SF editor Kathryn Cramer shills for and lauds vicious anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist Dennis ‘Justin’ Raimondo Part 2

This is the second article in my Kathryn Cramer series, detailing this genre editor’s rabid anti-Semitism (on a par with her fellow genre pro China Mieville). Cramer is the wife of award-winning genre editor David Hartwell. Whilst this and other articles on Cramer may be viewed as extraneous since my first article on Cramer has already established her ‘new’ anti-Semitic credentials beyond doubt – well unless you are an anti-Semite yourself or very obtuse or both – I give further details and evidence for Cramer’s harebrained and extreme anti-Semitism herein.

Given that Cramer doesn’t accept Israel’s right to exist and justifies it with the most brazen and absurd lies and slanders (see my previous article for the details), it’s no surprise then that Cramer is an admirer of the odious, rabid anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist Dennis ‘Justin’ Raimondo. Cramer unambiguously commends Raimondo’s commentary on Israel (in the same article of hers where she frowns on Israel’s very existence for one). She has also linked to him at her blog. Raimondo is closely associated with the anti-Semite Pat Buchanan (who has flirted with Holocaust Revisionism, when not blaming the Jews for America’s wars) on the libertarian Right through the likes of American Conservative. Raimondo has been foremost in running the website antiwar.com. It’s a love-fest to Buchanan and Ron Paul and shills – predictably – soooo much anti-Semitic claptrap and conspiracies. More like antiJew.com.

Here for some of the ugly facts on Raimondo, from Stephen Schwartz who has authored numerous exposés on jihadist terror networks:

If a critic of Saudi Arabia’s support for Wahhabism enters his [Raimondo's] sights, he will accuse them of formenting war against the Kingdom. He has, in fact, insisted that the neo-conservatives in the government are actually preparing military action against the Saudis. Raimondo’s protective attitudes towards the Saudis derive perhaps from the fact he and the Saudi princes share a commitment to the fable of “Zionist” involvement in 9/11.

..For Raimondo, the Great Satan is America, and the Little Satan is Israel. He has written a screed called The Terror Enigma, that is a kind of Protocols of the Elders of Zion for the War on Terror. Raimondo’s tract – it’s only a pamphlet issued by a vanity press – insinuates, with no serious evidence, that the Israeli government had prior knowledge of 9/11 but failed to warn our authorities; that because an Israeli lived in the same neighborhood as a 9/11 conspirator they were naturally complicit; Israelis selling art on the streets of the U.S. were actually big-time spies engaged in undermining our government; that here, there, and everywhere, the omnipotent Israelis control everything, so why not the attack on the Twin Towers as well? The next step from this conspiracy logic is, of course, the claim that Israel was in on 9/11 with the Bush administration.

..Raimondo’s website consistently published propaganda generated by Randall (Ismail) Royer, a former CAIR employee now doing a 20-year federal sentence for terrorist activities. Recently, one of Royer’s associates, Ahmad Omar Abu Ali, was charged with plotting to assassinate President Bush in collaboration with al-Qaida. Before his arrest, Royer distinguished himself between with a campaign to harass and intimidate critics of the jihadists – myself, and the Saudi dissident Ali al-Ahmed among them – in the Washington region. Raimondo gleefully recycled Royer’s Jew-baiting rants on his website. CAIR, which employed Royer, joined in the campaign by redistributing the Raimondo screeds. CAIR – which pretends to be an anti-defamation organization – also disseminates the neo-Nazi propaganda of Bill White.

There is much much more at the link.

Also here http://www.usefulwork.com/shark/archives/000256.html An exposé of just some of the lies Raimondo tells in order to justify his 9-11 ‘Israeli military intelligence was complicit’ conspiracy. It pertains in large part to Raimondo’s perverse spin on an article that originally appeared in the German paper Die Zeit, and that was ultimately dismissed as being based on a discredited source. The exposé is authored by Stefan Sharkansky who originally translated the article into English.

An excerpt:

The Die Zeit article that he is referring to is the one that I translated several days ago. It does not imply in any way that Israel had foreknowledge of the attacks, only that Israel was investigating some of the hijackers. And as it turns out, the Die Zeit piece was ultimately fact-checked and dismissed as being based on a discredited source. I posted an update to that effect on my translation of the Die Zeit article. Still, Raimondo linked to my translation anyway, even though the original story was both lacking in credibility and spun opposite of the story that Raimondo in his hallucinatory anti-Semitic view of the world wanted to tell.

Sharkansy documents further distortions and gross misrepresentations that Raimondo made on this front, and this is just one small part of Raimondo’s ‘oeuvre’!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/870765/posts
Another article on Raimondo’s anti-Semitic conspiracy blather in the wake of 9-11, Raimondo’s numerous other lies and concoctions including (for the SF fans out there) his bizarro take on P K Dick’s The Man in the High Castle. (The article is also by S Schwartz whose surname is misleading, Schwartz is a Sufi Muslim!)

Blogger Adam Holland authored this informative piece in 2010 entitled ‘Justin Raimondo’s racism’.

Of course the reader can dismiss all the evidence of Raimondo’s anti-Semitic conspiracy bile as Zionist propaganda, if the reader is so inclined to defend the likes of Cramer for expressing her appreciation for the utter dross of a brazen liar and vile anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist with close associations to the vile anti-Semite Pat Buchanan. Note that Raimondo is gay, openly so and yet he is chummy with the homophobic Pat Buchanan. That’s because such otherwise implacable differences and difficulties are set aside in taking on nefarious common old enemies that threaten us all, the Joooos. Naturally as a gay man, the only country in the Middle-East Raimondo could live in with his civil rights guaranteed (he can even get married) is Israel; not Egypt, Gaza, Lebanon, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, anywhere in the Persian Gulf for that matter. And not anyplace within Palestinian society in the West Bank neither.

Dissecting Raimondo’s anti-Semitic garbage over the years, one could easily fill a book.

In Part 3 of this Kathryn Cramer series, I take a hard look at Cramer’s odious, mendacious and breezy slander on the Michael Teague killing in Iraq (at her blog) and her burying that down the memory hole when her ugly slur was easily exposed. And the notable SF Court Jew writer who covered for her in this regard, by grossly misrepresenting the facts..

Yes you read that right.

Notable SF editor Kathryn Cramer – wife of editor David Hartwell – disdainful of accepting Israel’s right to exist Part 1

Kathryn Cramer is a well-known editor in SF and Fantasy (also a writer and photographer), and the wife of David Hartwell, a very well-known award winning editor in the genre field likewise. Hartwell edits an annual Year’s Best SF and Year’s Best Fantasy and Cramer has been a co-editor in this regard. Cramer is also the daughter of John Cramer, a highly regarded particle physicist who has also written science fiction.

To get straight to the point – Kathryn Cramer is uncomfortable even recognizing Israel’s sovereign existence. And she has been open about it. Cramer proudly related to her blog readers back in 2004 that in her wisdom she is reluctant to recognise the Jewish nation’s very existence. I mean the gall of it, not Cramer’s, I mean the tiny Jew nation, to think it has the right to its sovereignty! Such naked bigotry (even as she blissfully wouldn’t recognize it as such and naturally denies it) is naturally justified on brazen ignorance and lies.

As I make clear in my ‘what this blog is about’ post, N Sharansky speaks of three D’s in the test for new anti-Semitism, double standards, demonisation and deligitimization of Israel. Cramer’s brazen delegitimization of Israel (the Jew among the nations), unlike every other nation on earth, is all the evidence one needs of her bigotry.

Here is Cramer with her ugly screed at her blog ‘Let’s talk about the Jooos and not in a nice way neither’ oh sorry that’s ‘Let’s talk about Israel‘ from June 2004.

http://www.kathryncramer.com/kathryn_cramer/2004/06/lets_talk_about.html

Some excerpts (the typos remain uncorrected and the bold in the text below is mine):

As a matter of habit, I do not think about Israel very much as it presents me with an irreconcilable social conflict: I am a strong believer in the separation of church and state and to my strongly atheist mind in adolescence, Israel is a theocracy. The reality is of course more complicated than that, but any state founded on a religious identity is not something I can feel comfortable supporting.

That a theocracy would opress those who were not of its religion was completely consistent with my general suspicions about theocracies, so learning of the plight of the Palestinians did not alter my perceptions of Israel much.

The resolution of this conflict for me, on an emotional level, is to believe that Israel should be expected to behave in accordance with international law; that its status as a theocracy gives it no special rights or privledges regardless of the rationele for and special circumstances involved in establishing the state of Israel. Israel frequently violates these expectations, but because I retain the feeling, from adolescence, that it would be uncouth of me to say so, I don’t say much about it and don’t think much about it. But it was on this basis that allegations that, say, Jason Raimondo was rabidly anti-Israel cut no ice with me. I find myself entirely unable to be interested in such condemnations. I did, however, restrain myself from responding “so what?”.

But it has been 25 years since I developed my basic take on Israel, and as a 42 year-old concerned with contemporary politics, I really ought not hide behind conflict avoidance mechanisms developed when I was seventeen. There are claims that Israel as a democracy. But I am unable to see it as a democracy both because I retain the suspicion that it is a theocracy and because a large portion of its population seems to be banned from participation in its democratic processes. Throughout my life, I feel I have been asked to see people moving to Israel as returning to their homeland. I persist in seeing them as settlers, whether their ancestors lived there a thousand-odd years ago or not. I cannot buy the argument that they are returning home. Finally, and most importantly, Israel is a showcase for the argument that extraordinary enemies require extraordinary tactics; tactics in frequent violation of the Geneva convention. This last point leads me to believe that if I took a sustained look at Israel or thought much about the Palestinians, I would rapidly lose the warm, fuzzy feelings toward Israel instilled in me as a teenager. This would cause me social problems, as some people would think badly of me for being anything but supportive of the State of Israel. I’m not sure how much longer I can avoid this confrontation.

There you have it!

Genre Jewry has it would appear avoided any confrontation with Cramer. No Surprise There. As if genre Jewry would do anything else. She didn’t and doesn’t have to worry about any Jews (well not the ones I know of) confronting her with her moronic bigotry; at best they are apathetic, at worst they are anti-Israel themselves. Just check out this blog’s archives, heck the previous article on Lavie Tidhar alone.

In at least one case, a notable Jewish writer would go out of his way to run cover for her – defending the indefensible – but that’s in part 3 of this series.. (and it’s about something else entirely, but not unrelated to sinister and harebrained left-wing asininity) It’s simply boiler-plate new anti-Semitism from Kathryn Cramer, shoddily disguised as Middle-East analysis. Stupid, misinformed, riddled through with unrestrained modern-day Judenhass sloganese and mantras. It’s utter garbage.

Cramer says that because Israel is a theocracy (it isn’t but I’ll come to that) she is reluctant to accept its right to exist. It just gives her a queasy unpleasant feeling that the Jews dare to have their own tiny state, that just happens to be their ancient homeland, where Jews lived and died more than two millennia before Columbus set sail for the New World; a nation that was founded on the ashes of millions of Jews murdered and driven into exile from Jew-hating Europe. There you have it! Satisfied? Thing is Israel is not a theocracy, it is a constitutional democracy, and its Parliament, Judiciary and Supreme Court (which is overtly secular and left-leaning), media and public schooling at all levels (primary and secondary schooling and the universities) are independent of the Synagogue. (yes there are religious parties in the Knesset and private religious schools, so?) Yet even if Israel was theocratic – which it isn’t – what of it? Israel is the sovereign Jewish state yet it appears it is its very Jewish religious identity that so balks Cramer and her ilk. It’s as if she would consider accepting Israel’s existence so long as it rejected its Jewish religious identity or removed the Jewish faith from all aspects of public life.

Note how Cramer doesn’t have a problem with the numerous very real theocracies out there (whatever disingenuous denials there may be to the contrary by Cramer), the theocratic national regimes that are despotic, murderous and willfully averse to civil liberties. That would mean numerous Muslim extremist national states like Iran, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the UAE, and now of course Egypt and Libya (both of which are rapidly going that way, if they are not there already, thanks to the ‘Arab Spring’). What of Afghanistan? (and I mean under Karzai’s regime where Sharia law is enforced, I’m not even talking about the Taliban!) Would Cramer have a problem with an independent sovereign Tibet – even if theocratic as in the past – free of Chinese occupation and control? What do you think?

Naturally Cramer doesn’t have a problem with the sovereignty of these theocratic nation states (where are her blog posts about it?), that’s Muslim nation states whose governments and public life are not only theocratic, but destructively and oppressively so. The regimes of Iran, Sudan and other Muslim extremist states in the Middle-East, Africa and Asia are tyrannical and actively promote jihadist terror and quash civil rights (and the rights of women likewise). Cramer doesn’t even question their right to exist, their bona fides. Like Cramer, the theocratic regimes of Iran, Sudan and Saudi Arabia are averse to accepting Israel’s right to exist. It’s just the Jooooo nation’s bona fides that Cramer dismisses, they don’t meet her approval. Unlike her own nation – the United States – built on the theft of land, ethnocide and slavery along with the other nations of the globe carved out of the bloody British, Dutch, Spanish, French and Portuguese Empires (from Brazil to Mexico, Argentina to Australia and Southern Africa) – well that naturally doesn’t bring any queries re their sovereign rights from Kathryn Cramer. They are Christian, even if only nominally so. So their sovereignty is above board and uh kosher. It’s the Jew nation that ain’t.. kosher that is.

