By Dr Gideon Polya
While numerous anti-racist Jewish intellectuals are resolutely critical of the ongoing Palestinian Genocide, Western Mainstream Media variously censor or white-wash the nuclear terrorist, genocidally racist, and grossly human rights-abusing conduct of Apartheid Israel. A part explanation for this huge moral discrepancy is that the American 60% of the world’s 30 biggest media companies have a disproportionately high Jewish Board membership. Jews and females represent 2% and 51%, respectively, of the US population but average 33% and 19%, respectively, of Board members of the top 18 US media companies.
In 2012, the American Jewish population was estimated at between 5.5-8 million, depending on the definition of the term, this constituting between 1.7% to 2.6% or about 2% of the total US population [1]. Of the 113th Congress (2013-2015, 100 Senators and 435 Representatives) there were 12 Jewish Americans in the Senate (12.0%; 11 Democrats, 1 Independent) and 22 in the House of Representatives (5.1%; 1 Republican, 21 Democrats) or 6.4% overall [2, 3]. This 3-fold higher disproportional Jewish representation in Congress contrasts with a disproportionally 2-fold less representation on a population basis of both African Americans and Hispanic Americans in the US Congress [4-7]. This disproportional representation is ultimately reflected in US Government policy that, rhetoric aside, continues to be anti-Black in practice (e.g. massive Segregation and voting exclusion) and anti-Hispanic (endless interventionist threats to Latin America, the Wall, and massive persecution of Latin American immigrants and their children, the so-called Dreamers).
In stark contrast, the US Congress is almost 100% behind the pro-Zionist policies of the traitorous Israel Lobby that is exemplified by organizations such as the pro-Zionist B’Nai Brith, the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organisations, and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) (that was created when the American Zionist Council (AZC) was forced to register as an agent of a foreign power and evaded the intent of the law by dissolving and renaming itself as AIPAC) [8, 9]. The power of AIPAC has been expertly analysed in the book “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy” by John Mearsheimer (Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago), and Stephen Walt (Professor of International Relations at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University) [9]. The rot set in during the 1960s after John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert Kennedy failed in their attempts to get the traitorous Zionists listed as agents of a foreign power [8] and with Apartheid Israeli acquisition of nuclear weapons [10, 11].
A Zionist-subverted America has become a neoliberal Kleptocracy, Plutocracy, Murdochracy, Lobbyocracy , Corporatocracy and Dollarocracy in which Big Money purchases people, politicians, parties, policies, public perception of reality, more political power and hence more private profit. No matter how many appalling school massacres, the lobbying power of the National Rifle Association (NRA) means that gun control cannot get through Congress. No matter repeated Gaza Massacres and the other awful realities of the ongoing Palestinian Genocide, the US Congress is beholden to the traitorous and genocidally racist Zionist Lobby. Indeed 1.7 million Americans die preventably each year but in an appalling fiscal perversion the US has committed $7 trillion to Zionist-promoted, anti-Arab anti-Semitic wars in the ongoing 21st century US War on Muslims, and killing millions of Muslims abroad rather than keeping millions of Americans alive at home [12-16 ]. Thus 28 million Americans have died preventably since 2001 [ 12, 14], and 32 million Muslims have died from violence (5 million) or from imposed deprivation (27 million) in 20 countries invaded by the US Alliance since the US Government’s 9-11 false flag atrocity that killed 3,000 and may well have involved Apartheid Israel [15, 16]. It is estimated that the long-term accrual cost to Americans of support for Apartheid Israel totals $40 trillion [14].
