The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism and Its Jewish Supporters algemeiner.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from algemeiner.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Gaither Stewart
.The Polish word,
jestem ‘I am’, ‘here I am’, ‘present’ seems to define the life of the writer and cult figure for a generation, Andrzej Kusniewicz. On an overcast, pollution-infested Warsaw afternoon over thirty years ago in his crowded study in a surprisingly bourgeois apartment in a quiet residential area of the capital city, the poet-novelist insisted on the Polish word and the multiple occasions of his life when he answered
jestem. I, the interviewer, came to feel he had earned a right to the word. For all his life he had been ‘present’ so in contrast to the past about which he wrote.
Anti-Semitism and the Russian Revolution greenleft.org.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from greenleft.org.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Anti-Semitism is an evil that dogged the Russian Revolution from its beginning.
It was deeply entrenched by the Tsarist autocracy, deliberately fostered over centuries by 140 anti-Jewish laws and buttressed by the teachings of the church. Like the Untouchable caste in Hindu society, Jews were forced to perform tasks that were taboo in feudal society, while branded as pariahs and ghettoised.
They were the commercial intermediaries between the lords of the manors and their serfs. Jews were the resented traders who kept the wheels of agriculture turning, essential while being accused of crafty bargaining and usury.
Victor Serge spoke of anti-Semitism as an evil spirit that “was the enemy, the counter-revolution.”
March 5, 2021
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Canadian Dimension Born poor on Belfast’s Shankill Road in the midst of the Great Depression was certainly no entré to a life that would cross paths with Bertrand Russell, Vanessa Redgrave, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Simone de Beauvoir.
Ernest (Ernie) Tate would nevertheless work closely with luminaries such as these and many others who, like him, opposed the war in Vietnam in the 1960s. A lifelong revolutionary socialist, Tate was a leading organizer of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, worked for Russell’s Peace Foundation and its International War Crimes Tribunal, and partnered with the then leftist, David Horowitz (now a prominent conservative spokesman), in taking the anti-war side at an Oxford Union debate.