See how it works?

As with all the Muslim states and Buddhist nations and whatever else, their sovereignty is not called into question. It’s the tiny Jewish state (not much larger than New Jersey) that is naturally to be doubted as having the credentials worthy of joining the nations of the world as an equal. (it’s the only nation in the Middle-East that any self-respecting feminist could actually live in, never mind..)

New anti-Semitism is not recognizing the Jewish state as an equal among nations, it is not worthy. Old anti-Semitism is not recognizing the Jew as an equal among the races and ethnicities of humanity. The Jew as a little less human than everybody else. Le plus ce change..

There is a fair chunk of know-nothing mindless repetition of ‘progressive’ anti-Semitic libels against Israel in her screed. She doesn’t consider Israel a democracy even though it is one. Arab Israelis have the right to vote, sit on the Knesset (Israeli parliament) even as they are often enough overtly hostile to Israel (just like Cramer) and worse, sympathetic to the Jihad. She broadly hints that the Jew nation is a rogue nation, accusing it of brazenly ignoring international law. She doesn’t tell us where, when and how this is so. She just makes the accusation – I accuse the Joooos – that’s good enough. It certainly is for the Jew-hating Left. At the same time she justifies and rationalizes jihadist terror by the Palestinians against the Jews. It’s justifiable and understandable for Palestinian jihadists to flout international law and blow up Jews, because the Joooos are just soooo oppressive. Although Cramer doesn’t tell us how exactly, when and where the Jooos are being so oppressive, it’s just ‘common wisdom’ that they are, so why bother with evidence?

This is typical new anti-Semitism, justifying jihadist terror against Israel with vague sweeping evidence-free assertions, when not ignoring jihadist barbarity altogether. Naturally the jihadist terror against Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, animists, Jews and Muslims themselves over the last near fourteen hundred years that has witnessed the slaughter of tens of millions, the enslavement of millions, conquests of huge swaths of the globe, rape, pillage, burning etc is well something else entirely. The destruction of whole civilizations by Muslim warriors.. whatever.

Muslim fanatics have been persecuting and murdering Jews for over a millenium, from the very dawn of Islam in Arabia in the 7th century. Arab, Persian and later Turkish Muslims alike have persecuted and murdered Jewry for centuries. And not just the Jews. Not by a long shot. What of Muslim jihadist terror against Muslims themselves? From the Sudan to Algeria, Iraq to Afghanistan and Kashmir? What of Sunni and Shi’ite internecine slaughter that is over a millenium old? What of Arabs, Kurds, Persians, Turks and their centuries of conflict and slaughter of one another (that goes on to this day)?

When the Nazis and the Christians of the Middle-Ages mass murdered Jews, is that also the fault of the Jooos? Oh wait that’s different, right? And when Muslim men oppress and murder women, apostates and homosexuals, is that the fault of the latter likewise? Or is it just different somehow? It’s only the Jooos who are to blame for terror coming their way, at least from the Palestinians. When Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Persian Gulf Arabs are active players in the wars against Israel and in terrorism against the Jews, is that also the fault of the Jews? What of Hezbollah and Iran? If the Iranian regime plots another Holocaust (in case you haven’t noticed it is coming to a head..), is it the fault of the Jews too? Or not?

Well all that don’t mean a thing to Cramer and her ilk. That’s just different see? It doesn’t count. Although Cramer and her ilk never tell us how it’s different. It’s not even on the radar screen. Well naturally not, because to acknowledge the above (and that’s just a very brief sketch) is to tear so many holes in Cramer and her ilk’s Jew-hate thesis, that it falls apart at the seams. Maybe they think Islam spread through peace and missionary work and simple population growth if they even think about it at all. If they even think. Anti-Semitism and the suicide of reason (as Lee Harris calls it, no not the publisher at Angry Robot books!) that is the apologetics for Muslim extremism and its resultant waves of murder and tyranny, go hand in hand.

Well there’s always the European media (which Cramer tells us she greatly respects on all things Israel related), as if it would be impossible for the European media to be anti-Semitic! It’s not as if French, German, British, Swedish, Dutch and Spanish newspapers and TV are distributing news fodder for nations still mired in anti-Semitism. It’s not as if the European media is telling its anti-Semitic audience what they want to hear (so they don’t have to feel so bad about their cultural legacy of Jew-hate and the mass murder of Jews for one thing). It’s not as if their audience is anti-Semitic at all. *Sarc* The numerous lies and slanders told by the European (and US for that matter) media on Israel don’t mean a thing to Cramer. The Muhammed Al Dura affair, the massacre in Jenin that never happened, the portrayal of jihadist fundamentalists such as Fatah as moderates and sooooo much more (all pre 2004) don’t mean a thing to Cramer and her fellow travelers. Oblivious, willfully clueless.

It would never occur to Cramer that one of her motives for her endorsement of fashionable new anti-Semitism (Judenhass the pretends it ain’t) – naturally it’s subconscious so it wouldn’t occur to her – is her desperate need not to feel shame about her German and European cultural heritage and ancestry. And the very word ‘Jew’ is a reminder that her cultural heritage is mired in extreme anti-Semitic bigotry and industrial scale murder of Jewry, and historically recently at that. So she can feel so much better – ‘I’m proud of my German heritage‘ – if we consider that the Jews aren’t any better themselves. Oh we mean Israel, not the Jews per se. Sigh. Well Germany may have murdered millions of Jews but look how despicable the Jew nation has become! So there!

Once again – and I will keep on hammering home this point – note the sounds of silence that have greeted Cramer’s odious and extreme anti-Semitism, that she’s naturally oblivious to. She’s a liberal after all. That’s good enough. She couldn’t possibly be prejudiced then. Cramer brazenly blathered her (ignorant) objections to Israel’s sovereign status at her blog way back in 2004 (advertising her Judenhass to those of us who have eyes to see).

Cramer of course had and has nothing to fear. Genre Jewry had nothing to say back then (and who expects them to have anything to say now that I have disclosed all this bigotry of hers at my blog?), so why should anybody else? Cramer has been active at Cons, her husband is leading SF editor David Hartwell. Does he like his wife not accept Israel’s right to exist, or does he differ here? Does somebody want to ask him? Cramer’s disavowal of the sovereign Jewish nation’s legitimacy is water off a duck’s back in the liberal genre community. Whatever. Yawn. After all she’s not the only one. It’s hardly an unusual position among the radical and even mainstream Left. Guess that makes it okay then?

Clearly the genre community and the liberal genre community at that doesn’t have a problem with Kathryn Cramer’s anti-Semitism (what anti-Semitism?), any more than they have a problem with China Mieville’s rabid and relentless anti-Semitism (and others). James P Hogan’s Holocaust Denialism didn’t mean much to anybody in his life and after his death (see my response in the main to writer Chesya Burke disputing my contention here). Then again since I outed conservative Tangent editor Dave Truesdale as a Holocaust Revisionist at my blog, one senses the embarrassed silence. It’s almost tangible. It’s actually been far worse than that, as the few intelligent readers of my blog know (those who have some moral sense and decency that is, certainly a minority of readers).

So in light of all this contextual background, would anybody expect Cramer to be disinvited from any SF and Fantasy conventions and panels or made persona non grata among feminist genre circles (as happened with Elizabeth Moon) merely because Cramer spouts ignorant, odious and obscene nonsense – yes that’s brazenly prejudiced nonsense – on the Jew among the nations? Me neither. Hardly. Au contraire. Ignorant and brazenly bigoted blather on Israel is de rigueur, progressive, all the rage. As long as you mislabel it ‘legitimate criticism of Israel’.

Silence is consent. And genre Jewry is deafeningly silent at best on all this fashionable Jew-hatred. At best. The professional genre community goes out of its way to emulate and even top the cultural zeitgeist of moral and cultural relativism, and the selling of the oldest hatred (and pour ridicule on anybody who dares to show it up). SF’s Court Jews can be counted on to lead the way in this respect.

In Part 2 of this Kathryn Cramer series I take a hard look at Cramer’s support and endorsement for the vicious anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist Dennis ‘Justin’ Raimondo, a political mate of the vile anti-Semite Pat Buchanan. It’s the icing on the rotten cake of Cramer’s anti-Semitic bigotry.

The more urgent danger the Jews are in, the more Israeli ‘Jewish’ SF writer and editor Lavie Tidhar sinks into delusional, odious and obscene anti-Israelism

A very recent piece from one of my um biggest fans Lavie Tidhar, at his blog. To newcomers to this blog, Tidhar is a youngish (b 1976) Israeli-born Jewish SF writer and editor (for The Apex Book of World SF) . Tidhar has tweeted more criticism my way than any other SF genre pro. See the previous two articles at this blog for the details therein (parts ten and eleven in my China Mieville series). I have also written two stand-alone articles on Tidhar, here and here.

Tidhar’s blog article (posted on May 10th and entitled ‘Masada Shall Not Fall Again: Faux-Realism, Parallel Histories, and the Fiction of Israel‘) is the kind of fact-free emotional polemic that would be applauded by Jew-haters of every stripe. This is beyond Lavie Tidhar’s comprehension, along with the implications that his several articles on Israel over the years – including this one especially – would earn the support and admiration of Jew-haters the world over. Tidhar’s blog post, its very title, is simply a projection of his own faux-realism, historical revisionism and absurdist fiction of Israel onto the Jew nation and its people, that he can’t even be bothered to hide his contempt for.

There is only the most outrageous and disgusting historical revisionism in Tidhar’s polemic, passed off as some kind of deeply insightful view of his native land. Tidhar is the one living in a parallel universe. Indeed that is how I ended my previous article, the last one in my Mieville series! Court Jews like Tidhar are living in the alternative science fiction realities they read and write about, they are not living in the real world. Tidhar’s dire screed goes beyond run-of-the-mill know-nothing wishful thinking liberalism into something even worse, a malicious and delusional rant that would beggar belief, considering it is written by a ‘Jew’; if it wasn’t such a widespread neurosis among both Israeli and Diaspora Jewry. There are several books written on this um masochism among Jewry alone, going back to the 1920s and 1930s. The Holocaust clearly changed nothing. Arguably the Holocaust/Shoah and the Arab initiated wars against the Jew among the nations since then, has only intensified the tragedy of Jewish self-contempt. Such neurosis is especially prevalent among the so-called educated Ashkenazi Jews. I even referred to one such recent title in my last Tidhar article, David Mamet’s Wicked Son.

Then again this is the same Tidhar who authored this outrageous nonsense, obscenely titled ‘Remembering how to be a Jew’ which I comment on briefly in chapters 10 and 11 of my Mieville series. So at least Lavie “the Palestinians have become the true Jews” Tidhar is being consistent.

As the existential threats Israel faces are now – in May 2012 – as severe as the threats it faced in 1948, 1967 and in 1973, if anything far more severe, it only adds to Tidhar’s obscene idiocy. That’s on top of the terrible anti-Semitism in the Western world, very much to the fore again and increasingly and fashionably out in the open. The Muslim Brotherhood are now calling the shots in Egypt (thanks in large part to the Obama administration which supported the overthrow of Mubarak), Egypt is armed to the teeth by Uncle Sam, and the Americans continue to underwrite what is now a Muslim extremist regime in Cairo. In the last week a major Islamist rally was held in Cairo, the huge crowd calling for the conquest of Jerusalem. More deadly weaponry is now being smuggled to Hamas ruled Gaza via a Hamas supporting Egypt and Libya (the uh Arab Spring again) than ever before, threatening another war with Israel..

Mortar and rocket bombardments launched by jihadists from Gaza targeting Israelis for death and maiming on their farms, kibbutzes, towns and highways resulted in the Gaza-Israel war of 2008/2009. Thousands of rockets, mortars and missiles have been fired from Gaza since Israeli withdrawal from Gaza in 2005. Yes that’s thousands. Over two thousand in 2007 and over three thousand in 2008 alone. Yes really. Not that Tidhar has anything to say about that. The next time Hamas spoils for war, Egypt may not sit on the sidelines, and Egypt is indeed upping the Jew-hate rhetoric and openly spoiling for war with Israel. Unlike in 1973 when Israel was surprised by a massive Egyptian attack, Israel no longer has the buffer zone that is the Sinai. There is the hostile to Israel Syria and Jordan who have waged war on Israel before (notably in ’48,  ’67 and ’73). Turkey a major regional power that is increasingly Islamist, is openly supportive of Hamas. There is Fatah in the West Bank that still refuses to recognize Israel’s existence (the call for Israel’s destruction remains in place on its constitution) and its president Mahmoud Abbas persistently insists that he does not recognize Israel’s Jewish sovereignty and is a Holocaust Denier who praises suicide bombers as martyrs and Hamas as brothers in arms, when not jostling against them in a power struggle. The Fatah and PA media praise jihadists as martyrs and heroes, streets and statues are named after jihadist Jew-killers by the Palestinian Authority. The PA funded kindergartens, schools and mosques preach genocidal Jew-hatred and the like (yes it’s in the kindergartens too. No you don’t hear about it from the BBC and The LA Times). I’m not even talking about Hamas here, just Fatah the so-called moderates!

