Foreign Jews Shocked By Anti-Semitism Of #OccupyWallStreet

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Foreign Jews Shocked By Anti-Semitism Of #OccupyWallStreet

Oct 16, 2011 11 Comments ›› The Assassin

A growing number of Israelis and foreign Jewish groups are expressing concern over the anti-Semitic flavor of some of the “Occupy Wall St.” economic protests in the US.

From the 13th century expulsion of Englands Jews to the 19th century Russian pogroms to the Nazi Holocaust, sour economic conditions have historically formed the backdrop of rising anti-Semitism.

Last week, we reported on a lone protestor at the Wall Street sit-in who insisted that America’s economic woes could all be traced back to “the Jews.”

Since then that message has been picked up by others at “Occupy Wall St.” demontrations around the country.

In Los Angeles, California, protestor Patricia McAllister, who identified herself as an employee of the Los Angeles Unified School District (we can only hope she is not an educator), had this to say:

“I think that the Zionist Jews, who are running these big banks and our Federal Reserve, which is not run by the federal government… they need to be run out of this country.”

On the American Nazi Party website, leader Rocky Suhayda voiced support for “Occupy Wall St.” and asked, “Who hold the wealth and power in this country? The Judeo-Capitalists. Who is therefore the #1 enemy who makes this filth happen? The Judeo-Capitalists.”

One of people reportedly responsible for organizing the “Occupy Wall St.” protests, Adbusters editor Kalle Lasn, has a history of perpetuating conspiracy theories that say the Jews control America’s foreign policies.

Back in New York, another protestor insisted that “a small ethnic group constitutes almost all of the hedge fund managers and bankers on Wall St. They are all Jewish. There is a conspiracy in this country where Jews control the media, finances… They have pooled their money together in order to take control of America.”

Israel’s Yediot Ahronot newspaper called the anti-Semitic outbursts “hard to watch,” and an Israeli commenter said, “It’s just like pre-World War II Nazi Germany. You think blood libels can’t happen in America?”

It has been pointed out by many media commentators that the openly anti-Semitic remain but a small portion of those participating in the Occupy Wall St. movement. However, others have noted that Nazi anti-Semitism started out as a fringe phenomenon in Germany before eventually defining that nation’s domestic agenda in the 1940s.

Rsuhayda

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YERMOM

take you social justice commie bullshit and sell it somewhere else douche bag
D.L.

why the hostile comment? if that read japanese or chinese or black working class would you still be so angry? racist.
UniteDontDivide

But different ethnic groups have different histories, cultures, and social circumstances. You can’t freely interchange White and Black in a sentence to evaluate whether the sentence is racist- these words are not equivalent, they have massively different connotations. We have to fight for social justice for ALL of America’s Working Class. Race-baiting and racial division are classic anti-organization tactics used for decades in this country by the management to divide and conquer the workers.

A great example of how this underhanded, racist tactic is used can be found described in the book “Strikebreaking & intimidation: mercenaries and masculinity in twentieth century” by Stephen Harlan Norwood, in the chapter titled “Black Strikebreakers and the Defeat of the 1919 Steel Strike” (p.108).
Here’s a link.

http://books.google.com/books?id=MJJOl7SMWIoC&pg=PA108&dq=Strikebreaking+and+intimidation+Black+Strikebreakers+and+the+Defeat+of+the+1919+Steel+Strike&hl=en&ei=I7CkTvOaK8fe0QH9uu2YCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-thumbnail&resnum=1&ved=0CDAQ6wEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

Fecklesswonder

I feel the need to weigh in here. I’m jewish, but don’t look it. I drove down to New York from my school in Western Mass and spent four days at the occupation last weekend. I talked with quite a few characters across a wide variety of political, religious, and rationality spectrums- and not once did I encounter even a hint of anti-semitism. Before hasty comparisons are made with pre-WWII Nazi Germany, let’s consider what this phenomenon is:
It’s a group of leaderless (though admirably well self-organized) people joining together for a fairly wide array of reasons to engage in a continuous, weeks-long occupation of a semi-public space. That’s going to attract every nut job in a thirty mile radius. And the news media has done a thorough job of finding the loudest of those crazies and putting them on the evening news to represent the movement as a whole.But take it from those of us who have actually spent time there. The majority of the people who are participating in the occupation aren’t the nutters who get the spotlight. They’re teachers, students, mothers, activists, the newly-unemployed and underemployed, hard-working people who have been disenfranchised by forces beyond their control… There is no typical protester, because this economic situation affects our whole country.

lk

I hope you are right. However, I am hearing messages like, “Come on american nation ! Cut the necks of bankers ! Before they cut
yours ! / The political system, we are living in is not a demokracy but a
monetarian feudalism.” (Grammar a bit off because this was written to me from Eastern Europe. Because this same message was sent from someone who openly blames Jews for the economy and says they are in charge of the banks, I know he inciting hatred. There is and will grow an anti-Semetic element. The question is to what degree.
lk

I hope you are right. However, I am hearing messages like, “Come on american nation ! Cut the necks of bankers ! Before they cut
yours ! / The political system, we are living in is not a demokracy but a
monetarian feudalism.” (Grammar a bit off because this was written to me from Eastern Europe. Because this same message was sent from someone who openly blames Jews for the economy and says they are in charge of the banks, I know he inciting hatred. There is and will grow an anti-Semetic element. The question is to what degree.
lk

I hope you are right. However, I am hearing messages like, “Come on american nation ! Cut the necks of bankers ! Before they cut
yours ! / The political system, we are living in is not a demokracy but a
monetarian feudalism.” (Grammar a bit off because this was written to me from Eastern Europe. Because this same message was sent from someone who openly blames Jews for the economy and says they are in charge of the banks, I know he inciting hatred. There is and will grow an anti-Semetic element. The question is to what degree.
lk

I hope you are right. However, I am hearing messages like, “Come on american nation ! Cut the necks of bankers ! Before they cut
yours ! / The political system, we are living in is not a demokracy but a
monetarian feudalism.” (Grammar a bit off because this was written to me from Eastern Europe. Because this same message was sent from someone who openly blames Jews for the economy and says they are in charge of the banks, I know he inciting hatred. There is and will grow an anti-Semetic element. The question is to what degree.

Anonymous

it aint the jews brother…its the god damn arabs and the price of oil thats driving our economies into a “shiite hole”
Len

I heard a lot of occupiers calling New York “Jew York” so that give you an idea of where their ire is directed. It’s the pro-Palestine, anti-Israel bunch in masse.