The hard Left always has a drift towards anti-Semitism anyway. Why do you suppose Jose Bove (I don't vouch for the spelling) is/was camping in Ramallah to protect Arafat from Jews rather than in Paris to protect Jews from Frenchmen? Because deep down he sees the Jew as the enemy, the symbol of global capitalism - those sinister Jewish international bankers were anti-globalist symbols before anti-globalism had the name.
The Left and Right anti-globalists often converge at this point, of course, as they do at so many others.
Thanks for the observations. I'll have to look further into this Jose Bove character. But your historical remark is dead on, and reminds me of debates from before, and especially between the world wars. Communists and fascists both met -- though for much different reasons -- when it came to their anti-bourgeois positions. And the Jew, of course, was the carrier of capitalism. (Although for some, he morphed into the carrier of communism.)
Jose Bove: Vandal par excellence
A Google search will provide many links to those who like him (Indymedia, etc.).
I am not an unqualified fan of David Brooks, but this is an interesting analysis:
Notice in the second article the reason Bove gave for taking sides against Israel: The Israelis are "putting in place -- with the support of the World Bank -- a series of neoliberal measures intended to integrate the Middle East into globalized production circuits, through the exploitation of cheap Palestinian labour."
Those Rothschilds, at it again.