Tuesday, September 3, 2013

About Israel Shamir


update 10/16/2013

Website: http://www.israelshamir.net/
Official: ISRAEL SHAMIR, a leading Russian Israeli writer, is a champion of the "One Man, One Vote, One State" solution seeking to unite Palestine and Israel in one democratic state. Shamir's work and that of his contributors speaks to the aspirations of both the Israelis and the Palestinians seeking an end to the bloodshed, true democracy and lasting peace.

Critics: The Guardian has described "the far-right supremacist" Israel Shamir as “notorious for Holocaust denial and publishing a string of antisemitic articles.” Discover the Networks calls him a racist anti-Semite and Holocaust denier who is connected to neo-Nazi groups.

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  • Campus Watch: Russian-born ex-Israeli  deranged Holocaust denier and darling of European Neo-Nazi groups. "Shamir", is so openly pro-Nazi that even European anti-Israel activist groups repudiate him as an embarrassment
  • Culture Wars positively glowing review of Israel Shamir's Pardes in the September, 2005 issue of the publication (Shamir on the Jewish Question, by Tom White. September 2005  White has nothing but high praise for Shamir, finding "everything he writes illuminated by a fine intelligence, a good heart, massive knowledge of world history, a truly Christian humility, tremendous sophistication, considerable humor, and a determination to speak his piece no matter what." He likens him to the American poet Ezra Pound
  • David Irving: Shamir tried to sell Nazi memorabilia to David Irving, a famous British Holocaust denier
  • Discover the Networks A racist anti-Semite and Holocaust denier, connected to neo-Nazi groups
  • Fringe Watch  (Critic)
  • Holocaust Denier:
  • IHS Press publishes books endorsed by Shamir 
  • Nazi: Shamir tried to sell Nazi memorabilia to David Irving, a famous British Holocaust denier
  • Nazi: Shamir tried to sell Nazi memorabilia to David Irving, a famous British Holocaust denier
  • Reocities Israel Shamir is an infamous (non Jew) Nazi who resided in Israel for a short time and preaches hatred and LIES.... appears on all hate - grabage sites like KKK's davidduke, [Hitleristic and 'idol worshippers of A. Hitler' pages:] vanguard, stormfront, zundel, philipweiss, comeandhear, humanbeingsfirst, adelaideinstitute, nationalsocialistworkersparty, christianparty, biblebelievers, revisionisthistory, jewishtribal, and other nazis' sites (or Islamic militant's radioislam)?
  • Wikipedia

Supports
  • Anti-semitism
  • Counterpunch (anti-semitic)
  • Culture Wars positively glowing review of Israel Shamir's Pardes in the September, 2005 issue of the publication (Shamir on the Jewish Question, by Tom White. September 2005  White has nothing but high praise for Shamir, finding "everything he writes illuminated by a fine intelligence, a good heart, massive knowledge of world history, a truly Christian humility, tremendous sophistication, considerable humor, and a determination to speak his piece no matter what." He likens him to the American poet Ezra Pound
  • David Duke (anti-semitic neo-Nazi)
  • David Koresh (Waco cult standoff)
  • Rense (anti-semitic neo-Nazi pro-Iran conspiracy site)
  • TheTruthseeker.co.uk (pro-jihad anti-semitic conspiracy site)
Critics
  • Campus Watch: Russian-born ex-Israeli  deranged Holocaust denier and darling of European Neo-Nazi groups. "Shamir", is so openly pro-Nazi that even European anti-Israel activist groups repudiate him as an embarrassment.
  • Discover the Networks A racist anti-Semite and Holocaust denier, connected to neo-Nazi groups
  • Fringe Watch  (Critic)
  • Guardian: “notorious for Holocaust denial and publishing a string of antisemitic articles.”
  • Holocaust
  • Israel
  • Reocities
  • Zionist
    .Counter Punch: 

    1. CounterPunch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterpunch.org
      This stance is perhaps most controversial in relation to the Arab-Israeli conflict, where "its contributions are critical of Israeli government actions. This includes contributions from such controversial anti-Zionist figures asGilad Atzmon, Norman Finkelstein and Israel Shamir"

    .David Koresh 

    • It All Started In Waco - netINS









      It All Started In WacoFrom Israel Shamir





      shamir@home.se
      4-4-3


      Dear friends,
      Here is an interesting and important piece on the subject that refuses to die: the Waco tragedy. Men, women and children surrounded by ruthless gunmen sent by the state - this image was brought forth during the
      Zionist siege of Nativity Church, and now again, when the Mammonites besiege Baghdad. This piece is written by Tom Mysiewicz, an American journalist who tripped on the 'do-not-mention-Jews-but-as-martyrs-and-saints' third rail in 1993, and found himself homeless, wifeless, destitute in the wilderness of Oregon. Still, he survived, and came back to writing. The commentary is written by Dr Henry Lindner, an inquisitive mind. It appeared on
      Togethernet, our no-censorship discussion group. (You can subscribe to it by writing to togethernet-subscribe@yahoogroups.com )
      Israel Shamir

