Yid With Lid
I don't know if its 2,000 years of Jewish guilt or something in our DNA but the Jewish people have a history of being our own worst enemies. Nowhere is that proven more clearly than in the Jewish press. For any anti-Semites that may be reading this article, I realize that you believe that all media is controlled by the Jews, but for the purpose of this article, we are talking about media specifically and targeted toward Jews, such as the JTA on the internet and the newspaper, The Jewish Week. The problem with the vehicles is that in most cases they have small staffs and they are run by progressives who allow only one very biased point of view in their media. At the Jewish Week, the Washington reporter is named James Besser, frankly the newspaper could save some money by getting rid of Mr. Besser and replacing him with press releases from J Street and Media Matters, the readers wouldn't notice anything different.
For example a few years back I was personally involved in the leadership of an umbrella organization called Coordinating Council for Jerusalem (CCJ) It was an activist group trying to prevent the division of Jerusalem. The leadership consisted of people from all levels of observance and all political persuasions. It had no agenda beyond Jerusalem because quite frankly an undivided Jerusalem under Israeli control was the only thing the individual organizations could agree on (the conference calls were quite contentious at times).
Besser however, wrote an article for The Jewish Week implying that the CCJ was comprised of only Orthodox organizations along with a bunch of right wing crazies, who's only purpose was to try and prevent a Middle East peace deal. This is an absurd contention which if true would have caused the CCJ to lose more than half of its member organizations. Who knows where he got that idea, but it was obviously not from anyone who was actually involved with the effort.
The next time Besser fairly presents both points of view will be the first time. This is what he wrote about the Tea Party movement earlier this year, essentially progressive propaganda, and a clear indication that he had never been to an actual Tea Party.
“Yes, I know the Tea Party movement is a big, churning and somewhat diverse collection of people, including some conservatives who think Israel is cool,” James Besser wrote in The Jewish Week last month. “But as almost all the political scientists I talked to said, the insurgent movement also includes elements that are likely to scare the heck out of Jewish voters.”
Besser’s sources traced Tea Party roots back to a particular American strain of nativist, isolationist, anti-immigration forces.
“Lurking behind all of these was the idea of 100 percent ‘pure’ Americanism — and of taking America back from the ‘outsiders,’ ” he wrote.
During the Glenn Beck/George Soros kerfuffle last week Besser published the opinions of various radical progressive groups such as Jewish Funds For Justice and of course, the ADL, but never bothered to seek out the opinion of people who weren't pushing the progressive agenda.
Ron Kampeas of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency is the internet clone of Besser. Like Besser, he finds a way to interject his opinion into something that is sold as an actual news report.
After a recent meeting between Eric Cantor and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu which covered issues from the American Election to Iran and the Palestinian "peace" talks. Cantor's press guy Brad Dayspring released this summary of the part of the discussion about the election.
On the U.S. Election: Eric stressed that the new Republican majority will serve as a check on the administration and what has been, up until this point, one party rule in Washington. He made clear that the Republican majority understands the special relationship between Israel and the United States, and that the security of each nation is reliant upon the other.
Someone who did not have an agenda would explain that Cantor gave the Israeli PM what he saw as the new role for the GOP in the house, then reassured Bibi "don't worry the GOP leadership is cool." But Kampeas has an agenda. Kampeas wrote that that Cantor told Bibi that he would take Israel's side against the American interests and worse, an American President.
“I can't remember an opposition leader telling a foreign leader, in a personal meeting, that he would side, as a policy, with that leader against the president. Certainly, in statements on one specific issue or another — building in Jerusalem, or some such — lawmakers have taken the sides of other nations. But to have-a-face to face and say, in general, we will take your side against the White House — that sounds to me extraordinary.”
It would be very extraordinary if it came from Cantor instead of being drawn from the reservoir of knowledge that Kampeas sits on. As one would imagine, the JTA's tall tale was picked up by liberal news organizations across the world, from Poltico to the UK Guardian and when it was picked up by Andrew Sullivan of the Atlantic it made people wonder if the writer was off his meds again.
Based on the JTA article, the internet was full of the anti-Semitic meme, Congressman Cantor's loyalty was not the the US but to Israel. Kampeas would not have written his fantasy if Cantor was a Democrat, or a Christian.
Today Brad Dayspring wrote in part:
As the author of these two sentences, I feel it is my obligation to set the record straight, starting with the first point: “Eric stressed that the new Republican majority will serve as a check on the administration and what has been, up until this point, one party rule in Washington.”
This sentence was intended to summarize the portion of their conversation about the U.S. election. The checks and balances message was a dominant theme of the 2010 campaign, and certainly played a role in the defeat of many incumbent members. In that context, it would be difficult to imagine a serious conversation about the post-election shift in power without at least mentioning the role of the new Republican majority in the 112th Congress.
As far as the second half of the statement Dayspring said:
To be clear, Eric understands this special relationship, and he felt it important to make clear to the prime minister that the new Republican majority does as well.
Do you know who else does? According to this White House Press Office readout, President Barack Obama does: “…The President and the Prime Minister reaffirmed the strong, unbreakable bonds that characterize the special relationship between the United States and Israel.”
In other words, Cantor was giving Bibi standard everyday "political hooey."
Like most lies coming out of the press, Kampeas' words in the JTA, as well as Besser's inventions in the Jewish Week are very dangerous. They are used by the non-Jewish media as proof of anti-Jewish stereotypes such as the Jews have a dual loyalty, or American Jews do not want peace, or that all Jews agree with fake Antisemitism charges when they are made by progressive organizations such as the ADL and Jewish Funds For Justice. These charges created by the liberal Jewish Press, is just one more contributor to the growing problem of Antisemitism in America.
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