ngl, I didn't realize just how toxic German anti-anti-semitism was until a German gentile called me - a Jew - an antisemite on the basis that criticizing the finance sector was "structurally antisemitic"
https://jewishcurrents.org/the-strange-logic-of-germanys-antisemitism-bureaucrats
@pluralistic
When I was in Berlin last summer a local told me things were bad, but It's gotten especially absurd in the last year
https://www.newstatesman.com/diary/2024/04/cancelled-germany-yanis-varoufakis-israel-palestine
Israel butchers tens of thousands of unarmed human beings, starves them, and destroys their way of life.
You call this genocide and they label you an anti-semite.
You defend yourself from this disgusting attack on your character, for daring to speak out against GENOCIDE; you're an anti-semite.
You cannot win against this and the only thing to do is to continue to call Israel out for committing genocide at every opportunity possible.
OMG Cory I'm such a huge fan and read as much of your writing as I can find the time for.
But I assumed you must be deliberately avoiding talking about the #GazaGenocide stuff.
It's so cathartic to see you're engaged with & on the right side of this 😌. Major respect 🤜 🤛
Klar, ist ja von Juli 2023. Und ich habe schon seit Längerem die Ehre von Rechts- und Linksdualisten gleichzeitig beschimpft zu werden. Ist mein Alltag.
Ich sehe hier allerdings keine persönliche Beschimpfung als allgemeine Verwunderung über das System des institutionalisierten Antisemitismus, das manchmal etwas seltsame Auswüchse zeitigt.
Looks like dogma has come to replace the original meaning. Arresting Jews (protesting against genocide) for antisemitism is outright ridiculous, and I really think Germany (and other countries) are enabling a new genocide this way.
Also, claiming the Holocaust is the only real genocide is just as much genocide-denial as Holocaust denial is.
Netanyahu has tried to change the meaning of antisemitism to mean "criticism of the government of Israel", and too many people in the West are going along with that. It's destroying the real meaning of antisemitism and endangering Jews across the world.
It's an incredibly harmful development.
@pluralistic It's a growing problem on the internet as well.
There's a very well orchestrated and concerted effort to blast out pro-genocide propaganda here on the fediverse and it's disgustingly loud.
There's an entire instance whose owner is incessantly spewing pro-genocide propaganda and promoting it from within under the guise of "the only safe space for Jews" or some imaginary garbage.
@pluralistic Hm...
But isn't equating the finance sector to the jews a wee bit... you know... antisemitic?
@pluralistic On the one hand, everything you say is right.
On the other hand, I can understand their fear of doing anything that offends Israel.
In addition, I feel safe in saying that most Germans are not well suited for dealing with moral ambiguity.
That's a very different picture, though. That uses a blatantly racist caricature, unlike the image @pluralistic used.
> First, the picture. It is a version of a common antisemitic trope (compare pic below)
No, it isn't. It's a caricature of the Gentile banker JP Morgan, from a 110-year-old editorial cartoon about the first billion-dollar bank merger.
Just because antisemites depict *Jews* as dominating the world, that doesn't make *all* images of *all* forces - abstract or personified - that dominate the world antisemitic.
> Second, the distinction in "productive" vs. "grubbing" capital is a continuation of "the money-lending jew" trope dating back for centuries.
No, it is not. This is you restating the idea that "critiques of finance capital are structurally antisemitic."
That is a fundamentally unserious proposition that is *very* antisemitic in that it both erases the monumental contributions of Jewish radicals (Marx, Luxembourg, Graeber, Hoffman, Trotsky, etc) to this critique, and - far worse - gives credit for their work to the Nazis who would have exterminated them.
Going into a Jewish person's replies and telling them they are anti-Semitic is a choice. Totally avoidable own goal.
@Dingsextrem Uh.... so you mean to tell me you think the guy whose grandparents fled Nazi Germany's conquest and whose father was born in a refugee camp in Azerbaijan is being antisemetic?
