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Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2012 1:17 pm?? ?Post subject: Rupert Murdoch: anti-Semite

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/2012/1118/Rupert-Murdoch-s-Jewish-problem.-And-his-Egyptian-one

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Murdoch is Murdoch, which is what makes two tweets of his from last night so interesting. The first: "Can't Obama stop his friends in Egypt shelling Israel?" And the second: "Why Is Jewish owned press so consistently anti-Israel in every crisis?"

I'm not sure what great friends Obama has in Egypt. It's true that the US didn't stand in the way of the Egyptian uprising that saw longstanding dictator Hosni Mubarak driven from power in 2011. And the Obama administration has been seeking to craft a workable relationship with the new civilian government of President Mohamed Morsi, a senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood, since.

But A. US influence is limited in Egypt, given the hostility of a large swathe of President Morsi's constituency to the US and its strong military support for Israel; And, B. (And this is the important bit.) Egypt is not firing anything at Israel.

Israel is taking missile and mortar fire from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, of course. But that's much as has been happening since 2001, all but one of those years occurring when Mr. Mubarak was in power in Egypt. Though Egypt then, as now, has some influence over events in Gaza (it hosted failed talks on a failed cease-fire attempt overnight) Hamas very much marches to its own drummer. Hopefully someone at Fox News will fill Murdoch in.

The second quote from Murdoch up above is equal parts troubling and illuminating. He seems to believe that the owners of media outlets should require their reporting to conform to their owners political preferences and world-views, rather than reflect observed reality. It's fair to assume that's what happens at his sprawling press holdings, particularly his US-based flag-ship Fox News.

That's the illuminating part. The troubling part is his apparent belief that Jewishness should be synonymous with support for the current Israeli government, even for Jewish-Americans. It's long been an anti-Semitic trope in US and European life that Jews are not truly loyal to the countries of their birth and citizenship, that for them Israel comes first. Such false claims are rightly pushed back on. Then there's the frequently made anti-Semitic claim that the "Jews control the media," usually made within various conspiracy theories....

And, Rupert's "apology?"

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/murdoch-jewish-owned-press-twitter-tweet-israel-135226128.html

Rupert wrote:

"Jewish owned press" [has] been sternly criticised, suggesting link to Jewish reporters. Don't see this, but apologise unreservedly.

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Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2012 4:36 pm?? ?Post subject:

you have to be delusional to not acknowledge that the Jews own the press. What families own the major publishing firms, who owns the NYTimes for goodness sakes? It is self-guilt of a certain group's disproportionate influence that propels one to reframe reality in a more equalizing manner. Maybe they don't want the anti-semetic rhetoric, and chosenness projected unto them. Who knows. But saying the Jews own the Press is not anti-semetic. It is a stab at the Left, which Jews have pioneered. But Jews owning the press is nothing new. They own wallstreet too, and the academics. And the arts. And every left-wing movement. And the entertainment industry. and the Press. _________________ "Thou art weighed in the balances, and found wanting" - God