Britain's Channel 4 exposes 'power' of pro-Israel lobby
Zionism is a cancer growing on Uncle Sam ass
By Haaretz Service
A television program purporting to expose the unknown power and influence
Britain's pro-Israel lobby has triggered a wave of condemnation by British
Jews, some of whom accused the report of stoking anti-Semitism.
The report, Inside Britain's Israel Lobby, was aired on Monday evening by
the British broadcaster Channel 4 on its flagship investigative program,
Dispatches.
The Community Security Trust, an anti-Semitism watchdog, issued a blistering
attack on the program on its blog, which warned that the presenter's stern
admonition that "there is no conspiracy" was a case of shutting the stable
door after the horse had bolted.
This was after, the CST said, "one hour of innuendo about 'pro-Israeli'
moneybags controlling the Conservative and Labour Parties; 'pro-Israeli'
intimidation of British media; premeditated 'pro-Israeli' abuse of
anti-Semitism; and sinister music accompanying photos of 'pro-Israelis'
blurred across Israeli and British flags."
The co-vice chairman of Britain's Zionist Federation, Jonathan Hoffman, said
the program employed the tropes of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
"What did the program say?" Hoffman wrote on the Web site CiF Watch. "Well
there were the allegations about money of course - no conspiracy is complete
without some filthy lucre and if there is an Israel connection - so much the
better.
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