None so Blind......

That's Aussie Dave Bigot.

I caught this on ABC News and immediatelly wondered to what extent Dave had ignored it. Given he now titles his posts "Today in Israel", I expected some kind of attempt to downplay the episode. And....absolutely nothing. Well, I guess that's one way to downplay it.

Now Dave is under no obligation to cover every little event, but given that he poses as some kind of anti-bigotry crusader, it's valid to enquire if this is a partisan or a principled position. It only takes one look at this pit of anti-Palestinian bile and venom to know the answer, but I'll consider the point in isolation so as not to judge him on past behaviour.

So, I posted the link to the story. Dave's response,

"Yes, pretty much the whole country disagrees with the actions of these people. "

So you say, but what do you think Dave?

"A minority group is behaving badly"

Uh-huh.

Followed by the usual,

"...you really do hate Jews?...Anti-Semites not welcome here...I will continue to block your IP address".

The additional irony was that the post I commented on was mostly about an announcment from the PA PM that Jews would be welcome in a Palestinian state. Source for rejoicing, or even encouragement? Hah!! Rather, cause for Dave to pour out some more of his bile and vilification - 'it can't be true 'cause the evil Palestinians hate Jews'. And having just defended the above assault on the grounds that they don't represent the government of Israel, Dave links to a video of an individual Palestinian to vilify all Palestinians. Nice work Dave.

But that's not all...

Just the previous post, Dave was all on his high-horse over a female Palestinian journalist who had been threatened with arrest at a Gaza beach. It was all about human rights and women rights. But ultra-orthodox Jews beating up and drowning a female journalist in phlegm.........ah, the sound of silence.

Brave defender of human rights or a partisan scum-bag with Bigot Spectrum Disorder? Too easy..........

Birds of a Feather

Prominent on Aussie Dave Bigot’s blog of late is the incident of a Perth man, Brendon O’Connell, charged with hate crimes for threatening and attacking Jewish people in Perth.

Good to see Australia taking a stand against these idiots.

Which brings us to good old Aussie Dave.

He who constantly vilifies and dehumanizes Palestinians as a people.

Who cheered on the killing of innocent Palestinian civilians recently in Gaza.

Yes, O’Connell is a more serious case, both they are both on the spectrum – the Bigot Spectrum Disorder. At one end of BSD you have the O’Connell's of the world, who act out their hatreds, and nearer the other end, the Aussie Dave’s, who just talk the talk. But that has always been the way of bigotry – those who produce the words and the ideas of bigotry, which in the past where letters and pamphlets but now are blogs and chat rooms, and then those who act on them.

Aussie Dave and Brendan O’Connell are of a kind, just of varying degrees and with different targets for their bile and spite.


Update:

It's not at all surprising that this below is the kind of stuff that Aussie Dave attracts, on what purports to be a post against bigotry,

"But wer are all confronted with the Illegitimante cuckoo in the Abrahamic nest, the illegitimate intruder, the blood-drenched death-cult which blasphemouly equates its Arabian moon-god with YHVH- and is bent on destroyng us all."

What the.....?

Australian-born bigot Dave calls the Israeli-born Palestinians a "fifth column".

Yes, that's recent immigrant to Israel, Dave, who was born in Australia, and whose parents hailed from Europe.

The New Reticence

Aussie Dave Bigot, who has breathlessly reported every minor going on in Israel since the assault on Gaza, to the extent that he seems to have bored even his own readers, has gone all coy.

Why?

Well, if you haven’t heard, Ha’aretz has revealed that IDF members have stated that soldiers deliberately and in cold blood, shot Palestinian civilians during the Gaza assault.

Now for anyone who has even a touch of objectivity in their understanding of Israels 40 year occupation this is about as surprising as sunrise
However, it is causing a bit of a ruckus in Israel, where the IDF is the main religion after Judaism.

For an enthusiastic “live-blogger” like Aussie Dave Bigot it’s a real conundrum. A big breaking story, but it’s the wrong story. Way wrong. What to do?

Easy…….for someone so corrupted by their pro-Israel dogma that their brain has the moral fibre of a rotting jelly-fish – deny and dissemble.

First Dave carefully downplays the specific events describing them as “alleging IDF soldiers harmed palestinian civilians”. Then he studiously avoids directly linking to any of the testimony by IDF soldiers themselves, instead giving a link and a huge excerpt of a blanket denial by the head of the IDF, who quite hilariously says,

“I don't believe that IDF soldiers cold-bloodedly targeted Palestinian civilians”.

