US journalists ‘punished’ for speaking out against Israel: Scholar
There is growing public debate in the United States about the country’s widespread support for Israel, with journalists being targeted for telling the truth, an American scholar says.
US journalists, like former CNN anchor Jim Clancy, who are speaking out against Israeli policies in the Middle East are “punished,” said James Henry Fetzer, who is an editor at Veterans Today and a retired professor in Madison, Wisconsin.
“That Jim Clancy has spoken out against the Israeli media and Bibi Netanyahu’s overwhelmingly unwarranted propaganda campaign is a fascinating development,” Fetzer said Saturday during a phone interview with Press TV.
“He has already paid a price” he added. “It is ironic that in the United States, the journalists who speak the truth are punished and those who lie are rewarded.”
Clancy resigned in January following angry exchanges on Twitter with pro-Israeli commentators.
He quit his job after he appeared to suggest that the Charlie Hebdo terror attacks in Paris were provoked by the magazine’s pro-Israel stance.
The former anchor said Friday in Lebanon that he did not regret making the anti-Israeli comments because he “had enough.”
“I don’t have to put up with this... and I’m not going to. I’d had enough,” he said.
“In my case I’d rather be Twitter-fried for telling the truth than held out for lying, saying I was somewhere I wasn't or claiming I saw people murdered who weren’t,” Clancy told The Daily Star.
Fetzer said, “Others are going to begin to speak out” against Israel. “There is now going to be much more debate about our policy and attitude toward Israel and whether or not we should continue to veto UN resolutions condemning them for their malicious, vicious practices.”
On Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent address to the US Congress in which he warned about the threat of “a nuclear Iran,” Fetzer said, “Iran has not attacked any nation since 1775, which is longer than the United States has existed as a democratic republic.”
“Iran has signed the [nuclear] Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran has allowed inspectors [to its nuclear sites], and Iran is not pursuing nuclear weapons. Israel, by contrast, has 200 to 400 or more of these little beauties, and has not signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty,” Fetzer stated.
“The hypocrisy and irony here is simply overwhelming.”
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