No matter the appalling magnitude of the statistics, a Zionist-subverted and Zionist-perverted Congress remains almost totally committed to a nuclear terrorist, genocidally racist, democracy-by-genocide Apartheid Israel. This support for Apartheid Israel also comes from Black Congress members, notwithstanding anti-Apartheid hero and Nobel Laureate Nelson Mandela having famously stated “The UN took a strong stand against apartheid; and over the years, an international consensus was built, which helped to bring an end to this iniquitous system. Our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians” [17]. Thus Bruce A. Dixon (managing director of the Black Agenda Report) (2014): “ Israel’s vicious apartheid regime celebrated Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration with the massacre of 1400 people in Gaza, mostly civilians, and the destruction of a great part of the enclave’s infrastructure, down to chicken farms and water systems. The new Congress called it righteous self-defense, with 390 yeas, 5 nays and 22 “present”. The CBC [Congressional Black Caucus] was 2 of those nays, Gwen Moore (WI) and Maxine Waters (CA), and 7 of the “presents”, Edwards (MD), Ellison (MN), Johnson (GA), Lee (TX), Payne (NJ), Kilpatrick (MI), and Watson (CA). This month, as the civilian death toll in the latest Israeli criminal orgy of collective punishment mounted toward 1,000 [latest: 2,200] , the US House passed a nearly identical resolution, calling this massacre legitimate “self-defense” as well. This time the House vote, including that of the Congressional Black Caucus was unanimous. Not a single member of the CBC, despite their much heralded brand of standing for civil rights and against apartheid here and around the world, bothered to publicly question the racist ethnocracy that is the Israeli state” [18].
Of course it is not just Zionist Lobby organizations but individual wealthy pro-Zionists who have contributed to the appalling American and global moral disaster involved in supporting horrendous Israeli Apartheid and the ongoing Palestinian Genocide . that has involved 2.0 million Palestinian deaths from violence (0.1 million) or from imposed deprivation (1.9 million) in the last 100 years, 8 million Palestinian refugees, the ethnic cleansing of 90% of the land of Palestine, and highly abusive, violent and indefinite confinement of presently 5 million Occupied Palestinians in the Gaza Concentration Camp (2 million) or in West Bank ghettoes (3 million). The horrendous dimensions of the ongoing Palestinian Genocide invite comparisons with the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million Jews killed by violence or imposed deprivation). Of about 14 million Palestinians (half of them children, half of them female), 7 million are forbidden to even step foot in their own country, 5 million are held hostage with zero human rights under Israeli guns in the Gaza Concentration Camp (2.0 million) or in ever-dwindling West Bank Bantustan ghettoes (3.0 million), and 1.8 million live as Third Class citizens as Israeli Palestinians under Nazi-style Apartheid Israeli race laws [19-24]. Of Apartheid Israel’s now 50% Indigenous Palestinian subjects, 74% cannot vote for the government ruling them i.e. egregious Apartheid that is a crime by UN convention [25] .
Jewish and non-Jewish pro-Zionists are well represented in the top One Percent that has accumulated 50% of the wealth of the world. 48% of U.S. billionaires are Jewish [26] and there are 10 Jews in Forbes top 50 billionaires [27]. According to the Times of Israel (2013), the World’s 165 Jewish billionaires are worth a combined $812 billion [28]. As evidenced by a large body of anti-racist Jews, many Jews are not Zionists. Anti-Semitism comes in 2 equally repugnant forms, anti-Jewish anti-Semitism against presently 17 million largely culturally Semitic Jews as compared to anti-Arab anti-Semitism against 300 million ethnically and culturally Arab Semites and, in the form of Islamophobia, against 1,600 million mostly culturally Semitic Muslims. The Zionists are guilty of both forms of anti-Semitism, namely (1) anti-Arab anti-Semitism through the ongoing Palestinian Genocide (2 million Palestinians killed by violence, 0.1 million, or imposed deprivation, 1.9 million, since the British invasion of Palestine in WW1) and through backing the US War on Muslims (32 million Muslim deaths from violence, 5 million, or imposed deprivation, 27 million, in 20 countries variously invaded by the US Alliance since the US Government’s 9-11 false flag atrocity) and (2) anti-Jewish anti-Semitism (by falsely conflating all Jews with these appalling crimes). Racist deeds are far worse than racist words but words lead to deeds. Respect for human rights tends to be inversely related to wealth as exemplified by rich neoliberals versus poor socialist activists. However, as set out below, the pro-Zionism of wealthy Jews is also evidenced by their silence over the crimes of Apartheid Israel.
Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. As set out in various detailed compendia [29-32], notably “Jews Against Racist Zionism” [31] and “Non-Jews Against Racist Zionism” [32], numerous anti-racist Jewish and non-Jewish humanitarians vigorously protest the genocidal crimes of Apartheid Israel, but the billionaires, whether Jewish or non-Jewish, are not be seen in these lists of decent humanity. The obscenely rich, look-the-other-way, multi-millionaire and billionaire One Percenters with vast resources to advance human rights are pro-Zionist by omission – silence is complicity. Accordingly, one reasonably supposes that Jewish One Percenters involved in the Mainstream media are pro-Zionist by omission. However the Zionist domination of all but pro-peace Jewish organizations strongly suggests that Jewish One Percenters involved in the Mainstream media, notably Board members, are likely to be fervently pro-Zionist. Indeed various analyses have been made of the disproportionate Jewish presence on Boards of major American and UK media [34-38].
Since the 1960s America became more and more subject to Zionist subversion to the extent that in 2001 Ariel Sharon (then Israeli Prime Minister) declared at a cabinet meeting: “Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear: don’t worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it” [39, 40]. This overt and covert Zionist power complements massive CIA subversion of Mainstream media in America and around the world [41-46]. Thus Professor James F. Tracy (formerly Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Florida Atlantic University, 2002 – 2016): “Since the end of World War Two the Central Intelligence Agency has been a major force in US and foreign news media, exerting considerable influence over what the public sees, hears and reads on a regular basis” [41] . Carl Bernstein (famed Washington Post journalist and Pullitzer Prize winner for his Watergate revelations) has detailed CIA-media connections [42, 43]. A declassified 1991 document from the CIA states that a CIA task force “now has relationships with reporters from every major wire service, newspaper, news weekly, and television network in the nation. This has helped us turn some ‘intelligence failure’ stories into ‘intelligence success” stories,’ and has contributed to the accuracy of countless others. In many instances, we have persuaded reporters to postpone, change, hold, or even scrap stories that could have adversely affected national security interests or jeopardized sources and methods” [44]. Arjun Walia has analysed massive CIA subversion of media and academia (2017): “National security” is now an umbrella term used to justify concealing information, but who makes these decisions? …. Not only are countless documents classified every single year in North America, but false information and “fake news” are routinely dispersed, mainly by mainstream media outlets — a reality that is clearly conveyed in this document and has been expressed by multiple mainstream media journalists themselves. And as with the NSA surveillance program that was exposed by Edward Snowden, it’s a global problem… What we seem to have here is an attempt to manipulate public perception of global events through mainstream media and news publications. But what’s perhaps most interesting is the fact that a lot of people are now waking up and seeing through many of these lies and manipulation tactic” [45]. Of course the classic work in this area detailing massive US Government abuse of media is “Manufacturing Consent. The political economy of mass media” by Professors Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky [46].
In short, there is massive Zionist-, intelligence- and Government-directed Mainstream media censorship, lying, and “fake news through lying by omission” [46-60]. Zionist perversion of US media is well documented [8, 9, 55-59]. The Zionist Lobby’s chief agent is AIPAC that according to J.J. Goldberg “is] the Jewish community’s main foreign-policy lobbying organization … The clout that Jewish Americans exercise in American politics is far incommensurate with their population” [56]. Palestinian Professor Rima Najjar: “AIPAC lobbies for the security of the Zionist Jewish state. The undeniable obverse of that is the continued oppression and dispossession of the Palestinian people” [59].
