Video: Why I Hate MEMRI TV?

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sadegh
by sadegh
09-Jul-2008
 

This video takes a critical look at the MEMRI TV 'news service' upon which all faux-journalists so heavily rely e.g. Tom Freidman of the NYT...As'ad Abukhalil has also over the years done a beautiful job of demolishing the ideological preconceptions which determine MEMRI TV coverage...These faux-journalists can't speak the languages and then draw much of their source material from a cherry-picked and highly distorted picture, which has been fabricated to further and give credence to the Israeli right and neocon agenda and its depiction on the Mid East, its peoples, culture and politics...

It still amazes me that there remain masses of journalists and pundits out there who claim to be Mid East experts, but can't speak a word of Arabic, Farsi, Urdu or whatever...In what other region is such a thing possible?

Imagine a journalist covering British or American politics who couldn't speak a word of English and then relied upon a Saudi news service which selectively translated unfavorable segments of the British or American press...There would surely be outcry in the West and amongst journalists...The dearth of MEMRI coverage portraying Israeli violence, racism and bigotry says it all, and unambiguously points to where the 'new service's' allegiances lie...Is not Israel after all, a part of the Middle East?

There should certainly be coverage of the propagation of racist and illiberal sentiments in the Arab and Middle Eastern press, but it's also blindingly obvious that there needs to be even-handedness...this is one of the most rudimentary precepts of journalism...In fact, (as anyone who actually reads Farsi, Arabic or Urdu can tell you) there is unremitting critique and questioning of such views e.g. there were literally hundreds of pages dedicated to rebuking Ahamdinejad's ignorant statements vis-a-vis the Holocaust which smacked of anti-Semitism in the Farsi-language press, and these receive scant if any airtime because their don't concur with MEMRI TV and its backers monolithic and unnuanced image of the Middle East and Islamic world, their eminent 'ideological enabler', which justifies Israel's and the US's flouting of international law and acceptable norms of behavior and conduct as well as unilateral military aggression.

On another level, such liberal and critical voices aren't sufficiently 'sensationalist'...they're incongruent with the masked, keffiyeh wearing 'cold-blooded' killers and al-Qaedaesque cliches Bush and Cheney keep prattling on about. In other words, they don't make 'good tv' and so don't deserve to see the light of day...Racist distortions and fear are what sells! Just ask Fox News...

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Zion

Haha!

by Zion on

Yes he does Programmer Craig. Funny, eh?

Mehdi, I wouldn't waste too much time with this bunch. They have pain you see. It hurts somewhere.


sadegh

Oh yeah, and what a

by sadegh on

Oh yeah, and what a surprise, you still haven't answered the question...

Imagine a journalist covering British or American politics who couldn't speak a word of English and then relied upon a Saudi news service which selectively translated unfavorable segments of the British or American press...

If you can honestly tell me such a situation would be acceptable to you, then please say so...

Ba Arezu-ye Movafaghiat, Sadegh

 


sadegh

I DIDN'T REALIZE I WAS

by sadegh on

I DIDN'T REALIZE I WAS SHOUTING PG, THANKS FOR INFORMING ME...I'M WRITING IN CAPITAL LETTERS TO EMPHASIZE FOR ALL THE MENTALLY DEFICIENTS OUT THERE...'KURDISH WARRIOR' IS A LIAR, I NEVER USED THE WORD 'ZIONIST' OR SAID ANYTHING WHATSOEVER THAT CAN BE INTERPRETED AS ANTI-SEMITIC...HE IS STUPID OBVIOUSLY SINCE HE CAN'T READ NOR BACK UP HIS INSULTS...THEREFORE HE IS A SLANDERING LIAR...A SPADE IS A SPADE IS A SPADE...GET OVER IT PG...YOU THINK FAR TOO MUCH OF YOURSELF...THE PATHETIC BASELESS IDIOCIES OF A BUNCH OF IGNORAMUSES A LA KURDISH WARRIOR DON'T EVEN REGISTER ON THE 'ANGER METER'. HIS INSIPID COMMENTS JUST NEEDED TO BE SHOWN UP FOR THE BASELESS GUTTER-NONSENSE THEY WERE...

Ba Arezu-ye Movafaghiat, Sadegh

 


sadegh

NO PG, WRONG AND ACTING

by sadegh on

NO PG, WRONG AND ACTING LIKE MICKEY MOUSE AS USUAL...ANYONE CAN COMMENT ON IRAN WHO TAKES THE TIME TO BE INFORMED...YOU ARE NOT AND ARE THEREBY EXCLUDED FROM BEING ABLE TO MAKE ANY MEANINGFUL CONTRIBUTION...

