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JNews - What's it all about?

May 11, 2010 15:31
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I have been a follower of www.JINewsNet.com since it was established in 2009. It seemed to me to be long overdue for there to be an organisation established to actively promote the positive aspects of Israel and to be clear and truthful about it’s policies today. I also follow their proactive tweets on Twitter. For too long now the Diaspora has been plagued by a plethora of left-wing supporting web-sites, all taking the anti, let’s de-legitimise Israel point of view.

JINewsNet which stands for Jewish Israel News Network seems to be a very clear platform with a well laid out site. What seems to have happened now is another left-wing anti-Israel group set up in March 2010 have tried to plagiarise JINewsNet and work off the back of an already established web presence to gain some exposure for their own views. This group appears to be called “JNews”.

Who or what is JNews? Have a look at its patrons and trustees, it is a “rag-bag” collective of self-hating anti-Jewish Jews who see themselves as the ”A” listers of this phenomenon:-
Prof Zygmunt Bauman, Sir Geoffrey Bindman, Prof Emeritus Leslie Baruch Brent,
Prof Stan Cohen, Moris Farhi MBE, June Jacobs CBE, Prof Mary Kaldor, Helena Kennedy QC, Prof Francesca Klug OBE, Ursula Owen OBE, Rabbi Danny Rich, Prof Avi Shlaim, Marina Warner, Rabbi Alexandra Wright, Prof Emeritus John S Yudkin FRCP, Lady Ellen Dahrendorf,Richard Kuper, Antony Lerman, Maurice Naftalin and Prof Lynne Segal.

JNews is not “a potential voice for peace”, unless of course one considers the chipping away, de-legitimising, mendacity and undermining of a sovereign state to be peaceful.
What do JNews claim? “JNews will bring to public attention the authentic voices of those directly affected by the conflict and highlight the problems facing migrants and asylum seekers in Israel, the poor and the dispossessed, Arab-Palestinian citizens and the Bedouin. More generally in Israel-Palestine it will focus on the conditions of prisoners and detainees, the status and treatment of women, and the political and civil rights of Palestinians living under occupation and under the control of the Palestinian Authority.”
What does this “PR speak mean”, in plain language JNews aim to put out propaganda that highlights the viewpoint of everyone except Jewish Israelis.

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