AntiFash Gordon

CONTEXT: The far-right started using "Zionists" as a dogwhistle for Jews in the 1970s. (Specifically, Willis Carto and his Liberty Lobby started it.) Offhandedly saying "Zionists" is going to set some people with Nazi experience on edge, so *please* make your context clear. https://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1205336782344216579 …

It doesn't help that a lot of US leftists talk about AIPAC controlling US foreign policy, which is the *same* shit I hear from Nazis, instead of talking about how the US' imperial foreign policy dovetails with the Israeli right. And yes, the former is an antisemitic analysis.

And yes, that will be weaponized by the right against the left if we continue to ignore antisemitism in our ranks. It already has been, in the case of Ilhan Omar.

Hey dude, I respected you a lot and I cannot believe you just threw Ilhan Omar under the bus. This is not what comrades do. You're legitimizing far right smears now.

I feel like I've taken some bad drugs right now. This take from Gordon is fucking ridiculous.

HOT TAKE: Omar was the victim of an Islamophobic smear campaign *and* we need to stop spreading antisemitic conspiracies like "Israel controls US foreign policy." The US has its own shitty agenda that aligns with the Israeli right.

Wait, she said "Israel controls US foreign policy"? I just googled to see what, exactly, was said (I'm looking for specificity) and I'm finding a LOT of right-wing extremist sites and "news sources". In three pages of results I saw nothing but neo-nazis and islamophobes.