This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Giulio Meotti is an Italian journalist who writes on Middle Eastern and Jewish issues.
The list of notable Jews he censures for their attitudes towards Israel and defense Palestinian human rights includes George Steiner, philosopher Hannah Arendt, Franco-German politician Daniel Cohn-Bendit,[7] former Chancellor of Austria Bruno Kreisky, screenwriter Tony Kushner, director Steven Spielberg, British historian Eric Hobsbawm, moral philosopher Peter Singer, British politician Gerald Kaufman, French journalist Jean Daniel, French essayist Dominique Vidal, Argentinian civil rights activist Jacobo Timerman, rabbi Arnold Wolf, philosopher Edgar Morin, the United Nations special rapporteur for Palestinian rights Richard A. Falk, the American historian Norman Finkelstein, English film director Mike Leigh, neuroscientist Steven Rose and sociologist Hilary Rose, his wife, rabbi Michael Lerner, playwright Harold Pinter, philosopher Judith Butler, historian Tony Judt, orientalist scholar Maxime Rodinson, Italian novelist Natalia Ginzburg, Italian Germanist Cesare Cases, antifascist intellectual Emilio Sereni, poet and literary critic Franco Fortini, Italian journalist Gad Lerner, Italian Yiddish playwright and musician Moni Ovadia,[7] Israeli biochemist and Jewish intellectual Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Israeli historian Shlomo Sand, Israeli political geographer Oren Yiftachel, Israeli political scientist Neve Gordon, Israeli journalist Amira Hass, Israeli historian Moshe Zimmermann, Israeli historian Ilan Pappé, Israeli conflict theorist Lev Grinberg, Israeli historians Tom Segev and Idith Zertal, Argentinian musician and comic Danny Rabinovitch, Israeli novelists Amos Oz, David Grossman, and Abraham Yehoshua, Argentinian conductor Daniel Barenboim, diplomat Martin Indyk, survivors of the Holocaust, such as Warsaw ghetto survivor Marek Edelman, Marion Kozak (mother of David Miliband and Ed Miliband), sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, resistance leader Stéphane Hessel, Israeli political scientist Zeev Sternhell, French historian Pierre Vidal-Naquet, writer Primo Levi,[7] and historian Isaac Deutscher.
[8] Meotti's polemic against Jewish writers, thinkers, and cultural figures critical of Israeli actions was described as 'vitriolic' by reviewer Stefano Caviglia writing for Panorama.
He has in the past written articles for the rightwing think tank Gatestone Institute,[citation needed] The Wall Street Journal,[9] Commentary, National Review, the West Bank settler newspaper Arutz Sheva, Jerusalem Post, Fox News, Jüdische Allgemeine, Yedioth Ahronoth and FrontPage Magazine.
[15][16] In self-defense, Meotti stated that if he indeed quoted without crediting his sources it was just carelessness, but claimed the accusations were actually a form of demonization of himself, whom he described as one of "the last and few pro-Israel journalists in Europe," part of an ad hominem campaign infused with envy which had been ongoing for some years.