Thread by @rafaelshimunov

We all know @StopAntisemites is a hate site by a multimillionaire Israel lobbyist to smear Palestinians and advocates for human rights

We're gonna fight back! I can't afford it but put it on my credit card counting on community to chip in to #StopTheSmear
gofund.me/093b00a4

Your donation will help pay for StopAntisemitism dot com, a domain purchased for nearly $4,000, likely outbidding the site's efforts to buy it.

The site will correct the record on every innocent person smeared with a multimillion-dollar campaign of character assassination.

StopAntisemitism dot org is a website started by Adam Milstein, a wealthy right-wing AIPAC lobbyist. Its strategy is to list critics of Israeli government actions against Palestinian human rights alongside actual antisemites to conflate criticism of Israel with antisemitism.

The impact of this strategy has been devastating to ordinary people, whose jobs, safety and families have been put in danger for being falsely associated with the views of the KKK, Neo-Nazis and white supremacists.

To promote itself, it occasionally lists high-profile celebrities like Trevor Noah and Dua Lipa as antisemites. But its real targets are ordinary students, professors, activists and human rights defenders.

Many of its victims find these listings as the first result for their name on Google search, impacting their employment, relationships, and the physical safety of them and the safety of their loved ones.

The new site's aim will be to sit along side the hate site in search engine results, to correctly name the origins of the site, and repair harm to victims of smears with their actual points of view supporting the safety and security of all Palestinians and Jews.

I of course cannot afford a surprise $4,000 expense in my outbidding of the hate site for this domain. I bought it knowing the community will chip in all or most of it before my charge card bill arrives.

It isn't even a credit card, it's an Amex that requires full payment back.

First attack in.

"As of now, he has raised $100 in six hours. Here’s hoping he struggles to get much more than that, and needs to take a job flipping burgers in order to afford this d*ck move of his." #StopTheSmear

israellycool.com/2022/07/29/isr…

The brilliant comments you would expect are rolling in. #StopTheSmear

I'm hoping they can also write my LinkedIn bio for me.

I hereby grant indigenousjudea permission to author my epitaph.

Are they trying to defame me or get me dates?

Imagine us, wearing silk and drumming to the sunset while I fix your shoes before we embark on Chinese Mongolian fusion cuisine that I cut into bite sized pieces with my Uzbek sword reciting Persian poems.

I may joke to deflate their attacks on me. I'm safer as a Jew, male, not Black, Muslim, Arab or Palestinian and not at the whims of employers. But this is extremely serious and dangerous for many others they target and I never take that lightly. That's what drives this effort.

Just wow.

Wowow we are over half way to the goal! Bit.ly/stopthesmear