Hebrew University
Hebrew University - Students Charged with Operating al-Qaeda
Cell on Campus
The Shin Bet and the police have arrested six
Israeli Arabs, four of them residents of east Jerusalem, on
suspicion of planning to operate an
al-Qaeda cell in
Israel.
Among the suspects are students at the Hebrew
University in Jerusalem.
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Hebrew University - Far-Leftist Professor Amiram Goldblum, a
founder of 'Peace Now,' insists on employing a convicted terrorist
in his Hebrew University laboratory:
' professor at Hebrew University wants to allow
a convicted Arab terrorist who stole bomb-making materials from his
chemistry lab to be allowed back to the lab, Channel 2 TV reported
Sunday... The laboratory's previous director, Prof. Avi Domb,
adamantly vetoed the idea of Hadmi's return, but his successor,
Prof. Amiram Goldblum, thinks otherwise. Goldblum, one of the
founders of radical leftist group "Peace Now," said that the
university has no grounds to refuse to readmit Hadmi and allow him
to finish his doctorate, because he has already been punished and
served his jail sentence....Hadmi was convicted of being a member of
a terror cell that planned suicide attacks against Israelis and
recruited other Arabs to the cell.’
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Hebrew University – Law School sponsors Seminar Promoting the
“Nakba”
http://law.huji.ac.il/eng/merkazim.asp?cat=883&news_id=280&in=883
Hebrew University Law School ran a seminar
promoting the Nakba view of history, whereby Israel's existence is a
catastrophe, together with group of far-leftist anti-Zionist
organizations:
Some of the conclusions to the seminar were
alternatives to “co-existence”, redefining Arab villages in the
North as “Palestinian” rather than Israeli, the creation of an
“alternative Jerusalem day” to mark “40 years of occupation”, and
promotion of an “internet forum” to “distribute information” and
“possible cooperation”.
Hebrew University - Ofer Neiman (Dept. of Computer Science)
actively enlists
International pressure against Israel
Neiman said his group (Yesh
Gvul) still pursues its original goal of supporting military
resisters, but has expanded its efforts to enlist support from
people around the world to put pressure on Israel to end its
occupation of Palestinian lands.
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Hebrew University - Did Baruch Kimmerling illustrate the
stupidity of the intelligentsia or was he just plain evil and
self-serving?
There is a particular cultural malady amongst many Israeli
“sociologists” and “political scientists” that allows them to
postulate in a vacuum free of the reality on the ground for the
average Israeli. Being a PhD and college professor, particularly
with tenure, spending time abroad in the safety of the US or Canada
and being a discussant in a university setting with Arab
intellectuals and professors who will patiently sit and
sophistically discuss the need to end the Jewish state as a means to
some egalitarian utopian society (that in reality will never exist
in peace and calm in the midst of a Muslim-Arab umma)
must be a great life. Meanwhile, the average Israeli has to worry
about his children getting blown up as he works and earns about
$18,000 a year and does his six weeks of reserve duty to protect the
Jewish people from an Arab culture that has reintroduced child
sacrifice, that perpetuates misogyny, honor killings, homophobia and
promotes, above all, the murder of Jews as not only a noble pursuit,
but even a Godly one. The late Professor Baruch Kimmerling referred
to this Arab culture in euphemistic terms as simply “Palestinian
nationalism” deserving of the world’s respect. Goebbels’ Big Lie
showed how repetition gives validity to a lie; Israeli intellectuals
like Kimmerling did more than the Big Lie ever could to demonize the
Jewish right to self-determination by legitimizing the myth of a
Palestinian nationalism that was fabricated from whole cloth by the
Arab League. Kimmerling may now be dead, but his ideas and
statements are still alive to be used by the Arabs.
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Hebrew University - Alice Shalvi (Dept. of English) tries to
"deceive" American Donors
Just this week, the New Israel Fund (NIF) sent
out an email solicitation for donors with a personal plea and letter
from Professor Alice Shalvi of Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Shalvi, who is a Professor of English and an expert on Shakespeare,
was recently awarded the
Israel Prize.
