The following is an unedited press release submitted to YWN by the “Socialist Workers Party”, which is known as a communist party:
To the Satmar Hasidim and the whole Jewish community,
The Socialist Workers Party joins you in condemning the vicious Dec. 10 attack at the Jersey City Kosher Supermarket that killed Leah Mindel Ferencz, Moshe Deutsch, and Douglas Miguel Rodriguez. It’s important to tell the truth. This was murderous Jew hatred.
This is not the first anti-Semitic attack over the last several years in the U.S. including the attacks on synagogues in Pittsburgh, Penn., and Poway, Calif. At the moment these are acts by isolated individuals. The overwhelming majority of working people of all nationalities and religious beliefs oppose Jew-hatred. But if every expression of anti-Semitism isn’t answered and combated, that opposition can and will be pushed back.
Jew-hatred is stirred up in times of crisis under capitalism, as class tensions sharpen. The scapegoating of Jews for economic and social problems is a deadly threat to all Jews, religious and secular, in all walks of life and of all viewpoints.
It is also a threat to the political rights won through the American Revolution, the fight against slavery, and in the battles to build unions and to defeat Jim Crow segregation. Anti-Semitism is used to divide us, to try to get working people and the oppressed to take our eyes away from the real problem: a capitalist system that is based on maximizing profit at the expense of the needs of the vast majority.
The labor movement needs to stand with you in condemning these attacks.
The Socialist Workers Party offers you our solidarity and joins in fighting Jew-hatred and anti-Semitic attacks wherever and whenever they occur. We speak out and explain the importance of opposing Jew-hatred in all its ugly manifestations everywhere we go: on picket lines of workers on strike, door to door talking to working people at their homes, and at political and social protest actions.
Don’t hesitate to contact us. We stand shoulder to shoulder with you in the fight against anti-Semitic attacks and Jew-hatred.
Sincerely,
Lea Sherman, SWP candidate for US Senate New Jersey
Candace Wagner, SWP candidate for US House of Representatives District 8 New Jersey
Seth Galinsky SWP candidate in 2019 for New York City Public Advocate
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8 Responses
Thanks for your kind wishes, but no thanks for your efforts to get chummy. Nothing makes socialists drool like the thought of raiding the bank accounts and pockets of Jews who work hard for their parnosoh to spread the wealth to illegal immigrants, the lazy among us, and the culture that supports the most intolerable abuses of morality. Please find another country that you can fool with your nice sounding rhetoric. We are B”H bright enough to know that your seeming smile is sinister and devious.
VOTE COMMUNISTS!!
Its sad that there are still yidden who are attracted to radical left-wing socialist/communist and try to rationalize “jew-hating” as the inevitable outcome of “capitalist excess” and “greed” which leaves people in despair. This murderous attack had ZERO to do with any economic or social cause. It was pure hatred and evil disguised in some convoluted religious paradigm.
oh gosh! someone get me rat traps
Any Yid who pays attention to history knows that antisemitism and other hatreds flare at times of class conflict and class resentment. The press release is overly obtuse and so are the comments above.
Didn’t you guys spend almost 100 years erasing every trace of Yiddishkeit from all the areas you controlled? Get out of here you mishugoim.
the economy has been stable for so long, that people are able to sit and go crazy
Fix the headline to “Blames”!!!!!