There was a thread on /r/conspiracy about how the moderators of Reddit's /r/SquaredCircle forum were deleting any criticism of the Palestinian movement. I posted links to two articles by Francisco Gil-White, a psychologist who has studied the origins of the Palestinian movement and their leader's influence on Germany's decision to conduct the Holocaust, to show what the moderators of /r/SquaredCircle were defending by deleting criticism of them. I was quickly banned by one of /r/conspiracy's moderators under Rule 2, which is:
- Address the argument; not the user, the mods, or the sub.
After appealing on the grounds that I had not criticized /r/conspiracy or its mods, the same moderator came back with the real reason for the ban:
on looking through your history it turns out you are a flag-waving zionist who pushes anti-Palestinian propaganda.
That's not in the sub's rules, but apparently it's grounds for a permanent ban now. Feel free to look through my history to see for yourself what offended them so much.