Bernie Sanders is Right. Trum'p's Campaign Literature is Anti-Semitic.

Richard Mellor

The video gives a clear example of what anti-Semitism is and what it is not.  Criticising Israel, a nation state, is not anti-Semitism. Opposing Zionism is not anti-Semitism either. Zionism, a racist ideology or Jewish extremism, is at the heart of the crisis in the Middle East and Israel's genocide in Gaza and the occupied territories.

 

The image used by the Trump Administration that Bernie Sanders refers to in the video, is clearly anti-Semitic propaganda. It is undeniable when one looks at the image the Nazis used to whip up hatred and violence against Jews in Germany and throughout Europe. 

 

Then there is another example on the left; the poster used by the White Army forces, the counterrevolutionaries in Russia that fought the Bolsheviks and the Russian workers' that overthrew feudalism and capitalism. The US, Britain and France had forces in that game. 

 

The poster is an image of Leon Trotsky a key leader of the Russian Revolution in that same role as the devilish Jew. Many of the Bolshevik leaders were Jews as were many revolutionaries fighting to overthrow Tzarism, the brutal feudal regime that had discriminated against them for  centuries, forcing them to live in selected areas and waging regular pogroms (mob riots) against their communities.The capitalists of Western Europe supported the White Army. Up until this period Russia's economy was in the grasp of western banks and western capitalists were afraid their assets would be appropriated if the Russian Revolution was successful.

 

It's inconceivable that Trump and his advisors aren't aware of the Anti-Semitic nature of their campaign material. Trump can just deny it as he did when asked what he thought about the Signal fiasco (see video to the right) as there's no real consequences for doing so; there is no opposition party in the US and the trade union hierarchy is silent in the main.  It's my view that the Jew hating image is directed at his extreme right wing White Nationalist, Evangelical Christian, Neo-fascist base, a right bunch of anti-Semites, all of them.

 

Trump, unlike Hitler does not have an organised right wing militia he can call out at any moment smash strikes, protests and opposition in the streets.  But there are numerous groups, some of whom answered his call on jan 6th to storm the US Capitol, that can and will fill the role of Hitlers Brownshirts at some point in time-----the image is fodder for them.

 

I think Trump is in a stronger position this time around if he is forced to quit after this term in some way or another, and will just as likely call his thugs out again. Workers, organised and unnorganized need to take this seriously and be prepare to defend ourselves and our communities with our own self defence organisations if events turn really bad really fast.