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| '''Gideon Levy''' ({{lang-he|גדעון לוי}}; born 1953) is an ] journalist. Levy writes opinion pieces and a weekly column for the newspaper '']'' that often focus on the ] of the ]. A notable journalist on the ],<ref name="7theye3022">{{cite |
'''Gideon Levy''' ({{lang-he|גדעון לוי}}; born 1953) is an ] journalist. Levy writes opinion pieces and a weekly column for the newspaper '']'' that often focus on the ] of the ]. A notable journalist on the ],<ref name="7theye3022">{{cite news |last=Levy |first=Gideon |title=העיתונאי מחפש משמעות |language=he |trans_title=Journalist's Search for Meaning |url=http://www.the7eye.org.il/25696 |publisher=] |accessdate=17 September 2014}}Translation: That is the only way to explain relentless attack on left journalists, the undersigned included (7th-eye, issue no. 29). Barnea probably finds it hard to write without inserting a world view and is twice as hard for him to accept the existence of colleagues who consider their world view to be a candle at their feet. Original:{{rtl-para|he|רק כך אפשר להסביר את השתלחותו חסרת הרסן בעיתונאי השמאל, הח"מ ביניהם ("העין השביעית", גיליון מס' 29). לברנע קשה כנראה לכתוב בלי השקפת עולם וקשה לו שבעתיים להכיר בקיומם של עמיתים למקצוע שהשקפת עולמם היא נר לעבודתם.}}</ref> Levy has been characterized as a "heroic journalist" by some,<ref name="Hari">{{cite news |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-will-gaza-like-iraq-descend-into-civil-war-428330.html |title=Johann Hari: Will Gaza, like Iraq, descend into civil war? |newspaper=] |date=14 December 2006 |accessdate=1 June 2012}}</ref> by others as a "propagandist for the ]".<ref name="Consciencepimps">{{cite news |url=http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART1/841/152.html |trans_title=Conscience pimps |title=סרסורי מצפון |last=Yemini |first=Ben Dror |authorlink=Ben-Dror Yemini |date=17 January 2009 |publisher=] |language=Hebrew |accessdate=9 April 2009}}</ref> | ||
| ==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
| Levy was born in 1953 in ]. |
Levy was born in 1953 in ]. Levy's father, Heinz (Zvi) Loewy, was born in the town of ] in the ] of ], and earned a law degree from the ]. He fled the ] in 1939 on a flight organized by two Slovakian Jews, together with 800 others. He spent six months on an illegal immigrant boat, the Frossoula, registered under a Panamanian flag, which was denied entry into Turkey and Palestine, and was permitted only temporary anchorage at ]. He was then imprisoned in a detention camp at ] for six weeks. The group was then allowed to leave. During its journey, ship was strafed by ] planes, killing two passengers, after which the group was transferred to another ship, the Tiger Hill, which reached ], where it managed to run aground at Tel-Aviv's Frischman Beach.<ref>{{cite news |author=Gideon Levy |url=http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/.premium-1.531227 |title=A stranger in an ancestral home: Gideon Levy searches for his roots in the Czech Republic |newspaper=] |date=22 June 2013 |accessdate=17 September 2014}}</ref><ref name=Independent-Hari>{{cite news |author=Johann Hari |authorlink=Johann Hari |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/is-gideon-levy-the-most-hated-man-in-israel-or-just-the-most-heroic-2087909.html |title=Is Gideon Levy the most hated man in Israel or just the most heroic |newspaper=] |date=24 September 2010 |accessdate=1 June 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Gideon Levy |url=http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.539581 |title=The last passenger |newspaper=] |date=4 August 2013 |accessdate=17 September 2014}}</ref> His mother, Thea, was also from Czechoslovakia, and was brought to Palestine in a rescue operation for children in 1939, and was placed in a ]. His father initially opened a bakery in ] with his sister and worked as a newspaper deliveryman, but later found a job as an office clerk. The family initially lived in poverty, but their lives became relatively comfortable when the ] arrived.<ref>{{cite news |last=Levy |first=Gideon |url=http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/israel-must-remember-the-holocaust-s-refugees-forever-changed-1.425190 |title=Israel must remember the Holocaust's refugees, forever changed |newspaper=] |date=19 April 2012 |accessdate=1 June 2012}}</ref> Levy attended Public School Alef. He and his younger brother Rafi would often sing together, notably songs composed by ].<ref name="HaimHefer">{{cite news |url=http://www.haaretz.co.il/misc/1.1255150 |title=בוא שיר עברי | שני שיבר ושליש ירכתיים |trans_title=Come sing Hebrew | Two kept and a third below deck |last=Levy |first=Gideon |date=10 April 2009 |newspaper=] |language=Hebrew |accessdate=30 January 2010}}</ref> During the ], the street adjacent to his home was hit by Arab artillery.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.haaretz.co.il/misc/1.1257120 |title=אזור הדמדומים | 100 בהיסטוריה |language=he |trans_title=Twilight Zone | 100 in history |author=Gideon Levy |date=10 April 2009 |newspaper=] |accessdate=17 September 2014}}</ref> Levy describes his political views as a teenager as typically mainstream. "I was a full member of the nationalistic religious orgy. We all were under the feeling that the whole project is in an existentialistic danger. We all felt that another holocaust is around the corner."<ref name="ABC">{{cite news |author=Matt Brown |url=http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2007/s1948226.htm |title=Six Day War prompts reflection in Middle East |publisher=] |date=11 June 2007 |accessdate=17 September 2014}}</ref> | ||
| Levy resides in the ] neighborhood of ] (on the lands of ]),<ref>{{cite news|last=Levy|first=Gideon|title=From Sheikh Jarrah to Sheikh Munis|url=http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/from-sheikh-jarrah-to-sheikh-munis-1.281485|accessdate=8 March 2011|newspaper=Haaretz|date=6 August 2009|quote=Somewhere, perhaps in a refugee camp in terrible poverty, lives the family of the farmer who plowed the land where my house now stands."}}</ref> and is a divorced father of two.<ref name="7th-eye" /> He says his sons do not share his politics and do not read anything he writes.<ref |
