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'''Barry Chamish''' ({{langx|he|ברי חמיש}}; January 13, 1952 – August 23, 2016) was a Canadian-born Israeli writer and public speaker. He was best known for promoting ]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=3777|title='Conspiracists' still waiting for 'the truth'|website=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com|date=30 April 2010 |access-date=2016-08-05}}</ref> - Israel's prime minister who was assassinated in 1995.


==Early years==
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Barry Chamish was born in ], Manitoba, Canada.<ref name="About"> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110305172307/http://thebarrychamishwebsite.com/about.htm |date=2011-03-05 }} thebarrychamishwebsite.com/ Retrieved March 6, 2011.</ref>


In the first half of the 1970s, Chamish had three novels and a book of short stories published in his native Canada.<ref name="Archives"> Barry Chamish Archives, Retrieved March 6, 2011.</ref> His novel ''Mack'' won a Canada Council Award worth several thousand dollars.<ref name="Whiz">Matt Bellan, ''The Jewish Post and News,'' February 1, 1989, pg. 5.</ref> In 1976, his book ''Alice in Newfoundland'' won a Manitoba Arts Council Award.<ref name="False"> {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110701180354/http://inquisitionnews.amplify.com/2011/02/26/wikipedia-false-claims-on-barry-chamish-as-holocaust-denier/ |date=July 1, 2011 }} ''Inquisition News,'' February 26, 2011.</ref>
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Chamish earned a ] at the ] in 1974.<ref name="About" /> In 1975, Chamish ] to ], where he attended the ]. He received a ] degree in 1979.<ref>Greer Fay Cashman, {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105214922/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/54179720.html?dids=54179720:54179720&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=May+23,+2000&author=Greer+Fay+Cashman&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=Grapevine&pqatl=google |date=2012-11-05 }}, ''The Jerusalem Post,'' May 23, 2000.</ref>
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'''Barry Chamish''' (born ], 1952) is a ]-]i ], ] and ], best known as a ] and ] investigator.


Following graduation, Chamish was ] into the ], and served as a regular from 1979 to 1981.<ref name="Whiz" /><ref name="False" /> He participated as a ] in the ], during which he operated a ].<ref name="Whiz" />
He studied at the ] and later immigrated to ]. In 1975 he attended the ], receiving an ] in 1979. In 1981, Chamish founded a small press service and has contributed investigative reports to publications as diverse as '']'', '']'' and '']''.


==Career==
Chamish has said that he served in an ] and that he participated in the ] as a reserve soldier.{{Fact|date=December 2008}}
Chamish began to work as a ], publishing material in a range of publications including ''],'' ''],'' and the '']''.<ref name="Archives" /> Chamish established a news service to distribute his work called "Profiles of Israel," which he continued throughout the decade of the 1980s.<ref name="Whiz" />


During the 1990s, Chamish wrote extensively on ]<ref name="Right" /> Chamish's work was featured on four episodes of the ] program ''Sightings'' as well as a half-hour of primetime coverage on ].<ref name="Right" />
Chamish has written several books, most self-published, of which the best-known is ''Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin?'', published in 1998. In this book, Chamish blames the ] ] on ], at that time Israel's minister of Foreign Affairs, and on the ] instead of the convicted assassin ]. After this investigation, Chamish's professional career took a nosedive and he claims he received death threats. He did not reporyt any such threats to the police. Chamish claimed the Shin Bet was trying to kill him when he crashed his car and was charged with intoxicated driving and faces prosecution in Israel. Because of this, he recently left Israel and relocated to ], ], while lecturing to religious and non-religious groups in Canada and the US. He now resides in ], ], after marrying his third wife (now separated).


In the 1990s and 2000s, Chamish published a series of conspiracy books, including ''Traitors and Carpetbaggers in the Promised Land'' (1997), ''The Final Days of Israel'' (2000), ''Israel Betrayed'' (2001), and ''Bye Bye Gaza'' (2006). Chamish charged in these that an array of external and internal forces had "corrupted the country's leaders" and engaged in a "determined agenda aimed at the demise of the Jewish state."<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110527203439/http://www.thebarrychamishwebsite.com/books.htm |date=2011-05-27 }}, March 6, 2011.</ref>
Chamish has also been a ] champion in Israel and has written on the game for '']''.


