If we take a counterfactual and pretend that Stalin vehemently opposed the creation of Israel, would this be better as a point of evidence that Communists are not antisemitic? I don’t think so. I think that if that were the case, it would be a widely used example by anti-communists that Communists are antisemitic, since they opposed the creation of a Jewish state in the wake of the Holocaust.
There are also other comments saying Stalin did not support Israel but was pushed to by Zionist people in the USSR before reversing course.
And the point isn’t about how anti-Communists interpret anything, they interpret anything and everything in bad faith so they’re irrelevant. There’s someone here saying there was antisemitism in USSR/Marxist circles (NOT my argument, by the way) when you responded with the proof that it isn’t the case because, among other things, Stalin helped found Israel. My argument is that is not a good piece of evidence there and you probably shouldn’t use it in the future if you don’t want to make yourself and USSR look particularly bad.
If we take a counterfactual and pretend that Stalin vehemently opposed the creation of Israel, would this be better as a point of evidence that Communists are not antisemitic? I don’t think so. I think that if that were the case, it would be a widely used example by anti-communists that Communists are antisemitic, since they opposed the creation of a Jewish state in the wake of the Holocaust.
Unironically, yes, it would be better.
There are also other comments saying Stalin did not support Israel but was pushed to by Zionist people in the USSR before reversing course.
And the point isn’t about how anti-Communists interpret anything, they interpret anything and everything in bad faith so they’re irrelevant. There’s someone here saying there was antisemitism in USSR/Marxist circles (NOT my argument, by the way) when you responded with the proof that it isn’t the case because, among other things, Stalin helped found Israel. My argument is that is not a good piece of evidence there and you probably shouldn’t use it in the future if you don’t want to make yourself and USSR look particularly bad.