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'''Israel Shamir''' is a writer and journalist who is opposed to existence of a separate Jewish state and supports equality for all in all of Palestine.
'''Israel Shamir''' is a writer and journalist who is opposed to [[Zionism]] and supports [[Palestinian]] rights. He is a citizen of Sweden, where his legal name is Jöran Jermas. Critics accuse Shamir of [[anti-Semitism]] and of misrepresenting his background and career. [http://www.expo.se/index_1.php?pg=http%3A//www.expo.se/www/1_1102.html] [http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/index.php?link=template&story=6)]
==Career==
In response to the [[Al-Aqsa Intifada]], Shamir abandoned his literary occupation and resumed his work as a journalist. </blockquote>
In [[2003]] Shamir formally announced his conversion to [[Greek Orthodox Church|Greek Orthodox]] Christianity.[http://www.israelshamir.net/english/hellen.shtml]
Roland Rance has written that Shamir "also writes under the names of Schmerlin, Robert David, Vassili Krasevsky and Jöran Jermas."
<blockquote>Shamir is apparently a right-wing Russian journalist, who pretends to be an Israeli Jewish leftist. He claims to live in Jaffa, and may well have a home there, but he also seems to live in Sweden. He uses a Swedish email address, and his website used to be hosted there. His son was deported from Israel to Sweden....[http://www.socialistviewpoint.org/sept_04/sept_04_22.html]</blockquote>
According to Swedish authorities, Shamir lived in Sweden from 1984-1993, when he emigrated to Russia.[http://www.expo.se/index_1.php?pg=http%3A//www.expo.se/www/1_1102.html] [http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/index.php?link=template&story=6)]
==Shamir's controversial views==
===Jewish-Christian relations===
Shamir is a strong believer that [[Jew]]s must abandon [[Judaism]] and convert to [[Christianity]]. In his [[April 15]], [[2001]] ''Take Two'' [[Easter]] greetings he writes "The Jewish supremacy forces and the greed worshippers united again to crucify [[Christ]]... Two thousand years ago, the spirit of brotherhood rose again, to give hope for the second joust. If he is defeated again, we all shall become forever slaves to our faceless masters. They will destroy the [[Mother Earth]] herself, turn her into waste lands of [[Mordor]]."
In his [[2003]] ''Christmas Greetings to Hellenes'' he writes: "The Jews are forever fighting Christ and the Church; there is no chance for peace in the [[Holy Land]] unless the position of the Synagogue is undermined and the Jews saved by the Church... only the Orthodox Church can offer true salvation to the Jews escaping their supremacist creed".
===Jewish/Zionist/Israeli conspiracies===
Shamir has advanced a number of [[Conspiracy theory|conspiracy theories]] regarding [[Jew]]s and [[Israel]]; for example, in an article entitled ''The Shadow of Zog'', he promotes the notion of a "[[Zionist Occupied Government]]" (or ZOG) ruling the [[United States]]. In his view, ZOG is a "slave of [[Mammon]], a servant of the Shadow, he is helping the Dark force fulfill its metaphysical task, to blot out the Light of [[Christ]] and to turn our world into Godless desert. That is why he sends bulldozers to wipe out flowers in Palestine, sends troops to sack [[Baghdad]] and [[Damascus]], threatens [[Paris]] and [[Moscow]], perverts [[Christianity]]."
In an article titled ''Bloodcurdling Libel'', Shamir advances the [[blood libel]] that Jews sacrificed Christian children for their blood, perhaps for use in [[Passover]] [[matzo]]s or [[Purim]] ''[[hamantasch]]en''. In a September [[2004]] article titled ''The Spider Web'', he describes ''[[Sunday Times]]'' articles as "part of a Judaic conspiracy to besmirch Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims", and suggested that the [[Beslan school massacre]], [[Janjaweed|genocide in Sudan]], the [[11 March 2004 Madrid attacks]], the [[2003 Istanbul Bombings|terror attacks on Istanbul synagogues]], and the [[August 31]], 2004 suicide bombings on buses in [[Beersheba]] (for which [[Hamas]] claimed responsibility), were all "[[False flag]]" operations carried out by the "Judaic conspiracy". Another article titled ''Poisoning Wells'' recycles the [[medieval]] belief that Jews were responsible for causing outbreaks of [[bubonic plague]] by [[poisoning the well]]s .
