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2011-02-03: Shamir & The Guardian, Part 2: Censorship?

Israel Shamir’s recent article on CounterPunch, Redacting Corruption: The Guardian’s Political Censorship of Wikileaks, follows on from his previous piece, Paradigm in Belarus: The Minsk Election in a Wikileaks Mirror, in levelling some serious allegations against The Guardian newspaper and its journalistic practices. The earlier piece was an odd amalgam of politically questionable apologism for… [Read more…]

2011-02-03: Shamir & The Guardian, Part 1: Astana & Tashkent Cables

Observations about the cables referred to in Israel’s Shamir’s recent CounterPunch article, Redacting Corruption: The Guardian’s Political Censorship of Wikileaks raised some controversies about Shamir’s legitimacy as a publisher of Wikileaks’ cables. Shamir criticized The Guardian for redacting cables for political reasons, and published unredacted versions of those cables to support his case. The unredacted… [Read more…]

2011-02-03: Israel Shamir’s Relationship with Wikileaks?

The exact character of the relationship between Israel Shamir and Wikileaks has been of much interest in recent weeks, given that Shamir himself is a person who has been associated with much controversy in the media. It has been assumed that, to the extent that Wikileaks and Shamir are associated, controversy that applies to Shamir… [Read more…]

2011-02-03: Who is Israel Shamir?

Who is Israel Shamir? The principal claims about Israel Shamir are drawn from an article by Professor Emeritus of Russian Literature at the University of Gothenburg, Magnus Ljunggren, in the Swedish tabloid newspaper Expressen. From: 2010-12-10: Expressen: “Daddy’s Boy” by Magnus Ljunggren [Shamir] is in fact one of the world’s most notorious anti-Semites. He has… [Read more…]

2011-02-03: Sources on Israel Shamir

The sources of the Shamir controversy. Recent writing about Shamir in connection to Wikileaks has been unduly polemical, preferring to telescope conclusions through the use of inflammatory and judgmental language. The matter at hand is certainly, and understandably, an inflammatory matter. But it will be necessary, for the sake of clarity, to examine the evidence… [Read more…]

2011-02-03: The Case of Israel Shamir

A volley of blog posts over the last two months has brought to the attention of the public a connection between Wikileaks and Israel Shamir. The connection was the source of much controversy. Among the charges against Shamir brought by the blogosphere are that of “notorious antisemitism,” “holocaust denial,” “Neo-Nazism,” collaboration with dictatorships in the… [Read more…]