The Alt-right Spews Hatred of Jews. The Alt-left: Hatred of Israel

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14. alt-Left is such a poor label.

First because it suggests that the alt-Left is simply the mirror image of the alt-Right, and that is just nonsense. They stem from entirely different impulses and have entirely different relationships to the mainstream ideologies for which they are named. Second, the name implies, like alt-Right, that the alt-Left is something new, and that is again completely false. The only way alt Left makes sense is if it is in German. The alt-Left is the old Left. That same group of anarchists, communists, socialists and associated nutballs who have been insinuating themselves into academia, the media and politics for decades. The new antisemitism of the Left is the old antisemitism of the Left. Because those beliefs are inherent in the ideology.