Levy resides in the ] neighborhood of ] (on the lands of ]),<ref>{{cite news |last=Levy |first=Gideon |title=From Sheikh Jarrah to Sheikh Munis |url=http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/from-sheikh-jarrah-to-sheikh-munis-1.281485 |accessdate=8 March 2011 |newspaper=] |date=6 August 2009 |accessdate=17 September 2014|quote=Somewhere, perhaps in a refugee camp in terrible poverty, lives the family of the farmer who plowed the land where my house now stands."}}</ref> and is a divorced father of two.<ref name="7th-eye" /> He says his sons do not share his politics and do not read anything he writes.<ref name=Independent-Hari/> | ||
| ==Journalism and media career== | ==Journalism and media career== | ||
| In 1974, Levy was drafted into the ] where he served as a reporter for ]. |
In 1974, Levy was drafted into the ], where he served as a reporter for ]. From 1978 to 1982 he worked as an aide to ], then leader of the ]. In 1982, he began to write for the Israeli daily ''Haaretz''. In 1983–1987, he was an assistant to the editor-in-chief.<ref name="7th-eye">{{cite news |url=http://www.the7eye.org.il/lexicon/Pages/Gideon_Levy.aspx |title=לקסיקון אנציקלופדי לתקשורת ועיתונות – גדעון לוי |trans_title=Encyclopedic Lexicon Communications and Journalism – Gideon Levy |date=26 February 2008 |publisher=] |language=Hebrew |accessdate=30 January 2010}}{{dead link|date=September 2014}}</ref> Despite his coverage of the ], he speaks no Arabic.<ref name="7th-eye"/> He has written a column called "Twilight Zone" about the hardships of the Palestinians since 1988. In 2004, Levy published a compilation of articles entitled ''Twilight Zone – Life and Death under the Israeli Occupation''.<ref>{{cite news |author=Eva L. Weiss |url=http://forward.com/articles/3129/a-literary-hot-spot-celebrates-a-birthday/? |title=A Literary Hot Spot Celebrates a Birthday |newspaper=] |date=18 March 2005 |accessdate=17 September 2014}}</ref> With ], he co-edited ''Whispering Embers'', a documentary series on ] after the fall of communism. He hosted ''A Personal meeting with Gideon Levy'', a weekly talk show that was broadcast on Israeli cable TV on channel 3,<ref name="7th-eye" /> and has appeared periodically on other television talk shows. | ||
| Levy has said that his views on Israel's policies toward the Palestinians developed only after joining ''Haaretz''. "When I first started covering the West Bank for Haaretz, I was young and brainwashed," he said in an interview.<ref>Robert Hirschfield |
Levy has said that his views on Israel's policies toward the Palestinians developed only after joining ''Haaretz''. "When I first started covering the West Bank for ], I was young and brainwashed," he said in an interview.<ref>{{cite news |author=Robert Hirschfield |url=http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/4755/israels_gadfly/ |title=Israel's Gadfly |newspaper=] |date=4 September 2009 |accessdate=17 September 2014}}</ref> "I would see settlers cutting down olive trees and soldiers mistreating Palestinian women at the checkpoints, and I would think, 'These are exceptions, not part of government policy.' It took me a long time to see that these were not exceptions – they were the substance of government policy." | ||
| In an interview, he said he doubts that any other newspaper in Israel apart from ''Haaretz'' would give him the journalistic freedom to publish the kind of pieces he writes.<ref name="7th-eye" /> | In an interview, he said he doubts that any other newspaper in Israel apart from ''Haaretz'' would give him the journalistic freedom to publish the kind of pieces he writes.<ref name="7th-eye" /> | ||
| On the issue of copyright violations in journalism, Gideon Levy voiced support for ] of '']'', who was accused of plagiarism, while confirming that Hari had lifted quotes from Levy's newspaper column.<ref> |
On the issue of copyright violations in journalism, Gideon Levy voiced support for ] of '']'', who was accused of plagiarism, while confirming that Hari had lifted quotes from Levy's newspaper column.<ref>{{cite news |author=Andrew Pugh |date=29 June 2011 |url=http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/node/47380 |title=Gideon Levy backs Johann Hari in plagiarism row |work=] |accessdate=17 September 2014}}</ref> | ||
| ==Views and opinions== | ==Views and opinions== | ||
| Levy defines himself as a "patriotic Israeli".<ref name="thejc.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.thejc.com/lifestyle/the-simon-round-interview/38184/interview-gideon-levy |title=Jewish Chronicle interview: Gideon Levy | |
Levy defines himself as a "patriotic Israeli".<ref name="thejc.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.thejc.com/lifestyle/the-simon-round-interview/38184/interview-gideon-levy |title=Jewish Chronicle interview: Gideon Levy |newspaper=] |date=5 October 2010 |accessdate=1 June 2012}}</ref> He criticizes what he sees as Israeli society's ] to the effects of its acts of war and occupation. He has referred to the construction of ] on private Palestinian land as "the most criminal enterprise in history".<ref>{{cite news |author=Gideon Levy |url=http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/what-do-you-mean-when-you-say-no-1.233463 |title=What do you mean when you say 'no'?] |newspaper=] |date=18 November 2007 |accessdate=17 September 2014}}</ref> He opposed the ], and the view that civilian casualties were inevitable. In 2007, he said that the plight of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, then under Israeli blockade, made him ashamed to be an Israeli.<ref name="The Nation">{{cite news |author=Stephen Glain |url=http://www.thenation.com/article/haaretz-israels-liberal-beacon |title=Ha'aretz, Israel's Liberal Beacon |work=]'' |date=24 September 2007 |accessdate=17 September 2014}}</ref> "My modest mission is to prevent a situation in which many Israelis will be able to say 'We didn't know'," said Levy in an interview.<ref name="ABC" /> | ||
| Levy supports unilateral withdrawal from occupied Palestinian territories without concessions. "Israel is not being asked 'to give' anything to the Palestinians; it is only being asked to return – to return their stolen land and restore their trampled self-respect, along with their fundamental human rights and humanity."<ref> |
