Gideon Levy: Israel’s sage

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The great Israeli journalist Gideon Levy recently spoke at McGill University where he reflected on decades of experience as a progressive journalist reporting on the occupied Palestinian territories. The event was hosted by the excellent Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East as part of a 7 city Canadian tour. Levy’s new book, The Punishment of Gaza, is now widely available.

If you haven’t already, check out Johann Hari’s article on Levy in The Independent.” Writes Hari:

Gideon Levy is the most hated man in Israel – and perhaps the most heroic. This “good Tel Aviv boy” – a sober, serious child of the Jewish state – has been shot at repeatedly by the Israeli Defence Force, been threatened with being “beaten to a pulp” on the country’s streets, and faced demands from government ministers that he be tightly monitored as “a security risk.” This is because he has done something very simple, and something that almost no other Israeli has done. Nearly every week for three decades, he has travelled to the Occupied Territories and described what he sees, plainly and without propaganda. “My modest mission,” he says, “is to prevent a situation in which many Israelis will be able to say, ‘We didn’t know.’” And for that, many people want him silenced.

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