Following the attack [9] on Manhattan's historic Central Synagogue [10], Jewish establishment voices are calling for [11] stepped up surveillance and policing [12]. But the threat, alas, is real. The assailant spewing the "fake Jews [13]" epithet indicates either that he has been indoctrinated by the Neturei Karta cult [14], which holds all Jews outside their micro-schism to be apostate, or the "Khazar thesis [15]"—just barely laundered anti-Semitism, inevitably linked to ugly stereotyped images [16] of evil Jews and wacky conspiracy theories [17]. Cynical attempts to blame [18] Mayor Mamdani for the attack are predictable. Alas, some figures on the political left really have traded in denialism [19] about the reality that the attack was, in fact, an anti-Semitic attack. This is linked to a more general denialism on much of the "left" about the very existence of Jewish ethnicity [20]. Efforts to weaponize anti-Semitism [21] to silence pro-Palestinian voices are to be opposed, but do not mean anti-Semitism doesn't exist—or change the reality that any legitimate anti-Zionism must be committed to fighting anti-Semitism [22] in the diaspora.
In Episode 342 [25] of the CounterVortex [23] podcast, Bill Weinberg again breaks it down.
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