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Illinois Democrat Candidates pull out of Israel event

Posted by Moshe Phillips on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 12:35:38 PM

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SEALS FOLLOWS GIANNOULIAS’ RETREAT FROM FORUM ON ISRAEL
AUGUST 22 FORUM TO CONTINUE & MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER

One day after Senate seat hopeful Alexi Giannoulias (D) withdrew from participation in a community forum on Israel, Its Neighbors and the U.S., Dan Seals, Democratic candidate for the IL 10th district house seat, followed suit.

The forum, organized by To Protect Our Heritage and sixteen other Jewish organizations, will proceed on Sunday, August 22, 2010 at 6:30 PM at Temple Beth-El, 3610 Dundee Road in Northbrook, IL despite the disappointment that two candidates, who had both committed to participate in March, suddenly pulled out. Rabbi Weissberg, chairman of To Protect Our Heritage, expressed his regret, “The fact that 14 synagogues, Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox, agreed to sponsor one event and that hundreds of people have already registered indicates how important it is to the community to question candidates and hear in-depth responses to critical issues facing Israel and the U.S. “

While the Giannoulias campaign cited “previous commitments” as the reason for withdrawing, the Seals campaign attributed the candidates’ reversal to the fact that “Alexi Giannoulias’ decision not to attend the forum creates and event that…is inherently weighted in favor of the Republican candidates.”  To Protect Our Heritage, which has conducted candidates’ forums for over 25 years, offered Seals repeated assurances that at no time would the candidates for the house seat share the stage with candidates for the senate seat.

In addition to To Protect Our Heritage, a bipartisan Political Action Committee whose sole mission is promoting a strong U.S.-Israel relationship by working for congressional support, event sponsors include  AFSI/Americans for a Safe Israel, American  Zionist Movement, B.J.B.E. (Deerfield), Congregation  K.I.N.S. (Chicago), Skokie Valley Agudath Jacob (Skokie), Darchei Noam Synagogue of Glenbrook (Northbrook, Glenview), HERUT/LIKUD ZIONISTS OF CHICAGO, Jewish War Veterans Post 29, Ezra-Habonim/Niles Township Congregation (Skokie), Strategic Studies Discussion Group (Highland Park), Temple Beth-El (Northbrook), Temple Chai (Long Grove), Kadima Congregation (Deerfield), Beth Hillel Congregation/B'nai Emunah (Wilmette), Temple Emanuel (Chicago), and Vashe Radio.

Since the Seals’ announcement, several former Democratic legislators have been in discussions with the Seals’ and Giannoulias’ campaigns in an effort to convince both Democratic candidates of the public value and fairness of the forums, in which only constituents, not candidates or press, ask the questions.  Although neither candidate has yet reconsidered his decision, Peggy Shapiro, co-chair of To Protect Our Heritage, hopes, “They will avail themselves of this opportunity to show up and speak about for the US-Israel relationship. If they do, they will be welcomed.”

More info at: http://protectourheritagepac.com/cms_ev/dcontent.asp?ID=196
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Time Warner - A Case of Corporate bias against Israel?

Posted by Moshe Phillips on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 1:25:16 PM
 

L.J. Smith, the author of The Vampire Diaries novel series was asked by the Metro newspaper (Boston, New York, Philadelphia) in the August 17, 2010 issue why she decided to become a writer. She answered:  As far back as I can remember, I have wanted to write stories and hear about the reactions of people who read them.  
 
I always appreciate comments to the articles I write too.

My column about Time Magazine that was published on Israel National News / Arutz Sheva on August 12th caused one reader to post the following Talkback that I thought was worth sharing with my readers here:
TIME & CNN are owned by the same company
The author did not mention that TIME is part of the same international corporation that has owns CNN and other pro-Arab media. Let's remember that these things do not happen in a vacuum. The pro-Islamic Terror bias of former CNN Senior Editor for Arab affairs Octavia Nasr was only discovered after she wrote ... about her true feeling(s) on Twitter. She said "Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah.. One of Hezbollah's giants I respect a lot..." and was fired (on) July 2010.

 Is there corporate bias against Israel at Time Warner? There sure is at Time Magazine and at CNN. It would make an interesting study.
 
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TIME MAGAZINE - Bashing Israel for Four Decades

Posted by Moshe Phillips on Sunday, August 08, 2010 10:51:48 AM

Time to Bash Israel Again at Time Magazine

On Saturday, August 07, 2010 Time Magazine demonstrated yet again that it is one of the most anti-Israel media outlets in the U.S. 

In a memorial tribute Time published titled "Tony Judt: A Public Intellectual Remembered" by Michael Elliott demonstrated that little has changed since the days when Time began its article about the election of a new Israeli Prime Minister with "His first name means "comforter." Menachem Begin (rhymes with Fagin) has been anything but that to his numerous antagonists. To the British in the 1940s, he was Public Enemy No. 1..."  (Monday, May 30, 1977)

Time began its tribute to Judt stating: "Tony Judt, whose death was reported today, was a historian of the very first order, a public intellectual of an old-fashioned kind and — in more ways than one — a very brave man."

"A historian of the very first order..." Even The Washington Post, which can hardly be considered a bastion of love for Israel, did a better job stating "became one of the most controversial public intellectuals of recent with his critical statements about Israel..." (Sunday, August 8, 2010)

In the 1980s Ariel Sharon's attorneys were able to demonstrate to the satisfaction of a Manhattan court that Time Magazine knew that what they published about him in their February 21, 1983 was false at the time they printed it. This was even a higher test than the minimum standard of the minimal U.S. legal standard of libel which is reckless disregard for the truth.

So who was Tony Judt? In an article in the October 23, 2003 New York Review of Books, Judt wrote that Israel was fast transforming into a "belligerently intolerant, faith-driven ethno state..." 

Normally the death of a person with Tony Judt’s lack of notoriety would not cause the editor’s at Time Magazine to pause for even a moment – but it is easy to assume that Time’s interest in the death of a Jewish critic of Israel has more to with celebrating Jewish criticism of Israel than anything else.

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