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"Anti-Semitism" used to stir controversy at Occupy Wall Street
I woke up the other morning, as usual, to a clock radio, tuned to a station that broadcasts the Moonie-owned Washington Times Radio (I don't care what wakes me up, as long as it's loud enough). The guest was Lanny Davis, former adviser to Bill Clinton, former Yale classmate of BOTH George W. Bush and Hillary Clinton, and senior advisor and spokesperson for The Israel Project. Davis wife is Carolyn Atwell-Davis, legislative affairs director for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (oh, no).
Davis, on this particular broadcast, stated that the Democrats (i.e. Al Gore) were throwing themselves behind Occupy Wall Street, and that he supported the "left wingers" right to protest. Of course. After all, the hammer and sickle clad "left wingers" were the ones most likely to heckle the likes of John Friend, who spoke out against Israel at Occupy Wall Street San Diego.
He then got on a rant about how the "right wing wackos" were coming out of the woodwork with signs and slogans denouncing (for crying out loud) Zionism. He also threw into the same pot Gaza supporters and people who believe that the US government is controlled by Israel and/or Zionist Neocons (geesh!).
According to Wikipedia, Davis:
...worked as a lobbyist for the nation of Pakistan prior to the attacks of September 11, 2001 Davis "specializes in lobbying for controversial corporate and foreign clients. He has "built a client list that now includes coup supporters in Honduras, a dictator in Equatorial Guinea, for-profit colleges accused of exploiting students, and a company that dominates the manufacture of additives for infant formula," as well as an "Ivory Coast strongman whose claims to that country’s presidency have been condemned by the international community and may even set off a civil war." Among his clients are "Ivory Coast leader and flagrant human rights violator Laurent Gbagbo" and "Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, the longtime dictator of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea."
Well paid trolls like Davis, Fox News, Michelle Malkin, Sean Hannity, Jon Stewart, and many, many others (including some parts of the following article) have turned this Soros funded packaged protest into a silly and predictable "left versus right" dichotomy. However, the article mentioned is one of only a handful of (somewhat truthful) reports, surprisingly enough, from Salon Magazine:
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Homeless "anti-Semite" was around long before Occupy Wall Street
A man being using to tar Occupy Wall Street as anti-Semitic has long trolled the financial district
Right-wing pundits and Republican Party figures are continuing their attempt to smear the Occupy Wall Street movement as anti-Semitic, but we now have more evidence that the charge is profoundly dishonest.
To review: the Emergency Committee for Israel (which, it turns out, is funded by Wall Street) released an ad last week claiming that Occupy Wall Street is shot through with anti-Semitism, and demanding that Democrats condemn the protests. That attack has now been picked up by various pundits and GOP officials. The Republican National Committee started using the line against Democrats Wednesday. The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin inevitably piled on. Fox News is all over the story.
Exhibit A in the ad (watch it below) is a sign-bearing man who yells that “Jews control Wall Street!” Now, as I’ve previously reported, Occupy protesters have taken to surrounding the man, who gave his name to me recently as David Smith, with rebuttal signs, including one that reads, “Asshole —>”. Smith has been hanging around Zuccotti Park nearly every day for a couple of weeks.
But as Josh Nathan-Kazis reports at the Forward, Smith started carrying anti-Semitic signs around the financial district long before Occupy Wall Street existed:
Occupy Wall Street’s most visible anti-Semite was picketing the Financial District long before Zuccotti Park was occupied. …
During a trip to Zuccotti Park to observe the early stages of the protest on September 19, two days after activists first set up camp there, the Forward’s Nate Lavey and I watched as Smith entered the plaza with his cardboard sign, was confronted by one vocal passerby, and then was chased out of the occupied plaza by a shouting mob of activists. Police eventually intervened to separate him from the crowd.
Smith is a familiar face to those of us who work downtown. The Forward office is a few blocks from Wall Street, and I saw him at least once earlier this summer, picketing silently near the New York Stock Exchange.
That account matches the widespread hostility I’ve observed among occupiers against Smith. Given that Occupy Wall Street is based in a public space, occupiers simply don’t have the power to permanently kick Smith out. Of course anti-Semitism needs to be confronted when it crops up. And that’s exactly what the true occupiers have been doing.
Smith, according to a recent interview, is homeless and going blind from glaucoma. He previously told me that he made a sign reading “Google: Zionists Control Wall St.” because God told him to. And yet, as Nathan-Kazis notes, Smith has been endlessly written about, photographed and filmed. He now represents Occupy’s “anti-Semitism problem.”
Another man featured in the Emergency Committee for Israel ad is Danny Cline (Klein?), who appears to be an aspiring YouTube star with no involvement in Occupy Wall Street beyond showing up at the park to film his own rants.
[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3aqv7TYSM0]
The reality is that the Occupy Wall Street movement is filled with Jews. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency recently noted its distinctly “Jewish flavor.” Fifteen hundred people attended a Yom Kippur service outside Liberty Plaza earlier this month, in what participants described as one of the most powerful and moving events of Occupy to date.
