Zombietime

zombietime is a website maintained by zombie, a pseudonymous photographer, which documents alleged far-left, antisemitic, or anti-American views and public indecency at political demonstrations, street festivals and other public events. It also has a section devoted to historic and contemporary Muslim depictions of Muhammad as well as a collection of unflattering or embarrassing photos of Democratic politicians.
The site has been involved in controversies regarding the Flight 93 National Memorial, photographs of an ambulance during the 2006 Lebanon War, and accusations of bias in the San Francisco Chronicles photographic coverage of an anti-war rally.
zombie is a pseudonymous photographer who spells that name with a lower-case "z" and has never revealed their real name, gender, age or profession.
The website
The website documents the views expressed at protests and other public events, focusing son what zombie argues are antisemitic statements and displays of support for organizations designated by a number of countries, including the United States, as terrorist groups. zombie claims that such displays of sentiment are rarely covered by the mainstream media.
Original photographs and commentary posted on zombietime have been cited as source material by the conservative television network Fox News and a columnist for the Jerusalem Post.
and linked to by several blogs, including Michelle Malkin, Instapundit and Little Green Footballs.
The Flight 93 National Memorial
In September 2005 zombie criticized the initial design of the Flight 93 National Memorial, asserting that "the winning design chosen to memorialize the heroes and victims of 9/11's Flight 93 is in the shape of a red crescent that looks — either accidentally or intentionally — remarkably like an Islamic crescent." Similar claims were made by a variety of blogs and news outlets, and the subsequent controversy resulted in the design being modified.
The Mohammed Image Archive
Soon after the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy hit the blogosphere, zombie began compiling and posting a collection of historic and contemporary depictions of Muhammad to create an archive of such images. The archive includes examples of Muslim portraits of Muhammad, meant to counter the claim that Islam has always banned any portraits of its founding prophet. zombie reports receiving numerous death threats and fatwas via email, some of which have been posted on the Mohammed Image Archive mail page.
zombietime was one of 11 blogs listed on a Muslim hacker forum as an "enemy of Islam." The government of Pakistan blocked access to zombietime to avoid further inflaming religious sensibilities.
The Red Cross ambulance incident
zombie's commentary on a reported Israeli airstrike on two Red Cross ambulances during the 2006 Lebanon War played a part in international debate over the incident. While initial media reports had originally stated that Israel had intentionally fired upon and hit two ambulances carrying civilians in the Lebanese village of Qana on the night of July 23, 2006, zombie claimed that the attack was a hoax perpetrated by Hezbollah.
A few weeks later, the Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, who had independently decided that initial reports of missile strikes on the ambulances could not be true,
publicly decried the incident as a hoax and admonished the media for what he called slipshod reporting.
The controversy split along partisan lines, with newspapers such as The Age and The Australian criticizing Downer and "unverified evidence carried on an unattributed right-wing website"
and the right-of-centre press defending the assertion of a hoax.
In December 2006, Human Rights Watch issued a 24-page dossier about the ambulance incident, providing a fresh examination of the evidence on the ground with additional photographs of the scene and the vehicles involved. HRW concluded that "Israeli forces attacked two Lebanese Red Cross ambulances that night in Qana, almost certainly with missiles fired from an Israeli drone flying overhead" and strongly criticized those who called the reports a hoax. In response, zombietime published a rebuttal asserting that the Human Rights Watch report suffered from flaws and contradictions and noting that the missiles mentioned by HRW would have totally destroyed an ambulance.

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