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Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: Is the Guardian the most bigoted newspaper in Britain? [View all]shira
(30,109 posts)77. Support for Ismael Haniyeh and Raed Saleh isn't liberal. It's Stalinist far leftwingery....
...which may as well be rightwing. Support for the MB within the context of the Arab Spring, a far right fascist murderous movement if there ever was one, is not a liberal position either.
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So presumably, the Guardian can publish Nick Griffin and David Duke's views as well...
shira
Jun 2012
#4
Google The Kings Torah it will come up, and I invite anyone doubting this to do it n/t
azurnoir
Jun 2012
#16
I just Googled it again it's the 5th one down from the top and 4th depending on what browser
azurnoir
Jun 2012
#22
I wish you'd get to the point, if you really have one. Just provide the website. n/t
shira
Jun 2012
#24
I asked you a question that you have danced around for 3 hours rather than just answer
azurnoir
Jun 2012
#28
I can't read your mind. But what does that being on a hate site have to do with anything? n/t
shira
Jun 2012
#30
what becomes apparent is that you wish to deflect from question about the Kings Torah
azurnoir
Jun 2012
#56
I asked you a question in comment #9, which you have deflected for quite a number off posts now
azurnoir
Jun 2012
#63
Assuming the author of the objectionable article is a horrible person in nearly all ways,
snot
Jun 2012
#3
You'd have no problem with the Guardian mainstreaming Nick Griffin, David Duke...?
shira
Jun 2012
#7
It's the newspaper. Clear antizionist view. Happy to do propaganda for Hamas. n/t
shira
Jun 2012
#58
You are wrong. Apart from Haniyeh, some local RW bigots have blogged in the CiF section
LeftishBrit
Jun 2012
#35
It is better, and more left wing than virtually any American or Israeli Newspaper
intaglio
Jun 2012
#37
That you can describe the Guardian as 'radically far leftwing', indicates to me that you haven't
LeftishBrit
Jul 2012
#75
Support for Ismael Haniyeh and Raed Saleh isn't liberal. It's Stalinist far leftwingery....
shira
Jul 2012
#77
I don't give a dam' who they publish; I just care whether it's true and reasonable.
snot
Jun 2012
#66
how dare they not publish Nick Griffin for balance, or any of the most far rightwing...
shira
Jun 2012
#10
actually I would have no problem with that, all sides of a question should be heard
azurnoir
Jun 2012
#17
In a right-to-reply debate style format that's fine. Otherwise it's sick propaganda.
shira
Jun 2012
#19
Well your challanging it aren't you? however does JPost challange piece written by Caroline Glick
azurnoir
Jun 2012
#29
So let's see Griffin & his racist POV becoming commonplace within the pages of the Guardian and CiF
shira
Jun 2012
#44
They endorse or are indifferent to Griffin's views. Same WRT the Graun & Hamas. n/t
shira
Jun 2012
#57
But not bigoted enough for Shira to resist quoting the Guardian when it suits her!.......n/t.
kayecy
Jun 2012
#21
I quote it knowing that extreme anti-zios like yrself find it credible and antiracist.
shira
Jun 2012
#27
You mean like Israel has no right to exist and should be destroyed? The Guardian and CiF...
shira
Jun 2012
#43
'Antisemitic' is a term invented by Europaean antisemites to mean anti-Jewish
LeftishBrit
Jun 2012
#53
Genocidally antisemitic. Go about 6-8 videos down and you'll find where I start citing Hamas....
shira
Jun 2012
#60
LB, do you agree that the Guardian is generally anti-zionist in its reporting? Not just...
shira
Jun 2012
#40
No, not generally (yes, sometimes). I agree that the bloggers on CiF include a disproportionate
LeftishBrit
Jun 2012
#54
The Guardian is the mirror image of those hard rightwing publications that incite against minorities
shira
Jul 2012
#73
Even if that were true, the Sun has a daily circulation of 2 1/2 million, and the Daily Mail
LeftishBrit
Jul 2012
#74
Current leader of Hamas has explicitly stated their charter is historical, not operative now
Cicada
Jul 2012
#78
Guardian’s Jewish problem: Paper praises extreme antisemitic site CounterPunch as ‘progressive’
shira
Jul 2012
#81
You realize that by calling such stalwarts of Progressive and Leftist ideological elites antisemitic
aranthus
Jul 2012
#82
Do you think the CounterPunch radicals are ideological elites within the Progressive Left? n/t
shira
Jul 2012
#83
So what do you personally make of CounterPunch and the Guardian? Do they generally represent....
shira
Jul 2012
#86
So who or what organizations best represent Progressive ideology in your opinion? n/t
shira
Jul 2012
#90
As perhaps a poster who supports the notion of keeping a brutal and illegal war/military occupation
azurnoir
Jul 2012
#92
yes you seem to be proud of wishing to continue a war that has resulted in countless deaths
azurnoir
Jul 2012
#97
a caveat though I am talking about your support for the continueing the Iraq war
azurnoir
Jul 2012
#100
So if CounterPunch isn't Leftwing at all in your view, why is the Guardian praising it?
shira
Jul 2012
#105
Because Cockburn just died, eliciting piety; and because the Guardian isn't consistently left wing
LeftishBrit
Jul 2012
#106
Maybe the confusion lies with people who conflate criticism of Hamas or the PLO with....
shira
Jul 2012
#110