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Tel Aviv UniversityTel Aviv University – Ariella Azoulay is Jilted by French Anti-Semitic BDS Supporter; Cites his TAU Lecture would Conflict with his Support of the Boycott of IsraelIt seems that one of Israel's far-leftist pseudo-academics tried to invite the anti-Israel communist French "political philosopher" to Israel to help her peddle her pro-Palestinian wares. But, alas, he turned her down and refused to come to Israel to bash Israel because he was honoring the Boycott Israel movement. Isn't anti-Semitism so confusing, sometimes? The Israeli would-be hostess of the anti-Semite
is none other than Ariella Azoulay. She has been in the news a bit
the past few years because she failed to get tenure at Bar Ilan
University, and the academic fifth column in Israel whined that it
was all a dark right-wing conspiracy. Of course the reason she did
not get tenure is that she has an empty academic record. She is
nothing but an anti-Israel propagandist… See this: For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – PhD candidate Omar Barghouti promotes the BDS against his own university in the US
Recently Omar
Barghouti, a Columbia graduate in electrical engineering who is now
pursuing a PhD at Tel Aviv University in Philosophy spoke at three
occasions in northern California to promote boycott, divestment and
sanctions against Israel, even his own university.
He continued,
making the accusation that Israel had altered history and "destroyed
thousands of Palestinian books," and claimed that there are still
thousands more such books hidden away in the library at Tel Aviv U.
You know, the library where he is supposed to be writing his PhD. So
if the books are in that library, we guess they were never
destroyed. Hmmm. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Ronen Shoval, "Im Tirtzu" Chairman, Documents Yehouda Shenhav's (Dept of Sociology) 'Ignorance'A few days ago, the Student Union network posted a video clip a lecture you gave as part of the Introduction to Sociology course, an obligatory course in the Sociology and Anthropology department. In the course of the lecture, the footage shows, you relieved yourself of the following drivel: "When this whole story with this stupid organisation called Im Tirtzu was taking place, which attacked the fact, the stupid fascist, which attacked the fact, by the way sponsored with American evangelist Christian radical money, which is ready to support this as part of its war against the Arabs in Israel, a complicated story, they claimed, that in the political science departments, they did a report in the political science departments, and claimed that most of the faculty there is left-wing. This connects to your question. Most of the faculty isn't left-wing, it's liberal in its way of thinking. Because social sciences are inherently liberal. So to say that most of the staff is left-wing, liberal, is nonsense, because the repertoire on which you draw is liberal. Otherwise you'll shut these departments down. Because the term "left-wing" is very problematic in that context, because what exactly is left wing? I think, and this is to confuse you a little more, that someone supporting two state for two peoples is a right-winger. Left winger? I'm opposed to two states for two peoples. So I'm left-wing?" We preserved the garbled style of the original. Comments of such nature, made before an audience of students on an obligatory course, betray shameful ignorance on your part. As a "great liberal" you clearly violated instruction 1109/11 (21.12.2010) of the Higher Education Council, which clearly state that "any attempt at politicisation of the academia should be rejected." In this decision, the Higher Education Council ruled that the lectures should strive to expose the students "to as varied a survey as possible of the areas which they teach." Which, of course, failed to take place. In this last lecture you unilaterally abused your standing, expressing one-sided political opinions while barefacedly ignoring the Higher Education Council's decision. You claimed that Im Tirtzu attacked the face that faculty members in political science are left-wing, or, according to your interpretation, liberals. This is blatant misrepresentation of our reports, and, graver still, the concept of liberalism. The report we released on the developments in the political science didn't assault the "left-wing" political opinions of faculty members, but displayed the lack of variety in the content materials, along with the exclusion, elimination and silencing of researchers and research approaches that are not anti-Zionist or anti-national. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Haifa University and Tel Aviv University sponsored a pseudo-academic "conference" supposedly on "gender" that featured official collaboration with the extremist pro-terror anti-Israel NGO "Machsom Watch"
http://www.gendersite.org.il/w [The Friday night tour of Jerusalem sponsored by "Machsom Watch" is on the last page]
Tel Aviv University – Chen Misgav (Dept of Geography) Describes "Bodily Functions" - the Death of Academic Standards at TAUUniversities are traditionally places where new ideas are always welcome. Once a theory or question is presented, academic research and study of the subject matter at hand can provide evidence and information to better mankind through understanding. Thus the academy can find a cure for a disease or explains why some cultures are enabled to advance. Sadly, this has been perverted over the last several decades, where academic inquiry is replaced by one-sided advocacy, often for loony things. … Along comes PhD student Chen Misgav from Tel
Aviv University's Geography department. Bear in mind that at
many universities, geography is not even regarded as a bona fide
academic discipline. … And what does Misgav do for research? As far
as we can tell, he has a great time trolling gay sex clubs in Tel
Aviv where he can claim his sexual recreational pursuits serve the
dual purpose of getting him "partnered up" as well as getting him an
advanced degree and fellowships to travel the University circuit
abroad as well as in Israel. "My research focuses on people and spaces on
the event itself – the party and the interior halls and spaces of
the club, where bodily performances, drags, alcohol, sexual
practices and music connects (sic) together. My main aim on this
research is to check how bodily performances, gender and
identity expressions define special spaces inside the club's
halls. I conducted many field observations in the club and
later on made some in-depth interviews with people who spent time in
this club, focusing especially on gay men and transgendered (sic)
women. … In my paper I discuss these different and unique
constructions of sexual identity and the role of bodily
performances and gender through the production of these
heterotopias. I will show the extent to which space plays an
important role in the construction of identity through body
performances." For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Chen Misgav, a PhD student in Geography under the supervision of far-leftist Tovi Fenster, claims to be a figure in "Queer Geography," at least when he is not busy participating in the Boycott-Israel Movement and in anti-Israel Violent ProtestsI am working on queer geographies and activism in Israel but my academic work doesn't deal with the Israel-Palestine conflict. However on the other hand my personal activist work has a lot to do with the fight against apartheid - I work with two activist groups: "Solidarity against the fascism" and "Anarchist against the wall", Many of the people in this two action groups, in particular the anarchists are queers. Some people from the anarchist started recently to distribute the BDS campaign call "Rfu$e" (you can find it on facebook) and I take part on it. So i can't help with academic articles (but will be happy to get what you have, i know the work of Butler and the BDS book by omar bargotti). This week from tomorrow to Saturday there will be an activist annual conference in the village of Bili'n - here is the program and i will go to the conference on the second day by myself, and probably to the Friday demonstration as well as I do almost every week: Regards, For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Ariel Handel (Cohn Institute) claims Israel has violated Einstein's laws about time and space in the West BankThe Paper's main argument would be that Israel is controlling the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) by systematically dismantling the relation between space and time, or, in other words, by disassembling the correlation between spatial absolute value and usage value. Absolute value is what can be measured in uniform distance units, which are, basically, indifferent to the occurrences in the measured space: for example, aerial distance between two points. Usage value, in contrast, deals with spatial actual usage possibilities… Spatial usage value always embodies time in it. Paving road between two points does not change the distance in kilometers, but shortens drastically the actual distance between them. In the same manner, blocking road lengthens the actual distance by containing time postponement within it. I will attempt to analyze few basic modes of spatial control, which are used for describing Israel's control mode in the OPT: prison, ghetto, siege, camp and "movement policing"… The analysis would show that although having few similarities among each of the mentioned models none of them fully describes the situation in the OPT, which can be understood only by referring to what I would like to call "technologies of spatial uncertainty". For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Aeyal Gross' (Dept of Law) "Pinkwashing" claims are basis for Israel-bashing in New York TimesThe growing global gay movement against the Israeli occupation has named these tactics "pinkwashing": a deliberate strategy to conceal the continuing violations of Palestinians' human rights behind an image of modernity signified by Israeli gay life. Aeyal Gross, a professor of law at Tel Aviv University, argues that "gay rights have essentially become a public-relations tool," even though "conservative and especially religious politicians remain fiercely homophobic." Pinkwashing not only manipulates the hard-won gains of Israel's gay community, but it also ignores the existence of Palestinian gay-rights organizations. Homosexuality has been decriminalized in the West Bank since the 1950s, when anti-sodomy laws imposed under British colonial influence were removed from the Jordanian penal code, which Palestinians follow. More important is the emerging Palestinian gay movement with three major organizations: Aswat, Al Qaws and Palestinian Queers for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions. These groups are clear that the oppression of Palestinians crosses the boundary of sexuality; as Haneen Maikay, the director of Al Qaws, has said, "When you go through a checkpoint it does not matter what the sexuality of the soldier is." For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Aeyal Gross (Dept of Law) denounces Israel for its "Pinkwashing"; Tolerance towards Gays is no reason Why Israel should be Allowed to ExistLGBT activists in Israel now find themselves in a double bind. Victories for civil rights, which are gained with hard labor, and often with the government's representatives explicitly objecting to them in the courts, are quickly co-opted by the government in its efforts to present Israel's liberal credentials. Gay rights have essentially become a public-relations tool. In this campaign Israel is portrayed as a progressive "western" country, as opposed to "backwards", homophobic Islamic countries. This is then used to justify Israel's own version of the "war on terror," including the occupation and attacks on the Palestinian population. Consider, for example, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's introduction of the issue of gay rights in Iran in his speech to the United Nations in 2009, or his recent suggestion that human rights groups sail to Iran and Gaza, "places where homosexuals are hanged," rather than criticize Israel. A further dimension of this process is the co-optation of the plight of gay Palestinians, often through the creation of a false narrative according to which Israel supposedly gives them safe haven. . The recent campaign promoting Tel Aviv as a mecca for gay tourism is but one example of how gay rights are used to re-brand Israel as a land of freedom: while Tel-Aviv is a friendly and integrated city when it comes to the gay community, the freedoms it offers are denied to Palestinians as well as other marginalized groups such as migrant workers. The recent use of the term "pinkwashing" to describe Israel's use of gay rights for propaganda, patterned on "greenwashing," may be somewhat misleading. Whereas greenwashers only pretend to "go green," Israel and its advocates often co-opt advances in gay rights that actually took place, to push forward a nationalist agenda. While Israel's record on gay and more generally LGBT rights is far from perfect, there is no denying that considerable progress has been made. As a matter of fact if we want to fully understand the role of LGBT rights in Israeli homonationalism, we must not deny the progress that actually took place, but rather engage in further comprehension and analysis of this process. We should also not erase the hard work of activists and the hardly won achievements. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Moshe Zuckermann (Cohn Institute) masters the art of Pseudo-HistoryOver the years, the cost accounting spirit has emerged as one of the basic patterns of Israeli political culture. From the state's instrumentalizing of the memory of the Holocaust (which found its supreme satiric expression in the outcry of the Israeli functionary, "Haven't the Jewish people suffered enough?" in a skit by the Cameric Five comedy troupe ); the lordly slogan of the senior politician who tells the victims of the Israeli occupation: "If they give, they'll get"; down to the "price tag" euphemism for the pogromist actions of the Jewish Cossacks in the territories - all these phenomena (and numberless others in the political, social and economic spheres ) are characterized by the intentional cynical cheapening of suffering that is concealed behind the headlines and the words, or by its denial through subordination to the exchange-value principle. Whenever the exchange-value principle is applied, the victims of historic horror become a manipulative element in some irrelevant wheeling and dealing, or the current victims are presented as a factor in some fundamentally baseless equation of justice, or they even become a target of repeated duplication in terms of their status as victims. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Canadian Conference singles out Tel Aviv University as "the epicentre" of Israeli Academic Fifth ColumnistsSally Zerker, York University professor emeritus and a pioneer in Canadian Professors for Peace in the Middle East, deplored the apparently increasing number of Jews who publicly denounce Israel... Zerker is especially enraged by Israeli professors she calls "fifth columnists" and "traitors," terms she doesn't hesitate to use because "Israel is at war, delegitimation is war, which means the Jewish people is at war as well." Fellow panelist _National Post_ columnist Barbara Kay concurred, but instead of getting angry she finds Israeli academics and intellectuals who denounce Israel ludicrous. She cited several examples, singling out Tel Aviv University as "the epicentre of the phenomenon. They'll never see another dollar from me." For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Academics Uri Hadar (TAU, Dept of Psychology) and Oren Yiftachel (BGU, Dept. of Geography) named as part of a concerted effort to deconstruct ZionismThe
scenes of the Israeli army's attack on Gaza at the turn of 2008
evoked... images of Auschwitz. I came out... saying to myself: Of
course, we found our [sacrificial] lamb – the people of Gaza. In The Jailer State (January 18, 2009), the good professor states: "Palestinian violence, and particularly the shelling from Gaza, should also be perceived as a prison uprising... suppressed with terror by the Israeli state." In her meticulously researched and documented 'Tenured Radicals' in Israel, Prof. Ofira Seliktar traces the ongoing activities of academics who exploit their positions to promote the delegitimization of Israel. This is becoming evermore prevalent not only in academic research agendas but also in the content of courses taught and of conferences/ seminars held, as well as an increasingly weighty factor in the selection of faculty. Seliktar describes how the "Zionist endeavor" is routinely portrayed as a "colonialist enterprise" in which the Jews have no any more rights to Palestine than the British had to India. According to her study, Israeli academics support petitioning the International Criminal Court against IDF officers, and Israeli academic institutions are depicted – by those employed by them – as an indivisible part of an oppressive state, which has perpetrated unforgivable crimes against the Palestinian people. Numerous Israeli scholars endorse the boycott, sanctions and disinvestment measures against Israel and even support sanctions against the very universities paying their salaries – salaries that they are somehow loath to "boycott," despite the fact that they come from the coffers of the iniquitous racist state they decry. Might this
not be cause for the average Israeli to ponder the use being made of
taxes deducted from his hard-earned income? For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Isracampus' Call to Students at Tel Aviv University
The same bimbette is in
the media (Hebrew only:
http://www.news1.co.il/Archiv Now for those of you not familiar with the product, one of the great cultural achievements of Israel is "Bamba" - a high-calorie snack with peanut butter in the center, which no teenager watching South Park on television can resist eating. Of course, Tel Aviv University still needs to explain why they have given tenure in the philosophy department to a traitor who has Bamba between her ears. Isracampus would hereby like to call upon students at Tel Aviv University to throw Bamba at Anat Matar! Non-violently, of course.
