The idea that Jews are an oppressor class directly echoes yesteryear’s dread of ‘Jewish power’. From the deranged ranting of fascists in the 1930s to the tub-thumping of radical Muslims more recently, the Jew as tyrant has been a depressingly common theme in anti-Semitism.
Who can forget that foul mural in London’s East End, which featured caricatured Jewish bankers playing Monopoly on the backs of downtrodden workers? There it was: the oppressor Jew. A vile 19th- and 20th-century trope that is now being resuscitated in PC language and fed to the young. It would be funny if it were not so tragic that young leftists fancy themselves as anti-fascists even as they spout the fascistic lie that Jews oppress the rest.
This goes some way to explaining why the fallout in the West from Hamas’s pogrom of 7 October has involved so much anti-Semitism. Menorahs in the UK have been attacked. Jewish-owned shops are being protested against. Jews in London and other cities have been assaulted.
To most of us, these are unconscionable attacks on Jews and their way of life. To others, terrifyingly, they are acts of vengeance against ‘oppressors’.
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