If you read American socialist writer's Irving Howe's book " World of Our Fathers " , you will get a vivid picture of just how many intellectual and working class Jews for a good part of the 20th century gravitated toward socialist-communist political movements. In the past few decades it is not that the LEFT for mysterious reasons has turned anti-Semitic but that formerly LEFT leaning Jews have been corrupted by reactionary ZIONISM. The very idea of an ethnocentric state ( like APARTHEID Israel ) is a mockery even of bourgeois democracy. Was not the NAZI idea based on love of " blood and soil " ?
ZIONIST Israel has corrupted the once sensitive and cosmopolitan Jewish social conscience. For example , here in the United States the once Trotskyist Socialist Workers for decades was firmly opposed to Zionism. A while back this now much decayed party suddenly embraced Zionism . Ironically, the very archives of their newspaper still named " The Militant " contradict its crackpot sectarian politics today. I read back in 1970 they were exposing the FASCIST Jewish Defense League! For them in 2024 the issue is NOT genocide in Gaza, Palestine but growing anti-Semitism in the United States. With Zionist APARTHEID Israel making itself the most hated country on the planet , of course, there will be more perceived " anti-Semitic incidents ".
In no way can SOCIALIST INTERNATIONALISM today reconcile itself with RACIST Zionism. In fact ,years ago the United Nations condemned Zionism as a form of racism . By the way, Marxist historical materialism cannot explain the tragedy of the Jews ? Or is " Jew hatred " some weird virus in the brains of non-Jews- especially Christians - for some 2000 years ?
Ordinary people resent being EXPLOITED and OPPRESSED and SWINDLED by anybody !
I just caught this news article on the WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE :
[ "In spite of police assault and threats of expulsion, student-led encampments demanding an end to the genocide in Gaza have continued to spread on university campuses in the United States and internationally over the last 24 hours. As of this writing, over 40 college campuses across 22 states in the US have encampments or protests ongoing. " ]
As a longtime independent democratic socialist I recall the relatively peaceful General Student Strike in 1970 protesting Nixon's invasion of Cambodia. Ultimately Nixon and American imperialism lost the Vietnam War. Today the sun is setting on American imperialism and Israeli Zionism together forever in crimes against humanity. But together they would start nuclear World War III with Iran and POST-COMMUNIST Russia- if WE THE PEOPLE let them .
This much will not happen in the months ahead : THESE students will not be wearing VOTE BIDEN campaign buttons ! The Democratic Party is completely corrupt and decadent .