AND TO THE GUY WHO QUESTIONED THE EXISTENCE OF TELEVISED FORCED CONFESSIONS - YOU OBVIOUSLY HAVE NEVER BEEN TO IRAN OR WERE NEVER THERE AFTER THE REVOLUTION...THE BEST THING I CAN SUGGEST IS THAT YOU READ THE FINAL CHAPTER OF ERVAND ABRAHAMIAN'S BOOK 'TORTURED CONFESSIONS' IN WHICH THE PHENOMENON IS FULLY DOCUMENTED...

Ba Arezu-ye Movafaghiat, Sadegh

 


programmer craig

shouting?

by programmer craig on

So now he resorts to yelling at us. In the comments for his own post!


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You are misinformed about MEMRI

by Mehdi Mazloom (not verified) on

Agha e abramard. First, if you wish to be respected and treated with respect from me, from now on I would appreciate if you refrain from calling the Israelis "Zionists". We all know the hidden agenda behind that label - a derogatory name for JEWS. Call them Israelis, period.

Second. I invite anyone to go to MEMRI's, own site, and on the left column under "Subjects", click on "Reform in Arab and Muslim world".
//www.memri.org/reform.html

And "Arab Cultural"
//www.thememriblog.org/arabculture/

Review the topics on which these website covers. They are nothing but praise to those Arab & Muslims who engage with what we here in the west take for granted - self criticism, and urgent need for the Islamic world to change and adapt itself to modern and contemporary times.
I challenge anyone to show me anywhere on these two threads where it bashes or otherwise demeans the Muslims. it is all depend on each individual's emotional maturity to hear or read criticism, and interpret it either as "Bashing" and insults", or "constructive criticism", and the need to change. It is unfortunate that many Muslims have thin skin and take every comment, as constructive as may be, the wrong way, other them its intended purpose, of need for change. It include to let go of that venerble hollow and empty ego, and the need for eh-te-ram, and poz (respect) from others.

If Muslims wish to be honored, they will have to earn it.

The funny thing is the original poster, sadegh, followed by yourself, are the ones who blame MEMRI for what you call selective posting. Yet yourselves are the most guilty of selective posting to advance your own anti-Zionists propaganda and dislikes.

MEMRI contains lot more information that just Muslim and Arab bashing. as you see, it also has educational information about the richness of the Arab & Iranian cultural. But again, you two conveniently select those section which suit your own prejudices and not so hidden agenda.

Indeed, there are a "billion" Muslims on this earth. Yet, these good and honest Muslims are prevented by a 7th century mindset and religious dogma from contributing their fair share of solving some of the most acute problems facing humanity. Hunger, education, housing, chronic deceases. Freedom of expression. These problems exist more throughout the Arab & Islamic states then in he West.

The fact is, in most of Islamic states, unfortunately, Muslims produce the lowest number of doctors, engineers, architects, and other academic scholar per capita, then anywhere else. Are Muslims less capable then their Jewish or Christian counterparts - absolutely and positively no. So why is it, Muslims have failed in every field of scientific discoveries for past 900 years. Why is it, that with only 15M populations, Jews have produced more then 176 (and counting) Nobel Prize laureates. Yet, a population of 1.4B produced only one (in Chemistry). Or few others who received their prize, (with exception of Shirin Ebadi & Muhammad Yunis), for NOT FIGHTING. Like the late Arafart (no misspelling).

No my friend, this is not the case of, as you stated, one backward and hate filled akhoon baba, or Mollah, whom are excused with "wrongly misinterprets the teaching of Islam". Rather it is the manifestation of a whole doctrine and basic philosophy of Islam vs. Judea-Christianity, on which the institution itself is based upon. Its teachings of the way one's outlook on life itself.


sadegh

THANKS MEHDI...ON ANOTHER

by sadegh on

THANKS MEHDI...ON ANOTHER NOTE HA'ARETZ IS MORE CRITICAL THAN ANY AMERICAN MEDIA...THAT IS CORRECT...HOWEVER. MEMRI TV ISN'T MADE FOR ISRAELI CONSUMPTION IT IS MADE FOR US AND FOREIGN CONSUMPTION BY NEOCONS AND THEIR RIGHTWING ALLIES IN ISRAEL...

