in.

See y

ou t

here!Bu

twh

at i

fwe

succeed

in

this ?

3311

If w

e re

mai

n pa

ssiv

e ab

out

anti-

Jew

ish

actio

ns i

n ou

r ra

nks

and

the

wor

ld,

we

will

put

Jew

s in

inc

reas

ed d

ange

r.Th

at’s

all

the

reas

on w

e ne

ed to

cha

nge.

In th

e la

rger

wor

ld, o

ur p

assi

vity

will

also

hel

p to

stre

ngth

en w

hite

supr

emac

y- i

ts o

rgan

ized

mov

emen

ts, a

nd th

e w

hole

cultu

re th

at s

ees

whi

tes

as g

ood

and

pure

,an

d O

ther

s (lik

e pe

ople

of c

olor

and

Jew

s) a

sth

e on

es m

essi

ng e

very

thin

g up

. W

e’ll

help

Euro

pe e

vade

resp

onsi

bilit

y fo

r the

dam

age

done

by

colo

-ni

alis

m, a

s Eu

rope

ans

blam

e Is

rael

for a

nti-W

este

rn fe

elin

gs a

ndin

stab

ility

aro

und

the

wor

ld. W

e’ll

aid

reac

tiona

ry r

egim

es a

ndm

ovem

ents

ever

ywhe

re th

at se

ek to

boo

st th

emse

lves

by

blam

ing

thei

r ow

n ac

tions

on

Isra

el, a

s th

e Pr

esid

ent o

f Sud

an d

oes

whe

nhe

cla

ims

the

Dar

fur g

enoc

ide

is a

hoa

x pe

rpet

rate

d by

Isra

el.

Insi

de o

ur m

ovem

ents

, ov

erlo

okin

g at

tack

s on

Jew

s w

ill lu

re u

s in

to a

llian

ces

with

Far

Rig

ht m

ove-

men

ts a

nd v

isio

ns. W

e w

ill lo

se e

ffec

tiven

ess

at c

hal-

leng

ing

the

glob

al sy

stem

s we’

re u

p ag

ains

t, as

our

per

-ce

ptio

ns o

f ne

w s

ocia

l de

velo

pmen

ts a

re c

loud

ed b

ym

isju

dgm

ents

of w

ho a

re o

ur a

llies

and

ene

mie

s. N

ewac

tivis

ts, a

nd p

eopl

e on

the

edge

s of

our

mov

emen

ts,

will

be

allo

wed

to h

old

onto

wro

ng a

naly

ses

of w

hoha

s pow

er in

this

wor

ld a

nd w

here

pro

blem

s ste

m fr

om.

We

will

lose

val

uabl

e ac

tivis

tsin

our

ran

ks w

hoar

e un

com

forta

ble

with

the

tar

getin

g of

Jew

s th

ey’r

eno

ticin

g ar

ound

them

. And

on

the

mos

t eve

ry-d

ay le

vel,

we’

ll co

ntin

ue to

ena

ble

jerk

-dom

inan

ceof

our

mov

e-m

ents

, attr

actin

g th

e so

rts o

f act

ivis

t lea

ders

who

use

dto

get

a k

ick

out o

f mak

ing

rude

com

men

ts a

bout

peo

-pl

e of

col

or, a

nd n

ow e

njoy

get

ting

to s

hock

eve

ryon

ew

ith a

nti-J

ewis

h de

clar

atio

ns, w

ithou

t get

ting

‘cau

ght.’

Mos

t im

med

iate

ly, w

e’ll

leav

e Je

ws

with

-ou

t hop

es fo

rso

lidar

ity, f

or a

ltern

ativ

e m

eans

of

self-

defe

nse.

As J

ews f

loun

der f

or w

ays t

o pr

otec

tth

emse

lves

, we’

ll co

ntin

ue to

pus

h th

em in

to th

ew

aitin

g ar

ms

of t

he R

ight

, w

ith i

ts v

isio

ns o

fem

pire

and

Arm

aged

don.

Tha

t’s d

ange

rous

to

Pale

stin

ians

, to

Jew

s, an

d to

the

wor

ld.

“UN

CLE

SHAM

WAN

TSYO

U”:

AN

eo-n

azi

anti-

war

pos

ter

uses

Jew

ish-

cont

rol m

ytho

l-og

y to

de

popu

lari

zeth

e Ir

aq w

ar.