Still, the “Occupy Wall Street is anti-Semitic” meme — a classic example of a tactic known as “nutpicking” — spreads. Don’t expect the fact that all this is largely based on two or three trolls to stop the right from continuing the attacks.
Here’s that Emergency Committee for Israel ad:
[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIlRQCPJcew]
[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wUyeFKBl4E]
http://www.salon.com/2011/10/21/homeless_anti_semite_was_around_long_b...
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Below - the Official "Pogrom" (pun intended) of the 1968 Chicago Seven Conspiracy Trial - The tired old "Left vs Right" then, as now - deja vu all over again.
Though the anti-Vietnam war protests were widely popular, based on results, they accomplished nothing: the war continued on for another 7 years. Counterculture leaders from the Beat era's Kerouac and Ginsberg (both pedophiles who went on boy hunting trips to Tangiers), to Ken Kesey (involved in MK Ultra) and Leary (drug promotion) held great sway as real truth tellers like Eustace Mullins and Ezra Pound were left with little support. Maybe The Who were some of the few who got it right:
[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q]
We'll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgment of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
And I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
Change it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fall that's all
But the world looks just the same
And history ain't changed
'Cause the banners, they all flown in the last war
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
And I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
No, no!
I'll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky
For I know that the hypnotized never lie
Do ya?
There's nothing in the street
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Is now parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
No, no!
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss
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Re: "Anti-Semitism" used to stir controversy at Occupy Wall ...
Another excellent post by Andie 531.
Yes, when Jews and Wall Street decide that the protests are no longer useful to distract the masses and to harmlessly vent public anger, they will dissolve the protests by having the corporate media (not just the Jewish media) collectively brand them “anti-Semitic.”
This will scatter the protesters faster than calling them "terrorists." It will make the clowns vanish faster than having police vehicles fire on them with cannons and machine guns.
Those plastic handcuffs applied by the NYPD? They are nothing compared to the shackles that the protesters carry inside their heads. They champion "free speech, but they uphold the taboos imposed by Jews and Wall Street. They are useless.
David Smith is heckled when he holds up a sign that says "Google Zionists control Wall St." From my perspective. Smith's purpose is as much to expose the mindless hypocrisy of the protesters as to expose Jews.
On a different note, these clowns rail against “capitalism.” That's stupid. It is not capitalism when banks keep all the profits, and dump all losses on the masses. It is not capitalism when banks are deemed “too big to fail.” That’s socialism for the banks. And banks only become “systemic” when they are backed by taxpayers.
When the protesters equate the kleptocracy with "capitalism," they distract from the kleptocracy, and thus support it. Instead, the protesters should carry signs that say, “REAL capitalism now!” With REAL capitalism, there is no such thing as "too big to ail." Even Alan Greenspan admitted that, "Too big to fail is too big."
I myself hate capitalism, because I am a National Socialist who regards capitalism as essentially Jewish and globalist, since it owes no allegiance to any people or place. But capitalism is better than what we have now, which is socialism for the rich. It’s better than our current feudalism, in which peasants must pay rent and tribute (i.e. debt payments) to Jewish lords.
By the way, Danny Cline is himself a Jew. The “nutpicking” ad from the Emergency Committee for Israel edits out the part of the video where Cline admits this.
Moving on...
I agree. See http://wakeupfromyourslumber.com/blog/heydrich/jews-say-we-too-are-99-percent
Fester wants the protesters to name names (Lloyd Bankfien, Jamie Dimon, etc). I agree. By railing against “the system,” the protesters give the criminals a free pass.
There’s nothing new in all this. (Meet the new boss; same as the old boss.) The much-ballyhooed Roosevelt “New Deal” gave so many special contracts to Jews that many Americans referred to it as the “Jew Deal.”
Yes, what finally put a dent in the warmongers was a mass revolt by U.S. soldiers in Vietnam who refused to fight. The revolts started among drafted Black soldiers, and spread from there. Even the Special Forces (Green Berets) revolted. When, during one single offensive, more bombs were dropped on Vietnam than were used during the whole of World War II (by all sides), the Navy also revolted. The myth about soldiers being “patriots” who came home and were spat on is a lie perpetrated by warmongers and right-wing politicians. See the 2005 documentary titled “Sir, No Sir!”
Today we see no revolt among soldiers, because we are in a Depression, and the military is the only livelihood available to military personel.
Nor will we see a revolt among the Wall Street ranks (i.e. a revolt from inside Wall Street) since the financial sector is currently laying off hundreds of thousands at the middle and lower levels.
Re: "Anti-Semitism" used to stir controversy at Occupy Wall ...
One other thought.
Some protesters think we should nationalize the Fed.
Nonsense. Nationalization is a bailout. It is a socialization of debts incurred by private speculators. It means that debts on the balance sheets of private bankers that own the Fed are dumped onto the masses.
