The Barricada Collective, a self-proclaimed "revolutionary anarchist" organization, has apparently been funneling information to the Jewish Defense League (JDL), a group whose leader was recently indicted, along with another JDL member, for plotting to bomb a mosque in Culver City, California.
According to the JDL's Web site, "A group called the Barricada Collective will be joining JDL in the protest against Hale, and they have provided specific details on the counter event." The site went on to name the assembly point that would be used by "anarchists" organized by the Barricada Collective.
The site does not make clear whether the JDL and the "anarchists" would march to the library together, although that certainly seems to be the logical intent.
The Baltimore Independent Media Center, the site providing "anarchist" coverage of the event, includes a link to the Jewish Defense League in its feature article, without further commentary.
Although the One People's Project has criticized the JDL in the past, the flier they produced for today's event ("Hatemongers Amongst Us") doesn't picture any of their members or leaders, nor does it even acknowledge their expected presence.
None of these "anarchist" organizations seem particularly concerned that, in a massacre eclipsing Benjamin Smith's 1998 shooting spree, a JDL member machine-gunned 29 Arabs praying in a West Bank mosque in 1994.
Nor does the JDL's official response apparently trouble them: "We feel that Goldstein took a preventative measure against yet another Arab attack. We understand his motivation, his grief and his actions. We are not ashamed to say that Goldstein was a charter member of the Jewish Defense League. We quote without comment the rabbi who conducted the services at Goldstein's funeral, 'A million Arabs are not worth one Jewish fingernail.'"
Anarchism? I call it cowardice, and opportunism at its worst--and uselessness.
Welcome to Barricada Online
www.barricada.org/
Grand jury indicts JDL members in plan to bomb mosque
www.jpost.com/Editions/2002/01/11/LatestNews/LatestNews.41531.html
Nazi Alert: Confront Matt Hale in Connecticut
www.jdl.org/enemies/nazi/hale_ct.html
Baltimore Independent Media Center
baltimore.indymedia.org/
Hatemongers Amongst Us
www.onepeoplesproject.com/York_Flyer.pdf