And what of Iran, its regime very close now to nuclear weaponization and openly calling for Israel’s destruction? Maybe Tidhar thinks that’s only happening in the kind of parallel universes he reads and writes about in his fiction. If Tidhar can think at all. I mean this hangs like a cloud over all of Israel, yet to Tidhar – Iran wot?

Tidhar’s gross and disgusting rewrite of the circumstances of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, its historical background and aftermath in his blog posting, is quite something. Talk about history from a parallel universe. Israel was then a reborn nation of roughly six hundred to perhaps seven hundred thousand Jews, many of whom had fled the horrors of the Nazis and the survivors and descendants of those fleeing the pogroms in Russia, Poland, the Baltic states and elsewhere. A mere three years after the Holocaust had come to an end and six million Jews were exterminated, the Jewish nation rising from the ashes, was  invaded by her Arab neighbors openly promising to drive the Jews into the sea and finish off where the Nazis had left off (the very week Israel declared its independence in May 1948). Remember the Arabs outnumbered the Jews many times over. The Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin Al Husseini, a collaborator with the Nazis during World War 2 stated, “I declare a holy war, my Muslim brothers! Murder the Jews! Murder them all!”

The Jews had to rely on home-made and surplus World War 2 weaponry, the US refused to sell Israel any arms and the British had done their best to curtail the fighting ability of the Israeli self-defense forces, whilst the British had armed the Arabs in ’47. Against the odds Israel triumphed, the Arab armies who never even pretended that their goal was anything other than the destruction of Israel, were defeated. Tidhar appears ashamed of this triumph of the Jews against all the odds. In order to justify his shame Tidhar manufactures an invented history out of whole cloth. Facts need not apply.

Roughly eight hundred thousand Jews were expelled from Arab countries in North Africa and the Middle-East as soon as Israel dared to declare its independence in ’48. Many came to Israel of course, especially the huge numbers of Jews expelled from Morocco, Yemen and Egypt. Tidhar can’t be bothered to mention this not so tiny, inconvenient fact. Instead he focuses on the Arab refugees, roughly four hundred to perhaps five hundred thousand (lies to the contrary by Arab propagandists and their Western supporters who invent far higher numbers) who fled Israel. Let’s not forget that there was only an Arab refugee crisis because of the war of ’48 in the first place. A war initiated by Israel’s Arab neighbors. They invaded Israel. It really is that simple. Tidhar’s version of the 1948 War (and what of the history that preceded it and postdated it?) is a parallel alternative history of Tidhar’s making. Tidhar is caught up in the fiction worlds he writes about, such as his recent alternative world/history novel (the Kitchies, BSFA and now J W Campbell Memorial award nominated) Osama, mistaking pseudo-history and imagining for the real world, both past and present.

Tidhar pretends none of the plain facts of Islamist Jew-hatred, deceit and terror and the relentless drive to destroy Israel is actually true; it’s just revisionism, exaggeration, Zionist propaganda in the world according to Lavie Tidhar. Tidhar appears ashamed of Jews actually fighting off very real blood-lustful Islamist enemies openly bent on murdering Jews, for the ‘crime’ of being Jewish remember. The good Jew to Tidhar appears to be one who dare not fight back, the good Jew is one who holds no grudge or not the tiniest sliver of contempt for those Muslim fanatics openly bent on committing the murder of Jewish men, women and children. The good Jews are the ones who died like helpless lambs in the pogroms that swept through Poland, Russia, Ukraine, the Jews massacred in the Middle Ages (blamed for the Plague for one) and of course the Jews stripped naked and gassed at Auschwitz, Sobibor and Treblinka (diesel exhaust), executed en masse at Babi Yar. Tidhar pretends, in willful denial, that the Arab Jew-hater is an exaggeration, worse – the boogie man invention of dishonest, even racist Zionist Jews. Of course there are Arabs who then and now are not Jew-haters, just as there are white South Africans who then and now are not anti-black racists. So?

There were notable pogroms against Jews by the Arabs in the 1920s, in Jerusalem, Safed, Jaffa and such murderous Islamist fueled violence against the Jews continued in the 1930s. Jewish men, women, children and babes were murdered. Girls and women raped, the bodies of the Jewish dead were frequently mutilated. The Jewish fighting units like the Lechi, the Hagana and the Ergun were formed in response to these and other murderous attacks by Arabs, not the other way around. These pogroms against Jews by Muslim fanatical Arabs (and Turks for that matter long before then) go back over a millenium. There was a terrible pogrom against Baghdad Jewry  in 1941 (the British stood by and did nothing). Baghdad had a thriving and large Jewish community for centuries. No more. As Baghdad and Iraq went for Jewry, it now goes for Christians.. Tidhar and fellow like-mindless travelers could care less for the facts here.

It seems the worse things get for Jewry in our day and age, as the Jews face the very real risk of another Holocaust, this time in the Middle-East; Court Jews like Lavie Tidhar sink ever further into odious masochism and self-flagellation.

Doubtless Tidhar’s anti-Israel revisionist garbage would earn a big thumbs up from his fellow genre radical Leftist China Mieville, a hardcore Jew-hater as my eleven part series on him amply demonstrates, well to anybody who is not a hardcore Jew-hater or mentally subnormal or both. It would also earn a big thumbs up from Tidhar’s good mate, genre communist writer and editor Nick Mamatas. I have likewise written seven articles on Mamatas at this blog, continually pointing out Mamatas’s dishonesty, obtuseness and worse (his glowing admiration for the Jew-hating blogger Richard Seymour of Lenin’s Tomb for one, Mamatas’s favourite blog. Seymour is a Hamas and Hezbollah supporter, all detailed at this blog). Tidhar could care less. Clearly. Tidhar of course is not the only Jewish genre pro who is all buddy buddy with the likes of Mamatas, any more than he is the only Jewish genre writer who has poured lame scorn on this blog.

Do Tidhar’s Jewish mates such as Charles Stross, Felix Gilman, Laura Anne Gilman, Nir Yaniv, newly appointed VP of the SFWA Rachel Swirsky and others concur with Tidhar’s faux-realism and parallel history of the Middle-East? A screed of rubbish that would not be out of place on Al Jazeera’s website. Or the flag-bearer of de rigueur anti-Semitic ‘intellectualism’ in the English language world, The Guardian’s..

The only place that these anti-Israel liberals could live in the Middle-East, Tidhar included, is Israel. It is the only place in the region where Christians (nominal or otherwise) are not persecuted, the only country in the Middle-East where the Christian population is thriving and increasing. In Egypt (thanks in large part to the Arab Spring) the Copts are suffering greatly, facing increasing persecution and even murder, simply for being Christian. In Syria in the midst of their undeclared civil war, many Christians have been expelled from their homes and scapegoated for the violence. In Iraq, they are getting out if they can. Women and girls face routine oppression, honour killings and even genital mutilation in the Middle-East and North and East Africa. And if you are a gay man or woman, well..

Tidhar (and those like-mindless) dismisses all these uncomfortable realities – he clearly doesn’t want to know – and invents a reality-free version in their place. There is a fiction of Israel sold to the world alright, yet it’s the version from the anti-Zionist and post-Zionist Left that is the fiction, and Tidhar is a propagandist of this ugly and sinister fiction if there was one. Tidhar’s blog article is shameless and disgusting in equal measure, but it earns the plaudits from the kind of folk Tidhar is desperate to ingratiate himself with..

Tidhar continues to dig his grave and seems determined to go deeper and further into mendacious anti-Israelism and the associated whitewashing of Islamist tyranny and terror any chance he gets. The more dangerous and deadly things get for Jewry, the more Tidhar gets his harebrained contemptuous rage on for his native land. Of course Tidhar – as with the rest of Court Jewry – could care less what the Season of the Red Wolf blogger has to say. Yet the record for Tidhar’s and his Court Jew mates’ offensive stupidity (never mind the Gentiles) is all here at this blog, a one stop reference point. Perhaps it will one day be used against him by others, perhaps not. At the end of the day it matters little. Tidhar’s deceitful and idiotic anti-Israel propaganda (with all that that implies) will come back to haunt him. The truth will out, it always does sooner or later.

Tidhar’s extreme neurosis even has a modern-day term all of its own, Oslo Syndrome as Harvard psychiatrist Kenneth Levin calls it.  Perhaps one could think of a name for such a syndrome peculiar to uber-liberal ‘Jewish’ writers? Any ideas? Perhaps Lavie Tidhar Syndrome? Or is Tidhar too obscure a writer, to warrant such an eponymous shame?

Further commentary on the deafening silence – and worse – from the liberal professional genre community to China Mieville’s rabid anti-Semitism Part 11

This article is the final one in my China Mieville series beginning here. Herein I sum up the glaring inconsistencies, double standards and associated hypocrisy of the liberal genre community re the shrill trumpeting on ‘Islamophobia’ in contrast to the white-glove treatment that popular and award-winning writer China Mieville (and his ilk) receives as far as his brazen, obscene and relentless anti-Semitism is concerned. This article continues where the previous one left off.. It is also somewhat repetitive re the themes in the previous article, for which I apologize.

The disturbing truth of the matter is that Mieville’s politics are not that unusual, nor considered that odious and beyond the pale in the UK (and across the Atlantic) as I point out in the previous article. In the UK and North American genre scene, such a Marxist outlook is not unusual nor unfashionable. Au contraire.  Even as Mieville’s SWP is marginal and largely dismissed by the mainstream.

Mieville’s anti-Semitic prejudice cuts too close to a pervasive political, cultural and ideological malaise in the UK, North America and the West as a whole that is mainstream. Not too many (in and out of the genre community) want to look too closely at any of this, because it would mean acknowledging that the differences between the SWP and its ilk and the mainstream (liberal and otherwise) are not cut and dried. The lines are blurred and overlap. Who wants to look at the thinking that shapes the SWP/Respect? UK schooling, the universities, the media, the social, family and work environment, the pervasive traditional prejudices of British society.. (and the Western world as a whole. Why single out the UK?) It would mean taking a deeper look at themselves and their world and we couldn’t have that now.

It’s even worse than that.. The British (and North American) speculative fiction community leans heavily to the far Left, so there is not only a lack of embarrassment at Mieville’s politics; it is a case of – why is there anything to be embarrassed about at all?

On the contrary, the response I got to the query directed Jewish genre writers way – do you consider Mieville anti-Semitic in light of my series on him? – is to receive  lame name-calling tweets in reply. Noted UK Jewish writer Charles Stross is typical. Stross mistook pathetic personal attacks, even an accusation of conspiracy paranoia directed my way, in response to my query, for an intelligent rebuttal (see the updated part of the article). His fellow British liberal mate, academic and SF maven Paul Graham Raven made sure to let me know that being put in Mieville’s company – among others – was a compliment; a tweet that Stross had no problem with at all. Raven then dismissed me by misusing bizarro style my series on Holocaust Denialism against me, all this obscene obtuseness gladly endorsed by Stross (see same article).

I have covered this same ‘can of worms’ territory over here re the de rigueur acceptance of polite anti-Semitism from within ‘progressive circles’.

I don’t think the US is any better than the UK (it’s just that Mieville is British). After all where was the public censure and outrage of Mieville’s politics from US and Canadian liberal genre writers, editors etc? Jewry is conspicuous and heavily represented in the North American genre community, at all levels (as writers, editors, agents, publishers, Con organizers etc) and they have been conspicuously silent. Heated confrontations and personal clashes between Mieville and other genre folk over what appear to be largely broader capitalist vs communist political/economic issues do not count, I’m talking beyond that.. Easier for ‘liberal’ Jewish genre folk to blabber on about the usual suspects and go after easy targets – George W Bush, Cheney, Fox News, Wall Street, Creationists, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh and Haliburton blabla. Well it’s the path of least resistance and safer and easier of course and earns one the smug applause from all the (often anti-Semitic) Gentile liberal folk many of these Jews are clearly desperate to ingratiate themselves with. The elephant in the room is best ignored. At best, yet it’s far worse than that as part 10 in this series details..

Mieville’s blog is here http://chinamieville.net/

Other than the usual suspects – America, the UK - guess which other nation of the nearly two hundred in the world comes in for the most harsh censure, condemnation, and frothing-at-the-mouth vilification when Mieville waxes political? No not Iran, no not the Sudan, North Korea, Zimbabwe, Syria, Turkey, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Yemen, Russia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Egypt, Indonesia. No not the sadly plentiful despotic, tyrannical, brutally corrupt and/or murderous regimes across Asia, Africa, Latin America. No not any jihadist groups from Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hezbollah to the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, Al Shabaab and the Sudanese Janjaweed (Mieville’s and his ilk’s fellow anti-Zionists every last one of ‘em).

Well you know which country..

Hey China Mieville is predictably consistent, he is UK SWP after all.

With Mieville – unlike late SF writer James P Hogan and conservative Tangent editor Dave Truesdale we are not talking about Holocaust Revisionism (all this is heavily detailed  at this blog. Isn’t the genre community filled with uh interesting characters?) – we are talking the cookie-cutter nuttiness that defines the UK SWP and large swaths of the British Left.

On Truesdale’s Holocaust Revisionism by the by, genre Jewry have nothing at all to say *publicly*. AND I DO MEAN NOTHING. Naturally not all of Elizabeth Moon’s Jewish critics neither – Lavie Tidhar, Farah Mendlesohn, Abigail Nussbaum and Catherynne Valente notably (see the previous article for the details). I wrote thirteen articles in my series at this blog detailing Holocaust Denial and associated Judenhass in the genre community, revolving in the main around Truesdale but by no means limited to him. Tidhar didn’t tweet nor blog anything on that (as he did with Elizabeth Moon’s ‘Islamophobia’). Neither did anybody else. That includes other Jewish genre folk who have expressed public contempt and derision (via twitter) for the only blog – as far as I know – exposing anti-Semitism in the genre community. Such SF Jewdom include Rose Fox, Scott “I’ll side with.. China Miéville any day over an odious, bigoted, nasty little blogger” Edelman and of course Charles Stross already mentioned. Also Israeli SF editor and writer Nir Yaniv and writer Laura Anne Gilman. There was also Felix Gilman later on. F Gilman did tweet on my Holocaust Revisionism series, willfully oblivious to what it was about..

Maybe Tidhar for one does curse Truesdale. He just does it in private see, not in the public way he berated Elizabeth Moon and not in the public way he berated uh myself as a loon no less (several times over). I predicted the non-response from genre Jewry to my series on Truesdale’s Holocaust Revisionism here as well. It was a safe bet, no precognitive powers were necessary. The ugly reality of course proved even worse than deafening silence! (see my first article on Nick Mamatas, and the articles on ‘Jewish’ genre fans Mark Pontin and Dybbuk Press’s Tim Lieder for the brain-dead details) The odd and harebrained response from Paul Graham Raven to my own allusion to my series on Holocaust Revisionism, endorsed by the Jewish Charles Stross, has already been remarked upon further up.

As far as China Mieville is concerned and his political campaigning for the SWP/Respect – the base, extreme anti-Semitism of the SWP is as obvious and naked as it is ignored by Mieville’s fans and genre peers. At best ignored, at worst excused, justified and commended. That’s because extreme anti-Semitism as ‘new’ anti-Semitism has never been more fashionable and ‘progressive’, especially if you hide it – no matter how flimsily – behind all the cover terms and slogans (new anti-Semitism in principle). And on that, well who wants to know? It cuts too close. The cover terms and mindless slogans are paper thin..  

Tidhar insists on walking the tightrope act re Mieville without a safety net; he almost, almost falls off the wire but just about keeps his balance. Actually that’s debatable.. I go into that in detail over here.

Mieville’s campaigning for the UK Respect Party amidst the heated political climate in the UK during the middle of the last decade alone, makes him arguably the most conspicuous among the major genre writers involved in politics on either side of the Atlantic. Yet the most politically active major genre writer (and a best-selling and highly acclaimed award-winning writer at that) in the English language world (the first and so far only triple winner of the Arthur C Clarke award) has garnered zero negative public responses and rebukes in regard to his intemperate anti-Semitism from his professional genre peers in the UK and North America. As with his political clone, writer Iain Banks who likewise supports boycotts against Israel and has definitely called for his books not to be made available for the Israeli market.

Given Mieville’s campaigning for what is frankly a rabidly anti-Semitic and left-wing fascist political party, his blogging for a harshly anti-Semitic HAMAS and Hezbollah supporting blog and his support for BDS against Israel (anti-Semitic in principle and viciously so), his brazen obscene slander on the Mavi Marmara incident, his membership in the harshly anti-Semitic BWISP and its and Mieville’s persistent and relentless harebrained anti-Semitic spew (eg the open letters to Ian McEwan), Mieville’s series of persistent and relentless, vocal ‘progressive’ anti-Israel lies and slander in numerous forums over the years; well this complete lack of rebuke is simply shocking, disgusting, hypocritical and COWARDLY. And yet entirely unsurprising. That is it’s the way of the world. I mean by this that Mieville’s anti-Semitism is not far removed from mainstream society and culture. The difference between Mieville and his political ilk’s prejudice and much of the general public is one of degree not kind. That’s all. This is especially the case with those immersed in the liberal ‘intellectual’ culture and academia and that would apply especially to the British and North American genre community.

Remember Mieville is not a minor writer, he is one of the major genre writers of his generation. In fact he is arguably the leading British genre writer of his generation (sure this is debatable) and a prolific one at that. Surely he is in the top five (in terms of critical recognition) and in terms of sales of quality genre fiction he ranks highly as well. The public silence from genre Jewry re Mieville’s anti-Semitism – as with Iain Banks – is as pathetic as it is cowardly. It sticks out. It’s shameful, a disgrace. It’s been worse than that of course, as I describe above (and in my previous article and elsewhere where I cover a lot of the same ground. Apologies for the repetition).

Maybe genre Jewry such as Lavie Tidhar, Abigail Nussbaum, Farah Mendlesohn and others should THINK THINGS THROUGH before playing to the PC peanut gallery, and there is a lot of fashionable, extreme and vicious anti-Israelism within that peanut gallery ie anti-Semitism. Think things through just a little before jumping on board with their fellow liberals (many of whom are base Jew-haters even as they almost always tend to deny it) to defend Islam/Muslims (millions of whose adherents are genocidally anti-Semitic) from any and all criticism, clumsy and condescending or otherwise (I am referring to the whole Elizabeth Moon ‘citizenship’ brouhaha. See the previous article likewise). Did they not think that it is pathetic, cowardly and hypocritical to commit to the former, whilst having nothing to say about rabid anti-Semitism from their own genre peers and colleagues? Of course that’s a rhetorical question.

If they think about it at all, they probably don’t think their fellow liberals could possibly be anti-Semitic because you know liberals are never racist nor anti-Semitic don’t you know. They are liberals after all. And it’s 1968. Maybe they think anti-Israelism is never anti-Semitic, no matter how debased, rabid, extreme and brazenly dishonest, so long as disingenuously hid by cover terminology? Clearly this is the case with Tidhar for one, and he is hardly alone here. Maybe they just choose not to notice the mammoth in the room. They just don’t think really. Hardly anybody does, on anything much.

What else could be the defense of these Jewish genre folk I criticize here? Namely the glaring contrast between their public silence on rabid anti-Semitism from their notable peers (Mieville in this case, and what of Banks, Truesdale and the late James P Hogan? This is hardly a complete list – just some of the most egregious examples) and public censure against those (Elizabeth Moon in this case) ‘guilty’ of the dubious thoughtcrime of ‘Islamophobia’. They didn’t know about Mieville’s extremist and anti-Semitic politics for one? Pulleez. Mieville is arguably the most politically active genre writer on either side of the Atlantic. I don’t mean in terms of his being politically vocal (plenty of genre writers are vocal on politics, as Tidhar’s political fiction alone attests to). Then again how many of these progressive genre Jewry even remotely recognize new anti-Semitism for what it is?

To repeat something I mention in part 10 of this series, Lavie “the Palestinians have become the true Jews” Tidhar is anti-Israel and heavily pro-Palestinian in his politics. Thus his feuding with myself, with all its connotations and associations is entirely unsurprising.. That article authored by Tidhar from The Jewish Daily Forward (November 2010) is odious in the extreme, morally perverse (the very title is extremely perverse and outrageous) and averse to basic facts and history, inclusive of the ugly reality of Palestinian Islamist Jew-hatred and the jihadist terror that is the fruit of the former. ‘Remembering how to be a Jew‘!! You have got to be kidding. Scarily Tidhar is not kidding.

Yet there is the rub.. Tidhar’s ‘Remembering how to be a Jew’ article is the kind of perverse rubbish that would earn a big thumbs up from China Mieville and his ilk. How could it not do so?

Getting back to Mieville, what other excuse – other than not wanting to rock the boat – do genre Jewry have as far as their silence on the former’s obscene anti-Semitism is concerned? Mieville has campaigned for a political alliance, the Respect Party, that garnered a lot of media attention (if not votes) in the UK during the last decade – a party co-founded by one of the most loudmouthed left-wing anti-Semitic jihad supporting fascists in the Western world, George Galloway. Mieville was one of the leading intellectual figure in the UK Respect coalition in the last decade past and remains a significant intellectual heavyweight in the UK Marxist Left. Given this and given the fact that Mieville is a very well-known, award-winning and best-selling genre writer; the excuse that is ignorance of Mieville’s politics, doesn’t wash.

What other excuse do the likes of Lavie Tidhar, Farah Mendlesohn (who Mieville thanks in the Acknowledgments to The City & The City as I have mentioned before), Abigail Nussbaum and other genre Jewry who um think just like them have? Rose Fox, Charles Stross and the Gilman twins also come to mind. Scotty Edelman truly can’t think at all.

The president of the SFWA John Scalzi literally sucks up to Mieville (see the very end of that article). Ah the symbolism! Scalzi is publicly proud of it, and within a day or two of being made ‘cognisant’ of my article on Scalzi himself; that addressed in large part Mieville’s anti-Semitism, as documented in detail at my blog!

I guess the liberalism of genre Jewry excuses everything. Truth is it certainly explains everything.

One assumes Jewish genre folk would have a problem with Mieville campaigning for the Judenhass jihad supporting Respect party, his blogging for a harebrained Judenhass Hamas and Hezbollah supporting blog, his support for BDS against Israel (and no other nation on earth), his membership in the rabidly anti-Semitic BWISP, his relentlessly rabid and obscenely mendacious anti-Israel tirades over the years in a number of venues.. (some of which I have documented in this series, the most recent being his odious commentary upon the release of Gilad Shalit) If they think none of this is anti-Semitic in the slightest, can they let us know? Truth is one shouldn’t make any assumptions with Court Jews.

To repeat myself and in closing:

I asked for a straight answer in this regard from the following Jewish genre writers and editors who have all poured public scorn on myself (via twitter). They are Lavie Tidhar (indirectly), Nir Yaniv and Laura Anne Gilman. Later I asked the same question of their fellow genre Jews - Charles Stross, Rose Fox and Scott Edelman and for the same reason (given their snide dismissal of this blog). I never got a straight answer from any of them. (with the debatable exception of Edelman who arguably sets the bar lower than the rest of Court Jewdom in this regard. So far..) Ditto Felix Gilman. I asked the same question of John Scalzi, given that he is president of the SFWA and he likewise had dismissed me earlier. He repeated the MO of the genre thought police in reply – that is he didn’t answer the question and instead indulged in harebrained name-calling directed my way.

But hey genre Thought Police, make sure that Elizabeth Moon never gets another invite to another Con again (well not a feminist one), and William Sanders former Helix editor can go rot on a reservation (he also got a Con disinvite). What of Frank Miller, and the call to boycott his books over his anti-Occupy Wall Street commentary?

The liberal Jewish and Gentile professional SF folk know who the enemy is (no not really). China Mieville and his ilk in the genre community have nothing to fear, no ostracisation, no disinvites (unlike Moon and Sanders), and he and they know it. On the contrary. Mieville is a liberal after all, even better a communist. His politics, being Left, are just right. As the likes of Nick “butt-fucking is just mentorship between a man and a child” Mamatas, Paul Graham Raven, Tobias Buckell and Charles Stross will be sure to remind you (among others). 

Liberal genre Jewry if anything will run cover for these folk. (look at Edelman for one! And what about Rose Fox and the Gilman twins?) Lavie “I am, to a large extent, a political writer” Tidhar can always be counted on to lead the way.

Here is a brief account from an online Jewish encyclopedia on the Court Jews of Europe.

Many of the genre community folk appear to inhabit the distant planets and parallel universes they read (and write) about in SF. On planet earth they are not. Perhaps none of this should surprise us in the least, after all escapism is what the genre of science fiction is all about in the main, thin-skinned denials and screeds about literary and subversive SF to the contrary. To be fair all this hypocrisy and moral and cultural relativism, the ‘progressive’ anti-Semitism that is either ignored or pandered to, is a reflection of the wider mainstream culture; a disturbing, sinister and obtuse zeitgeist in the West. That however is no cause for comfort whatsoever.

