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Is Occupy Wall Street anti-Semitic?

Are the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations anti-Jewish? That is what the Emergency Committee for Israel is claiming in a new video (below). The video features clips of Democratic politicians expressing sympathy for the OWS protesters, followed by clips of some protesters alleging a Jewish conspiracy controls the banking cartels that exploit the American people.

Of course, the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations are not anti-Semitic or anti-Jewish. That is to say, some of the participants are surely anti-Semitic, just as some are surely anti-Black, some are surely anti-Asian, and some are surely anti-Gay. All of these haters are probably found at OWS in more or less the same proportion as they appear in the rest of the population.

The attempt by the Emergency Committee for Israel to paint the entire
Occupy Wall Street movement as anti-Semitic when its messages are only
representative of an extreme minority and condemned by a large majority is a shoddy, sloppy example of how right-wing elements in the Jewish community cynically smear their ideological, and now their economic, opponents.

What the Emergency Committee for Israel has actually done by producing this pathetic piece of propaganda – as has Commentary magazine and other outlets, by uncritically re-broadcasting this disingenuous disinformation – is revealed that they are card-carrying 1%-ers. They are choosing sides against the exploited 99%. They should have the integrity to do so honestly.

But when they try to scare off other Jews from supporting the OWS protesters with obviously false claims of pervasive anti-Semitism, they are engaging in the lowest form of cowardice. As the 99% finally rises up, the 1% knows they will soon receive their comeuppance. So these modern-day slave-masters, the 1%, are trying to hide behind the skirt of American Jews, the 2%.

They are also stupid for not doing their homework; upwards of 88% of Israelis support the July 14th Movement, the ‘Israeli Summer’ that predated the ‘American Autumn’. Most Israelis agree that the wealthiest 1% are responsible for their economic woes. And here, it’s not just some CEOs that are Jewish, it’s almost every single one. Does that make nearly all Israelis anti-Semitic, as well?

David Sheen is a reporter and content editor at Haaretz Newspaper in Israel and has authored award-winning blogs on ecological sustainability and social justice. His website is www.davidsheen.com

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I guess they missed or decided to ignore the 1000 Jews who probably had the most meaningful Kol Nidre service of their lives at the NYC protest:

http://972mag.com/a-different-and-momentous-yom-kippur-in-downtown-new-york/24848/

Why of course OWS is “anti-semitic”. ANY rhetoric, action, or belief system that doesn’t subscribe to the far right wing efforts to maintain the status quo are “anti-semitic”.

Besides, who cares? Don’t you realize that these protestors are defecating in our nation’s prestine parklands, have no message, no leaders, and expect nothing but handouts from our government? Thank God that Sean Hannity and Mark Levin are keeping us well informed about the motives and tactics of these filthy street urchins and hooligans.

Can’t help but wonder though…..

When these two were screaming for Obama to support the Iranian protestors, did that include sending Andy Gump over with shiploads of outhouses?

RE: “Most Israelis agree that the wealthiest 1% are responsible for their economic woes. And here, it’s not just some CEOs that are Jewish, it’s almost every single one. Does that make nearly all Israelis anti-Semitic, as well?” ~ Sheen

MY COMMENT: Technically, the ‘July 14th’ Israelis are called self-hating Jews.
This is how it works:
Any non-Jew who says that the wealthiest 1% are responsible for their economic woes is an anti-Semite.
Any Jew who says that the wealthiest 1% are responsible for their economic woes is a self-hating Jew.
And, as Hermann Goering famously said during the Nuremberg Trials: “It works the same way in any country.”
I know everything there is to know about anti-Semitism because I’m a proud graduate of Glenn Beck Universty® (GBU™).

P.S. MEET MY NEW “¡MUY MACHO!” ICON/AVATAR. Are those “Bette Davis eyes” (VIDEO-03:38), or are they the cold, calculating eyes of a sociopath (or perhaps even a psychopath)?
Fulgencio Batistahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgencio_Batista

The rich, jews and gentiles alike, will do nearly anything to protect their status and maintain their dominance over the masses. They thought hey, what can we accuse his movement of to discredit them the most? And considering NY’s demographics the answer is obvious, antisemitism. And lucky for them there were a few assholes there who really are antisemitic that supplied the gas for the fire.

Like in most cases where accusations of antisemitism are carelessly thrown around it does little to convince the majority. The same will apply to wall street.

It illustrates the collusion of interests, the greed and self-serving exceptionalism, between right-wing financial and corporate interests and the Zionist state. Not all of these people are Jewish, even if many are. It is the oldest meme in the Zionist handbook to identify Zionist interests with Judaism, and thus equate anti-Zionism, and now anti-corporate robbery with antisemitism. It is so tired and pathetic I doubt it will have much traction. Quite frankly I couldn’t care less what the personal religious and cultural preferences are amongst this super-privileged elite, with their direct line to state policies are. There are all sorts of unsavoury political and religious beliefs in there – support for right wing extremists, war, apartheid and the daylight robbery of ordinary citizens to subsidise grossly extravagant lifestyles. Israel’s state has become enmeshed with them for political advantage, the influencing of lobbies and a direct line to power. It is no wonder they are all corrupt, power-seeking demagogues who couldn’t care less about the human life they are prepared to sacrifice in pursuit of their hold on power and privilege.