[lbo-talk] Re: [lbo-talk] Antiglobalism’s Jewish Problem

Michael Pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Fri Nov 28 16:17:33 PST 2003


On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 17:02:08 -0600, Chuck0 <chuck at mutualaid.org> wrote:


> Michael Pugliese wrote:
>
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 19:33:28 +0300
>> From: "Joseph M. Hochstein" <hochjm at netvision.net.il>
>> Subject: Antiglobalism’s Jewish Problem
>> Foreign Policy
>> (November/December 2003)
>
> Isn't Foreign Policy some kind of respectable magazine that you can find
> at the local bookstore? If so, why did they print this piece of
> inaccurate trash? Maybe they should ask the author why he is quoting,
> without attribution, from infamous fabricator and online anti-semite,
> Bill White.
>
> Of course, the idea that the anti-globalization movement is connected
> with "brownshirts" is utter rubbish. I've been to plenty of anti-
> globalization protests and I've never seen any brownshirts in
> attendendance. They also haven't made any attempts to work with existing
> anti-globalization groups, at least that I know of.
>
> This kind of article belongs on that right wing tabloid website,
> FrontPagemag.com, where fabrication and fiction are selling points of the
> website.
>
> << Chuck0 >>

I'm not gonna defend right-wing Likudnik or Labour Zionism (as a general principle I have always despised ethno-religious nationalism, and the crimes of the Israelis vs. the Palestinians are well, more than obvious, abundant and don't need to be introduced to any of us here, (even to Brad?) , but, in my inveterate have to see all the various povs on contentious issues, I've over the last few yrs. acquainted myself w/ the writings of leftist Israelis, anti-Zionist as well as Zionist, and Palestinian and pro- Palestinian leftists who do see an undercurrent of of classical anti- Semitism, that has emerged more and more in the argumentation and sloganizing of a minority, but, a growing minority, on the "radical left" here and in Europe. Examine photos of last yrs. IAC Palestine demos in the pgs. of WRMEA, http://www.wrmea.com/ which publishes regularly folks from paleo-con to radical left (internet friend of mine Ian Williams of The Nation is a regular there), attend marches like the one Thomas and I went to recently in S.F. where the rhetoric about, "ZioNazi, "'sm, flows freely from the stage, the tablers and loons in the crowd dressed like Uncle Sam are passing out leaflets from National Alliance front group, "No Wars For Israel, " calling Chomsky a Zionist(!) and no one argues w/ the fascist freak. Where the whiff of the Stalinist line about Jews being the crytallization of the FinanzKapitalist Cabal is getting to be common currency. When folks like me, inclined by a lifetime of saupport to justified national liberation movements like the FSLN, NLF and FDR-FMLN, get ugly hate mail saying that my crits of suicide bombing, must be motivated by my non-existant Jewish parentage. Where leftists here locally who refuse to condemn as folks like Hanan Ashrawi have such a counter- productive, nihilistic, immoral tactic that destroys whatever chance the Palestinians have to get a State, just as much as the Likudnik Apartheid Wall does and all the rest of the Likudnik/Labour, "Crush Their Bones" (words of the late Rabin, when the first intafada broke out) counter- insurgency policies does, send me more hate mail and, offlist, Jewish leftists tell me to kewl it 'cuz, "No enemies on the Left, " and coalition politics require silence about such sheeit? Where local leftists despite abundant documentation here, http://nigelparry.com/issues/shamir/ and his repeated words on his shamir readers list # yahoogroups.com where he says, "We must pay attn. (and support) the words and efforts of Le Pen, Buhcanan and David Duke, " from an supposed Russian born Israeli anti-Zionist leftist, doesn't get folks like a Jeff Blankfort, red-diaper baby, Ramparts writer and exposer of the ADL/Roy Bullock/SFPD spying and infil of the SF and Bay Area Left, doesn't get slammed by more allies of the Palestinians, than the usual suspects, Jewish and Arab and Gentile and secular, who whatever their concrete committments to either a two state solution or the miasmic, "secular, democratic state, " (miasma given the overwhelming shift in the balance of ideological and politico/military forces away from the secular marxist and socialist Palestinians towards the reactionary Islamists who are quite upfront about their intent to kill as many civilian Jews inside the '67 borders as they can), can and are stigmatised and anathmatized?

-- Michael Pugliese

There were basically three forms of totalitarianism.... One was the various kinds of Fascism, the other was Bolshevism, and a third was corporate capitalism. Two are gone." -- Noam Chomsky



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