Filmmaker’s Son Takes Occupy to the Internet, by Marc Tracy, Tablet Magazine:
Pierre Sauvage, whom literary editor David Samuels interviewed for Tablet Magazine, makes documentaries such as Weapons of the Spirit and Not Idly By, about people who saved Jews during the Holocaust. While his son David would never claim to have the equivalent subject, he argued that Occupy.com, the Website he founded which launched today, as well as the larger message of Occupy Wall Street are consonant with his father’s themes.
“His running theme in life is people who save people in crisis,” Sauvage told me. “The evil in his movies is never the Nazis, it’s always the people who stood ‘idly by’—who let it happen. The real evil guys are almost not the point.”
He added that the point of Occupy is to turn the system’s bystanders into activists. “Occupy Wall Street,” he explained, “is a bunch of people saying, ‘We’re not going to stand by anymore.’ There’s a whole host of systemic injustices that people have been letting stand by for years.”
Occupy.com aims to be ground zero for Internet media—words, photographs, videos, music, even games—for the Occupy movement as it aims a spring rebirth, most notably perhaps with the general strike called for May 1. It is not a “working group,” not officially sanctioned via general assembly and consensus and the other arcane procedures by which OWS is governed; it is calling itself an “affinity group.” “As editors, we’re just giving a place where all the content that’s being produced will be curated, and putting it up there,” said Michael Levitin, a veteran of the Occupy Wall Street Journal.
Levitin also noted that most of Occupy.com’s staffers, including himself and Sauvage, are Jewish. Even the site’s prime funder, whose name was not given, is apparently a left-leaning, Jewish philanthropist.
Sauvage’s trajectory feels typical of many young people who got involved in the Occupy movement. Grew up in L.A.; majored in English at Columbia; wrote and directed some plays; worked in television; went to business school (the founder of Occupy.com has an MBA!); made a well-received documentary short. Two friends (who, he noted, knowing his audience, also happen to be Jewish) took him down to Zuccotti Park, and he was hooked.
Jewish moralizing in action. Note how skillfully the particularist jewish interests are wrapped up in and justified by universalist-sounding rhetoric. Unwrapped, the message isn’t just at all.
Jewish holocaust propaganda is aimed at guilt-tripping non-jews who don’t actively put jewish interests before their own. The theme of Occupy’s ringleader jews is consonant with this, and they deem the Occupy movement, or leading it at least, to be in the best interests of the jews. Standing idly by, not doing what jews want you to do when and how they want you to do it is, to a jewish mind, the very definition of evil.
[The image above comes from an article written and published by jews whose main concern is that Occupy is bad for the jews.]
