A contingent from the Occupy Boston "Occupy" protest camp marched late Friday afternoon to the building that houses the Israeli consulate in Boston, chanting the usual slogans...
Ira Stoll puts it in perspective:
I can already hear the Occupy Boston people saying the small splinter group that went to the Israeli consulate building doesn't represent all of Occupy Boston, and the Occupy Wall Street people saying that Occupy Boston doesn't represent all of the Occupy movement, and the anti-Israel protesters saying they aren't anti-Semites, they are just anti-Zionist or critical of the policies of the current Israeli government. And some of the rest of them saying that the anti-Israel protesters don't represent all of Occupy any more than Patrick Buchanan represents the entire Republican Party. But at a certain point, one has to wonder why these people are protesting Israel and not some far more abusive government like that of China, Iran, or Syria. I can already hear them saying that America doesn't give billions a year in aid to China, Iran, or Syria.
Still, the whole event illustrates the way the Occupy movement has become a forum for people to air whatever pre-existing grievance or agenda they have, even if it has nothing to do with Wall Street. And how readily a protest against bankers can elide into one against the Jewish state.
Actually, as I pointed out some time ago, there has always been a current of anti-Semitism in the OWS movement...one reason it's so popular with Paulistas of a certain mindset. And by the way, the occupation of the Israeli consulate was not a splinter group, but an officially sanctioned event.
The comments of the humanoid who posted this video, some of the comments of people who responded there and a number of the comments on Stoll's site are the best argument I can think for a strong powerful Israel. if it weren't for people like these, a Jewish State would not be a necessity. And yes, the idiot who put this up on YouTube originally got it from George Soros' Think Progress.
Oh, and just in passing...that same idiot in his description of the video claims that the storming of the Israeli consulate was done in 'solidarity'..because 'A flotilla with as many as a dozen activists -- including Code Pink's Kit Kittredge- was bound to Gaza bearing humanitarian aide on November 4th. The Israeli military boarded seized the ship, and took all of the activists into custody'.
First of all, the two ships were attempting to break a blockade already deemed in accordance with international law. Second, the ships were directed by the Israeli Navy to go into port at Ashdod where any humanitarian supplies they had ( which Gaza is not in need of anyway) would be checked, offloaded and sent to Gaza. They were only boarded when they refused. And third, when the ships were examined, they had no 'humanitarian supplies' on board whatsoever. Just like there was no aid on the Mavi Marmara.
They were simply attempting to cause an international incident.
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