My plea to the left: treat Jews the same way you’d treat any other minority

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7. Ken, the reactionary anti-Imperialist Left hates Jews...believes Hamas is progressive.

Here is the Socialist Workers Party theoretician John Molyneux instructing the members in the finer points of reactionary anti-imperialism:

[font color = "red"]"To put the matter as starkly as possible: from the standpoint of Marxism and international socialism an illiterate conservative superstitious Muslim Palestinian peasant who supports Hamas is more progressive than an educated liberal atheist Israeli who supports Zionism (even critically)."

And here is Judith Butler - a professor at Berkeley and one of the most influential academics on the planet – drawing the political conclusions: “Hamas and Hezbollah... are social movements that are progressive, that are on the Left, that are part of a global Left.”

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/palestinianauthority/11243168/Blaming-Israel-for-Palestinian-violence-is-racist-it-denies-that-Arabs-are-moral-agents.html