University Radio Station Interviewed Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theorist
Image by YouTube
By Aiden Pink November 29, 2017
A radio station partially funded by student fees from the University of Winnipeg has suspended one of its programs after it aired an interview with an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist.
The interview program “Where Angels Fear To Tread” has been suspended for six weeks from radio station CKUW after host host April Cherpaw interviewed conspiracy theorist Sydney White on November 11.
During the program, according to the Winnipeg Free Press, “White claimed Israelis gassed and cremated the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, and accused American-Jewish businessman Larry Silverstein (who leased the World Trade Centre) of making ‘billions’ on the ‘massacre.’”
She also reportedly accused Zionist bankers of being behind the Russian Revolution, and claimed that a Toronto newspaper wasn’t covering her lectures because its owners are Zionists.
Cherpaw, who also serves on the station’s board of directors, didn’t challenge or disagree with any of White’s assertions. The program referred to White as an “investigative journalist.”
“April has otherwise had a positive history with CKUW,” station manager Rob Schmidt said in a press release. “In no way does this excuse the unacceptable radio programming produced on Nov. 11; rather, it leads us to believe that she is capable of being a better ambassador of our station.”
In response, a B’nai Brith Canada representative will soon appear on the station to talk about the rise of anti-Semitism in Canada.
“We commend CKUW for taking action against anti-Semitism on the air,” B’nai Brith CEO Michael Mostyn told the Free Press. “This hateful content was totally inappropriate for any Canadian radio station, let alone one financed in part by mandatory student fees.”
Contact Aiden Pink at [email protected] or on Twitter, @aidenpink
A message from our CEO & publisher Rachel Fishman Feddersen
I hope you appreciated this article. Before you move on, I wanted to ask you to support the Forward’s award-winning journalism during our High Holiday Monthly Donor Drive.
If you’ve turned to the Forward in the past 12 months to better understand the world around you, we hope you will support us with a gift now. Your support has a direct impact, giving us the resources we need to report from Israel and around the U.S., across college campuses, and wherever there is news of importance to American Jews.
Make a monthly or one-time gift and support Jewish journalism throughout 5785. The first six months of your monthly gift will be matched for twice the investment in independent Jewish journalism.
— Rachel Fishman Feddersen, Publisher and CEO
