Vol. 79/No. 9      March 16, 2015

A statement by Glova Scott, Socialist Workers Party candidate for City Council in Washington, D.C., titled “Workers Need to Fight Jew-Hatred!” is getting a response. “The poison of anti-Semitism seeks to divide and weaken the working class, pointing away from the propertied rulers as the source of attacks on our wages, hours, working conditions and safety on the job,” Scott said. “When Hamas hails the knife attack that wounded Israelis on a city bus Jan. 21 as a ‘bold, heroic act,’ it is a blow to common struggle by working people in the Middle East.

“Fighting all expressions of Jew-hatred is a precondition to advancing the struggles by the multinational working class in Israel and by the Palestinian people against national oppression.”

The statement, which appeared in the Feb. 9 issue of the Militant, was reposted by the Independent Political Report website (right).

The Socialist Workers campaign in Washington recently received the following email, with the subject line “Thank you for your stance!”

I am emailing you all the way from New Zealand because I want to thank you for your statement regarding anti-Semitism and Hamas. I left socialism several years ago here as I felt the movement had become increasingly reactionary and sectarian in its support of an organization like Hamas. The minute we started advocating that it is OK for a bus driver in Tel Aviv to become a legitimate target for violence instead of someone who is my brother and comrade, we lost all sense of true Marxist principles.

I hope you are just the first of many socialists that takes this brave move and stands for true Marxist anti-racist principles.

Yours in solidarity,
N.T.
 
 
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