howdydowdy:

forlovefromfear:

howdydowdy:

yehudmood:

antisemitic conspiracy theories about jewish power/money/influence work to obfuscate real power dynamics to shield the ruling class from rightful anger and criticism. that’s how antisemitism has always worked: create a scapegoat to divert attention away from yourself, a buffer between the oppressed and their oppressors. as a leftist if you are committed to exposing and dismantling systems of power and you engage in this type of rhetoric you are hurting yourself and the validity of your own movement. i shouldn’t have to frame this as “antisemitism is not beneficial for you” but since so many of you still don’t get it this is what it has to take. antisemitism doesn’t just endanger jews, it hurts all of us committed to the same goal. the sooner we realize that, the closer we can come to actually achieving it.

here’s a zine about combating antisemitism on the left

@howdydowdy the link doesn’t work??

@forlovefromfear looks like it is available here! the zine is “the past didn’t go anywhere: making resistance to antisemitism part of all of our movements” by april rosenblum in 2007. i first heard of it in this tumblr post, which is where i got the link that is now broken.

note: i spent quite a while just now looking for a working link and it was surprisingly hard to find one; almost every link i found was also broken. the site i’ve linked to in this post is specifically for the zine, but i have no idea who runs the site. i have reason to believe the link was active in december 2017 if not more recently because it was included in a post by jonah s. boyarin & dania rajendra that was inspired by the zine. in that post they also reference jews for economic and racial justice’s resource “understanding antisemitism” from november 2017, which i haven’t read yet. i hope something in here is helpful to you!

Tysm!