For Immediate Release
Toronto, November 18, 2002… According to sites recommended by the Toronto Star’s media columnist, Antonia Zerbisias, F. D. Roosevelt orchestrated Pearl Harbour, George W. Bush was part of a Jewish conspiracy to destroy the World Trade Centre, and the Jews were behind a rash of anthrax letters.
Rochelle Wilner, National President of B’nai Brith Canada, commented: “Given that Ms. Zerbisias is paid to consume the conventional media and write about it, it is astounding that she of all people should recommend lunatic fringe websites instead of reasonable, thoughtful journalism. How can a responsible professional recommend such trash as serious reading, when one of the sites itself admits its accusations are ‘based more or less on speculation’?”
Frank Dimant, Executive Vice President, stated: “The sources Ms. Zerbisias endorses as ‘carefully considered, well crafted and very compelling’, combine wild fantasies with plain old fashioned antisemitism and a virulent campaign to implicate Israel in the 9/11 attacks. One has to ask why the Star media columnist should feel the need to push these wild conspiracy theories, many of which borrow freely from the most extreme propagandists of the Middle East, as well as a lunatic fringe which often disseminates spurious material that borders on hate propaganda.”
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For information, call Rochelle Wilner, President (416) 254-1010 or Frank Dimant, Executive Vice-President (416) 802-1057.
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