Other Schools
Interdisciplinary Center (Herzliya) - Galia Golan (School of
Government) pulls the following Orwellian Inversions:
Those who Challenge the Leftist Hegemony over Israeli Academia
are like Marxists in the Old Soviet Union
Those who Maintain Leftist anti-Zionist Hegemony over Large
Swaths of Israeli Universities have no Resemblance to Soviet
Marxists at all
Challenging Leftist Uniformity of Thought amounts to demanding
Zionist uniformity of thought
"One wonders, then, why has this witch-hunt
begun against academia and civil society? One explanation may be
that it is a reaction to the increasing criticism and
delegitimization of Israel from outside, causing a drawing in of
ourselves, xenophobia and fundamentalism that demand, as in
McCarthyism, clear signs of loyalty lest the enemy gain from our
weakness. It could, however, be something else, as in the Soviet
Union perhaps, and that is a confidence and mania that comes from
power."
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Leftist Incitement at Beit Berl College
The exhibit is on display at the Beit Berl Art College's Tel Aviv
gallery, and is named 'Evet' – which is Lieberman's Russian first
name. All of the works on display relate to Lieberman.
… Attorney Adrian Aggasy, representing the Legal Forum [for the
Land of Israel], wrote that the exhibition constitutes harsh
incitement against the foreign minister and oversteps the bounds of
good taste. “Despite the importance of freedom of expression and its
protection,” he said in the letter to the A-G, "it cannot be a
refuge and an excuse for inciters, for those who hurt civil servants
and for those who call for violence through the tools of their art.”
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A Review of the
Bash-Israel Pre-Conference organized by Far-Leftist Academics prior
to the Prestigious International Geographical Union’s regional
conference held in Tel Aviv
As happens so often, the ideological opinion
offered by Israeli scholars, under the banner of free speech and
pluralism, at these conferences was primarily monolithic,
anti-Israel, and leftist. If scholars were somehow still able to
leave these conferences with a neutral or positive view about
Israel, it was in spite of the best efforts of Israel’s academics
who organized the pre-conferences, not because of them.
... For Newman, only one voice should be heard
in a democratic society, the voice of critique and anti-state
hatred. The only ‘beacon of light’ in Israel are the organizations
and individuals who compare the country to a fascist state and the
only “value” of democracy is the voice of extremism. On the other
side democracy is having a “black day” when other organizations use
free speech to critique those who critique.
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Interdisciplinary Center (Herzliya) - Bernard Avishai
(Dept. of Business and Government) questions Israel’s sovereignty
over Jerusalem; has already given away Jerusalem to any future Arab
State.
Just to be clear, there is about as much
evidence that King David’s palace would be excavated by this project
as evidence that Queen Helena actually found the grove from which
the true cross had been cut in the Valley of the Cross. But like
Helena’s sites – she was said to be the greatest archeologist in
history, because she never looked for something she didn’t find –
Barkat’s City of David is actually meant to excite pilgrims – you
know, guests of a bar mitzva who are looking for something to do on
Sunday afternoon.
…
SILWAN IS the heart of the most heavily populated, impoverished and
angry parts of the city, certain to be in any future Palestinian
capital.
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Sapir College - Julia Chaitin (Dept of Social Work) shills for
the Gaza Flotilla Terrorists
The attack on the flotilla, and all that ensued
(whether or not the citizens on board attacked first, second, or
later is of no importance) has shown us, once again, how the blind
perspective that force can solve the problem has made the problem
uglier, deeper, more senseless. With all this darkness, the attack
on the flotilla has had one good effect: It brought the blockade of
the forgotten Gaza Strip, from the land, the sea and the air, into
the homes of billions/millions of people around the world. More
importantly, it brought this immoral and inhumane blockade into the
homes of millions of Israelis, who, for the last three years, have
chosen to ignore this destructive act that our government has
inflicted on an innocent population. This may be the light at the
end of the tunnel(s). This might be the beginning of the end of a
government and military policy that was borne in vengeance, and has
been carried out with a vengeance.
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The President of the Technion attacks Tel Aviv
University professors Anat Matar and Rachel Giora for organizing
defamation of the Technion in Boston
It was only the next day, as I continued on my
way, did I start receiving telephone messages about a letter that
had been sent to the Boston Science Museum prior to the event, at
the initiative of Prof. Noam Chomsky from MIT, faculty members from
two Israeli universities and other individuals. In this letter,
Chomsky and his colleagues expressed a sharply worded protest
against the fact that the museum was allowing the president of the
Technion - "the university that prepares weapons of murder" - to
deliver a lecture there. The letter went on to say that the event,
which had paid tribute to Israel's tremendous contribution to world
technology and science, was actually serving as a cover and
camouflage for Israel's crimes against humanity.
