Again, the fact that articles from Zionist organizations finding "anti-Semitism" is being posted on left forums like this one is tragic, especially considering how so many prominent leftists, Chomsky included, have spoken out against this witchhunt campaign for what it is -- an attempt by a racists to whitewash racism and oppression, a matter of much a do about nothing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvVlM5RlSe0
"Question: 'Incidents of anti-Semitism have come up at the Occupy protests. Why is anti-Semitism starting to rise among the left, and what is your advice to young Jewish activists?"Chomsky: As far as I know, it's not true. [applause]
If you're out to look for it, you can find things. When you take a big mass of people, you can find a little bit of almost anything.
On the other hand, this claim that there's anti-Semitism on the left, just look at its history. Look at the early 1960s-70s. There was practically an industry of left-liberals, including the Democratic Socialists who were among the worst, trying to show that Dan Berrigan was an anti-Semite, that everyone who opened their mouths were anti-Semites. There were literally efforts -- Seymour Martin Lipset well known sociologist, was running big studies to run through Black Panther newspapers to see if he could find a poem by a twelve-year-old kid which maybe had some anti-Semitic implications. Okay, that shows they're all anti-Semites [sarcastically]. The cry of "anti-Semitism" is a good way to shut people up [applause] because nobody wants to be charged with that. I'd be pretty cautious about those charges. But if it's real, then you respond to it. Whatever it is, anti-Semitism today isn't even a toothpick on a mountain compared to anti-Muslim hysteria [applause].
A lot of the states in the Union here in [the United States] passing constitutional amendments to prevent the courts from using Halakha, Talmudic law [sarcastically]. If they did that, people wouldn't even laugh. But there are states doing something equally laughable and ridiculous -- except that it's dangerous -- which is trying to institute constitutional amendments to prevent the use of Sharia law. This is about as likely as an asteroid hitting the state [laughter]. But this is all over the place. That's real. The FBI is breaking into people's houses and arresting them for what's called "material support to terrorism" -- meaning they said something favorable to Palestinian movements or something. Nothing like that is happening to the Jewish population. If there are any bits and pieces of anti-Semitism, then fine, shout at them or argue against it. But I think it's extremely slight if it's there at all, in comparison to major movements of hatred and repression, hatred of immigrants, blacks, racism, anti-Muslim racism which is an extraordinary and really major phenomenon. [applause]
Not to mention all the people whose names have been sullied and slandered in this way, from Norman Finkelstein to Joseph Massad to Hugo Chavez to Occupy Wall Street.
The user above even has the audacity to post a shitty pamphlet arguing that Zionism should not be referred to as a form of racism, amid other forms of whitewashing (see page 21). Pathetic, and a perfect example of how far leftists will go to whitewash racism against Arabs and privilege white identity. It is again a statement about how poorly anti-racism is understood by people on the left, which can be expected considering pamphlets and blog posts such as this make it very clear that the anarchist community is supposed to remain a predominantly white community, wherein Jewishness (in the abstract) is an extension of white supremacy vis-a-vis the identification of Palestinians as the indigenous population.
As for the question about the Israel Lobby, good job changing the subject. The issue was never whether or not the Israel lobby is the driving force, it is whether or not speaking out about this racist lobby and its advocacy, or exaggerating it, is a form of "anti-Semitism".
In the future, please keep your shitty pamphlets at home and come back when you have a deeper analysis of how white supremacy, racism, and colonialism work. The continued insistence on finding "anti-Semitism" in the Palestine Solidarity movement is useless at best and debilitating and apologetic for white supremacy at worst.
Here are some good places to start:
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/05/2013521184814703958.htm...
http://you-dont-look-anti-semitic.blogspot.com/
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/54108250/thepast.info/past-read.pdf
http://dysophia.wordpress.com/2012/06/27/antisemitism-and-anarchy-dysoph...
Since the anti-Jewish attacks are mostly speculative/based on fantasy, allow me to indulge in a little of my own. Let's pretend for a moment that this beast called "The Israel Lobby" with a singular agenda and the power to control the US government really existed. Now let's pretend for a moment that it didn't, that it's been magically disappeared from history. The looming question then becomes: Would US foreign policy somehow be benign toward the formerly colonized parts of the world? Would the Cold War have looked substantially different? Would there have been no substantial US support for the slew of Third World dictators who displayed the requisite anti-Communism? Would US policy toward emerging oil-rich states (monarchist, or one-party democracies, or whatever) have been different? This line of bullshit relies on an implicit assumption that US foreign policy agendas would have been more moral, humane, transparent, and in the interest of the vast majority of the world's inhabitants in the absence of some pernicious anti-human Jewish agenda.