Levy supports unilateral withdrawal from occupied Palestinian territories without concessions. "Israel is not being asked 'to give' anything to the Palestinians; it is only being asked to return – to return their stolen land and restore their trampled self-respect, along with their fundamental human rights and humanity."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/demands-of-a-thief-1.233907 |author=Gideon Levy |title=Demands of a thief |newspaper=] |date=25 November 2007 |accessdate=17 September 2014}}</ref> | ||
| Levy used to support the ], but he argues that it has become untenable, and he now supports ].<ref> |
Levy used to support the ], but he argues that it has become untenable, and he now supports ].<ref name=whos-afraid>{{cite news |url=http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.571863 |author=Gideon Levy |title=Who's afraid of a binational state? |newspaper=] |date=2 February 2014 |accessdate=17 September 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Interview by ICAHD Finland |url=http://vimeo.com/91307594 |title=Gideon Levy: One state solution vs. two state solution |publisher=ICAHD Finland |date=2 February 2014 |accessdate=13 May 2014}}</ref> | ||
| Levy wrote that the ] was a failed campaign and its objectives were not achieved. "The conclusion is that Israel is a violent and dangerous country, devoid of all restraints and blatantly ignoring the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council, while not giving a hoot about international law," he wrote in an editorial.<ref> |
Levy wrote that the ] was a failed campaign and its objectives were not achieved. "The conclusion is that Israel is a violent and dangerous country, devoid of all restraints and blatantly ignoring the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council, while not giving a hoot about international law," he wrote in an editorial.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/gaza-war-ended-in-utter-failure-for-israel-1.268620 |title=Gaza war ended in utter failure for Israel |author=Gideon Levy |newspaper=] |date=22 January 2009 |accessdate=17 September 2014}}</ref> | ||
| In 2010, Levy described Hamas as a ] organization and holds it responsible for the ] rockets fired at Israeli cities: "Hamas is to be blamed for launching the Qassams. This is unbearable. No sovereign state would have tolerated it. Israel had the right to react."<ref name="thejc.com"/> | In 2010, Levy described Hamas as a ] organization and holds it responsible for the ] rockets fired at Israeli cities: "Hamas is to be blamed for launching the Qassams. This is unbearable. No sovereign state would have tolerated it. Israel had the right to react."<ref name="thejc.com"/> | ||
| Levy supports boycotting Israel, saying it is "the Israeli |
Levy supports boycotting Israel, saying it is "the Israeli patriot's final refuge".<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.535596 |author=Gideon Levy |title=The Israeli patriot's final refuge: boycott |newspaper=] |date=14 July 2013 |accessdate=17 September 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Interview by ICAHD Finland |url=http://vimeo.com/91307592 |title=What led you to change your mind regarding BDS? |publisher=ICAHD Finland |date=2 February 2014 |accessdate=13 May 2014}}</ref> Levy has said that economic boycott is more important, but that he also supports academic and cultural boycott.<ref>{{cite web|author=Interview by ICAHD Finland |url=http://vimeo.com/91307593 |title=What is your view on academic and cultural boycott as compared to economic boycott? |publisher=ICAHD Finland |date=2 February 2014 |accessdate=13 May 2014}}</ref> | ||
| ==Praise and criticism== | ==Praise and criticism== | ||
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| Levy's writing has earned him numerous awards, including the ] in 1996 by the ],<ref>{{cite web|url=http:// |
Levy's writing has earned him numerous awards, including the ] in 1996 by the ],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://acri.org.il/en/timeline/#1996 |title=1996: Gideon Levy, Haaretz Journalist |publisher=] |accessdate=17 September 2014}}</ref> the Anna Lindh Foundation Journalism Award in 2008 for an article he wrote about Palestinian children killed by Israeli forces,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.annalindhfoundation.org/news/gideon-levy-wins-anna-lindh-journalistic-prize-his-exceptional-writings-challanges-region |title=Gideon Levy wins Anna Lindh Journalistic Prize for his exceptional writings on the challenges of the region |publisher=Anna Lindh Foundation |date=27 July 2008 |accessdate=1 June 2012}}</ref> and the Peace Through Media Award in 2012.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/news-in-brief/news-in-brief-1.390336 |title=Haaretz's Gideon Levy wins Peace Through Media Award |newspaper=] |date=2 April 2008 |accessdate=1 June 2012}}{{dead link|date=September 2014}}<!--in 2012, Haaretz recycled this URL and title a number of times; the oldest available on archive.org is 23 April 2012; the desired 2 April 2008 version seems to be gone without a trace --></ref> He has been described as "a powerful liberal voice" by '']'' columnist ]<ref name=nyt20111213>{{cite news |last=Friedman |first=Thomas L. |authorlink=Thomas Friedman |title=Newt, Mitt, Bibi and Vladimir |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/opinion/friedman-newt-mitt-bibi-and-vladimir.html |newspaper=] |date=14 December 2011 |page=A35 |accessdate=17 September 2014}}</ref> and praised by ] of '']'' as "the heroic Israeli journalist".<ref name="Hari"/> Journalist and literary critic ] in his review of Levy's book ''The Punishment of Gaza'' described him as "an Israeli dedicated to saving his country's honour," although "there is much of the story he leaves out."