Anti-Globalization, anti-Semitic, anti-American

A little while ago, I wrote a series of articles covering the growing confluence of neo-Marxists, neo-Fascists, and Islamists, whose seemingly disparate ideologies appear to be uniting around a common set of hates ["Idiotarianism: Exhibit #27,349" | "Why Idiotarianism? Why Now?"].

I'm not the only one who noticed. Charles Johnson at LGF has been the most reliable and consistent tracker of this phenomenon, and The Counterrevolutionary's excellent short series [The Dynamics of Mass Hate | Why Do They Hate?] is worth your time. The issue is also starting to receive serious attention beyond the blogosphere - as well it should. We recently covered French intellectual Alain Finkielkraut's "The New Antisemisitism," for instance, and now Mark Strauss writes in "Antiglobalism's Jewish Problem" (Foreign Policy Magazine, Nov/Dec 2003):

"The browns and greens are not simply plagiarizing one another's ideas. They’re frequently reading from the same page. In Canada, a lecture by anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist David Icke was advertised in lefty magazines such as Shared Vision and Common Ground.... Far-right nationalists, such as former skinhead Jaroslaw Tomasiewicz, have infiltrated the Polish branch of the international antiglobalization organization ATTAC. The British Fascist Party includes among its list of recommended readings the works of left-wing antiglobalists George Monbiot and Noam Chomsky. A Web site warning of the dangers of "Jewish Plutocracy, Jewish Power" includes links to antiglobalization NGOs such as Corpwatch and Reclaim Democracy.... "By pointing to this so-called globalisation as our main problem, the anti-MAI activists prepare our thinking for the corresponding logical consequence—the struggle for 'our own' local economy, and as a consequence also for 'our own' state and culture," the director of De Fabel van de illegaal warned. "Left-wing groups are spreading an ideology that offers the New Right, rather than the left, bright opportunities for future growth."

Read the whole article, and/or an abridged Spectator article from the same author enttled "Who Hates the Jews Now?" We should pay attention...

Mass-hate movements are serious matters, deadly on a massive scale unless somehow controlled, and usually uncontrollable once begun in earnest. A Second Holocaust is not yet begun - but consider:

• The coalescence noted above
• The rising level of attacks against Jews in Europe
• Ritual murders of Jews in France attracting only official cover-ups (Hat Tip: M. Simon)
• The suppression of the recent EU report on anti-Semitism, and
• Columnists like Hillel Halkin and Daniel Pipes openly wondering if Europe's future will be Judenrein just like the Arab countries.

These are not good trends, to say the least. It's one thing when this kind of madness takes root in a backward civilization like Saudi Arabia's, quite another when it crosses like an airborne virus into the heart of a technological civilization like Europe's.

Along the way, anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism are becoming less and less separable. I'll have more to say about some of the underlying dynamics on Tuesday - and it may make for uncomfortable reading on both sides of the political spectrum.

RELATED READINGS

• The Democratic Party's Fred Siegel has noticed this same trend, and so has Michael Totten as he reads his AdBusters.

• So why is this hate so important? See Islam 2003: "It's the Hate, Stupid!"

• James C. Bennett, UPI (April 12/03) - Anglosphere: why do they hate us? "it is worth considering the possibility that the root source of anti-Americanism in the world lies in the deep-rooted anti-modern tradition of Continental Europe...." Also discusses the historic role of Jews in continental European culture, their status as a bellweather, and the effects of their current absence.

• Activism's Onanist Fantasy Ideology. Committed leftists critique the current strain of "activism as ritual worship," disengaged from any connection to actual results. It's part of the cocktail, and the contentless ritual worship parallels strengthen both the "why Idiotarianism..." origins thesis and the idea that the Left's current incarnation is laying the ground for a new far-right.

• Speaking of which, we have The Origins and Meaning of "Idiotarian". How did that word get started, anyway - and what does it really mean? Winds has answers.