France, Coordination of Anarchist Groups - Against anti-Semitism, anti-fascist struggles and popular self-defense! (fr, pt)

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Racist ideology increased globally in the French society. Antisemitism, as some have 
erroneously considered residual and endangered in France following the Second World 
hardly, found a mass audience in recent years. For the first time in France since the 
Second World War, children were murdered because they were Jews, at Ozar Hatorah in 
Toulouse. Synagogues and Jewish businesses were attacked, community cemeteries and 
vandalized. People assaulted, insulted, because they are Jewish or because they are 
considered as such. On the Internet, antisemitic explode: the old stinking catchphrase 
"global Jewish conspiracy" spreads at high speed by text and videos ... ---- More 
recently, the dissemination of anti-Semitic ideology has led people to take several 
synagogues (Aulnay-sous-Bois, Sarcelles, Asni?res ...) or Jewish shops, presenting these 
racist attacks as a way of asserting its "solidarity with Palestine."

Anti-Semitism, an "import product"?

The discourse of the media, politicians and different currents French reactionaries is to 
present the development of anti-Semitism as "the importation of Israeli-Palestinian 
conflict in France," and refers to black and Arab national minority as a vector " new 
anti-Semitism "would be imported and Muslim as inherently anti-Semitic and hostile to Jews 
and Jewish. Such a discourse enables racist and Islamophobic dynamics point of "barbarian" 
mal-educated and fanatics who would import civil war on French territory in their luggage 
migrant and weakens the understanding of the danger of anti-Semitism within the popular 
classes, and even within the Jewish national minority.

Jewish minority and squeezed to get behind the French state and its racist ideology, which 
is presented as a bulwark against other minorities presented as "new barbarians"

The different currents of Zionism, in turn, coalesce opposition to Zionism and 
anti-Semitism, considering that such acts are inevitable and logical consequence of the 
solidarity movement with Palestine, and opposition with the Zionist ideology. It is to 
silence any criticism of Israeli colonialism, but also to squeeze the Jewish national 
minority it solidarity with the Israeli colonial project presented as the only answer to 
anti-Semitism. The consequence is to isolate the Jewish minority of other oppressed 
minorities, and prevent the formation of a common anti-colonial and anti-racist of 
oppressed front.

Antisemitism, a product of Zionism?

For some segments of the pro-Palestinian movement, violence would the fact that Jewish 
fascist provocations of the JDL. Anti-Semitism is the product of the amalgam that are 
common between Jewish Zionists, Zionist and Israeli. Or if amalgams are dramatic and join 
the anti-Semitic assumptions, it is wrong to consider Zionism as the source of 
anti-Semitism, as it is also wrong to think that racism takes its source in the real 
jeopardizes, or fantasized supposed to all or part of minorities who are victims.

Racism against systematically seeks to justify the elements of its ideology by the acts of 
some of oppressed minorities by presenting them as the source of a "racist backlash" that 
would express the essence of oppressed minority.

Ansi the anti-Muslim racism is as a reaction to the "Islamists", the anti-Roma racism as a 
reaction to the dealing of "Roma mafia".

It is the same with homophobic and transphobic lesbophobic movements / claiming that do 
respond to the "dictatorship of the LGBT lobby".

Anti-Semitism existed long before Zionism, and the form it is taking is not fundamentally 
different from the form it took before the onset of the Zionist ideology.

Fight the fascist tendencies and r?actionaires within national minorities, support and 
develop egalitarian tendencies, it is a necessity. Blaming these trends of racism, it is a 
way to evade responsibility racist oppressors.

Antisemitism, a watch French passion

In reality, it is an economic and social context of the crisis of capitalism, which drives 
increasingly popular classes in poverty and misery, which is responsible for the rise of 
racism in general and anti-Semitism in particular. It is for the dominant classes to point 
scapegoats: whereas "black", the "Arab" and "Roma" steal work and social aid, "Jews" would 
control the economy. This re-actualization of the old refrain about the Jewish conspiracy 
is reflected in the development of new conspiracy theories about the "Illuminati" (which 
take the place of Masons before, enough to fashion). And while the popular classes are at 
war with each other, bosses and politicians are immune to the workers' anger and the 
capitalist system and (neo) colonial continue to exploit us every day a little harder.

If about events Teal, they sell us the myth of France where everyone lives together in 
peace and harmony, is to forget the racist and colonial history of France that has 
maintained and still maintains its national minorities in positions of social inferiority, 
by confining the menial tasks, by discriminating and stigmatizing. Thus, when anti-Semitic 
attacks peppered the France in 1980, Raymond Barre could he say: "This heinous attack that 
would hit the Israelites who went to the synagogue and hit innocent French crossing the 
rue Copernic" way give a racist nail while maintaining suspicion on "Israelites" which 
are, anyway, not really innocent.

