Today, Facebook truly stuck their foot in it (see below). Doubtless, you’ve heard about supposed attempts by social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc. to clean up their acts by shutting down troll accounts and restricting offensive or violent content. Donald Trump even got in trouble for promoting a Facebook video posted by a UK neo-Nazi group.
Readers here will remember various episodes of social media harassment I’ve recounted, ranging from official Israeli policing of my own social media content which these companies happily performed on behalf of censorious Israeli cyber-czars; or the suspension of my Facebook account after an organized campaign by the director an Israeli air force institute. Back in 2016, in writing about Israeli diplomats caught with their pants down in various states of sexual disgrace, I posted about a thinly veiled death threat made against me by one George Schteinberg, a pathetic soul once accused of being a pedophile and of running a pedophile ring along with Israel’s then-consul general in Rio de Janeiro.
Schteinberg sent me Twitter direct messages, the first of which I display here for the first time along with its translation:
For sure your mother was a Jewish whore who volunteered to service the Nazis…and so such a one as you was born of the Nazi race…for quite a while you’ve required psychiatric treatment…but by now it’s too late, you’ve a debased, sick, pathetic person. You don’t even have much time left to live…Kill yourself, then I’d very much like to piss on your grave…actually on the parts of it that remain after throwing it [your corpse] to wild beasts.
Naturally, I reported these foul messages to Twitter support which promptly did…nothing. To this day, Schteinberg’s Twitter account, full of foul abuse directed at Israeli peace and human rights activists, is fully accessible. Most of the tweets defame me personally, though you won’t see my Twitter handle in them since he’s blocked me.
The reason I bring all this up is that Haaretz today published a story about Israeli journalist, Lilach Volach, who also received a ‘love letter’ from our mutual Brazilian ‘friend.’ Hers was equally scintillating, offering ‘best wishes’ for her rape at the hands of the African refugees she advocates for so devotedly:
You can laugh about practically everything. But I won’t only spit in your filthy face when you’re raped by the Arabush [roughly translated, “sand nigger” or “filthy Arab”] and [African] refugees. This isn’t even a very good example since you’ll not only laugh [during your rape] but you’ll ask for more. I of course wouldn’t wish this on your daughters. For what fault is it of theirs they have a mother so sick with hate…Regarding the matter of the Arab or “refugee” [rapist], they may hospitalize you, but I certainly won’t wish you a merciful recovery. I may not laugh, but I will enjoy a giggle.
When Volach posted a screenshot of the rape threat and reported it to Facebook, they took prompt action…suspending HER account! After she alerted Israeli media, which queried Facebook, her account was restored to her three hours later. What about the accused pedophile? His Facebook account is still there full of pictures of young children on whom he lavishes candy and other gifts in his perverted grooming efforts.
You’d think in this era of introspection on the part of the media and entertainment industries about the subject of sexual abuse, violence and abuse against women and children, that these social media companies would take these matters seriously. But unless you’re a celebrity or get the attention of the media in such a way that it embarrasses these companies–there’s nobody home.
If you wish to report Schteinberg’s Twitter or Facebook accounts, have at it. A lot of good it’ll do, based on past experience.
For someone who lashes out at commenters here and on Twitter with all sort of curses, you have a very thin skin
These are nasty words but I can’t see death or rape threats anywhere. As an American yourself, isn’t calling someone a murderer a death threat since it is punishable by death?
Oh come on… When did Richard tell people he would piss on their graves or laugh if they got raped?
“isn’t calling someone a murderer a death threat since it is punishable by death?”
No, that is just your inner 13 y/o child logic.
Of course it is a stretch in which I do not believe. Same as I don’t believe wishing to piss on someone’s grave I a death threat. That’s the whole point.
What wasn’t said about Israel? Apartheid, colonialism, fascism, racism, nazism or whatever came across someone’s mind. Each time a small parallel was enough to stick the whole label.
Now these ‘death threats’. Not condoning terror/freedom atttacks is more lethal than that.
@ Ariel Koren:
Nasty words? Someone saying they want to piss on your grave or wishing you be raped by African refugees are way beyond “nasty words.” You are pathetic to miniize the disgusting nature of this man. And you only aid & abet him in doing so. You are heartless in the face of overwhelming human cruelty. HEy, come to think of it that’s pretty much Israeli Occupation policy. You’re right in step with the jackboots.
I have no idea what being an American has to do with the rest of your sentence, which was itself unintelligible.
In America s murder is punishable by death therefore calling someone a murderer is essentially callIng got his death.
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Sound stupid right?
Just as stupid when you claim someone wishing to piss somewhere is s death threat.
Or a blogger not condoning a murder of Israeli civilians.
@ Ariel Koren: In America, murder is NOT punishable by death. Only a small number of states actually execute prisoners and they are mostly in the South. Nor did I ever say that George Schteinberg was a murderer. I said he issued a death threat.
Nor did he say he wanted to piss “somewhere.” He said he wanted to piss on my grave. Also I think your whackdoodle English syntax meant to accuse me of condoning the murder of Israeli civilians, instead of which you said (correctly) I don’t condone the murder of Israelis civilians. Frankly, I can’t understand what you meant at all. So just to advise you if you even remotely hint that I do condone the murder of Israeli civilians you’ll be outa here faster than Donald Trump fired Tom Price (which will be FAST) or was it Reince Priebus?
