[ May 1, 2024 ]
Pro-Trump Russian Twitter Bots Boosted Pamela Geller – The Forward
Further proof of the derangement on the left. “The number of bot tweets dedicated to the extremists was apparently small, no more than a few dozen out of hundreds of thousands. ” That torpedoes what Josh Nathan-Kazis is trying to claim in his article, but that didn’t stop him from running with it anyway — anything to defame proud pro-Israel Jews and foes of jihad.
“Geller is among the most polarizing figures in the American Jewish community, a far-right activist whose anti-Muslim rhetoric has drawn condemnation from some in the Jewish community, and an open ear from others.” Condemnation? Yes, from left-wing Jews, anti-Israel Jews, anti-Jewish Jews. I wear such condemnations as a badge of honor.
“Russian bots allegedly retweeted Spencer, Geller, Gaffney 57 times, Josh Nathan-Kazis of the Forward goes nuts,” by Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch, February 21, 2018:
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This article from the Forward is an example of how the establishment media is hysterically exaggerating this Russian bot business, in order to further the Left’s agenda of damaging the Trump presidency and, in this instance, further denigrating foes of jihad terror. The attempt was indeed to “sow discord in the U.S. political system,” and the Russians did this, if the Mueller indictment is correct, by playing both sides against each other. They supported not only Trump but Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein, and supported pro-jihad efforts as well as (supposedly) supporting foes of jihad terror. Mueller’s indictment says: “In or around late June 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators used the Facebook group ‘United Muslims of America’ to promote a rally called ‘Support Hillary. Save American Muslims’ held on July 9, 2016 in the District of Columbia. Defendants and their co-conspirators recruited a real U.S. person to hold a sign depicting Clinton and a quote attributed to her stating ‘I think Sharia Law will be a powerful new direction of freedom.’ Within three weeks, on or about July 26, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators posted on the same Facebook page that Muslim voters were ‘between Hillary Clinton and a hard place.'”
The Forward does not, of course, mention that. Instead, Josh Nathan-Kazis tries here to make a mountain out of the molehill of 20 retweets of Geller, 19 of Gaffney, and 18 of me. Does the Forward think its readers are absolute idiots, who will believe that 57 retweets out of “hundreds of thousands” actually amounts to something? (Since I’m shadowbanned on Twitter, no one but those who follow me would have seen those retweets anyway.) And how many times did the Russians retweet pro-jihad entities?
“Neither Geller nor the Center for Security Policy responded to a request for comment. ” Did Josh Nathan-Kazis ask Spencer for comment? No. Why not?
This article is simply an attempt to defame counter-jihadis by association with this alleged Russian interference. I would take it much more seriously were it not for the fact that a close friend has a Twitter account which he uses simply to follow people that interest him; he has never tweeted even once about anything. He got notice from Twitter that his account had been flagged as a Russian bot. This Russian bot business has about as much credibility as the Salem witch trials, and is based on a similar hysteria.
“Pro-Trump Russian Twitter Bots Targeted By Robert Mueller Also Boosted Muslim Haters,” by Josh Nathan-Kazis, Forward, February 20, 2018:
The Russian troll farm indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller for interfering in the 2016 election also used its Twitter bots to boost the message of a handful of prominent anti-Muslim extremists, including right-wing Jewish activist Pamela Geller.
The Russian-operated bots promoted tweets and articles by Geller, Robert Spencer and Frank Gaffney, all of whom are identified as anti-Muslim extremists by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The number of bot tweets dedicated to the extremists was apparently small, no more than a few dozen out of hundreds of thousands. But they point to a Russian effort to boost anti-Muslim sentiment as part of a broader campaign to sow divisions in American society.
In September 2016, Geller, a Long Island-based Jewish activist who came to prominence a decade ago as a flamboyant anti-Muslim ideologue, tweeted a link to a story on her personal blog headlined “Christian Teen Raped and Hung: Muslim Cops Say ‘Natural Causes.’”
More than 100 people retweeted Geller’s tweet. According to a database posted online by NBC News of Twitter handles operated by Russian Internet trolls, at least two of the accounts that retweeted the Geller tweet were Russian bots.
Twenty of the Russian troll bots in all retweeted or mentioned Geller, according to the NBC database. Eighteen retweeted or mentioned Spencer, who co-founded the group Stop Islamization of America with Geller. Nineteen retweeted or mentioned Gaffney, the anti-Muslim founder of the Center for Security Policy. The Russian bots used the hashtag “#islamkills” 477 times and the hashtag “#stopislam” another 232 times.
Last week, Mueller’s office indicted 13 Russian nationals and three Russian companies, including St. Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency, known for its trolling on social media.
The court document said those accused “had a strategic goal to sow discord in the U.S. political system, including the 2016 U.S. presidential election.”
The indictment said Russians adopted false online personas to push divisive messages; traveled to the United States to collect intelligence, visiting 10 states; and staged political rallies while posing as Americans.
There is no sign so far that Geller or any of the other anti-Islam activists collaborated with the Russian effort.
