Communist-aligned antiracist groups resisted singling out antisemitism as a distinct issue.

Evidence

Right from the time of the Occupation, the Communist leadership’s increasingly French nationalist tone had made it less keen than its own MNCR affiliate to make Jews or antisemitism appear to be any kind of special case. The MRAP, under Communist domination and desperate to avoid accusations of being simply a ‘union of Jews’, therefore portrayed the LICA as remaining trapped in a one-dimensional struggle against antisemitism and failing to enlarge sufficiently into the struggle against anti-Arab racism. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1368

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the book’s central thesis about how antisemitism and Islamophobia were historically linked in European antiracist movements, and to the later MRAP-LICRA rivalry.
• QUESTION: Does the tension between ‘one-dimensional’ antisemitism campaigns and broader antiracism still shape how European organizations frame antisemitism today?