Immediately after the Israeli assault on Gaza, the Israeli government made a decision to hire Israeli bloggers who speak in tongues. Those bloggers’ job is to log into different news sites and make comments to help improve Israel’s image. I have witness many of their tactic, the often use the same techniques and copy paste the same old crappy talking points memos that have not been updated in ages. Here are few of their lame tactics:
1. Posing as a fake Arab with a very traditional Arab name, then making the most racist and bizarre comments about Israel. A popular technique used is to pose as a self-hating Arab and use that persona to unload your racist and inferiority complex driven insults.
2. Logging in under your real name to reply to the faux Arab comments to make your lousy points and half-baked ideas look normal in light of the faux Arab comments that you doctored, essentially you are having an argument with yourself. Also leave 1,423,524,523,456,234,543 comments under different names so that it seems as if there’s widespread support for your bigoted point of view.
3. Spread pathological lies that only you and a few insane activists hold dear… like how the Arabs need to apologize for the holocaust. Sure, the Palestinians in Gaza can just teleport themselves to the West Bank.
4. Spike up your online comments with links to obscure subjects like how Palestinians do not believe in Santa while keeping Santa locked in your basement.
5. When you run out of lies and bogus arguments, you hijack the comment section by talking about outlandish topics that have no substance or relevance to the topic discussed. Favorite subjects to talk about include your fetish for hijab-wearing Muslim women.
6. Quote your favorite Arab commentators who prostitute themselves to make your point. Endorsing this person by saying this is an Arab I’d like to have for a neighbor. This is the equivalent of “I am not racist, I have a black friend.”
7. Treat the bible like a real estate document, while mocking it in private. Also, you speak of the Koran as if all Muslims have read it and interpret it the way you do.
8. Make up a bad ass virtual ID/name to compensate for your small circumcised dip stick.
9. Pretend that after the UN issued the partition plan of 1947 it went out of business. In other words, cherry pick your arguments.
10. Come up with labels for anyone you do not see things eye to eye with. Favorites: anti-Semite, Nazi, communist, fascist, appeaser, and terrorist.
11. You use fancy English to make up for unsound arguments. You use dirty words in Arabic, referring to contributors’ mothers in derogatory ways, as if the insult you levy against them is somehow harsher in their native tongue.
Bonus
You justify the occupation of Gaza and the West Bank by calling attention to Palestinian “suicide bombings” — despite the fact that the occupation of those territories started in 1967, and the first bombing didn’t occur until 1993. (By the way, when was the last bombing?)
[Tarboush Tip: Programmer Buydatti]
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Sounds like good honest work. I wonder how much they pay?
Posted by Cyrus | April 23, 2010, 4:20 pmi think we pay….
Posted by roy | September 11, 2010, 8:41 amThis pretty much hits the nail on the head! These Happy Hasbara's are so obvious the whole thing would be funny if it wasn't so sad.
Well no, it is funny because they are so ridiculous. Do they really have that small of a life?
LOVE the troll.
Posted by Lisa McB | April 23, 2010, 5:28 pmThese trolls are trying, and failing, to stop the Berkely divestment movement.
Posted by Boycott Israel | April 23, 2010, 7:20 pm"10. Come up with labels for anyone you do not see things eye to eye with. Favorites: anti-Semite, Nazi, communist, fascist, appeaser, and terrorist."
Didn't Hitler use the word "troll" to refer to his enemies? That's according to Moe or Curly or whatever his name(s) is.
Actually I find trolling to be an honorable occupation when it's done with intelligence, and is used to give a voice to an actively silenced opinion. I've never seen a Zionist reach the level of a legitimate troll, though, and of course legitimacy problems are at the root of ever Zionist claim. Zionist posters are mainly just crazed fanatics flinging whatever comes out of their butts at Arabs and Muslims and hoping it will stick in the eyes of bigoted viewers.
I consider myself a troll, even among Arabs who I keep trying to convince to not be afraid to speak the complete truth about Zionism and Israel.
Posted by Jamal | April 23, 2010, 11:09 pmYes, that's where I get the idea from….Hitler. I love you Jamal, do not be too hard on yourself
Posted by Hanitizer | April 24, 2010, 1:23 amHey almost all Arabs are circumcised! I don't think I'm going out on too much of a limb in saying that Arab guys are better endowed than average. I'm sure the female Arab commentators on this site can speak to this fact.
Posted by Big Moe | April 24, 2010, 4:12 amIs "moe" "a very traditional Arab name" or are referring to "Jamal"?
Is "Jamal" the "faux Arab"?
"By the way, when was the last bombing?"- There's a fence to keep these savages out.
Posted by moe | April 24, 2010, 8:42 pmHey, when you are desperate, you compromise your principle.
