Ari Shavit

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Ari Shavit (born 1957 in Rehovot ) is an Israeli journalist. He worked in a leading position for the left-liberal newspaper Haaretz until allegations of sexual harassment led him to retire.

He is the author of 2013 NYT bestseller, My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel.

Life

Ari Shavit is the son of a scientist and an artist. His ancestors were Zionist immigrants from England, including the lawyer Herbert Bentwich .

Shavit did military service with the paratroopers and studied philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem .

He worked for the weekly newspaper Koteret Rashit and was involved in the Israeli civil rights association in the 1990s . Since 1995 he has worked as a reporter and columnist for the daily newspaper Haaretz and the television channel Kanal 10.

According to his own statement, as a journalist he is politically left-wing and, as an advocate of peace, advocates an end to the Israeli occupation.

After multiple allegations of sexual harassment of women, which were initially brought forward by journalist Danielle Berrin , Shavit stopped working for both media on October 31, 2016.

Publications

At a reception in the US Embassy in Tel Aviv, July 4, 2015

My promised land

In late 2013, Shavit published an English translation of My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel , parts of which had previously appeared in Haaretz and in the New York Review of Books . The WORLD ruled Shavit lead before a history, "in which combines the einordnende view of the historian with the obsession with detail of the reporter." He had, for example, as Richard Kämmerlings , visited the brigade commander of the 3rd Regiment, which themselves born in 1923 in Kaunas , as a teenager was a pupil of Siegfried Lehmann in the children's and youth village Ben Shemen and experienced the Arabic Lydda as a child, which he later helped to destroy.

The book received a lot of attention in the US and became a New York Times best seller in 2013 . The NYT included the work on its list of 100 Notable Books of 2013. Shavit has received several awards, including the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for non-fiction books and the National Jewish Book Award in September 2014 . It also received the Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award in History from the Jewish Book Council and it won the Natan Book Award .

In 2015 a German translation was published: My promised land . In the review of Deutschlandfunk by Carsten Hueck, it was described as "by far the most informative, differentiated, committed and most excitingly written book on Israel". The work becomes rousing because the historical, political and cultural are always charged with personalities. "The narrative is polyphonic and multi-perspective, with narrative creativity and great honesty."

Peter Kapern, on the other hand, stated that Shavit viewed the chapter on the founding of the state "with the precision, but also with the lack of emotion of an entomologist who examines a fly under the microscope." The disempowerment and expulsion of the Palestinians should have been like this. “'You or us' - there was no other way.” “Shoulder to shoulder in the kibbutz behind a high border wall”, that is the only chance of survival that Ari Shavit sees for his Israel and his Israelis. With this perspective, Peter Kapern sees the book as ultimately depressing. “Because it shows that he has followed the path of so many political companions. From the peace movement ready for reconciliation to the Israeli wagon castle. "

Tamar Amar-Dahl certified the book in Germany radio mediocrity and cannot explain the success in the USA. She suspects the reason to be that Shavit expresses the "increasing despair and hopelessness about Israel's conflict-ridden political order", but at the same time confesses to Zionism and therefore to the Jewish state. Ari Shavit's text reveals the “left-Zionist dilemma: just like right-wing Zionism or religious Zionism, left-wing Zionism understands the concept of a Jewish state in Eretz Israel as without alternative. Unlike his political opponents, he does not want to come to terms with the state of conflict. He seeks peace, although he doesn't really believe in it. "

One of the chapters of the book on the Exodus of Lydda received special attention : The NYT quotes Shavit's judgment on the importance of the capture of Lydda for the existence of the State of Israel. For Shavit, Lydda is a black box for the Israelis in which the “dark secret of Zionism” lies, without Lydda Israel could not have existed. The place where Zionism triggered a human catastrophe is a permanent moral scar on the State of Israel.

The account of Shavit was rejected as historically incorrect by Martin Kramer and others, but confirmed in whole or in part by others such as Benny Morris .