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Interdisciplinary Center (Herzliya) - Galia Golan (School of
Government), Far leftist founder of Peace Now, denounces those who criticize the Israeli academic fifth column.
Accuses us of being RICH!! (If only…) Calls for denying freedom of
speech to critics of the anti-Israel Left!
The Knesset committee called upon the Council
for Higher Education to take the report of Im Tirzu and investigate
what Committee Chair Zvulun Orlev called ”subversive and
anti-Zionist.” These (and more) are not isolated items. They add up
to a policy, a campaign designed to cripple civil society, stifle
criticism and eliminate opposition. They endanger the very essence
of liberal democracy and of a free society, namely pluralism – of
thought, deed, and expression.
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The Defaming Duo - Adi Ophir (Tel
Aviv University) and Ariella Azoulay (Bar Ilan University) - Two
Israel Bashers for the Price of One
Pick one of the duo and you will always find the other hopping
aboard. Start with support for the Palestinian "right of return.”
Then calls for Israeli soldiers to refuse to serve in the
"territories." Then branding Israel 'an Apartheid state.' Then calls
for an academic boycott of Israel. Then denouncing all acts of
retaliation by Israel. Then dismiss warnings about the intentions of
Iran.
Anti-Zionist petitions and articles always bear their two
signatures. The duo of Adi Ophir and Ariella Azoulay seem to share
everything, from a household to “books” churned out for the
anti-Israel Far Left. They offer you…
IsraCampus Nepotism Update:
No sooner was Ariella Azoulay (one of the two members of the
Defaming Duo described here) turned down for tenure at Bar-Ilan
University when she was hired as an adjunct lecturer in the Faculty
of the Arts at Tel Aviv University, the school where the other
member of the Duo, her husband Adi Ophir, happens to be employed.
Since universities in Israel generally do not employ married spouses
in the same institution, IsraCampus invites the official heads of
Tel Aviv University to explain this curious arrangement.
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Weizmann
Institute - Math and Computer Science Professor Oded Goldreich
demonizing Israel and Zionism for the Ivy League
To Goldreich, Jews are not indigenous
to Israel, only Arabs are. Even more amazing, Goldreich
joined his fellow Stalinists and issued a call to grant terrorist
Tali Fahima a Nobel Peace Prize. Fahima, an Israeli citizen, was
found guilty of helping her Palestinian Arab boyfriend smuggle
weapons to kill Jews in terrorist attacks. Fahima has since
criticized even her ex-terrorist boyfriend (for being a sell-out
to Israeli intelligence.)
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Nathan Cherny (MD, other institutions, Shaarei Tsedek
Hospital) insists that critics of the New Israel Fund are evil
rightwing extremists undeserving of freedom of speech
'That the New Israel Fund has come under attack
from all sorts of extremist, rightwing, anti-democratic, and
anti-pluralist persons and interest groups is not new. Among its
most severe critics are the sorts of people who attack Israel’s
judiciary, who defend a rigid Orthodox hegemony over Jewish life,
promote Israeli annexation of the West Bank and the expulsion of the
Palestinian community; elements that represent the “dark side” of
the national discourse. The recent attacks by the rightwing
organisation “Im-Tirtzu” (which prompted Danny Lamm’s commentary on
the NIF) is only the latest attempt to silence the voice of civil
society in Israel.'
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Sapir College – Ze’ev Tzahor (College President)
claims Israel massacres children
'And were hundreds of Palestinian children
killed? This time, Israel did not deny. How could it? However, “we
found no evidence that would justify a criminal investigation.” The
same was true in respect to cases where the IDF fired at medical
teams. According to Israel’s response, the judge advocate general
launched dozens of thorough investigation, but somehow everything
and everyone turned out to be fine.'
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Academic College
of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo - Roy Wagner (Dept of Computer Science) Joins the
Celebrations of the founding of the PFLP Terrorist Group
'He leads several “Queers against Israel”
groups (their terminology), and is a leading advocate of worldwide
boycotts of Israel. He was one of those Israelis who signed a
petition declaring that Israel was about to commit Nazi-like
atrocities the moment the allied troops invaded Iraq. That statement
is still carried on Holocaust Denial web sites like Stormfront.
Saddam was long ago toppled, but no apology from Wagner.'
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Kiryat Ono College of Law - Amir Paz-Fuchs believes that “army
service resisters” are “the bravest Israelis”
Israel has a long track record of law school
academics ganging up to demonize and discredit the country. Among
these are leftist attorneys who have played the game of citing
“international law” and “social justice” in defending the
indefensible, the quest to destroy Israel by any means necessary. …
Israeli law lecturer Amir Paz-Fuchs is an example of someone who
uses the courts in a similar manner. He also uses his Kiryat Ono
classroom as an arena to smear and demonize Israel and Zionism. …
Paz-Fuchs and his colleague argue that refusing to serve in the
military for political reasons in a democratic country should be
regarded as completely legal and valid, and mutineers even be paid
veterans’ benefits. The authors regard such people as the bravest
Israelis.
