Be somewhere else

Yet another person who claims to be pro-Israel appears in my comments threads with yet another “I’m a friend of Israel, BUT” and then goes on to ask us to defend Israel against yet another charge of harming the poor, poor, pitiful pals.

Sometimes, someone slips through the moderation queue and manages to get comments in without approval. This was one of those times. I believe I’ve stopped the troll, but may I remind my readers one last time that I simply will not have those debates here. Please don’t respond to these people. And for would-be trolls: This is a No Israel-Bashing Zone. Let me quote the relevant paragraph from that post:

This weblog is a No Israel-bashing Zone. I simply won’t have it here. I read negative articles about Israel in all the world’s media. I see negative news reports on Israel on nearly every television channel. I hear Israel-bashing news on radio stations. I read Israel-bashing articles all over the web. And I have seen comment thread after comment thread devolve from a discussion on Israel or anti-Semitism into neo-Nazis throwing around the same tired anti-Semitic and anti-Israel remarks. So, no. I won’t have it here.

Once again, I simply don’t care about the “other side” of the argument—I get to read that side in every news article about Israel from a non-Israeli source (and sometimes from Israeli sources), in most weblogs, and in every single unmoderated comments thread that touches on the subject of Israel or Jews.

I have a corollary to Godwin’s Law: Every unmoderated comments thread that mentions Israel or Jews in any way will always devolve into anti-Semitism.

Always.

And so, I will not have that here. I am a Zionist and a Jew, and this is my weblog. You want to spout your anti-Israel crap, be somewhere else. I am not interested in it here.