While Jews are 2% of the US population, females are about 51%. Informed by a 2016 analysis by Lara O’Reilly in the Business Insider [33], below in descending order of revenue is the list of the world’s top 30 media companies with details of their media revenue in US dollars and other key details, together with – for 18 US companies and 1 UK company – the estimated % Jewish Board members (and hence likely fervently pro-Zionist Board members) and % women on the Board (for comparison) :
1. Alphabet ($59.62 billion revenue; American; Alphabet is the new holding company that owns fervently pro-Zionist Google that “minimizes” Leftist sites critical of Apartheid Israel [47-49]; 46% of Alphabet Directors are Jewish or have Jewish spouses but only 23% of Board members are women; Alphabet chairman John Hennessy is anti-BDS and hence pro-Zionist; in addition to minimizing the humane Left, Google provides software to identify targets for illegal US drone strikes [61])
2. The Walt Disney Company ($22.45 billion; American; Disney owns US national TV network ABC, owns a 50% stake in digital media company Fusion and has a 33% stake in video streaming platform Hulu; fervently pro-Zionist media mogul Rupert Murdoch recently sold 21st Century Fox and a controlling interest in Sky to Disney for $66 billion; 18% Jewish Board but Board member Fred Langhammer, a former chairman and CEO of pro-Israel Estee Lauder Companies, has invested in Apartheid Israel; 36% of the Board are women).
3. Comcast ($19.7 billion; American; 15 national cable networks in the US including USA Network, Syfy, CNBC, and nine international TV channels, NBC, Spanish-language network Telemundo and runs video streaming service Hulu; 30% Jewish Board members but only 10% female Board members).
4. 21st Century Fox ($18.67 billion; American with major Australian links; owns Fox Broadcasting, Fox Sports television companies, STAR India; and has a 39% stake in UK Sky; formerly owned by Murdoch who recently sold 21st Century Fox and a controlling interest in Sky to Disney; 8% of the Board are female but possibly none (0%) of the Board are obviously Jewish, although Rupert Murdoch’s maternal grandmother was Jewish [62] and fervently pro-Zionist Rupert Murdoch and his sons Lachlan and James are together on the board, this underscoring Rupert Murdoch’s controversial tweet : “Why is Jewish-owned press so consistently anti-Israel in every crisis?” [63]).
5. Facebook ($11.49 billion; American; 50% of Board members are Jewish, including 2 Jewish Israelis, presumed pro-Zionists from Facebook’s pro-Zionist censorship activities; 18% female Board; Facebook stands accused of pro-Zionist censorship, having suspended Palestinian Professor Rima Najjar for rightly accusing the fervently pro-Zionist US Hillel organization of being racist [64]. Gazans have protested against Facebook for removing Palestinian accounts [65]).
6. Bertelsmann ($10.04 billion; German; owns TV and radio group RTL, book publishing companies Random House and Penguin, magazine publishing company Gruner + Jahr, music company BMG, marketing company Arvato, The Bertelsmann Education Group, and Bertelsmann Investments; post-1945 de-Nazification under Allied Occupation necessarily meant a pro-American Mainstream media culture; 0% Jewish and 20% female Board).
7. Viacom ($9.61 billion; 250 TV channels worldwide, including MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, and Channel 5 in the UK; a trust for media mogul Sumner Redstone owns 80% of movie theatre company National Amusements, which owns 80% of the voting rights in both Viacom and CBS; 45% Jewish Board and 45% female Board).
8. CBS ($9.57 billion; American; CBS Television Network broadcasts to more than 200 affiliated stations; 50% stake in The CW Network; joint venture with AMC Networks to run international channels like Horror Channel and CBS Drama in the UK, Ireland, the Middle East, and Africa; owns 117 US radio stations; 57% Jewish Board and 21% female Board).
9. Baidu ($7.895 billion; Chinese; Chinese language search giant with maps, social networking, security, entertainment, e-commerce, and mobile services).
10. News Corp ($6.89 billion; fervently pro-Zionist Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp owns The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, The Times and the Sun in the UK, News America Marketing, Barron’s magazine, and publisher HarperCollins; in 2005 eminent Palestinian American Professor Rashid Khalidi’s participation in a New York City teacher training program was ended by the city’s Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein, who is presently the only Jewish member of the News Corp Board which is thus 9% Jewish, noting that fervently pro-Zionist Rupert Murdoch had a Jewish grandmother and he and his sons Lachlan and James are together on the board; the Board is 9% Jewish, at least 45% fervently pro-Zionist and 27% female ).