Seen

in

New

Yor

k C

ity, 1

1/06

.

WWhhaatt

wwiillll hhaappppee

nn iiff

oouurr

mmoovveemmeennttss

ddoonn’’tt

aacctt??

Nov.

‘03:

The

bloo

dy p

raye

r sha

wl o

f a J

ewish

vic

tim in

the

simul

ta-

neou

s bo

mbi

ng o

f Ista

nbul

’s tw

o m

ost a

ctiv

e sy

nago

gues

. 27

peop

lewe

re k

illed

and

300

inju

red

by b

ombs

set t

o go

off

durin

g se

rvic

es.

3300

Miz

rach

i- R

efer

s to

Jew

s des

cend

ed fr

om th

e lo

nges

t con

tinuo

us Je

wis

h co

mm

uniti

es in

the

wor

ld, f

ound

ed a

fter t

he d

estru

ctio

n of

anc

ient

Isra

el, i

n co

untri

es su

ch a

s tod

ay’s

Iraq

, Ira

n,Ye

men

, Syr

ia a

nd L

eban

on, a

nd s

poke

lang

uage

s su

ch a

s Ju

deo-

Ara

bic

and

Jude

o-Pe

rsia

n.

Old

Lef

t -

Ref

ers

to th

e m

ass

mov

emen

ts a

nd p

arty

org

aniz

atio

ns th

at f

lour

ishe

d in

to th

e19

30s

and

'40s

in

the

U.S

. and

wer

e gr

eatly

wou

nded

by

McC

arth

yism

. Old

Lef

t gr

oups

larg

ely

defin

ed th

emse

lves

in r

elat

ion

to E

urop

ean

mov

emen

ts a

nd th

eorie

s, as

opp

osed

toth

e N

ew L

eft w

hich

em

erge

d af

ter M

cCar

thyi

sm a

nd C

ivil

Rig

hts,

and

took

par

ticul

ar in

spi-

ratio

n fr

om g

loba

l ant

icol

onia

l stru

ggle

s.

Ori

enta

lism

- Adi

scou

rse

that

por

trays

peo

ples

and

cul

ture

s of

"th

e Ea

st"

(Ara

bs a

nd J

ews,

East

Asi

ans,

Sout

h A

sian

s, et

c.)

as e

ssen

tially

diff

eren

t fro

m E

urop

eans

. Fre

quen

t the

mes

incl

ude

portr

ayin

g th

em a

s dis

hone

stly

or m

anip

ulat

ivel

y in

telli

gent

, ove

rly se

nsua

l, w

arlik

e,m

yste

rious

, hav

ing

'prim

itive

' trib

al lo

yalti

es, e

tc. A

lso

the

term

for c

lass

ical

Wes

tern

stu

dyof

"O

rient

al"

cultu

res.

pogr

om- A

mas

s act

ion

of p

lann

ed o

r spo

ntan

eous

vio

lenc

e an

d pr

oper

ty d

estru

ctio

n di

rect

-ed

aga

inst

a m

argi

naliz

ed c

omm

unity

. The

wor

d w

as f

irst w

idel

y us

ed to

des

crib

e go

vern

-m

ent-c

ondo

ned

mob

atta

cks

on E

ast-E

urop

ean

Jew

ish

tow

ns.

Prot

ocol

s of

[the

Eld

ers

of] Z

ion

- Afo

rger

y w

ritte

n ar

ound

189

7, fi

rst p

ublis

hed

in 1

903,

and

used

by

Cza

rist s

ecre

t pol

ice

for y

ears

as

a to

ol to

insp

ire m

ass

mis

trust

of t

he g

row

ing

revo

lutio

nary

mov

emen

t and

mod

erni

zatio

n. T

he te

xt p

rese

nts

itsel

f as

min

utes

of

a se

cret

mee

ting

of w

orld

Jew

ish

lead

ers w

ho la

y ou

t the

ir pl

ans t

o us

e bo

th c

apita

lism

and

ant

i-cap

-ita

list r

evol

utio

n to

sei

ze c

ontro

l of t

he w

orld

. Aco

ntin

ual b

ests

elle

r, it

is o

ften

sum

mar

ized

or c

ited

by a

ntis

emiti

c po

litic

al le

ader

s an

d so

cial

mov

emen

ts.

the

Ros

enbe

rgs

- Eth

el &

Jul

ius,

z"l.