In ''Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin?'' Chamish claims that Rabin was not killed by a lone gunman and that he was shot three times—with the fatal wound being fired from the front.<ref name="Right" /> By the end of 2005 the book had sold 39,000 copies and had been published in seven different languages.<ref name="Right">Barry Chamish, ''The Jerusalem Post,'' February 2, 2006.</ref>
==Views==
===Ariel Sharon===


In 2008 the Jerusalem Magistrate Court summoned Chamish to pay ], an ] activist, defamation damages of 36,000 NIS (roughly US$10,000) after repeatedly calling him an agent of the ] intelligence service.<ref>{{Cite web |url= http://www.inn.co.il/News/News.aspx/172478 |title= בן-גביר כונה "סוכן שב"כ" - ויפוצה |website= ערוץ 7 |access-date=2016-08-05}}</ref>
Chamish has written extensively about what he views as ]'s and Shimon Peres's "mismanagement" of the war {{Fact|date=February 2007}}. At the time Ariel Sharon was Israel's Minister of Defense but Shimon Peres was the country's opposition leader. Chamish accuses Sharon of sending his brigade deep into ] after receiving orders from former ] ] to advance no more than 20 kilometers beyond the border, and then sending word back to Begin that the advance had indeed halted at 20 kilometers. Chamish's brigade ran into heavy fire, and the brigade was given no air support, resulting in half of it being destroyed. Chamish describes Begin as "an honourable and patriotic Jew" and "the only honourable Prime Minister Israel ever had." Chamish believes that Sharon, in collusion with Peres and ], deliberately perpetrated the ] in order to destroy Begin's political reputation and career. Chamish maintains a very low opinion of Sharon based on a number episodes in Sharon's public life , painting a representation of a violent gangster.


In the mid-2000s, Barry Chamish moved to the United States, last in ], where he continued writing and had a radio show on ] Radio on Tuesday evenings. He died in his apartment in Florida in 2016.<ref>{{cite news |title= Barry Chamish passes away |url= https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/216825 |access-date=2 April 2018 |agency= Israel National News |date= 28 August 2016}}</ref>
Chamish also described the drowning of former Israeli minister ], who reportedly was "swept away by a wave while working on a dock in Ashdod", as a "hit" by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon . The police and media in Israel saw it as an accident.


===Shimon Peres=== ==Scrabble==
Chamish claims that ] did not shoot Rabin and has written on this extensively. One of Chamish's websites carries the name yigalamir.com, after the assassin of the late prime-minister of Israel. Members of Yigal Amir's family told ] in January, 2005, Israel's most sold daily, that ''"they object to Chamish's ideas, and that ]] have no right to publish such a website. They added the campaign angers Yigal Amir himself."'' .


Chamish was the winner of the 1987 Israeli ] Tournament and the runner-up in 1988.<ref name="Whiz" />
Chamish has also accused Shimon Peres of the death of former ] ] ] the founder of the ] and head of the ] because "he raised congressional concern about Palestinian-sponsored terrorism... the ire of some Israeli activists" and because Owens uncovered supposedly fraud he had put himself at risk:


==Books==
:''Barely a fortnight before, Rep. Owens learned the Ginosar scandal broke in Israel. He was either terrified or furious. It's a tossup. If he was terrified, it was because it wouldn't be long before his direct ties to Stephen Cohen would implicate him deeply in the scandals. If he was furious, it was because he finally learned how badly he had been scammed by Peres, Abraham, Masri and Cohen. Either way, he threatened to blow the whistle on the ]. He was poisoned at dinner and dead on a beach by 9 PM. Rep. Owens is now another notch on Peres' gunbelt.''
* ''The Devil Wore an Angel's Suit.'' Winnipeg, MB: Split Level, 1972.
* ''Keep Stillman: A Pun.'' Winnipeg: Split Level, 1973.
* ''Mack.'' Winnipeg: Split Level, 1974.
* ''Alice in Newfoundland''. Winnipeg: Split Level, 1976.
* ''The Fall of Israel''. Edinburgh, Scotland: ], 1992. {{ISBN|0-86241-355-9}}
* ''Traitors and Carpetbaggers in the Promised Land''. Oklahoma City: Hearthstone, 1997. {{ISBN|1-57558-017-9}}
* ''Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin?'' Venice, CA: ], 1998. {{ISBN|0-922915-50-4}}
* ''Return of the Giants''. Sun Lakes, AZ: ], 2000. {{ISBN|1-881542-66-1}}
* ''The Final Days of Israel''. Tempe, AZ: ], 2000. {{ISBN|1-893302-16-4}}
* ''Israel Betrayed''. Ainsworth, NE: Counting Coup, 2001. {{ISBN|0-9708598-5-6}}
* ''Shabtai Tzvi, Labor Zionism and the Holocaust''. Knoxville, TN: ], 2005. {{ISBN|965-90766-1-4}}
* ''Bye Bye Gaza''. Raleigh, NC: ], 2006. {{ISBN|978-1-4457-1528-5}}
* ''With the Kennedys.'' Raleigh, NC: Lulu, 2006. {{ISBN|978-1-4457-1530-8}}
* ''THE conPromised Land''. Raleigh, NC: Lulu, 2010. {{ISBN|978-1-4457-1258-1}}
* ''The Stinger, Not the Stung: Israel's Not So Civil War.'' Raleigh, NC: Lulu, 2012. {{ISBN|978-1300450825}}


