Elsässer confirms that he is an anti-American and anti-capitalist leftist, and tries helplessly and in vain to hide that he is also anti-Semitic.
You can’t defend enemies of Israel like Ahmadinejad and denounce Jewish groups like Chabad Lubavitch, and you can’t flirt with symbols like 88 without knowing that you’re promoting anti-Semitism. Of course, Elsässer is smart enough to warn against fascism and National Socialism at the same time, but he’s also smart enough to know what signals he’s sending to his old and new friends in terms of anti-Semitism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Semitism. The American left. If he doesn’t want to do that, he should let it go; The fact that he doesn’t show that he wants to do that.
The Compact ban is wrong because it does not involve any criminal acts and it unlawfully restricts freedom of the press and freedom of expression. Compact remains a piece of garbage. But a democracy can also tolerate a piece of garbage.