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Masada2000 was a California-based website created and maintained by people from the United States, Israel, Brazil, and Switzerland. [1] [2] It has been described as "extreme pro-Israel, anti-Palestinian" [3] and "radical-Zionist". [4] The site supported and often quoted the views of Meir Kahane, although it had denied being Kahanist. [3] Before 2001 the site was called Zion2000.
The site was named after the Masada fortress in Israel, where, during Jewish Revolt against the Roman Empire, a group known as the Sicarii fought the Romans and committed mass suicide rather than surrender. [2] According to its founders, it was established to counter "professional and deadly serious" websites with anti-Israel views. [2] They also have said that the site would "expose Jews who genuinely despise Israel and the Jewishness it represents" [2] and "'progressive' Jews who are into 'social justice' causes for everyone EXCEPT Israel's Jewish population." [5]
The site referred to Arab citizens of Israel and Palestinians as "cancer" and endorses their expulsion from Israel and the Occupied Territories to "Arab nations." [3] [6] [7] [8]
Masada2000 was well known for its criticism of Jews it considered "self-hating." Among those singled out were Rabbi Michael Lerner, [9] [10] [11] linguist Noam Chomsky, [12] [13] journalist Amira Hass, [14] politician Dedi Zucker, [12] professor Israel Shahak, [12] and filmmaker Woody Allen. [12] [15]
The site was also notorious for its "Self-Hating and/or Israel-Threatening" list, known as the "S.H.I.T. List." [2] [3] [5] [16] (From time to time, the S.H.I.T. List had been renamed. For a while it was the "Dense anti-Israel Repugnant Traitors" LIST, or "D.I.R.T. List." Then it became the "Self-Hating and/or Intentionally Israel-Threatening Ediots LIST" or "S.H.I.I.T.E. List.") More than 7,000 names long, the list consisted of Jews whose opinions fall to the left of those of Masada2000's creators. The site described its targets as "radical, leftist, academic, socialist, 'progressive,' enlightened know-nothings [who] are not even worthy of the name 'Jew.'" [16] People on the list were often described using profanities, vulgar insults, racial epithets, and portrayed with photographs of animals. In some cases, their email addresses, telephone numbers, home addresses, and other private contact information were included as well. [2] [5] [16]
Appearing on Masada2000's "S.H.I.T. LIST" has provoked a wide range of reaction. Francesca Yardenit Albertini, Jewish philosophy professor at Hochschule für Jüdische Studien (College of Jewish Studies) in Germany, expressed concern, saying "I can have my career negatively affected by such defamation." [2] Stanley Aronowitz, a sociology professor, said he was "proud to be on the Masada2000 list." [2] Yigal Bronner, an Israeli-born Professor of Sanskrit Literature at the University of Chicago, comments that, in its focus on Jews, the list is "antisemitism itself, the real shit... undisguised and unambiguous hatred for Jews." [17]
Being included on the "S.H.I.T. LIST" has become something of a badge of honor among some Jewish leftists. [5] As one woman explained, "I felt that I am in good company when I saw who else was on the list." [5] According to one writer, "activists compare their status, those who are left out wondering whether they should submit themselves." [5]
The website itself has been inactive since 2007, [18] but other sites and pages assuming the name have since taken its place, the most well-known being the Masada2000 Facebook page. [19] [ non-primary source needed ]
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In the next war, the Israel Defense Forces and the civilian population will hopefully rid themselves of the Arab demographic threat by expelling hostile Arabs from BOTH the 'liberated' territories of '67 AND the Arab cancer growing WITHIN Israel herself!
WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE ARAB Citizens of Israel! We are not talking about the so-called 'Palestinian' Arabs living in the West Bank and Gaza... It doesn't really matter that much since BOTH the Arabs in the West Bank/Gaza AND within Israel itself consider themselves to be 'Palestinians,' rather than Israelis!
[T]he Arabs must be transferred to Arab nations and the borders of Israel sealed.
Calling Lerner 'America's baddest little JewBoy' and 'that despicable self-hating Jewish worm,' Masada2000 adds: 'If you're ever in the San Francisco area, drop in on him at his home at [full address and detailed driving instructions given]. One more thing... be sure to mention our Web site.'
In May, an extremist pro-Israel Web site called 'Masada 2000' listed Lerner as one of 'the five most dangerous Jewish enemies of the Jewish people,' and posted detailed driving directions to his home address. Draped in guillotines, nooses and racist language, the site repeatedly stated: 'If you're ever in the San Francisco area, drop in on him at his home.'
[T]here are, unfortunately, Jews who despise being Jewish and wish Israel harm. ... In America, Jewish 'thinkers' are perfectly willing to spill their ink defending those who would spill Jewish blood. Foremost in this crusade is San Francisco's very own 'New Age Rabbi,' Michael Lerner... America's 'baddest' little Jew-Boy
Lerner is named and abused as one of the five most dangerous Jewish enemies of the Jewish people – the others on the arbitrary list are MK Dedi Zucker, former Hebrew University professor and Holocaust survivor, Israel Shahak, Noam Chomsky, and Woody Allen.
Chomsky's writings create the impression that the Nazis could not have been any worse then (sic) the 'war criminals' of the U.S. and Israel.
Amira (the red-nosed betrayer of her own people) Hass, who never met an Arab-Palestinian terrorist she didn't like
Jewish self-hatred, manic-depression and paranoia are all rolled into one and falls onto the not-so-broad shoulders of K. Stewart Konisberg, a.k.a. Woody Allen. When he's not obsessing about psychoanalysis, anal-retention, death and sex, Woody finds time to diligently do the work of the P.L.O.