> ?!?! how does this relate to my original post?
Ah, me be elliptical again.
With all the caveats (not Alexander Haig's, mind you!) that Mark Whittaker had there, I did not find his piece in the Guardian or Observer, all that damning about MEMRI. It was like all too much media criticism from the left that acts all outraged that mainstream think tanks and media outlets reinforce dominant perceptions and narrative tropes. MEMRI are upfront about where they are coming from, after all. And, Whittaker does say that no one questions their translations. If there wasn't so much truly repulsive anti-semitism in alot of the mass media in Arab countries, there would be less for MEMRI and groups like CAMERA (which is really ugly explicitly right-wing Zionist agit-prop) to use against Arabs.
Not as if Edward Said didn't condemn often in Al-Ahram, Arab anti- semites like whemn he condemned the Lebanese Writers Union who had scheduled a Holocaust Revisionist conference a few yrs. ago.
Now back to the mish-mash I posted and the point of it. If you followed to the last URL http://world.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/1755/ , Media Monitors Network, has pretensions to being an pro-Palestinian answer riposte to MEMRI. And, yet it discredits a good cause that needs more support in the USA by printing articles w/ sourcing by such well known fascist writers as Michael Collins Piper of the American Free Press.
More crap from by and about someone, Ken freeland connected to Houston, TX. Pacifica Radio station KPFT, w/ the same fascist conspiranoid smell. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ --- In kpft at yahoogroups.com, "Edwin Johnston" <edi at h...> wrote: My original report attached below proved that Ken Freeland engages in the active promotion of material from fascistic and anti-Semitic sources through emails that he forwards to political lists. The comments contained in the link that I have attached just below (and the comment following the text in the cited link) further prove that Ken Freeland in his very own words is supportive of the abhorrent philosophies expressed by the organizations referred to in my report. I just want to make sure that the issue is crystal clear. http://houston.indymedia.org/news/2002/11/5348_comment.php#5480
----- Original Message ----- From: "Edwin Johnston" <edi at h...> To: <freepacifica at r...> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 10:36 AM Subject: Re: Pacifica and Anti-Semitism
> Response to:
> [NewPacifica] Pacifica and Anti-Semitism
> http://www.mcabee.org/lists/newpacifica/Nov-02/msg00315.html
>
> > On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 12:03:40AM -0800, Tricia Roth wrote:
> > >I'm seeing a lot of criticism against Pacifica these days
> > >of being anti-semitic.
> <snip>
>
> I was interviewed as a critic of a KPFT programmer for an article
published
> last Saturday in the Houston Chronicle, where the author wrote the
> following:
>
> "Freeland's activism has marked him for criticism, such as Edwin
Johnston's
> claim that he is anti-Semitic. Johnston, a local activist who has clashed
> often with Freeland, said Freeland forwards anti-Semitic material to
others
> on the Internet and espouses isolationism."
>
> Link to full article (this link will soon expire):
> ENERGIZING FORCE FOR PEACE
> Activist uses Christian beliefs to project anti-war agenda
> http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/1654584
>
> ***
>
> The factual proofs of my claims in that article had previously been
related
> on newpacifica in the following post:
> Right Woos Pacifica Left
> http://www.mcabee.org/lists/newpacifica/Nov-02/msg00116.html
>
> I have since better organized the absolute facts contained in that post
> as
> succintly as possible in order to make them more accessible for checking,
so
> there is absoltely no doubt whatsoever as to the proof of my claims:
>
> Let's work in reverse chronological order on the proofs I've listed:
>
> Freeland's post referring to George Bush is posted on a website that
> contains as a major feature of its site, a conspiracy theory that the
> Jews
> are the secret power behind history, featuring links to numerous
> fascistic
> and anti-Semtic websites.
> http://eairc.boom.ru/links/conspiracy.html
> In Freeland's post itself, he claims, based on a book produced by
LaRouche,
> that "Zionists ... were bargaining with Hitler to allow migration of
wealthy
> Jews to Israel".
> http://eairc.boom.ru/contrib/2001/bush_nazi.html
>
> The second instance is a Freeland repost from Dick Eastman, a broadcaster
> for the Neo-Nazi Willis Carto-controlled internet radio show, Radio Free
> America, which is advertised at the end of the post. The content concerns
a
> conspiracy theory that Paul Wellstone was murdered.
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/houstonpeaceroundtable/message/6912
>
> The third instance is a repost of Freeland's taken from another Willis
> Carto-controlled organization, the American Free Press, which is a report
by
> one of their writers, a sick racist Christian nationalist, who focuses on
a
> bunch of nutcase Hassidim. The religious fanatics covered there have been
> keynote speakers at Carto's Holocaust denial organization, the Barnes
> Review, which is noted in the story. They have also been embraced by
> Louis
> Farakkan and are roundly condemned, in the strongest way possible, by
> mainstream Judaism. On two occasions in the article, claims are made that
> Jews control the media.
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/houstonpeaceroundtable/message/6896
>
> The fourth instance is a repost by Freeland from reportersnotebook.com,
> another Holocaust deniers outfit, that is supportive of Carto's
> "Institute
> of Historical Review", forerunner of the Barnes Review. The
> reportersnoteook.com website contains a horribly anti-Semitic discussion
> board. This post features an article by Dave Kersting, titled
> "Zionazionism". Kersting makes personal posts to the anti-Semitic
discussion
> board on reportersnotebook.com. The website itself is advertised at the
end
> of the post.
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/houstonpeaceroundtable/message/6878
>
> The fifth instance concerns a repost by Freeland, also from the
> reportersnotebook.com list, which contains an article by the racist
> "Libertarian" Justin Raimundo, titled "It's Israel's War Stupid!", that
> alleges that the US is planning to go to war with Iraq to serve Israel's
> purposes.
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/houstonpeaceroundtable/message/6865
>
> The sixth instance is a repost by Freeland that features an article by
> Christopher Bollyn, a writer for Carto's American Free Press, and co-host
of
> a radio show with Dick Eastman from the above linked article. Bollyn's
> article claims that Paul Wellstone was murdered by Zionists to have a Jew
> elected Senator.
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/houstonpeaceroundtable/message/6867
> There is also a link to the originally published text, which is hosted on
a
> website titled, The Truth Seeker, which also features an article by the
> editor of Carto's Journal of Historical Review, Theodore J. O'Keefe, that
> claims the Nazi gas chambers didn't exist.
> http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=55
>
> So, we can readily see, that Ken Freeland is both unashamedly
disseminating
> and actively promoting material from websites and organizations
> controlled
> by Willis Carto, or those who support him, and related anti-Semites, like
> Justin Raimundo.
>
> For more information on the dangers of Willis Carto, see this article
> from
> the Polticial Research Associates website:
> www.publiceye.org/tooclose/liblobby.html
>
> I am grateful to Ms. Pam Cooke for assistance in locating some of this
> material.
>
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-- Michael Pugliese