So it turns out Julian Assange is a big time anti-Semite

[Cali_Democrat]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028041899

Many of us who opposed his antics over the years have been vindicated.

[wheniwasincongress]

1. Does he run that Twitter account himself?

[BooScout]

2. It's a verified account from the looks of it nt

[6chars]

3. Apparently Assange is widely believed to tweet the wikileaks account

https://heatst.com/politics/wikileaks-posts-and-deletes-anti-semitic-tweet-as-it-does-putins-bidding-for-trump/

Wikileaks Posts and Deletes Anti-Semitic Tweet as it Does Putin’s Bidding For Trump


Wikileaks and Julian Assange rode in at the obvious bidding of Vladimir Putin today, to assist Donald Trump, Putin’s candidate, being run by fixer Paul Manafort. As Tim Kaine stunned the world with a mighty speech, Julian Assange tried to release some minor DNC leaks that looked anti-Bernie – although everybody had pretty much figured out that Debbie Wasserman Schulz wasn’t playing fair long ago.

For a long time Putin has been running Wikileaks. His attempt to use them today to release DNC emails was further evidence that Trump is Russia’s pet candidate.

However, Julian Assange, long known to have said many publicly anti-semitic things, and who is widely believed to tweet the @wikileaks account – as a former biographer reported – ruined his day’s press by tweeting and then deleting this amazingly anti-semitic tweet:

etc.

[OKNancy]

4. Assange is an anarchist

He wants to destroy. He gets his kicks from trying to be the big man. He doesn't care about US politics or world politics at all. All he cares about is creating havoc.

[MelSC]

28. He's like Littlefinger from Game of Thrones

Except not entertaining to watch.

[LenaBaby61]

5. I'm HAPPY...

That piece of human filth Assange may FINALLY be exposed for the scumbag that he IS.

[Spider Jerusalem]

6. Nothing new there

he claimed he was the victim of a "Jewish conspiracy" way back in 2011.

[Scorpionflyx]

31. Thanks for that info.

disgusting .

[msanthrope]

7. He employs a vicious Holocaust denier......

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026388527

[avaistheone1]

16. Actually he is a Jew himself, and he is Not a holocaust denier.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/02/01/bbc-joins-smear-campaign-against-assange-and-wikileaks/

[msanthrope]

17. Wrong. He is a noted Holocaust denier and a baptized Orthodox Christian. Jeebus...Google the guy.

[avaistheone1]

19. He has written and published that he has lost Jewish relatives to the Holocaust.

Read the linked article he wrote recognizing the Holocaust.

Even if today he is a baptized Orthodox Christian, so what? That does not make him a Holocaust denier. That is a smear pure and simple.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/02/01/bbc-joins-smear-campaign-against-assange-and-wikileaks/

[msanthrope]

24. He's a liar. Go to his website.....absolute Holocaust denier. nt

[avaistheone1]

25. Per your suggestion I went to his website and found references to the Holocaust.

However, in reading them I found he is NOT a holocaust denier. What he does do is question how the holocaust is politicized as power by Israel. He also discusses other mass genocides of humans and compares their politicization. I think you are very confused, or you are making this false claim for your own political reasons.

[msanthrope]

27. after 9:11, he claimed the Jews at the WTC had all received texts

Telling them to stay home on that day. He's quite well known for that claim.

He attended a holocaust denial conference in Tehran..... hell, even other Holocaust deniers don't even want to be around him.

[Mosby]

29. He is a well known bigot

Counterpunch publishes several other anti-semites like Allison Weir and Franklin Lamb. It's a crap website.

Shamir (or whatever his real name is) is not Jewish, he converted to Greek Orthodox Christianity.


Holocaust denier in charge of handling Moscow cables
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/jan/31/wikileaks-holocaust-denier-handled-moscow-cables


Israel Shamir: Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

By Roland Rance
http://www.socialistviewpoint.org/sept_04/sept_04_22.html


His Jewish Problem

Israel Shamir is a slippery Holocaust-doubter whose anti-Semitic, anti-Israel views are—in the age of WikiLeaks—finding a new audience. Part 1 of 2.
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/67305/his-jewish-problem

[Scuba]

8. Well in that case all the wrongdoing he exposed is A-OK!!!

[Iggo]

21. Right?

[riversedge]

9. K and R.

[ericson00]

10. the CIA/FBI need to spend some time on Assange already

he's endangering national security by giving our secrets away, as well as spreading hate, both thru those tweets and enabling Donald J. Trump.

K/R

[Jim Lane]

11. Which of the purported emails he leaked were fabricated?

Or is it just possible that, whatever his motives were, he's brought the public important information that powerful people would otherwise have been able to conceal?

[Cali_Democrat]

12. Why did Julian Assange fire off an anti-Semitic tweet? nt

[Jim Lane]

14. Assuming arguendo that he did, what does it tell us about the truth of Wikileaks disclosures?

Absolutely nothing, as far as I can tell, but I'm waiting to hear about the fabrications that have been uncovered.

See, I have nothing to say about whether Julian Assange, as an individual, will get into Heaven after he dies. I don't even believe in the place. I'm more interested in information that relates to matters about which I can do something, such as voting or volunteering or donating.

[Marr]

13. DWS resigned.

There's obviously a problem there. It doesn't matter if Julian Assange is Darth Vader.

You're wasting your time flogging the messenger.

[mythology]

15. Except we don't know the full story

People overreact to stupid things all the time. For example, go look at Free Republic or Trump's twitter feed any time Obama does or says anything. We don't have the full context of those emails. We don't have anything linking those emails to any real world consequences. I would argue DWS resigning is a reflection of her understanding that it's actually meaningless whether she did anything wrong or not, that the witch hunt demanded somebody's head on the chopping block. As chair DWS is in the best position to resign so that the party convention can happen without having to deal with this as an on-going issue.

You may recall that some people in the Salem witch trials confessed to being witches. Your logic would require that mean they were actual witches, yet there were no credible reports of anybody being turned into a newt (with or without getting better).

If somebody is on the record as an anti-semite, has run away from his day in court on rape charges, knowingly associates with neo-nazis and generally blames unproveable conspiracies, I start to question if they are actually giving me anything other than a line of bullshit, no matter what evidence they claim to have given that I can't trust them to be honest about it. Assange long ago lost any benefit of the doubt with me.

[LanternWaste]

20. After this therefor because of this?

After this therefor because of this?

Or is your logical fallacy somehow justified by passion and allegation?

[Marr]

22. You're kidding, right?

This entire thread is an argumentum ad-hominem fallacy. The OP is attempting to discredit information by attacking the messenger.

DWS' resignation was accompanied by staff apologies for these emails, and it's a huge story in the media.

[dsc]

30. Sherrod resigned so I guess Brietbart was right

[Hekate]

18. Kick

[tallahasseedem]

23. Those defending him...

well, let's just say that it is very telling.

[Blue_Tires]

26. Sadly Assange can just blame some staffer for it