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Last update - 14:15 19/11/2009
Britain's Channel 4 exposes 'power' of pro-Israel lobby
By Haaretz Service
Tags: Israel news 

A television program purporting to expose the unknown power and influence Britain's pro-Israel lobby has triggered a wave of condemnation by British Jews, some of whom accused the report of stoking anti-Semitism.

The report, Inside Britain's Israel Lobby, was aired on Monday evening by the British broadcaster Channel 4 on its flagship investigative program, Dispatches.

The Community Security Trust, an anti-Semitism watchdog, issued a blistering attack on the program on its blog, which warned that the presenter's stern admonition that "there is no conspiracy" was a case of shutting the stable door after the horse had bolted.
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This was after, the CST said, "one hour of innuendo about 'pro-Israeli' moneybags controlling the Conservative and Labour Parties; 'pro-Israeli' intimidation of British media; premeditated 'pro-Israeli' abuse of anti-Semitism; and sinister music accompanying photos of 'pro-Israelis' blurred across Israeli and British flags."

The co-vice chairman of Britain's Zionist Federation, Jonathan Hoffman, said the program employed the tropes of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.

"What did the program say?" Hoffman wrote on the Web site CiF Watch. "Well there were the allegations about money of course - no conspiracy is complete without some filthy lucre and if there is an Israel connection - so much the better.
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  1.   Give Me A Break! 22:26  |  Robert 18/11/09
  2.   Read Melanie Phillips in the Spectator on this, she`s hilarious 23:07  |  Nemesis 18/11/09
  3.   If you find the `Jewish Lobby`, let me know 23:45  |  Dan 18/11/09
  4.   Load of nonsense.. 00:23  |  Ethan 19/11/09
  5.   channel 4 has not allegiance, it airs anything and everything 00:29  |  Shayna NW1 19/11/09
  6.   Complain to Channel 4 at... 00:40  |  Maurice 19/11/09
  7.   No surprise! 01:07  |  Jethro 19/11/09
  8.   Imagine, you could use all that money for nicer things.... 02:02  |  Swiss (Dino) 19/11/09
  9.   Yeah, I watched it on YouTube... 02:22  |  Moises 19/11/09
  10.   query 05:19  |  potobac 19/11/09
  11.   So the truth is there ARE no Pro-Israel lobbies... 09:06  |  had enough 19/11/09
  12.   Israel lobby tries to smear report. As they did with Goldstone. 09:45  |  Michael 19/11/09
  13.   HAD ENOUGH Truth is there is NOTHING like the channel 4 hype !! 09:53  |  PETER SM 19/11/09
  14.   Most semites speak Arabic - 10:07  |  Scott Ewing 19/11/09
  15.   Western governments ARE swayed by pro-Israel lobbies 10:11  |  Michael 19/11/09
  16.   Get over it 10:15  |  also had enough 19/11/09
  17.   Israel respectable ? 10:22  |  Oleander 19/11/09
  18.   Lobbies 10:33  |  Sherlock Holmes 19/11/09
  19.   Britain`s Chan. 4 10:33  |  The Teacher/Instruct 19/11/09
  20.   Balance 10:39  |  Joseph 19/11/09
  21.   Channel 4 10:46  |  Motic 19/11/09
  22.   The UK`s got a Jewish foreign minister. 10:52  |  Michael 19/11/09
  23.   Can`t Jews contribute to politicians? 10:53  |  fo realz 19/11/09
  24.   So it would be perfectley acceptable 10:59  |  Chris Linthwaite 19/11/09
  25.   HAD enough There is NOTHING like AIPAC in the UK. 11:27  |  PETER SM 19/11/09
  26.   `POWER` of pro Israel Lobby. 11:45  |  David Nigel Braham 19/11/09
  27.   this lobby is not very effective if it exists ? 11:46  |  vhardman 19/11/09
  28.   The Jews of Britain Conspire 12:04  |  psk 19/11/09
  29.   tone, rather than reason, of the doc was troubling 12:17  |  richelle 19/11/09
  30.   A gap between government policy on Israel and popular feeling. 12:54  |  Michael 19/11/09
  31.   OLEANDER As the program provides no evidence for your claim 13:06  |  PETER SM 19/11/09
  32.   The Zionist movement has a very insidious 14:10  |  r cummings 19/11/09
  33.   David Nigel Braham 14:25  |  Tareq 19/11/09
  34.   I also saw program 14:31  |  Jackie 19/11/09
  35.   Richelle 29. You saying Jews aren`t hard working and talented? 15:41  |  Michael 19/11/09
  36.   Swiss (Dino) 16:55  |  David Israel 19/11/09
  37.   #36 David Israel of new York 17:41  |  Chris Linthwaite 19/11/09
  38.   To 35 Michael 18:11  |  richelle 19/11/09
  39.   Camp David 18:18  |  Anthony UK 19/11/09
  40.   #9 Where is it on Youtube give URL I can`t find it 18:32  |  L A 19/11/09
  41.   Anthony UK Please read 18:48  |  David Israel 19/11/09
  42.   #38, richelle, how condescending... 18:56  |  Silvienne 19/11/09
  43.   Michael 22 19:37  |  Ex Pat Brit 19/11/09
  44.   To Michael in UK: Why does Israel need to prove it innocence? 19:38  |  Lee 19/11/09
  45.   To 42:- to silvienne. Lighten up 20:44  |  richelle 19/11/09
  46.   Who paid for this show ? 01:58  |  PARIS 20/11/09
  47.   Three Hundred Thousand Jews Of 60 Mollion In UK 02:18  |  chet 20/11/09
  48.   brittania 02:43  |  Shmuelshachor 20/11/09
  49.   Why can`t Jews lobby on behalf of Israel? 03:22  |  Lee 20/11/09
  50.   #32 right on 03:56  |  azbob 20/11/09
  51.   Jewish lobby weakened in UK but still strong in US 05:08  |  Bloodyscot 20/11/09
  52.   look at the good side 05:23  |  Chuckles 20/11/09
  53.   israeli corruption 05:51  |  MM 20/11/09
  54.   Replace Jewish Lobby with Martian Lobby and its more credible 05:51  |  Dan 20/11/09
  55.   The `Jewish Lobby` financing comes from trading organs of Pals 05:54  |  Dan 20/11/09
  56.   CHET try reality.Many Brits do not think Arabs are angels 07:04  |  PETER SM 20/11/09
  57.   For #56 PSM - WTF Are You Raving About? 19:37  |  chet 20/11/09
  58.   Channel 4 documentary is asking the right questions 20:13  |  Ben Alofs 20/11/09
  59.   No arguments again 21:15  |  timjim 21/11/09
  60.   ALOFFS How about providing factual answers 10:10  |  PETER SM 22/11/09
  61.   #59 Peter SM 13:23  |  Chris Linthwaite 22/11/09
  62.   #45, to richelle, my apologies... 16:43  |  Silvienne 23/11/09
  63.   A lot of Antisemitism in Britain since 1,000 years 16:19  |  Liliane 24/11/09
  64.   Get over it? 07:42  |  Jake 27/11/09
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