Shocking footage of pogroms against Africans in Tel Aviv
(Preview)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6yYiWqmeCM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6yYiWqmeCM
"Our country is different from other countries. Our country is a Jewish state. ... If you bring in a million Africans it will no longer be jewish. \We are waging war against the phenomenon of assimilation"
"Our country is different from other countries. Our country is a Jewish state. ... If you bring in a million Africans it will no longer be jewish. \We are waging war against the phenomenon of assimilation"
Michael Ben-Ari,
member of Knesset 2009-2013
minutes after an anti-African rally, Yulia Shmuelov-Berkowitz, at the time a legislator for the centrist opposition party Kadima called for Israelis who advocate for the Africans to be locked in prison camps, along side the asylum seekers.
minutes after an anti-African rally, Yulia Shmuelov-Berkowitz, at the time a legislator for the centrist opposition party Kadima called for Israelis who advocate for the Africans to be locked in prison camps, along side the asylum seekers.
Published on Oct 19, 2013
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(Max) Blumenthal explained how The New York Times
commissioned the 11-minute video, but after the paper's
editors saw it, refused to publish it: "I was asked to
submit something by The New York Times op docs, a new
section on the website that published short video
documentaries. I am known for short video documentaries
about the right wing in the US, and extremism in Israel.
They solicited a video from me, and when I didn't produce
it in time, they called me for it, saying they wanted it.
So I sent them a video I produced with my colleague, David
Sheen, an Israeli journalist who is covering the situation
of non-Jewish Africans in Israel more extensively than any
journalist in the world. We put together some shocking
footage of pogroms against African communities in Tel
Aviv, and interviews with human rights activists. I
thought it was a well-done documentary about a situation
very few Americans were familiar with. We included
analysis. We tailored it to their style, and of course it
was rejected without an explanation after being solicited.
I sent it to some other major websites and they have not
even responded to me, when they had often solicited
articles from me in the past. Blumenthal, author of the
bestselling and widely promoted 2009 book Republican
Gomorrah, also spoke about the difficulty he has had
getting any mainstream media attention for his new book Goliath:
Life and Loathing in Greater Israel. Just like
this video, Blumenthal's new book offers an unflinching
look at the racist reality of Israel that America's
establishment media simply does not have the guts to
confront." ~ Max Blumenthal
Israel Cranks Up the PR Machine
It's deploying all its resources to fight the growing world movement against the occupation.
[from The Nation, of all rags]
excerpts:
"While paranoia mounts inside Israeli policy circles about
the rising tide of nonviolent global resistance, Netanyahu
has grown obsessed with Israel’s withering image in the
West. Under his guidance, the term “delegitimization” has
become a household word signifying BDS and nearly
everything done in the name of exposing Israel’s
violations of international law.
And thanks to Netanyahu’s instigation, Barack Obama has become the first American president to explicitly pledge to battle the pressure campaign. "
...
The more the State of Israel relies on force to manage the occupation, the more it feels compelled to deploy hasbara [hasbara: lying for Israel]. And the more Western media consumers encounter hasbara, the more likely they are to measure Israel’s grandiose talking points against the routine and petty violence, shocking acts of humiliation and repression that define its treatment of the Palestinians.
...
Whether they like it or not, every Jewish Israeli citizen is a potential recruit for the national hasbara brigade. While Tel Aviv University sends hasbara delegations to campuses across Europe and the United States, the National Union of Israeli Students offers Israeli college students $2,000 to spread propaganda “from the comfort of home.” El Al Airlines deploys its flight attendants in American cities to make the case for Israel during specially allotted paid vacation days. Meanwhile, back at Ben Gurion International Airport, large billboards posted by the Ministry of Public Diplomacy instruct Israelis to “be good diplomats” when they travel abroad. By corralling an entire population into promoting Israel as “the only democracy in the Middle East,” the state strengthens a culture that treats dissent and critical inquiry with instinctive hostility.
...
In 2005, the American reality TV program The Apprentice reappeared in Israel as The Ambassador, a hit show featuring hundreds of Israeli citizens engaging in heated hasbara competitions before a national audience and a panel of judges that included top army generals and journalists. At stake were cash prizes, a chance to speak in international parliaments and the adulation of their fellow citizens. At a 2010 conference of liberal intellectuals in Herzliya sponsored by the Heinrich Böll Foundation, the think tank of the German Green Party, I encountered the winner of the second season of The Ambassador. She was pretty in a classically telegenic way, slender and extremely poised. The 30-year-old woman in a gray pantsuit was Melody Sucharewicz, but to many Israelis who viewed her as a celebrity, she was simply known as “Melody.” Since her victory, Sucharewicz has spoken about Israel’s “quest for peace” at the United Nations and secured a plum position at the Peres Center for Peace.
... full piece > Israel Cranks Up the PR Machine
And thanks to Netanyahu’s instigation, Barack Obama has become the first American president to explicitly pledge to battle the pressure campaign. "
...
The more the State of Israel relies on force to manage the occupation, the more it feels compelled to deploy hasbara [hasbara: lying for Israel]. And the more Western media consumers encounter hasbara, the more likely they are to measure Israel’s grandiose talking points against the routine and petty violence, shocking acts of humiliation and repression that define its treatment of the Palestinians.
...
Whether they like it or not, every Jewish Israeli citizen is a potential recruit for the national hasbara brigade. While Tel Aviv University sends hasbara delegations to campuses across Europe and the United States, the National Union of Israeli Students offers Israeli college students $2,000 to spread propaganda “from the comfort of home.” El Al Airlines deploys its flight attendants in American cities to make the case for Israel during specially allotted paid vacation days. Meanwhile, back at Ben Gurion International Airport, large billboards posted by the Ministry of Public Diplomacy instruct Israelis to “be good diplomats” when they travel abroad. By corralling an entire population into promoting Israel as “the only democracy in the Middle East,” the state strengthens a culture that treats dissent and critical inquiry with instinctive hostility.
...
In 2005, the American reality TV program The Apprentice reappeared in Israel as The Ambassador, a hit show featuring hundreds of Israeli citizens engaging in heated hasbara competitions before a national audience and a panel of judges that included top army generals and journalists. At stake were cash prizes, a chance to speak in international parliaments and the adulation of their fellow citizens. At a 2010 conference of liberal intellectuals in Herzliya sponsored by the Heinrich Böll Foundation, the think tank of the German Green Party, I encountered the winner of the second season of The Ambassador. She was pretty in a classically telegenic way, slender and extremely poised. The 30-year-old woman in a gray pantsuit was Melody Sucharewicz, but to many Israelis who viewed her as a celebrity, she was simply known as “Melody.” Since her victory, Sucharewicz has spoken about Israel’s “quest for peace” at the United Nations and secured a plum position at the Peres Center for Peace.
... full piece > Israel Cranks Up the PR Machine
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