The television critic for the ultra-leftist Haaretz
newspaper fantasized in Monday's column that the Jews will all eventually leave
Israel and return to the diaspora, in a rant against the fact that Channels 2 and
10 featured Hanukkah menorahs, or hanukkiot, behind the anchors in their news
studios.
"Placing a hanukkiah in the studio is simply an attempt
to make us feel 'at home' in front of the screen and develop a collective
warmth among the viewers,” critic Moran Sharir complained. “The problem is that
the 'home away from home' that was built in the news studios in Jerusalem and
Neveh Ilan, is not home for all of us.
The value that is supposed to unite the
viewers as a 'collective' in front of the screen is Judaism. People who do not
light a hanukkiah – be they gentiles, atheists, or people who just don't feel
like it – have no place in the 'home' of Channels 2 and 10.
"These are completely Jewish newscasts, even when they
are presented by women. If you do not observe Jewish commandments you can be a
guest, but not feel at home...
Sharir concluded: "Placing a hanukkiah in the studio to
pander to the viewers is easy, but who will have the [gumption] not to place it
there again next year? The hanukkiah will remain with us next year and in all
of the years and the generations, until we disperse again, each to his own
exile.” Since the state of Israel was established as a Jewish homeland where
Jews gather from their exiles, Sharir appears to have been dreaming of the end
of Israel.
Haaretz is partly owned by M. DuMont Schauberg, a German
publishing house with a Nazi past. Additional owners are Russian-Israeli
businessman Leonid Nevzlin, and the Schocken family, which owns a majority of
the shares.
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