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Technion – Kobi Snitz (Dept of Mathematics) and Roee
Harush (Seminar Hakibutzim), residents of “occupied Haifa,” also
support and actively participate in a “BDS campaign by the citizens
of Israel”
Many of Haifa's Palestinians and some Jews
participate in anti-Zionist activity on different occasions … as
well as various forms of direct action against the occupation and
the Zionist regime. … Through the various discussions, it was found
that there is broad agreement that support by Israeli citizens,
particularly Jewish-Israelis could be very useful to the
international BDS campaign. … An important unresolved issue is the
legitimate reluctance of many anti-Zionists in Palestine to identify
as Israelis. … This is a long-standing question for the Jewish
anti-Zionist movement in Palestine, and while it is an unresolved
issue, it should not be allowed to become an obstacle to mounting an
effective struggle against the apartheid regime. … The group is now
at a stage of planning activities in Israel and abroad. At first,
efforts will be focused on educating potential supporters. … For
instance, one way in which Hebrew speakers can clearly be of use to
the campaign is research into the corporations and institutions
supporting and legitimizing Israel's apartheid system. Such research
should not be done in an arbitrary fashion, but would be much more
useful if done in coordination with the needs of the global campaign
and the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the main reference
point of the global campaign.
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Technion – Kobi Snitz (Dept of Mathematics) does jail time due to Anti-Israel
activity
His statement (from yesterday) is below:
Tomorrow I will start a 20 day prison term.
It is a result of an attempt to prevent a house demolition in
kharbatha. As you probably know 20 days is nothing compared to the
time many Palestinian teenagers have to do.
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Technion – Yosef Rafiq Jabareen (Dept of Architecture)
slams the new Israel Land Administration (ILA) legislation as an
attempt to “Judaize” the Galilee and Negev; calls it a “clearance
sale” that would complete the “Nakba”
The JNF thus seeks
to expand the lands it holds by relinquishing lands in the existing
cities and receiving lands in the Galilee and Negev (Naqab) as
compensation. The implementation of the law would ultimately enable
the JNF to enjoy new lands that would be transferred to it at the
expense of state lands that are supposed to be for the benefit of
the entire public and not only for one ethnic group. That is, it is
prohibited for Arabs to touch the lands of the JNF and they are not
allowed to enjoy them like the Jews. The legislation would
eventually lead to the transfer of ownership, even without payment,
to Jewish leaseholders and to a “clearance” sale of what remains of
Palestinian property in many cities in Israel, such as Jaffa, Ramla,
Lod, Be’er Sheva, Tiberias, Beit Shean, Haifa and Acre, as well as
the Palestinian property in West Jerusalem. Thus, the Palestinian
Nakba would be completed in these cities in the future when the
Palestinian space that has existed for many generations would be
finally eliminated and it would become a case of privatized real
estate for the enjoyment of Jewish developers … Thus, the government
would be able to carry out its plans to sell land and to Judaize the
Galilee and the Negev in a more efficient way
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The College of Management Academic Studies – Law
Professor Orna Bar-Naftali uses “Law” to Bludgeon Israel
Orna Bar-Naftali has been working assiduously
with leftist lawyers in Israel and abroad to suggest that Israel
routinely violates “international law” and “human rights.” An
examination of the woman’s background and legal discourse becomes
quite revealing of an agenda to smear Israel and drown the Jewish
state in a malaise of her legal “interpretations,” as well as to
provide propaganda against the Jewish state by certain NGO’s that
have an anti-Zionist and even anti-Israel agenda.
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Bar Ilan University -
Orna Sasson-Levy participates in a conference “Befitting Bir Zeit”
MK Aryeh Eldad blasted the
conference in a letter to Bar Ilan University and Education Minister
Gideon Saar. “The Council for Higher Education funds Bar Ilan
University and not Bir Zeit because it believes that the
university’s syllabus is in accordance with the aims of the State of
Israel,” Eldad wrote. “From the look of
this conference’s program, it seems that it seeks to undermine
the State of Israel. This is an out-and-out anti-Israeli conference
and if a similar one were held in a university outside Israel, the
Foreign Ministry would protest and organize counter-demonstrations.”
