Ewan MacKenna
Irish sports journalist
Ewan MacKenna
has a deep hatred of Israel,
and has hurled a lot of abuse at me.
Personal abuse, libel, calling me racist, targeting my job.
I had to block him because of his behaviour.
Has he got better? I am not sure. See below.
Feb 2014
In
Feb 2014
I debated him for a bit.
It started out as above.
Frankly, his tweet is pretty creepy.
A bit like people who "sum up" America with a photo of some evangelical megachurch.
The debate went ok for a while, but then
Ewan MacKenna started hurling
abuse and libel.
He libels me as "racist"
because I defend Israel.
I lost interest in debating him after that.
May 2018
Debate kicked off again in
May 2018
in response to an
anti-Israel article
by MacKenna.
I suppose it's my fault for tagging him in.
There was debate for a short time, but it did not take long before MacKenna got into
some fairly sad abuse.
There was a lot more like this, as he tried to "imagine" my life.
It is easier than debating I guess.
Finally he
targeted my job
so I blocked him.
He
tags in my employer.
Him targeting my job is based on an error
What is hilarious is that him targeting my job
is actually based on
an error.
-
I linked
to the evidence that
one of the journalists killed in the Gaza fence riots, Ahmed Abu Hussein,
was a PFLP terrorist.
To summarise:
"the PFLP's military wing issued formal death notices for him;
at his funeral red PFLP flags were carried;
and the Ahmed Abu Hussein's Facebook page posted notices glorifying the PFLP".
- MacKenna then confuses Ahmed Abu Hussein (who was not married) with
Yaser Murtaja,
another journalist killed in the riots, who was the
father of a 15-month-old (apparently not 3 year old) son.
- MacKenna says
he knew Yaser Murtaja,
so that is why he goes crazy.
But the whole thing is based on his lack of reading skills!
-
Maybe he would have targeted my job anyway. He seems like that kind of person.
But this complaint at least is just based on his error.
-
Later it turned out Yaser Murtaja was a terrorist too:
Israel said Yaser Murtaja
was an officer in Hamas.
Also here.
June 2020: Insane libels from MacKenna
I block MacKenna because of his horrible behaviour, but he returned to my world in June 2020.
Background:
In June 2020
I criticised
the "Black Lives Matter" rioting in London.
This was the rioting after the death by police of
George Floyd
in America,
which produced a kind of mass hysteria worldwide.
-
A guy called Paul Walsh, who is not me, has a go at MacKenna.
What Walsh says is nothing to do with me.
-
But MacKenna, 7 June 2020, responds with the most vile libel about me.
He claims I support "an all-out race war .. so long as those on the end of a bullet are brown."
-
That is some real libellous filth.
May 2021 apology
Is MacKenna getting better?
In May 2021, he sent me a private apology for some of his behaviour above.
Notably for targeting my employer.
"My views on the Middle East haven't altered, but my views on how to engage with respect have."
He deserves some respect for that.
I am impressed by the apology existing at all.
Though less impressed
when this page reminded me of everything he said.
7 October 2023
I had thought before 7 October that Ewan MacKenna was getting better, that his deranged hatred for the Jewish state was dying down
and he was coming to some respect for people with different views.
But no, 7 October seems to have sent him into new realms of madness.
- See
what he said
in Oct 2023 after Israel suffered the worst massacre of Jews since 1945.
It is all deranged anger at Israel
and anger at people expressing solidarity with Israel.
See screenshots.
- More deranged
screenshots.
In
Oct 2024,
he daydreams about the home of half the world's Jews "ceasing to exist",
and asks
"What's the downside?"
He also claims this would lead to
"general peace",
which is the opinion of a madman.