Some have suggested she won the national honor because of leftist
political pressure to give it to a woman who is a feminist activist.
Regardless of why she won the Prize, apparently the New Israel Fund
thought she was an effective (and deceptive) enough personality to
use for an email solicitation for donations from wealthy American
Jews who don’t know all that much about the New Israel Fund, or
Alice Shalvi for that matter.
The New Israel Fund tries to pass itself off as
an organization that seeks to make Israel a better place to live and
a prosperous society. Currently managed by a former US State
Department hack named
Larry Garber, who
handled USAID funds for anti-Israel organizations and NGO’s and
even paid with USAID funds
for a Palestinian constitution based on Sharia Law like those of
Saudi Arabia and Iran,
the
NIF can never find enough organizations to aid that seek to give aid
and comfort to Israel’s enemies. For example, the NIF has funded
one subsidiary that paid activists to hand out flyers at train
stations in Israel encouraging IDF soldiers to desert the IDF and
offering to pay them salaries while they sit in jail (most IDF
soldiers do not receive pay while serving their required national
service). The NIF is in fact a fundraising arm for every “Jewish”
group that works in nearly full cooperation with Arab entities out
to destroy the Jewish state, all the while using the trite “social
justice” mantra of “fighting oppression” used by communist-inspired
and frequently Arab-led groups worldwide like the
International Solidarity
Movement.
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Hebrew University - Moshe Behar (Dept of Politics) ignores the facts
Behar drafted a letter to every Jew
in the world that wants to see Israel ended as a Jewish nation in
which he calls for "a clear call of a halt to all American and other
aid to Israel" and implementation of UN Resolution 242 that he says
"emphasized the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by
force" and "affirmed the principle of withdrawal of Israeli forces
from territories occupied in the recent [1967] conflict."
Middle East historian Bat Y'eor in
her book, Eurabia, has described how the Arabs continually misquote
the intention of Resolution 242 insisting it says Israel must
withdraw from all the territories and give it to the Arabs. But
Eugene Rostow, who wrote the Resolution for the UN, says it says
Israel must withdraw from part of the territory in return for secure
borders. Those two issues never come into play for an Arab League
that insists international law be followed only when they agree with
it. There were 23 Jewish settlements in Gaza and Judea and Samaria
(The West Bank) prior to 1948 that Arab armies destroyed that Israel
took back in 1967. Israel already gave back Gaza by deporting its
own people and giving up 70% of its agricultural export business and
we all know the outcome of that: over 4,000 rockets fired on Sderot
and environs immediately. Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) has a
legitimate right to hold onto parts of the land regained by what
could be called an attempted Arab pogrom to run the Jews into the
sea in 1948. Since Behar teaches in Sderot, he of all people should
logically see the folly of acceding to the Arab demands in Judea and
Samaria. But logic plays no role in the careers and vocalizations of
"intellectuals" like Behar who work diligently on behalf of the
Arabs and enjoy fellowship sponsorship at Hebrew University,
courtesy of the Israeli taxpayer.
Behar also says the world should
condemn and boycott Israel over implementation of UN Resolution 338
that calls for a unilateral ceasefire, but the it is the Arab world
that maintains a constant state of war since Khartoum in 1967 where
the Arab League announced the three no's: no negotiation, no peace,
no Israel. Saudi Arabia, allowed to dictate a "peace plan" called
the Road Map, is still in a declared state of war with Israel since
1948.
Apparently, none of these facts
bother Behar, especially since they do not fit the Palestinian Arab
narrative. He found his academic niche as a mouthpiece for the Arabs
and even now Israel will give him a sounding board at Hebrew
University.
