In this week’s Australian Jewish News the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council executive director Colin Rubenstein said the ABC should not have invited Ilan Pappe to appear on Q&A:
“The decision by Q&A to frame a program around an individual whose single claim to notoriety is his defamation and demonisation of Israel – a longstanding advocate for Israel’s demise and a man repeatedly caught misusing historical sources to push his openly declared ideological vendetta – is an extraordinary example of contempt for the intelligence of viewers,” Rubenstein said.
I’d like to put it to Colin Rubenstein, and those who concur with his point of view, that the viewers of the ABC, myself included, are intelligent enough to make our own minds up as to whether the ABC should have invited Ilan Pappe to appear on their show and that we don’t need pro-Zionist moral guardians to make our minds up for us.
If Colin Rubenstein wishes to censor the ABC he can take himself off to somewhere like China, North Korea or Iran and open his own state media outlet and not invite Ilan Pappe, over there. In the meantime, in Australia, he should respect the independence of the ABC and the intelligence of its viewers.
Dear Jewish people worldwide – I’m tired of your collective victim mindset; I’m tired of your whinging and most of all, I’m absolutely exhausted by your hypocrisy.,
How obnoxious you are Fran! You’ve attacked every single jew in one shot. By you attacking us collectively just proves why we are collective victims.
sounds like Mikey Bear has a massive chip on his shoulder ?
Let me guess. You’d be happy for the Palestinian equivalent of the AIJAC to dictact its terms to the ABC. Oh yes, I can just see you copping that one in silence. 🙂