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Many of those claiming this end up silencing the rise of antisemitism. As the BBC reported the other day, antisemitism claims have risen sharply. I would have more time for calls of ‘incipient McCarthyism’ if large parts of the left didn’t continuously turn a blind eye to blatant antisemitism at best, and participate it at worst. Every time Jews and others try and point this out they’re told that they are ‘weaponising antisemitism’. The people who claim that ‘of course they’re against antisemitism’ never seem to find the energy to call it out, despite supposedly being against it.
It seems rather perverse to focus on this when Jews are afraid to wear Jewish attire in public. Large parts of the left seems more exorcised about claims of antisemitism than antisemitism towards Jews. It’s like the mirror of the right wing who moan about claims of racism cheapening ‘real racism’ when it comes to racism against black people. Neither seem to listen to the majority, and the majority of Jews think there’s an issue with antisemitism, but it gets brushed under the carpet. Just as with the right and finding a minority voice among black people, the left can find a comparative minority voice among Jews to try and distort claims of antisemitism. Meanwhile, NGO members, university academics and activists yap about Zionist cabals controlling the media, denial of atrocities on Oct 7th, how Hitler had a point and how Jews are an evil oppressor class and this gets ignored and/or deemed to be ‘legitimate criticism of Israel’. You only have to go on any piece from someone criticising antisemitism to see people just mock Jews, pour scorn and think they’re doing anything but proving the point their critics make (see Stephen Fry’s Christmas message and the reaction to that from the ‘anti-racists’).