On the contrary, hatred of Jews and Jewish and oppression of the Jewish national minority 
considered a foreign body, parasite, responsible for all evils is part of the French 
national ideology and history of nationalism and fascism in Europe. Since the Dreyfus 
Affair, anti-Semitism is an old tradition in France expressed repeatedly: Drumont and his 
book "The Jewish France", the Vichy regime and active collaboration in the Holocaust 
revisionism of a Faurisson, the FN and the statements of Jean-Marie Le Pen.

It has always been considered by the nationalist ideology as a way to ensure the cohesion 
of the French national body. It has also historically been one of the means used to 
protect the bourgeoisie in crisis, presenting the Jewish minority as an avatar of the 
ruling class, denying the Jewish working class.

Colonial power in French neocolonial power: anti-Semitism as a means to retract the French 
colonialism

Long before the birth of Zionism, anti-Semitism is an ideology of mass in France and the 
French colonial sphere.

Because anti-Semitism is also historically a strategy of French colonial power to preserve 
the anger of populations colonized es.

In Algeria, the colonial era, the anti-Semitic league multiplied since the nineteenth 
century conferences and propaganda to mount the Muslim and Jewish and Jews against each 
other ...

The latter being designated as responsible colonial ills, the first being that they show 
solidarity pressur?Es a colonial power that has yet still considered outside the national 
body.

Today, the French neocolonial power reuses the same strings, aided by nationalist 
currents, but also by religious fascists.

Religious fascists, French nationalists, including clustered around current Soral and 
Dieudonn?, refer to the Jewish minority as responsible for the oppression of black and 
Arab minorities in poor neighborhoods.

Jews and Jewish are treated as finance and blamed for the crisis, so to divert popular 
anger toward a logic pogrom, and protect the French bourgeoisie, but also French imperialism.

One way to avoid any questioning of the actual capitalist system, the state, 
neo-colonialism. Because rather that identifying the private ownership of the means of 
production, wage exploitation, class society, bourgeois power, hierarchy racist and 
patriarchal domination as the source of the oppression of the oppressed and exploited of a 
minority is designated as responsible for all ills.

Reject the manipulation of anti-colonialism for racist purposes or to protect the French 
imperialism

The French media, silent French colonial crimes, focus on the Israeli colonial crimes, 
while presenting them as acts of "self-defense".

Let us be clear: the Israeli colonialism, like colonialism all, is to fight with 
determination. Our solidarity is with the oppressed Palestinian people and we denounce the 
colonial crimes. But in France, it is a priority to French colonial rule and French 
imperialism that we have to attack, otherwise the anti-imperialism becomes a diversionary 
tactic.

Similarly, our solidarity must go to France to all minorities oppressed by racism, which 
the Jewish minority. Anticolonial solidarity must not be a pretext for the dissemination 
of racist ideology.

Anticolonial solidarity with the struggle against the occupation in Palestine can not be 
done effectively if we denounce first loud and French imperialism.

Similarly, it can not be done effectively by fighting frontally and crushing anti-Semitic 
ideology and its manifestations. Not only because it is a racist need. But also because 
anti-Semitism that existed before the development of Zionist currents, does that 
strengthen rather than weaken them. This is not because these currents orchestrate 
anti-Semitism that must be locked in the denial of the anti-Semitic poison. Rather, it is 
showing through concrete actions that the alternative to anti-Semitism is anti-racist 
unity, revolutionary action, not the active or passive support to a colonial project that 
we will weaken.

The fight against anti-Semitism is not solvable in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict! It is 
a struggle against all forms of racism we need!

But the struggle against anti-Semitism and all forms of racism can not be reduced to an 
internal practice of training within the antifascist movement against Israeli 
colonization, since there is also outside. Certainly, we must carefully separate 
anti-Semitism and anti-colonialist movement, but it is not enough.

Anti-Semitism, like all forms of racism, is a trap for the working class and national 
minorities. If this is the state of Israel that oppresses Palestinian ne s on their land, 
it is the French state that oppresses by Jews and Jewish concert, Arab and other national 
minorities. The fight against the (neo) colonialism is not limited to supporting the 
Palestinian people. To bring down the (neo) colonialism, racial hatred will we ever 
appealed. Instead, we need to build alliances between the oppressed national minorities 
and sexual minorities, especially to counter the attacks LGBT-phobic, racist and 
antisemitic which multiply. We need to unite around our common interests, on a class 
basis, to develop popular struggles able to bend our common enemies: States and 
bourgeoisie, whatever the religious or national identities they adopt.

On August 2, 2014

International Relations Coordination of Anarchist Groups