Check this out. Israel 21c is a pro-Israel p.r. organization. "A Focus Beyond," its motto, says it all.
ISRAEL21c – a New Paradigm for Pro-Israel Communications
ISRAEL21c’s mission is to focus media and public attention on the 21st century Israel that exists beyond the conflict.
Its board is headed by a former president of AIPAC, Amy Friedkin, and includes Cheryl Fishbein, of the UJA Federation, the big Jewish community/pro-Israel organization. From the looks of it, it’s a transnational organization too. Now look at Israel 21c’s youtube channel. You see a piece on how Israelis are happier than other people.
Well guess who’s working with Israeli 21c? CNN. It runs newsish Israel 21c reports, like this one about environmentalists at the Dead Sea. (Maybe that’s why I saw Aaron Cohen, an Israeli SWAT team guy, on CNN all afternoon the other day during the hostage crisis?) Israel 21c brags:
It was only last year that CNN accepted ISRAEL21c as an affiliate of its World Report program. Since then, we are proud to report an impressive 15 news features produced by ISRAEL21c that have appeared on CNN, reaching millions of viewers worldwide…
[O]ther features that have appeared earlier in the year include a piece on Hebrew University’s new approach to learning, by treating passengers travelling on the Israel Rail Service to a series of lectures by the institution’s top scientists.
Other encouraging stories chosen by CNN this year describe a mixed Jewish-Arab choir that practices its message of coexistence out loud, and a group of Palestinian and Israeli midwives working together to ensure that pregnant mothers in Israel and the Palestinian territories have safe and natural births.
Rather than portraying Israel as a place of conflict and strife, these stories have highlighted Israeli accomplishments in science and technology, arts and culture, and philanthropy.
They depict what ISRAEL21c works to reveal – the true, myriad faces of Israel, beyond the conflict.
Heck, any news organization gets tips from propaganda orgs. We do. But to publish them directly without indicating as much? Your media… your Israel lobby… working hand in glove.
