Don't Forget PBS...

Submitted by Isaac Horowitz (United States), Sep 29, 2002 at 09:41

Congratulation on your important work, making the 'ignorant Professors' a bit more accountable, at least exposing their prejudice. The Public Broadcasting System is very much of a leftist organization, always propagandizing leftist causes. One station involving Amy Goodman, is especially rabid, very often featuring that very radical MIT Professor. What especially angers me is their getting Federal cash subsidies.

Incidentally, so many people, including the above, state that the Romans drove the Jews out of Palestine (it was really Judea then), and it was thereafter Judenrein, whereas in practice, it still had a Jewish majority, strong enough to drive the Romans out in 133 A.D. And it was then that the Romans renamed it Palestine. Also, many scholars contend that Palestine had a Jewish majority at the time of Arab conquest ~ 638 A.D. See writings of BenZion Dinur, for example in the book , The Jews in Their Land, edited by Ben-Gurion, p.203, wherein Dinur basically states, that the Arabs expropriated the Jewish farms...

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