Tel Aviv University – Anat Matar (Dept of Philosophy) Joins the Jihad – Promotes Terrorist Murders of JewsWe have reported regularly on the antics and shenanigans of Tel Aviv University's Anat Matar, one of the worst tenured extremists at Tel Aviv University. She is violent and has been arrested for her violence. She despises Israel and wants it destroyed. She is a tenured faculty member in philosophy. ... One of those released from Israeli prison was convicted terrorist Muchlas Burjal. He had thrown a grenade at a bus with Jews inside, except the grenade did not go off. Anat Matar has proclaimed him a hero and participated in the welcoming celebrations when he returned home. She organized a group of Israeli leftists to greet the terrorist at his home, bedecked in PLO flags, joined by Arab fascist members of the Israeli parliament. Cited in Makor Rishon [print edition October 28, 2011 - Hebrew], Matar says that Burjal is a hero because he threw the grenade at a bus carrying Israeli soldiers and not civilians, and such an attack is a legitimate form of resistance. Oh, and not to worry, Matar's own son was not inside the bus because he served time in prison for refusing to do army service altogether. Matar is now lobbying for the release of another convicted terrorist, one Walid Daka, who murdered Israeli soldier Moshe Tamam. Matar insists that Daka is actually innocent because he says he is. The court that convicted him disagrees. In an interview with Makor Rishon, Matar expressed support for terrorist violence by Palestinian against Israelis as resistance to "occupation."... Are you concerned that a tenured member of the faculty at Tel Aviv University is working as a promoter of murdering Jews and as an enabler of terrorist atrocities? Why not tell the heads of TAU what you think: Tel Aviv University: Rector: Prof. Aron Shai American Friends Offices of Tel Aviv
University: For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Uri Hadar's (Dept of Psychology) latest Pseudo-Academic Demonization of Israel as a "Brutal" RegimeWe nominate him for the first prize in the use of nonsense polysyllables in pseudo-academic pseudo-analysis for such sentences as this: At the same time, the ‘case’ also acts to limit the epistemological claims regarding this hermeneutic network. Especially, my firstperson account implies the non-deterministic nature of the related dynamisms, inasmuch as its subject of enunciation (the writing author) clearly subverts its logic. 'People who are engaged in brutality over long stretches of time become increasingly brutal. … Below I give some examples of how my account can explain certain non-trivial characteristics of Jewish Israeli brutality towards Palestinians. Secondly, the above shorthand version does not and cannot explain how brutalities that seem intractable often – even if not always – come to an end of their own internal dynamics, while the longer discussion may indicate the manner in which the logic of the brutality network can be subverted or transcended. … Of course, this may always be done by the intervention of powers that are greater than those of the ongoing brutality. This possibility seems to me the main source of hope for a change in the course of Israeli–Palestinian events, although for the time being it seems like a far dream. Yet, even if the ongoing brutality is stopped through external intervention, it is still necessary to transform the internal dynamics of the social and cultural communities that are involved in the conflict. … This is especially so if one appreciates the significance of the two recent attacks by Israel on civilian populations and installations, namely, the 2006 attack on Lebanon and the 2008 attack on Gaza. These were the most brutal and disproportionate attacks that Israel has ever carried out… Never before has such a liberal government enjoyed such universal support for operations that were so blatantly brutal and disproportionate.' For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Elia Leibowitz (Dept of Physics) claims that unless Israel withdraws voluntarily from all the "settlements," it will be forced into such withdrawal by 9-11 style attacks on Tel Aviv SkyscrapersPuts forward that the 'only' way to deal with security risks to the nation is through the Leftist Agenda and capitulation to Hamas demands. 'The government's only choice is between carrying out the withdrawal while Tel Aviv's Azrieli Towers are still standing tall on Derekh Hashalom or carrying out the withdrawal after their collapse, which almost certainly will be the work of man. Clearly such an event would end the possibility of the Israeli government choosing between those two options for withdrawal. In the framework of an Israeli withdrawal carried out while the Azrieli Towers are still standing, the government has the power to set the Green Line as the border for withdrawal. But if the withdrawal occurs after the towers collapse, the wave of killing and slaughter that causes their destruction will be only a part of the tragedy of this unfortunate country, and there is considerable doubt about whether the withdrawal will stop at the Green Line.' For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Professors at Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University collaborating with the Anti-Israel NGO "Zochrot"; Indoctrination "conference" about the "Palestinian Nakba," mouring Israel's CreationHebrew Literature and the Palestinian Nakba We invite the public, researchers, scholars and students, to send proposals for lectures dealing with presences, traces, and representations of the Palestinian Nakba in the Hebrew literature. We define the Nakba in its broadest terms. We
are especially interested in lectures dealing with the boundaries of
time and space of the Nakba, and ways of understanding it as trauma. Moran Benit, Moran.benit@mail.huji.ac.il For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Raef Zweik, Co-Director of the "Minerva Center" at TAU, is Lobbying against the existence of Any Jewish StateWhy is Tel Aviv University employing such a varmint? The net result was that Israel had no need for an apartheid system. Discrimination against a group is an indication of that group's existence, and because a large part of the Palestinian population had already been expelled or had left out of fear during the war, there was no obvious Palestinian presence in the new state. … In such conditions, there was no need to refer to separation between Jews and Arabs, because Jews and Arabs lived in geographic and economic realities so different that they might as well have been living in different countries. For precisely the same reasons that apartheid or any formal separation had been unnecessary in Israeli legal texts, so had explicit mention of the Jewishness of the state been unnecessary. This remained the case for almost four decades, not because there was no Jewish state but because its existence was self-evident—a historical, geographic, and natural phenomenon. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Adi Ophir (Dept of Philosophy) Still Trying to Annihilate Israel by means of PolysyllablesIsrael has knowingly contributed to the catastrophization of the OT (occupied territories), especially through the new regime of movement established since 2000, and it has consistently refused to change its policies in order ameliorate the Palestinian living conditions. The systematic destruction of the Palestinian social fabric and the reduction of the Palestinian economy to sub-Saharan standards seems a fair price Palestinians have to pay for the security of Israelis. The occasional “humanitarian gestures” the government is willing to offer remain symbolic and would never compromise the draconian administrative-military rule of Palestinian space and movement. In other words, the Israeli government is completely aware of its contribution to the catastrophizing process and would do nothing to cope with its root causes. And yet, the same government pretends that it would go out of its way, if necessary, to avoid crossing the threshold of catastrophe… A bunch of humanitarian organizations, UN agencies, special delegates of the EU, and other diplomats readily place themselves as a buffer between the catasrophizing machinery of the Occupation and the catastrophe itself. They help Israel suspends “the real” catastrophe while catastophizing the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The suspension itself has become part of the machinery of catastrophization, and the suspended catastrophe has become an essential element in the machinery of the Israeli rule and domination of the Territories. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Stalinist Pseudo-Historian Shlomo Sand (Dept of History) Finds some Imminent Dangers of GenocideHe claimed the Jews were merely a religious phenomenon and as they came from all over the world, and so had no connection with each other, they could not be described as “a people”. Sand is an Israeli Jewish atheist. Today’s Jews, he said, are just descendants of converts from
African tribes i.e. the Khazars and the Berbers. These tribes had
simply converted en masse to Judaism. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Merav Amir (Dept of History) is leading the world Campaign to Boycott Ahava Cosmetics; claims the Dead Sea is Occupied West Bank TerritoryAfter years of strenuous denial, Ahava Dead Sea Laboratories, an Israeli cosmetics firm with its main manufacturing plant in an illegal West Bank settlement, is proven by documentary evidence to be in violation of international law through its theft of Palestinian resources. This evidence was recently discovered by Who Profits, a research project of the Israeli Coalition for Peace, which documents corporate activity in the Israeli occupation of Palestinian and Syrian territory. … Merav Amir, Coordinator of Who Profits, said, “Ahava can no longer continue misleading consumers about where they get the mud used in their products. This mud is from the Occupied West Bank and is stolen from the Palestinian people.” For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Ran Hacohen (Dept of Comparative Literature) Weeps, Whines, and Lies about the anti-Boycott Law while Demonizing Israel as "Slave Owner"In other words, every Israeli producer based in the occupied territories can sue anyone calling for a boycott. If I call to boycott all settlements products — I am not saying I do, I say "if" — each and every Israeli firm based in the occupied territories can sue me, and there are hundreds of such firms. So not only do they operate on stolen Palestinian land, not only do they enjoy generous state benefits from my tax money (that's why they moved to the territories in the first place) — now they can sue me and take my money too for calling for a boycott (if I ever do). What started as a dispossession of the Palestinians now moves to the dispossession of any Israeli who dares oppose that dispossession. What started as enslaving the Palestinians may end in enslaving their supporters within Israel. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Rachel Giora (Dept of Linguistics), Ultra Hater of Israel, Insists Israel Can Only be saved by being BoycottedBDS (boycott, divest, sanctions) will free both the oppressed, and the oppressor … To meet with retribution and attempts at repression, resistance need not be violent. And when it unites people, it cannot be silenced. Exemplary in this respect is the feminist revolution. It has been liberating women as well as men everywhere, without bloodshed. In the same spirit of solidarity and non-violent resistance, the Palestinian civil society called in July 2005 for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel "until it complies with international law and universal principles of human rights." The effect of this call has been immense and is still growing, so much so that Israel can no longer turn a blind eye to it. Israeli leaders acknowledge that the boycott movement against Israel is effective. Defense Minister Ehud Barak warned of "a political tsunami" against Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu considered boycotting the Mideast Quartet meeting for fear of international pressure. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Open Calls for Bloodshed and Violence coming from the Israeli Far LeftFirst, a few days ago, the leftist anti-Israel extremist, Professor "Judd" Ne'eman, who teaches film at Tel Aviv University, outdid himself and called for a civil war against the Israeli "Right." Ne'eman made it clear that he wants this civil war to break out as a tactic to aid the Palestinian campaign against Israel. He has a long, long track record of issuing violently anti-Israel pronouncements… Actually, Ne'eman is not the only lefty tossing about the term "civil war" these days, when referring to something they would like to see happen because too many Israelis refuse to endorse the extremist Left. A.B. Yehoshua uses the term also. They do not mean a civil war in which people challenge one another to spelling bees or soap box debates. They mean a civil war in which lots of people get killed. … But the calls for bloodshed coming from Comrade Ne'eman and his friends are tame compared to what just came out of the mouth of one Oded Regev, a faculty member in physics at the Technion (http://physics.technion.ac.il/~regev/). … Regev published an internet article in response to Ne'eman's call for civil war entitled, "If you will have me, I am in." He adds there that if he would be permitted to lead a company of artillery he would gladly open fire at the evil side, meaning the Right and the religious Jews. He adds, "I also believe that there is only one way to overcome the religious extremists and that is through organized violence, through launching warfare in the full meaning of that term. Anyone who does not surrender in that war will be incarcerated." Regev went on to describe those rabbis arrested by Shai Nitzan and his friends as "those who continue in the tradition of Goebbels." For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Far Leftist Faculty at TAU wants Shaul Mofaz, the Minister of Defense, to stand trial for "war crimes"; blames him for "moral decline"In a more just world, Mofaz would have had to stand trial before the International Court of Justice in The Hague on grounds of war crimes. In a more just university, staff would have been ashamed of hosting this man at an official occasion and would organize to struggle against him and his methods - methods which have brought Israel to an unprecedented moral decline. Among the Signatories: For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Carlo Strenger (Dept of Psychology) has Found the Real Threat against the Jewish People - it is Israel!Israel has never had a government that so blatantly violates the core values of liberal democracy. Never has a Knesset passed laws that are as manifestly racist as the current one. Israel has had foreign ministers who were unworldly and didn't know English; but it has never had a foreign minister whose only goal is to pander to his right-wing constituency by flaunting his disdain for international law and the idea of human rights with such relish. Moreover, there has never been a government so totally oblivious of its relation to world Jewry.... How can we, who have suffered from racial and religious discrimination, use language and hold views that - as Israel Prize laureate and historian of fascism Zeev Sternhell argued - were last held in the Western world by the Franco regime? For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - More anti-Israel Pseudo-Research from Marxist Sociologist Yehouda Shenhav - Let's Flood Israel with those Pretending to be "Palestinian Refugees"In addition to the conflict between the Jews and the Palestinians, a structure of this kind would take into account the gigantic gaps among the Jews themselves in matters of ethnicity, religious identities, and class differences. It would also require a radical change in the land regime in Israel. For example, the liberal Jews, who live in Tel Aviv and comprise a privileged class, will have to contribute their share in solving the conflict, just as poor residents of the illegal settlements of Ariel or Ma'ale Adumim will have to. Within such a political structure of decentralized sovereignty and of open spatial movement, it will be possible to allow the return of the Palestinian refugees, not as a symbolic action in recognition of the injustice, but as a real political action. Although the return of the refugees will be based on the pre-war (1948) geography as a vision, it will simultaneously ensure that the moral and political injustice of the past is not mended by means of new injustice. I believe that only within a sovereignty structure of this kind will it be possible to also ensure the Jews' rights in the spatial sphere. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Propagandist Daniel Bar-Tal (Dept of Education) and friends Compose Pseudo-Research about the Psychology of being an "Occupying Society"; However They Ignore Research into Psychological Damages from being Targeted by Genocidal Terrorists and Fascist Arab Military AggressionWithin this framework, they describe the psychological challenges that the occupation may pose to the members of the occupying society. Next, they introduce psychological mechanisms that members of an occupying society may use in order to avoid facing these challenges. Finally, they offer a number of ideas regarding the relationship between these mechanisms and the process of ending the occupation. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University's Hosting of the Genocidal Sheikh Salah triggers Knesset ProposalMiller's committee held a discussion earlier in the week over Salah's appearance at Tel Aviv University. During the meeting, Miller scolded the representatives of the university, saying that "The purpose of Salah's public appearances is to deepen the conflict, incite young people against Israel and enlist them to an armed struggle against it." Miller added that "Such a person should not be welcomed at academic institutions and the university should have made a decision that sent a clear message that a person convicted of helping terrorist groups is not welcome there." For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Treachery at Tel Aviv University - Salah TAU speech prompts emergency Knesset meetingIsraCampus asks how long will Governors support financially an institution which offers facilities with impunity to those advocating our collective demise? This scandalous behavior needs prompt reaction as inaction is to condone our potential collective suicide. The University of Haifa showed uncharacteristic good sense when it banned a campus appearance by the Islamofascist terrorist Sheikh Salah, who runs the Islamist fundamentalist movement inside Israel. The bloody sheikh, arrested for his role in the flotilla aggression, was invited by the local Arab student union. Last year the same sheikh spoke at Haifa U and called for Arab students to become suicide bombers. No sooner does the University of Haifa display common sense than Tel Aviv University does the opposite. The very same Salah was invited by Tel Aviv University and did indeed appear. 'Salah, the head of the Islamic Movement's northern branch, called on Tuesday for the "liberation" of Jerusalem from Israeli authority, and criticized US President Barack Obama's call for a Palestinian state on 1967 lines with land swaps, saying that such swaps would lead to the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes. "Two weeks ago, Haifa University decided to prevent Salah from giving a lecture and spreading his illegal messages of incitement. In light of this, we will consider putting sanctions on Tel Aviv University," [Alex] Miller [Israel Beiteinu] said.' For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Secret Islamofascist lecture by Islamic Movement's Salah.Even University of Haifa has banned Salah's appearance on campus Head of Islamic Movement's northern branch speaks before Arab students, calls to fight 'occupation.' claims Arabs 'have right to pray in Al-Aqsa Mosque' Under a cloud of great secrecy, Head of the Islamic Movement's northern branch Sheikh Raed Salah, took part in a convention held at Tel Aviv University on Monday. … Salah addressed the possibility of the establishment of a Palestinian state, saying: "We must keep fighting until we remove the Israeli occupation and free the holy Jerusalem." For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Amal Jamal's (Dept of Political Science) Crusade against IsraelJamal's agenda is apparent everywhere in the book in his choices of rhetoric. The secondary title of the book is "Media Space and Cultural Resistance." The book overflows with bias and anti-Israel bile. With no sense of his own self-contradiction, Jamal insists that Israel is obsessed with control of the Arab media, with surveillance over it, and also with ignoring Arab opinion and the Arabic media altogether. He sees the media in general not as institutions that reflect public opinion, but rather as those that control thinking and opinion. He uses the term "hegemonial" with obsessive regularity. Israel has a "ferocious military government" (p.47), engaged in "cultural imperialism" (p. 96) via its "media policy" against its "Palestinian" minority. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Feminist Soap Opera at Tel Aviv University's "Women's Studies" DepartmentThe very fact that there exists a "Women's Studies" Department at Tel Aviv University may tell you most of what you need to know about the background to all this. While one can argue over whether there could hypothetically be an interesting avenue of scholarly inquiry involving gender issues, this is obviously never (or almost never) what is done in such "Women's Studies" departments. Instead, "Women's Studies" consists of full-time advocacy and propagandizing. In Israel, all "Women's Studies" departments are far leftist and anti-Israel. It is not the only department in which advocacy is the raison d'etre. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
IsraCampus Report on an "Academic Conference" Run recently by Tel Aviv UniversityOn Wednesday March 23, 2011 Tel Aviv University hosted an "academic conference" with the title of "Nationalism and Morality: The Zionist Narrative and 'The Arab Problem'" In other words, from the get-go, the conference's basic hypothesis is that Israeli nationalism has a problem with morality, that the history of Israel is just "one narrative," and that Zionists are anti-Arab racists. This hypothesis dominated much of the "discussion" in this day of anti-Zionist on-campus indoctrination. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Ran HaCohen (Dept of Comparative Literature) thinks the Itamar Murders of Babies were Ok because Israel had Built a Fence on the Land of the MurderersThe Israeli government immediately exploited the atrocity to announce the construction of 500 new houses for settlers. The barbarian slaughter could have been an excellent propaganda asset—especially now that terror attacks are so seldom and Israel is in desperate need of pretexts for entrenching its colonialist project—were it not for the catastrophes in Japan that started the very same day. In its frustration, Netanyahu's government even tried to feed the international media with snuff-style pictures of the murder, photos so horrible that the Israeli media refused to show them (though they did become a hot commodity among smart phone users). For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Stalinist Yoav Peled (Dept of Political Science) Shills for the HamasBesides, the Muslim Brotherhood already announced that it is Israel that has not lived up to the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty of 1979, and they are right, because the first part of that treaty talks about the Palestinians. It doesn't start with Israel-Egyptian bilateral relations, that's only in the second paragraph. And Israel of course has not lived up to its obligations under the treaty with respect to the Palestinians....There hasn't been any suicide bombing since 2002. This is not at all the issue. This is not about suicide bombers, but Israel's determination to maintain control over the Palestinian territories. It's not a matter of the Palestinians changing; it's a matter of Israel changing. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - TAU's Anat Matar (Dept of Philosophy) has crayoned a new anti-Israel "Book""By highlighting the various images of Palestinian prisoners in the Israel-Palestine conflict, Abeer Baker and Anat Matar chart their changing fortunes. Essays written by prisoners, ex-prisoners, Human rights defenders, lawyers and academic researchers analyse the political nature of imprisonment and Israeli attitudes towards Palestinian prisoners. These contributions deal with the prisoners' status within Palestinian society, the conditions of their imprisonment and various legal procedures used by the Israeli military courts in order to criminalise and de-politicise them. Also addressed are Israel's breaches of international treaties in its treatment of the Palestinian prisoners, practices of torture and solitary confinement, exchange deals and prospects for release." For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Mona Charen exposes Israel's Academic Fifth ColumnNeve Gordon, a professor at Ben Gurion University of Beer-Sheva, has led international efforts to boycott the Jewish state. Rachel Giora, a professor at Tel Aviv University, actively encourages international divestment campaigns. Shlomo Sand, the son of Holocaust survivors and a professor at Tel Aviv University (and Berkeley), proclaims that “there is no Jewish people and no justification for a Jewish state.” Meirav Michaeli, the leading announcer on the Army radio channel, has urged Israelis to resist the draft. Israeli professors have cheered the idea of issuing international arrest warrants for leading Israeli politicians and army officers — though none has so far volunteered to renounce his own salary as a contribution to international sanctions. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Moshe Zuckermann (Dept of German History) insists Israel's security wall is what causes terrorism. The best way to prevent terrorism is to knock down the wall so the terrorists can get in freely![English grammar uncorrected] The building of the wall is paradigmatically excluded from this point of view. This is essentially, because the wall doesn't only promise "security," without also seriously indicating that with it, one could not only achieve security in the fight against Palestinian terror but also because it allows for the perpetuation of an illusion: to be rid of the Palestinians without having ceded the occupation of their territories. With "having their cake and eating it too" as the Americans tend to name such a disposition, megalomania and manifest inability to decide only increase. Even if attitudes and positions with regard to this structure may vary, there is no question that the majority of the Israeli people involved in the wall debate really yearn for a "separation" from the Palestinians. This may be characterized as an apparently infantile wish, in which the responsibility for a real and possible solution of this bloody and tragic conflict and a practical creation of structures for future coexistence are projected onto a conviction that is hopelessly fatalist ("The world is against us," and "We must carry the sword into perpetuity") and delegated on the material reification of hope in the form of a wall. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Yoav Peled (Dept of Political Science) - Anti-Israel Marxist Jews at TAUWestern universities are not the only centers of tenured academic extremism. In Israel the most notorious den of Marxist faculty members and radical tenured leftists is Tel Aviv University. Curiously, the radicals there spend a lot of their time and energies bashing one another for not being radical enough. The leading combatant now attacking other tenured radicals is Yoav Peled [1], a professor of political science at Tel Aviv University, an unreformed Stalinist [2]. His sidekick is Horit Herman Peled, evidently his wife, and in any case someone who teaches art at Oranim College, where her specialty is to design art exhibits and poems that "prove" Israel is a colonialist entity guilty of ethnic cleansing. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Yoav Peled (Dept of Political Science) receives the Lemming of the Year AwardPeled is a typical self-hating Israeli far-Leftist. He is the son of Matti Peled, one of Israel's most extreme anti-Zionist Leftists, a man once active in Israel's Communist Party. Not content to pour out anti-Israel venom in the Israeli Leftist-dominated press, Peled feels the urge to do it in the LA Times. He begins by telling us that he used to be a grad student at UCLA, I guess so we will know how smart he is, and that -- as such -- he predicted that if the Jews build housing in East Jerusalem, it would harm peace. And to think -- he actually had the clairvoyance to predict that, all by himself, from Los Angeles. (When I was a grad student at Princeton I predicted that if Israel made countless unilateral concessions to the Arabs, they would STILL continue their war against Israel and Israeli Leftists would STILL say the Jews are all to blame, and I am sticking by my clairvoyance.) Peled then tells us that his 14 -year old niece was one of those murdered in the Ben-Yehuda Street bombings a few days ago. The niece's parents and the rest of the Peled family commemorated her loss by inviting a PLO spokesterrorist to come to the funeral and speak out there against Netanyahu. Oh, Shimon Peres, the midwife of Oslo, was also invited. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - UK physician tells TAU to discipline anti-Israel academicsA Jewish community leader and prominent physician has written to the rector and president of Tel Aviv University, calling for the school to take a stand after two of its lecturers called for support of a boycott of Israel in a British newspaper last week. Prof. Stuart Stanton, president of the British Society of Urogynecology and chairman of Hadassah UK, wrote to TAU rector Prof. Aron Shai and president Prof. Yossi Klafter after Prof. Rachel Giora and Dr. Anat Matar, along with 10 other Israeli activists, wrote a letter that was published in the Guardian, calling for British author Ian McEwan to turn down the Jerusalem Prize. … Last year, Matar, from TAU's philosophy department, was the guest speaker at an event advocating a boycott of Israel at London University's School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), a campus renowned for anti-Israel activity. Her talk was entitled "Supporting the Boycott of Israel: Campaigning from Within." Both Giora, of the university's linguistics department, and Matar are active in the BDS campaign and are members of a group called "Boycott! Supporting the Palestinian BDS call from within." In 2009, they both stood in solidarity with Ben-Gurion University academic Neve Gordon, who was criticized for an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times calling for a boycott of Israel. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Rachel Giora (Dept of Linguistics) and her Comrades in Jihad demand that Poland Boycott IsraelLetter To The Polish Government Regarding
