Malicious Zionist Complaint of ‘Anti-Semitism’ by Jack Mendel of Jewish News has been Rejected by Twitter
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| Twitter's standard response to my initial appeals |
On
November 17th there was a message on my Twitter account informing me
that my account had been suspended for ‘hateful
conduct’. It quickly became apparent that a
complaint had been made by a ‘journalist’ Jack Mendel @mendelpol of Jewish News.
I immediately posted
an article
and followed it up
with another
article a few days later. Mendel openly boasted of his cowardly deed
stating
‘I reported Greenstein for repeatedly sending me messages filled with
hate, including using far right ‘Zio’ term, and various comparisons of Jews and
Israel to nazism.’
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| fake journalist Jack Mendel knows no shame |
Jack Mendel was and is a liar. Far from me
contacting him it was the other way around.
I was responding to him and his friends. Nothing I said
had anything to do with hate. I don’t do
hate nor do I hate this ‘so-called journalist’ (his description not mine) who, unable to engage in the cut and thrust of
political debate, reached for Twitter's censor. However I have nothing but contempt for a 'journalist' who attempts to close
down free speech. All under the guise of opposing ‘hate speech’ no less. What I hate is racism and Zionism.
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| Twitter's standard response |
The facts are quite simple. The Jewish Leadership
Council, an unelected Zionist group tweeted three times its support of Israel’s bombardment
of Gaza, which was supposedly in response to the firing of firecrackers (‘rockets’).
To the JLC and its faithful lapdog Mendel, Israel was reacting to Hamas’s
firing. In actual fact Hamas was reacting to a botched operation in Gaza by an
undercover Israeli military squad that went wrong. Botched
Israeli Operation in Gaza Endangers Human Rights Groups. Israel’s undercover
squad posed as aid workers for a charity
working in Gaza thus endangering all humanitarian relief workers. They murdered 7 people for the loss of one of
their own as they extricated themselves.
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| Battling for Israel - Zionism's Fake Journalist Jack Mendel |
On November 15th I responded pointing out
that there is a long record of aggressors posing as the victim. I
pointed out that 80 years ago, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland it pretended
that it was the victim. Nazi soldiers dressed up in Polish uniforms
staged a mock attack on a German radio station at Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia. The
details can be found in the second of Richard Evan’s trilogy ‘The Third Reich in Power’. pp.699/700.
According to @mendelpol these were ‘despicable remarks’. To most people with a few brain cells this was a historical analogy. That is what history is about, comparisons. Otherwise how do you make sense of historical
events? Being unable to rebut my remarks Mendel sought the assistance of Twitter’s censor.
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| Canary article helps launch campaign against Twitter censorship |
On the 16th
November I responded by saying that what was despicable was the shooting down
in cold blood of 200 unarmed demonstrators in Gaza and the decade long
starvation siege. In Mendel’s morbid mind this became ‘This morning a Jewish activist sent me a tweet filled with anti-Semitic
tropes.’ Zionists love the word tropes.
It’s a cliché they use as a substitute for thinking, probably because it rhymes
with dopes. According to Mendel ‘Being Jewish
or having Jewish ancestry isn’t a free pass to saying things which play down antiSemitism/in
the second case are anti-Semitic.’
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| Being incapable of responding with anything useful Useless Jack Mendel reached for Twitter's Censor |
I agree. Being Jewish doesn’t mean you can’t be anti-Semitic.
Mendel himself is a good example of a Jewish anti-semite. Zionism was founded by an anti-Semite,
Theodor Herzl and it is led today by another anti-Semite, Benjamin Netanyahu, a
Holocaust Revisionist who cuddles up to all manner of anti-Semites including
the Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban. [see Rewriting
the Holocaust – Jacobin]
It wasn’t me who said
that Palestine was an ‘institute for the
fumigation of Jewish vermin’ but Israel’s first Minister of Justice, Pinhas
Rosenbluth. Zionism is a form of Jewish Anti-Semitism.
Nothing I said was even remotely anti-Semitic. How
can condemning Israel’s siege of Gaza or the murder of unarmed Palestinians, including 21 year old medic Razan al-Najar, as she was dashing to help
the wounded, be anti-Semitic?
If Mendel tried for once to engage what passes
for his brain he might realise that if anyone was being anti-Semitic it was
he. What he was suggesting is that
the murder of children and unarmed demonstrators is the embodiment of Jewish identity.
That it is Jewish to kill innocent people. That is akin to saying that Jews are
bloodthirsty creatures who enjoy killing children and young people. It’s a modern version of the medieval blood
libel. That is Zionism in the 21st century.