    • It All Started in Waco - The Truth Seeker

      www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=758
      The “embedded” reporters say Saddam has got to be the most evil man that ever existed–just like David Koresh was briefly. ... Courtesy Israel Shamir. See Waco: ...
      Among the accusations howled daily by this crowd–ALL of which later turned out to be false:
      *David Koresh was a polygamist and child molester
      *Children had been molested at the church (previously ruled out by Texas
      officials)
      *A substantial tunnel network existed on church property
      *Koresh had .50-Cal. machine guns
      *Koresh had .50-Cal. armor-piercing ammunition
      *Koresh had either biological or chemical weapons
      *Koresh planned to overthrow the U.S. Government
      After passing several opportunities to peacefully arrest the “cult” leader, the Feds launched a 300-man shooting assault on the church, including 20-mm cannon fire from a helicopter. Koresh was wounded and several Federal agents were shot, although it has been argued that the killings were from friendly crossfire. A 51-day siege of the church (now termed a “compound”) was launched. Razor wire was strung around the church, loud music and lights were put on every night, power and water were cut off, food was denied those inside, and Red Cross representatives were not allowed inside to check on the welfare of the children.

    • APFN - GUNTHER RUSSBACKER & REMEMBER WACO!

      disc.yourwebapps.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=144086
      *David Koresh was a polygamist and child molester ... Koresh was wounded and several Federal agents were shot, ... Courtesy Israel Shamir See Waco: ...

    • INSURGENT NEWS AND VIEWS

      www.resist.com/updates/2010/JUN_10/NAV-20100618.html
      The shootout began a 51-day standoff that ended when the sect's leader, David Koresh, ... Michael Hart, Michael Levin, Jesse Lee Peterson, Israel Shamir, ...


    Friends of Al-Aqsa website

     includes writings by a number of notorious hate preachers, including the far-right supremacist Israel Shamir. The Guardian has described Shamir as “notorious for Holocaust denial and publishing a string of antisemitic articles.”

     .IHS Press


    http://www.amazon.com/Neo-Conned-Just-Principles-Condemnation-Iraq/dp/1932528067

    • Publisher: Ihs Press (October 28, 2006)
    • D. Liam O'Huallachain is the editorial director of IHS Press and is a student of Catholic Social Doctrine, the English Distributist Movement, and contemporary alternative political movements. J. Forrest Sharpe is the publisher and managing director of IHS Press. He is a student of Catholic Social Doctrine and the English Distributist movement. Bishop Hilarion Capucci is the Patriarchial Vicar of Jerusalem in exile. George Lopez, PhD, is a senior fellow at the Kroc Institute of International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame.

    Review

    "This trenchant collection of articles about the U.S. war in the Middle East is a fulfillment of my dearest wish: seeing the left-wing and the right-wing, religious and nonreligious, Christian and Muslim opposition to the war united in one front against one mutual enemy. It will be the cornerstone of every future realignment of antiwar forces in the U.S."  —Israel Adam Shamir, journalist and author, Flowers of Galilee


    .reocities

     Reocities Israel Shamir is an infamous (non Jew) Nazi who resided in Israel for a short time and preaches hatred and LIES.... appears on all hate - grabage sites like KKK's davidduke, [Hitleristic and 'idol worshippers of A. Hitler' pages:] vanguard, stormfront, zundel, philipweiss, comeandhear, humanbeingsfirst, adelaideinstitute, nationalsocialistworkersparty, christianparty, biblebelievers, revisionisthistory, jewishtribal, and other nazis' sites (or Islamic militant's radioislam)?

