"What's A Kos?": Write About Palestine And Get Libeled And
Banned
04 November 2010By Jane Stillwater
Last night I had been complaining bitterly to a friend
because I had written a diary entry on the Daily Kos
regarding injustice in Palestine and had gotten
brutally libeled and then banned as a result.
"How come it's completely acceptable to write diaries
on the Kos regarding injustice in America and
everywhere else in the world -- but if you write about
injustices happening in Palestine, you get libeled and
banned."
My friend just looked at me in confusion. "What's a
Kos?" he replied.
Well that certainly put things into perspective.
"The Daily Kos is a liberal internet website with over
a million readers. It's famous."
"Never heard of it," said my friend. Whew.
PS: Here's a link to that diary entry that got me
banned: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/10/26/913726/-Palestinethe-Daily-Kos:-Dog-whistles-Or-Google-Alerts.
Scroll down and read some of the libelous comments
attached to it if you want an instructive lesson on
why requesting justice in Palestine can be very
detrimental to your health. I get called crazy, nutty,
silly, a conspiracy theorist, antisemitic, a piece of
[dookie], hateful, whacked-out, loony, unhinged, etc.
And someone even accused me of having twigs in my
hair. Twigs in my hair? What kind of intellectual
rebuttal is that?
These are the kind of almost-scary sleazy comments
about me that I get all the time from various sleazy
right-wing bloggers. But I certainly didn't expect
anything like this kind of nastiness to be dumped over
my head by the readers of the Daily Kos, purported to
be a liberal blog with excellent progressive creds.
The Kos even has a weekly column that relates some of
the libelous wingnut comments that have been sent to
its editor. Perhaps the Kos might consider putting
some of its own readers' libelous comments about me in
that column.
And why didn't the Kos ban some of its more offensive
commenters -- instead of just banning ME?
PPS: Here's a quote from an article from the New York
Times entitled "Smothered by Settlements," regarding
injustice in Palestine. How come the Times gets to
write about injustice in Palestine without getting
libeled or banned -- but I don't!
"....The only way to save the two-state solution is
for the Palestinians to declare the establishment of
an independent Palestinian state on the territories
occupied by Israel in 1967, including East Jerusalem,
and to demand that the world community recognize it
and its borders — as it did in the case of Kosovo.
"That would also mean supporting the right of
Palestinians to struggle nonviolently to end the
occupation of their state. Any future negotiations,
therefore, would not be about the right of the
Palestinians to have their own sovereign independent
state, but rather about how to apply and implement
that right.
This would be the true test of the state-building
strategy of the United States and the donor community.
It would be the real instrument to finally demarcate
the difference between support for free Palestinian
institutions in a sovereign and viable state, or
footing the bill of occupation and using E.U. and U.S.
tax dollars to maintain under various guises what will
never amount to anything but an apartheid system
denying Palestinians their human and national rights.
"If the world community turns its back on such a
declaration of independence by using the well-worn and
insulting argument that every step should first be
verified with the Israeli government, then the message
will be clear: Peace based on two states is no longer
an option."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/15/
opinion/15iht-edbarghouti.html?_r =1&ref=global
PPPS: And here's what Reuters reports regarding
injustice in Palestine. Now we need to ban Reuters
too?
"A senior U.N. official condemned attacks by Jewish
'settler extremists' on Palestinians' olive trees in
the occupied West Bank and called on Israel to 'combat
violence and terror by Israelis.' Robert Serry, U.N.
special coordinator for the Middle East peace process,
also said he was alarmed that work had started on
hundreds of new homes for settlers in the occupied
territory since the end of Israel's settlement freeze
last month.
"Serry was speaking to journalists on Tuesday while
olive-picking with Palestinian Prime Minister Salam
Fayyad in the village of Tormos Ayya north of Ramallah.
He said settlers had destroyed hundreds of trees in
the village in recent weeks. Palestinians began
harvesting olives across the West Bank this month. 'I
am appalled at acts of destruction of olive trees and
farmlands, desecration of mosques and violence against
civilians,' Serry said. http://alertnet.org/thenews/
newsdesk/LDE69P1NK.htm
PPPPS: And just like Google-Alert zombies have
apparently taken over the Daily Kos, property
developers seem to have taken over my beloved
Berkeley. One of the few progressive members left on
our city council, Kriss Worthington, is currently
fighting for his political life. So if you have any
money left over from trying to stop all those
Shakespearean witches (Whitman, Fiorina, Palin,
Bachmann and O'Donnell) from predicting a corporatist
future for America, please donate it to Kriss! http://www.krissworthington.com/
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