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Hebrew University - Sidra DeKoven Ezrachi (Dept of Literature) tries
"to justify" a non-Jewish Israeli State
… this reactionary idea of Israel as
the embodiment of Jewish religious exceptionalism is making more and
more sense to Israel’s Arabs, who otherwise have sought to integrate
into Hebrew civil society. When West Bank settlers say, absurdly,
that if Jews have no claim to Hebron then they have none to Tel
Aviv, Israeli Arabs increasingly agree. No Tel Aviv, they say, or at
least no Jewish state.
Rather, Israeli Arabs are coming around to the idea of a single
state “for all religions.” (Presumably, public business would be
conducted in a nicely accented English.) The Arab world more
generally has assumed what the settlers imply, that Judaism is a
religion disdained in the Christian West, which imposed Israel on
Palestine because of guilt. The occupation, both groups allege, has
betrayed Israel’s true nature as an expanding religious colony. The
idea that modern Jews need a democratic national home — to transcend
their religious Orthodoxy and develop their cultural distinction —
seems radical all over again.
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Hebrew University - Sternhell and the Debasement of the Israel
Prize
He called on IDF tanks to roll over the settlements, he advised the
Palestinians to direct their armed Intifada east of the green line,
he maintains that killing Arab children becomes part of national
policy, he condemns Israel's "barbaric behavior" in the territories,
he branded Israeli ministers as "stupid", "megalomaniac",
"trigger-happy gangsters, he opposed Israel's right to fight
terrorism and does not even think that he lives in a democracy. Yet,
this nightmarish country will award Prof. Ze'ev Sternhell its most
prestigious prize on Independence Day and he has the audacity to
accept it.
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Hebrew University - Zeev Sternhell (Dept. of Politics), Israel
Prize 2008 nominee, legitimized Arab terrorism
In his article, “Against the Moonstruck
Government” (Haaretz, May 11, 2001) Sternhell legitimized Arab
terrorism in Judea and Samaria:
"Many Israelis, possibly the majority of the
voters, do not doubt the legitimacy of the armed resistance in the
territories proper. Had the Palestinians the least bit of sense,
they would have concentrated their struggle against the settlements
and would not hurt women and children, fire rockets on Gilo, Nachal
Oz, and Sderot, or plant explosives on the western side of the Green
Line. In this manner, the Palestinians would themselves draft the
solution that will be reached in any case."
Several years earlier, in Davar, Sternhell said
that “only those willing to storm Ofra with tanks, will be able to
stop the fascist wave threatening to drown the Israeli democracy.”
"The Israel Prize turns its recipients into
objects of national pride and consensus. The prize is awarded in the
name of all the Israeli citizens, including those, whom professor
Sternhell views as legitimate targets for terrorism," the Forum
stated.
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Hebrew University - Zeev Sternhell (Dept. of Politics), Israel
Prize 2008 nominee, justified the killing of settlers
The Supreme Court will deliberate Monday a
petition calling for the revocation of the decision to bestow the
Israel Prize on Professor Ze'ev Sternhell. Members of the Legal
Forum for the Land of Israel, which submitted the request, claimed
that Sternhell had publicly legitimized Palestinian terrorism in an
article he once published and suggested that the terrorists target
settlers.
In February, Education minister Yuli Tamir rejected a request by
the Legal Forum for the Land of Israel to cancel the decision to
award Sternhell the prize. The request had stated that "There is no
case more appropriate than Professor Sternhell's, which justifies
the killing of civilians in terror attacks, provided that they are
settlers."
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Hebrew University - Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
(Faculty of Law) links "honor killings" to imaginary rapes by
Israeli soldiers
At first view, Shalhoub-Kevorkian would seem to
be a prime example of equal rights for Israeli Arab citizens within
Israel, particularly women. This woman is a product of education
from at least two Israeli universities (and how much Israeli
taxpayer assistance did she receive to do so?) and now lectures on
the consistent problem worldwide of violence against women, not only
in Israel, but abroad. The greatest proportion of such violence and
oppression is in Arab Muslim states. One would expect her to
perhaps have some gratitude for her country-of-residence, Israel, at
least some minor appreciation, but as in many other aspects of the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Ms. Shalhoub-Kevorkian lets Arab
tribalism trump everything.
