41-567: Alain Luc Finkielkraut ( French: [alɛ̃ finkɛlkʁot] ; Yiddish: [fɪŋkiːlˈkʁaʊ̯t] ; born 30 June 1949) is a French essayist, radio producer, and public intellectual. Since 1986, he has been the host of Répliques , a talk show broadcast weekly on France Culture . He was elected a Fellow of the Académie Française in 2014. Finkielkraut is the son of a Polish Jewish manufacturer of fine leather goods who survived
82-696: A duty of memory [ fr ] , Finkielkraut also published The Future of a Negation: Reflexion on the Genocide Issue ( Avenir d'une négation : réflexion sur la question du génocide , 1982) and later his comments on the Klaus Barbie trial, Remembering in Vain ( La Mémoire vaine , 1989). Finkielkraut feels particularly indebted to Emmanuel Levinas . In The Wisdom of Love ( La Sagesse de l'amour ), Finkielkraut discusses this debt in terms of modernity and its mirages. Finkielkraut continues his reflection on
123-643: A "colonial project in his article. Emmanuel Todd wrote in 2008 that "never in France would rioters have been characterized by the color of their skin, if this anti-republican blasphemy had not been the work of an intellectual of Jewish origin, to whom the sacralization of the Shoah guarantees a surer protection than the colonial past to the young people of the suburbs". Finkielkraut later apologized, claiming bad translation of his article by Haaretz . Anti-Zionist filmmaker Eyal Sivan took legal action against Finkielkraut after
164-680: A Jewish businessman who left Germany in 1934 after the Nazis had come to power, bought the paper in December 1935. Schocken was active in Brit Shalom , also known as the Jewish–Palestinian Peace Alliance, a body supporting co-existence between Jews and Arabs which was sympathetic to a homeland for both peoples. His son, Gershom Schocken , became the chief editor in 1939 and held that position until his death in 1990. The Schocken family were
205-418: A commentator. France Culture France Culture is a French public radio channel and part of Radio France . Its programming encompasses a wide variety of features on historical, philosophical, sociopolitical, and scientific themes (including debates, discussions, and documentaries), as well as literary readings, radio plays, and experimental productions. The channel is broadcast nationwide on FM and
246-418: A government-funded body, and banned government advertising with the newspaper. According to The Guardian , Haaretz "had published a series of investigations of wrongdoing or abuses by senior officials and the armed forces , and has long been in the crosshairs of the current government." The newspaper's editorial policy was defined by Gershom Schocken , who was editor-in-chief from 1939 to 1990. Schocken
287-500: A lot of the people at Haaretz , and many of its positions, but the cartoonish anti-Israelism and anti-Semitism can be grating." In 2022, a TGI survey found that Haaretz was the newspaper with the third largest readership in Israel, with an exposure rate of 4.7%, below Israel Hayom 's rate of 31% and Yedioth Ahronoth 's 23.9%. Haaretz uses smaller headlines and print than other mass circulation papers in Israel . Less space
328-570: A newspaper sponsored by the British military government in Palestine . In 1919, it was taken over by a group of socialist-oriented Zionists , mainly from Russia . The newspaper was established on 18 June 1919 by a group of businessmen including the philanthropist Isaac Leib Goldberg , initially called Hadashot Ha'aretz ("News of the Land"). Later, the name was shortened to Haaretz . The literary section of
369-541: A personal diary, he expresses his thoughts about various events in the world, especially the events of 11 September 2001 . In 1995, Finkielkraut denounced the Cannes Film Festival 's jury award, saying: "In recognizing 'Underground', the Cannes jury thought it was honouring a creator with a thriving imagination. In fact, it has honoured a servile and flashy illustrator of criminal clichés. The Cannes jury ... praised
410-571: A staff writer that said the Israeli religious right was worse than Hezbollah . Condemnation followed, including from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu , President Reuven Rivlin , and other government ministers and MPs , as well as from Opposition Leader Isaac Herzog . On 31 October 2024, Haaretz 's publisher Amos Schocken made remarks during a speech at a Haaretz conference in London criticising
451-463: A union strike mobilized to protest planned layoffs by the Haaretz management, causing a one-day interruption of Haaretz and its TheMarker business supplement. According to Israel Radio , it was the first time since 1965 that a newspaper did not go to press on account of a strike. On 24 November 2024, the Israeli government ordered a boycott of Haaretz by government officials and anyone working for
