Like, 'if this bunch of fringe nutjobs are anti-zionist, anti-zionism can't be antisemtism, cannit?'
Yet one can't just plug into this isolated aspect of another group's extremism: Neturei Karta openly fraternises with Iran and Hezbollah.
Here in Guatemala we have Lev Tahor, a highly comparable sect of ultra-orthodox, ultra-insular Jews disavowed by the mainstream, and by Israel.
They too are rigidly anti-zionist, yet they are also into forced underaged marriages plus denying education to girls and have been formally investigated by the authorities here for child neglect/abuse and kidnapping.
If I were to amplify just one aspect of their worldview — that a Jewish state must not be permitted to exist before the Messiah shows up — conveniently ignoring other aspects of their beliefs and practices, I would surely be outing myself as some sort of morally-deranged moron.
But many on the Far Left, aka 'wokerati', fully engaged by a set of modern human-rights infused doctrines, are seemingly fine with sidling up to cultish clusters whose motivations are wholly theological and apocalyptic.
And this is precisely why so much hate has been enabled by their public demonstrations. They have accepted as fellow travellers fundamentalisms which are far more committed, uncompromising and ultimately serious than their own.
Collaborations with contrasting forms of militancy of questionable compatibility have never worked out well in the longer term for progressive movements and is anyway deeply damaging to the coherence of their cause.
And it goes without saying that the appropriation of Jewish voices, fringe or otherwise, in order to ziz zag around charges of (the oldest) chauvinistic prejudice, can not only be negligent as outlined above, it is also by nature unprincipled and probably further indicative of the very prejudice it is apparently seeking to camouflage.
