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As the Democrats Go Socialist, They Go Anti-Semitic
FrontPage Magazine ^ | March 8, 2019 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 03/08/2019 9:37:39 AM PST by Louis Foxwell

As the Democrats Go Socialist, They Go Anti-Semitic

Jew-hate and socialism have always gone hand in hand.

March 8, 2019

Daniel Greenfield

103 comments at FrontPage

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.

"Every government having regard to good morals ought to repress the Jews," opined Pierre Leroux, the leftist credited with coining the term 'Socialism'. "When we speak of Jews, we mean the Jewish spirit, the spirit of profit, of lucre, of gain, the spirit of commerce."

"What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money," Karl Marx ranted.

American socialism traces its ideological ancestry to Charles Fourier, a French socialist bigot who declared that Jews were the embodiment of capitalism, “parasites, merchants, usurers”, and the "incarnation of commerce: parasitical, deceitful, traitorous and unproductive".

Even the term ‘anti-Semite’ was popularized by Wilhelm Marr, the socialist founder of the League of Antisemites. The inventor of anti-Semitism’s arguments were the same ones put forward by Marx, Fourier, H.G. Wells, Lenin and countless other socialists. The Jews were all about the ‘Benjamins’. They started wars. They were disloyal and manipulated society. They were a dangerous foreign element.

These are the same tropes that were put forward by Rep. Ilhan Omar and defended by her socialist allies in the House Progressive Caucus and across the media. Anti-Semitism is one of the meeting points between socialists and Islamists. The more anti-Semitism she spews, the more Rep. Omar unites the identity politics caucus of minority group racial nationalists and Islamists, with the traditional Left.

Anti-Semitism isn’t just a historical relic and Rep. Omar isn’t an outlier. The Democratic Socialists of America are rotten with anti-Semitism. Before she was defending Omar, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez was chatting with Jeremy Corbyn. The British Labour leader has been widely condemned for his anti-Semitic remarks and for backing anti-Semitic allies whose hatred has been even more open than Omar’s.

The DSA endorsed Maria Estrada, a California State Assembly candidate, who had praised Farrakhan, accused Jews of exploiting the Holocaust, and attacked a Jewish Democrat for not keeping “your party, your religion and your people in check.” It’s unsurprising that the DSA announced that it “stands” with Omar. Socialism doesn’t just have a history of anti-Semitism, but a burning problem right now.

The DSA loudly cheered a Corbyn representative at its 2017 convention even while British Jews and non-Jews were condemning Labour’s descent into anti-Semitism. Jewish Labour members have been forced out or have since announced that they were leaving on their own. One of them was MP Ian Austin, the son of a Holocaust survivor, who condemned its “culture of extremism, anti-Semitism and intolerance”.

In response, Labour’s Marcus Barnett, the DSA 2017 speaker, tweeted, “Good riddance.”

Also at the DSA convention was a representative from Melenchon's France Insoumise.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon, an ally of the Communist Party, responded to anti-Semitic violence accompanied by cries of, "Death to the Jews", by claiming that they embodied French values while accusing Jews of dual loyalty for protesting in support of Israel. Then he attacked CRIF, the umbrella group of Jewish organizations in France for accusing leftists of anti-Semitism. There was no room in France, he bloviated, for “aggressive communities that lecture the rest of the country."

Corbyn and Melenchon come by their anti-Semitism honestly. They’re the vanguard of socialist political movements that were anti-Semitic from their very origin.

Labour’s anti-Semitism problem dates back to Henry Hyndman, the founder of England's first socialist party, and then of the National Socialist Party, which eventually became part of the Labour Party.

Hyndman was refreshingly blunt when explaining the necessity of melding anti-Semitism and socialism, "the attack upon the Jews is a convenient cover for a more direct attack at an early date upon the great landlords and Christian capitalists."

The, “first we come for the Jews” approach is an innate strategy of extremist political movements.

Rep. Omar would much rather tap into anti-Semitism and turn the conversation to Israel, then discuss her past sympathy for Islamic terrorists. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez would rather turn the conversation away from why she believed we shouldn’t have gone after Al Qaeda in Afghanistan with a defense of Omar. Jews are a small and controversial minority. That makes them a good target for socialists, national and international, to make it seem as if their extremism only threatens the Jews.

Not the general public.

The division between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is a scam. Anti-Zionism is just a means of attacking American foreign policy by exploiting anti-Semitic stereotypes. Attacking Israel in support of Islamic terrorism allows leftists to use bigotry to shift the argument from our national security to Jewish conspiracies. Much as Hyndman rallied opposition to the Boer War by calling it a “Jew War”.

Anti-Zionists believe that the terrorists are right and that America, Israel and any nation that resists them deserves to lose. This toxic point of view goes over better with a spoonful of anti-Semitism.

Rep. Omar isn’t just mainstreaming anti-Semitism. She’s mainstreaming anti-Americanism.

The 20th century was rich with examples of socialists not named Adolf using Jews as scapegoats for the failures of their economic programs. After denouncing Stalin’s crimes, Khrushchev set out to improve his popularity by executing Jews for “economic crimes”. This was a continuation of a Stalinist program that attempted to blame the USSR’s food shortages on Jews with show trials and brutal killings.

