Madison Rafah Journal

Kelly Bornshlegel on A Public Affair, WORT 89.9 FM
Tuesday, January 4, 2005
Noon — 1:00 pm

Kelly Bornshlegel has just returned from the West Bank and will speak on WORT's "A Public Affair" with guest host Donna Vukelich. Kelly will talk about what she experienced and witnessed during her time in Palestine and while being held and interrogated in Israeli prison. MRSCP's George Arida will also participate in the discussion, which will include a focus on the issue of divestment.

Kelly has spent most of the past year in Palestine, much of that time in Nablus and the Balata Refugee Camp. In early December Kelly was arrested by the Israeli Army in the Occupied West Bank for attending a peaceful demonstration by Palestinians and taking video footage of Israeli soldiers beating a Palestinian youth participating in the demonstration. Kelly was illegally detained and imprisoned by the Israeli military and interrogated by the Interior Ministry, Military Police, Shabak (Israeli secret service) and a deportation "judge." In total Kelly was held in captivity for eleven days, during which time she was refused access to a lawyer, refused any information about formal charges or process, and moved between three different Israeli military prisons. Her last stay was at Tsochar prison in the Negev desert, just 10 km (6 miles) from the Gaza Strip. On December 24th she was deported; the immigration police put her on a flight to NY via Madrid, and she finally arrived back in Madison Christmas Day.

Please welcome Kelly back home, and please CALL into the show (256-2001) with your questions and comments this Tuesday at Noon on WORT.

U.S. Media & the Israeli — Palestinian Conflict

Wednesday, January 26, 2005
7:00 – 9:30 pm
Anderson Auditorium, Predolin Hall
Edgewood College, Madison

This pivotal video exposes how the foreign policy interests of American political elites – working in combination with Israeli public relations strategies – exercise a powerful influence over news reporting about the Middle East conflict. Combining American and British TV news clips with observations of analysts, journalists, and political activists, Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land provides a striking media comparison and an examination of factors that have distorted U.S. media coverage and, in turn, American public opinion.

I cannot recommend this documentary too highly. It should be required viewing for every student, for every taxpayer who is subsidizing the Israeli military machine, for every citizen in the United States.
Robert McChesney, University of Illinois

More information on Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land