Left wing anti-Semitism

Vincent J. Curtis

22 Mar 23

RE: NDP has steep learning curve on antisemitism.  Op-ed by Torstar columnist Martin Regg Cohn.  The Hamilton Spectator 21 Mar 23.

Martin Regg Cohn goes nowhere near far enough in his description of anti-Semitism in the NDP.  Anti-Semitism runs a mile wide through the entire political Left.

In an interview with Italian journalist Orrana Fallaci, former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, a life-long socialist, expressed shock to find that the political Left of Europe had turned anti-Semitic in the wake of Israel’s stunning victory in the Six Day War of 1967.  Suddenly, Israel was the powerful aggressor, and Palestinians, who had been living placidly under Jordanian and Egyptian rule, became refugees deserving of pity and support.

In America, the Black-Jewish alliance, so vital to success of the civil rights movement, fell apart in the 1970s, and an estranged David Horowitz turned from committed Communist to conservative crusader.  At the 2012 Democratic National Convention, a boilerplate resolution, previously accepted, affirming Jerusalem as the capital of Israel was shouted down by the floor, but declared adopted anyway by the Chairman.  Former British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbin was so notoriously anti-Semitic that it called attention to his general misanthropy.  The BDS movement betrays its Left-wing appeal as it is collectivist in action, and conservatives are not collectivists.

The Jews, in general, have leaned to the political Left since the dawn of socialism and the rise of religious indifference, and it’s surprising that there is such deep, widespread anti-Semitism polluting the moralistic Left.

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It’s amazing to hear Donald Trump be called an anti-Semite by people who don’t give a damn about Israel or the state of the Jews in America.