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PAGE 6 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE April 25, 1986
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Anti-Israel films made by PL0
are flooding U.S., says expert
Special to 1 he Southern Israelite
Anti-Israel films produced by
the PI .O—some of them using themes
and footage from Nazi anti-Semitic
films—are Hooding college cam
puses, private clubs and church
groups across the United States,
according to a leading Israeli ex
pert on propaganda.
More than 400 of the films,
offered as documentaries and enter
tainment, have been produced and
distributed by the PLO since
1972. says Baruch Gitlis, director
of the Harry Karren Institute for
Propaganda Analysis and senior
lecturer in the psychology of pro
paganda at Bar-llan University in
Ramat Gan, Israel.
Dr. Gitlis showed and analyzed
a number of PUO films and excerpts
from others in Atlanta on April 10
as part of a six-city tour sponsored
by the Zionist Organization of
America. The seminars at Emory
University and B’nai Torah Syna
gogue—are designed to teach the
participants how to counter anti-
Israel, anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist
propaganda.
The PLO films, which run from
five to 45 minutes, include some
that incorporate Nazi-produced
footage. One, for example, makes
use of clips from “The Eternal
Jew,” an infamous anti-Semitic film
made during the Hitler era. Dr.
Gitlis recently conducted a four-
day international conference on
Nazi propaganda films at Bar-llan,
and isshowingexcerptsfromsome
of them on his current tour.
The U.S. seminars includeshow-
ings of the 1982 “Memories and
Fire,” a catchy five-minute salute
to the PLO made expressly for
American audiences, and “The
Making of a Revolutionary," which
runs 1 1 minutes and consists only
of music and images, thus eliminat
ing the need for multi-language
narration or subtitles.
“The PLO films are sophisti
cated and of good technical qual
ity,” Dr. Gitlis said, “and they are
extremely effective among audiences
that don’t know the historical facts.
“Although some films use Nazi
film clips, the propaganda line em
ployed by the PLO is a product of
the Kremlin,” he said, adding: “The
Soviet Union conceived, developed,
orchestrated and exported the con
temporary anti-Israel themes. Thus
we see the use of such emotionally-
charged words as ‘Holocaust’ and
‘genocide’ applied to Israel’s politi
cal and military actions and policies.”
He said, “ ‘Apartheid’ is used to
describe Israel’s treatment of the
black Jews rescued from famine
and oppression in Ethiopia. Gaza
under Israeli rule has been com
pared to the settlements where
South African blacks must return
each night after working in the
mines.”
Dr. Gitlis called it “a supreme
irony”—epitomized by the U.N.’s
Zionism-is-racism resolution—“to
accuse Israel and the Jews of the
very crimes perpetrated against
them. What is even more painful is
that this form ol role-reversal has
proved so effective.”
At the ZOA seminars, Dr. Gitlis
also discussed the image of Israel
projected by American TV networks.
He declared:
“Most Americans form their opin
ions about nations, people, issues
and events from what they see and
hear on television, so it is not sur
prising that millions ot U.S, citi
zens consider Israel a belligerent,
racist, cruel and oppressive state.
“Thisdistorted and unwarranted
view is largely the result of the
presentation of Israel, in words
and pictures, that viewers derive
from watching the major networks.”
Dr. Gitlis observes that the view
of Israel as a “swaggering tough
guy with little concern for the
rights and feelings of Arabs living
under its thumb” has been espe
cially evident since the war in Leba
non. He says, however, that the
anti-Israel picture projected by the
networks began nearly 20 years
ago, “when TV stepped up its cov
erage of the Middle East and de
cided that it would give ‘both sides
of the story.’ ”
At the Harry Karren Institute
for Propaganda Analysis, Dr. Gitlis,
his five-man board and professional
staff annually review hundreds of
hours of TV coverage of Israel as
shown in the U.S. and other coun
tries. Dr. Gitlis has headed the
Institute the only such study cen
ter in the world—since its estab
lishment in 1981.
Before joining the Bar-llan fa
culty in 1973, Dr. Gitlis taught at
the University of Southern Cali
fornia, where he received his doc
torate. He also serves as adviser on
propaganda analysis to Israels
Foreign Ministry, the Jewish Agency
and the Israel Defense Forces.
MDA to test blood for AIDS~\
J EL AVI V (JTA)—T he Magen David Adorn, Israel’s equival
ent of the Red Cross, will test every unit of blood donated in Israel
tor the AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) anti
bodies to determine if the donor has the AIDS virus, the MDA
announced Tuesday.
Dr. Shulamit Bar-Shany, director of the M DA’s Blood Bank in
a fa, said there are roughly the same percentage of AIDS victims
in Israel as in Western European countries, but substantially fewei
than in the United States.
Write on!
Displaying the Theodor Herzl Awards they received at the April 15 Jewish National Fund dinner are
Vida Goldgar (second from left) and Durwood McAlister (right). With the honorees are (from left) Scott
Kaplan, co-chairman; Martin Agronsky, speaker; and Leon Polstein, co-chairman. Proceeds from the
dinner and other contributions will be used to establish a Vida Goldgar/Durwood McAlister project in
the American Bicentennial Park in Israel.