Pete Sutherland traveled to Zuccotti Park all the way from Georgia Friday, shivering as he wielded a handmade sign that read, “The Reason the Arabs Hate Us.”
The Hate in Zuccotti Park
Pete Sutherland traveled to Zuccotti Park all the way from Georgia Friday, shivering as he wielded a handmade sign that read, “The Reason the Arabs Hate Us.”
“Jews are the smartest people in the world,” said Sutherland, 79. Not in a good way.
“They control the media.”
But no one tells the truth about the Hebrew people, as he sees it, because “the media doesn’t want to commit suicide by losing the Jewish advertisers.’’
“I’m not anti-Semitic,” he finished.
He’s not alone.
From the teacher who vowed to run “Zionists Jews who run these big banks” out of the country to the dude who mocked and danced in the face of a yarmulke-topped “bum,” Occupy Wall Street must no longer deny it.
The movement has a serious Jewish problem.
But organizers are desperate to maintain that acts of bigotry are isolated, carried out by a small cadre of hoodlums who don’t represent the movement. Some have even suggested vocal Jew-haters are “plants” sent by folks who want to take Occupy down.
Sound familiar? Germans dismissed prewar Nazis as a harmless bunch of clowns, too.
Perhaps Sutherland, a self-described “international businessman,” was emboldened by the guy who this month threatened an older, yarmulke-wearing gentleman. “You’re a bum!”
“You can’t even speak English. Go back to Israel!”
Or, maybe he appreciated the message of Los Angeles Unified School District substitute teacher Patricia McAllister. She told Reason TV, with the urgency of a gal suffering from a gaping head wound:
“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!”
She told Fox TV, “Jews have been run out of 109 countries throughout history, and we need to run them out of this one.” She was fired last week. Hooray?
Sutherland got props from a Queens woman who walked by the park with her 10-year-old son, expressing fear that her three kids, not Jews, didn’t have a prayer for the future. “I’m sorry,” she said. “I actually agree.”
The ugliness on the march is going viral. This month, a man trolled Zuccotti hoisting a sign that read, “Hitler’s Bankers.” He shouted, “Jews control Wall Street!”
“Free speech! Free speech!” he yelled as someone feebly asked him to stop. “This isn’t Israel!”
Another man has been seen frequently with a sign urging fellow protesters to “Google Wall Street Jews. Jewish Billionaires. Jews and the Fed. Reserve Bank.”
So it’s no surprise the American Nazi Party broke its rule against standing beside Communists. It urged members of the “pro-white” movement to join Occupy Wall Streeters’ fight against the common enemy: “Judeo-capitalist bankster.”
“WHO holds the WEALTH and POWER in this country — the JUDEO CAPITALISTS,” chief Nazi Rudy Ruy Shayda wrote on the org’s Web site.
“WHO is therefore the #1 ENEMY who makes all this filth happen — the JUDEO-CAPITALISTS.
“Even Adolf Hitler’s NDSAP had to vote with open communists on some issues to achieve their goals.”
In tough economic times, scapegoating is hot. The anti-Semitic libel that says Jewish bankers control the world’s purse strings has found a loving home.
Tragically, the Anti-Defamation League put out a weirdly enabling statement. While condemning acts of bigotry, the ADL assured there is “no evidence that these incidents are widespread.”
“Thus far, however, anti-Semitism has not gained traction more broadly with the protesters, nor is it representative of the larger movement at this time.”
It took the Emergency Committee for Israel, whose board includes conservative Weekly Standard editor William Kristol and President Ronald Reagan adviser Gary Bauer, to sound the alarm. The group put out a video calling on Occupy-friendly President Obama and Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi to condemn anti-Semitism. “Hate is not an American value,” the video concluded.
No reply.
The Republican National Committee issued a statement. “Democrats were quick to single out instances of perceived extremism among the Tea Party supporters, but with Occupy Wall Street, they turn a blind eye.”
Deafening silence.
It’s as if good folks believe that if you don’t acknowledge hate, it will simply vanish.
This will never happen.
i trust hashem and his torah
not surprised ‘esav soneh yacov!’ they will fake it and one day show who they realy are, which they are doing now .
great
when we read frum websites we see all the tzaros that befall the jews, but the non-jews make it seem like we are on top of the world, not bad :)
DeClasse- Intellectual
It was to be expevcted–mob rule or so called mob rule with the leftist viewpoints. either way it is blaime the jews always!!!!!!!
biased much?
how come you are not covering the antisemitism in the tea party?
they say these same things about yidden. this biased reporting
The Tea Party Straw Man
TO #4 – Please provide evidence to support your unsubstantiated claim of Tea Party anti-Semitism. This excellent article carefully delineates numerous examples of anti-Semitism on display at the Occupy protests. You have offered nothing to substantiate your claim, which appears to be little more than lazy mud-slinging.
