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Right-wing reposts on Indymedia

category national | rights, freedoms and repression | news report author Sunday January 04, 2004 20:06author by --

Indymedia UK and Ireland used for pro-Israel reposts from right-wing sites.

The 'news' item

http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=62832

about "Euro-socialists judeophobia" is a repost from a number of right-wing web sites, including netanyahu.org and a Likud website. The interviewer, Tobiass, is a correspondent for Israeli radio.

Similar reposts from right-wing sites, usually in the USA, have appeared on Indymedia UK. The theme is the same: all opposition to Israel is anti-semitism, and Europe is anti-semitic. In some cases the 'dhimmitude theory' is included. This is a weird claim, popular among sections of the American right, that Europe is controlled by Muslims and that the original inhabitants have been reduced to semi-slavery.

The question is, what this kind of racist nonsense doing on Indymedia? Is it the function of Indymedia to act as a mirror site for the Likud Party, or for any American right-wing conspiracy theorist?

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/62860

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