<ref name=g20100703>{{cite news |last=Lezard |first=Nicholas |authorlink=Nicholas Lezard |title=The Punishment of Gaza by Gideon Levy |url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/jul/03/punishment-gaza-gideon-levy-lezard |newspaper=] |date=3 July 2010 |accessdate=17 September 2014}}</ref> He has been profiled in '']''<ref name="Le Monde">{{cite news |url=http://www.lemonde.fr/proche-orient/article/2006/09/04/gideon-levy-une-epine-dans-le-flanc-d-israel_809300_3218.html |title=Gideon Lévy : une épine dans le flanc d'Israël |newspaper=] |date=4 September 2006 |language=fr |accessdate=17 September 2014}}</ref> and '']''.<ref name="7th-eye"/><ref name=DerS>{{cite news |author=Christoph Schult |url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/problems-at-israel-s-haaretz-newspaper-without-a-country-a-599005.html |title=Problems at Israel's Haaretz: Newspaper Without a Country |publisher=] |date=31 December 2008 |accessdate=17 September 2014}}</ref> "He has a global name. He may be the most famous and the most invited journalists in Israel", wrote Israeli journalist ].<ref name=y20101015>{{cite news |last=Levy |first=Gideon |last2=Yemini |first2=Ben Dror |title=ברון תעשיית השקרים |trans_title=Baron of the Falsehood Industry |url=http://www.nrg.co.il/app/index.php?do=blog&encr_id=f2b4c1b55be76d1e6d7b777256ea0370&id=1725 |publisher=] |date=15 October 2010 |language=Hebrew |accessdate=17 September 2014}} Translation available at {{cite web |url=http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=55&x_article=1947 |title=Baron of the Falsehood Industry |publisher=]}} </ref> | ||
| On the other hand, he has been criticized for being anti-Israeli and supporting Palestinian radicalism. "Is it wrong to ask of reporters in a country that is in the midst of a difficult war to show a little more empathy for their people and their country?" asked ] of the '']'' newspaper.<ref>Amnon Dankner, ''Maariv'', 1 May 2002, quoted in </ref> |
On the other hand, he has been criticized for being anti-Israeli and supporting Palestinian radicalism. "Is it wrong to ask of reporters in a country that is in the midst of a difficult war to show a little more empathy for their people and their country?" asked ] of the '']'' newspaper.<ref>Amnon Dankner, '']'', 1 May 2002, quoted in </ref> Ben-Dror Yemini, the editor of the opinion page of ''Maariv'', called Levy one of the "propagandists for the Hamas".<ref name="Consciencepimps"/> ], director of ], wrote " the current Israeli heroes , from whom the Palestinians garner support for their ways, Gideon Levy...."<ref name="Heroes">{{cite news |url=http://www.inn.co.il/Articles/Article.aspx/82 |title=גיבורי הפלסטינים: גדעון לוי, עמירה הס, ודני רובינשטיין |trans_title=Palestinian Heroes: Gideon Levy, Amira Hass, and Danny Rubinstein |date=6 May 2001 |publisher=] |language=Hebrew |accessdate=9 April 2009}}</ref> In 2008, ''Arutz Sheva'' reported that Levy's article about the ] was translated into Arabic for a Hamas website.<ref name=HamasInsp>{{cite web |author=Dalit Halevy |url=http://www.inn.co.il/News/News.aspx/177889 |title=השראה לתעמולת חמאס: גדעון לוי |trans_title=Inspiration of Hamas propaganda: Gideon Levy |publisher=] |date=28 July 2008 |accessdate=1 June 2012}}</ref> In 2006, ], Israel's former deputy Minister of Internal Security, suggested that the ] should monitor Levy as a borderline security risk.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.idi.org.il/hebrew/article.asp?id=182 |title=אירועי תקשורת] |publisher=] |language=he}}{{dead link|date=September 2014}}</ref> | ||
| Israeli novelist ] set off a wave of subscription cancellations to ''Haaretz'' in 2002, when she wrote an open letter to the paper cancelling her own subscription.<ref name="IritLetter">{{cite news |url=http://www.news1.co.il/MemberLogin.aspx?ContentType=1&docid=1068&subjectid=19 |title | |||
| =עירית לינור מאשימה את עיתון הארץ בנקיטתעירית לינור מאשימה את עיתון הארץ בנקיטת עמדה אנטי-ציונית |language=he |trans_title=Irit Linur Accuses newspaper Haaretz of taking anti-zionist stance |date=25 April 2002 |publisher= ] |accessdate=17 September 2014}} <br><sup></sup>Translation: ''it is a person's right to be a radical leftist, and publish a newspaper in accordance with this world view.... However ''Haaretz'' reached a stage where its anti-Zionism turns too frequently to silly and mean journalism.'' Original:<br>''{{rtl-para|he|זכותו של אדם להיות שמאלני-רדיקלי, ולהוציא עיתון בהתאם להשקפת עולמו... אבל "הארץ" הגיע לשלב בו האנטי-ציונות שלו הופכת לעתים קרובות מדי לעיתונות מטופשת ומרושעת.}}''<sup></sup>Translation: ''When Gideon Levy accuses Israel of turning Marwan Barghouti from a peace seeker to an impresario of suicide bombings, it is as logical an interpretation, just as the claim that the wave of attacks on 11 September were a plot by Mossad. In a private conversation with him, he told me one time that he would not travel a hundred meters to save the life of a settler, and it seems to me that his loves and hates have been long tainting his heart-rending reports from the occupied Palestinian territories.'' Original:{{rtl-para|he|כשגדעון לוי מאשים את ישראל בהפיכתו של מרואן ברגותי משוחר שלום לאמרגן פיגועי התאבדות, זו פרשנות הגיונית, ממש כמו הטענה שגל הפיגועים ב-11 בספטמבר הוא מזימה של המוסד. בשיחה פרטית איתו, אמר לי פעם שהוא לא היה נוסע מאה מטר כדי להציל את חייו של מתנחל, ונראה לי שאהבותיו ושנאותיו מכתימות כבר מזמן את דיווחיו הנוגעים ללב מהשטחים הפלשתינים הכבושים.}}</ref> "It is a person's right to be a radical leftist, and publish a newspaper in accordance with his world view... However ''Haaretz'' has reached the point where its anti-Zionism has become stupid and evil," she wrote.<ref name="IritLetter"/> She also accused Levy of amateurism because he does not speak Arabic.<ref name="IritLetter2">Translation:Furthermore, and maybe this also does not have to be noted, his whole career is touched with unseriousness, since he is one of the few journalists for Arab matters in the world who does not speak Arabic, does not understand Arabic and does not read Arabic. He gets a simultaneous translation, and that's enough. For me, that is amateur journalism.{{rtl-para|he|כמו כן, ואולי גם את זה לא צריך לציין, כל הקריירה שלו נגועה בחלטוריזם, מכיוון שהוא אחד הכתבים היחידים בעולם לעניינים ערביים, שלא יודע ערבית, לא מבין ערבית ולא קורא ערבית. מתרגמים לו סימולטנית, וזה מספיק. לטעמי, זו עיתונות חובבנית.}}</ref><ref>Levy himself confirmed in an interview in 2002 that he does not speak Arabic. See {{Wayback |date=20121017214547 |url=http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/1,7340,L-1709008,00.html }}</ref> | |||
