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Glenn Greenwald: ‘AOC’s Attack on Yang’s Meaningless Israel Statement Shows Her Role: Protect Dem Leaders — Real power over U.S. policy toward Israel and Gaza rests with Biden, Harris, Pelosi, Schumer, Blinken — not Yang. But AOC’s function is to shield them from leftist anger.’:
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/aocs-attack-on-yangs-meaningless
A new article from the autonomist-colored left-communist group Mouvement Communiste/Kolektivně proti Kapitălu:
“RACES” AND THE WORKING CLASS IN THE USA
https://mouvement-communiste.com/documents/MC/Letters/LTMC2148 ENvH.pdf ENvH.pdfIt includes these sections:
An antiracist movement against the police but in defence of the state
BLM, a stack of anti-worker ideas
The present situation of Blacks in the USA (with 11 subsections)
Capital and imaginary communities
Intersectionality, a counter-revolutionary instrument for dividing the proletariat
An ideology soaked in philosophical indifferentism
Intersectionality and the politics of identity
Intersectionality and antiracism: a pillar of racialisation
A counter-revolutionary impasse
ALB:
‘Anarchists (and “Utopian Socialists”) argued that it could have been and could be established anywhere and at any time in history. Marx argued that *one of its conditions was productive forces capable of providing plenty for all*.’
Can you supply some Marx-text for that? Thanks.
(I don’t know if he exactly rates as a utopian socialist or anarchist, but if I am not too mistaken, what you characterise as the anarchist view is also that of, say, Jean Barrot/Gille Dauvé — as well as some of the other ‘communisers’.
‘New antisemitism definition excludes BDS, but Palestine activists say it’s still flawed’:
New antisemitism definition excludes BDS, but Palestine activists say it’s still flawed
‘The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism: a critical view’:
Norman Finkelstein: ‘WHY WE SHOULD REJOICE AT HOLOCAUST DENIERS, NOT SUPPRESS THEM – A Reply to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’: http://normanfinkelstein.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Finkelstein-HDeny.pdf
WSWS: ‘Anti-Semitism” accusations used in attempt to prevent Ken Loach speaking at Oxford University’: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/02/17/loac-f17.html
Norman Finkelstein’s comment on the B’Tselem report:
The Jewish supremacist state (A comment on B’Tselem’s ‘apartheid regime’ designation for Israel)
Jonathan Cook: ‘Antisemitism claims mask a reign of political and cultural terror across Europe’:And here is the article mentioned in his first sentence:Haaretz: ‘In Germany, a witch hunt is raging against critics of Israel. Cultural leaders have had enough’: https://www.haaretz.com/misc/article-print-page/1.9362662(This link gets around the subscription firewall)Cde Bortnick … it has got to be the same person … has a website. He’s an artist. An 88 year-old artist at that. http://www.bernardbortnick.com/#Bio%20and%20Contact.htmlSpeaking of Glenn Greenwald, here is his piece (on his new site, since he has quit Intercept) from Nov 8 titled ‘No Matter the Liberal Metric Chosen, the Bush/Cheney Administration Was Far Worse Than Trump.’: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/no-matter-the-liberal-metric-chosen . It denounces the thesis of Trump as Unprecedented Evil, as Neo-Nazi Tyrant and other nonsense eternally repeated in the hysterical liberal/leftist echo-chamber.Robbo-Replying to your #208865 ….
As to your second point, the purpose of this part of the definition (‘Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination’) is almost certainly purely and simply intended to delegitimise any possible rising tide of support for the ‘One-State’ solution. (As opposed to a hypothetical world-universal No-State solution.) But their reply (if any) would be very interesting indeed, yes.
PS: Among self-identifying Jews in the US, support for the One-State solution has according to these figures anyway risen to 13%: https://mondoweiss.net/2020/11/a-biden-presidency-would-bring-huge-pressure-on-liberal-zionists-from-pro-bds-jews/ (About the middle of that page.) And it is reasonably guessed to be around 25% among the young.A much better obituary of Fisk than the Guardian’s.
‘Robert Fisk—a courageous and truthful reporter on the Middle East who “covered history” (1946–2020)’:
‘In first application of anti-BDS law, Germany censors Israelis’:
In first application of anti-BDS resolution, Germany censors Israelis
Paul Mattick’s comment on posts https://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/forum/topic/the-new-recession-is-arriving/page/12/#post-208177 to https://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/forum/topic/the-new-recession-is-arriving/page/13/#post-208187 is the following;‘I wish these critics would address the issue in the Rail. They forget, of course, the “oil crisis”, a successful attempt to increase prices by restricting supply, which forced a general.price increase. But it is also generally recognized that increased taxation and interest rates also impelled businesses to raise prices.’There was a US presidential election in which the WSPUS had a presidential candidate (1932?? 1936??). I can’t remember his name and can’t remember where I read it. I thought maybe in Karla’s book but when I went back and looked for it I didn’t find it. Anyone know his name and the year?
(There was no mention of whether he was actually on the ballot in any state or was a write-in.)
