Mick Hartley

We've heard this before – how extraordinary, how vile, has been the response by many on the Western Left to the Hamas pogrom of Oct. 7th last year – but it's always worth reminding ourselves of the sheer scarcely believable outpouring of antisemitism – disguised, very thinly, as anti-Zionism – that we've experienced, on the streets and from universities in particular: both students and academics. This, from Joanna Tokarska Bakir in Fathom (translated from the original Polish) is a powerful summary – Part of the Western Left is now a clear and present danger to Jews and the West.

Worth reading in full. Her conclusion:

For left-wing politics today, support for the Palestinian cause has become as important as anti-capitalism, vegetarianism, opposition to coal mining and support for the right to abortion. The left craves a simple way of looking at the world, and it needs some groups which it can hate with impunity, and others which it can bombard with love.

Jews do not need the left, for in spite of what antisemites say about them, they are a collective of anti-victims: following the greatest catastrophe in history, they took advantage of a historical opportunity to build a collective life. That is why we will never forgive them for what we did to them.