Saturday, September 28, 2024
As battles with Hezbollah heat up: Defend Israel as a refuge for Jews! – The Militant
Having made significant progress in the war to dismantle Hamas in Gaza, Israeli forces — no longer willing to accept daily missile assaults on northern Israel — are now focusing on Lebanon-based Hezbollah. And they’re dealing devastating blows to the Tehran-allied Jew-hating group.Destroying Hamas’ ability to launch future deadly pogroms and pushing Hezbollah back are essential to crippling Tehran’s “axis of resistance,” defending Israel’s right to exist as a refuge for Jews and advancing the fight against Jew-hatred around the world. This would also open space in Gaza, Lebanon and more broadly for Jewish, Muslim, Christian and other workers to come together in defense of their class interests....
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As battles with Hezbollah heat up: Defend Israel as a refuge for Jews! – The Militant
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Anniversary of Oct. 7 pogrom: Fight against Jew-hatred key – The Militant
Anti-Zionism today is antisemitismHamas, together with various Stalinist, Maoist and anarchist currents, has put together a well-oiled international propaganda machine that demonizes Israel. They claim they’re “anti-Zionist,” not antisemitic.But a report issued Aug. 30 by an administration-appointed task force at Columbia University documents egregious cases of Jew-hatred at the campus, a center of anti-Israel actions.A Jewish student, who had put up a mezuzah — a traditional Jewish symbol — on her doorway in an on-campus dormitory, was harassed at all hours of the day and night after Oct. 7 by Hamas apologists who banged on her door demanding she explain Israel’s actions.“Students have reported having necklaces ripped off their necks and being pinned against walls, while walking back to their dorm” or “on their way to synagogue,” the report noted. Others were shouted at to “go back to Poland.” Many Jewish students have stopped walking alone on campus.
‘Working class needs to take political power’ – The Militant
“The governments in Ukraine and in Israel are capitalist governments and they depend on fickle imperialist allies that put their own interests first,” Fruit said. “But if they win the wars they are fighting for their survival, the working class there will have more space to organize, to unite and to reach out to their allies in the working classes of other countries.” Ultimately, she said, “the solution is tied to building a revolutionary working-class party of all nationalities in every country,” Fruit said — including in Israel and Ukraine — “that fights for workers power.”
