annie Annie Robbins is Editor at Large for Mondoweiss, a mother, a human rights activist and a ceramic artist. She lives in the SF bay area. Follow her on Twitter @anniefofani This user account status is Approved Comments Comments Posts Posts So moderation was (is) a form of un-acknowledged censorship that readers of Mondoweiss were completely oblivious to. This made me feel too much like living under communism. In Poland, on occasion, when communist censor pulled the story, defiant editors published blank pages. My numbering system is a bit like those blank pages. 171/186 yes, we know. your silent scream out to the world reminding us every time you post you've been censored. it never occurred to me it was for your own records. Okay, maybe that is happening, mooser, a moderator policing the system putting their own comments policy in place deviating from stated goals of MW and keeping it deliberately hidden? hmm. i dunno. it's fairly simple for anyone on staff just too click on the trash file and review the censored comments. one could even put someones name in search and read all of one poster's censored comments for the whole year. Supremacism is such an alluring ideology –....They are tangentially related to the fact that I ... take on Polish-Jewish relationships in the last thousand of years in Eastern Europe. ....There were posts in Mondoweiss that appeared to have virtually no discussion in comments. In reality, may people tried to get discussion going, but they were moderated out. eva, yeah, back in the days we used to host comment sections about pre ww2/holocaust and sometimes they would run into the 1000 of comments. there are a lot of people who really like talking about the holocaust and pre holocaust and the dynamics of relations between the jewish community and the countries in which they lived. we often don't host those discussions. you being polish would not be grounds to make an exception to that. even if you really think it's important or relevant. this is not a hidden agenda, it was announced on the front page and there was a banning of a number of people at that time, including jeffrey blankfort. there are a lot of people that got angry about that, many remain angry. there are also a lot of people angry at the blog for a lot of reasons. i so wish there was a place on the internet where people could go and write all the things they want to say here. ie i really wish gilad atzmon had a comment section on his blog so all the people who wanted to talk endlessly in 1000 comment long threads about jewish identity would have a place to express themselves. people write comments such as 'yeah, i wanted to write about this so&so guy (jewish) involved w/such &such at world trade center right before 9/11 but they wouldn't let me'. well, MW doesn't host discussions of 9/11 either. they tend to get long and laborious and speculative and aren't there other sites for people who want to discuss 9/11 to go to? often times MW doesn't host discussions about what MW doesn't host discussions about. but hey, if you think there are moderators here with their own agendas, not sure what to say about that. you could write adam and send him a copy of a comment (or a series of comments)that got rejected and see if he is interested in tracking down what moderator moderated it (not being a techie i don't know if that's possible but it probably is) but i can't really imagine a situation that would act in your favor. good luck. On Survival of the fittest has become survival of the fascists But Eretz Israel also has substantial ancient land claims in Saudi Arabia, doesn’t it? So if Saudi Arabia implodes over the Khashoggi affair, a big chunk of Saudi desert to store military hardware – a huge israeli military base – may be welcome. of course, why didn't i think of that. On American Jews are ‘vibranium’ from Wakanda to protect Israel — Greenblatt as for putin and SA, he got concessions over syria, as did erdogan, which makes strategic sense. regardless what anyone says about putin, he's a smart man. he could run circles around netanyahu anytime. the diplomatic virtues of those two leaders are as contrasted as the landmasses of their respective countries. (maybe that's not worded right, but you get my drift). On American Jews are ‘vibranium’ from Wakanda to protect Israel — Greenblatt nor do I mind one bit if Netanyahu gets his ‘wings clipped’....Netanjahu is not Israel, and Putin has no interest in causing any more instability than there already is in the region i wrote: israel has had it’s wings clipped — by russia., so excuse me if you thought this implied netanyahu was israel, because that was not my intent. and of course i agree Putin has no interest in causing any more instability than there already is in the region, which is exactly why he sent S-300 surface-to-air missile system to Syria the first week of october, to prevent the little bully rogue state from spreading more havoc. for all i know it was ex defense minister liebermans's hairbrain idea. Does Putin care about the Khahoggi murder? i think you misinterpreted my "Khahoggi effect" comment. what i meant was, prior to Khahoggi's murder the saudi/israe/US/bolton/kushner anti-iran middle east plan, with saudi arabia as the "arab" face of that plan, was a tad more secure. note how israel was struggling w/how to respond to that event (dan shapiro wrote about it, lots of people did). now that plan is not so secure because associating with crown princes who chop up bodies is less popular than it was back in september. so my comment re Khahoggi pertained to netanyahu, and israel, not putin. i meant that instead of just one geostrategic alliance going belly up (so to speak) he's now got sort of a 2 pronged diplomatics kershuffle going on. and putin has been coordinating quite well w/iran in syria. as i'm sure you know, russia is the superpower we compete with in the ME. so as the shining neocon anti-iran trifecta juggernaut (IS/US/SA and dubai to a certain extent) loses a