Gabor Maté
Gabor Maté | |
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.jpeg) Maté in 2013 | |
| Born | January 6, 1944 |
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| Spouse | Rae Maté (m. 1969) |
| Children | 3, including Aaron and Daniel[1] |
| Website | drgabormate |
Dr. Gabor Maté is a Hungarian-Canadian physician, author, and speaker who has expertise in a range of areas including addiction, stress, and childhood development. He has garnered recognition for his compassionate approach to therapy and his advocacy for a more empathetic and science-informed view of addiction and mental health. Maté's experiences as a child survivor of the Jewish Holocaust in Budapest and later as a refugee, as well as his observations from his years of clinical experience, have contributed to his perspective on the influence of trauma on individuals and communities. Dr Maté was previously a Zionist before becoming a staunch anti-Zionist and an ardent defender of the Palestinian cause.[2]
Early Life and Background[edit | edit source]
Gabor Maté was born into a Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary. In 1944, when Maté was a few months old, Hungary was occupied by Nazi Germany, leading to a period where he and his family faced the direct atrocities of war and persecution during the Holocaust. This traumatic environment of his early life, he posits, informed his later work on understanding the impacts of trauma and adversity on health. After the war, his family eventually immigrated to Canada, where Maté grew up and pursued a career in medicine.
Views on Palestine[edit | edit source]
Dr Maté's views on Palestine have evolved considerably over the years; he has gone from being a Zionist supporter of Israel to a member of Jews for a Just Peace before completely rejecting the Israeli occupation of Palestine and becoming an influential voice within the anti-Zionist movement.[3]
In 2014, Dr Maté published an opinion piece in the Toronto Star explaining his views on the Israeli occupation of Palestine.[3] In it, he decried the occupation, complained about the double standard when it came to the treatment of the Palestinian resistance fighters as compared to those of the Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and emphasized the power imbalance between Israel and the Palestinians. He called the Palestinian plight "the longest ongoing ethnic cleansing operation in the recent and present centuries, the ongoing attempt to destroy Palestinian nationhood," and quoted Israeli journalist Gideon Levy who said, of Israel, "it does not want a just peace."
“They don’t care about life,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says, abetted by the Obamas and Harpers of this world, “we do.” Netanyahu, you who with surgical precision slaughter innocents, the young and the old, you who have cruelly blockaded Gaza for years, starving it of necessities, you who deprive Palestinians of more and more of their land, their water, their crops, their trees — you care about life?
— Dr Gabor Maté
Appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored[edit | edit source]
Views on Syria[edit | edit source]
Gabor Maté's son Aaron Maté is a Canadian journalist working for the Grayzone; the younger Maté has espoused views similar to those of his notoriously pro-Russian employer and has written or produced content denying the atrocities committed by the Assad regime and its use of chemical weapons against Syrian freedom revolutionaries.[4] However, there have been no credible allegations of the elder Maté denying the Syrian regime's use of chemical weapons or pushing a pro-Assad narrative.
External Links[edit | edit source]
- Dr Gabor Maté on [Piers Morgan Uncensored|Piers Morgan Uncensored
- 2014 editorial in the Toronto Star
- ↑ "Daniel Maté BIO". www.danielmate.com. Retrieved November 30, 2023.
- ↑ Maté, Gabor (November 28, 2023). "Israel-Hamas War: Gabor Maté vs Piers Morgan On Palestine and Gaza". Piers Morgan Uncensored (Interview). Interviewed by Piers Morgan. Retrieved November 30, 2023.
Now look, I used to be a Zionist
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Maté, Gabor (July 22, 2014). "Beautiful dream of Israel has become a nightmare". Toronto Star. Retrieved November 30, 2023.
- ↑ Bloch, Ben (August 15, 2022). "Russell Brand slammed by antisemitism campaigners for platforming Corbyn apologist". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 26 August 2024.