11. Advance Publications ($6.42 billion; owns the Condé Nast Publications magazines including Glamour, Vogue, Vanity Fair, and GQ, several US newspapers, notably The Plain Dealer and The Times-Picayune, and a 31% stake in Discovery Communications; at least 80% Jewish Board; 0% female Board).
12. iHeartMedia ($6.12 billion; formerly known as Clear Channel Communications; owns 861 radio stations in the US, reaching 110 million listeners each week, and has 107,000 display advertising structures in North America and 540,000 across Asia, Australia, and Europe; 11% Jewish Board and 22% female Board).
13. Discovery Communications ($6.14 billion; owns 14 US TV networks , including the Discovery Channel, TLC and Animal Planet, distributes 48 international brands reaching over 2.6 billion subscribers in more than 220 countries worldwide; 27% Jewish Board but 9% female Board).
14. Grupo Globo ($4.83 billion; Brazilian; Brazilian company that owns the newspaper O Globo, 12 magazines, 4 radio networks, and TV network TV Globo that had exclusive rights in the 2014 FIFA World Cup).
15. Yahoo ($4.62 billion; American; search advertising and display advertising; default search option in web browser Firefox; there are to be board changes after Yahoo recently sold its web properties to Verizon in a deal valued at about $4.8 billion; 25% Jewish Board and 25% female Board).
16. Time Warner ($4.57 billion; American; sold Time Inc. publishing division in 2014; runs Turner Broadcasting System, HBO, and Warner Bros. Entertainment; 22% Jewish Board and 22% female Board).
17. Microsoft ($4.58 billion; advertising revenue via MSN, search engine Bing, Skype, and Xbox Live gaming and media platform; 18% Jewish Board and 18% female Board; Bing Searches reveal humane items hidden by the Zionist-subverted Google Robot).
18. Asahi Shimbun ($4.12 billion; Japanese; Japan’s number 2 newspaper; has a 25% stake in TV Asahi and owns 25 magazine titles including AERA, Sesame, and Autocar Japan; Japanese media must be seen in the light of the US reorganization of Japan after 1945; Professor Yoshio Sugimoto commenting on press censorship via the “reporters’ clubs” in Japan (1997): “ Japan ‘s mass media tend to be docile because of the way in which information-gathering units are based on government and business-establishments. Government ministries, prefectural and municipal governments, police headquarters, and business and union organizations all provide reporters of major print and electronic media with office space called kisha kurabu (reporters’ clubs). These clubrooms are normally equipped with telephones and other communications machines, service personnel, and other facilities. Media organizations use them free of charge. In almost all cases, club membership is restricted to the reporters of major news organizations and is not open to journalists from minor presses or to foreign journalists. …By constantly feeding information to reporters in this environment, representatives of the institutions which provide club facilities can obliquely control the way in which it is reported to the public. Reporters cannot risk being excluded from their club because they would then lose access to this regular flow of information” [53, 66].
19. China Central Television (CCTV) ($4.08 billion; Chinese; the Chinese state broadcaster; broadcasts 21 free-to-air channels, 19 pay-TV channels, and 10 international channels in the English, French, Spanish, Russian, Korean, and Arabic languages).
