Bedein, head of Israel Resource News Agency, further reported that Cohen appeared on a radio program with a PBC program editor, Muhammad Assayad. The latter read a prepared statement accusing MK Cohen of being a "stooge for the Israeli right wing and the settler radio station Arutz-7." Cohen laughed and responded that he had just come from a Peace Now rally and that he was leading the Knesset fight to cut funding for Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria. When Assayad was asked by the show host how the PA would respond if official Israeli radio and TV were to run programs promoting the murder of Arab children, he hung up the phone.