‘War Criminals Not Welcome Here’: Occupy Oakland Plans Major Protest of Israeli President’s Visit to SF Synagogue
- Posted on March 4, 2012 at 5:39pm by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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Occupy Oakland demonstrators plan to hold a major “unwelcoming” of Israeli President Shimon Peres Tuesday during his visit to a San Francisco synagogue.
“Israeli President Shimon Peres will come to Temple Emanu-El in San Francisco to give a talk titled ‘Israel and the Jewish People: A Vision of Tomorrow,’” Occupy Oakland announced in a post on its website Sunday. “In light of this theme, we want to show Peres what our vision of tomorrow would look like by warmly greeting him with a mass protest against apartheid outside of the temple.”
Peres, Occupy Oakland charges, has “signed into law racist and colonialist legislation” and “a series of laws and amendments disenfranchising and ethnically cleansing Palestinians from their land” The group also blasts him for including former President George W. Bush, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Ruport Murdoch and Henry Kissinger in his annual Israeli Presidential Conference, calling them “guilty of collaboration with the apartheid regime”:
Shimon Peres serves the wealthy colonial elite and the settler state of Israel. Peres tours the world speaking on behalf of Jewish people, co-opting the history of the Holocaust. At the same time, he has on his conscience a massive arms trade and racist laws which advance the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Palestinian peoples. His very presence at a synagogue in San Francisco normalizes settler colonialism here and in Israel, connecting two settler states in the name of Judaism and an imperial and colonial “vision of tomorrow.”
To contest the normalization and cultural violence of this event, a number of Bay Area activists, including the proposers, are organizing a protest outside of the synagogue on March 6, 2012 at 6:30 PM. This proposal does not seek to create a formal Occupy Oakland working group, but does not oppose this, and will participate if one is formed. We ask Occupy Oakland to take a stand against apartheid and settler colonialism by endorsing, participating in, and helping plan this action. We hope Occupy Oakland will help think up and enact creative ways for us to show Peres that he is not welcome to promote apartheid and colonialism in the already colonized Bay Area.
The group’s announcement ended with a note of caution, saying: “organizers of this demonstration are committed to anti-oppression principles and will not be represented by any oppressive language or behavior at the demonstration, which includes anti-Jewish racism.”
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Comments (105)
KangarooJack
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 8:14pmHallelujah.
Report Post »TheCoffinMaker
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 10:02pmIf one rock, a shoe, or a turd is thrown by a protester, it’s time for some rubber bullet practice.
Report Post »db321
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 11:19pmHow did the Occupiers know that President Shimon Peres was planning a trip to Oakland. A tip from the WH possibly.
Van Jones has warned us that these Protest are going to turn violent – the problem is that these protest are in CA and NY – bring your little protest to Texas and the throw all the glitter and bricks you want. We play for keeps.
Report Post »lovenfl3
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 11:40pmI thoght they weren’t anti-semites? They keep telling us that they’re not, even though we see sign after sign showing that they are. It‘s kind of like Barack Obama when he didn’t bow to the Saudi King, even though it’s on video. It’s the whole “who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes” argument. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o35_9qcK0U0
Report Post »dutchy
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 3:26amUNWELCOME Occupiers of Oakland and any where else! Go crawl back in the gutter where you came out of. We’ve had enough of your nonsence. Go live in North Korea!
Report Post »GroundZero is Nuclear Demolition x3
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 8:52am@ NFL3 semites- of or relating to the middle east esp in language (nothing to do w/ CA)
Report Post »By this definition, which is widely published, we are ALL anti-semetic by the actions of the US fed gov corp. So, EMBRACE IT, don’t deny it!!
Ruler4You
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 9:55amFTA: “War criminals not Welcome Here.”
How about Social Criminals? Like OWS?
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 6:28pmNah….OWS isn’t just a bunch of deluded lefty brownshirts. Can anyone tell me what protesting Netanyahu’s appearance has to do with “economic inequality”? Idiots.