On the deafening silence – and worse – from liberal Jewish & Gentile genre folk to China Mieville’s rabid anti-Semitism Part 10

This is the penultimate chapter in my China Mieville series beginning here. The previous chapter in this series is chapter 9 ‘Mieville’s obscene and cowardly slurs about the release of Gilad Shalit…’

This article also repeats a lot of what I wrote about in this recent article that revolved around Israeli SF writer and editor Lavie Tidhar in the main.

So naturally given two things: China Mieville’s conspicuous presence and active promotion of the UK Respect Party platform (the party co-founded by Hamas and Hezbollah supporter George Galloway), notably the period 2004-2007 that witnessed the alliance of the Jew-hating UK Socialist Workers Party and the Stop the War Coalition/SWC with the Muslim extremist MAB and the fact that Mieville is a multiple award-winning, critically acclaimed and best-selling speculative fiction writer - arguably the UK’s leading imaginative fiction writer under forty-five; one is compelled to ask an obvious question..

Mieville’s vocal and leading Respect Party presence caused a big stir then, among the “liberal” and “intellectual” imaginative fiction genre writers & the genre community as a whole, who are not ones to shy away from political controversy?

Of course not, not a squeak. Nada, nothing. Zilch.

You know *ABSOLUTELY NADA* from the self-same Brit (and North American) liberal SF writers, editors, agents, publishers, fans who are so so concerned apparently about the iniquity of prejudice, of civil rights and liberties, the civil, social, educational and work rights of women and girls, of homosexuals, of freedom of religion and freedom of association, of minority rights,  freedom of intellectual inquiry and curiosity, of the scientific spirit, of genuine ethics, without which our civilization (or what passes for it) would descend into complete barbarity, tyranny and superstition.

Well behind the scenes who knows who says what. And Mieville has certainly gotten into heated arguments with those SF fans and personalities who don’t share his politics, including at Cons. That is not what I’m getting at though.

It’s the predictable deafening PUBLIC silence on Mieville’s membership and role in a fascist (yes fascist) and anti-Semitic political party, even as it calls itself anti-fascist and anti-racist, by his fellow liberal Brit genre peers that sticks out. It’s embarrassing, pathetic, cowardly. And that’s the kindest take. It’s even worse than that, mucho worse..

What of Mieville’s support for the vicious anti-Semitism that is the BDS campaign against Israel? What of his sympathy and support for the jihadists’ self-seeking martyrdom on board the Turkish Mavi Marmara that Mieville obscenely misrepresents as peace activism? All this and more is proof positive of Mieville’s rabid and deranged anti-Semitism. Mieville’s blogging for the harshly anti-Semitic Hamas and Hezbollah supporting and BDS against Israel promoting Lenin’s Tomb (also Nick Mamatas’s favourite political blog); Mieville signing his name to the BWISP’s egregiously dishonest open letters censuring writer Ian McEwan for accepting the Jerusalem Prize is simply more fuel to the Judenhass fire. What of Mieville’s alleged refusal to have his books translated into Hebrew (truly dropping the mask)? What of Mieville’s obscene anti-Semitic remarks upon the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit from Hamas captivity?

In 2010 Mieville received numerous accolades on both sides of the Atlantic for his novel The City & The City. It won the biggie, the Nebula award (his previous novels likewise have won plenty awards). Of course a man’s creative output is distinct from his politics, and needs to be judged on its own merits. Mieville is a talented writer and deserves his accolades and awards. No problemo. The same goes for all writers, film directors, actors, artists and for that matter scientists and mathematicians. Their work is distinct from their politics, and needs to be recognized and judged on its own merits.

However with that said, their artistic or scientific work as the case may be, does not make up the whole man or woman. It is not the whole. There is also the person’s character, his or her politics and personal beliefs. No biography of a Dali, a Hemingway, a T S Eliot or a Dostoyevsky is complete without looking at their seamier side, their deeper character, their odious beliefs and prejudices if they possessed them to a significant degree.

The thing with Mieville’s odious beliefs and prejudice, is not only do they stick out given how vocal and conspicuous Mieville is in his other career as a political activist; what also sticks out is the deafening silence of Mieville’s genre peers to the former’s odious and harebrained political prejudices. The silence is especially deafening and hypocritical given how genre figures (writers and editors) have no problem bad-mouthing any genre professional who steps out of line and dares to question, cast doubt and even disavow the new god of sacrosanct multi-culturalism, of Islamophilia and moral relativism.

Does anybody think that if China Mieville was an active member in the British National Party/BNP and ran as a candidate for this far right-wing fascist and anti-Semitic party, there would have been a similar public SILENCE from his liberal peers on both sides of the Atlantic? Of course not. I would expect a hue and cry, a call for the boycott of his books, Con disinvites, agents getting wary of touching his books, publishers nervous, liberal genre folk probably up in arms. No matter the artistic merits of City & The City (and his other books), would it have garnered so much praise and won the Nebula and Arthur C Clarke awards if Mieville had spewed forth propaganda for the BNP? Would Mieville have been so fêted and swooned over at the Nebula award binge (and others), at Cons and SF festivals if he called for Brits to vote for the BNP and publicly campaigned as a BNP candidate?

No way José. At least I doubt it.

Buuuuuuut we are talking about a left-wing fascist party (if any Brit can tell me how the SWP differs from the BNP when it comes to Israel, the sovereign Jewish nation, hey I’m all ears – I think it’s style more than anything, no not even tone. Hardly. The BNP is also generally more honest about what they mean with their anti-Israel venom), so what fascism? Mieville is a liberal, like the rest of yous – left-wing fascism, that’s an oxymoron, just ask Nick Mamatas. What are you red wolf, some kind of a Bush/Blair war supporting Limbaugh wannabe neo-con Creationist shill for Haliburton? Mieville and the SWP opposed the war in Iraq, ipso facto the SWP/Respect are good guys. That’s all we need to know, who cares who they actually support and what they actually stand for. Now go away ‘red wolf’ and take your meds, you paranoid conspiracy loon. Incidentally I am not parodying the criticism I have received, that is the exact level of criticism I have received from professional genre folk, Jewry among them (just check this blog’s archives for the details).

There is criticism of Mieville on this front – his anti-Semitism – but it comes in the main from some very few Jewish SF fans. The genre community, as this blog has shown, has no problem portraying any genre writer or editor critical of reactionary Muslims as a bigot – witness the William Sanders and Elizabeth Moon affairs. The following genre personalities have all made it clear they consider Moon’s controversial ‘Citizenship’ blog posting from 2010 bigoted and beyond the pale – Will Shetterly, Jeff VanderMeer, Nick Mamatas, Jim C Hines, Liz Williams, N K Jemisin, Ian McDonald, Chesya ‘If this is the Thought Police count me in’ Burke, K Tempest Bradford who must have written more on it than anybody else, Warren Ellis. Catherynne M. Valente, editor at Apex Magazine was so upset and outraged at Moon’s remarks that she brought out a special Arab/Muslim issue of Apex Magazine. Valente made sure to remark in her farewell as editor at Apex Mag, on how proud she was of that issue and that fighting prejudice in the genre community was foremost with her. Soooo many others too of course got their knickers in a twist (China Mieville for one feels the same way about ‘Islamophobia’). Well Moon was disinvited as GoH from WisCon 2011 of course.

The following Jewish genre personalities also criticized Moon publicly and conspicuously – Lavie Tidhar (at his blog), Abigail Nussbaum (at her blog), Farah Mendlesohn (at Tidhar’s blog. Mendlesohn is thanked by Mieville in the Acknowledgements to The City & The City). The former two are also Israeli. None of the latter Jewish genre folk had anything to say re Mieville’s campaigning for the Respect Party, an extremely anti-Semitic political party. None of them (Jewish and non-Jewish) had anything to say re Mieville’s bigoted and relentless support for BDS against Israel, nor his blogging for one of the most popular and rabidly anti-Semitic blogs on the left-wing political blogosphere, Lenin’s Tomb (let us not forget it is Mieville’s and Lavie Tidhar’s mate Nick Mamatas’s favourite blog). Mieville has indulged in numerous brazenly and hysterically false anti-Israel (ie anti-Semitic) slanders over the years, and there hasn’t been a peep of protest or outrage from genre folk. See all of my Mieville articles for the details..

Lavie Tidhar has tweeted defiance my way on several occasions (usually calling me a loon or nuts). Tidhar tweeted that I was a loon after I posted this article in my Nick Mamatas series (as he did after I posted my very first article on the genre Thought Police) and again after this article on Catherynne Valente. See my reply to Tidhar (tweeting on the Valente article) here. He tweeted on that article of mine too. My updated reply to him on that front is also there. Note that the latter Valente ‘Thought Police’ article was just one that served as an intermission in my lengthy series on Mieville. The other pertained to Nick Mamatas. On my Mieville series (I had published the first five articles detailing Mieville’s harsh anti-Semitism prior to the ‘Valente and the genre thought police’ article in the same month of December), Tidhar tweeted simply and obtusely that I appeared “to be on a china mieville [sic] bender at the moment”. I reply to him on that front over here. There was no mention (not even cryptically) on Tidhar’s twitter feed in response to that recent article. He usually has no problem tweeting that I’m a loon, but he was strangely – or perhaps not so strangely – silent on that last article on him..

Tidhar made sure to tweet at the end of January (after eight of my Mieville articles had been published), that he would be cheering Mieville on at the (then) forthcoming SFX Weekender Kitchies Awards bash in Prestatyn, Wales that both Tidhar and Mieville would be attending. I cover all this in the same linked article above. There was Tidhar’s Israeli mate, co-author and editor, the big cheese in Israeli SF Nir Yaniv who made the only explicit allusion (via twitter) – a snide one – to the fact that my series on Mieville concerned the latter’s Jew-hatred. I address this and answer Yaniv in that regard over here. Neither Yaniv nor Jewish writer Laura Anne Gilman answered my query to them re Mieville’s Judenhass. Tidhar’s tweet – unlike Yaniv’s – was not an explicit allusion to Mieville’s anti-Semitism.

Then – after nine of my articles in my Mieville series are published – I ask the same question re Mieville and the latter’s anti-Semitism of British Jewish SF writer Charles Stross. That’s because Stross had mouthed off dismissively on my ‘Valente and the Thought Police‘ article. Stross didn’t answer the question neither in his harebrained tweeting on that very article (see my updated reply – same article). No surprises. In fact Paul Graham Raven clearly alluded via twitter that being put in the same company as the likes of Mieville by myself was a distinct compliment, a tweet that Raven’s mate Charles Stross had no problem with whatsoever. Hardly. See the self-same updated reply.

Heard nothing on Mieville’s prejudicial status re Jewry from genre writer and ex Apex Mag editor Catherynne Valente neither (the same gay/bisexual feminist who professes to be so concerned over prejudice in the genre community apparently), who otherwise had no problem tweeting or retweeting dismissively on this blog of mine (at least twice). Valente I believe is also Jewish or part Jewish, unless I am mistaken.

Then Jewish SF genre critic and editor at Publishers Weekly Rose Fox (Charles Platt’s daughter) tweeted dismissively on this blog, sticking up for Tobias Buckell and Stross. I responded to her here, not knowing she was Jewish in fact and asked her ze questions (by now these oh-so-progressive Jews should see them coming but apparently not). She tweeted a few responses (letting me know she was one of the tribe for one), she didn’t answer the question re Mieville though or anything else I asked her for that matter. I responded to her in some detail again here.

In response to Fox’s second series of tweets directed my way, Jewish SF writer and editor (formerly at Science Fiction Age) Scott Edelman bravely tweeted his responses – at the same level of uh ‘intelligence’ as the rest of these sigh progressive liberal um Jews. So he should have seen my reply coming, where I ask him the same questions (re Mieville and a couple of others) and fisk his tweeting in the process. Sigh. Shocka he clearly didn’t see that coming.

Edelman then responded with several tweets my way along the lines of ‘I’m an evil bigoted right-winger blabla’. Scott Edelman also went further – and lower – than any of SF’s Court Jews (including Tidhar) in defense of China Mieville. He tweeted “I’ll side with @rosefox, @tobiasbuckell, @NMamatas, @cstross and China Miéville any day over an odious, bigoted, nasty little blogger“. I reply to that in detail over here.

Edelman’s tweets would get the support of SF writer and president of the SFWA John Scalzi, who tweeted contemptuous dismissal my way. I responded to him here. I asked him – considering he is president of the SFWA – whether he considered Mieville anti-Semitic in light of my exhaustive series on same. He tweeted in response that I was “a total asshole” and more along the same lines. I replied to his tweets and his mates Scott Edelman, Mary Robinette Kowal and Mike Allen twittering in support over here. In other words, Scalzi didn’t answer the question. Scalzi very soon after my clash with him, inadvertently revealed – via twitter – that he literally, gladly sucks up to Mieville. See same link for the details, for what I am getting at (at the end of the article).

