Gideon Levy

Levy was strongly criticised after appearing on the podcast of Jackson Hinkle, a controversial online personality associated by critics with conspiracy-related content and pro-Hamas rhetoric.

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During the 2014 Gaza war, Levy published a column extremely critical of Israeli air force pilots and their bombardments. The article prompted a protest campaign against Haaretz, subscription cancellations and threats serious enough that the journalist was sometimes accompanied by a security guard.

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A Levy column about a poll was headlined and interpreted as showing that a majority of Israelis would support an apartheid regime. Critics pointed out that certain questions were hypothetical and conditional on annexation of the West Bank. Haaretz subsequently clarified the meaning of the questions, and Levy published a correction.

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Writer and journalist Irit Linur publicly announced that she was cancelling her Haaretz subscription and accused Gideon Levy and Amira Hass of producing narrow, biased and ideologically anti-Zionist coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The letter crystallised a national debate over the newspaper's editorial direction.

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