There has been a rash of anti-Semitic violence in the NYC area recently perpetrated by black thugs, which is bad optics for liberals who insist right-wing Trump supporters are the real racists. Naturally the left is coming to the rescue by excusing black anti-Semitism as being less bad than white anti-Semitism. It makes sense, well liberal sense, if you think about it: It’s not racist when a mob of black people beat a white guy so why would it be anti-Semitism when blacks shoot up a Jewish grocery store or stab Jews celebrating Hanukkah? The important thing is that black people should never be held accountable for their actions.
Earlier this month 2 Black Hebrew Israelites, a black separatist hate group, targeted and killed 3 Jews and a cop at a Kosher grocery store in Jersey City, NJ. Muslim Rep. Rashida Tlaib blamed this attack on “white supremacy.” Over the weekend a black thug stabbed 5 Jews celebrating Hanukkah in a Rabbi’s home. NYC mayor Bill de Blasio blamed the attack on Donald Trump.
In the NYC city area there have been daily attacks by blacks against Jewish people and so the liberal media figured it was time they stepped in with some positive PR for who they consider the real victims: blacks.
Here’s liberal columnist Lux Alptraum claiming that leftist (black) anti-Semitism ain’t all that bad:
To me, the difference between right and left anti-Semitism is that the right just straight up hates Jews while the left is critical of Jewish participation in the ruling class without critical analysis of how the long history Jewish marginalization complicates that participation.
— Lux 🐱 Alptraum — CATS (2019) SPOILERS (@LuxAlptraum) December 28, 2019
Oh, since it looks like a bunch of dumb dumbs have found this tweet: my point is that left wing anti-Semitism is *more* about hating banks/landlords/whatever and not actually having any nuanced read or awareness of why Jews have historically wound up in those fields.
— Lux 🐱 Alptraum — CATS (2019) SPOILERS (@LuxAlptraum) December 30, 2019
If I’m reading this correct, this liberal kook is claiming that while right-wingers simply hate Jews while sophisticated left-wingers hate Jews because they secretly run the world and own everything. I’m glad she was able to clear that up.
The Daily Beast also sees some radical differences between anti-Semitism from whites and blacks:
The vast majority of anti-Semitic attacks in this country are carried out by right-wing white supremacists. But most of the recent New York-area attacks have been carried out by people of color expressing very different grievances, or none at all. So is this the same phenomenon, or a different one? Hate, yes, but what kind of hate?
The answer is not simple. The recent street violence and acts of terror are based, in part, on anti-Semitic conspiracy theories similar to those on the Right. And yet, it is dangerous and misleading to see this as the same phenomenon, because the social contexts, the dynamics of race, and the relationships to power are all quite different.
Blacks are poor and lack influence so their anti-Semitism is acceptable? Apparently:
This combination of baseless hatred and socio-economic grievance stands in stark contrast to the wordy theoretical manifestoes of white supremacist anti-Semitism. And while some attackers cite conspiracy theories similar to the ones on the nationalist right, such as the Black Hebrew Israelite doctrines noted above, the social contexts and relationships to power are utterly different.
The Daily Beast also notes that black anti-Semitism is small potatoes compared to that of President Trump:
And in terms of scale, there is simply no comparison between right-wing anti-Semitism, which arguably stretches into the White House itself (if not Trump, then some of his recent advisers), and the fringe sects, street violence, and bigotry found among small segments of the African-American community.
It cannot be a coincidence that the rise in anti-Semitism coincides with the rise in Trumpism. According to the FBI, anti-Semitic hate crimes jumped 37 percent in 2017, compared with a 3 percent increase in 2016 and 9 percent in 2015. (According to the ADL, the rise was 60 percent.) The dark turn to ethno-nationalism is a massive, global phenomenon. As horrific as the attacks in Brooklyn, Jersey City, and Monsey are, they are a footnote to this giant, global tidal wave.
Forget that no U.S. President has been a bigger friend to Israel and the Jewish people, or that his daughter is an Orthodox Jew, “Orange man bad and anti-Semitic.”
Here’s what’s actually going on: Liberals developed a false narrative that President Trump has inspired a wave of hatred with his non-existent racist rhetoric, but the facts on the ground don’t support this. It’s minorities committing the hate crimes, not white dudes in MAGA hats. It’s blacks committing horrific acts of anti-Semitic violence so the left has to make anti-Semitism seem less bad.
