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"Research by a professor at the Weizmann Institute has led to the development of promising new therapies for acute spinal cord injuries. The late actor Christopher Reeve described Israel as the 'world-center' for research on paralysis treatment."
Meotti is so bereft of originality that he even plagiarizes himself: He pasted a long section from a February 24, 2012 column about how "music can be a platform for anti-Semitism" into a piece he published two months later about anti-Semites in Hollywood working to destroy Israel.
The remarkable thing about Meotti's plagiarism scandal is that it is not
being treated as much of a scandal at all. Yedioth Aharanot, the parent
company of YNet, has apparently not taken any punitive measures against
Meotti. And neither Kirchick nor Stephens expressed any outrage about
being plagiarized. Instead, Kirchick dismissed Meotti's
stealing as "a form of flattery" and Stephens, who also said he was
"flattered," said Meotti's column "makes a point worth repeating." Their
startling reactions reflect a neoconservative culture in which
the cause of Greater Israel supersedes everything else, from
journalistic ethics to intellectual originality.
Because Kirchick, Stephens and Meotti draw their arguments from the same storehouse of recycled Likudnik hasbara,
their columns are virtually indistinguishable and completely
interchangeable. If any one of them disappeared, some other pro-Israel
cadre could step into their shoes without anyone noticing. As Meotti
demonstrated, it takes little more than cutting and pasting press
releases from Israel advocacy groups to succeed in the world of
neoconservatism.
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