Wednesday, June 16, 2010

HAVE THEY NO SENSE OF DECENCY?


anti-Israel venom dripping from its fangs
By VEXNEWS ⋅ June 9, 2010

abckids Jewish community leaders have expressed concern about the ABC using its website aimed at pre-school children to peddle virulent anti-Israel propaganda. The ABC’s website ABC for Kids online is described as “the pre-school web site for children’s television programming broadcast on ABC1 and ABC2” on its Twitter account.

Despite that, the site contains a vitriolic diatribe against Israel that ought not have been published anywhere, let alone aimed at children.

The author – a member of an extreme left-wing anti-Israel group – tells the kids about the Israeli efforts to maintain its weapons-smuggling blockade of Gaza:

“… putting the attack in context more fully reveals its moral obscenity …”

Charming. And it gets worse.

The ABC for Kids site falsely claims that Israel has a conscious policy to keep the Palestinians on the verge of starvation: “… It’s like an appointment with a dietician.
The Palestinians will get a lot thinner, but won’t die …”

“.. All it would take was ‘Just one telephone call from the Israeli defence ministry’. This phone call still hasn’t come, and Palestinian babies continue to suffer, as the world continues to watch in silence, and as Western media continues to pass over this issue ….”

The article concludes:

“Perhaps now you can understand the sheer moral depravity of Israel’s attack on the flotilla. The Israel government has murdered at least 9 people trying to fight for the right of Palestinians to the basic necessities of life. And yet, there are still those willing to defend such barbarism. Have they no shame? At long last, have they no sense of decency?”

Of course there is no serious question about the access of Gazans to food and the “necessities of life.” Its residents enjoy longer life-spans than the people of Malaysia.

The article was originally published on the Unleashed website, the vehicle of Jonathan Green, a former left-wing email newsletter editor and Age journalist but has been populated over to the website ABC for Kids.

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Concerned members of the Jewish community tell VEXNEWS they have registered protests about this with relevant authorities in an effort to get this obnoxious and false propaganda removed from the ABC’s websites, aimed at children or otherwise.

The contents of the article and the context in which it appears is understood to have been referred to the Anti-Defamation Commission of the Jewish community which investigate and combats anti-semitism around the world.

In case the full-text is removed from the ABC site, it can still be accessed here.

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