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Anti-semitism on casual display at Occupy LA. #OWS

I apologize for spoiling your morning coffee like this.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 17th, 2011 at 08:30 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

You know, when this video from Reason.tv came out, I invoked the 48 Hour Rule as a matter of course. For those who don’t know, the 48 Hour Rule is one of those useful rules of thumb that people come up with to make sure that they don’t get burned on a story; if something sounds too good to be true, or too bad to be true, or even just too much to be true, it’ll probably be debunked pretty quickly. 48 hours is usually enough time to establish that. And I was optimistically certain that this was the case, here: surely the LA school system hadn’t really employed somebody calling for the expulsion of the Jews.

“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.” – Patricia McAllister

I know. I am charmingly naive.

If you’re wondering, the LAUSD really did hire this winner (as a substitute math teacher) (link via PJ Tatler’s comments); and if you click the link here you’ll get another link to a quite vile site that should explode, once and for all, the ridiculous argument that minorities cannot be racists.  But let’s drill down to the really nauseating portion of all of this: it’s the way that Ms. Patricia McAllister is utterly unconcerned and matter-of-fact about the way she’s casually calling for the expulsion of the Jews.  Because let’s not pretend that the ‘Zionist’ tag means a damned thing, in this context: McAllister thinks that the Jews run Wall Street, she wants those Jews gone, and she doesn’t consider them Americans in any way that matters.

And she’s apparently welcome at Occupy LA.  Because they certainly haven’t tried to disassociate themselves from McAllister’s remarks, either.- And yes, they have to.  The rule was set during the first wave of Tea Party protests: police your own, or you will be lambasted in the national media.  I insist that this rule be followed for the Left’s cargo cult imitation, as well.

Even if the ranting is about the Jews.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

[UPDATE] : I actually agree with Erick: we need to bring in the sane portion of Occupy Wall Street.  Just let this portion shrivel up and flake away in the sun…

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  • Marcus_Traianus

    Statistical fallacies aside, this is a mild example of what the “Occupy” people represent. They are not only anti-Semites. They are Marxists, anarchists, racists, anti-capitalists and every other malcontent one can think of. They preach violence as a means of achieving their goals and hold up signs such as “Your time is coming”.

    If they think we are about to surrender I have only one thing to say; bring it losers.

    Coincidentally, I have never been so motivated to vote in my entire life. I get up every day and mark the days until our next election on my calendar. This is what Obama, half-wits like Bloomberg and Democrats in general support? It’s time for real change and that day is truly coming.

  • lastdaysofpompeii

    The trend in especially the last 3 years has been the
    total lack of responsibility for ones actions. The entitlement
    culture has people think that they are owed a living and all
    others are responsible and not them. They blame who ever
    is at hand. The left (and I include almost all Democrats in that)
    take pride in separating people like cattle into groups, pitting them
    against one another then standing up and saying to each group in
    turn, ‘I’m on your side.” There was a day when people were moral
    and ethical, but the media didn’t cover it.

  • lastdaysofpompeii

    I couldn’t agree with you more…I have a copy of the same calendar snd so do many people I know.

  • Ausonius

    It is a mystery of sorts! Leftist anti-Semitism has grown amazingly in the last 30-40 years, mainly because – I believe – Jews are no longer oppressed in any way here. They are part of the success story, and Leftism HATES success.

    It loves victims, so their votes can be exploited.

    Entropy in politics is an amazing thing to behold: Great-Grandpa voted Democrat, and so did Grandpa, and so did Pa…so why should I change? :)

  • Marcus_Traianus

    That is fine by me. Since I believe one of the OWS goals is debt forgiveness.

    I say, let China realize all that US paper they are holding under the OWS principles is worthless. As in- we ain’t paying it back.

    Marxism is a bitch- isn’t it?

  • johnt

    won’t even leave enough for wreckage. This will leave Fannie & Freddie looking like a warm up. And like Fannie & Freedie, you and millions of the Normal People will get to wallow, to struggle, in the mess created, and the best, to pay for it, and pay for it beyond even hurting.
    This is of a piece with the intended crippling of the nation’s energy policy, which will be a good thing for horses & buggies, the Health Care fascism, the rapacious deficits, open borders,[does la raza get back California?] and a foreign policy based on No Defense, lots of retreat.
    But at least you’ll have the satisfaction of cutting off your nose to spite your face. Everybody needs a little fun. The bosses will have the rest.

