Occupy Wall Street: The Communist Movement Reborn by John Perazzo & David Horowitz

Author:John Perazzo & David Horowitz [Perazzo, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: The David Horowitz Freedom Center
Published: 2012-04-02T21:00:00+00:00

The Socialism of Fools and the OWS Radicals

The German Marxist August Bebel once said that “anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools,” but anti-Semitism has recently also become the socialism of the radical left. This left is in full-throated support of the terrorist organizations Hezbollah and Hamas, which have promised “death to Israel” and are partners in the “Boycott, Divest, Sanction” campaign to destroy the Jewish state. The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee announced at the outset of the protests its “solidarity” with Occupy Wall Street, describing Palestinians as “part of the 99% around the world that suffer at the hands of the 1% whose greed and ruthless quest for hegemony have led to unspeakable suffering and endless war.”110

OWS anti-Semitism was on display with slogans denouncing “Jewish bankers,” “Wall Street Jews,” “Jewish billionaires” and “Zionist Jews.” Many of its posters featured caricatures of Jewish bankers bearing a striking resemblance to the graphics of Nazi and Arab propaganda campaigns. No OWS leader denounced this Jew-hatred or sought to distance the movement from it.111 Anti-Semitism has become so much the culture and currency of the left that disagreeing with it would be unthinkable.

One OWS protester, Danny Cline, gained momentary YouTube notoriety when a video was posted showing him abusing an elderly Jew with the taunts: “You’re a bum, Jew,” “Go back to Israel” and “You got the money … Jewish man.”112 Another OWS radical stated, “The small ethnic Jewish population in this country, they have a firm grip on America’s media [and] finances.”113 In Chicago, Hatem Abudayyeh, executive director of the Arab-American Action Network (an organization founded by the radical PLO propagandist and Obama friend Rashid Khalidi), was a featured OWS speaker. In 2009, the FBI had raided Abudayyeh’s home on suspicion of his ties to Hamas. Now he led a cheering crowd in chants of “Free Palestine” and told them, “Israel is beginning to be seen as the criminal pariah state that it is.”114

At an Occupy L.A. rally, an employee of the Los Angeles Unified School District, Patricia McAllister, told a television reporter, “I think that the Zionist Jews who are running these big banks and our Federal Reserve … need to be run out of this country.”115 McAllister was fired when her school district learned of her comments, but she remained unrepentant: “I think that we should be able to [tell] the truth about what the Jews are doing to this nation, the Zionist Jews, how they control the money system, how they control the markets and everything else…. Jews have been run out of 109 countries throughout history. And we need to run them out of this one.” McAllister made these remarks with an Occupy L.A. spokeswoman standing nearby. The spokeswoman refused to condemn McAllister’s rhetoric, saying it “doesn’t erode our [movement’s] credibility, not one bit.”116

In early November, a contingent of protesters at an Occupy Boston rally marched into the lobby of the building that houses the city’s Israeli consulate and held a brief sit-in, chanting, “Hey hey,

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