Please enjoy these selections from the charming people who disagree with me. Note the depth, breadth, and soaring intellect of the average anti-Semitic anti-Israel commenter. And note, especially, the good humor, cheerfulness, and acceptance of a blogger having the choice of how the debate goes on her own blog.
From an Optimum Online user (I have no desire to waste any time searching my logs finding out exactly where, but this one’s in America:
First Israel has rationalized apartheid, then Israel rationalized the Warsaw Ghetto. Next is the rationalization of genocide. All in a spirit of Proceedings of the Nurenberg Process.
Calling in from work at Wide Open West Finance, we have this charmer:
Reminder that Hamas hasn’t fired a single rocket since it agreed to a ceasefire a month after Operation Cast Lead. Israel is just keeping the blockade on Gaza to be sadistic.
A Turk weighs in. Oh, the humanity of a native of the nation that performed the Armenian genocide!
because you damned you(r pirates) have heavy guns against those civilians, so they have knives, sticks and pipes. got it? I don’t think that you got, because only a human can understand..
From Ireland, Kevin is also blogging from work (Catalyst Design Ltd.). He posted a comment at 10:09 yesterday. As my comments are moderated, no one gets a comment approved without first having my approval. After that, you can post at will. I was working, therefore his comment was in the moderation queue. At 10:11, we have this:
Will you continue to delete comments you don’t agree with or will you be an impartial journalist and consider all views? I better screen-grab my comments as proof in future.
And at 13:06, Kevin The Entitled gets really mad and gives me what-for:
You’re a liar and a cheat Yourish.
At least fuck all people read your blog. Zero comments on most posts or is that because you delete the intelligent ones? Who do you think you’re fooling? Either you are not very intelligent or you are totally brainwashed.
Actually, thousands of people read my blog every day, but few of them comment. All of those who do are far more civil—and smarter—than Kevin The Entitled.
This is one of my favorites. It’s from another Turk using the handle “faith.” (Gee, let’s guess which faith he’s talking about.) After quoting me quoting an Israeli spokesman describing the weapons used to attack the IDF, I get existential insults. Classy.
What a fool you are!!! Truth is dimensionless with respect to your idiopatic brainç You are not a human but not even an animal either, rest is meaningless to discuss.
And of course, we have the Stormfront representative with the winning anti-Semitism of the week. This one is from Southwestern Bell in Texas, and he called himself—this is truly original here, hold onto your hats—Adolf H.
you filthy juden what is wrong with you? those people had every right to attack those jew pirates attacking their ship in international waters. what did the boat have that you jews wanted? pennies?
Dingdingding! Nazi phrases and a really old, lame stereotype all wrapped up in one post! We have a winner! (Who watches Nazi movies!)
And now you have a sampling of what I get when this blog gets linked around. It gets a whole lot worse when Yahoo! News links me. That’s when the real venom begins. And yet, every single time, I get the last laugh. Their words only see the light in posts like this, where I expose them for the hateful, effing morons that they really are.
I can just imagine them wringing their hands! Reading truth and facts and not being able to spout the usual lies. What kind of hate do you receive when you post the truth about Israel and it’s creation after WWII?
When the common lies are obliterated with truth, law, and history. I’d kind of like to debate a few of the fools. Maybe even get them to see reality. But truth doesn’t matter to them, so why bother? They hate Israel.
Israel is not the problem. Arabs refusing to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist is.
Jesus Christ, Meryl, I’m sorry that you have to put up with such never-ending hatred, but there is no way one can defend the Jewish state and not be subject to such vitriol.
Please keep up the good work.
I have been suggesting all along that Israel is winning. Note the tone of those who oppose her. It is getting more and more strident. The Jew Haters know they are playing the losing hand. So they are getting VERY SPITEFUL.
The American people will NEVER abandon Israel.
Not too sure about our current administration however. Though it might get interesting if there are any hearings on the Sestak affair. Not to mention the cozy relationship they had with BP before they got thrown under the bus. Notice a pattern here?
The Nazi comment was quite amusing. I had some nice messages of my own too, including: “go see the news go see what your fuking jews did”.
God agrees with Israel. End of discussion.
No more calls please, we have a weiner!
Sadly all of these comments sound like the majority of all letters to the editor to any and all articles printed @ salon.com when covering anything related to Israel. And articles not related to Israel. Even articles about Muslim female genital mutilation generally descend into hate screeds about circumcision as well. And well, pretty much everything else too; you know, ‘Zionists’ control the government, the arms industries, the banks, the media. But there’s it’s not considered hate mail. It’s simply fine young progressives cheering each other on. Glenn Greenwald the far right libertarian blogger who writes there is openly antisemitic and will delete anything that questions him. So am I shocked? No.
«Whenever you start getting hate mails and death threats from “the Religion of Peace” you know you’re doing something right» (KH)
Great post Meryl!
Its good to know I am not the only one out there defending Israel.