The firing, by CNN, of Marc Lamont Hill after he spoke in support of Palestinian rights at the UN on its International Day in Solidarity with the Palestinian people, was not without precedent particularly by CNN in suppressing fact-based views supporting Palestinian national identity and an end to Israel’s occupation and human rights abuses in the name of ‘security’ for a ‘Jewish and democratic’ state of Israel.
In 2008 Christiane Amanpour reported a 3 part series about Muslim, Christian and Jewish religiously-inspired violent political extremism called God’s Warriors. The Boston based ‘media watch’ group camera. org, that is actually a far-right, anti-two state solution, political organization,
successfully used BDS tactics on advertisers
JERUSALEM – In response to uproar from angry viewers and a media watchdog report, CNN advertisers have distanced themselves from a special series that aired last week entitled “God’s Warriors,” produced and anchored by the network’s chief international correspondent, Christiane Amanpour.
The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America called an episode of the series that focused on Judaism “one of the most grossly distorted programs” ever aired on mainstream American television.
The financial company Raymond James’ Investor Relations complained to CNN that one of its commercials ran during the Jewish section of the program, titled “God’s Jewish Warriors.” The company said it was not aware its ad would be aired during the program and requested “no further airing of our commercials in any re-broadcast of the series.”
Martha Craft, assistant vice president of public relations for Orkin, which also advertised on the CNN program, slammed Amanpour’s documentary as “offensive” and said her company would not purchase any ad time if the network re-aired the series.
“We had purchased advertising that was supposed to air on ‘Larry King Live’ on Aug. 21. CNN changed programming to air ‘God’s Jewish Warriors’ without notifying us ahead of time to obtain our approval – which is against our agreement with the network,” stated Craft.
“We have discussed this with CNN, and they are aware of the severity of their mistake. I am told that ‘God’s Jewish Warriors’ was (part of) a three-part special which has concluded; however, Orkin has added it to our ‘do not buy’ list (‘of offensive shows where we do not allow our ads to run’), should it re-air in the future,” she said.
CAMERA said letters and calls from angry viewers prompted the swift response from advertisers. The media watchdog asked viewers to continue complaining to companies that advertised on “Gods Warriors,” including Intel, Brink’s Home Security, Verizon Wireless, Circuit City and Direct TV.
to not sponsor rebroadcasts of an August 2008 rerun of God’s Jewish Warriors.
By 2013 Christiane Amanpour supported humanitarian reasons for military involvement in Syria
with a rant
that led to more CNN work than the CBS work she did between 2010 and 2013.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center started its mission shift, for continued fundraising for itself as a holocaust memorial civil society institution, from assisting law enforcement in nazi fugitive hunts to suppressing opponents of zionist security policies of Israel. The mission shift was clearly on display by pressuring CNN to fire Octavia Nasr because she praised a recently deceased Hezbollah leader for calling for an end to honor killings of women.
The 'media activist' or 'media patroller' relationships built by anti-Palestinian individuals, sometimes working for the Israeli government, which made the demands to fire Marc Lamont Hill and Octavia Nasr easier to accept by CNN, and move Christiane Amanpour away from reporting about religious Jewish violent political extremism was disclosed here.
Arye Mekel, 53, who served four years as director-general of the Israeli Broadcasting Authority and whose seven years as consul general in Atlanta prompted Ted Turner to call him “Israel’s ambassador to CNN,” was recruited to coordinate the hasbara, or p.r., effort.
An institutional mission shift, in Holocaust remembrance civil society institutions, is shown in the IHRA definition of anti-semitism that conflates prejudice against Judaism and Jewish people with political disagreement with zionism
that has weakened the Labour Party in the UK by attacking its leader Jeremy Corbyn and marginalized its electoral prospects. The intra-party dispute enables the Conservative (Tory) party of David Cameron and Theresa May to argue amongst themselves mostly over the UK economic future of leaving the EU in March 2019 without a negotiated agreement.
The closest counterpart in the USA to the UK Labour Party, the Democratic (not ‘Democrat’) Party, has had the same rightward pressure from its ‘progressive except for Palestine’ supporters 'play out' in the demise of the National Jewish Democratic Council and its replacement by the Jewish Democratic Council of America.
An alternative definition of anti-semitism that correctly separates zionism is here. This article about a Jewish, and Israeli citizen's book about a prominent man who has changed his views on zionism based on new information he, and many other people who share the dissenting and critical views have learned, about how the development of a "Jewish and democratic" state has 'played out' over the long term is similar to what the JVP statement on zionism said 10 years later.
Past vigils at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum described here that took place in 2008, the same time as the release of Avrum Burg's book "The Holocaust is Over We Must Rise from its Ashes," that handed out these flyers
update Feb 11, 2019 better resolution images added
also had the same message of universal values and solidarity JVP has repeated in 2019 in its statement on zionism, rather than particular religious supremacy, to prevent genocides by any group on another group. Most genocides, including the holocaust of 1933-1945 with Jews as the largest victim group, have common roots in wars over natural resources and ways of paying for them collectively by democratic self-governing civil society institutions mostly nation states.