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| To this very day Yousaf's account is still active although it hasn't been used for 2 years, which suggests that it was a paid Israeli troll account |
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| Being told it was a pity you didn't die in the Holocaust was not a breach of Twitter rules! |
What was particularly outrageous about Twitter’s
closing of my account was that repeatedly over the past two years I have
complained of abuse from Zionist trolls including being told by a George Yousaf that it was a
great shame that my family and I had not died in the Holocaust. To all my
complaints Twitter responded that these were not breaches of their rules yet
Mendel's false and malicious complaint was upheld. When I appealed against my suspension I received a
negative standard response and got the same
response repeatedly. Clearly these replies are not generated by human beings
but by algorithm.
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| An example of the comments that Twitter found didn't breach their rules |
It was only when a live human being at Twitter,
because none of the responses I got was signed by a named person, was contacted
personally and told that their refusal to reinstate my account was unacceptable
and their practices would be raised if necessary in Parliament that my account was reinstated.
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| Twitter's standard response to complaints |
What happened to me is not unique. Twitter and
Facebook have been removing accounts of anti-Zionists and supporters of the Palestinians
at the behest of Zionist bigots like @mendelpol. Twitter, Facebook and other
social media outlets are giant monopolies akin to the great trusts of the 19th
century. The reaction then was to break
these trusts up as being inimical to the public interest. The control of an important area of public
debate by private groups is something that sooner or later parliament is going
to have to regulate. It is unacceptable
that unaccountable corporations can remove or censor people at will.
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| Abuse by Zionist supporter of Tommy Robinson, Mark Haringman - I am a thief, fraudster, child abuser and socialist - in no particular order - only in the twisted mind of a Zionist fascist would being a socialist be a crime! |
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| Twitter finds that Haringman (Newsdude) Tweets are in order |
Like the privatised utilities, Facebook, Twitter,
Youtube etc. should be treated as emanations of the State and thus be subject
to public control and susceptible to Judicial Review and other forms of legal restraint.
At the moment faceless people or machines make decisions without any
independent oversight.
As long as Twitter and Facebook remain privately
controlled one can expect malicious Zionists like @mendelpol to use the power
of the Israeli state and Zionism's pernicious influence to effect the same censorship that
the Israeli state itself imposes on its subjects.
I have a number of people and organisations to thank
for helping me reverse Mendel's squalid little attempt at censorship. In no
particular order.
Philip Weiss, of Mondoweiss, who carried my article Twitter
closes down my account for ‘hateful conduct’ at a time when I was eager to
get my story out.
A big thank you to Afroze Zaidi-Jivraj a
journalist on the
Canary, the Independent Media site whose article Twitter
censors pro-Palestinian Jewish activist while allowing antisemitic abuse
against him was immensely helpful.
Afroze was also helpful in other ways despite not being well.
Thanks also to Asa Winstanley, the Electronic Intifada
journalist for his article in Middle East Monitor, The
relentless censorship of anti-Zionist Jews which started with the line that
‘Tony Greenstein is slowly but surely
being disappeared from the internet’.
I began to wonder whether my death sentence had been pronounced prematurely! In the purported
words of Mark Twain, the announcement of my death had been greatly
exaggerated!
Also to be mentioned in dispatches are Ali Abunimah,
the Director of Electronic Intifada and Richard Silverstein of Tikun Olam for
their helpful advice at a difficult time
Naturally the right-wing pro-war site
Harry’s Place, despite purporting to
defend free speech, engaged in a piece of
whatabouttery in order to rationalise Twitter’s censorship. HP, despite
having as their slogan Orwell’s ‘Liberty,
if it means anything, is the right to tell people what they don't want to hear’
refused to defend my right to tell Zionists like @mendelpol what he didn’t
want to hear! But then HP has always
been quite selective when it came to deciding whose free speech they defended! Or
as the Muslim group Mend suggested,
Orwell’s ‘‘Political language…is designed
to make lies sound truthful … and to give an appearance of solidity to pure
wind’ is far more appropriate to hypocrites like HP and Jack Mendel.
It is to be expected that Zionist papers
like Jewish News will employ ‘journalists’
who see it as their job to censor those whom they disagree with. That is
because the Jewish News and the Jewish Chronicle are not so much newspapers as Zionist propaganda rags. Contrast this with the vigorous Jewish Forward in the United States which
doesn’t hesitate to debate out all these issues.
It is a small but vital victory over
those who would limit the free speech of Palestinian supporters and anti-Zionists.
Tony Greenstein
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