Israel's Apartheid Policies • In particular, we expect Poland to cancel arms trade between Rafael and Poland 's Bumar for Spike Missile production, given that these weapons are used by the Israeli military against civilians • Promote an EU arms embargo on Israel, in accordance with the tenets of international law. ... Cancel contracts and operations in Poland by Israeli companies that are clearly violating International Law through their illegal operations in servicing and building illegal settlements in occupied Palestine. Contracts should not be signed nor implemented until these companies cease their material and financial support for the illegal occupation of Palestinian territory. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Rachel Giora wants the Pirate of the Caribbean to help her Make Israel walk the Plank!Tel Aviv University's Rachel Giora (Dept of Linguistics) joins the rest of the Jews for a Hamas Victory in demanding that Vanessa Paradis and Johnny Depp boycott Israel For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Anat Matar, Rachel Giora, and their Fellow Israelis for the Elimination of Israel demand that Israel be Boycotted by Winner of Jerusalem PrizeAs Israeli citizens who support the boycott, divestment and sanctions call on Israel, we believe that if Ian McEwan accepts the Jerusalem prize next month in Jerusalem (Letters, 26 January), it will make him a collaborator with Israel's worst human rights offenders and its "business as usual" policy. The Jerusalem prize is awarded by the Israeli establishment, which is keen on branding Israel in general, and Jerusalem in particular, as beacons of enlightenment and democracy. In reality, Ian McEwan will be playing into the hands of and shaking hands with cynical politicians who are trying to whitewash their systematic human rights violations. Specifically, he will be legitimising the actions of Jerusalem's racist mayor, Nir Barkat, who pursues and defends the expulsion of Palestinian families from their homes in East Jerusalem, in order for them to be occupied by Jewish settlers. If McEwan "opposes illegal Israeli settlements", how can he accept the accolades of the people who are responsible for that abomination? Here are the names of the Signers: For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Leftist Indoctrination at Tel Aviv University is not new - a comment on the event of Ze'ev Segal's DeathThe whole world seems now to have heard about the hostility to freedom of speech at Tel Aviv University. The death this week of Ze'v Segal is as good an opportunity as any to retell the following tale of horror of one-sided ideological indoctrination at Tel Aviv University. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Carlo Strenger (Dept of Psychology) compares Israel with Nazi GermanySimilarly, in the 1920s Germans felt humiliated by the Versailles treaty, and their already weak economy could not withstand the onslaught of the Great Depression. As a result, the theory that a Jewish conspiracy had brought down Germany became ever more popular. In Israel, there are currently two main variations on the theme of conspiracy. Netanyahu's main story line is that Israel is being delegitimized and that its very existence is called into question. He keeps repeating that the global criticism of Israel has nothing to do with the settlements, nor with the stalled peace process. Since the world doesn't accept Israel's existence, it doesn't matter what Israel does: it will be isolated and under criticism. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Ran HaCohen (Dept of Comparative Literature) engages in an orgy of treason for anti-Semitic "Antiwar" web siteIsrael's orgy of racism and fascism since Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu formed his far-Right coalition almost
two years ago... For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Emmanuel Navon accuses Leftist Israeli Academia of "Scorn and Arrogance"; Rectors of BGU and TAU stoop to heckling at Knesset hearingInstead of addressing the issues raised by the IZS and by Im Tirtzu, the academic establishment has reacted with scorn and arrogance. At the Knesset hearing, Ben-Gurion University rector Zvi Hacohen interrupted IZS's presentation, calling it "nonsense" and claiming (without proof) that its paper did not meet the most basic criteria of academic research. Tel Aviv University rector Aharon Shai also claimed IZS's paper was not a research paper (without explaining why) and added that adopting an academic code of ethics (as proposed by Sa'ar at the beginning of the hearing) would "destroy Israeli academia." ... TWO DAYS after the Knesset hearing, Haaretz came out in defense of the universities by claiming that adopting a code of ethics would harm academic freedom. It wrote that Sa'ar proposed such a code as a result of the lobbying of Im Tirtzu. But the idea of a code was first proposed by Prof. Amnon Rubinstein, a renowned academic with impeccable liberal credentials. Moreover, BGU has such a code (the only local university to have one). For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Finance Ministry withholds TAU funding due to failure to correct excessive salariesThe Ministry of Finance cited "salary irregularities amounting to millions of shekels" as the reason for the order. It added, "For months, Tel Aviv University has not cooperated or fulfilled the orders of the Director of Wages at the Ministry of Finance." … The Ministry of Finance said, "In addition, the university's management was asked to deal with the matter of excessive salaries at the institution, but has not done so. It should be pointed out that, over the past year, there were many attempts at dialogue between the Director of Wages and the university management, in which the Council of Higher Education was also a party. Since the university, through its actions, is not fulfilling the provisions of the Budget Law, Steinitz decided on this extraordinary measure to delay the state budget to the institution." For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Carlo Strenger (Dept of Psychology) plugs IsraCampusParadoxically, the simultaneous campaign against Israel's universities waged by Israel's right wing actually lends credibility to the assertion that these academic institutions are actually bastions of enlightened ideals of objective neutrality. In accusing the academia of promoting anti-Zionist ideas, the direct opposite of what the European boycotters are claiming, Israel's right, of all groups, is actually proving the universities' neutrality. It has been asserted that the universities are bastions of anti-Zionism, that don't allow room for Zionist views and that are full of professors who are anti-Israeli self-hating Jews supplying Israel's enemies with ammunition. There are right-wing [sic] websites [link to IsraCampus.Org.il] that feature "galleries of rogues," - anti-Israel professors, intellectuals and pundits. One right wing organization tried to pressure the president of Beer Sheva's Ben-Gurion University to fire left-wing lecturers by threatening to convince donors to withhold funds. And now Education Minister Gideon Saar and the Knesset education committee are looking into the possibility of establishing an 'ethics code' for Israel's universities. Ostensibly this is intended to make sure that students and lecturers are not being intimidated for expressing right-wing views, and to make sure that the Zionist viewpoint is fairly represented in the curricula of the social sciences and humanities courses. In reality, it is a blatant attempt to exert political pressures on Israel's universities. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Sasson Somekh (Dept of Arabic Literature, emeritus) invents the "Arab Jew"; has claims refuted by eye-witness accountIn recent years so-called "new historians" or "post-Zionists" like Professor Sasson Somekh of Tel Aviv University have emerged. They have tried to downplay the importance of the pogrom, distort the facts or deny them. Salim Fattal's book is a brave attempt to fight back against this destructive tendency. Arab propaganda arguments have already made use of Sasson Somekh's Farhud revisionism. Egyptian author Jamal Ahmed al - Rifai wrote a review article that appeared in the Arabic Hilal magazine (May 2007) and the magazine Al - Sharq that appears in Israel. Even more bizarre was Sasson Somekh's claim three years ago in a lecture at Vanderbilt University in the United States that more Muslims were killed than Jews in the pogrom: For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Moshe Zuckermann denounces Israel on Iran News Agency - TAU Extremist thinks Iran is Not Anti-Semitic Enough!!Speaking at a gathering in Berlin Saturday evening, Zuckermann stressed it was 'only a matter of time' until the Zionist project unravels as a result of its wrong occupation policies and its own internal problems. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Carlo Strenger (Dept of Psychology) claims Israel is Fascist because Israelis want a Loyalty Oath for new CitizensIt may be frightening, but it’s time to realize where we live. Isaac Herzog is wrong when he says that fascism lurks at the fringes of Israeli society. It is now in the mainstream. After all, even the majority of Likud ministers have voted for the shameful new citizenship law amendment. Israel is now facing a fateful question: will it remain a liberal democracy, or is it on the way to becoming a totalitarian ethnocracy? For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tenured Leftists coming out against a Pledge of Loyalty in Israel; they would have NO problem with a pledge of DISLOYALTY!!!Tel Aviv University's Haim Gans warned that the government was humiliating the Israeli Arab community by forcing new citizens to make the new pledge. The pledge, he said, would have practical consequences for the Israeli Arab community, since Arabs from other countries, including the West Bank, who wish to marry Israeli Arabs, will be unable to do so because they will be unwilling to pledge loyalty to the "Jewish and democratic state." "In light of Israel's interpretation of its Jewish nature, which is hierarchical and non-egalitarian, this proposal is another means for humiliating its Arab citizens," he charged For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Stalinist Shlomo Sand (Dept of History), having discovered that no Jewish People exists, has now discovered that Jews cannot be DemocraticThe trouble is that the Zionist enterprise, which created a new people here, is far from satisfied with its creation and prefers to see it as a bastard. It prefers to cling to the idea of a Jewish people-race, profiting for now from its imaginary existence. We should remember that the strong solidarity among evangelical Christians and the partnership in faith among members of the Bahai faith still doesn't make them peoples or nations.... Strange, I didn't know you could only join a people via religious conversion and not by taking part in its day-to-day culture. But perhaps there's a secular Jewish people-culture I'm not aware of? (Amen to that --- Isracampus) For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Chaim Gans (Dept of Law) brags about how the TAU Law School Resists Calls for Ideological Pluralism - Maintaining Hegemony of Far Leftist Anti-ZionistsChaim Gans is the far-leftist anti-Israel extremist who hates freedom of speech and democracy so much that he led the campaign to block the Israeli army woman colonel Pnina Sharvit-Baruch from being able to lecture at the TAU law school. He naturally is also a leader in the movement to prevent people from criticizing leftwing academic traitors. He has a fascinating article in Haaretz (22/8/2010). There, besides denouncing the Im Tirtzu student group, he brags about how he was awarded an award by fellow leftists in the law school for an anti-Israel propaganda article he wrote. The award was paid for by the Buchmann family, major donors to the school. In fact the Law School is officially named the Buchmann School. Well, when the Buchmanns learned that their award was being granted to Gans, they contacted the Dean of Law Prof. Ariel Porat and demanded that for balance the same award the following year should be granted to someone from the other side of the political spectrum (meaning a Zionist, or what Gans calls a rightwinger). Naturally in a law school in which only leftist ideas are considered to be correct or permitted, Porat dismissed the request from the donor rudely. The donor then withdrew his donation. Gans is ecstatic that uniformity of thought won yet another victory at Tel Aviv University For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - While bragging about muzzling his own Board of Governors, denying THEM freedom of speech, TAU President Joseph Klafter pretends to favor freedom of speech; attacks Mark TanenbaumDuring the last meeting of the board of trustees a few months ago, some of the members raised a suggestion to hold back the promotion of lecturers who support the academic boycott of Israel, or even to dismiss them. I didn't allow a discussion on the issue. Even though I am opposed to any kind of boycott, I believe it's the right of lecturers to express their points of view even if it annoys me .... One of the donors told me I wouldn't receive donations if I continued to support the right of these lecturers to freedom of expression. I told him that yes the university needed money but accepting his point of view would be tantamount to shattering the very basis on which all academic institutions are founded. This donor decided to donate to another institution. Beyond that, it's hard to know if there has been a decrease in donations because of this attitude, since the world economic crisis also has an effect. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Report: Sociology Departments in Israel have become Centers for Anti-Israel Propagandizing by Post-Zionist Faculty; Tel Aviv University Marxist Professors once again whine about "McCarthyism"About a week ago, the institute published a nearly final draft of its report, called "Post-Zionism and Academia." The report surveyed various articles used in courses about Israeli society and categorized the authors of the articles as either Zionist or post-Zionist. The draft states: "The group of critical (meaning Marxist --- Isracampus) sociologists has gradually taken control of the sociology departments on some of the campuses, and this continues to this day, despite the Israeli public's weak identification with [the group's] positions. "At all of the universities other than Bar-Ilan, there is a clear post-Zionist bias in the sociology departments, which is especially great at Tel Aviv [University] and [at Ben-Gurion University in] Be'er Sheva." ... Yehouda Shenhav, one of the professors whose course reading list was requested, said: "I have no doubt that the president and rector requested [the syllabi] to protect academic freedom against McCarthyism." For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Anti-Israel Israeli Radicals again whining about "McCarthyism"At the front line of the conflict are a handful of academics, such as Rachel Giora, professor of linguistics at Tel Aviv University, who support international calls for a campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel. Pointing to “the growing number of Israeli assaults on Palestinians’ cities, towns, villages and refugee camps both within and outside the occupied territories”, as well as events such as the attack on Gaza during the winter of 2008-09 and the deaths on the “Freedom flotilla” in May this year, Professor Giora argued that “the state’s legitimacy has been gradually undermined”, leading to “waves of vocal criticism” across the world. International condemnation has also created a far less comfortable environment for internal critics, she said, having led to “massive defence tactics aimed particularly at bashing academics supportive of boycott initiatives”. Professor Giora said: “Repression of protest was no longer implicit. All hell broke loose.” For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - The very same Chaim Gans (Dept of Law) who led the campaign to deny Colonel Pnina Sharvit-Baruch freedom of speech suddenly is posturing in its favor, but only for academics who agree with HIMAll these people [Constitutional law professor Asher Maoz, Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar, and Professor Amnon Rubinstein] endanger freedom of expression and academic freedom. They blur the fundamental distinction between the right to freedom of expression and academic freedom on the one hand, and on the other, the question of whether it is appropriate to use those freedoms to say things which are wrong or mistaken. Freedom of expression and academic freedom mean that people have the freedom to say things that are mistaken. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Anat Biletzky (Dept of Philosophy) is distributing and promoting this petition that denounces Israel for being fascist, calls for boycott of IsraelPosted to Anti-Semitic Alef List ------------------------------ For all those who are worried about boycotts, which boycotts, smart boycotts, solidarity boycotts…something to do, even when the campus is very quiet. Please distribute far and wide so that we reach 1000!
