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..........
