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October 18, 2011 | 2:38 pm

Occupy Wall Street and anti-Semitism

Posted by Brad A. Greenberg

Jews are history’s most popular scapegoat for financial calamity. It’s often the Jews—the Jews who love money, the Jewish bankers, the Jews who control the global economy, whom get blamed by people who don’t like their financial situation.

And, of course, it’s unfair. As I wrote in what seemed like the middle of the global economic meltdown:

Jews didn’t choose to become moneylenders and usurers. In Medieval Europe, the financial “industry” was one of the only fields open to them, and that was only because the church prohibited Christians from partaking in such a vile profession, one suited for, in Martin Luther’s words, “a brood of vipers and children of the devil.”

The church eventually dropped its restriction, but the moneylending tradition remained with Jews wherever they landed. I’m not sure why this is; it’s something I’m exploring for a future article. But a reasonable explanation is that money is fungible, property and businesses are not. And when anybody who looks or acts like you is having their assets seized or their community expelled by state governments every few decades, well, you look for ways to CYA.

But for centuries this phenomenon has provided fodder anti-Semites. The above ad shows that for some of the Occupy Wall Streeters there is nothing new under the sun. These anti-Semites are not at the center of Occupy Wall Street, but this post at On Faith suggests that liberal leaders and politicians should be condemning such behavior.

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it’s funny what they selectively choose to show, and choose to cut.  that guy yelling at the older jewish guy is Danny “Lotion Man” Cline, and one of the parts they cut out is him saying that “I’m a jew”.  sure, pick any large group at random, and you will always find a few.  but what this is is simply a transparent attempt to smear the occupy wall streeters.  and that makes the guys who put this ad together racists.

Comment by Proton Soup on 10/18/11 at 3:50 pm

I saw the video and I don’t care if the guy is Moses, he is still an asshole. Being a Jew means nothing at things like this. Look at a guy like Phil ( Hitler should have finished the job ) Weiss.

Comment by Bill Pearlman on 10/18/11 at 4:25 pm

@Proton Soup.Danny Cline is 1/4 Jewish he’s part Puerto rican ,Irish and Polish.Actually 1/5

Comment by Mark on 10/19/11 at 4:45 am

so… what then?  he’s hitler?

Comment by Proton Soup on 10/19/11 at 1:30 pm

So what does this mean, I should become a Tea Bagger?
Where were these Extreme Right wingers when members of the Tea Bag posse spoke out against Zionist Jews?

Comment by Phillip Cohen on 10/19/11 at 9:01 pm

Phillip: should you become a TeaBagger?  That term refers to the act of one homosexual male sucking the testicles of another male - so I guess the answer is yes if you’re gay, no if you aren’t.  Now if you are referring to the Tea Party members, there are only a couple of incidents of carrying of anti semitic signs in their entire history, where the Occupiers are riddled with Jew Haters.  Suggest you open you eyes, and find the truth - you are siding with those who hate your guts for being a Jew.

Comment by george on 10/20/11 at 6:15 pm

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