Anshel Pfeffer
Anshel Pfeffer (Hebrew: אנשיל פפר; born 22 June 1973) is a British-Israeli journalist. He is a senior correspondent and columnist for Haaretz, covering military, Jewish and international affairs, and Israel correspondent for The Economist.[1][2]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Pfeffer was born to a Jewish family in Manchester in the United Kingdom.[3][4]
Career
[edit | edit source]Pfeffer has been a working journalist since 1997.[3] He has written for a variety of publications including The Guardian, The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Times.[5]
His Haaretz column, "Jerusalem & Babylon",[6] was a series of articles which covered issues relating to Israel and to Jewish identity, for which he received the B'nai B'rith award for "Recognizing Excellence in Diaspora Reportage".[4][7][8]
Pfeffer's British passport enabled Haaretz to send him to cover the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Egypt is reluctant to permit entry to Israelis.[3]
During the Gaza war, Pfeffer said Israel wasn't committing genocide, adding that those who accused it of genocide were either ignorant or blinded by hate of Israel.[9] Journalist Jordan Elgrably considers Pfeffer to be an "apologist" for Israeli government policies towards Palestinians.[10]
In 2025, Pfeffer was invited to speak at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Palestinian-American poet Fady Joudah accused Pfeffer of being a "genocide apologist" and withdrew from the Edinburgh festival in protest.[11]
Works
[edit | edit source]- Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu, Basic Books, 2018.
References
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Further reading
[edit | edit source]- Jonathan Freedland, "Trump's Chaver in Jerusalem" (review of Anshel Pfeffer, Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu, Basic Books, 2018), New York Review of Books, vol. LXV, no 13 (16 August 2018), pp. 32–34.
- Adam Shatz, "The sea is the same sea" (review of Anshel Pfeffer, Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu, Hurst, May 2018, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).), London Review of Books, vol. 40, no. 16 (30 August 2018), pp. 24, 26–28.
- Anshel Pfeffer's author page (in Russian)
- 1973 births
- Living people
- British male journalists
- British columnists
- British emigrants to Israel
- Jewish British journalists
- Israeli journalists
- Israeli columnists
- Israeli Jews
- Haaretz people
- Writers from Manchester
- 20th-century British Jews
- 21st-century British Jews
- Middle Eastern journalist stubs
- Israeli writer stubs