I noticed one man was wearing a pro-Palestine button. What the Palestinian issue has to do with "greed" puzzles me, but then again, the Occupy movement has devolved into a collection--or is it a collective?--of issues that have only one thing in common--the extreme left supports each of them.
While the protester replies "sure" to my query about whether he supports Israel's right to exist, I countered that Hamas' charter includes a clause that calls for the destruction of the Jewish state. Then I asked him about the "destruction" clause. He didn't answer my question but told me that "Israel had a role in the creation of Hamas." The following day I mentioned this "fact" to another BlogCon 2011 attendee, Jeff Dunetz of The Lid. He replied, "No they did not."
Hamas in fact is an nationalist offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, which had been active in the Gaza Strip since the 1950s--when the enclave was part of Egypt.
To learn more about this "creation" he suggested I research the work of Norman Finkelstein. The former DePaul professor--he was denied tenure there--is a holocaust minimizer whose academic "specialty" was vile attacks on other scholars, particularly Alan Dershowitz.
Leon Wieseltier of the New Republic described Finkelstein as someone who is "[p]oison, he's a disgusting self-hating Jew, he's something you find under a rock."
His backers, such as this man, reliably fall back on Finkelstein's parents, who were holocaust survivors, whenever they are confronted with criticism about his controversial views.
In regards to Israel, "Palestine guy" is against "US imperialism." Yes, we send aid money to Israel, but we do the same thing with Egypt.
DePaul's hands are far from clean in regards to Israel, as you will read below.
Related post:
Video: OccupyChicago anti-Israel rant
DePaul posts:
Justice denied for former DePaul Professor Thomas Klocek
Sept 15: Second anniversary of the beginning of the Thomas Klocek affair
DePaul President Fr. Holtschneider: "Academic freedom is alive and well at DePaul"
CAIR-Chicago recommended that DePaul fire Klocek
DePaul DeMentia
Israel bars ex-DePaul professor Finkelstein from entering country
Fisk on Fink: Robert Fisk joins the Norman Finkelstein tenure debate as DePaul's "perfect storm" gathers strength
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