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By Gilad Atzmon \u2013 gilad.co.uk Aug 8, 2020<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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A few days ago I received this warning message from Twitter:<\/h5>\n
\u201cHi Gilad Atzmon,\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Your account, @GiladAtzmon has been locked for violating the Twitter Rules.<\/strong> I was accused by this anti social network of \u201cviolating\u201d their\u00a0 \u201crules against hateful conduct.\u201d<\/h5>\n
The message took me by surprise as hatred is foreign to me. In fact, I dedicate a considerable amount of my energy to exposing the racism, racial supremacy and biological determinism that are found in many\u00a0identitarian discourses.<\/h5>\n
Twitter wrote to me \u201cYou may not promote violence against, threaten, or harass other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease.\u201d<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Here is my 5 year old tweet that prompted action by twitter:<\/h5>\n
@GiladAtzmon<\/strong><\/h5>\n
_What can Jews do about #Antisemitism? Simple– look in the mirror– introspect. #Palestine #Zionism #Israel #BDS<\/strong><\/h5>\n

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It seems that Twitter considers it\u00a0 \u2018hateful\u2019 to\u00a0 ask people to \u201clook in the mirror\u201d, to \u201cintrospect,\u201d to consider the \u2018remote\u2019 possibility that maybe some of the Jewish State\u2019s policies and practices may reflect badly on the Jews as a whole. I would like Twitter to explain to us how calling on people\u00a0 to \u201cintrospect\u201d\u00a0 \u201cpromotes violence\u201d or \u201cthreaten[s] or harass[es] people on the basis of race?\u201d<\/h5>\n
Twitter must have known that I didn\u2019t commit any \u2018hateful speech\u2019 and offered me the chance to erase my 5 year old tweet that no one except my devoted Zionist stalkers would notice and who managed to pinpoint four other \u2018hateful\u2019 statements by me.<\/h5>\n
Apparently sarcasm isn\u2019t well received by Twitter’s moderators. They demanded that I also delete this 4 year old tweet:<\/h5>\n
@GiladAtzmon<\/strong><\/h5>\n
I suggest instead of referring to the Swastika we just call it ‘Star of Adolf,’ it sounds friendly and it puts David’s in context\u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/h5>\n
I accept that some Jews are upset by my dark cynicism, but considering the disastrous crimes that are committed\u00a0by the country that decorates its tanks and airplanes with Stars of David, this is another call for Jews to introspect, to look in the mirror, to self-reflect. It by no means \u201cpromotes violence\u201d, \u201cthreatens\u201d, or \u201charasses\u201d anyone. If anything it replicates the early Zionist insight which I agree with, that before anything else, Jews must first find their way to become \u2018people like all other people.\u2019<\/h5>\n
Twitter also asked me to remove this exchange with an ardent Zionist:<\/h5>\n
\u201c@GiladAtzmon<\/strong><\/h5>\n
@Saul_Freeman because the real holocaust is what you People do to Palestinians.\u201d<\/strong><\/h5>\n
I understand that I violated a tenet of the holocaust religion that no one is allowed to apply the H-word\u00a0to any other people\u2019s suffering. Certainly, no one is allowed to point at the slow genocide of the Palestinians.<\/h5>\n
I don\u2019t intend to bore you with each statement Twitter finds hateful. It doesn\u2019t take much\u00a0 to figure out that\u00a0 Twitter was subjected to a Zionist blitz aimed at silencing me.\u00a0 To some extent it was reassuring that my detractors\u00a0couldn\u2019t find a single remotely hateful statement in my entire Twitter oeuvre. And it was amusing to see how upset this caricature Zionist was to find out that my Twitter account was still active.<\/h5>\n
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Hi @twitter<\/a> @TwitterSupport<\/a> @jack<\/a> if you agree that @GiladAtzmon<\/a>\u2019s twitter violates your rules on hateful conduct (months after I reported him to you) could you please explain why his account is still active on your platform? Why are you not removing his account? pic.twitter.com\/BDeZKDd0MG<\/a><\/p>\n

— Gary Spedding (@GarySpedding) August 6, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n