Jew

ish

Com

mun

ist c

oupl

e ex

ecut

ed in

195

3 ba

sed

onla

rgel

y fa

bric

ated

evi

denc

e th

at th

ey g

ave

nucl

ear s

ecre

ts to

the

USS

R. T

he c

ase,

whi

ch ta

r-ge

ted

thei

r pol

itics

, was

hig

hly

publ

iciz

ed to

insp

ire fe

ar a

nd h

yste

ria a

gain

st L

eftis

ts.

secu

lar

- Non

-rel

igio

us.

Sem

ite /

Sem

itic

- Lin

guis

tic te

rm c

reat

ed b

y Eu

rope

an O

rient

alis

ts fo

r the

lang

uage

fam

ilyth

at in

clud

es A

rabi

c, A

mha

ric, H

ebre

w, T

igrin

ya, M

alte

se, A

ram

aic

and

othe

rs, w

hich

was

then

impo

sed

on g

roup

s lik

e A

rabs

and

Jew

s to

cat

egor

ize

them

as

a se

para

te ra

ce.

Seph

ardi

- Ref

ers t

o th

e w

orld

wid

e de

scen

dant

s of S

pani

sh a

nd P

ortu

gues

e Je

ws w

ho, w

hen

mad

e re

fuge

es b

y th

e In

quis

ition

, fle

d to

, and

foun

ded

new

com

mun

ities

in, p

lace

s su

ch a

sN

orth

Afr

ica,

Tur

key,

the

Am

eric

as, a

nd p

arts

of E

urop

e. E

xam

ples

of S

epha

rdic

lang

uage

sar

e Ju

dezm

o/La

dino

and

Hak

itia.

Zio

nism

- One

form

of J

ewis

h na

tiona

lism

, bas

ed o

n th

e ph

iloso

phy

that

aJe

wis

h st

ate

(or c

ultu

ral c

ente

r, in

som

e fo

rms o

f Zio

nism

) oug

ht to

exi

st, a

sa

refu

ge fo

r Jew

s an

d/or

to 'n

orm

aliz

e' Je

wis

h ex

iste

nce,

and

that

it s

houl

dex

ist o

n or

with

in th

e ar

ea o

f anc

ient

Isra

el.

z”l

- A

bbre

viat

ion

for

zich

rono

(or

zich

rona

)l’b

rach

a:M

ayth

eir m

emor

y be

for a

ble

ssin

g. S

ayin

g us

ed in

Jew

ish

cust

omto

com

mem

orat

e th

e liv

es o

f lov

ed o

nes.

Ilan

Hal

imi,

z”l,

kill

edat

23.

Par

is,Ja

n. ‘0

6.

gglloossssaarryyan

tisem

itism

- The

sys

tem

of

idea

s pa

ssed

dow

n th

roug

h a

soci

ety'

s in

stitu

tions

to e

nabl

esc

apeg

oatin

g of

Jew

s, an

d th

e id

eolo

gica

l or p

hysi

cal t

arge

ting

of Je

ws t

hat r

esul

ts fr

om th

at.

The

term

was

firs

t pop

ular

ized

in 1

879

by G

erm

an a

nti-J

ewis

h ra

cist

s w

ho s

ough

t to

build

spec

ific

mov

emen

ts a

gain

st Je

ws a

s an

inhe

rent

ly in

ferio

r and

thre

aten

ing

race

(ver

sus a

reli-

gion

, whi

ch c

ould

be

esca

ped

thro

ugh

conv

ersi

on).

For

how

it w

orks

, see

p. 4

-5.

Ash

kena

zi-

Ref

ers

to d

esce

ndan

ts o

f Je

ws

who

set

tled

in E

urop

e, i

n co

untri

es s

uch

asR

ussi

a, P

olan

d, G

erm

any,

Hun

gary

and

oth

ers,

and

shar

ed c

omm

on c

ultu

ral f

eatu

res s

uch

asY

iddi

sh la

ngua

ge. A

shke

nazi

Jew

s cur

rent

ly m

ake

up th

e m

ajor

ity o

f Jew

s in

the

U.S

., La

tinA

mer

ica

and

Can

ada.

