After I published my book Pulling No Punches—Karate Myths and Other Stories in 2019, the noxious Malcolm Dorfman described me as “a certain nobody, an individual of tarnished repute” who had written “lies and distortions” about him and “maliciously and hatefully attacked many legendary high-level Japanese and South African karateka and as such has lost all credibility” (Facebook, May 6, 2020). Dorfman has never published a comprehensive, corroborated list of indisputable “lies and distortions” on his Facebook shrine for all to see and to put me in my proper karate place. He also has not initiated a defamation action in the Johannesburg High Court or reported me to the Anti-Defamation League when he knew that I was present in Johannesburg right under his nose.
I delivered the eulogy at Norman Robinson’s memorial on August 11, 2025. Dorfman was present in all his obscene, pathetic feculence and likely caught a big surprise when this certain nobody rose to address the gathering. He also attended the coffee and snacks afterward, coming within ten feet of me. Here was the glittering, supremacist, Zionist Jew’s chance to challenge me for writing those lies and distortions. But he didn’t, and I’m entitled to ask why not. It’s too easy to argue that he could not lower himself to the level of a nobody like me and remonstrate at a somber event, or—as he wrote on Facebook— that “in principle, this is water off a duck’s back” (May 6, 2020). The event didn’t appear that somber—he had no problem participating in photo-ops with other karateka in attendance. He could calmly have asked to chat to me privately about my alleged falsifications. After all, this individual of staggering narcissism and jarring vanity goes into paroxysms if anyone criticizes him.
Any reasonable person who believes someone has defamed them would take the necessary legal action to recover damages for false statements of fact. It’s now too late for Dorfman because of prescription, but in such close proximity to me at Norman Robinson’s memorial, he finally had the opportunity to confront me for allegedly lying about him. True to his immutable character, this karate Donald Trump had not the courage of his convictions. Just as he did to the magnificent Keith Geyer on Facebook (February 16, 2024), Dorfman cannot directly confront his detractors—he can only smear and vilify them online, relying on what the great Roger Waters described as “the bravery of being out of range.” At the memorial, Dorfman was intimately in range but could not overcome his primary flaw: his quintessential cowardice.