Ever since my naive young socialist days, I've been a strong believer in equality, so if someone created a New Left -- one that wasn't antisemitic, anti-white-men, anti-ex-Muslim, anti-Muslim-women, anti-free-speech, anti-science, and anti-sanity -- I'd join it in a heartbeat.
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Not in itself. But unfortunately, anti-zionism is often concomitant with antisemitism. This is a great source of info from
@phl43 showing that victims of antisemitism complain of lefties and Islamists (who often side with the left) more than Nazis:https://necpluribusimpar.net/commits-violent-antisemitic-attacks-europe-hint-not-neo-nazis/ …1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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Thanks! Just to be clear, I think criticism of Israel is often deliberately confused with antisemitism, and find this detestable.
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Which is not to say that antisemitism doesn't exist on the left, only that we should not allow ourselves to let people be smeared just
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because they have legitimate criticisms of Israel.
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