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Los Angeles, Alta California - March 19, 2009 - (ACN) The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, an area publication on behalf of Zionist Israel, has again attacked another media voice for the Chicano, Mexican and Latino communities. Some time ago this same Zionist magazine published a hateful and extremely biased article against La Voz de Aztlan and yesterday they did the same against one of the few radio programs that speak on behalf of Chicanos in Southern California. The aim of these attacks is to silence any criticism of Israel and of the American Jewish Lobby which now dictates many of the US government's domestic and international policies.
The article is authored by the Sephardic Jew Roberto Loiederman and targets the hugely popular program La Causa on KPFK FM radio hosted by Augustin Cebada and Rafael Tlaloc. Loiederman objects and criticizes La Causa for covering the recent attacks by Israel on the Gaza Strip as if Chicanos are not supposed to speak on the issue. Loiederman writes, "Though it presents itself as a program by and for Latinos, La Causa spends a lot of time on the subject of the Middle East, all of it fiercely critical of Israel. Referring to the recent military actions in Gaza, the show’s hosts characterize Israelis as perpetrators of 'genocide', 'massacre', 'slaughter', 'war crimes', 'ethnic cleansing' and 'atrocities'.”
Roberto Loiederman especially objected, in his hateful diatribe, that Augustin Cebada recently gave too much time to a caller named Mohammed that expressed strong pro-Palestinian views. Mohammed is a well known frequent caller to La Causa and is of dual Mexican and Palestinian descent. Loiederman's objection gives the impression that Jews believe in "freedom of speech" only when it applies to them. The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles has given La Voz de Aztlan pretty much the same treatment.
[To read the entire story, click here.]
Loiederman is probably of Spanish-speaking ethnic Ashkenazi background and not of Sephardic (Ibero-Berber) ethnicity.
EdFromNH alludes to some very similar problems with Israel advocates in EdFromNH on "Fealty to Israel". Ed is somewhat circumspect in the details, but in short his family owned a moderately sized New England radio network that was threatened 40 years ago with a boycott by Jewish-owned (or simply influenced) advertisers if the network did not broadcast news from the ME exactly as Jewish Zionist groups wanted Americans to hear it. It was a Zionist campaign that took place entirely behind closed doors and never became public. The network caved in to Zionist pressure.