==References==
In his explanation for the "Sharon stroke mystery", Chamish explains that this was a murder attempt by ] and ]. While he gives no explanation why Peres and a ] would want to kill the Israeli Prime Minister ], let alone any evidence, Chamish tells us that before he fell into a coma, Sharon wanted to appoint the Israeli president ] as his deputy and not his close political affiliate ]. Also he explains that Sharon was about to allow business people to build a ] in the dismantled ] settlement block. Typically no evidence is provided for such murder theories, apart from sometimes loose associations between individuals.
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Chamish also claims that ] gave away ] to the ] in a secret clause of the ] and that this "fact" had been widely published in Israel.

{{see also|Yitzhak Rabin assassination conspiracy theories}}

===Freemasonry===
Chamish further links his ] with the roles of ] and the ]. According to Chamish, a heretical Jewish sect called Frankists (followers of ], himself a ]), which involve many ] and ] dynasties, including the ], have joined a wider ] conspiracy (including the ]n ]), which he claims are under ] as mentioned by ] ] and ]. Both of these elements together seem to resemble the positions of ] short wave radio host ].

===Sabbateanism and Labour Zionism===
Chamish has also written about the allegedly hidden roles of Israeli Prime Ministers ] and ]. He has attempted to trace the whereabouts of many Jewish ] who were taken from their parents after they arrived on ] in Israel from ]. He writes that Ben Gurion recklessly allowed at least 6000 of these children to be fatally exposed to ] for purposes of ] experimentation. Chamish claims that Peres had ], a Yemenite and past escort, killed by ] after she discovered too much about this story.

In his book ''Shabtai Tzvi, Labor Zionism and the Holocaust'', Chamish also claims that Levi Eshkol was a secret ], and that the ] was based on the teachings of ] (1626-1676) the ] who became an ] to ] by converting to ]. The book contains no direct evidence that any modern politician worships Shabbatai Zevi, but alleges that Labor Zionism has its root inside Sabbateanism.

===Gaza Strip withdrawal and Hurricane Katrina===
Barry Chamish connects the Israeli withdrawal from the ] with the Hurricane Katrina disaster in ], because Gush (Katif) and Gulf start with GU and Katrina and (Gush) Katif start with KAT. He points out that the remainder of the latter words, after subtracting KAT and rearranging rina, is "if rain". Chamish told Aaron Klein, the Jerusalem reporter of the ]: ''Simple human beings cannot fully understand what is going on, but the events certainly must be connected. It's statistically impossible to have two such great natural disasters like the recent tsunami in Asia and Katrina right after each other. This is the hand of God. He is saying something.'' This view is also supported by some religious Jews who are not conspiracy theorists.

In addition to the letters, Chamish connects the two occurrences also with numbers: "There are approximately 6 million people in Israel. 10,000 divided by 6,000,000 equals ''0.00167''. Two weeks later, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in the southern United States, and laid waste and complete desolation to the City of New Orleans. New Orleans has a population of 500,000. US News agencies are openly calling those displaced by the hurricane 'refugees.' There are approximately 300 million people in the United States. 500,000 divided by 300,000,000 equals ''0.00167''."

==UFOs==
Chamish has also written a book about ] sightings in ]. In the 21st century, he stopped writing about UFOs, although he still claims his analysis on UFOs to be true.

===Miscellaneous theories===
In the Versailles banquet hall disaster, where a floor collapsed during a wedding, 23 persons were killed and 300 more injured. Chamish, without quoting any evidence, deducts that this was a sort of general rehearsal for the American set-up of the 9/11 attacks on the United States, in which almost 3000 persons died.

In 2005, Chamish broke the story of a large secret military base being built in Israel by the US and published numerous pictures as well. . Located near ], the base was completed shortly thereafter and turned over to the IDF.

Chamish also accuses ] of being a "liar" , who hid his alleged role of ] double-agent , and not a heroic '']'' as many believe.

He currently has a website and newsletter devoted to a rich variety conspiracy theories about ] and society. The long list of theories includes "explanations" for the deaths of ], ] and ] who reportedly drowned after he was swept away when working on a dock in the port of ] but Chamish points out that the top of his car and windows were smashed badly, hardly something a mere wave could do.

==Criticism==
The chief critic of Barry Chamish is Prof. ] in the '']'' weekly and the ''Jerusalem Post'' daily . ] has dismissed Chamish's work as "nonsense". Both Prof. Plaut and Mr. Pipes have condemned Chamish's theories as fiction. The ''Outpost'' dedicated in March 2002 an editorial item on Barry Chamish, including the following criticism on Chamish's "methodology" :

<blockquote>Chamish literally spouts conspiracy theories. Does the Israeli government claim that Tourism Minister ] was murdered by Arab terrorists? Chamish knows better. Prior to his death, writes Chamish, "Zeevi went on the war path against Peres, which was not a wise strategy. Others have tried and others have died." Chamish hints darkly at connections between Peres and the French and the ]. He writes: "It would have been no trouble for Peres and the French to order the PFLP to knock off Zeevi. (There's unconscious humor for you. Chamish? Proof? A ramble down free association lane is Chamish's notion of "proof.") Chamish promises that the "answer, ultimately will lead to the same organization which murdered Yitzhak Rabin." (Peres, needless to say, was behind that one too.) </blockquote>

==Bibliography==
* ''The Devil Wore an Angel's Suit''. Winnipeg, Manitoba: ], 1972. No ISBN
:This book was Chamish's first book and was a compilation of the tales of triumph of a collective group of friends
* ''Keep Stillman: A Pun''. Winnipeg: Split Level, 1973. No ISBN (front cover by ])
* ''Mack''. Winnipeg: Split Level, 1974. No ISBN.
:This book was written during the time period of Barry Chamish's divorce from his first wife ( Irene Chamish who was the artist of the previous book "Keep Stillman : A Pun". The Mack book was a deliberate satirical parody of Barry Chamish's first wife and his relationship with her. The book was written for the benefit of an explanation to a group of close friends
* ''Alice in Newfoundland''. Winnipeg: Split Level, 1976. No ISBN (Poems)
* ''The Fall of Israel''. Edinburgh, Scotland: ], 1992. ISBN 0-86241-355-9
* ''Traitors and Carpetbaggers in the Promised Land''. Oklahoma City: ], 1997. ISBN 1-57558-017-9
* ''Who murdered Yitzhak Rabin?'' Venice, CA: ], 1998. ISBN 0-922915-50-4
* ''Return of the Giants''. Sun Lakes, AZ: ], 2000. ISBN 1-881542-66-1
*''The Final Days of Israel''. Tempe, AZ: ], 2000. ISBN 1-893302-16-4
**Also published as ''The Last Days of Israel''. 2001. Same publisher and ISBN
* ''Israel Betrayed''. Ainsworth, NE: ], 2001. ISBN 0-9708598-5-6
* ''Save Israel''. Modi'in, Israel: ], 2002. No ISBN
* ''Shabtai Tzvi, Labor Zionism and the Holocaust''. Knoxville, TN: ], 2005. ISBN 965-90766-1-4
* ''Bye Bye Gaza''


==External links== ==External links==
* (Archived)
===Websites and web-based articles===
* ''The Atlantic Monthly,'' Barry Chamish. Volume 259, No. 6 (June 1987), pp.&nbsp;54–58.
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* Barry Chamish. ''Truth in Media Global Watch Bulletin,'' December 3, 1998.
* at ]
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*{{he icon}}, Eli Ashad, Eretz Hatzvi, November 5, 2005
*, "Justice for ]" press release, June 25, 2003
* by Brit-Am


