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Jew-hatred and the Wall Street Protests

Here is a link to an article by someone who, as a response to her criticism of the Occupy Wall Street protests, has received a huge amount of antisemitic hate mail:

After spending hours at the protest on Saturday and Monday, talking to participants, listening in on people’s assemblies and taking pictures, I wrote a report on it for the London-based online magazine, spiked. It was an unflattering account of what I saw as a farcical happening, like something taken straight out of a Monty Python skit. It was surreal and I was astonished that the protesters could expect, let alone demand, to be taken seriously when they engage in such shenanigans as ‘political yoga’, human megaphone meetings, face-painting and fancy-dress parades. One woman even had her boobs out, with the words ‘Free Bradley Manning’ written across them (a reference to the jailed WikiLeaks whistle-blower).

But the responses I got to my article were even more astonishing than the carry-ons in the Financial District. I received a string of indignant emails and tweets about my Jewish, kleptocrat banking connections; demands that I reveal the details of my pay checks and that I come clean about my not-so-hidden agenda. I was told that my family name disqualifies me from having any opinion about the protest and that I have ‘the karma of a demon’. One reader posted my article online, headlining the post ‘Journalist & Jew – Nathalie ROTHSCHILD’.

Read the article here.

And for more examples of this, see the responses to “Concerns about antisemitism” on the protest organizers’ web forum.

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