Do NOT nationalize the Fed, or any of the big banks. Simply end the Fed, and let the big banks die. Meanwhile we set up a genuinely public central bank in which finance and the currency system are treated as a public utility, such that money works for people, rather than people working for money (i.e. slaving for private bankers).
Don’t just “end the Fed.” Replace it with a genuinely public central bank that has no private owners.
Do this, and our world will be transformed. Human creativity will be unleashed, and all things will become possible.
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Occupy Wall Street protests taking on a Jewish flavor
NEW YORK (JTA) -- Rachel Feldman originally had meant to attend a traditional synagogue Kol Nidre service. Aimee Weiss hadn’t found a place to daven but was looking for something more interesting than a “big box synagogue.”
Come Yom Kippur eve, they and several hundred other Jews found themselves drawn to lower Manhattan, where under the gaze of curious onlookers, they held an open-air Kol Nidre service organized to support the Occupy Wall Street protesters near Zuccotti Park.
“Kol Nidre reminds us that though we make commitments under duress, ultimately we are accountable only to the higher values of justice and righteousness,” the organizer of the service, Dan Sieradski, said at the event, reading from a labor leader’s Midrash.
The service was the most salient but hardly the only sign of a growing attempt to infuse the economic protests with a Jewish flavor -- at least, for the Jews involved.
From progressive activists who seek to conflate the protesters’ aspirations with Jewish values to Chabadniks looking for opportunities to have Jews to perform mitzvahs such as sitting in a sukkah, the Occupy Wall Street protests are becoming a fulcrum of Jewish ferment. In Boston and Philadelphia, too, Jewish activists held Yom Kippur services at the site of the demonstrations.
“For many of us, social justice is where we find our Judaism,” said Regina Weiss, the communications director for the Progressive Jewish Alliance & Jewish Funds for Justice. “For many there is no more important way to stand up and express Judaism on the holiest night of the year than to stand with people who are hurting and to stand up for greater equality in the country.”
The person credited with the idea of holding the Kol Nidre services at the protests, Rabbi Arthur Waskow, director of the Shalom Center, told JTA that protesting is a key part of Judaism.
“The reason there is a Jewish place in these protests is that there is a protest place in Judaism,” he said. “From the Exodus, from Isaiah, from Jeremiah and all the way down to rabbinic Judaism, there is a sense that Judaism is constantly struggling against top-down power of the Pharaoh.
“Judaism calls for freedom, democracy and feeding the hungry,” he added.
Some Jews involved with the protesters said they’re also trying to combat a minority strain of anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism running through the movement.
“There was a guy with a sign ‘Zionists control the financial world,’ ” said Kobi Skolnick, an ex-Chabadnik who once attended a yeshiva in the West Bank. “They have freedom of speech, but so do I. What we did is we wrote on a big, 10 times bigger, sign: ‘This sign sucks, and it is not representative here.’ ”
Sieradski, too, said there are some anti-Zionist ideologues involved in the Occupy Wall Street protests who believe that Israel is central to U.S. economic issues.
They “think that the issue of the Israeli occupation is inseparable from the economic situation. They think that Israel is an outpost of American imperialism, including economic imperialism,” he said. “There is a tendency on the left to make Jews who identify with Israel uncomfortable. I hope we can overcome that. There are plenty people against the Israel occupation, but that’s not what this is about.”
For Yoni Reskin, a Chabadnik who owns the PopUp Sukkah company, the protests were about an opportunity to have Jews fulfill the mitzvahs of Sukkot. In the lead-up to the holiday, he made plans to build a sukkah at the site of the New York protests.
"It's not a political angle,” he told JTA. “I truly believe that on Sukkot everyone should be able to celebrate the holiday. When I found that this opportunity was available, I wanted to be able to help perform the mitzvah."
The Conservative movement’s Rabbinical Assembly donated 120 High Holidays prayer books for the Yom Kippur service.
“Wherever there is an opportunity to bring Torah and learning to Jews, wherever they are, we want to be there,” said Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, the organization’s executive vice president.
Last Friday night, the drumbeat at the plaza protesters have occupied since Sept. 17 was drowned out by the sounds of Kol Nidre.
Congregants arranged themselves in concentric circles around the bimah and a Torah scroll on loan from an Orthodox synagogue, chanting and singing so that the words of the service could carry back to the edges of the crowd. It was hard to tell whether the Kol Nidre call and response was borrowed from an old labor tactic or Jewish summer camp. Halal food carts ringed the congregation.
Feldman, 26, an activist who had demonstrated in Zuccotti Park earlier in the week, noted that the service drew many of her friends who would never go to services.
“This is what shul should feel like,” said Feldman, surrounded by a congregation wearing a mix of sneakers, ties, tallitot, yarmulkes, jeans and T-shirts. "Overwhelmed by community.”
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/10/11/3089808/hundreds-occupy-wal...