So this week, Kan - the brand name for Israel's public TV and radio broadcaster - aired a news feature on the institutionalization of people with disabilities. (It's here in Hebrew.)
I was interviewed in front of their cameras in February along with several others critical of some institutions.
The Kan film crew were in my house for nearly two hours. But I understood that only a tiny fraction of the resultant footage would appear in the segment.
But ultimately, the producers included a lot of it probably because I was one of only two who agreed to disclose their identities.
The fact that other interviewees were (I presume) too frightened to, and appeared with their voices and/or faces disguised is a sad testament to Israel's primitivity in this domain.
More of that primitivity was evident in the avalanche of viciously angry - occasionally ad hominem - responses that were posted on the Kan site by past and current employees and volunteers at Aleh institutions.
I still haven't fully recovered from the distress they caused me. The impression is that this was at least partially a coordinated campaign instigated by the Aleh PR team
Aleh Jerusalem, as I wrote ("Notes from an Aleh visit") is the one I visited in January 2019 along with a member of the Israeli Knesset. I hope to post a transcript in English of the interviews.
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