Gideon Levy Biography

Gideon Levy (Hebrew: גדעון לוי‬; born 1953) is an Israeli journalist and author. Levy writes opinion pieces and a weekly column for the newspaper Haaretz that often focus on the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. Levy has won prizes for his articles on human rights in the Israeli occupied territories, and has been hailed as an "heroic journalist". His critics characterize him as left wing and accuse him of being a propagandist for Hamas.