Episode 12: Zionist assaults on the media

First aired on 16 April 2022

What they read about it is dictated by who writes it. Today we take a close look at how key figures in the most prominent British newspapers are influenced by the Israel lobby.

The Daily Mail, together with its website the Mail Online is estimated to reach 4.1 million people on a daily basis. Very few are aware that its long-time City Editor Alex Brummer is actually an Israel lobbyist. Simultaneous to his job at the mail, he is also the chair of the Israeli regime-funded Abraham Initiatives which claims, in its trustee's report, that it "advances synergy between Israeli bodies & respective agencies & institutions in the UK."

Sounds like a lobby group right? Well, here he is at Israel lobby group BICOM's We Believe In Israel event, listen to what he says: 'We need BICOM, we need the tool kit and we need it urgently because there is a tide of opinion which has turned against Israel and it's going to be very hard to turn it back.

The Sun newspaper is estimated to have a daily readership of 3.7 million and is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation group. We know that in 2007 the News Corp foundation was listed as a funder of the Jerusalem Foundation which builds in Israeli settlements. Murdoch himself also serves on the board of the Oil and Gas exploration company Genie Energy.

Genie Energy has been granted contracts by the Israeli regime in the illegally occupied Golan Heights of Syria. But what about the journalists at The Sun? Trevor Kavanagh former political and later associate editor of The Sun has a very close relationship with the Israel Lobby group BICOM. He spoke at several We Believe In Israel events in support of the faction and when he was criticized for lamenting what he called "the Muslim problem" in the UK, Israel lobbyist, and part-time journalist Alex Brummer leaped to his defense.

"In the aftermath of Protective Edge, Kavanagh willingly stepped forward at a We Believe In Israel’ event [that I chaired] to staunchly make the case for Israel’s actions and to criticize media bias."