About right. But it applies to you I’m afraid. If Hasbara Central is going to send chniyuks like you here at least they could send someone with a bit more intelligence or rhetorical skill. You are done in this thread. Do not post in it again.
[comment deleted: for refusing to respect my request not to comment in this thread, you are moderated. If you post another comment violating comment rules you will be banned. Comments which respect the rules will be published.]
Who have the thinnest skin is an interesting topic. The language and opinions made by Israelis and their ideological mates which can be read for example in the comments in Jerusalem Post are often such so religiously insulting and racist, that making and publishing equal comments about Jews in many western countries would lead to fines and even prison for hate speech. These same “Israeli” people have the thinnest possible skin when it comes to even mild critics about them, their “state” and their religion. When they do it is put in the category of free speech, when others do “it” it seen by “them” as racist and antisemitic. When an Israeli international paper allows/tolerates so filthy comments I suppose in the Hebrew media the comments must be really “wild”.
ADL just a while ago published a news that antisemitic incidents in USA have surged nearly by 60 % in 2017. This news was published very widely in the western media (including here in Finland). The media stories avoided to mention that the “surge” was from 1,267 incidents in 2016 to 1,986 in 2017. Also what was not mentioned in the news is the minor detail that the amount of Jews in USA is between 5.5 and 8 million (wikipedia). So it means that ratio between antisemitic incident per Jew in a year is from 0.0003 to 0.0004, depends what is the real size of the population. Is it really a serious problem? Only a portion of these 1,986 are real crimes, most belong to the category of bulling and bad behaviour. A normal small or medium sized Israeli settlement with the enthusiastic help of the IDF certainly produces much more “Antisemitic” events” against Palestinians than of what the whole 8 million large Jewish population in USA has to suffer.
https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/anti-semitic-incidents-surged-nearly-60-in-2017-according-to-new-adl-report
The Tel Aviv university Moshe Kantor Database on Antisemitism and Racism is a “perfect” example how this extraordinary propaganda producing about Europe works. Most of the Antisemitic news items collected in the database are rather mild or completely irrelevant. “They” had even to enlarge their “collection” of data in lack of Antisemitic incidents in Europe to include other racist events and news. For example with the keyword FINLAND we get 135 hits in the database. Antisemitic hits of “news” like:
Christian, Muslims, Jews walk in friendship in Helsinki;
Swastikas appeared on Zyskowicz election posters;
Yle poll shows steep drop in Finns Party support:
Rise in attacks on Muslims in Europe;
etc
http://kantorcenter.tau.ac.il/
I agree! These constant ‘surges’ of antisemitism are such a joke. A small group (basically consisting of the Loonstein father and son in the Netherlands) keep publishing nonsensical alarmist articles in the Dutch, and if I recall correctly also Israeli press. Lately one of such alarmist claims (“you cannot walk unmolested with a yarmulke through Amsterdam”) was promoted again. But then orthodox Jews, the ones who actually DO wear a yarmulke in daily life, pitched in on twitter, saying that that was not their experience at all.
@ Elisabeth: What the UK Israel Lobby and media who tag along are doing is akin to fake news. THey take an issue that on its face is important and exploit it by piggybacking on their own political issue, which has nothing to do with anti Semitism. Then they wrap the two together hoping the public won’t be able to distinguish between the two. THereby making a holy mess of things.
“…As an American yourself, isn’t calling someone a murderer a death threat since it is punishable by death?”
And now, I suppose, that after publishing that inanity, you’d like to be taken seriously as an adult…smh. This will probably be deleted, but I had to verbalize it nonetheless.
Zionists are always such charming people. It’s hard not to notice.
More seriously, there is some sort of tacit understanding here.
Zionists get to abuse their critics as they see fit.
On the other hand, there are immediate howls of outrage if the critics of Zionism come even close to doing the same. I could, for example, happily go on for paragraphs fruitfully comparing Zionism to Nazism. However, it’s probably unacceptable to even suggest the two have similarities. Dare I say it, I might even be willing to theorize about the moral complexion of the average Zionist. Again, probably right out.
But hey. If one is FOR Israel, knock yourself out. Whatever form of abuse comes to mind, let fly.
There’s often a tendency among critics of Israel to limit themselves. Of course they recognize Israel’s right to exist. Of course they shouldn’t have said that — it could be interpreted as being anti-Semitic. Naturally, they only support non-violent resistance.
Etc. Meantime, Zionists can just go to town. Censorship, verbal and even physical abuse, firings, whatever. Advocate torture, collective punishment, punitive air strikes. Totaler Krieg. Guess who’s winning?
‘…A normal small or medium sized Israeli settlement with the enthusiastic help of the IDF certainly produces much more “Antisemitic” events” against Palestinians than of what the whole 8 million large Jewish population in USA has to suffer…’
To be fair, it most certainly would be an outrage if American Jews were abused to anything like the extent Palestinians are.