Left-Wing Antisemitism

Information on the role of extreme leftists in promoting hatred of Jews and denial of the Holocaust.Tyler Cowen, The Socialist Roots of Modern Anti-Semitism

Extreme left-wing movements have often vilified Jews as capitalist exploiters.

Max Geltman, On Socialist Anti-Semitism [PDF]

Many of the founders of socialism peddled hatred of Jews.

David Cesarani, The Left and the Jews/The Jews and the Left [PDF]

Detailed study of extreme left-wing antisemitism.

W. H. Chaloner and W. O. Henderson, Marx/Engels and Racism [PDF]

The origins of Marxist antisemitism.

Werner Cohn, From Victim to Shylock and Oppressor: The New Image of the Jew in the Trotskyist Movement

How the Trotskyist movement became antisemitic.

Mark Strauss, Antiglobalism's Jewish Problem Dave Rich, The Barriers Come Down: Antisemitism and Coalitions of Extremes [PDF]

The ideological convergence of far-left anti-capitalists and far-right antisemites.

Ben Cohen, The Ideological Foundations of the Boycott Campaign Against Israel [PDF]

Why extreme left-wing anti-Zionists are in the vanguard of antisemitic boycott campaigns.

Arieh Stav, Notes on the Dialectics of Israeli Antisemitism [PDF]Paul Bogdanor, Jews Who Hate the Jewish State Steven Plaut, The Scourge of Jewish Anti-Semites [PDF]

How anti-Zionist Jews promote antisemitism, often quite deliberately.

A. Mark Clarfield, The Soviet "Doctors' Plot": 50 Years On Stan Crooke, The Stalinist Roots of Left "Anti-Zionism"

Soviet antisemitic campaigns during the Cold War.

Russia's communists are still fomenting hatred of Jews in the post-Soviet era.

Ben Cohen, The Persistence of Anti-Semitism on the British Left

Excellent analysis of extreme left-wing incitement against Jews in Britain.

Alan Elsner, Race, Tolerance and the NUS [PDF]

Campus far-leftists, who once banned Jewish student groups, now silence protests against their own bigotry.

Leo McKinstry, Shame on the Left and its Vicious Hatred of Israel

Radical leftist intellectuals have played a crucial part in making antisemitism respectable in Britain.

Yaniv Halily, The Protocols of Gilad Atzmon

The British far left's scandalous promotion of an ex-Israeli antisemite.

Eran Benedek, Britain's Respect Party: The Leftist-Islamist Alliance and its Attitude Toward Israel

British far leftists tried and failed to unite with Islamic extremists on the basis of shared hatred for Americans and Jews.

Mark Gardner, Routledge's Journal of Contemporary Leftist Anti-Semitism

Antisemitic diatribes in a journal issued by a respected academic publisher.

Paul Bogdanor, Jeremy Corbyn is Placing Himself at the Head of Britain's "Palestine Solidarity" Lynch Mobs

The election of a far-leftist who consorts with bigots to lead Britain's Labour Party.

Jillian Becker, The Red Army Faction: Another Final Battle on the Stage of History [PDF]Susanne Urban, Being Leftist and Anti-Semitic in Germany

Extreme left-wing activists in Germany demand the destruction of Israel and blame Jews for global capitalism.

Karl Pfeifer, "Israel Shamir" and the Austrian Left

Austrian socialists promote a Nazi fanatic.

Radical leftist politicians in Spain vilify Jews.

Venezuelan extreme leftists threaten that Jews "will undergo another Holocaust."

Australian campus ultra-leftists are so blatantly antisemitic that their Muslim allies are embarrassed by them.

Jeff Weintraub, Lunacy About Darfur (in Monthly Review) Robert Goldberg, Do the Right Thing

Documenting antisemitism on American ultra-leftist sites.

Kate Raynes-Goldie, Race Baiting

Antisemitic McCarthyism in a Canadian ultra-leftist magazine.

Report on the notorious diatribe by militant priest Daniel Berrigan.