Ba Arezu-ye Movafaghiat, Sadegh

 


sadegh

I DON'T THINK KURDISH

by sadegh on

I DON'T THINK KURDISH WARRIOR CAN READ...PLEASE QUOTE WHERE I HAVE USED THE TERM 'ZIONIST'...YOU CAN'T YOU GOD DAMN LIAR...PATHETIC, STUPID AND A LIAR...AGAIN, AGHA LEARN HOW TO READ!!!

Ba Arezu-ye Movafaghiat, Sadegh

 


programmer craig

sadegh

by programmer craig on

as for PG seriously, the more you say the more I think you might be
Mickey Mouse...you're not Iranian, don't speak Farsi, haven't been to
Iran...just stop embarrassing yourself...

Gee, sadegh! You just excluded 98% of the world's population from having anything to say about Iran, didn't you? Includingthe entire middle east, outside of Iran! Must be nice to be able to just tell everyone else it's none of their business, eh? lol.


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NEWS FLASH - OLMERT TO BE INDICTED

by Mehdi Mazloom (not verified) on

Israel's national TV has just declared. By August, Ehud Olmert will be indicted by the court - charged with receiving bribe. If convicted, he will go to jail.

When are we going to read the same about Khamanei, and his corrupted cohorts on Iranian TVs other publications.

Come on, lets read some similar "revelations" from our Iranian participants.


Abarmard

Dear Mehdi Mazloom

by Abarmard on

You make valid points about Israeli media inside Israel. But the issue here is the tool used to demonized.

Let's all agree that there are many stupid people on this earth. They walk as many different cultures and religions. MEMRITV picks those intentionally and broadcasts them to create an image, mostly demonizing a Islam, Muslims, Arabs or recently Iranians. This allows the "west" and pro Zionist out of Israel to add to their hate and accept the possible killing, torture, occupation and what not of these low lives who think as the MEMRITV draws them.

Yes, they are real and many Mullahs, Arabs, Bedwins or Iranian Akhunds have said dumb things. Who are they? And Does the mass think like them is what MEMRITV fails to bring to you. By watching this media one things that for example everyone in Yemen thinks like the Wahabi who is talking to them!

It certainly doesn't help to bring people closer or make them cherish one another culture does it? It brings hate. That can't be good.

NOTE: There are over a billion Muslims in this world. How many Jews and Christians? And you can stand up and tell me that the preachers in some mid USA has not said worse than some of these chosen pics by MEMRITV?

Do you see the problem here? You are entitled to your opinion, just know what is the issue here.


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REALITY COMES KNOCKING

by Mehdi Mazloom (not verified) on

Lets respond to few comments made by our educated Iranians.

Thanks Abarmard...what
by sadegh on Thu Jul 10, 2008 04:54 AM CDT

"Thanks Abarmard...what about that guy who claims pictures don't lie? I guessed he believes the televised forced confession by the IRI are genuine? What a joke..."

Do you mind to post the link to that “forced confession”. Let me look at it and go from there.

And this:

"Third, I never said such phenomena don't exist...I said coverage should be EVEN-HANDED and show both sides of the story...Maybe you should read the post in the future so you don't look so silly... "

MEMRI will not do as good job as Israelis themselves do every day - self criticizing.. The biggest critics of the Israeli leaders misconduct, is not as much as Al Manar, Al Jazzirah, nor Al Arabia TV outlets. Rather they are Israel's own media publications. Why don't you bookmark these Israeli papers web sites and read them for yourself.
//www.jpost.com/
//www.haaretz.com/

Witness how the media exposes the corruptions, and calls to remove the bums out of office. Read and watch how Israeli civilians get out in the streets throughout the country, and do what none of you living in Tehran, Mashhad, Araq, or anywhere else throughout the Arab-Islamic states would even dream to do. Express their displeasure with their government in public, and live another day to do even more.

Read how an Arab member of Knesset gets up in that respected institution and calls for the elimination of his own country, and replaced by Arab Islamic states – yet, no one loses his life, or even his freedom to criticize the government even more.

Israel is a shining path of democracy, freedom and respect to individual's basic right of expression. with Law and order, where no one is above the law. A state where its most powerful institution on land is not the government, rather its Supreme Court, where even the Palestinians from the WB themselves seek and receive justice against the government actions.

