Final_Judgment

322 They Dare Not Speak Out [261]
ISRAEL AND THE AMERICAN MEDIA
The real key to understanding the media's part in the JFK assassination
cover-up is to recognize the incredible influence of the Israeli lobby in the
United States on the American media. It is a subject that deserves far more
consideration than we can provide in these pages.
However, there are four volumes in particular which give the reader an
in-depth look at the way Israel and its lobby in this country have had such a
powerful impact on the way news relating to Israel is reported. Each volume
deserves careful study:
Split Vision: The Portrayal of Arabs in the American Media, edited
by Edmund Ghareeb, published in 1983 by the American-Arab Affairs
Council;
They Dare to Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israel's
Lobby by former Congressman Paul Findley, published in 1985 by
Lawrence Hill & Company.
A Changing Image: American Perceptions of the Arab-Israeli Dispute
by former diplomat Richard H. Curtiss, published in 1986 by the American
Educational Trust;
Conspiracy Against Freedom, issued in 1986 by Liberty Lobby, the
Washington-based populist institution which publishes The Spotlight, the
newspaper that sparked the lawsuit by E. Howard Hunt (described in Chapter
16) which resulted in a jury's finding that the CIA had been complicit in the
JFK assassination conspiracy.
This volume is of particular interest in that it displays documents from
ADL files which prove the role of the pro-Israel Anti-Defamation League
(ADL) of B'nai B'rith in seeking to silence critics of Israel through wideranging
techniques including threats, economic boycott and other unsavory
and illegal measures contrary to American tradition.
It is the activity of the ADL, in particular, which seems to have had a
recurring role in the JFK assassination conspiracy cover-up by the media.
THE MOSSAD'S TENTACLES
Intelligence historian Richard Deacon, writing in his history of Israel's
Mossad, has commented on the pervasive role of the Israeli lobby and the
manner in which it has exercised its influence:
"For years the tentacles of the Israeli Secret Service had reached out into
all walks of American life, not in any sinister way, as was sometimes
alleged by her enemies, but in a quietly persistent manner which embraced
making friends and influencing people, establishing opinion lobbies and
gathering intelligence.
Deacon continued: "This influence extended into the U.S. [House] and the
Senate, the Pentagon, the defense and electronic industries, the research
laboratories and such Jewish-oriented organizations as the Anti-Defamation
League, the Jewish Defense Committee, Bonds for Israel and the Federation
of Jewish Philanthropies.