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'{{Infobox Website |name =Masada2000 |logo = [[Image:Masada2000 logo.png|300px]] |screenshot = |caption = |url = http://www.masada2000.org/ |commercial = |type = political |language = |registration = |owner = |author = |launch date = |current status = |revenue = |slogan = }} '''Masada2000''' is a [[California]]-based<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/jan/19/israel1 |title=Hate mail |accessdate=March 26, 2010 |author=Brian Whitaker |date=January 19, 2004 |publisher=''[[The Guardian]]'' }}</ref> [[Kahanism|Kahanist]]<ref name=Encyclopedia>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Edwards |first=Richard |editor=Spencer C. Tucker |title=Masada2000.org |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Political, Social, and Military History |year=2008 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |volume= |location=Santa Barbara, Calif. |isbn=978-1-85109-841-5 |pages=669–670 }}</ref> [[website]] created and maintained by people from the United States, [[Israel]], [[Brazil]], and Switzerland.<ref name=Currents>{{cite web |url=http://www.jewishcurrents.org/2007-may-wecker.htm |title=In Defense of 'Self-Hating' Jews: Conversations with the Targets of Masada2000’s S.H.I.T. List |accessdate=July 21, 2007 |author=Menachem Wecker |year=2007 |month=May |publisher=''[[Jewish Currents (magazine)|Jewish Currents]]'' }}</ref> Before 2001 the site was called '''Zion2000'''. The site is named after the [[Masada]] fortress in Israel, where, during [[First Jewish-Roman War|Jewish Revolt]] against the [[Roman Empire]], a group known as the [[Sicarii]] fought the Romans and committed [[mass suicide]] rather than surrender.<ref name=Currents/> According to its founders, it was established to counter "professional and deadly serious" websites with [[Anti-Zionism|anti-Israel]] views.<ref name=Currents/> They also have said that the site will "expose [[Jew]]s who genuinely despise Israel and the Jewishness it represents"<ref name=Currents/> and "'[[Progressivism|progressive]]' Jews who are into '[[social justice]]' causes for everyone EXCEPT Israel's Jewish population."<ref name=Voices>{{cite web |url=http://www.newvoices.org/cgi-bin/articlepage.cgi?id=332 |title=Guide to the Perplexing: The Baffling in Brief |accessdate=September 18, 2010 |author=Miriam Felton-Dansky |year=2005 |month=July |publisher=''[[New Voices]]'' |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070311011501/http://www.newvoices.org/cgi-bin/articlepage.cgi?id=332 |archivedate=March 11, 2007 }}</ref> The site refers to [[Arab citizens of Israel]] and [[Palestinian people|Palestinians]] as "[[cancer]]" and endorses their [[Ethnic cleansing|expulsion]] from Israel and the [[Israeli-occupied territories|Occupied Territories]] to "[[Arab World|Arab nations]]."<ref name=Encyclopedia/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://masada2000.org/sharepain.html |title=Israel and Its Nuclear Arsenal: Share The Pain |accessdate=July 21, 2007 |author= |date= |publisher=Masada2000 |quote=In the next war, the Israel Defense Forces and the civilian population will hopefully rid themselves of the Arab demographic threat by expelling hostile Arabs from BOTH the 'liberated' territories of '67 AND the Arab cancer growing WITHIN Israel herself! }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.masada2000.org/cancerwithin.html |title=The Growing Arab Cancer WITHIN Israel |accessdate=July 21, 2007 |publisher=Masada2000 |quote=WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE <u>ARAB</u> Citizens of Israel! We are not talking about the so-called 'Palestinian' Arabs living in the West Bank and Gaza... It doesn't really matter that much since BOTH the Arabs in the West Bank/Gaza AND within Israel itself consider themselves to be 'Palestinians,' rather than Israelis! }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.masada2000.org/NoChoice.html |title=NO CHOICE BUT TRANSFER |accessdate=July 