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  • Grahams ain't Jewish
    • hartfordian September 8, 2009 at 8:31 am

      No, it's really not. I have been very interested in the I/P issue for decades. I've followed US media closely for that long. I've seen a definite bias in favor of Israel, and IMO there's a real connection between that and Jewish involvement in the media.

    • hartfordian September 8, 2009 at 8:13 am

      it sounds like you chose to introduce people that would taunt your single local newspaper’s audience,

      You're saying that the entire readership of the San Francisco Chronicle is comprised of Jewish supporters of Israel.

      I assure you that that is absolutely not true. Your statement appears to be a good example of the parochial tunnel vision pointed out by Philip Weiss.

    • hartfordian September 8, 2009 at 8:01 am

      The issue is the Graham family attitude towards Israel. College kids visiting Israel don't have that kind of itinerary (particularly the family dinner with the Rabins) unless they're known to be warm friends of that country.

      My comment about Lally Weymouth certainly still stands. The description of her as a "passionate supporter of Israel" was quite temperate - she's more of a mad dog supporter of Israel. She's the mother of both the CEO of Post-Newsweek and the publisher of the Washington Post.

      As for emailing Katharine Graham, are you joking? Do you imagine she'd give an honest reply to me, someone she doesn't know, if she DID consider herself to be Jewish, in light of the conversation we're having here?

      Thank you, I look at the facts. If there's bias, and I think there absolutely is in the Post's attitude towards Israel/Palestine, then it makes sense to look at the owners and what their philosophy is.

      Finally, regarding this:

      Evidently her Jewish background was not sufficient to get her to convert back.

      Please drop the pretense that because someone with a Jewish background doesn't practice the Jewish religion they don't count themselves as Jewish. I'm a buddhist. There are many people with Jewish heritage at my center who still self-identify as Jewish. In fact I don't think I know of one who doesn't.

    • hartfordian September 7, 2009 at 3:23 pm with 3 replies

      What is the position of the Graham family on Israel / Middle East? Well, Lally Weymouth, journalist daughter of Katherine Graham is, to put it mildly, a passionate supporter of the right wing in Israel.

      Lally's daughter Katherine Weymouth, is the the publisher of the Washington Post. Here's a description of a trip to Israel Katherine Weymouth took when a college student, as described by her companion:

      Katharine pulls out a five-page typed itinerary that I didn't even know she had with her. And it says, 'Dinner with Leah and Yitzhak Rabin,' who was then the defense minister. 'Lunch in the Knesset with Bibi Netanyahu,' 'Visit to the Jerusalem Post to meet with editor Ari Rath'

      We are supposed to believe that these two ladies aren't influenced by their Jewish background? How stupid do you want us to be?

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