JDL sends threatening mail to Press TV Canada reporter
Press TV’s Canadian correspondent Joshua Blakeney says he has received a threatening email from the Jewish Defense League (JDL) over his criticism of Israel. ● In an article published on the Press TV website on Tuesday, the Iranian news channel’s Calgary-based reporter disclosed an email by the JDL, in which he had been threatened to be attacked with “extreme prejudice.” The JDL had called Blakeney an “anti-Semite,” stating, “When we are attacked by hate-filled anti-Semites like you, we respond with all the resources at our disposal, and with extreme prejudice.” Blakeney rejected the anti-Semitism allegation leveled against him in the harassing message and argued, “You have to dislike all Jews and irrationally so to qualify as an anti-Semite.” “I merely oppose the actions, arguments and assumptions of those Jews who are oppressors, warmongers, apologists for Israel and proponents of a Zionist exceptionalist police state,” wrote the Press TV correspondent.