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Rachel Neuwirth is one of the two individuals likely to have engaged in cyber-harassment of me and numerous other individuals who embrace a peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At 7:45 AM this (Sunday) morning, my wife was woken by Neuwirth’s phone call. She wanted to speak to me about things I’ve written here about her. I did not give this woman my phone number. I have never spoken to her. Her call was unsolicited and unwanted. I want to have no direct communication with this person. I am offended that someone I do not know personally and do not wish to know would attempt to invade my privacy like this. Rachel, we’re screening our calls from now on so don’t bother calling.
She has already invaded my e mail privacy by sending many harassing e mails to me and members of the Alef listserv. One of the latest was a nice knockoff of Ding Dong the Witch is Dead celebrating the death by cancer of Israeli professor and peace activist, Tanya Reinhart. That’s the Rachel Neuwirth the Israeli-Palestinian peace community has come to know and love.
What’s probably getting her goat is that I wrote here after her four-year legal fight with Rabbi Chaim Seidler Feller (which the latter recently ended with an apology to Neuwirth) that I didn’t believe her story. She sent me an e-mail noting that the right-wing Jerusalem Post not only announced Seidler-Feller’s capitulation to her, but removed any previous reporting from its archives which alluded to Seidler-Feller’s original version of the story (which claimed that she goaded him into a fight by calling him a kapo). How’s that for erasing the journalistic record? Apparently, in Neuwirth’s world no one is entitled to an opinion other than her own. I always thought that American was a place where people (including bloggers) could express their opinions freely without fear of harassment or intimidation.
UPDATE: In fact, I just found this Neuwirth whine published by IsraelInsider which confirms what I wrote above:
On April 29 of this year, I received an apology for the Jerusalem Post’s earlier, inaccurate coverage of the incident from the editor of the Post. The Post simultaneously published Rabbi Seidler-Feller’s apology in full. And it said to its readers that “The Post is happy to clarify that it has removed [two previous articles about the incident] from its electronic archives and that it retracts those sections of those articles that inaccurately relate to the 2003 incident.”
I have also received an apology from four of fifty professors from UCLA who had signed a published letter supporting Rabbi Seidler-Feller and blaming me for the assault.
On the other hand, I have not received apologies or retractions from the Jewish Journal, The Forward, The Jewish Week, or the Jewish Progressive Alliance, all of whom published accounts of this incident that were inaccurate and damaging to me, since Rabbi Seidler-Feller made his apology. My requests for such apologies or retractions to these media or political institutions have so far been ignored. The Forward ran a brief story about the apology but has not published the complete text of the letter. The Jewish Journal published the letter in its internet edition, but Rob Eshman, chief editor, has refused to publish it in its print edition; the Journal even has refused a substantial sum to publish the full text of the apology as an advertisement.
I applaud these publications for standing their ground. They reported every aspect of the case from the beginning to the end including Seidler-Feller’s “apology.” They have nothing to apologize for. Talk about drama queens!
One reason I strongly suspect Neuwirth’s involvement in my episodes of cyber-harassment is that my first blog post about her was written on February 23rd. On March 6th, someone using the fake name “Neil Pomper” along with a southern California IP address (Rachel Neuwirth and her various allies live there) sent me a link to a new listing created about me in the Masada2000 S.H.I.T. list. It featured a stolen image of me juxtaposed with a man’s hairy naked ass (note the “butt-sucking” reference below) and this text:
Earth to Richard, Earth to Richard. The State of Israel was founded with blood and guts thanks to the barbarism and butchery of your friends, the so-called “Palestinians.” If a Jew fights barbarism and butchery with morals, he will be a moral Jew but also a very dead one!
So typical of a self-hating quisling Jew to butt-suck up to the Saudis and Egyptians (the Jordanians are almost as evil) with talk of being “even-handed” between a democratic Israel and filthy, barbaric, Nazi-like, Jew-murdering Arab terror thugs!
In other words Silverstein is par exemplar of the Jewish slimes! Osama and Ahamadinejad you don’t need to recruit Silverstein, he volunteered to join your ranks, but do you accept a filthy maggot faggot?
I can’t say for a fact that Rachel either personally wrote this or posted the e mail to me. But I have no doubt of her participation.
Another interesting set of coincidences: on March 9th I wrote a post noting that Masada2000 had been taken down by its web host. On March 28th, I received another e mail purporting to be from “Neil Pomper” and from the same IP address as before notifying me of a new blog created in my name (though not by me), Little Dickie’s Diaper Droppings. This little blog escapade has more the MO of Steven Plaut (since a victim of a similar harassing blog is convinced Plaut is involved in his). But Plaut is another one of Neuwirth’s Kahanist partners in cyber-bullying (they cooperated in the Tanya Reinhart email described above).
Neuwirth’s old Arutz Sheva profile
Neuwirth’s current Arutz Sheva profileAfter apologizing to my wife for being so rudely awakened by Neuwirth, I pointed out that she should be happy that she didn’t get the treatment Neuwirth accorded to Yigal Arens’s wife (Yigal is a USC professor and Israeli peace activist) in which Neuwirth appealed to the latter to leave him. Neuwirth called so many times at Yigal’s home that he stopped answering his phone when she called.
Rachel has also been known until recently to pad her resume by claiming in her profile on various websites that she is a current member of the American Jewish Congress Pacific NW region board. She is not. I just checked the Arutz Sheva website and apparently I’ve shamed the AJC into compelling her to remove that out of date reference (see graphics).
Neuwirth’s website, Middle East Solutions, is a veritable feast of Kahanist rhetoric. We Jewish peace activists are guilty of crimes against humanity and the Jewish people for supportiing Israeli-Palestinian peace. We should be tried for treatson in “Nuremberg-like” trials. For the Israelis among us, our personal property should be confiscated. Real hard core stuff.
The problem with people like Steve Plaut and Rachel Neuwirth is that they are bullies. They believe that only they are entitled to harass their enemies (since they’re working on behalf of the Jewish people, natch). But that their enemies are not entitled to speak up for themselves or strike back when harassed or offended. I think what especially offends her is that I’m vigorously defending myself. She probably also doesn’t like that media outlets like the New York Times, Seattle Post Intelligencer and Computerworld are interested in covering this harassment.
One final piece of advice to anyone willing to take on Rachel: get yourself an unlisted number!
