Education Forum Moderated by Anti-Semitic Crackpot---John Simkin is Aware

[Fred Litwin]

but did AI not give you a link to the ADL stuff on Niederhut?

fred

[Benjamin Cole]

FL--

In this case, no.

[Benjamin Cole]

[Paul J Cummings]

You are way out of line Cole. Coming in here and starting a thread for the sole person of attacking someone on another website is beyond being a dick.   

[Benjamin Cole]

PJC--

You have your views, and I have mine.

The Education Forum is moderated by an anti-Semitic crackpot. That's my view, earnestly held.

Efforts have been made within the Ed Forum community to resolve the problem, but were unsuccessful.

See the other thread this forum on a similar topic.

This is my new JFKA-RFKA home, and I post on all aspects of the assassinations here.

Likely, these are my last posts on this lamentable topic; I have other fish to fry, and have said my piece.

[Dr. William Niederhut]

Hello, JFK Assassination Forum.

I was just notified about Benjamin Cole's false, defamatory thread about me on your forum, and I think it is important to set the record straight.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

The first thing I want to make clear is that I am not Anti-Semitic, nor am I a "crackpot."  I'm a retired physician (psychiatrist) and graduate of Brown University and Harvard Medical School.

The second is that Education Forum founder, John Simkin, did not appoint me as a moderator of the Education Forum.

I was asked to help out the EF moderators (now deceased) a few years ago, before they asked Mr. Simkin to return to his forum.

1)  I joined the Education Forum in 2017.  My main interest was the JFK assassination literature, but I had also done some reading about the 9/11 science literature, after reading Laurent Guyenot's book, JFK to 9/11-- 50 Years of Deep State.

     I had posted some commentary on the EF, in the past, about the research of Guyenot and the Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth.

     In response to my references to the 9/11 science literature, Benjamin Cole repeatedly attacked me as an "Anti-Semitic crackpot," while adamantly refusing to study or discuss the scientific and forensic evidence.

      Cole also attacked me for referencing the American Pravda history essays of the Harvard/Stanford polymath, Ron Unz.  I have repeatedly reminded Mr. Cole that Ron Unz does not edit, nor necessarily endorse, the opinions of researchers and journalists who post articles on his Unz Review website.

       Some of the writers who post at the Unz Review are Anti-Semitic, in my opinion.  I disagree with many of their opinions.

       I have been very careful about criticizing Israel and the Netanyahu regime on the Education Forum, preferring to reference criticisms of Netanyahu by Jewish intellectuals like Bernie Sanders and Norman Solomon.
     
       As Bernie Sanders has pointed out, criticism of Netanyahu is not necessarily Anti-Semitic.  Many Jewish people have criticized Netanyahu.

       Nevertheless, Benjamin Cole has persisted in calling me an "Anti-Semitic crackpot."  Frankly, it's libel.

  2)     The moderators at the Education Forum had, repeatedly, penalized Benjamin Cole for posting redundant falsehoods (17 times!) before I ever became a moderator, and before John Simkin had recently rejoined his Education Forum.

       Ben was, most recently, penalized by the Education Forum for posting redundant spam by Mel Ayton, attacking Lisa Pease's landmark investigation of the RFK assassination, A Lie Too Big to Fail.   He insisted on re-posting Mel Ayton's hit piece even after he was asked to cease and desist.

       I hope that this clarification is helpful for the JFK Assassination Forum.

Sincerely,

      William Niederhut, M.D.

       Denver, Colorado

[Tom Graves]

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Anyone who promotes the works of Mel Ayton and criticizes Linda Pease and/or Comrade James DiEugenio at the so-called JFK Assassination Debate - Education Forum should be applauded, not penalized.