Blo

od L

ibel

- The

ant

i-Jew

ish

myt

h, b

egin

ning

in th

e 11

00s,

that

Jew

s see

k ou

t and

kill

non

-Je

wis

h ch

ildre

n. In

its

clas

sic

form

, it a

ccus

es J

ewis

h co

mm

uniti

es o

f see

king

the

bloo

d of

gent

iles

to u

se in

Jew

ish

relig

ious

ritu

als;

for i

nsta

nce,

as

an in

gred

ient

in P

asso

ver m

atza

h.

dias

pora

- ref

ers t

o th

e br

eaki

ng u

p an

d se

para

ting

of th

e m

embe

rs o

f a p

eopl

e, a

nd th

e ge

o-gr

aphi

cally

sca

ttere

d co

mm

uniti

es th

at th

ey c

reat

e in

the

cour

se o

f the

ir tra

vels

.

gent

ile- (

noun

) Ano

n-Je

wis

h pe

rson

; (ad

ject

ive)

non

-Jew

ish.

[Fro

m th

e La

tin g

ens,

clan

.]

inte

rnal

ized

opp

ress

ion

- The

effe

cts

of a

gro

up's

oppr

essi

on a

nd d

ehum

aniz

atio

n, a

s m

an-

ifest

ed w

ithin

the

oppr

esse

d gr

oup

itsel

f, in

its i

ndiv

idua

ls o

r its

com

mun

ities

. AJe

w c

opin

gw

ith in

tern

aliz

ed o

ppre

ssio

n m

ight

bel

ieve

ste

reot

ypes

abo

ut J

ews,

poin

t und

eser

ved

blam

eat

oth

er J

ews,

feel

sha

me

or d

isgu

st a

t par

ts o

f the

ir lo

oks

or b

ehav

ior t

hat t

hey

thin

k of

as

Jew

ish,

feel

gen

eral

low

self-

este

em, f

ind

it ha

rd to

take

a st

and

agai

nst a

ntis

emiti

sm, o

r fee

la

desi

re to

em

phas

ize

to o

ther

s how

diff

eren

t or s

epar

ate

they

are

from

oth

er Je

ws.

See

p. 6

.

Jew

s- A

glob

ally

-dis

pers

ed, m

ulti-

ethn

ic c

ultu

re li

nked

by

a re

ligio

n, J

udai

sm. M

any

Jew

spr

actic

e th

e re

ligio

n; o

ther

s ar

e et

hnic

, sec

ular

Jew

s.Se

e fu

ll de

finiti

on o

n pa

ge 5

.

Jew

ish

liber

atio

n-T

he co

nditi

on in

whi

ch Je

ws i

n ev

ery

plac

e in

the w

orld

will

live

free

from

fear

, fre

e fro

m th

reat

of b

eing

targ

eted

as

Jew

s, an

d w

here

our

saf

ety

neve

r dep

ends

on

plea

s-in

g or

rem

aini

ng u

sefu

l to

any

'side

', be

it p

ower

ful e

lites

or p

eopl

es' m

ovem

ents.

In w

hich

we

will

live

with

out p

ress

ure (

from

our

selv

es o

r oth

ers)

to b

lend

in o

r ass

imila

te, u

nash

amed

of o

urJe

wish

look

s, la

ngua

ges,

ritua

ls an

d di

stinc

tive

beha

vior

s, an

d Je

wish

cul

ture

will

be

nurtu

red

in a

ll its

div

ersit

y. In

whi

ch Je

ws w

ill b

e ca

pabl

e of

def

endi

ng o

urse

lves

, but

will

be

defe

nded

and

show

n so

lidar

ity b

y gr

oups

arou

nd th

e wor

ld. I

n w

hich

thos

e Jew

s who

wish

to w

ill b

e abl

eto

par

ticip

ate

in c

olle

ctiv

e se

lf-de

term

inat

ion

as a

peo

ple,

and

/or

live

in a

uton

omou

s Je

wish

spac

e. T

rue

Jew

ish li

bera

tion

requ

ires

the

com

mitm

ent a

nd a

ctio

n of

bot

h Je

ws

and

non-

Jew

sar

ound

the

wor

ld, a

nd is

inco

mpa

tible

with

the

oppr

essio

n of

any

oth

er g

roup

.

