Moonbat Central (UPDATED)

One of the things the mainline church-connected U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation has been doing on its Web site is running lists of protests in which they are urging people to get involved. I got interested in that because of items I saw at Little Green Footballs and Hot Air that linked to the San Francisco Bay area photographer who goes by the nom de cyber of Zombie. One of the protests had this information on the U.S. Campaign site:

Saturday, January 10, 2009, 11:00AM
Mass March, Civic Center Plaza, Larkin & Grove Sts.
Sponsored by: Gaza Action
Contact: info@araborganizing.org 415-861-7444

As it turns out, the protest in question was primarily organized by International ANSWER, the front for the neo-Stalinist Workers World Party. Zombie, who specializes in photo essays of Bay area moonbat-dominated events, had a field day with this one. Here is a trio of examples of what she saw:

Even though her spelling is bad, I think her anti-Semitism comes through loud and clear.

I never knew Santa Claus had such violent proclivities.

It doesn’t look like pacifism was the order of the day.

I’m not saying that people like David Wildman of the United Methodist General Board of Global Ministries, or Adam Horowitz of the American Friends Service Committee (steering committee members of the U.S. Campaign), or former PCUSA Moderator Rev. Dr. Fahed Abu-Akel (a member of the advisory board) agree with these particular protestors. My point is that the organization they are helping to run is directing its supporters to march alongside people like this (and this is by no means the only march on the U.S. Campaign directory to feature violence-advocating anti-Semites in its ranks). That may not make for an endorsement, but it certainly does lead to a connection that they may want to reconsider. Do they want to be associated with this kind of hate? More to the point, do the people who run their denominations?

UPDATE: Another look at the list of protest that the U.S. Campaign directs its supporters to reveals a lot of International ANSWER organizers. ANSWER has apparently taken the lead in putting together moonbat displays in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New Haven (CT), Washington DC, Fort Lauderdale, Chicago, Boston, and New York City–and those are just the ones with ANSWER contact e-mail addresses.

UPDATE: Viola Larson at Naming His Grace has further information about ANSWER allies Al-Awda and the Free Palestine Alliance, who were also among the organizers of a number of these protests. By all means check it out.