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Holon Institute of Technology - Dr. Diana Dolev of New
Profile strives to be the Israeli “Tokyo Rose” against the IDF
Of course, Diana
Dolev is another example how the Israeli taxpayer unwittingly doles
out sinecures for whacko subversives and traitors who, once they get
tenure and an office, can then spend most of their time working
diligently to bring down the Jewish state by organizing groups like
New Profile. It could be said that as New Profile’s spokesperson, Dolev’s main themes, are “peace” and “feminism”, but Dolev uses
these words only to mask her attacking the Zionist state. ... Today,
she tours abroad, not as an architect, but most notably as a
mouthpiece for the
International Solidarity Movement talking anywhere she can to
attack Israel and present a false image of the state as another
apartheid South Africa. ... Back home Dolev works with the
Association for Civil Rights in Israel and strives to accuse Israel
of atrocities against innocent Arabs. ... The ACRI holds fundraisers
along with the New Israel Fund in the US where they invite Jews to
think they are promoting democracy in Israel, when they are in fact
enabling the Arabs to undermine Israeli self-defense and morale back
home.
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Interdisciplinary Center (Herzliya) - Galia Golan
(School of Government) tries to stifle dissident voices; doesn’t
believe that Israel has the right to defend its citizens
The "steering
committee" to discuss the Gaza events included as members Prof.
Galia Golan, a founder of Peace Now, a radical leftist, and a
faculty member at the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center in
"government" … Most of the Israeli contingent willingly signed the
conference's proclamation asserting that Israel had just carried out
massacres in Gaza and calling for the international community to
crack down on Israeli sovereignty and its exercise of its right of
defense. … Golan and Chazan tried to nag the Israeli dissidents into
abandoning their position that any IWC statement should denounce ALL
acts of violence, even those directed against Jews. …The rest of the
Israeli delegation supported the one-sided denunciation of Israel
and the endorsement of the "right" of the Palestinians to murder
Jews.
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Bar-Ilan University Sociologist Orna Sasson-Levy smears
the IDF on Pro-Terror Al Jazeera
So amidst the
attempt by the Palestinians to obliterate southern Israel in a
rocket blitz, triggering Operation Cast Lead to stop the Qassams
falling on Sderot and Ashkelon, Sasson-Levy and the other "leftists
against tee-shirts" decided to paint the IDF as a bunch of
bloodthirsty warmongers and cutthroats. The Al Jazeera report about
the "tee shirt atrocity" was produced in English so that it has the
look of a CNN report. Al Jazeera expressed no shock or remorse when
the Arabs were firing thousands of Qassams at children in Sderot and
Ashkelon. But a tasteless cartoon on tee-shirts trumps that as a
human rights abuse! Or at least it does so according to Orna Sasson-Levy.
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Holon Institute of Technology - Diana Dolev’s
colleagues at “New Profile” get arrested for incitement to “evade
military service” and to “obtain an exemption by deceit”; complain
about treatment usually reserved for “settlers”
The
investigation of New Profile
began on September 15, 2008, a week after an expose on “New Profile”
appeared in the Jerusalem Post (which
was also brought to the attention of Isracampus.Org.il readers).
… the investigation did not focus on actions perpetrated by
the suspects but on the opinions they had expressed on the site,
allegedly including in the organization's charter. This was a
violation of the fundamental right of freedom of expression.
According to a statement issued by the Justice
Ministry spokesman at that time, the Web sites of New Profile and
Target 21 were suspected of preaching evasion of military service,
thereby violating Article 109 of the Penal Law. They were also
suspected of helping those slated for military service to obtain an
exemption by deceit or by knowingly submitting false information,
the ministry said.
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The College of Management Academic Studies – Orna Ben-Naftali
(Dept. of Law) performs the anti-Israel legal
work
Focusing on the continued Israeli occupation of the Palestinian
territory conquered in 1967, the article argues that this occupation
has become illegal both intrinsically (that is, in terms of the
normative regime of occupation) and extrinsically (that is, in terms
of the international legal order which generates the normative
regime of occupation as an exception to the normal order of
sovereign equality between states: the situation is exceptional due
to the severance of the link between sovereignty and effective
control).
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College of Management Academic Studies – Orna Ben-Naftali
(Dept. of Law) gives legitimacy to the International Community to
interfere in internal Israeli judicial affairs
… the
implication of such policy is twofold: first, it might
transform ‘conduct unbecoming’ — which as a matter of law
is a war crime — into a crime against humanity; second,
it may well be construed as an invitation to the
international community to intervene through the exercise
of universal jurisdiction.
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Other Schools - Yeela Raanan - Promotes the
legitimatization of Land-Grabbing by
Negev Beduin
The Government of
Israel does not view the Arab-Bedouin citizens of Israel as
deserving the right to utilize the Negev lands. The government will
take extreme measures to prohibit this right. The reasoning: *Making
the Negev Bloom – only with Jewish crops…*
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Galilee College - Hannah Safran -
the Hamas' Hannah Montana
A few days ago
Safran had a column in the leftwing Neo-Nazi web magazine
Counterpunch, published by Alexander Cockburn and his band of jihad
cheerleaders. The title of her rant is, and I am not making this up:
"Ready to be Traitors: The Israeli Resistance." ... In it she calls
for Israeli "resistance" against Israel, the code word used by
leftists for terrorism. In it she also hails the violent
"anarchists" who attack police and soldiers in their efforts to
sabotage Israel's security wall and so allow the Palestinian mass
murderers to enter Israel.
