John Chuckman
COMMENT TO CBC RADIO CONCERNING AN INTERVIEW ON SUNDAY
EDITION WITH GIDEON LEVY
As liberal-minded and decent-spirited as your Israeli
journalist guest of March 29, may be, why can’t the Palestinians speak for
themselves?
Are the Palestinians such hopeless children or primitives
that they cannot speak for themselves?
Your program has given voice to scores of Israelis and apologists
for Israel over the years with barely a sound from the Palestinians, who have
many articulate and educated spokespeople.
The bias, extreme bias, just couldn’t be clearer. Even when
speaking of the grief Israel has imposed on five million people for half a
century, and in violation of countless international laws and agreements and
norms, pretty much only Israelis are deemed qualified to comment.
Actually your interview today could be seen as a new form of
reverse-propaganda in that it advertises reasonableness amongst Israelis,
telling people: So don’t worry about the endless abuse and injustice, such good
folks in Israel will make things right, eventually, and you can feel good just
knowing they are there.
Michael, despite your general liberal-mindedness, your
broadcasting practices on this terrible, longstanding issue of utterly-debased
human rights makes you part of the problem, not the solution. solution.
