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Literally all of the Jewish groups that responded to Trump (including Jewish Voice for Peace) missed the point (or purposely obscured it). The comments about Jews being disloyal had nothing to do with anti-Jewish bigotry -- and notably, they were about loyalty to Israel, not the United States. Accusing Jews of not being loyal to a *foreign state* is hardly playing into the trope of dual loyalty. These comments were aimed at Israel's victims. If anything they were appeals to Zionism and Islamophobia. They are analogous to white supremacist statements that whites who are insufficiently racist are "race traitors," etc. When a Nazi calls a white person a "race traitor" he is not engaging in anti-white bigotry. He is demeaning black and other non-white peoples. Same for this: Trump's comments were an appeal to the right-wing of the Jewish community that sees virtually any dissent on Israel as insufficient chauvinism. Every one of these Jewish liberal types basically erased Israel's victims from the discussion, even though they were the actual targets of Trump's rhetoric. Imagine someone perceiving accusations of race treason by white supremacists as an attack on white people. What nonsense. The stuff about people involved in the real estate business (including the guy who set up the organization, Sheldon Adelson) simply weren't tropes. They were more or less accurate statements about some of the people who support IAC and given Trump's own involvement in the same business he was probably referring to actual individuals in the audience. The Democrats did this last round as well with the Brietbart story about "Renegade Jews". They claimed it proved that Brietbart, Steve Bannon, and by extension, Trump were anti-Semitic. It was equally misplaced, because the Brietbart story was not aimed at Jews per se, but Israel's victims: https://forward.com/opinion/385599/calling-steve-bannon-an-anti-semite-isnt-just-false-its-dangerous/ They are basically doing the same thing this round. They know that talking about Trump's actual racism is not politically saavy and is "controversial" so instead they're manufacturing stories about anti-Semitism, which is safer because it's also used as a bludgeon against the Left, Muslims, etc. Amith R. Gupta On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 7:52 AM Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > > https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jews-denounce-iac-wealth-stereotypes_n_5ded7f16e4b07f6835b4c534 > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/amithrgupta%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