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When it Does not Add Up: Anti-Israel Mathematicians at
Israeli Universities
Israeli far-leftist anti-Israel academics in
the mathematics field may have their own abstract ways of looking at
things, but they are paid by the Israeli taxpayers, and then promote
an anti-Israel agenda that sometimes involves terrorist attacks
against those same taxpayers.
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Galilee College - Hannah Safran calls for Israeli "resistance"
against the existence of Israel on the anti-Semitic Counterpunch web
Site
'We, the resistance movement in Israel, will
continue our struggle against the war in Gaza and the racism that
prevails within Israeli society. We will continue to grow, we will
connect to other social and environmental protest groups, and we
will hopefully help change our society for the better.'
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Bar Ilan University -
Ultra-Moonbette Ariella Azoulay denied tenure at Bar Ilan
Let us be clear -
she was not evicted because of her extremist politics but because
she is a laughingstock of a "scholar." But that is what makes this
newsworthy. AT any other university, including my own, someone like
her would have sailed through to tenure, all on the BASIS of her
"sensitive progressive political ideology." She has essentially an
empty academic publishing record (I found one paper in a French
journal). It is only at Bar Ilan that being a leftist is neither a
sufficient nor a necessary condition to getting tenure!
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Bar Ilan University -
Professor Yafa Zilbershatz - Even at Bar Ilan there are anti-Israel
extremists working for the enemy
Professor Yafa
Zilbershatz of
Bar
Ilan
University
said in an interview with Israel’s Channel 7, that in view of the
legal situation in
Europe, Israel’s
acts in Gaza can be considered war crimes in that continent, and
even “rank-and-file soldiers” may be prosecuted. The actions of the
IDF in Gaza are likely to be considered war crimes in the
USA as well.
Currently, a private suit is now being conducted in a US federal
court against Avi Dichter, the former head of the Israel Security
Agency (Shin Bet – Shabak) for bombing innocent civilians in
Gaza.
Prof. Zilbershatz’
cynical solution to the problem is to propose that the State of
Israel apply pressure on European countries to change their laws. It
is shocking that Professor Zilbershatz blames other countries for
having laws that apply the doctrine of universal jurisdiction.
Attorney Leibowitz and Journalist Elam propose a solution to this
problem that is the only lawful, realistic and ethical solution:
refuse to commit war crimes.
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Dr. Dalit Baum and the
Academic Lesbians for Jihad
Back in Israel these days, Baum
is teaching (if that is the right word) at the "Community School
for Women," a lesbian feminist "school" she helped found. Baum, a
loudly self-proclaimed lesbian, has managed to
connect her anti-Israel animus to support for the greatest
homophobes and persecutors of homosexuals in the world, the Arab
Islamofascists and the Muslim states. There homosexuality is often a
capital offense. She is a leading member of a group calling itself
"QUIT," which stands for "Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism," a
homosexual anti-Israel anarchist/Marxist group set up to
demonize Jews and Israelis while excusing Arab homophobia and
persecution of homosexuals. Dalit Baum
embraces and supports the very same people who would kill her
for being gay!! Perhaps that explains why she has never ventured
into any Muslim country to preach her ideas.
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Other - Sapir Academic College - Sapir President Zeev
Tzahor Lobbying for "Talks" with the Hamas:
Zeev Tzahor is the President of Sapir College,
supposedly a historian of Israeli history. Sapir College is located
in Sderot and his been hit repeatedly by Hamas shells. At least one
Sapir student has been murdered (see
here). Zeev Tzahor is also an academic for capitulation and
appeasement. He was on the TV this evening (January 03, 2009) urging
Israel to desist from attacking Gaza and to enter negotiations with
the Hamas. Just what does he think Israel can obtain from such
negotiations? At most, a meaningless, empty piece of paper that the
Hamas will violate before the ink is dry. Not to worry, Tzahor is
convinced. If that happens Israel can call a policeman to complain
or file a protest!
Sapir College has been in the news in recent
years in part because of its employing an Arab faculty member who
refused to allow an Israeli reserve soldier in uniform and a woman
wearing a Jewish star into his class. Tzahor back then came out
against the Arab, but we suspect it was to gather some credibility
so that he can promote his Peace Now agenda.
Other - Sapir Academic College - Julia Chaitin (Dept
of Social Work), senior lecturer, lobbies for capitulation to Hamas
demands
'This war is wrong. It is wrong because it
cannot achieve its manifest goals -- long-term "normal" life for the
residents of the Negev region.... Since the Israeli air force began
bombing Gaza, it has been almost impossible to speak openly against
the war.... We will know peace only when we accept the fact that the
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have every right to lives of dignity.