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#1732856114065492-508: A version of the most hackneyed and deceitful Serb propaganda. The devil himself could not have conceived so cruel an outrage against Bosnia, nor such a grotesque epilogue to Western incompetence and frivolity." It was later revealed that Finkielkraut had not seen the film before writing his criticism. His interview published in the Haaretz magazine in November 2005 in which he gave his opinion about
533-414: Is also available online. This article about a radio station in France is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Haaretz Haaretz ( Hebrew : הָאָרֶץ lit. ' The Land [of Israel] ' , originally Ḥadshot Haaretz – Hebrew : חַדְשׁוֹת הָאָרֶץ , IPA: [χadˈʃot haˈʔaʁets] lit. ' News of the Land [of Israel] ' ) is an Israeli newspaper . It
574-400: Is devoted to pictures, and more to political analysis . Opinion columns are generally written by regular commentators rather than guest writers. Its editorial pages are considered influential among government leaders. Apart from the news, Haaretz publishes feature articles on social and environmental issues, as well as book reviews, investigative reporting, and political commentary. In 2008,
615-502: The 2005 French riots stirred up much controversy. Finkielkraut's remarked that the France national football team was "black, black, black, which causes sneers all over Europe" (as opposed to the expression " black-blanc-beur "—meaning "Black, White, Arab"—coined after France's win in the 1998 FIFA World Cup final to honour the African and Afro Caribbean, European, and North African origins of
656-688: The Auschwitz concentration camp . Finkielkraut studied modern literature at the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud . He joined the Department of French Literature in the University of California, Berkeley as an assistant professor in 1976 and the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in the École Polytechnique as a professor in 1989. At the end of the 1990s, Finkielkraut founded with Benny Lévy and Bernard-Henri Lévy an Institute on Levinassian Studies [ fr ] at Jerusalem. In 2010, he
697-825: The BBC said that Haaretz takes a moderate stance on foreign policy and security. David Remnick in The New Yorker described Haaretz as "easily the most liberal newspaper in Israel", its ideology as left-wing and its temper as "insistently oppositional". According to Ira Sharkansky , Haaretz ' s op-ed pages are open to a variety of opinions. J. J. Goldberg , the editor of the American The Jewish Daily Forward , describes Haaretz as "Israel's most vehemently anti- settlement daily paper". Stephen Glain of The Nation described Haaretz as "Israel's liberal beacon", citing its editorials voicing opposition to
738-675: The Corner of the Street ( Au Coin de la rue , 1978), as well as The Adventure ( L'aventure , 1979). Finkielkraut then began publishing singly authored works on the public's betrayal of memory and our intransigence in the presence of events that, he argued, should move the public. This reflection led Finkielkraut to address post-Holocaust Jewish identity in Europe, such as in The Imaginary Jew ( Le Juif imaginaire , 1983). Seeking to promote what he calls
779-504: The French TV channel La Chaîne Info , he commented on the Duhamel scandal involving incest committed by Olivier Duhamel on his 14-year old stepson. Finkielkraut speculated that there may have been "consent" between the two parties and claimed that a 14-year-old is "not the same thing" as a "child". Within days, he was summarily fired from the French TV news network for which he was working as
820-589: The Frenchman said Sivan "is, if you will, one of the actors in this particularly painful, particularly alarming reality, the Jewish anti-Semitism that rages today." In 2009, Finkielkraut was criticized for his comment on the Roman Polanski sexual abuse case . Finkielkraut claimed that the 13-years-old victim was a "teenager", "not a child". He was criticized for his close friendship with Croatian president Franjo Tuđman , and
861-560: The Netanyahu government for allegedly imposing an apartheid regime on the Palestinian population and referring to "Palestinian freedom fighters that Israel calls terrorists." In response, the Israeli interior , education , diaspora ministries severed ties with Haaretz while the Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi advocated a boycott of the newspaper covering all government bodies and employees. By 4 November,