20. Hearst ($4.0 billion; American; has 15 daily newspapers, 21 consumer magazines, and 30 TV stations in the US; owns around 300 newspaper and magazine titles internationally; the founder, William Randolph Hearst I notoriously whipped up public hysteria via his “Morning Journal” newspaper after the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana harbor, this leading to the Spanish-American War and US seizure of Spanish territories from the Philippines to Puerto Rico [67, 68] – this was one of many American false flag atrocities leading to war and occupation [67, 68 ], with the Zionist-subverted US Government’s 9-11 false flag atrocity being a notable and horrendous example – the subsequent and ongoing Zionist-promoted US War on Muslims has been associated with 32 million Muslims deaths from violence, 5 million, or deprivation, 27 million, in 20 countries invaded by the US Alliance [15, 16]; other excuses for US imperialist wars include the sinking of the arms-laden Lusitania (US entry into WW1), Pearl Harbor (permitted to occur notwithstanding and US and UK pre-knowledge; US entry into WW2), Korean invasion of their own country (Korean War), the fictional Gulf of Tonkin Incident (US Indo-China War), alleged threat to US students (US invasion of Granada) and General Noriega’s longstanding CIA-linked drug involvements (US invasion of Panama) [67, 68]; 50% Jewish Board but only 6% female Board).
21. JCDecaux ($3.74 billion; French; largest outdoor advertising company in the world; owns Continental Outdoor Media, Eye Catcher Media, and CEMUSA).
22. Axel Springer ($3.39 billion; German; owns newspapers, magazines, TV channels, radio stations, and websites in 35 countries, notably Business Insider and the newspapers B.Z., Bild, and Die Welt in Germany; see comment for #6 above)
23. Mediaset ($3.39 billion; Italian; largest Italian commercial broadcaster in Italy and has majority ownership of Spanish TV network MEC; founded by former PM Silvio Berlusconi with major continuing family connection).
24. ITV ($3.33 billion; British; largest UK commercial television network; more than 15 channels; stakes in digital TV services Freesat, YouView and ITN; 100% pro-Zionist Board by commission and omission, possibly 20% Jewish Board, 40% female Board. The ITV Chair, Sir Peter Bazalgette, was member of the UK Commission on the Holocaust and is the chair of the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation supervising the controversial UK Holocaust Memorial involving 23 huge bronze fin structures, with the spaces between each symbolising the 22 countries where Jewish communities were destroyed during the Jewish Holocaust [69]. The WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million killed through violence or deprivation) was part of a much greater but “forgotten” WW2 European Holocaust (30 million Slavs, Jews and Roma (Gypsies) killed),and was contemporaneous with the “forgotten” WW2 Polish Holocaust (6 million Poles killed, half of them Jewish), the “forgotten” WW2 Russian Holocaust (20 million Russians killed) [67], the “forgotten” WW2 Indian Holocaust and Bengali Holocaust (6-7 million Indians deliberately starved to death by Churchill with Australian complicity in Bengal and neighbouring provinces) [70-72] , and the WW2 Chinese Holocaust (35 million Chinese killed under Japanese occupation 1937-1945) [73]. The UK was complicit in the WW2 Jewish Holocaust through the strategically inept ands disastrous bombing of German cities and infrastructure [74] leading to massive food shortages in Nazi Europe towards the end of the war that severely impacted concentration camp inmates [74], and through exclusion of Jewish refugees from large parts of the British Empire [76], a policy supported by the Zionists who wanted Jewish refugees to only go to Palestine. Pro-Zionist Mainstream media ignore these horrendous realities that are within living memory, as well as the horrendous realities of the ongoing, Zionist-backed US War on Muslims in a process of continuing genocide ignoring and holocaust ignoring that is far, far worse than repugnant genocide denial and holocaust denial because at least the latter admit the possibilities refutation and public discussion [77]).
25. Fuji Media Holdings ($3.23 billion; Japanese; is one of Japan’s biggest media owners, runs Fuji Television Network and Nippon Broadcasting System; see comment on item #18).
26. Hubert Burda Media ($3.05 billion; German; owns 93 magazines in Germany and 320 titles internationally; publishes German editions of Playboy, Elle, and Harper’s Bazaar, and Burda Style; see comment on item #6).
27. Gannett ($2.95 billion; owns 93 daily newspapers in the US, including USA Today, and 400 other publications; property investment in the UK via Newsquest; 18% Jewish Board; 27% female Board; former chairperson Marjorie Magner is Jewish).
28. ProSiebenSat.1 ($2.91 billion; German; owns 15 TV stations across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, reaching around 42 million households; see comment on item #6).
29. Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings ($2.88 billion; Japanese; owns The Yomiuri Shimbun that has a circulation of more than 9 million, and the English language daily The Japan News, and has a stake in the Nippon TV network, publishing group Chukoron-Shinsha, and the Yomiuri Giants baseball team; see comment on item #18).
30. Time Inc. ($2.87 billion; until 2014 was the magazine division of Time Warner; owns Sports Illustrated, Time Magazine, and InStyle; 33% Jewish Board and 22% female Board; Sir Howard Stringer is a fervent pro-Zionist who is on the Time Inc Board, was the honorary chairman of the pro-Zionist American Jewish Committee, and is also a non-executive director of the UK BBC, an organization with an appalling record of pro-Zionist censorship [78, 79]).
Final comments.
While Jews represent about 2% of the US population, the proportion of Jews on the Boards of the top 18 US companies in the top 30 world media companies ranges from 0% to 57% with an average of 33%. In contrast, while females represent about 51% of the US population, the proportion of women on the Boards of the top 18 US companies in the top 30 world media companies ranges from 0% to 45% with an average of 19%. This huge discrepancy explains in part why US media are overwhelmingly pro-Zionist by commission and omission and ignore the appalling crimes of Apartheid Israel against the Palestinians of whom 50% of women are women and girls. Gandhi stated that “Poverty is the worst form of violence” and the per capita GDP is a mere $2,800 for Occupied Palestinians as compared to $39,000 for their genocidally racist occupier, Apartheid Israel [80]. About 5,100 Occupied Palestinians die avoidably annually from violence (500) or from imposed deprivation (4,600) in a process of active and passive mass murder of Indigenous Palestinians in gross violation of the Geneva Convention and thence of the UN Genocide Convention [81, 82]. Palestinian women and girls, like their vastly more prosperous Anglosphere sisters, may well cry “Me too!”
Like poverty, lying by Zionist-subverted Mainstream media is also deadly. Zionist-subverted, One Percenter-owned US Mainstream media not only hide the deadly realities of life for Occupied Palestinians but also hide the appalling realities that 1.7 million Americans die preventably each year, that 28 million Americans have died thus since the US Government’s 9-11 false flag atrocity, and that successive Zionist-subverted US Administrations have presided over a fiscal perversion involving committing trillions of dollars to killing millions of Muslim abroad rather than keeping Americans alive at home.
What can decent informed Americans and indeed all decent, informed people do? The horrible reality is that Zionism is egregious, genocidal racism and that racist Zionists and all their supporters should be sidelined from public life, as have been other racists such as the neo-Nazis, Nazis, Apartheiders and the Ku Klux Klan. Decent people around the world will urge and apply Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against not only Apartheid Israel but also against all people, politicians, parties, companies, collectives, corporations and countries complicit in these appalling crimes. Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. Wake up America!
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[39]. Gideon Polya, “Zionist quotes reveal genocidal racism”, MWC News, 12 January 2018: http://mwcnews.net/focus/analysis/69955-zionist-quotes-reveal-genocidal-racism.html .
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[45]. Arjun Walia, “Declassified CIA documents show agency’s control over mainstream media & academia”, Collective Evolution, 11 May 2017: http://www.collective-evolution.com/2017/05/11/declassified-cia-documents-shows-agencies-control-over-mainstream-media-academia/ .
[46]. Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky, “Manufacturing Consent. The political economy of mass media”, Pantheon 1988, 2002.
[47]. Gideon Polya, “Google censorship & Zionist constraint on effective free speech threaten the Planet”, Countercurrents, 9 August 2017: https://countercurrents.org/2017/08/09/google-censorship-zionist-constraint-on-effective-free-speech-threaten-planet/ .
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[49]. “Who controls America? Who controls Google?”, The Zog: https://thezog.wordpress.com/who-controls-google/ .
[50]. Gideon Polya, “Mainstream media fake news through lying by omission”, MWC News, 1 April 2017: http://www.mwcnews.net/focus/analysis/64626-mainstream-media.html .
