Neve Gordon
Neve Gordon, born 1965, is an author and professor of politics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, who writes on issues relating to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. A third-generation Israeli, Gordon did his military service in a IDF Paratrooper unit, and suffered severe injuries in action at Rosh Hanikra, as a result of which he has a 42 percent disability. He received his doctorate at Notre Dame University in 1999.
He has been published in The Nation, WRMEA and Counterpunch. Gordon has become known through his strong criticism of Israeli policies, as well as a controversy involving Steven Plaut in which Gordon maliciously sued Plaut for libel. In an appeals decision in February 2008, a Nazareth appeals court overturned the lower court decision in Gordon's favor, sharply denouncing Gordon for being an anti-Semite, a pro-terrorist, and as someone who collaborates with Neo-Nazis. It denounced Gordon for filing a suit against someone who criticized his politics while Gordon himself promotes Norman Finkelstein and similar anti-Semites. It overturned the damages award Gordon had been granted by a radical Arab woman judge (Reem Naddaf) in the lower court, in a verdict in which she endorsed Holocaust revisionism. [ http://zioncon.blogspot.com/2008/03/denoument.html] Full verdict can be downloaded here [[1]].
Prof. Alan Dershowitz denounced Gordon in these words: "It is my opinion that Neve Gordon has gotten into bed with neo-Nazis, Holocaust justice deniers, and anti-Semites. He is a despicable example of a self-hating Jew and a self-hating Israeli." [[2]]
Plaut responded: "The idea that it is legally prohibited or libelous to call Gordon, whose articles appear on Neo-Nazi web sites and who has made much of his career collaborating with Neo-Nazis and praising Norman Finkelstein; the idea that it should be prohibited to call Gordon a "Judenrat wannbe" for his criminal illegal "human shield" activities that interfered with IDF operations to arrest terrorist murderers, shows that Israel is not yet really a democracy and its courts are not yet really interested in defending freedom of speech. Such speech would not be considered libelous or denied protection under freedom of speceh in any other democratic country on the planet!
"The idea that imposing a monetary penalty to teach people to avoid impolite rhetoric or to penalize rhetoric the court judge thinks is impolite, never mind if it is referring to a public figure engaged in support for terrorism, is an idea right out of pre-glasnost Brezhnev's Soviet Union." zioncon.blogspot.com
Books (partial list):
- Gordon, Neve and Marton, Ruchama [editors] (1995): Torture, Human Rights, Medical Ethics and the case of Israel, Zed Books, New York, ISBN 1856493148
- Gordon, Neve [editor] (2004): From the Margins of Globalization: Critical Perspectives on Human Rights. Lexington Books,U.S., Lanham, MD, ISBN 0739108786
Alan Dershowitz has called Gordon, "one of the world's most extreme anti-Israel academics." [1]
Articles (partial list):
- Deception Is Binyamin Netanyahu’s Modus Operandi Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, January/February 1999, page 31
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