We will know peace only when we recognize that we must negotiate
with Hamas, our enemy, even if we are devastated that the
Palestinians did not elect a more moderate party to lead them.'
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Other - Beit Berl College - Yehiam Sorek, who teaches
history at Beit Berl College, finds a murdering war criminal and
enemy of mankind - Bar Kochva!
'Not all these facts were known to those that
sanctified the Jewish national concept when they turned Bar Kochva
into the idol of the Zionist renaissance, and even if they had their
doubts about his personality, they closed their eyes, because the
ancient, heroic rebel sells Zionism very well. They sought to fan
the flames of the tribal bonfire with ethnocentrism, and to draw
from Jewish mythology a fighter of the kind that challenged the
greatest superpower of ancient times, and by his power-driven,
crude, insolent and selfish light to educate the children of Israel
to emulate him. They seemed to be advocating: Fight the bad guys
(the nations of the world, the Turks, the British, the Arabs) to win
what you seek, and damn the price. That is how Bar Kochva, among
the other myths and symbols, was turned into yet another
quasi-militaristic element that elevates any physical action to
attain "sacred" goals. Sadly, Bar Kochva became a brand name, a
national legend, which served national-Zionist goals. He was
internalized and absorbed into the national bloodstream, took on the
same sanctity as the other myths - and anyone that tries to pose
questions about the commander of the revolt, his character and path,
is perceived as a saboteur, a vandal.'
For more details and to
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Other - Tel Hashomer - Raphael Walden participates in
a-Dura fraud, produces “expert opinion” without examining patient
and is based on medical report from October 2000
But there is one aspect of the case that has
NOT been widely exposed. That is the collaboration by Prof. Raphael
Walden with the French television station's fraud and cover-up.
Walden is a far-leftist anti-Zionist medical doctor with specialty
in surgery, at Tel Hashomer hospital. He is active in the pro-terror
anti-Israel propaganda group "Doctors for Human Rights," a group
once run by anti-Semite Neve Gordon and which does not believe that
Jews should be entitled to any human rights. He is also the
son-in-law of Shimon Peres and often described in the press as
Shimon Peres' personal physician. He signs all the
usual leftist proclamations . His email is
Raphael.Walden@sheba.health.gov.il .
Ben-Dror Yemini this week described the role of
Walden in the French forgery
in his weekly column. Walden prepared a professional
medical report that backed the lies and fabrications of the French
TV station and the attempt to "prove" the Arab propaganda version of
the a-Dura shooting, based on the injuries to a-Dura's father. Only
problem is that the good doctor never examined the a-Dura father and
based his expert conclusions on some paperwork he got from a
Jordanian office. A different Israeli doctor who DID examine the
poppa, Dr. Yehuda David, discovered that all the injuries the father
was claiming to have suffered when his son was pretending to be shot
were in fact injuries from at least 8 years earlier.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
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Bar Ilan University - History Professor Ariel Toaff
goes from Medieval Blood Libels to Collaborating with a Jihadi Web
Site
Toaff should be ashamed at his collaboration
with a jihadi web site, being used to spread his "research." Bar
Ilan
University should be ashamed to have employed such a person, because
academic freedom should not be a cover for deception and lies
against the Jewish people to hasten the destruction of their
national homeland.
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see the full original article,
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College of Management - Yossi Nehushtan (School of
Law) Expresses Neofascist Ideas about Freedom of Speech and
Restricts it to Those Whose Views He Likes:
In an article published in Hebrew, Yossi
Nehushtan objects that the State of Israel wants to refuse to grant
permission to a flag-waving parade in Um el-Fahm based on the
possible civil disorder that might ensue. In his opinion, the State
of Israel should refuse to grant permission based solely on the
ideology of the petitioners.
Nehushtan invalidates the ideology of Itamar
Ben-Gvir and Baruch Marzal and thus they should not receive the
protection of the law. The State should reject their claims due to
illegitimate values.
Nehushtan goes further and states that if the
Supreme Court does allow the demonstration to take place in Um
el-Fahm proper then there will no longer be any “logical” reason not
to allow demonstrations for alleged Tzahal war crimes next to
Memorial services or for Holocaust-deniers to protest in front of
old age homes populated by Holocaust-survivors.
