Leftist antisemitism was always there. They just hide it better. ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Monday, August 18, 2025

Leftist antisemitism was always there. They just hide it better.

Apollo News (Germany) writes:

A post by the Frankfurt Left Youth group is causing outrage. The Left Party's youth organization's account responded to a report about 52 Jewish youths being kicked off a plane in Valencia. The group wrote: "We regret to disappoint: The expulsion did not take place while the plane was in the air."

The post was deleted after criticism. A statement on X read: "We have received several inquiries and legitimate criticisms regarding the tweets published on our account in recent days. We have deleted the posts by the respective authors."

Right-wing antisemites like to hide behind the idea that their noxious posts are merely "jokes." But the Left pretends to be anti-bigotry, so their own antisemitism is usually not so explicit - they normally re-frame it as anti-Zionism, which they can then use as an excuse to say the most reprehensible things.

Think about it: if the French Jewish campers had been Israelis, then no one would have had a problem with this tweet advocating that they be thrown off a plane at 30,000 feet.

But either way, if the Left was so against antisemitism as they claim, posting this would have been as unthinkable as if the kids were Black.

Recently, an academic paper was published about the extremism found on a Reddit-like decentralized left-wing social media site called Lemmygrad.ml. It noted that within this echo chamber, extremist rhetoric was common and its "anti-Zionism" often bled into classic antisemitism, as in this post from their c/communism board:

1. Jews arent a nation 2. Isael is a fake country.... Everyone identifing as a jew is a zionist and an enemy of the communist and anti imperialist movement.

Usually, leftist antisemites self-censor because they are nominally against antisemitism. But just as in the Soviet Union, everyone who cares can see that their rhetoric about Zionists and rootless cosmopolitans is really all about Jews.

Antisemitism is becoming more and more mainstream, and people are more likely to speak it outright as the faux and performative outrage over Gaza grows.

Notice that when these sorts of incidents happen, there is precious little pushback from within the "progressive" community unequivocally condemning the antisemitism in their ranks. Because not only is the pretense of caring about Gazans performative, but so is their pretense of being against antisemitism.