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Traffic along the busy I-880 mega-highway in Oakland, Calif.: blocked.
Traffic on San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge: blocked.
Traffic on the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge over the Hudson River: blocked.
And, here in Canada — traffic in Vancouver, leading to a critical container port: blocked.
Traffic outside a major federal government facility in downtown Ottawa: blocked.
All around the world, just as they promised to do on April 15: global trade and movement is being blocked by the Israel-haters.
The pro-Hamas, anti-Israel types would have you believe that all of this — this coordinated, organized global blockade “to free Palestine” — was all grassroots. It was just a group of unaffiliated groups and people coming together, magically, to shut down points and facilities across the West. It was just a few folks coming together to, you know, protest.
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Well, that’s impossible.
This writer has been involved in politics for a long time. Organizing a political rally in a single city takes weeks of preparation and a lot of hard work. It takes money.
Doing it around the planet, and effectively shutting down businesses, infrastructure and government services — using glossy, Madison Ave.-quality graphics on your signs and banners? Shutting down capitalism and democracies on a global scale?
That requires money. That requires a directing mind. That requires a plan.
Because effective worldwide protests don’t just “happen.” And they definitely don’t just happen because a some Palestine enthusiasts decided to throw something together one weekend.
Check the “A15Action” website, ostensibly put together by an anarchist collective in the U.S. It’s more professional-looking than what most governments or political parties put together. There’s a video that greets you when you click on the site, and a woman’s voice is heard: “In each city, we will identify and blockade major choke points in the economy, focusing on points of production and circulation with the aim of causing the most economic impact,” she says.
“Escalation has become necessary: there is a need to shift from symbolic actions to those that cause pain to the economy. As Yemen is bombed to secure global trade, and billions of dollars are sent to the Zionist war machine, we must recognize that the global economy is complicit in genocide, and together we will coordinate to disrupt and blockade economic logistical hubs and the flow of capital.”
Pro Hamas gangs in Ottawa tell Jews to go back to Europe which means go back to the gas chambers. pic.twitter.com/NrH3q6o2yZ
Lawyers are provided for those who get arrested. “Graphics and flyers” are offered for download. Contacts are listed, in just about every major city on Earth. Talking points. Media kits. All of it is there — from a “grassroots” pro-Palestine effort.
Well, grassroots it isn’t.
A letter from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ intelligence group was leaked Monday by Iranian dissident Vahid Beheshti.
Reportedly written prior to the global blockades by the unit’s deputy commander-in-chief, the letter describes the April 15 lawlessness, and says the objective is “supporting and encouraging Palestinian movements towards the political isolation of the Zionist regime.”
Wrote Beheshti: “[Iran] is very clearly organizing and promoting these actions aimed at destroying our modern society, all the while our politicians continue to appease them, placing our values, stability and public order under great jeopardy.”
Previously, this newspaper has reported that anti-Israel protestors are being paid to protest, in Canada and elsewhere.
We have reported that their organizers are trained, connected and skillful in running protests against the Jewish state and Jewish institutions. And that a global web connects these groups and individuals — whose goal isn’t just the destruction of what they call “the Zionist entity.” It’s destabilizing Western democracy, as well.
Don’t believe it? Sound far-fetched?
Then check out what happened in Chicago, Oakland, San Francisco, New York City, Vancouver, Ottawa and dozens of other places on Monday, and ask yourself: Could all of this happen without central coordination? Could it happen without a plan and lots of funding?
You know the answer.
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