We always say there's no vindication like getting it from both sides, but this is about as vindicating as it gets. Your trusty blogger has long taken pride that my name appears on the Jewish Self-Hating and/or Israel-Threatening (SHIT) List, compiled by some proverbial Zionist hoodlums who wish to intimidate critics of the settler state. I assume I won this honor through my bloggery, my anti-Zionist website New Jewish Resistance, and my interviews with Palestinian activists on WBAI over the years. It has certainly been very handy for me—I can trot out this impeccable credential every time some anti-Semite accuses me of being "pro-Zionist" for calling out Jew-hatred. So now I was just pleased to find that I have my own hateful little entry in Metapedia, a sort of Wikipedia for neo-Nazis. (See their flattering entry for Adolf Hitler.) So the next time some Zionist hoodlum accuses me of being "self-hating," I'll know just what to do…
Just to show these Nazi punks that I am not afraid of them in the slightest, I here reproduce the entire text of the charming entry:
William J. Weinberg✡ (born 1941), better known as Bill Weinberg, is a wheezing hyper-ethnocentric Ashkenazi Jew from the United States, associated with World War 4 Report. An anarcho-communist born in New York, Weinberg masks his propaganda as "focusing on the struggles of indigenous peoples" but derides indigenous Europeans opposed to demographic genocide as "xenophobes" and "fascists." Weinberg inserts Judeo-centric memes into political discourses on Latin America and the Middle East while pretending to be pro-Mohammedan.
Weinberg produces a weekly late-night radio show on WBAI in New York, called the Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade, which was founded in 1988 by anarcho-communist ideologue Hakim Bey (aka Peter Lambourn Wilson). Weinberg has also attempted to infiltrate the ecology movement. His propaganda has also features in The Nation, AlterNet, New America Media, Newsday and The Village Voice. Weinberg is a strong critic of 9/11 truth and the actual alternative media in general, because too many of the themes implicate Jewish criminals. He does not want people to talk about the Rothschild family and has laughably described New Age activist David Icke as a "real, live neo-Nazi."
Deceptive propaganda
- War On the Land: Ecology and Politics in Central America (1991)
- Homage to Chiapas: The New Indigenous Struggles in Mexico (2002)
See also
- Noam Chomsky,✡ a similar "its about oil, not neocon Jews" anarcho-communist.
External links
- The Conspiracy Industry and the Lure of Fascism by Weinberg (Communist) (Jewish)
- World War 4 Report by Weinberg (Communist) (Jewish)
Doncha just love that little yellow Star of David? Very subtle, guys. But what's really scary is not so much that this website exists, or that I have an entry on it. What is really scary is that it appears on the first page of Google when you search for my name. Ahead of my Nation Institute profile. Ahead of my Al Jazeera profile. Ahead of my work for The Progressive and the Village Voice. So please spare me any more garbage about how anti-Semitism doesn't exist. Thank you.
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And, by the way… contrary to the misinformation these Nazi thugs picked up from Google, I was not born in 1941.
On the subject of Internet anti-Semitism…
Deutsche Welle reports today on a new study (PDF) from the European Union’s Fundamental Rights Agency finding “widespread” anti-Semitism across the EU, with one fifth of 5,800 Jewish respondents in a survey saying they’d experienced harassment in the past year—and three-quarters saying they’d experienced it over the past five years. This prominently includes anti-Semitism on “websites or social media.” Comments FRA director Morten Kjaerum with mind-boggling naivete: “It is particularly distressing to see that the Internet, which should be a tool for communication and dialogue, is being used as an instrument of anti-Semitic harassment.” Clearly we do not have the same Facebook friends.
OK, we have acknowledged the tricks used by the Anti-Defamation League to inflate their anti-Semitism stats by lumping in all anti-Zionism or criticism of Israel. We have no knowledge that demonstrates that similar subterfuge was (or wasn’t) used by the FRA. But—sorry, folks—the phenomenon of online Jew-hatred could hardly be clearer. The high Google ranking of my Metapedia entry speaks for itself. And we have noted that the barrage of hate brought forth by a search for the word “Jew” has actually prompted Google to issue a disclaimer that appears above the search results. Nearly any time I touch on any Jewish-related issue on my own websites, it is practically guaranteed to elicit an ugly anti-Semitic reaction. I have also blogged about the epithets and abuse I routinely experience on Facebook. I recently had to post this note to my FB page:
I hope maybe this will provide a little clarity on how to deal with this stuff. Unfortunately, debate on how to deal with online (and meat-world) hate is increasingly polarized between those who think that “free speech” lets them off the hook for providing a forum for Jew-haters (an ethic almost always applied with a blatant double standard) and those who more courageously if more dangerously actually oppose free speech. Or, more cynically, pay lip service to it but oppose it in practice.
The FRA report is timed to the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, and Pinchas Goldschmidt, president of the Conference of European Rabbis, observed: “To this day synagogues, community centers or schools have to be put under police protection.” As we noted when the Dresden synagogue was defaced with giant swastikas on the Kristallnacht anniversary four years ago.
On the subject of Internet anti-Semitism…
From the New York Post, March 24: