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The official enemy
Press, Eyal | April 21, 1997 issue

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The article sketches the life of Erwin Knoll in the biography "An Enemy of the State." Knoll, editor of "the Progressive" until his death in 1994, subscribed to no party doctrine and was never an ideologue, but he did take an absolutist stance on three issues: war, which he always opposed, free speech, which he always championed and electoral politics, which he viewed as hopelessly divorced from the actual concerns of ordinary people. Revolted by the horrors of state sponsored violence and convinced there was no such thing as a "just war," he became a strict pacifist- an unusual position for a Jewish survivor of World War II. state, Knoll became an outspoken critic of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.

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BIOGRAPHY; KNOLL, Erwin; ENEMY of the State, An (Book); FREEDOM of speech; POLITICAL campaigns; PACIFISTS; WORLD War, 1939-1945
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