What is it about Leftist identity movements that screams anti-Semitism?
The Nation of Aztlan (NOA), first organized in the early 1990s, is a California-based Hispanic nationalist organization that claims to represent the desires and aspirations of the Hispanic community. The organization calls for the United States to return “Aztlan” territory – Aztlan being the mythic homeland of the Mexican people, or Aztecs, which according to legend is found in the American Southwest or Northern Mexico. The group’s nationalist message is blurred by frequent appeals anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, homophobia and other expressions of hatred…
Another essay in La Voz de Aztlan titled “Anthrax Letter Messages Seem Contrived” suggested that anthrax-laced letters addressed to NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw and U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle were possibly sent by “Zionists.” According to the essay, “Zionists have been worried because they perceive that the American public is wavering in their support of Zionist racist polices against the Palestinians. They are desperate and will do anything to manipulate U.S. public opinion. This is one of their favorite tactics.”
Not convinced? How about this one:
Black nationalists — the folk heroes of even the white Jewish left in the 1960s — have embraced or tolerated anti-Semitism from the get-go. Here’s a poem from a Black Panther magazine I recently dug up:
We’re gonna burn their towns and ain’t all
We’re gonna piss upon the Wailing Wall
And then we’ll get Kosygin and de Gaulle
That will be ecstasy, killing every Jew in Jewland
We think it has to do with the unique kind of resentment that drives so much of the Leftist activism that emerged out of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The celebration of disempowerment and marginalization is fundamentally corrosive. At first, activists tried to convince themselves that the reason the “State silenced their voices” was because politicians were quaking in fear of the “power of the people.” After a while, that pretense began to wear thin and the only alternative was a celebration of powerlessness itself – as if their palpable failure to achieve was actually something to be proud of. But it never takes long for resentment to turn inward, occasionally bubbling to the surface in the form of impotent fantasies of violence and revenge.
[Cross-posted on IsraPundit]
