The Apartheid Police Come Calling

Posted by Richard Edmondson at 10/9/2011 2:31 PM

How much longer will Occupy America protesters continue to ignore scenes like this? Imagine having Apartheid thugs break into your house, rough up your family, and kidnap one of your children. Scenes like this are playing out every day in Occupied Palestine, supported by US tax dollars, but still protesters—now camped out in the thousands in multiple US cities—don't seem to be speaking out in any meaningful way on it. I watched the Live Stream for about half an hour last night and heard nothing—no mention of Israeli apartheid, no mention of the billions given to Israel each year, and of course no mention of AIPAC's influence on our political system, which is at least as corrosive, if not more so, than Wall Street's. Nothing. It was as if their lips were sealed.




Are the protesters engaging in tunnel-vision? Watch the video below. You'll see three guests, all of them discussing Occupy America, all of them very much supporters of the protests. But while one of them dares raise the subject of the pro-Israel lobby's influence—in politics and the media as well as the international banking system—for his trouble he is accused of being anti-Semitic by the other two. Perhaps it is his use of the words "Jewish control" (as opposed to, say, "Zionist control" or "AIPAC control" over these things) that sparks such an adamant reaction from his two fellow guests. But one of those who attacks him even goes so far as to argue that it is the US driving Israel's policy, rather than the other way around. I guess she must have missed the 30 standing ovations Benjamin Netanyahu got when he spoke before Congress last May. Her attitude strikes me very much as tunnel-vision. There is a refusal to see the wider picture. Pay no attention to the Jewish criminals behind the curtain—or their connections to the ones running the state of Israel.

This is not to say that all the Wall Street criminals are Jewish. But certainly many of them are. Are you being "racist" or "divisive" when you point this out? Or are you perhaps "tap-dancing" around the issue in refusing to point it out? And what of Israeli racism against Palestinians? How comfortable would the guests on this program—specifically the two on the let's-leave-Israel-out-of-the-discussion side of the conversation—feel discussing white supremacy? I suspect they would rightfully condemn it. But would they equally and as vociferously condemn Jewish supremacy? Again, it seems to be tunnel-vision. What are your chances of overthrowing a corrupt government when you're handicapped with a severe case of tunnel-vision?

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