| Other public figures also cancelled their subscriptions, including Roni Daniel, the military and security correspondent for Israeli ].<ref name="7nights">{{cite news|title=עד מתי אוקטובר 65'|last=שכניק|first=רז|date=16 January 2009|publisher=מוסף "7 לילות" של "ידיעות אחרונות"|language=Hebrew|accessdate=9 April 2009}}</ref> | Other public figures also cancelled their subscriptions, including Roni Daniel, the military and security correspondent for Israeli ].<ref name="7nights">{{cite news|title=<bdi lang="he" dir="rtl">עד מתי אוקטובר 65'</bdi>|last=שכניק|first=רז|date=16 January 2009|publisher=מוסף "7 לילות" של "ידיעות אחרונות"|language=Hebrew|accessdate=9 April 2009}}<!--URL not easily found; Roni Daniel not in Hebrew Misplaced Pages article; consider dropping Roni Daniel and using linkable source. The ''Der Spiegel'' and ''The Nation'' articles mention cancellations but not by public figures. --></ref> Levy himself joked that there is a thick file of anti-Levy cancellations in the ''Haaretz'' newsroom.<ref name="DerS"/> | ||
| Levy himself joked that there is a thick file of anti-Levy cancellations in the ''Haaretz'' newsroom.<ref name="DerS"/> | |||
| In an open letter to Levy in 2009, Israeli author ], formerly a supporter of Levy, described his comparison of Gazan-Israeli death tolls as absurd and questioned his motives.<ref> |
In an open letter to Levy in 2009, Israeli author ], formerly a supporter of Levy, described his comparison of Gazan-Israeli death tolls as absurd and questioned his motives.<ref>{{cite news |author=A. B. Yehoshua |authorlink=A. B. Yehoshua |date=16 January 2009 |url=http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/an-open-letter-to-gideon-levy-1.268259 |title=Open Letter to Gideon Levy |newspaper=]] |accessdate=17 September 2014}}</ref> | ||
| During the ] the chairman of the ] faction in the Knesset, ], called for Levy to be put on trial for treason, due to Levy's anti-war views.<ref>{{cite |
During the ] the chairman of the ] faction in the Knesset, ], called for Levy to be put on trial for treason, due to Levy's anti-war views.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/06/gaza-israel-movement-that-dare-not-speak-its-name |title=The movement that dare not speak its name in Israel |last=Fraser |first=Giles|authorlink=Giles Fraser|date=6 August 2014|newspaper=] |accessdate=7 August 2014}}</ref> | ||
| ==Published works== | ==Published works== | ||
| * ''Twilight Zone – Life and Death under the Israeli Occupation. 1988–2003''. Tel Aviv: Babylon Printing, 2004 |
* ''Twilight Zone – Life and Death under the Israeli Occupation. 1988–2003''. Tel Aviv: Babylon Printing, 2004 ISBN 978-965-512-062-2, {{oclc|646289069}} | ||
| *''The Punishment of Gaza'', Verso Books, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84467-601-9 | *''The Punishment of Gaza'', Verso Books, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84467-601-9 | ||
| ==Awards== | ==Awards== | ||
| Gideon Levy was awarded the ''Leipzig Media Award'' 2003,<ref> |
Gideon Levy was awarded the ''Leipzig Media Award'' 2003,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.leipziger-medienstiftung.de/2003/02/06/preistraeger-2003-gideon-levy-und-daoud-kuttab-laureate/?lang=en |title=Laureates 2003: Gideon Levy and Daoud Kuttab |publisher=Media Foundation of Sparkasse Leipzig |accessdate=17 September 2014}}</ref> the ''Euro-Med Journalist Prize for Cultural Dialogue'' 2007,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.annalindhfoundation.org/news/four-journalists-win-second-euro-mediterranean-journalist-prize-cultural-dialogue |title=Four journalists win the Second Euro-Mediterranean Journalist Prize for Cultural Dialogue |publisher=Anna Lindh Foundation |date=15 January 2008 |accessdate=17 September 2014}}</ref> and the ''Peace Through Media Award'' at the eighth annual ] on 5 May 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://internationalmediaawards.org/past-awards/2011-awards-2/ |title=2012 Awards |publisher=] |date= |accessdate=17 September 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TSks602ml4 |title=Gideon Levy receives Peace Through Media Award 2012 |publisher=YouTube |date= |accessdate=1 June 2012}}</ref> | ||
| ==References== | ==References== | ||
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* {{cite web |url=http://www.hamartzim.co.il/martzim.php?id=111 |title=Gideon Levy |publisher=Center for Lecturers of Israel}} | ||
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* {{cite news |author=A. B. Yehoshua |authorlink=A. B. Yehoshua |date=16 January 2009 |url=http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/an-open-letter-to-gideon-levy-1.268259 |title=Open Letter to Gideon Levy |newspaper=]}} | ||
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* {{cite news |author=Gideon Levi |date=18 January 2009 |url=http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/gideon-levy-an-open-response-to-a-b-yehoshua-1.268348 |title=Gideon Levy / An open response to A.B. Yehoshua |newspaper=]}} | ||
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* {{cite news |url=http://www.worldpress.org/Mideast/3624.cfm |title=Interview with Haaretz journalist Gideon Levy |title=Am Johal |publisher=] |date=19 September 2010}} | ||
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Revision as of 15:52, 18 September 2014
This article is about the Israeli journalist. For the Dutch journalist and TV presenter, see Gideon Levy (Dutch journalist).
| Gideon Levy | |
|---|---|
 Gideon Levy, 2011 | |
| Born | 1953 (age 71–72) Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Education | M.A. Political Science, Tel Aviv University |
| Occupation | Journalist |
Gideon Levy (Template:Lang-he; born 1953) is an Israeli journalist. Levy writes opinion pieces and a weekly column for the newspaper Haaretz that often focus on the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. A notable journalist on the Israeli left, Levy has been characterized as a "heroic journalist" by some, by others as a "propagandist for the Hamas".