What the fuck?
@Dingsextrem One would think someone jewish could attest to what is and isn't, in fact, antisemetic?
Not sure how your arguments are supposed to be seen as credible with: A. The rebuttals given & B. The fact that he is *literally* jewish.
But I guess I'm supposed to just shake my fist at him anyways bc some random guy decided to stretch his statements into a pretzel to try to contend that a jewish person is saying something antisemetic? Right. That makes sense.
More importantly *intentional dogwhistles*. You think he's *intentionally* putting *antisemetic dogwhistles* into his writing? What? What the fuck?
I mean, surely you could take a step back and see that vast swaths of people see this as utterly absurd, yes? Good god.
Jews are not infallible. If you ask Netanyahu what's antisemitic and what isn't, he'll probably tell you that anything that questions or limits Israel's right to kill Palestinians would count as antisemitic.
In this particular case @pluralistic is obviously right, but that doesn't mean that every Jew in every discussion about antisemitism is always right, because they're people and often disagree with each other. Ultimately you've got to look at the arguments, and not blindly accept authority or dogma.
@mcv @pluralistic @Dingsextrem Well yes no shit, despite being born to Jewish parents, Murray Rothbard used antisemetic slurs and supported historical revision of WWII that erased the slaughter of jews, instead pretending it was for the purpose of "slaughtering the Germans and Japanese" - as if that made any sense.
My point is that of *credibility*. It's a very high ask to propose I defer to some random person about this rather than the *literal jewish person*. It's an absurd proposition in its own right but apparently I'm supposed to choke it down because "look at this clearly antisemetic image that even emphasizes the nose; clearly your choice of imagery is the same" and "saying that banks or capital interests can extract capital instead of aid genuine expansion is structurally antisemetic" - because apparently banks & capital interests are synonymous with jewish people.
I understand what you're saying but the point I'm trying to make clear is the base situation is already a high bar and then he pulls the most nonsensical shit.
@scien @pluralistic @Dingsextrem
Oh, absolutely. In this particular case, random internet person does not hold more authority over the definition of antisemitism than a than a thinker and writer whose family survived the holocaust.
But the argument "you're not X therefore you're wrong" is a fallacy and dogma I see too often, and I just wanted to point that out.
But Cory's real authority here doesn't come from the history of his family, because someone with a similar family history could still disagree, but from his arguments and sources, perhaps combined with the experience and understanding of that history.
> Marx didn't differ in 'good' or 'evil' capitalists,
This is literally the most wrong thing I have ever seen anyone write about Marx.
The *first chapter* of the Communist Manifesto distinguishes between finance capital and productive capital. This is also critical to Kapital I, and it's the heart of the Grundrisse.
Mate, I was raised by Jewish Marxists who were also survivors, WWII refugees who received reparations checks all their lives.
I speak Yiddish, and I had both a bris and a Bar Mitzvah.
I promise you: I understand the consequences of the Holocaust, the nature of Judiasm, the Jewish critique of capitalism, and the nature of antisemitism.
The crude equivalences of "all caricatures of bankers" or "all critiques of finance capital" with "antisemitism" are factually *wrong*.
Sure, Nazis depicted Jewish bankers as a force for evil - but the salient aspect of those images that made them antisemitic was that the bankers were coded as Jewish.
If you understood Jewish radicalism, you'd know that at the *very same time*, Jewish radical newspapers (e.g. The Forward) were running editorial cartoons that *also* depicted bankers as dominating the world - just not coded as Jewish.
The Jewish Bund sang radical Yiddish songs filled with bawdy, vicious, hilarious digs at the finance sector - we play them every year at our seder.
Gentiles do not get to tell Jews how we are allowed to feel about finance capital in the name of preventing antisemitism.
Period.
"Gentiles do not get to tell Jews how we are allowed to feel about finance capital in the name of preventing antisemitism."
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