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Journal ^ Association of Jewish Refugees the BBC PC and the PM Great Institutions, After a Period of Glory, Along the Path Towards a Settlement Must Slip Into Decline VOLUME 3 No. 9 SEPTEMBER 2003 journal ^ Association of Jewish Refugees The BBC PC and the PM Great institutions, after a period of glory, along the path towards a settlement must slip into decline. In this they resemble have had a sobering effect on local Israel- great men. After all, in the 1930s Mahatma baiters from John Pilger to the Muslims in Gandhi advised German Jews to adopt a Tower Hamlets who threatened to de­ strategy of passive disobedience vis-a-vis select their sitting MP Oona King unless the Nazi state, and last year Nelson she did something as obscene as Mandela wamed that a war on Iraq would likening the inhabitants of Gaza to Warsaw turn into a 'holocaust'. Ghetto dwellers. A similar decline of mental astuteness is The fact that Israeli-Palestinian observable in the 80-year-old BBC. This tensions have gone into reverse mode institution won huge plaudits during the from the constantly bloodier escalation of Second World War (and the Cold War) for the last two years is due partly to Israel's 'ts commitment to truth and freedom. steadfastness under relentless attack - Latterly, however, its attachment to these but, more crucially, to Saddam's supreme values has been eroded by the overthrow. Regime change in fraq has ever more dominant ideology ofthe 1980s radically transformed the situation of that and 1990s, i.e. PoUtical Correctness. most volatile region of the world. Even if PC has swept through the opinion- Saddam's malign ghost still hovers over forming classes of Britain - journalists, Prime Minister Tony Blair the country, the equation of terror with academics, lawyers, clergy, etc. - to such a success which he embodied for so long has 'degree that in any dispute their first Cruikshank's 'On the Road to at last been challenged - if not entfrely laid question is not which party is right and Armageddon', a documentary about the forest. *hich wTong, but which is First World, and effect of the war on Middle East historical If the world's number one trouble-spot *hich Third? A prime example of this is artefacts, as 'a breathtaking farrago of is now an admittedly still dangerous, but •^he strangely muted criticism of South distortions, historical illiteracy and even so, vastly better, place than five African President Mbeki over his stance appalling insinuations against Israel. The months ago, the fact has not been On AIDS and his support for the tyrannical effect of the programme was to blame recognised by a large section of opinion- Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe. Israel for imperilling the historical formers in this country. The latter, and Since the United States is the very monuments ofthe region. There was not a particularly the BBC, are loath to praise ^nibodiment of the First World, it appears single reference to the shocking defacing the Prime Minister for his courageous part "efore the bar of British public opinion as of historical architecture in East in transforming the Iraqi situation. Rather "^e presumed villain in any dispute to Jerusalem when it was under Arab than delighting in the tortiu^e chambers ^hich it is a party and, since the arch- control.' closed down, and sorrowing over the ^illains of the post-Cold War world - The BBC's bias in this particular area is killing fields revealed, they focus with Gaddafi, bin Laden, Arafat, the Taliban, so blatant that The Times commented: inquisitorial zeal on the missing weapons Saddam Hussein - all come from the Third 'Reporting the Middle East, it sometimes of mass destruction. They are, as the "''orld, PC-oriented opinion-formers seems so remorselessly anti-Israeli that Gilligan affair indicates, out to assassinate •"eadily find extenuating circumstances for Mr Dyke might as well be open about it Tony Blair by depicting him as a iple" Uieir atrocious conduct. and allow his reporters to appear speaking warmongering poodle of Uncle Sam. Mary The missing sense of revulsion felt in Arabic, riding a camel, stopping Tudor died with Calais engraved on her to '^^ UK at the monstrous toll of innocent occasionally to suck from a long pipe in a heart, and they are intent on incising "^es taken by Palestinian suicide bombers crowded souk.' WMD on the Prime Minister's political °*es less to antisemitism than to the fact These two quotes from our largest- corpse. There is a remote possibility that nat Israel is widely perceived as a 'white', circulation quality newspapers show that, they will ultimately bring him down, as ^S-sponsored implant in the 'brown' despite indications to the contrary, the John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham the Middle East. This perception is strongly battle against the demonisation of the Lincoln in 1865. However, just as Booth's fostered by the BBC. whose reporting on Jewish state in this country has not yet bullets could not restore slavery, the rje Middle East seems woefully biased. been comprehensively lost. The fact that poison darts