Feminist/ queer issue?

In “What happened to you, Cory Booker” ( August 7), Shmuley Boteach omits one important aspect when discussing the BDS t- shirt slogan “Palestine is a Feminist/ Queer/ Refugee/ Racial Justice Issue.”

That slogan is an expression of the fashionable “intersectionality” philosophy to which left- wing or Antifa ( anti- fascist) supporters in America have become enslaved. It forges a link between all manifestations of oppression, however diverse. Female victims of sexual inequality are related to black victims of racial inequality and to victims of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender inequality, etc.

Antifa, which has swallowed the BDS doctrine in its entirety, decrees that Palestinians are quintessential victims. Their villainous oppressor is Israel, which it accuses of every sort of monstrous criminality. This new- wave philosophy posits that if one opposes racism, homophobia and sexism, then one must oppose Israel, and by extension all who support Israel and all Israelis, most of whom happen to be Jews. This philosophy is embraced by Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Britain’s Labour Party, and his extreme leftwing supporters.

This is why the recent Charlottesville violence in the US differed from the seminal anti- fascist Battle of Cable Street in the London of the 1930s. The Cable Street anti- fascists were Jews supported by non- Jewish friends, neighbors and fellow workers, who hated the antisemitism of the Black Shirt leader, Oswald Mosley and his bully- boys, and were determined to make a stand against them. Antifa, on the other hand, contains within itself an antisemitism as hateful as that mouthed by the fascists it opposes. NEVILLE TELLER Ramat Beit Shemesh