The group told DirecTV, AT&T and TPG that they are silencing an important cable platform for Jewish voices and for combating antisemitism.
(February 9, 2023 / JNS) When Bryan Leib, the former executive director of Iranian Americans for Liberty, saw that DirecTV, which AT&T and TPG own, was declining to pay subscriber fees to the channel Newsmax, he decided he needed a “Justice League” of Jewish leaders.
He got on the phone, and now two dozen prominent Jews have signed a letter to DirecTV and its parent companies expressing “serious concern” about removing Newsmax. The letter and other relevant materials were provided to JNS.
“As leaders in our community, we represent millions of Jewish Americans. Newsmax has been a crucial way for us to reach our fellow Americans to share our perspectives on antisemitism, anti-Zionism, the State of Israel and other matters important to our community,” the signers wrote.
Two former U.S. senators, Joseph Lieberman and Norm Coleman, former Anti-Defamation League head Abraham Foxman, Harvard Law School emeritus professor Alan Dershowitz, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, Zionist Organization of America National President Morton A. Klein and Republican Jewish Coalition CEO Matt Brooks are among those who signed the letter.