Despite the fact he no longer has any relevance or credibility, DL Foster brought attention to two interviews JONAH recently gave to an extremist Israeli internet radio station. The first features JONAH co-director and executive secretary of the NARTH board Arthur Goldberg and the second has testimonials.
What DL didn’t mention is just how extreme Israel National Radio is:
Arutz Sheva Israel National Radio is a right wing Israeli radio station. Founded in 1988, it formerly broadcasted on the Israeli airwaves from a ship in the Mediterranean Sea outside of Israel’s territorial waters until being shutdown by the Israeli government. Currently it only broadcasts over the Internet from its website which it has been running for about the last ten years. It was forced to broadcast from a ship because Israeli law only permits private radio station on the local level.
In February 1999, the Knesset passed a law legalising [sic] the operation of Arutz Sheva and absolving them of earlier illegal broadcasting, but this was appealed to the Israeli Supreme Court which ruled the law null and void in March, 2002. Supporters of the station claim this is due to their Right Wing views. In October 2003, ten employees of Arutz Sheva were convicted of operating an illegal radio station during the period 1995-1998, both from offshore and on land. Station director Ya’acov Katz was convicted on two counts of perjury for having lied about the location of the broadcasts.
According to Wikipedia, one of the outlaw radio station’s broadcasters is anti-missionary Rabbi Tovia Singer, who “enthusiastically supports a joint Israel-US attack on Iran in order to destroy the nation and its support for Palestinians.”
So JONAH would seem to be indirectly threatening Christian missionaries and promoting massive violence and destruction against the people of both Iran and Palestine regardless of local communities’ faith or politics.
Meanwhile, the religious Zionist settler movement has for decades expropriated, occupied, and bulldozed Palestinian Christian and Muslim neighborhoods, churches and mosques — effectively stealing and destroying whole communities.
So once again, JONAH seems to be indirectly attacking the occupied West Bank’s native Christian and Muslim population. I do not see how this policy position advances the interests of exgays — or of Israel’s right to exist, which I support.
Instead, it seems to promote the sadistic, selfish, cynical and apocalyptic objectives of a few U.S. and Israeli religious-right extremists.
How interesting! When I read Foster’s blurb, I got the impression that INR was rather like NPR around here. I didn’t realize it was so underground and certainly didn’t get the impression that they were so far right of center.
j.
As the daughter of a (secular) Jewish man, and a supporter it’s continued existence, I really hope this thread doesn’t turn into an orgy of Israel bashing. You are, however, free to bash religious extremists of all types with abandon.
OMG….how do I get into this one? I know a beautiful young friend of mine, a 19 year old Israeli soldier was blown up along with four fellow soldiers in the Gaza.
I know too, how much I love my friend S****, he’s gay, Palestinian and a peace activist. He has loved his Jewish boyfriend and known other Palestinians who would rather NOT live with the violence and would rather move on and be civilized about coexistence.
But the violent and intractible get all the press and attention.
I’m with S****. He’s gotten asylum in America because of his artistic merits. Writing on the possibilities that Arabs in that region have to build on talent and intellect for good.
When I think of how black folks won their right to exist with dignity in white America.
It’s sad that people in that part of the world didn’t follow that example.
Black people are still a minority, surrounded by a powerful, dominent white majority.
The local politics and law enforcement in the Deep South was brutal, violent, assaulted every human right possible….and yet, for the most part blacks didn’t resort to bombing unsuspecting white people in innocuous settings.
Taking hostages and demanding that say…gang members be released from jail.
The hatred of Jews supercedes common sense.
If black people had harbored such hatred of white people in the same way…imagine where we’d be now.
Black people don’t own America, but we sure can live well in it when we don’t hate anyone.
And that’s the entire point.
And here I am, a black American that loves and admires my friend S****. Who has many Jewish admirers as well.
All things considered, he’s heroic.
Ms. DuCasse, in the future you might want to word that differently. It’s hard to tell whether you mean people that hate Jews, or Jews that hate… whatever.
“So once again, JONAH seems to be indirectly attacking the occupied West Bank’s native Christian and Muslim population.”
I think we may possibly be extrapolating a little far. I don’t think JONAH is responsible for the politics of the owner of a radio station that interviews them.
It may be that they are unaware of the owner’s politics. And surely we don’t want to insist that every gay group do research on every owner of every media outlet that wants an interview.
If they endorsed the station or said something supportive of their views, then we should call them to question. But I’m not getting that from what we know so far.
Wow, Skemono…thanks.
I see the error…I can’t believe I did that.
Didn’t even spell supersede right.
I maybe should say, the hatred of Jews is compromising so many opportunities.
For everyone.
Regan is really making sense. No more anti-semitism.