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#1732856114065902-511: The Palestinian territories and elsewhere, and blogs covering a range of political standpoints and opinions. The two sites fall under the supervision of Lior Kodner, the head of digital media for the Haaretz Group. Individually, Simon Spungin is the editor of Haaretz.com (English) and Avi Scharf is the editor of Haaretz.co.il (Hebrew). The Haaretz building is on Schocken Street in south Tel Aviv . The former Haaretz building of 1932–1973
943-631: The Supreme Court, very critical of Netanyahu's government". Others describe it alternatively as liberal , centre-left , left-wing , and the country's only major left-leaning newspaper. The paper opposes retaining Israeli control over the Palestinian territories and consistently supports peace initiatives. The Haaretz editorial line is supportive of weaker elements in Israeli society, such as sex workers, foreign laborers, Israeli Arabs , Ethiopian immigrants , and Russian immigrants . In 2006,
984-465: The United States, as a newspaper of record . In 2007, Shmuel Rosner , Haaretz 's former U.S. correspondent, told The Nation , "people who read it are better educated and more sophisticated than most, but the rest of the country doesn't know it exists." According to Hanoch Marmari, a former Haaretz editor, the newspaper has lost its political influence in Israel because it became "detached" from
1025-781: The country's political life. Andrea Levin , executive director of the pro-Israel Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), said Haaretz was doing "damage to the truth" and sometimes making serious factual errors without correcting them. According to The Jerusalem Post , Haaretz editor-in-chief David Landau said at the 2007 Limmud conference in Moscow that he had told his staff not to report on criminal investigations against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in order to promote Sharon's 2004–2005 Gaza disengagement plan . In April 2017, Haaretz published an op-ed by
1066-646: The matter in The Defeat of the Mind ( La Défaite de la pensée , 1987) and The Ingratitude: Talks About Our Times ( Ingratitude : conversation sur notre temps , 1999). Since the 2000s, Finkielkraut has given his opinion on a variety of topics in society, such as the Internet in The Internet, The Troubling Ecstasy ( Internet, l'inquiétante extase , 2001). In the book Present Imperfect ( L'Imparfait du présent , 2002), akin to
1107-539: The newspaper had received hundreds of cancellation and subscription termination requests, and a decline in advertising revenue. Several ministries had requested to cancel their subscriptions, with the Israeli foreign ministry cancelling 90 subscriptions. Following significant criticism, Schocken retracted his remarks. Haaretz operates both Hebrew and English language websites. The two sites offer up-to-the-minute breaking news, live Q&A sessions with newsmakers from Israel,
1148-767: The newspaper itself reported a paid subscribership of 65,000, daily sales of 72,000 copies, and 100,000 on weekends. The English edition has a subscriber base of 15,000. Despite its historically relatively low circulation in Israel, Haaretz has for many years been described as Israel's most influential daily newspaper. In 2006, it exposed a scandal regarding professional and ethical standards at Israeli hospitals. Its readership includes members of Israel's intelligentsia and members of its political and economic elites. In 1999, surveys showed that Haaretz readership had above-average education, income, and wealth, and that most were Ashkenazi Jews . Some have said that Haaretz functions in Israel much as The New York Times does in
1189-636: The occupation, the discriminatory treatment of Arab citizens, and the mindset that led to the Second Lebanon War . A 2003 study in The International Journal of Press/Politics concluded that Haaretz ' s reporting of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict was more favorable to Israelis than to Palestinians but less so than that of The New York Times . In 2016, Jeffrey Goldberg , the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic , wrote: "I like
1230-515: The paper attracted leading Hebrew writers of the time. The newspaper was initially published in Jerusalem . From 1919 to 1922, the paper was headed by a succession of editors, among them Leib Yaffe . It was closed briefly due to a budgetary shortfall and reopened in Tel Aviv at the beginning of 1923 under the editorship of Moshe Glickson, who held the post for 15 years. The Tel Aviv municipality granted
1271-601: The paper financial support by paying in advance for future advertisements. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Haaretz ' s liberal viewpoint was to some degree associated with the General Zionist "A" faction, which later helped form the Progressive Party , though it was nonpartisan and careful not to espouse any specific party line. It was considered the most sophisticated of the Yishuv 's dailies. Salman Schocken ,
