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| birth_place = [[Winnipeg]], Manitoba, Canada<br />
| native_name = ברי חמיש<br />
| native_name_lang = he<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|mf=yes|1952|1|13}}<br />
| death_place = [[Florida]], U.S.<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|2016|8|23|1952|1|13|mf=y}}<br />
| nationality = Canadian / Israeli<br />
| occupation = writer, public speaker<br />
| alma_mater = [[University of Manitoba]]<br />
}}<br />
'''Barry Chamish''' ({{langx|he|ברי חמיש}}; January 13, 1952 – August 23, 2016) was a Canadian-born Israeli writer and public speaker. He was best known for promoting [[Yitzhak Rabin assassination conspiracy theories|conspiracy theories about the death of Yitzhak Rabin]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=3777|title='Conspiracists' still waiting for 'the truth'|website=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com|date=30 April 2010 |access-date=2016-08-05}}</ref> - Israel's prime minister who was assassinated in 1995.<br />
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==Early years==<br />
Barry Chamish was born in [[Winnipeg]], Manitoba, Canada.<ref name="About">[http://www.thebarrychamishwebsite.com/about.htm "About Barry,"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110305172307/http://thebarrychamishwebsite.com/about.htm |date=2011-03-05 }} thebarrychamishwebsite.com/ Retrieved March 6, 2011.</ref><br />
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In the first half of the 1970s, Chamish had three novels and a book of short stories published in his native Canada.<ref name="Archives">[http://vaam.tripod.com/Bio.html "Barry's Biography,"] Barry Chamish Archives, Retrieved March 6, 2011.</ref> His novel ''Mack'' won a Canada Council Award worth several thousand dollars.<ref name="Whiz">Matt Bellan, [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Sr4cAAAAIBAJ&sjid=hGAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1553,1815594&dq=barry-chamish&hl=en "Former Winnipegger Israeli Scrabble Whiz,"] ''The Jewish Post and News,'' February 1, 1989, pg. 5.</ref> In 1976, his book ''Alice in Newfoundland'' won a Manitoba Arts Council Award.<ref name="False">[http://inquisitionnews.amplify.com/2011/02/26/wikipedia-false-claims-on-barry-chamish-as-holocaust-denier/ "Wikipedia False Claims on Barry Chamish as ‘Holocaust Denier,'"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110701180354/http://inquisitionnews.amplify.com/2011/02/26/wikipedia-false-claims-on-barry-chamish-as-holocaust-denier/ |date=July 1, 2011 }} ''Inquisition News,'' February 26, 2011.</ref><br />
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Chamish earned a [[Bachelor's degree|Bachelor of Arts degree]] at the [[University of Manitoba]] in 1974.<ref name="About" /> In 1975, Chamish [[aliyah|emigrated]] to [[Israel]], where he attended the [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]]. He received a [[Master of Arts]] degree in 1979.<ref>Greer Fay Cashman, [https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/54179720.html?dids=54179720:54179720&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=May+23%2C+2000&author=Greer+Fay+Cashman&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=Grapevine&pqatl=google "Grapevine] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105214922/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/54179720.html?dids=54179720:54179720&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=May+23,+2000&author=Greer+Fay+Cashman&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=Grapevine&pqatl=google |date=2012-11-05 }}, ''The Jerusalem Post,'' May 23, 2000.</ref><br />
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Following graduation, Chamish was [[conscription in Israel|conscripted]] into the [[Israel Defense Forces]], and served as a regular from 1979 to 1981.<ref name="Whiz" /><ref name="False" /> He participated as a [[reservist]] in the [[1982 Lebanon War]], during which he operated a [[FIM-43 Redeye|Redeye anti-aircraft missile]].<ref name="Whiz" /><br />
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==Career==<br />
Chamish began to work as a [[freelancer|free-lance writer]], publishing material in a range of publications including ''[[The Atlantic]],'' ''[[National Review]],'' and the ''[[New York Newsday]]''.<ref name="Archives" /> Chamish established a news service to distribute his work called "Profiles of Israel," which he continued throughout the decade of the 1980s.<ref name="Whiz" /><br />
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During the 1990s, Chamish wrote extensively on [[Unidentified Flying Objects|UFOs]]<ref name="Right" /> Chamish's work was featured on four episodes of the [[National Broadcasting Company|NBC-TV]] program ''Sightings'' as well as a half-hour of primetime coverage on [[Fox Broadcasting Company|FOX-TV]].<ref name="Right" /><br />