Biography
Levy was born in 1953 in Tel Aviv. Levy's father, Heinz (Zvi) Loewy, was born in the town of Saatz in the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia, and earned a law degree from the University of Prague. He fled the Nazis in 1939 on a flight organized by two Slovakian Jews, together with 800 others. He spent six months on an illegal immigrant boat, the Frossoula, registered under a Panamanian flag, which was denied entry into Turkey and Palestine, and was permitted only temporary anchorage at Tripoli. He was then imprisoned in a detention camp at Beirut for six weeks. The group was then allowed to leave. During its journey, ship was strafed by Royal Air Force planes, killing two passengers, after which the group was transferred to another ship, the Tiger Hill, which reached Mandate Palestine, where it managed to run aground at Tel-Aviv's Frischman Beach. His mother, Thea, was also from Czechoslovakia, and was brought to Palestine in a rescue operation for children in 1939, and was placed in a kibbutz. His father initially opened a bakery in Herzliya with his sister and worked as a newspaper deliveryman, but later found a job as an office clerk. The family initially lived in poverty, but their lives became relatively comfortable when the German Holocaust reparations arrived. Levy attended Public School Alef. He and his younger brother Rafi would often sing together, notably songs composed by Haim Hefer. During the Six-Day War, the street adjacent to his home was hit by Arab artillery. Levy describes his political views as a teenager as typically mainstream. "I was a full member of the nationalistic religious orgy. We all were under the feeling that the whole project is in an existentialistic danger. We all felt that another holocaust is around the corner."
Levy resides in the Ramat Aviv neighborhood of Tel Aviv (on the lands of Sheikh Munis), and is a divorced father of two. He says his sons do not share his politics and do not read anything he writes.
Journalism and media career
In 1974, Levy was drafted into the Israeli Defense Forces, where he served as a reporter for Israel Army Radio. From 1978 to 1982 he worked as an aide to Shimon Peres, then leader of the Israeli Labor Party. In 1982, he began to write for the Israeli daily Haaretz. In 1983–1987, he was an assistant to the editor-in-chief. Despite his coverage of the Israeli-Arab conflict, he speaks no Arabic. He has written a column called "Twilight Zone" about the hardships of the Palestinians since 1988. In 2004, Levy published a compilation of articles entitled Twilight Zone – Life and Death under the Israeli Occupation. With Haim Yavin, he co-edited Whispering Embers, a documentary series on Russian Jewry after the fall of communism. He hosted A Personal meeting with Gideon Levy, a weekly talk show that was broadcast on Israeli cable TV on channel 3, and has appeared periodically on other television talk shows.
Levy has said that his views on Israel's policies toward the Palestinians developed only after joining Haaretz. "When I first started covering the West Bank for Haaretz, I was young and brainwashed," he said in an interview. "I would see settlers cutting down olive trees and soldiers mistreating Palestinian women at the checkpoints, and I would think, 'These are exceptions, not part of government policy.' It took me a long time to see that these were not exceptions – they were the substance of government policy."
In an interview, he said he doubts that any other newspaper in Israel apart from Haaretz would give him the journalistic freedom to publish the kind of pieces he writes.
On the issue of copyright violations in journalism, Gideon Levy voiced support for Johann Hari of The Independent, who was accused of plagiarism, while confirming that Hari had lifted quotes from Levy's newspaper column.
Views and opinions
Levy defines himself as a "patriotic Israeli". He criticizes what he sees as Israeli society's moral blindness to the effects of its acts of war and occupation. He has referred to the construction of settlements on private Palestinian land as "the most criminal enterprise in history". He opposed the 2006 Lebanon War, and the view that civilian casualties were inevitable. In 2007, he said that the plight of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, then under Israeli blockade, made him ashamed to be an Israeli. "My modest mission is to prevent a situation in which many Israelis will be able to say 'We didn't know'," said Levy in an interview.
Levy supports unilateral withdrawal from occupied Palestinian territories without concessions. "Israel is not being asked 'to give' anything to the Palestinians; it is only being asked to return – to return their stolen land and restore their trampled self-respect, along with their fundamental human rights and humanity."
Levy used to support the two-state solution, but he argues that it has become untenable, and he now supports one-state solution.
Levy wrote that the Gaza War was a failed campaign and its objectives were not achieved. "The conclusion is that Israel is a violent and dangerous country, devoid of all restraints and blatantly ignoring the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council, while not giving a hoot about international law," he wrote in an editorial.
In 2010, Levy described Hamas as a fundamentalist organization and holds it responsible for the Qassam rockets fired at Israeli cities: "Hamas is to be blamed for launching the Qassams. This is unbearable. No sovereign state would have tolerated it. Israel had the right to react."
Levy supports boycotting Israel, saying it is "the Israeli patriot's final refuge". Levy has said that economic boycott is more important, but that he also supports academic and cultural boycott.
Praise and criticism
Levy's writing has earned him numerous awards, including the Emil Grunzweig Human Rights Award in 1996 by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, the Anna Lindh Foundation Journalism Award in 2008 for an article he wrote about Palestinian children killed by Israeli forces, and the Peace Through Media Award in 2012. He has been described as "a powerful liberal voice" by The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman and praised by Johann Hari of The Independent as "the heroic Israeli journalist". Journalist and literary critic Nicholas Lezard in his review of Levy's book The Punishment of Gaza described him as "an Israeli dedicated to saving his country's honour," although "there is much of the story he leaves out." He has been profiled in Le Monde and Der Spiegel. "He has a global name. He may be the most famous and the most invited journalists in Israel", wrote Israeli journalist Ben-Dror Yemini.
