[Boston-editorial] anti-Semitic conspiracy theories

[Matthew Williams]

Hey all --

Just a heads up to look out for articles posted by "researcher", who is 
promoting anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and throwing a fit because 
I'm hiding them. Actually, everyone should check every article posted 
about 9-11 or Israel to check for anti-Semitic content--those are the 
places it most commonly crops up. And researcher may well switch to 
another pseudonym.

Why we consider researcher's articles anti-Semitic might not be 
immediately clear to newer editors. A while back, we had a discussion 
in which we agreed to treat all conspiracy theories pinning the blame 
on either Jews or Zionists as anti-Semitic. This is for the simple 
reason that these conspiracy theories generally have their roots in the 
work of right-wing anti-Semites, who often use the term "Zionist" as a 
code word for "Jew". Unfortunately, some quasi-progressive people seem 
to have picked up on these conspiracy theories without really 
understanding where they came from, which is one of the reasons they 
find their way onto out site (in addition to the fact that members of 
the far right also occasionally post to our site). If anyone's 
interested in reading a good critique of conspiracy theories about 9-11 
and conspiracy theorism in general, see 
http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/conspiracism-911.html

-- Matt