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>re: Antifa 'mapping' started a long time ago.
(Not that it's worth the keystrokes necessary to plug this into a board that is quickly devolving into a cultish echo chamber, but here goes nothing.)
This ‘antifa’ group was also Zionist, pro-Palestinian and Yiddish-speaking — and it’s trending
Read this article in Yiddish
“Antifa” is in the air. It’s on President Trump’s lips. It’s trending on Twitter, but it’s not a new thing.
Indeed, it has a very Jewish history. It’s an ideology that was born in order to oppose Hitler. “Antifa” is short for “anti-fascist.”
It’s so Jewish that one of the items being shared widely on Twitter right now is the Yiddish and Hebrew manifesto of the antifa arm of a group that was an offshoot of a Marxist-Zionist political party, “Left Poale Zion.”
The document and the organization that produced it may seem like a bundle of contradictions, and maybe more so today. The group’s members were Jews … and Arabs. But they were also Zionists — the Arabs, too. And although the official Palestinian leadership sided with the Germans in an effort to end the British mandate, the Palestinian members of this group sided with the allies.
They recruited fellow Arabs to fight against the Germans and raised funds for the Soviet army. On the domestic front, the organization preached unity between Jews and Arabs and sought to integrate the Histdarut, Israel’s main labor union.
Besides organizing rallies and conferences, Poale Zion’s antifa group raised money by selling stamps with its emblem abroad.
Here is the text of the manifesto, translated into English:
Antifa Yiddish by the Forward
Principles of Antifa
1) Antifa is open to all workers and citizens, who, regardless of their political orientation, recognize the need to combat fascist and anti-Semitic poison and recognize the solidarity of all workers’ national and social interests, regardless of their ethnicity or religion.
2) There is no place in Antifa for those who are an enemy of Jewish workers or Jewish immigration and settlement in the land (of Israel). There is no place in Antifa for those who are an enemy of Arab workers and their advancement in this land.
3) Antifa aims to forge in this land an anti-fascist force against all forms of fascism and chauvinism among the Jewish and Arab publics. We provide brotherly help to victims of fascism and anti-Semitism.
4) Antifa recruits the workers of this land to the worldwide fight against fascism.
While contemporary left-wing Jews have no direct connection to this pre-state antifa organization, some on Twitter cite it and similar organizations as an inspiration.
Enjoy that refreshing bit of Kool Aid at the end while you watch National Guard soldiers kneel and the JQ go perpetually unanswered by Q and Q+.