Paula R. Stern wrote a
blog
on the Times of Israel site about McDonald, 12 Jan 2014.
They gave McDonald a
right to reply, 2 Mar 2014.
What a pollution of their site!
His fanatic hatred of Israel, which sells so well in Ireland,
did not go down well with the Israeli readers!
Reply
(and here), 3 Mar 2014,
by Simon Plosker of HonestReporting.
Frank McDonald, 8 Nov 2015, weeps for an injured female terrorist
who
tried to kill an Israeli security guard.
He complains that Israeli security do not immediately rush to treat her wounds after she is shot.
(Because she might be wearing explosives.)
Don't worry, Frank, she lived.
Frank McDonald, 2 Jan 2016, thinks he has worked out the secret code that indicates the
Tel Aviv shooter
is an Israeli Jew.
Unfortunately for him, the shooter turned out to be an
Israeli Arab Muslim
who was motivated by "a jihadist ideology".
Note how McDonald doesn't bat an eyelid at the appearance of notorious
Holocaust denier
Charles Frith
in his timeline.
What the hell kind of people is he hanging out with on Twitter?
I tweeted
the above
out to
@irish4israel
on 11 Jan 2014
and we started a terrific Twitter firestorm from Israel supporters.
Celebrating a Jewish prime minister's death
and comparing the Holocaust to trivial things:
You have to expect some kind of response.
On Gaza being like Warsaw:
"For the record, there were no luxury malls in the Warsaw ghetto, no fancy restaurants and expensive cars. There were no mansions, no pools and they sure as heck didn't have miles and miles of sandy beaches."
On the Israelis acting like the Nazis:
"Israel delivers thousands of tons of food and supplies to Gaza every month...
I don't recall the Germans ever doing that in the Warsaw ghetto.
Injured and sick Gazans are regularly admitted to Israeli hospitals for the most advanced medical care ...
I don't recall the Nazis ever doing that in the Warsaw ghetto.
The Prime Minister of Gaza's own grandchild was brought to Israel for medical care...
you want to know what the Germans did to Jewish children?"
And of course:
"No residents of the Warsaw ghetto attempted to infiltrate German cities, board German buses to blow them up. Residents of the Warsaw ghetto never fired a rocket or a mortar into a German city."
Frank McDonald carries on with his "Nazi" drivel:
On Gaza being like the Warsaw Ghetto:
Frank McDonald, 6 Feb 2014:
"In terms of the way they operated (i.e. the concentration of people in one area, the diet, etc) there are disturbing similarities."
A reply says:
"There was KFC in the Warsaw Ghetto?"
Frank McDonald, 18 Feb 2014:
"It's very unfortunate that the Israelis have behaved like Nazis, killing innocent women & children."
Frank McDonald, 19 Feb 2014:
"For the record, I did not call Israel "Nazi Germany". But there are disturbing parallels."
I had some debate with McDonald on Twitter before he blocked me.
One debate:
When confronted with the fact that debate and criticism are not allowed in the PA,
McDonald, 2 Mar 2014, produces this hilarious tweet:
"Yes, civil rights and open debate do not thrive in a society that's under siege, as Palestine is."
I replied:
"Lol. Fatah, Hamas would run liberal parliamentary democracies .. if only the mean Israelis would let them!"
McDonald
says: "I think the only fair outcome would be a single-state solution with equal rights for all."
I replied:
"You are deluded if you think Fatah and Hamas believe in your western Orientalist concept of "rights"."
In his defence, he may have blocked me after incorrectly coming to believe that I was the troll below.
Blocking that troll would be perfectly reasonable.
(I block the troll myself.)
I was made a fool of in 2014-15 by a troll who was stalking McDonald,
and I am furious.
McDonald is
"frankmcdonald60"
on Twitter.
He is being stalked by a disgusting troll impersonator,
"frankmcdonal60",
whose name is identical,
whose picture is identical,
and whose username is identical except for a hard-to-see missing "d".
What makes this guy a troll, not a parody, is that he really tries to fool people,
even his own "side",
that he is the real McDonald.
He jumps into McDonald's conversations with sneaky tactics
so you think McDonald has replied.
I was embarrassed and angry to be told in July 2015 that one of my criticisms of McDonald,
on my site since Aug 2014,
was in fact a fraud.
I was quoting the troll.
I want to apologise to McDonald for attributing the words of the troll to him.
Apologies.
Fake quote:
This is the fake quote by the disgusting troll that fooled me in
Aug 2014.
