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So now Assange is seeing Jewish conspiracies behind Hillary? (Original Post)
Blue_Tires
Oct 2016
OP
That sounds Russian or otherwise Eastern European. They talk like that. "Jewish speech"
stevenleser
Oct 2016
#8
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)1. He's a scumbag. He belongs in Trumps basket.
Bohunk68
(1,364 posts)2. Osama bin Ladin. Saudi.
17 of the 9/11 people, Saudi. May have a good point.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)3. Human sewer pipe nt
BainsBane
(53,035 posts)5. He's scum
always has been.
Behind the Aegis
(53,959 posts)6. No surprises, at leas to those familiar with his MO.
I am sure some will find an "excuse".
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)7. Who here is surprised? nt
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)8. That sounds Russian or otherwise Eastern European. They talk like that. "Jewish speech"
There are huge issues with antisemitism in Eastern Europe. IMHO this lends even more credence to the idea that Wikileaks is a Russian intelligence OP.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)10. Any of y'all usual suspects want to step up
and defend this asshole again?
cemaphonic
(4,138 posts)14. I think most of the old DU Assange fanclub departed to JPR
I know I've seen some familiar names when I've gone rubbernecking over there.
And yes, as others have posted, Assange and Antisemitism go back years.
Sparkly
(24,149 posts)11. What's a "Jewish speech?"
And which is it -- the Saudis funded her campaign, or she is against the Saudis for their ideology? Hard to keep their theories straight.
Denzil_DC
(7,242 posts)12. Not the first time Assange has gone down this road.
Julian Assange 'Jewish conspiracy' comments spark row
Julian Assange has blamed a number of journalists for a "Jewish" conspiracy against his whistleblowing website, WikiLeaks, according to the editor of Private Eye, Ian Hislop.
In the latest issue of the satirical magazine, Hislop writes that Assange called him on 16 February to complain about an article on Israel Shamir, a WikiLeaks associate in Russia who has denied the Holocaust and has published a string of antisemitic articles.
"He said that I and Private Eye should be ashamed of ourselves for joining in the international conspiracy to smear WikiLeaks," Hislop writes. "The piece was an obvious attempt to deprive him and his organisation of Jewish support and donations, he said angrily, and he knew perfectly well who had written it. He then named a Fleet Street hack who had nothing to do with it."
Hislop adds that Assange went on to claim that Private Eye was "part of a conspiracy led by the Guardian which included journalist David Leigh, editor Alan Rusbridger and John Kampfner from Index on Censorship all of whom 'are Jewish'".
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/mar/01/julian-assange-jewish-conspiracy-comments
Julian Assange has blamed a number of journalists for a "Jewish" conspiracy against his whistleblowing website, WikiLeaks, according to the editor of Private Eye, Ian Hislop.
In the latest issue of the satirical magazine, Hislop writes that Assange called him on 16 February to complain about an article on Israel Shamir, a WikiLeaks associate in Russia who has denied the Holocaust and has published a string of antisemitic articles.
"He said that I and Private Eye should be ashamed of ourselves for joining in the international conspiracy to smear WikiLeaks," Hislop writes. "The piece was an obvious attempt to deprive him and his organisation of Jewish support and donations, he said angrily, and he knew perfectly well who had written it. He then named a Fleet Street hack who had nothing to do with it."
Hislop adds that Assange went on to claim that Private Eye was "part of a conspiracy led by the Guardian which included journalist David Leigh, editor Alan Rusbridger and John Kampfner from Index on Censorship all of whom 'are Jewish'".
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/mar/01/julian-assange-jewish-conspiracy-comments
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)13. Everyone knows about the Saudi connection to 9-11
What is Assange's point?