http://www.atzuma.co.il/ For more details and to see the full original article, go here
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 AvivAs 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. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Elia Leibowitz (Dept of Physics And Astronomy) claims Zionist students will soon start shooting leftist anti-Zionist professors like in Mao's ChinaNationalist student organizations are distributing documents in the style of the dazibao with the encouragement of the education minister and members of the Knesset Education Committee, and with the tacit agreement of the Israel's leaders. If this activity is a portent of things to come, we are at the start of another significant step in the march of the cultural revolution in Israel. The Israeli revolution looks different from its older brother in China, especially in its dimensions and it's lack of violent. However, as in China, it has been accompanied by a large ad campaign and tendentious reports in the media. In the absence of violence, the pace of its development is slow and only few people in the country feel the undercurrent. Over time, though, the revolution will undermine the cultural infrastructure on which rest the intellectual achievements of the Jewish community in Israel over the past 90 years. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – TAU Governors support firing of Academics who call for Boycott in a petition to Gideon Saar
Tel Aviv University – Rachel Giora (Dept of Linguistics) still Flying on her Boycott-Israel Broomstick, using Tel Aviv University fundingBut not just heads of state and officers are experiencing the loss of Israel’s legitimacy as a state among nations. Israeli citizens are now exposed to it on a daily basis. Probably more than anything else, it is the cultural boycott that has captured the minds of Israelis. No discourse about shows or no-shows can avoid mentioning “cancellation”. The dominant metaphor referring to the great number of cancellations is “deluge”. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Prof. Eppie Ya'ar (Dept of Sociology) exposes the Leftist totalitarian groupthink in his own university departmentThis is an example of the improper use of authority in order to promote one-dimensional thinking, without giving the students the possibility of choosing among various approaches in an effort to reach the truth. The stronger this tendency becomes, the more the level of scholarship in the departments in which exists will drop, and they will lose the trust of the academic community and the public as a whole. How ironic that the teachers representing this tendency, who are called "critical," are unwilling to accept critical thinking when it is directed toward them. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Ran HaCohen (Dept of Comparative Literature) wants to be elected Mideast Tokyo Rose?Not many atrocities can be less controversial than Israel's attack on the Turkish-based flotilla heading to Gaza yesterday. Like Somali pirates, Israel attacked the boats in international waters. Like the darkest regimes, Israeli forces opened fire on unarmed civilians who had not posed a threat to anybody, except to the siege that Israel (with Egyptian co-operation and U.S. backing) imposes on Gaza. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
More leftwing fascism at Tel Aviv UniversityA reporter for Israel’s newest radio station, Givat Ze’ev-based Galei Yisrael (Israel Airwaves), was not permitted to enter a Tel Aviv University conference on the "Nakba" ... Galei Yisrael reporter Kobi Tzucker showed up to cover the event, but things did not turn out exactly as he thought. Tzucker said that one of the organizers, History Prof. Gadi Algazi, “saw me enter with a recording device and asked me which media outlet I’m from. I told him Galei Yisrael, and he said, ‘the radio from Givat Ze’ev?’” “I told him that yes, it’s in Givat Ze’ev, and then a few students gathered around me, and he said quite insultingly, ‘I will not have anyone from the settlements coming here to cover this event.'” For more details and to see the full original article, go here
The President of the Technion attacks Tel Aviv University professors Anat Matar and Rachel Giora for organizing defamation of the Technion in BostonIt 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. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Letter from a Prof at Tel Aviv University: The unwillingness of TAU officials to stand up to what became an organized campaign of the vilification of IsraelI shall state from the beginning that I would like to congratulate you on your courageous stand at the Board of Governors meeting and after the meeting. As someone who has been with Tel Aviv University for forty years, I am well familiar with the intensive, unrelenting and extremist activities of a number of the members of the academic staff of our University, who will not miss a single occasion to accuse this country of the worst crimes, support the most extreme forms of academic boycott against the Israeli academia, and offer support and encouragement to those whose explicit purpose is the elimination of Israel, as the home of the Jewish people. The purpose of this letter is not to reiterate what is known to all who are honest enough to admit it, but to draw your attention to lesser known facts about the unwillingness of the officials of Tel Aviv University to stand up to what became an organized campaign of the vilification of Israel. Any attempt to put a halt to it is countered by the argument that the “McCarthyites” are trying to suppress academic freedom and free speech on the campus. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - On anti-Semitic web site, TAU's Ran HaCohen (Dept of Comparative Literature) explains that Israel is "Colonizing" ... Israel'One horrifying incarnation of this are settlers who now colonize Israel itself. In Israel’s mixed towns – from Tel Aviv (of which Jaffa is part) to Acre – settlers from the West Bank establish nests of hatred in the form of Jewish-Orthodox groups living together and, disguised as “Torah schools” and “social work,” incite and spread the word: Jews in, Arabs out. Palestinians are harassed and sometimes physically attacked. The riots in Acre in 2008 were the result of such settlers’ activity; tensions are now rapidly growing in several mixed towns, including Jaffa, where settlers recently broke into a Palestinian home, attacking its owner and telling her that they “will force all Arabs out of Jaffa.”' For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Ariella Azoulay (Dept of Arts) has Nightime Fantasies about the Palestinian "Right of Return"“Dear Palestinians,” I repeated my imaginings and turned to you, and to your brothers and sisters here and beyond the green line. “Since they expelled you, you appear nightly in our dreams. A trembling passes through the body, a shock in the memory of the violent expulsion. Since the night that you left only terror filled dreams pursue us. What point was there to your expulsion if you did not cease to live in our bodies, in our souls – sons and daughters to the parents who expelled you?! What was the point if we were sentenced to lie about the memory of your expulsion to our children or to tell them but with that to prepare them for the fact that around them everyone is lying to them when they say that there was no expulsion and thus to cause their lying society to be loathsome to them?! Return. Return to live with us again. We need you!" For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Isi Leibler uses Tel Aviv University as an Example for Anti-Israel Academics who have Crossed The LineRegrettably, the TAU scenario represents a microcosm of how the loony left have imposed a regime of madness in this country. It is noteworthy that Anat Kam, who exulted in stealing classified IDF military information in the name of freedom of expression and attempted to present herself as a heroic figure, was educated at TAU, in a philosophy department in which professors called for a global boycott against Israel. Examples of unacceptable behavior abound: the Chair of the Philosophy Department, Professor Anat Biletzki, is a close supporter of Asmi Bishari ,the Arab MK calling for the dismantling of Israel; Biletzki also gathered signatures for a high school student petition justifying the right to refuse to serve in the army; Anat Matar, another lecturer at the philosophy department, initiated an (unsuccessful) campaign to deny the right of Col. Pnina Sharvit-Baruch, who headed the international IDF law division during the Gaza war, to lecture at its law school on the grounds that she would “justify the killing of civilians, including hundreds of children”; the Law School convened a conference on the subject of the alleged mistreatment of “political prisoners” at which one of the principal speakers was a former terrorist who had been sentenced to 27 years for throwing a bomb at Jews on a bus; Professor Adi Ophir campaigned to lobby embassies in Tel Aviv to impose sanctions against Israel to prevent atrocities in Gaza; TAU academics were prominent signatories in a petition backing the US Berkeley boycott against Israel; two professors, Anat Matar (who earlier participated in a London conference promoting a general and academic boycott of Israel) and Rachel Giora recently signed a petition denouncing The Boston Museum of Art for sponsoring an exhibit of Israeli medical and high tech achievements; etc etc. Freedom of expression is a treasured feature of democracy but the dividing line must be drawn between academic freedom and breaching the law or indulging in subversive activity For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Alan Dershowitz denounces Israel’s Academic Fifth ColumnAlan Dershowitz denounces Israel's academic fifth column in keynote speech at Tel Aviv University Board of Governors assembly. While defending the "right of anti-Israel academic extremists to be wrong," Dershowitz called on Israeli academics to defeat the anti-Israel radicals in the marketplace of ideas. He denounced leftist professors who harass students for being pro-Israel. He denounced attempts to suppress academic freedom for non-leftists at Tel Aviv University. He denounced the far Leftist anti-Israel academics for the harm they do to Israel and to Israeli universities. To see the video, go here. [Dershowitz’ keynote speech starts at 50:00 minute mark] To see the full text of the speech, go here
Tel Aviv University – Shlomo Sand (Dept of History) is at it againOne thing is for certain after viewing this broadcast: Shlomo Sand is at it again, vying for the number-one spot as Israel’s worst member of the academic fifth column. Sand’s infamous “book,” called The Invention of the Jewish People, stirred anger among real historians in Israel and around the world. He gave this interview about his book, now being broadcast worldwide and shown continuously on the Internet via You Tube. There he once again explains how he determined that today’s Jews are not a people at all, but are instead a 19th century invention created to steal the land of Israel away from the Arabs. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Dershowitz vs. Tenured ExtremistsSuddenly, academic freedom of speech is the leading topic of discussion in Israel. Suddenly, the local newspapers and TV shows are filled with debates about "censorship" in academic institutions. Suddenly, everyone in Israel can see the anti-democratic nature of Israel's academic fifth column. And Israel owes Prof. Alan Dershowitz a debt of gratitude for exposing the damages of Israel's anti-Israel academic far Left, the academic copperheads who support the enemies of their country in time of war! For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Communist Sociologist Yehouda Shenhav (Dept of Sociology) again denouncing Israel for "ethnic cleansing" (you know, unlike Stalin's USSR); calls for end to Zionist stateThe liberal Zionists in Israel who support a two states solution do it out of fear of the Palestinians. The idea of a Jewish and democratic state is an oxymoron since Israel is a democracy which is founded on a constant state of exception and emergency measures. The Israeli liberal left is a leading force in denying 1948 and the refugees problem. I suggest to create productive coalitions among Palestinians, the Israeli radical left, and democratic groups among the Jewish settlers who reject the two state solution but express desire for political justice to replace the current apartheid system of rule. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Alan Dershowitz attacks Israeli Far-Left who partake in “legal terror” against IsraelAccording to the prominent lawyer, these acts are "legal terror" aimed at slandering Israel's name. He went on to explain that Israel's greatest enemies were not radical Muslims, who he said only strengthened its claims, but rather Jews and Israelis worldwide using their descent in order to boost their unrestrainable attacks against Israel. ... Dershowitz said that Israel must launch a real war against incitement, in any place possible For more details and to see the full original article, go here
The Death of Democracy and Academic Freedom at Tel Aviv UniversitySuddenly academic freedom of speech is the leading topic of discussion in Israel. Suddenly the newspapers are filled with debates about “censorship” in academic institutions. Suddenly everyone in Israel can see the anti-democratic nature of Israel’s academic fifth column! Israel owes Prof. Alan Dershowitz a debt of gratitude for exposing the damages of Israel’s anti-Israel academic far Left! The censorship filling the newspapers today is the censorship of governors at Tel Aviv University by the new president of the University, Prof. Joseph Klaffter. He refused to “allow” the Governors of his own university to take a vote on condemning Tel Aviv University’s tenured traitors. In response, a leading Governor and donor to the university has resigned and he is likely to be followed by others. ... And the censorship in the headlines is not limited to that. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University president censors his own governors, suppresses freedom of speech! Leading Governor Resigns in Outrage! Death of academic freedom at Tel Aviv University!A Tel Aviv University board member is set to
resign Wednesday following university President Joseph Klaffter’s
refusal to bring a proposal he drafted to a vote. Mark Tanenbaum had
proposed a resolution to the board of governors, requesting that the
university senate investigate the political activity of professors
who use the school’s name. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Board of Governor Mark Tanenbaum resigns from all positions over TAU President Klafter’s suppression of free speechMy decision is based on the shockingly unforgivable behavior of president Klafter toward me and my fellow governors at today's closing plenary. ... When we did not withdraw our proposed resolution, as president Klafter demanded, he abruptly adjourned the plenum, thereby denying us and those who supported our resolution the right to vote in it's favor. How ironic that president Klafter denies me MY right to free speech, by not allowing a vote on our resolution, but has no problem protecting the rights of those harming the university. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Israeli Professors from Tel Aviv University claim Technion “develops death tech”Professors from Tel Aviv University and the Weizmann Institute have signed a letter along with other academics world-wide denouncing Boston's Museum of Science for co-sponsoring and hosting a week-long exhibit surveying ground-breaking Israeli innovations and inventions in the fields of clean energy, medicine, and technology. ... However, this display of Israeli pride was received with little enthusiasm among some members of the academia, including Jewish linguist Noam Chomsky, and faculty members hailing from Israeli institutes of higher education – Dr. Kobi Snitz from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Prof. Rachel Giora and Dr. Anat Matar, bother from Tel Aviv University. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
A Governor at Tel Aviv University attacks Israel's Academic Fifth ColumnTo what extent are governors conscious of the hatred resulting from those Israeli academics that promote BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) against Israel? Is it not strange that they are able to travel abroad calling for the boycott of the very universities from which they receive their livelihood? Do governors recognize the devastating effect of this Israel-bashing on students in their respective countries? For example, a number of Israeli academics spearheaded the recent “Israel Apartheid Week” (now in its sixth year) aimed to show the country as an apartheid state like South Africa was. London was the scene of major anti-Israel activity during this “Apartheid Week,” led by an associate professor from Tel Aviv University. The prime objective was to isolate, delegitimize and dehumanize the one Jewish state. This is particularly disturbing when seen in conjunction with Jewish students who feel unable to stand up to the increasingly virulent anti-Israel bombardment on campus. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Taking a Hard ‘GAZE’ at the anti-Israel NewSpeak and Gobbledygook of Dr. Orly Lubin (Dept of Comparative Literature)Reading Lubin is like reading an essay that received a failing grade written by a student in an inner city high school. IT is unreadable pabulum. Lubin has a fetish about “power”: she claims it is held by what she calls the “community” that oppresses “the Other.” This is all postmodernist Newspeak and PC gobbledygook. She is trained in comparative literature so just what could she possibly know about power? For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – TAU hosts Ilan Pappe in an anti-Israel propaganda event on campusIn the fall of 2009, Ilan Pappe was scheduled to speak before the Municipality of Munich, Germany. Pappe is best known for his fraudulent invention of a non-existent massacre of Arabs by the Hagana near Haifa in Tantora in 1948, and for other notorious lies. He writes "books'" claiming falsely that Israel carried out "ethnic cleansing" against Arabs in 1948. His most famous fabrication has become known as the Katz Affair, named after the MA student directed by Pappe to invent the Tantora "massacre" in his thesis. … Pappe resigned from his post at the University of Haifa and has been jihading against the existence of Israel from his new perch in the UK at the University of Exeter. … Once the Munich people found out who and what Pappe is, they cancelled the invitation, disinviting him. The Germans cancelled on grounds that any talk by Pappe would be nothing more than an “anti-Israel propaganda show.”… The very same Pappe is to be the featured speaker at a “conference” to be held at Tel Aviv University on April 29, 2010, where he will again be calling for a worldwide campaign to boycott Israel. … The officials of Tel Aviv University evidently do not have the courage of the Munich Germans. They are refusing to cancel this atrocious anti-Israel propaganda event misrepresented as an academic conference. They are refusing to disinvite Ilan Pappe. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Gerardo Leibner (Dept of General History) Battles against “Judaizing” and for CommunismHe spends much of his time churning out semi-communist articles for the Ultra-Left, chanting mantras about “class struggle,” in Israel and around the world. Over the years Dr. Leibner has signed petitions to free and support terrorist Tali Fahima, to stop Israeli “war crimes” in Gaza; to send an armed international force to fight the Israeli army; to celebrate the traitor/spy Azmi Bishara, accuses Israel of being a terrorist entity, denounces Israel as an apartheid entity and endorses all the calls for world boycotts against Israel. He especially likes to rant against the racism of “Ashkenazim” and to wring his hands over the supposed “mistreatment” of the Sephardim, rather amusing coming from someone with the obviously Ashkenazi name Leibner. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Ben Dror Yemini, Maariv Editor, blasts Tel Aviv University and its Dept of Philosophy for hosting a Hamas Conference chaired by Uri Hadar (Dept of Psychology)The Law School of Tel Aviv University will hold today (Thursday April 15) a conference under the title, “Voices from Gaza,” composed purely of far leftist speakers. It will be based on “video conferencing.” Some of the speakers are well known as supporters and defenders of the Hezb’Allah and the Hamas in the United States. Some will appear in live video broadcast from Gaza. The conference chairman in Israel is Prof. Uri Hadar (Tel Aviv University, psychology) – a signatory on almost all the petitions of the radical Left. These include statements supporting Azmi Bishara and Tali Fahima, as well as support for people refusing to serve in the Israeli army. Maariv has learned that numerous officials in the University are outraged at the holding of this conference but fear voicing their opinion in public. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Alleged Traitor/Spy Anat Kam and her Academic MentorsKam has written that one year after her release from the IDF in 2007, she began studying in the University of Tel Aviv history department, whose Professor Shlomo Sand is the author of a book called "The Invention of the Jewish People” claiming that there is no Jewish nation and who is widely known for anti-Israeli articles and speeches. Last month, he wrote in one newspaper that Arab terrorists “fighting for the freedom of Palestine” are no different from Zionist underground fighters during the British Mandate. Two weeks ago, he told ABC News that the existence of the Jewish people is a “majestic piece of mythology.” Kam also studied philosophy at Tel Aviv University, where several of its professors have called for a worldwide boycott against Israel. Philosophy Professor Adi Ophir has co-authored a book entitled, "Power of Inclusive Exclusion: Anatomy of the Israeli Rule in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.” The authors question “prevalent views of the occupation as either a skewed form of brutal colonization, a type of Jewish apartheid, or an inevitable response to terrorism.” For more details and to see the full original article, go here
The Israeli Far Left congenitally disposed to treason?After the assassination of Rabin, every single Israeli newspaper and leftist commentator denounced Bar-Ilan University, the religious university where Yigal Amir had been a law student. Bar-Ilan should be shut down, insisted many. It is a den of rightwing violence and it is morally responsible for Yigal Amir, they bellowed. Well, not a single one of those same people has called for closing down Tel Aviv University this week. Anat Kam was a student in TAU’s history and philosophy departments, both of them among the most monolithically anti-Israel academic departments in Israel. Together with the sociology and political science departments at Tel Aviv University, one would have to search with a candle to find faculty members who are not communists. Not a single medium in Israel is denouncing the radicals at Tel Aviv University for inspiring and breeding Anat Kam, nor calling for the university to undertake a complete critical self-examination to understand its own guilt, which is what they had demanded of Bar-Ilan. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - The accused traitor/spy Anat Kam was a student in the department of history at Tel Aviv University, in which Shlomo Sand, Gadi Algazi, and Yehouda Shenhav teach.The accused traitor/spy Anat Kam was a student in the department of history at Tel Aviv University, in which the ultra-haters of Israel Shlomo Sand, Gadi Algazi, Yossi Schwartz, and Yehouda Shenhav (who is based in the sociology department) teach, and in the philosophy department, in which Adi Ophir, Anat Matar and Anat Biletzki teach. Source here. A Coincidence? For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Prof. Yossi Schwartz (Dept of History) is now the Co-Chairman of the venomously anti-Israel Pro-Terror "Alternative Information Service" (which has ties with the PFLP terrorist movement)The AIC boasts that it is at war against Israeli "Colonialism, Occupation, and Racism" It leads the battle to have Israeli universities boycotted. ‘According to the study, “Being an important part of a militarized war-like society, in which any service is a fundamental mainstream consensus, Israeli universities and academic institutes tend to provide preferential treatment to current soldiers, ex-soldiers and reserve soldier students” allowing for “political interference in the academic sphere.”’ We wonder why they do not call for boycotting US, British and French universities, which similarly grant benefits to army vets.' For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Carlo Strenger (Dept of Psychology) holds a selective view of freedom of speech: it is good for leftists, but should be denied to rightistsCarlo Strenger, psychology TAU, has made a career out of insisting that Right-wingers exercising freedom of speech cause violence (see previous article by Strenger, reported by IsraCampus). But when leftists are criticized, he insists in Haaretz: "To restate the obvious: In a democracy, every public statement that does not incite violence or actively promote hatred is legitimate." For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Gadi Algazi (Dept of History) joins Sakhnin demonstrators Carrying Portrait of NasrallahGadi Algazi, who spoke at Sakhnin rally, says Israel must 'recognize its neighbors' needs and dreams' Professor Gadi Algazi, who heads Tel Aviv University's History Department, recounted the 'Land Day' rally at which he spoke Tuesday and explained that it was peaceful, but "two masked provocateurs turned it into something it wasn't supposed to be." Algazi told Ynet on Wednesday that the two masked men, who arrived at the rally in Sakhnin holding posters of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah and slain group member Imad Mugniyah, were a minority among the Arab residents of the north. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
The Defaming Duo - Adi Ophir (Tel Aviv University) and Ariella Azoulay (Bar Ilan University) - Two Israel Bashers for the Price of OnePick 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: For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Prof. Uri Hadar (Dept of Psychology) leading the Campaign to Boycott IsraelA complete commercial and economic boycott can be very effective in bringing Israel into line with these international norms. Israel’s economy is all but dependent on external economies, especially that of the USA, and Israeli public opinion would probably not allow a serious regression of material living conditions. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Shlomo Sand (Dept of History) spews his disdain for Jewish history and the Bible at YNETNetanyahu could have invested millions to fund the dwindling study of history in the school system and universities. However, piles of stones have always been more useful for manufacturing and reproducing rigid, impervious national memory. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Shlomo Sand (Dept of History) now serving as official justifier of Arab terrorism against Jews.The following Op-Ed by Sand appeared on March 11, 2010 on the YNET (Yediot Ahronot - Hebrew) web newspaper (his article then had about 180 “talkbacks,” almost all of them viciously attacking Sand): "When a Palestinian attempts to kill Israelis, whether they are civilians, armed settlers or soldiers, he is immediately declared a terrorist. Hamdi Quran and Majdi Rimawi, for instance, who were sent by The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) to assassinate Israel’s Tourism Minister, Rachavam Ze’evi, were not given the death penalty." For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Adi Ophir (Dept of Philosophy) fights against Zionism by means of Inventing Silly Long PolysyllablesThe Israeli government responded to the Palestinian uprising with excessive violence, generous and indiscriminate use of live ammunition and extensive destruction of houses, land and property. It was not physical violence, however, but spatial disintegration and fragmentation that emerged as the main technology of domination and control which Israel used in order to contain and suppress the Palestinian resistance and stop a stream of suicide attacks in Israeli cities west of the Green line. The effect of the new regime of movement on the Palestinian population was enormous. The situation has further deteriorated when Israel responded aggressively to a terrorist attack (in Hotel Park in Netanya on Passover eve 2002), re-conquered several Palestinian towns, crushed the security apparatuses of the Palestinian Authority and dismantled many other institutions of the Palestinian government (Operation Defense Shield). The IDF resumed the massive demolition of Palestinian houses (in order to create "clean" areas and to punish families of suspects in terrorist activity) and thousands of Palestinians have become homeless. Soon there appeared the first reports that catastrophized the conditions in the OPT. They tried to ring the alarm bells, using rhetoric of urgency that has not been used before. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - “Poet-Academic” Yitzhak Laor Accused with RapeUltra anti-Israel extremist Yitzhak Laor took time off from promoting the jihad to engage in rape of students at Tel Aviv University. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - The PACBI anti-Israel group run by TAU grad student Omer Barghouti is denouncing the anti-Israel propaganda book edited by TAU's Adi Ophir (which we reviewed). It is just not anti-Israel enough!"The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) has recently encountered a number of projects that while intending to empower the colonized Palestinians, in essence end up undermining their will and choice of method of struggle for freedom, justice and self determination. The publication of a new book entitled The Power of Inclusive Exclusion: Anatomy of Israeli Rule in the Occupied Palestinian Territories [1] belongs to this category. The book project represents a classic example of how the collective voice of the colonized is ignored in the production of a scholarly work supposed to empower them." For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – TAU Donor calls out TAU President Klafter on non-action against anti-Israel activities by Rachel Giora & Anat MatarA red line is crossed when a professor transitions from stating his or her opinion on certain political matters within an academic environment, to actively pursuing and promoting the international boycott of Israel in non-academic spheres. The latter activity should not be protected or condoned by Klafter and his administration. Furthermore, faculty members stating at their international Israel-bashing forums that they are TAU professors, gives undeserved credence to their nefarious views. At the same time, it harms the university’s reputation. TAU now appears as a hotbed of anti-Israel activity in the eyes of its donors, thanks in part to the president facilitating this behavior through his inaction. Rachel Giora and Anat Matar are the two most high-profile faculty members who fly all over the world, encouraging the academic boycott of the very university that pays their salaries. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Yitzhak Laor, former lecturer at TAU and anti-Israeli Haaretz columnist, being accused in media of rapeAccording to testimony aired last night on Channel 10's investigative reporting program "Hamakor," the poet and author Yitzhak Laor has sexually harassed several women over many years. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Rachel Giora (Dept of Linguistics) Struts her support for the "Divestment and Boycott" Racists, but refuses to Resign and Move to Gaza'The major role of the Israeli BDS movement has been to support international BDS calls against Israel and legitimize them both as clearly not anti-Semitic, as not working against Israelis but against Israeli governmental policies, and as supporting a legitimate nonviolent means by which Palestinian civil society can reclaim and re-own its people’s rights and freedoms. Alongside solidarity with the Palestinians, the driving force behind the Israeli BDS movement has been the realization that the criminal occupation and repression of the Palestinian people, as practiced by Israeli governments, will not be redressed without significant international pressure.' For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Adi Ophir (Dept of Philosophy) leads a team of editors in yet another Anti-Israel "Occupation" bookThe fact that there is yet another book about the “occupation” should not be a surprise. The fact that it consists ONLY of anti-Israel and anti-Zionist writers is not either. The fact that not a single pro-Israel writer was invited to participate should be met with yawns. Ideological self-recruiting to promote a political agenda under the guise of “research” has become trivially common in Israeli universities and elsewhere. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Yossi Schwartz (Dept. of History) Sees Draft-Dodging as "Apartheid" Israel's Only HopeImagine that there was an American professor who: was a slanderer of Israel; accused Israel of apartheid worse than South Africa’s; said Israel was so belligerent that it seeks adversaries out of its need for never-ending war; charged that the current worldwide conflict with radical Islam was the outcome of a deliberate policy of Ariel Sharon; claimed that the Jewish people do not exist; encouraged Israelis to dodge the draft and said draft-dodging was Israel’s only hope; and was in the top brass of two radically anti-Israeli NGOs. The pro-Israel organizations would rightly be up in arms about such a person. Well, all of the above and more is true of an Israeli academic, Yossi Schwartz, a lecturer in history at Tel Aviv University. One might ask why, if Dr. Schwartz sees Israel as so evil, he not only continues living in such a country but even draws a taxpayer-supported salary from one of its most prominent institutions of higher learning. One might also ask why Tel Aviv University sees fit to bestow honors on such a less-than-loyal citizen, having recently made Schwartz director of its Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas. [The original version of this article, posted on IsraCampus on January 22, 2010, contained a confusion of identities between the subject of the article, Dr. Yossef (Yossi) Schwartz of Tel Aviv University, and Yossi Schwartz, a Marxist lawyer. References to the latter have now been removed from the article and IsraCampus apologizes for the error.] For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Anat Matar (Dept of Philosophy) – another Tenured Academic calling for a boycott of Israel in an international forumA Tel Aviv University academic will call for a boycott of Israel, speaking at a London university event next month to commemorate "one year since Israel's attack" on Gaza. Dr. Anat Matar of TAU's Philosophy Department will be speaking on February 17 at London University's School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) - a campus renowned for anti-Israel activity. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Shlomo Sand’s (Dept of History) book gets described as a “trip through a landscape of illusions” in an attempt by Sand to free the Middle East from “the hard bricks of truth”For Sand, a professor of history at Tel Aviv University, the antidote to a national identity based on what he argues are fables, is to shed the fancy that there is any such thing as a shared Jewish identity independent of religious practice. … Sand confuses ethnicity – which, in the case of the Jews, is indeed impure, heterogeneous and much travelled – with an identity that evolves as the product of common historical experience. Rabbinical arguments may rest on an imaginary definition of ethnicity, but the legitimacy of a Jewish homeland does not. Ultimately, Israel’s case is the remedy for atrocity, about which Sand has nothing to say. His book is a trip (and I use the word advisedly) through a landscape of illusions which Sand aims to explode, leaving the scenery freer for a Middle East built, as he supposes, from the hard bricks of truth. This turns out to require not just the abandonment of simplicities about race, but any shared sense of historical identity at all on the part of the Jews that might be taken as the basis of common allegiance, which is an another matter entirely. En route, he marches the reader through a mind-numbingly laborious examination of the construction of national identities from imagined rather than actual histories. A whole literature has been devoted to the assumption that nations are invariably built from such stories, in which, nonetheless, grains of historical truth are usually embedded. The important issue, however, is whether the meta-narrative that arises from those stories is inclusive enough to accommodate the tales of those whose experience is something other than racially and culturally homogeneous. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Prof. Amnon Rubinstein, one-time Minister of Education, Israel's leading constitutional law expert, Dean of the IDC, states: anti-Israel faculty at TAU uses “academic podium to deliver Israel-bashing propaganda”This news item did not surprise me. A small group of anti-Zionist, anti-Israel faculty members has turned Tel Aviv University into a podium from which to broadcast their political propaganda. Two notable instances: a group of 30 professors signed a pro-Iranian petition last year warning against Israeli and American designs and "adventurism" against the Islamic Republic, without even mentioning its president's threat to wipe Israel off the map and his Holocaust-denying outbursts. The second example was a conference held by the Tel Aviv Law School in which the subject was the alleged mistreatment of "political prisoners" (i.e. convicted Palestinian terrorists) that invited, as guest speaker, a released prisoner sentenced to 27 years in jail for throwing a bomb into a Jewish civilian bus. This is not academic freedom. This is using academic podiums to deliver Israel-bashing propaganda. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Even Rabbis know about anti-Israel sedition that goes on at TAU"The IDF sends solders to be educated at Tel Aviv University, where lecturers openly call for refusing orders. The demand [of not encouraging refusal of orders] cannot be imposed only on rabbis when the IDF funds refuseniks," [Rabbi Zalman Melamed, Rabbi of Beit El and Head Of Yeshiva] reportedly said. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Anat Matar (Dept of Philosophy) – Nothing is unpardonable, not even treason and murderThe heart skips a beat every time news leaks about progress in the talks on releasing abducted soldier Gilad Shalit. This week we were again told that the negotiations are being energetically pursued, so our hopes rose again. But like so many times in the past, another source says one of the stumbling blocks is Israel's opposition to releasing any of its citizens as part of a prisoner exchange. … Israel sees Hamas' demand to free these people as crass interference in its internal affairs… A good example is that of Mahmad and Mahmoud Jabarin, residents of Umm al-Fahm serving long terms for murdering a collaborator, whereas their accomplices in the killing, residents of Palestinian areas, were released almost 10 years ago. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Shlomo Sand’s (Dept of History) statements get more outrageous as his fictional book tour travels to the UK; the birth of the State of Israel an “act of rape”Shlomo Sand, a professor of history at Tel Aviv University, spoke at a number of events in London last week to sell his book The Invention of the Jewish People, in which he writes that the Israelites were never exiled from the Promised Land and therefore have no right to return. … "Sand's agenda is to sever the historic link between the Jewish people and the Land of Israel," said Jonathan Hoffman, co-chairman of the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland. "To promote that agenda his book ignores archeological and genetic evidence. At none of his three London appearances was there a historian or Jewish history expert on the platform to counter his distortions, evasions and sensationalism. The result will contribute to anti-Semitic discourse and incidents in the UK, already at a record level." … A guest on BBC Radio Four last week, Sand told presenter Andrew Marr that he compares Israel's birth to "rape." … [Sand] said. "I compare when I am speaking before Arab students the birth of the Israeli state to an act of rape. But even the son that was born of the act of rape... you have to recognize him...” For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Carlo Strenger (Dept. of Psychology) Uses Crude, Defamatory ArgumentationCarlo Strenger, professor of psychology at Tel Aviv University, has published an op-ed in Haaretz criticizing an earlier op-ed in the Jerusalem Post by Isi Leibler, columnist and former vice-president of the World Jewish Congress. If Strenger disagrees with Leibler and wants to present counterarguments, that’s fine. Instead, Strenger has written a crude, defamatory ad hominem attack that misrepresents or ignores Leibler’s actual statements. Is this how one gets to be an accredited professor at Tel Aviv University? ... At most, Strenger could have reasonably objected that Leibler does not make sufficiently clear what he means by phrases like “neutralize the impact of renegade Jews” or “exorcise such odious groups from the mainstream” (Leibler subsequently explained what he meant here). Instead, Strenger keeps accusing Leibler, over and over, of favoring “excommunication,” all with no basis in Leibler’s actual text, which—as noted—uses the word only once in reference to Jews in the Middle Ages. ... Strenger, thus, manages to associate Leibler with an alleged murderer (Teitel) and an actual one (Yigal Amir, Rabin’s assassin) while insinuating that Leibler himself incites such acts, and that there is doubt as to whether Leibler adheres to civilized norms and opposes such crimes. This is usually the tactics of McCarthyists. Strenger engages in such calumny while categorically excluding and failing to address the actual issue that Leibler’s article raises—how to deal with blatantly disloyal acts by Israelis and Diaspora Jews For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Shlomo Sand’s book draws the ire from an Israeli AcademicIf the "Jews" the world over are not an ethnic nation with a common history of 4500 years and originating from Palestine, a history which includes the Roman exile, it means that modern Zionism and Aliya (emigration of Jews to Palestine) is not a home coming. The implication is enormous since it deprives Israel from its rationale as a Jewish state. It corresponds to the main Arab argument that the Jews are just a religion but not an ethnic nation with a long history. Even Hitler wanted to kill all Jews on the basis of their common ethnicity. At least let us grant him this recognition. Judaism is unique as it corresponds to both a religion and a nation based in Palestine and stretching thousands of years. No other group of people has got such a long national, cultural, religious and cohesive history. The denial of the Jewish ethnicity and nationhood is in the same category as holocaust denial. It should be treated with the same contempt. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Haaretz runs front page story of Far-Leftist suppression of Academic Freedom at TAU for second day runningFor the second day in a row, Haaretz has run front page news stories on Tel Aviv University and on the complaints by students of being harassed and intimated by leftist faculty members. In today’s story, it reports that the Rector of TAU is looking into the matter and investigating. In the first story yesterday, Haaretz itself said that it investigated the matter as a result of earlier stories that had run in the media about monitoring web sites exposing leftist radical faculty members. It of course meant Isracampus.org.il. Note how Haaretz paints the problem as complaints from “right-wing students.” For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - IsraCampus.Org.il expose prompts TAU Official to come forward: Students being harassed by anti-Israel Far Leftist faculty membersTel Aviv University students are hesitant to express their political views in class, lest lecturers perceived to have left-wing political views penalize them with lower grades, the head of TAU's Department of Curriculum and Instruction wrote in an internal memorandum last month. Prof. Nira Hativa's comment in the faculty memo ignited controversy among professors, with some declaring that her sentiments should not be made public. … Hativa's statements were prompted by a story in the Haaretz English Edition on rightist activists monitoring lecturers who are considered to have leftist views, as well as an article in Maariv on what it described as the right-wing views of Daniel Schueftan, deputy director of the National Security Studies Center at the University of Haifa. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Uri Hadar (Dept of Psychology) claims the “vengeful” Israeli “unconscious” wants a “Palestinian Holocaust”Israel’s “attack on Gaza” the previous winter, Hadar told the audience, had “little to do with security” (as if 8000 rockets and mortars fell on London people would just yawn). What, then, he asked there, “enables Jewish brutality toward Palestinians?” Since Israel, he explained, has never properly mourned the Holocaust, the society has a “vengeful unconscious”--and takes it all out on the innocent, bewildered Palestinians. Israelis say (or used to say, back in the 1950s) that Jews will never again go “like sheep to the slaughter”; so the Palestinians, insists Hadar, are their “sacrificial lamb.” Indeed, “a full-blown Palestinian Holocaust is part of the unconscious [Israeli] itinerary.” For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Anat Matar (Dept. of Philosophy) back lobbying for boycotts of Israel and denouncing Jews as racistsOriginal Message ----- I've just sent my signature. I urge you to do
the same. … We understand that you intend to tour Israel with the Choir of Clare College to perform J.S. Bach's 'Christmas Oratorio' between 25th and 30th December this year and we are asking you to reconsider this decision. Artists and musicians in Palestine, inspired by the example of the campaign which brought an end to apartheid in South Africa, have asked people of conscience around the world not to perform in Israel as an act of solidarity with them. … December 27 will be the anniversary of the terrible day last year that Israel unleashed a military onslaught on the trapped population of the Gaza Strip. While the rest of the world will be remembering the massacre of 1,400 Palestinian people, your choir will be performing in the capital city of the government which perpetrated acts now regarded as war crimes, according to the latest UN report from Judge Richard Goldstone. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
A Public Challenge to Tel Aviv UniversityThe Sociology department at Tel Aviv University has been engaged in subsidized sedition. It has offered a course in one-sided propaganda and leftist indoctrination. And Tel Aviv University students got PAID to sign up and be indoctrinated in the course! …It was group-taught, mainly by Tel Aviv University Marxist sociologist and far-leftist anti-Zionist Professor Yehouda Shenhav, together with far-leftist non-academic political activists. … The syllabus of the course shows that it consists only of leftist anti-Israel propaganda. … Well, my friend and comrade Seth Frantzman, a Phd student at the Hebrew University and a writer for Isracampus.org.il, the watchdog group that monitors and exposes Israeli extremist academics, has come up with a brilliant idea. He (and I second his call) would like to challenge the heads of Tel Aviv University. We would like to ask the heads of Tel Aviv University whether in the name of pluralism and balance they would be willing to approve in principle the following course as a new one to be offered to students in the sociology department. Here is the course outline as prepared by Seth Frantzman: Bureaucracy, Governmentality and
Individual Rights – Alternative Course Syllabus The course will discuss managerial theory and practice, with an emphasis on mind control mechanisms that Palestinians developed to train terrorists in the context of the West Bank. We will examine the historical sources of these mechanisms and attempt to situate them within the Islamist context, particularly as envisioned in Wahhabism and the writings of Said Qutb. We will then demonstrate how the Hebrew freedom fighter is reflected, within the spaces of sovereignty he creates, in the NGO-funding practices of European countries, their agents and executive authorities. In addition, we will demonstrate how the Palestinian Islamist culture creates lawless spaces, where people's lives become exposed to violence or the threat thereof. Simultaneously, we will analyze the political and cultural implications of historical anachronism, relating them to questions of morality and religion, politics and sovereignty, and political theology. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Shlomo Sand (Dept of History) gets a stage at New York University to present his work of fiction as factWhereas a colloquium is classified as an open forum to debate ideas, professor Miller's event is clearly defined to present Shlomo Sand's book as fact. … However, Sand's book is replete with historical inaccuracies. … Rather than being a groundbreaking or original scholarly work, Sand's book is just a rehashing of anti-Semitic tracts distributed by a Jewish convert to Christianity in the pay of Arab interests named Benjamin Freedman who claimed the same historical nonsense from about 1946 to 1961. … Sand also tries to claim today's Palestinians are the real Jews who were forcibly converted to Islam after the seventh century. This, too, is academically false, as the majority of Arabs and Muslims residing in Israel and the Palestinian Authority today immigrated to the region in the mid 20th century as a result of the Zionist movement. … Part of the anti-Israel campaign on U.S. campuses is to suggest that Jews in America need not support a Jewish or "Zionist" state where Israel is in order to be Jewish. The number of Jewish students at New York University is staggering in terms of the student population there, so what better place to have a Marxist professor like Miller and pseudo-historian like Shlomo Sand from Tel Aviv University come and speak to explain that the Jewish people was nothing more than an invention to justify taking Palestine from the Arabs. However, the event is really just another form of anti-Semitism and hatred against the Jewish state masquerading as an academic discussion to indoctrinate impressionable students. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Dr. Amalia Ziv (Dept of Literature) protects Iran’s interests at TAUDespite Ziv’s cushy faculty position, she generally seeks to combine her obsession about all that is “Queer” with her anti-Israel activities. … She also is pro-Iranian, despite the insistence by the President of Iran that there are no homosexuals at all living there. She was one of a group of radical professors at Tel Aviv University who protested a new Center for Iranian Studies lest it aid Israel and American security. Ziv and her colleagues decided that the time was apt to show their own solidarity with Iran and defend it from American "imperialist ambitions." The protesters expressed fear that the new center would be "misused" to paint Iran as a radical, anti-Semitic and pro-terrorism state (which it clearly is), and grant legitimacy to Western denunciations of Iran. They also expressed concern about the center being exploited by American “imperialism” in furthering American aggression against Iran. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Aeyal Gross’ (Dept of Law) biased praise of the Goldstone ReportNot to put too fine a point on it, Prof. Gross has it in for Israel. It can do no right: faced with thousands of rockets falling on a whole region of the country, or with hundreds of suicide bombings in the heart of its cities, it can neither defend itself with “violent acts” nor even build a fence to keep out the attackers. If Israel engages in such self-defense, whether active or passive, proper international reactions include boycotting it or invading it militarily. … Gross pulled out all the stops, though, in an op-ed a few weeks later praising the Goldstone Report, which has been condemned across Israel’s political spectrum. The report, he declared, “is not one-sided, it is not biased against Israel, and it does not ignore Hamas’s crimes”—breathtaking assertions to anyone who has been following the unfolding of this travesty. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Summary of the Anti-Israel Activity in the Philosophy and Political Science DepartmentsIn all, Tel Aviv University’s department of Philosophy has two major activists who have signed the most radical petitions and supported the most radical anti-Israel activities, including calling on soldiers to have the “courage to refuse,” and requesting international boycotts of their own university. A further three have supported international involvement against Israel and signed more benign petitions. In total only 15 faculty have not signed any of the petitions while 13 have, meaning the department appears to be about equally balanced, however this ignores the fact that several of the faculty who are not activists are retired or visiting lecturers. Removing them brings down the number of faculty not signing petitions to 10. Thus the youngest faculty, particularly the up-and-comers, as well as the chair of the department, are at the forefront of “activism” in the “peace movement,” which means, many times encouraging soldiers to break the law and refuse orders. … The activism of TAU’s philosophy department might be seen to be relatively within the bounds of what an average department might produce, a few radicals and numerous other academics, were it not for another related philosophy department known as The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas. It is this institute that might be considered TAU’s school of radicalism, where its most extreme voices have gathered and where almost every single faculty member has been active in radical Israel-critical petitions. … In Contrast to the Philosophy Department and the Cohn Institute, the Political Science Department at TAU’s faculty are relatively tempered in their criticism of the state which supports their research. Only three signed the “academic freedom” petition and only one has shown a consistent pro-Palestinian agenda. … The importance of Philosophy and Political Science to the continuing functioning of the state is apparent. The two disciplines help provide needed analysis, critique and ideas for the development of politics and political theory. Many of the ideas central to the Western World and its embrace of citizenship and democracy have originated in these disciplines. However at Tel Aviv University an increasing number of academics no longer embrace these ideas. In their political activism on behalf of the Palestinians they have come to support a radical Islamist regime where citizenship, democracy and an open society are non-existent. … This is an unfortunate and irresponsible conclusion and one that has a continuing worrisome impact on the state of Israel and the training of its up and coming minds. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – TAU campus administration found guilty of “suppression” of free speech; the Tenured Left at TAU fails to support the student case for “academic freedom”Evidently Tel Aviv University's law school, a bastion for leftists, Israel bashing, and a school largely uninterested in freedom of speech (you may recall the petition by some of its professors against allowing a woman colonel teach in the school), did nothing to support the students. Neither did any of the rest of the Tenured Left, always pretending to support academic freedom when it comes to things like Neve Gordon's calls for Israel to be annihilated, or the decision to turn the TAU campus into a Gulag for a day (see this). … A Tel Aviv District Court judge on Wednesday ruled that Tel Aviv University had “violated freedom of expression” For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Shlomo Sand – the Professor of Pseudo-HistoryTel Aviv University history professor Shlomo Sand has written a “book,” titled “The Invention of the Jewish People,” which claims the existence of the Jewish people was “invented.” There is no Jewish people, insists Sand. The bulk of the Jews who created Israel were in fact not the descendents of the real Jews of the Bible, although Palestinian Arabs are their true descendents, the “indigenous” people who were converted to Islam after the 7th century when the Muslims took over. … Shlomo Sand is in fact a pseudo-scholar whose "research" is largely a rehashing of the anti-Semitic tracts of another Jewish-born anti-Semite named Benjamin Freedman, who from 1946 through the 1950’s tried to sell the idea of Khazarians-as-the-real-Jews in America to alienate Christian support from Israel. Freedman also claimed that Yiddish developed as the result of the Khazars except there are no Turkic words in it. We think Tel Aviv University should investigate just how much is 'borrowed' from other anti-Jewish writers in Sand's book. … What a shame that the Israeli taxpayer should subsidize a salary for such a tenured pseudo-scholar. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