  • anjinconsulting

    It would be a sad reflection on America’s citizens if the sacrifices of our military were for naught.

  • wennejunk

    My guess is the abortion issue keeps them and many others from supporting the GOP.

    The freedom to mess around without consequences trumps pretty much everything else for too many.

    Very sad, both for the children and the nation, because of course the consequences are eternal.

  • renl57

    In the 19th and early 20th century, some Jewish philosophers and rabbis thought they saw a congruence between socialism and Judaism’s traditional advocacy of social justice.

    Jewish view of social justice is more materialist, differing from Christianity’s “Render unto Caesar/render unto God.”

    In Russia, Jews were active in the socialist movements to overthrow the Tsar. (Jews, the victims of pogroms led by local Russian officials, were not inclined to support the Tsarist regimes.) Later, of course, they found out the hard way how anti-Semitic the Communists could be. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

    In America, Jews were active in the socialist labor movement, forming their own labor organization, the Workmen’s Circle (Arbiter Ring).

    Even the state of Israel was originally set up as a democratic socialist state, with its network of communal farms (kibbutzim).

    Look at how many famous Jews have been famous left-wingers, starting of course with Karl Marx himself:

    Herbert Marcuse, Saul Alinsky, Leon Trotsky, Leon Blum, Noam Chomsky, Harold Laski, Betty Friedan, Abbie Hoffman, Howard Zinn, Michael Lerner, Rosa Luxemburg, Susan Sontag, etc.

  • renl57

    Long before this Ms. McAllister, you had widespread anti-Semitism among blacks.

    As witness Jesse Jackson’s “Hymietown” remark, and the anti-Semitic riots in Crown Heights Brooklyn that were launched by Al Sharpton, and Earl Hilliard and the Nation of Islam’s lunacies, and many more besides.

    Back in 1998, the Anti-Defamation League surveyed Americans and found that blacks were the most anti-Semitic group of all–a full one-third of them held anti-Semitic views.

    It’s an old story. But it’s too controversial for most of the news media to touch with a ten-foot pole.

  • aesthete

    involved in rightist or classically liberal academia or public advocacy, particularly economics. Just a partial list off the top of my head:

    Milton & David Friedman
    Ludwig von Mises
    Ayn Rand
    David Ricardo
    Irving Berlin
    Irving and William Kristal

    I would agree that Jewish people tend to be liberal (particularly fiscally liberal), but they’ve been pretty prolific as far as academic output goes.

  • shazam33

    My Fathers Jewish base has been in the US for 150years. It appears if they were discriminated against if they wanted to enter normal US society. Areas where they could live were always set as Jewish areas much like the blacks. My forfathers slowly moved from the South out of the Jewish settlements but according to census reports still were employed in the normal Jewish businesses. Textile, shoe, sales. My Grandfather married a Catholic but still was forced to live in an accepted area due to his name not his religion which he listed as Congregational.. He even had to lie about his heritage to buy property in a restricted town for my Father. It appears his fight to be in the mainstream parallels the black history, with exception of the obvious color difference. My Grandfather voted Democratic and so did my Father no matter what.

  • Ausonius

    Many thanks for the responses above!

    Yes, many Jewish-Americans have been Conservatives, but certainly as a group they have voted heavily in favor of Democrats for the reasons outlined above by renl57 and for other reasons as well.

    Since the 1970′s, however, the Left has decided that Israel is the problem: its success in the wars against the Arabs did not help it, of course, in the leftist mind-set! Countries which win wars – with American aid or technology – cannot be good!

    So gradually the Arabs were the oppressed ones, specifically the Palestinians, and the support of Palestinians for Nazism is sent down the memory hole of History. Now Israel – supported by the USA, which ipso facto cannot be a good thing at all in the Leftist mind – is the enemy!

    Sentiment against Israel then has spread to sentiment against the success of Jews back here and the few in Europe. Incongruously, Jews, an amazingly successful group despite de facto discrimination and overt racism, continue to support the party preaching class-warfare hatred of success in Life.

    As I wrote, political entropy: old habits die hard.

    But there are signs of change:

    Among Jews support for BIG BRObama has dropped to…60%.

    Amazing, but that is down almost 10%. We will see if more Jews recognize how the Dems are cannibalizing them.

  • http://www.marklaiminger.org Lammo

    . . . Stockholm Syndrome. It’s the only thing I can think of that would explain why they would continue to support a party that regularly sh*#$ all over them.

  • ldmartin1959

    Democrats “channeling” their inner Adolf Hitler…