Our country is only 60 years old. It is made up of immigrants from 200 different countries and 120 languages and cultural. The only thing unifies us, it is our Jewish religion, heritage and cultural going back some 4500. YET, despite all these differences, look for yourself how we manage to develop one of the most advanced countries, among the highest standard of living on earth;. You have yet to see us settle our differences through force, or violence.
NOW, COMPARE that to your own societies. Please, examine how the manner by which Shi'ites settle their differences with Sunnis, or farsi with Arab going back 1400. Then you will see what I mean.

Khodah ne-gar-dar e toon basheh


Mehdi

MEMRI TV = ZioNazi propaganda

by Mehdi on

But ZioNazis mean well ;)


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Interesting

by Anonymous1234 (not verified) on

Cole in Salon: FBI Plan to Profile Muslims Unconstitutional

My column in Salon.com:

'The FBI's plan to "profile" Muslims': It's unconstitutional, un-American -- and it might hurt, rather than help, the FBI's effort to stop real acts of terror.

Excerpt:

' The U.S. Justice Department is considering a change in the grounds on which the FBI can investigate citizens and legal residents of the United States. Till now, DOJ guidelines have required the FBI to have some evidence of wrongdoing before it opens an investigation. The impending new rules, which would be implemented later this summer, allow bureau agents to establish a terrorist profile or pattern of behavior and attributes and, on the basis of that profile, start investigating an individual or group. Agents would be permitted to ask "open-ended questions" concerning the activities of Muslim Americans and Arab-Americans. A person's travel and occupation, as well as race or ethnicity, could be grounds for opening a national security investigation. '

//www.juancole.com/2008/07/cole-in-salon-fbi-...


Mehdi-Palang

to sarzamine man...

by Mehdi-Palang on

I'm sorry but it looks like you actually believe all of the BS these guys are selling.  How do YOU define khoshbakht??  Are you judging khoshbakhtegi by material possessions?  Have you not seen the UAE (Dubay, Abu Dhabi, etc) Iran would have been a democracy if it weren't for the CIA and MI6 in '53. 

You don't get it sarzamine, we aren't happy with the government in Iran at the moment because it is a reactionary government, but on the other hand how can it not be reactionary?  Look at what the US and Israel are threatening to do to Iran.  Why do we need to have US military bases in the region??  (It's called imperialism)  We can take care of ourselves,we have for the past few millenia.  We don't need the US's military near our borders. 

Which part of the Persian Gulf does the US border??

Oh, as for this statement that you made:

Islam and its gang is ripping off Iranian from morning to night, our people do not have the most basic human rights, my cat have more respect in here than actual human being in Iran.

I don't know what you're referring to, what part of Iran do you live in? (gorbe-abad? lol) No, seriously


Mehdi-Palang

Nice video...

by Mehdi-Palang on

I couldn't agree with you more.  I always enjoy reading your posts Sadegh..

as for these others PG, zion, and fred they don't understand that we want a middle-east free of apartheid and colonialism.  They think that we're crazy or religiously fanatic because we oppose racism.  I genuinely don't think a single one of them has ever been to Iran or any other Middle-eastern country (other than Israel).

BTW did you make this video?  I think the song suited the video well.

hey Fred, PG, and beloved zion (watch this)

//youtube.com/watch?v=cF6oZZpHrjM&feature=related

&

 //youtube.com/watch?v=LnB1NQEfvPU

 


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Funny

by Sarzamine man (not verified) on

Anything that in any direction is against IR and Islam you hate and all your effort from morning to nigh goes to bash Israel, America and etc, whereas Islam and its gang is ripping off Iranian from morning to night, our people do not have the most basic human rights, my cat have more respect in here than actual human being in Iran and thats all you can come up with, your true face bar kesy dar in website poshide nist, do you think people need these kind of TV to know the truth ?? don't you see that there has not been a single free and khoshbakht Moslim country from the beginning of Islam up to now ? do we really need an American or Isreal to tell us about it ?? you know this is our problem, not that our friends from Madineh took all our wealth, they have also took our KHERAD, vaghean ajib mardomany hastim ma.


sadegh

Thanks Fred, appreciate the

by sadegh on

Thanks Fred, appreciate the complement, I will endeavor to soar to ever newer altitudes, just for you...as for PG seriously, the more you say the more I think you might be Mickey Mouse...you're not Iranian, don't speak Farsi, haven't been to Iran...just stop embarrassing yourself...of course experts need to speak the language...did you ever go to college, do you know anything of academic standards...as I said before:

Imagine a journalist covering British or American politics who couldn't speak a word of English and then relied upon a Saudi news service which selectively translated unfavorable segments of the British or American press...There would surely be outcry in the West and amongst journalists...

