This one is just priceless. The vicious Richard Silverstein in Seattle, who posts anti-Israel rants on his hubristically titled "Tikun Olam" blog, has been fished in by the phenomenal Aussie Dave at IsraellyCool.com-- Richard published what he THOUGHT was Dave's real name and address in an attempt to violate his privacy, justifying it with the lie that Aussie Dave had done the same to him (which he had not). What he didn't know was that Dave had baited him with a fake Facebook profile. Check it out here; it's hysterical. Watch someone from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is supposed to help people MAINTAIN online privacy, egg Richard on, thereby exposing her own biases.... http://www.israellycool.com/2011/12/29/richard-silverstein-exposed/

December 29, 2011

Doucheblogger Richard Silverstein PWND! (Updated & Bumped)

UPDATE: Richard Silverstein has finally admitted he was duped:

Yesterday, I reported in a post that I believed I had exposed the real identity of Aussie Dave, author of the Israellycool blog. It appears that he invented a fake identity in order to perpetrate a hoax on me. It boggles the mind that he went to the immense amount of trouble he did to perpetrate this hoax. It tells you how much free time he has on his hands to engage in all the subterfuge that was necessary to fool me. It tells you precious little about me, but quite a lot about him.

Notice Dick isn't the least bit apologetic for exposing what he thought was the identity of a Pro-Israel, anti-Jihad blogger, which could have put Aussie Dave in very real danger. Instead, Dick appears almost disappointed and resentful he failed in exposing Aussie Dave's real name and actual home address.

Dave thinks he’s a genius because I [sic] fooled me. What he doesn’t realize is that in his blog post, he proudly admits that he created a hoax Facebook account for a non-existent person using the photo of a real person, a clear violation of Facebook rules.

OMG, Dave! Now you're in trouble! He's reporting you to Facebook! You thought the threats from Jihadists were bad, wait until Mark Zuckerberg finds you!

You are filth, Dick. The fact you would deliberately put another blogger in danger over petty cyber-bickering says a whole precious lot about you. Not to mention your credibility.

Shame on you.

And shame on Jillian York of EFF for not making even the slightest effort to protect a vulnerable blogger. Did you, Jillian, say "Don't post his private information, Richard"? Did you say, "Maybe it was a mistake, don't make it worse"? No. You said, "Oh good."

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Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israeli blogger Richard Silverstein is breaking his arms patting himself on the back for exposing the "real" name and address of a pro-Israel blogger, Aussie Dave. Dave set up a fake Facebook page and then "accidentally" linked it to one of his posts:

For years, I have been posting about his hatred for Israel and nastiness, which makes a mockery of his blog’s name Tikkun Olam (“Repairing/Healing the World”). Recently, he was cited by the mainstream media, due to his posts blaming Israel and the Mossad for explosions in Iran and Lebanon, as well as for leaking online some FBI surveillance transcripts of conversations caught on F.B.I. wiretaps of the Israeli Embassy in Washington. Although I have demonstrated on numerous occasions the inaccuracies in his posts, I knew I had to step things up a notch to really show how unreliable and careless with the facts he is.

So I set a trap. I asked a friend of the blog to approach Silverstein with “proof” of my real identity, knowing how much he wanted to reveal it to the world. In order to make it believable, I inserted an “easter egg” into this Silverstein-related post.

Silverstein took the bait and gleefully posted the fake personal contact information, despite the fact that such exposure would put any pro-Israel, anti-Jihad blogger in real danger.

Not cool, Dick.

Read more about it here. Be sure to read the updates, as it gets even more disturbing. Jillian York, the Director of International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation - an organization I supported until now, is apparently happy Silverstein is endangering a blogger.

For those unfamiliar with Richard Silverstein, he’s a commentator and blogger who claims to be a Zionist, and promoter of “social justice”, yet has expressed support for a one-state solution, repeatedly defended Hamas, has described the behavior of IDF soldiers as “bestial” and “subhuman“, and has even likened Israel to Nazi Germany.

And, while the work of this blog exposing his hateful rhetoric may have been partially responsible for his absence, since Dec. 2009, as a contributor at ‘Comment is Free’ (a possibility he openly acknowledged on his blog), his notoriety strangely hasn’t prevented him from being taken seriously as a “journalist” by other media outlets.

He has carved out a niche for himself as the blogger willing to expose evidence regarding even the most sensitive American and Israeli state secrets, without regard the national security costs to either state.

More concerning however has been Silverstein’s tendency to publish such information without adequately corroborating the story.

Yossi Melman, a well-connected security and intelligence reporter for Haaretz, said of Silverstein:

“He spreads rumors without checking them. He is an ideologue, not a journalist.”

Per a profile of Silverstein in the Jewish Forward:

In December 2010, he identified an unknown person who died in an Israeli prison, where he was referred to as “prisoner X,” as Ali Reza Asgari, Iran’s former deputy defense minister who disappeared a few years earlier and was presumed to have defected to the West. “Through a confidential Israeli source, I have exposed his identity,” Silverstein told his readers, adding that his information “would seem to give the lie to the claim of defection.” The publication led to an Iranian demand that the United Nations investigate Asgari’s alleged abduction by Israel. Despite the time that has passed, no information substantiating Silverstein’s claim has surfaced.

“He created a mini-crisis between Israel and Iran, which is a totally irresponsible thing to do,” said Melman, the Haaretz intelligence reporter. Melman said that he told Silverstein that the information regarding Asgari was wrong, but this did not prevent the blogger from running the story.

Further, Silverstein even believed, and posted about, an obvious faux-story published on the Jewish Holiday of Purim - when Israeli news sites often post nonsensical stories in line with the jovial nature of the day - from Ha’aretz, in which it was “reported” that the Israeli government was set to approve sponsorship adverts on the Western Wall.

Silverstein, it seems, is guilty of truth telling...

So far he seems to be right and correct in his analysis as one really can't defend the pirate state of israel and retain any creditability.

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