It is getting difficult not to notice a trend among liberals of either ignoring, rationalizing, or brushing off anti-Semitism, which seems to be more commonplace on the Left than it has been in a long time.
When identity politics and class warfare propel your movement, as it does the progressivism that's becoming increasingly popular on the American Left, it's almost inevitable that the Jews, who've tended to successfully navigate meritocracies, will become targets.
Mallory only recently attended a speech given by Louis Farrakhan and posed with a man who had that day opined on "Satanic Jews" and other pressing matters.
"[Many] black people," wrote The Atlantic's Adam Serwer, in one of a number of articles working through this sudden "Conundrum" of Jew-hating on the Left.
"But many black people come into contact with the Nation of Islam as a force in impoverished black communities-not simply as a champion of the black poor or working class, but of the black underclass: black people, especially men, who have been written off or abandoned by white society."
Now, maybe it's silly to point out that Ellison once appeared as a local Farrakhan spokesman in Minneapolis to defend a congregant who said "Jews are among the most racist white people I know," or to mention that the left-wing magazine Mother Jones reported that Ellison had embraced that idea that "European white Jews are trying to oppress minorities all over the world" and talked about "Jewish slave traders", or even that the DNC's deputy chairman only distanced himself from anti-Semites during his 2006 run for Congress, and then only when right-wing bloggers started pointing out his past.
In Britain, there has been something of a reckoning for Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, who has spent a lifetime associating and befriending Jew-haters, 9-11 Truthers, terrorist sympathizers, Holocaust deniers, and politicians who claim Jews perpetrate blood libel.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/04/06/why-does-the-left-get-a-pass-on-anti-semitism/
When identity politics and class warfare propel your movement, as it does the progressivism that's becoming increasingly popular on the American Left, it's almost inevitable that the Jews, who've tended to successfully navigate meritocracies, will become targets.
Mallory only recently attended a speech given by Louis Farrakhan and posed with a man who had that day opined on "Satanic Jews" and other pressing matters.
"[Many] black people," wrote The Atlantic's Adam Serwer, in one of a number of articles working through this sudden "Conundrum" of Jew-hating on the Left.
"But many black people come into contact with the Nation of Islam as a force in impoverished black communities-not simply as a champion of the black poor or working class, but of the black underclass: black people, especially men, who have been written off or abandoned by white society."
Now, maybe it's silly to point out that Ellison once appeared as a local Farrakhan spokesman in Minneapolis to defend a congregant who said "Jews are among the most racist white people I know," or to mention that the left-wing magazine Mother Jones reported that Ellison had embraced that idea that "European white Jews are trying to oppress minorities all over the world" and talked about "Jewish slave traders", or even that the DNC's deputy chairman only distanced himself from anti-Semites during his 2006 run for Congress, and then only when right-wing bloggers started pointing out his past.
In Britain, there has been something of a reckoning for Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, who has spent a lifetime associating and befriending Jew-haters, 9-11 Truthers, terrorist sympathizers, Holocaust deniers, and politicians who claim Jews perpetrate blood libel.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/04/06/why-does-the-left-get-a-pass-on-anti-semitism/
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