Jason Maoz, Coffin's Mideast Conformity

The antisemitic rhetoric of radical icon William Sloane Coffin.

Norman Podhoretz, Vidal's Outburst: An Ominous New Stage in Anti-Semitism [PDF]

Deplores left-wing indifference to Gore Vidal's infamous essay in The Nation.

William Grim, The Strange Case of Horst Mahler

How a founder of Germany's Red Army Faction turned into a prominent Nazi.

Ralph Nader warns that the Israeli "puppeteer" controls the White House and Congress.

Jostein Gaarder's vicious outburst against "God's chosen people."

British ultra-leftists who equate Judaism with Nazism and justify the murder of Jewish teenagers.

Geoffrey Alderman, An Old Enmity Keith Dovkants, Anti-Semitism - and a Timely Question For Ken Mayor Culpa [PDF]

The shocking record of former London Mayor Ken Livingstone and his antisemitic Trotskyist allies.

The sordid record of the cult leader 's involvement with Jew-hatred.

Rachel Neuwirth, The Chomsky File Norman G. Finkelstein, Interview: "Jews Are Immune From Any Kind of Criticism" Deborah Passner, Norman Finkelstein's Fraudulent Scholarship Paul Bogdanor, Exchange: The Scholarship of Norman Finkelstein

Sixties veteran Jeffrey Blankfort blames Zionism for the Holocaust and describes the existence of Israel as a "cancer" that threatens the future of the planet.

According to former Green Party Senate candidate Joel Kovel, "the power-Jews have restored nothing so much as Moloch, the child-devouring shadow-form of Yahweh."

Return, edited by The British magazine, edited by Uri Davis Tony Greenstein and Roland Rance , equated Zionism and Judaism with Nazism. Jewish students and national student leaders condemned it as antisemitic.

British blogger Mark Elf portrays Zionists as ritual child-murderers and bloodthirsty psychopaths, looks forward to Israel's destruction and warns that the world's Jews are "heading for a disaster" thanks to their "grotesque culture of deceit."

Boycott campaigner Deborah Fink regards the Jewish state as "Satanic."

Michael Ezra, From Cranks to Clowns

Britain's Jewish antisemites are now accusing each other of lying and bigotry.

Abraham Melzer, a publisher who sought funding from the PLO, and Hajo Meyer, an Auschwitz survivor who belittles the importance of the Holocaust, are Jewish antisemites according to the German courts.

Philip Mendes, Denying the Jewish Experience of Oppression: The Jewish Anti-Zionism of John Docker

Cultural critic John Docker inveighs against "Zionist control of the Australian media."

The fascist background of Israel's most notorious PLO apologist.

Steven Plaut, Uri Avnery Finds a "Fascist" Paul Bogdanor, The Legacy of Israel Shahak Werner Cohn, Shahak: The Jews Are Bad! Jason Maoz, The Wicked Son

The Blood Libels of Israel's worst antisemite.

Susan L. Rosenbluth, Accusations of Slander, Plagiarism and Holocaust Revisionism [PDF]Susan L. Rosenbluth, Prof Steven Plaut's Appeal Reverses Earlier Ruling [PDF]

Neve Gordon defended the killers of Jewish children and then resorted to a Holocaust-denying judge to silence his critic Steven Plaut.

Yehiam Sorek offers his support to discredited Blood Libel historian Ariel Toaff.

Steven Plaut, A Second Blood Libel Anti-Semite From Israeli Academia Pierre Vidal-Naquet, The Fantastic Calculations of Paul Rassinier

French socialist Paul Rassinier was one of the first Holocaust deniers.

The far-left outfit La Vieille Taupe - led by Pierre Guillaume and Serge Thion - became a major source of Holocaust denial propaganda.

Pierre Vidal-Naquet, On La Vieille Taupe and Cannibalism

CounterPunch has promoted and defended Holocaust deniers.

