Outrageous RW Spin! - Fox News - "Anti-Semitic Sentiments at Occupy Wall Street"

[TomCADem]

Amazing. Fox is arguing that if you are anti-bank, then you are anti-Jew! Isn't Fox's expression of outrage itself anti-semetic?

http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/anti-semitic-sentiments-at-occupy-wall-street-20111024

Every demonstration has its kooky and sometimes offensive signs. But some critics say that many at Occupy Wall Street have looked the other way when it comes to anti-Semitism.

A new commercial by the emergency committee for Israel highlights anti-Semitic hatemongering at Occupy Wall Street rallies.

The CEO of Adbusters magazine Kalle Lasn is said to be one of the founders of Occupy Wall Street. He wrote: "Does the Jewishness of the neocons influence American foreign policy in the Middle East?" Lasn came up with a list of people he calls the 50 most influential neocons and wrote: "half of them are Jewish." He added: "... if we see maleness, whiteness, Jewishness of intellectual thuggery then let us not look the other way."

Assemblyman Dov Hikind said he is shocked at the silence over anti-Semitism.

[dkf]

1. The RW is especially attuned to dog whistles.

I wouldn't be surprised if this is how it works for them.

Heck they turned "welfare" into "black" when more white people are on welfare.

[Fuzz]

2. "some say"

[Scuba]

3. Yep, they're trying to outlaw Christmas too. And Mother's Day. They say it's just a scam...

... next they'll want to outlaw mothers.

[mucifer]

4. I saw a very nasty hit piece from abc local affiliate in Chicago here's the link

Stupid "investigative report" about antisemitism in our movement . This totally freaked out my mother who is mostly liberal and hates fox news:

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/video?id=8407425

[ZombieHorde]

5. So pathetic. nt

[PDJane]

6. That's because all bankers are Jewish, dontcha know....

That is an historical accuracy; if you cannot engage in farming or crafts or commerce, the only way to make a living is lending money. There was also, in both Christian and Muslim lands, a prohibition against usury. The constrictions meant that between about the 12th and 15th centuries, banking was almost a solely Jewish occupation.

That prejudice is centuries old, however, and doesn't exactly hold true today!

And yes, it is a 'dog whistle.' I find it ironic that the connection they are making is one that the right has made and exploited, since the connection is only in their own minds,and displays their own prejudices.

[Huey P. Long]

7. DEBUNKED and exposed as liars-see links

Conservatives recently claimed through a television ad that the Occupy Wall Street protests are anti-semitic. Cenk Uygur sets the record straight on this baseless claim.

Watch this. Cenk completely DEBUNKS this desperate bullshit- must see.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW-wTiqInpE&feature=related

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Now here is more- The charge is lead by PNAC BILL KRISTOL & Co...


Where are the anti-Semites of Occupy Wall Street?
By Richard Cohen, Published: October 24

Reckless Jew that I am, I muscled my way into the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Lower Manhattan despite multiple reports of virulent and conceivably lethal anti-Semitism. Projecting an unvarnished Semitism, I circled the place, encountering nothing and no one to suggest bigotry — not a sign, not a book and not even the guy who some weeks ago held up a placard with the instruction to Google the phrase “Zionists control Wall St.” Google “nut case” instead.
This was my second visit to the Occupy Wall Street site and the second time my keen reporter’s eye has failed to detect even a hint of the anti-Semitism that had been trumpeted by certain right-wing Web sites and bloggers, most prominently Bill Kristol. He is a founder of the Emergency Committee for Israel, which has been running cable TV ads alleging a virtual hate rally at the Occupy Wall Street site and calling on President Obama and other important Democrats to denounce what is — as it happens — not happening there. The commercial ran on Fox News the very day I was at the site.

Full-
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/where-are-the-anti-semites-of-occupy-wall-street/2011/10/24/gIQAP89eDM_story.html?tid=sm_twitter_washingtonpost

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And another article...


Homeless anti-Semite was around long before Occupy
A man being used to tar Occupy Wall Street as anti-Semitic has long trolled the financial district -VIDEO

Topics:Occupy Wall Street, Anti-Semitism

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, 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.
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:

And here’s video from the park on Yom Kippur:

Continue Reading-
http://www.salon.com/2011/10/21/homeless_anti_semite_was_around_long_before_occupy/

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[GreatCaesarsGhost]

9. "I muscled my way into the Occupy Wall Street encampment"

Sure, Bill.

:rofl:

[SoDesuKa]

8. Dov Hikind Sees Anti-Semitism Everywhere

Paranoid zealot Dov Hikind is more extreme than Alan Dershowitz. Here an anti-Semite! There an anti-Semite! Everywhere an anti-Semite! And quite a few self-hating Jews, too.



Leading opponent of gay marriage

[ixion]

10. They've been throwing that crap against the wall since the beginning

none of it has stuck.

[Marazinia]

11. Smear Campaign

This is a very typical smear campaign that needs to be strongly addressed. Activists are, if anything, less inclined to be bigoted in any way, coming as we do from a diverse background that has been habituated, not merely to tolerance of those different from us, but to mutual respect and willingness to always seek common ground.

So of course we get accused of these things, because the powerful have to ugly us up somehow. Truth is, as a group, we embody some of humanity's few good traits. Not by birth or blood or religion or class, but by self-selection from the entire population of every society.

Which won't stop the slanderers. I'm waiting for them to break out the head shrinkers, trot them around, and come back calling us all crazy for even caring about these things. You wait, accusations of mass mental illness are next. Or, if a strong leadership develops, the leaders will be accused of insanity.

They can't call us all Soviet useful idiots like they used to, so they have to come up with other reasons no one should listen to us. The sad thing is, sometimes it works very well.