Freedman’s Popularity Continues to Drop

Freedman wrote, on September 7th:

“While an indiscriminate boycott of all Israeli produce is both wrong-headed and counterproductive, that does not mean specific sanctions ought to be proscribed in cases where the companies involved are clearly making money from piling misery on the Palestinians”.

No doubt meant to write this:

While an indiscriminate boycott of all Israeli CiF contributors is both wrong-headed and counterproductive, that does not mean specific sanctions ought to be proscribed in cases where the CiF contributors involved are clearly making money from piling misery on the Israelis.

The biter bit, and the boycotter boycotted.

Well, he’s been writing for Cif for some years (!!!) now, a few hundred pieces must have piled up, and even the dimmest of the dim must by now have realized that it’s the same recipe over and over and over again, and all of it on matters that don’t really matter much in the real world, except perhaps on the local level in Israel — and of course to his coterie of Jew haters and Israel bashers. The most interesting thing about this whole Freedman business is plainly how come that apparently nobody from Cif management ever bothered to think: wait a second, what are we getting ourselves into with this guy who has zero grasp of the bigger picture and is recycling basically the same theme 2-3 times per week for us, week after week, month after month, year after year? But then, maybe they thought about this, and were just fine with it.

Armanitoarmy

Thanks for revealing that Freedman has not only supported ISM in his articles, but has received support from them and now they have turned on him – its always dangerous hunting with hyenas.

This may also explain his sudden change of heart regarding support for Bilin, and his less frequent trips int othe Heart of Darkness, aka the WB.

The following poster, an ISM member, posting on the Heathlander blog apparently objects strongly to Freedman for his temporary support of Cast Lead, as does Heathlander:

http://heathlander.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/the-contrition-of-seth-freedman/

Asa on February 2, 2009 said:
Excellent article, thanks a lot.

I haven’t paid that much attention to him recently, though I did see a very silly one he did a couple of weeks ago condemning those who advocate BDS against Israel.

This record, however, is much worse than that tactical question: active support for the massacres. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. We in ISM have actually given him some logistical support and help in the West Bank (although we refused his request to join the ISM, considering he was still a reservist at that time (Israelis have joined ISM but only refusniks or avoiders)).

After this, I’ve just sent an internal ISM email circulating your post and recommending we refuse him any future such help he requests.

Why give him more publicity? – enough already!

When he writes an article worth commenting on, we can discuss him – but only then. Good riddance to SF and good work, CW !

I also get the feeling that people are becoming fixated with Lerman.
Who needs him?

Fairplay, I disagree with you. Freedman is sly and like a cat – he will always land on his feet. He will also sweet talk others into believing that he really is what he puffs himself up to be.

It’d be akin to a public service to stop him once and for all, and I hope that AKUS’ and Armanitoarmy’s information will do exactly that.

As cityca already said, the comments on the blog post Armani and AKUS mention are indeed very revealing: so Sethele went under ISM protektia to Hebron, and then wrote up their propaganda in his pieces for Cif… who’d have thunk??? Also quite amusing that even his erstwhile fans realized that the boy doesn’t really have any principles or convictions — he’ll write whatever he thinks gets him the most attention.

Sababa. I see that you foretell a future of Seth plus Dispatches starring (guess who??) that’s right first guess. Should be a hit don’t you think?

In your list of chapter headings you left out the introduction, entitled, modestly, ME!

Hmmm…..not very strong on the trend analysis part, are you Hawkeye? You may have failed to consider the subject of Seth’s articles in more recent times havent exactly been as close to heart of many pro-palestinians. I dont think they care so much about whether jewish girls go out with arab boys and Israel’s teen drinking! Oh well. Guess you need to give yourself a slap on the ass cheeks to make yourself feel better.

OK – Maybe Seth is still worth taking seriously if only for the pleasure of reading people who mock him.

Still, as I’ve said before, he’s very green and not even 30, so when sababa wrote: ” the boy doesn’t really have any principles or convictions” – I think the operative word is boy(chik)…

Anyway, I saw yesterday that video of Shlomo Sand and Avi Shlaim at ‘Frontline Club’, which makes Freedman look like the real amateur he is. What a nutcase that Shlomo Sandman is, with his broken English and all!
By the way, our Jonathan Hoffmann did a very good job in challenging him from the audience.

hmm – on second thoughts. It appears that Seth only thinks about himself and furthering his career and how to make a fast buck in Israel.

What about us? Are we as selfless as Mother Teresa, and no longer interested in a career? Is this virtual life all there is?

Seth reminds me of Mr Toad in Wind in the Willows.

Seth is working on a new book, and it will be called “Can I bring my own Brain”

Cifwatchwatch – you know, I think you have a point.

When Freedman writes an article that I find myself nodding wisely over, since it actually somewhat resembles reality, his “score” declines. When he writes one of his fantasy pieces, replete with a Nazi analogy or two to describe Israelis, frothing with hatred for Israel and Jews, his “score” increases.

Its interesting to see the correlation among those who read his pieces on CiF and how they love those types of articles and hate the ones that occasionally let slip that Israel, Israelis, and other Jews are not so bad after all.

Clearly, he should stick to what he does best and where he garners an appreciative audience – making up really nasty fantasies about Israel and Jews.

Otherwise, he may be made to stay in the limbo of the CiF belief section with Bunglerwhateverhisnameis till his contract with the Guardian runs out.

But I think even you must agree that the trend line does show a decline in readership for whatever reason – perhaps because he’s frothing less now that he knows that he’s being “watched” – and boycotted.

Seth is basically a bully,a bully who was shielded by the Guardian moderators

And what a bully!

I remember one of SickFrogman’s articles about the antics of the Women in Green, in which he made much of Matar having said “Nile to Euphrates”. Frogman did no research at all about the degree WiG are or are not representative of Israel.

One poster asked the logical questions – how many MK’s do the WiG have, have they a formal proposal for conquest, how many Israelis agree (very very few), etc.

SickFrogman never answered the questions – but had the moderators delete the post.