Isi Liebler Is Being Ha-Haed by Ha-Ha-Haaretz

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The gall of Haaretz is incredible. I previously reported on the refusal of Haaretz to provide me with a right of reply to an article criticizing me by Bradley Burston which was published in the Hebrew and English sections of the newspaper and appeared for three weeks on the homepage of their website.

On Tuesday November 2, the homepage of the English website carried yet another article attacking me by Carlo Strenger, a Professor of Psychology at Tel Aviv University, titled "Memo to Jewish haters of Liberals: The Middle Ages are over." This was a defamatory attack utterly distorting what I had written. Strenger accused me of seeking to reintroduce medieval excommunications "against the large proportion of the Jewish people who disagree with him". He implied that the alleged murderer Yaacov Teitel could have been influenced by my writings and links the J Street convention with the 14th anniversary of Rabin's assassination, implicitly suggesting that similar views to those I express led to the assassination of Rabin.

I wrote once more to Haaretz stating "Once again you have a piece on the home page of Haaretz attacking me. Whereas Burston's article represented a viewpoint from which I differ, the piece by Carlo Strenger is an absolute misrepresentation of what I wrote. I am sure you are aware that the Guardian did provide me with an opportunity to respond. One would perhaps expect that an Israeli newspaper which continuously publishes views which most Israelis would consider extreme, would provide an Israeli whose views have been misrepresented and condemned, with equal opportunities to those provided to columnists who demonize the State and the IDF. I therefore once again formally request a right of reply as distinct from a letter to the editor."

The editor of the English edition replied informing me that the matter was beyond her jurisdiction and passed my communication to the editor of the internet edition. To date, I have not even had the courtesy of an acknowledgement.