Disappointingly, the top entry if you search for “jew” in Google is an awful anti-semitic site. Fortunately, a weblog campaign has emerged and they are encouraging people to link “jew”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jew to the relevant Wikipedia entry. Please do likewise – if enough people do this, we can drive the anti-semitic site to number two. It’s a pity the Wikipedia entry, informative as it is, does not contain links to material explicitly challenging the lies peddled on ‘Jew Watch’ but I’m sure there is something around one could link to. I had a quick look at the “Anti-Defamation League”:http://www.adl.org site but didn’t find anything there and I have a dim recollection that they are themselves ideologically dubious anyway.
Thanks to “Crooked Timber”:http://www.crookedtimber.org/archives/001631.html for the link.
I posted this, and a friend pointed out in comments that it would be nice to push the creepy anti-Semites right off the front page. Now I’m going around spamming people’s comments to see if I can get his idea off the ground. If you’re going to use a googlebomb, it may as well be a nuke:
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Comment by sennoma — 6 April 2004 @ 4:40 pm
It seems I phrased that badly. I’m not a comment spammer, honest! I *manually* commented on a few entries, including this one, that tracked back to the CT thread, in the hope that my friend’s idea would take off. I intended no spam, as I think the idea a good one and a worthwhile contribution to each of the posts I picked. Sorry for any confusion, and for any lingering taste of canned meat product.
Comment by sennoma — 6 April 2004 @ 5:38 pm