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Palestine Will Be Free's avatar

This guy has been all over my page recently with the same message.

Here: https://substack.com/@deanmaughvet/note/c-78197972

And here: https://open.substack.com/pub/palestinewillbefree/p/a-new-standard-of-barbarism?r=2w6ovn&utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=78563141

I hope exposing him publicly like this spurs authorities into action.

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Avigail Abarbanel's avatar

So please help me do it. If there is an avalanche of complaints on Substack that would be something, but the police also have to be notified. Thank you!!

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𝓙𝓪𝓼𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓮 𝓦𝓸𝓵𝓯𝓮's avatar

Just reported him for pornography, fake account, spam, and trolling 🤷‍♀️🤣

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Skookumlelu's avatar

Reported 🤞🏾

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Avigail Abarbanel's avatar

🙏🙏🙏

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Ben_H's avatar

24-48 hrs ago I blocked and deleted him.

The guy needs a good hospital for the mentally disturbed and I can't help him.

I didn't engage or respond. Just a block & delete.

How do such minds are even created in the first place? I guess hate is a potent poison.

You need the patience of a buddhist monk to look after people like that and even then it might not help.

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Avigail Abarbanel's avatar

I understand why you did this, but this guy’s material can cause some other deranged individual to shoot Palestinians or other targets anywhere in the world. Plus what he says may be real, and if he is not directly involved he certainly incites to it. Attacks on Palestinians are carried out daily by people like him in the OWB, where the situation is rapidly deteriorating. No, he needs to be exposed and reported. Even if he is just seeking attention, he is a link in a very real chain. Crazy people can be dangerous.

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Ben_H's avatar

I agree with you he should be reported. Now that I have blocked and deleted I am not sure how I can report him via the substack interface. I assume his page is still up so I guess this can be reported. I would imagine the first port of call would be a complaint to substack. I have googled and found this:

https://support.substack.com/hc/en-us/articles/4404340396564-How-do-I-report-a-content-violation

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Avigail Abarbanel's avatar

You can also unblock him or report him from his reply to me. Thank you!

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palestine's avatar

I got the very same answer

My answer to him:

"

Hi Dean,

time to let go off your mask of sanity as I can see

great for you

Hey! Good luck with your adventure

Many books say that what awaits at the end of such road is getting hanged by the balls - and this is why 95% of people won’t go

All the best

"

I had the exact same feeling that he may be about to truly commit something - but it smells scam. It seems more directed to trigger emotional responses, with provocation.

One problem as well is that most settlers have such thing in mind

Add to this that it would be counter-productive for any person ready to do this to announce it.

But who knows. I am glad if you report him to the British police

I believe this guy is looking for personal attention as part of a scam - let's refrain from going too much in depth in regard of his persona

A quick glance at his stack shows what seems to be a clumsy and quickly done copy paste of hate - it looks like a front for standing his little message operation

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Avigail Abarbanel's avatar

He is inciting hatred and calls for genocide on his Substack page. I don’t think he is just bragging. Either way, they are committing pogroms against Palestinians in the OWB. This is not theoretical, even if by chance this person is not himself directly involved.

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palestine's avatar

it's military:

The Israel Defense Forces recently halted the operational activities of a controversial unit implicated in multiple incidents of abuse against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank.

The unit, called “Sfar Hamidbar,” or Desert Frontier in English, was known for recruiting so-called “hilltop youth” — extremist settler activists involved in building illegal outposts in the West Bank and frequently alleged to be involved in violence against Palestinians.

Sfar Hamidbar has seen several incarnations, but was most recently established as a company in 2020 and assigned with tracking operations to help combat drug and weapons smuggling by Bedouins in the West Bank

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what this means is probably that if any "hilltop youth" group attacks Palestinians, the responsible are overall the same who bombed Gaza - there is no distinction. Of course, some may be street thugs but it is entirely under control of the Israeli mil.

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Avigail Abarbanel's avatar

Interesting. Still need to report. We don’t know how his material could influence someone. We should not regret not reporting when someone in NYC, Paris, London, or anywhere carries out a knife attack or shoots Palestinians or someone who they think is a Palestinian. This is bigger than only Israel or the OWB. He writes in English to an international audience.

