I am surprised that unreaonable attack has been lashed out at Jenna Delich who always champion the cause of downtrodden. It is nonsense to characterise anti Zionism as anti semite. Zionist is a form of racism, which has clearly been defined by a well known Jewish Scholar, Prof. Noam Chomsky at MIT. All Zionists are not Jewish and vice versa. In fact, this matter popped up in the EAT in D’Silva v UCU & their Labour Party mafia where Dr D’Silva’s Counsel stated to Mr Justice Elias (who said he was not a Jewish) that his ethnic origin was irrelevant to be member of the Zionist mafia.

I believe some self entangled racist idiots are engaged in Jenny Delich’s lynching because she blowed the whislte.

I am surprised that unreaonable attack has been lashed out at Jenna Delich who always champion the cause of downtrodden. It is nonsense to characterise anti Zionism as anti semite. Zionist is a form of racism, which has clearly been defined by a well known Jewish Scholar, Prof. Noam Chomsky at MIT. All Zionists are not Jewish and vice versa. In fact, this matter popped up in the EAT in D’Silva v UCU & their Labour Party mafia where Dr D’Silva’s Counsel stated to Mr Justice Elias (who said he was not a Jeiwsh) that his ethnic origin was irrelevant to be member of the Zionist mafia.

I believe some self entangled racist idiots are engaged in Jenny Delich ’s lynching.

I also believe that an ideological offensive against the anti-Zionism of the Far Left which reduces to accusing them of anti-Semitism is firing blank shots, at best. They know they are not anti-Semitic, and I believe that most observers who are outside the immediate debate will also conclude that they are not anti-Semitic. In fact, I suspect that the sort of naive, unarticulated, reflexive anti-Semitism which used to be quite widespread (in the US, at least) could still be found among those fundamentalist Christians who, for the moment, are cheerleaders for Israeli nationalism.

Rather, I think these people need to be challenged on their overall political understanding of history, past and present, which is a cartoon view of reality, with “bad peoples” and “good peoples”. In the words of I.F. Stone, they see history as melodrama, when in fact it is tragedy. But that is a much bigger question which we, perhaps, debate or discuss elsewhere. (I think just you and I are reading this thread now.)

But the Far Left is not doing it. They are anti-Zionist for the same reason, and in the same way, that they were anti-Boer, anti-pednoir, anti-European settler in general. If the majority ethnic group in Israel were Poles or Czechs or Italians, it would change nothing in the Far Left’s analysis or behavior, whereas genuine anti-Semites would either be indifferent to the issue, or in favor of the European-derived side.

Of course, in their analysis of the situation, they distort much. They overlook the large number of Jews of Middle-Eastern origin who fled to Israel after its establishment, for example. But this is not because they are anti-Semitic, but because their worldview demands that complex realities be turned into simplistic ones.

That is, in any situation involving a clash of interests between a European people and a Third World people, the Left reflexively take the side of the Third World people. Israeli Jews are a sub-set of European peoples and thus, in their clash with Palestinians, are automatically condemned by the Far Left.

The Far Left assimilate all such clashes to the imperialist-colonialist model. They side with those who are, as they see it, the imperialized and colonized.

To see why it is wrong to say that the Far Left is anti-Semitic, it suffices to do this little thought experiment. Suppose Israel had been settled by some other European people — Croats, or Latvians, or Spaniards, say — with the same set of events taking place as occured with the establishment of Israel. The attitude of the Far Left would be identical to their attitude towards Israeli Jews. We need not even experiment: this was the attitude the Far Left took to Dutch and French and Belgian and English settlers in Africa.

Looking outside of Israel, we would find, if the Far Left were really anti-Semitic, that they would be pandering to the “socialism of fools” which sees the problems of capitalism as due to Jewish finance capital. (I believe some of the early Socialist-Revolutionaries in Czarist Russia did just that, in their work among the peasantry.) But we do not find this.

There is much that is wrong with the outlook of the Far Left on this issue (as on many others). The Oppressed/Oppressor framework is a gross over-simplification of reality. It cannot handle ethnic clashes where both groups are non-European (for example, the Chinese in Southeast Asia, and other market-dominant ethnic minorities), or the myriad clashes among different tribes in Africa, which self-congratulatory leftwing moralists cannot fit into an “anti-imperialist” worldview. This is why the Left tends to avert its eyes from these ugly realities.

On many issues, the Far Left is in fact reactionary today. But it is not anti-Semitic.