text by Christoph Fringeli, Praxis rec., C8 community

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Antisemitic are not just those people who want to kill jews (like the Nazi Party or Hamas), but also those who prepare the ground with their soft version of ressentment and prejudice. Just like you don’t have to be a nazi skinhead who killed a black immigrant to be a racist. While ordinary racism is quite detectable and is at least somewhat kept in check by the fact that it simply isn’t PC or cool to call black people “Niggers” or African-Americans “Negroes” anymore - and that’s a good thing - the situation is quite different with anti-semitism because it seems to come from different sources and serve different needs. Anti-semitism isn’t just racism against jews, it’s much more. It seems to serve a particular function whenever capitalism has reached another serious crisis-point. It takes on different faces; and it’s fashionable on the ‘left’ (where ordinary racism is taboo) under the guise of ‘anti-zionism’.

One of the crazy bits about anti-semitism is that the “jew” is largely a projection of the anti-semite.
....Constantly referring to jews (called ‘palestinians’ in the pamphlet in a sad attempt to be witty) as if they were one homogenous group of people.
When investigating some moronic web sites a little more, one will pretty quickly realise that not only are jews supposed to be one defined group, no, they are indeed a conspiracy to rule the world. The website features truly loathesome texts repeating the decade-old lies about the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” - a proven anti-semitic forgery by the Czarist Russian secret service - which even hardened anti-zionists won’t use as “evidence” of a “jewish conspiracy”, simply because too many people know that it’s a forgery. Nevertheless the “Protocols” are eagerly reprinted in the Middle East, in Japan as well as in Russia these days.

It was this same ideology and projection that led to the shoa; again the website is denying the historical uniqueness of the crimes of Germany and its allies by trying to compare numbers of corpses and not taking into account the reasons or circumstances that people died in. Jews were murdered by the Germans in an industrialised fashion, in specially created death factories, simply because they were jews. Systematically they were hunted down, deprived of their possessions and human dignity and driven into the gas chambers “like vermin”. Germans claim to have known nothing of this occuring in the years 1933-45, and in particular since the Wannsee conference, after 1942, but it’s more realistic to see them as a collective of murderers in denial after the fact and the defeat in the war.
Anti-semitism has a history that goes back many centuries. England as well had once driven out all Jews from the British Isles in the late middle ages. Whatever people could possibly endure, the experience of Auschwitz - and the absence of a revolution that would have destroyed the possibility of another Auschwitz once and for all - made it clear that the survivors, wherever they were in the world, would need a different type of protection in the future, and this type of protection in the 20th century quite logically took on the form of a state with a military force: Israel.

Anti-semites today have largely focussed on the state of Israel which they wish the same perdition on as the Nazi did to the “jews”. Thankfully American foreign policy is up to date still supporting Israel, and its right for self-defense - something the rest of the world seems to acknowledge only with the most sanctimonious undertones, while expressing support to a Palestinian Authority that has sold the palestinian people down the river in its anti-semitic fanaticism which has its own roots in the 30’s, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Mufti of Jerusalem and his SS-division.

This moronic site mainly accuses jews of making essential contributions to society rather than just mumbling parts of the Koran or christian prayers. Maybe one should ask if it has something to do with the role of hermeneutics in Judaism that indeed produces more intellectuals than a society that forbids women any decent education, murders gay people, and tells its young men to kill jews and americans to reach eternal bliss in heaven, such as some strains of Islam.

But that is somewhat besides the point. What is worrying is that, more and more, anti-semitism in its different guises - whether it’s anti-zionism, or an anti-capitalism that interprets capitalism as a personalised affair stigmatising the evil ‘speculator’, sees it as a conspiracy of rich people etc, rather than the social relation it is.
This is where the bit about fake anti-capitalism comes in: Rather than working on the abolishment (“aufheben” in the sense of Hegel via Marx) of capital as a social relation through world revolution, fake anti-capitalism as exemplified by Fascism as well as Islamism, sees the culprit in the “jewish banker” type figure which only needs to be killed - whether in a concentration camp, or in the worldwide intifada that 9-11 stands for - to solve all problems and re-unite the “real” peoples with a ‘relation’ of blood and soil against the essetially cosmopolitan, multi-ethnic states such as the USA an Israel (and formerly, to some degree, Yugoslavia).

What fascism, Islamism and other anti-imperialists (like maoists, stalinists, some trotzkyists and many 'no globals'), but also increasingly ordinary Germans of any nationality, want is the the suspension of capitalism by introducing the same misery for everybody. Jews, generally and historically not tied to the idea of “soil”, but to cosmopolitanism, the realm of circulation and ideas - speculatively put (pun intended) - share the aim of communism to reach the promised land in this world, of luxury for everybody.
This is why people who are bored at work, but are too dumb to imagine a better world, will spend their “energy” searching the web for “facts” that will make the next Auschwitz possible.""

Christoph Fringeli

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