'Pro-Israeli media bid to defame OWS'

Islam Times: "Pro-Israeli American outlets on the right that are trying to indicate that all of these protesters are communists and Marxists and that they have nothing in common with the American middle class," said Mark Dankof, a former US Senate candidate and a San Antonio-based political commentator, on Monday.

The OWS movement was originally launched on September 17, when a group of people began rallying in New York's financial district to protest 'corporate greed' and top-level corruption, among other instances of social inequality in the United States.

The campaign has now spread to other major US cities, including Seattle, Los Angeles, Dallas, and Boston, as well as hundreds of smaller communities across the nation.

Many believe that the American Awakening -- represented by the OWS movement -- stems from the misguided financial policies of the US establishment, thought to be behind the country's current economic crisis.

The protesters have prominently adopted the motto 'we are the 99 percent.'