The story changes but hate remains
The myth of Judeo-Bolshevism

The 20th century came up with the idea that Jews commanded the Russian and related communist revolutions, a version of the old global Jewish conspiracy plot, which has mutated yet again.
by Paul Hanebrink


Antisemitism today: vandalised graves in the Jewish cemetery at Quatzenheim, Germany, February 2019
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Robert Bowers left racist messages on social media explaining his actions before he murdered 11 Jews and wounded others at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh on 27 October 2018. He believed Jews had conspired to bring Muslims and other unwanted immigrants into the US to ‘destroy white America’. This toxic brew of anti-immigrant racism and antisemitism circulates among far-right activists and white power zealots on both sides of the Atlantic.

The neo-Nazi marchers who gathered in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017 to defend Confederate symbols of white supremacy chanted a phrase borrowed from the far right in France, ‘You will not replace us’, and an antisemitic variation of their own, ‘Jews will not replace us’. In Europe, ‘identitarians’, from Scandinavia and the UK to Poland and Greece, blame the ‘Jewish media’ for creating a pro-migrant climate, and ‘cosmopolitan’ liberals for exploiting it to help migrants from the global South replace native Europeans.

A widespread contemporary version of the ‘plot’ casts Jews as promoters and cheerleaders of immigration, and as enemies of the timeless cultural values of nation and family on which western civilization supposedly rests. Over the years there have been different forms of the fears of a global Jewish conspiracy, and in the 20th century none was more potent or more destructive than the myth of Judeo-Bolshevism; this may seem paradoxical when the radical left is being accused of antisemitism.

‘Asiatic barbarians’

The myth held that communism was a Jewish invention, that Jews dominated the leadership of communist parties to further their own power, so Jews were responsible not just for communist crimes but also for the antisemitic backlash. After 1917, amid war, revolution and the collapse of empires in eastern Europe. the myth erupted into anti-Jewish violence. During the Russian civil war, pogroms caused the deaths of up to 180,000 Jews and left half a million (...)
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BUT THE POINT HERE THAT IS IN BOLD IS WHAT WE NEED TO KEEP IN MIND THE RIGHT WING HAS LINKED ANTISEMITISM WITH THE LEFT SUPPORT FOR PALESTINE. AS POOR JEREMY CORBYN AND THE BRITISH LABOUR PARTY LEARNED IN THE LAST ELECTION AFTER A FOUR YEAR CAMPAIGN BY RIGHT WING ZIONIST BRITISH JEWS CLAIMING THE PARTY SUPPORT OF PALESTINE MADE IT ANTISEMITIC.