Twitter, that artificially intelligent monolith, has denied my appeal to regain access to my account. I have begun turning to other resources to exert pressure on Twitter to use a bit of human intelligence to end this free speech debacle.
Tonight, I’d like to lay responsibility for this escapade on a few zio-juveniles, David Lange and Shawn Eni. Andy Warhol once said everyone is entitled to fifteen minutes of fame. Not these nitwits. Let’s give them their 90 seconds of internet in-fame-y.
Lange runs Israellycool, a niche in the zio-sphere with a small but zealous following. Lange specializes in all manner of online zio-fraud. He’s impersonated people on social media. He’s invented accounts. One of his specialties is creating supposed anti-Zionist sites, then posting anti-Semitic material to it; and then turning around and exposing the fraud he created. A year or so ago, he released a press release naming a settler rabbi who declared he had poisoned the wells of Palestinian villages. Then he sent the story to the Andalou News Agency, which dutifully published it without doing any due diligence. That was followed by Mahmoud Abbas denouncing the supposed rabbi.
It was all great zio-fun for Dave. The rabbi doesn’t exist. He made him up. All in the name of smearing Palestinians, making them look like fools, and all with the assistance of a Turkish news outlet (they hate Israel anyway!). He once published a false charge that my brother was arrested for welfare fraud. Yup, it’s still up there on his site. Not a whit of conscience in this jackass.
A few years ago when Semion Kras, a Russian Israeli network administrator for IBM Israel hacked my website, he coordinated his efforts with Lange and another Lange capo, Brian Thomas, who encouraged him.
Lange’s LinkedIn profile shows he is the marketing and communication manager for SAP Israel. Apparently, his employer doesn’t know, doesn’t care, or supports his marketing of fraud, hoax, and hate on behalf of his perverted notion of a settler state. He lives in the Anglo-Orthodox ghetto in Beit Shemesh, which is also home to a peculiar ultra-Orthodox sect known as the Jewish Taliban.
He once succeeded in getting Twitter to suspend my account because I tweeted that he lived in Beit Shemesh, a fact he’d revealed publicly himself. Lange falsely claimed I’d revealed private information about him. It took about a day to get the account restored that time. Now the Israel Lobby and its two-bit cowboys like Lange and Eni have cowed the social media companies more thoroughly and these things take longer.
Dave gleefully took credit for helping organize the latest assault on my Twitter account.
The other jackass inducted into the Hall of Shame tonight is Shawn Eni, a former Canadian accountant who made aliyah. He lives in the town of Modiin, one of whose neighborhoods in beyond the Green Line, and hence not recognized by the EU and other international bodies as being in Israel.
Eni also prides himself on being a merry zio-prankster. The Israeli media flatters him with profiles, thinking his mock-Mossad account, @themossadil, the height of wit and hilarity. In truth, it’s a sophomoric pastiche of bad and boorish jokes. Eni tweeted to his groupies inciting the attack on my site. That’s when the onslaught began. No doubt he’s pleased with himself too.
It’s no secret that Gilad Erdan’s anti-BDS ministry has developed an aggressive campaign to subvert and sabotage Palestinian activists around the world, including anyone guilty of delegitimizing Israel (at least their uber-nationalist, theocratic definition of Israel). His activities are both public-facing and overt; but he has farmed out many covert operations to what’s known in the intelligence field as cutouts. When you intend to do something so nasty and underhanded that you don’t want the government’s official fingerprints on it, you delegate it to a sleazy backroom operation. If the job is important enough you might contract with a well-connected outfit like Black Cube or NSO Group (if it involves hacking an adversary’s computer communications). If it’s run of the mill shit, you could farm it out to amateurs like Eni and Lange.
My guess is that there’s slot machine out there with their names on it. Though I have no idea these zealots would do it for little or nothing. I’m sure they’d be pleased to earn a few shekels for their dirty ops activities.
I’m afraid it’s a bit of a Pyrrhic victory for them. In the two days since my Twitter account was blocked it has gained 60 Followers. Please follow me at @richards1052 and my alt-Twitter account @richards105. Donations have poured in (please make a Paypal donation here or a tax-deductible donation via Network for Good in the sidebar). Further, these geniuses didn’t harm my ability to reach my audience. In fact, other social media platforms draw far more readers to my blog than Twitter. Nor has it impacted my freelance journalism as a regular contributor to Middle East Eye; my latest publishing venue was The Nation.