Anon
5,
http://bonosrama.newsvine.c…
I don’t understand how you’re able to use “delineate” yet unable to do a quick google search. Talk about lazy…
Between those signs and a lot of the generalized, anti-Goyim comments here and elsewhere, I don’t see what the difference is. Until someone Jewish comes out and says, “No, we’re not responsible for x, y, and z, here is why” then they will assume they’re correct. There’s the Rothchilds, Madoff…
hashem save us!
This is scary, i hope there wont be a 3rd world war!!!
DeClasse- Intellectual
Well said number five. while a lot of the right hzs been in the anti-Semitic camp, it is not true of the Tea party. It has been proven clearly that charges of anti-Semitism and racism in the Tea party is nothing but the leftists without proof condemnation of the Tea party because they(the left) cannot counter the program of the Tea party. the Tea party is against big government and fiscal irresponsiblity and a Congress that sits on its behind and believes that individual efforts should be encourged and rewarded not like the OWWS. After all, would not Steve Jobs be an enemyof OWWS because of all he made with his company?
You-re Joking...
C’mon. You can’t seriously be asserting that Occupy Wall St is an anti-Semitic movement!?! That’s nearly as ignorant as asserting that the Fed. Reserve is secretly run by a bunch of power-hungry Jews. I agree that the attitude of the people mentioned in your article is disgusting, but to compare the Occupy movement to pre-WWII Germany is incredibly inflammatory, and the exact kind of attitude that will cause MORE hate, instead of less.
I know that we must remain aware of the state of our country and guard ourselves against the kind of persecution we’ve experienced historically, but seeing pogroms and conspiracies in every ignorant comment and hand-made sign is a level of self-victimization that’s almost clinical. Where people gather, there will unfortunately always be an antisemitic, racist, or otherwise hate-filled people. This doesn’t mean that every gathering is all about spreading these sentiments, or in any way listens to these people. Furthermore…
To #5 – Google ‘tea party anti semitic’ and you will find a slew of news stories from 2009-2010 that discuss this very phenomena. The conservatives may have a more polite and refined way of saying it, but it’s definitely antisemitism, just as much as these sad people’s attitudes are.
People, please realize that the media is covering these examples not to expose some sort of conspiracy or promote hatred of the Jews, but because hatred and ignorance sells. The media is covering it b/c they think these people are ridiculous, and they are being alerted to these acts by people who want to discredit the movement by playing up these acts of antisemitism. I’m not saying that I support the Occupy movement (although I think it would be to all of our benefit to read their literature and learn a little more about what they are ACTUALLY about before judging either way), and obviously I’m as disgusted as you by the attitudes of these beheimas, but I am embarrassed by this article and the level of ignorance it makes US seem to have.
Andrea Schonberger
Dear #5, #4 is correct. The tea baggers are notoriously anti-semitic. That movement is also so full of you-know-who, first letter starts with j and second letter starts with a c, it’s not even funny. Duh? What about us who don’t buy that line? Oh I forgot; we’re “unsaved” so we’re going to rot in hell. Hopefully there won’t be any tea baggers there!
Milhouse
#4, you’re a liar. There has never been any antisemitism or racism in the TEA Party movement.
Milhouse
#10 you’re another liar, and also have a filthy mouth. How dare you use such nivul peh on a family site; I’m surprised that CHINFO allowed your comment up. Anyone who uses that filthy term for members of the TEA Party movement automatically shows what kind of person they are.
#6 provided a link to a page that has a lot of links, mostly to the notorious site “Think Progress”, which consists of professional liars who are literally paid by George Soros to make up libels about conservatives. It also links THREE TIMES to the same NY Daily News article which repeats the libel that John Lewis, Andre Carson and a few other liars invented, that the protesters against the passage of ObamaCare shouted racial slurs.
There is nothing at all antisemitic about comparing bad things to the Holocaust. A sign condemning Obama’s proposed death panels by bringing up images of Dachau is an inappropriate exaggeration, but to call it antisemitic is just plain dishonest. And I’m baffled by the bizarre notion that “Shlomo” is some sort of nasty word! Nor is there anything antisemitic about opposing a candidate (Joe Straus) who is connected to abortionists.
pleading for Moshiach
The scariest of all is that we have, in our midst, so many “occupier” sympathizers. That we had so many of our own vote for the momzer, that we have so many of our own “enlightened” liberals!!
We have become so “enlightened” that I cannot recognize my own people and that my dear friends is the true tragedy. We do not need a hitler to destroy us … we seem to be doing a great job on our own.
The Riboino Shel Olam must have rachmanos and send Moshiach immediately!!