We rarely hear from or about democratic socialist Jews today

As a longtime independent democratic socialist I am appalled at the way conservative Ben Shapiro FREE SPEECH rights have been violated by WOKE " progressive " groups usually supporting " liberal " Democrats. I listen to Ben on local 630WPRO ( Rhode Island ) at night now and then. Like " Red Eye Radio " he never talks " extremist " nonsense . But I have a different slant on rather cheap " ANTI-SEMITE " slurs. On ZIONISM I am influenced by the late Harvard history professor Howard Zinn. Not quite fair this image of Joseph P. Kennedy [ another branded " anti-Semite " ] , father of the president JFK , as virulent anti-Semite. Here was an upper class ( now RULING CLASS ) Catholic business man who deals not with the more common type Jew - say a Jewish plumber or a Jewish high school teacher, or a Jewish medical doctor or dentist- but with fellow swindler rival capitalist Jews. HE could not trust THEM. THEY ruin everything. Also , THEY dominate the Democratic Party. The type of Jews that were clearly despised by Joseph P. Kennedy were upper class Jews whom any serious democratic socialist would categorize as CLASS enemies. In what way can Jewish capitalists and Jewish ZIONISTS- pillars of APARTHEID Israel - today be considered friends of the working class , of organized labor ? Rarely do we encounter anti-Semitism today based on Dark Age perceptions of Jews as " Christ killers ". And most powerful ZIONIST Jews today are more likely to be atheist followers of Ayn Rand than pious zealots of Old Testament mythology. Could it be that too many Jewish intellectuals today are just on the wrong side of the " Les Miserables " barricades , the wrong side of capitalist CLASS WAR ? We rarely hear much about democratic socialist Jews today - committed to the all but forgotten ideal of SOCIALIST INTERNATIONALISM. Most public intellectual Jews today in the United States are not champions of the proletariat ( like Irving Howe , author of " World of Our Fathers " -but pillars of Zionist APARTHEID Israel, pillars of Wall Street . As the Jewish historian Howard Zinn pointed out years go this is the real root of 20th and 21st century " anti-Semitism ". American socialist writer Irving Howe summed up his late in life political views in a book aptly titled " A Margin of Hope " . Hope for socialism that is . Howe always stressed the the importance of respecting the LIBERAL tradition , the FREE SPEECH, FREE THOUGHT tradition of Western Civilization. Back in the Vietnam War era he often clashed with the passionate but often foolish New Left. The WOKE new New Left today -attached to the Democratic Party - is weirdly STALINIZED and not much different from the street fascists in Germany's Weimar Republic. And sadly these remaining " Marxist " vanguard parties have degenerated into bizarre cults with a permanent GREAT LEADER and followers like those " CLEARS " in the Church of Scientology . So pathetic and good for nothing ! So I think that generic CHRISTIANITY should be the foundation of any future democratic socialist movement.