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Glenn Beck calls housing protesters 'Communists'

Didn't I just tell you all last week that deep down a lot of Israelis are Communists Marxists at heart? Someone in Glenn Beck's camp must be reading my blog.... (Cheryl H? Whoever keeps writing to me from Glenn Beck's website?). But because I'm an Israeli and a little less well known than Glenn Beck, I can make comments like that without this happening.

Peace Now called upon Knesset members to boycott Glenn Beck's August 24 Jerusalem rally on Monday after Beck compared the reported 200,000 people who attended the August 6 housing rally in Tel Aviv to Communists.

In a video clip from Beck's show entitled "Radical leftists protest in Israel" that was posted on his website, Beck mocked the protesters' demands for guaranteed housing, raising the minimum wage, and providing education for children aged three months.

"That worked out well for the Soviets," Beck said when told about the protesters' demands.

He suggested solving the housing shortage by building in Judea and Samaria and questioned where the protesters' funding came from.

"Why even look if there is any leftist global financing involved?" Beck asked.
"Do not look to see if there is any Islamist movement that is joining them."

Beck then spoke about joint efforts between socialists and Islamists in history and noted that Islamists worked together with the Nazis, using the alternative name for the Nazi party, the National Socialists.

Let's go to the videotape.


'Peace Now' director Yariv Guggenheimer Oppenheimer was furious.

Peace Now secretary-general Yariv Openheimer said MKs should not attend the rally and should condemn Beck's comments.

"What he said is very problematic," Openheimer said. "Because of Netanyahu's policies, our only friends that we have left in the world are crazy, racist, extremist lunatics like Glen Beck."

Heh.

Labels: Glenn Beck, housing crisis, Israeli economy, Israeli taxes

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:27 AM