article headline: 'He Has No Censor'
Moshe Ronen has just published a profile of me in Yediot Achronot, one of Israel’s largest daily newspapers. It conveys my ideas very clearly and treats my work and blog with respect, for which I’m grateful. It’s important, for example, for people to know that I oppose terror, whether Israeli or Palestinian, and that I don’t oppose the fight against terror…as long as it respects international law.
I credit Moshe not only for believing it would worthwhile to interview me, but also for fighting for publication of the story over the past few weeks when its fate hung in the balance.
I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop and half expect someone’s going to interview me and write a piece that’s a hatchet job. But this is the third profile written (previous ones were published in Ha’Ir and Walla) and all of them have been excellent. It’s also ironic that this is the third major profile of my work published in Israel, but as far as American Jewish publications…I can’t even buy a cup of coffee. Blackballed both from The Forward and JTA (except the occasional mention by a gutsy Ron Kampeas).
I’ll offer a link to the online version of the article when I have one. In the meantime, Hebrew speakers can read the pdf version.
I can’t tell if you are giving credit where credit is due, or if this is to you just another exception that proves the rule that Israel’s press is biased and right wing. if this is the third favorable profile, why are you still surprised?
Congratulations! More people should know who you are. Your coverage is very original, not what most blogs are: churnalism.
Thanks so much for that.
Congratulations on the wonderful coverage!