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Thread #163874   Message #3915029
Posted By: Jim Carroll
03-Apr-18 - 08:05 PM
Thread Name: BS: G A Z A Demonstrations March-May 2018
Subject: RE: BS: G A Z A Demonstrations March-May 2018
Why is this man's opinion in the slightest bit interesting Bobad?
He is an extremist right-wing Zionist of the worst kind who believes that every critic of Israel is an antisemite and that Jew who criticise the regime are "self-haters"
As a journalist, he has a reputation as plagiarist who lifts the writing of others wholesale and publishing them as his own
Dredging up anything saying the right thing is meaningless and a sign of desperation
REad and enjoy an assessment of him - read in particular the long list of those he describes as antisemitic = Jews who critcise Israel he describes as being "DERANGED"
A truely fanatical racist madmant
You appear to have excelled yourself in your search to find suppoerters of mass-murder
Jim Carroll

Giulio Meotti is an Italian journalist who writes on Middle Eastern and Jewish issues. He is a strong advocate of Israel, and is critical of both the Catholic Church[1] and of Jews who are themselves critical of Israel, regarding them as abettors of anti-semitism. He was subject to accusations of engaging in plagiarizing the work of other journalists, and since has worked for Il Foglio and Arutz Sheva.
In his book Jews against Israel (2014)[6] Meotti took to task a large number of Jewish critics of Israel's behavior towards Palestinians, accusing them variously of intellectual treason, Jewish anti-Semitism, of being self-hating Jews[3] as suffering from what in his view was a 'pathology' of Jewish anti-israelism or as being 'deranged' (squilibrati) Jew-haters'. The list of notable Jews he censures for their attitudes towards Israel and defense of human rights of Palestinians includes George Steiner, the philosopher Hannah Arendt, the Franco-German politician Daniel Cohn-Bendit,[7] the former Chancellor of Austria Bruno Kreisky, Pulitzerprize-winning playright and screenwriterTony Kushner, director Steven Spielberg, British historian Eric Hobsbawm, the bioethics and moral philosopher Peter Singer, British politician Gerald Kaufman, French journalist Jean Daniel, French essayist Dominique Vidal, the Argentinian civil rights activist Jacobo Timerman, rabbi Arnold Wolf philosopher Edgar Morin, the United Nations special rapporteur for Palestinian rights Richard A. Falk, the American historian Norman Finkelstein, English film, director Mike Leigh, neuroscientist Steven Rose and his wife, the sociologist Hilary Rose, rabbi Michael Lerner, Nobel-prize winning dramatist Harold Pinter, philosopher Judith Butler, the historian Tony Judt, the orientalist scholar Maxime Rodinson, Italian novelist Natalia Ginzburg, the Italian Germanist Cesare Cases, the antifascist intellectual Emilio Sereni, the poet and literary critic Franco Fortini, the Italian journalist Gad Lerner, the Italian Yiddish playwright and musician Moni Ovadia,[7] the Israeli biochemist and philosopher of Judaism Yeshayahu Leibowitz, the Israeli historian Shlomo Sand, the Israeli political geographer Oren Yiftachel, the Israeli political scientist Neve Gordon, the Israeli journalist Amira Hass Israeli historian Moshe Zimmermann, the Israeli historian Ilan Pappé, the Israeli conflict theorist Lev Grinberg, the Israeli historians Tom Segev and Idith Zertal, the Argentinian musician and comic Danny Rabinovitch, the Israeli novelists Amos Oz, David Grossman and Abraham Yehoshua, the cosmopolitan conductor Daniel Barenboim, and the diplomat Martin Indyk, and survivors of the Holocaust such as Warsaw ghetto survivor Marek Edelman, Marion Kozak (the mother of David Miliband and Ed Miliband), the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, resistance leader Stéphane Hessel, the Israeli political scientist Zeev Sternhell, the French historian Pierre Vidal-Naquet, the writer Primo Levi[7] and the writer Isaac Deutscher.[8]
In mid 2012, Meotti was accused by Marc Tracy in Tablet of being a 'serial plagiarist' for lifting, unacknowledged, material written by other journalists. The accusation was also endorsed by Max Blumenthal who provided several other examples of apparent copyright violations.[16] When this documentation imputing to Meotti a practice of copying other journalists emerged, not only Ynet but also Commentary magazine’s John Podhoretz severed their relationship with him for having engaged in journalistic theft.[17][18] In self-defense, Meotti stated that if he indeed quoted without crediting his sources it was just carelessness, but claimed the accusations were actually a form of demonization of himself, whom he described as one of ’the last and few pro-Israel journalists in Europe,‘ part of an ad hominem campaign infused with envy which had been ongoing for some years.[19] According to Blumenthal Meotti considered the accusations as forms of incitement that put his life at risk. [20]
Meotti is known for having very pro-Israel views and for being very critical about Islam, multiculturalism and political correctness.[21][22] He describes himself as a liberal conservative.[23]