In news of amusing incompetence, a group of lefties, fellow-travellers and Islamists tried to blockade a ship owned by Zim Lines, a shipping company is based in Israel, that arrived in Oakland harbour yesterday. Unfortunately for them they picked the wrong ship. The one they protested in front of was actually Chinese, and the Israeli ship didn’t arrive until 6pm, well after most of the protesters went home.

Marvellously, they didn’t realise. Epic fail.

Some 500 anti-Israel protestors arrived at the Oakland, California port early Sunday morning, hoping to block an Israeli ship from unloading its cargo. However, the ship did not arrive, and the crowd prevented workers from unloading a Chinese ship instead.

The protestors say they were protesting the recent Israel-Turkey flotilla incident, though they displayed great ignorance about what actually happened; one of them even compared barely armed Israeli Defense Forces troops with Somali pirates.

“Free, free Palestine! Don’t cross the picket line!” the picketers shouted – and in fact, the longshoremen chose not to clash with them, for fear of “getting into fistfights,” a union leader said. No one was arrested.

The Israeli ship arrived only at 6 PM, more than 12 hours after the protestors, but by that time most of the latter had left.

The video made by the protestors, of course, makes no mention of any of this (love the lengthy references to demonstrators missing the demo to watch the World Cup in ‘liberated’ SAfrica). Don’t bother watching it unless you’re bored; it’s only here for evidence value of their knuckle-dragging boneheadedness and not for any enlightmentment value.

Hat-tip to GatewayPundit