Letter in the Jerusalem Post, 8 August 2017
Sir
In “What happened to you, Cory Booker?” (August 7), Shmuley
Boteach omits one important aspect when discussing the slogan on a BDS t-shirt:
“Palestine is a Feminist / Queer / Refugee / Racial Justice Issue.”
That slogan was an expression of the fashionable
“intersectionality”, a philosophy to which left-wing or Antifa
(anti-fascist) supporters in today’s America have become enslaved.
Intersectionality perceives a link between all manifestations of oppression,
however diverse. Female victims of sexual inequality are related to black
victims of racial inequality and to victims of lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender inequality, and so on.
Antifa, which has swallowed the BDS doctrine in its entirety, has
decreed that Palestinians are quintessential victims. Their villainous
oppressors are Israel, which it accuses of every sort of monstrous criminality.
The logical outcome of this new-wave philosophy is that if one opposes racism,
homophobia and sexism, then one must oppose Israel, and by extension all those
who support Israel, and by a further extension all Israelis, most of whom
happen to be Jews. It is this philosophy which is embraced by Jeremy Corbyn,
the leader of Britain’s Labour Party, and his extreme left-wing supporters.
This is why the recent Charlottesville violence in the US differed
from the seminal anti-fascist Battle of Cable Street in the London of the
1930s. The Cable Street anti-fascists were Jews supported by non-Jewish
friends, neighbors and fellow workers, who hated the anti-Semitism of the Black
Shirt leader, Oswald Mosley, and his bully-boys, and were determined to make a
stand against them. Antifa, on the other hand, contains within itself an
anti-Semitism as hateful as that mouthed by the fascists it opposes.
Neville Teller
Published in the Jerusalem Post, 8 August 2018:
https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Letters-to-the-Editor-August-8-2018-564339
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