The article discusses the “Jews are white” issue.
If you are a hard core leftist the world of politics has a simple narrative. There are two groups of people in the world:
1—Evil white people who have all the wealth, have all the power and oppress
2—The poor darker skinned masses.
However—the leftist Jews always viewed themselves as being a part of group 2. This is their perception—and crazy as it was—it was what they believed.
Now—in a matter of just a few months everything has changed.
Groups 1 and 2 are still there for the left, but the Jews are in group 1 in the new narrative.
That means that it is now OK for the left to hate Jews.
In their eyes Jews are now white.
Leftist Jews are now finding out how white people are treated by the left in the real world—with hate and discrimination.
What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical need; self-interest. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly god? Money. Very well, then! Emancipation from huckstering and money—consequently from practical, real Judaism—would be the self-emancipation of our time. […]It’s always been okay for the left to hate Jews. The left invented the modern form of it.
… Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man and turns them into commodities. Money is the universal self-established value of all things. It has, therefore, robbed the whole world—both the world of men and nature—of its specific value. Money is the estranged essence of man’s work and man’s existence, and this alien essence dominates him, and he worships it.
The god of the Jews has become secularized and has become the god of the world. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange. …
— Karl Marx, “On ‘The Jewish Question’”