Masada2000
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Masada2000 was a Kahanist website, maintained by five people from the U.S.A., Israel, Brazil, Switzerland, and Australia.
The site, famous for openly endorsing the expulsion of non-Jews from Israel and the Occupied Territories and for routinely referring to Palestinians as "cancer", was also notorious for its 'Self-Hating and/or Israel-Threatening' Jew list, otherwise known as the 'S.H.I.T. LIST.' Almost 8,000 names long, the list consisted entirely of Jewish people from around the world whose opinions fall far left to those of Masada2000's creators. The site described its targets--"ranging from Gloria Steinem to any Jew who has ever signed a petition for peace, ever," according to Muzzlewatch--as 'radical, leftist, academic, socialist, "progressive," enlightened know-nothings' who threaten the very existence of Israel. Particularly notable is that people on the list are often profiled in an extensive manner, sometimes with profanity, vulgar insults and racial epithets worked in. Often, their emails and other private contact information are exposed as well.
Meanwhile the website’s primary creator, Rockwell Lazareth (but this is probably not his real name), prefers to keep a low profile and goes by the nickname “Big Al”. He supports a notion for Greater Israel and closely adheres to the ideas of the late Meir Kahane.
The site contains selective information about the history of Israel in response to the claimed reported problem of distortion by the Arab media, and includes graphic images of brutal beheadings.
On April 28th, 2006 the Masada2000.org website shut down. The webmaster stated that he had done all he could, and labeled the Israeli government 'truly a national "Ship of Fools" if there ever was one' - apparently for being too liberal for his tastes. Some time later, the site resumed operation.
After a complaint about its content, the site's host, Bsinet.net decided to take the site down in March, 2007. The Tikun Olam blog gives details about what may have led to the end of what MuzzleWatch describes as a "notorious, pornographic hate website."
