Saturday, 14 July 2007

Tony Greenstein and the dangers of providing links to your sources: a postscript


Just by way of a coda to my post on Thursday about Tony Greenstein and his dishonest manipulation of statistics (presenting the findings of a Jewish pressure group as evidence that anti-Semitic incidents are on the wane, when their survey actually shows the exact opposite), he's now answered the accusation, and I'd contend that his reply deserves some kind of award [my emphasis]:

I said that even by the Parliamentary Inquiry's own statistics, anti-Semitic incidents declined by 14% from 2004 to 2005. What I never said was that for one moment I accepted those stats. As one poster said, the CST which produces them is an integral part of Zionist politics. Most of its personnel are ex-Israeli army, at the Independent Jewish Voices meeting in January they demonstrated their hostility to anti-Zionist speakers and quite frankly I don't believe their statistics.

Even by CiF's standards, it is quite extraordinary to watch someone throw a statistic into their article to try and bolster their argument and then, when a reader points out that said 'fact' is completely bogus, to come back with the immortal line, "quite frankly I don't believe their statistics".

You really have to applaud the... what's the word?... chutzpah of the man...

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// posted by Mr Eugenides on 14.7.07
Comments:
The Graun talkboards have tried to get to grips Littledicks programme aswell.

As predicted, its descended into a personal tirade by a poster calling himself LittleRichardJohn (geddit????) (the self styled nemesis of RL)

http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?7@344.Rb9Cc4NR3EA@.775eb3b6/88

# posted by Anonymous Barbara Meinhoff : 14 July 2007 20:33
 
Are you Jewish, Mr. E, as well as Greek, Scottish and Russian?

# posted by Blogger Lord Straf-Bilderberg : 15 July 2007 12:08
 
Not at all, Count. I just don't like idiots.

# posted by Blogger Mr Eugenides : 15 July 2007 12:36
 
Jews like Greenstein we don't need. Please ignore him next time Mr E.

# posted by Blogger Jeremy Jacobs : 15 July 2007 12:38
 
This guy should speak to TelKel. The two of them could become some kind of superpower bloc of citation and as they both hate Israel we could be providing them with some kind of support group.

# posted by Blogger RfS : 16 July 2007 09:14
 
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