i agree, hysterical denunciation achieves nothing, or is even counter-productive. reasoned criticism on the other hand is absolutely necessary.
Yes, but if you present reasoned criticism in a more diplomatic manner, it has a greater chance of getting through. Saying you're appaled, it's anti-semitic, and it's equivalent to far right propaganda is bound to be interpreted as an attack, especially given the tension between anarkismo and libcom. It all depends on whether you're content with being right or actually want to change people's minds.
i agree. but i do think the term has use to apply to e.g. conspiracy theories that make no reference to jews explicitly, but draw on the resonances of classical anti-semitism. i'm aware this is a partial redefinition of the term, but i think it actually makes more sense since it refers to arguments which have the structure of anti-semitism without the content of anti-jewish racism; whereas a truncated critique of capital focussing on finance may be just that, if anything an expression of commodity fetishism, a critique of capital that takes its most obvious form of appearance - money - as the root of all evil, so to speak. no necessary relation to anti-semitism at all.