Anti-Semitic is Circular, but an Argument?

Illustration:  Completely unrelated, from www.whatnowtoons.com, about the Tennessee nonsense.

Here is a letter to the PBS station in San Francisco.  It also gives a bit of perspective on how far away from reality our entire media is:


Our local and otherwise great public tv station which used to show a lot of Alan Watts back
in the 50's remember? KQED showed a ridiculous documentary excusing Israel for just about
anything it ever did wrong.

Here's what I wrote the president of KQED.


"Dear Mr. or Ms. President of KQED,

I was dismayed to find a program entitled "Anti-Semitism" aired tonight October 12th 2010 on KQED.

For years I have asked KQED and in particular Michael Krasny of "Forum" why John Pilger's documentaries are never
shown on your station, "Palestine is Still the Issue" for example.

Pilger is an Australian who exposes the unfairness of the occupation of Palestinian lands by israeli troops,
land that does not belong to Israel but which was overrun and conquered by the Israeli Army back in 1967 and is still kept
in poverty and isolation for some 43 years now, making it one of the longest run and largest outdoor prisons in the
world.

The program shown tonight on your station blames 'AntiSemitism' for hatred of Israel and Jews, implying that a long lasting evil tradition
is still going strong because...?  Because people hate Jews, a rather circular argument.

Large money contributors who support KQED may prefer this kind of distorted reasoning, but I cancelled my membership to your
station because of this refusal to see and report the truth.

What is the truth?  Israel has earned the enmity of many countries precisely because it has for decades now hung on to land gained
through war, and visited apartheid and other indignities on its Palestinian captives.  Why did the US veto over 80 UN resolutions against
Israel for this kind of behavior.  Is the UN anti-Semitic?  Why can not an organization concerned with world justice censure a government
that does such things to a trapped vulnerable powerless
people, in Gaza for instance, without being considered prejudiced?

Why not air a program about what REALLY goes on in the occupied territories of Gaza and the West Bank instead of an excuse of such
actions based on a charge of "Anti-Semitism"?  Really, the whole idea of blaming centuries old hatred of Jews is preposterous and KQED is only betraying its bias and refusal
to face the plain facts involving Israel's Zionist extremists.

Shame on you KQED, and you too Michael Krasny, you are all guilty of kow-towing to special interests and money, trying to blame Anti-Semitism for the
anger much of the world feels towards Israel for its inhumane treatment of Palestinians.  Ask yourselves this, how many Gaza Flotilla survivors have been
interviewed on US tv?  I personally know such an individual, beaten and tortured in an Israel prison after being arrested on a boat in international waters.
Is saying that the State of Israel is guilty of beating and torturing people 'Anti-Semitic'?  Think about it, and let me know when you'll show a better documentary about
this vital subject, our relationship with Israel.

The unconditional support of Israel no matter how heinous it's crimes must end.  You, KQED, are simply prolonging the support of a rogue state,  I am
sorry to say.  Again, I am deeply disappointed in your failure of nerve.  A public station should represent facts fairly and not be swayed by contributors,
or else how do you explain yourselves on this matter?

Sincerely but regretfully yours,

Dr. Barry M. Wright
Gilroy CA"