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How Jewish Grip on American Film & Television Promotes Bias Against Arabs & Muslims

Abdullah Mohammad Sindi

2001

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1.Jack G. Shaheen, The TV Arab (Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State Univ. Popular Press, 1984), p. 11; Quoted in: Richard H. Curtiss, A Changing Image: American Perceptions of the Arab- Israeli Dispute (Washington, DC: American Educational Trust, 1982), p. 153. 2.Mark Weber, The Zionist Terror Network: Background and Operation of the Jewish Defense League and Other Criminal Zionist Groups (Institute for Historical Review, 1993), p. 6. 3.J. G. Shaheen, The TV Arab (1984), p. 13. 4.Neal Gabler, An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood (New York: Doubleday [and Crown], 1988), pp. 1-2. 5.Quoted in: N. Gabler, An Empire of Their Own (1988), p. 277. 6.Norman [Norman F. Cantor], Sacred Chain: A History of the Jews (New York: HarperCollins, 1994), pp. 390, 401. 7.Jonathan [Jonathan J. Goldberg], Jewish Power: Inside the American Jewish Establishment (Addison-Wesley, 1996), pp. 280, 287-288. This book was reviewed in the March-April 1998 Journal, pp. 37-38. 8.Quoted in: N. Gabler, An Empire of Their Own (1988), p. 350. 9.Michael Parenti, Make-Believe Media: The Politics of Entertainment (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992), p. 30. 10.Quoted in: M. Parenti, Make-Believe Media, p. 30. 11.Faisal Kutty, Bushira Yousuf, \"Hollywood's View of Arabs, Muslims,\" Toronto Star, Sept. 14, 1998. Reprinted in \"Other Voices\" supplement to The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (Washington, DC), December 1998, p. S-10. 12.Quoted in: [Jack G. Shaheen], The TV Arab (1984), p. 7. 13.1997 Britannica Book of the Year (Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica), pp. 311, 739. 14.Quoted in: J. G. Shaheen, The TV Arab (1984), p. 127. 15.Norman F. Cantor, Sacred Chain (cited above), p. 401. 16.Quoted in: J. G. Shaheen, The TV Arab (1984), pp. 127-8. 17.Quoted in: Richard H. Curtiss, A Changing Image: American Perceptions of the Arab-Israeli Dispute (citied above), p. 145. 18.Joshua 6: 21-14. See also, for example, Exodus 32: 26-29; Numbers 21: 2-3, 31-35; Deuteronomy 2: 34-35, 3:6, 7: 1-5, 20: 13-17; Joshua 8: 24-29, 10: 28-40, 11: 7-8, 14, 21- 23; 2 Kings 10: 17, 30. For more on this, see: Mohammad T. Mehdi, Terrorism: Why America is the Target (New York: New World Press, 1998), p. 66. 19.Quoted in: J. G. Shaheen, The TV Arab (cited above), pp. 67, 57. 20.J. G. Shaheen, The TV Arab (1984), pp. 114, 70, 111. 21.J. G. Shaheen, The TV Arab (1984), pp. 127, 62. 22.Quoted in: R. H. Curtiss, A Changing Image (1982), p. 153. 23.Quoted in: J. G. Shaheen, The TV Arab (1984), pp. 122, 7, and back cover. 24.For details see: [Paul Findley], They Dare to Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israel's Lobby (Westport, Conn.: Lawrence Hill & Co., 1985). See also: Alfred M. Lilienthal, The Zionist Connection (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1978). 25.M. Weber, The Zionist Terror Network (1993), esp. pp. 5-6. 26.Richard Wormser, American Islam: Growing Up Muslim in America (New York: Walker & Co., 1994) p. 121. 27.Quoted in: Terry Allen, \"Professional Arab-Bashing,\" Covert Action Quarterly, No. 53, Summer 1995, p. 20. 28.Quoted in: T. Allen, \"Professional Arab-Bashing,\" Covert Action Quarterly, Summer 1995, p. 21. 29.T. Allen, \"Professional Arab-Bashing,\" Covert Action Quarterly, Summer 1995, p. 21. 30.Ann Talamus, \"War in the Gulf, Repression at Home: FBI Targets Arab-Americans\" Covert Action Quarterly, No. 36, Spring 1991, pp. 4- 8; R. Wormser, American Islam (cited above), p. 4. 31.F. Kutty, B. Yousuf, \"Hollywood's View of Arabs, Muslims,\" Toronto Star, Sept. 14, 1998 (cited above). 32.As an Arab I have faced ethnic-based hostility, from both Jews and Christians, in my academic career. During the 1980s and 1990s, when I taught at four different southern California universities and colleges, I was denied promotion. 33.Quoted in: R. H. Curtiss, A Changing Image (cited above), p. 153.

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