Report Post »RebelYell1862
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 7:44pm@13thgenerationamerican Israel isn’t stealing anything. They’re trying to hold on to the land given to them by God(pick up a Bible sometime before you run that dicksucker) before they were scattered throughout the world. That is THEIR land and God will protect them in the final conflict which is coming very soon. Run back to huff puff commie.
Report Post »JustPeachy
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 7:40pmOK where are the 912ers, Tea Partiers, etc. to surround the protesters and protect this group that wants to meet and have the Israeli President as their speaker? We all know these OWS protesters don’t just quietly and peacefully protest, they disrupt and even shout people down, not allowing them to speak or be heard. Sometimes there IS violence.
I’m guessing though, that there will be much security. . .???
Report Post »giopa2
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 5:52pmThe 912 and the Tea Party wouldn‘t be able to get a parade permit in the People’s Republic of Oakland and would be unwilling to asdsemble unlawfully.
Report Post »Sniper342
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 7:33pmI have noticed that the OWS trash are branching out into world events and not just sticking to their message of socialism/communism for the US. Funny, it seems they might be being guided along by some puppet masters behind the scenes. The time approaches when the occupy spring will explode all over the world. This is all planned and being orchestrated. These people should be met with overwhelming force to let them know we will tolerate their idiocy no more. IMHO
Report Post »John in Connecticut
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 7:11pmAnd these Occupy jerks will get away with it because we allow them to. They should be met by pro-Israeli protesters who aren’t afraid to dust it up a little.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 6:53pmCan’t we just cede California to Mexico already? Those ‘protesters’ are insane and the state government is way to progressive,bunch of controlling candyasses.
Report Post »biblestudyspacecom
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 7:09pmI live in New York, I move out if Mexico will take New York also.
Report Post »geonj
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 6:45pmhow do these people stay alive, they are too stupid to live,
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 6:35pmObama’s pepole following his instructions
Report Post »dimonds2000
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 7:07pmYou know who else is no friend of Israel … Debbie Wasserman help us fire her http://www.FireDebbie.com
Report Post »db321
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 11:29pmOccupiers take warning – the Israel Secret Service assigned to Protect their President does not have to follow US law – and they are no one to mess with – Van Jones is so stupid – he is sending his Occupiers in with Glitter and Bricks and Israelis are not going to play by the PC rules. They feel threaten – they will shoot back – they don’t use rubber bullets. This is not their first rodeo dealing with idiots.
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 2:35pmObama’s instructions come from his Saudi handlers. He does the bidding of an alien god.
Report Post »Findalis
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 6:26pmWill Occupy Oakland be doing the same towards the Syrians, Egyptians, Saudis, Iranians…
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 6:36pmNo obama would tell them not to
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 6:40pmNo America’s muslim leader obama will advise them not to.
Report Post »vox_populi
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 6:44pmNot a lot of Syrian politicians visiting the United States these days…
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 7:10pm@vox_populi
Report Post »When did your muslim leader obama visit Israel
IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 6:24pmThe useful idiots just don’t understand history. God help the occupiers they will need God someday. Life is short .. Eternity is forever
Report Post »DIVINEPROVIDENCE1776
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 6:23pmMemri TV
Report Post »DIVINEPROVIDENCE1776
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 6:22pmDoes anybody know why they call it the West Bank? Technically, what is the West Bank? No Israeli calls it the West Bank because there’s no such place as the West Bank.The area’s real name is Judea and Samaria, Judea comes from the name Judah.
The term West Bank dates from the establishment of the kingdom of Jordan on the east bank of the Jordan in 1922. It refers to Judea and Samaria by their location on the west bank of the Jordan River and is an attempt by the Arab world to link them to Jordan, although they were originally slated to be part of the state of Israel. Jordan has given up all demands for Judea and Samaria, which it occupied from 1949-1967, when they were united with Israel after Jordan attacked the Jewish state in the Six Day War.
