The anti-Israel Guardian moderators were in top form in the disgusting Mick Dumper thread yesterday.
Here are a sample of four pro-Israel comments that were inexplicably deleted (from a thread with a whopping 44 deletions out of 209 comments with numerous deletions without trace).
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And for a taster of the kind of discourse that is welcomed on “Comment is Free”, there’s this:
There is a very apt term in Hebrew to describe the degenerate nature of “Comment is Free”: גועל נפש – Go’al Nefesh
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March 11, 2010 at 4:08 am
THH
The I/P threads have become impossible to comment , they should just do an article , Why we hate Israel without any space for comments and finish with it.
March 11, 2010 at 6:10 am
John
THH
Well yes. But then the Guardian would be guilty of failing in the duty of care it owes to its carefully cultivated ‘community’. Who knows – perhaps if deprived of the Guardian provided daily/twice daily hate fix, some of the Israel obsessives might fall seriously ill?
March 11, 2010 at 8:12 am
Duvid Crockett
“the disgusting Mick Dumper thread yesterday.” Time for a reprise of The Dumper Song fromthe archives:
The Dumper Song (to the tune of Slippin’ and a Slidin’. Hat tip: Little Richard)
Slithering and a sliding, pissing and then hiding,
Mick’s dump’s a long way to go-o-o.
Squeezing and releasing; then again reprising;
As a Dumper he’s a pro-o-o.
He feels queer; got diarrhoea.
Don’t write that crap no more.
(piano solo + whoopee cushion percussion to the beat)
Slashing and a crapping,
Hear that sphincter flapping,
From Exeter ‘cross the na-a-tion.
Wiping and arse-licking, from his pen turd-dripping;
Dumper ain’t got constipa-a-ation.
We shan’t half sneer at his verbal diarrhoea.
Won’t hear that splat no more.
DS Al Coda
March 11, 2010 at 8:20 am
Serendipity
On another thread here pretzelberg pleaded for all the pro-Israel posters who had not been banned to return to CiF, presumably to raise the standard of debate.
Given the reasoned nature of the arguments which get deleted (and their deletion is linked, no doubt, to the questionable intelligence and political biases of the moderators themselves) CiF doesn’t deserve more intelligent posters.
I vote that those who can still post stand back instead and watch CiF disappear into the oblivion it deserves.
March 11, 2010 at 9:39 am
pretzelberg
TheHebrewHammer was well within his rights to challenge DogManCometh as he did. That deletion I do not understand.
GarryG is another story, however.
Saying “the Palestinians can’t be trusted to administer the place” is a pathetic and prejudiced blanket comment. Deletion? Fine by me.
March 11, 2010 at 9:43 am
pretzelberg
@ THH
I would agree that the threads have become ridiculous. There used to be something resembling debate – these days it’s mostly just “sanctions now!” and “apartheid state”.
Tw*ts.
March 11, 2010 at 10:41 am
peter1
Saying “the Palestinians can’t be trusted to administer the place” is a pathetic and prejudiced blanket comment. Deletion? Fine by me.- pretzelberg
The statement is attached to examples of Jewish sites that have been ceded to the Arabs, and the subsequent desecration of them.
Calling this a pathetic prejudiced blanket comment is typical of the inane statements of yours.
State why and how they CAN and DO administer them if you want to say he is incorrect!!!
March 11, 2010 at 10:55 am
ItsikDeWembley
THH: “The I/P threads have become impossible to comment , they should just do an article , Why we hate Israel without any space for comments and finish with it.”
But then all the lovely contributers won’t have a place to vent their sexual frustration.
There will be chaos, street looting.
And it will all be the Jews fault…
Again.
Antisemitism, as most xenophobias is like a cross road which loops back to itself no matter which turn you take.
March 11, 2010 at 11:01 am
ItsikDeWembley
Peter: “The statement is attached to examples of Jewish sites that have been ceded to the Arabs, and the subsequent desecration of them.”
Sadly they did seem to administer the sites for 19 years.
The catch is that they administered them like the Brits administer the public toilets in Green Park tube station.
BTW, do not go there!
On the other hand, the rulers of the WB at the time were Jordanians.
March 11, 2010 at 11:47 am
pretzelberg
@ peter1
There’s no getting around the fact that the comment was a prejudiced blanket statement about Palestinians.
Obviously the “pathetic” bit is my own personal perspective.
March 11, 2010 at 2:17 pm
HuddsOn
If Mr Dumper is so vehemently opposed to settlements east of the Green Line, this logically would imply support for a two-state solution.
But in one paragraph, Dumper refers to Israeli Arabs as “Palestinians”, which I would take as a clear indication that he rejects Israel’s right to exist.
I don’t see how he can have it both ways. If Israel itself is an illegitimate entity, then surely it follows that every settlement or new town built by the Israelis since 1948 must be equally legitimate or equally illegitimate. In other words, if what he really wants is a one-state solution, then why should he have any objection to more Jews settling in Arab-majority areas?
March 11, 2010 at 8:47 pm
smtx01
part of my 5.27 post in reply to two swords, ‘ Gay people in Israel > both Jew and Arab feel free to express and identify with their own sexuality, they can walk down the street hand in hand;
2 swords reply ‘ Thats nice..when I want a bit of cock I’ll pop in(5.30)
March 11, 2010 at 9:11 pm
Toko LeMoko
Pretzel
Saying “the Palestinians can’t be trusted to administer the place” is a pathetic and prejudiced blanket comment.
I presume that in 1933 you would also have objected to the statements, “The Germans cannot be trusted to esnure the civil liberties of minorities?”
March 11, 2010 at 9:46 pm
peter1
pedantpretzel shoots again……and falls on his ass.
bravo,bravo,bravo.
March 12, 2010 at 3:12 pm
Abandon hope
Toko LeMoko
Re “the Palestinians can’t be trusted
I presume that in 1933 you would also have objected to “The Germans cannot be trusted”
This linking the Palestinians to the Nazis obviously goes down well here but on a more sophisticated site will be seen as wild and sleekit exaggeration.