Like the Left, [...] the anti-Semite sees politics as a contest between oppressors and oppressed and claims to side resolutely with the latter. [...] anti-Semitism from slaves and the colonised reads Jews as the apex of whiteness, the highest kings of a European elite. It is, in the Nietzschean frame and in its deluded self-image, the lambs' revolt against birds of prey. [...] Such is the 'socialism of fools', but these examples are also designed to illustrate that there is nothing necessarily left-wing about purported anti-elitism. Today's tabloid attacks on 'union barons' ordering strikes to hurt 'ordinary people' ought to dispel that illusion. [...]