That Lying Old Coot: Caught in the Act

Anti-Israel blogger Richard Silverstein has once thumbed his nose at the truth.

In a comment* to this post that “Arabs [in Israel] walk around in perfect safety”, Silverstein responded in his usual shrill fashion:

Tell it to the inhabitants of Jabel Mukaber who would’ve been pummeled by pogromists if they’d dared venture out of their homes. Tell it to the 12 Nazareth Israeli Arabs murdered by the Border Police while demonstrating peaceably during the Intifada. Tell it to the Arabs sprayed with automatic weapons fire by Israeli Arab-hater, Natan Zenda. Tell it to the scores of Arabs who were gunned down in their village under Palmach orders for violating a curfew they didn’t even know existed during the War of Independence. Tell it to the 250 or so murdered villagers of Deir Yassin to whom Menachem Begin’s crew wanted to teach a lesson. I could go on.

Yes, he could go on and on. Problem is, he made a number of errors in his comment, and I submitted the following comment under a different name pointing this out, given his proclivity for banning me (click on below screenshot to see more clearly):

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The reason for taking the screenshot was because I (justifiably) knew he would not approve it – even though there is nothing rude or offensive in it – since it shows him to have made many sloppy, factual errors.

Note I especially included my third point because Silverstein, in his very same comment above, berates a pro-Israel commenter who mispelled someone’s name:

His name is “Whitaker,” not that you’d care about accuracy.

In any event, all of the points I raised demonstrate Silverstein’s sloppy fact-checking, and his moderation of my comment demonstrates his disdain for the truth.

Again, many of you are probably asking why I bother with someone like this. After all, he is relatively insignificant (despite his delusions of grandeur), and seems to like the attention. The answer is that while one approach to spreading the truth is blogging my usual fare, another approach is to tear apart the arguments and credibility of those who make it their business to defame Israel and the Jewish people. And Silverstein – despite being Jewish – does not stop bashing Israel armed with an arsenal of lies, half-truths and distortions.

Bonus exercise: If you really have time, have a look at how he treats the commenters who disagree with him, bearing in mind his complaints about nasty behavior in the blogosphere.

(hat tip to Amir, for pointing out his comment and inaccuracies)

* Here is a screenshot of his comment in case he tries his old trick of modifying comments

10 thoughts on “That Lying Old Coot: Caught in the Act”

  1. Kfar Kassem occurred on the eve of the 1956 war when terrorism was a big problem. There was a miscommunication. However to present it as a premeditated attack on civilians is totally dishonest. His lack of historical knowledge is astounding.

  2. Of course he is totally dishonest and ignorant, as I have shown on many different occasions. The point here is I have evidence that he does not care for the truth even after it is pointed out to him, and he actively hides it.

  3. Also the accurate figure for the dead in Deir Yassin is around 100, according to a study by Bir Zeit University and also work by Baruch Kimmerling. The 250 figure was that bandied about by the IZL. Goes to show the lengths he is willing to go…

    Oh and the guys who did the killing in Kfar Kassem went to prison.

  4. Israel is a model of decency in a sea of hate crazed pigs (“arabs” by other name) that respect nothing. If Israelis were half what the nazlims and eurabians accuse them of being, there would be no palis cause they would have been all killed by now. If things were reversed there would be no Israel. Silverstein is a self hating clown, Aussie Dave, this kind has no redemption nor are they worth the oxygen expenditure. Just a waste. But you do a great job that needs doing and if someone sees the wrongness of that punk’s ways reading your blog, it was well worth it. Good educational value.

  5. There are crazy people who are very smart – but still crazy. Why waste time with someone of that venue? There is no cure…

  6. 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.

  7. This is very embarassing to me. I was just posting on Silversteins blog, I thought he was merely a bit hysterical, albeit well intentioned. Now I see he is not just hysterical, but malicious as well.

    I have absolutely no patience whatsoever for someone who acts rudely. Regardless of what he believes.

    Thank you for this post.

    -ron

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