8 Friday, April 28, 1918 . THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS British Press Accused of Mideast Bias NEW CADILLAC? BUY OR LEASE FROM ANDY BLAU in BIRMINGHAM at WILSON-CRISSMAN CADILLAC CALL BUS. MI 4-1930 RES. 642-6836 1350 N. WOODWARD, BIRMINGHAM Over 45 Years Of Moving Experience POTTER MOVING & STORAGE CO. NUMBER 0 ALLIED VAN LINES AGENT IN MICHIGAN 1300 N. Campbell 2253 Cole ROYAL OAK 541-3310 BIRMINGHAM 644-4612 AWED VAN UNES By MAURICE SAMUELSON LONDON (JTA) — A new spate of accusations of bias over the Middle East has been levelled against the British press from both sides of the Arab-Israel con- flict. The more common charges are that the press is pro-Arab. The Israel ambassador, Avraham Kidron, rarely loses the opportunity of a meeting with British jour- nalists to complain bitterly about their alleged lack of understanding for his coun- try's position. The latest allegation of pro-Israeli bias comes, paradoxically, from a prom- inent British journalist. George Gale, a former editor of The Spectator, said in a radio talk show that most British national pap- ers sympathized with Israel and, he claimed, this was because of the number of Jews who held influential positions in the press. Gale himself has often been outspokenly critical of Israel and, not surpris- ingly, his remark elicited heated complaints from Jewish organizations to "Our Product Is A Shade Better" GREENE BROS. WINDOW SHADE CO. 15150 W. 7 Mile 3 blks. E. of Greenfield Daily 8:30-5. Sat. 9-3 Old Orchard Shopping Center Maple 8 Orchard Lake Rd. 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For the tone of British press comment and news presentation probably depends as much on the journalists employed by newspapers as on the com- mercial interests and policy of the big businessmen who own them. This is particularly true of the quality papers which report foreign - affairs in depth and breadth as op- posed to popular papers which contain more domes- tic news and gossip. Jewish journalists here, in contrast with the United States, are not very numer- ous on foreign news desks of national papers. And in the Middle East departments, which help to dictate the tone of their papers' Middle East coverage, there are no identifiable Jews at all, ex- cept for those stationed in Israel. So most of the influen- tial Jewish journalists who have caught Gale's attention must have been employed elsewhere in the press. The reasons for this are not hard to fathom. But it shows that Jewish journalists are far more likely to be victims of Middle East bias than agents of it. One of the leading Jewish foreign correspondents working for a British news- paper is Eric Silver, The Guardian's man in Jerusalem. A few years ago, one of his own colleagues was reported as questioning Silver's capacity to write ob- jectively about Israel sim- ply because he was Jewish. Michael Elkins, of the BBC, has also been fre- quently sniped at by the Arab lobby here for the same reason. And yet the Arab lobby counts several non-Jewish Middle East specialists among its av- owed sympathizers. But what of the allege- tions of bias by the press as a whole? The mere fact that the press is so often assailed by the opposing sides in the conflict indicates that it is reasonably neutral. And this, in turn, can only be be- cause the journalists in- volved are too professional to allow their personal pref- erences to ruin their sense of news judgment. Nevertheless, there should be no illusions about the strength of pro-Arab sentiment in some influential circles on Fleet Street For just as older journalists were often influenced in favor of Zionism by the events of World War H, so their successors are more likely to be swayed by the claims of the Palestinian Arabs. One Middle East com- mentator— whose work has been quoted all over the world — has told friends that he opposes in principle the existence of a Jewish state. This journalist re- cently gave a startling per- sonal interpretation of the statement by Israeli Ag- riculture Minister Ariel Sharon, that two million Jews would one day inhabit the Jordan Valley. Sharon's vision could only mean, the journalist said, that the "Zionists" planned to stimulate Jewish immi- gration from the United States by stirring up a wave of Nazi anti-Semitism there. Needless to say, this interesting theory has not yet appeared in the jour- nalist's own newspaper. Although this person is more outspoken in his pro- Arabism than other Middle East specialists on Fleet Street, most of them appear to be more at ease on the Arab side of the fence. The influence of this group is, moreover, rein- forced by the existence of several Arab-oriented specialist periodicals for which these people write, in addition to their own journals. Possibly, they would also contribute to serious Israeli-oriented publications, if they existed here. Jewish and Zionist organ- izations seem to regard in- dependent publishing ven- tures as a thing of the past, and prefer to invest solely in public relations and infor- mation drives, usually aimed at the converted, with little impact on the na- tional media. 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