Jared Israel (born 1944) is an American writer and
activist who edits the website ''The Emperor’s New Clothes'', and has been published in ''
Arutz Sheva''. He graduated from
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...
where he was involved in student protests, and also attended
Columbia University
Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...
. At Harvard he was a co-chairman of
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a national student activist organization in the United States during the 1960s, and was one of the principal representations of the New Left. Disdaining permanent leaders, hierarchical relationships ...
and, in April 1969, a leader of the University Hall building takeover that was broken up by hundreds of outside police, in response to which Harvard students went on strike, closing Harvard for the only time in its history.
Israel served as one of the co-chairmen of the International Committee to Defend
Slobodan Milošević (ICDSM).
He has denied events leading to the
Srebrenica genocide
The Srebrenica massacre ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Masakr u Srebrenici, Масакр у Сребреници), also known as the Srebrenica genocide ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Genocid u Srebrenici, Геноцид у Сребрен ...
and its consequences.
Jared Israel has written extensively challenging the mainstream account of what happened during the
September 11 attacks
The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. That morning, nineteen terrorists hijacked four commer ...
and suggesting it was an "inside job".
[Peter Knight ]
Outrageous Conspiracy Theories: Popular and Official Responses to 9/11 in Germany and the United States
New German Critique, No. 103, Dark Powers: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theory in History and Literature (Winter, 2008), pp. 165-193 Published by: Duke University Press Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/27669225 Accessed: 30-01-2018 16:25 UTC
References
1944 births
Living people
American bloggers
American male journalists
American political writers
Harvard University alumni
20th-century American journalists
Columbia University alumni
American conspiracy theorists
21st-century American non-fiction writers
American male bloggers
Deniers of the Bosnian genocide
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