They are cowards. Liberals are liberals until it directly affects them. Quick example. Have a cop friend, he was a friendly guy and made friends in his pct. He always spoke to one guy who was a bleeding heart. Nothing wrong in helping people. He was big on the homeless etc. So one day a homeless guy wanders around and on his lawn taking a break. Guess what he does? Calls the police to shag the homeless off his property. My friend the cop asked him, maybe you should give him something to eat, a shower? Maybe some old clothes of yours? Crickets!!! Freaking crickets. His last words were get him off my property. Lmao. Until it affects them!!

Oh come now, Jews have long been intellectuals and were persecuted for that as much as being Jewish. And surely you've noticed that intellectuals are seldom...seldom...ever Conservative. And since your only retort is to denigrate them you simply prove that they are right to support liberalism where they will never be denigrated for their ability to think for themselves. They aren't Jewish second. They are Jewish intellectuals first and foremost...something the dullards from the right will never have enough brain cells to understand.

I disagree.
It simply takes someone who
A) Reads the rules of a forum they decide to join ( before posting on it ).
B) Agrees to follow the rules
C) Is BRAVE enough to go against the crowd and actually provide the help asked for by Admin., whether or not they are disliked for it.

While I was not on OPP when this topic was posted back in 2017 by Admin (who had been on OPP 5 years at that point) it's pretty clear from the post that he/she needed help.
I'd be curious to know if the same person is still here 7 years after the following - which I took seriously - was posted:

Admin thread from 2017, no responses allowed:

"Well, this was a nice experiment, but it failed.

I thought that I would set up a political forum and allow as much freedom on it as possible. I thought that free exchange of ideas with minimal restrictions would result in exciting conversations.

Even though the forum rules have always stated that insults aren't allowed, I never really enforced those rules except for some extreme cases.

But it all turned into a giant pile of crap with some people seemingly competing on who can insult others the most.

Now, it's like a never-ending Jerry Springer show. Which gets boring after a while, not to mention repulsive. And I don't want a website like that.

I see way too many threads ruined by mudslinging and insults with little substance.

So I'm going to clean up OPP.

I realize that some people will leave. And that's OK.
If you don't agree with this, that's fine. Stay out of the way or leave. Either way is fine with me.

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If you do agree and want to see OPP cleaned up, so that you can actually have intelligent debate on this forum, then help me out and use Report Issue button when you come across anyone who isn't willing to communicate in a civilized manner. I'll try to pay more attention to what's being posted, but I can't see everything.
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I imagine it would take some time to establish the "new normal" of what's considered acceptable on this forum and until the general atmosphere of discussion here adjusts. During that time, I'll be deleting posts, suspending accounts, and permanently banning those who just refuse to stop insulting others. The reason I created this announcement is to have a place where I can refer people when I take administrative action.

As to what would be acceptable, well, it's hard to define, but here it is: if a reasonable person would be OK saying this in public, in the presence of their friends, family, co-workers, neighbors, and strangers, then it would probably be OK to post it here."

https://www.onepoliticalplaza.com/t-115672-1.html

The following was a very brief history written by a Duke University history major with a minor in Middle Eastern history.

A Bit of History

There was no Palestinian state until 1988. From 1948 to 1967, the West Bank was controlled by Jordan. Egypt controlled the Gaza Strip.

Let’s take a step back and look at the history of that region for a minute. The first evidence of a Jewish presence in the Levant starts showing up in the late Bronze age, 1550-1150 BCE. By the early Iron Age, there was ample evidence of two major Jewish/Israeli kingdoms, Israel and Judea.
Israel and Judea Late 9th century BCE.

The boundaries changed fairly frequently over the next thousand years due to external wars and successional ones. What didn’t change was the fact that there were Jews living there the entire time. During the reign of Herod the Great, 72-4BCE, the Jewish kingdom was a client state of the Roman Empire. the boundaries of Israel, or more properly Judea and Samaria, looked pretty similar to what they do today.

I should note here that during the Roman occupation the areas to the south of Judea were called Philistine, after the tribes that lived there. After the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD, the entire region was renamed Palaestina – which was intended as an insult to the Jews, the Philistines were notoriously uncultured – and became a Roman province. This becomes important later.

The Islamic conquest of the Levant started in 634, more than 2000 years after the first Jews appeared there. The conquest was swift and Sharia, or at least the version of Sharia that was practiced then, was imposed. From that point up until the end of WWI, the lands of Israel were controlled by the various Muslim caliph**es.

Fast forward a thousand or so years to the Ottoman Empire period. The Turks controlled the Levant and thus the lands that would become modern Israel. During the time the Ottomans controlled the lands, they were known as the Mustaffarate of Jerusalem. I probably should let you know that during the entire Muslim period, Jews were treated as Dwimmi and paid Jizaya, that is the tax on non-muslims and were subject to periodic pogroms. Yet they were still there.

At the end of WWI, the Ottoman lands outside of Turkey proper were divided between the French and British.

It was at this point that Palestine came into common use with British Mandatory Palestine.

Prior to 1922 and the establishment of the Mandate, you could not find the word Palestine used on any map or in any textbook. The Brits, being the insufferable toerags they were back then, insisted on a call-back to the Roman era insult, and chose a ‘modernized’ version of Palaestina.

Regardless, the Brits had promised a Jewish homeland in the Mandate, and many European Jews emigrated at this time.

First up is a complete lack of knowledge about the history of the Levant and the Jewish presence there. I keep hearing the Israelis being called ‘colonizers’ yet their presence in the region predates almost every ethnic group or religion. If anyone could be accused of being colonizers it’s the Muslims. They took over the land with fire and sword more than a thousand years after the Jews had settled there.

It would appear it is the nonexistent people who are colonizers, not the Jews as so often, of late, they have been accused. Further, when the Jews were evicted from Gaza to make way for the colonizers, they left greenhouses and other infrastructure that could sustain life in Gaza. The nonexistent people tore down and destroyed all of that infrastructure thus becoming paupers and requiring humanitarian aid.