Success: Reuters Removes Anti-Israel Blog

Great work........again. thank you. When will the BBC wake up?

Posted by: david at Mar 27, 2008 4:55:41 PM

Yes of course Reuters removed the blog!!! I wrote to them immediately and my contact had the blog removed!!!

Posted by: Sheila Raviv at Mar 27, 2008 6:56:12 PM

and lets allways try and be humble
while we look, seek honest reporting

Posted by: steven rosenberg at Mar 28, 2008 7:44:42 AM

Good for you!! Thanks again for your diligence.

Posted by: Rita Goldman at Mar 28, 2008 2:27:24 PM

for many yrs i have known that the bbc are against israel, i rarely watch bbc news because of their news. it seems palestinians always have their sympathy. i have sent comments to anti israel broadcasters.

Posted by: bobby at Mar 28, 2008 5:45:03 PM

THANKS FOR ALL THE HARD WORK YOU DO AND TO THE PEOPLE WHO TAKE TIME TO ADD THEIR SIGNATURES, IT'S JUST A PITY THAT IT'S ALWAYS THE SAME ONES.
TIME FOR THE REST OF OUR PEOPLE TO STAND UP AND BE COUNTED, IT ONLY TAKES A MINUTE TO SIGN.

SHIRLEY HILLER, LONDON

Posted by: Shirley Hiller at Mar 31, 2008 2:49:12 AM

Glad Reuters responded, but the BBC seems like it will never change. I've written to them many many times but it's like addressing a stone.
The Brits in general tend to take flaming anti-Semitic stands whether it's in academia or commercial boycotts. What is it with them? Presumably, BBC is making SOMEONE happy or they would stop acting out their prejudices publicly. They are, after all, government-funded. If we could figure out the roots of this generally hostile attitude to Israel (publically) and Jews (sneakily), we might have a chance of addressing it.

On the other hand, in a world where the UN Human Rights group appoints a couple of anti-Semites ... and where many major Protestant church groups in the US and Canada pursue and proselytize others to pursue divestment in Israel, what hope is there for keeping the anti-Semitism disease from becoming endemic in the populations, which virtually guarantees reflection in the media, which propagandizes even more people, in a constant, destructive cycle.

Truthfully, I am beginning to despair. While Israelis are under constant rocket attack all one hears and reads implies (wrongly) that the brutish IDF and ruthless Israeli policy is bringing it on themselves, chickens are coming home to roost, and other versions of claptrap that mean the same thing. I cannot imagine that any of these critics would put up with rockets landing in their communities daily, or would for one second soul-search as to whether they were bringing it on themselves.

What does it take to make people understand? More Islamist attacks in England, Europe and even the U.S. before people truly understand the stress and fright Israelis live with every single day? Europeans are so fearful of upsetting their Moslem populations -- and of terrorism -- that they're afraid to publish cartoons or videos that might offend Moslem sensibilities. Perhaps that is all Israel means to them -- an irritant that upsets Moslems -- and as such needs to back down, conciliate, cease existing, what?

There are so few of us left in the world, relatively speaking. I feel like we're trying to bail out the sea a thimbleful at a time. (Not that I'll stop bailing. But it would be wonderful if there were some scenario for our continued existence that seems, if only on the surface, doable.)

Posted by: Sepharad at Apr 4, 2008 9:34:08 AM