[P2P-F] purported antisemitism of ows

Sat Nov 26 00:57:58 CET 2011

It was a reply to a previous entry regarding people cooperating despite 
different value systems-OWS participants as an example. Doesn't make sense 
on its own

-----Original Message----- 
From: mp
Sent: Friday, November 25, 2011 10:39 AM
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Subject: Re: [P2P-F] purported antisemitism of ows

What exactly constitutes "anti-semitism" in these examples?

On 25/11/11 17:42, Natalie Golovin wrote:
> I don’t think Jews would be carrying Anti-Semitic signs, and of course, 
> there would be many Jewish people in attendance in Manhattan. Of the few 
> signs I saw on TV-2 were being held by black women. Just as Jews have been 
> on the forefront of social justice movements-so have some portions of the 
> black community exhibited Anti-Semitic attitudes going from Elijah 
> Mohammad to Obama’s excoriated Rev (name escapes me) who upon being 
> dropped-exclaimed Obama had been taken over by the Jews.
>
>
> From: Michel Bauwens
> Sent: Friday, November 25, 2011 7:19 AM
> To: p2p-foundation
> Subject: [P2P-F] purported antisemitism of ows
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/22/nyregion/occupy-wall-street-criticized-for-flashes-of-anti-semitism.html
>
> The Occupy Wall Street protests, now in their second month, have 
> increasingly been criticized by a variety of groups, most of them 
> politically conservative, for flashes of anti-Semitism. Among those 
> calling attention to the issue have been the Republican National 
> Committee, Rush Limbaugh and the columnist William Kristol.
>
> But the protests have also, on occasion, had a distinctly Jewish flavor: 
> The encampment has coincided with the busy Jewish holiday season and has 
> witnessed, in its midst or on its edges, a crowded Kol Nidre service on 
> Yom Kippur, festive dancing with a scroll on Simhat Torah on Thursday 
> night, and the sukkah.
>
> The protesters, clustered together in a kind of ad hoc Athenian democracy 
> in the canyons of Lower Manhattan, firmly deny that their demonstrations 
> against corporate greed and the political power of banks exhibit 
> antagonism that singles out Jews.
>
> “You’re going to get a few wackos,” said Aaron Moses Miller, 25, a 
> slender, unemployed man from Ridgewood, Queens, who had been in the park 
> for 16 days. “You can’t help it in a population of this size.”
>
> Mr. Miller, who is Jewish, said that he had not seen the man holding the 
> anti-Semitic signs, but said: “If I had seen him, I would have said 
> something to him. My name is Aaron Moses Miller.”
>
> Jeff Smith, 41, part of the press team for Occupy Wall Street, assailed 
> those who he said ascribed the views of one sign-holder to the entire 
> movement.
>
> “To put someone out there to say, ‘This is who the group is,’ is about as 
> dishonest as you can be,” Mr. Smith, who is also Jewish, said. “It’s 
> yellow journalism.”
>
> And Marjorie Dove Kent, executive director of Jews for Racial and Economic 
> Justice, which has taken part in the protests, said that the movement had 
> a diffuse leadership and that individual protesters had indicated their 
> condemnation of the sign-carrying man by shouting him down.
>
> But much as the Tea Party movement initially grappled with accusations of 
> racism, Occupy Wall Street has been consistently confronted with 
> accusations of anti-Semitism. Several conservative Web sites and 
> television programs have shown video of the sign-holder, as well as of a 
> woman at an allied demonstration in Los Angeles who identified herself as 
> a public school teacher and decried “Zionist Jews who are running the big 
> banks and the Federal Reserve.”
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