On the New Anti-Semitism.

The problem here is one of consciousness, or rather unconsciousness, and the way that society defends the status quo automatically, without the need for "thought police" or government monopolies on propaganda.

Think about it, six weeks ago, all anyone was talking about was how fucked the country was and how much we'd enjoy throwing the Tories out. Labour might not be perfect, but they were better than this shower. People were becoming aware of the serious problems Britian faced, mass destitution, extreme poverty, hunger, stuff like that.

Then terrorists attacked Israel, and after about a week or so of (mostly) shocked silence, the country erupted in rage. Not against the terrorists, who by now are getting their asses handed to them and are dead men walking, but... against... the... victims?!?

The problem of antisemitism is a problem of unconsciousness. It is the problem that both reformist AND revolutionary social movements deliberately hobble themselves by - ridiculously - allying with terrorists, specifically by allying with antisemitic terrorists., or rather a subset thereof. (Fortunately, the red-brown coalition has failed to materialize in this country)

It's a very specific problem and one that the individual does not have much power over. People have not been given antisemitism by the government in the classic Fascist sense - they have chosen it, or if you like, they have chosen a specific type of antisemitism themselves because in some way, they do not feel up to the challenge of fixing a broken world. So they sit back and go on about Israel instead. As if Israel is responsible for the Crash of '08 and the ensuing austerity, as if Israel was responsible for Brexit, Trump, Russian revanchism, the extreme weather events of the Warming and our disintegrating ecology.

It's a very strange problem, one that is entirely self-created: The people who want to change society are unable to because they are suckers for the Palestinian sob story, that a people half a world away, who would literally chop you into schwarma given half a chance, and who have chosen war at every turn since the beginning (and who were not averse to a spot of ethnic cleansing long, long before that), are the victims of a horrific conspiracy involving the American military industrial complex (boo!), the international Zionist conspiracy (hiss!), and prolly vampires and werewolves as well any minute now. 

It's nuts - quite literally the product of disturbed minds, to confer victimhood upon people whom, every time they talk to each other affirm their hatred of literally everything on Earth except themselves, and who give paper-thin excuses for their horrific behaviour - both political and otherwise.

So. This isn't the product of cool, calm, political engineering, but of mass insanity. Propaganda also plays a role, and well funded propaganda it is too, but one can always choose whether or not to believe propaganda - and people have chosen to believe everything the Palestinian terrorists say (and the Palestinian state IS terrorist, both Hamas and Fatah have well documented terroristic policies), and ignore any and all other evidence no matter how clear-cut.

This doesn't happen when things are going well in the world. The pro-Palestinian lot were a small and weird bunch for a long time, never really reaching critical mass until after the 2008 financial crisis - although it had certainly been pump-primed by the endless drivel coming out of the far Left and the conspiracy theory bullshit of the hippies and the libertarian / far Right.

So how does one approach what we might call the hard problem of unconsciousness?

We can't appeal to rationality as we aren't dealing with the rational mind. People can no more be talked out of anti-semitism than they can be talked out of being scared of spiders. You can tell an arachnophobe that most spiders are harmless or even beneficial until you're blue in the face; no amount of information about biology and ecological niches in the world can stop them from freaking out when they see one of those little creatures, and no amount of historical context, org charts, or plain old facts can change the mind of an "anti-Zionist".

(NB: Yes, I know I'm on thin ice comparing Israelis to spiders, but I think you'll find I'm comparing anti-zionists to arachnophobes. Ackchyually.)

I did have an idea for a Situationist-style intervention but the problem with that is that there just aren't enough of us - and once the opposition realized they'd been duped, we'd be in serious trouble, as in danger of being beaten shitless, ostracized - going against popular opinion is a dangerous hobby, an extreme sport really, and one that can lead to undefined amounts of personal consequences.

If you can read this and you still have a mind of your own, I encourage you to use all of your mental resources to find a solution. It is by no means solely a Jewish problem - it has grown to negatively effect all progressive social movements, not just traditional leftists but LGBT rights, environmentalism, racial justice movements - all have in some way been captured by the new anti-semitism, and all of them are much worse off for it.