Like most American Jews, my father tends to vote Democratic. Jews have chosen Democrats over Republicans in every presidential race since Woodrow Wilson. But when my dad votes for a Republican, he explains his decision in simple terms: "He's a friend of Israel." Republicans desperately want to win the Jewish vote and the clout it brings with it. So I was not surprised to see Bill Kristol, Fox News commentator and cheerleader for the War in Iraq, had started a right-wing organization called "Emergency Committee for Israel" (as opposed to the "C'est la Vie Committee for Israel").
What did surprise me was the video the group released to uncover the burning, vicious truth about the Occupy Wall Street protests. OWS, it turns out, is just a bunch of anti-Semitic anarchists. The video shows a few signs about Jews running the financial system and an orthodox Jew arguing with just about the most pathetic little pecker in New York.
The point of the video is to show that the movement is not based in middle-class frustration over decades of wealth inequality. In fact, it's a neo-Nazi training camp bent on tearing down civilization, waiting for the first opportunity to throw the Jews against the wall.
Let me preempt conservative readers. "Don't tell us he's is going to suggest we ignore the hateful fringe showing up at OWS when he was among the first to use the hateful fringe in the Tea Party to paint that movement as racist."
I am. Here's why:
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