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Let's leave aside that the leaps of logic, critical thinking errors, and weak referential integrity of the relationships you question (might I add conspiratorially) doesn't provide a shred of evidence to backup anything you say (other than your opinions).

A common strategy for people to attack others is:

(1) Cast doubt on any source that disagrees with your point of view using the classic "Who funds x,y,z"? Valid questions. But before such questions are asked (and this can be asked of all/any groups or individuals - even the ones you agree with), one needs to do due dilligence of the content. In this example, you seem eager to cast doubt on "Arab America" by using the familiar question "Who funds this?" regardless of any research as to the integrity OR accuracy of the material produced by the group. So why should anyone fall for your classic attempts at deflection?

This is just one example of the strategies that deniers use when they don't have facts or evidence to back up their claims. So they have a proclivity to weave these threads by "attempting to plant seeds of doubt" in an effort to abrogate critical thinking.

I could go on with a detailed analysis of the errors in your comment, but IMO it is not worth the time - as you have already demonstrated your stance and bias beyond any shadow of a doubt.

(PS: many people use the same strategies you use - including Israel. How many times has Israel attempted to cast doubt and villify/discredit/defame a source using the "who funds" argument? How many times have Israel tried to disrepute and stigmatize sources that reveal evidence that goes against their narrative? How often does Israel use the same tactic that you do (of giving significance to relationships that might not have any significance or bearing on the situation at all? (re:"executive director Rebecca Vilkomerson's husband was/is still working for Checkpoint, an "israeli" cyber security firm that makes monitoring software.")

Your comment, unfortunately, reeks of the same strategies that Israel uses to rebutt any facts/evidence that go against its narrative and interests.

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HaHa. Thanks Ernesto for providing me with a good laugh. I'm beginning to enjoy the subtle comedy in your responses.

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>>"...the world's only racist cesspool..."

Really Ernesto, is that what you think of Jews and Jewry?

And I'm the one with a problem?

Thank you for clarifying your position.

Even the Palestinians don't hate Jews the way you do. They hate "Israeli Zionists", "American Zionists", and any other Zionists out there. They also hate settler-colonialism and being oppressed (regardless of if Jews or some other ethnic group are doing the oppressing). If you doubt that, I suggest you work on getting your information from credible sources with high integrity.

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Ernesto, you must have watched the movie "Freaky Friday" - as you are trying a role-reversal. Kudos for trying to attempt the maneuver.

Let me explain a little (from a technological perspective) how social interaction sites (like SubStack for instance) work. They perform rigorous data anlaytics on the data that the users (we) provide/generate (for free) through our interactions. Hence, they have a record of all previous threads of communication. Even if you/we delete our messages, nothing gets deleted from the databases on their servers. Once we type it in and send it (POST/PUT API calls in tech parlance), it's a part of the permanent record (including every single edit on a message).

Hence, your obvious attempts at obfuscation, playing the victim while being the victimizer, trying desperately to invert the narrative that you have displayed on this site (even before your communication with me began), playing with self-invented semantics, and other such strategies to deflect and misdirect from your single-minded focus on your beliefs (holocaust denialism, Jews bad everyone else good, Jews rule the world anti-semitic theories, etc.) are failing.

I don't know if your recent response is an attempt or ill-conveived alibi to defend yourself (by making false accusations and insinuations) from the people monitoring activities (and the data-analytics team) of this site - but if it is, then you underestimate them (and technology). Your historical record is self-evident.

Ernesto, honestly - I'm disappointed by your lack of integrity, false framing of narratives, your inability to self-evaluate your communication, but most of all - your ability to fall prey to universally debunked theories (as is evident from the historical record you leave behind by interacting on this site).

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