Neither Geller nor the Center for Security Policy responded to a request for comment. Geller is among the most polarizing figures in the American Jewish community, a far-right activist whose anti-Muslim rhetoric has drawn condemnation from some in the Jewish community, and an open ear from others. Leftist Jews protested in 2013 when a Modern Orthodox synagogue in Long Island invited her to speak. And a major mainstream Jewish donor-advised fund sent money to Geller’s nonprofit in 2012 and 2013….
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34 Comments
6 years ago
Meanwhile, overseas, with 100’s of Millions at their disposal, the CIA works to manipulate foreign powers. NSA, 100 Billion a year, spies on all our allies, recording and tracking every piece of electronic data. Why isn’t anyone tracking Saudi Arabia contributions to politicians in DC?
6 years ago
Reply to
Phil McDonald
Agree. Dems supported Iran nuke deal after getting paid by Iranian lobbyists https://tinyurl.com/mcake4d
Not one MSM covered it and nobody bats an eye . They sold out American/israeli interest for few 10,000’s dollars.
6 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
Don’t forget Obhammud’s efforts, at US taxpayer expense, to undermine Netanyahu’s reelection bid.
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
“…. knuckle dragger”, Little kitty? No, it’s bacha bazi.
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
Would that be kool-aid or camel urine muslum knuckle dragger?
Idiotic response devoid of any rational content. About what I would expect of you.
6 years ago
Reply to
Phil McDonald
Why isn’t anyone loudly exposing Saudi Arabia’s funding of mosques and madrassa in America? Where in this regard are America’s wondrous Jews like Josh Nathan-Kazis who, as Pamela so unreluctantly points out, are among America’s most disgusting liberal/left dividers and traitors. I don’t get it. Do they think that their liberal, soft on Islam and jihad, position will somehow alter the Qur’an’s and Muslim hatred of Jews above all, and thus save their pathetic necks?
6 years ago
Watching liberal cork screwers twist themselves deeper into the ground is a nice diversion.
6 years ago
Reply to
Kat Mandu
I’d MUCH rather be a “white trash” than a moslem (the vilest of ALL creatures). At least, “white trash” are human beings … something that can NOT be said about moslems. By the way, kitty … Did you get a bacha bazi dress for your performance tonight?
6 years ago
Reply to
Kat Mandu
No matter, the worst non muslim is infinitely better than any muslim especially mutgonad, police beat upon him.
6 years ago
Let the leftist wingers steep in their fetid, toxic juices. The Holier-Than-Thou Democrats tossed America under the bus while its Islamophile leader and quasi-messiah had dalliances with Iran and other rogue states bent on America and Israel’s downfall. Our President had better kick Jeff sessions in the hiny or elsewhere; to motivate this weenie of weenies to indict Obama and his comrade conspirators for treason. Why or how Sessions remains America’s Attorney General is mind-boggling.
The truth has no hold within the wretched party, the Democrats, nor the tag-along brainwashed Bolshevik wannabes. Geller, Spencer, and others speak the truth; facts are beyond the mindset of the Islamophile fan-club, the Democrats, progressives, and others of this anti-Constitutional Republic/Democracy/Israel pathogen.
6 years ago
Pro-Trump Russian Twitter Bots Targeted By Robert Mueller Also Boosted Muslim Haters
A Russian troll farm was using its Twitter bots to boost the message of a handful of prominent anti-Muslim extremists.
6 years ago
They write anti-muslim as if it’s a bad thing.
6 years ago
“Bots” or no “bots” cannot alter people’s choice. They are not “implants” to the brain making recipient incapacitated and subjugated to evil designs of their creators. The free will rules all. But of course leftists, who hysterically believe in “historical materialism” and explicitly deny the free will, think otherwise. “Bots” my a__e.
6 years ago
Gotta love it. One of the top moslem sites, during the last election was “United Muslims of America”, which was a Russian “bot”, troll site. How come there is little to no mention of that? It was one of the most followed sites, on Facebook, of any moslem site.
6 years ago
The “Forward, Left!”
6 years ago
Reply to
sodacrackers2
There is a book you might find interesting which I read years ago called “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds”. It is about as good an explanation of mass hysteria as you will find.
6 years ago
Reply to
Drew the Infidel
Thank you! I will see if I can get it. It sounds appropriate in today’s insane world.
6 years ago
Russian bots allegedly retweet Geller …
Hey, maybe Russian meddling isn’t so bad after all!
a far-right activist whose anti-Muslim rhetoric has drawn condemnation from some in the Jewish community, and an open ear from others.
How is Pamela “far right”? Mindless character assassination. How is she, a woman who has claimed, “I love Muslims”, anti-Muslim? You might make the case that she is anti-Islam, just as she is anti all totalitarian ideologies.
6 years ago
I’m always surprised over the sheer number of Jews that side with Arabs and Muslims, and violently attack people that are critical of Sharia and Islamists.
6 years ago
Those 13 Russians indicted by Mueller were able to operate right under the FBI’s nose out of St. Petersburg, FL because those semiliterate agents were unable to make the historical connection to St. Petersburg, Russia, which is the old name for Leningrad.
6 years ago
His real name is Josh Nathan – Nazis.
6 years ago
This is insane ! The Russian collusion nonsense has to stop very soon as not a thing has been found in relation to TRUMP! Now if you trolled CLINTON or OBAMA like this it would be VERY interesting!