The Jewish Rose Fox then, without any intentional irony, praised Mieville – approximately two weeks and less after my  clashes with her and my query directed her way on Mieville’s anti-Semitism – at her blog over the latter’s exposé of anti-black racist apologetics upon a recent Belgian court decision on the republication of the racist Tintin in the Congo comic book. My article on how bizarro all this is.

My first article on John Scalzi and his pathetic and failed ‘rescue’ of Scotty Edelman drew out the likes of Scalzi, Scott Edelman, Mike Allen, Laura Anne Gilman (again), Mary Robinette Kowal (VP of the SFWA) and Jewish writer Felix Gilman, with their lame put-down tweets sent my way. I responded to them here (a response to Scalzi and Edelman in the main) and here. In the latter article (a reply to Felix Gilman, L A Gilman and Robinette Kowal in the main), I ask Felix Gilman if he will answer the thorny question on Mieville and the latter’s prejudicial status re Jewry. I got no answer from Felix G. In fact there were no tweets from Gilman&Gilman and Robinette Kowal in response to that article (as there were no responses likewise from Scalzi and Edelman to my reply to them). The same thing with my second Felix Gilman article (the previous article to this one). The sounds of twitter silence..

To the readers out there with *some sense* (I pray to HaShem) – yes it’s the liberal Jews first and foremost who will come to the defense of the new god of moral & cultural relativism, push and defend the  ‘progressive’ thoughtcrime of ‘Islamophobia’ with vigour and sweep under the carpet and run cover for ‘progressive’ anti-Semitism among their liberal peers without a second thought. And no they have nothing to say on um non-progressive good old-fashioned extreme Judenhass from their conservative peers neither. As in Holocaust Revisionism. Man but God help you if you dare show any ‘Islamophobic’ tendencies or pour scorn on those selling this thoughtcrime, the genre Thought Police will be all over you…

Here by the way is Israeli Jewess, SF editor Abigail Nussbaum raving over Mieville’s book, The City & The City at her blog in 2009. Which is fine of course. Here too is her recent review of Mieville’s latest Embassytown from November 2011. It’s a very long review and it is filled with praise. That’s just fine of course.

It’s just that on Mieville’s vehement anti-Semitism she has nothing to say. The thing is here is what Nussbaum had to say at her self-same blog on Elizabeth Moon and the latter’s Islam themed ‘Citizenship’ blog post from 2010. A helluva lot. None of it complementary to Moon. In fact it is unambiguously harsh and critical.

Here is Lavie Tidhar’s recent review of Mieville’s EmbassyTown as a matter of interest.

This is a tweet of Tidhar’s from a while back:

The Hugo Award IS unique in being named after a Jew rather than some antisemitic cock like Campbell or Lovecraft or Poe.

How about if one day we have some genre award named after that antisemitic cock Mieville?

I mean it could happen, in the future, when we are all old or dead or nearly so. (I gotta say I think there are more than enough awards, should trim ‘em down, rather than keep adding to them) Oh wait it’s different with Mieville, hey Lavie? I mean new anti-Semitism ain’t anti-Semitism. It’s just rabid, relentless and relentlessly dishonest anti-Jew nation cant and that ain’t Jew-hatred. So there. Hear-no-evil-see-no-evil-speak-no-evil. Tidhar and his fellow progressive liberal Jews simply don’t have a clue. Well Lavie Tidhar along with the rest of SF Court Jewry ain’t saying anything much here. Frankly it is clearly a lot worse than that. One has to wonder if Tidhar would even begin to recognize dishonest anti-Jew nation cant for what it is..

Tidhar himself is – surprise surprise - staunchly pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel. That article of his is entitled – without any sense of irony – ‘Remembering how to be a Jew’! He writes there, with typically galling liberal obliviousness and a willful ignorance that is simply odious, “in this new Middle East, the Palestinians have become the true Jews”. So it’s no surprise that Tidhar is on very good terms with all the ‘progressive’ harshly anti-Israel genre radical Leftists such as Paul Graham Raven, Nick Mamatas and all the rest..

What else can I add here? The juxtaposition of Tidhar’s (along with other genre Jewry like Nusbbaum, Mendlesohn, Scott Edelman, L A Gilman, Charles Stross, Felix Gilman, Rose Fox, Catherynne Valente perhaps and others) silence on Mieville’s crackpot anti-Semitism on the one hand and Nussbaum’s, Tidhar’s, Mendlesohn’s and any other genre Jewry’s condemnation of Moon (for the thoughtcrime basically of  ‘Islamophobia’) on the other hand is obvious and glaring. It’s also pathetic.

Let’s not forget those frothing at the mouth over the former Helix editor William Sanders ‘leaked letter’ affair (he was also disinvited from a Con) and the hue and cry from the genre Thought Police on Dan Simmons’s April Message at his blog from April 2006 (and his subsequent book Flashback released in  2011 which was widely dismissed as bigoted by all the usual suspects). Once again see what I have to say on all three of these affairs over here  and my response to critics  as well if the reader is not already familiar with these articles (tweeters Jason Sanford and Lavie Tidhar and writer Chesya ‘If this is the Thought Police count me in’ Burke at her blog. There were also tweets by Charles Tan and J Damask that I missed at the time). I actually let the tweeters off the hook there, my response was hastily written (and if anything I was overly critical of Moon’s remarks – they are condescending perhaps rather than feckless). That was back in the early days.

If all this that I allude to here ever explodes, well who knows? Maybe years from now, if ever.. I mean nobody has anything to say on Tangent editor Dave Truesdale’s HOLOCAUST REVISIONISM (and he’s a conservative!), so China Mieville’s cookie-cutter communist Judenhass won’t count for too much. Well it clearly doesn’t! I mean if genre Jewry could care less, why should Gentiles?

And that’s just the thing, there is nothing unusual nor anomalous to Mieville’s anti-Semitism among progressive left-wing intellectuals in the UK and beyond. If anything it’s merely Mieville’s in-your-face style and political activism that sticks out. How after all does Mieville differ from that other best-selling and award winning sometime genre writer British Leftist Iain Banks? They have so much in common, as far as their progressive and fashionable prejudice-that-pretends-it-ain’t is concerned. And I will have something to say about Banks in a forthcoming article.

China Mieville’s anti-Semitism, that cloaks itself in hysterical and outrageously mendacious anti-Israelism, is quite simply de rigueur. It is no less shocking and disturbing for all that.

I will continue with a further appraisal of this depressing scene (well it’s a black comedy) in the next and final article – part 11 – in this Mieville series..

Jewish writer Felix Gilman scrolls down through my blog, hits the series on Holocaust Revisionism and tweets.. oblivious

The first article of mine on Felix Gilman – the previous one to this one – is necessary background and context for this article. I remarked in that article that there was a tweet of his (which I copied and pasted there) that deserves its own elucidation, its own article, being so harebrained and indicative of Gilman’s obliviousness and obscene stupidity. That article was also already very lengthy..

Gilman, along with his namesake Laura Anne and Mary Robinette Kowal had tweeted derision and mockery my way in allusion to my first John Scalzi article, the one where I mocked and criticized the president of the SFWA Scalzi for his pathetic ‘rescue’ attempt of SF Court Jew Scott Edelman. I had responded to Scalzi, Edelman and VP of the SFWA Robinette Kowal’s tweets on that Scalzi article over here.

So – as I detail in my first Felix Gilman article – we got these lame tweets from Felix that I have already critiqued in my previous article, so there is no need to do so again here. However I just paste them up again here, since they set the background and context to the later Felix Gilman tweet that I dissect in this article. So here are the earlier tweets (once again see the previous article for my reply to them and Laura Anne Gilman and Mary Robinette Kowal’s tweets likewise)

23 Mar Felix Gilman  @felixgilman

@scalzi keep skimming down the page but torrent of angry randomly bolded words never stops? scared now has been 15 minutes & no end in sight

23 Mar Felix Gilman  @felixgilman

@MaryRobinette a conspiracy composed of everyone in SF/F is out to destroy Israel by making fun of his blog posts?

Once again see my first Felix Gilman article for my response to these stupid tweets of his.

OK now we get to the killer tweet of Felix Gilman’s pasted below and it is really something (and I paste up what I had written about it in my previous article):

Felix then tweets further mockery my way and this tweet below is almost unbelievable. Gilman really messes up here, falls flat on his face. He is just oblivious, nothing penetrates into his ‘mind‘. These articles of mine are not written for his and his ilk’s benefit. I mean as far as Gilman and crew are concerned, they may as well be written in Mayan hieroglyphs. Gilman does not even bother to skim through the contents of the articles he dismisses without a second thought, as he scrolls down through them, with his finger on the down page button:

23 Mar Felix Gilman @felixgilman

@felixgilman @MaryRobinette still holding down page down button, no end in sight, series of posts labeled parts 1 through 10

Why is this tweet such a pratfall? Well this tweet now has an article all to its own, because it deserves to be highlighted.

Clearly F Gilman can’t be bothered to read or ruminate on anything I have written, it’s all just too disturbing. And of course if you just scroll down the front page of my blog or any blog, it goes on and on. Duh. That would be the case with any blogger who has written dozens of articles over a year or more (in my case roughly 50 articles). So?? It’s the case with any and every blogger who has written lots of articles (especially if he/she has been blogging for a year or more), whether he or she be blogging on politics, literature, art, movies, science, culture etc. What does the fact that I have written lots of articles, and lengthy ones at that have to do with anything??  Does the fact that I have written lots of articles mean they are inherently wrong or false or gibberish? No it’s neither here nor there as far as their merits or otherwise are concerned. So your point Gilman is what exactly?  No don’t answer the question, I’m just making a point about you that you won’t get at all. 

Now this is what I have to add here..

There can be only one series that Felix Gilman is referring to (as he scrolls down my blog without reading it), only one series runs from parts 1 – 10. There is my Mieville series which runs from parts 1 – 9 (parts ten and eleven are still forthcoming), yet that is broken up with other articles as well. My Mamatas series only has five parts (although there are seven Mamatas articles in total). There is let me stress only one series that has ten parts at my blog and is so numbered and that runs uninterrupted besides and that is this one.. Even though it says an eleven part series in the introductory title, it is only numbered one to ten, as the introduction is not numbered. The two part postscript is just that, a postscript.

Now Felix G has NOT messed up here the way liberal anti-Israel ‘Jew’ genre fan and Mamatas suck-up Mark Pontin or ‘Jewish’ convert and Mamatas suck-up Tim Lieder have, both pouring scorn on my series on Holocaust Denialism from within the genre community because they are simply cretins. Lieder went further than Pontin and continued to dismiss my series as an embarrassment to myself even after I had continually pointed out what he had done (at least Pontin recognized his foul-up even as he never publicly admitted it). Nick Mamatas himself had dismissed my blog as ‘not intentionally very funny’ the self-same day I had published the last article in that series that had been running uninterrupted for near three weeks prior (I have pointed this out repeatedly at this blog I know). Mamatas of course was simply oblivious and proceeded to have a hysterical meltdown at his blog after I pointed out what he had done (a meltdown cheered on by the mindless Mamatasbots such as Pontin and Lieder).

If Felix G had bothered to even appreciate and comprehend the contents of my blog articles as he had his finger on the scroll down button – well that would mean reading them and we couldn’t have that now – he would have seen how the titles of the articles generally spell out or allude to their essential contents. Yet he clearly did not do so – did he even take note of the titles? – since by the time he reached my Holocaust Revisionism series (which naturally comes chronologically before my Mamatas and Lieder series and the one Pontin article, and thus after the latter articles if you are scrolling down through my blog as Gilman did), his tweet is just an oblivious “.. no end in sight, series of posts labeled parts 1 through 10″.

Clearly he is so disturbed and clearly afraid of the titles and contents of my articles that he can’t even be bothered to peruse any of it properly at all, even the very titles of my articles it would appear! If he had done so, he would have noticed that “series of posts labeled parts 1 through 10” is a series about Holocaust Denialism within the genre community, revolving in the main around the outing of conservative Tangent editor Dave Truesdale as a Holocaust Revisionist upon the death of the Holocaust Revisionist SF writer James P Hogan. And the cretins and anti-Semites at the now defunct Asimov’s Forum who ganged up on me (including the Forum administrator) for speaking out against this uh Holocaust Denialism.

Here are the titles of the chapters 1 -10 that Gilman tweets on, in apparent bemused, willful incomprehension and bewilderment. ‘Think before you tweet’ is a remark that couldn’t be more fitting here! Then again can Gilman and gang think at all?

