Brendan O’Neill again.
“Yes, this has terrible echoes of the old racist idea that Jewish groups controlled Western politics and frequently propelled the world into chaos – an idea that was especially popular in the early to mid-20th-century Europe. Very often, anti-Israel protesters treat Israel not just as a nation at war – like Britain, America or France, which also frequently launch wars that kill huge numbers of civilians – but also as the warper of policy and morality in the West, as a source of poison in global affairs, as the architect of instability across the globe. Indeed, a few years ago a poll of Europeans found that a majority of them view Israel as ‘the biggest threat to world peace'”
Occupy Wall Street brings to mind that old Edwin Starr song “War”. Change the lyrics to “Occupy Wall Street, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing!”
“Indeed, some of the most influential trends in Left-wing politics over the past five years – including the Occupy movement and the Wikileaks movement – were both given to conspiracy-theorising and both also had a bit of a problem with anti-Semitism. So Occupy was kickstarted by Adbusters, a magazine’Why Won’t Anyone Say They Are Jewish?’, which listed the neocons in the Bush administration and put a black mark next to the names of those who are Jewish.”