Jew

s of c

olor

- Jew

s and

Jew

ish

com

mun

ities

who

are

exc

lude

d fr

om w

hite

priv

ilege

gen

er-

ally

, and

/or

from

Ash

kena

zi p

rivile

ge i

n th

e Je

wis

h co

mm

unity

. Inc

lude

s M

izra

chi

Jew

s,Se

phar

di Je

ws,

Jew

s fro

m o

ther

non

-Eur

opea

n co

mm

uniti

es w

orld

wid

e, p

eopl

e of

col

or w

hoha

ve e

mbr

aced

Jud

aism

, and

Jew

s of

mix

ed h

erita

ge w

hose

anc

estry

incl

udes

Jew

s of

col

or.

Jew

s of

col

or c

urre

ntly

mak

e up

the

maj

ority

of J

ews

in th

e st

ate

of Is

rael

.

the

Lef

t / L

eftis

t-

The

dive

rse

spec

trum

of

soci

al c

hang

e m

ovem

ents

, org

aniz

atio

ns a

ndin

divi

dual

act

ivis

ts w

ho s

eek

to tr

ansf

orm

soc

iety

into

one

whi

ch d

istri

bute

s re

sour

ces

just

-ly

, and

lack

s hi

erar

chie

s of

race

, gen

der,

relig

ion,

etc

.3322

FFuurrtt

hheerr

RReessoouurr

cceess::

Not

e:Se

cond

dat

es in

dica

te m

ost r

ecen

t edi

tions

.*=

Goo

d st

arte

rs fo

r a

basi

c co

llect

ion

Ant

i-Jew

ish

oppr

essi

on’s

his

tory

: Th

e D

evil

and

the

Jew

s by

Jos

hua

Trac

hten

berg

(194

4/19

84);

Tow

ard

the

Fina

l So

lutio

n: A

His

tory

of

Euro

pean

Rac

ism

by G

eorg

eM

osse

(19

85);

Prot

ocol

s of

Zio

n[d

ocum

enta

ry]

by M

arc

Levi

n (2

005)

; Con

stan

tine’s

Swor

d by

Jam

es C

arro

ll (2

001)

; Rus

sian

Ant

isem

itism

, Pam

yat,

and

the

Dem

onol

ogy

ofZi

onis

m, b

y W

illia

m K

orey

(199

5); *

“The

Lon

gest

Hat

red,

”in

New

Inte

rnat

iona

list 3

72(2

004)

[See

lin

ks];

Antis

emiti

sm in

Am

eric

a, b

y Le

onar

d D

inne

rste

in (1

994/

1995

)

Jew

ish

hist

ory:

AH

isto

rica

l Atla

s of

the

Jew

ish

Peop

le, E

li B

arna

vi, e

d. (1

992/

2002

);*T

he J

ew in

the

Mod

ern

Wor

ld: A

Doc

umen

tary

His

tory

, Pau

l Men

des-

Floh

r & J

ehud

aR

einh

arz,

eds

. (19

80/1

995)

; Pow

er a

nd P

ower

less

ness

in J

ewis

h H

isto

ry, b

y D

avid

Bia

le(1

986)

;To

rn a

t th

e Ro

ots:

The

Cri

sis

of J

ewis

h Li

bera

lism

in

Post

war

Am

eric

a, b

yM

icha

el S

taub

(20

02);

ww

w.n

ewje

wis

hage

nda.

org,

[w

ebsi

te]

by E

mily

Nep

on (

2006

);*T

he H

oloc

aust

in

Amer

ican

Life

, by

Pet

er N

ovic

k (1

999)

; *J

ewis

h Is

sues

in

Mul

ticul

tura

lism

:AH

andb

ook

for

Clin

icia

ns a

nd E

duca

tors

, by

Pete

r Lan

gman

(199

9);

Rad

ical

s on

ant

isem

itism

: “Th

at's

Funn

y, Y

ou D

on't

Look

Ant

i-Sem

itic:

An

anti-

raci

stan

alys

is o

f lef

t ant

i-sem

itism

,” b

y St

eve

Coh

en (1

984/

2005

) [Se

e lin

ks];

*“Th

e C

yclic

alN

atur

e of

Jew

ish

Opp

ress

ion,

”[s

kit]

by P

rogr

essi

ves C

halle

ngin

g A

nti-S

emiti

sm A

mon

gPr

ogre

ssiv

es (1

998)