little of its luster, it shifts the balance of power between russia and the US... favoring russia. so this is why israel may want to kiss up to russia right now and in contrast, likely why israel thought they could afford to shit all over this balance of power just a couple months ago. On American Jews are ‘vibranium’ from Wakanda to protect Israel — Greenblatt israel wants to be able to carry out airstrikes with impunity in syria, whenever or wherever. a week after the downed russia plane "In a blow to Israel, Russia says it will send Syria powerful antiaircraft missiles" (which they did) https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/in-blow-to-israel-russia-says-it-will-send-syria-powerful-antiaircraft-missiles/2018/09/24/674745b8-bffe-11e8-be77-516336a26305_story.html?utm_term=.5564aed8d98f so israel has had it's wings clipped -- by russia. On American Jews are ‘vibranium’ from Wakanda to protect Israel — Greenblatt Israel does not need the US. Their influence in the ME is also in decline. Netanyahu’s new favorite destination is Moscow ah the trials and tribulations of netanyahu, if only he had foreseen the khashoggi effect before Syrian air defenses accidentally shot down a Russian military aircraft killing 15 people in response to Israel airstrikes, on September 18th. because unlike the US stooges, putin is not a complete idiot flacky for israel and doesn't believe netanyahu claims it was all just a mistake. Putin says no planned meeting with Netanyahu as tensions persist Yet Israeli Hadashot TV reported on Sunday that Netanyahu told his cabinet that the “the crisis with Putin is far worse than we thought.” “Putin sees the downing of the plane as a personal affront to his prestige and this is an important component in his perception of power. Therefore, this is a strategic blow that made the crisis worse,” Netanyahu reportedly said. published today: https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/188756-181115-putin-says-no-planned-meeting-with-netanyahu-as-tensions-persist more likely putin thinks israel is lying as they do routinely with impunity and he's not happy about that downed plane and 15 dead. so yes, netanyahu's relationship w/trump has probably been more of a liability, the kushner new deal is a flop, SA is not looking so great right now, and netanyahu finds himself on the outs with putin. so yeah, his favorite destination may be moscow because he's not welcome there right now. it might be awhile. On American Jews are ‘vibranium’ from Wakanda to protect Israel — Greenblatt ha! first off emet very clearly did not "asked for a list of 10 rights Jews have between the Jordan and the sea". his initial request was all glucked up with histrionics he would never put up with if it meant him referring to the entirety of palestine as the palestinian homeland. but this part, almost thrilling. which means you lot have nothing to offer the real cause for peace. You are simply bigoted hypocrites. iow, the king sets the query, if you don't go along and comply you're worse than a worthless bigot. who could argue with that! LOL, king emet has spoken. On J Street just took over the Israel lobby, and says it represents US Jews (thanks to Trump) james, did you see the NYT "botched mission" story? https://twitter.com/anniefofani/status/1062893533718228992 On Another biased pro-Israel ‘NY Times’ report about the latest violence in Gaza mooser, it's a little more complicated than that, and rather cynical. you know how israel loves to get it's war on before elections? lieberman and bennett are ready for the elections. so they're using gaza to squeeze netanyahu. bennett says he'll drop out of netanyahu's coalition if he doesn't get to be the next defense minister (which would force elections). or maybe he didn't put it that way, i can't recall. netanyahu says he's going to be the prime minister and the defense minister (and a couple other ministries as i recall) they (bennett/ lieberman) are completely uninterested in this egypt/hamas/israel talk. they torpedoed it last weekend by invading gaza "covertly" and killing some palestinians which started the rockets that led to the airstrikes. lots of israelis want to plummet gaza, every few years you know. pre election. On Gaza in photos: ceasefire, mourning and protests of the destruction of a television station when you start physically deporting African refugees, who seem like the dreamers in the U.S., young people who by dint of their parents’ decisions, have grown up in this country, who speak fluent Hebrew– when you start physically picking them up and sending them over the border back to South Sudan and Rwanda, all the while you don’t do the same to Ukrainians and eastern Europeans who overstay their visas– Guys, this is not going to end well… what a disingenuous coward! he prefaces this by saying "I’m going to say this and some people might not like to hear it, because there are strong feeling among the Israeli body politic. " but then he skips right over the part they won't like to hear, that this is straight up racist. he talks about "the optics" by which he means BAD optics but can't seem to spit it out, why is deporting black people and not ukranians bad optics? because we already know israel went out of their way to bring a million white people from russia, many of whom were not jewish, to change the demographics. because it's a racist country with racist policies, like trumps racist immigration policies. and yet he has no problem denouncing the muslim ban as "plainly discriminatory, inhumane" https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/adl-saddened-and-outraged-at-supreme-court-decision-upholding-muslim-ban but dare he say that to an israeli audience? 'guys, i know you won't like hearing ..... this is not going to end well'? total coward. or maybe he just doesn't recognize it's bigoted because israel is doing it. who knows. maybe it's his own racism he just refuses see. 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