Anti-Zionist Miriam Reik posts material supporting Holocaust deniers on an extreme leftist Israeli discussion list.

Adam Holland, Oregon "Peace" Group to Mark Kristallnacht With Holocaust Denial Conference

Oregon campus ultra-leftists commemorate an infamous Nazi pogrom by hosting an infamous Nazi apologist.

US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Jewish Aid and Rescue

How Zionists saved tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis.

Joint Emergency Committee, Program For the Rescue of Jews From Nazi-Occupied Europe

Zionist rescue demands during the Holocaust.

Zionist attempts to save the Jews of Hungary.

The communist propaganda campaign blaming Zionists for the Holocaust.

Jacob Gewirtz, The Lie of Zionist-Nazi Collaboration [PDF]

Inevitably, the propaganda campaign inspired antisemites everywhere.

Sever Plocker, Zizek and the Zionist-Nazi Alliance

Former Yugoslav intellectual Slavoj Zizek has attempted to revive the conspiracy myth.

Sean Matgamna, With Hitler on the Road to Samara

A sane Marxist points out that the conspiracy myth is itself reminiscent of Nazi antisemitic propaganda.

Paul Bogdanor, An Antisemitic Hoax: Lenni Brenner on Zionist "Collaboration" With the Nazis

American Trotskyist Lenni Brenner is the foremost Western exponent of the myth of the Zionist-Nazi conspiracy. This essay documents his manipulation of facts and sources, as well as his antisemitism.

Rejoinders to Tony Greenstein's hopeless defences of Lenni Brenner against the charges made in my paper . See below for more on Greenstein.

Paul Bogdanor, Tony Greenstein's House of Cards [PDF]Paul Bogdanor, Tony Greenstein's Sleight of Hand [PDF] Brenner's Complaint [PDF] Bad Boy Brenner [PDF] Mrs Brenner's Boy [PDF]

More on Lenni Brenner's antisemitic activism.

C. C. Aronsfeld, Review of Zionism in the Age of the Dictators [PDF]Louis Harap, "Zionist-Nazi Collaboration" Refuted: Lenni Brenner's Trickery Exposed [PDF]Paul Bogdanor, Ken Livingstone, Lenni Brenner, and Historical Distortions: A Case Study Paul Bogdanor, Ken Livingstone, Lenni Brenner, and Falsified Evidence

More on Brenner's factual distortions.

British Trotskyist Jim Allen promoted the conspiracy myth in his virulently antisemitic play Perdition.

Paul Bogdanor, Tony Greenstein and the Nazi Apologists Michael Ezra, Questions For Tony Greenstein Michael Ezra, Anti-Racists Against Anti-Zionists Michael Ezra, Tony Greenstein: More Errors Than Paragraphs

Tony Greenstein spreads falsehoods about Zionism and the Holocaust while praising antisemites and Nazi apologists.

Nigel Savage, Letter: Tony Greenstein [PDF]Paul Bogdanor, Atzmon Versus Greenstein

Tony Greenstein's unique approach to fighting antisemitism includes the accusation that "Zionist groups... are seeking to replicate what the Protocols described."

The British far-left politician and former Mayor of London has peddled numerous "collaboration" fictions of his own.

Alvin H. Rosenfeld, The Assault on Holocaust Memory [PDF]Dave Rich, The Left and the Holocaust Dave Rich, Holocaust Denial as an Anti-Zionist and Anti-Imperialist Tool For the European Far Left Michael Ezra, The Abuse of Holocaust Memory: The Far Right, the Far Left and the Middle East

The extreme left's Blood Libels about "Zionist-Nazi collaboration," "the Holocaust industry," etc.

Anti-Zionist Shraga Elam sends a friendly message to Holocaust denier David Irving in which he denies Hitler's responsibility for Auschwitz. Then he debates the subject with his fellow Israel-haters.

Paul Bogdanor, David Stannard, Ward Churchill and the Holocaust

Other far-left pseudo-scholars who publish falsehoods about the Holocaust.