Part 1 - Where Tangent editor Dave Truesdale outs himself at the Asimov’s Forum upon SF author James P Hogan’s passing

Part 2 - Tangent editor D Truesdale’s true colours on the Holocaust ‘debate’ come shining through at the Asimov’s Forum

Part 3 – Tangent editor D Truesdale’s incoherent ramblings at the Asimov’s Forum on the ‘legitimacy’ of Holocaust Revisionism ’debate’

Part 4 - Further commentary on Truesdale’s postings & the Asimov’s Forum

Part 5 – Then Asimov’s Admin threatens to ban me for calling a Holocaust Denier a… Nazi

Part 6 – Former Jim Baen’s Universe assistant ed Sam Hidaka’s snide, supercilious insults against me after I detail the evidence of the late James P Hogan’s Holocaust Denial 

Part 7  - Truesdale nails the lid shut on his own coffin

Part 8 – Truesdale and gang Summing Up

Part 9 - On Asimov’s Forum admin’s disavowal of its own guidelines

Part 10 - Disturbing questions Final Updated Response to Mark Pontin’s ‘attack’

And what of the titles of the two part postscript, a big tell if there was one? (that Gilman would have come to scrolling down, immediately prior to the ten part series itself)

Postscript Part A: The entire unedited ‘James Hogan has passed away’ thread from the Asimov’s Forum. Includes deleted comments

Postscript Part B: ‘Holocaust Deniers’ thread & ‘James Hogan Author’ thread from the defunct Asimov’s Forum

Gilman just doesn’t take any of it in it or so it would appear, never mind peruse what he is scrolling down through. The very titles of the chapter series and the two part postscript do not cause him to STOP, ponder and reflect.

Like Mamatas, his obliviousness is willful, deliberate. Then again like his fellow radical Leftists Nick Mamatas and China Mieville, Felix Gilman is a fan of  the rabid Jew-hating (a Hamas and Hezbollah supporter) communist blogger Richard Seymour of Lenin’s Tomb. Gilman featured Lenin’s Tomb at his blogroll for an age before he got rid of the blogroll (very recently) as I mention in my previous article. Gilman certainly appears/ed to be as oblivious of Seymour’s support for the Jihad as he is of the British SWP’s rabid anti-Semitism in the first place (Seymour is the most popular SWP blogger). Gilman can’t claim the excuse that he is not familiar with politics across the pond, as Gilman is originally (and still) British. I mean I personally know of anti-Israel British Jews who wouldn’t go near the UK SWP and their most popular blogger (and a George Galloway fan naturally enough and vice versa) with a ten foot pole. That’s how bad the anti-Semitism of the SWP is. Gilman has no such qualms, having featured Lenin’s Tomb in his recommended blogroll for a long time. Clueless doesn’t begin to describe Felix G here..

The thing is – before he hit my Holocaust Revisionism series – Felix would have scrolled down through the Mieville and Mamatas series where the two successive articles on Lenin’s Tomb are featured (they are basically duplicates) and where in the very titles I allude to the extreme anti-Semitism of the Lenin’s Tomb blog. The smoking gun evidence is all there in the two articles. Maybe that’s exactly why Felix Gilman was scrolling down so fast through my blog! The very titles of some of my articles scared him to death!

Perhaps that’s why by the time he reached my series on Holocaust Revisionism among genre pros, he was already reeling and could only tweet as if punch-drunk,”.. still holding down page down button, no end in sight, series of posts labeled parts 1 through 10″.

An extensive reply to writers Felix Gilman, Laura Anne Gilman & outgoing VP of the SFWA Mary Robinette Kowal’s tweeting on the first John Scalzi article

I had replied to the tweets of John Scalzi, Scott Edelman, Mike Allen and others over here (including Mary Robinette Kowal’s initial tweets). They were responding to this article entitled ‘John Scalzi writer and president of the SFWA comes to Court Jew Scott Edelman’s rescue – pours scorn on this blog‘.

To summarise – that article pertained to Scalzi ‘rescuing’ writer and editor Scott Edelman from the jaws of the red wolf blogger, you know by tweeting a lame personal attack my way.. I have likewise mocked Edelman over his saying that he would take the side of China Mieville (a vicious anti-Semite) over the red wolf blogger any day, and Edelman likewise dismissing me as a bigot (sans evidence). The implicit reason for his calling me a bigot is that I am allegedly guilty of  ‘Islamophobia’. As I put it to Edelman in my reply to him:

Edelman doesn’t tell us how I am oh so odious, nor bigoted. Oh wait it’s my ‘Islamophobia’ of course. You know the apparently irrational fear and contempt I have for Muslim radicals wanting to kill me and everyone of my family members simply because I and they are Jewish and infidels. You know the ‘bigotry’ that is my derision of Muslim extremists who support oppressive Sharia law, the honour killings of girls, the murder of apostates and the crushing underfoot of basic civil liberties and rights, all in the name of Allah. The ‘bigotry’ that is my contempt for Muslim fanatics (and their apologists) and the reverence these reactionary nutters have for all forms of backwardness, tyranny and the destruction of all ethical and genuinely civilized values and their infliction of misery, hate and violence that envelopes the lives of tens and tens of millions (at the very least) and threatens the Jews with another Holocaust. Nowhere do I express contempt and derision for genuine moderate Muslims.

Edelman was responding to my first article on him, which was written in response to Edelman’s tweeting support for Rose Fox in her tiff with myself. And if you want to know what that’s about, follow the links.. (it all goes back at bottom to the ‘Cathy Valente and the Genre Thought Police‘ article from December 31st last year. Just follow the trail..)

You know I had planned to write an article on writer Felix Gilman, a Jewish Brit practicing as a lawyer in New York, who has received a lot of praise for his latest novel The Half-Made World. The reason is that I recently noticed that at his blog’s recommended blogroll, an indisputably extremely anti-Semitic blogger (who naturally pretends he ain’t anti-Semitic in the slightest) is featured. Oh wait that’s past tense, was featured! The blogroll has gone and just recently too.

I was planning one of these days to comment on that in an article on Felix G (and other things about Felix G). Given Felix Gilman’s politics, it comes as no surprise that Felix Gilman would attack me. I was kinda wondering what took so long (or maybe I just missed some earlier tweets of his, I don’t know. I don’t think so). So Felix Gilman gives his addled aid to the likes of writer Mary Robinette Kowal, who in turn was tweeting her support to Scalzi of course (outgoing VP of the SFWA giving her support to the President of the SFWA). Now I responded to Scalzi’s several tweets and Robinette Kowal’s initial tweets (and others twittering) in this article of course.

To repeat – these are Kowal’s tweets that I address in that prior article (I give them here again because they are followed immediately after by other tweets from her and Laura Anne Gilman and Felix Gilman [no relation as far as I know] that I did not address in that article, but reply to here)

Mary Robinette Kowal @MaryRobinette

@scalzi I can’t even tell what he’s ranting about.

See what I write… re Edelman and Scalzi on Mieville’s anti-Semitism, Edelman being very clear that he takes the anti-Semite China Mieville’s side over the red wolf blogger (Scalzi was tweeting in defense of Edelman initially); and the dubious thoughtcrime of Islamophobia being pushed mindlessly by the genre thought police (and the moral and cultural relativism that goes along with the latter fabricated so-called prejudice). That’s what I am “ranting about”. Duuuuh.

As I expanded on to Edelman here re these two points, it would be beyond your ability to comprehend dear Mary; that is the easy to understand points I make contradict harshly, even violently against your ‘progressive’ worldview. In psychology this is called cognitive dissonance. Never Mind dear Mary. There is also the knee-jerk loyalty to your boss, even as you are leaving the job of VP.

These tweets then follow shortly after. (they weren’t up on twitter when I wrote the prior article answering Robinette Kowal, Scalzi & gang or I hadn’t picked up on them yet)

And here Felix Gilman makes his appearance..

23 Mar Felix Gilman  @felixgilman

@scalzi keep skimming down the page but torrent of angry randomly bolded words never stops? scared now has been 15 minutes & no end in sight

They are not randomly bolded, they are bolded to highlight things I want to bring attention to. That’s the purpose of bolded text. You should know that Gilman, being a writer. As for angry, well that’s a loaded word and has no bearing on the *actual contents* of my article/s and their merits or otherwise. Calling me angry in no way refutes the substance of my articles, it doesn’t even acknowledge the content of my articles (so there couldn’t possibly be any refutation then, see?). You would never know what I was writing about going by your tweet Felix. Then again that’s the case with all my TWITter critics now. Lavie Tidhar, Charles Stross, Tobias Buckell and your namesake L A Gilman among them.

The outgoing VP of the SFWA then replies to Felix:

Mary Robinette Kowal  @MaryRobinette

@felixgilman As far as I can tell, he’s upset about being dismissed? At least, he keeps using that word IN BOLD .

The word ‘dismissed’?? It’s only used once in the whole article, and not in bold. Although I use the word a lot in this article! Moving on.. As I write above in response to your first tweet, cognitive dissonance prevents you from comprehending the easy peasy points I make. They may as well be written in Sanskrit. Why would I be upset about being dismissed by people whose opinions I consider ill-informed, obtuse and even odious? That makes no sense dear Mary. I would only want to earn the dismissal (there’s the bold now!) of the likes of Edelman, Stross, Scalzi, the Gilman twins and yourself likewise. Insults from the likes of you folk are compliments.

I actually wrote IN BOLD in the relevant article you simply could not comprehend at all:

By going to bat for Edelman, Scalzi is going to bat for the genre thought police (inadvertently or not), with all their pushing of the thoughtcrime of ‘Islamophobia’, their apologetics, whitewashing and molly-coddling of reactionary Islam. He is going to bat for the genre thought police’s denial and wilful silence of extreme anti-Semitism from within the genre community (at best).

Along with this also IN BOLD, addressed to John Scalzi as he tweeted that the best thing to do in response to the red wolf blogger (alluding to my first Scott Edelman article) was ‘to point and laugh’:

Point and laugh at my explicit allusions to the deafening silence of the PC genre Left to anti-Semitism from within the genre commmunity? (inclusive of Holocaust Revisionism from CONSERVATIVE genre pros to the most vicious Judenhass from a multiple award-winning ‘rock star’ genre communist) Laugh at that? Because that’s what is alluded to – in part – in my Edelman article that you respond to with this, “the rational response is to point and laugh“.

Yet you didn’t understand any of it Mary Robinette Kowal, by your own admission.

@scalzi I can’t even tell what he’s ranting about.

and again:

@felixgilman As far as I can tell, he’s upset about being dismissed? At least, he keeps using that word IN BOLD .

For all I know you probably still don’t understand it. Perhaps you never ever will. Strange that considering you read and write in English, and yet you don’t understand my article that you tweeted on dismissively in support of Scalzi. After all what I paste again above are the relevant portions of that article you just cannot for the life of you comprehend. Of course the problem here is one of psychology (to repeat myself).

Then this tweet of Felix Gilman’s:

23 Mar Felix Gilman  @felixgilman

@MaryRobinette a conspiracy composed of everyone in SF/F is out to destroy Israel by making fun of his blog posts?

Oh look the anti or at least indifferent to Israel far Left Jew (wait till I come to Felix Gilman’s recommendation of the Lenin’s Tomb blog on his blogroll. Now where’s that blogroll gone? It was there just recently! Good thing we have this screenshot for one..) accuses me of being a paranoid conspiracy nutter. Charles Stross did the same thing. It’s always the same old tired and dishonest personal attacks. It’s all the likes my twitter critics have, Court Jews Felix Gilman and Charles Stross included – pathetic personal attacks and ad hominems having no bearing on what I write at all.

“Making fun of my blog posts“. Silly, pathetic and idiotic on your part Gilman. The relevant article on Scalzi that your friend Kowal cannot for the life of her understand (any more than you can Felix), pertained to Scalzi’s fact-free tweeting (a personal attack as with you Felix and all my other twitter critics) defense of Scott Edelman. I had mocked Edelman (again) over here (if you want to know why read the article, then again it won’t do you any good Felix G. You won’t understand it at all. You are not alone there). The main point is that Edelman has made it clear he would side with the anti-Semite China Mieville over the red wolf blogger exposing the likes of Mievelle’s extreme anti-Semitism in the first place.

Actually your fellow (harshly anti-Israel) radical Leftist and genre peer Nick Mamatas did make fun of my blog. Mamatas, like you and the anti-Semite China Mieville, is a fan of Richard Seymour’s Lenin’s Tomb blog. Mieville has also written for Richard Seymour’s Lenin’s Tomb blog. Nick Mamatas did make fun of my blog as ‘not intentionally very funny’. He did so the self-same day I published the last article in my series on Holocaust Revisionism from within the genre community that had been running uninterrupted for near three weeks prior. Up to that point in time 80% of the published articles at my blog were directly about Holocaust Revisionism. How many bloody times have I mentioned this in the course of my blogging? I don’t know but I will remark in passing that my twitter critics have no problem continuing to dismiss me, even as I am exposing some vicious anti-Semitism among genre pros (that’s what Holocaust Revisionism is see?). What does that tell us about them? I address this foul-up – again – re Mamatas and more of his odious political posturing & NAMBLA phraseology in my seventh article on him over here.

