Posted on 03/01/2021 6:46:44 AM PST by SJackson
"The Biden administration is deeply hostile to Israel."
Mark Levin, the conservative Jewish American radio broadcaster with more than 14 million daily listeners, has a gloomy forecast for the future of American media coverage of the United States, of Israel and of ties between the two countries.
Ahead of the launch of the Hebrew-language edition of his bestselling book, Unfreedom of the Press, Levin tells Israel Hayom that to understand the nature and depth of the danger that the U.S. media poses to democracy in America, you have to understand the way that the U.S. media treats Israel.
“I think the American people — forget about the elites — I think the American people and the Israeli people have such a connection, and such a love for each other,” he says.
“We get in this country from our media … that Israel is an apartheid society; it’s a racist society. It’s the same things they say about our country, they say about Israel. So it’s kind of hard to write a book — what I called Unfreedom of the Press — and ignore what’s going on in Israel.”
“It’s also hard to ignore it as a Jew,” he adds. “I see the overlays. I see the animus towards Israel, the animus towards the United States.”
For decades, Israelis and Israel’s supporters in America complained about the anti-Israel bias of the U.S. media. But in Unfreedom of the Press, Levin explains that the problem is far worse than mere bias.
The vast majority of media outlets in the U.S., including all the major television networks aside from Fox News, are fully mobilized to advance a radical ideological agenda that is deeply hostile both to Israel and to the United States. And since his book was first published in 2018, the situation has only grown worse in terms of the media’s hatred of Israel and its supporters, and their rejection of core American values, including freedom of expression, freedom of religion and liberty itself.
Levin explains that to advance their anti-American agenda, the media work to silence, censor and block conservative voices — from former President Donald Trump to the last of his supporters.
Deeply concerned about the future of democracy in the U.S., Levin worries that the widening censorship in the U.S. will be copied by the Israeli media — which Levin argues is even more ideologically uniform and uniformly radical than the American media.
He argues that the way to fight against distortions and false claims, and to counter the media censors, is take a page from the anti-Israel activists’ playbook.
Levin recently shut down his Twitter and Facebook accounts in response to both platforms’ aggressive censorship of conservative leaders and private citizens. He urges conservatives in the U.S. and Israel to do the same.
“We need to BDS [boycott, divestment and sanctions] them. We need to have a BDS movement against big tech. And if not big tech, then their advertisers.
“We need to BDS these major television networks, just like the left does.”
Levin warns Israelis that the Biden administration is deeply hostile to Israel. Biden’s foreign-policy team is comprised of the most hostile officials from the Obama administration “and then some.” Israel, he says, must be prepared for the storm in relations that is blowing its way from Washington.
Puppet Biden is pivoting to Turkey and restoking the war in Arabia (Yemen). Middle term, it'll solidify the Trump policy which resulted in / proceeded from the rapprochement of Israel and the Gulf States, particularly when Iran starts making its last throw, which is what the mullahcracy is down to. Thanks SJackson.
I understand that Saudi Arabia is close to signing a peace deal with Israel under the “Abraham Accords”. If that happens, the rest of the Arab world will follow and the Biden Administration policies on the Middle East will look foolish.
There are different factions within the Leftist cabal that is managing the demented, corrupt Biden. One faction backed by Obama seeks to have the pro Iranian, anti Israel Kerry direct foreign policy especially in the Mideast. It was this faction that attacked the crown prince of Saudi Arabia in an attempt to disrupt the de facto Israel/Saudi Arabia/Sunni Gulf state alliance directed against Iran. A smaller faction that has some sympathy however strained for Israel managed to arrange the bombing ( mostly symbolic) of the pro Iranian militias in Iraq. It is instructive and revealing that neither Biden nor Harris was aware of the bombing. IMHO the Obama/Kerry faction will take and execute power.Most troubling to Israel is that this cabal will transfer detailed intelligence regarding Israel’s Mossad operation within Iran to the mullahs.
I’d blame the Jooz. they supported Biden.
With the democrat party in charge of things it’s always in a high speed down hill crash about to happen.
The Biden cabal will try and sabotage that any way they can. Saudi Arabil , Israel and others may need to form a power alliance not only against Iran, but the US as well.
“I understand that Saudi Arabia is close to signing a peace deal with Israel under the Abraham Accords”.
I think we have already seen the Biden Admin start to pressure/blackmail the Saudi leadership (MbS), by removing the terrorist designation from the Houthi militia in Yemen, that fires Iranian missiles into Saudi Arabia. Military supplies and support to the Saudis has also been called up for review.
Saudi Arabia is highly dependent on the US for their military defense.
It's going to be a long four years...
I barely recall Obama. He seemed to have such an intense hatred for Christianity he didn’t have time to hate on Israel.
The biggest outcome of the B Administrations hostility towards Israel will be the hastening of this nation’s destruction. Look at what God Almighty promised to do to Babylon and just put the USA in there instead.
READ later. Why is BidenAdm keyword user here? Under the assumption Biden does nothing?
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