Israel is a serial human rights international law abuser. The UN Human Rights Commission affirms that it violates nearly all 149 articles of the Fourth Geneva Convention that governs the treatment of civilians in war and under occupation and is guilty of grievous war crimes.

David is this the work of the Zionists and not the Jews. State sanctioned genocide?

Vic is attacking Online sites like OLO, yet uses a whore program like Channel 9 Current Affair as his prime example of racism?

I must have misunderstood, Mr Alhadeff appears to be conflating anti-Semitism with (1)criticism of Zionism and (2)expressions of moral repugnance in regard to the policies of the government of Israel, when he quotes the following.

"A recent article on New Matilda prompted comments that called for boycotts of the "evilly pro-Zionist Murdoch media" and "the evilly anti-Semitic ALP (aka the Apartheid Labor Party, Apartheid Israel-supporting Labor Party)". Furthermore, suggested the writer, "the racist Zionists and their supporters (such as Labor) should be sidelined from public life as have been like racists such as the Nazis, neo-Nazis, Apartheiders and KKK".

Admittedly the comment is somewhat incoherent in parts, however, the main theme appears to be that Zionism is a racist ideology and that Israel has some characteristics in common with apartheid South Africa.
This is a matter of opinion of course, but the comment, itself, is not necessarily anti-semitic.

Is racist propaganda against those other Semites, the Arabs, and in particular the Palestinians, also morally unacceptable?

Savvas Tzionis,

Agreed, anyone who disagrees, should visit some of the more rabid pro-Zionist sites.

Paul1405 summed it up pretty well with http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=13166#227353.

The danger in overt censorship looks far greater than the danger in extreme views (and who decides what's extreme) being up for a period.

No perfect answer's, I use the recommend delete button on OLO posts with some regularity if posts (or discussions) look like ones I think the moderator needs to check so I'm not opposed to a degree of censorship.

Personally I'd prefer that the more extreme posts stay on record so that all can see the character of the poster rather than be removed but that could and does present a range of problems for the site, both legally and in terms of the impact on subsequent debate.

I agree with what I take to be David's point about a difference between Jew's and Zionist's. Hope I'm not invoking Goodwin's Law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law) here but in the context of this discussion I hope this is relevant. Historically most Nazi's were German, the German state did staggeringly horrid things while the Nazi's were in charge but it is possible to attack Nazism without attacking German's.

R0bert

Amazing, Vic doesn't mind advocating loudly for the bombing of Gaza and refuses to be censored.

Seems the likes of Vic only want everyone censored over anything to do with jews.

RObert,

I can't bear it any more ! Please ! No apostrophes with plurals ! 'views', 'posts', yes ! But Nazis, Jews, Zionists, Germans: plurals without apostrophes.

Yes, use the apostrophe for possessives like Goodwin's, Israel's, and for abbreviations like it's ('it is') and I'm (I am).

What the hell are they teaching kids in schools these days ?

Yours (not your's, whatever that might mean),

Joe