Letter of the Month: Have You Been Published?
August 3, 2011 10:58 by Simon Plosker
Spreading pro-Israel material (including HonestReporting’s content) virally through social media platforms or engaging in the arguments on talkbacks and comment sections are some of the easiest things you can do to help Israel on the frontlines of the media battleground.
But let’s not forget the traditional letter to the editor.Your letters still have the power to influence. Indeed, many studies have shown that newspaper readers are extremely interested to see the opinions of their fellow readers on the Letters pages.
We want to reward those of you who go the extra mile to compose letters to the media. Have you been published recently in a media outlet? Whether it is in your local paper or a national giant such as the New York Times, we want to know about it.
We will be publishing the best letters and the Letter of the Month. Here’s your chance to get recognized for your efforts. Send us your published letter to action@honestreporting.com.
We will also be looking for the best written efforts from the blind copied e-mails that you send to media outlets as a result of our action alerts.
Just remember the basic rules of good letter writing etiquette. See here and here for some letter writing tips.
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Aug 03, 2011
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Noreen
10:40 pm
Aug 04, 2011
I live in Davis, California. The local paper, which appears daily except Saturday, is The Davis Enterprise; its current editor is DEBBIE DAVIS. To counter the local BDSers (all 12 of them) and some other anti-Israel folks, we started a strong letter-writing and Op-Ed campaign. However, the anti-Israel folks whined and in Spring of this year DAVIS — who, BTW, had accepted an award from one of the BDS front organizations (“Teach Peace”) in 2010 — decided to terminate ALL letters and op-eds about the Middle East from any and all persons and organizations. (Her pretexts were that: 1) The Enterprise is a LOCAL paper; and, 2) the exchanges re Israel and the Palestinians had become “too controversial”. (Is this woman in the wrong business or what??!)
Does Honest Reporting have any suggestions as to how we can overcome this ban in the Enterprise or, in the alternative, publicize it?
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Dee
5:43 pm
Aug 05, 2011
I live in Sacramento Metropolitan Area. Since when would a university community NOT be interested in international debate? Take your letters to the street & campus and distribute. Trust me you will see a lot of interest. Email me if you want some help. We must stand with Israel!
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Dee
5:45 pm
Aug 05, 2011
Email for Dee: eye777@hotmail.com
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Roger G. Bensman
8:36 pm
Aug 08, 2011
Yeah, we did the same thing some few years ago into the Houston Chron rag, deluged them. They actually printed a few. They printed 5 times as many JewHate/IsraelHate(same thing) letters. It changed nothing.
I got the JewHate political cartoonist of the day back then fired. Why? Because I kept writing letters to his editor-in-chief until they got insulting and factual and repetitive enough that he finally had to do something about it and did. Sorry, but that is the only way I have ever found to get anything done.
I know that there will be those of you who disagree, but I do not care. You do your thing; I’ll do mine.
P.S. I got an abject apology from a female reporter in some city daily in California someplace when I contested her failed comparison to RCorrie vs.the Xtian young lady who loved Israel but got blown up by a suicide bomber on an Egged bus. Disgusting, really. Something that needed to be done: who knew anybody at that rag was actually paying attention. I go directly to the person or that person’s boss. If necessary, I’ll go to their Republican Rep. or Sen. and ask for some assistance. Ever try that? Sometimes you get real help from unexpected quarters: a Congressional Inquiry if you phrase the grounds right. Eh?
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dr.steve pastner
11:34 pm
Jun 26, 2012
I totally agree with your ‘non cheek turning ‘approach…here in ann arbor mich several of us have relentlessly worked on the local news’ editors ( who had allowed a tiny group of repeat crazies to publish letters ) that several of them have been banned outright….as well as being pretty marginalized in other venues.
