What is Steven Plaut?
{{Infobox writer | name = Steven Plaut | image = Steven Plaut in 2011.JPG | imagesize = 200px | caption = Steven Plaut giving a lecture at Central European University in 2011 | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1951 | birth_place = [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]], [[United States|U.S.]] | death_date = {{death date and given age|2017|1|17|65}} | death_place = [[Haifa]], [[Israel]] | occupation = Professor | nationality = | ethnicity = | citizenship = | period = | genre = | subject = Economics, business | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | signature = | website = | portaldisp = }} '''Steven Plaut''' (1951 – January 17, 2017) was an American-born Israeli economist, academic and writer. He was an associate professor of Business Administration at [[Haifa University]] as well as a member of the editorial board of the ''[[Middle East Quarterly]]''. Plaut was an outspoken critic of the [[Israeli]]-[[Arab]] peace process and Israel's unilateral withdrawal policy.<ref>{{cite web|last=Plaut|first=Steven|title=Op-Ed: Happy Nakba Day!|url=http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/11654#.UVYXlpPvuSo|work=Israel National News|access-date=29 March 2013|date=15 March 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Plaut|first=Steven|title=The ‘Nakba’ Debunked|url=http://frontpagemag.com/2011/steven-plaut/the-%E2%80%9Cnakba%E2%80%9D-debunked/|access-date=29 March 2013|date=2 June 2012}}{{Dead link|date=December 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He taught at [[Oberlin College]], the [[Technion]], [[University of California, Berkeley|UC Berkeley]], [[University of California, Irvine|UC Irvine]], [[Central European University]], [[Tel Aviv University]], [[University of Nantes]], and Athens Laboratory for Business Administration.<ref>{{cite web|last=Plaut|first=Steven