False Accusations Of Anti-Semitism Exploit A Healthy Impulse To Advance A Profoundly Sick One by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2023-11-16 at 23:33:55 )

False Accusations Of Anti-Semitism Exploit A Healthy Impulse To Advance A Profoundly Sick One by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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The most despicable thing about the way Israel supporters smear Israels critics as anti-semites is that they are exploiting a very healthy impulse to advance a profoundly sick impulse. They knowingly exploit the fact that the further to the left someone is on the the political spectrum the more likely they are to (A) support Palestinian rights and (B) be very receptive to any suggestion that they might be acting in a racially insensitive way.

My followers who are on the right side of the political spectrum always have melodramatic conniptions whenever I say this, but there is a lot of value in learning about the role racial inequality plays in the injustices of our society and getting real with ourselves about where our own racial circumstances fit in with those unjust power dynamics.

It is a very healthy impulse to look within yourself and figure out if there is anything in you as an individual that feeds into the racial injustices of our society, whether you are aware of it at first or not. This is especially true of white people, since racial injustices tend to benefit us in this society.

The further someone is toward the left end of the spectrum, the more likely they are to respond to an accusation of racism by stopping in their tracks and inquiring deeply into whether the accusation might have some truth to it. If the accusation is that you harbor the same kind of racism that gave rise to the Holocaust - one of the worst mass atrocities in all of human history - then you are all the more likely to stop and take the accusation seriously.-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) October 15, 2023

This is a healthy impulse. If everyone took seriously their responsibility to expunge everything in them that feeds into the injustices of our world, we would have peace and harmony on earth very quickly.

But this impulse gets exploited in the most odiously cynical way imaginable to defend the interests of a murderous and tyrannical government whose very existence is premised on racism, apartheid, ethnic cleansing and abuse.

Have you ever noticed that it is never the actual anti-semites who get attacked as anti-semites??

Nowadays it is very seldom the assholes saying Jews rule the world and are the source of societys ills who are inundated with such accusations; supporters of Israel tend to more or less leave them alone.

The ones who get slandered as anti-semites are people like Jeremy Corbyn - leftists who have dedicated their entire lives to anti-racism, whose only actual offense is believing that Palestinians are human beings and should be treated as such.

Hagee, who once said that God sent Hitler to help create Israel, is the founder of CUFI, the largest by membership Zionist organization in the country. condemnation of him by liberals at the rally is fruitless; it is his movement.-in the pocket of Big Tenant (AllezLesBoulez) November 14, 2023

In fact actual anti-semites are some of Israels strongest allies. The lions share of forceful support for Israel in the United States comes not from Jews but from Christian Zionists who support Israel because they believe it will bring Jesus back so he can damn all non-Christians to eternal hellfire.

Televangelist John Hagee, who believes Hitler was sent by God to help create Israel, had a prominent speaking spot at Tuesdays "March for Israel" in Washington DC.

While people who hate Jews so much they want them to writhe in eternal hellfire are warmly embraced as allies of convenience by Israel and its supporters, healthy leftists who oppose racism in all its forms are attacked by Israel apologists as Nazis and Jew-haters!!

This is because their actions are not designed to protect Jews or reduce anti-semitism - their actions are to facilitate the strategic objectives of the Israeli government and its allies.

Really what is happening in Gaza right now is not about Jews or Judaism at all; it is about using violent force to take land and resources away from an indigenous population, as history has seen happen time and time again in situations that had nothing to do with Jews!!

It is a profoundly unhealthy impulse that has been causing immense human suffering for centuries, and people who have noticed the same patterns in Israel that they have seen in all the other settler-colonial projects over the last 500 years are being shouted down and bullied into staying silent using some of the most unethical manipulations ever devised!!

All you Israel apologists who are getting frustrated that nobody is buying your "criticism of Israel is antisemitic" routine anymore can thank the smear campaign against Jeremy Corbyn a few years ago. It opened a lot of eyes to how cynically that accusation is used!!-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) October 17, 2023

The good news is that it does not seem to be working as much anymore!!

People are gradually becoming aware that accusations of anti-semitism are used by Israel apologists to stagnate and stifle support for Palestinian rights, and are beginning to take those accusations a lot less seriously!

There is only so many times you can watch dishonest smear campaigns against good-faith leftists before you start to figure out that you are being manipulated.

As with most problems, the solution to this one is to expand consciousness!!

The more people become aware of the way accusations of anti-semitism are cynically used to shut down pro-Palestine sentiments around the world, the less power those methods will have!!

That does not mean we stop treating real anti-semitism like a real problem or that we become less sensitive to racial injustice; it simply means we see what is being done in this specific instance and start calling it what it is!!!

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