A new website has been launched to document the activities of Alison Weir and her “If Americans Knew” organization. The purpose of this website is to provide evidence of the anti-Semitic nature of Weir’s anti-Zionism, which receives support from some Left-wing anti-imperialists as well as from figures on the far-Right. Through making Weir’s anti-Semitic message unmistakable, and by documenting Weir’s work with figures of the far-Right, the new website aims to politically challenge those leftists who claim to be committed to human dignity and freedom, yet who also promote Weir’s bigoted activism. Weir is not an isolated Jew-hater, but is supported by segments of the hard Left as well as by anti-Zionist groups who invite her to speak at campus events, rallies and conferences.
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By Eirik Eiglad | from New Compass
Until the end of the Second World War, anti-Semitism was primarily a reactionary phenomenon, espoused by the political and religious Right. This has changed. Now anti-Semitic prejudices are just as common on the Left and are often excused by moderates as well as radicals.
Usually today’s anti-Semites point to Israeli policy as their main argument, but too often they vilify the Jewish state and Zionism far beyond legitimate criticism.
Obviously, to be anti-Israel means more than to criticize some or many actions of the Israeli army, the Mossad, and the Knesset. Too often people judge Jews, Israel, and Israeli citizens according to extremely different criteria than when they are judging any other “nation.” Frankly I find this double standard puzzling.
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By Arthur MacEwan | May/June 2007 | Dollars and Sense
Excerpt: “The Federal Reserve is a very powerful institution, and the people who run the world’s large banks are a very powerful group of people. No one would claim otherwise. Also, the bankers have common interests, and, like any other group of people with common interests, they do what they can to bring about government policies that favor those interests.
Because the Federal Reserve (the “Fed”), as the central bank of the United States, implements policies that most directly affect the bankers, they of course are quite concerned with what the Fed does, how it is structured, and who runs it. And, like other elite groups, bankers certainly meet in private—in “secret,” if one prefers—to figure out how best to get what they want.
With all that said, however, the idea that a small cabal of bankers runs the world through the operations of the Fed is wrong on several counts.
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By the way, the Fed was not formed in secret. The Fed was created by legislative action, formally and publicly. But there were certainly private (secret) meetings that laid the groundwork for it. Of course, the same is true of legislative actions affecting the pharmaceutical industry, Silicon Valley, insurance firms, and the list goes on.
Nothing that special about the creation of the Fed. Finally, while I am sure that there are many decent people who see the Fed and the bankers as the source of the world’s problems, this view is often part of a larger anti-Semitism. The focus on “Jewish financiers” (the Rothschilds, for example) as the source of our economic and other problems is as old as it is wrong and offensive.”
Read here: http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2007/0507drdollar.html
By Loren Goldner. Insurgent Notes. March 19, 2011.
The following recounts the evolution of the core pre-MNR intelligentsia and future leadership of the movement and its post-1952 government from anti-Semitic, pro-fascist, pro-Axis ideologues in the mid-1930′s to bourgeois nationalists receiving considerable US aid after 1952. The MNR leadership, basically after Stalingrad, began to “reinvent itself” in response to the impending Allied victory, not to mention huge pressure from the U.S. in various forms starting ca. 1942.
However much the MNR purged itself of its “out-of-date” philofascism by the time it came to power, I wish to show it in the larger context of the top-down, state-driven corporatism that developed in key Latin American countries in this period, specifically Argentina, Brazil and (in a different way) Mexico through the Cardenas period.
The following is a demonstration that, contrary to what contemporary complacent leftist opinion in the West thinks, there is a largely forgotten history of reactionary populist and “anti-imperialist” movements in the underdeveloped world that do not shrink from mobilizing the working class to achieve their goals.
This little-remembered background is all the more important for understanding the dynamics of the left-populist governments which have emerged in Latin America since the 1990’s.
Continue reading here: http://insurgentnotes.com/2011/03/anti-capitalism-or-anti-imperialism/
