: "Crown Heights Bites Back": How "anti-Zionist" socialism is being used to justify pogroms against Jews in the US

In March, a new group called "Crown Heights Bites Back" started, ostensibly to provide free meals to those in need but with a socialist, political edge. CHBB started as a charity, but from the beginning the rhetoric signaled an enemy.

We are Crown Heights Bites Back!

We are organizing in our neighborhood to re-distribute wealth and resources to the community no matter what stands in the way.

It is a strange name for a community social organization. Who, exactly, are they "biting back" against? 

The answer: the Jews.

Several weeks later, Crown Heights Fights Back revealed its real purpose: to use socialism as a means to make antisemitism mainstream:

‼️ COMMUNITY ALERT 🚨

CHABAD LUBAVITCH: ZIONIST NAZIS IN CROWN HEIGHTS

Last night, several CHBB community members were brutalized and attacked by a large crowd assembled at 770 Eastern Parkway to welcome israeli minister of national security and Architect of Genocide itamar ben-gvir. We are outraged and calling on all community members to organize in response to this threat. Please DM with any other footage or witness statements as we prepare to respond. Full statement is on the way.

MAKE ZIONISTS AFRAID AGAIN

FUCK CHABAD

FUCK THE PIGS AND FUCK SHOMRIM

LONG LIVE BLACK AND BROWN CROWN HEIGHTS

This is direct incitement and threats against Jews, specifically Chabad whose headquarters is in Crown Heights. 

But they are using a well-tread socialist playbook: Take antisemitic sentiment that is based on racial hate, or conflicts with Jews based on competing for resources, and recast them as victims an ideological battle between the righteous socialists and the evil Jews.

They did it with Palestinians and Islamists who had nearly zero interest in socialism and made them poster children for justifying their well-known and long-standing antisemitism. 

And they are doing it with the Black community in Crown Heights, which has had long-standing animosity against Jews, perceiving them as being protected by the police more or having too much political power.

we can see this from what they wrote in April:

Black and brown Crown Heights is sick and tired of decades of white / Jewish supremacist landlords, pigs, Shomrim, racist ambulance, the killings, the evictions, being treated as an enemy in our own neighborhoods, our elders being assaulted by Chabad, and having to fight day in and day out to live and work in the areas we grew up.

It’s not antisemitic to oppose gentrification and zionist development of our communities which is an active apartheid zone.

END APARTHEID IN CROWN HEIGHTS

RISE UP AGAINST CHABAD

FUCK THE PIGS AND SHOMRIM

All while pretending to be a grassroots, community based organization that only wants to give aid to those in need.

Just like Hamas. 

And just like Hamas, they twin their blatant antisemitic rhetoric with the insistence that they are not antisemitic:

Antisemitism isn't a bug - it is a recruiting platform for socialists:

CHBB has now made its desire to foment a race war in Crown Heights explicit, by recasting the deadly 1991 Crown Heights pogrom   as a means to achieve "justice" for Gavin Cato, the seven year old who was tragically hit by a car in a motorcade for the Lubavitcher Rebbe:

The only murder in 1992 in Crown Heights was the murder of Yankel Rosenbaum, a rabbinical student killed while City Hall told the police to keep out and let the Jews get attacked.

This is happening tonight.

What groups like Crown Heights Bites Back are building is not an intersectionality of justice but an intersectionality of hate. They don’t recruit on the basis of a positive vision for society. They start with grievances  -  against landlords, against police, against racism, against pollution  - and then wire those angers together into a single circuit. Every complaint becomes a tributary feeding the same current of resentment, with Jews cast as the ultimate oppressor. It is a coalition stitched not by hope or solidarity, but by hostility, where hate against one target is leveraged into hate against all.

The "anti-racists" are trying to start a new race riot against Jews - and to justify murdering them.

They are using socialist language to make killing Jews kosher.

And New York is about to get a socialist mayor who will never condemn this attempt by his allies to set the stage for the next pogrom.

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