Comments on: 40 years of Hebrew broadcasting https://www.jwire.com.au/40-years-of-hebrew-broadcasting/ Australia, NZ and worldwide Jewish news that matters Wed, 16 Sep 2015 10:41:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Leon Poddebsky https://www.jwire.com.au/40-years-of-hebrew-broadcasting/#comment-160034 Wed, 16 Sep 2015 10:41:55 +0000 http://www.jwire.com.au/?p=55773#comment-160034 Allow me to recount another typical SBS / 2 EA radio scandal.
Some years ago I was employed as a journalist and broadcaster at 2EA.
At one stage station management appointed a “commissar” to vet the content of the English language segment news that I selected and broadcast.
On one occasion the “commissar” insisted that I include a report of an assertion that had been made by a UN soldier serving in the “peacekeeping force” on the Lebanese-Israel border; that soldier had declared that Israeli troops were “like Nazis.”
On the other hand, the “commissar” prohibited my broadcasting a statement that had been made by the Israeli Prime Minister of the time, Yitzhak Shamir, who had stated that when the Arab world used to threaten to throw the Jews into the sea, the world sympathised with Israel, but subsequently, when Arab propaganda became more sophisticated, the world turned against Israel.

Smiles in photos can hide a great deal, can’t they?

]]> By: Leon Poddebsky https://www.jwire.com.au/40-years-of-hebrew-broadcasting/#comment-159952 Tue, 15 Sep 2015 10:13:48 +0000 http://www.jwire.com.au/?p=55773#comment-159952 Smiles all around in these charming photos.
How lovely.
Did you know, however, that SBS radio censorship prohibits the use of the Jewish names, ” Judea and Samaria” even in the Jewish programmes? That I know from personal experience; possibly the same censorship is applied to their TV programmes, too.
Those geographical place names appear repeatedly in Australia’s official history of World War One, but SBS prohibits them. Too Jewish, SBS?

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