Why is it hilarious? Because his denial is in response to IDF soldiers who fought in Gaza who say that IDF soldiers did “target” Palestinian soldiers because they were there and saw it!

For example,

“I do know that my officer sent people to the roof in order to take her [old woman]out… ….It was cold-blooded murder.”

This was the “harm” that ADB vaguely alludes to. Well, I guess having your brains blown out by a sniper is harmful.

Lawrence of Cyberia gives an excellent account as usual. Check out the great t-shirts that the IDF like to wear. I especially like the one that shows a pregnant Palestinian woman with a target over her, and likewise the snipers T-shirt of a child, a sniper scope superimposed and the caption “The smaller…the harder”.


Update:

Where Dave gets on his moral high-horse.....backwards and proceeds to fall off. The t-shirts celebrating the murder of children and innocent civilians are,

"tasteless"

Hmmm, tasteless. I think we're meant to be in awe of Dave's fearless reproach.

tasteless: lacking in social or aesthetic taste.

So either Dave thinks that they have committed a social faux pas, or he doesn't like the design.

With predictable superficiality, it's the actual objects themselves he has a problem with, not the underlying values and culture they represent, which is of indiscriminate killing, dehumanisation and impunity.

It could hardly be less obvious,

"They also serve to tarnish the image of the IDF..."

Awful.

And worst of all, this will

"play into the hands of the pro palestinian propagandists who are constantly inventing lies about Israel."

No!

The Thoughts of a Bigot.

A Synagogue has been vandalised in Venezuela with anti-semitic graffiti scrawled on the walls.

Aussie Dave Bigot has no doubt that this is anti-semitic. And he is right.

As luck would have it, a neat little experiment has been dropped in our laps. A somewhat similar ( but far worse) incident occured in Hebron in early December last year. Jewish settlers rampaged through Hebron, shooting Palestinians, vandalising Mosques and in one case tried to burn down a house with a family inside.

What did Dave think when it was Israeli-Jews, not just vandalising Mosques and writing nasty things on their walls, but shooting Palestinians , vandalising their property and trying to burn them alive in their homes?

Dave found it all terribly "frustrating".

Worse still, those awful anti-Israel media types were calling them "extremists", which Dave thought was "slander". They weren't extremists, just "foolish", opined Dave.

This is why I haven't the slightest hesitation in labelling him a raving rabid bigot.

Kill Thy Neighbour II

Nothing brightens Aussie Dave Bigot's day like the sight of blood- Palestinian blood that is, and never mind the cost.

A senior Hamas figure was murdered yesterday. Yes, murdered. This man was a Hamas political figure, not an armed fighter or a member of the Hamas military wing,

"In a joint IDF and ISA operation in Gaza City early Thursday evening, the IAF targeted a building in which the following senior Hamas operatives were residing "

Dave seems to love the word "operative". I'm not really sure what it's supposed to mean.

The Israeli airforce dropped a bomb on his brothers home. He was killed along with his brother and son......oh, and four neighbours.

Aussie Dave Bigot doesn't mention this.

Why would he, they were just Palestinians. Heck, they probably voted for Hamas, which would mean that they deserved it.


In other insignificant developments, missed by Aussie Dave Bigot while he prays to his diety, the IDF, a tank shell killed two children in Beit Lahiya.

What Civilian Casualties?

Aussie Dave Bigots cheerleading for the invasion of Gaza continues unabated.

He details every injured IDF soldier, every rocket fired, every case of fright amongst Israeli civilians. But he's not without deep concern for the mass of suffering in Gaza.

Israel, on the other hand, is bending over backwards not to kill civilians.

Of course. And they must be quite successful, because reading through the last 2 days of his blog you'll find virtually no mention of Palestinian casualties. Virtually none. There was the UN driver 'allegedly' killed by Israeli fire, but Dave tells us it was probably Hamas.
And,

Palestinian officials report that 2 Hamas terrorists and an infant have been killed in IAF strikes on Gaza.

One infant. Wow, must be due to all that back-bending.

Though I'm a bit confused. In the media I've read stories (like this and this) about a family of seven being killed and a mother and her two year old son, amongst others, to bring the total of children killed by Israel in Gaza to over 250.

I think I'll have to get my news from where ever it is Dave does - it seems much more pleasant.

He also appears to have some issues with Jimmy Carter,

I supposed if I went up to Carter and punched him in his teeth, that would be defensive too.

And commenter's at his blog of hate continue to do Aussie Dave Bigot proud,

"with any luck, by then, Israel will have made glass factories out of damascuss,
tehran and any other raghead factories that deserve it .. "