Israel Shamir

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Israel Shamir (2011)

Israel Shamir (English spelling Israel Shamir ), other names: Jöran Jermas , Adam Ermash , Robert David (born June 11, 1947 in Novosibirsk ) is a Russian-Israeli writer and journalist with main residence in Sweden , who is part of the right-wing extremist scene and circle of Holocaust deniers is assigned.

Life

According to his own statements, Shamir emigrated to Israel in 1969 . As a soldier in a paratrooper unit, he fought for Israel in the 1973 Yom Kippur War . He translated talmudic texts, James Joyce , Homer and other classics into Russian. He worked for the state radio Kol Israel and wrote for newspapers in Israel, Russia and Japan, several times under the pseudonym Robert David . 1984 to 1993 he was registered in Sweden as Jöran Jermas , since 1998 and stays in Israel and Russia he has lived there again. Since May 2005 he has been listed as Adam Ermash in the Stockholm residents' registration office . Norman Finkelstein said of Shamir that he made up his entire life story.

Political views and publications

Shamir advocates the one-state solution in Palestine under the motto “One Man, One Vote, One State” (in German about “One citizen, one vote, one state”). He has been criticized for his anti-Semitic statements, including denial of the Holocaust. Among other things, he blames the Jews for the Second World War and the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 . As part of his journalistic activities, Shamir also wrote for the highly anti-Semitic Russian magazine “ Sawtra ” and the right-wing extremist American “ Vanguard News Network ”.

In spring 2005 the German translation of his book “The Flowers of Galilee” (German title: “Flowers from Galilee”) was published by Promedia Verlag in Vienna . Among other things, he is accused of spreading lies and half-truths about Israel. According to a report by the British magazine " Searchlight Magazine " in May 2004 are many-Israel Shamir and his Norwegian translator Hans Olav Brend Mountain to the extreme right and konspirationistischen circles, so among other things the German College of Horst Mahler .

In an interview in August 2009, Shamir stated that it was “the duty of every Muslim and Christian to deny the Holocaust to shake off this belief”.

Relationship with WikiLeaks

According to Daniel Domscheit-Berg (as of 2011), Schamir and his Swedish son Johannes Wahlström are document keepers (“gatekeepers”) at WikiLeaks . Shamir is responsible for the selection and distribution of information to Russian media and his son to the Swedish media. You have been in contact with WikiLeaks for several years. Kristinn Hrafnsson , spokesman for the disclosure platform, publicly described both of them as "belonging to WikiLeaks". Journalist Julia Latynina of the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta accused Shamir of forging documents in at least one case and asked what it meant for Julian Assange to be represented by an extremist. This cooperation was denied by Wikileaks in a letter dated March 1, 2011 after Julian Assange allegedly left out a "Jewish conspiracy" against him (Assange) due to inquiries about his connections to Shamir. Previously (on February 8, 2011) Assange had expressed benevolence in a French-language interview about Shamir and compared the hatred of him with that of Salman Rushdie .

Thousands of internal WikiLeaks documents were published in September 2018. This includes emails, chat logs, financial documents, and video material. The leak also contains a letter from Julian Assange to the Russian Embassy in London on November 30, 2010. In it, the WikiLeak founder writes: “I, Julian Assange, hereby grant my friend, Israel Shamir, the authority to hand in and collect my passport to get a visa. ”When asked if he had organized a Russian visa for Assange, Shamir replied that he had problems with his memory but could not rule it out. In 2011, in an interview with a Moscow radio station, he said he had personally negotiated a Russian visa for Assange.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holocaust denier in charge of handling Moscow cables , The Guardian , January 31, 2011
  2. ↑ Michael C. Moynihan: Olbermann, Assange, and the Holocaust Denier , December 7, 2010
  3. ↑ Karl Pfeifer : Jermas-Shamir: Brückenschlag in Wien , haGalil.com, May 17, 2005
  4. ↑ phdn.org Israel Shamir: "Juif israélien" ... et antisémite virulent (French)
  5. ↑ Ludwig Watzal: "The Journalist and the" Empire " " in Friday
  6. ^ His jewish problem
  7. ↑ The Israel Shamir case ( Memento of the original from June 30, 2001 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nigelparry.com
  8. ↑ So the accusation on phdn.org (Pratique de l'histoire et dévoiements négationnistes) due to the articles " " Take the Money and Run " and " Midas Ears "
  9. ↑ Stephen Pollard, "Lord Ahmed's unwelcome guest," in The Times
  10. ^ "Israeli writer is Swedish anti-Semite"
  11. ^ Steven Plaut , The Pathology of Jewish Anti-Semitism , frontpagemag.com, February 15, 2010
  12. ^ Daniel Domscheit-Berg : Inside WikiLeaks . My time on the world's most dangerous website . Written down by Tina Klopp. Econ, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-430-20121-6 , pp. 268 f .
  13. ↑ Michael C. Moynihan: "Assange's Extremist Employees" , reason.com, December 14, 2010 (English)
  14. ↑ Andrew Brown, WikiLeaks and Israel Shamir , The Guardian , December 17, 2010
  15. ↑ Friday on December 23, 2010: "An invented concept" (German translation of the article in the Guardian). Retrieved January 20, 2011 .
  16. ↑ The daily newspaper on January 17, 2011: Suspicion of anti-Semitism at WikiLeaks - contact men in the twilight. Retrieved January 20, 2011 .
  17. ↑ http://www.twitlonger.com/show/92ichb
  18. ^ Julian Assange 'Jewish conspiracy' comments spark row , The Guardian, March 1, 2011
  19. ^ Julian Assange Reportedly Claims 'Jewish' Conspiracy Against Him , The Huffington Post , March 1, 2011
  20. ^ Report Says Assange Cited Jewish Conspiracy , The New York Times , March 1, 2011
  21. ↑ Der Tagesspiegel on March 2, 2011: Assange sees himself in a world of enemies. Retrieved March 4, 2011 .
  22. ↑ Wikileaks, les médias et Israël: suite de notre rencontre avec Julian Assange , Agoravox.fr (French)
  23. ↑ AP Exclusive: WikiLeaks files expose group's inner workings . In: Associated Press , September 17, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Shamir, Israel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Šamir, Israel '; Shamir, Yiśraʾel; Shamir, Israe͏̈l '; Jermas, Jöran; Ermash, Adam; David, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet-Israeli journalist living in Sweden
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Novosibirsk