[See

link

s]; *

Your

s in

Stru

ggle

: Thr

ee F

emin

ist P

ersp

ectiv

es o

n An

ti-Se

miti

sm a

nd R

acis

m,b

y El

ly B

ulki

n, M

inni

e B

ruce

Pra

tt &

Bar

bara

Sm

ith (1

984/

1991

);“A

nti-S

emiti

sm,”

[spe

ech]

by

Che

rie B

row

n (2

004)

[See

link

s];T

he S

ocia

lism

of F

ools

:An

ti-Se

miti

sm O

n th

e Le

ft, b

y M

icha

el L

erne

r (1

992)

; Re

fram

ing

Anti-

Sem

itism

:Al

tern

ativ

e Je

wis

h Pe

rspe

ctiv

es, J

ewis

h Vo

ice

for P

eace

, eds

. (20

04/6

th e

d.)

Jew

ish

iden

tity

&lib

erat

ion:

*Chu

tzpa

h: A

Jew

ish

Libe

ratio

n An

thol

ogy,

Ste

ven

Lube

t&

the

Chu

tzpa

h C

olle

ctiv

e, e

ds.

(197

7) ;

*Th

e Fl

ying

Cam

el:

Essa

ys o

n Id

entit

y by

Wom

en o

f Nor

th A

fric

an a

nd M

iddl

e Ea

ster

n Je

wis

h H

erita

ge, L

oolw

a K

hazz

oom

, ed.

(200

3);

*The

Iss

ue i

s Po

wer

: Es

says

on

Wom

en,

Jew

s, Vi

olen

ce &

Res

ista

nce,

by

Mel

anie

Kay

e/K

antro

witz

(19

92);

The

Col

ors

of J

ews,

by M

elan

ie K

aye/

Kan

trow

itz(f

orth

com

ing)

;Dav

ita's

Har

p[n

ovel

] by

Cha

im P

otok

(198

5/19

96);

*" ‘I

'm N

ot W

hite

,I'm

Jew

ish’

: Sta

ndin

g A

s Je

ws

in th

e Fi

ght f

or R

acia

l Jus

tice,

" [s

peec

h] b

y Pa

ul K

ivel

(199

8), [

See

links

]; “H

ow D

id J

ews

Bec

ome

Whi

te F

olks

?,”

[sho

rt es

say

vers

ion]

by

Kar

en B

rodk

in (S

acks

) fro

m R

ace,

Stev

en G

rego

ry a

nd R

oger

San

jek,

eds

. (19

94)

Brin

ging

an

unde

rsta

ndin

g of

Jew

ish o

ppre

ssio

n in

to I

srae

l/Pal

estin

e/Je

wish

-Ara

bw

ork:

*“A

Big

Pie

ce is

Mis

sing

Fro

m T

his

‘Pea

ce’,”

by

Lool

wa

Kha

zzoo

m, i

n C

lam

or#5

(200

0) [S

ee li

nks ]

; "O

Hav

ruta

O M

ituta

:How

to S

treng

then

the

Pale

stin

e So

lidar

ityM

ovem

ent B

y M

akin

g Fr

iend

s W

ith J

ews,”

by G

uy I

zhak

Aus

trian

(20

03)

[See

link

s ];

Jew

s an

d Ar

abs,

by A

lber

t Mem

mi (

1975

/197

6)

Org

aniz

atio

ns(f

rom

var

ying

per

spec

tives

):Fa

cing

AC

halle

nge

With

in,

ww

w.fa

cin-

gach

alle

nge.

com

; Po

litic

al

Res

earc

h A

ssoc

iate

s,

ww

w.p

ublic

eye.

org;

En

gage

,w

ww

.eng

ageo

nlin

e.or

g.uk

/hom

e; C

atal

yst P

roje

ct, w

ww

.col

lect

ivel

iber

atio

n.or

g

Dec

onst

ruct

ing

anti-

Jew

ish

myt

hs:

See

a lis

t of

exce

llent

web

-bas

ed a

rticl

es, b

roke

ndo

wn

by m

yth,

at w

ww

.pin

tele

yid.

com

/myt

hs.h

tml

See

links

for

all w

eb r

esou

rces

at

ww

w.th

epas

t.inf

o, u

nder

“Li

nks”

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