Now you will have noticed I put the above in bold Felix Gilman. I did it to highlight it see? Not that it would make a difference to the likes of you. Maybe you won’t understand the questions I ask Mamatas at the end of that article linked to directly above – Mamatas let us not forget is a fan of the viciously anti-Semitic Lenin’s Tomb featured at your (ex)blogroll – the way you didn’t understand anything else I have written.. That’s assuming you can even be bothered to click on the link.

So Felix Gilman has no problem being explicit on the point that “he’s making fun of my blog posts” and supports those who do likewise. And of course that would be making fun of this article in the main (since it’s the one he’s tweeting on). Why do you think my blog article criticizing Scalzi’s defense of Scott Edelman so funny, in light of the pertinent points I make on Edelman therein?

Namely – to repeat myself! – in a nutshell my explicit allusions to the deafening silence of the PC genre Left to anti-Semitism from within the genre commmunity along with the PC genre Left’s pushing and enforcement of the dubious thoughtcrime of ‘Islamophobia’ as an authentic prejudice.

Oh wait you didn’t understand the above paragraph at all Felix Gilman? You can’t make head or tail of it? What is the red wolf saying? It’s beyond your ability to comprehend? I know I know.

Now to those regular readers of my blog who have *some intelligence*, you would have seen this question coming, the one I now ask of Felix Gilman..

Felix Gilman apparently doesn’t. l guess he’s not a regular reader of my blog and if he were, would it have made any difference? After all he just doesn’t understand the easy peasy points I make in the Scalzi article he tweeted on so dismissively (well he wouldn’t).

Here’s the question Felix Gilman:

Do you consider China Mieville anti-Semitic in light of my series on him?

I have authored nine articles on Mieville now. Make sure to read at least some of them before tweeting your answer, so you can’t claim ignorance. The series begins with the first article posted on 2nd December 2011.

I have asked this question of your fellow Court Jews Nir Yaniv and Laura Anne Gilman. They didn’t answer it. Naturally when L A Gilman tweets her lame condescension my way she acknowledges none of this. I then asked Charles Stross and Tobias Buckell, got no answer from them neither. Then I asked Rose Fox and later Scott Edelman, Fox demurred although she was sure to praise Mieville to the skies over his commentary on anti-black racism not a few weeks later. Edelman has come closest to actually answering the question forthrightly with his tweet “I’ll side with…  China Miéville any day over an odious, bigoted, nasty little blogger.”

I asked John Scalzi likewise in that article you claim not to comprehend at all, he didn’t answer it neither. Tweeting lame personal attacks my way is not an answer.

So why don’t you answer the question Felix Gilman? Why not go even further than Scotty Edelman? Why not be the first to answer forthrightly with a simple YES or NO, Mieville is or is not anti-Semitic? Set a precedent here Felix. Come on F Gilman, you can do it. You ain’t chicken are you? I mean considering you share Mieville’s oh-so-chic-radical-Left politics and commendation for the same Lenin’s Tomb blog, why would you have a problem answering the question? You can e-mail it to me if you would prefer and then I will post your answer up here at my blog. Simple see? (your namesake Laura Anne has my e-mail address)

In response to Felix Gilman’s tweet that I reply to above:

@MaryRobinette a conspiracy composed of everyone in SF/F is out to destroy Israel by making fun of his blog posts?

Mary Robinette Kowal replies:

Mary Robinette Kowal  @MaryRobinette

@felixgilman That could be?

If it makes you feel better about your ‘progressive’ worldview dear Mary. 

You would never know I was referring to – among other things – SF Court Jews’ evasions and sweeping under the carpet China Mieville’s vicious anti-Semitism and their lame shoot-the-messenger tweeting my way as if my recent articles have nothing to do with any of this..

We then get this from ‘kiplet’, hack writer Kip Manley:

kiplet @kiplet

@felixgilman @MaryRobinette Isn’t eligibility for some mid-level award somewhere contingent on whether you’ve been mentioned on that blog?

Hey there’s a good idea. Now what would eligibility for an award given to those spewing baseless and fact-free mockery of a blog exposing extreme anti-Semitism and PC enforcement of the thoughtcrime of ‘Islamophobia’ within the genre community, tell us of such award winners? Never mind it’s through the holes in your head Kip Manley. What should we call the award btw? Any ideas here?

Felix then tweets further mockery my way and this tweet below is almost unbelievable. Gilman really messes up here, falls flat on his face. He is just oblivious, nothing penetrates into his ‘mind‘. These articles of mine are not written for his and his ilk’s benefit. I mean as far as Gilman and crew are concerned, they may as well be written in Mayan hieroglyphs. Gilman does not even comprehend the meaning of the titles of the articles he is scrolling down through, with his finger on the down page button:

23 Mar Felix Gilman @felixgilman

@felixgilman @MaryRobinette still holding down page down button, no end in sight, series of posts labeled parts 1 through 10

Why is it such a pratfall? This article is overly long as is, so I give the tweet above and the one that follows below, its own special reply in another (relatively shortish) article addressing it, because it deserves to be highlighted.

Clearly F Gilman can’t be bothered to read or ruminate on anything I have written, it’s all just too disturbing. And of course if you just scroll down the front page of my blog or any blog, it goes on and on. Duh. That would be the case with any blogger who has written dozens of articles over a year or more (in my case roughly 50 articles). So?? It’s the case with any and every blogger who has written lots of articles (especially if he/she has been blogging for awhile), whether he or she be blogging on politics, literature, art, movies, science, culture etc. What does the fact that I have written lots of articles, and lengthy ones at that have to do with anything?? Does the fact that I have written lots of articles mean they are inherently wrong or false or gibberish? No it’s neither here nor there as far as their merits or otherwise are concerned. So your point Gilman is what exactly? No don’t answer the question, I’m just making a point about you that you won’t get at all. But I save an elucidation for just how Gilman has messed up re the above tweet in an entirely separate article.

Then this very lame Pavlovian tweet from Craig Laurance Gidney, the kind of personal attack that usually goes hand in hand with the other lame evidence-fee slurs, he’s crazy and off his meds blabla.

23 Mar CraigLauranceGidney  ‏ @ethereallad

@felixgilman @MaryRobinette It definitely reeks of paranoia….

Who do I think is behind this conspiracy (since I am so paranoid apparently)? Oh wait why bother with evidence, when it’s all about fact-free name-calling. F Gilman then in reply:

23 Mar Felix Gilman @felixgilman

@ethereallad @MaryRobinette scrolled far down into the blogdepths, rant not in recognizable alphabet any more, parts of it becoming audible
In reply to CraigLauranceGidney

Just another lame evidence-free slur, no substance to it. Same old same old. Which ‘rant’/article is “not in recognizable alphabet any more”, which paragraph from which article exactly? Of course when it’s all just about baseless personal attacks..

Then this tweet from Gilman:

23 Mar Felix Gilman  @felixgilman

@kiplet @MaryRobinette i kept seeing my name IN FURIOUS BOLD but it always turned out to be laura ann gilman

Well you two have so much in common, not just your surnames, but your liberal Court Jew status within the SF genre community. You both signed your names to writers in support of Occupy Wall Street and you both live in New York.  Maybe we can call you the Gilman siblings or twins even?

Mary dear Mary tweets in reply:

Mary Robinette Kowal  @MaryRobinette

@felixgilman Hopefully this conversation will elevate you to the ranks.

10:09 PM – 23 Mar

It has alright dear Mary. Don’t worry dear Mary I know you won’t appreciate what I’m actually getting at. If you failed utterly to comprehend the Scalzi article you tweeted on, this one will also leave you all at sea. Poor poor Mary.

Then Laura Anne Gilman pops up! (I missed you Laura Anne hugs) This is the Jewish writer who I have clashed with before (along with Nir Yaniv, Israeli SF writer and editor). That’s my favourite article that I have written for this blog btw. If you are a William Burroughs fan you may even appreciate it.

Laura Anne Gilman did tweet a reply to that article (on her and Nir Yaniv) that I wrote up a response to. It is of course in the previous article to this one, an article that in the main revolves around her mate Israeli SF writer and editor Lavie Tidhar. So this can get confusing – namely Laura Anne Gilman’s tweets (not Felix’s) pasted below were sent BEFORE my previous article was posted online, an article that is a reply (in small part at least) to her tweets she tweeted two months BEFORE the ones mentioned below. Uh got all that?

24 Mar Laura Anne Gilman  @LAGilman

@felixgilman @kiplet @MaryRobinette oh, you’ve discovered our resident Angry Blogger. I offended him by not responding to his rants…

No you didn’t offend me. Laura Anne Gilman playing fast and loose with the facts there as cognitive dissonance demands. No surprise. The opinion of a uh Jewish genre writer who shills her support (as does Felix Gilman) for the OWS rallies, and is blind or indifferent to the thick vein of anti-Semitism among the OWS crowd (indeed at the very root of OWS) is not somebody whose opinion I give a hoot for. Laura Anne Gilman had no problem reporting on the OWS rallies for the anti-Semitic radical Left Daily Kos (see my article on her and Yaniv). The Daily Kos has compared Israel to Nazi Germany (and indulged in the most odious anti-Semitic conspiracy guff). Not that Gilman&Gilman know or care for that matter.

Which rants Laura Anne? Oh you mean like the article on you and Yaniv (linked to above)? The one where I ask you and Nir Yaniv if you would answer the question re China Mieville’s prejudicial status, yes or no? The one where I predicted you would just slink away and not answer the question. Of course L A Gilman didn’t answer the question (as with Yaniv), just like everybody else (with the debatable exception of Scott Edelman). I’m hoping your namesake is willing to cross the line and lead the way!

Outgoing VP of the SFWA Mary Robinette Kowal tweets in response to L A Gilman:

Mary Robinette Kowal  @MaryRobinette

@LAGilman @felixgilman @kiplet There’s only one Angry Blogger? Oh… I thought there were lots of them.

2:04 AM – 24 Mar 12 via TweetDeck

There are surely lots of ‘Angry Bloggers’. There is as far as I know only one blogger exposing anti-Semitism in detail in the genre community. Remember that includes Holocaust Revisionism from genre pros and the rabid anti-Semitism of China Mieville (and there are other folk to come). Curious how a blogger exposing very real anti-Semitism translates to ‘Angry Blogger’, Mary Robinette Kowal and L A Gilman for that matter?

L A Gilman in reply:

24 Mar Laura Anne Gilman  @LAGilman

@MaryRobinette @felixgilman @kiplet I did say “our resident,” specific to this discussion, not to take away from any partic Angry Blogger.

“our resident”. That’s so kind of you Laura Anne. I almost feel part of the family! You know a family that bickers and back-stabs and all the rest of it, but a family nonetheless.

Then Mary again:

Mary Robinette Kowal  @MaryRobinette

@LAGilman @felixgilman @kiplet Oh. Whew. Because, you know, I wouldn’t want any of the other angry bloggers to feel dismissed.

2:10 AM – 24 Mar 12 via TweetDeck

If a blogger exposing anti-Semitism in the genre community translates to ‘Angry Blogger’, then does that mean “other angry bloggers” are the bloggers exposing anti-Semitism outside of the genre community? I mean I’m just asking..

As far as Felix Gilman’s commendation of Lenin’s Tomb goes.. (which I mention above)

And no it is not a case of – it’s just a political blog he has (sorry had) in his (ex)blogroll, he doesn’t necessarily agree with the Lenin’s Tomb’s/Richard Seymour’s politics. British born and raised Felix Gilman is a self-admitted far Leftist and this is a far Left UK blog.

You know I have remarked on Richard Seymour of the Lenin’s Tomb’s blog and its horrible anti-Semitism (in the two articles I have written on Lenin’s Tomb – see the relevant linked articles further up this page, the one in my Mamatas series and the other in my Mieville series). The thing is it is very rare to even see an anti or indifferent to Israel Jew commend and endorses this blog as Felix Gilman has done, so extreme is Richard Seymour’s Judenhass. Remember Richard Seymour has given his support to both Hamas and Hezbollah. Then again Seymour has given his glowing and effusive support for George Galloway (the Respect Party co-founder), a Hamas, Hezbollah and Saddam Hussein supporter himself and vice versa (detailed in my articles on Lenin’s Tomb and in my Mieville series). Then again Lenin’s Tomb is only the most popular SWP (née  Respect) blogger.

The British SWP (and the Respect Party/coalition from the last decade) is extremely anti-Semitic and supports BDS against Israel (and that’s just touching the surface of their Judenhass). It is of course the British political party and alliance (as the Respect coalition) that China Mieville has campaigned for. Even plenty hostile to Israel Jews won’t go near it! (not that Felix G has this problem as the most popular SWP/Respect blogger was on his blogroll for an age before his blogroll’s deletion) There are exceptions naturally (aside from Felix G), such as the Holocaust Revisionist Israeli Jew UK resident Gilad Atzmon (yes really) who has chummied up to the SWP.

Anyhow this article is long enough (for sure!), so this is the red wolf signing off for now..