The "anti-Semitism" smear : DU has also been targetted (alexa.com reviews)

[Mike Niendorff]

Alexa.com (Amazon.com's website-traffic-ranking service) allows users to post reviews of the websites it tracks. Including, of course, reviews of this site.

So, just in case you think David Brooks is the only wingnut who's recently taken to trying to sell this "anti-Bush == anti-Semitism" smear, think again.

Here's the latest round :

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Sick and Tired of Hypocrisy, December 18, 2003
Reviewer: A customer from San Luis Obispo

... Please contact me and join in before DU makes the democratic party one in which Jews are also not welcome. ...

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A More Balanced View, December 18, 2003
Reviewer: A customer from Austin, Texas

Democratic Underground is a great place to post as long as you are a Christian or Moslem or Atheist: NO JEWS NEED APPLY.

DU has a practice of banning Jews as soon as they find out you are one...or even non-Jews if you dare to post anything not pro-Palestinian.

There are enough of us now to have started our own locked forum. We do not wish to post the URL here, but please feel free to get in touch through me if you are a Jew who has experienced DU's anti-Semitic biases and retaliation. If you have not yet been found out, or if you are a strongly pro-Palestinian Jew, it's still worth your while to view our statistics.

The facts about the Judenrein policies of the Administration at DU will be exposed by our group in order that no one person has to face their on-staff corporate attorneys by him or herself.

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Fear, December 17, 2003
Reviewer: dusiteowner from Washington D.C.

... I just want to let everyone know that it is not my personal anti-Semitism that stokes that aspect of DU, but I am powerless to stop it. I apologize and hope the FBI takes that into consideration upon investigation of the other 2 administrators. ...

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DU is a Sham, December 17, 2003
Reviewer: A customer from Australia

... I have to post blatant falsehoods which are easily checked but appear anti-Israel and/or anti-Semitic in order to keep from being banned myself! ... I take this opportunity to apologize to all the Jews especially who I have slandered!

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Occasionally good, often horrid, December 16, 2003
Reviewer: Frequent poster from United States

... While there is a small group of moderates that try to inject sanity into the site, they are overwhelmed by conspiracy theorists, rabid anti-Americanism, subtle and blatant anti-semitism, and others that most of the Democratic party would be ashamed to be associated with. ...

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(note: many similar posts from late November and early December were recently deleted when alexa updated their site -- it used to be even worse. There were previously nearly 300 reviews of DU, and about 80% of the recent ones contained this particular smear-attack. Thankfully, Alexa pulled a *lot* of the existing smear-reviews, but, as you can see, the smear-effort hasn't stopped).

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Anyway, call this a "heads up", just in case anyone still thinks its only a couple of RW columnists involved in pushing this particular lie.


MDN

[Cleita]

1. Huh, maybe we need to go in and dispute this,

especially the Jewish DU'ers.

[mmonk]

2. Their great lie is

saying its anti-semitic to be against the dreams of an American military empire accomplished by conquering Middle Eastern countries. Its also a lie to say its unpatriotic to oppose trying to conquer the middle east.

[KoKo]

3. Hmm....a bunch of "Tombstoners" having a party there? Or, maybe folks

from that "other site," getting their kicks.

[Skinner]

4. I hope you don't mind if I just lock this.

I would prefer that these lies not get repeated here. Sorry.

Skinner
DU Admin