Editing Jacobo Timerman (section)

===''La Opinión''===
From 1971 to 1977, Timerman edited and published the left-leaning daily ''[[La Opinión (Argentina)|La Opinión]]''. Under his leadership, this paper reported news and criticisms of the human rights violations of the Argentine government, into the early years of the [[Dirty War]]. One wealthy backer of the paper was [[David Graiver]], a Jewish businessman said to have ties to the leftist [[guerrilla]] group known as [[Montoneros]], which was banned.<ref name=Lipsky2009>Seth Lipsky, “[http://www.tabletmag.com/news-and-politics/16473/kristol-clear/ Kristol Clear How the neoconservative columnist’s x-ray vision will be missed]”, ''Tablet'', 21 September 2009.</ref> Graiver had lent money to the paper in 1974.<ref name=Diuguid /> Because of Graiver's alleged ties to the Montoneros, Timerman was later criticized for his connections to the businessman.

The publisher reported against both left-wing and [[right-wing terrorism]]. Some commentators have suggested that he supported a military coup to quell the violence.<ref name=Taussig>:Michael Taussig, ''Shamanism, Colonialism and the Wild Man - A Study in Terror and Healing''. University of Chicago Press, 1987; {{ISBN|0-226-79012-6}}, p. 4.</ref> Timerman believed that his paper was the only one that dared to report accurately on current affairs without hiding the events behind euphemisms. Both Isabel Perón and the military regime that overthrew her government suspended the paper for short periods prior to Timerman's arrest.<ref name=Diuguid>{{cite news |id={{ProQuest|147053478}} |last1=Diuguid |first1=Lewis H |title=Silencing Jacobo Timerman |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=31 March 1979 |page=A15 }}</ref> Timerman later wrote in ''Prisoner Without a Name'' (1981), "During my journalistic career, particularly as publisher and editor of ''La Opinión'', I received countless threats". For example:<ref name="Diuguid"/><ref>Timerman, ''Prisoner Without a Name'' (1981), p. 20.</ref>

<blockquote>One morning two letters arrived in the same mail: one was from the rightist terrorist organization (protected and utilized by paramilitary groups) condemning me to death because of its belief that my militancy on behalf of the right to trial for anyone arrested and my battle for human rights were hindrances in overthrowing communism; the other letter was from the terrorist [[Trotskyite]] group, ''Ejercito Revolucionario Popular'' (ERP)—the Popular Revolutionary Army—and indicated that if I continued accusing leftist revolutionaries of being Fascists and referring to them as the lunatic Left, I would be tried and most likely sentenced to death.</blockquote>

Timerman maintained his outspoken support for Israel. In 1975, in response to the [[United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379]], which condemned Zionism as racism (as well as condemning South Africa's [[apartheid]]), he wrote "Why I Am A Zionist".<ref>Rein & Davidi, ''Exile of the World'' (2010), p. 10.</ref> (Originally passed largely by Non-aligned Nations following their conference that year, the resolution was revoked in 1991 by with [[United Nations General Assembly Resolution 46/86|UN General Assembly Resolution 46/86]].)