Giulio meotti biography template

Details

Additional authors

1. Sherry, Matthew

Description

1. viii, 428 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

1. Every day in Israel, memorials are held for people killed simply because they were Jews--condemned by the fury of Islamic fundamentalism. This is the first book devoted to telling the story of these Israeli terror victims. It centers on a previously unheard oral history of the Middle Eastern conflict from the viewpoint of the Jewish victims and their families.

Uniform title

1. Non smetteremo di danzare. English

Alternative title

1. Non smetteremo di danzare.

Subject

1. 1900-1999
2. History
3. Biographies
4. Israel > Ethnic relations
5. Arab-Israeli conflict
6. Jews > Persecutions > History > 20th century
7. Victims of terrorism > Israel > Biography
8. Terrorism > Israel

Genre/Form

1. Biographies
2. History

Contents

1. Against the last wave of antisemitism / by Roger Scruton -- The unsung dead of Israel -- The beginning -- Three righteous men -- 68.864 was my name -- A clock frozen at 2:04 -- The bloodstained utopia -- Welcome, Messiah -- So that God may smile again -- His music lives on -- The last meal -- The best and brightest youth -- Five empty seats -- Dead souls -- The Lord's spouses -- Joyful flowers -- The just soldiers -- Their best dresses and shoes -- Repairing the world -- We won't stop dancing.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Note

1. Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain

Italian journalist and author, Giulio Meotti, writes for Il Foglio and Arutz Sheva. His Arutz Sheva columns have appeared on Frontpage, Gatestone and other major sites and he is quoted extensively, including in the Iranian press. His first book, "A New Shoah", published by Encounter, brought Israeli victims of terror back from anonymity, leading to the realization of how much the world lost due to their barbaric murders. 

Arutz Sheva interviewed Meotti about his new book, "The Vatican Against Israel: J'Accuse", which takes its title from Emil Zola's brave attack on the 19th century French sanctioned anti-Semitism that influenced the infamous Dreyfus Case. The thoroughly-research evidenced in Meotti's book exposes the real relationship between the Vatican and Jews today, and the fearless conclusions the author presents  place him squarely in the same category as Emil Zola.

 To quote Norman Podhoretz on "J'Accuse":

“This new book by Giulio Meotti shows once again that if there were a contemporary list of ‛Righteous Gentiles’ whose heroism consists of fighting with all their intellectual and moral might both against the remnants of the old anti-Semitism and the newer mutation that disguises itself as anti- Zionism, his name would surely be very near the top.”

Question: Why did you write the book?

Meotti: I wanted to investigate a mystery. For over 100 years, and half a century after the Holocaust, the Vatican has been hostile to the creation of a Jewish homeland in the Middle East with its capital as Jerusalem.

For the sixty years after the Jewish State gained independence in 1948, the Catholic Church adopted a policy fitting to Israel’s Arab-Islamic enemies: total non-recognition of Jewish statehood and peoplehood.

Despite acceptance by every Western nation, Israel was not accorded formal diplomatic recognition by the Vatican until 1993. Think about i

Details

Additional authors

1. Sherry, Matthew.

Description

1. viii, 428 p.; 24 cm.

Uniform title

1. Non smetteremo di danzare. English

Alternative title

1. Non smetteremo di danzare.

Subject

1. Arab-Israeli conflict
2. Victims of terrorism > Israel > Biography
3. Jews > Persecutions > History > 20th century
4. Israel > Ethnic relations
5. Terrorism > Israel

Contents

1. Against the last wave of antisemitism / by Roger Scruton -- The unsung dead of Israel -- The beginning -- Three righteous men -- 68.864 was my name -- A clock frozen at 2:04 -- The bloodstained utopia -- Welcome, Messiah -- So that God may smile again -- His music lives on -- The last meal -- The best and brightest youth -- Five empty seats -- Dead souls -- The Lord's spouses -- Joyful flowers -- The just soldiers -- Their best dresses and shoes -- Repairing the world -- We won't stop dancing.

Call number

1. *PXLB 11-2414

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Meotti, Giulio.

Title

1. A new Shoah : the untold story of Israel's victims of terrorism / Giulio Meotti ; translated by Matthew Sherry.

Imprint

1. New York : Encounter Books, 2010.

Edition

1. 1st American ed.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added author

1. Sherry, Matthew.

LCCN

1. 2010012395

ISBN

1. 9781594034770 (hc : alk. paper)
2. 159403477X (hc : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. *PXLB 11-2414

Italian journalist

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Giulio Meotti is an Italian journalist who writes on Middle Eastern and Jewish issues. He is a strong advocate of Israel, and is critical of both the Catholic Church and of Jews who are themselves critical of Israel, regarding them as abettors of anti-semitism. He was subject to accusations of engaging in plagiarizing the work of other journalists, and since has worked for Il Foglio and Arutz Sheva.

Biography

Meotti was born in Arezzo, the son of a goldsmith, who had an extensive clientele of polyglot Jews from whom Meotti is said to have absorbed their cosmopolitan outlook. He graduated in philosophy at the University of Florence with a Phd about George Steiner.

Criticism of Jewish critics of Israel

In his book Jews against Israel (2014) Meotti took to task a large number of Jewish critics of Israel's behavior towards Palestinians, accusing them variously of intellectual treason, Jewish anti-Semitism, being self-hating Jews, suffering from what he claimed was a 'pathology' of Jewish anti-Israelism, or being 'deranged (squilibrati) Jew-haters'. 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, former Chancellor of AustriaBruno 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 Finkelst