Gullible
Jews and Jewish Press.
by Steven Shamrak.
Contrary to the common
belief of anti-Semites, that Jews are shrewd, we are quite trusting people and
naive. For example, if today a Christian anti-Semite or an Arab terrorist, with
years of Jew-bashing experience, would announce that they condemn their evil
ways of the past and support Israel’s right to exist, Jewish communities around
the world would immediately start actively promoting them as saints. Quite
often, the reason behind these kinds of transformations is sinister - It is the
desire to get the free publicity for an upcoming book, movie or Jewish money
for speaking engagements.
Occasionally, I send my
articles and letters to Jewish papers. Most often, they are rejected or
‘modified’ without my consent. The politically motivated editors of the Jewish
publications are unwilling and unable to allow the freedom of speech, when the
right of Jews to their ancestral land and the future of the Jewish people are
concerned. At the same time, they are able to allocate almost unlimited space
and give any inconceivable excuse to the enemies of the Jewish state. The
voices of Jewish self-haters are quite dominant in many Jewish publications and
Internet. The discreditation of Jewish
patriots and the original ideas of Zionism became have become the norm and they
are not given the opportunity to state their case to the public at all.
It seems that most of those
publications are Jewish by the namesake only. They are not interested in
providing the leadership for communities they claim represent. From time to
time they do raise controversial questions, like “Who is a Jew?” Most of the
time, it is not done to resolve an issue, but for the sake of increasing the
number of subscribers.
A while ago, September of
2006, I was surprised when a correspondent of the Australian Jewish News, which
is notorious for its editors’ leftist ideology, expressed his interest to
interview me. He wanted to publish my personal profile and information about my
Internet based editorial letter in the paper. We had a 45 minutes face-to-face
interview, during which we covered a wide range of questions and he took four
pages of tightly written notes. Two months later, when I received a draft of
the interview, many important points were omitted or distorted. Two major
questions which I strongly emphasized during the interview, were not included
in the draft at all:
Q1: Why did you start publishing your letters five years ago? –
“Because for years I observed that Jewish leaders were apathetic and unwilling
in promoting Jewish unity and original Zionist ideas.”
Q2: What is the purpose of your letters? – “Disseminate the idea
that Jewish people have the right to live in peace on all Jewish land -
Eretz-Israel.”
Why is it so difficult for
a Jewish newspaper to give a voice to true Zionist ideas? Why are they so
considerate and sensitive to “the suffering of poor Palestinians”, but ignore
the sufferings of their own people inflicted by the “poor Palestinians”? Why do
they support almost any national independence movement, but actively deny the
rights of Jewish people and ignore Zionism - the Jewish National Independence
Movement?
It is time to realize that
most of the so-called Jewish publications, may be run by Jews, but are just
commercial enterprises targeting Jews for advertising dollars and
subscriptions. It is futile to write letters to them. The only language any
media organization can understand is the language of “the Bottom Line”.
We must stop our
subscription to all anti-Jewish publications! We must switch off all
anti-Israel biased radio stations or TV channels! And, we have to let them and
their advertisers know that we have done so and why. Only this way they will be
able to understand that the hideous status quo will not be tolerated any more
and we are serious about it! They will not change their revolting attitude, but
they will be forced to change their business practice, because they do love
Jewish money!