Hebrew University, where Ms. Shalhoub-Kevorkian
teaches, and particularly its social work department, recently came
out with a study that faulted Israeli soldiers for not raping
Palestinian women as an indication that IDF soldiers felt such women
were inferior. That was the best the academics at Hebrew U. could do
to salvage such a blood libel report which proved false since no
such rapes could be found. Not to miss the bandwagon, Ms.
Shalhoub-Kevorkian advanced this blood libel against IDF soldiers by
claiming they molest Palestinian girls at checkpoints as a matter of
course and even rape them (still unproven with not one rape
chronicled). The kicker is that as an academic and a feminist, she
says is opposed to Arab honor killings.
So how does this Arab-Israeli academic lay
blame on Israel for that peculiar Arab tribal institution of honor
killings? Well, Shalhoub-Kevorkian hit upon the idea that Israeli
soldiers are raping these Arab girls who are then murdered by their
families to preserve family honor because of the imaginary rapes by
Israeli soldiers.
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Hebrew
University - Nurit Peled-Elhanan (Dept. of Education) calls into
question the Jewish Israeli identity
Israel is an ‘ethnic Democracy’ where one
ethnic group dominates other ethnic groups while denying or ignoring
their social and cultural identities and rights. The Jewish Israeli
identity is an artificial one. Since features such as common
territory, common language and common culture were not available to
the modern Jewish nation which is composed of many cultures and
languages, they had to be manufactured through education, for the
purpose of building a collective homogenous identity for all its
members. This identity has been founded on the idea that Israelis
are both the successors of biblical Hebrews and have a Western
culture. Israeli school discourse ignores and denies any other
culture, both Jewish and Arab. This tendency results in the
ignorance of teachers regarding the culture and ‘lifeworld’ of both
their students and their neighbours. The paper shows the ways in
which ‘others’ (such as Palestinians, Ethiopian Jews or ex-Soviet
Union Jews), are represented both in schoolbooks and in teachers’
talk. The paper will argue that Israeli education promotes ‘Elite
Racism’ both towards the Palestinian citizens and subjects and
towards Jewish new-comers.
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Hebrew University - Victoria Buch - Blasts Israel for "Possible
Future Ethnic Cleansing"
"The stage for ethnic cleansing of Palestinians
has been set in the Occupied Territories, and ethnic cleansing is in
progress. At present, this is the major project of the state of
Israel.
Will the ethnic cleansing succeed? The authors
of these policies obviously count on it. The opening is there, with
the present US administration backing Israel whatever it does, and
the EU and the Arab countries unable or unwilling to stand up to the
US.
In my view, my country Israel has embarked on
suicidal policies. Something like that already happened in the
Jewish history, some 1940 years ago - see the "The Jewish War", by
Josephus Flavius. And just like in those days, most of Israeli
public does not realize, that they are being dragged to disaster by
their own leaders."
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Hebrew U's Timothy Leary Says Moses was a Druggie!
The Real Moses, a la Hebrew University?
Just when you think that Israeli academia could
not possibly get any wackier than it already is, along comes
Professor Benny Shanon, who teaches cognitive psychology at the
Hebrew University, and declares that Moses was a drug addict.
Shanon is a chaired full professor at the
Hebrew University who holds the Mandel Chair in Cognitive Psychology
and Education. He is author of the 2002 book Antipodes of the "Mind:
Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience," published
by Oxford University Press.
Shanon reached this astounding serendipity on
the basis of the "seeing the Sounds" phrase amidst the descriptions
in Exodus of the sounds and smoke around Mt. Sinai at the giving of
the Ten Commandments (or reserved recommendations, for those of you
who are Reconstructionists). It all reminds him the experiences he
had taking hallucinegenic drugs while trekking through the Amazon.
No, not the book selling web site. Wondering what was being smoked
on the Sinai mountain to make all the smoke?
