ACTION ALERT: BOYCOTT THE FREEDMAN THREAD

Seth Freedman’s nonstop anger and bitterness toward Israel shows that Seth Freedman is a particularly angry and unhappy person. I worked with some people like that. There was always a bit of the bully about them, much as we see in Seth Freedman’s response to people who disagree with him. He answers critics on the CIF thread and always in an insulting and snobbish way. ProIsrael writers disgust him, they are the Jews he long since left behind. He sees himself as a progressive, a man who is hip and avant garde, a man at the barricades. Freedman sees himself as one of the angry young men from a John Osborne play. And all of his anger, Freedman directs toward Israel. He spits out the name Israel with such venom that clearly some irrational force is at work.

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Those 5 have to be counted as deletions so the rate for 131 posts total is 16%. Almost 25% of the 17 named deletions were posts from paCIFism.

Obviously we can’t know unless people tell us how many comments are rejected in pre-moderation.

Seth Freedman should be boycotted. Having called for a boycott of Israeli companies he should enioy a taste of his own medicine. He appears to crave attention and will say anything to get it. He is not about to let the facts get in the way.

Seth Freedman reminds me of the old expression that “a carpenter will always find a nail.” Freedman’s sole job as a Guardian columnist is to report about bad things Israelis do and noble things that Palestinians do. So Freedman surfs the internet until he finds some story about some oafish fellow who did some unpleasant things. Freedman then plays up the story big and writes as if he uncovered tectonic forces at work. And the culprit is always a fanatical Israeli and the victim an innocent and noble Palestinian. This way Seth Freedman can attain the emotional high that he seems to thrive on. In his own mind, he is uncovering Israels unadulterated evil and defending the always angelic and pure of heart and motive Palestinians. Actually, Mr. Freedman condescends to Palestinians when he insists that any crimes or acts of terrorism by Palestinians are merely a result of “occupation”. This is really the soft bigotry of low expectations and it fits Freedman like a glove.

Personally I think that this boycott is childish and ineffective. I suggest a more positive tactic – swamp his threads with responses that address the points raised in the article (and not other comments) so that the Moderator will have no excuse to erase them.

I noted that the tactic of inserting a link to CifWatch is also very effective; a lot of comments yesterday indicated that posters discovered this site as a result (all these comments referring to CifWatch were subsequently deleted).

I did notice that Seth Freedman does seem to have lots of conversations with cab drivers, guys he overhears in restaurants and on the sidewalks and just coincidentally, these people are always saying the things that Seth Freedman wants them to say. These people, whom Freedman never seems to mention by name, are usually racist bullies and religious fanatics who by pure chance save their most outlandish statements for the exact time that Seth Freedman just happens to be on the same sidewalk or in the same restaurant. I looked back at Freedman’s columns and noticed that he has been getting sloppier at his fictitious Israeli racists who somehow always are spouting out nonsense just when Ole Seth is within earshot. Lately even Seth’s fictional portrayals are easy to spot and disprove. Here are my three favorite reporters: Jayson Blair of the New York Times, Stephen Glass of the New Republic and Seth Freedman of the Guardian.

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Thanks kid. This is better than CIF in a way…Im addicted.. it is 5 20 here and I am already late for work ….the good threads close on CIF but all the folk I have grown close to over the years …they are all here.

Here is to CIFwatch…exposing some discrimination!

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