[ April 19, 2024 ]
Public radio — your taxpayer dollars at work fomenting Jew-hatred and supporting jihad.
NPR in Michigan rejected a Detroit Jewish couple’s message wishing the Jewish state a happy 68th Independence Day, saying it “compromises impartiality.” Impartiality between who, exactly? The annihilationists and their intended target? The Jews-haters vs the Jews? It’s further proof of the moral bankruptcy on the left and their crippling inability to distinguish between good and evil.
You would think that this level of Jew-hatred, now commonplace on the left — especially in elite circles — would stop the flow of Jewish donations to liberal causes and organizations such as NPR. You’d be wrong. Despite the rejection of Michigan’s NPR to broadcast their Happy Birthday Israel message, donors Hannan and Lisa Lis will continue to give to NPR “trying to affect some pressure without going ballistic,” due to their “high level of respect for NPR.” Ugh.
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“Michigan public radio station refuses to air birthday greeting to Israel,” TOI, May 16, 2016:
Station says Detroit Jewish couple’s message wishing Jewish state a happy 68th Independence Day ‘compromises impartiality’
Jewish couple from Detroit is pressing a Michigan public radio station to broadcast a birthday greeting to Israel paid for by their sponsorship of the station
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Hannan and Lisa Lis made a donation to Michigan Radio, a statewide public radio group operated by the University of Michigan, that entitled them to sponsor a day’s broadcast and have a message read on the air six times.
The couple requested “Happy 68th Birthday Israel” to be broadcast on Israel Independence Day, which took place on May 12, Deadline Detroit first reported. Hannan Lis is an Israeli citizen, and one son is serving in the Israeli army. Lisa Lis is a daughter of Weight Watchers CEO Florine Marks.
The station first said it needed two months notice to broadcast a message, but then rejected the message outright, saying in a letter to the couple: “We have determined that this message would compromise the station’s commitment to impartiality and that it crosses over into advocacy, or could imply advocacy.”
Hannan and Lisa Lis (Facebook)
The couple and the station exchanged several letters, including one in which the Lises asked if the station would broadcast a “Happy Birthday Norway” message. The station confirmed that it would not, according to Deadline Detroit.
According to the day sponsorship rules posted on Michigan Radio’s website: “Day sponsorships must be personal in nature. They may not include promotional, commercial or messages that Michigan Radio deems would negatively impact Michigan Radio’s reputation for impartiality. Language referencing political campaigns, candidacies, religious convictions or legislation will not be accepted.”
“There’s so much anti-Israel sentiments and rhetoric and lies out there, and I just wanted something positive about Israel to be announced on the radio,” Lisa Lis told AMI Newswire. “Many people just say ‘happy anniversary’ to their spouse. When they offered a day sponsorship to me, I genuinely and publicly wanted to wish Israel happy birthday from my husband and myself.
“We respect the university and the relationship and connections it has with Israel. The radio station, on the other hand, somehow feels wishing ‘Happy Birthday’ to Israel is adversarial to them. And I can’t for the life of me figure out why. Everybody we talk to is surprised and shocked. I don’t see how ‘Happy Birthday’ is political.”
The couple told AMI that they would continue to press their case but are “trying to affect some pressure without going ballistic,” according to Hannan Lis, due to their “high level of respect for NPR.”
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22 Comments
7 years ago
National Proletariat Radio just can’t stomach anything outside their delusional idealized bubble.
7 years ago
So will NPR return the money? As if!
“Impartiality” is Lefty media code for “proPalestinian jihad”.
7 years ago
Impartiality that there should be a state of Israel??
7 years ago
In Michiganistan, it will soon be called National sharia Radio. Oh and in Minnesotastan also.
7 years ago
Not clear-cut evidence of Jew hatred here.
That being said, during the last intifada, I stopped supporting NPR. Too much spin against Israel for my taste.
NPR toned it down because I wasn’t the only Jew who complained with their wallet! Such a Jewish thing, isn’t it, to support a local charity?
Personally, I do not see an issue with advocating for US allies.
7 years ago
Reply to
El Cid
Even if Israel wasn’t an ally of the United States of 0bamastan, I’d still support it. Because it’s the only country in the entirety of the rest of the islamic apartheid cesspool that constitutes the rest of the Mid-east and N. Africa where freedom and liberty exist. It’s the only country where Christians, Jews, atheists, Baha’i aren’t being persecuted/murdered/raped by muslums w/impunity.
7 years ago
Npr is no longer recommended for support, it can go broke like other lame steam media hate mongers. Arab oil money will only buy them so much. When it rus out, their mosque of dried cowshitt will collapse.
7 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
As Norman Finkelstein (islamic collaborator, apologist and paid shill for islum) found out, once your usefulness to your islamic masters runs out they’ll throw you out like yesterday’s newspaper.
7 years ago
Reply to
IzlamIsTyranny
After killing them for being infidesl, wrapped in old newspapers like the gutted fish they are.
7 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
U.S. tax dollars go to NPR. That ticks me off. Our taxes also fund the National Endowment for the Arts, promoters of the Piss Christ. That also ticks me off. It’s not a huge sum of money compared to Obama’s stimulus handouts, our foreign aid to Palestine and Pakistan, but I still wish it would end. The foreign aid to our enemies should end too, may Trump will do something on that front.
7 years ago
Reply to
Richard
Similar in Canada, so, in my own way, I refuse to support anything to do with the arts as it is acceptable to insult and degrade Christianity or any cult, other than islam, which the progressive cowardly liars of the arts community cower in fearful submission to. Art, bah and humbug, Savonarola had the right idea with the “bonfires of the vanities”.
7 years ago
High level of respect for NPR? LOL. Islamic propaganda is NPR’s stock-in-trade, or haven’t they noticed?
NPR used to sponsor a Mid-East in focus show hosted by Casey Kasem. This call-in show featured muslums and their useful tools demonizing Israel. I remember one time someone called in to criticise the islamoganda talking points about Israel and was making sense — he was soon cut off.
7 years ago
Michigan NPR on par with Malaysian nation which banned the movie “Schindler’s List ” because it only showed ” one side ” of the ” story” of the Nazi genocide of the Jews ( a genocide of course which Muslims supported.)
7 years ago
It should be pointed out that the left is a boring lot. Though they are all over the map on every issue their entire time is spent in an effort to justify their inconsistencies.
7 years ago
They should stop respecting the University of Michigan and NPR. And, more importantly, stop supporting the left. Wake up!
7 years ago
I quit contributing to and listening or watching NPR several years back. They are biased to the core. My tax dollars for left wing bullshit infuriates me. It’s like the UN.
7 years ago
Nightly Palestinian Rehash
7 years ago
Titles can be deceiving like “National Public Radio”, “Peoples Democratic Republic of Korea”, etc.
7 years ago
HAPPY 68TH BIRTHDAY ISRAEL!
The only democracy in the Middle East surrounded by 56 Islamic oppressive countries. One little Jewish state home to the most holocaust survivors. Can you imagine if Israel had been established prior to the holocaust the millions of Jewish lives that could have been saved.
But of course as usual the British had to appease the Arabs and sent the Jews right back to their deaths in Germany. The Jews made the desert bloom!
Thank G-d Israel exists and always will.
WITH LOVE FROM CANADA!
7 years ago
Happy Birthday, Israel. Screw you liberals.
7 years ago
Happy Birthday Israel!!
