Steven Plaut (splaut@econ.haifa.ac.il, IP: 132.74.72.6) is a notorious Kahanist and Israeli “academic” who was convicted of libeling a fellow Israeli academic peace activist a few years ago. Apparently, even after his conviction the University of Haifa retained him on its faculty. This blog has developed a little side industry of exposing the hate and smears of Jewish Kahanists after we reported the Masada2000 site to its web host and outed Allyson Rowen Taylor here and in the Jewish Forward for stalking a Jewish peace activist and accusing him of supporting the murder of his fellow Jews.
For a few years now, members of the Alef academic discussion list (devoted to debate about the Israeli-Arab conflict) have received serial harassing e mails sometimes sent by Los Angeles Kahanist, Rachel Neuwirth or her allies. I’ve started keeping an archive of the e mails in hopes of exposing them and their writers to public opprobrium. Apparently, Steve and Rachel have been kvelling in that twisted sort of way that Kahanists have over the suffering of a fellow Jew. After Israeli professor Tanya Reinhart died last week they really got to work concocting a witch’s brew of hate. I’ve already written about one e mail I received insulting Reinhart’s memory. Tonight I received another directly from Neuwirth. But what was new about this was an attached e mail she included. The attached e mail was from Steven Plaut, who used the University of Haifa e mail server to forward an e mail list of all Alef members so that Neuwirth could send the following e mail to each of them:
From: rachterry@sbcglobal.net
To: rachterry@sbcglobal.net
Cc: rachterry@sbcglobal.net
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 1:58 AM
Subject: Re: [] On the passing of Tanyawe know who you are, you fucking moron
On the passing of Tanya Reinhart
Ding Dong the witch is dead!
Which old witch?
The Chomsky Bitch!
Ding Dong the witch is dead!Ding-dong! the merry-o
Sing it high and sing it low
Let them know the wicked old witch is dead!Rub your eyes you sleepy head
Rub your eyes, Get out of that bed
Wake up! the wicked old witch is dead!
I have forwarded a complaint to the University rector, department chair and computing division director. Clearly, Plaut believes that by conspiring with Neuwirth he can skirt the university’s telecommunications rules. She sends out the offending e mail and he merely forwards the email address distribution list to her but doesn’t take a direct part in the act of harassment. It’s kind of like Kahanist tag-team wrestling. But down and dirty style. If you have received this e mail yourself please forward your own complaint to these faculty staff members. Ask them whether the University condones the abuse of its computing systems to insult the memory of a fellow Israeli faculty member.
We Jews cherish the memory of the dead. And insulting the dead is one of the most heinous acts one can perform: truly a hillul hashem (desecration of God’s name).
Isn’t putting one’s IP up a little too far? Especially considering that it’s likely connected with the school network…
If Plaut weren’t a serial harasser who’s been doing this for years to perhaps hundreds of people I wouldn’t do this. I displayed his IP address to make it easier for others reading this who may also have been harassed by him to identify his e mails.
I would like to solicit you and your readers to get this vile racist website radioislam.org taken down. My inquiries have not been answered, but if they get bombarded, they might take action. The continued existence of this website may be intimidating for moderate Muslims too
http://www.radioislam.org/islam/english/english.htm
Here is info below
According to the website the guy who runs it is supposed to be based in Sweden but the website seems to be hosted in the US.
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What is your evidence that either Plaut or Neuwirth are Kahanists? They could take you to court if the accusation isn’t true.
Nothing would make me happier. Actually, there are other things that would make me happier. But I’d welcome the opportunity to make the mainstream Jewish community more familiar with the hate they spew. That would get some terrific coverage in JTA, The Forward, Jewish Week, Haaretz, and maybe even the NY Times.
How familiar are you with the views of Meir Kahane and the respective websites of Plaut and Neuwirth? Any fair minded person spending time there will note the similarities. They have every right to reply to here to my contention if they wish to attempt to disprove what I’ve written. So far, they haven’t.
Melvin: Provide contact info for who you’d like people to contact to complain about the site so people will have a better idea of how to register their complaint properly. E mail address, company name, phone #, etc.
If being accused of being a Kahanist is such a dreadful thing, then those so accused are likely to proudly concede.
Most people have said things that contradict other things they’ve said.
Ed Koch is known to have said he thinks anyone who agrees with 100% of what he said is not normal, and that he himself doesn’t currently agree with 100% of what he’s said.
In short: the statement “I don’t hate Arabs, I just love Jews more” can mean different things to different people.
Agreeing need not make one a Kahanist, yet it happens to be a statement of the late Rabbi, said publicly in Brooklyn,NY
Like Ed Koch – and the two may have had a hard time over whether it’s day or night – one can agree with little, some, or even much of what has been said by the late Rabbi, without necessarily being a “Kahanist.”
If you choose to post this, you may change the “NAME” to BROOKLYN RESIDENT, which is how I heard the late Rabbi speak at a synagogue the year he was murdered.
I have no doubt that Kahane, like every racist before & after him, has said he doesn’t hate the race he detests. In fact, precisely the same statements were made by white supremacists in the South. For all I know Hitler could’ve said the same thing about Jews and Germans.
But those who are not racists & hear these words fr. those like Kahane can see through the delusion that prevents the racists fr. seeing their race hatred.
But I do have to give you credit for not cursing me or wishing a terrible fate on me as so many other Kahanists have done in attempting to publish comments to this blog.
I challenge your statement. HaRav Meir Kahane, HY”D, was not a racist. He never spoke about Arabs on a racial basis. And his manifest love for the Jews was based on the Torah’s command to love your fellow Jew. Ahavat Yisrael, for starters, is not and cannot be honestly classified as racism.
Furthermore, and without any resort to insult — that you paranoically assume you’d be receiving by now — and can’t help but notice that you live on your own pedestal, feeling very self-righteous about the ideas you defend. But you do not realize in the slightest that you’re guilty of the very things you accuse others of being.
Well, may be not racist, but you’re certainly extremely biased.
People like Tanya Reinhart harbor an unbeliavable hatred toward their fellow Jews. As a matter of fact, when Jews got beaten up in Amona, and Jew confronted Jew in an ugly battle, Tanya Reinhart manifested her happiness. Adding insult to injury — literaly so! — she added that the settlers must “bow down to the will of the mayority”, and completely discounted the great sacrifice of an entire generation of Jews in redeeming the territories occupied and illegally annexed by the Jordanian Arabs during the 1948-1967 period.
So, if you notice resentment toward Reinhart and her nefast legacy, before passing judgement on it, ask yourself why. And don’t try to hide away behind convenient, yet completely inacurate labels.
One more thing: keep to yourself that nonsense you wrote to me about “your G-d” and “my G-d”. The most holy prayer and tenant of Judaism, the Shema, clearly states that the G-d of all Israel is ONE.