Richard Silverstein unhinged
Richard Silverstein is a fairly successful Jewish blogger who authors “Tikun Olam-תקון עולם”. The motto of the site is “make the world a better place”, but unfortunately, his image of “better place” is more in line with Norman Finklestein’s vision rather than Anne Frank’s.
I got this email from him today. Here it is verbatim:
From: richards1052@comcast.net
To: johnrohan @ hotmail .com
If you ever again attempt to publish a comment on my blog or even write me an e mail I will do my best to identify who you are & register a complaint with your commanding officer. I find it outrageous that if you are a U.S. military intelligence agent as you claim that you should be allowed to spew such hate, insult and intolerance at a fellow U.S. citizen, all under color of your uniform. Not to mention that you spew opinions that contradict U.S. foreign and military policy.
If you violate this request you better hope you’ve disguised yr identity so well that neither I nor yr commanding officer can figure it out.
No non-Jew gets the right to can me a self-hating Jew.
I would be glad to point out to him that it’s far easier to simply block an email address, rather than writing and threatening someone, but I never email someone if they make it clear they don’t want to hear from me. So I can’t tell him that.
For those who like to read correspondence, I’ll explain the history here a little: