From its inauspicious beginning towards the closing years of the 19th century, Zionism has sought to control the mass media. It started with articles and books to promote its image and to vilify its opponents and is now in almost complete control of the Western world’s media including the film industry, newspapers and the Internet. Protocol 12 of the Zionist Elders says: "It is vital that the world press should be under our control." The founder of Zionism, Austrian Jew Theodore Hertzel, in the 1897 Basle conference in Switzerland said as follows: "We will succeed in forming a state for the Zionists and once we do it, we will gradually bring the international press under our control." Since then the Zionists, who were planted in Palestine by the British after driving the Palestinians from their homes and hearths, have spared no efforts to carry out their poisonous propaganda by duping the western Christian world and depicting themselves as the oppressed. A look at the news agencies and major newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe reveals Zionist domination. That is the reason the news information that is diffused around the world is so biased against Muslims and in complete favour of Israel. For instance, the founder of the British news agency Reuters was a Jew named Julius Powell and that is why this news agency feels deeply indebted to the policies of international Zionism and the promotion of the unholy cause of the illegal entity called Israel. Agence France Press or AFP as well as the Associated Press of the US are also completely under the influence of Zionism as is clear from the news coverage. Many leading American newspapers are owned and run by Jews. Iqbal Siddiqi, the Chief Editor of the English language monthly Crescent International writes in this regard: "The US media is not separate from the Zionists and the capitalist groups. These two control both the media and the government of America." Presently, big media networks like ABC, ABS and NBC are under Zionist tutelage. For instance, the managing director of ABC is an influential Jew named Leonardo Goldenson. Recently, Ted Turner was removed from his post as the manager of the CNN international network and replaced by a Jew named Lawrence. But the American TV network notorious for its Zionist tendencies is Fox News that was set up by Australian Jew Robert Murdoch in the late 1990s. Murdoch is known for his ownership of various print and electronic media including radios, TV channels, newspaper and magazines in countries like the US, Canada, Britain and Australia. He openly parrots the policies of Zionism through his media horns. The Zionists, in fact, have taken control of the US. For instance, two Jewish brothers own New House Media Empire that runs 31 major American newspapers, the most important book publishing company, 87 cable TV networks and about 24 magazines. The Zionist hold on famous American dailies like the Washington Post, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal is quite clear. Thus, while Jews form only 3 percent of the US population they have tightened their tentacles around the economic and political lifeline of the US. In Europe also the case is more or less the same. In Britain, newspapers like the Daily Express, Observer, Daily Mail, News Chronicle, and Times are under the control of the Zionists. In Germany, the media institute Schpinger, which owns 30 percent of the German press follows the policies of Zionism. In France too, the Zionists control famous publications like Le Figaro and La Expresse. Thus, international Zionism has most of the western media under its control. The Zionist-influenced media always try to portray a rightful, civilized, and oppressed image of Israel, while distorting the realities about Muslims and the Arabs. In the US any statement that criticizes Zionism or the barbaric policies of the illegal Zionist entity Israel, are immediately called anti-Semitism even though the real Semites are the Arabs and millions of others in other Muslim countries. Anyone criticizing the Zionists, risks being deprived of his job, is socially ostracized and in several cases in tried and imprisoned. To quote prominent British journalist Robert Fisk in an article published in the daily Independent concerning threats against him for daring to criticize the Zionist regime: “If we wish to have a convenient life, we ought to steer clear of the criticism of the US and Israel. It is better not to write anything at all on these topic.” In the poisonous propagandist atmosphere dominating the western media any statement that questions the legitimacy of the Zionist entity and exposes the atrocities of Israel, brings about swift media attacks. For this reason the criticism of the racist and terrorist nature of Israel by observers and world politicians including those from the Islamic Republic of Iran, have been hysterically censured in the western media. The message is clear: Nothing should be said of the realities of the Palestine crisis and the Zionist crimes. Thus it is clear that Zionism has tightened its tentacles around the Christian West and is squeezing it to a slow and painful death.
AhlulBayt News Agency