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Occupy chapter votes to support Israel boycott
Jerusalem Post ^ | 2-3-12

Posted on 02/03/2012 4:36:58 PM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

The Oakland, Calif., chapter of the US Occupy movement overwhelmingly endorsed a proposal in support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel.

According to Twitter accounts by pro-Palestinian activists pushing the proposal, the statement won nearly unanimous backing in a vote Wednesday following a brief discussion. A lengthy statement on the Occupy Oakland website attacked US aid to Israel and suggested that Israel had "prodded" the United States into the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The Oakland branch of the Occupy movement, which focuses on what it sees as economic discrepancies in the United States, has become increasingly visible for its refusal to repudiate violent action and clashes with the police. Last month, members of the movement broke into the Oakland City Hall and set fire to public property, including an American flag. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the branch's actions have caused a schism within the movement.

It is unclear whether the vote will have any further ramifications. On Nov. 11, the original Occupy Wall Street General Assembly in New York City issued a "statement of autonomy" saying that any declaration not issued by the General Assembly “should be considered independent of Occupy Wall Street and warned that “Those seeking to capitalize on this movement or undermine it by appropriating its message or symbols are not a part of Occupy Wall Street.”

The statement also welcomed those who seek redress of their grievances through nonviolence and want to participate in debate.


TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; oakland; occutardation; occutards; reverttotype

1 posted on 02/03/2012 4:37:06 PM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

“Leaderless” mobs do not form “chapters”. It’s time to start collecting names and let the lawsuits and indictments begin.


2 posted on 02/03/2012 4:45:34 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (So just where does the "buck stop" at the Department of "Justice"?)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

During the Arab-Israeli War of 1967 I was in grad school. I made an Israeli flag and flew it on the antenna of my car. I’m not Jewish, but right is right.


3 posted on 02/03/2012 4:46:23 PM PST by ArmyTeach (OnyoneAur liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain ... USS Iowa BB 61)
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5 posted on 02/03/2012 5:53:10 PM PST by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn't do !)
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To: SJackson

There are two things true evil ends up hating, Christianity and Israel.


6 posted on 02/03/2012 7:54:17 PM PST by aimhigh
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

I don’t get the tent bit, really. You can’t change the world from inside a tent. The only people who ever slept in tents and changed the world were The United States Marines.


7 posted on 02/03/2012 8:03:44 PM PST by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

And just who’s going to do it? Certainly not the BHO govt. or DOJ. Would have to be the states/local govts. And it’ll never happen in any Dem/liberal jurisdictions.


8 posted on 02/03/2012 8:09:31 PM PST by llandres (Forget the "New America" - restore the original one!!)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

No surprise there. The question is why would citizens of either Israel and the United Stattes support a politicial party that is dedicated to their destruction,[To wit] The Democrat Party in the United States.
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9 posted on 02/03/2012 8:09:48 PM PST by sport
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To: FlingWingFlyer

In fact, I’ll go one further. It could end up like what happened to states such as Arizona who’ve tried to protect their innocent citizenry - BHO and his DOJ could end up suing the states/locals.


10 posted on 02/03/2012 8:31:07 PM PST by llandres (Forget the "New America" - restore the original one!!)
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To: aimhigh

It’s growing daily under the Muslim in Chief and his atheist/Marxist cohorts.


11 posted on 02/03/2012 8:37:59 PM PST by llandres (Forget the "New America" - restore the original one!!)
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Thanks DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis. Since Obama and his gang of thugs support Occutardation, this comes as no surprise. Obama sides with Islam again: ...in a cloud of dust... gotta be Debka:
12 posted on 02/04/2012 12:44:38 PM PST by SunkenCiv (FReep this FReepathon!)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
From the start the "occupiers" are a ruse to overthrow Capitalism and a Trojan Horse for the Van Jones Communist members of the Obama Administration most likely coupled with the likes of Ali Khamenei and the Islamic Brotherhood all who hate America and Israel. The Occupiers have been infiltrated with well trained 'community organizers', breaking laws and using them like pawns against their own country....Obama was never meant to 'lead' in liberty or freedom, he was meant to lead us to need a bigger government, unable to survive without it.
13 posted on 02/05/2012 7:40:12 AM PST by yoe
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