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Jews seek to blacklist Florida journalist for criticizing Israel

By Khalid Amayreh

Occupied Jerusalem: 20 October, 2001 (IAP News) American sources in Florida
have accused Jewish circles of intimidating and bullying journalists daring to
criticize Israeli occupation and apartheid in Palestine.

The accusations came after influential Jews in Florida reportedly bullied
the Tallahassee Democrat, a local newspaper, to refuse to publish articles
by a Florida journalist who reportedly recently wrote a article criticizing
the "Israeli-American marriage."

The journalist, Jim Moore, said in an email message that he was recently
told by the newspaper's officials not to submit any more articles.

In his article, Moore quoted a report that appeared in several Middle-East
related web-sites a few weeks ago, alleging that Ariel Sharon, the
extremist Israeli prime minister, told his foreign minister Shimon Peres
during a heated ministerial council meeting not to worry about American
pressure on Israel because "the Jewish people control America."

Israeli officials refused to confirm or deny the report, but several
Israeli journalists and columnists confirmed that Sharon had bouts of
anger during a recent Knesset meeting and that he said "things that
shouldn't be said."

Most American and, to a lesser extent, British journalists feel intimidated
by Jewish pressure groups and generally avoid criticizing Israel's rampage
of murder and terror against Palestinians lest they lose their jobs.

Earlier this year, the Jewish publisher of "the Observer" chastised and
threatened to fire one of the paper's editors for criticizing the use of
excessive force by the Israeli army against unarmed Palestinian civilians.


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