Up To His Old Tricks
One of the blogosphere’s most dishonest bloggers – Richard Silverstein – today posted his latest lie:
The implication of this post is that Israel has currently induced power cuts, an implication made stronger considering the topic has been in the news, with Israel (justifiably) contemplating such measures in response to the daily barrages of Kassam rockets into Israel.
Of course, this is not true. As I asked in the comments:
Do tell, Richard, during which power cut this picture was taken. I am curious, considering there have been no power cuts after Israeli Attorney-General Mazuz decided to block such a sanction while he reviews the legal ramifications.
The only power cut so far was in Sderot, after a Kassam struck an electrical pole in the town.
Please resist the temptation to launch into the usual condescending snark, and answer my question.
Needless to say, he did not satisfactorily answer my question, since he merely refers to a post on a blog called Lawrence of Cyberia, which showed the above photo with the caption “Photo: A Palestinian boy stands next to a candle inside his family’s house during a power cut in Gaza City July 28, 2006. (REUTERS/Suhaib Salem) .”
In other words, Silverstein’s defense is that he is in fact, referring to some power cut from almost a year and a half ago, and not the power cuts recently threatened.
Given Silverstein’s long history of engaging in dishonest conduct to bolster his anti-Israel positions, it is almost certain that he purposefully left off the caption – with date – from the photo he posted, and worded the post in a way that strongly insinuates that Israel is currently inducing power outages.
Needless to say, he also employed his other tried and tested tactic – banning me from the site. And while I also suspect he added the section of his post in parenthesis, I won’t accuse him of that since I am not 100% sure.
Update: Noah writes:
I wonder if Richard would ever post a photo of an Israeli child from Sderot sitting in a bomb shelter by candlelight? No, that would be too jingoistic, it would provide too much fodder to the warmongers. Silverstein is a modern iteration of some of the most shameful Jews in history. Some of the most effective anti-Semites have been apostate Jews. The ritual murder libels that were started in the middle ages, the Host-desecration libels and the Talmud burnings were almost all the creations of apostate Jews who sought favor among Christians (and I suppose it’s worth adding that the most vigorously anti-Jewish parts of the New Testament are the creation, also, of apostate Jews). Silverstein is particularly grating because he doesn’t have the courage of his convictions to just abandon Judaism and become an atheist or a Muslim or whatever form of nihilism he admires so much. If any non-Jew was involved in the propagation of the number of lies, distortions, and smears that Silverstein has committed against Israel, that person would rightly be called an anti-Semite. Silverstein is so cynical and so opportunistic that the primary reason for his exhibitionist employment of our religion in his campaign to incriminate Israel is precisely to deflect the charge of anti-Semitism.
He is scum.
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He banned me long ago when I first asked him to rename his blog Tikkun Hamas.
I doesn’t really matter to Richard that the photo was taken a year ago or if it had been entirely photoshopped or staged. He isn’t using it to prove a point but to relate the mythology of the evil Israeli power cutters making life miserable for Palestinian arab children. It’s why image works best and why so much of the media propaganda focuses on photos. It’s not about actually debating the point, but creating an outrageous image.
So, the latest is that Israel will allow X much electricity within norms for humanitarian purposes and hamas decides who gets it and who doesn’t. Keep the candles handy, I’m sure hamas’ bearded beasty (singing) boys will get lots of amps.
My one brief encounter with him ended up with him giving me such an absurd, over the top insult that I had to include it on my blog sidebar.
Little Dickie is one of the worst Jewish anti-Semites on the planet. He dreams of pushing Jews into cattle cars!
He is being sued by several people for lies and slander and Aussie Dave should join the struggle!
Little Dickie Richard Silverstein is to Islamofascist terrorists and jihadis as Monica was to Bill!!
So this guy posts a picture of a child in a blackout and all of a sudden people are calling him an Islamofacist, an anti-semite and a terrorist. You do have a very admirable lack of rationality.
If you would read carefully, you would know it’s not ‘all of a sudden.’
If you would read carefully, you would have understood that’s not what was said.
If you would read carefully, you would understand why Silverstein’s history of hypocracy and half-truths justifies this accusation.
If you would read carefully, you would see that no one called him that. However, that’s not to say that his words do not give comfort and solace to terrorists.
Coming from someone with a reading comprehension level of 0.0003, dem’s big woyds.
Well it looks like a number of the posts by people branding him a terrorist have strangely disappeared. Perhaps those poeple didn’t want to get sued like Aussie Dave tryed to sue Richards.
So he’s not a terrorist he’s just a terrorist comforting anti-semite is he? Again I fail to see any rationality in that. Would you like to give me an example of Richards anti-semitism? Do you actually have any foundation for such worthless slander and defamation? Or is it just that he happens to hold a different opinion to most of the right wing racist nuts that infest this board.
No posts have disappeared so don’t try insulting my intelligence, or that of my readers.
Regarding suing Silverstein, I have never tried, although I did threaten to do it. Basically, I have better things to do with my time.
I certainly have reasons for suing, if I chose to pursue this path. He accused me of rigging a competition, being dumped by Pajamas Media, as well as branding me racist. If you are genuinely interested in seeing the history behind my opinion of Silverstein and his views, go here.
Of course, I seriously doubt you are genuinely interested in anything other than leaving your inane comments here.
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Little Dickie Kapostein, the real name for Richard Silverstein, is a fanatic anti-Semite and Neo-Nazi who seeks Israel’s annihilation and a new Holocaust. The semi-literate Silverstein would like to be the next Jewish Neo-Nazi after Norman Finkelstein crashed and burned. There has never been an act of Arab savagery against Jews he does not justify, nor an act of Jewish self-defense that he supports. His blog is little more than his exercise in political masturbation, trying to draw attention to himself. He has been unemployed for years.