An unusual case is making its way across the typically tranquil island of Puerto Rico right now involving foreign bio-tech firms, monkey farms, anti-globalism activists and Jew-bashing. And it’s catching the attention of big-time machers such as the Anti-Defamation League’s Abe Foxman.
The story goes like this: Apparently fake allegations have surfaced in Puerto Rico over a proposed monkey-breeding facility in the town of Guayama on the island’s southern coast. The lab appears to be owned by a Mauritius- based firm called Bioculture, with 19 such facilities worldwide. The plan is to open the monkey lab and raise up to 3,000 animals there — one assumes to be used in medical testing.
Poor creatures.
Anyway, rumors began to spread that the plant is actually owned by evil “Israeli interests” and that the plant was actually part of some from-the-future scheme to ethnically cleans and enact genocide on the island and destroy its ecology.
Of course, the Jews were behind it all — and accordingly, local anti-monkey/anti-Israel/anti-Semitic activist Roberto Brito called upon the good folk of Puerto Rico to boycott locally-owned Jewish business both on the island and up Norte on mainland USA.
Harsh!
Now the ADL is involved — calling the Jew-baiting “inexcusable” and imploring the Puerto Rican masses to reject this ridiculousness.
We couldn’t agree more.
Of course we absolutely reject any attempt at anti-Jew rhetoric — obvi! — but we gotta ask.
How did Israel and the Jews get involved in this whole mess in the first place.
Is the bio-lab actually owned by Israelis and if so — why not just say it.
Is there a back-story here — and if so, what is it?