— Musings —01.10.2024 12:13 PM
Nazis, f**k off!
Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Henry Rollins are of Jewish descent. Joey and Tommy Ramone were Jews. So was Richard Hell and the Dictators. So is Fat Mike of NOFX. Brett Gurewitz and Greg Hetson of Bad Religion. The Dolls’ Sylvain Sylvain. Lenny Kaye and Chris Stein. Malcolm McLaren. Bernie Rhodes. Sleater-Kinney. And on and on.
To paraphrase Jello Biafra, also of Jewish descent: ALL NAZIS, FUCK OFF!
So I get where you’re coming from but I find the phrasing interesting and here’s why – while all Nazis are anti-Semitic, not all anti-Semites are Nazis. I doubt very much that those chanting “from the river to the sea” are national socialists. Why limit the denunciation to Nazis, why not denounce all identifiable demographics that engage in anti-semitism? Heck, I suspect that Nazis aren’t even in the majority of anti-semities, nowhere near.
But this is nothing new. It is very easy to denounce nazis to the point where, if you don’t denounce it, you’re “problematic”. And yet we continue to couch our language when it comes to denouncing other “identifiable demographics” that also engage in Jew hatred.
Just a thought.