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Why Does Wikileaks Have a Reputation for Anti-Semitism?
Since gaining international attention in 2010 with the release of nearly 100,000 classified logs of the war in Iraq, Wikileaks — often through the actions of its founder Julian Assange — has repeatedly come under fire for anti-Semitism.
The organization, which routinely publishes large caches of confidential or otherwise private emails, cables and government documents, has employed a Holocaust denier and tweeted anti-Semitic jibes. Assange, who some believe runs the Wikileaks Twitter account, has also suggested that Jewish journalists targets him specifically.
The first hints of Assange’s anti-Semitism came in 2010, when New York magazine reported that Wikileaks may have employed Holocaust denier Israel Shamir. Shamir, a Russian-born Swedish citizen, has written virulently anti-Semitic blog posts, including lines such as “Jews asked God to kill, destroy, humiliate, exterminate, defame, starve, impale Christians, to usher in Divine Vengeance and to cover God’s mantle with blood of goyim.” Shamir has regularly written blog posts that deny the Holocaust happened and that Jews are perpetrating mind control on a global scale. From photographs on Shamir’s website, it was clear that Assange knew Shamir personally.
When James Ball, a former Wikileaks employee, published an account in the Daily Beast of his time working at the organization in 2013, it confirmed that Shamir had been on the Wikileaks payroll, and why.
The organization, which routinely publishes large caches of confidential or otherwise private emails, cables and government documents, has employed a Holocaust denier and tweeted anti-Semitic jibes. Assange, who some believe runs the Wikileaks Twitter account, has also suggested that Jewish journalists targets him specifically.
The first hints of Assange’s anti-Semitism came in 2010, when New York magazine reported that Wikileaks may have employed Holocaust denier Israel Shamir. Shamir, a Russian-born Swedish citizen, has written virulently anti-Semitic blog posts, including lines such as “Jews asked God to kill, destroy, humiliate, exterminate, defame, starve, impale Christians, to usher in Divine Vengeance and to cover God’s mantle with blood of goyim.” Shamir has regularly written blog posts that deny the Holocaust happened and that Jews are perpetrating mind control on a global scale. From photographs on Shamir’s website, it was clear that Assange knew Shamir personally.
When James Ball, a former Wikileaks employee, published an account in the Daily Beast of his time working at the organization in 2013, it confirmed that Shamir had been on the Wikileaks payroll, and why.
http://forward.com/news/national/347546/why-does-wikileaks-have-a-reputation-for-anti-semitism/
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I've learned a lot around this place. Thanks for that thread, it was extremely educational.
I've learned a lot around this place. Thanks for that thread, it was extremely educational.