Israel also employs 5 public relations firms in the US to boost it's tarnished image, not to metion APIAC, and ADL.
When its embassies is being shut down, its top leaders wanted for war crimes in most EU countries, its citizens abroad are refused service in hotels and resturants, its diplomates being expelled, then no wonder IsraHell relies on deciption to fix its image. It is acting like the prostitute who covers her private parts with a glass thinking other can't see through.
As far as the question, how much does IsraHell pays for those trolls, I wonder about that myself. Best way to find out is: give their mouth piece in Washington, D.C. a buzz and find out.
Posted by Mahmoud El-Yousseph | April 25, 2010, 3:02 amThey must pay English speaking bloggers. Obviously people in English speaking countries share the same values Fanatic Jihadi Palestinians have. They can't support a western democratic state.
Posted by moe | April 25, 2010, 6:17 amI wrote something similar for facebook I hope you don't mind me reproducing it here.
A template for Zionist smears
Are you a committed defender of Israel? Are you losing sleep at the prospect of having to defend Israel after yet another atrocity? Don't despair. Here is an easy to follow, step by step guide to smearing your opponent and thus avoidiing having to defend the indefensible at all.
A template for Zionist apologists for war crimes.
1. abuse and call your critics anti semites. If your opponents are Jewish tell them they are self hater traitors. Be clear here. All criticism of Israel or the IDF is anti semitism. No matter how outrageous Israels behaviour, it is allowed. Israel can commit no wrong and anyone who says otherwise is jew hater. Don't be put off by the seeming reasonableness of people being appalled by the deaths of civilians or by the brutal treatment of civilians, throw the anti semite accusation out randomly and your opponent will be so busy defending himself against the smear that hopefully you will never have to answer for the atrocity at all.
2.. No matter how hideous and obvious the crime or atrocity, Israel is always the victim and it is always the fault of the dead. The IDF kill 400 children, poor Israel was only defending itself. Israel slaughter civilians on the high seas, poor IDF soldiers were attacked by vicious poets and artists. Israel drop phosphorous weapons on a school, they were terrorist children. oh poor little defenceless Israel. Israel demolish Lebanon, and reduce whole neighbourhoods to rubble. Israel were only acting in self defence. Israel send assassins around the world with the stolen passports of its "allies" poor Israel, so maligned and misunderstood.
3 Mention the holocaust in every sentence and if possible attempt to paint your critics as Nazi's. As if that terrible crime could be used to justify any and all of Israel's war crimes or atrocities. Important note. While mentioning the holocaust in every breath, forget to mention that the Palestinians had nothing to do with it. Of course while you can use the holocaust and the memory of the dead in the most cynical way to justify all manner of outrageous behaviour by Israel. If your opponents so much as hint at the similarity between IDF actions and the Gestapo or Gaza and the Warsaw Ghetto then immediately scream ANTI SEMITE and return to point one.
4. It is permissable to lie, cheat, steal, smear, kill and torture in the defence of Israel. It is permissable to kill civilians, aid workers, children, UN personnal, foreign activists and just about anyone who gets in the way. It is permissable to spy on your friends, attack your allies (USS liberty?) kill the citizens of friendly countries and to break every single UN resolution and international treaty as you wish with impunity. It is permissable to collectively punish a million and a half people for 4 years, it is permissable to demolish houses, olive groves, entire streets, and bury the inhabitants under the rubble. It is permissable to arrest thousands without trial (8000 Palestinians are held as political prisoners) imprison children ( children are amongst the detained) and break the arms and legs of 7 year olds, all this is permissable because Israel can do no wrong.
5. Under no circumstances get drawn into a conversation about the Nakba or the Palestinian diaspora or Israel's 60 year policy of ethnic cleansing and cultural extermination. After all they are only Arabs and can be blamed for every single crime we commit.
If the above fails call an air strike preferably using banned weapons and bomb your critics into the stone age.
Posted by Dylans | June 16, 2010, 9:06 amNice, you forgot the one about claiming that Palestine was a barren wasteland virually devoid of life before the Zionists came to settle there, and that the only people who were there were recent immigrants from neighbouring states who could easily just go home to make room for really what is a very small Jewish state. You also add that there never really was a Palestinian state. In this way you try to justify the stealing of land from those who had deeds of ownership, and removing people of Arab origin as if they were illegal immigrants, which hopefully deflects from the fact that the only illegal immigrant was you. In doing this you also infer that Arabs are all the same, and would be happy living in any other Arab country, and then contrast this with the lie that you have nowhere else to go, even though you may still own a house in America, or Britain, and even if you don't, it still is no excuse for stealing someone else's land.
Posted by Stu | June 21, 2010, 1:06 am