Jerusalem Post: Chazan fired due to lawsuit over NIF advert

sorry, but your comments are regressive and never deal with reality. Obviously you are distanced from both Israel and Jews and your philosophy runs contrary to both. It's nice that Naomi, who has been goring Israel and traditional Jewish values for so long has a cheerleader in you. Both are a sad sight and deserve each others fate. The left would be totally dead were it not for cash infusions from our mortal enemies- the NIF and others. If you want to know truth, speak to real Jews!

The editors should never have printed that ad and Naomi has every right to fire back at them. Dutch

Naomi Chazan has a long history of being able to handle this very well and it will be the paper's loss not necesarily hers' in the end. Though I can appreciate her attachment and commitment there. Dutch

Settler organizations, which help perpetuate the occupation and throw shame on Israel the world over by expelling Palestinians from their ancestral homes in East Jerusalem, are also funded by foreign lobbies. Why would Israeli human rights groups not be funded by foreign donors too?

JPOst should never have let a far right-wing lobby publish an ad against one of their own writers. Firing Chazan is a scandalous act, the kind of thing newspapers in Iran or Egypt might do. It's extremely worrying that an Israeli newspaper should act the same way.

Naomi Chazan is a brave woman. And this decision is just shameful.

...yet, accused the Jerusalem Post of lack of free speech. For years she was given the stage on which to spew hate towards Israel and its leaders. That was OK by her, but when accusing legally the Post of allowing a space advertising against her appears, she becomes silent. How typical, how typical...

She had a Jpost column which she was not censured. She was removed only when she tried to sue paper to muzzle other peoples free speech. Now she claim she is protecting free speech. This is such a tired old tactic. She would have been a senior member of the Party in Orwell's 1984 Ministry of Truth - he newspeak - but this is an old old communist and fascist game

A new response is emerging alongside self-hating Jew and anti-Semite, to wit, "commie lib" See Criman of Long Beach comment #4

Their actions reflect fear, not strategy. Whoever owns JPost needs to flush management down the toilet and send a chaser after it. Israelis (who are "always right", thanks to their weapons) are so different from non-Zionist Jews (who encourage dissent, in order to gather weapons).

Chazan sues her employer over an advertisement that she personally dislikes (read: censorship) and then expects to keep her job? Talk about biting the hand that feeds you! Who in their right mind would expect to keep their job while suing their boss? This has nothing to do with Freedom of Speech. Chazan's case holds no water.

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She was certainly not fired because of free speech issues. She enjoyed a pulpit from which to speak for years. The issue really is did she provide the Goldstone commission with a distorted world view, or were the facts she provided accurate and Goldstone used it to publish a distorted view. If someone commits a crime and you are an accomplice you are no less guilty.

It was her duty and obligation to carry out the Newpaper's policy She didn't, caused embarrasment and got canned as a result Just like any worker that didn't follow orders

chazan was the one who wanted to deny free speech. she then compounded it suing the JPOST What she and NIF did is shameful.The fact is that its neigbors are at war with Israel. In most contries giving aid and comfort to the enemy is treason, betraying ones country is treason. chazan and NIF are foreign funded spies working against Israel and should be so treated

From leftist accademics,NGO's,M K's,right here in Haaretz where one side only of the argument is a regular feature and hate messages directed at Israel,that would never be published around the world if it was directed at anybody except Israel.

From leftist accademics,NGO's,M K's,right here in Haaretz where one side only of the argument is a regular feature and hate messages directed at Israel,that would never be published around the world if it was directed at anybody except Israel.

From leftist accademics,NGO's,M K's,right here in Haaretz where one side only of the argument is a regular feature and hate messages directed at Israel,that would never be published around the world if it was directed at anybody except Israel.

From leftist accademics,NGO's,M K's,right here in Haaretz where one side only of the argument is a regular feature and hate messages directed at Israel,that would never be published around the world if it was directed at anybody except Israel.

The responses to this article are as disgraceful as the JP for publishing an ad with a horned picture of Naomi Chazan that would not have been out of place in "De Stuermer". Shame on the Post for publishing the ad, and from a such a questionable group,Im Tirzu. As the admirable Mr. Levy says in his excellent Haaretz article: "If you will it, Naomi Chazan with the horn on her forehead is the beautiful face of Israel, infinitely more beautiful than Im Tirtzu, which tries to put horns on us all, the horns of a fascist state under the cover of Zionism." Israelis should be very worried at the disturbing antics of Im Tirzu. Read Levy on : http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1148014.html

Stalin and Torquemada could be proud of Jerusalem Post

Those ads are all over the highways and byways of Israel. Gigantic billboards emblazoned with the words Naomi Goldstone-Chazan, that depict her with a green NIF horn protruding from her forehead. Eretz Nehederet.