For more details and to
see the full original article (in Hebrew),
go here
Other Schools - Another (ex-) Israeli Academic Hater
of Israel: Daniel Boyarin of UC Berkeley
His resume
is quite impressive, because he is a Talmudic scholar and has
written works about Judaism, its history and scripture, generally
demolished as pseudo-scholarship by serious academic reviewers. A
US-born
citizen of Israel, he once taught at Ben Gurion University and
Bar Ilan University and is currently a professor of Near East
Studies at UC Berkeley. Since UC Berkeley is a campus that, although
it has a large Jewish population, is home to many an anti-Israel
Arab and leftist, one might not be surprised that
Daniel Boyarin has as negative opinion of Israel’s self-defense
as is found among so many of Israel’s intelligentsia working in
Arab dominated US Middle East Studies programs. In fact, Boyarin
pretty clearly does not think Israel should exist at all. Daniel
Boyarin is notorious for how he displays a virulent hatred for the
Jewish people of Israel whose Talmud he studied for so many years,
particularly towards Israelis who practice self-defense against Arab
irredentism. In addition, Boyarin’s overlooking of anti-Semitism and
his embracing of anti-Semites at UC Berkeley and elsewhere make him
particularly difficult to comprehend for most rational people.
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Elitist Bar Ilan University Poli Sci Lecturer Menachem
Klein never says die to a “peace process” while rubber stamping the
views of avowed anti-Semites
The pondering question is “Is Klein being just
an opportunist here or a quisling for anti-Semites, or is he really
so naďve?” View the CNI
video yourself in its entirety
and see the answer is most likely the former. Klein’s appearance
with the CNI is like a Jew speaking out in support of the goals of
Nazis during World War II. Israelis who appear at similar symposiums
worldwide claiming to talk peace, but secretly booked for pushing
the Palestinian agenda
are plentiful, but Menachem Klein
seems to be among the most skilled of them all. That the CNI
is revered in America by neo-Nazis and funded by the Saudis,
something that isn’t revealed in the video, but something Klein must
know forces us to ask what more would Menachem Klein need to divorce
himself from such an organization, even if he really was just a
starry-eyed peace activist? And to think former PM Ehud Barak used
this guy as an adviser!!!
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see the full original article,
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Other - Holon Institute of Technology - Diana Dolev Degrades the
Image of the Israeli Soldier to Further Her Political Goals
Our soldiers aren't tidy soldiers.
They're very schlumperich [unkempt], which creates this image of a
soldier that is half civilian. One of the hevre. Not a "soldierly"
soldier. But I think this is a sort of cover. I think that actually,
in a more concealed way, this image contributes to militaristic
ideas filtering into civil society without our noticing it.
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Open University - Mustafa Kabha (Dept. of History)
quotes the imaginary "massacre" fabricated at the University of
Haifa by Ilan Pappe and Teddy Katz: "Tantur .. The worst Zionist
massacres in Palestine"
He (Historian Mustafa
Kabha) said: "The massacre left in the Al-Tantur great impact on the
Palestinians in the neighboring villages and paved the
displacements."
In return the Israeli
historian Teddy Katz - who suffered a defamation lawsuit by the unit
after Alexander detect the circumstances of the massacre in Al-Tantur
Masters study at the University of Haifa in 1998 - that the
testimonies received by recalling the fall of 230 Palestinians in
the massacre.
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see the full original article,
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Bezalel Academy artist and lecturer David Tartakover uses art to
attack his fellow Israelis
As mentioned, Tartakover has enormous contempt for religious Jews,
something that also colors his hatred for Jews who reside in Yesha.
He expressed this artistically when he defaced the memorial of
assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin with the words, Killed by
a Kippa wearing Jew! thus lumping all religious Jews (no doubt to
him, all those in Yesha are religious too, when many are not) into
the same group.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
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Bar Ilan University - Menachem Klein (Dept of
Political Studies) Participated in Conference that promotes "ending
the Occupation"
The following Israeli academics participated in FFIPP-International
Conference that promotes "ending the Occupation":
Menachem Klein, Bar Ilan University - Dept of Political Studies
Kenneth Mann, Tel Aviv University - Dept of Law
Eyal Wiezman, University of London - Dept of Visual Cultures
It has been almost two years since the last FFIPP conference in
Ramallah.
Since then, the situation in the Occupied Territories has
deteriorated with the
rapidly worsening conditions in Gaza, the continued construction of
the Wall
and the settlements, continued violence— mainly against the
Palestinians- and
the lack of any progress in the ‘negotiations’. The tensions between
Hamas and
Fatah continued as well and the isolation of Hamas contributed to
the general
deterioration. The Annapolis conference has failed to produce any
positive
change in the region and the occupation of Iraq is now threatening
to escalate
into, potentially, a major confrontation with Iran.
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Open University - Yossi Dahan (Dept. of Philosophy) Uses the
Term "Social Justice" Selectively
Thus for Yossi Dahan, “social justice”
apparently means anything that Israel does is socially unjust, at
least in terms of dealing with surrounding violent Arab entities
that have an undying mantra to kill Jews, and ultimately to destroy
Israel. He helps Arabs claim Israeli land that may not belong to
them; he also defends the “proletariat” (communists in Israel want
the state replaced with a new dictatorship of the proletariat and
for good measure, the Arabs dominating) that includes foreign
workers inside Israel illegally.
