Background
Steven Plaut was born in Philadelphia.
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He received a Doctor of Philosophy in economics from Princeton University, specializing in international and urban economics and later in finance.
Career
In 1981, Steven Plaut immigrated to Israel with his family. Academic career Plaut received his undergraduate degree from Temple University in Philadelphia and his Master of Arts from Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Plaut has worked at the Federal Reserve Bank.
Before his professorship at the Haifa University, he taught at Oberlin College, the Technion, University of California Berkeley, University of California Irvine, Central European University, Tel Aviv University, University of Nantes, and Athens Laboratory for Business Administration.
Literary career In his 2002 book The Scout Steven Plaut describes his near-death experience as a kidney cancer patient at an intensive care ward. The historical novel is a series of life stories exchanged between him and another patient in the ward, an Israeli bedouin scout.
In May 2006, the Israeli magistrate"s court in Nazareth ruled in favour of Gordon, and ordered Plaut to pay Gordon 80,000 shekels in compensation plus 15,000 shekels in legal fees. On 26 March 2013, the Turkish Prime Ministry" General’ s Office received a letter from Plaut addressed to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of Turkey.
The letter attacked the Turkish Prime Minister and Turkey"s illegal occupation of Northern Cyprus.
lieutenant accused the Turkish Prime Minister of being behind the Gaza Flotilla "terrorist attack" on Israeli soldiers. Plaut apologized for Israel not killing a larger number of "terrorists" on the flotilla ship. He claimed it was time to give back "occupied Constantinople" to its "true owner", namely, Greece.
Politics
Steven Plaut is an outspoken critic of the Israeli-Arab peace process and Israel"s unilateral withdrawal policy. Since the Oslo Accords, he has argued that Arab leaders will continue to seek the destruction of Israel through violence and terrorism. Some of his political writings are criticisms of Nakba Day.
Plaut is critical of many Israeli left-wing figures, as well as some Americans such as Michael Lerner and Norman Finkelstein, whom he describes as self-hating Jews and apologists for terrorism that are promoting the destruction of Israel.
Plaut is opposed to what he sees as left-wing extremism in Israeli universities, and is actively involved in Isracampus, a self-proclaimed watchdog organization that publicizes anti-Israel people and groups. In the Canadian Jewish Tribune, he denounced Anarchists Against the Wall, a group protesting the Israeli West Bank barrier which he says is composed of "violent hooligans and anarcho-fascist thugs.".
Membership
Plaut is a member of the editorial board of the Middle East Quarterly, a publication of the Middle East Forum think tank.
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