This was on my site, attributed to McDonald, until July 2015, when I was told it was fake.
Note how the bastard jumps into a conversation which already has McDonald in it.
He replies, removing McDonald's name
and inserting his own.
What a devious bastard.
The irony is that
I was actually defending McDonald in the thread against someone who said he supports Hamas.
I was demanding evidence for such a claim.
(Such evidence never came.)
So above a troll got me to slander McDonald, for which I do apologise.
However, McDonald is also slandering me.
He claims (based on no evidence, for there is none)
that I am the troll.
He needs to apologise to me also.
Frank McDonald lies about me, July 2015.
He claims I run the above troll account.
No evidence is presented.
(None could exist.)
McDonald got his "information" from an Israel-hater
called David Carter.
David Carter simply
lies about me.
He just makes stuff up.
Not a scrap of evidence is ever presented.
(None could exist.)
Frank McDonald believes him and spreads the lie.
David Carter
claims that I run another troll account!
He claims that I run
"MLK_studios",
which impersonates his friend
"MLKstudios".
No evidence is presented. (None could exist.)
I have never heard of either of them.
Frank
McDonald's source for his slander about me, David Carter, is a Holocaust denier.
No, I'm not kidding.
David Carter
is a Holocaust denier.
This guy is the source of Frank McDonald's information about me!
He's not shy about his Holocaust denial.
Search for more.
Profile of David Carter,
Israel-hating maniac,
Holocaust denier,
and source of Frank McDonald's information about me.
Irish Times journalist lies about me, using as his source a Holocaust denier.
Amazing.
This is what happens when one defends Israel in public online
(and when Irish Times journalists
lie down in the gutter with Israel-haters).
Wow:
David Carter is
arrested by UK police on race hatred charges, for anti-semitism, Feb 2016.
See announcement of multiple arrests.
This is Frank McDonald's source
for information about me!
In fact, the above are not the only Holocaust deniers
among
Frank McDonald's friends.
There are still more.
Above I was accused by Holocaust denier David Carter of impersonating his friend
"MLKstudios",
who I had never heard of.
It turns out that
"MLKstudios" is
also a Holocaust denier.
I never heard of him because I do not hang around with such filth.
Frank McDonald,
however,
does hang out with such filth.
And the filth admires his work:
"You fight the good fight Frank."
McDonald thanks him for the praise.
So we have a 3rd Holocaust denier
among McDonald's friends.
"ricohands"
says I am Jewish "trash", May 2014:
"we all know u from rag peddler fraudster stock".
Alas, I reply,
I do not have that honour.
Frank McDonald follows this guy.
Frank McDonald and How to Spot a Wrong 'Un
by
"InTheSoupAgain",
on McDonald's unfortunate history of retweeting Holocaust deniers
and anti-semites.
The author is a leftist who hates the Tories and UKIP,
and he bends over backwards to give McDonald the benefit of the doubt.
(Rightly so, I think.)
I agree that we should be precise.
There is no evidence that
McDonald himself
supports Holocaust denial
or anti-semitism.
He may be entirely unaware of the beliefs of his friends.
But it shows the kind of gutter of Israel-hatred he lives in online.
McDonald
hangs around with multiple Holocaust deniers online.
And blocks his pro-Israel critics like me.
Odd bigots on Twitter,
a useful list of dodgy tweets by Twitter anti-semites and nazis,
compiled by "InTheSoupAgain".
As shown above,
Frank McDonald associates with a lot of disturbing people online.
As a result, it is no surprise to see other things creeping in, like
9/11 conspiracy theories.
Frank McDonald, 16 Aug 2015, starts flirting with 9/11 trutherism.
His "Holocaust hoax" friends say the Jews did 9/11.
He says:
"However far-fetched, this is worth reading at least ..."
How did Frank see this?
We can actually trace how he saw it.
The "Jews did 9/11" link was originally
re-tweeted
by anti-semite and Holocaust denier "rico_hands", who Frank follows.
This is what happens when you follow anti-semites and Holocaust deniers.
This is the stuff now appearing in Frank McDonald's feed.
I posted this on 17 Aug 2015.
Shortly after, other people posted it
here
and here
and here
and here.
Frank eventually replied. See below.
McDonald sends me abuse, 18 Aug 2015.
I think by calling me a "scumbag"
he has now put everyone's minds at rest about his associations with Holocaust deniers.
Every now and then, he hops out of block,
insults me,
and then blocks me again.
And this is a senior Irish journalist!