"Anti-Semitism has become a major issue for the American people, and for all democratic mankind. In the pattern of imperialist reaction, anti-Semitism today looms ever larger, not only alongside of anti-Communism, anti-Sovietism, anti-unionism, anti-alienism, and anti-Negroism, but in a kind of special relationship to these other elements: Negroes, aliens, union men, the Soviets, and Communists are all in some degree tarred by reaction as Jewish or as the dupes of the Jews. Every reactionary movement today is itself anti-Semitic, or is allied with anti-Semites; on the other hand, the more consistent a progressive movement is, the more it makes the fight against anti-Semitism a prominent part of its program of action. No anti-Semite can be in any sense progressive now; no progressive can for any reason compromise with anti-Semitism."
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"Toward the Unmasking of Anti-Semitism" article in Political Affairs (1948)
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Morris Schappes
Morris U. Schappes (pronounced SHAP-pess, born Moishe Shapshilevich in Kamianets-Podilskyi; May 3, 1907 – June 3, 2004) was a Jewish educator, writer, radical political activist, historian, and magazine editor who lived most of his life in the USA.
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