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palestine's avatar

I guess I will leave Substack if they don't remove the website in one week

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palestine's avatar

A bit of PR here; this stuff is obviously the low end of the chain so to speak; this is a remote symptom of something bigger, the true object of interest. At some point it even stops being "Zionism". I would tend to definitely not put energy in this, because building a good future and remaining on a positive road matters much than picking a fight with the low-level operational military arm of Israel

I mean it, really, nothing awaits us at the end of this road

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Avigail Abarbanel's avatar

I don’t disagree, but this isn’t picking a fight, this is reporting a crime and a potential attack.

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Lena's avatar

Avigail, I went to his profile and my impression is that he is not in Israel and is not Jewish at al. He appears to be an American white supremacist who pretends to be a voice of a settler in Israel. He is a neo Nazi, admires Kahane.

He used the word "Palestinians". No real Jewish Kahanist Israeli would use that word.

His term "Final Redemption" is Evangelical American.

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Avigail Abarbanel's avatar

Even more reason to report him. Another school shooting waiting to happen?

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Rebel Nun's avatar

He also says he is in “0ccupied Palestine”. Would a true Zionist ever use such an accurate term?

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AJ de Oliveira's avatar

I noticed the same, re "occupied Palestine". Also "comrades" and "ethnic cleansing" - seems like a mishmash of words from different points of view.

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Rebel Nun's avatar

Yes. There’s something very strange here. I get the feeling we, supporters of Palestine, are being manipulated into doing something, I don’t know what or why.

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Rebel Nun's avatar

Thank you for noticing this!

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Avigail Abarbanel's avatar

Thank you, but I really don’t deserve credit.. He sent a reply to my recent essay, which was pretty blatant as you can read from the screenshot in the essay itself.

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Rebel Nun's avatar

Lena: I just added a comment with this information about him:

https://www.hyehudi.org/who-are-the-hilltop-youth-what-do-they-want/

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Rebel Nun's avatar

On his rant on Facebook, he does use the Yiddish term “fermisht”, which makes it sound like he is in fact Jewish, but…

There are layers of deception here.

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Lena's avatar

Americans know Yiddish even if they are not Jewish. By the way, in Yiddish this word starts with V, not with F. THAT certainly shows that he knows the word but does not know how to spell it, spells in English way.

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Avigail Abarbanel's avatar

The content on his page suggests he has more than just the basics. To write some of what he writes you’d have to be religious in very much the style of the WB colonisers, and a follower of one or several extremist rabbis.

I spoke to contacts I have in our police who know about this stuff and they said that given the context around his reply to me, the fact that it was in fact a reply to my post, that they would not take his threat of an imminent attack seriously. Apparently it still falls under freedom of speech. It was annoying, but when they explained it to me it did make sense. Either way, I have now banned him from my page indefinitely.

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Rebel Nun's avatar

Yes, I noticed that and thought maybe he’s only heard it and not read it. I was thinking that maybe he’s just trying to sound Jewish when he isn’t. The whole thing is fishy.

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Gina Klein's avatar

I did see his psychopathic post to you last week and found it exceptionally disturbing.

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Truth Seeking Missile's avatar

Please don't report him to the British police. I'm afraid he might then be elected to Parliament.

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Avigail Abarbanel's avatar

😂🫣

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Karl Drinkwater's avatar

I also had that message. Reported and blocked the racist fucker.

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AJ de Oliveira's avatar

Reporting to the British cops seems like the best idea. They have protocols to follow, and paper trails that enforce accountability.

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Lena's avatar

Rashida Thlaib recently told people that the police apprehended an American who publicly called for "getting together to go and hunt Palestinians", she spoke about crimes of American white supremacists against KIDS of Arab descent, one attacked a 5-year old on the playground and slit her throat with a knife, another tried to drown a 3-year-old in a public swimming pool, another (landlord) entered the house of his Arab American tenants and stabbed a 6-year old boy 36 times.

This Nazi Zionist might be an American of this sort. He doesn't have to be Israeli or even Jewish.

I am not sure how to report him effectively, because to be honest the platforms like Substack or Medium are on their side.

