Comments on: What is Israelenews?

By: amir

amir — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:14:40 +0000

“Furthermore, do the authors know their articles are being published on this site?”

I’m pretty sure Meir Kahane doesn’t know he’s writing for this website (from the list of authors). I didn’t notice any other obviously dead authors.

By: ER

ER — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:05:11 +0000

The assorted writers so obviously and widely disagree one with another though, that it’s pretty apparent no one’s being mischaracterized, but just lumped in with people who have something, anything, to say about Israel. It is kind of funny to see them all on “the same page” though!

By: Ziv

Ziv — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:36:12 +0000

From a quick look, it doesn’t seem like a real web site — Now I know I said something about a photo not being real a couple of days ago and then stood corrected, but this time I’m pretty sure.

The forum section is entirely empty for a site which claim to adorn itself with so many high-profile contributors. And the layout of each article is quite different, meaning the content is being stolen from many different sources.

By: david

david — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:49:17 +0000

It’s an incredibly crappy UK based site hosted by http://www.fasthosts.co.uk/ that feeds off generated content taken from blog and news feeds (wisdom shared by robtex.com).

Don’t bother to contact fasthosts – they are one of these companies that cannot even afford a part-time contract with an Indonesian call-center.

By: Sultan Knish

Sultan Knish — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:31:29 +0000

Yes I find a lot of what’s published on the site very ugly, I haven’t asked them to stop running my pieces which they take from my blog, because it seems better to at least have some kind of antidote to the ugliness there and runs them into Google News too.

I suspect the site has no political agenda except to cheaply create a large amount of Israel related articles to gain traffic and sell ads. I could of course be completely wrong.