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Facts For Working People unconditionally condemns the horrific terrorist attack on the Tree of Life Synagogue by white supremacist and neo Nazi Robert Bowers. The increased racist attacks on immigrants, people of colors, Jews, political opponents with a liberal bent are a direct result of Trump’s call to arms. Trump has emboldened the forces that have laid quiet for times such as these.
Facts For Working People unconditionally condemns the horrific terrorist attack on the Tree of Life Synagogue by white supremacist and neo Nazi Robert Bowers. The increased racist attacks on immigrants, people of colors, Jews, political opponents with a liberal bent are a direct result of Trump’s call to arms. Trump has emboldened the forces that have laid quiet for times such as these.
But language matters. As we saw with the previous posting on
this subject the neo-fascist Zionist leaders in Israel come to the defense of
white nationalism and the racist and misogynist Donald Trump. Why would they
not one might ask? They are Europeans after all and isn’t Israel a European
colonial settlement. The first British governor of Jerusalem referred to the
creation of the Jewish state as “Our
loyal little Ulster in the Middle East”
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal takes the same line and uses
the opportunity to defend right wing neo-fascist currents. The Journal first publishes an opinion piece from a head of a congregation that merged with the Tree of
Life, a carpet salesman. He too
ignores the present climate and Trump’s role in it. Instead it is that age-old
scourge, anti-Semitism that is to blame and the target was chosen because Jews
inherently “care for the downtrodden”.
The killer, John Bowers “simply hated
Jews” the Journal said in its editorial in the same issue. No link to the
hatred of immigrants which was also behind the killings and the support for white
nationalism. According to this carpet salesman’s world view, “concern for the downtrodden” doesn’t apply
to the Palestinians.
The Journal’s editorial continued in the same vein. Anti-Semitism
is as old as time and there’s nothing you can do about it. Opposition to Israeli
Apartheid and the Zionist regime’s brutal occupation and genocidal war against
Palestinians is also simply anti-Semitism on a national scale. There is the
anti-Semitism of the right like Bowers but also its partner “…the pro-Palestinian left, especially on
university campusus”. The Journal writes. Let that sink in for a minute.
The fascist Bowers and the struggle for Palestinian rights, two sides of the
same coin.
“This irrational
hatred is one of humanity’s oldest and manifests itself in murder almost daily
in the Middle East. Jews are killed simply because they are Jews, as they have
been throughout history.”, the Journal’s editorial says.
The Wall Street Journal champions right wing (Orthodox)
Catholics like Pence and the Evangelical Christians (the US Taliban) as the, “…. most stalwart supporters of Israel and
the Jewish people….” They are the non Jewish Zionists and differ from the
Jewish ones in that their support for Israel is based on the view that their
god will be returning there to take them to heaven and issue in an era of peace
and harmony (for them perhaps). Jews, and there are a few Jews in Israel, that
do not convert to Christianity will suffer eternal damnation, in other words,
rot in hell. The Jews don’t believe this nonsense so they can take this support
without fear of retribution.
It is somewhat ironic that the Journal can talk of Jews as
victims of terrorism in Israel when most of the terrorists in Israel are
Jewish. The Zionist regime is a regime kept in power through state terror and a
brutal occupation.
The Wall Street Journal attacked the “liberal” media and anyone else for blaming Trump in any way, form
or fashion. Don’t we realize that, “Mr. Trump’s daughter has converted to
Judaism and she and her husband are raising their children in the faith.”,
the journal poses. What’s the matter
with us! Kushner, Adelson, Netanyahu, Trump loves Jews and Mexicans. “Americans would do well to ignore this toxic
habit of political blame for murderous acts by the racist, anti-Semitic or
mentally disturbed.”
As the previous piece we posted by Simone Zimmerman pointed out though,
“It is a particular kind of Jew — cosmopolitan, progressive, anti-racist — that Trump has adopted as a scapegoat for America’s problems… as the source of a global conspiracy working to undermine everything their nationalist worldview represents.”
As the previous piece we posted by Simone Zimmerman pointed out though,
“It is a particular kind of Jew — cosmopolitan, progressive, anti-racist — that Trump has adopted as a scapegoat for America’s problems… as the source of a global conspiracy working to undermine everything their nationalist worldview represents.”
Dylan Roof was just mentally disturbed. The guy that shot
two black people in Louisville Kentucky, and event overshadowed by the
Pittsburgh massacre, was just mentally disturbed. Trump has nothing to do with
all of this surely.
So there is such a thing as “fake news”.
So there is such a thing as “fake news”.
I cannot comment on these events without once again pointing
a finger at another force in society and that is the heads of the 14 million
member trade union movement. Union members and workers
of all traditions are under assault as the ruling class accumulates more and
more wealth at labor’s expense. Both of the capitalist political parties have
orchestrated this savage assault on our living standards. The heads of the
building trades met with the racist and misogynist Trump and kissed his ass
hoping to keep some jobs for a select few workers and the source of their
obscene salaries secure. But Trump will not guarantee that either.
The leaders of the public sector unions are not much better
whining about this betrayal and claiming the mantle of defenders of the future
for workers on the coattails of the Democratic Party. Their whimpering in the
face of Trump and his white nationalist, racist messages is criminal; it’s the
Silence of the Lambs. They are allowing the racists to take center stage, they
are refusing to enter in to the struggle for the consciousness of the working
class and we will suffer the consequences of this passive strategy; peace at
all costs. Racism, sexism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, these are all part of a
strategy to divide and weaken the working class as a whole. We all suffer.
Because of this refusal to to lead, to offer an alternative to the working
class, the struggles ahead will be unnecessarily complicated, confused and at times
violent as the working class rises to its feet to defend its living standards.
Finally, on the question of Israel. Jews have always lived
in the Middle East and have every right to do so in peace. They have lived, as
Arab Jews, in relative harmony with Muslims. It has not been Arabs or Muslims
that waged a genocidal war against the Jewish people but Christian Europe.
Israel is a necessary foothold in the Middle East for western capitalism and
it’s plunder of the region. The Zionists and the Saudi’s are the staunchest
defenders of US western interests in the region. That is why US and British
capitalism arms them, to keep the revolutionary potential of the Arab workers
and the workers of the entire region at bay. Israel cannot guarantee a safe haven
for Jews. And while some oppose Israel because they are anti-Semites, opposition
to this Apartheid state is not anti-Semitism. And the crises with roots in the colonial
carving up of the area cannot be eradicated within the framework of capitalism.
Here is a speech by Gideon Levy. It seems obvious to this
writer that Levy, who supported the two state solution for the region is losing
hope that there can be a solution at all. He is despairing but he is not a
socialist, he does not see socialism as the only alternative and the working
class in the region and internationally as the only force that can bring that
about. Please watch it. He is a courageous Israeli and a principled individual.
This was followed by this commentary on a previous post: Israel/Palestine: Capitalism Cannot Solve This Conflict. It Created It.
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