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Hebrew University - Israel Prize Winner Zeev Sternhell (Dept. of
Political Science) wants Israeli sovereignty to be destroyed via an
"imposed solution":
'Hence, the only possible solution is an
imposed settlement authored by the international community and
implemented under its watchful eye. What is needed is swift,
no-nonsense, U.S.-European intervention based on a comprehensive
regional plan, and not just another road map to nowhere.'
For more details, go to:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=332121
Hebrew University Political Scientist Zeev Sternhell, to be
awarded Israel Prize - justifying Palestinian violence:
Sternhell wrote in the Davar newspaper in
1988: "In the end we will have to use force against the settlers in
Ofra or Elon Moreh. Only he who is willing to storm Ofra with tanks
will be able to block the fascist danger threatening to drown
Israeli democracy."
In the Haaretz newspaper, in 2001, Sternhell
said: "There is no doubt about the legitimacy of [Palestinian] armed
resistance in the territories themselves. If the Palestinians had a
little sense, they would concentrate their struggle against the
settlements, and refrain from planting bombs west of the Green
Line."
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Hebrew University - Zeev Sternhell (Dept. of Political Science),
to be awarded Israel Prize, claims in Haaretz that Israel is trying
to destroy Lebanon as US Lackey
'Sometimes it seems as if U.S. President
George W. Bush wants Israel both to destroy Lebanon and to sustain
painful losses. That way, Israel provides him with an excellent
alibi for the war in Iraq: The fight against terror is global, the
blood price is the same, the methods of operation and the means are
identical, and the time needed for victory is long. The Israeli
vassal is serving its master no less than the master is providing
for its needs.'
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Hebrew University - Guilty By Reason Of Innocence: New Insanity
From Israel's Academic Extreme-Leftists
'It began as just another exercise in political academic
wackiness at Hebrew University. A graduate student there claimed
that the absence of any history of rapes of Arab women by Israeli
soldiers proves that Jews are racists ad oppressors, people who do
not even regard Arab women as sexually desirable. The student at the
Mount Scopus campus and her research were then awarded a university
honor for these impressive discoveries. Facing a storm of public
outrage, the president of Hebrew University, Prof. Menachem Magidor,
and the Rector, Prof. Haim D. Rabinowitch, jointly issued an
announcement defending the student and dismissing those who
expressed outrage over the contents of the thesis.'
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Hebrew
University - Nurit Peled-Elhanan (Dept. of Education) demands that
Israelis mutiny and refuse to serve in the army:
"It is time to tell
Jewish children that the only way to discourage anti-Semitism is by
condemning the only government in the world who deliberately sends
young Jewish boys and girls to their certain death and who
persecutes to the point of genocide a whole Semitic nation, explain
to them that this government and the actions of its army, not some
primordial hatred for the Jewish race, are the reasons for the
invention of the new sign where the Star of David is equated with
the swastika. It is time, ladies and gentlemen, to say "no more",
to keep our children from obeying unlawful orders and pursuing
racist ideologies."
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Technion, University of Haifa, and Hebrew University - For
Professors Jacob and Tamar Katriel and their children, bashing
Israel is a family affair -
by Lee Kaplan
"Jacob Katriel is in fact
a Stalinist communist ideologue who has been a central figure in
Israel’s communist party that is mostly dominated by Arab-Israeli
members who are irredentists against Israel’s Jews. If it has
anything to do with smearing the Jewish state, Katriel will do it
while reaping the rewards of his tenured retirement sinecure paid
for by the Israeli taxpayer and donors to Israeli universities. His
wife and children are equally close allies in damning Israel any way
they can. Among Katriel’s major efforts, supported equally by all
members of his family, are attempts to compare Israel with apartheid
South Africa in order to promote worldwide divestment making a false
comparison with what was a genuinely racist South African regime
back in the 1980’s."
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Hebrew University - Nurit Peled-Elhana (Dept. of Language
Education) blames the Jews and Christians for Islamofascist Terror
'Nurit Peled-Elhanan, lecturer in Language Education at Hebrew
University blamed Israel for the death of her daughter Smadar (z’l).
