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Having read the original post and this story on WND, I have a question for Mr. Brodsky. You reported thta Noah Cohen (who I'm guessing is Jewish) tried to get in your way, a white woman tried to grab your camera, and then a dark-skinned man whose religion we don't know (could be Christian, Druze, Muslim, or something else) threatened you. Yet WND's headline is that Muslims attacked you.

Do you intend to correct this WND headline?

If not, I must question whether your goal is to expose the unacceptable threate you received, or if you're enjoying the media spotlight and distortion.

Eagerly awaiting your answer.

I hate to say this, but I'm really not impressed. This whole event goes under the category of "tempest in a teapot." Although the situation apparently got sticky for awhile, I don't think the Jewish activist was ever in danger of losing his life. This whole situation seems like a created news story or blog story, now being exagerated into a cause celebre.

And let's face it: The problems that ensued were to some degree the fault of the activist, too. He had to assume that something could happen when he realized that some of the demonstrators knew him. But he went ahead with his videotaping, was recognized and--surprise, surprise--a skuffle ensued. What did he expect? That they would ignore him? That they would say hello and shake his hand? He asked for this bit of trouble, especially as he kept videotaping when everyone there could see him doing so. What did he expect?

Frankly, this seems like just a non-event blown up to provide something for our side to cheer about, as well as an excuse to lambast the pro-Palestinian demonstrators. The latter were idiots and apparently could be counted on to behave badly with some provocation. So our "hero" provoked them and then wailed when they surrounded him and threatened him.

I'm sorry, but the flurry of "vents" and "raves" about this incident is not an example of blogging at its best.

You are right, they should not be called Muslims. They should be called Islamonazis.
Just like if there was a pro-Hitler demo in the USA in 1930ties, the participants could have been called Germano-nazis, even if some of them were not even German.

Joanne,

I'm just guessing here, but I think he was expecting to be be treated as a free American exercising his rights in a public place. Photography is forbidden in some places - dressing rooms, private events, some military bases, etc - but not on public property.

If your weak argument then becomes something to the effect of it not being in good taste to photograph a political event of the other side of the spectra then I may concede the point, followed by a big "So what?"

The activists may have the right to publically display their dysfunctional psychoses in a public manner; but they also have the right to be photographed as they do it.

Still no comment from Seva about the misleading and inaccurate headline. Perhaps he's too busy doing interviews to worry about accuracy. Or perhaps accuracy isn't his concern.

"I think he was expecting to be be treated as a free American exercising his rights in a public place. Photography is forbidden in some places...but not on public property."

John, technically you are correct. But I find your argument to be disingenuous.

Of course he had the legal right to do what he did. He had the legal right to wave a red cloth in front of any bull he could find. I am not saying that he did anything legally wrong. It was, however, a provocation. He was videotaping in full view radicals who know him, who were fired up by rhetoric, and who were spoiling for a fight. When you walk into a situation like that, and keep on videotaping even after it became evident what the consequences would be, then you are not a totally innocent victim. You are obviously picking a fight.

Joanne,

Your argument is akin blaming the victim of a car theft because they didn't lock the doors. Your sympathies are misplaced here. Noah Cohen and company show up to event after event not just to show their signs and faces, but to scream and disrupt. He went right after Seva because he recognized him as one of those "Zionists." Imagine if they'd just left him along? No posting of any note here. The crowd looks docile? They were. But this thing was organized by the MAS - whose Public Affairs guy (who doesn't believe Hamas is a terrorist organization (forcing a clarification by the MAS) was on the stage, and which is only too willing to forward NECDPD's announcements to their moderated email list.

Seva may or may not be a pest, but there's no excuse for what was done to him. Walking around filming a public demonstration is hardly controversial activity. All that happened is that some people showed their true faces.

OK, never mind the may or may not be part. He is a pest, as I said in the first post, but still...

Solomon,

Your point is well taken. As far as my sympathies being misplaced, however, that's not the problem, as I have no sympathies for the other side.

If this videotaper was off to the sidelines, at a respectful distance, and the demonstrators still chose to confront him because they recognized him, then you have a valid point. If he was being intrusive, however, then he was creating a provocation, though the demonstrators were still wrong to confront him.

The problem is that I can't see for myself what happened. I can't view the videos, probably because I have dial-up. I'm looking into switching to something else. But in the meantime, I can only remain agnostic about what happened in Boston.

One other point: Even if the demonstrators had badgered our videotaper agressively, what of it? This was one small demonstration one time in one city. Sure it should be mentioned, but made into a big deal? No. OK, so they "showed their true colors," but lots of demonstrators show their true colors everywhere. I stick by my view that the importance of this event was exagerated.