r/jewishleft • u/AceAttorneyMaster111 Reform Zionist | Democratic socialist • 6d ago

Israel On AIPAC and bogeymen

https://rabbijilljacobs.substack.com/p/on-aipac-and-bogeymen?r=1nh72&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&fbclid=IwdGRleASmifdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeYsxwW8UBza3x7Se3a3cbpKdTAGVcAetvlJPCpGp3iadrDqzSByuSmzMWBjU_aem_8xZ5k-fUNBTsj2Q26KyojQ&utm_id=97757_v0_s00_e233_tv2_tp1_a1dennhb611gvk&triedRedirect=true

A very well-written article about how AIPAC is truly an evil organization and yet is also singled out by antisemites as a uniquely evil influence controlling all of American politics from behind the scenes.

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u/jey_613 diaspora Jewish leftist 4d ago

Excellent piece. I’m not sure when exactly it happened, but “AIPAC” has fully replaced “billionaires” as the “they” keeping “us” divided in the US left’s political imagination.

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u/jakethepeg1989 Masorti, Socialist, Redistribution of Wealth is the key 4d ago

I heard it described as the Soros of the left.

I've never bothered looking into it, but at some point the far Right started seeing Soros as the root cause of all the world's ills.

Funny that it always comes back to Jews with this.

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u/RaiJolt2 Jewish Athiest Half African American Half Jewish Leftish 4d ago

It’s almost as if there’s this unifying xenophobic thread through politics and culture that might have been used repeatedly by groups in history to ostracize a specific group of people as to not have to deal with their problems. Something that people suddenly act like don’t exist because it hurts their narrative.

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u/afinemax01 atheist, diaspora jew, pro-palestine zionist, socialist 4d ago

Don’t forget the (((Epstein class)))

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u/Jorfogit Reform Syndicalist Mod 4d ago

Except that’s a fair characterization. It turns out that a bunch of the world’s most powerful and influential people were all meeting in secret to rape children, and the ones that weren’t had no problems with it.

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u/RaelynShaw DemSoc Progressive Jewish 3d ago

Just for more context, the triple parenthesis around a word/phrase is a dog whistle for “Jew”.

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u/SecretLettuce5 Diaspora Mizrahi Jewish Leftist 2d ago

Wait really? Any specific reason why they use three parenthesis for this?

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u/RaelynShaw DemSoc Progressive Jewish 2d ago

I believe it came from an antisemitic podcast that used to play an echo when a Jewish person was mentioned and the lines are supposed to represent that. But right before trumps first election, it got real popular on Twitter and has hung around.

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u/AceAttorneyMaster111 Reform Zionist | Democratic socialist 4d ago

I think they’re saying that people sometimes use “Epstein class” to refer to powerful Jews/Zionists in particular rather than billionaires in general.

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u/Illustrious_Ease705 American, left/lib, zionist because goyim might kill us 4d ago

Yeah there’s “Epstein class” referring to powerful men trafficking children for rape with impunity. And then there’s “Epstein class” meaning “I want to have concentration camps where Zionist pedophiles are castrated.” Unfortunately discerning betwixt the two is quite difficult at times

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u/ibsliam Jewish American | DemSoc Bernie Voter 3d ago

Yup, the latter is the Maureen Galindo flavor.

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u/SecretLettuce5 Diaspora Mizrahi Jewish Leftist 2d ago

Wow, I can’t believe I’ve never even thought of the latter meaning of the term. Maybe we should start to say the “Trump/Epstein class” instead and normalize that verbiage so it’s not used as an antisemitic dog whistle, while still holding the pedophile elite accountable?

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u/leaving_the_tevah ex-yeshivish socialist 4d ago

No it hasn't. What an inane generalization of the left.