In a previous post Sue highlighted Robert Spencer’s dealings with Kiera Feldman, the seemingly friendly “freelance” journalist who failed initially to mention that her enquiries regarding opposition to the Ground Zero mosque were in fact on behalf of the BBC.
Spencer is right to be suspicious of Feldman’s intentions. She has also reported for Beyond The Pale, a programme which airs on the left-leaning Pacifica Radio Network:
BEYOND THE PALE is the only Jewish program on radio or television devoted to bringing a left perspective to political and cultural debates. As we all emerge so happily from underneath the soul-crushing weight of these last vicious eight years, it’s important to remember how critical our voices are under a more liberal administration- an administration we can push on from the left and hold to the high ideals it claims. What a relief that these ideals are not fundamentalist, war-mongering, free-market mania.
Unsurprisingly, the programme’s website declares support for the building of the Ground Zero mosque.
In one of her Beyond the Pale broadcasts Feldman visited a Manhattan nightclub where a pro-Israeli group called Fuel For Truth was holding a terrorist awareness event. The piece drips with contempt both for the organisers and Israel:
Fuel For Truth has been hosting events like Arm Yourself for the last seven years. Yet, surveying the cultural front, the group doesn’t seem to have been successful in bringing its brand of hip militarism to the Jewish mainstream. Still, as Israeli missiles fall on Gaza and calls continue for an attack on Iran, the overall Jewish political atmosphere looks more like a Fuel For Truth rally than ever.
Feldman has also contributed to Mondoweiss, a pro-Palestinian anti-Zionist Jewish website. For Feldman Israel means “settlement construction, human rights abuses, or war crimes”, born from “the original sin of Palestinian displacement” and sustained by “Israeli apartheid”.
Some of those involved in organising opposition to the Ground Zero mosque are also outspoken supporters of Israel. In her approaches to Robert Spencer, Kiera Feldman let it be known that her original intention was to concentrate on one of those opponents, Pamela Geller, but her BBC editor told her to widen the scope of her reporting. No news organisation with serious claims to impartiality would give this (or any other) assignment to someone with Feldman’s prejudices and political beliefs. Then again, this is the BBC we’re talking about.
On Radio 5 last night they had a debate between two people on the Ground zero insult. But whilst they managed to find a rabid pro Mosque Muslim, it appeared the only ‘opponent’ of the Mosque was a woman who represented some of the dead families and her ONLY REAL concern was the issue of the burial of those who have not had any remains found, she really had NO opposition to the Mosque. So why was SHE given airtime as supposed balance BBC?
I could walk onto the streets of New York and find an opponent in 5 seconds, why couldn’t you mong boys find one?
Fine bit of sleuthing there DB!
They have nearly 200 mosques in NYC – why another and why there?
Pity they haven’t the sensitivity shown by the catholic church regarding the location of the convent near Auschwitz.
Typical. Once they get too close to a reality that conflicts with their pre-determined agenda, the Beeboids dance away to find another, more helpful angle. Just like all their reporting on the US lately.
The choice of the word “Pale” in the title of that radio program is sickening to me. It implies that most Jews in the US have an out-moded persecution complex, that they still think and act as frightened peasants, as if the Cossacks or whoever are waiting just around the corner to come back and burn the village down, kill the men, and rape the women.
In other words, it’s exactly like what certain former defenders of the indefensible (the ones who used to come here whining about “Israel Firsters”) used to say: Jews have never been safer, are in fact the most powerful people on the planet, and are in no danger of being attacked or destroyed or dismantled by anyone. Any violence perpetrated against Jews around the world is justifiable because of their support for a the awful Israel, cause of most instability in the world today.
This is the same mindset of these anti-Zionist Jews. I know, because I used to debate them many years ago, and still run into one once in a great while. It was the same story in 1981 and it’s the same story now.
Sadly, this is also the required mindset to work for the BBC. I direct everyone’s attention to this same mindset in evidence from the other Useful Jews at the BBC, such as Tim Franks and Katya Adler. The evidence is in their work, and has been highlighted here many, many times.
I say that either BBC Worldwide or whatever the official term is for the BBC World News division has an endemic anti-Zionist agenda, and hires people only if they hold the approved thoughts. It’s part of their hiring standards. The evidence is pretty clear now.
That Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark is a piece of work. Opinionated, in the worst possible way. See her factually inaccurate musings on the flotilla entitled “Lying About The Gaza Flotilla Disaster.”
A particularly accurate, if unintentional title.
The Gramscian BBC has been given more than enough rope to hang itself for a very long time now. There is however, no sign it is ever going to happen. That rope they’re using to strangle British society and democracy to death.
So the BBC can find the time to visit the first ‘Muslim (note the BBC happily use Muslim not Asian) summer peace camp and they tell us that all is well with the world.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10905070
I look forward to the BBC reporting from some London or Bradford Mosque that preaches HATE to westerners. Oh hang on this is the BBC.
Gay Chicago Democrats>BBC in understanding what the Ground Zero Mosque actually means:
http://tinyurl.com/2wfekrc
What will the BBC have to say about this?
Monday’s Gregalogue: My New Gay Bar
So, the Muslim investors championing the construction of the new mosque near Ground Zero claim it’s all about strengthening the relationship between the Muslim and non-Muslim world.
As an American, I believe they have every right to build the mosque – after all, if they buy the land and they follow the law – who can stop them?
Which is, why, in the spirit of outreach, I’ve decided to do the same thing.
I’m announcing tonight, that I am planning to build and open the first gay bar that caters not only to the west, but also Islamic gay men. To best express my sincere desire for dialogue, the bar will be situated next to the mosque Park51, in an available commercial space.