From The Militant, newspaper of the Socialist Workers Party:
The following is a statement released by Glova Scott, Socialist Workers Party candidate for City Council Ward 4 in Washington, D.C., Jan. 27, as she turned in 985 signatures to put her on the ballot, twice the requirement. Scott works at Walmart and is active in the fight for $15 an hour, full-time work and a union.
Recent murderous attacks on Jews in Argentina, in a kosher grocery store in France and on the street in Israel are a blow and a challenge to all working people.
The attack on Jewish hikers in Argentina came on the heels of the death of Alberto Nisman, a state prosecutor who was to testify the next day on charges that Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner conspired with Iranian authorities to cover up their involvement in a 1994 bombing at a Jewish community center that killed 85 people.
The Socialist Workers Party opposes Jew-hatred and joins in fighting it whenever it raises its head. We support the right of return for all Jews to move to Israel if they choose. And we demand Washington open its doors to all who seek refuge here.
The poison of anti-Semitism seeks to divide and weaken the working class, pointing away from the propertied rulers as the source of attacks on our wages, hours, working conditions and safety on the job. When Hamas hails the knife attack that wounded Israelis on a city bus Jan. 21 as a “bold, heroic act,” it is a blow to common struggle by working people in the Middle East.
Fighting all expressions of Jew-hatred is a precondition to advancing the struggles by the multinational working class in Israel and by the Palestinian people against national oppression.
There’s a lot more to rising European far right antisemitism than that. It’s true, however, that they are also anti-Muslim, and that there’s a rising tide of Jew-hating among the growing Muslim population in Europe as well.
I’ve seen estimates that about 30 million Americans hold those views, and they are influential in the NSGOP also.
That is definitely a fact, and I don’t think anyone is disputing it.
Except for the anti-Semitic rhetoric and non-action (since they’re not actually persecuting or attacking Jews or Jewish institutions) expressed by Jobbik, Golden Dawn, and some of the parties in Ukraine and Russia- the “far-right” in Europe is actually becoming more Pro-Israel, especially with Geert Wilders, Timo Soini, and others.
The millenialist Christian Zionists might be instigating anti-Semetic action due to their support of Israel, but those fanatical views and theories you talk about are held only by a extreme minority in their ranks, which has infested the Constitution Party.
In the meantime, European Jews are under attack today by Muslim immigrants, Muslim terrorists, and the hardcore left because of the Israel/Palestine issue, and that’s a fact.
There’s a growing anti-semitic far right, especially in Europe. In the US they have been trying to make inroads with everyone from the Ron Paul/Liberty movement to Occupy Wall Street to Tea Parties using classic popular front tactics.
You could also say that the millenialist Christian Zionists are weirdly antisemitic, even though they are rabidly pro-Israel, because the whole reason they support Israel is to fulfill their interpretation of Christian biblical prophecy which has Israel getting nuked as part of the biblical story of Armageddon. Their plan for Jews who survive this new holocaust and a world war that they are looking forward to is conversion to Christianity. “Convert of die” is classical European Christian anti-semitism, but they have managed to invent a modern twist on it which involves support for the Israeli nation state and government in the short term.
Interesting that the only major forces in the world (besides fundamentalist/militant Muslims), that are truly anti-Semitic, or hell bent on attacking & persecuting Jews, are in fact fellow marxists and the anti-Israel far-left that think Israel is as evil as Nazi Germany, and are hell bent on attacking those of the predominant faith of that nation.
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!