Matt will then perhaps love this one, deleted from The Guardian’s CiF, which was posted by commentator ‘TheVoiceOfIsrael’ and which I reproduced in my own column in the Jerusalem Post online on March 24, 2009, entitled “The response ‘The Guardian’ wouldn’t print” (see: http://cgis.jpost.com/Blogs/point/entry/the_response_they_wouldn_t).

Matt then commented below my JP column (Comment #35): “I don’t know why ‘TheVoiceofIsrael’ post was removed by moderators, if you’re quoting it in full and accurately, and I will seek clarification.”

I, for one, am unaware of the results of Matt’s efforts to seek clarification, but I am sure that many readers would still be interested in hearing about it.

On my last foray on CiF, I posted a comment which teased the George Galloway supporters who considered him to be doing a good job as an MP and a human rights activist and referred to the Telegraph review on MP’s expenses which labelled him as the MP giving least value for money. This post was deleted within a very short time.

Second time round, I cut and pasted verbatim from the Telegraph those paragraphs dealing with Galloway’s expenses claims- all factual I may say- but this too, was not allowed to remain.

As time has gone on, Comment is Free has become less and less “free” and could be renamed Censorship is Free, any semblance of honest debate vanishing, leaving the site a sort of private club for posters who all share the same socio-political outlook. Really boring.

“The case of AKUS comes to mind. Please share with us why AKUS is not posting anymore.”

Absolutely. I remember AKUS now and again getting “emotional” - but I never saw anything justifying a ban.

JeremyHP Says:

“I was banned for fair comment about Israel”

You, on the other hand, are a different case. I can well imagine you getting banned for hate speech.

I wonder if there was a link.

I never was given a satisfactory explanation to why I was banned.

PeterParker - still living long and prospering.

We now have two stunning examples associated with the Guardian in a very short space of time – Michael White, a Guardian editor, who tossed out the infamous phrase “of course, in Israel they murder each other a lot”, and WilliamBapthorpe’s infamous call for the slaughter of every Jewish man, woman and child on the West Bank.

Little further proof is needed, in my opinion, of what is happening in Britain, and the Guardian’s central role in this developing frenzy of hatred towards Israel. However, I am sure that in short order more will be provided, because this has become the Guardian’s World View, its weltanshaung, and it can no more avoid these kinds of comments by its staff, contributors, and commenters than a leopard can change its spots.

Surely some governmental body in England needs to start examining what is going on at the Guardian. Britain, I understand, has laws against hate speech, and has even proscribed certain groups, such as the one that tried to march recently, Islam4uk.

Its time to pull back the covers at the Guardian and take a look at what is lurking beneath.

I don’t know where you live, but I live in the United States and order books from Amazon.co.uk all the time. If you have an account with Amazon your information will transfer and ordering from the UK Amazon is a snap. I often don’t want to wait until a British book is published here, and some books which I want to read never are, so I get them in the mail.