i love how he says “older jews” were against it but “british antifa” went against them, as if old jews were particularly against antifascism & as if the majority of british antifa fighting the BUF weren’t london jews ??? what the fuck
Seriously, way to gloss over the fact that the march was meant to terrorise the large Jewish population living in the East End and that the Battle of Cable Street was mostly orchestrated by a leftist Jewish collective known as the Jewish People’s Council. You can read more about them here.
I also think that you can’t paint Jewish resistance to fascism without also acknowledging that they were literally putting their and their families lives on the line. For Jews it’s always a question of whether to fight or to keep our heads down because history (yes before the Holocaust) has shown us time and time again that it can always get worse.
The original thread on twitter, doesn’t gloss over that by the way. I don’t know why the OP decided to include “older Jews” but none of the following (link to the full thread):
1) The Rich White Boys of the Far Right Don’t Need Their Speech Protected, Marginalized Communities Do.
2) Free Speech Has Not Led Us to Continuous Progress for People of Color.
3) The United States was Founded on Popular Protest, not Free Speech.
4) Not All Ideas Are Created Equal. Sorry. I Know That is a Hard Thing to Hear, But It is True for Me, and It Should Be True for Everyone With a Heart.
5) Their Speeches Aren’t Just Speeches, They Are Organizing Opportunities.
6) May I Present the Evidence? Free Speech and Nazi Germany.
7) Their Movement is Calling for Literal Genocide. Will You Do Nothing?
If someone walked up to you and said, “I am planning on killing you, your entire family and a significant number of the people who you know and care about,” how many of you would argue that this falls under “free speech”?
Of course you wouldn’t. You would understand that it is a threat and you would do anything you could to shut that threat down. Maybe you would file a police report, buy a gun, or fight that sonofabitch right there, or maybe you would be too afraid to do anything, but regardless of how you responded you would understand that this person needs to be stopped before he hurts you and your loved ones.
Every word from a neo-Nazi’s mouth is a threat of violence against Jewish people, Roma people and people of color and many others.
Not only is it a threat of violence, it is an active attempt to bring that violence into existence by recruiting others who will aid them in taking this violence to its greatest possible extreme.
Show the same respect for marginalized people’s rights to be protected and to defend themselves from political violence that you would expect to be shown if under threat of interpersonal violence.
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