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For few weeks now, several corporate donors who made small food donations to KPFK’s February 2007 fund drive contacted us saying that they wanted to be removed from our thank you list on our website, kpfk.org. They included Gelson’s supermarket, Trader Joes, and Whole Foods. We discovered that KPFK was being targeted by a group of people running a geocities.com website and calling themselves “a grassroots movement and a cyber-connected community of Friends of Israel in the US who have come together in the belief that a boycott is the just, necessary, and effective response to the media’s bias against Israel.” The person running the website<\/a>, only known to us by an email address, “teachntrain@yahoo.com<\/a>,” is apparently spearheading a boycott campaign against KPFK for being “anti-Semitic,” and “anti-Israel,” and has orchestrated a campaign to call upon our food donors to withdraw support from KPFK. <\/p>\n Whole Foods has since responded to the boycotters that they have the “freedom to choose organizations that are important to our communities.” However, Gelson’s went as far as posting a notice on their website, linked from the front page, asserting, “KPFK’s apparently well-known anti-Israel positions,” and that they made an “innocent mistake” in supporting us. That letter has since been taken down. Trader Joes has remained silent and seems to be sticking by its earlier request to be taken off KPFK’s website. As per normal KPFK policy, all donors are now taken off the website one month after the drive is over. <\/p>\n The accusations of anti-semitism and an anti-Israel bias apparently come from the use of certain thank you gifts during the February 2007 fund drive used by Radio Intifada, a program produced by the SWANA collective. The thank you gifts included a book entitled, “Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State” by Jonathan Cook. The boycotters are also targeting the LA Times, NPR, Time Magazine, and the Body Shop. <\/p>\n KPFK General Manager Eva Georgia has issued an editorial response to the boycott asserting, “We will not be intimidated by the patently false charges leveled against us and will continue to bring our listeners and supporters the rich and diverse voices of the community to the airwaves.” Read the entire editorial here: | the entire program GUESTS: Yael Korin, a Jewish Israeli, and co-founder of the Campaign to End Israeli Apartheid and co-founder of Women in Black LA, Sherna Gluck, member of the KPFK Local Station Board and member of the SWANA Collective which produces Radio Intifada For few weeks now, several corporate donors who made small […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Blood](\"http:\/\/www.press.umich.edu\/coverImages\/0745325556.gif\")
GUESTS: Yael Korin, a Jewish Israeli, and co-founder of the Campaign to End Israeli Apartheid and co-founder of Women in Black LA, Sherna Gluck, member of the KPFK Local Station Board and member of the SWANA Collective which produces Radio Intifada<\/em><\/p>\n
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