WASHINGTON, 25 January — A leading British weekly is questioning the presence of what it calls "Jewish control over the media and government."
The cover story of the Jan. 14 editon of the New Statesman, a respected British liberal weekly, is entitled: "A Kosher Conspiracy?" and features a gold Star of David appearing to pierce a Union Jack, the symbol of Britain.
The story investigates whether there is a "Zionist plan" to sway the British press to the side of Israel and to diminish Israeli injustice against the Palestinians.
"That there is a Zionist lobby and that it is rich, potent, and effective goes largely unquestioned on the left," writes author Dennis Sewell. "Big Jewry, like big tobacco, is seen as one of life’s givens."
Journalists who dare to speak out against the "Zionist lobby," Sewell writes, are harassed, threatened and eventually muted.
The article cites Robert Fisk, correspondent for The Independent, as an example. It says Fisk "complains that he has been the victim of an anonymous smear campaign seeking to link him with the notoriously anti-Semitic historian David Irving."
At the heart of this "Zionist lobby," the article says, "Is a network of individuals and organizations coordinated from the Israeli Embassy in London and ‘greased’ by the profits made by a shady arms trader named Shlomo Zabludowicz, an Auschwitz survivor who died in 1994."
