******************** 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. *****************************************************************
******************** 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. The problem with the referenced article is that it would also be an indictment of Bernie Sanders, since he also views US capitalism as a rigged system. Berniecrats don't seem to fall into conspiratorial, let alone anti-Semitic tropes about capitalism. And as far as the mural is concerned, only two of the six bankers depicted are Jews, which is a very atypical (and sophisticated) anti-Semitic representation. Many Jews, including myself, would not initially see it as anti-Semitic, let alone Corbyn. On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 1:59 PM, 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. > ***************************************************************** > > On 3/28/18 1:51 PM, A.R. G wrote: > >> True, but there isn't much one can do when these kinds of propagandists >> are looking for "anti-Semitism," particularly when they've cast a wide net. >> For one, even where left groups have published people who have issued >> anti-Semitic commentary (like Atzmon and Shamir) the response and process >> of disowning is much stronger than, say, Islamophobic rhetoric which is >> also found regularly in "left" scholarship. In other cases the impression >> of anti-Semitism is all that is needed, such as in the hoaxes about >> Palestine student organizations at US campuses. Even where there is no >> ammunition, they will fabricate it. That is why these >> exaggerated/fabricated campaigns about left anti-Semitism should be >> understood not as a simple rhetorical issue but as one that deals >> fundamentally with anti-Arab and anti-Muslim racism among leftists/social >> democrats in the US and Europe. >> >> Amith R. Gupta >> > > The problem is that Corbyn is under the influence of some really stupid > people like Seumas Milne. Milne is not an anti-Semite but he certainly is a > conspiracy theorist. That mural was positively soaked in the meatheaded > talking points of a thousand different knuckle-dragging websites. > > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/opt > ions/marxism/sranz18%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
