The thing is: even if there was a COINTELPRO infiltration bent on making the moment seem antisemitic...
1. Is it doing anything? Is this making the moment any less popular? Is it giving the movement a bad reputation on the left?? It doesn't seem like it.
2. The rhetoric throughout the movement has echoed Hamas's rhetoric perfectly. There are pretty blatant ties between Hamas 'n' Friends and the Western movement, from Wizard Bisan's involvement in PFLP to Hamas's involvement in the current flotilla.
We already know why the movement thinks Jews are Nazis, thinks Israel is Occupied Palestine, thinks the entire country should be destroyed and that any remaining Jews should be living in Palestine under Hamas.... And it's not because the FBI snuck in.
3. We already know how to prevent COINTELPRO-style infiltration. It's by NOT allowing people to be terrible!
If you don't shut down bigotry and calls for violence in your meetings and events, YES, the FBI or any asshole off the street will be able to derail and fuck up what you're trying to do.
It's been two years. I don't give a fuck if they're baffled by why Nazis are showing up at their events, they've had TWO YEARS to figure it out.
If they were genuinely baffled, it would make more sense and be easier to tell those people to leave. It's harder to tell someone to leave or put their sign down if you think, "they meant it in an anti-Zionist way!"
I do not buy that anyone is baffled, though. I think that when they see actual swastikas, they're scared to confront the open Nazis.
And I think that they haven't educated themselves enough about antisemitism to recognize the blatant caricatures and slurs and tropes all around them.
They have no motivation to. The loudest, most energetic, most platformed voices in the movement are people who openly support Hamas, say things like "death to Israel" and "death to all Zionists," and have nothing positive to say about Jews.
The movement is focused on making every issue about Palestine. Not on backtracking to be about not hating Jews.
The government pushes back against antisemitism for two main reasons. Moderate Republicans actually care about antisemitism. And everyone to their right is trying to weaponize that to shit on the left.
If the progressive movement really gave a shit about fighting white supremacy, it would be doing it it would learn enough to understand that white supremacists hate Jews, and it would use that to build bridges and explain anti-racism to conservatives.
Instead, it has chosen to see Jews as privileged white oppressors.
It doesn't need to be infiltrated. It's been showing its ass on this subject since at least the first Trump administration.
It's just gotten loud enough and violent enough that a few people involved are kind of objecting to this shit.
As soon as the war ends, everyone will quiet down and pretend there isn't a mile-wide streak of Jew-hatred on the left, just like there is on the right.
Nobody is ever going to confront this. The German left didn't care during the Nazi era, it was upset that Nazis crushed the unions. The American left certainly didn't care, and nobody anywhere else did either.
Within living memory, almost half the Jews on earth were killed, and most of the rest were violently driven out of Europe and West Asia. There's no reason to think that people are going to start caring about antisemitism now.
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