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I just gave him a week's detention.

Yeah. I spent a few minutes yesterday attempting to trap him into a bannable offense, without any real success. Once he began accusing Joe Hillshoist of anti-semitism, I really had to reassess his usefulness here. I honestly can't think of a more even-handed poster on the entire board than Joe.

This line-walking between legitimate criticism of the Israeli state and anti-semitism is certainly one of the most difficult issues on this forum, and in this environment generally.

Was the conversation with Joe the reason for the suspension?

It was. Nobody shit-talks Joe!

Plus, the fact he receives every hard criticism of Israel as either antisemitic or enabling antisemitism. Zero nuance or grace.

Head's up: detention's over, so I'm going to let him loose now.

No sign of him yet. The suspense is killing me.

Gauntlet thrown:

viewtopic.php?p=341874#p341874

The blanket imputation of anti-semitism for anti-zionism is the poison. So if he's going to continue with that presumption he needs to made to drink it.

Peregrine posted an alert on nathan's "Obama is a secret muslim hitler" regarding 17, so I responded to her. I said I didn't think t was really possible to derail that particular thread, and that the OP was a direct attempt to get a rise out of 17 which eventually worked.

Oops, I didn't read this before I took action. I've just deactivated him. He was showing no development that he was interested in playing nicely with the other kids.

Low pain threshold today I guess.

Hoiven-Glaven! 'S okay with me...