Despite its origins in the work of the Jewish Karl Marx, communism never served the Jewish people particularly well.
Historians say that the portrayal of Trotsky “smells like anti-Semitism.”
Many years ago, while researching German supporters of Holocaust reparations, I went in search of information on the social-democratic politician Kurt Schumacher. I found what I was looking for, but right next to Schumacher’s listing in an encyclopedia was a surprise: “Scholem, Werner, * 29.12.1895 Berlin, † 17.7.1940 KZ Buchenwald; konfessionslos.”