Channel 4 Dispatches - Inside Britain's Israel Lobby

A predictably pathetic effort from Peter Osborne. A tabloid Daily Mail shock horror story for the small screen.

Channel 4’s idea of impartiality seems to be to counteract a hate fuelling program about extremism within the Muslim community with a hate fuelling program implying “powerful forces” at work within the Jewish community. With this kind of impartiality, the only winners will be the BNP.

The program peddles ancient lies in an new ambiguous wrapping. The result was to top up the hate filled minds of antisemites with innuendo whilst hoping to ensure that that the producers did not fall foul of the law by concluding that there is indeed no evidence of a conspiracy. But, the producers know full well that the conspiracy theorists will go on believing in one, just as the believer in God won’t give up religious faith despite the overwhelming evidence that he does not exist. The program concludes that there’s no Zionist (why not just say Jewish) conspiracy, in the same that that many a bigot with preface a torrent of racist bile with the words "I've got nothing against blacks but" or "Some of my best friends are Jews, but."

Critical friends of Israel such Rabbi Dr David J Goldberg OBE who appeared on the program may be regretting that their highly edited interviews will have lent an air of respectability to a program that is nothing more than cheap propaganda against the vast majority of British Jews who are passionate in their support for the State of Israel and grateful for the philanthropy of some of the wealthier members of their community, that enables funding of initiatives aimed at counteracting propaganda against the world’s most unfairly vilified country.