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Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies. You do know that Abu el Haj is on the board of directors of this journal, yes? And that it is probably more partisan and, certainly, less respected than the Middle East Quarterly. Quite objectively so in terms of the calibre of scholars who write for it. That is, while everyone writing for the Middle East Quarterly believes in the right of Israel to exist and, as far as I can tell in a brief perusal, everyone writing for the MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies denies that Israel has that right, the MEQ regularly published well-established scholars like Lassner, while MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies self-describes as a venue for young scholars. Moreover, you did not take down the H-net review. H-net is an idea that, a few discussion groups excepted, has not worke out. Even at its peak, however, the reviewers were (and largely still are) graduate students. Not scholars of Lassner's stature, although they may be so someday.

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Hi - I was hoping to ask for your guidance. I'm a member of the ISO, and our page has recently been vandalized with the posting of erroneous financial information (similar to information you've deleted/had discussions about in the past.) We've since deleted the information and are hoping to make sure

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Thank you making those edits to the Rashid Khalidi wiki. I've tried to make some edits earlier about those "criticisms", but other members started to send me warning messages about NPOV. Being new to the wiki system I got a little nervous about any possible ramifications so I tried to "tiptoe" around

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page, so I looked at your contributions to see who you are and there you were, taking the word "liberal" off Leon Wieseltier's page with the snide remark. "remove unsourced and doubtful description". A fair-minded editor would have put ou one of those {citation needed} tags. a truly generous one

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Forgive my assumption. However, you took down Jacob Lassner's review, Lassner is a major scholar of Islam, at Northwestern University, writing in an academic journal the Middle East Quarterly, which is political, but well-regarded. The thing is you did not take down the review from the MIT

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Thank you for your message of solidarity. The attacks have been going on for 18 months now, in which time Runtshit and his various avatars have made well over 2500 malicious edits to more than 400 Knowledge (XXG) articles, using (so far) 461 different IDs. The background is actually hostility not

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While your apparent honesty strikes me as noble, and I feel certain you are a decent enough fellow, I must express skepticism over the prospect of any ISO member, regardless of her/his amount of ethical fiber, being allowed to supervise this entry. That's like hiring Winona Rider as head of store

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This is also information that should be made available to party members who are continually called upon to sell literature on behalf of the organization, which generates a great deal of revenue for the Center, but are not paid for their efforts. Instead, a select few party organizers profit, as I

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I believe this information to be highly relevant as the ISO tries to obscure this publicly available information from its critics (opponents on both the left and the right of the political spectrum) as well as its own members. As a former member for over two years I can attest to this. The Center

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I feel that we would be doing both opponents and members of the ISO a tremendous service by allowing a section on financial information to exist in the Knowledge (XXG) entry. I have put forth no criticism or propaganda in my edits, only a few basic facts. The way to a clear view of any political

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I see your point, although I do believe his work to suggest Obama was a Muslim and had an association with Khalidi (whom he argues was employed by a terrorist organization) merits a separate paragraph or section. I'll see if I can find reliable sources that suggest that the notability of this

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A substantial portion of ISO revenue goes to pay a "select few" organizers because those organizers work full-time for the ISO and require some source of income. I know some of these people; they're not living large. They're working a lot more than 40 hours a week for a cause they believe

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The references to "Tony" would appear to be a reference to my friend and comrade Tony Greenstein, with the implication that I operate under his control and need him to dictate my every move and thought. Nothing could be further from the truth, as he and countless others would confirm.

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People have a right to know where an organization that claims to represent the working class attains its funding. Mercifully, I have not highlighted the hypocrisy inherent in its source of funding, but the organization has published articles in the past that have been critical of

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I appreciate your attempts at objectivity as well as your willingness to admit a vested interest due to the fact that you are actually a party member. It sounds as if your experiences with party leadership have either been nonexistent or directly opposite to my own.

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We'd like to keep the page accurate, free of distortions (without turning it into some kind of ad--that's not our intention). I was wondering if you have any tips for dealing with this kind of vandalism, if there's anything we should know about the process, etc.

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Oy. 18 months - this is a person with some real problems. It sounds like only real-world exposure would avail to stop this - I'd say this behavior for this period of time justifies violation of anonymity, but for better or worse we don't have that

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The ISO is not so foolishly arrogant as to claim to 'represent' the working class. It is not a vanguard party; it merely attempts to play a part in building the foundation for a party which can genuinely claim to represent the vanguard of the

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that prohibits self-published, third-party sources from being used in any biographical article, so I was forced to revert myself and I believe the Kramer reference is not allowed under current guidelines. I've made a note of this on

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t was apparently in the name of "Fumigate") has taken strong exception to this. Most of his vandalism is directed at articles on the Middle East, rather than on Trotskyism. As well as the Runtshit vandalism, he seems to operate as

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Philip Morris is an ugly corporation, even uglier than the average, but I'm not sure what a better option for the ISO was once offered a donation in its stock. Refuse the desperately-needed funding to maintain its moral

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have outlined in my proposed edits. Members of the ISO are also pressured (on pain of ostracism or even expulsion from branch meetings) into paying 10% of their total income to the Center in the form of membership dues.

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I know basically nothing about either H-Net or the MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies, though I believe the latter's apparent association with MIT gives it some default credibility. MEQ is published by the

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The ISO has a policy of need-to-know with regard to detailed financial and membership information for security reasons. It is, after all, a self-described revolutionary organization, so I'm not sure why this is

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organization's true nature is often found by following the money trail. Imagine, for instance, an entry on Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign that made no mention of campaign finance matters or funding.

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He's clearly stalking me, and most articles I edit attract his attention very soon. I haven't so far edited any of these, so it's unlikely that he will attack them; but look at the history of, for instance,

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I have never experienced anything like the threat of ostracism or expulsion from meetings regarding dues - and I do not pay 10% of my income. Nor have I seen this pressure applied to anyone else.

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repeatedly denied my requests for financial information as a dues paying member of the ISO and it only recently came to my attention that this is publicly available information.

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