26 Facts About Gadi Taub

Gadi Taub is an Israeli historian, author, screenwriter and political commentator.

Gadi Taub is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Public Policy and the Department of Communications at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Gadi Taub did his 3 years' compulsory military service in the Israeli Air Force.

From 1986 to 1998 Gadi Taub worked as a writer and presenter of children's programs on Israeli radio and television.

From 1998 to 2003, Gadi Taub studied at Rutgers University, New Jersey, where he received his PhD in American History.

Gadi Taub's thesis was on American liberalism and philosophical pragmatism.

Gadi Taub argued that the settlement movement is not a continuation of Zionism but its negation.

Gadi Taub was both creator and co-screenwriter of a TV series based on his novel.

Gadi Taub was a co-screenwriter and co-director of a prime time series for Channel 13, entitled Harem, about a polygamous cult.

Since 1996, Gadi Taub has been a columnist for Maariv, Yedioth Ahronoth and Haaretz.

Gadi Taub has written political and cultural commentaries for the American and European press, including The New York Times, The New Republic, Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and Corriere della Sera.

Gadi Taub was a panelist on Channel 10's political show "Council of the Wise".

Gadi Taub is a member of the academic council of the Metzila Center for Zionist, Jewish, Liberal and Humanist Thought.

Gadi Taub sees himself as a Zionist in what he calls the original meaning of the term, that is, a believer in the right of all peoples, including the Jews, for self-determination in their own nation state.

Gadi Taub has expressed support, in principle, in the creation of a Palestinian state beside Israel in the future, although he has clarified that Israel should not allow a Palestinian state at the moment.

Therefore, Gadi Taub has been a vocal critic of the settlement movement and originally supported an immediate unilateral withdrawal from all occupied territories, with or without a peace agreement.

Since 2016, Gadi Taub has expressed, in articles and public statements, consistent support of deporting unauthorized migrant workers from Israel, unless they are proven to be in real need of asylum.

Gadi Taub has repeatedly argued that portraying populism as necessarily xenophobic was at its root a way to deny that much of its force is derived from democratic impulses that arise to resist the attempt to deprive citizens of a nation-state of the means to participate in shaping their own collective destiny.

Gadi Taub hosted Murray at an event at Tel Aviv University addressing the subject.

Critical of multiculturalism and intersectionality, Gadi Taub has repeatedly criticized the tendency to excuse the oppression of women and gays by Muslim communities, as well as the attempt to silence such criticism as motivated only by Islamophobia.

Gadi Taub was originally in the anti-Trump camp, until it became clear that Trump was bent on stemming the rise of China to global hegemony, and stopping Iran's nuclear program.

Gadi Taub became critical of the "globalist elites", whom he dubbed "The Mobile Classes".

Gadi Taub has been a long-time critic of feminism some of whose adherents, he argues, have turned their back on the ideal of equality and adopted a conception of gender relations as a zero-sum game.

Gadi Taub has positioned himself as one of the most outspoken critics of the Israeli Supreme Court.

Gadi Taub stresses that since Aharon Barak's Judicial revolution of the 1990s, the supreme court has usurped the power of the elected branches of government.

Gadi Taub has become disillusioned regarding the prospects of peace between Israelis and Palestinians.