From Counterpunch:

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Trump, Anti-Globalism and the Anti-Semitism Slur

by JONATHAN TAYLOR There are few tactics in contemporary politics more effective than labeling your opponent as an anti-Semite. So, as Donald Trump’s campaign continues to ramp up its radical populism, Trump’s attacks on global elites are increasingly being characterized as anti-Semitism. It’s as if every time Trump excoriates a Washington insider or international corporate power broker he really wants to say “Jew.” At least, that’s the charge by numerous members of the media, many of whom are Jewish themselves. Just listen to Louise Mensch, ostensibly a conservative blogger for Heat St, whom Wikileaks just outed as a Hillary campaign helper: “Globalists is a racist code word for Jew because there are none. free trade between sovereign nations is not a wish to abolish the former.” By Mensch’s convoluted logic, since globalists don’t want to completely destroy national sovereignty, they aren’t really globalists. Therefore when people say globalists, they must mean Jews. Or let’s hear from the Republican campaign strategist and “Never Trump-er” Rick Wilson: “Globalist”…why don’t you just say “Jew” and get it over with?” Then there’s Bret Stephens from the Wall Street Journal, who demanded conservative columnist Laura Ingraham be fired for using the term “globalist cabal.” “Globalist cabal” is an anti-Semitic dog whistle of the first order. Fox News should act,” Stephens insisted. And Louise Mensch again: “”Globalists” is, like “zionists” or “zios” the new antisemitic code word for Jews”. Distressing news no doubt to anti-Zionist Jews and critics of Israel, who are used to being spuriously accused of anti-Semitism.

I’m not sure that Louise Bagshawe LoCicero Mensch, a Catholic Englishwoman whose Yiddish last name is courtesy of her latest husband, Metallica’s manager Peter Mensch, is really the world’s leading expert on anti-Semitism or, for that matter, Semitism.

When she announced she was banning from her Twitter feed as anti-Semitic anybody who uses the word “Zionist,” a troll asked her if she would ban Theodore Herzl as anti-Semitic:

And Wikileaks has Louise’s email to a Clinton campaign insider proposing a killer TV spot for Hillary:

OUR TIME A succession of mostly young women, a few old women, one with a baby daughter, multiracial and multi-occupation, to include a nurse and a woman in uniform of some kind where permitted… one after the other, smiling and looking to camera and saying ‘It’s our time.’ and the last woman says, ‘It’s our time. I’m with her.’ fade to banner credit ‘Hillary 2016’ —- That would be inspirational, aspirational, and the kind of riff you really need on ‘Yes we can’. Best, Louise

Would Rupert Murdoch have thought Louise was smart enough to be put in charge of his new website HeatStreet if she hadn’t gotten hold of a Jewish surname in mid-career? What do Jewish women journalists think of shiksa journalists who latch onto both their men and their names?

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