21, 2007 |publisher=Masada2000 |quote=[T]he Arabs <u>must be transferred</u> to Arab nations and the <u>borders</u> of Israel <u>sealed</u>. }}</ref> Masada2000 is well-known for its criticism of Jews it considers "[[Self-hating Jew|self-hating]]." Among those singled out are [[Michael Lerner (rabbi)|Rabbi Michael Lerner]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ajds.org.au/lerner.htm |title=Jewish Wolves on the Web |accessdate=March 26, 2010 |author=Thomas O'Dwyer |date=May 18, 2001 |publisher=''[[Haaretz]]'' |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070311013907/http://www.ajds.org.au/lerner.htm |archivedate=March 11, 2007 |quote=Calling Lerner 'America's baddest little JewBoy' and 'that despicable self-hating Jewish worm,' Masada2000 adds: 'If you're ever in the San Francisco area, drop in on him at his home at [full address and detailed driving instructions given]. One more thing... be sure to mention our Web site.' }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.inthesetimes.com/issue/25/16/urbina2516.html |title=You've Got Hate Mail: Extremist Web site targets Jews for criticizing Israel |accessdate=July 24, 2007 |author=Ian Urbina |date=July 9, 2001 |publisher=''[[In These Times]]'' |quote=In May, an extremist pro-Israel Web site called 'Masada 2000' listed Lerner as one of 'the five most dangerous Jewish enemies of the Jewish people,' and posted detailed driving directions to his home address. Draped in guillotines, nooses and racist language, the site repeatedly stated: 'If you're ever in the San Francisco area, drop in on him at his home.' }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.masada2000.org/selfhate.html |title=Self-Hating Jews Work to Destroy Jews and Israel! |accessdate=July 21, 2007 |author= |date= |publisher=Masada2000 |quote=[T]here are, unfortunately, Jews who despise being Jewish and wish Israel harm. ... In America, Jewish 'thinkers' are perfectly willing to spill their ink defending those who would spill Jewish blood. Foremost in this crusade is San Francisco's very own 'New Age Rabbi,' Michael Lerner... America's 'baddest' little Jew-Boy }}</ref> linguist [[Noam Chomsky]],<ref name=Haaretz>{{cite web |url=http://www.ajds.org.au/lerner.htm |title=Jewish Wolves on the Web |accessdate=March 26, 2010 |author=Thomas O'Dwyer |date=May 18, 2001 |publisher=''[[Haaretz]]'' |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070311013907/http://www.ajds.org.au/lerner.htm |archivedate=March 11, 2007 |quote=Lerner is named and abused as one of the five most dangerous Jewish enemies of the Jewish people – the others on the arbitrary list are MK Dedi Zucker, former Hebrew University professor and Holocaust survivor, Israel Shahak, Noam Chomsky, and Woody Allen.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.masada2000.org/selfhate2.html |title=Self-hating Jews... Part 2 |accessdate=July 21, 2007 |author= |date= |publisher=Masada2000 |quote=Chomsky's writings create the impression that the Nazis could not have been any worse then (sic) the 'war criminals' of the U.S. and Israel. }}</ref> journalist [[Amira Hass]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.masada2000.org/selfhate2.html |title=Self-hating Jews... Part 2 |accessdate=July 21, 2007 |author= |date= |publisher=Masada2000 |quote=Amira (the red-nosed betrayer of her own people) Hass, who never met an Arab-Palestinian terrorist she didn't like }}</ref> politician [[David Zucker (politician)|Dedi Zucker]],<ref name=Haaretz/> professor [[Israel Shahak]],<ref name=Haaretz/> and film-maker [[Woody Allen]].<ref name=Haaretz/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.masada2000.org/selfhate2.html |title=Self-hating Jews... Part 2 |accessdate=July 21, 2007 |author= |date= |publisher=Masada2000 |quote=Jewish self-hatred, manic-depression and paranoia are all rolled into one and falls onto the not-so-broad shoulders of K. Stewart Konisberg, a.k.a. Woody Allen. When he's not obsessing about psychoanalysis, anal-retention, death and sex, Woody finds time to diligently do the work of the P.L.O. }}</ref> The site is also notorious for its "Self-Hating and/or Israel-Threatening" LIST, known as the "[[Shit|S.H.I.T.]] List."