Saturday, February 12, 2005
Update to the post below. Stuart at New Appeal to Reason points me to his post on Israel Shamir, where he has discovered an investigative article at the British magazine Searchlight that exposes Shamir as a potential fraud and raises even more questions - but not about whether Shamir is a vicious anti-Semite or not. That question is settled.
Shamir also claims to have occupied a string of important positions as a translator of classical works and to have worked as a journalist in several heavyweight media institutions, including for the major Israeli paper, Haaretz. However, when Monitor started investigating Shamir’s past last year, it found no evidence that Shamir had ever held these positions. His supposed job as Moscow correspondent for Haaretz turned out to consist of just a few freelance articles.
The Swedish Census Registry does give a few clues about Shamir and his movements. It shows that his name was entered onto the Registry in October 1984 and he later obtained Swedish citizenship. According to the register he still lives in Dalagatan, Stockholm, not in Jaffa, Israel, as he publicly claims. Shamir’s first wife and two sons also live in Stockholm.
In July 1993, Shamir emigrated to Russia and later to Israel, where he married again in July 1994. He and his new wife returned to Sweden in autumn 1998.
Shamir, who claims to be one of Israel’s leading intellectuals, has concealed the fact that he has lived in Sweden for a long time. Another strange fact is that there are hardly any references to Shamir on the internet before 2001, the same year in which he changed his name. This was a strange time to do this, just as he was being noticed and had started to publish his works under the name of Israel Shamir...
There's much more.
The guy is a Swede? That would be sadly unsurprising.
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Thank you for giving me information on that person for my "debate" with extreme Muslims in Main Pravda English forum, a very Anti Semitic forum:
http://engforum.pravda.ru/showthread.php3?threadid=145023
http://engforum.pravda.ru/showthread.php3?threadid=145018
http://engforum.pravda.ru/showthread.php3?threadid=145027
http://engforum.pravda.ru/showthread.php3?threadid=145029
http://engforum.pravda.ru/showthread.php3?threadid=145026
http://engforum.pravda.ru/showthread.php3?threadid=144589
http://engforum.pravda.ru/showthread.php3?threadid=144982