As comedian Jeff Foxworthy used to say during his comic musings on life in the American South, “You know you’re a redneck when….”
Well, a Guardian reader using the moniker “genuineLeft” is an Israel hater (who has characterized Zionism as a “racist, colonialist, expansionist, violent ideology” which may one day be “genocidal”) who continues to demonstrate the strong overlap between anti-Zionism and antisemitism.
Beneath the line of Rodge Glass’s rather restrained CiF commentary on the recent CST report demonstrating an increase of antisemitic incidents in the Manchester area, genuineLeft opined as follows, (a comment which received 50 Recommends):
GenuineLeft’s annoyance is clearly directed at those who “ridiculously” condemn those Jews [like Atzmon] who engage in benign, sober and constructive criticism about the threat posed to humanity by world Jewry: a group, per Atzmon, who is literally trying to take over the world in a manner quite consistent with the sinister Semitic designs outlined in the unfairly derided Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and boldly confronted by historically misunderstood prophets like Adolf Hitler.
The comment hasn’t been deleted by CiF moderators which made me wonder whether a reader comment endorsing the views of a Neo-Nazi such as David Duke (who just so happens to be a fan of Atzmon’s brave stance against the international Jewish onslaught) would similarly remain on the thread.
No, I would never, ever, of course, suggest, under any circumstances that anyone engage in the universally discredited practice of “trolling” to test my curiosity – online apostasy which would clearly run afoul of ‘Comment is Free’s’ sacred community standards – but, merely, asking a question (ahem…screenshot…ahem) that I’d love to get a definitive answer to.
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By now, you know you are antisemitic if you read Der Guardian.
The Guardian is spinning out of control,they have really lost it,that is if they had it in the first place……………………
They seem to go overboard with their nasty hateful disgusting spiteful ignorant articles attacking Israel………….
Perhaps Jacqueline Rose could do the nasty Racist Anti-Semitic Anti-Zionist Anti-Israeli Guardian a great service and analyze these Psychos that work and write in and for the Racist Guardian………..
Have you bothered to read the G. article linked to? It would appear not.
It’s more that “genuineLeft” has spouted some awful lying propaganda.
As Adam says:
…Rodge Glass’s rather restrained CiF commentary on the recent CST report demonstrating an increase of antisemitic incidents in the Manchester area…
Have you read Adam’s? “genuineLeft” is writing in the Groan and I am certain the Groan editors know who come along at no provocation. David Hearst’s article is one that provides them with a hook. But, like tapeworms haters can bring their owns hooks as demonstrated here.