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February 14, 2013
Anti-fas versus neo-Nazis in Dresden —again
World War 4 Report

Hundreds of neo-Nazis attempted to march on Dresden to crash commemorations of the 1945 Allied bombardment, and were blocked by a human chain of thousands of anti-fascists. 

In what has now become an annual ritual, a group of hundreds of neo-Nazis attempted to march on Dresden's city center to crash commemorations of the 1945 Allied bombardment of the eastern German city, and were blocked by a human chain of thousands of anti-fascist activists. Some 13,000 anti-fascists linked arms in a chain stretching for

January 30, 2013
Ikhwan Holocaust denial abets Zionists
Bill Weinberg

Fathi Shihab-Eddim, a senior aide to Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, spews Holocaust-denying malarky—oblivious to how he legitimizes Zionist political logic.

Fathi Shihab-Eddim, a senior aide to Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi responsible for appointing the editors of all state-run newspapers, marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day in his own ch

October 25, 2012
France: Muslims under attack... and Jews
Bill Weinberg

A right-wing "Identity Group" seized a mosque in Poitiers, issuing a "declaration of war" against the "Islamization" of France—weeks after a bomb attack on a kosher shop in Paris. 

The interminable divide-and-rule game between Muslims and Jews worldwide goes on, with the latest maddening development in France.

September 20, 2012
Denial on Jew-hatred fuels Zionist backlash ...again
Bill Weinberg

A bomb attack on a kosher grocery store in France is met with timid equivocation by the authorities and media —and only right-wing Zionist commentators rise to the occasion of calling it out. Except us, of course.

Tell us again how anti-Semitism is all in our paranoid imaginations. We keep forgetting. From the AP, Sept. 19:

August 15, 2012
New Franco-Intifada: plus ça change...
Bill Weinberg

The new Socialist president of France, François Hollande, is emulating his reactionary predecessor Sarkozy in his response to a new uprising by immigrant youth—and setting up Jews to take the hit.

Well, if you thought that France getting a new Socialist president, François Hollande, was going to mean a retreat from the Franco-dystopia that unfolded under his reactionary predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy—time to think again.

August 2, 2012
Romney in Jerusalem
Michael I. Niman

Romney's notorious comments in Jerusalem were not only deeply racist to the Palestinians, but played into the anti-Semitic trope of the shrewd money-grubbing Jewish "Shylock."

You knew this was gonna be bad, but racist—and anti-Semitic?

July 14, 2012
Neocons diss anti-Semites —yet again... Ho-hum...
Bill Weinberg

The Judeophobic filth that has appeared on MondoWeiss needs to be called out. But once again—why is it only neocon propagandists who will take it on? When will the anti-fascist and anti-Zionist left step up to the plate?

Here we go again. We ourselves have noted before the insidious mainstreaming of anti-Semitism in "progressive" discourse by the likes of the execrable MondoWeiss blog.

July 1, 2012
Hey, Neturei Karta —thanks, but no thanks!
New Jewish Resistance

Some anti-Zionists seem to think having Neturei Karta on their side inoculates them against charges of anti-Semitism. Hopefully, after the latest incident at Israel's Holocaust museum, they are disabused of such illusions.

Every other day on my Facebook wall, some earnest anti-Zionist posts a photo like the one above of Neturei Karta in their ultra-orthodox garb wielding anti-Israel placards. The posters think that having these guys with their beards and peyas on their side inoculates them against charges of anti-Semitism.

May 15, 2012
Bogus "anti-Zionism" deconstructed
Bill Weinberg

When "Zionism" is blamed for the ills of the global capitalist system, you know the writer is taking his cue from the Protocols—even if he is ostensibly coming from the "left." Pointing this out is not a defense of Zionism.

We have, of course, repeatedly pointed out that—however much Zionists may propagandistically abuse the charge—anti-Semitism (veiled, barely veiled, or plain old blatant) really is evidenced in much ostensibly "leftist" discourse these days.

April 22, 2012
North African Holocaust survivors denied restitution by Israel
New Jewish Resistance

Thousands of Holocaust survivors from North Africa remain unrecognized by the State of Israel and are ineligible for compensation. The Jewish Agency delayed their emigration to Israel until after 1953—the cut-off year for Holocaust restitution.

On April 18, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israel's Public Committee for the Integration of Eastern Jews called attention to the fact that North African Jews who survived the Holocaust remain unrecognized by the State of Israel and are ineligible for compensation.

April 2, 2012
Toulouse terror and Jew-hatred: usual denial on both sides
Bill Weinberg

In the wake of last month's kill-spree in southern France, lines across the blogosphere are drawn predictably, indicating the near-complete polarization and lack of any dialectical spark in contemporary thinking on the question of anti-Semitism.

Here we go, yet again. In the wake of last month's kill-spree in southern France, lines across the blogosphere are drawn predictably, indicating the near-complete polarization and lack of any dialectical spark in contemporary thinking on the question of anti-Semitism.

February 29, 2012
Gilad Atzmon and the mainstreaming of anti-Semitism
Bill Weinberg

What the hell are Dennis Bernstein and Michael Lerner doing by embracing an open Jew-hater with a website full of Holocaust revisionism and anti-Semitic tropes? Has the "left" hit bottom yet? Has it completely abandoned progressive values?

Here we go again. "Flashpoints," Dennis Bernstein's longstanding show on Berkeley's "progressive" KPFA Radio on Feb.

February 18, 2012
Chavista anti-Semitism —again
Bill Weinberg

There are doubtless many good reasons to oppose Henrique Capriles Radonski, the bourgeois politician who is challenging Hugo Chávez for Venezuela's presidency. His Jewish background is equally assuredly not among them.