Nearly 30% of Israel’s
children and elderly are forced to eat in soup kitchens because of
poverty. 13,000 Israeli children have been added to the ranks of
those who must eat in soup kitchens. But in my research about Yossi Dahan, I could not find an equal dedication to “social
justice” for these people. He seeks to help Arabs who want to take
what little land Israel has while 22 surrounding Arab countries call
for her destruction with a land ratio of 650 to 1. Where’s the
social justice in that for Jews?
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Interdisciplinary Center (Herzliya) - Bernard Avishai (Dept. of
Business and Government) denounces Israel once again
'In his ire at Israel's religious Jews, Avishai makes all manner
of unsubstantiated claims about them. Their commitment to democracy
is, he asserts, opportunistic; they engage in voter fraud, shirk
taxes, justify male brutality against women, admire 'obscure'
rabbis, engage in 'bizarre' rituals, are raised on hatred of the
goy. Their eyes 'burn through you.' Several times he entertains the
notion that Judaism is a racist and even a blood religion.'
Bernard Avishai is Dean of the Raphael Recanati International
School and a professor of business and government at the
Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel
For more details and to see the full original article,
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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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original article,
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Bar Ilan University - Kobi Snitz (Dept. of Mathematics) calls
for another "nonviolent" demonstration
Bethlehem – Palestine – Friday January 18, 2008 -
The Popular Committee against the Wall and the Settlement in Al-Khader
is organizing a nonviolent demonstration to protest the construction
of the annexation wall in the town of Al-Khader south of Bethlehem.
For more details and to see the full
original article,
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Bar Ilan University - Kobi Snitz (Dept. of Mathematics) representing
violent "Anarchists Against the Wall"
Anarchists Against The Wall (AATW) is a
pro-violence Israeli group that supports the popular Palestinian
struggle. The proximity of the struggle on the ground to Israeli
cities presents an opportunity for intense involvement by many
Israelis. At the same time, the physical risk in such activity is
quite high. It goes without saying that the risks for our
Palestinian partners are much higher. As a small group with an
aversion to... Kobi Snitz is a member of Anarchists against the
Wall. His political involvement started when he joined CUPE local
3902 as a teaching assistant in Toronto. He continued being active
as a graduate student in the United States, working on teaching
assistant union drives, and to oppose U.S. aggression. His work with
AATW started when he returned to his native Israel in 2003.
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original article,
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Bar Ilan University - Kobi Snitz (Dept. of Mathematics) in Amherst claims
Israel has no right to build a defensive wall to keep out terrorists
Several weeks ago, Rateb Abu Rahma and Kobi Snitz,
members of the group "Faculty for Israeli - Palestinian Peace,"
visited the University of Massachusetts and the surrounding area.
Their talk was titled "Bil'in, Village of Resistance," and referred
to a town where non-violent resistance led to an Israeli court
ruling to redirect a portion of the wall that goes through the area.
The event was poorly attended at UMass but nevertheless proved to be
very informative and was greatly appreciated. It was a privilege to
have people who have experienced Israeli crimes firsthand come speak
for the sake of spreading knowledge and nurturing concern for
innocent people on both sides of the conflict. The speakers' message
was clear: the separation that Israel has built along the West Bank
is a hindrance to people's lives in the region and must be torn down
if peace is desired.
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original article,
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Sapir College - Naama Shefi (Head of the School of Communications) endorses the anti-Israel Arab lecturer at her
school who refused to allow a reserve soldier to enter the classroom
'It should not
be overlooked that Hassan used one of the few platforms available to
him as an Arab-Israeli intellectual. He did so as a director who is
training young directors, and as usual he challenged them with his
harsh statement. But Hassan did not perceive that he violated the
trust placed in him as someone who is supposed to fight for the
freedom of ideas and a high standard of ethics.'
To complain: The President of Sapir College is
Prof. Zev Tzahor, whose fax is 972-8-6899412.
His email is sonia@sapir.ac.il
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original article,
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Forty Israeli Academics back the Arab lecturer
who barred Jewish soldier in uniform from his class
Nizar Hassan, the filmmaker who instructed a
student at Sapir College in Sderot not to come to class wearing his
army uniform and carrying a gun, "is a talented and courageous
artist whose only sin was his attempt to maintain universal civic
values" and whose action "pointed to the serious phenomenon of the
great involvement of the army in campus life."
These statements are in a petition of support for
Hassan signed by dozens of Jewish and Arab university teachers.
Hassan was suspended by the college until the disciplinary committee
reaches a decision in his case. After a hearing last Thursday, the
committee could recommend a punishment ranging from an official
reprimand to dismissal.
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original article,
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