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<strong>LOOMING</strong> <strong>DISASTER</strong><br />
Black Lives Matter & Jew Hatred: How BLM and Anti-Israel Activists<br />
Found Common Cause.” It explains that “BLM co-founder<br />
Patrisse Cullors is a co-signatory to a statement proclaiming ‘solidarity<br />
with the Palestinian struggle [for] liberation;’ demanding an<br />
end to Israel’s occupation of Palestine; and urging support for<br />
anti-Israel the Boycott, Divestment, & Sanctions movement.” The<br />
motivation may primarily be opposition to capitalism (the statement<br />
explains: “we aim to sharpen our practice of joint struggle<br />
against capitalism, colonialism, imperialism, and the various racisms<br />
embedded in and around our societies.”), but the hatred it<br />
cultivates is real. 18<br />
At a BLM rally in Seattle, held to mark the one-year anniversary<br />
of the shooting in Ferguson, a speaker in front of a Jewish-owned<br />
marijuana store accused the owner of bullying the neighborhood<br />
by, among other things, taking down posters for an African heritage<br />
summer festival from property that he owned. “You don’t come into<br />
black neighborhoods trying to throw your weight around, especially<br />
when you’re coming from Israel and former IDF [Israel Defense<br />
Forces].” 19 Referring to the posters that “his weirdo ass” had taken<br />
down, the speaker threatened that if such things continue, “someone’s<br />
going to come see you, alright. We’re not playing out here.<br />
We’ve been seizing buildings. We’ve been dealing with reactionary<br />
crackers just like yourself... Give me a what’s up if you’re the soldiers<br />
for Omari out here.” 20 The crowd cheered. The threatened business<br />
owner contacted the Anti-Defamation League.<br />
It begins to sound like Nazi Germany, or – more recently – like<br />
the slogans launched by the Soviet bloc’s disinformation machinery<br />
during the Cold War, which portrayed the U.S. as an “imperial<br />
Zionist country” financed by Jewish money, the aim of which was<br />
allegedly to transform the rest of the world into a Jewish fiefdom.<br />
Communism is inherently anti-religious, and perfectly willing to<br />
be anti-Semitic or even racist if that serves the anti-capitalist cause.<br />
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