Fear of a Black Planet

web designer says:

thats horrible..

mike says:

Theological Journalism…

HonestReporting was started at the initiative of the Jerusalem Fund of Aish HaTorah.
http://www.aish.com/aishint/
Aish HaTorah has become one of the world’s largest organizations dedicated to answering the vital question, “Why be Jewish?”.

Aish HaTorah’s vast network of programs is the vision of American-born Rabbi Noah Weinberg, who founded Aish HaTorah in 1974 to combat alarming assimilation rates.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,441313,00.html

A website calling itself HonestReporting.com was set up in London last autumn.
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Every time someone writes something they don’t like, details of the offending article are circulated round the world, together with a handy form of protesting words, ready to be lightly embroidered and electronically dispatched at the push of a button.
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It has recruited 12,000 subscribers to its database, it claims, all dedicated to fighting anti-Israel “bias” in the media.
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Founded by Rabbi Noah Weinberg, who complains that “20,000 kids a year” are being lost to Judaism by marrying out, Aish invented speed-dating – eight-minute sessions in cafes to help New Yorkers find compatible Jewish partners. They’re widely regarded as rightwing extremists. And they’re certainly not people entitled to harass the media into what they would call “objectivity”.

http://pilger.carlton.com/print/118297
It goes beyond that. Many of the e-mails are quite disgusting, containing menacing racist filth of the kind you associate with anti-Semitic fascists. The murder of my family is considered “not a bad idea”. I am a “demonic psychopath” and likened to David Irving. Someone called Arie Karseboom says that I must belong to a Nazi party or have an Arab wife: otherwise, a film explaining the injustice done to the Palestinians is simply inexplicable!

The distinguished Israeli historian Ilan Pappe, whose works are taught in universities all over the world and who describes my film as “balanced [and] faultless in its historical description”, is called a “pro-Arab dog” and worse.