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Saturday, May 24, 2025

Defending Israel’s existence amid today’s crises – The Militant

Israel's fight to defend its existence as a refuge from Jew-hatred and pogroms is at the center of the intensifying rivalries gripping the world's major capitalist powers today. For the working class, the defense of Israel's existence is a key part of the broader struggle against imperialism's march toward fascism, wider wars and the potential for a nuclear conflagration.

The U.S. rulers are determined to come out on top in the course of conflicts that have been building for years. They mark the deepening crisis the capitalist rulers face in every corner of the globe. Washington sees the biggest threat to their worldwide supremacy coming from the expansionist course of the Stalinist-molded regime in China, following the huge growth of capitalist industry there in recent decades and Beijing's rise as a military power....

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https://themilitant.com/2025/05/24/defending-israels-existence-amid-todays-crises/ 

Statement by the Socialist Workers Party California Campaign for Governor and Mayor of Los Angeles on the Assassination of the Israeli Embassy Personnel

Statement by the Socialist Workers Party California Campaign for Governor and Mayor of Los Angeles on the Assassination of the Israeli Embassy Personnel

The Socialist Workers Party condemns in the strongest terms the May 21 assassination of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, staffers at the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC. The killer chanted, as he was being arrested according to press reports, “Free, free Palestine,” and “There’s only one solution—intifada, revolution.”

Milgrim and Lischinsky were attending an event at the Jewish Museum. They were targeted by the accused shooter for one and only one reason, because the shooter assumed they were Jewish. The scourge of Jew-hatred, endemic to capitalism, has been on the rise since the October 7, 2023, pogrom organized by Hamas in collaboration with the Iranian regime. Their goal on that day was to murder Jews. Their stated objective remains: to wipe out Jews in another holocaust and destroy the state of Israel.

Within moments of the October 7 brutal murders, rapes, and kidnappings of Jews, pro-Hamas mobs on campus and elsewhere began praising these heinous acts. Some organizations have called the October 7 pogrom a justifiable act of liberation or resistance for Palestinians. A group called Unity of Fields openly praises the killings in Washington, and urges others to do likewise.

These outfits are encouraged by lies peddled by Hamas, and pro-Hamas United Nations-related organizations. They ignore the Nazi roots of Hamas, or statements by Hamas leaders praising the deaths of Palestinians as martyrs even as Hamas imbeds its fighters in crowds, hospitals, and schools to maximize civilian deaths.

Imperialist governments around the world, led by the United States, pursue their own interests in the region and act as if Jews are expendable.The Socialist Workers Party has been outspoken since October 7 in staunchly defending Israel’s right to exist as a refuge for Jews. We have a long history from our 1938 founding of opposing all forms of Jew-hatred. We build on the traditions of our movement and the example set by V.I. Lenin and Leon Trotsky, who fought against pogroms in Russia before and after the Russian Revolution.

There are now mounting protests in Gaza against Hamas. The best interests of workers in Israel, Palestinians, and toilers in the surrounding region is for the rapid and decisive defeat of Hamas, and support for targeted strikes on Iran’s nuclear weapons capacity. Such a defeat of Hamas can open the door to working people in the region acting in their own interest and building revolutionary parties that cut across the divisions fostered by the capitalist governments. In doing so, they would deal an important blow to the march towards fascism and World War III.

SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY CAMPAIGN
2826 S. Vermont, Suite 1, Los Angeles, CA 90007 

(323) 643-4968 ◆ swpla@att.net675 Hegenberger Road, Suite 250, Oakland, CA 94621 (510) 686-1351 ◆ oaklandswp@gmail.com

NORTON SANDLER FOR GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA ◆ LAURA GARZA FOR MAYOR OF LOS ANGELES

To Consulate Generals of Israel Los Angeles and San Francisco Norton Sandler, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Governor of California 
Laura Garza, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles
cc: Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles; Jewish Federation San Francisco; David Suissa, editor Jewish Journal; The Jewish News of Northern California; Jewish Community Relations Council Bay Area

Friday, May 23, 2025

Shin Bet treason opened door to Hamas pogrom – The Militant

Shin Bet treason opened door to Hamas pogrom – The Militant

Netanyahu understands that if Hamas isn’t dismantled and if Tehran develops nuclear weapons, Israel could be destroyed. Therefore, Israel must take action, with or without Washington’s support. But that’s not the view of Bar and many other top Shin Bet and army brass.

Bar was one of the handful of officials centrally responsible for the treasonous course that allowed Hamas to carry out the worst mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust. They made a conscious decision not to wake up Netanyahu Oct. 7 to inform him about the mounting evidence of an impending attack.

Bar submitted an affidavit to the Israel Supreme Court claiming he was fired to stop Shin Bet’s investigation into corruption by Netanyahu. But that’s just an attempt to cover up Bar’s responsibility for the devastating scope of the pogrom and to advance the liberals’ witch hunt aimed at driving Netanyahu out of office. The court, backed by Baharav-Miara, a darling of the anti-Netanyahu forces, temporarily blocked Bar’s firing.

Take note: U.S. Stalinists applaud dead-end anti-working class terror.

https://www.workers.org/2025/05/85791/  

US Workers World Party applauds and rationalizes D.C slaughter of Israeli Jews.




The Mask is Off – The Union Of Workers

Saturday, April 26, 2025

London conference discusses ‘Contemporary Antisemitism’ – The Militant

“De-Judification” of Holocaust

In a keynote talk, historian and documentary filmmaker Simon Scharma addressed the “de-Judification” of today’s education about the Holocaust. There is a “relentless fascination with the perpetrators as opposed to remembering” the Jews. This undermines the response to Jew-hatred today, which “has become toxic after Oct. 7.” He has produced a new documentary, “Simon Scharma: The Road to Auschwitz,” and says that education should start from the more than 1,000 years of antisemitism....

London conference discusses ‘Contemporary Antisemitism’ – The Militant

Friday, April 18, 2025

Cuba’s revolutionary course and proletarian morality

https://themilitant.com/2025/04/18/cubas-revolutionary-course-and-proletarian-morality/