A flyer accusing socialist extremist Cynthia Nixon of an anti-Semitism has led to a furor and attacks on Governor Cuomo.
While Cuomo is an ethically challenged figure, there’s nothing wrong with the flyer which rightly calls out Nixon’s associations with the anti-Semitic and anti-Israel left. Notably, Nixon sought the backing of the DSA.
And the Democratic Socialists of America are backing actual anti-Semitic candidates.
“Like most American Jews, I was raised with the delusion that Israel was a safe haven for me,” Julia Salazar wrote on Mondoweiss, an anti-Semitic hate site, while denouncing the Jewish State.
Salazar’s rant had appeared on a racist site whose creator had complained that his publication had been banned from DailyKos because of “my repeated insistence on talking about the large Jewish presence in the American establishment and the importance of Jewish money in the political process” and one of whose editors had declared, “I do not consider myself an anti-Semite, but I can understand why some are.”
In reality, Salazar had been baptized as a Catholic, her uncle was a Jesuit priest, and her brother made it clear that no one in the family was Jewish. The Jewish part of her past was as fake as the rest.
Cynthia Nixon endorsed Salazar and continues to back her. But it gets worse.
DSA-LA continues to back Maria Estrada for California State Assembly District 63 despite her praise for Farrakhan, accusations that Jews were exploiting the Holocaust, and attacking a Jewish Democrat for not keeping “your party, your religion and your people in check.”
“Anyone who believes they are one of ‘God’s chosen people’ automatically feels superior and justified in all they do,” Estrada ranted.
Estrada’s racism was criticized by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, reported on in numerous Jewish publications, and yet the DSA and Bernie Sanders’ Our Revolution, refused to withdraw their support. When contacted about her hateful views, both the local and national DSA, as well as the local and national Our Revolution organizations, failed to condemn Estrada.
Estrada’s accusation that the Jews exploit the Holocaust was echoed by her fellow racist in New York. “These people exploit Holocaust for their hot takes,” Salazar had tweeted.
Nixon has yet to withdraw her support for Salazar or condemn the DSA’s backing for Estrada. Or the DSA’s flirtation with overt racists.
Also at the DSA convention was a representative from Melenchon’s France Insoumise. Melenchon’s blatant anti-Semitism, was so bad that it was even condemned by members of the DSA’s Jewish Caucus.
But instead of insisting that the DSA end its ties to an anti-Semitic movement, Lane Silberstein, a DSA and If Not Now member, weakly argued that, “Jewish socialists have had to contend with one of history’s most egregious eras of antisemitism— from which the left was not immune in promoting — and yet they continued to proudly identify as socialists… we will carry on that tradition and not shy away from working with the left.” The technical term for that is collaboration with anti-Semites.
Cynthia Nixon is associated with an anti-Semitic movement. She should be called out for it.
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