> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://goodoil.news/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Australian Jews Sound WARNING on Leftist Anti-Semitism - URL: https://goodoil.news/australian-jews-sound-warning-on-leftist-anti-semitism/ - Published: 2019-11-16T01:30:00.000Z - Updated: 2019-11-15T08:24:32.000Z - Author: Cam Slater - Tags: AUS Politics, World Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:49 At *The BFD* we’ve been [warning for months](https://thebfd.co.nz/2019/05/just-lay-off-the-jews-already/?ref=goodoil.news) that anti-Semitism is undergoing a [horrifying resurgence](https://thebfd.co.nz/2019/08/anti-semitic-attacks-return-to-german-streets/?ref=goodoil.news) in the West – and that it’s mostly rearing its ugly head on the [left of politics](https://thebfd.co.nz/2019/07/why-are-the-left-so-antisemitic/?ref=goodoil.news). No-one is foolish enough to deny, of course, that anti-Semitism is a persistent, festering canker on the fringes of the far-right. But its not-so-sudden re-emergence on the left (I first recall the *Village Voice* writing on the subject around 1992) is a disfiguring boil right on the nose of the **mainstream left**. While too many Jews have remained blindly rusted on to the left, some are finally starting to take notice. > Anti-Semitism, the ancient hatred­ of Jews, is on the rise in Australia…\[and\] creeping into our politics. Frequently associat­ed with the extreme far right, anti-Semitism is emerging in a newer and more recent form on the political left, which has become­ increasingly obsessed with anti-Zionism and the existence of the state of Israel. > > Left-wing critics of Israel — who are suspicious of supposed Jewish influence in finance, polit­ics and the media — are becoming increasingly vocal in Australia. They rail against the alleged capit­alist financial depredations by Jews and they question the legitimacy of a Jewish national state. > > The Executive Council of Aust­ralian Jewry has noted in its annual report on anti-Semitism a steady rise masking itself as anti-racism. EJAC also has catalogued numerous anti-Semitic remarks made by those in the ALP and **the Australian Greens.** The EJAC traditionally leans leftwards. That even **they** are taking the left to task shows how badly the situation has got. > The ALP has been spared the travails of its Jeremy Corbyn-led British counterpart…but many Labor-held seats contain **relig­ious­ly conservative Muslim popul­ations hostile to Israel** and sym­pathetic to the Palestinian cause. > > Labor’s problem is exacerbated because in some of the seats it needs to hold (such as in western Sydney) there is growing support for **the Greens,** **a party that maintains­ an intense hostility towards Israel** and a very strong commitment to the Palestinians…Left-wing anti-Semitism seems paradoxical because of the left’s longstanding and historical commitment to eradicating all forms of racism and discrimination. The left’s self-conceit that they somehow cornered the market in anti-racism is just one of their more laughably obvious myths. But the mask of holier-than-thou leftism has been ripped away by its blind obsession with the bigoted bullshit of identity politics. > In its basic form, anti-Zionism holds that the state of Israel should not exist. In its more extreme forms, it denies the concept­ of a Jewish peoplehood entitled to self-determination and the right of a lawfully constituted state to safeguard the security of its borders and its people. > > Soviet anti-Zionism promoted theories of a global conspiracy funded by Jewish money committed to wreaking political and economic havoc in Western countries. > > When the post-World War II generation of the left began to emerge in the 50s and 60s, it absorbed this propaganda into its own world view…It is a world view to which many on the political left — such as ­Corbyn in Britain, the so-called “Squad” of Democrats in the US congress, and the Australian Greens. The standard, dissembling employed by anti-Semitic leftists is to parrot the canard that they are only criticising Israel, not Jews. This is just so much self-serving horse-puckey. > Criticism of Israel’s government and its policies is not anti-­Semitic. Many Israelis themselves are openly critical, as a visit to the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, will confirm. > > But criticism that denies the legitimacy of Israel itself or ­questions the supposed motives of the Jewish people is abhorrent anti-Semitism. > > [https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/ageold-hatred-of-jews-reemerges-out-of-left-field/](https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/ageold-hatred-of-jews-reemerges-out-of-left-field/news-story/999534af508e11f46b79b5d20f879c9d?ref=goodoil.news) Leftists can piously waffle all they like that they are “not anti-Semitic, just anti-Zionist”, but when prominent left-wing academics are screaming abuse and waving money in the faces of elderly Jewish women, the putrid truth is undeniable.