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Occupy LA Reply to ADL on Anti Semitic remarks at OLA

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SanFranciscoZionist10/22/2011 10:42:07 am PDT

If I were rewriting it for them, I would put a little less emphasis on press responsibility, and not waste time with the bullshit idea that this woman is ‘trying to discredit’ their movement. And get something a little less stiff than ‘consider this a denouncement’.

I’m annoyed, once again, by the notion that having Jewish ritual events on-site places them above reproach (and before people jump on that, I know they didn’t say those words. They have, however, mentioned it several times in the context of telling the world they’re not anti-Semites.) (Also, that’s a ‘synagogue’, unless they have a Reform congregation on-site as well.) It would sound better to me if they simply said that they have, and wish for, a widely diverse group of protestors, and will not put up with bigotry.

I am pleased that they committed to asking any future McAllisters to find another venue.

Now, who are these folks, and what authority do they have?