On the other hand, he has been criticized for being anti-Israeli and supporting Palestinian radicalism. "Is it wrong to ask of reporters in a country that is in the midst of a difficult war to show a little more empathy for their people and their country?" asked Amnon Dankner of the Maariv newspaper. Ben-Dror Yemini, the editor of the opinion page of Maariv, called Levy one of the "propagandists for the Hamas". Itamar Marcus, director of Palestinian Media Watch, wrote " the current Israeli heroes , from whom the Palestinians garner support for their ways, Gideon Levy...." In 2008, Arutz Sheva reported that Levy's article about the Jerusalem bulldozer attack was translated into Arabic for a Hamas website. In 2006, Gideon Ezra, Israel's former deputy Minister of Internal Security, suggested that the General Security Services should monitor Levy as a borderline security risk.
Israeli novelist Irit Linur set off a wave of subscription cancellations to Haaretz in 2002, when she wrote an open letter to the paper cancelling her own subscription. "It is a person's right to be a radical leftist, and publish a newspaper in accordance with his world view... However Haaretz has reached the point where its anti-Zionism has become stupid and evil," she wrote. She also accused Levy of amateurism because he does not speak Arabic.
Other public figures also cancelled their subscriptions, including Roni Daniel, the military and security correspondent for Israeli Channel 2. Levy himself joked that there is a thick file of anti-Levy cancellations in the Haaretz newsroom.
In an open letter to Levy in 2009, Israeli author A. B. Yehoshua, formerly a supporter of Levy, described his comparison of Gazan-Israeli death tolls as absurd and questioned his motives.
During the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict the chairman of the Likud Yisrael Beiteinu faction in the Knesset, Yariv Levin, called for Levy to be put on trial for treason, due to Levy's anti-war views.
Published works
- Twilight Zone – Life and Death under the Israeli Occupation. 1988–2003. Tel Aviv: Babylon Printing, 2004 ISBN 978-965-512-062-2, OCLC 646289069
- The Punishment of Gaza, Verso Books, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84467-601-9
Awards
Gideon Levy was awarded the Leipzig Media Award 2003, the Euro-Med Journalist Prize for Cultural Dialogue 2007, and the Peace Through Media Award at the eighth annual International Media Awards on 5 May 2012.
References
- Levy, Gideon. "העיתונאי מחפש משמעות" (in Hebrew). HaAyin HaShevi'it. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|trans_title=ignored (|trans-title=suggested) (help)Translation: That is the only way to explain relentless attack on left journalists, the undersigned included (7th-eye, issue no. 29). Barnea probably finds it hard to write without inserting a world view and is twice as hard for him to accept the existence of colleagues who consider their world view to be a candle at their feet. Original:רק כך אפשר להסביר את השתלחותו חסרת הרסן בעיתונאי השמאל, הח"מ ביניהם ("העין השביעית", גיליון מס' 29). לברנע קשה כנראה לכתוב בלי השקפת עולם וקשה לו שבעתיים להכיר בקיומם של עמיתים למקצוע שהשקפת עולמם היא נר לעבודתם. - ^ "Johann Hari: Will Gaza, like Iraq, descend into civil war?". The Independent. 14 December 2006. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
- ^ Yemini, Ben Dror (17 January 2009). "סרסורי מצפון" (in Hebrew). nrg Maariv. Retrieved 9 April 2009.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|trans_title=ignored (|trans-title=suggested) (help) - Gideon Levy (22 June 2013). "A stranger in an ancestral home: Gideon Levy searches for his roots in the Czech Republic". Haaretz. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
- ^ Johann Hari (24 September 2010). "Is Gideon Levy the most hated man in Israel or just the most heroic". The Independent. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
- Gideon Levy (4 August 2013). "The last passenger". Haaretz. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
- Levy, Gideon (19 April 2012). "Israel must remember the Holocaust's refugees, forever changed". Haaretz. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
- Levy, Gideon (10 April 2009). "בוא שיר עברי | שני שיבר ושליש ירכתיים". Haaretz (in Hebrew). Retrieved 30 January 2010.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|trans_title=ignored (|trans-title=suggested) (help) - Gideon Levy (10 April 2009). "אזור הדמדומים | 100 בהיסטוריה". Haaretz (in Hebrew). Retrieved 17 September 2014.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|trans_title=ignored (|trans-title=suggested) (help) - ^ Matt Brown (11 June 2007). "Six Day War prompts reflection in Middle East". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
- Levy, Gideon (6 August 2009). "From Sheikh Jarrah to Sheikh Munis". Haaretz. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
Somewhere, perhaps in a refugee camp in terrible poverty, lives the family of the farmer who plowed the land where my house now stands."
