A conversation with Tim Sebastian - English

Tim Sebastian, world renowned journalist, currently the host of The Doha Debates and former host of BBC Worlds famed talk show Hard Talk was in Washington DC to host Doha Debates at Georgetown University. The Doha Debates tackles issues related to the Muslim world to generate a process of debate and discussion amongst Muslims living in the Middle East. Urdu VOA's Beyond the Headlines caught up with Tim Sebastian to talk about his vision behind the show and the present condition of broadcast Journalism.

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[TheSunmanho]

please remove the negro, it destracts me. Negros should play basketball not simulate academic values.

[AnaLimaLuiza]

Tim Sebastian when in Hardtalk was great an showing the hidden intentions of the most terrible people.

Yes, I waited for his interviews.

"It was a process of trying to extract something as close to the truth."

In his words and he did it.

I like Doha debates and people should try to understand the diversity of Arabic world instead of having the stereotyped version that they are all terrorists.

[delii83]

@ludvan67 I never questionned wether it took place or not. I merely said it must also be open for discussion, the extent or the power behind the bad man Hitler. What is the real power behind this evil man? If you examin history of several objectives it may also be that also Jewish businessmen gave recources to hitler to do his work. However, the Palistinian tragedy is also a Holocaust. But no country is willing to acknowledge this truth because of the influence Israel has on these countries.

[ludvan67]

Respond to this video.. BBC recording by Richard Dimbelby (that I have) of what he saw as he entered one of the camps. And of course the museum Yad Veshem that has a website. I've been there seen the hair, the glasses, the teeth after the gold had been extracted. What more do you want. Also what about the pain, the nightmares, that these people still suffer. You want to bring that all back. NO emphatically NO! It will not be questioned. Discussed yes, but not questioned. Fini! 

[ludvan67]

@delii83 Now you're calling me a liar. I have never read.listened to Dershowitz. I know of him, what I know dose not please me. Yes we must be allowed to question, when there is doubt. But the evidence for the Holocaust is so overwhelming, what is there to question. We have Films, people who are still alive who can tell about it. Soldiers who entered the camps, who had been through a war seen horrors, but wept when they saw what had happened in the concentartion camps.

[delii83]

@ludvan67 I must say you are a clever man, turning the labelling to me while you labelled me from the beginning. You say you never read Alan's work but I do see similarities between you and him. Nevertheless. I do not ponfiticate about it, I merely said that everything must be able to be questionned. As we don't even know the present "truth" we surely must be able to critisize the past "truth". But your reaction was so emotional that you labelled me as an anti-semite which I deeply regret.

[ludvan67]

Respond to this video...Here in Israel it's discussed all the time. As far as I know there is no law saying you can't say it did not happen, probably because no one would. As I said don't understand why you want to talk about it. You don't know me, yet you label me wit things that are not true.

[ludvan67]

@delii83 If you would bother to look at my channel you would see I have 3 video's of Chomsky. I'm a great admirer of him. I have never read Alan Dershowitz, all I know of him is Chomsky hates him. If you are not an antisemitic why are do you so want to be able to pontificate about it. As I said you can appeal to have the law changed. It happened that's a fact. Why you that law in Belgium I don't know. In Germany one can talk about it, but can't deny it.

[delii83]

@ludvan67 As I mentioned before, you are very eager to put the label of racist or anti-semite to a person that doesn't share your opinion so it's not worth talking to you. You should read some books of Noam Chomsky or Norman Finkelstein instead of Alan Dershowitz. I can see that you have his kind of reasoning so it's not even worth beginning a conversation with you. I hope you will open your mind and have a little critisizm to all sides. Regards

[ludvan67]

@delii83 Oh so you are an anti-Semite. Belgium is a democracy, and like in Israel I'm sure any citizen can go to the High Court of Justice, and challenge a law to have it repealed. Freedom of speech is guaranteed under both the UN & EU's human rights declaration. If as is obvious you feel so passionate about not being able to spout you antisemitism in public, try & get the law changed. If Hitler had one Belgium would not have this system of appeal open to the public, & I would be dead.