Smadar (14 years old) was killed by an Arab suicide bomber on
September 4, 1997. Did she blame the Arab murderer? No Way! "Neither
Judaism nor Islam nor any religion for that matter are the cause for
murder and terror. Racist education is. American imperialism is, and
Israeli ruthless regime of occupation is....The people who are
destroying the world today are not Muslim. The people who are using
the most sophisticated disastrous weapons to kill thousand of
innocent civilians are not Muslim. They are Christian, and Jewish."'
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Hebrew University - Nurit Peled-Elhanan (Dept. of Language
Education) and activists in "Israeli Coalition Against the Siege
organizes nation-wide relief convoy to Gaza border and simultaneous,
cross-border demonstrations against the siege with Palestinians in
Gaza and Ramallah."
Unlike what we have been made to believe,
residents of Sderot and residents of Gaza are not to be seen as
opponents: both are victims of a stupid and vicious policy of the
Government of Israel.
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"On the Necessity of Refusal" / by Nurit Peled-Elhanan
It is time to tell Jewish children that the
only way to discourage anti-Semitism is by condemning the only
government in the world who deliberately sends young Jewish boys and
girls to their certain death and who persecutes to the point of
genocide a whole Semitic nation, explain to them that this
government and the actions of its army, not some primordial hatred
for the Jewish race, are the reasons for the invention of the new
sign where the Star of David is equated with the swastika.
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The Legacy of
Israel Shahak
In the late
Israel Shahak, the political heirs of Heinrich Himmler
discovered their very own A-1 Jew. They elevated him to that status
over three decades, while he served on the faculty of the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem.
Israel Shahak was a professor of organic
chemistry. In his spare time he was a disseminator of
antisemitic
lies. Almost every falsehood invoked by the Nazis to justify the
Holocaust was eventually ratified by this tenured academic at one of
Israel’s most prestigious institutions.
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Late Dr. Israel Shahak, 'The Wicked Son'
He went on to become a professor of organic
chemistry (he taught at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University for 25 years),
but it was as a so-called human rights activist that he made a name
for himself.
This, however, was no garden variety
bleeding-heart leftist. Shahak not only came to despise Zionism and
consider the establishment of the State of Israel a criminal act; he
also set out to expose what he considered the depravities and
hypocrisies of rabbinic Judaism – and to do so in as public a manner
as possible.
Because he downplayed Jewish suffering in favor
of painting Jews and Israelis as serial oppressors, Shahak had
little patience with the notion that the Holocaust had a profound
impact on either the Israeli psyche or Israeli policy-making. To
him, Jews were victimizers, not victims.
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Nurit Peled-Elhanan's study about the presentation of the
Palestinians in Israeli schoolbooks
The denial of Palestinian national and
territorial identity is still one of the core messages of Israeli
textbooks. In a recent study of Israeli textbooks Firer (2004:75)
claims that "as political correctness has reached Israel it is no
longer appropriate to use blunt, discriminatory language in
textbooks", and then adds that in the years 1967-1990 "the
stereotypes of Arabs and Palestinians almost disappear" (ibid. p.
92). However, examining mainstream school books that were published
after 1994, including the ones Firer praises most for political
correctness, one cannot avoid seeing that visually and verbally,
Palestinians are still represented either in a racist stereotypical
way, or as absent people, namely as an 'impersonalized' or excluded
element.
The Palestinian citizens of the state of Israel
are always depicted dichotomously as "Israel' Arabs" vs. the
Israelis, or as the "Non-Jewish population" vs. the Jewish one.
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Nurit Peled-Elhanan: “In the State of Israel the Jewish mother
is disappearing”
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Hebrew University - Dr. Haggai Katriel, (Dept of Mathematics)
claims to live in "Palestine" in anti-Israel petition
In an anti-Israel petition Haggai Katriel, an Activist who lives in
"Palestine" (Haifa)
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