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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=michel@p2pfoundation.net
href="mailto:michel@p2pfoundation.net">Michel Bauwens</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Friday, November 25, 2011 7:19 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [P2P-F] purported antisemitism of ows</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/22/nyregion/occupy-wall-street-criticized-for-flashes-of-anti-semitism.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/22/nyregion/occupy-wall-street-criticized-for-flashes-of-anti-semitism.html</A><BR>
<P>The <A class=meta-org title="More articles about Occupy Wall Street."
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/o/occupy_wall_street/index.html?inline=nyt-org">Occupy
Wall Street</A> 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. </P>
<P>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. </P>
<P>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. </P>
<P>“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.” </P>
<P>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.” </P>
<P>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. </P>
<P>“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.” </P>
<P>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. </P>
<P>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.” </P><BR
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