{"id":745,"date":"2009-11-17T12:28:03","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T11:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/?p=745"},"modified":"2009-11-17T13:08:01","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T12:08:01","slug":"channel-4-dispatches-the-israel-lobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/17\/channel-4-dispatches-the-israel-lobby\/","title":{"rendered":"Channel 4 Dispatches – the Israel Lobby"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Channel 4\u2019s Dispatches programme (Monday 16th<\/sup> November) about the British \u2018Israel Lobby\u2019 was very poor journalism which began with an agenda, tried as hard as it could to prove its own premise, failed to do so but reached the conclusion it set out to demonstrate: The Israel lobby works (behind the scenes) to subvert the British political class and media with money and bullying tactics and is effectively working for a foreign power.<\/p>\n

This was a sordid piece of polemic which came\u00a0 pretty close to the usual canards whilst stating, just in case any accusation might come its way, that \u2018there is no conspiracy\u2019 \u2013 well that\u2019s a relief \u2013 but there is one, of course, a conspiracy to defame Israel and (a section of) the Jews of Britain and those who try, against overwhelming media bias, to put Israel\u2019s case to the British public.<\/p>\n

The huge gap between reality and delusion was aptly demonstrated by Guardian editor, Alan Rusbridger, who could find no connection between media reporting on Israel and anti-Semitic attacks.<\/p>\n

The accusation, which was advertised before the programme went out, that the \u2018Lobby\u2019 is working in the interests of a foreign power and against the interests of Britain, defames thousands of loyal British citizens. The programme failed to recognise the unique, deep and abiding connection between most Jews and Israel and characterised this as treasonous.<\/p>\n

I support Israel\u2019s right to exist and resist terrorist attacks, donate to charities that operate within Israel, write letters and emails to newspapers and the BBC, have a Zionist blog, therefore I am a traitor; a veritable latter-day Lord Haw-Haw. But much more importantly, BiCom the ZF, Conservative and Labour Friends of Israel and all other groups that are pro-Israel are treacherously working against the interests of Britain, no doubt manipulated by the deep subterranean machinations of the Elders of Zion themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Channel 4\u2019s Dispatches programme (Monday 16th November) about the British \u2018Israel Lobby\u2019 was very poor journalism which began with an agenda, tried as hard as it could to prove its own premise, failed to do so but reached the conclusion it set out to demonstrate: The Israel lobby works (behind the scenes) to subvert the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,39,19],"tags":[351,353,348,354,349,4,347,355,350,352],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-zionism-doesnot-equal-anti-semitism","category-israel-and-accusations-of-racism-and-apartheid","category-the-delegitimisation-of-israel","tag-bicom","tag-cfi","tag-channel-4","tag-conservative-friends-of-israel","tag-dispatches","tag-israel","tag-israel-lobby","tag-labour-friends-of-israel","tag-peter-oborne","tag-zf","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":747,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}