Topic: Liberal Fascism
Given the leftie orientation of the Occupy Wall Street protests, the fact that it has attracted Jew-bashing anti-Semites is really no surprise. Israel, after all, is the country that progressives love to hate. Both here and in Europe, condemnation of Israel (and pious hand-wringing over the plight of the Palestinian Arabs) is employed to spread a gloss of respectability over the anti-Semitism of the progressive elites. This explains why OWS demonstrations are graced with rhetoric such as this:
[On] October 3, a protester described as homeless and out of work screamed to a sizable crowd that “the Jews control Wall Street,” and told counter-protesters to “go back to Israel,” and called them “greedy pigs,” saying that “this is not Israel.” The same protester also alleged that Jews control the media and blamed “Jewish bankers” for the nation’s economic woes.
And with signs such as this:
Of course, anti-Semitism is not the main theme of OWS. Most of the protesters seem motivated by nothing more than an inflated sense of entitlement. But the movement’s willingness to tolerate such hate speech, and the willingness of the mainstream media to overlook it, is an ominous sign. It’s also a gross example of plain old hypocrisy, as becomes obvious when one recalls the obsessive zeal with which the media and the Left sought out and trumpeted any evidence, real or imagined, of “racism” at Tea Party rallies.