Report Post »Grey Eagle
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 9:24pmThese idiots that are protesting Israel, don‘t know the US history let along Israel’s. They believe all of that crap coming from Obama‘s mouth and don’t think for themselves. There is no one less tolerant than a left wing Liberal.
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 6:22pmYawn – the ‘DEFECATE for obama’ movement is sooooooooooo yesterday. I doubt that President Shimon Peres will even notice obama‘s ’skid-mark army’.
Report Post »academica2020
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 6:18pmWelcome to 1938 Germany.
Report Post »academica2020
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 6:28pmAnd quite a few European nations knew what was about to happen and did nothing, absolutely nothing. Our nation knew what was happening and felt that, compared to the goal of winning the war, it was low on the priorities list.
Report Post »Are we there again?
As a christian, I refuse to look the other way because secular progressives, who have no connection to faith, believ the Israelis are an obstruction t their New World Order…
justangry
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 6:31pmWell our government has passed similar legislation.
Report Post »DIVINEPROVIDENCE1776
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 6:32pmYou are correct sir!
Report Post »academica2020
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 6:43pmHence my issue with current MSM opinion pandering.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 6:12pmOccupy doesn’t know squat EITHER, and should be careful picking a side.
Report Post »woodyb
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 6:19pmThey don’t even know the difference between Oakland and San Francisco!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »13th Generation American
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 6:12pmI don’t understand why Israel continues to take land away from the Palestinians. They are going to have to learn to coexist and not steal land from those people.
Report Post »academica2020
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 6:18pmSteal?
Report Post »vox_populi
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 6:48pmAt this point, it’s probably too late to have Israel make an honest attempt at withdrawing from the West Bank and allowing it and Gaza to found an autonomous Palestinian nation. They’re too invested in their colonization projects. I feel like it would be better if the three regions simply united under a single, secular government, and then treated all citizens equally.
Report Post »biblestudyspacecom
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 7:14pmDo you want to give America back to the american Indians also.
Report Post »lcltcc
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 7:19pmSteal? Really? And where did you learn ancient history? Did you even go to school? No wonder this nation has gone to crap. Between the progressives/liberals, the muslims, the illegals, the occupiers, and the many, many unlearned people there is just too damn much ignorance.
Report Post »Judeo_Christian
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 7:33pmSteal…There is a reason that the land surrounding Israel is historically called JUDEA. Because the Jews have owned it for millenia! That is history my ignorant friend! The real theft that is being perpetrated on the world stage now is being committed by those who say that the land belongs to Palestine.
You need to educate yourself a bit before you post.
Report Post »Watchyer6
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 8:47pmAre you daft?
Report Post »vox_populi
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 12:49am“Steal…There is a reason that the land surrounding Israel is historically called JUDEA. Because the Jews have owned it for millenia! That is history my ignorant friend! The real theft that is being perpetrated on the world stage now is being committed by those who say that the land belongs to Palestine.”
I see. Should we inform the Native Americans that all of us foreigners will be leaving on the next boat?
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 6:10pmWhen are they finally going to clean these thugs out for good?
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 6:55pmThere isn’t enough bleach in the entire country to cleanse the vermin from that area.
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 10:16pmif the native americans were still struggling against the US then yes perhaps we would have to give them back more land.The arab palestinians are freedom fighters.Yhe zionists are european interlopers. Today all arabs would recognize israel -the 1948borders.They are resisting the annexed land israel took in 67 and the occupation of gaza. Not the existence of a 1948israel.Though they will always believe the creation of that state was unjust and a theft of land.You genocidists want to rewrite history and pretend the zionists were always there but the presence of those pesky palestinian arabs prevents you from rewriting your history.How dare they not disapear into the woodwork of other arab lands? because their native villages are jerusalem and haifa!the zionists took down all arabic signs and names of villages and replacd them with hebrew ones. Zionists didn’t even speak hebrew except for religious rites prior to israel.They spoke polish,russian,german etc.Gullsand or liers. i stnad with the displace? and victimized arab [palestinians].You‘re finding that it’s not so easy to cimmit genocide is it? those afghans are still there, so too the iraqis ,and even those darn palestinians havn’t gone away yet!The only reason assad has a green light to commit genocide on syrians is because it’s good gfor israel.And russia is pro zionist too.hence it’s vetoes. israel wants more land and assad has not been bad for israel.he keeps freedom fighters in check.
