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shocking action by
the San Francisco
public television sta-
, tion rejecting, for the
time being, the televising of
a widely publicized new
series of programs on Israel
in relation to Abba Eban's
new book, A Personal
Witness, invites and merits
condemnation of that station
as unprecedented, pre-
judicial and unwanted. Such
an action against one of the
world's most respected dip-
lomats and literary scholars
is bigoted treatment. News
of that action is summarized
in a Jewish Telegraphic
Agency report
The San Francisco
Jewish community has
been joined by Israeli
diplomat .Abba Eban in
protesting the decision by
a local television station to
postpone broadcasting his
documentary on Isrrael
until it can be shown with
a "counterbalancing"
Palestinian film.
The five-part television
documentary, "Israel: A
Nation is Born, with Abba
Eban, A Personal Witness,"
had been tentatively
scheduled to start airing
the first week of January
on KQED, - the Public
Broadcasting Service's sta-
tion in the Bay Area.
But then Kevin Harris,
KQED's station and pro-
gram manager, announced
that he planned to broad-
cast the documentary
within the framework of
the station's "Viewpoint"
series.
Harris
tentatively
pushed off the program un-
til March, so that he could
find a film from a Palesti-
nian viewpoint, prepare a
viewer's guide and compile
a recommended reading
list.
Harris' decision out-
raged both the Jewish
community and .the
documentary's producer.
Zvi Almagor, indepen-
dent executive producer of
the Eban documentary, an-
nounced from New York
that he had withdrawn
KQED's right to air the
program.
"We will not permit the
broadcast," Almagor said.
"Our program is not going
to be a target for attacks
Abbe Eban's documentary has been postponed.
against Israel in any
fashion?' He added that the
five-hour documentary
would be offered to other
Bay Area public and com-
mercial stations.
Protests from Jewish
organizations escalated
after the station made its
announcement, with Eban
himself joining the fray last
week.
Israel's elder statesman
and former foreign minis-
ter found himself involun-
tarily in the Bay Area for
an extended stay after he
suffered a hip fracture and
was hospitalized in a San
Mateo hospital.
" 'Israel: A Nation is
Born' doesn't have to be
balanced or fleshed out,"
Eban told the Northern
California Jewish Bulletin.
"I regard these statements
as offensive to anyone who
has seen the program. If
they want to produce
another film, they should
do it on their own time."
Eban praised the Jewish
community's "vigilance,"
saying that "this is one of
the great historical
documentaries. If you
think of documentaries
like 'The Ascent of Man'
and 'Alistair Cooke on
America' and The Civil
War,' this is in that-lineage
and has been thus received
and reviewed."
Leading the community
protests are the Jewish
community relations coun-
cils of San Francisco and
the Greater East Bay,
which have launched
letter-writing campaigns
and have requested
meetings with KQED's
president and board of
directors.
The American Jewish
Committee also registered
its indignation, pointing
out that KQED had shown
a number of pro-
Palestinian and anti-Israel
programs without any
"balancing?' An AJCom-
mittee letter to the station
also emphasized that 75
percent of the organiza-
tion's board members con-
tribute to KQED.
Harris, the station
manager, said he was
dismayed by the protests