Antisemitism on the left is subtler than on the right. But it's getting worse.

[Mosby]

The Sunrise Movement knows a lot about climate change. As the self-described “youth movement to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process,” they have spent countless hours appropriately ringing the alarm bell about the now-quickening pace of climate change, arguing that we must act now before it’s too late.

Last week, however, the Sunrise Movement inadvertently alerted us all to another change in the climate: a slow but steady, unmistakable rise of antisemitism among progressive groups.

It started when its Washington, D.C., chapter issued a statement last Wednesday that it would not speak at a rally later that week in support of D.C. statehood because of the participation of three Jewish groups “that are all in alignment with and in support of Zionism and the State of Israel,” and asked the organizers of the rally to remove all three groups from the list of supporters.

When incidents like this happen, many wave it away, explaining that the real threat from antisemitism is from the far right and those who enable it. There is no denying that right-wing groups pose a material threat to Jewish life in America and to our democracy as a whole. Over the past 10 years, ADL has found that 75 percent of extremist-related murders were linked to right-wing ideology, including the 2018 Tree of Life massacre, the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history. Many of the perpetrators of the Jan. 6 insurrection had ties to the Proud Boys and other extremist groups. And this week, the civil trial begins against the white supremacists who led a violent mob in Charlottesville in 2017, chanting “Jews will not replace us” as they marched down the street.

But that is not the only threat.

To use an analogy that Sunrise and its supporters should understand, right-wing antisemitism is the lethal category-5 hurricane threatening to bring immediate catastrophe. Antisemitism on the left, however, is more akin to climate change: Slowly but surely, the temperature is increasing. Often people don’t perceive the shift, or they choose to ignore it even in the face of once-uncommon storms. But the metaphorical temperature is rising, and the conditions threaten to upend life as we know it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/10/27/antisemitism-left-rising/

[JustAnotherGen]

1. Wish I could recommend this

100 times.

[Budi]

2. About time a major publication calls out the more subtle perpetrators

Sunrise & the organizer of this group, Momentum Movement should be designated a hate group.
Because they are. Their appeoach is indoctrination of youth, tho they call it activism.

The more I research about Monentum the more is revealed, who leads them, the cult-education approach they use & who they target, all the while shielding themselves behind populist slogans.

They are anti-Democratic, antisemetic 1st & last.
They need to be brought out into the light of day & labelled the Hate Group that they are.

To me, Momentum & all that is becoming evident in the many youth groups they organize under a new name, (such as IfNotNow.. & more) in order to keep hidden from naming their own Momentum organization, parallels the Hitler Youth Groups of that era.

WaPo should do us all a favor & break this story further as to who Momentum Movement truly is, who supports & finances them, & which political groups are connected to them.

They are are big dark propaganda organization, forming a youth cult & whose intent is organizing Antisemetic Hate .
They are anti-Democracy.

A dangerous organization, existing within our nation.

[JohnSJ]

3. I don't think it is that subtle, and the former leaders of the women's march demonstrated that

By kicking people out who had a Star of David flag showing support for the march, but refusing to condemn Louis Farrakhan, Tamika Mallory who had no problem attending the Nation of Islam Savior’s Day, where Farrakhan said “the powerful Jews are my enemy”, and how Jews have control over agencies of government, and are behind Hollywood “turning men into women, and women into men”

It was the media coverage of that event that shed light on Mallory, Sansour, and Perez association with Farrakhan

Not so subtle in my view

[ShazamIam]

4. Back around 2010-and up to now, a lot of fake progressives groups have been created and

fallen away, I have always suspected Sunrise to be more neo-liberal than liberal or progressive

[11cents]

5. What do you mean by neo-liberal?

[ShazamIam]

6. In a general way, the folks called corporate Democratic, and all those, "tough on crime, good for

business, keep wages low, and support both charter schools and privatization of government services. They are more libertarian than Democratic and have been a dominant force in the Democratic party since the early 90s. They usually call themselves progressive, but are progressive only on a few issues, LGBT, Women and racial and religious equality, but not really kind of support.
That is my own opinion of course. Who do you think the neo-liberals are?

[11cents]

7. I think that's what people usually mean by it these days.

I was asking because, although I'm not a fan of the Sunrise Movement, I just don't know any reason to describe them as "neo-liberal." Have they advocated privatization, etc.? Do they think that the way to stop climate change is to "let the market decide?"

[11cents]

8. One important thing to clarify, BTW ...

... is that it was the Washington DC branch of Sunrise that instituted the "only Jews who condemn other Jews are welcome" rule. The national organization did not support them.

[ShazamIam]

9. Their tactics would be to provide the beneficial aspects of charter schools, the ones that never

really manifested. I haven't looked at their stuff for a while though, and don't remember what kind of topics they report on nor the ones I read that triggered my partisan lean wariness.

[11cents]

10. Their webpage is all about climate protests and supporting the Green New Deal

https://www.sunrisemovement.org/

I mean ... fighting climate change by leveraging the benefits of charter schools?

As I said, I'm not a particular fan, but I'm wondering if you're getting them mixed up with some other group. It's an activist organization that uses typical left-activist nonviolent tactics, AFAIK. I think they've had an association with AOC, not a neo-liberal.

[ShazamIam]

11. I found the article discussed in the post regarding antisemitism to be a trigger since so much

of the extremist right promotes it. There are articles around explaining that only one office of the organization is responsible for the statement.