[51]. Gideon Polya, “Mainstream media fake news through lying by omission”, Global Research, 1 April 2017: http://www.globalresearch.ca/mainstream-media-fake-news-through-lying-by-omission/5582944 .
[52]. “Lying by omission is worse than lying by commission because at least the latter permits refutation and public debate”, Mainstream media lying: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammedialying/lying-by-omission .
[53]. “Mainstream media censorship”; https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/home .
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[56]. J.J. Goldberg, “Jewish Power: Inside the American Jewish Establishment”,
[57]. Paul Findley, “They Dare to Speak Out”, 1985. (against the pervasive influence of AIPAC) on my shelf. It looked down on me more as a cautionary tale than as an inspiration.
[58]. John Lyons, “Balcony Over Jerusalem”.
[59]. Rima Najjar, “How do I hate thee AIPAC? Let me count the ways”, Countercurrents, 8 March 2018: https://countercurrents.org/2018/03/08/how-do-i-hate-thee-aipac-let-me-count-the-ways/ .
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[61]. Andre Damon, “Google admits collaboration with illegal US drone murder program”, Countercurrents, 8 March 2018: https://countercurrents.org/2018/03/08/google-admits-collaboration-with-illegal-us-drone-murder-program/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+countercurrents%2FeoKx+%28Countercurrents%29 .
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[63]. Michael Wolff, “Rupert Murdoch and the Jews”, The Guardian, 20 November 2012: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/nov/19/rupert-murdoch-jews-twitter .
[64]. Rima Najjar, “Hillel and Facebook censorship: conflating Zionism with Judaism”, Countercurrents, 26 February 2018: https://countercurrents.org/2018/02/26/hillel-facebook-censorship-conflating-zionism-judaism/ .
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[66]. Yoshio Sugimoto “An Introduction to Japanese Society”, Cambridge University Press, 1997; pages 211-215.
[67]. Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”, this including an avoidable mortality-related history of every country since Neolithic times and now available for free perusal on the web: http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/body-count-global-avoidable-mortality_05.html .
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[69]. Soo Kim, “First pictures of the UK’s first Holocaust memorial planned for London”, The Telegraph, 27 October 2017: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/articles/britain-first-holocaust-memorial-to-open-in-london/ .
[70]. Gideon Polya, “Australia And Britain Killed 6-7 Million Indians In WW2 Bengal Famine”, Countercurrents, 29 September, 2011: https://countercurrents.org/polya290911.htm .
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[73]. “Backgrounder: China ’s WWII contributions in figures”, New China, 3 September 2015: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-09/03/c_134582291.htm .
[74]. C.P. Snow, “Science and Government”.
[75]. Lizzie Collingham, “The Taste of War”, Penguin, 2011.
[76]. Martin Gilbert, “Jewish History Atlas”, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1969.
[77]. Gideon Polya, “Pro-Zionist Western Genocide Denial”, MWC News, 14 April, 2009: https://www.countercurrents.org/polya140409.htm .
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[79]. “Censorship by the BBC”: https://sites.google.com/site/censorshipbythebbc/ .
[80]. “List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita”, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita .
[81]. Gideon Polya, “Apartheid Israel’s Palestinian Genocide & Australia’s Aboriginal Genocide compared”, Countercurrents, 20 February 2018: https://countercurrents.org/2018/02/20/apartheid-israels-palestinian-genocide-australias-aboriginal-genocide-compared/ .
[82]. Gideon Polya, “Palestinian Me Too: 140 alphabetically-listed Zionist crimes expose Western complicity & hypocrisy”, Countercurrents, 7 February 2018: https://countercurrents.org/2018/02/07/palestinian-140-alphabetically-listed-zionist-crimes-expose-appalling-western-complicity-hypocrisy/ .
Dr Gideon Polya taught science students at a major Australian university for 4 decades. He published some 130 works in a 5 decade scientific career, most recently a huge pharmacological reference text “Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds” (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, New York & London , 2003).
9 March 2018