ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Facing the real cause of the long Arab war
by Caroline B. Glick
May 14, 2021
In his book From Ambivalence to Betrayal: The Left, the Jews, and Israel, the late historian Robert Wistrich documented how before, during and after the Nazi period scholars from the political left disregarded and denied the ideological power antisemitism held over the Germans and their collaborators. The cause of their blindness was Marxism. Marxism has long been the theoretical prism through which the left sees the world. Marxism is hateful and contemptuous of Judaism because Judaism is fundamentally opposed to the obedient universality Communism demands. Karl Marx and his followers sought to eradicate Judaism through a world Communist revolution that Jews could only join if they first abandoned their national, cultural and religious identities. READ MORE