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By: marcynewman

marcynewman — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:14:30 +0000

i never said and i never would say nora is a jewish supremacist. i said that you are for thinking that what she does has something to do with the fact that she is jewish.

By: Les

Les — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:14:58 +0000

Knowing that she is Jewish does not make Nora Barrows-Friedman a Jewish supremacist, whatever that is supposed to be. I do sense that it does give her, and Dennis’, outrage at the treatment of Palestinians in the name of Judaism, a depth that is rare in the US media. We listeners admire both of them all the more for their special courage and determination to continue to report on the plight of the Palestinians.

By: marcynewman

marcynewman — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:43:22 +0000

no it is not because they are jews. this sort of jewish supremacist thinking is deeply offensive. i know and love nora as well as her work. she does this because she believes deeply in justice and in the rights of palestinians as well as others around the world fighting for their rights to return to their land, stay on their land, control their own land. her religion has nothing to do with it.

By: Les

Les — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:09:03 +0000

The reporting of both Nora Barrows-Friedman and Dennis Bernstein on Palestine on the Flashpoints program is done not in spite of the fact that they are Jews but because they are Jews.

By: Jeffrey Blankfort

Jeffrey Blankfort — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:55:20 +0000

Those who live in the Bay Area need to bombard the station’s GM with phone calls @ 510-848-6767 and those who don’t need to keep up a barrage of emails. In addition, pressure must be brought on other programmers, such as the hosts of the Mourning (sic) Show and the Public Affairs program at noon, when they open the phones to listeners calls @ 510-848-4425 and raise the Flashpoints issue no matter what subject is being discussed, maybe by asking the guest what they think about is happening to Flashpoints. Since KPFA is streamed live @ http://www.kpfa.org people can do that from out of town. Since the hosts of those programs have a long history of being management’s lickspittles, don’t be concerned about embarrassing them.

By: James Bradley

James Bradley — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:34:19 +0000

Jeffrey is there anything else we can do besides email KPFA?

By: Jeffrey Blankfort

Jeffrey Blankfort — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:40:56 +0000

KPFA and Pacifica Radio have a sordid history when it comes to discussing the Israel-Palestine conflict. In the 80s, KPFA GM David Salniker (who later moved up to be the head of Pacifica) banned any mention or discussion of Zionism on its airwaves. He also stopped broadcasting critical reports on the Israeli political scene by an anti-Zionist Israeli, Amos Wollin, because of complaints from New Jewish Agenda (!), a precursor to J Street, that he was “anti-Israel.”

One look at the names on the wall in the entrance way to KPFA’s Berkeley headquarters honoring its big contributors will give the answer to those who wonder how a station claiming to be “the voice of the voiceless,” can move against a program as valuable as Flashpoints. I’ll just mention one that I recall, the Walter Haas Foundation, founded with profits from Levi’s jeans and a big supporter of Jewish and Zionist causes.

When I helped to expose the ADL spying operation in the Bay Area in 1993, Dennis’s Flashpoints was the only program on KPFA where I was allowed to talk about it, (and the only program that has allowed any discussion of “the lobby.) “. Both subjects were and remain too hot for the Zionist-lite news department and the morning show which elected to bring in an outsider who had once worked with the ADL , Chip Berlet, to talk about it. When I went on the Morning Show with Hatem Bazian, at the time a Palestinian student leader and now a UC professor, to promote an event in which we were both to speak against the Oslo agreement, when I entered the studio, the first thing I was told was not to say a word on the air about the ADL case . That was 1993 and the same news directors and morning show hosts are still there, although one now has a noon show.

That’s the milieu in which the Flashpoints crew, Dennis, Nora Barrows Friedman and Miguel Molina have had to courageously continue their commitment to the truth. They must be defended.

By: DICKERSON3870

DICKERSON3870 — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:19:24 +0000

CORRECTION: This show in particular has been an extremely important platform for the work of journalists, writers, scholars, activists and social critics.

By: DICKERSON3870

DICKERSON3870 — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:10:31 +0000

—– Original Message —–
From: DICKERSON1295
To: gm@kpfa.org
Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 5:04 PM
Subject: Recent cutbacks aimed at Flashpoints

KPFA and Pacifica Radio Management and Boards:

I am very concerned about the recent cutbacks aimed at Flashpoints. This show in particular has been an extremely important platform for our work as journalists, writers, scholars, activists and social critics. I urge you to reinstate Nora Barrows-Friedman to a full-time position, and provide Flashpoints with a permanent Technical Producer.

Sent by John Lewis-Dickerson, Atlanta. (no reply necessary)

P.S. I listen to Democracy Now/Amy Goodman on WRFG 89.3 FM in Atanta and contribute to them in support of their carrying Democracy Now!