Report Post »getourcountryback
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 10:51pmROSE ELLEN – Blah, blah, blah, genocide; blah blah blah, zionist; blah, blah, misspelled word; blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, ad nausea.
Report Post »Twobyfour
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 8:59amRose, feh! Israelis don’t know how to do genocide properly! What kind of genocide is it when the Israeli Arab population is growing? Or calling people in Gaza on the phone that they would be conducting military ops and that they should leave the area, what kind of deranged approach to genocide is that? Dilettantes!
Now, if Arabs ever got an upper hand… they’d show Israelis how do do genocide properly. There would be no Jew left alive from Jordan to Mediterranean sea!
Report Post »notetaking
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 6:07pmNot welcome there? Well, neither is intelligence, common sense, and normalcy.
Report Post »DIVINEPROVIDENCE1776
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 6:04pmhttp://www.scribd.com/doc/61862344/Islamic-Lies-Myths-By-Ahmed-Simon
Report Post »KangarooJack
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 6:02pmOK- the very non-partisan/non-political guy that roams through tunnels for the History Channel (I think?) He actually had on REAL PEOPLE in Israel. Turns out, most Palestinians are quite happy to HAVE a job, AND ENJOY the security once they pass the Israeli border to go to work. Most Palestinian workers LIVE in Israel and they go to work not worrying about their families safety too much.
Report Post »These weren’t people posed for a photo shoot-they were/are the actual workers who do this for a living. They had nothing to lose on speaking the truth…
I.Gaspar
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 5:59pmAs far as I am concerned, Occupy Oakland is not welcome in this country.
Report Post »notetaking
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 6:08pmAmen!
Report Post »kodibear2
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 6:16pmI hope he does not think we all agree with the wall st thogs!!!
Report Post »momrules
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 5:54pmThe Occupy movement has outed themselves. They are not for the “poor,” they are for the destruction of Israel and by extension the destruction of America.
Report Post »These are very dangerous people.
chameleonx
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 5:53pmEven though I do not support the Occupy movement I can agree with their position on Israel. I just cannot support Israel or any of the other nations in the Middle East. In my opinion the countries and citizens are backwards, to much war and destruction on both sides, etc. You can make a case that any side is better then the other. To me both sides are guilty of crimes against humanity and the earth.
Report Post »academica2020
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 6:35pmOutside of Israel, those folks have had control, or quasi control, forever. That said, how is Israel, complicit? They were forced out of the region a millennium ago. How are they complicit?
Report Post »academica2020
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 6:37pmThe Israelis, no the Jews, have always been on the bad end of every equation, yet they are always the bad guys. That argument ain’t working anymore unless you are the KKK, OWS, or the apologetic Jews who live in the US and forget their heritage.
Report Post »notetaking
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 1:28am@Academica2020…
Excellent points…so right!
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 5:52pmOWSers not welcoming a fellow ‘criminal’? I never thought I’d see the day.
Report Post »JP4JOY
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 5:47pmAs a nation we will never be conquered by an outside aggressor. Our defeat will come from within because we lose sight of morality and justice and become weaker as we concede our values a little by little.
Report Post »13th Generation American
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 6:17pmThere are medications available for paranoid delusional thought. You should try INVEGA® SUSTENNA®. I would also recommend seeking long term psychiatric care. There is help out there. Good Luck!
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 7:11pmJP4; right on the money
13GEN; please read some history for your own sake.
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