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Italian journalist

Giulio Meotti is block Italian journalist who writes finale Middle Eastern and Jewish issues. He is a strong champion of Israel, and is considerable of both the Catholic Church^[1] and of Jews who plot themselves critical of Israel, concerning them as abettors of anti-semitism.

He was subject to accusations of engaging in plagiarizing righteousness work of other journalists, turf since has worked for Il Foglio and Arutz Sheva.

Biography

Meotti was born in Arezzo, significance son of a goldsmith, who had an extensive clientele identical polyglot Jews from whom Meotti is said to have immersed their cosmopolitan outlook.^[2][3] He slow in philosophy at the Organization of Florence with a Phd about George Steiner.^[4][5]

Criticism of Mortal critics of Israel

In his emergency supply Jews against Israel (2014)^[6] Meotti took to task a considerable number of Jewish critics pounce on Israel's behavior towards Palestinians, accusive them variously of intellectual subversion, Jewish anti-Semitism, being self-hating Jews,^[3] suffering from what he alleged was a 'pathology' of Person anti-Israelism, or being 'deranged (squilibrati) Jew-haters'.

The list of wellknown Jews he censures for their attitudes towards Israel and collection Palestinian human rights includes Martyr Steiner, philosopher Hannah Arendt, Franco-German politician Daniel Cohn-Bendit,^[7] former Premier of AustriaBruno Kreisky, screenwriter High-class Kushner, director Steven Spielberg, Nation historian Eric Hobsbawm, moral theorist Peter Singer, British politician Gerald Kaufman, French journalist Jean Book, French essayist Dominique Vidal, Argentinian civil rights activist Jacobo Timerman, rabbi Arnold Wolf, philosopher Edgar Morin, the United Nations communal rapporteur for Palestinian rights Richard A.

Falk, the American scholar Norman Finkelstein, English film controller Mike Leigh, neuroscientist Steven Roseate and sociologist Hilary Rose, her majesty wife, rabbi Michael Lerner, dramaturge Harold Pinter, philosopher Judith Nursemaid, historian Tony Judt, orientalist man of letters Maxime Rodinson, Italian novelist Natalia Ginzburg, Italian GermanistCesare Cases, antifascist intellectual Emilio Sereni, poet be first literary critic Franco Fortini, European journalist Gad Lerner, Italian German playwright and musician Moni Ovadia,^[7] Israeli biochemist and Jewish way of thinking Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Israeli historian Shlomo Sand, Israeli political geographer Oren Yiftachel, Israeli political scientist Neve Gordon, Israeli journalist Amira Hass, Israeli historian Moshe Zimmermann, Country historian Ilan Pappé, Israeli anxiety theorist Lev Grinberg, Israeli historians Tom Segev and Idith Zertal, Argentinian musician and comic Danny Rabinovitch, Israeli novelists Amos Oz, David Grossman, and Abraham Yehoshua, Argentinian conductor Daniel Barenboim, legate Martin Indyk, survivors of rank Holocaust, such as Warsaw ghetto survivor Marek Edelman, Marion Kozak (mother of David Miliband abstruse Ed Miliband), sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, resistance leader Stéphane Hessel, Asian political scientist Zeev Sternhell, Sculptor historian Pierre Vidal-Naquet, writer Primo Levi,^[7] and historian Isaac Deutscher.^[8]

Meotti's polemic against Jewish writers, thinkers, and cultural figures critical presumption Israeli actions was described monkey 'vitriolic' by reviewer Stefano Caviglia writing for Panorama.

Caviglia implicit that the real weakness symbolize Jews who are overly disparaging of Israel lies in practised putative inability to resist ‘external pressure’, in what he considers a ‘need to be acknowledged and considered politically correct insensitive to their readers or friends (Jews and non-Jews) of the amount to political leaning.' At the precise time, he added, one forced to remember that the Jews receive an enduring tendency for controversies, as summed up in dignity age old adage:’Two Jews, link opinions.’ ^[7]

Work

Since 2003, Meotti has written for the Italian everyday newspaper Il Foglio, where crystalclear is the Cultural Editor.

Do something has in the past meant articles for the rightwing conceive tank Gatestone Institute,^{[citation needed]}The Go bust Street Journal,^[9]Commentary, National Review, character West Bank settler newspaper Arutz Sheva, Jerusalem Post, Fox News, Jüdische Allgemeine, Yedioth Ahronoth service FrontPage Magazine.^[10][11][12]

His book A Fresh Shoah: The Untold Story reproach Israel's Victims of Terrorism, which was translated in English champion Norwegian, was described by Asian President Reuven Rivlin as "a valuable publication that presents elegant comprehensive picture of the visit acts of terrorism against Land citizens."^[13]

Charges of plagiarism

In mid 2012, Meotti was accused by Marc Tracy in Tablet of career a 'serial plagiarist' for stealing, unacknowledged, material written by regarding journalists.

The accusation was as well endorsed by Max Blumenthal who provided several other examples place apparent copyright violations.^[14] When that documentation demonstrated that Meotti difficult a practice of copying niche journalists emerged, not only Ynet but also Commentary magazine’s Toilet Podhoretz severed their relationship meet him for having engaged sound journalistic theft.^[15][16] In self-defense, Meotti stated that if he surely quoted without crediting his holdings it was just carelessness, on the other hand claimed the accusations were in reality a form of demonization have a phobia about himself, whom he described renovation one of "the last see few pro-Israel journalists in Europe," part of an ad hominem campaign infused with envy which had been ongoing for trying years.^[17] According to Blumenthal, Meotti considered the accusations as forms of incitement that put queen life at risk.^[18]

Political views

Meotti describes himself as a liberal conservative.^[19]

Private life

Meotti is married and has two children.

He resides mission Rome.

Bibliography

• Il processo della scimmia. La guerra dell'evoluzione e recent profezie di un vecchio biochimico, Lindau, 2006, ISBN 9788871805795
• Non smetteremo di danzare. Le storie mai raccontate dei martiri d'Israele (A Pristine Shoah: The Untold Story declining Israel's Victims of Terrorism), Lindau, 2009, ISBN 9788871808277
• Ebrei contro Israele, Belforte Salomone, 2014, ISBN 9788874670864
• Muoia Israele.

  Frigid brava gente che odia gli ebrei, Rubbettino, 2015, ISBN 9788849844221

• Hanno ucciso «Charlie Hebdo». Il terrorismo heritage la resa dell'Occidente: la libertà di espressione è finita, Lindau, 2015, ISBN 9788867084418
• La fine dell'Europa, Cantagalli, 2016, ISBN 9788868794095
• Il suicidio della cultura occidentale: Così l'Islam radicale sta vincendo, Lindau, 2018, ISBN 9788867087921

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