    AKA: Adam Ermash, Jöran Jermas.
    Searchlight Magazine: A man who claims to be one of Israel’s leading intellectuals is also a Swedish antisemitic writer. Israel Shamir presents himself on his website as a leading Russian-Israeli intellectual and a writer, translator and journalist. But in 2001 he changed his name to Jöran Jermas and has surrounded himself in Sweden and Norway ... (An empty bag cannot stand) and was published by the openly nazi publisher Nordiska Förlaget.
    http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/index.php?link=template&story=6
    MOONBAT CENTRAL: London Times Exposes Columnist "Israel Shamir" as Swedish neo-Nazi. For many years the most openly anti-Semitic "Jew" filling the web with columns, ...
    http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/moonbatcentral/2005/04/london-times-exposes-columnist-israel.html
    Israel Shamir as an open anti-Semite. Russian-born Shamir lives in Israel, but almost no Israelis have heard of him. He is an open neo-Nazi who ...
    http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/Read.aspx?GUID=0AD07886-75AF-411A-A664-EE6EFC600CD9
    Israel Shamir's Antisemitic "book" with the Arab radical "activist" using information and "ideas" created by Neo Nazi groups
    http://timesonline.typepad.com/oliver_kamm/2005/09/israel-shamir-a.html
    I make no comment here on the rights and wrongs of the Israeli-Arab conflict, or the appalling historical episode of which Mrs Allaf writes; I merely refer you to the source whose judgement Mrs Allaf proffers. "Israel Shamir" is the nom de plume of a writer whose real name is Jöran Jermas. So far from being, as he claims, a leading Israeli intellectual and translator, Shamir is of Russian origin, and has lived in Sweden for the past 20 years. His writings, which are widely circulated on the Internet, are unambiguously antisemitic.
    http://oliverkamm.typepad.com/blog/2005/08/chatham_house_o.html
    9 Jul 2007 ... "Shamir", a regular on Counterpunch, is so openly pro-Nazi that even European anti-Israel activist groups repudiate him as an embarrassment ...
    http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/3664
    ISM... a Swedish antisemite (See: "Israeli writer is Swedish anti-Semite") who also passes himself off as a "Jew" (all the better to make propaganda).  Known widely as the "toxic dwarf" (extreme antisemite plus low intellect), Israel Shamir (also known as Joran Jermas) is such an awful antisemite that even some pro-Palestinian Arab/anti-Zionist activists have rejected him.  Read "Sue has seen the light" for more details.  According to the now infamous Marxist anti-Zionist Dr. Sue Blackwell, Shamir is a Nazi
    http://universityracism.multiservers.com/Text/AntisemSWE.htm
    Shofar FTP Archives: Nigel Parry who runs 'The Electronic Intifada exposes Israel Shamir (wha was posing as a "jew") ...a neo-Nazi
    http://www2.ca.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/people/s/seredin.alex/2007/seredin.200705
    “Israel Shamir” is, in fact, a Swedish-domiciled anti-Semite also known as Jöran Jermas.
    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article378140.ece
    Hesham Tillawi... Israel Shamir...convert to Christianity, has alleged that Jews are somehow aligned with demonic forces ...
    http://www.adl.org/Learn/Ext_US/hesham_tillawi/affiliations.asp?LEARN_Cat=Extremism&LEARN_SubCat=Extremism_in_America&xpicked=2&item=tillawi
    hate... as well as Duke, French Holocaust denier Serge Thion and Israel Shamir, ...
    http://www.adl.org/main_anti_semitism_international/maup_ukraine.htm
    ...informed about the antisemitic book "Flowers of Galilee" of a swedish-russian antisemite who converted to be a greek orthodox and spreads his poison under the name of Israel Shamir, he changed in few years in Sweden his name twice. He was called Jöran Jermas, now his name is Adam Ermash.
    http://www.spme.net/cgi-bin/articles.cgi?ID=3266
    Israel Shamir, the "Israeli-Jewish" enemy of Zionism (and now of Judaism too) has a secret identity which he won't deny or speak about. He just smears his critics. Here is photgraphic evidence that Shamir, the darling of White Supremacists... and other racists is a Swedish bloke called Joram Jermas.
    http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/04/309818.html
    responses to racism and antisemitism... In early February, the extreme left-wing party Rød Valgallianse (Red Electoral Alliance − RV) demanded that one of its local politicians, the teacher Hans Olav Brendberg, withdraw from the party due to numerous antisemitic statements he had made on the Norwegian Internet discussion forum KK-forum and to his close ties with Israeli anti-Zionist Israel Shamir.
    http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw2004/norway.htm
    Shamir also once tried to sell Nazi memorabilia to David Irving, a famous British Holocaust denier. Even Palestinian activists Ali Abunimah (who has his own pro-Palestinian website) and Hussein Ibish have denounced Shamir as an anti-Semite.
    http://media.www.mcgilltribune.com/media/storage/paper234/news/2001/11/26/Oped/Stop-The.Press-151236-page2.shtml
    Israel Shamir... is a fringe character who apparently once tried to enter into a business arrangement for the sale of Nazi memorabilia with the notorious British Holocaust denier David Irving. Irving’s web site includes his very curious correspondence with Shamir, and there is independent confirmation that Shamir was indeed involved in such schemes. (London Times, September 1, 1998; Evening News (Edinburgh), September 1, 1998)
    If that were not enough, Shamir, who usually adopts a left wing persona for his harangues against Israel, has also written for extreme right-wing periodicals in Russia under the name Robert David, even denouncing Andre Sakharov as a “Zionist agent.” Thus, according to the late Israeli Sovietologist Mikhail Agursky, a right wing Russian journal known as Politika featured an article:
    .. written by one Robert David denouncing [Andre] Sakharov. The article is full of allegations that Sakharov was a harmful Zionist agent. Robert David is presented as an "Israeli". His identity is well known. As Israel Shamir (Shmerling), he came to Israel in the late 1960s from Novosibirsk and soon became an extreme leftist.
    .. Shamir now lives in Moscow under the name Robert David; and, under his own name, he now loses no opportunity to claim that Zionists are the worst enemy of the Russian people, and to call Russian liberals Zionist agents.. He glorified Saddam Hussein and indirectly calls for the destruction of the State of Israel.
    .. Shamir is not only in open friendly relations with Iraq and Arab terrorist organizations, but also actively participates in the campaign to delegitimize Israel. (Jerusalem Post, August 15, 1991)
    http://camera.org/index.asp?x_context=8&x_nameinnews=92&x_article=154
    It's not the first time Israel Shamir has been promoted by an extremist self-styled "traditionalist" Catholic. Back in July we had noted E. Michael Jones' "Culture Wars' Troubling Praise of Israel Shamir" (Fringewatch July 3, 2006) and Shamir's own controversial reputation among the left. Apparently once a darling of the Palestinian cause, his anti-semitism proved so toxic that he was deemed a public relations disaster and eventually disowned by his comrades (See Nigel Parry's The Israel Shamir Case and Roland Rance's Israel Shamir: Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing?, from the Socialist Viewpoint). One might get a sense of Shamir's worldview by his conclusion from his recent essay that: Armed with Schmitt’s thesis and Bauer’s testimony, we may conclude: "the 'liberal democracy and human rights' doctrine carried by the US marines across the Tigris and the Oxus is a form of secularised Judaism. Considering the predominance of Jews... Shamir's writings are similar to that of other anti-semites: society's ills perceived through the lens of a global Zionist conspiracy, "Talmudic" (or in some cases, secular) Judaism set against Christian civilization.
    http://www.ratzingerfanclub.com/blog/2007/01/carl-schmitt-israel-shamir-and-robert.html
    Holocaust Denial on Display For example, he was one of the first to aggressively promote Israel Shamir, whose writing imitates that of Nazi Alfred Rosenberg.
    http://www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/pumphrey/Srebrenica.html

