How Anti-Semitisms True Origin Makes It Invisible To The Left
The Anti-Defamation League publishes an annual report on incidents of anti-Semitism in the United States. This year’s audit, made available in November, showed a significant increase in relation to the previous year: 2017 saw a 67% rise in anti-Jewish hate speech, harassment, vandalism, and violence. It’s a disheartening measure of a terrible phenomenon. Yet in the three months since the audit was released, it’s garnered little attention.
On campus, where the ADL notes an acute rise in anti-Jewish hostility, alarmed Jewish students are sidelined for being white and middle-class and the Holocaust is trivialized as “white on white crime”. Elsewhere, Jews who protest anti-Semitism are dismissed for failing to ante up sufficient concern about people of color.
This erasure of anti-Semitism isn’t simply callous. It exposes a huge moral failure at the heart of the modern Left. Under the enveloping paradigm of “intersectionality,” everyone is granularly defined by their various identities — everyone, that is, except white Jews, whose Jewishness is often overwritten by their skin color. Not simply a moral failing, this erasure is deeply hazardous, inasmuch as the fight against racism happens by and large in sectors where the Left perspective dominates — the academy, pop culture, and much of the news media.
For in a key sense, regular racism, against blacks and Latinos for example, is the opposite of anti-Semitism. While both ultimately derive from xenophobia, regular racism comes from white people believing they are superior to people of color. But the hatred of Jews stems from the belief that Jews are a cabal with supernatural powers, in other words, it stems from the models of thought that produce conspiracy theories. Where the white racist regards blacks as inferior, the anti-Semite imagines that Jews have preternatural power to afflict humankind.
This is also why the Left is blind to Anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism differs from most forms of racism in that it purports to “punch up” against a secret society of oppressors, which has the side effect of making it easy to disguise as a politics of emancipation. If Jews have power, then punching up at Jews is a form of speaking truth to power — a form of speech of which the Left is currently enamored.
https://forward.com/opinion/393107/how-anti-semitisms-true-origin-makes-it-invisible-to-the-left/
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Very true too. Many of the statements are things which can easily be seen in various writings. It also is clear that the left isn't blind to anti-Semitism completely, only when it comes from our side, which is unsurprising as the same is true on the right. I was happy to see the example with J-Street because it demonstrated to forms of bigotry, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. Yes, that's right, Islamophobia. It is called "bigotry of low expectations". That is to say, many make "excuses" for certain behaviors which would be roundly condemned if one group did it, especially one cast in the role of "majority", rightly or wrongly, but is ignored or even excused when a "minority" group does it. The excuse J-Street makes for Abbas' anti-Semitism is "the pResident made him do it!" 
The biggest problem is when other minorities attack Jews, including other Jews, and even use anti-Semitism in much the same way the right does with statements about control of "this or that" but substitute the word "Zionist." The Dyke march was a perfect example of this with their bullshit "intersectionality" crap and "trigger warning" lies in regards to the Star of David. It became very clear how anti-Semitic they were when they started using neo-Nazi and Klucker language, then had to back-peddle when they got caught.
When I was in Germany and Poland, I went to the concentration camps (Dachau, Auschwitz, and Birkenau) and the Oskar Schindler museum in Krakow, as well as the German History museum in Berlin. The museums had historical posters of anti-Semitism and "blaming the Jews" for a variety of things. The scary part was I could easily think of similar "artwork" I'd seen in the past few years from the left side of the street; everything from Jews as vermin, octopi, and, of course, puppeteers.
Some things never go out of style, and anti-Semitism is, sadly, one of those things. One doesn't have to go very far to see anti-Semitism topics ignored, minimized, or even outright denied. Despite being only 2.2 percent of the US population and less than 1% of the entire world population, Jews aren't considered a "real" minority and violence against us is often excused. FFS, witness the recent ruling in Germany where the state court declared firebombing a synagogue was not a form of anti-Semitism but rather, a form of outrage against Israel! Codifying anti-Semitism into the law in Germany...again!