It is really, really a drag to have to do this, but we really have no choice.

December 17, 2011
Paradoxical normalization of anti-Semitism, anti-Arab racism
Bill Weinberg

The simultaneous mainstreaming of the seemingly opposed phenomena of anti-Semitism and anti-Arab racism appears contradictory—for those whose thinking lacks dialectical spark.

The simultaneous mainstreaming of the seemingly opposed phenomena of anti-Semitism and anti-Arab racism appears contradictory—for those whose thinking lacks dialectical spark. Even though it is now only the most hardcore fringe elements of the radical right that espouse both, do not be deluded.

December 5, 2011
"Israelification" of US police state?
Bill Weinberg

Max Blumenthal uncovers some nasty coordination between Israeli and US police forces in the arts of domestic repression—but casting the problem as Israeli influence over US institutions is racist bunk.

Max Blumenthal, writing on al-Akhbar Dec. 2, uncovers some very ominous recent instances of  coordination between Israeli and US police forces in the arts of domestic repression.

December 5, 2011
The Gutman flap and reductionist thinking
Bill Weinberg

US ambassador to Belgium Howard Gutman calls out Israeli inflammation of European anti-Semitism—but in terms that smack of denial about the extent and depth of the problem.

A Dec. 3 report on YNet is aghast at the heretical comments by the US ambassador to Belgium, Howard Gutman—without actually bothering to quote them. We are treated only to a paraphrase:

November 11, 2011
Grim Kristallnacht anniversary in Brooklyn's Midwood
New Jewish Resistance

Vandals torched three cars and scrawled hateful graffiti to mark the anniversary of Kristallnacht this year in Brooklyn's heavily Jewish neighborhood of Midwood. City politicians make the requisite condemnations—even as they betray the Palestinians with endless pro-Israel pronouncements. Where is the single-standard anti-racism?

Vandals torched three cars and scrawled hateful graffiti to mark the anniversary of Kristallnacht this year in Brooklyn's heavily Jewish neighborhood of Midwood.

November 4, 2011
A Jewish People's Liberation Organization?
Bill Weinberg

Is the "Jewish People's Liberation Organization from Zionism and Anti-Semitism" (J-PLO) secular and progressive? Comrades, we want to hear from you.

On the "Jews Who Speak Out" e-mail list, we received a message that made us very happy.

October 29, 2011
Google algorithm manifests anti-Semitism
Bill Weinberg

Yes, really. Do a Google search for the word "Jew." Note that before the search results a special note from Google appears, titled "An explanation of our search results." Is there any other ethnic group that Google has had to issue such a disclaimer for? 

Yes, really. Do a Google search for the word "Jew." Note that before the search results a special note from Google appears, titled "An explanation of our search results":

October 6, 2011
Wall Street protests marred by anti-Semitism
Bill Weinberg

While the Left celebrates the Wall Street occupation with much fanfare — including endorsements from Michael Moore, Cornel West, Noam Chomsky, and Susan Sarandon — an anti-Semitic undercurrent in the protests goes largely unchallenged.

We are as encouraged as everyone else about the Occupy Wall Street movement—but we continue to be disturbed by anti-Semitic elements within the movement, and even more disturbed by the fact that nobody else seems disturbed by it.

September 30, 2011
John Mearsheimer and the "weaponizing" of anti-Semitism
Bill Weinberg

John Mearshiemer, co-author of The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy, provides a jacket blurb for Hitler apologist Gilad Atzmon's new book. Will progressives balk at calling him out for fear of legitimizing bogus charges of anti-Semitism?

The problems with the ritual squawking that "anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism" have rarely been made so clear as in the egregious faux pas just committed by John Mearsheimer, co-author of The Israel Lobby and

July 3, 2011
Anti-flotilla videos: don't believe the hype
Bill Weinberg

Viral video campaigns aimed at delegitimizing the Gaza flotilla are intellectually dishonest—and have the distinct whiff of Israeli intelligence propaganda.

The Internet has certainly been abuzz with viral video campaigns aimed at delegitimizing the latest Gaza flotilla. Nearly all are intellectually dishonest—and some have the distinct whiff of Israeli intelligence propaganda operations.

June 13, 2011
Anti-circumcision agitprop anti-Semitic?
Bill Weinberg

Do you need to ask? Whether or not you think circumcision should be banned, the campaign in California is practically Nazi-like in its propaganda methods.

Here we go again. I'm not going to weigh in here on the question of whether circumcision should be banned. But the propaganda campaign for the voter initiative against "male genital mutilation" that has made the San Francisco ballot for November (with a similar effort underway in Santa Monica) is literally Nazi-like.

June 3, 2011
BHL, DSK, Libya, Israel and empire
Bill Weinberg

Bernard-Henri Levy, the French philosopher (of Sephardic background), is apparently on the ground in Benghazi, serving as Israel's unofficial envoy to the leadership of the Libyan rebels . 

Now isn't this interesting. Bernard-Henri Levy, the French philosopher (of Sephardic background), is apparently on the ground in Benghazi, meeting with the leadership of the Libyan rebels—and serving as Israel's unofficial envoy.

May 27, 2011
What we stand for
Bill Weinberg

New Jewish Resistance aspires to be a movement, not just a website—uniting all Jews who believe in fighting Jew-hatred in the diaspora and making common cause with the oppressed, not rallying around an illegitimate settler state. 

Jews are a multiplicity of ethnicities (Ashkenazi, Mizrahi, Sephardi, etc.) with common bonds of identity and shared histories of persecution. Whether or not you believe that these ethnicities together constitute a nation, Zionism is deeply inimical to Jewish interests and survival.