don't need no television don't need no movie stars don't need no private planes don't need no politicians don't need no stocks and bonds don't need no cars or boats or trains don't need no diamond jewllery don't need no rare cigars don't need no magnums of champagne don't need no penthouse mansion don't need no paris fashion don't need no shiny golden chain there ain't nothing you can give me i', already there i got love i got love love i got love love love don't need no plastic surgery don't need no country clubs don't need no butlers cooks or maids don't need no marijuana don't need no ecstasy don't need no blow or sleeping aids don't need no personal trainer don't need no fortune teller don't need no job that gets me paid don't need no more religion don't need no air condition don't need no one to get me laid your ways are never ever static you're always keeping it erratic i want you to know i'm emphatic about your love that's enigmatic you me and lord makes thee my eyes are open

supporting anti-Israel groups, completely blinded with love of Palestinians, freedom of speech only for their own leftist views...so when can she start?

Only to do with riling ownership whom I venture to guess did the firing not management. Both mgmt. and ownership are left. If it was the other way around i.e. a rightist he too would have been fired. It's known about massive firings at post in last 10 years or so and failed attempts at union, strikes. So don't prejudge.

What's next? Soviet or Iranian show trials? First this fascist organizationlibels her, tehn when she sues them and those who disseminate the lies, she's fired for defending hereself. We "saved Soviet Jewry" so they could bring Soviet style political culture to Israel?

According to the Post's statement an ad was also published in support of the NIF. Doesn't Haaretz publish Gush Shalom adverts slandering Israeli leaders all the time?

Dismissing people by e-mail is not good taste. The "Tirtzu advert" is bad taste and should have been refused by JPost. I do not know why Prof. Chazan wanted to proceed with the column. It feels that the wrong side terminated the contract.

She sued JP because she did not like an advertisement it published and thus seeks to limit free speech of a newspaper & complains when it fires her.Odd.Freedom of press/speech apply mostly for people from government against the people. she mixes apples and oranges. Anyway she can write for Haaretz now. How come I never saw the disputed ad here on this site ? Kindly show it so I know of what you write.

I hope reading JP in its own words helps posters to be accurate when quoting or refering to the newspaper they may not have read. "The Jerusalem Post has canceled Naomi Chazan?s biweekly column, after she and the New Israel Fund of which she is president threatened legal action against the paper over a recent advertisement. The decision was taken by Jerusalem Post management after a legal threat was received at the paper from the NIF and Chazan?s lawyers. Along with other publications, the Post last Sunday carried an advertisement criticizing Chazan and the New Israel Fund in the context of the Goldstone Report on Operation Cast Lead. In Friday?s paper, the Post carried an advertisement defending the NIF and Chazan against their critics."

In what country in the world are academics who call for the boycott of their own institutions at the center of academic power? In what country in the world do legislators openly negotiate with the country's enemies and call for the enemy's victory against one's own state? In what country in the world does a columnist act as patron saint of democratic values, including freedom of speech, and then file a suit against the newspaper when they run an ad which depicts her negatively?

Actually, if you read J Post regularly, you will see columnists featured who are leftist. The most outstandimg of course is :arry Derfmer. However, they have had columns from Jeremy Ben Ami of JStreet, as well as a series from Goldstone. In other words, the newspaper has a variety of views expressed, which is typical of a centrist publication. Now if you were to cite Aretz Sheva as a right wing organization, I might agree with your view. But please let me know what right wing columnists are to be found here at Ha'aretz.

I think if you look at the voting demography in Israel since the time of Menachem Begin. The right have always had a significant majority. Moreover the religious - traditional are also in the overwhelming majority. However the media in Israel is substantially left wing and secular. I don't therfore think your comments add up.

JPOST CLAIMS... The Jerusalem Post has canceled Naomi Chazan?s biweekly column, after she and the New Israel Fund ... threatened legal action against the paper over a recent advertisement. The decision was taken by Jerusalem Post management after a legal threat was received at the paper from the NIF and Chazan?s lawyers.

As Ms Dumbisa Mayo said about AID for Africa that it makes African Governments disfunctional, so is the multiplication of NGO partly financed by outsiders with different agenda, does augur badly for Israel democracy. Simply put, the NGO's instead of helping to right the wrong of the regular Israeli citizen, it au contraire cloge the Justice system, and the double jeopardy it disinfranchise her or him, the poor and the desperate Israeli citizen who has to compete for a time of Justice to be rendered to her or him. No, an NGO has a role to fulfill in a dynamic and liberal society, but as it turnes out, the muultiplication of them, the source of financing from divers and simply unknown sources, destroy the needed support of the populace for the functionality of a State in regular time and environment, let alone for a State as Israel is where the nation is in process of being created, and consusus for what's priority is still in the hands of propagandists.