    .Wikipedia

    Israel Shamir

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Israel Shamir
    Israel Shamir (Russian: Исраэль Шамир) (born 1947),[1] also known by the name Jöran Jermas[2][3] and Adam Ermash, is a Swedish[4][5][6] writer and journalist.[7] He is a commentator on Arab - Israeli relations and Jewish culture.[8][9][10] Originally from Novosibirsk,Siberia, Shamir moved to Israel in 1969.[11][12][13] He says that he served in the 1973 war, after which he took up journalism and writing.[14]
    Shamir writes about Israel, Palestine, and the Jewish people, and has published or self-published a number of books that have been translated into several languages; the French edition of Flowers of Galilee (2004) was banned for a time in France over allegations ofantisemitism. Shamir has been accused of antisemitism and Holocaust denial,[15][16] charges Shamir has rejected.

    Background and personal life

    Shamir is Russian-born Jew who converted to Orthodox Christianity.[3][11][17][18][19][20] He was known at birth as Izrail Schmerler.[11] In the article "Jews in the Soviet Union" according to the Shorter Jewish Encyclopedia I. Schmerler (Shamir) was born in 1948.[12] Shamir says that he was born in Novosibirsk, Siberia in 1947. According to Shamir, he read mathematics and law at Novosibirsk University. He moved to Israel in 1969,[11][12][13] and states that he served as paratrooper in the Israel Defense Forces, and fought in the 1973 Yom Kippur War.[14] After the war he says that he returned to his study of law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, but then abandoned this in favour of a career in journalism.[21]
    Norman Finkelstein is quoted by Tablet magazine article "His Jewish Problem" as saying of Shamir "He has invented his entire personal history. Nothing he says about himself is true".[22] Manfred Ropschitz in the Independent Media Center article writes that "For twenty years the Jewish Israeli journalist Israel Shamir has been living a double life as a Swede called Jöran Jermas".[19]
    According to Searchlight, which describes him as a "Swedish anti-semite",[23] Shamir was registered in Sweden in 1984 and later gained Swedish citizenship, in 1992.[11] He left Sweden for Russia and then Israel in 1993, before returning in 1998, having remarried in Israel in July 1994.[23] However, others argue that Swedish files show that he was married in Sweden.[24] He was known as Jöran Jermas from 2001 to 2005, before changing his name to Adam Ermash, although continuing to use "Israel Shamir" as a penname.[11] According to Shamir, these name changes were necessary "in order to safeguard my private life and to manage to travel without harassments from political adversaries."[25]
    In 2004 Shamir was baptized into the Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem by Archbishop Theodosios (Atallah) Hanna of Sabastia and given the name Adam.[14]
    According to his website, Shamir "lives in Jaffa and spends much time in Moscow and Stockholm".[14] He has three sons,[14] one of whom is the Swedish journalist Johannes Wahlström.[11][26]

