Canadian claims Israeli lobby controls Canada's media

[Thinktank]

Canadian claims Israeli Lobby controls Canada's Media

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The fact that the Israeli lobby has dominated the Western mainstream media and doesn’t allow them to practice freedom of speech and perform professionally is no closed book to those who follow these media’s coverage of the Middle East's current affairs.

A veteran Canadian author and editor says that Canada is home to one of the largest Israeli lobbies in the West, and there are numerous Jewish advocacy organizations that pursue the interests of the Israeli regime and have long launched a massive campaign against freedom of speech in the name of combating “anti-Semitism”.

According to Arthur Topham, the major mission of these organizations is to advocate for any and all things Jewish and anything connected with Israel and with maintaining the status quo mindset which includes ongoing propaganda and advocacy related to pushing the whole “anti-Semitism” and “racism” issues in order to gain political points with whatever government is in power and also a strong focus on maintaining and strengthening Canada’s “hate crime” laws which act as a major defense against the Canadians who try to expose the crimes of Israel against the Palestinian people and who criticize the Zionist ideology and all the related issues connected with Jewish financial and media and corporate power around the world.”

[zzontar]

How much of the media is owned by Jews?

[twobits]

Canadian claims Israeli Lobby controls Canada's Media

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Why? To engage you in more of your anti Semitic ramblings? I don't think so. While I don't agree with a lot of Israeli policy, having such a discussion with someone who sees Jewish conspiracy around every corner would be an exercise in futility.

[Fancy]

What was the topic?

Canadian claims Israeli Lobby controls Canada's Media

Is there a link? Never mind, found one:

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/11/06 ... n-website/

[Atomoa]

Well, when was the last time anyone heard about how many countries stand against Israel in the UN (everyone except the US basically) and how many times has Israel clearly and purposely violated international law, only to try and cite international law when it suits their needs a few months later?

9/11 was directly due to the US's support of Israel. Right from Osama Bin Laden's mouth. Where was that post-tragedy discussion, inbetween the Iraq and Afghanistan missions/invasions?

Illegal settlement news stories are given validity with regularity in the North American Media. I wonder what the news would say if China just annexed 10 square miles of Idaho farmland and started flying in Chinese nationals to farm it? Would the Chinese "point of view" be given equal playtime?

The Jewish lobby is strong in North America, just like the NRA lobby is strong in the US. Plain to see. All sorts of groups lobby. Is that a secret?

Of course this truth is classed as "anti-Semitic" to those pushing that agenda, just like wanting a law that limits magazine size is "against freedom".

[logicalview]

9/11 was directly due to the US's support of Israel. Right from Osama Bin Laden's mouth.

It was due to Osama Bin Laden being a zealot and a raving lunatic. Now he's dead. That's all the "post-tragedy" discussion that needs to take place.

[Rwede]

9/11 was directly due to the US's support of Israel. Right from Osama Bin Laden's mouth.

Yes, I believe everything that a lunatic who murdered 3500 innocent people says.

[Atomoa]

Actions governments undertake that have repercussions on the international stage are not the sole fault of the people who react to the actions.

Putin may be a sketchy/"crazy" guy, but if Obama pokes a wasps nest (Ukraine) with a stick it's not the wasps fault for stinging.

The US spends billions and billions on the war on terror and everyone is/was willing to have the NSA listen to phone calls, re-tool entire airports - create "homeland security" - largest government body ever created...

...yet the people, that the US is spending all this money on fighting, their main issue with the US and whey they attacked the US in the first place was because Israel gets the most amount of money from the US which is used almost soley for weapons that Israel uses while they violate International law to bomb and kill people (their men, women and children) with. Meanwhile the US veto's the worlds ability (UN) to stop Israel from doing so. This is economic/legal fact, not a madman's ravings. This is where the money goes and what it is used for.

Yet it doesn't really get talked about, does it?

If Russian nuclear bombs fell on New York because the US supported the Ukraine you can bet "should we'/should we not be" continuing to support the Ukraine would be on the agenda if it was time to talk about building fall out shelters for the second Russian salvo, let alone spending the kind of money the US spent on anti-terrorism in order to ramp up another cold/warm war with Russia. "Crazy" Putin or not.

Three planes flown into buildings brought the US to their knees and the reason? Blah blah blah - madman? They hate MTV? Repression of women? Lol.

