Actually, interesting article about the rise of anti-Semitism within Left-wing politics. Particularly, the attitudes some extreme Leftists have wear they believe that they can interchange "Israelis" with "Jews" in addressing the worlds problems, waving "We Are All Hezbollah" placcards around, and turning a blind-eye to anti-Semetic rhetoric within the Left. I think it is perhaps one of the most strangest and ironic things...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_antisemitismDefinition:
New antisemitism is the name of the concept that a new form of antisemitism has developed in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, emanating simultaneously from the left, radical Islam and the right, and tending to manifest itself as opposition to Zionism and the State of Israel.
It is at the farthest reaches of the Left, where there is a fixation with the Palestinians, that we find the brashest expressions of anti- Semitism. Among the mosaic of groups that compose the "antiglobalization" movement, as well as among the remnants of the New Left, anti-Semitic rhetoric and symbolism is rife. The UN World Conference against Racism in Durban in September 2001, the conferences organized by the World Social Forum in India and Brazil, and the marches in several European cities against the U.S.- led intervention in Iraq are all examples of public events where Jews have been actively denigrated. Such displays have commonly been presented as manifestations of the "new anti-Semitism," generally dated back to September 2000, when the second Palestinian intifada began. Decidedly, this "new" anti-Semitism, which would deny self-determination to the Jews even as it celebrates this principle for other nationalities, is driven by the Left, and not the Right. Even so, it is far from new.
This recasting of Zionism as a causal factor of anti-Semitism, rather than an authentic Jewish response to it, is a uniquely leftist contribution to anti-Semitic doctrine. It is, moreover, intimately linked to the accusation of Zionist collaboration with the Nazis. As Rubinstein points out, whereas for the neo-Nazis the Shoah is a hoax, for the far Left "[t]he Holocaust now emerges as the Jews (or Jewish nationalism's) greatest crime - the autogenocide of the Twentieth Century."
This "Lefty" here, so wonderfully in-tune with human rights, clumping a criticism of Israel with the belief that the Nazis should have wiped the rest of the Jews off the planet. How sadly ironic and absolutely disgusting:
The saddest thing of all is that I've encountered this with one person. A friend who supported Palestinians, which is fine, but said that she thought Jews caused a lot of problems. Somehow, once again, clumping the two together. It's very sad that people sort of almost allow anti-Semetic rhetoric to poison their arguments without realising it.
Topic: When you were a Muslim did you hate the Jews ???