Because so many new people have been coming to my blog lately and attempting to leave comments, I think it’s time to reiterate my comments policy. First caveat: My blog, my dime, my rules. If you don’t like it, tough. Go somewhere else. If you think I owe you a hearing, I don’t. If you think I should be an objective journalist, you are not in the reality-based community. I am a blogger, not a journalist. I get to publish my opinions and the opinions of people that I like or want to hear from. I am under no obligation to read yours. Ask me if I care that you’re upset about that.
This is a No Israel-Bashing Zone. Israel is bashed in every single web forum that it can be bashed. This is not limited to political or news forums. I have seen discussions about gardening devolve into anti-Semitism. I have seen discussions about children’s toys devolve into anti-Semitism. Where there is a discussion, there is an anti-Semite waiting to bash Israel. I won’t have it here. Period. Ask me if I care that you’re upset about that.
This is also a Zionist blog. If you’re an anti-Zionist, I don’t actually give a flying leap what you think Zionism is. Its original definition was the establishment of a Jewish state in our ancestral homeland. Zionism now means support for and the continued existence of that Jewish state. I am a proud supporter of Israel and a staunch Zionist. Ask me if I care that you’re upset about that.
Comment flames are not allowed. That means no personal attacks on me or other commenters. This also means that I’m not interested in bigoted anti-Muslim posts, or posts advocating violence against Israel’s critics, or the mass murder of Palestinians. I don’t approve those comments, either. Ask me if I care that you’re upset about that.
If you’ve read through this post, and the two that I linked, and still don’t understand why I won’t approve your comment, well, you’re just about too stupid to be able to dress yourself in the morning. And I don’t want someone that stupid on my blog. Do I care that you’re upset about that?
Absolutely not. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass as you leave.
So to be clear. Even non-Jews can be Zionists? I never really thought of myself as such. But I clearly fit the definition.
I don’t understand, they have the other 99 percent of the internet to bash Jews, and call for the destruction of Israel. Why do they want the other 1 percent?
It’s good to have a place where I can come, and make comments that won’t be trashed by BS and lies. It’s amazing to see how hate will override peoples logic, and intelligence. Though, I’m sure most of the “haters” have a severe lack of both.
Long rifle, the other side have warped the true definition of Zionism beyond recognition. And even though Martin Luther King never said the quote that is attributed to him, when they say “Zionists,” they mean “Jews.”
So yes, you can be a Zionist and not be Jewish. My definition above is the true one.
Thanks.
The Martin Luther King letter is a hoax. However Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) confirms that King DID say, “When people criticize Zionists they mean Jews, you are talking anti-Semitism.” See this CAMERA post that quotes Lewis’ op-ed in the January 21, 2002 San Francisco Chronicle.
http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=8&x_article=369
Here’s the direct link to the Chronicle op-ed: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/01/21/ED115336.DTL&hw=john+lewis&sn=003&sc=627