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The Israeli Press Council (http://www.moaza.co.il/BRPortal/br/P102.jsp?arc=27521) recently dismissed as frivolous a complaint filed with it by Amiram Goldblum, a professor of pharmacy at the Hebrew University and a founder of the extremist organization "Peace Now." Goldblum had filed a complaint against journalist Gil Ronen when the latter reported on an internet site about the content of a television news broadcast by Israel's Channel Two. That broadcast concerned the alleged hiring of a convicted Palestinian terrorist to work in the laboratory of Prof. Goldblum. The TV broadcast claimed that Goldblum had made the decision to hire the terrorist out of ideological convictions. Channel Two later retracted the part about Goldblum being the person who made the decision to hire the terrorist in his lab. Goldblum claims unnamed officials at the Hebrew University actually made the decision.

After the partial retraction by Channel Two, the Israelnationanews.com web site, where the Ronen article had appeared, removed it. Nevertheless, years later Goldblum filed a complaint against Ronen with the Israel Press Council. The council, as noted, dismissed the complaint as frivolous.

The Seventh Eye report also describes Goldblum's livid denunciations of the Press Council and its decision.

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