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2023-08-09 -Great Cultural Revolution
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Europe’s far-left is normalizing antisemitism, report co-authored by ADL warns; but tiny, right-wing Catholic party condemned for Joo-hate
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[IsraelTimes] Eclipsed by neo-Nazi
 ...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously and purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both....
hostility, radicals on the other side of the political divide are bringing Jew hatred mainstream, the US group and four European partners say
Lots more radicals on the left than neo-Nazis in the West. Still, it’s nice that they finally noticed, years after we did. The entry of a far-left party into government in Spain is allowing antisemitism to return to mainstream platforms, the Anti-Defamation League said Tuesday.
The assertion appeared in a report on left-wing antisemitism published by the Anti-Defamation League and partner organizations in La Belle France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Spain.
The report focuses on a phenomenon that is often eclipsed in reports about antisemitism in Europe, which many associate primarily with neo-fascist
...anybody you disagree with, damn them...
s.
In the section about Spain, the ADL singled out Podemos, which it termed "a radical neo-Marxist party," along with its "Communist associates." The coalition in 2020 allowed Podemos to enter government, which "disrupted the post-war exclusion of antisemitism from mainstream platforms, and antisemitism is now making inroads in the pro-independence Basque and Catalan parties," the report said.
ACOM, a pro-Israel group in Spain that is a local partner of the ADL, wrote in the report that "60 years ago, before the democratic era, antisemitism maintained its classical forms and was clearly a right-wing issue in Spain, as in the rest of Europe. Today, anti-Israel antisemitism of the political left accounts for the overwhelming share of antisemitism, while the Spanish right is almost entirely pro-Israel and guards against antisemitism."
Podemos has been at the center of multiple scandals involving antisemitism, including the assertion in 2020 by Sonia Vivas, a Podemos politician, that Jews should be held accountable for supporting Israel’s government, which she said "constantly violates the fundamental rights of Paleostinians."
In the United Kingdom, the former leader of Labour, Jeremy Corbyn, signaled to antisemites on the political establishment’s left-wing fringes that they were welcome in the party, the CST watchdog on antisemitism wrote in the joint report with ADL. But Keir Starmer, his centrist successor, has taken significant steps to reverse this, the authors added.
In La Belle France, the far-left politician Jean-Luc Melenchon is harnessing and mainstreaming antisemitism, according to K., the Gay Paree-based French Jewish magazine that authored the La Belle France segment of the ADL report.
Melenchon has made multiple statements widely condemned as antisemitic. In 2019 he vowed never to accede to the "arrogant dictates" of CRIF, the umbrella of French-Jewish communities. In 2014, he defended Arabs who stormed and torched synagogues in La Belle France and called Jewish supporters of Israel "citizens who decided to rally in front of the embassy of a foreign country or serve its flag, weapon in hand."
In Germany, "the debates on the political left are normalizing antisemitism and shifting the baseline," Amadeu Antonio Stiftung, an anti-discrimination group, wrote in the segment dealing with that country of the ADL report. What once was "considered an extreme position a few years ago is now a centrist opinion in the wider discourse," it said.
There is a lot the US Jewish community can learn from the experience of Jewish communities across Europe, the ADL added: "Anti-Zionist rhetoric and terminology popular in European left circles are increasingly utilized by some in U.S. political far left" circles.
The report recalled how, in a 2021 letter, Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib and several other members of Congress referred to Israel’s policies in the West Bank as settler colonialism, "language that seeks to equate Israel with the colonialist policies of European governments" and label "the Paleostinians as the sole indigenous population," thus attempting to "cement the notions that Jews have no claim to or history in the land."
France moves to ban far-right Catholic party Civitas for antisemitism
[IsraelTimes] Decision comes after speaker at party seminar suggested Jews should not be allowed to become French citizens; interior minister: ‘No room for antisemitism in our country’
France’s interior minister on Monday said he had ordered his department to dissolve Civitas, a far-right party of mostly ultra-traditional Catholics, because of its antisemitism.
Gerald Darmanin said on “X,” a rebrand of Twitter, that he had asked the ministry “to proceed to the dissolution” of the party, “firmly” condemning antisemitic remarks made during its summer seminar last month.
At that meeting, on July 30, polemicist Pierre Hillard told his audience that, before the French Revolution of 1789, Jews and other religious minorities could not become French citizens because they were “heretics.”
Hillard said that “maybe we should go back to how things were before 1789.”
Several politicians and Jewish organizations quickly condemned the remarks.
“There is no room for antisemitism in our country,” Darmanin said in his post.
“I firmly condemn these despicable comments and am taking the matter to the national prosecutor,” he said.
Civitas, which claims to have 165,000 members, is an organization of ultra-traditionalist Catholics.
Golly. Not exactly a tidal wave there, guys. It was recognized as having political party status in 2016, and has been receiving public financing thanks to that decision.
Ah hah — a motive! Civitas backed far right figure Eric Zemmour
...the eminent, contrary Le Figaro columnist whose Jewish Berber parents left Algeria for la belle France in the 1950s, which makes him not just Jewish but Black — or maybe brown; I’m not really sure how people who think in those terms would classify him, but definitely not in any way how a vile Jew-hater would vote, right? in last year’s presidential election, fought against the legalization of same-sex marriage in 2013 and is staunchly anti-immigration.
Its members also sometimes disrupt public events when they involve non-heterosexual performers, and the party is the target of sexual discrimination complaints over alleged homophobia. 
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