An article acknowledging that present-day leftists are returning to Hitlerism (and hence True Leftism):
https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-liberals-ended-cheerleading-jihadism-050000776.htmlWith its vibrant gay scene, vegan restaurants and Green MP, Brighton is one of the most liberal towns in Britain. It may come as no surprise that it is also a repository of fashionable support for Hamas.
Following the inhuman butchery perpetrated against Jews by the terror group last weekend, Britain has seen a spate of rallies – not in support of the victims but the murderers.
Gathering just 24 hours after the start of the barbarism, a speaker declared: “Yesterday was a victory”. Compounding the insult, she went on to describe the butchery as “so beautiful and inspiring to see”. The crowd applauded.
How did we get here? How did society reach a moment where the more progressive you are, the more likely you are to support such savagery?
It is regressivism, not progressivism. True Leftism is all about regress. The author actually points out that present-day hostility to Jews is a regression:
In the Middle Ages, it expressed itself as an expression of Christian devotion, targeting the formerly Chosen People as the killers of Christ. Responding to the rise of rationalism, in the 20th century it assumed the language of pseudo-science, justifying the extermination of Jews by portraying them as a subhuman race.
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In former times, Jews were derided as bloodsuckers, misers, arch manipulators and heretics. Today, they are accused of the cardinal sins of the progressive movement: white supremacy, genocide, colonialism, ethnic cleansing, apartheid and racism.
So why still call leftists "progessive"? How is anti-colonialism progressive? Anti-colonialism is wanting to return society to how it was before colonialism, which is the exact opposite of progressivism. On the other hand, it was the Western colonialists who defended colonialism as necessary for progress:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/colonialism-as-viewed-by-westerners/https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/racial-view-of-western-philosopher-from-john-locke-to-karl-marx/It was the colonialists who were the progressives! To say nothing of the fact that Jews themselves were the earliest progressives in history:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/progressive-yahwism/msg11366/#msg11366Continuing:
Take the old myth of the Jewish baby killer. In previous centuries, Jews were blamed for murdering Christian children to use their blood in rituals. Today, the “Zionists” are accused of relishing the killing of children
In other words, noticing Jewish cruelty to children is regressive, not progressive.
But an important question remains: why has anti-Semitism managed to find such a foothold on the political Left in particular?
Because True Leftism is fundamentally anti-Western, and Jews are among the most competent Westerners in the world:
http://aryanism.net/blog/other/racial-jewishness-archive-from-true-left-forum/https://trueleft.createaforum.com/questions-debates/how-to-resign-as-a-jew/msg17926/#msg17926Continuing:
Remarkably, in the figure of the early Left-winger can be recognised the stirrings of Hitlerism.
Yes, because Hitler was a leftist:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/national-socialism-is-revolutionary-not-reactionary/https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/hitler-the-face-of-anti-tribalism/Continuing:
Fast-forward to today, and the noxious Jew-hatred later released by the Third Reich echoes in the Israelophobia articulated by progressives in Brighton.
That part of the story began in 1941. With the Wehrmacht advancing from North Africa towards the Middle East, strategists in Berlin began to consider the strategic value of Islam. The Nazis had successfully turned the German people against Britain and Russia by accusing them of being “twin citadels of Jewish power”; if Arabs could be manipulated in the same way, they could inflame the fuel of anti-British nationalism in the Middle East and precipitate an Allied defeat.
A team of Islamists was recruited to Berlin to collaborate with Nazi propagandists. Leader of the pack was the peacockish Palestinian Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, an extremist who led a gangster war against Palestinian moderates. He met Hitler with great pomp and ceremony that year and was placed on the Nazi payroll, becoming an enthusiastic supporter of the Final Solution.
Husseini’s task was to synthesise Quranic anti-Semitism with that preached by Hitler. The resulting propaganda was spewed into the Middle East in thousands of hours of radio broadcasts.
The tone of one example from July 1942 – as the first Jews were arriving at Sobibor and Auschwitz – is striking. The presenter ranted: “According to the Muslim religion, the defence of your life is a duty which can only be fulfilled by annihilating the Jews. This is your best opportunity to get rid of this dirty race which has usurped your rights and brought misfortune and destruction on your countries.
“Kill the Jews, burn their property, destroy their shops, annihilate these base supporters of British imperialism.”
The touchpaper of extremism was lit in the region and it continues to flame today. Indeed, it fuelled the bloodletting that descended on Israel last week.
After the war, Husseini became one of the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, a radical Egyptian group which became a fresh vehicle for his hatred. Despite the fact that many progressives see it as a kind of Che Guevara organisation, Hamas is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood.
So much is obvious from the group’s official charter. Article 32, which cites the conspiracy theory that Zionists wish to take over the entire territory between the Nile and the Euphrates, says: “Their scheme has been laid out in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” To describe this as being influenced by Nazi propaganda is insufficient. This is Nazi propaganda.
This was particularly evident when Jeremy Corbyn was leader of the Labour Party.
At the time, on a Facebook page entitled “Jeremy Corbyn Leads Us to Victory”, a Labour figure posted a picture of New York Times journalists with their faces covered by Jewish symbols, implying that they served a Zionist agenda.
Another called Hitler “the greatest man in history”, adding “it’s disgusting how much power the Jews have”; another commented, “it’s the super-rich families of the Zionist lobby that control the world”; another called the six million Jewish victims of the Nazis “a big lie”
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/allies/jeremy-corbyn/Continuing:
The other cultural stream that has led to this extraordinary alliance between the Left and jihadism is that of American identity politics. The British branch of Black Lives Matter has shared an image of Hamas’ bulldozer smashing down the border fence, criticism of the Balfour declaration and posts that blamed Israel. Given what we know about BLM, this is shocking but hardly surprising.
BLM is not "identity politics". If it were, BLM would not care about Palestinians, since Palestinians are not "black". BLM is folkism.
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/allies/blm/Continuing:
Malcolm X tended to associate the Jews with power and often veered into anti-Semitism. Throughout his life, he attacked what he called “Zionist-Dollarism”, deplored Israel and cast Jews as a race of white oppressors. The Black Power movement was not friendly to Jews.
Fast-forward to the present, and the radical racial ideas of 1960s and 1970s America have evolved into an all-consuming political ideology that has spread across the West.
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/counterculture-era/anti-racism-before-the-counterculture-era-ended/Continuing:
Diane Abbott was suspended from the Labour Party after writing to the Observer newspaper claiming that Jews could not face racism, as they were only “white people with points of difference, such as redheads”.
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/jews-have-nothing-in-common-with-us!/