<ref name=Encyclopedia/><ref name=Currents/><ref name=Voices/><ref name=List>{{cite web |url=http://www.masada2000.org/shit-list.html |title=SHIT LIST...7000+ Self-Hating Israel-Threatening Jews |accessdate=July 21, 2007 |author= |date= |publisher=Masada2000 }}</ref> (From time to time, the S.H.I.T. List has been renamed. For a while it was the "Dense anti-Israel Repugnant Traitors" LIST, or "D.I.R.T. List." Then it became the "Self-Hating and/or Intentionally Israel-Threatening Ediots LIST" or "S.H.I.I.T.E. List.") More than 7,000 names long, the list consists of Jews whose opinions fall to the [[Left-wing politics|left]] of those of Masada2000's creators. The site described its targets as "[[Far left|radical]], leftist, [[Academia|academic]], [[Socialism|socialist]], 'progressive,' enlightened know-nothings [who] are not even worthy of the name 'Jew.'"<ref name=List/> People on the list are often described using profanities, vulgar insults, racial epithets, and portrayed with photographs of animals. In some cases, their email addresses, telephone numbers, home addresses, and other private contact information are included as well.<ref name=Currents/><ref name=Voices/><ref name=List/> Appearing on Masada2000's "S.H.I.T. LIST" has provoked a wide range of reaction. Francesca Yardenit Albertini, [[Jewish philosophy]] professor at ''Hochschule für Jüdische Studien'' (College of Jewish Studies) in Germany, expressed concern, saying "I can have my career negatively affected by such defamation."<ref name=Currents/> [[Stanley Aronowitz]], a sociology professor, said he was "proud to be on the Masada2000 list."<ref name=Currents/> Yigal Bronner, an Israeli-born Professor of [[Sanskrit Literature]] at the [[University of Chicago]], comments that, in its focus on Jews, the list is "antisemitism itself, the real shit... undisguised and unambiguous hatred for Jews."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/10/antisemitism-list-israel-jewish|title=Antisemitism without bounds|last=Bronner|first=Yigal|date=February 10, 2010|publisher=The Guardian|accessdate=March 24, 2010}}</ref> Being included on the "S.H.I.T. LIST" has become something of a badge of honor among some Jewish leftists.<ref name=Voices/> As one woman explained, "I felt that I am in good company when I saw who else was on the list."<ref name=Voices/> According to one writer, "activists compare their status, those who are left out wondering whether they should submit themselves."<ref name=Voices/> On March 7, 2007, [[blog]]gist Richard Silverstein wrote about his entry on the "S.H.I.T. LIST," which included an offensive [[Photo editing|doctored]] photo of him. Silverstein wrote that he had contacted Masada2000's [[Web hosting service|webhost]] to serve [[Digital Millennium Copyright Act|legal]] notice to remove the picture.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2007/03/07/masada-2000-the-jewish-radical-right-and-the-pornographic-instinct |title=Masada 2000, the Jewish Radical Right, and the Pornographic Instinct |accessdate=July 22, 2007 |author=Richard Silverstein |date=March 7, 2007 |publisher=Tikun Olam }}</ref> Days later the site was brought down by its host, Bsinet.net.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2007/03/09/masada2000-webhost-takes-site-down |title=Masada2000 Webhost Takes Site Down |accessdate=July 22, 2007 |author=Richard Silverstein |date=March 9, 2007 |publisher=Tikun Olam }}</ref> ==See also== * [[Neo-Zionism]] ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * [http://www.masada2000.org/ Masada2000] * [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://masada2000.org Masada2000] at the [[Internet Archive#Wayback Machine|Wayback Machine]] [[Category:Political websites]] [[Category:Kahanism]]'