June 24, 2007
Plans are under way in Russia to launch a global television network that would provide Jews with the kind of influential voice that the lavishly funded Al-Jazeera channel has given to the Muslim world.
The banker/politician behind this ambitious venture is Vladimir Sloutsker, a prominent Muscovite who heads the country’s Jewish Congress. He firmly believes that Jewish communities around the world are facing challenges that can only be addressed through the proposed new channel; “in conditions of instability, there is a tendency to blame (this) on the Jews”. Although Sloutsker is too canny to spell it out, the rampant anti-Semitism flourishing in his native Russia today is clearly on his mind.
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