Sexual harassment allegation

According to Israel News , Shavit resigned from his posts at Haaretz and Kanal 10 on October 31, 2016 after several women accused him of verbal and physical sexual harassment . The Jewish newspaper Daily Forward recently published the allegations of a woman who was supposed to accompany Shavit to a lecture. On the way he invited her for a coffee and then rubbed her hand in a suggestive way and he would like to meet her "alone" in Israel. Shavit later called her on her cell phone. Shavit released a statement expressing his shame for the mistakes he made "with people in general and women in particular." Shortly before, the Jewish-American journalist Danielle Berrin had indirectly accused him of sexually molesting and assaulting her when she was trying to interview him in the lobby of a hotel in America. Shavit had initially excused this as a "flirt". Journalist Avital Chizhik also reported similar experiences in a Twitter message.

Private

Shavit lives with his wife and two children in Kfar Schmarjahu .

Fonts (selection)

  • My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel . Spiegel & Grau, New York, 2013
    • My promised land . Translation from the American by Michael Müller and Susanne Kuhlmann-Krieg. Bertelsmann, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-570-10226-8 .
  • Ḥaluḳat ha-arets: Yiśreʼelim ḥoshvim ʻal ha-hitnatḳut . Jerusalem: Keter 2005 (he)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kevin Zdiara: Looking for a way out , review, in: TAZ , July 4, 2015, p. 15
  2. ^ Politics and Prophecy By Elliott Abrams, Spring 2014, Jewish Review Of Books
  3. ^ Promise - and potential - in Israel by David Whitford, Peter Elkind, DECEMBER 12, 2013, Fortune
  4. ↑ Danielle Berrin: My response to Ari Shavit's 'apology' , in: Jewish Journal, October 28, 2016
  5. ↑ Peter Münch: "Schlimme Fehler" , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 2, 2016, p. 31
  6. ↑ History of Israel: Ari Shavit's book "My Promised Land" - WORLD. Retrieved June 11, 2017 .
  7. ↑ "Best Sellers" . The New York Times. December 8, 2013.
  8. ↑ Ari Shavit's Other Sin. Retrieved June 11, 2017 .
  9. ↑ "2013 National Jewish Book Awards Announced" ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Jewish Book Council. 15th January 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jewishbookcouncil.org
  10. ↑ http://www.haaretz.com/culture/books/.premium-1.527546
  11. ↑ Ari Shavit's "My Promised Land" - The most exciting book about Israel . In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . ( deutschlandfunkkultur.de [accessed June 11, 2017]).
  12. ↑ Ari Shavit - Triumph and Tragedy of Israel . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed June 11, 2017]).
  13. ^ Middle East - The Failure of the Israeli Dream . In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . ( deutschlandfunkkultur.de [accessed June 11, 2017]).
  14. ^ Leon Wieseltier: 'My Promised Land,' by Ari Shavit . In: The New York Times . November 21, 2013, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed June 11, 2017]).
  15. ↑ “Lydda is our black box. In it lies the dark secret of Zionism. The truth is that Zionism could not bear Lydda. From the very beginning there was a substantial contact between Zionism and Lydda. If Zionism was to be, Lydda could not be. If Lydda was to be, Zionism could not be. " (P. 108)
  16. ↑ Ari Shavit's Other Sin. Retrieved June 11, 2017 .
  17. ^ Martin Kramer, Efraim Karsh, Benny Morris: What Happened at Lydda . In: Mosaic Magazine . July 2014, July 1, 2014 ( harvard.edu [accessed June 11, 2017]).
  18. ↑ Rabbi John Rosove: What Really Happened at Lydda in 1948? Ari Shavit and His Critics - Jewish Journal . In: Jewish Journal . November 23, 2014 ( jewishjournal.com [accessed June 11, 2017]).
  19. ^ What Happened at Lydda. By Martin Kramer. Retrieved June 11, 2017 .
  20. ^ What Happened at Lydda. By Martin Kramer. Retrieved June 11, 2017 .
  21. ↑ Zionism's "Black Boxes" . ( mosaicmagazine.com [accessed June 11, 2017]).
  22. ↑ Haaretz journalist Ari Shavit resigns after second allegation of sexual harassment | Israel Nachrichten - Jewish newspaper from Israel in German . In: Israel Nachrichten - Jewish newspaper from Israel in German . October 31, 2016 ( israel-nachrichten.org [accessed June 11, 2017]).
  23. ^ Journalist Ari Shavit admits he's accused of assault, apologizes for 'misunderstanding' . In: The Times of Israel . ( timesofisrael.com [accessed June 11, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Shavit, Ari
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Rehovot