The Jews put on trial were accused of not just selling food on the black market, but of colluding with Rabbis, Zionists and the entire spectrum of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. Between 1962 and 1964, Khrushchev had over 70 Jews executed through these show trials even as the food shortages continued.

But we don’t have to turn to the Soviet Union to see examples of socialist anti-Semitic scapegoating.

FDR’s New Deal test cases focused in on Jews or Italians: two unpopular immigrant minority groups at the time. A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, the case that helped break the New Deal, targeted Kosher butchers for following Jewish religious law. The media played on every anti-Semitic stereotype, and while it won public opinion, socialist anti-Semitism lost in the Supreme Court.

August Bebel famously dismissed Anti-Semitism as "the socialism of fools". But it’s hard to have socialism without anti-Semitism. Successful socialist movements unite different economic classes. Socialists from Marx to Hitler turned to anti-Semitism because traditional anti-Semitic stereotypes made their attacks on capitalism and the free market connect with a populist audience uninterested in theory.

As the Democrats embrace the socialist dog, the anti-Semitic flea comes with it. Political extremism brings with it a host of fringe theories and beliefs. A Democrat Party that moves leftward will open the doors to anti-Semites, but also to people who believe in UFOs and that lizard people walk among us.

But anti-Semitism is also deeply linked to socialism and its ideological stereotypes, the greedy capitalist and the warmongering businessman, inescapably express themselves in the language of anti-Semitism. Rep. Omar didn’t utter new ideas about Jews, but very old ones. And these ideas have nothing to do with Israel. They predate the Jewish State and even an organized Zionist political movement.

The Jew was the classic socialist villain because he showed that free markets can empower individuals. Socialists were obliged to disprove the legitimacy of Jewish entry into the middle class by employing classic anti-Semitic stereotypes. The same problem bedevils today’s socialists who have replaced class with race, but still have to contend with the economic successes of Jews and Asians despite racism.

Jewish success disproves socialism and identity politics. It can only be met with anti-Semitism. And then the very element that disproves socialism instead becomes proof that we desperately need big government to protect us from the Jews. The same rhetoric at the heart of National Socialism is lurking there in the bowels of all socialism, from the New Deal to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

In the realm of foreign policy, Israel’s successful resistance to Islamic terrorism must also be disproven so that the United States and other countries do not decide to adopt it as a model. The same anti-Semitic stereotypes that socialists used to inveigh against the Boer War, WW1 and any conflict in the last century, are once again deployed, this time using anti-Semitism to stigmatize counterterrorism.

Socialist anti-Semitism isn’t new. Rep. Omar’s controversy is a variation on an old theme. Variations on it are currently burning through the UK and France as they have for over a hundred years.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Israel; US: Michigan; US: Minnesota; US: New York; US: Vermont; War on Terror
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1 posted on 03/08/2019 9:37:39 AM PST by Louis Foxwell
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2 posted on 03/08/2019 9:38:37 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (The denial of the authority of God is the central plank of the Progressive movement.)
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My God... They’re figuring it out... And guess what... Red is the colour of Socialism... Not blue. That’s why the NAZI flag was red, why all communist flags are red... Blue is the colour of Conservatism.


3 posted on 03/08/2019 9:43:16 AM PST by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Anti Semitism. Not just for skinheads and klansmen anymore. Actually left wing Jew hatred is nothing new, it’s just become more obvious.


4 posted on 03/08/2019 9:52:09 AM PST by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: jerod
And guess what... Red is the colour of Socialism... Not blue. That’s why the NAZI flag was red, why all communist flags are red... Blue is the colour of Conservatism.

The media made a concerted effort back in the 1990s to change the colors from blue to red for Republicans.

If you go back and check, they used to be blue for Republicans and red for Democrats.

5 posted on 03/08/2019 9:56:47 AM PST by Jess Kitting
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To: Louis Foxwell

The lunatic socialists, far left loons, appear to be in control of the dim party.


6 posted on 03/08/2019 9:59:53 AM PST by umgud
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To: Louis Foxwell

Yes. Communism-socialism and nazism have been the most evil and destructive things in human history. Soroznazi and islsmlnazism and their bought- up puppets at the DNC will be ruin of America ( and obviously UK , France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Italy, etc ) as soon as they can. Unfortunately, they’re winning. And winning fast too


7 posted on 03/08/2019 10:07:47 AM PST by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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An while hate consumes the demo-communist party:

Israeli company that creates water from air going eyes global expansion.

Link: https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israeli-company-creating-water-from-plain-air-eyes-global-expansion-582328


8 posted on 03/08/2019 10:11:52 AM PST by CharlesMartelsGhost
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To: Louis Foxwell

“As the Democrats Go Socialist, They Go Anti-Semitic”

The bet here is that the RATS will get the majority of the Jewish vote in 2020. Some folks never learn.


9 posted on 03/08/2019 10:19:06 AM PST by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE)
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To: Jess Kitting

It happened on Election Day 2000. The mislabeling of the parties is vile and we should all refuse to use it.