of Blair's detractors will not The Daily Telegraph characterised Dan Sharon has taken the first tentative steps put Saddam back into power. Berlusconi's outburst Claims Conference - Richard Grunberger benefactor or villain? The Italian Prime Minister is hardly a David Rothenberg good advertisement for the As a representative of the AJR (under the form of pensions and cash payments democratic process (nor, for that the aegis of World Jewish Relief) on the to the most impoverished. matter, is President Chirac). He Board of the Claims Conference for proves that the deformation of the Board membership some years, I have become only too Italian body politic, due to such When the Claims Conference was aware of the misconceptions and entrenched forces as the Catholic originally established, there were 23 misunderstandings of its activities. Church, feudalism, bureaucracy and founding bodies. Since then there have Traditionally, where someone dies organised crime, is long-lasting and been many attempts to change or add to without heirs the state inherits their still awaits drastic surgery. these representative bodies to reflect property. Immediately after the fall of Berlusconi has, moreover, the changes in the world Jewish the Nazi regime, it became evident to execrable taste of saying he is community. Israeli and East the occupying powers (initially the comfortable with jokes about the European bodies felt they were Americans, later joined by the British Holocaust. The only possible underrepresented, while many felt the and French but not the Russians) that it response to that is outraged silence. US (and to a lesser extent the UK) was would be unconscionable for this to On the other hand, he has shown a disproportionately represented. Over refreshing tendency to cut through apply in postwar conditions to Germany. the last few years there has been some politically expedient double-talk and Out of this situation the Conference on movement to increasing Board articulate uncomfortable truths. He Jewish Material Claims against numbers to redress this perceived has asserted that Western values Germany Inc. (the Claims Conference) unfairness. The AJR's own position is were not an optional equivalent to was born. Formally, it is a not-for-profit that we are a founding member of one of Islamic ones - but actually superior to organisation incorporated in the US, the original 23 bodies, the Council of them. Even his spat with the German and is recognised imder German law as Jews from Germany. Recently we have Social Democrat deputy in the the legal heir of heirless Jewish sat on the Board, together with a European Parliament contained a individual and communal property in representative of Jewish Care, as tiny grain of justification. The Germany. The proceeds of such representing World Jewish Reliei Germans of today like to project heirless property were to be dedicated (itself, as the CBF, another of the themselves as the goodie-goodies in to the Jewish people and to recording original 23 bodies). international affairs - which, given the facts and history ofthe Shoah and to the dreadful burden of their past, is The Claims Conference has attracted education. Subsequently, the Claims understandable - but pacifist bad publicity, much of it unfair, i" Conference was given similar status attitudes are of precious little use in connection with its actions as the agen in Austria. the present dangerous world ofthe German Government. In winning The Claims Conference was situation, where countries from Iran unprecedented sums for survivors, the originally led by Nahum Goldmann who, to North Korea want to go nuclear Claims Conference had to accept that i though born in Russia, was educated at Lastly, the Germans and the French would be responsible for the the Musterschule in Frankfurt. Over also lay claim to the role of joint distribution of the very money it ha the years it has acted not only as the spokesmen for Europe. Their notion secured for those survivors while being heir of heirless property, but also as the that Europe should be equidistant bound by the formal and bureaucraUC champion of the dispossessed, leading from America and the Third World - rules laid down by the German the drive for compensation from the exemplified by EU Commissioner Government. The Government thus Patten's fondness for Arafat and German government to hundreds of Continued on pag^ ^ President Chirac's for Mugabe - thousands of refugees and survivors in shows the need for someone to take a more Atlanticist stance inside the AJR Journal EU. Currently, Italy and Spain go Richard Grunberger Editor-in-Chief JACKMAN • Ronald Channing Executive Editor some way towards redressing the Howard Spier Editorial and Production SILVERMAN balance - but they, plus the former AJR Journal, Jubilee House, COMMERCIAL PROPERTY CONSULTANTS Soviet-Bloc countries, and (hopefully) Merrion Avenue, Stanmore, Middlesex HA7 4RL Tel: 020 8385 3070 Fax: 020 8385 3080 the UK, will in the long run build a e-mail; [email protected] 26 Conduit Street, London W1R 9TA www.ajrorg.uk true bridge across the Atlantic.
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