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2. Left-Wing Antisemitism - An Overview
A. Campuses
B. Unification of Powerful Forces 
C Focus points
A. Campuses
When violence erupted between Israel and the Palestinians on 29th September
2000, the Left rediscovered its pet cause. It had, since the late 1960s,
perceived and presented the Palestinians as the victims of Israel. The
David of the new millennium wears a keffiyah. Goliath drives a tank.
University College campuses worldwide became the breeding ground for
a new generation of Left-wing antisemites.
Laurie Zoloth, director of Jewish Studies at San Francisco State University,
wrote a chilling explication of Antisemitism on the left.
"I cannot fully express what it feels like to have to walk
across campus daily, past maps of the Middle East that do not include
Israel, past posters of cans of soup with labels on them of drops of
blood and dead babies, labeled 'canned Palestinian children meat, slaughtered
according to Jewish rites under American license,' past poster after
poster calling out Zionism=racism, and Jews=Nazis," she wrote --
and the details only became more shattering from then on."
Quoted in "The Rough Beast Returns" by Todd Gitlin, http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2002/06/gitlin_june.html
MotherJones.com
B. Unification of Powerful Forces
With The US invasion of Iraq, a new alliance was created. The anti-war
movement merged with a plethora of radical left and anti-imperialism/globalization
groups as well as many Palestinian groups. Stop the Occupation of Palestine
and Iraq became a popular call. Left and Arab Antisemitism began to merge.
 Anti War
Protestor
(Photo credit: Getty Images)
http://www.newyorkmetro.com
/nymetro/news/religion/features
/n_9622/index.html.
As the Social Democratic Movement of America states:
“On April 20, nearly 80,000 people marched on Washington,
DC to protest many things, from IMF/World Bank policies to US military
action in Colombia to an end to the current war. But one issue stood
out above all others: solidarity with the people of Palestine against
the aggression of Israel. As ideological as well as practical activists,
it is vital that we not let the desire to unite the largest numbers
possible obscure the need to make some vital political demarcations
within the emerging movement for Palestinian sovereignty.."
Statement Adopted by the Young Democratic Socialists Coordinating
Committee on May 26, 2002. http://www.ydsusa.org/statements/israel2.html
C Focus points
- Left-wing Antisemitism is particularly dangerous because it
comes from the liberal/ intellectual/"progressive causes"
world - and is therefore publicly palatable, but more importantly: it
thus becomes acceptable to certain opinion and decision makers.
- It is no longer a fringe movement, nor is it confined to
the university campus.
- It is often expressed by persons within politically correct
circles, considered beyond the pale of racism and xenophobia, - and
who therefore do not recognize their own sentiments as Antisemitism.
Today, left- wing Antisemitism is virulent and advances unabated.
“Israel has become the Jew among nations,” says Mort
Zuckerman, who - in addition to his media holdings - is the former
chairman of the Council of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
“It is both the surrogate — the respectable way of expressing
Antisemitism — and the collective Jew.”
The Return of Antisemitism http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/religion/features/n_9622/index1.html
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