    Career

    On his website, Shamir states that, after dropping out of law studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem some time after the Yom Kippur War, he took up journalism and writing.[14][21] He says that he was initially a journalist for Israel Radio, before becoming a freelance journalist, and covered the latter stages of the war in South East Asia (Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia).[21] He says that he joined the BBCin 1975, moving to London, before moving to Japan (1977–79), writing for Maariv and others.[14][21] In 1980 he says that he returned to Israel, and says that he wrote for Haaretz.[14]
    After a career in journalism, Shamir says that he focussed on other writing, particularly translation. Shamir states that he translated various works of Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Nobel Prize for Literature, 1966) from Hebrew into Russian (1981–2004), as well as Chaim Herzog'sThe Arab-Israeli Wars (1986). Other works he says that he translated include a 2006 annotated translation of Abraham Zacuto's 15th century history of the Jews, Sefer Hayuhasin (The Book of Lineage).[14] With the outbreak of the First Intifada in 1987 Shamir says that he went to Russia and wrote about the political changes until 1993, for newspapers including Pravda and the extreme nationalistZavtra,whose author, Alexander Prokanov, is connected with the extreme anti-Semite David Duke.[27][28]
    Shamir writes about Israel, Palestine, and the Jewish people.[14] Several of his books have been translated into a range of languages. Shamir did not publish in English until January 2001, after the beginning of the Palestinian Second Intifada in September 2000. As he put it, "Israeli attacks on Palestinians forced him to give up literature and turn to politics."[29] An article in the Russian-language Israeli newspaper Vesti was cited by Christopher Hitchens in 2001 as "a brilliant reply to [Elie] Wiesel".[30]
    The French edition of Shamir's Flowers of Galilee was initially co-published in October 2003 by Éditions Blanche and Éditions Balland, and was prominently displayed in large bookshops. It was withdrawn from sale at the end of October after Balland's director had his attention drawn to the content of the book, which he considered anti-semitic.[31][32] The book was republished in 2004 by Éditions Al-Qalam, which led to a court case (a civil case brought by the Ligue internationale contre le racisme et l'antisémitisme (LICRA),) with the publisher sentenced to three months in prison (suspended) and a 10,000 euro fine, and the banning of the book.[33] The ban was overturned on appeal, and the fine reduced.[citation needed]