- ^ "לקסיקון אנציקלופדי לתקשורת ועיתונות – גדעון לוי" (in Hebrew). HaAyin HaShevi'it. 26 February 2008. Retrieved 30 January 2010.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|trans_title=ignored (|trans-title=suggested) (help) - Eva L. Weiss (18 March 2005). "A Literary Hot Spot Celebrates a Birthday". The Jewish Daily Forward. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
- Robert Hirschfield (4 September 2009). "Israel's Gadfly". In These Times. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
- Andrew Pugh (29 June 2011). "Gideon Levy backs Johann Hari in plagiarism row". Press Gazette. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
- ^ "Jewish Chronicle interview: Gideon Levy". The Jewish Chronicle. 5 October 2010. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
- Gideon Levy (18 November 2007). "What do you mean when you say 'no'?]". Haaretz. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
- Stephen Glain (24 September 2007). "Ha'aretz, Israel's Liberal Beacon". The Nation. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|work=(help) - Gideon Levy (25 November 2007). "Demands of a thief". Haaretz. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
- Gideon Levy (2 February 2014). "Who's afraid of a binational state?". Haaretz. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
- Interview by ICAHD Finland (2 February 2014). "Gideon Levy: One state solution vs. two state solution". ICAHD Finland. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
- Gideon Levy (22 January 2009). "Gaza war ended in utter failure for Israel". Haaretz. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
- Gideon Levy (14 July 2013). "The Israeli patriot's final refuge: boycott". Haaretz. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
- Interview by ICAHD Finland (2 February 2014). "What led you to change your mind regarding BDS?". ICAHD Finland. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
- Interview by ICAHD Finland (2 February 2014). "What is your view on academic and cultural boycott as compared to economic boycott?". ICAHD Finland. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
- "1996: Gideon Levy, Haaretz Journalist". Association for Civil Rights in Israel. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
- "Gideon Levy wins Anna Lindh Journalistic Prize for his exceptional writings on the challenges of the region". Anna Lindh Foundation. 27 July 2008. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
- "Haaretz's Gideon Levy wins Peace Through Media Award". Haaretz. 2 April 2008. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
- Friedman, Thomas L. (14 December 2011). "Newt, Mitt, Bibi and Vladimir". The New York Times. p. A35. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
- Lezard, Nicholas (3 July 2010). "The Punishment of Gaza by Gideon Levy". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
- "Gideon Lévy : une épine dans le flanc d'Israël". Le Monde (in French). 4 September 2006. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
- ^ Christoph Schult (31 December 2008). "Problems at Israel's Haaretz: Newspaper Without a Country". Der Spiegel. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
- Levy, Gideon; Yemini, Ben Dror (15 October 2010). "ברון תעשיית השקרים" (in Hebrew). nrg Maariv. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|trans_title=ignored (|trans-title=suggested) (help) Translation available at "Baron of the Falsehood Industry". CAMERA. - Amnon Dankner, Maariv, 1 May 2002, quoted in Gaby Weiman, "Ten Dilemmas of Journalism in Days of Terror"
- "גיבורי הפלסטינים: גדעון לוי, עמירה הס, ודני רובינשטיין" (in Hebrew). Arutz Sheva. 6 May 2001. Retrieved 9 April 2009.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|trans_title=ignored (|trans-title=suggested) (help) - Dalit Halevy (28 July 2008). "השראה לתעמולת חמאס: גדעון לוי". Arutz Sheva. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|trans_title=ignored (|trans-title=suggested) (help) - "אירועי תקשורת]" (in Hebrew). Israel Democracy Institute.
- ^ "עירית לינור מאשימה את עיתון הארץ בנקיטתעירית לינור מאשימה את עיתון הארץ בנקיטת עמדה אנטי-ציונית" (in Hebrew). News1. 25 April 2002. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
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Translation: it is a person's right to be a radical leftist, and publish a newspaper in accordance with this world view.... However Haaretz reached a stage where its anti-Zionism turns too frequently to silly and mean journalism. Original:
זכותו של אדם להיות שמאלני-רדיקלי, ולהוציא עיתון בהתאם להשקפת עולמו... אבל "הארץ" הגיע לשלב בו האנטי-ציונות שלו הופכת לעתים קרובות מדי לעיתונות מטופשת ומרושעת.Translation: When Gideon Levy accuses Israel of turning Marwan Barghouti from a peace seeker to an impresario of suicide bombings, it is as logical an interpretation, just as the claim that the wave of attacks on 11 September were a plot by Mossad. In a private conversation with him, he told me one time that he would not travel a hundred meters to save the life of a settler, and it seems to me that his loves and hates have been long tainting his heart-rending reports from the occupied Palestinian territories. Original:כשגדעון לוי מאשים את ישראל בהפיכתו של מרואן ברגותי משוחר שלום לאמרגן פיגועי התאבדות, זו פרשנות הגיונית, ממש כמו הטענה שגל הפיגועים ב-11 בספטמבר הוא מזימה של המוסד. בשיחה פרטית איתו, אמר לי פעם שהוא לא היה נוסע מאה מטר כדי להציל את חייו של מתנחל, ונראה לי שאהבותיו ושנאותיו מכתימות כבר מזמן את דיווחיו הנוגעים ללב מהשטחים הפלשתינים הכבושים. - Translation:Furthermore, and maybe this also does not have to be noted, his whole career is touched with unseriousness, since he is one of the few journalists for Arab matters in the world who does not speak Arabic, does not understand Arabic and does not read Arabic. He gets a simultaneous translation, and that's enough. For me, that is amateur journalism.כמו כן, ואולי גם את זה לא צריך לציין, כל הקריירה שלו נגועה בחלטוריזם, מכיוון שהוא אחד הכתבים היחידים בעולם לעניינים ערביים, שלא יודע ערבית, לא מבין ערבית ולא קורא ערבית. מתרגמים לו סימולטנית, וזה מספיק. לטעמי, זו עיתונות חובבנית.
- Levy himself confirmed in an interview in 2002 that he does not speak Arabic. See Interview with Gideon Levy (in Hebrew) Archived 2012-10-17 at the Wayback Machine
- שכניק, רז (16 January 2009). "עד מתי אוקטובר 65'" (in Hebrew). מוסף "7 לילות" של "ידיעות אחרונות".
{{cite news}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - A. B. Yehoshua (16 January 2009). "Open Letter to Gideon Levy". Haaretz]. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
- Fraser, Giles (6 August 2014). "The movement that dare not speak its name in Israel". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
- "Laureates 2003: Gideon Levy and Daoud Kuttab". Media Foundation of Sparkasse Leipzig. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
- "Four journalists win the Second Euro-Mediterranean Journalist Prize for Cultural Dialogue". Anna Lindh Foundation. 15 January 2008. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
- "2012 Awards". International Media Awards. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
- "Gideon Levy receives Peace Through Media Award 2012". YouTube. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
External links
- "Divergent Israeli Views: Interview with Gideon Levy". PBS. March 2003.
- Selection of articles by Levy
- "Gideon Levy". Center for Lecturers of Israel.
- A. B. Yehoshua (16 January 2009). "Open Letter to Gideon Levy". Haaretz.
- Gideon Levi (18 January 2009). "Gideon Levy / An open response to A.B. Yehoshua". Haaretz.
- "Am Johal". World Press Review. 19 September 2010.