==Criticism==
Two prominent Palestinian activists, Ali Abunimah and Hussein Ibish have written an open letter regarding Shamir's [[Anti-semitism]] being unhelpful to the Palestinian cause. They cite a number of 'serious concerns' about Shamir's Anti-semitism, including this passage:
:"The Jewish supremacy forces and the greed worshippers united again to crucify Christ. The US, this New Rome, again gives hand and agrees to become the executioner. Now it is our turn to decide."[http://shamir.mediamonitors.net/april152001.html]
They conclude by stating:
:"We do not have any need for some of what Israel Shamir is introducing into the discourse on behalf of Palestinian rights, which increasingly includes elements of traditional European anti-Semitic rhetoric. Such sentiments will harm, not help, the cause. We urge all our friends in the movement for Palestinian rights to seriously consider the long-term effects this rhetoric will have on the cause, and act accordingly."[http://www.nigelparry.com/issues/shamir/originalletter.html]
==Israel Shamir bibliography==
Sosna I Oliva, (Pine and Olive in Russian), Wahlstrom Publications, 1987
Путешествие в Египет, (Travel to Egypt, in Russian) Tel-Aviv, 1981
Потаенные Прелести Планеты Земля (Obscure sites of Planet Earth, in Russian) “Glagol”“Glagol”, Moscow, 1996
Xozyaeva Diskursa, (Masters of Discourse, in Russian) Gilea, Moscow 2003
Sosna I Oliva 2d edition (in Russian) Contracultura, Moscow 2004
Carri armati e ulivi della Palestina –– Il fragore del silenzio (Tanks and olives in Palestine, in Italian) –– Editrice C.T.R. Pistoia 2002
Blomar fra Galilea. Essay fra kanten av avgrunnen, (in Norwegian) Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo, 2002 [omsetjing: Hans Olav Brendberg]
L’autreL’autre Visage D’israëlD’israël, (in French) é d i t i o n s B a l l a n d- B l a n c h e, Paris 2003
L’autreL’autre Visage D’israëlD’israël, (in French) é d i t i o n s Al Qalam, Paris 2004
Pardes (in French) Paris é d i t i o n s Al Qalam, 2005
Translations
S.Y.Agnon, In the Heart of the Seas, Wahlstrom Publication, Jerusalem-Stockholm,1981 S.Y.Agnon, In the Heart of the Seas, “Raduga”“Raduga”, Moscow, 1991
S.Y.Agnon, In the prime of her life, “Panorama”“Panorama”, Moscow, 1996 ISBN 45-85220-487-0
S.Y.Agnon, Collected Stories, Gesharim, Jerusalem 2004 ISBN 5-93273-148-6
J.Joyce “Sirens”“Sirens”, “Cyclops”“Cyclops” (chapters from Ulysses ), “22”“22” magazine Tel-Aviv, 1984
J.Joyce “Sirens”“Sirens”, “Cyclops”“Cyclops” (chapters from Ulysses), «Vremja i my », New York
J.Joyce “Sirens”“Sirens”, “Cyclops”“Cyclops” (chapters from Ulysses), Anthology « The Blue Laguna”Laguna” (Kuzminsky ed.)
J.Joyce “Sirens”“Sirens”, “Cyclops”“Cyclops” (chapters from Ulysses), “Raduga”“Raduga”, Moscow, 2000 ISBN 5-05-005113-4
H. Herzog, Arab-Israeli Wars, OPI publication, London, 1986 <http://hedir.openu.ac.il/kurs/pol-bibliogr.html > republished Moscow 2004 < http://oz.by/books/more1010690.html >
R. Chandler, Playback, Tel Aviv, 1986
G. Mocked, Metamorphoses, Leningrad, 1992
Homer, Odyssey, “Aletheia”“Aletheia”, St. Petersburg, 2000
Zacuto, Sefer Yohassin –– work in progress
== External links ==
* [http://www.israelshamir.net The Home Page of Israel Shamir]
* [http://www.expo.se/index_1.php?pg=http%3A//www.expo.se/www/1_1102.html Israel Shamir lies about his background (in Swedish)] (From the Swedish magazine Expo)
* [http://www.nigelparry.com/issues/shamir/ The Israel Shamir Case]
* [http://www.socialistviewpoint.org/sept_04/sept_04_22.html ''Israel Shamir: Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing''] by Roland Rance. [[Socialist Viewpoint]], September 2004, Vol 4, No. 8.
* [http://www.phdn.org/antisem/antision/notreami.html Our friend Israel Shamir (in French)] (Taken from the French Monthly [http://www.col.fr/arche/ L'arche] May 2003, no 543.)
* [http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/index.php?link=template&story=6 Israeli writer is Swedish anti-Semite]
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