The left and our fight against anti-Semitism

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From the article:

AFTER THE massacre of 11 Jews in Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue in late October, people flocked to social media and to the streets with messages of unity and collective opposition to the anti-Semitism behind the killing.
It didn’t take long, however, for the forces of racism and reaction to turn their outrage on the main people capable of mobilizing opposition to the rising tide of anti-Semitism: broadly speaking, the left and the social movements...….

Yet after last month’s shooting, much of the mainstream response was cut from the same cloth as Trump’s.....

It’s almost as if the voices of mainstream politics forgot exactly what happened at a Shabbat service — a bris, or baby naming, no less — just a few weeks ago. So let’s review what did happen:
A Nazi — an avowed white supremacist who critiqued Donald Trump for being too influenced by powerful Jews — entered a synagogue and murdered 11 Jews while yelling, “All Jews must die.”

To read more:

https://socialistworker.org/2018/11/29/the-left-and-our-fight-against-anti-semitism

In our area near Chicago, an admitted Nazi received over 56,000 votes as he ran against the incumbent Democrat in the Il 3rd District.

56,000 votes for an actual Nazi.