{"id":108720,"date":"2016-10-15T18:40:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T02:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=108720"},"modified":"2023-08-30T04:45:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T12:45:21","slug":"counterpunch-trump-anti-globalism-and-the-anti-semitism-slur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=108720","title":{"rendered":"Counterpunch: “Trump, Anti-Globalism and the Anti-Semitism Slur”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Sailer<\/a>: From Counterpunch<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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OCTOBER 14, 2016
\nTrump, Anti-Globalism and the Anti-Semitism Slur<\/a>
\nby JONATHAN TAYLOR<\/p>\n

There are few tactics in contemporary politics more effective than labeling your opponent as an anti-Semite. So, as Donald Trump\u2019s campaign continues to ramp up its radical populism, Trump\u2019s attacks on global elites are increasingly being characterized as anti-Semitism. It\u2019s as if every time Trump excoriates a Washington insider or international corporate power broker he really wants to say \u201cJew.\u201d At least, that\u2019s the charge by numerous members of the media, many of whom are Jewish themselves.<\/p>\n

Just listen to Louise Mensch, ostensibly a conservative blogger for Heat St, whom Wikileaks just outed as a Hillary campaign helper: \u201cGlobalists is a racist code word for Jew because there are none. free trade between sovereign nations is not a wish to abolish the former.\u201d By Mensch\u2019s convoluted logic, since globalists don\u2019t want to completely destroy national sovereignty, they aren\u2019t really globalists. Therefore when people say globalists, they must mean Jews.<\/p>\n

Or let\u2019s hear from the Republican campaign strategist and \u201cNever Trump-er\u201d Rick Wilson: \u201cGlobalist\u201d\u2026why don\u2019t you just say \u201cJew\u201d and get it over with?\u201d<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s Bret Stephens from the Wall Street Journal, who demanded conservative columnist Laura Ingraham be fired for using the term \u201cglobalist cabal.\u201d \u201cGlobalist cabal\u201d is an anti-Semitic dog whistle of the first order. Fox News should act,\u201d Stephens insisted.<\/p>\n

And Louise Mensch again: \u201c”Globalists” is, like \u201czionists\u201d or \u201czios\u201d the new antisemitic code word for Jews\u201d. Distressing news no doubt to anti-Zionist Jews and critics of Israel, who are used to being spuriously accused of anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a> I’m not sure that Louise Bagshawe LoCicero Mensch<\/a>, a Catholic Englishwoman whose Yiddish last name is courtesy of her latest husband, Metallica’s manager Peter Mensch, is really the world’s leading expert on anti-Semitism or, for that matter, Semitism.<\/p>\n

When she announced she was banning from her Twitter feed as anti-Semitic anybody who uses the word “Zionist,” a troll asked her if she would ban Theodore Herzl as anti-Semitic:<\/p>\n

And Wikileaks<\/a> has Louise’s email to a Clinton campaign insider proposing a killer<\/em> TV spot for Hillary:<\/p>\n

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OUR TIME<\/p>\n

A succession of mostly young women, a few old women, one with a baby daughter, multiracial and multi-occupation, to include a nurse and a woman in uniform of some kind where permitted…<\/p>\n

one after the other, smiling and looking to camera and saying<\/p>\n

‘It’s our time.’<\/p>\n

and the last woman says, ‘It’s our time. I’m with her.’<\/p>\n

fade to banner credit ‘Hillary 2016′<\/p>\n

—-<\/p>\n

That would be inspirational, aspirational, and the kind of riff you really need on ‘Yes we can’.<\/p>\n

Best,<\/p>\n

Louise<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Would Rupert Murdoch have thought Louise was smart enough to be put in charge of his new website HeatStreet<\/em> if she hadn’t gotten hold of a Jewish surname in mid-career? What do Jewish women journalists think of shiksa journalists who latch onto both their men and their names?<\/p>\n

Back to the lefty Counterpunch<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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Then there\u2019s neocon blowhard Jamie Kirchick\u2019s response to an incoherent tweet by Paul Ryan challenger Paul Nehlen, about Ryan\u2019s staffer Dan Senor \u201cWith globalist advisers like @DanSenor it\u2019s no wonder @PRyan is to the left of @HillaryClinton on #TPP. \u201c To which Kirchick responded \u201cWhy don\u2019t you just say \u201cJew?\u201d\u201d Senor is indeed Jewish, and is rumored to be the person who leaked the infamous Trump- Billy Bush \u201cpussy\u201d tape to the press. …<\/p>\n

In his speech of October 13, 2016, Donald Trump used the term globalist repeatedly, triggering accusations of anti-Semitism from media outlets such as Mother Jones and Raw Story. The ADL\u2019s Jonathan Greenblatt tweeted his concern, mildly stated compared to the rampant Twitter hysteria, that \u201cTrump should avoid rhetoric&tropes\u201d that suggest anti-Jewish themes. But despite the media pile-on, Trump has been discussing globalism in his speeches for months. As Jill Stein and to a lesser extent Bernie Sanders represent the long-standing anti-globalization movement of the left, Trump represents the anti-globalization movement of the right. And there is significant overlap between the two, as opposition to the TPP demonstrates or to provocative militarism towards Russia demonstrates. …<\/p>\n

Trump, whose daughter Ivanka is a Jewish convert married to an Orthodox Jewish husband who is a top Trump campaign advisor, seems an unlikely Jew hater, but the mainstream Hillary-loving press has been insisting he is Hitler throughout the campaign (odd since they also accusing him of being controlled by Russia. A new Molotov-Ribbentrop pact?) As the election looms the media are busy cranking up Jewish paranoia to 11. As the unflappably cool Matthew Iglesias surmises. \u201cMy guess is that in a Trump administration angry mobs will beat and murder Jews and people of color with impunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

… Tactically speaking, the primary purpose of an accusation of anti-Semitism is to end debate. So if someone says \u201cglobalist is a code word for Jews\u201d, or \u201cblaming international banks for economic problems is anti-Semitic\u201d, the function of this is to ensure that globalists and international banks cannot be blamed. It\u2019s as if someone responded to the Occupy movement that \u201cthe 1%\u201d is a codeword for Jews, so we should stop talking about wealth disparity.\u201d The ramifications are obvious \u2013 leave the global elites out of this campaign or you\u2019re a Jew-hating bigot and by the way here comes the ADL.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

COMMENTS:<\/p>\n

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If you vote Trump you are the scum of the earth, a colluder in racism and 'deplorable' is too good for you. This means everyone.<\/p>\n

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) October 14, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n