Steven Plaut

Steven Plaut

Steven Plaut giving a lecture at Central European University in 2011
Born 1951
Philadelphia
Occupation Professor, University of Haifa
Subject Economics, Business

Steven Plaut (born 1951) is an American-born Israeli associate professor of Business Administration at the University of Haifa and a writer. Plaut is a member of the editorial board of the Middle East Quarterly, a publication of the Middle East Forum think tank.

Biography

Steven Plaut was born in Philadelphia. In 1981, Steven Plaut immigrated to Israel with his family.

Academic career

Plaut received his undergraduate degree from Temple University in Philadelphia and his MA from Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He received a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University,[1] specializing in international and urban economics and later in finance. Plaut has worked at the Federal Reserve Bank.[1] Before his professorship at the Haifa University, he taught at Oberlin College, the Technion, UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, Central European University, Tel Aviv University, University of Nantes, and Athens Laboratory for Business Administration.[2]

Literary career

In his 2002 book The Scout Steven Plaut describes his near-death experience as a kidney cancer patient at an intensive care ward. The historical novel is a series of life stories exchanged between him and another patient in the ward, an Israeli bedouin scout.

Political views

Steven Plaut is an outspoken critic of the Israeli-Arab peace process and Israel's unilateral withdrawal policy. Since the Oslo Accords, he has argued that Arab leaders will continue to seek the destruction of Israel through violence and terrorism.[3] Some of his political writings are criticisms of Nakba Day.[4][5]

Plaut is critical of many Israeli left-wing figures,[6] as well as some Americans such as Michael Lerner and Norman Finkelstein, whom he describes as self-hating Jews and apologists for terrorism that are promoting the destruction of Israel.[7] Plaut is opposed to what he sees as left-wing extremism in Israeli universities, and is actively involved in Isracampus, a self-proclaimed watchdog organization that publicizes anti-Israel people and groups.[8][9] In the Canadian Jewish Tribune, he denounced Anarchists Against the Wall, a group protesting the Israeli West Bank barrier which he says is composed of "violent hooligans and anarcho-fascist thugs."[10]

“ The most important lesson of recent years, and it is by now understood by everyone except university leftists and anti-Israel journalists, is that nothing will really put an end to the terror and rockets from Gaza other than some good old-fashioned R&D – Reoccupation and Denazification. Everything else is a delusion. Israel must re-occupy the Gaza Strip, subject it to martial law, and carry out a decades-long program of Denazification. ”
— FrontpageMag.com, November 26, 2012[11]

Libel case

Plaut was sued for libel by Neve Gordon, a faculty member at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Department of Politics and Government, claiming that Plaut slandered him in certain articles and alleged e-mails. In May 2006, the Israeli magistrate's court in Nazareth ruled in favour of Gordon, and ordered Plaut to pay Gordon 80,000 shekels in compensation plus 15,000 shekels in legal fees.[12] Both sides appealed to the District Court in Nazareth and in February 2008, the court upheld a libel judgment relating to a publication in which Plaut called Gordon a "Judenrat Wannabe" but reduced the damages to 10,000 shekels (about $2,700) on the basis that, in the court's view, Plaut was entitled to criticize Gordon.[13][14]

Letter to Turkish Prime Minister

On 26 March 2013, the Turkish Prime Ministry's Office received a letter from Plaut addressed to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of Turkey. The letter attacked the Turkish Prime Minister and Turkey's illegal occupation of Northern Cyprus. It accused the Turkish Prime Minister of being behind the Gaza Flotilla "terrorist attack" on Israeli soldiers. Plaut apologized for Israel not killing a larger number of "terrorists" on the flotilla ship. He claimed it was time to give back "occupied Constantinople" to its "true owner", namely, Greece.[15][16]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Steven Plaut, PhD". ProCon.org. August 6, 2013. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
  2. ↑ Plaut, Steven. "Steven Plaut, CV attachment". Central European University. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  3. ↑ Plaut, Steven (2012-06-22). "The Oslo Final Solution". Conservative Truth. Archived from the original on 2012-02-05. Retrieved 2016-01-22.
  4. ↑ Plaut, Steven (15 March 2012). "Op-Ed: Happy Nakba Day!". Israel National News. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
  5. ↑ Plaut, Steven (2 June 2012). "The 'Nakba' Debunked". Retrieved 29 March 2013.
  6. ↑ Plaut, Steven. "Personal Blog". Retrieved 29 March 2013.
  7. ↑ Plaut, Steven. "Stupid Left, Satanic Left". Jewish Press.
  8. ↑ "Main Page". IsraCampus. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
  9. ↑ Nesher, Talila. "10 percent of Israeli academics labeled 'anti-Zionist' by campus watchdogs". Haaretz. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
  10. ↑ Plaut, Steven. "Pepe Le Pew makes aliyah and protects the Jews". The Jewish Tribune. Archived from the original on July 27, 2009. Retrieved 22 July 2009.
  11. ↑ Plaut, Steven (26 November 2012). "Why Netanyahu Blinked". FrontPage Magazine. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
  12. ↑ Moskowitz, Ira (9 June 2006). "U.S.-born professor guilty of libeling colleague". Haaretz. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
  13. ↑ Kalman, Matthew (March 5, 2008). "Israeli Appeals Court Upholds Libel Judgment Against Academic but Reduces Damages". The Chronicle of Higher Education,. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
  14. ↑ ע"א (נצרת) 1184/06 - פרופ' סטיבן פלאוט נ' ד"ר ניב גורדון . תק-מח 2008(1), 11886. (Hebrew) 1184/06 Steven Plaut Vs. Dr. Neve Gordon, Takdin-District 2008(1) Full text of the District Court's decision is available here Archived July 21, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
  15. ↑ "Netanyahu'nun özrü İsrailli profesörü çılgına çevirdi". Zaman. 2 March 2013. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
  16. ↑ Köseoğlu, Ferhan (2 March 2013). "Netanyahu'nun özrü İsrailli profesörü çılgına çevirdi". MIlliyet. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
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