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1312-446: The players), adding that "if you point this out in France, you are thrown in jail". He also denounced African-American Muslims , claiming that there is an "Islamization of the blacks" happening in both America and France. Strong polemics followed the article: MRAP and L'Humanité accused Finkielkraut of racism and many of his colleagues at the École polytechnique published a petition led by Gilles Dowek against what they described as
1353-476: The sole owners of the Haaretz Group until August 2006, when they sold a 25% stake to German publisher M. DuMont Schauberg . The deal was negotiated with the help of the former Israeli ambassador to Germany, Avi Primor . This deal was seen as controversial in Israel as DuMont Schauberg's father, Kurt Neven DuMont , was member of the Nazi Party and his publishing house promoted Nazi ideology. On 12 June 2011, it
1394-489: The street." In April 2019, Sciences Po announced the cancellation of a forum where Finkielkraut was to be a speaker due to threats by " antifa " protesters. Eugénie Bastié of Le Figaro denounced the cancellation as a "gangrenous" symptom of the Americanisation of French university life. The announcement was intended to mislead the protesters, and the lecture went on in a different location. In 2022, while appearing on
1435-450: The third-largest circulation in Israel. It is widely read by international observers, especially in its English edition, and discussed in the international press. According to the Center for Research Libraries , among Israel's daily newspapers, " Haaretz is considered the most influential and respected for both its news coverage and its commentary." Haaretz was first published in 1918 as
1476-556: Was accosted on the street by a group of yellow vest protesters in Paris when they chanced on him in Boulevard du Montparnasse . A 36-year-old French convert to Islam was indicted after saying that Finkelkraut was "going to die". Finkelkraut had previously expressed his sympathy for the yellow vest movement. In April 2019, Finkelkraut stated that he had been repeatedly accosted by street protestors and told reporters: "I can no longer show my face on
1517-474: Was accused by David Bruce MacDonald of supporting "a nation whose leader was a Holocaust revisionist, at the helm of an authoritarian government". In August 2018, Finkielkraut expressed in an interview with The Times of Israel his worries for French Jews and the future of France. He stated: "The anti-Semitism we're now experiencing in France is the worst I've ever seen in my lifetime, and I'm convinced it's going to get worse". On 16 February 2019, Finkielkraut
1558-521: Was announced that Russian-Israeli businessman Leonid Nevzlin had purchased a 20% stake in the Haaretz Group, buying 15% from the family and 5% from M. DuMont Schauberg. In December 2019, members of the Schocken family bought all of the Haaretz stock belonging to M. DuMont Schauberg. The deal saw the Schocken family reach 75% ownership, with the remaining 25% owned by Leonid Nevzlin. In October 2012,
1599-651: Was founded in 1918, making it the longest running newspaper currently in print in Israel. The paper is published in Hebrew and English in the Berliner format, and is also available online. In North America , it is published as a weekly newspaper , combining articles from the Friday edition with a roundup from the rest of the week. Haaretz is Israel's newspaper of record . It is known for its left-wing and liberal stances on domestic and foreign issues. As of 2022, Haaretz has
1640-589: Was involved in founding JCall , a left-wing advocacy group based in Europe to lobby the European Parliament on foreign policy issues concerning the Middle East and Israel in particular. Finkielkraut first came to public attention when he and Pascal Bruckner co-authored a number of short but controversial essays intended to question the idea that a new emancipation was underway; these included The New Love Disorder ( Le Nouveau Désordre amoureux , 1977) and At
1681-789: Was succeeded as editor-in-chief by Hanoch Marmari. In 2004 David Landau replaced Marmari and was succeeded by Dov Alfon in 2008. The current editor-in-chief of the newspaper is Aluf Benn , who replaced Alfon in August 2011. Charlotte Halle became editor of the English print edition in February 2008. Walter Gross was a member of the governing editorial board and a columnist with the paper from 1951 to 1995. Haaretz describes itself as having "a broadly liberal outlook both on domestic issues and on international affairs", and has been summarized as being "liberal on security, civil rights and economy, supportive of