So much for presenting a multiplicity of opinions. You can say anything you like provided it agrees with my worldview - The JP should rename itself The Daily Me! - where Me = the views the editor-in-chief wants to hear.

The left's 'free speech' is when you agree with them.The NIF has been caught and they cannot accept it.

Political prosecution supported by corrupt judicial system is a foundation of the leftist dictatorship. In 2004, four years after firing, the court agreed that firing teachers for the refusal to teach "Rabin's" heritage was illegal. However, the teachers were not entiled either for compensation or reinstatement on their work places. Israeli court is not worth a shoe!

....but I hardly ever see a left-wing opinion published on Jerusalem Post. Now whether this is a "right-wing" problem or an "Israeli" problem, maybe up for discussion. But there surely is a problem, and I would say it's a pretty big one !!

So Horovitz doesn't one her columns anymore. So what? She will make a good living anyway. It's not Im tirtzu's horns on Chazan what turned her into a sacred cow, but the leftist's salvos stemming from their desperation at the impotence of their own self-righteousness in front of a more complex reality than their wishful thinking. JP is not violatin freedom of speech. JP is not the Interior Ministry. She has a zillion places to write her columns. Enough with the hysteria over a perfectly legal and legitimate choice by JP, some may find justified, some not. That's all.

i will be happy to read Nomi Hazan's column in Haaretz

the LEFT wouldn't let pro-Gush Katif groups purhase advertising time on Israeli TV that referred to the "disengagement" as an "expulsion." and now they have the NERVE to make noise about "freedom of speech" ????

Placing Israel in an existentialy dangerous position of not being able to defend itself it tantamount to crying "fire" in a crowded theater and is NOT protected by "free speech".

...ago! Hazan, intentionally or not, is assisting with her words and now with her deeds those who promote the annihilation of the only nation-state of the Jewish people; the only national home of a singled out people. I used to contribute to the NIF, but Im Tirtzu, a centrist Zionist student organization, has demonstrated to me that what I did was at least partly in support of recipients whose goal has been to undermine the very existence of Israel as our national home, and Hazan has been at least a conduit for this goal. As such, Hazan should not be permitted to write regularly either in the Jerusalem Post, a centrist Israeli English language newspaper, or any other publication that care about the well being of Israel: people, country and civilization.

New Israel Fund is afraid of the loss of donations.

If Haaretz's source for claiming the Jerusalem Post is harming "freedom of speech and freedom of expression" for dumping Chazan as a columnist, perhaps Haaretz should find some new sources. Freedom of speech and freedom of expression are guarantees in the First Amendment to the US Constitution and, less formally, in various Human Rights and Civil Rights declarations and covenants. But restrictions on those rights only constitutes a violation of free speech when it is THE GOVERNMENT imposing the restriction, not private individuals or corporations. Writing for the Jerusalem Post is not a right granted by any government. Let Chazan go complain in a public street about feeling mistreated by Im Tirzu. If she is arrested for that, then she can complain about curtailment of her "free speech."

Funny how theyre all for freedom of speech while they condemn those that protect Israel. As soon as theyre exposed they threaten to sue those who exercise their own freedom of speech. Good move JP. Maybe we will actually be able to finish the next war properly.

Ha'aretz failed to mention the reason cited by the Post for firing Ms. Chazan. "The Jerusalem Post has canceled Naomi Chazan?s biweekly column, after she and the New Israel Fund of which she is president threatened legal action against the paper over a recent advertisement." This appears on the Post's website and is a fact to be considered regardless of the party one agrees with.

Like most ideologues, Chazen confuses freedom of speech with the ability to be published and listened to. The three are definitely not synonymous. Freedom of speech is the ability to say what you want, but not always in the forum you want. If you want JPost to publish you, buy it. That is your only guarantee they'll publish. I'd love the NY Times to publish my opinion, but as a non-subscriber and non-owner, the chances are negligible. The US Courts just ruled that some artificial persons have the same rights as human beings to speech. The problem is that the artificial persons have lots more money than even Bill Gates, a human being and the richest natural person on the planet. And the controllers of the artificial persons can reside in foreign countries and even be part of enemy governments. But they can spend an unlimited amount to drown out anybody else's freedom of speech now in the US. JPost isn't quite yet a government organ. Give them time.

Jpost does publish dissenting views, even giving Goldstone an op-ed forum.Chazan and her ilk are hiding behind "freedom of speech" when she knows that was not the issue. The Zionist Organization of Victoria in Melbourne also cancelled her visit. They have hosted people like Collette Avital whose views are similar to Chazan. She protesteth too much.

Funny how no one on the political left ever has cause to complain about the posting/censorship policy around here. Worthless Commie Lib vermin!!

When the leftist get caught with their pants down- they call it an attack on free speech. I call it fraud and deception and Naomi Chazan should fess up. I expect better from her- for she believes she is a purest.