An old line from Star Trek used to say “resistance is futile.” Not at all. Resistance is imperative. We must take back social media. We must expose the machinations of these fools. We must make our voices even better heard. Speak louder. They will not win. Just as the cause of a settler theocratic state will eventually self-destruct; so will these petty juveniles.
Glad you’re back. What fools. It looks like you’re being cyber attacked, which might fall under some laws these little boys better be careful about.
We all know the FBI will extradite them just like they did the JCC prank terrorist.
Here is some information on how to report internet crimes:
https://www.justice.gov/criminal-ccips/reporting-computer-internet-related-or-intellectual-property-crime#
If you really want to do a number on Shawn Eni, sue Elite-ERP, which has offices in Illinois. It’s virtually certain that he used work computers and the like for these activities.
I think it would be efficient to confront these bullies head on with a heavy opening hand via law enforcement and a letter to their employers threatening law suits at their stateside offices.
They tend to disappear quickly. 😉
@ Elizabeth Cohen: I have been considering a number of approaches and options along the lines you suggest. But when you get into legal issues you have to proceed carefully and judiciously.
The best way to encounter the pro-Israeli fanatics is to challenge them to discussion and allow them to express their views. I have not seen many debates on different sites/blogs where real arguments in own comments can be made, where the pro-Israeli fanatics could be said having scored points. They loose most arguments and make themselves and their “mission” laughable, because of in general miserable skills in disputation (1) and more importantly they have no rational facts to prove their claims (2). Their only defence is that “hate-antisemitism-holocaust” strategy supported with “God gave this to us” claim, which are rather useless in those comment section discussions.
A blog/news site etc which allows one side to dominate the comment section becomes fast uninteresting also to all. Many people, from both sides, read beside the blog text / news also the comments it raises on both sides.
I’m not sure what you’re referring to. But if you’re saying I should let 1,000 pro-Israel flowers bloom here–it ain’t gonna happen. I know this group quite well in many online venues including this blog. If you permit it they will suck the oxygen out of everything. I won’t stand for that here. If they want to comment here they’ll follow the rules of they won’t be here.
Well being to rude and discriminative towards those on opposite side makes you look like “Trump” and hurt also your “message” of what you want to tell the world. I am not demanding, that thousand pro-Israeli fanatics should be allowed to comment here. Your rules are OK and I understand your fustration towards the naive and often insulting comments “they” make. What I mean that there can not be a real discussion if only one side comments. The other point is that we non-Jews have limited ways to read how many pro-Israelis activists see the “problems”, The third point is that the lack rational facts, racist views and excuses in the pro-Israelis claims in discussion is the best way to show the world what kind of people they are. One solution could be that you delegate the comment moderation to somebody you trust and follows you “rules”. As said good comments sections increase the popularity of a blog. A blog text is always one person’s view, comments enlarge the topic.
Pretty juvenile behaviour IMHO. They’re just assholes. Followed both your accounts x
“Small but zealous following” LMAO
Check Alexa or SimilarWeb out, Douche. I have WAY more traffic than you, not to mention Page Likes and Twitter followers.
Also, your attempts to get me fired from my job, based on your lies, failed miserably. I have left voluntarily, and will be dedicating myself to Israel advocacy.
Here’s hoping you lose your libel case. Seriously contemplating suing you myself, you failure of a person.
@David Lange: What so charming about David Lange is that he always has to prove his dick is bigger than yours. It’s so infantile. He claims he left his job voluntarily. But who knows, since he’s lied through his teeth about virtually everything he does, says or writes. BTW, I didn’t try to get you fired. I only pointed out publicly that your fraudulent activities online should concern your employer. I never contacted your employer or engaged in anything other than pointing out those facts online.
And how does he support himself in his “Israel advocacy?” Just like Hen Mazzig does. LIkely via the tens of millions of dollars the Israeli government is spreading like manure around the internet creating a pro-Israel pimp class of social media warriors. They’re either funded by Gilad Erdan, Sima Vaknin Gil or the like. A shady set of Mossad wannabes spreading their dreck.
Oh and the next time you publish an article in a mainstream news publication, let us know. But that’s right, no one will publish your Islamophobic rationalization for a judeo ethnostate except maybe ‘settler news.’ I’m published regularly in three publications with far larger readership than your misbegotten blog-screed. And they actually pay me as a freelance journalist, as opposed to the hoaxster you are.
I won the case, moron. So you’re a bit late to wish me to lose it. As for suing me, you’re such a bullshit artist. You threatened to sue me years ago and never did.