    Views

    Shamir has made statements opposing both Zionism and Judaism,[34] and is a supporter of the proposed one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.[35] Shamir has argued that there is organized Jewish control of the media and public discourse: "The rich Jews buy media so it will cover up their (and their brethren's) misdeeds. The Jews in the media are giving protection to the rich Jews. ... In the US, even in Western Europe, no view can be proposed to the general public unless approved (after being vetted and corrected) by a Jewish group."[10] He is critical of what he considers a Jewish quest for world hegemony, having written, "Palestine is not the ultimate goal of the Jews; the world is. Palestine is just the place for world state headquarters; necessary, for otherwise the people of Europe wouldn't be magnetised like a rabbit in the headlights of a car."[9]
    In 2001, Ali Abunimah and Hussein Ibish circulated an email in which they said that "from early on, some of Shamir's writings struck us as straying beyond criticism of Israel and Zionism, and crossing into the territory of implicit anti-Semitism". They urged "all our friends in the movement for Palestinian rights" to consider the effects of Shamir's writing, which includes "elements of traditional European anti-Semitic rhetoric", on their cause.[36]
    He has been accused of being an antisemite and Holocaust denier,[37] with Searchlight in 2004 accusing him of connections to antisemitic publications and groups,[23] and its campaign Hope not Hate at one time listing Shamir as a "notable Holocaust denier," citing the "rabid Holocaust denial material" on his website.[38] Essays supporting the tenets of Holocaust denial, such as the alleged non-existence of gas chambers at Auschwitz, are posted on Shamir's personal website.[39] In February 2005 Labour life peer Nazir Ahmed held a book launch for Shamir in the House of Lords. Commenting on the event, Stephen Pollard in The Times,[37] called him a "rabid anti-Semite."[37] Shamir rejected the accusations, and Gilad Atzmon wrote to The Times in his defence.[21][40]
    In an essay published on his website discussing Holocaust denier David Irving, Shamir wrote that "the Jews" now "rule over the minds and souls of Europeans":
    David Irving was sentenced for denial of Jewish superiority. His doom seals the reign of (albeit limited) freedom that began with the fall of Bastille. European history went full circle: from rejecting the rule of Church and embracing free thought, to the new Jewish mind-control on a world scale. Not only is Western Christian civilisation dead, but even its successor, secular European civilisation, has met its demise only a few days after its proud and last celebration by the Danish scribes. It was short-lived: about two hundred years from beginning to the end, the Europeans may once have had the illusion that they can live without an ideological supremacy. Now this illusion is over; and the Jews came in the stead of the old and tired See of St Peter to rule over the minds and souls of Europeans.[41]
    Shamir was also accused in connections with extremist groups in Europe. The "London Times" had reported that in September 1998 a radical Russian group tried to sell Nazi items from WW2 that were released from Soviet archives. The group's representative in Western Europe was Shamir who tried to make contact with David Irving on the subject of purchasing those items. Irving didn't respond to Shamir and published a letter in which he stated that those items and documents are stolen and therefore whoever selling them is doing so against the German and Russian laws. Irving also reported about Shamir's proposal to the German authorities and neglected further attempts from Shamir to make contact with him.[28]
    In 2006, discussing the upcoming Iranian International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust, Deutsche Welle wrote that the Iranian government "said it intended to invite academics such as German neo-Nazi [lawyer] Horst Mahler and the Israeli journalist and Christian convert Israel Shamir, both of whom are Holocaust deniers."[42] Shamir denied receiving an invitation to the conference, and said he did not attend.[43] Shamir wrote of his interest in the conference, concluding that "Nobody – and I do mean nobody, including British, French, American, German, Russian leaders – really cares about the victims of a war long past, Jewish or otherwise; they pay tribute to the Holocaust as nations pay tribute to their vanquisher."[44] The widespread acceptance of the Holocaust narrative "as a justification of [rich and powerful] minority rights over [oppressed] majority needs", Shamir argued, showed "that the mass media machine is well integrated and concentrated in philosemitic, mostly Jewish hands. The occupation of Palestine by Jews is painful, but it is not more harmful than this captivity of free discourse."[44]
    In December 2010 Shamir's connection with WikiLeaks brought him new public attention. Andrew Brown of The Guardian repeated the accusations of antisemitism, relying on Magnus Ljunggren's piece that month in Expressen.[45] Shamir responded to Ljunggren, saying "the stories he tells are all lies. And these lies are old and well known and refuted years ago."[43] Katha Pollitt, writing in The Nation in December 2010, described a visit to Shamir's web site:
    I spent a few hours on www.israelshamir.net and learned that: "the Jews" foisted capitalism, advertising and consumerism on harmonious and modest Christian Europe; were behind Stalin's famine in Ukraine; control the banks, the media and many governments; and that "Palestine is not the ultimate goal of the Jews; the world is." There are numerous guest articles by Holocaust deniers, aka "historical revisionists."[46]
    In early 2011 The Guardian described Shamir as "notorious for Holocaust denial and publishing a string of antisemitic articles."[47]Defending himself, Shamir wrote in early 2011, "As for the accusation of 'Holocaust denial', my family lost too many of its sons and daughters for me to deny the facts of Jewish tragedy, but I do deny its religious salvific significance implied in the very term ‘Holocaust’; I do deny its metaphysical uniqueness, I do deny the morbid cult of Holocaust and I think every God-fearing man, a Jew, a Christian or a Muslim should reject it as Abraham rejected and smashed idols."[48] Shamir claims his concern with the Holocaust is with the use of the narrative of the Holocaust by Jews to promote Jewish "superiority and exclusivity":
    It has everything to do with the Jewish claim of superiority and exclusivity. There is a Jewish prayer saying: “Bless you, Lord, that you created me a Jew, that you separated between Jews and the earth folks, like you separated between the Holy and Profane, that our fate is not like their fate”. The Holocaust concept is just another form of this prayer. They say that even their death is not like the death of anybody else.[49]
    In a May 2011 interview Tablet Magazine described Shamir as a "Holocaust doubter".[50] The article includes a transcript of an interview in which Shamir repeatedly refuses to acknowledge the mass annihilation at Auschwitz.
    In 2012, CounterPunch published an article titled "Pol Pot Revisited," in which Shamir argued: "New Cambodia (or Kampuchea, as it was called) under Pol Pot and his comrades was a nightmare for the privileged, for the wealthy and for their retainers; but poor people had enough food and were taught to read and write. As for the mass killings, these are just horror stories, averred my Cambodian interlocutors. Surely the victorious peasants shot marauders and spies, but many more died of American-planted mines and during the subsequent Vietnamese takeover, they said..... Noam Chomsky assessed that the death toll in Cambodia may have been inflated "by a factor of a thousand." .... To me, this recalls other CIA-sponsored stories of Red atrocities, be it Stalin’s Terror or the Ukrainian Holodomor....It is fine that they canceled money, dynamited banks and sent bankers to plant rice. It is fine that they dried up the great blood-sucking leech, the big-city compradors and money-lenders."[51]