By your lights such a scenario would be fine...stop being such a silly rabbit...

Ba Arezu-ye Movafaghiat, Sadegh

 


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Sadegh

by Kurdish Warrior (not verified) on

I read many of your articles and they all tend to be very anti Semitic...You keep using the Zionist word in every statement...I met a lot of people like you who believe that in every corner there is Zionist propaganda....it's absolutely ridiculous.


Fred

Up up and away

by Fred on

You’ve got to hand it to the Islamist/Anti-Semites and their likeminded lefty allies. Just when one thinks they’ve reached the zenith of gall with their usual claptraps, they always somehow manage to soar further up. 


programmer craig

Both sides?

by programmer craig on

Third, I never said such phenomena don't exist...I said coverage should be EVEN-HANDED and show both sides of the story...

Both sides of the story? I think you misunderstand what MEMRI does. They exist to expose propaganda. There aren't "two sides" to propaganda.

Or do you have an explanation for it when Mickey Mouse the Jew gets beaten to death on a kid's television program? What's the other side of that one? Was it a translation error? Or perhaps in Islam it is acceptable to beat "Jewish" cartoon characters to death? Is that what you are selling?


programmer craig

The truth about

by programmer craig on

The truth about Memri...

Read more here about HOW MEMRI DOCTORED AND FALSIFIED NORMAN FINKELSTEIN'S WORDS: 

What's the "truth" about the Finkstein person? He's said enough in English to damn him, as anyone who spends more than a few minutes reading about him can see with their own eyes. It's telling that you chose him, of all people, for your example. Are you going to bring Noam Chomsky into the discussion next? lol.

 


programmer craig

sadegh...

by programmer craig on

It still amazes me that there remain masses of journalists and pundits
out there who claim to be Mid East experts, but can't speak a word of
Arabic, Farsi, Urdu or whatever...In what other region is such a thing
possible?

What does language have to do with anything, Sadegh? Would you insist that historians learn each and every language of the history they are studying before they can call themselves "experts", or even "historians" for that matter? You'd put an awful lot of reserach assistants and professional translators out of work! Not to mention doctoral students! You'd also be sending the study of history into a tailspin that it would never pull out of.

I seriously doubt you even believe the things you say, yourself.


sadegh

The truth about

by sadegh on

The truth about Memri...

How MEMRI presents itself

[From the MEMRI website:]

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) explores the Middle East through the region's media. MEMRI bridges the language gap which exists between the West and the Middle East, providing timely translations of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish media, as well as original analysis of political, ideological, intellectual, social, cultural, and religious trends in the Middle East. Founded in February 1998 to inform the debate over U.S. policy in the Middle East, MEMRI is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit, 501 (c)3 organization.

The truth about MEMRI

MEMRI is a main arm of Israeli propaganda. Although widely used in the mainstream media as a source of information on the Arab world, it is as trustworthy as Julius Streicher's Der Sturmer was on the Jewish world.

The evidence

MEMRI recently posted what it alleged was an interview I did with Lebanese television on the Nazi holocaust. The MEMRI posting was designed to prove that I was a Holocaust denier. Below I juxtapose the MEMRI version of my interview (both the actual broadcast version as well as the transcript it prepared) against what I actually said in the interview.

Footnotes

1. Streicher was sentenced to death at Nuremberg.

2. "When the true history of this era is written...the dispatches of MEMRI will be copiously represented in every true scholar's footnotes" - Martin Peretz, Editor and Publisher, The New Republic. (Another of Peretz's notable predictions back in 1984 was that Joan Peters's From Time Immemorial "will change the mind of our generation. If understood, it could affect the history of the future.")

 
 

Read more here about HOW MEMRI DOCTORED AND FALSIFIED NORMAN FINKELSTEIN'S WORDS:

//normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11&ar=605

Ba Arezu-ye Movafaghiat, Sadegh

 


sadegh

Thanks Abarmard...what

by sadegh on

Thanks Abarmard...what about that guy who claims pictures don't lie? I guessed he believes the televised forced confession by the IRI are genuine? What a joke...

Zion, no need to repeat...we kow as far as you are concerned FACTS ARE IRRELEVANT...

