Informed and Honest Debate With Zionism Is Impossible
In my introduction I said I was going to do my best to see that the debate generated more light than heat, but that how successful I could be would depend to a great extent on the passions of the panel and the studio audience. My hope, I added, was that I would be assisted to get far beyond propaganda and give reality and reason a fair hearing. That did not happen. More to the point, I now know, is that it could not have happened, and in my view never will happen, because informed and honest debate with those who have been brainwashed by Zionist propaganda is impossible. They are beyond reason.
That, of course, is only my opinion, but others can judge for themselves when both programmes are transmitted by PressTV (the first half of the first part is viewable here)
One of the supporters of Israel right or wrong who was in the audience subsequently blogged the comment that “an overriding stench of pitiful hatred was choking up the room.” He is either deluded or one of those who need to feel persecuted. There was no hatred in the recording studio. What there was from time to time, as viewers will be able to see for themselves, were outbursts of laughter and derision, provoked by the nonsense the defenders of Israel right or wrong were spouting.
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ANTI-SEMITISM RISING. WHY? Transmission Details - Alan Hart:
September 18th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
[...] I wrote in a post on 4 August, the experience of chairing this panel discussion and debate led me to the conclusion that informed [...]
Graham Griffiths:
November 2nd, 2011 at 10:09 pm
If we agree that anti-semitism and criticism of Zionism are the same, then we are doing the work of Zionist propagandists for them, as this irrational conflation of the two is one of their key weapons. Dr Jonathan Hoffman actually began his contribution by using some United Nations reference to ‘denying the state of Israel to the Jewish people’ but no-one is doing that. The criticism of modern-day Israel is over its expansionist policies and appalling treatment of the Palestinian people.