Tuesday, November 17, 2009
The Jews run it, apparently. Britain's Channel 4 aired a special "investigative report" on their own domestic "Lobby" (capital L) last night. Sounds like it was something even a Nazi would love. In fact, they did. I have often, privately, noted the timidity with which the British Jewish Community seems to operate, but the fact is the scene is completely different there, than here. It can't be a comfortable place, and they deal with a society stacked in a far different way than what we have here.
Here are some links on what went on. Sounds like it was quite a show:
Tom Gross: "Oh I forgot, the Jews have all the oil"
Jonathan Hoffman: Inside Channel 4's Conspiracy Factory
Melanie Phillips: Everything is now illuminated
Update: 11/18
The Jerusalem Post has some interesting background: British TV program to examine UK's 'powerful Israel lobby'
...The show producers also sent an e-mail to Simon Plosker, managing editor of media monitoring organization Honest Reporting, asking him to justify his work.
"We would like to ask you in an interview about your role as managing editor of Honest Reporting and its part in 'the battle for public opinion.' We would like to ask you about its targeting of the British media, in particular e-mail campaigns against the Guardian and BBC. We would also like to ask you about your previous roles at BICOM, NGO Monitor and your work for the IDF Spokesperson's Unit," the letter read.
"We will be in Jerusalem on Monday and hope you will welcome the opportunity to explain your role as managing editor of Honest Reporting," it concluded.
The e-mail was sent over Shabbat. The following Monday, the producers stormed into Honest Reporting's Jerusalem offices with cameras rolling, demanding to know where Plosker was.
"It was as if in an attempt to catch some sort of criminal activity. They demanded to know where I was, claimed that I was a 'major player in the UK' and asked whether I had something to hide," Plosker, who is currently in London, told the Post.
"Channel 4 has still failed to make clear why my professional background is of such interest to them," he went on. "I have nothing to hide, and aggressive actions such as bursting into my office with cameras rolling, pursuing me, can do nothing to dispel the suspicion that this documentary is nothing more than a cynical hatchet job aimed at the Anglo-Jewish community and supporters of Israel."
The letter was sent by the program's producer Ed Harriman, who also writes for the London Review of Books and was the first to review Walt and Mearsheimer's book The Israel Lobby in March 2006...
Honest Reporting responds at length, also providing the video of the program itself: Under Attack: HR Accused by UK TV Documentary
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Here's Harry's thread on this travesty, complete with a horrible comment from BNP member John Lee Barnes:
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/11/16/comment-on-channel-4-dispatches-program/
Looking at this in context it isn't hard to see how some Brits wanted to make peace with Hitler, and also why the Bevin government treated Jews the way it did.
Someday I hope "Exodus" is remade with the fate of Exodus 1947 truthfully portrayed.
It isn't hard to understand why the Jews in the Middle East were betrayed before the war, why ships full of people trying to flee the Shoah were turned away from Haifa, why the Yishuv was disarmed and blockaded while the Brits armed the Arabs.
I am disgusted. According to a comment on the Harry's thread this guy actually tried to make out that the BBC is at the beck and call of teh Jooz.
And, like Mearscheimer/Walt, the primary target doesn't seem to be Israel itself necessarily but rather local Jews.
That's not *just* anti-Zionism it's antisemitism.
Speaking of which here's a must-read:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/6570240/Stephen-Poliakoff-Anti-semitism-will-always-be-around.html
This reminds me of an episode of the British TV program MI5 that I recently watched online.
The episode was called "A Prayer for My Daughter," and I didn't watch all of it because I couldn't stomach it. I got tired of rolling my eyes.
In this episode, the MI5 group is tailing an MP who may be funding Palestinian terrorists. But it's also monitoring a middle-aged pro-Israeli extremist who may be responsible for the disappearance of a British negotiator in the peace process. Hmmmm
I noticed how painstakingly even-handed the episode was. They couldn't just have a show where the Palestinian side was the heavy, and leave it at that. They apparently had to have a pro-Israeli heavy too, so they wouldn't seen a overly pro-Israeli/anti-Arab.
Give me a break! How many pro-Israeli extremists are there in Britain? And how many have killed or kidnapped government negotiators or other officials? Uh-huh. I thought so.
I understand that Arabs are badly portrayed on television, at least in the States, and maybe in Britain as well (I don't know). But the answer is to have a greater variety of depictions of Arabs, not the kind of ridiculous contrivance that "MI5" came up with.
Oh, and one more thing: A couple of years ago, I spoke with a British guy who's lived in New York for a long time.
He told me that the Jews are very powerful in Britain because...get this...they're big in the advertising industry. Advertising!
OK, I think the Jewish-owned ad firm Saatchi and Saatchi did some election campaign spots for Margaret Thatcher or some other Conservative politician. But powerful? Because they make commercials?
You'd think that, living in NYC, this British guy would have had a different perspective on these things. Apparently not.
Anyway, either he's a bit off, or the web of Jewish power is more extensive than we thought.
Yes, Saatchi is powerful because he donates lots of very expensive artworks to the bigoted, ingrates of grate britten.
OK, g, I didn't know that. But I doubt if donated artworks can match the zillions of dollars worth of oil contracts and arms purchases that the British get from the Arabs.
(Fixed Tom Gross link)
g is being ironic, btw (I believe).
...you believe correctly.
Oops, sorry, g. My apologies. The problem is that tone does not always translate into print.
Joanne,
I think you'll find that throughout British history they've projected their behaviour onto the "money grubbing" Jew.
And recently we saw:
that they released a terrorist who killed their citizens, for a few barrels of oil. One can almost imagine them, according to that image of a person dying of thirst rushing towards the mirage of water, rushing towards the
filthy lucreoil.The crooked deal to sell weapons to Saudi Arabia which was being investigated by the police only to called off under threat of loosing all that mazumah.
Their politicians, like politicians everywhere, ripping off the state to buy second houses, pay for porn, yadda, yadda.
and so on
but it's only the Jews ......
"grate britten" should have been a clue. Fresh and uppity :)
Remember Pan Am 103 and how the "uk" showed more compassion for the bomber, than for the bombers victims.
http://www.boycottscotland.com
A few years back, a british journalist, alan johnston was kidnapped by palestinians,
and what happened? A british journalists union voted to boycott ISRAEL!
"F" the "uk".
Just a bump to note I added an update.
Yeah, I noted the "grate britten" bit, but I thought that could have been sarcasm aimed at the bigotted politicians, not at the notion that Jews had no power.
From the Honest Reporting response this illustrates perfectly one of the problems with "exposes" of "Jewish influence":
"HonestReporting recognizes that accusing anyone, let alone a journalist or media outlet, of anti-Semitism is a serious charge and is not one that we take lightly. An examination of hundreds of our communiques over the years will show that this accusation is very rarely used and only in cases where we believe that anti-Semitism is most definitely evident.
However, we also recognize that even if the intent may not be anti-Semitic, the consequences may be. Channel 4 itself has been responsible, through this documentary, for producing anti-Semitism, a prime example being Dispatches own website where the comments section on this program demonstrates some disgusting views that would not be out of place on neo-Nazi websites.
In addition, the increase in hate mail received by HonestReporting as a result of this documentary would suggest that it has had some impact on those who resort to vicious or anti-Semitic sentiments."
Another link, from Ha'aretz:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1129102.html