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Al Jazeera did a hard-hitting investigation into US and Israeli lobbying so why won't they air it?
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of The Independent (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
Posted: April 2nd, 2018
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/al-jazeera-investigatio...
Im talking about a documentary called The Lobby, directed by one of Al Jazeeras top journalists, Clayton Swisher. After months of postponement, The Lobby ... is still no nearer to being shown and Swisher himself has taken a paid leave of absence. In his published explanation, Swisher described how his award-winning investigative unit ... sent an undercover reporter to look into how Israel wields influence in America through the pro-Israeli American community. But when some right-wing American supporters of Israel found out about the documentary, there was a massive backlash. It was ... labelled as antisemitic. Although Swishers reporters had exposed genocide in Myanmar, presidential corruption in the Maldives and paedophilia in British youth football, another documentary under Swishers direction concentrated on Israels influence over Britain and included a secretly filmed sequence in which Israeli official Shai Masot discussed how to take down British MPs regarded as pro-Palestinian. In response to antisemitism claims after the London documentary, the broadcasting regulator Ofcom ruled that the programme was a serious investigative documentary. It was the same question, Swisher says, that he and his team sought to answer in the American edition of The Lobby: whether the Israeli government was funding or involved in lobbying efforts in the US under the guise of a domestic lobbying group.
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