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Avigail Abarbanel's avatar

Report it to your homeland security, and quickly before Trump takes the reins.

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Rebel Nun's avatar

He is also doing the same thing on Facebook, which is decidedly on their side. I’m wondering if he’s actually aiming at US, gathering social media accounts for someone or other to target.

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Larry's avatar

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐜 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨. 𝐃𝐨

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Avigail Abarbanel's avatar

As I said in the article.

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palestine's avatar

Hello, out of curiosity, did you receive any form of fup from Substack ?

Thank you

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Avigail Abarbanel's avatar

Sorry for my ignorance… what is fup?… Either way I haven’t received anything from Substack (yet?) re my reporting of that post, just in case that’s what you’re asking.

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palestine's avatar

I notice a very recent post arguing that Stripe, the entity managing the cash transactions for Substacks ("paid subscibtions") was owned by a Zionist of some sort, or a guy standing for the Palestinian genocide (...)

"The bank always win", as we say, and such factor may be directly or indirectly responsible for Substack's lack of action (even following up) - at this stage I don't know what to think, because money is a very huge basis in every structure - walking on eggs when it comes to it. In addition, we would need to know about the real relationship quality between Substack and Stripe if we were to label Substack "complicits".

Gosh, where does this lead me to in term of decision? I don't know what to do because I feel I cannot reasonably stay in Substack. May I ask about your perspective on the matter, please?

Thank you.

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palestine's avatar

yes this was it! "Follow-up" - lol "fupping"

Thank you!

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Callura Michael's avatar

ZIONIST EXTREMISM , EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN EXTREMISM (CHRISTIAN ZIONISM)is a MAJOR THREAT TO PALESTINE and they both lobby the USA GOVERNMENT for the GENOCIDE OF PALESTINIANS. Not only the U.S but also other WESTERN/EUROPEAN FASCIST GOVERNMENTS.

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Avigail Abarbanel's avatar

That’s right. All religious extremism (regardless of which religion) emerges from a very primitive, fear-based, often traumatised psychology, which includes poor emotional and behavioural regulation, and poor self-awareness. Such people have the capacity to do a great deal of harm. When they are in power or have the ability to influence people in power, it can be very dangerous.

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Brian Boru's avatar

Thanks for raising this Avigail👍💚 We have to flush these numbskulls out

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Rebel Nun's avatar

This man is complex; he is definitely Jewish, a very educated, bilingual intellectual, and on a mission different from anything I’ve come across:

https://www.hyehudi.org/who-are-the-hilltop-youth-what-do-they-want/

Understanding him will help counter him.

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Avigail Abarbanel's avatar

To be honest, I have no interest in trying to understand him. It is his actions I am reporting. He is breaking some serious laws such as inciting violence and hatred. That is all I care about. His motivations do not interest me. He might well be a psychopath and he needs to be locked away.

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Rebel Nun's avatar

This is how it all appears, but as I say elsewhere, his language is aimed so specifically at Palestine supporters that I feel like we’re being manipulated into doing something, I don’t know what or why. The only thing I can think of is that he/it/they are harvesting social media accounts to target in some way. He is on multiple platforms so we’re not making a huge difference. I’m very wary of this.

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Orestes vasquez's avatar

I have this little twerp an ass whopping. Numbnuts like this love writing extensive diatribes. Respond concisely, act like a leech, let the wuss spend countless hours writing his racist nonsense, go on with your day, when the wuss shows up again, wash and repeat. A poignant sentence sets them off in a tirade.

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Avigail Abarbanel's avatar

I am not interested in sparring with him. I am interested in stopping him incite the next shooting, knife attack, against Palestinians or Arabs. Look at Lena’s comment. This is about preventing a crime, not scoring points.

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Orestes vasquez's avatar

I understand, he’s been reported, been exposed, but in a lawless region, the best I can do is keep trolling him in an effort to minimize his criminal behavior online.

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Orestes vasquez's avatar

Well he specifically states the West Bank. Zionist authorities see crimes being committed by settlers against Palestinians and act indifferently or enable them. Stealing Palestinians’ land is as lawless as it gets. Best

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