Mar 30
Someone to watch over us
Arab Media Watch http://www.arabmediawatch.com/ is another delightful Islamist group operating in the West, advertising its own particular brand of radical Islam under the banner Promoting objective coverage of Arab issues in Western media.
Unable to resist the chance of a good discussion, I attended their fun packed London conference titled Is criticizing Israel anti-Semitic, and found an auditorium packed with useful-idiot Lefties, piously clutching their Guardian newspapers and wearing Arafat headscarves. To ensure good debate, the panel of distinguished were of varied opinion, though only in the ferocity of their hatred for Israel and America.
N.B. While Middle East Media Watch has not yet had time to investigate objective reporting in the various fiefdoms, dictatorships, and totalitarian states surrounding Israel, I am confident this will happen soon, as focusing on Israel might lead to unfounded accusations of anti-Semitism.
To great disappointment, AMWs patron was unable to attend. His impartial view of Israel was no doubt vital during his tenure as BBC Middle East Correspondent.
The Chairman kicked off festivities with a fiery call for the academic boycott of Israel, railing against those daring to oppose it with moral outrage that held the crowd enthralled.
Strangling the one area of the Middle East producing more scientific and medical research than the other 98% put together obviously makes sense.
Whether patients should boycott Israeli medicine was not made clear. I suggest hospitals give cancer sufferers a choice; death or Jewish science.
Next up, an eminent Oxford academic showed how Zionists accuse its critics of anti-Semitism to cover up their evil deeds. Anti-Semitism, he declared, barely existed, if it all; the desire to destroy Israel and dismember Jews being merely an expression of political discontent. Some people write Blog notes, some machine gun school busses full of kids; but hey, we all express ourselves in different ways; thats what makes us special.
This feat of moral dexterity was as much as this attendee could take. I exited early, in urgent search of a strong drink.