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In the 1990s and 2000s, Chamish published a series of conspiracy books, including ''Traitors and Carpetbaggers in the Promised Land'' (1997), ''The Final Days of Israel'' (2000), ''Israel Betrayed'' (2001), and ''Bye Bye Gaza'' (2006). Chamish charged in these that an array of external and internal forces had "corrupted the country's leaders" and engaged in a "determined agenda aimed at the demise of the Jewish state."<ref>[http://www.thebarrychamishwebsite.com/books.htm "Books"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110527203439/http://www.thebarrychamishwebsite.com/books.htm |date=2011-05-27 }}, March 6, 2011.</ref><br />
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In ''Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin?'' Chamish claims that Rabin was not killed by a lone gunman and that he was shot three times—with the fatal wound being fired from the front.<ref name="Right" /> By the end of 2005 the book had sold 39,000 copies and had been published in seven different languages.<ref name="Right">Barry Chamish, [http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=12000 "Sorry for Being Right,"] ''The Jerusalem Post,'' February 2, 2006.</ref><br />
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In 2008 the Jerusalem Magistrate Court summoned Chamish to pay [[Itamar Ben-Gvir]], an [[Far-right politics in Israel|Israeli far-right]] activist, defamation damages of 36,000 NIS (roughly US$10,000) after repeatedly calling him an agent of the [[Shin Bet]] intelligence service.<ref>{{Cite web |url= http://www.inn.co.il/News/News.aspx/172478 |title= בן-גביר כונה "סוכן שב"כ" - ויפוצה |website= ערוץ 7 |access-date=2016-08-05}}</ref><br />
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In the mid-2000s, Barry Chamish moved to the United States, last in [[Florida]], where he continued writing and had a radio show on [[First Amendment]] Radio on Tuesday evenings. He died in his apartment in Florida in 2016.<ref>{{cite news |title= Barry Chamish passes away |url= https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/216825 |access-date=2 April 2018 |agency= Israel National News |date= 28 August 2016}}</ref><br />
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==Scrabble==<br />
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Chamish was the winner of the 1987 Israeli [[Scrabble]] Tournament and the runner-up in 1988.<ref name="Whiz" /><br />
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==Books==<br />
* ''The Devil Wore an Angel's Suit.'' Winnipeg, MB: Split Level, 1972.<br />
* ''Keep Stillman: A Pun.'' Winnipeg: Split Level, 1973.<br />
* ''Mack.'' Winnipeg: Split Level, 1974.<br />
* ''Alice in Newfoundland''. Winnipeg: Split Level, 1976.<br />
* ''The Fall of Israel''. Edinburgh, Scotland: [[Canongate Books|Canongate]], 1992. {{ISBN|0-86241-355-9}}<br />
* ''Traitors and Carpetbaggers in the Promised Land''. Oklahoma City: Hearthstone, 1997. {{ISBN|1-57558-017-9}}<br />
* ''Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin?'' Venice, CA: [[Feral House|Feral]], 1998. {{ISBN|0-922915-50-4}}<br />
* ''Return of the Giants''. Sun Lakes, AZ: [[Book World/Blue Star]], 2000. {{ISBN|1-881542-66-1}}<br />
* ''The Final Days of Israel''. Tempe, AZ: [[Dandelion Publishing|Dandelion]], 2000. {{ISBN|1-893302-16-4}}<br />
* ''Israel Betrayed''. Ainsworth, NE: Counting Coup, 2001. {{ISBN|0-9708598-5-6}}<br />
* ''Shabtai Tzvi, Labor Zionism and the Holocaust''. Knoxville, TN: [[Master Press]], 2005. {{ISBN|965-90766-1-4}}<br />
* ''Bye Bye Gaza''. Raleigh, NC: [[Lulu (company)|Lulu]], 2006. {{ISBN|978-1-4457-1528-5}}<br />
* ''With the Kennedys.'' Raleigh, NC: Lulu, 2006. {{ISBN|978-1-4457-1530-8}}<br />
* ''THE conPromised Land''. Raleigh, NC: Lulu, 2010. {{ISBN|978-1-4457-1258-1}}<br />
* ''The Stinger, Not the Stung: Israel's Not So Civil War.'' Raleigh, NC: Lulu, 2012. {{ISBN|978-1300450825}}<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160321054816/http://www.barrychamish.com/ Barry Chamish's official website] (Archived)<br />
* [https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/87jun/chamish-p1.htm "Masters of the Tiles: Even to Initiates, Scrabble has Yet to Yield Up All its Secrets,"] ''The Atlantic Monthly,'' Barry Chamish. Volume 259, No. 6 (June 1987), pp.&nbsp;54–58.<br />
* [http://www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins/tim98-12-2.html "New World Order's Control of Israel's Economy,"] Barry Chamish. ''Truth in Media Global Watch Bulletin,'' December 3, 1998.<br />
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