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I mentioned Dawson once in a prior discussion, I believe. It is sad what happened with him. Some time ago he was just another pro-Palestine commentator that lurked around the internet, and he had hosted some discussion forums online to discuss Zionism -- quite useful at a time when social networking wasn't as great. Slowly over time he went nuttier and nuttier, and he started hosting Holocaust denial content on his page. I gave him the benefit of the doubt for some time, confronting him about it and hoping he would see reason (I think he did at one point before relapsing into this crank lunacy) but since then I think he has just gone further down that rabbit hole. He is part of a genuinely problematic fringe of the Palestine movement (although primarily only in cyberspace), shilling for Assad, Trump, and 9/11 Conspiracy theories. The truth is this shit is more common than some would like to acknowledge. Some friends in the Muslim community mentioned that friends and family admired Trump on the basis that he would be tough on ISIS. Hitler's legacy is also poorly understood in much of the Middle East and among Muslim immigrants given Israel's exploitation of the genocide, so there is some tolerance for this false version of Hitler who is conflated with Nasser and others. The lack of a functioning leftist pole in this country has driven some in those communities in that direction, I think that's who Bartlett and others are trying to tap for support. - Amith On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 9:45 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > Eva Bartlett, the co-editor of Sign of the Times that I reported on today, > is interviewed by Ryan Dawson, a notorious holocaust denier. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKcvtOya2-Q > > > > -- > Support Louis Proyect biography project > https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/publish-the-biography-of- > socialist-louis-proyect#/ > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/opt > ions/marxism/amithrgupta%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