    Association with WikiLeaks

    Shamir is a vocal backer of the WikiLeaks organization.[52] In a Sveriges Radio interview with WikiLeaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson, Hrafnsson stated that Israel Shamir "is associated with" WikiLeaks, as are "a lot of journalists that are working with us all around the world" who "have different roles in working on [the] project".[26] Russian Reporter claims that it has "privileged access" to the 2010 United States diplomatic cables leak via Shamir.[26] Shamir described his relation with WikiLeaks as being "a freelancer who was 'accredited' to WikiLeaks".[53]
    Former Wikileaks spokesman Daniel Domscheit-Berg noted Wikileaks' ties to Shamir among the reasons he quit the organization.[54]Domscheit-Berg described Shamir as a "famous Holocaust denier and anti-Semite."[55]
    Yulia Latynina, writing in the Moscow Times alleged that Shamir concocted a cable which allegedly quoted European Union diplomats' plans to walk out of the Durban II speech by Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, for publication in the pro-Putin Russian Reporter in December 2010, an accusation which was rejected by Shamir.[53]
    Shamir has also been accused of passing "sensitive cables" to the president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko.[56] Index on Censorshiphas expressed concern that such an event could physically endanger Lukashenko's political opponents; Wikileaks has refused to reply to Index on the issue, although one Wikileaks representative called Shamir's alleged leaks "obviously unapproved."[57]
    Shamir's son, a journalist named Johannes Wahlström, is a spokesperson for WikiLeaks in Sweden.[11][26]