10 posted on 03/08/2019 10:45:07 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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RATS can afford to go anti-semitic as they are assured of the Jewish vote.

Hell, they can even go anti-black and it won’t really matter for them.


11 posted on 03/08/2019 10:46:27 AM PST by 353FMG
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Sounds like 1930’s Germany.


12 posted on 03/08/2019 10:49:52 AM PST by Starstruck (I'm usually sarcastic. Deal with it.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

The picture of the two laughing women above shows that they know they got America by the balls while squeezing.


13 posted on 03/08/2019 10:49:52 AM PST by 353FMG
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Stalin did the same thing to Trotsky after he helped with the Russian Revolution.

The Jews supported the Revolution, only to get screwed . When will they learn?


14 posted on 03/08/2019 10:54:50 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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What will it take to get a Jew to vote for a Republican?


15 posted on 03/08/2019 10:58:37 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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“What will it take to get a Jew to vote for a Republican?”

Probably another Holocaust. Many, many of them are more Marxist than Jewish.


16 posted on 03/08/2019 11:00:02 AM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (You may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you...)
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Non religious Jews were brought up under Communism. Their God is the state.


17 posted on 03/08/2019 11:39:01 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (The denial of the authority of God is the central plank of the Progressive movement.)
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To: Louis Foxwell
Thanks for your diligent posting of Daniel Greenfield articles. They are always worth reading, and running a much less active ping list than yours, I know it's a significant amount of work to do what you do.

This is obviously right in his wheel house, and he does a great service by teaching us about the roots of the two movements, Socialism and antiSemitism. Fascinating.

Thanks again!

18 posted on 03/08/2019 12:28:56 PM PST by Jack Black ("If you believe in things that you don't understand then you suffer" - "Superstition",Stevie Wonder)
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To: Jess Kitting
I believe the current Red-Blue identification was pretty much arrived at by happenstance. Here is how I remember it:

There was a convention among political scientists to graph elections as blue for incumbent party and red for challenging party. (I worked in this field in the early 1980s). This carried over to election maps, which would usually show the incumbent in blue (regardless of party).

The breakthrough and change came due to the USA today map of George W. Bush's victory in 2000, when USA Today, which was the first (and only) newspaper to publish in color at the time, and loved reporting on things state-by-state put a double-page centerfold of the 2000 election results out in their newspaper. It was a unique map, instead of showing the results by State (which is how electoral votes are counted) it showed the results by county (which is meaningless in terms of vote counting). This was published in the middle of section A of their election special edition. It showed the geographic dominance of the Republicans, and how the Democrats were confined to a few densely populated urban areas and the coastal zones.

This was a unique way of looking at the election, it showed a lot of Red (Bush was the challenger in 2000, the incumbent party was Clinton's Democrats) and people really took to the map.

USA Today's ability to produce this map in a timely manner was a result of big improvements in computer database and GIS (Geographic Information Systems) technology.

The map was a hit. It was posted on a lot of office bulletin boards and referred to by many political commentators.

I believe it was that single map that started people referring to "red states".

At least, that's my theory and recollection.

A few other people have written about this, here's one article I found:

USA Today Uses GIS for Election Mapping

Here is an electronic version of that image:


19 posted on 03/08/2019 1:07:15 PM PST by Jack Black ("If you believe in things that you don't understand then you suffer" - "Superstition",Stevie Wonder)
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Non religious Jews were brought up under Communism. Their God is the state.

My experience is different.

First off the whole idea of non-religious Jews is strange, when you think about it. You don't hear terms like "non-religious Methodists" very often.

That's because if you stop believing in Methodism you are simply not a Methodist at all.

But because Judaism is both a religion and a closely tied ethnicity this term when applied to Jews is common.

But a lot of Jews who perhaps don't believe in God, or believe in God very weakly still feel that Jewish tradition is important and will celebrate Passover and perhaps other Jewish holidays. So, in my experience (with friends) a lof of so-called "non-religious Jews" still have a lot more connection to their religion than, say, someone who was raised Catholic but who has become an atheist.

The net-net is there are not a lot of truly "non-religious" Jews. The three main denominations sort of align with this: Orthodox have a traditional view of the religion, while the Reform Jews might only be as religious as Unitarians (which is to say agnostic), but are still part of a religious tradition.

I would suspect that only a very small percent of American Jews (say under 20) were raised outside of any Jewish religion, and yes, some of them may have been committed Communists. But I would be surprised if that was ever even 5% of Jews in the USA.

So, it doesn't really explain the 70% of Jews who routinely vote Democratic, or why most Jews embrace so many liberal social causes.

The thoughtful Jewish writer Norman Podhoretz wrote a book "Why Are Jews Liberals?", which I read a few years ago. One of the answers isn't "because they were raised as atheist commies". Speaking of broad groups, there are, of course, a few individuals who will exactly fit that description. (Micheal Savage calls them "red diaper doper babies", and seems to know who they are.)


20 posted on 03/08/2019 1:25:57 PM PST by Jack Black ("If you believe in things that you don't understand then you suffer" - "Superstition",Stevie Wonder)
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