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===Journal and press articles===
*, by Joel Bainerman & Barry Chamish, '']'', March 7, 1994
*, by Barry Chamish, '']'', January 1996
*, '']'' by ] (7th review on the page)
* by ] in the '']''
*, from the Editor, '']'', January 2002, p. 2
*, from the Editor, '']'', March 2002, p. 2 & 10


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Barry Chamish
Born(1952-01-13)January 13, 1952
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
DiedAugust 23, 2016(2016-08-23) (aged 64)
Florida, U.S.
NationalityCanadian / Israeli
Alma materUniversity of Manitoba
Occupation(s)writer, public speaker

Barry Chamish (Hebrew: ברי חמיש; January 13, 1952 – August 23, 2016) was a Canadian-born Israeli writer and public speaker. He was best known for promoting conspiracy theories about the death of Yitzhak Rabin - Israel's prime minister who was assassinated in 1995.

Early years

Barry Chamish was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

In the first half of the 1970s, Chamish had three novels and a book of short stories published in his native Canada. His novel Mack won a Canada Council Award worth several thousand dollars. In 1976, his book Alice in Newfoundland won a Manitoba Arts Council Award.

Chamish earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Manitoba in 1974. In 1975, Chamish emigrated to Israel, where he attended the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He received a Master of Arts degree in 1979.

Following graduation, Chamish was conscripted into the Israel Defense Forces, and served as a regular from 1979 to 1981. He participated as a reservist in the 1982 Lebanon War, during which he operated a Redeye anti-aircraft missile.

Career

Chamish began to work as a free-lance writer, publishing material in a range of publications including The Atlantic, National Review, and the New York Newsday. Chamish established a news service to distribute his work called "Profiles of Israel," which he continued throughout the decade of the 1980s.

During the 1990s, Chamish wrote extensively on UFOs Chamish's work was featured on four episodes of the NBC-TV program Sightings as well as a half-hour of primetime coverage on FOX-TV.

In the 1990s and 2000s, Chamish published a series of conspiracy books, including Traitors and Carpetbaggers in the Promised Land (1997), The Final Days of Israel (2000), Israel Betrayed (2001), and Bye Bye Gaza (2006). Chamish charged in these that an array of external and internal forces had "corrupted the country's leaders" and engaged in a "determined agenda aimed at the demise of the Jewish state."

In Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin? Chamish claims that Rabin was not killed by a lone gunman and that he was shot three times—with the fatal wound being fired from the front. By the end of 2005 the book had sold 39,000 copies and had been published in seven different languages.

In 2008 the Jerusalem Magistrate Court summoned Chamish to pay Itamar Ben-Gvir, an Israeli far-right activist, defamation damages of 36,000 NIS (roughly US$10,000) after repeatedly calling him an agent of the Shin Bet intelligence service.

In the mid-2000s, Barry Chamish moved to the United States, last in Florida, where he continued writing and had a radio show on First Amendment Radio on Tuesday evenings. He died in his apartment in Florida in 2016.

Scrabble

Chamish was the winner of the 1987 Israeli Scrabble Tournament and the runner-up in 1988.

Books

References

  1. "'Conspiracists' still waiting for 'the truth'". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. 30 April 2010. Retrieved 2016-08-05.
  2. ^ "About Barry," Archived 2011-03-05 at the Wayback Machine thebarrychamishwebsite.com/ Retrieved March 6, 2011.
  3. ^ "Barry's Biography," Barry Chamish Archives, Retrieved March 6, 2011.
  4. ^ Matt Bellan, "Former Winnipegger Israeli Scrabble Whiz," The Jewish Post and News, February 1, 1989, pg. 5.
  5. ^ "Misplaced Pages False Claims on Barry Chamish as ‘Holocaust Denier,'" Archived July 1, 2011, at the Wayback Machine Inquisition News, February 26, 2011.
  6. Greer Fay Cashman, "Grapevine Archived 2012-11-05 at the Wayback Machine, The Jerusalem Post, May 23, 2000.
  7. ^ Barry Chamish, "Sorry for Being Right," The Jerusalem Post, February 2, 2006.
  8. "Books" Archived 2011-05-27 at the Wayback Machine, March 6, 2011.
  9. "בן-גביר כונה "סוכן שב"כ" - ויפוצה". ערוץ 7. Retrieved 2016-08-05.
  10. "Barry Chamish passes away". Israel National News. 28 August 2016. Retrieved 2 April 2018.

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