Since 1985, the US has provided nearly $3 billion in grants annually to Israel, with Israel being the largest annual recipient of American aid from 1976 to 2004 and the largest cumulative recipient of aid since World War II. Seventy-four percent of these funds must be spent purchasing US goods and services. Congress has monitored the aid issue closely along with other issues in bilateral relations, and its concerns have affected Administrations' policies. Almost all U.S. aid to Israel is now in the form of military assistance, while in the past it also received significant economic assistance. Strong congressional support for Israel has resulted in Israel receiving benefits not available to other countries

It is what it is. There is a huge and effective Israeli/Jewish (cant separate the country and the religion remember!) lobby in North America, and part of the lobby is the creation of a environment/language culture in which to suggest that a lobby actually exists is Anti-Semitic. Very unique.

[Ranger66]

“Actions governments undertake that have repercussions on the international stage are not the sole fault of the people who react to the actions.”

but if Palestine pokes a wasps nest ( Israel) with a stick it's not the wasps fault for stinging.

[Atomoa]

but if Palestine pokes a wasps nest ( Israel) with a stick it's not the wasps fault for stinging.

Illegal settlements still being built. Less and less Palestine each day. Clear, repeated violation of international law, illegal occupation. When you illegally settle on and occupy a wasps nest. no matter what place holder you try and make the occupier out to be...they are still the occupier/aggressor.

This is a multifaceted issue now anyways. Drone strikes on civilians worldwide are not just annoying "Palestinians".

This topic is about the existence of a lobby which I agree exists. I posted some information that relates to the effectiveness of that lobby in foreign policy and government/media language.

[zzontar]

Why? To engage you in more of your anti Semitic ramblings? I don't think so. While I don't agree with a lot of Israeli policy, having such a discussion with someone who sees Jewish conspiracy around every corner would be an exercise in futility. Tin foil hat futile.

Why is it anti-semitic if Jews do own most of the media? That's like saying it's racist to say East Indians own most of the convenience stores.

[Thinktank]

Removed by Trip.

[Glacier]

Illegal settlements still being built. Less and less Palestine each day. Clear, repeated violation of international law, illegal occupation. When you illegally settle on and occupy a wasps nest. no matter what place holder you try and make the occupier out to be...they are still the occupier/aggressor.

The settlements aren't illegal under international law.

[Thinktank]

Why? To engage you in more of your anti Semitic ramblings?

Why is it anti-semitic if Jews do own most of the media?

It doesn't matter who owns the media. I'm not the one who claimed Israeli lobby
controls the Canadian media.

Canadian claims Israeli lobby controls Canada's media
^^^^^^^^^^^^ see

[Thinktank]

Academic conferences don’t usually muster public attention, but in 2009 the organizers of the blandly titled Israel/Palestine: Mapping Models of Statehood and Paths to Peace found themselves at the center of a media *bleep* storm fuelled by the hysterical rhetoric of pro-Israel community groups and their supporters in the media.

No wonder then, as public impatience and disgust grows over Israel’s increasing belligerence, that pro-Israel groups and individuals have focused so much energy on attacking academics critical of Israel and pouring money into Zionist campus groups. Norman Finklestein, to take one high profile example, was denied tenure at DePaul University thanks to a smear campaign by Alan Dershowitz. At the moment there is a campaign against Mark Ellis, Director of the Center of Jewish Studies at Baylor University. Though Finklestein is a child of Holocaust survivors and Ellis is a rabbi, their criticism of Israel has made them targets – more so, perhaps, because their Jewish “credentials” make them particularly threatening.
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Even Jenny Peto, a Jewish graduate student at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, was subject last year to a two-week smear campaign in Canada’s national media over a master’s thesis – a big term paper, really – that was critical of the March of the Living, an annual Jewish youth tour of holocaust sites in Poland. So the arrival of Thompson’s book is timely.

Nevertheless, while Thompson doesn’t explore the ways in which universities have traditionally silenced or marginalized those from outside the hegemonic centre – by imposing, for example, parameters around the delivery of knowledge and the language it must be expressed in – he is very good in detailing the ways in which academic freedom has historically been circumscribed by the demands of governments, corporations, and private donors. “He who pays the piper calls the tune,” as the old expression goes, and Thompson is right on the money when he talks about the corrupting influence of “large funding resources from public or private funding sources for research work promoting or subservient to specific or commercial agendas”




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