    Selected publications

    Books

    Translations

    References

    1. ^ Palestine my love:A Plea for Palestine and Israel - together in the holy land. Israel Shamir. Retrieved August 22, 2010.
    2. ^ Assange's Extremist EmployeesReason Magazine, Michael C. Moynihan | December 14, 2010
    3. ^ a b Jennifer Lipman (2010-11-15). "Antisemitic 'Holocaust denier' in charge of WikiLeaks Russian distribution". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 2013-06-11.
    4. ^ Manfred Ropschitz (2005-04-26). "Israel Shamir exposed! A fake or a plant?". Independent Media Center. Archived from the originalon 2013-06-12. Retrieved 2013-06-11.
    5. ^ British lord joins UK Islamists in praising Erdogan Jonny Paul, Jerusalem Post, 02/11/2009
    6. ^ Olbermann, Assange, and the Holocaust DenierReason Magazine, Michael C. Moynihan | December 7, 2010
    7. ^ "Middle east smells of war". Voice of Russia. August 5, 2010. Retrieved August 16, 2010.
    8. ^ "Israel Shamir - Fear not, crying wolf". Information Clearing House - via Australia.to News. August 17, 2010. Retrieved August 19, 2010.
    9. ^ a b Shamir 2005, p. 87
    10. ^ a b Shamir 2005, pp. 31–32
    11. ^ a b c d e f g h Magnus Ljunggren (10 December 2010). "Pappas pojke?". Expressen.
    12. ^ a b c The Soviet Union. Jews in the Soviet Union in 1967-85's.
    13. ^ a b Mikhail Agursky (Aug 15, 1991). "WE MUSTN'T SHUN THE RUSSIAN RIGHT". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 2013-06-12.
    14. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Israel Adam Shamir - biography". israelshamir.net. Retrieved August 19, 2010.
    15. ^ "Wikileaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy’ – the media deal, Assange’s real father & Cablegate". International Business Times. 1 February 2011. Retrieved 7 February 2011. Shamir "has earned the reputation of being an anti-Semite for denying the holocaust."
    16. ^ Leigh, David (31 January 2011). "Holocaust denier in charge of handling Moscow cables | Media | The Guardian". The Guardian(London: GMG). ISSN 0261-3077. OCLC 60623878. Retrieved 8 June 2011. "Holocau"
    17. ^ "9/11 Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories Still Abound". Anti-Defamation League. September 7, 2006. Retrieved 2013-06-12.
    18. ^ "Ukraine University of Hate". Anti-Defamation League. November 3, 2006. Archived from the original on 2013-06-12.
    19. ^ a b Manfred Ropschitz (2005-04-26). "Israel Shamir exposed! A fake or a plant?". Independent Media Center. Retrieved 2013-06-11.
    20. ^ Andrew Brown (2010-11-15). "WikiLeaks and Israel Shamir". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2013-06-12. Retrieved 2013-06-12.
    21. ^ a b c d e Israel Shamir, novakeo.com, 15 January 2011, Royal Hunt of Julian Assange
    22. ^ "His Jewish Problem - by Will Yakowicz > Tablet Magazine - A New Read on Jewish Life". www.tabletmag.com. Retrieved 2011-05-23.
    23. ^ a b c Tor Bach, et al, Searchlight, "Israeli writer is Swedish anti-Semite" May 2004
    24. ^ Israel Shamir exposed! A fake or a plant? 26.04.2005 Independent Media Center
    25. ^ Israel Shamir, israeshamir.net, FAQs
    26. ^ a b c d Michael C. Moynihan (December 14, 2010). "Assange's Extremist Employees". Reason (magazine).
    27. ^ (in German) Ludwig Watzal, 10 February 2006, Der Freitag, Der Journalist und das "Imperium"
    28. ^ a b [ http://www.israelshamir.net/Hebrew/Heb6.htm]
    29. ^ Israel Shamir, Galilee Flowers, p279
    30. ^ Christopher Hitchens, The Nation, 1 February 2001, Wiesel Words
    31. ^ (in French), Gilles Karmasyn, Pratique de l’histoire et dévoiements négationnistes (PHDN), 10 November 2003, Israël Shamir, un antisémite dans le texte...
    32. ^ Israel Shamir, israelshamir.net, 451 °F
    33. ^ quibla.net, 3 November 2005, A book to be burned: The other face of Israel, Israel Adam Shamir, reproducing an Agence France-Pressenewswire of 2 November 2005.
    34. ^ "Israel Shamir: "Equal rights in Palestine/Israel is no utopia"". voltairenet.org. September 27, 2005. Retrieved August 22, 2010.
    35. ^ "Vocal critic of Israel". New Straits Times. April 1, 2002. Retrieved August 20, 2010.
    36. ^ "Serious concerns about Israel Shamir". www.ibishblog.com. Retrieved 2011-05-23.
    37. ^ a b c Pollard, Stephen (April 7, 2005). "Lord Ahmed's unwelcome guest". London: The Sunday Times. Retrieved August 17, 2010.
    38. ^ Hope not Hate (November 2010). "'At the Centre of the Web'". Retrieved November 10, 2010.[dead link]
    39. ^ Paul Eisen. "The Holocaust Wars". Retrieved 2 February 2011.
    40. ^ israelshamir.net, The Times attacks
    41. ^ israelshamir.net
    42. ^ Deutsche Welle, "Iran's Holocaust Conference Plan Prompts Anger". December 6, 2006. Retrieved November 10, 2010.
    43. ^ a b Israel Shamir, israelshamir.net, Ljunggren the Liar
    44. ^ a b Israel Shamir. "'They Met In Tehran'". Retrieved November 4, 2010.
    45. ^ Andrew Brown, WikiLeaks and Israel Shamir, 17 December 2010
    46. ^ Katha Pollitt (22 December 2010). "The Case of Julius Assange". The Nation. Retrieved 16 February 2011.
    47. ^ The Guardian, Leigh, David; Harding, Luke (January 31, 2011). "Holocaust denier in charge of handling Moscow cables". The Guardian(London). Retrieved January 31, 2011.
    48. ^ Israel Shamir "BBC Joins Smear Campaign Against Assange and Wikileaks", CounterPunch, 1 February 2011
    49. ^ Israel Shamir. "For Whom the Bell Tolls". Retrieved 30 March 2011.
    50. ^ Will Yakowicz, Tablet Magazine, 17 May 2011, His Jewish Problem
    51. ^ Shamir, Israel, Pol Pot Revisited, CounterPunch, September 18, 2012.
    52. ^ Shamir, Israel. "News of the Site". Retrieved 25 December 2010. "Israel Shamir supports Wikileaks, agrees with its ideas and admires its head, Julian Assange."
    53. ^ a b von Twickel, Nikolaus (2010-12-10). "Putin Bristles Over Leaked U.S. Cables". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2010-12-22.
    54. ^ "Former Assange cohort says WikiLeaks is broken". The Local. 10 February 2011. Retrieved 10 February 2011. "Domscheit-Berg also said Assange had worrying ties to people of dubious character, such as the Sweden-based Holocaust denier Israel Shamir, whom Assange allegedly wanted to let work with WikiLeaks under a false name so as to not attract unwanted attention."
    55. ^ "Anti-Assange book sparks WikiLeaks war of words". Agence France Presse. Retrieved 11 February 2011.
    56. ^ Harding, Luke (24 December 2010). "Julian Assange: my fate will rest in Cameron's hands if US charges me". The Guardian (London). Retrieved 25 December 2010.
    57. ^ Index on Censorship (5 February 2011). "Wikileaks, Belarus, and Israel Shamir". Retrieved 8 February 2011.
    58. ^ an "online publishing company". Dandelion Books, Online Book Publishing from Dandelion Books
    59. ^ a defunct print-on-demand brand of Callio Press/Bookforce UK, not to be confused with the children's book publisher of the same name)
    60. ^ (in German) Promedia Verlag, Shamir, Israel - Blumen aus Galiläa - vergriffen
    61. ^ "Bibliography" (in Russian). The Russian Open University. Retrieved August 19, 2010.

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