Keep your Mouth Off of the Jews and Isreal

Occupy Wall Street protests are tainted with anti-
Semitic sentiment.
Recent anti-Semitic sentiments souring Occupy Wall Street protests
indicate that anti-Semitic values have become widespread.
While many Holocaust survivors (6 million Jews were murdered in the
greatest anti-Semitic attack in history) thought that they would never
again see the rise of anti-Semitism in their lifetimes, recently there has
been a disturbing growth of anti-Semitism around the world.

The hateful fringe of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement is one theatre
where anti-Semitism has once again reared its ugly head with blatantly
anti-Semitic elements.

The phenomenon of OWS rallies have been taking place in 100 cities in the
United States and more than 1,500 cities globally.

A disturbing number of protesters at the OWS rallies have been holding signs
and/or loudly promoting classic anti-Semitic beliefs about Jews controlling the
banks and conspiring to manipulate the global economy.

What's more, the other protesters and people passing by often didn't
challenge the anti-Semitic sentiments being expressed, and in some
cases agreed with the speakers.
Several YouTube videos have been posted online which show OWS
protesters giving speeches and interviews blaming the Jews for America's
and the world's economic difficulties.

One such protester, Patricia McAllister, from Los Angeles, California, identified
herself as an employee of the Los Angeles Unified School District and said:

"I think that the Zionist Jews, who are running these big banks and our
Federal Reserve, which is not run by the federal government—they need to
be run out of this country Sadly, such sentiments are not isolated. Some protestors have also been
bellowing that "the Jews control Wall Street" and telling people to
"Google, Wall Street Jews."

Furthermore, some of the signs at rallies in the US and Europe show support
for Israel's enemies, including terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah. At the Occupy Chicago rally, Hatem Abudayyeh, the Executive Director of
the Chicago-based Arab American Action Network, addressed the crowd
regarding Israel, calling Benjamin Netanyahu a fool and praising the global
boycott of Israel.

Watch this Occupy Chicago video

Last week, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a Jewish organization
fighting anti-Semitism, issued a formal public request for the organizers,
participants and supporters of the worldwide 'Occupy Wall Street' movement
to condemn anti-Semitic signs and comments that have appeared at some
of the protest rallies across the United States and around the world.

The ADL acknowledged that the anti-Semitic individuals probably don't
represent the mainstream of the OWS movement.

However the statement warned that "history demonstrates time and again how
economic downturns can embolden anti-Semites to spread malicious conspiracy
theories and promote stereotypes about Jews and money. As a consequence,
these statements must not be left unchallenged."

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