Comment Rules

Read these rules carefully before publishing a comment. Comments are moderated. First-time comments must be approved. Once they are, subsequent ones will not be moderated–unless you violate the rules. If you do, your first violation will bring a warning. A second violation may lead to being moderated. Future comments are approved if they don’t violate the rules. Once moderated, new violations would lead to banning.

Respect the following:

1. No insults, baiting, vulgarity, harassment or abuse. Do not accuse others of violent motives or threaten violence.

2. do not republish articles, posts or comments from external sources

3. support claims using credible sources and links; do NOT make unsupported claims. Don’t link to right-wing sites.

4. Do not use false or multiple identities. If you are Jewish (either Israeli or Diaspora) do not assume an Arabic comment handle. Do not choose a comment name like “Anonymous” or any other common name. Make your name distinguishable from others.

5. Denialism, whether of Palestine, Israel or the Holocaust is prohibited. Comments justifying the annihilation of either people or individuals will not be tolerated. Comments advocating expulsion of Israelis or Palestinians will not be permitted. Arguing on behalf of conspiracy theories like 9/11 is not acceptable. Comments abusing the Holocaust and Holocaust terms (‘Judenrein,’ etc.) may be deleted. Use terms like ‘anti-Semite,’ ‘anti-Israel,’ ‘genocide,’ and ‘Nazi’ carefully as they are often misused.

6. comments which claim anyone “hates Israel” or is an “enemy of the Jewish people,” “kapo,” “self-hater,” “dhimmi,” “anti-Semite,” “anti-Israel” or similar terms are grounds for banning. The same holds true for terms like “Zionazi,” “Ziohell,” etc. Claims that I am a liar are ground for banning.

7. comments must be on-topic and relate directly to the post. Do not repeat yourself. Do not goad, taunt, troll, demand or dare me to answer a question. Do not pose a challenge by asking a question more than once.

8. Don’t complain about the way I edit the comment threads. Anyone sending abusive or insulting private e mails will be banned from commenting and added to my personal email spam filter.

9. I may set limits on the number of comments you may publish daily if you monopolize the threads. If you publish more than 2-3 comments on a given day on a repeated basis, and you are contentious, you’ve pretty much hit your limit. And if you exceed this regularly, you’re an offender. If I tell you you are done in a thread, do not publish another comment there.

10. Any comments or private e mail including a physical threat will be reported to local police, along with any personal identifying information about the perpetrator. I take such threats SERIOUSLY and react proactively.

11. No spamming. Comments should be written specifically for this site and in reply to something published here. Any comments previously published at other sites will be deleted.

You are a guest here. Treat my home with respect and receive respect in return.

Do not use a proxy server to publish comments. It immediately raises suspicions about what you are trying to hide.

E-mail: Readers who send private e-mail should specify whether or not they wish their correspondence to be private. I will generally honor such requests unless I find the original e mail offensive. If you do not specify, your message may be published either in paraphrase or quotation. For e-mails sufficiently nasty or hostile, even a demand for privacy may not be honored and can result in banning from the comment threads as well.

Please do not quote private e mail I write to you without permission.