Third, I never said such phenomena don't exist...I said coverage should be EVEN-HANDED and show both sides of the story...Maybe you should read the post in the future so you don't look so silly...

Fourth, inferring from my "tone" that I'm an Islamist was a tactic relied upon by the Spanish Inquisition, the IRI (I've been researching the 1988 massacres), and also the hidden, unaccountable military courts set up by the Bush admin. Maybe you need to examine your own values, before you mistakenly identify and impugn straw men...as anyone knows who reads this site...I am agnostic when it comes to all things god-related, not a fan of religion, or the IRI... 

Ba Arezu-ye Movafaghiat, Sadegh

 


Zion

MEMRI

by Zion on

Contrary to some claims coming from clear agendas against the disclosure of truth of what is going on in the Middle East, MEMRI s very even handed in portraying a true picture of Middle Eastern media, and shows both the problematic side as well as the progressive reforming side:

//www.memritv.org/subject/en/66.htm


Zion

The Truth Hurts

by Zion on

Exactly Mehdi, very well said. The video is so lame I was disappointed. A couple of claims and irrelevant facts. Of course that is all they can say because there is not a single issue they can find with the actual MEMRI material. That is why MEMRI is so trusted and referred to. So they have to find lame excuses like these, the only ones they can find, to express their anger and frustration to witness how the truth they so desperately try to hide comes out into the open for all to see.
Good job MEMRI, as always.


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FACTS! FACTS! FACT!

by Mehdi Mazloom (not verified) on

Agha e Abramard ishon goftan (Mr Abramard says):
"the biggest problem is the source. Zionists show their desperation in many format because they need the American and international money and technology in order to exist."

maybe these figures below will wake some of those "educated" Iranians like you about those Zionists accomplishment.
One "Zionist" produces more goods and services then 10 Arab & Islamic counterparts combined.

GDP per CAPITA (2007 est).

Arab & MUSLIM STATES:

1.Bangladesh---$1,400
2.Egypt:---------$5,400
3.Jordan:--------$4,700
4.Mauritania......$1,800
5.Nigeria:-------$2,200
6.Pakistan:------$2,600
7.Somalia:--------$600
8.Syria:---------$4,300
9.Sudan:--- ----$2,500
10.Yemen--------$2,400
TOTAL:-------$27,900

ISRAEL------$28,800

With no Oil, or other natural resources of its own, One Israeli worker produces more goods and services, then 10 of his counterparts in Arab & Muslim Countries COMBINED.

Even with their massive oil reserves. These Arab & Muslim states, mano-to-mano can't surpass Israel's GDP.

Oil rich States.
Saudi Arabia:--$20,700
Libya:------------$13,100
Iran:--------------$12,300

Source: //www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index...

So much for Israel's dependence on foreign money for its existance.

Come back here next time and I will enlighten you with more figues about the massive investments and the number of hi-tech start up formed in Israel each year.


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Your tone indicate a sense

by Anonymous1234 (not verified) on

Your tone indicate a sense of panic and despair in the Islamic Revolutionary ranks as more Westerners learn about the true nature of political Islam. Intoning A'sad Abu khalik is also lame and it does not further the credibility of your assertions. He is a two bit professor at a less than a mediocare university. He is a joke.

Here is one paragraph that describes everything that is wrong with the anti-imperialist left:

"Where would a socialist be who decided their political attitude to Malcolm X on the basis of his reactionary religious beliefs as a member of the Nation of Islam, to Bob Marley on the basis of his belief in the divinity of that old tyrant Haile Selassie or even to Hugo Chavez on the basis of his self-proclaimed Catholicism and admiration of the pope? Unfortunately some would-be socialists who have no difficulty grasping this in relation to Chavez or Marley, under the pressure of intense bourgeois propaganda are unable to apply the same approach when the religion in question is Islam. To put the matter as starkly as possible: from the standpoint of Marxism and international socialism an illiterate, conservative, superstitious Muslim Palestinian peasant who supports Hamas is more progressive than an educated liberal atheist Israeli who supports Zionism (even critically)."

//www.hurryupharry.org/


Abarmard

I am with you on this Sadegh

by Abarmard on

I agree, the biggest problem is the source. Zionists show their desperation in many format because they need the American and international money and technology in order to exist. It's a different issue for them!

They have all these media and money in hand but the problem is their actions that is not hidden. They have and are killing people, and people are not stupid to see that none of that is showing in MEMRITV.