HR CEO Joe Hyams at GIC Conference: Everyone Makes a Difference
April 5, 2011 15:18 by Alex Margolin
HonestReporting CEO Joe Hyams participated in the two-day conference on Israel’s Global Image Crisis at Bar Ilan University this week.
The conference, a gathering of key players involved in the fight for Israel’s image, also featured journalist Melanie Phillips, Professor Mordechai Kedar, and former GPO head Danny Seaman, among a host of other major figures.
Joe spoke on the first day of the conference in a panel devoted to examining the role of NGOs and the power of public diplomacy. He discussed many of the media’s recent failures, particularly when reporters refuse to make value judgments for the sake of appearing impartial.
“Now, bus stops are being bombed (not the commuters standing at them), philosophers being invited to deal with intentionality vis-a-vis civilian deaths, and Goldstone himself re-evaluating that question – lead me to frame once more the issue of (im)moral equivalence, and the fence sitting fashion of ‘not judging values’ when reporting on a story,” Joe said following his presentation.
Joe also discussed about how every member of the public plays a crucial role in helping spread important information and helping move ideas that are important to Israel from the grassroots into the mainstream media.
“I spoke about the increasing power of ‘One Person United’ – every one of us lives with the potential of ’being the difference’ on a story hitting a viral tipping point, reaching an unexpected base of influence,” he said. We’ve seen it over and over with our biggest successes.”
The conference was sponsored by Bar Ilan University’s Center for International Communications along with the USC Center for Public Diplomacy.
Rabbi Steve Rayow
10:35 pm
Apr 07, 2011
This will stop when Mashiach comes or when we wage true war, as we were once commanded, in order to destroy AMALEK
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Brent Pudsey
1:28 am
Apr 08, 2011
This is a very good briefing of recent events in Israel and I concur with , Alex Margolin’s comment that there is no sitting on the fence action is required and decisions are to be made.
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Nathan
2:17 am
Apr 08, 2011
Joe Hyams and his cohorts at Honest Reporting are heroes to me.
They wage another war with the enemies of Israel using intelligence, scrupulous logic, and the unvarnished truth as weapons.
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Nathan Zafran
6:10 pm
Apr 08, 2011
In my opinion Hasbara is a total waste of time. The hypocrits’ minds are made up. No matter what the terrorists do or Israel does or doesn’t do, these evil bleeding hearts will twist and distort facts to match their anti-Israeli relentless and orchestrated agenda.
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