3. Themes in Left-Wing Antisemitism
A. Language of Hate
B. Jews as Money Grabbing People 
C. Israel as a Nazi State, Sharon as Hitler
D. Blood Libel
E. Jews with Stereotypical Features
F. Themes of Left-Wing Antisemitism: Points to Ponder
A. Language of Hate
From time immemorial, the antisemite has depicted the Jew as a perverted
soul, as a morally inferior people. Today, this ideology has been translated,
in that the same language of hate is being used to describe the Jewish
state; Fiamma Nirenstein epitomizes this superbly, both in the political
and the neo-theological context:
“…a separate, unequal, basically evil stranger whose
national existence is slowly but surely emptied and deprived of justification.…
"The caricature of the evil Jew is transformed to the caricature
of the evil state. And now the traditional hook-nosed Jew bears a gun
and kills Arab children with pleasure… Antisemitism officially
became the banner of the new secular religion of human rights, and Israel
and Jews became its official enemy.”
The 'Left' and Anti-Semitism, July, 2003by Fiamma Nierenstein http://www.betar.co.uk/articles/betar1059682577.php
Left wing Antisemitism has a number of reoccurring themes, these include:
B. Jews as Money Grabbing People
Revival and adaptation of existing motifs, with the added label of criminality..
One of the traditional 20th century, left-wing motifs was to portray the
Jew as the greedy capitalist, often in cahoots with the United States
as the money-man: this is straight out of socialist and Soviet propaganda
and, later, Soviet anti-Israel propaganda, as embraced also by the Arab
states. The image of Ariel Sharon in a zoo is crude and designed to create
repugnance. The message is also trendy, for its anti-US angle, which appeals
to the anti-globalization cause.
http://www.doublestandards.org/cartoons/israel/9.jpg
C. Israel as a Nazi State, Sharon as Hitler
The allegation of Israeli Nazi-like behavior is not limited to the radical
left, which draws its public in its anti-fascist persona: it can be found
in a more sophisticated version in the eminently respectable columns of
The Times of London, which, in 1998, printed a scurrilous article that
claimed that Israel was developing a bomb that would kill only Arabs.
Israel Developing an Ethno-Bomb
by Uzi Mahnaimi and Marie Colvin
ISRAEL is working on a biological weapon that would harm Arabs
but not
Jews, according to Israeli military and western intelligence sources.
The
weapon,targeting victims by ethnic origin, is seen as Israel's response
to
Iraq's threat of chemical and biological attacks.
http://amenusa.org/ethno.htm
For more on the history of the Myth of Zionism=Racism and the Nazi extension
to this allegation, please see also: http://www.jafi.org.il/education/actual/zr/index.html
D. Blood Libel
The left exploits many themes in traditional Antisemitism, often substituting
the word "Zionist" for "Jew" quite freely. The traditional
themes of Jews killing or sacrificing Christians is thus re-incarnated
in gross caricature in the politically correct print media of the left-wing.
In Britain, the cover of the left-wing New Statesman magazine
depicted a large Star of David stabbing the Union Jack.
Most vicious and more outrageous was the UK’s Independent newspaper,
which ran the following cartoon, targeting the blood libel at Ariel Sharon.
Please view via link: http://www.geocities.com/tejas970/independent_cartoon.html
E. Jews with Stereotypical Features
Classic antisemitic caricatures of Jews are translated into contemporary
anti-Israel messages by the left-wing, focused on easily identifiable
personalities, often allying Israel, with a supportive USA.
http://cagle.slate.msn.com/news/antiISRAEL/main.asp
F. Themes of Left-Wing Antisemitism: Points
to Ponder
1. What are the prevalent themes in left-wing Antisemitism and how damaging
are they - in your country?; -internationally?
2. Why does the left compare Israel to new Nazis and what is the importance
of this parallel?
3. Are left-wing comparisons of Israel to new Nazis a form of Holocaust
revisionism? (Yes/No; Why/why not?)
4. By what standards of "good practice" should the media be
judged? What would you do to make the media accountable?
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