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Conference taveng::bagels

Title:	BAGELS and other things of Jewish interest
Notice:	1.0 policy, 280.0 directory, 32.0 registration
Moderator:	SMURF::FENSTER

Created:	Mon Feb 03 1986
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1524
Total number of notes:	18709

1043.0. "Jewish News Network" by PACKER::PACKER::JULIUS () Wed Feb 06 1991 21:33

from the 'Jewish Reporter' February, 1991

Jewish News Network Starts

The Jewish News Network, a new public affairs program, will premiere on 
WKOX-AM radio on February 10, 1991 between 9-10 p.m.  The purpose of the 
show is to bring the Jewish perspective to the media.  Host Roger Baskin 
states that the show is needed because the media have distorted issues 
important to the Jewish Community, especially in regard to Israel.

Baskin notes that the program will have two segments.  The first segment will 
be an interview.  Among those tentatively scheduled are George Will, 
Jeanne Kirkpatrick, Senator Paul Wellstone, Retired General Bernard Trainor 
and members of the Massachusetts Congressional delegation.  Baskin is 
especially interested in interviewing Wellstone, the newly elected Jewish
Senator from Minnesota who was a campaign manager for Jesse Jackson and an
advocate of an independent Palestinian state.  "I have two particular
questions I would like to ask Senator Wellstone" states Baskin.  "First, how
could the son of a Jewish Russian emigrant support someone who is widely
perceived as anti-Semitic?  Second, what if there is a PLO state and Israel
is destroyed as a result.  How would he feel if he helped bring this about?"

The second segment will be a panel discussion.  Baskin promises to have a
panel discussion which is provocative and of diverse points of view.


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1043.1		BOLT::MINOW	The best lack all conviction, while the worst	`Wed Feb 06 1991 22:32`	32
	re: .0: ... The purpose of the show is to bring the Jewish perspective to the media. Host Roger Baskin states that the show is needed because the media have distorted issues important to the Jewish Community, especially in regard to Israel. ... "I have two particular questions I would like to ask Senator Wellstone" states Baskin. "First, how could the son of a Jewish Russian emigrant support someone who is widely perceived as anti-Semitic? Second, what if there is a PLO state and Israel is destroyed as a result. How would he feel if he helped bring this about?" Ahem. There is an interesting contrast between these two paragraphs. First, I find it distasteful that Baskin assumes Jews should be more opposed to antisemitism than non-Jews. Would Baskin ask, say, a Christian who believes that Yassar Arafat is the chosen leader of the Palestinians how that person, as a Christian, could support someone who is widely perceived as anti-semitic? Or is it taken as a given that Christians are expected (allowed) to be insensitive to anti-semitic issues. One fondly hopes that, when Baskin interviews someone strongly opposed to the creation of a Palestinian State, he might also ask that person "How would you feel if your opposition to a settlement of the Palestinian issue led to the destruction of Israel." It would be nice to see a counter to the media's distortion of issues important to the Jewish Community, but Baskin -- judged from the press release -- does not seem to be offering any solution to the problem. Martin.
1043.2	Sounds promising to me	RACHEL::BARABASH	This note was written by TECO	`Thu Feb 07 1991 17:35`	36
	RE: .1: > First, I find it distasteful that Baskin assumes Jews should be more > opposed to antisemitism than non-Jews. ... > Or is it taken as a given that Christians are expected > (allowed) to be insensitive to anti-semitic issues. Okay, how about this: Jews, the direct victims of antisemitism, are more sensitive to it than gentiles. Thus, a gentile view of Jesse Jackson could be that of someone who has dedicated his life to the struggle for civil rights in America. The Jewish view of Jesse Jackson, tempered by heightened sensitivity to antisemitism, is very strongly influenced by Jackson's embrace of Arafat, his friendship and association with professional Jew-hater Louis Farrakhan, and by his very revealing "Hymietown" remark. Baskin is right in wondering how, as a Jew, Senator Wellstone could turn a blind eye to this and become Jackson's campaign manager. > One fondly hopes that, when Baskin interviews someone strongly opposed to > the creation of a Palestinian State, he might also ask that person > "How would you feel if your opposition to a settlement of the Palestinian > issue led to the destruction of Israel." Clearly Baskin opposes the creation of a PLO state as a danger to Israel. I don't see how this implies that he is opposed to a settlement of the Palestinian issue. He just opposes the most risky settlement possible. Again, Baskin sounds reasonable to me. > It would be nice to see a counter to the media's distortion of issues > important to the Jewish Community, but Baskin -- judged from the > press release -- does not seem to be offering any solution to the problem. The press release seems quite promising to me. The JNN sounds like blessed relief to the Boston Globe's anti-Israel tilt. -- Bill B.