They are portrayed on this site which i and others set up to combat them:
http://www.hvcn.org/info/feh/
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salli Arrow
2:51 pm
Aug 23, 2011
It seems illogical that the western world and the media by and large are so biased against Israel. If you take into account all the benefits and cotributionns Israel and the Jewish people have given to the people,as against the murder and terrorism the Muslim society have perpetrated on civilisation. Is it Oil or blatent anti-semitism? Demography shows it will only be a matter of time before the populations of the western world will have a Muslim Majority.The Muslim birthrate outstrips all births of other faiths by 12 to 1.What can we do about it?
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Stephanie
4:51 am
Dec 09, 2011
Noreen in Davis,
You’ve got 11 Israel haters on the faculty alone at UC Davis. See the website that calls for academic and cultural boycott of Israel. If there are others in the community, you’ve got more than 12. California is over-represented on that list of signatories: 202 out of 550, or 37%. If anyone wonders why their kids come back from college with a liberal brainwash, college professors are the reason.
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Contremilice of Ann Arbor, Michigan
7:40 pm
Jul 04, 2012
When will people realize it’s not a matter of liberal or conservative? Israel haters live on both sides of the aisle just as staunch defenders of Israel reside on the left & right. As a lifelong liberal & lover of Israel–and I am far from the only one as Stephen Paster & the F.E.H. website of liberal Ann Arbor prove. Pilar Rahola, an ultra-leftist Spanish journalist (see
http://israelseen.com/2009/12/30/pilar-rahola-is-a-spanish-politician-journalist-and-activist/ and http://www.pilarrahola.com/3_0/PRESENTACIO/default.cfm?IDIOMA=ENG ) and Alan Dershowitz are just 2 prominent examples. & the anti-Israel crowd are not true liberals as they support some of the world’s most reactionary folks.
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Rachel
5:12 am
Dec 09, 2011
This week aish. com has a prior Hamas guy who became a Mossad agent. He would be ideal for your anti-israel bias campaign! Check it out!
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Sylvie Schapira
6:14 pm
Dec 09, 2011
We have the same media bias in the U.K. The BBC and The Guardian (a left-wing paper) are notorious. I have written many letters of complaint, which never get published. I shall be attending a Zionist Federation Training Day on Sunday, where I hope to acquire some skills about how to put letters and spoken statements across in the media. It is important to keep doing it, otherwise we will just be bystanders in our own loss.
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Vardit Feldman
9:07 pm
Jan 30, 2012
On my FB page, I do a terrific amount of hasbara for Israel and many of my FB friends are not Jewish therefore, I am not preaching to the choir.
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Sylvie Schapira
11:35 am
Jan 31, 2012
I am so sick of the Israel-bashing/anti-semitism that I am planning to write a book about the negative obsession with Israel. I am going to Israel in March and would appreciate being able to speak with anybody who could give me some factual information there. If any of you have such contacts who would be willing to meet with me for an hour in March, please do contact me.
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dr.steve pastner
5:14 pm
Jun 26, 2012
A number of right- minded folks here in ann arbor have collaborated on this website combatting a tiny cadre of rabid antisemites ( some jewish)…but all “mishuganeh” !!:
http://www.hvcn.org/info/feh/
it is a handy-dandy resource in responding to the dwindling number of BDS letters/actions in the local press and “on the ground”, since these loons have made themselves so obnoxious to so many so often that they’ve been pretty marginalized.
Even the substantial middle eastern population in a nearby community seems to regard them as nuts, based on the lack of manpower they provide to thes “vigils” ( aka OCD harassment/ stalking) at a local synagogue.
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Steve Berger
3:28 pm
Aug 08, 2012
South Africa, like Israel, was colonized by foreigners striving for an apartheid state. As in South Africa, these colonialists were former slavers, who remain anti-Black to this day. And like their South African counterparts, native Israelis believe in the principal theme of Nelson Mandela: ‘one man, one vote.’ We Jews are the original natives and the majority in Israel .. WE are the “Blacks” in Palestine.
Before Oil, Black slavery was the principal industry in much of the Arab world. The practice continues in Mauritania, Saudi Arabia and Sudan to this day. It was the Arab slaver who kidnapped blacks for sale to White masters on the coast.
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