The video compiles a number of fleeting moments captured by Glenn Beck's website The Blaze earlier in the month. Indeed, in the crowds estimated to be between 5,000 and 15,000 strong, they manage to find a couple demonstrators who say some truly hateful things. The video shows a sign telling OWS protesters to Google "Wall St. Jews," "Jewish Billionaires" and "Jews & FedResrvBank" and documents a young man harassing someone who appears to be Jewish telling him to "go back to Israel."

It's nice of Glenn Beck, Abe Greenwald and Rush Limbaugh to be so considerate of the Jewish people. Surely they're only acting out of genuine concern. Oh wait. They've been attacking Occupy Wall Street since the very beginning? All month, Limbaugh's been referring to Occupy Wall Street as a "construct of the media Democrat industrial complex." On October 4, Abe Greenwald called the protesters "state-worshipping police haters." On October 10, Glenn Beck called the demonstrators "Marxist radicals...these guys are worse than Robespierre from the French Revolution...they'll kill everybody." In context, the anti-Semite charge is just the latest volley. As for abusing the anti-Semite charge, Limbaugh has a fine history of that. In 2009, he summed up Obama's speech in Cairo as "The Israelis, the Jews, they stink." Glenn Beck has a history of criticizing anyone who's critical of Israel as "socialists."

Interestingly, you might think all of an effort to smear the Occupy Wall Street movement as anti-Semitic might grab the attention of the Anti-Defamation League. While the group has spoken out against the anti-Semitic protesters featured in the video, they've been much more nuanced in their statements. "There is no evidence that these anti-Semitic conspiracy theories are representative of the larger movement or that they are gaining traction with other participants," the group said in a statement Monday. If these right-wing pundits aren't even able to get the ADL on-board, a group that is highly sensitive to attacks against Judaism, they'll have to find a lot more anti-Semitic protesters.

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