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Every time I try to seriously engage with the topic of antisemitism on the left - since, you know, antisemitism is bad and I don't want to be doing antisemitism - whatever podcast or article or whatever the fuck I read fails at nearly the first hurdle and it basically just turns out to be zionist entryism. Does anybody have not-bullshit recommendations here?
Also I fucking love arguments like:
I could send out an email to the entire company I work at condemning these things and nothing would come of it. If I even hint that I don't love israel to the bottom of my soul in a company meeting I would be fired so fast my head would spin. Wow, which issue am I going to be engaging with more I wonder?
Not to mention the Uyghur genocide is fictitious
And you can literally fly to the site of the supposed "genocide" and see the region for yourself. Wait, all these Uyghur people are just hanging out and living normal lives? Huh 🤔
Try doing that in Gaza!
Actually what's happening there is an elite team of See See Pee actors and stagehands are carefully running ahead of every visitor and putting on elaborate stage shows that pretend to be real life just to hide the genocide obviously
Its like how north Korea has cardboard buildings meant to look like grocery stores, so when non-locals try to go in they hit a wall.
Not to mention the stark difference in evidence in regards to China's supposed genocide
We are getting live footage of atrocities from a people who have been cut off from nearly every form of communication, because it's actually really hard to hide mass murder
And the evidence for China trying to kill off the Uighurs is what? A couple of satellite photos of a roof and some easily debunked pictures that were "smuggled" out of the camps
Wrinkly gibberish, pure vibes
Didn't you see the picture taken from inside a drainage ditch, with the gray filter applied, of a single guard outside a regular administrative building in the middle of a city? If that's not proof of genocide I don't know what is!
Oh and let's not forget the ironclad evidence of some people singing in a classroom being kind of awkward!
Every aspect of anti-capitalist/imperialist thought steers you away from anti-Semitism. You would be hard pressed to find anti-Jewish sentiment in any active leftist space. That's of course not to say it doesn't/can't happen. But any materialist thought completely precludes the whole Jewish New World Order / banker elite conspiracy theories of the right, and we of course don't fall for the anti-Semitic trope of a collective Jewish hivemind with genocidal desires like liberals do.
My first thought would be to point you towards moments in history of sociopolitical trife / mass violence, but my first thought would be of the Holocaust, where leftists were literally the only Jewish allies, and were persecuted alongside them (not to equate the two). Even in Eastern Europe, it was only the left that organized any sort of resistance to the Nazis and Jewish killings and deportations.
But there probably is a moment in history I don't know about where a (even nominally) leftist organization or front fell into anti-semitic thoughts and actions during some struggle. That would be a good place to start. (Then again maybe there isn't.)
What kind of argument is this? "Look mom, they got genocides, why can't I have one???"
Seems like a...
WHATABOUTISM!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Whataboutism? What about deez nuts?
"These so-called leftists are not principled. They do not truly care about genocide and solely target Israel in particular because they are bigots."
Sri Lanka AES?
lol
Its for saying oh they only angrily scream at israel but not sri lanka cause they are antisemitic
Every time I've actually seen someone be antisemitic at a leftist event they get shut down immediately by everyone present. The only real antisemitism on the left is a) right wingers using general anti-Israeli sentiment to spout their bullshit and b) individuals who aren't educated enough and who get corrected by the overwhelming majority. There are no prominent left-wing groups where the leadership pushes an antisemitic line (maybe patsocs? idk if they've said anything) and there is no culture of antisemitism in leftist spaces and anyone acting like there is is trying to equate anti-Zionism to antisemitism.
I was reading a post in here from like 3-4 years ago where they made a fresh account to concern troll about antisemitism on the left. The account never posted after that.
I don't know whether she lives under some rock. I don't know who like ignores or doesn't know like one of worst atrocities in the region.
Its very bizarre to be like "oh the college protesters or vocal anti zionists don't mention genocidal regime of sri lanka, hmmm curious ". I wonder what her opinion is of the ltte.
(sorry deleted this on accident just now)
Sri Lanka is participating in Operation Prosperity Garden meaning they are complicit in Palestinian genocide. I'm willing to bet Jessie either does not know, does not care or thinks this is good.
nah she doesn't care she only brought that up to say "I don't see all these commies condemning sri lanka as rabidly as they do israel, seems antisemitic"
Sri Lanka is participating in Operation Prosperity Garden, making them complicit in Palestinian genocide. I'm willing to bet this youtube either does not know, does not care or things it is good.