Ahmadinejad Vows To "Eliminate" Israel; Schedules Meeting With... Occupy Wall Street

Remember those crazy stories that Occupy Wall Street grew out of an antisemitic leftist magazine?

Yeshiva World News, an Orthodox Jewish news outlet, explained in an editorial Thursday that “many Jews” are feeling a bit uncomfortable with the growing protests because of hateful video footage claiming the U.S. economy is organized for the benefit of Jews.

“The reasons for these ‘uncomfortable feelings’ don’t need to be elaborated on this page,” the editorial reads. “Suffice to say that Jews have been blamed for the world’s troubles for thousands of years, and many are nervous that this finger-pointing will soon start — or , maybe it already has.”

National Review Online and The Blaze have published online video footage this week showing Occupy Wall Street protesters saying and shouting anti-Jewish slurs.

“Go back to Israel,” shouted one protester at an elderly Jewish man.

In another video a man repeats stereotypes about Jews supposedly controlling the mass media, money, and “other areas of production.”

Adbusters, the anti-consumerist, Canada-based magazine which reportedly sparked the protest movement, has been accused of anti-Semitism in the past, most recently for comparing the situation of the Palestinians in Gaza to the plight of the Jews held in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. This resulted in Jewish groups publicly boycotting the magazine.

Well, that was just crazy right-wingers sayin' crazy right-winger things, as usual.

Because Ahmadinejad just proclaimed that Israel will be destroyed....

"Iran has been around for the last seven, 10 thousand years. They (the Israelis) have been occupying those territories for the last 60 to 70 years, with the support and force of the Westerners. They have no roots there in history," he said, referring to the founding of the modern state of Israel in 1948.

"We do believe that they have found themselves at a dead end and they are seeking new adventures in order to escape this dead end. Iran will not be damaged with foreign bombs," Ahmadinejad said.

"We don't even count them as any part of any equation for Iran. During a historical phase, they (the Israelis) represent minimal disturbances that come into the picture and are then eliminated," Ahmadinejad added.

...and also that he's going to meet with some good anti-"Zionists" in Occupy Wall Street.

Ahmadinejad is also set to meet American university students, artists, intellectuals and elites, including Occupy Wall Street anti-capitalist protestors, despite the ongoing efforts made by the pro-Zionist lobbies to prevent direct link between American people and the Iranian president," the Iranian organ Fars News reports.

Well how about that.

Nice: Ahmadinejad, the Jokester, then joked about the fatwah demanding the death of Salman Rushdie.

Update: OWS says they sense a plot to discredit them and, wisely, refuse to meet with Ahmadinejad.

posted by Ace at 06:23 PM

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