Clio the cat, ? July 1997 - 1 May 2016
True to form – the Guardian’s Obituary Fails to Mention Pilger’s Searing Criticisms of their Treachery Over Julian Assange
John Pilger In His Own Words: The Late Great Journalist In A Never Before Released Interview
I’m not sure if he was trying to send a message, asking me to pick up the baton, but John Pilger died on my birthday! I can’t think of anyone today who even approaches Pilger’s record of campaigning journalism.
I had a premonition that John Pilger was not long for this world when someone mentioned that during the genocide in Gaza his voice had not been heard. It’s not hard to imagine what Pilger would have made of the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the pretence that it is all about destroying Hamas.
Pilger would have instantly seen through the lies of the war criminals who rule us, Blinken, Biden, Sunak and Starmer, and his invective would have been all the sharper for that. We live in a world of lies where there is a pretence that Israeli genocide and its attacks on ambulances, hospitals, homes and children, are all about Hamas rather than the ethnic cleansing that Israeli politicians openly proclaim.
Pilger was a staunch supporter of the Palestinians. Not for him the vile and fabricated accusations of ‘anti-Semitism’ against anyone who criticises this wretched apartheid state.
The Zionist lobby reacted with their usual cries of ‘anti-Semitism’ when he produced Palestine is Still the Issue for ITV in 2002.
Palestine is Still the Issue (2002) - John Pilger
In Why my film is under fire Pilger described how
The pro-Israel lobby intimidates journalists to ensure that most coverage remains biased in its favour.
Does anyone imagine that Pilger’s article would get past its Zionist gatekeeper, Jonathan Freedland, today? Freedland and Guardian Editor Kath Viner would argue that accusing the ‘victims’ of ‘anti-Semitism’ of making false allegations was itself anti-Semitic, even if those ‘victims’ were rich and powerful supporters of genocide. To Freedland Palestinians are never victims. Only Jews merit that title.
Pilger described how Michael Green, Chairman of Carlton TV, attacked his 2002 film Palestine is Still the Issue in the Jewish Chronicle. Green was rebuked for that by Carlton’s Factual Department. Ctd....
The last working-class hero in England.
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