The Immaterial Girl: Tel Aviv University’s Linguistics Professor Rachel Giora attacks Madonna for performing in IsraelThe newswires have been ablaze with the tabloid-quality news story that the “Material Girl,” Madonna, was being attacked by anti-Israel leftist extremists for performing in Tel Aviv. After being made aware of the protests, Madonna, at her concert, draped herself in the Israeli flag, which inspired an even louder brouhaha. Leading the charge against the singer was Tel Aviv University’s Israel-hating Professor Rachel Giora. With her purple hair contrasting with Madonna’s blond, Giora leads an Israeli anti-Israel group, Call From Within, evidently dedicated to promoting the next Holocaust of the Jews by encouraging the boycott of everything and anything in Israel. ... Isn’t it ironic that Madonna, a non-Jew, should feel love and concern for the people and land of Eretz Yisrael, while Tel Aviv University’s Rachel Giora seeks their destruction? And she does so from a bully pulpit paid for by the Israeli taxpayer. Madonna seeks to immerse herself in Jewish learning, whereas Rachel Giora wants to destroy the very Jewish state that employs her. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – PACBI, run by Omer Barghouti, trashes Israel’s Left; gloats over BDS campaign's “legitimacy” and “moral superiority” in the BRICUP newsletterunlike some “BDS supporters” in Israel who are trying to set their own, restrictive parameters for the campaign or qualifying their support for it to serve their political agendas. PACBI believes that increasing Israeli support for BDS or a recognition of its inevitability as a strategy in the struggle against Israeli colonialism and apartheid is an indicator of the growing legitimacy, moral superiority and success of the Palestinian-initiated and led BDS campaign. … Some of the Israeli discourse about BDS betrays a related attribute of the Zionist left’s political discourse, which is its Israel-centered rationale for supporting BDS. In this view, the underlying principle and main justification for calling for BDS is to "save Israel from itself," out of a concern for the country's future, including the prospects of normalizing Israel’s presence in the Arab world. Such an overriding concern for guaranteeing Israel’s future, without questioning its apartheid and racist character, reveals that not all members of the Israeli left or “peace camp” can be counted on as solid allies of the Palestinian and international BDS movement. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - In the Anti-Semitic pro-terror "Counterpunch" magazine, Anat Matar (Dept of Philosophy) calls for a world boycott against Israeli universities, especially her own"When the flag of academic freedom is raised, the oppressor and not the oppressed is usually the one who flies it. What is that academic freedom that so interests the academic community in Israel? ... Members of the Israeli academia staunchly guard their right to research what the regime expects them to research and appoint former army officers to university positions. Tel Aviv University alone prides itself over the fact that the Defense Ministry is funding 55 of its research projects and that DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the U.S. Defense Department, is funding nine more. All the universities offer special study programs for the defense establishment." For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Anat Matar (Dept of Philosophy) supports Neve Gordon’s boycott; claims Academics should take the fallSeveral days ago Dr. Neve Gordon of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev published an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times. In that article he explained why, after years of activity in the peace camp here, he has decided to pin his hopes on applying external pressure on Israel - including sanctions, divestment and an economic, cultural and academic boycott. He believes, and so do I, that only when the Israeli society's well-heeled strata pay a real price for the continuous occupation will they finally take genuine steps to put an end to it. Gordon looks at the Israeli society and sees an apartheid state. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Carlo Strenger (Dept of Psychology) agrees that the Left’s “questionable psychology” led the State of Israel astray; needs to present “a reasonable picture of reality” to correct its own demiseThe left has dissipated because it has failed to provide a realistic picture of the conflict with the Palestinians. Its ideological foundation was based on a simple prediction: If we offer the Palestinians a state in the territories occupied in 1967, there will be "peace now." … Israel's left should have said "we were wrong in our predictions. We underestimated the complexity of the situation. We didn't see that the Palestinians were not ready to renounce the right of return and we underestimated how much murderous rage there was against Israel. … SLES is built on very questionable psychology: It assumes that if you are nice to people, all conflicts will disappear. It simply disregards the human desire for dominance, power and a belief system that gives them self-respect. … If Israel's left wants to regain some credibility and convince voters that it has a role to play, it needs to give the Israeli public a reasonable picture of reality. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Rachel Giora (Dept of Linguistics) spearheads a call for Madonna to boycott Israel and Israelis to boycott the concertAccording to Tel Aviv University Prof. Rachel Giora, a member of the group, the organization is also encouraging Israelis to boycott Madonna's performance, "to let Israel's government know how they feel... thereby hoping to encourage the Israeli government to reconsider its policies." For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Ran HaCohen calls Abraham Foxman, The director of the Anti-Defamation League, “hypocrite” and “racist” for defending Yisrael Beiteinu’s “No Loyalty – No Citizenship” bill; has a bone to pick with ADL’s recent survey and calls it “biased”If there were a Nobel Prize for Hypocrisy, Abraham Foxman would have been a great candidate. ... What does Abe Foxman have to say about that? Well, Foxman actually defends Lieberman, describing him as harmless: “He’s not saying expel them. He’s not saying punish them.” Not at all: he’s just demonizing them and threatening to deprive them of their citizenship. No big deal. ... And Foxman criticizing one form of racism while supporting another is despicable. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Anat Matar (Dept of Philosophy) smears Israeli Army Woman Colonel; accuses her of promoting war crimes at HarvardYet the indisputable fact is that the army for which Sharvit-Baruch worked has been accused by all major human rights organizations of committing war crimes in Gaza. Some wondered why Sharvit-Baruch was being given the opportunity to offer a carefully prepared presentation unchallenged in an academic setting, rather than giving testimony to a tribunal or inquiry such as that being conducted Judge Richard Goldstone, the South African jurist heading an independent fact-finding mission into human rights violations during Israel`s attack at the request of the United Nations Human Rights Council. ... Despite the blunt admissions of Israeli soldiers widely published in the Israeli press, it was clear from her calm presentation that Sharvit-Baruch and her cohort live in their own rhetorical universe where even language is assaulted. In the Colonel`s own terminology, non-existent vocabulary in international law such as `capacity builders` and `revolving doors` is coined to pass over accepted terms such as `civilians` and `non-combatants.` For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Ran HaCohen (Dept of Comparative Literature) declares war on Loyalty to IsraelNetanyahu’s Bar-Ilan speech was symptomatic, introducing a central new demand from the occupied Palestinians as a condition for letting them have a (castrated) state: they must first recognize Israel "as a Jewish state." This sounds idiotic: Does Israel need an outside entity to define its own character? … But Netanyahu’s new condition is aimed predominantly at Jewish-Israeli ears: it turns the attention from the occupied territories to Israel proper, implying that "our real problem" is on the inside, with those inherently disloyal "Israeli Arabs." That’s where Netanyahu meets and carries out Lieberman’s fascist election slogan "No loyalty, no citizenship." … A further attack on the Israeli-Palestinian minority is the suggested law to ban the commemoration of the Nakba, the catastrophe in 1948 in which hundreds of Palestinian villages were destroyed and hundreds of thousands became refugees. Though its original form, including jailing individuals who do commemorate it, has been softened to a formulation forbidding only public-supported organs from commemorating the event, the intention is clear – as was that of the (currently rejected) law demanding a declaration of loyalty from every Israeli citizen. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Anat Matar, Hater of Israel, supports its enemiesIn other words, for Anat Matar, from the essence of evil: the Zionist movement and the state it created, Israel. Note that, from the time Matar’s son refused service up to 2009, Israel had augmented its “occupation of the Palestinians” by removing every last Israeli from Gaza and leaving the Strip entirely in Palestinian hands, allowing a new Palestinian militia to be formed on the West Bank under American tutelage, and by a succession of Israeli prime ministers--including those once categorized as “rightist” and “hard-line”--offering the Palestinians statehood even as Hamas rules Gaza and the Fatah-run West Bank, as well, continues to be an incubator of anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic hatred. For Anat Matar, it all makes no difference--since Zionism is evil at the core in any case, has no right to defend itself, and deserves to be violently attacked. It sounds as if the monolithically wicked Zionism of her fantasies is a projection of something very ugly in herself. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - President of Tel Aviv University (forced to) resign(s)Senior university sources said Galil was forced to resign following friction which came to a head this week with TAU's executive council. The council issued a statement, however, expressing surprise at Galil's decision and stating that there was no attempt to make him step down. Galil declined to respond to reports of efforts to dismiss him. Sources have said that some of the executive council members had recently expressed their lack of confidence in Galil's fundraising capabilities. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Anat Matar (Dept of Philosophy) will be investigated by Attorney General Mazuz for her false and libelous accusation that an IDF soldier committed murderThe e-mail that caused a stir in the IDF: Mazuz, the Attorney General of Israel is to examine the complaint against Dr. Anat Matar, of Tel Aviv University's Philosophy's department, who sent out an e-mail containing a picture of an IDF soldier. Matar claimed that the soldier in the picture was the one who shot dead a demonstrator in Bil'in, and branded him a 'murderer', she asked viewers to supply the soldier’s personal information. ... Chairman of the Education Committee, M.K. Zevulon Orlev, accused the lecturer of a media lynch. "Dr. Matar does not represent any constitutional or legislative authority and her actions are reprehensible'', said Orlev and added that he is waiting for the results of the Attorney General’s investigation.
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Tel Aviv University - The Terrorist-Financed NGO Gisha run by Tel Aviv U. Law Professors Kenneth Mann and Sari BashiGisha uses the Israeli courts to sue the Jewish state for taking security measures. Mann and Bashi feel that the same 1.5 million Arabs who elected and cheer on Hamas and Fatah terrorism are victims of “collective punishment” by the Israeli government, and suffer under “restricted movement.” … Israel needs to control the Gaza borders and entry points and has a right to do so under international law. Israel deported 8,000 Jews before it left Gaza as a price paid for peace, and what it received in return was Islamofascist terror. Mann and Bashi evidently blame Israel for all that and have filed suit against the Israeli government over security micro-procedures. In other words, people with expertise in law think they have the right to second-guess the military’s own leadership on questions of how to fight terror. ... It’s troubling to think that the next generation of Israeli lawyers responsible for litigating in arenas of international law are being taught by such radicals. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
PsychoActive conference at Tel Aviv University - Yet another TAU "academic" exercise in one-sided Israel-BashingThese people live in another universe; they fail to recognize that the Arabs are ‘playing’ the ‘liberal’ Jews. It was a touchy-feely group. Feelings are everything, even if they are phony, Facts and reality are meaningless. … I think that many of the participants do not consider themselves to be Israel bashers or that they are a threat to the State. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Hillel Halkin reviews Shlomo Sand’s (Dept of History) book; calls Sand’s conclusions “a thoroughly dishonest manipulation of the facts”And yet to go from there to Sand’s absurd conclusions that the Jews, who considered themselves a distinct people from their early history, were “invented” as one in modern times; that their historical connection to Palestine is “imaginary,” because they are not descended in their entirety from ancient Palestinian Jewry; or that the idea of a Jewish state is therefore less acceptable than the idea of a French or Spanish state, demands a thoroughly dishonest manipulation of the facts.For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Chaim Gans (School of Law) Indicts Zionism as Criminality'One of the favorite tacks [sic] taken by Israeli spokesmen, in attempting to justify the price that the Palestinians paid for the realization of Zionism, is to place full responsibility for that price on the Palestinians themselves....I am speaking about the price paid by the Palestinians not only for the patently unjust elements of Zionism (the expulsion of 1948, the inequality between Jews and Arabs in Israel and the ongoing torment of Palestinians in the form of the settlements).' For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Anat Matar (Dept. of Philosophy) to face Slander ProbeThe Zionist student group “Im Tirzu” has called on police to probe Dr. Anat Matar of Tel Aviv University as well. The group says Matar was responsible for creating and distributing the picture, and admitted to doing so in a media interview. Matar must face an investigation in order to warn others not to make false allegations against IDF soldiers, the group said. In an interview with Arutz Sheva's Hebrew site, Matar denied creating the image in question, but admitted to posting the picture on an email list. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv Univeristy - Rachel Giora (Dept of Linguistics) Boycotts the University that Over-Pays her Salary; next letter should be letter of resignationBut shouldn’t Israeli academic institutions be exempted, some wonder? After all such institutions focus on academic research with no recourse to the military or state politics. But in fact Israeli academia is no different from any other Israeli institution and in many cases it plays an active if not a vital role in supporting Israeli apartheid practices against the Palestinians. For example, “the R&D [Research & Development] Directorate of the Israel Ministry of Defense is currently funding 55 projects at TAU [Tel Aviv University]”… “People are just not aware of how important university research is in general and how much TAU contributes to Israel’s security in particular” For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel-Aviv University – Daniel Bar-Tal (Dept of Psychology) reveals new gospel – Zionism is the main obstacle to peaceA new anti-Jewish gospel was revealed to us mortals recently from the enlightened Left encamped within Tel-Aviv University. It is this: for peace to be achieved in the Middle East, the Israelis must recognize their responsibility for the “tragedy” that they inflicted upon the Palestinians in 1948. As long as the Israelis deny their collective guilt for the Palestinians becoming refugees and deny that the Palestinians were maliciously expelled by them, then all reconciliation is a pipe dream. Hence, Israel’s acknowledging Arab “suffering” is a key to reaching a settlement in the region. Embracing Zionist “dogma” is, accordingly, the main obstacle to peace. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Aviad Kleinberg (Dept of History) thinks Israeli soldiers are a bunch of thugs'Very nice. All of us can feel very good about ourselves. Again it turned out that our army, as the defense minister and chief of staff declare regularly, is the world’s most moral military. It is so moral that a failure to kill innocents is perceived as such an unusual and surprising incident that it deserves a medal. 'We are implicitly led to believe that a regular IDF soldier would have opened fire on the unarmed women and children, just to be on the safe side. However, the Duvdevan officer and his three soldiers overcame this IDF instinct, and therefore they deserve a citation. ... Moreover, the Duvdevan unit gave rise to an amazing, unusual, and unique team that in two separate and well-documented cases did not hurt innocents. Yes, hard to believe. Once upon a time, refraining from shooting at innocents was the norm. Those who deviated from it were punished.' For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Carlo Strenger promotes violence against JewsBut today Strenger goes beyond that to support hooligan violence against Orthodox Jews! Really! The background to this is the continuing campaign of intimidation and violence by ultra-secularists in Ramat Aviv, where Strenger lives and where his Tel Aviv University is located, against Orthodox Jews. The ultra-secularists claim there is a cabal by the Orthodox to "take over" the neighborhood. You know, like the Elders of Zion. Anti-religious bigotry is the main form of bigotry in Israel. Strenger and his anti-Orthodox stormtrooper buddies are no doubt the very first to take to the barricades to support the right of Arabs to move into Jewish towns and communities in Carmiel and elsewhere. But they insist they have the right to "defend liberalism," to use Strenger's words, and use violence to keep the Orthodox out of Ramat Aviv. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Omar Barghouti Smearing Tel Aviv University as Reward for its Admitting him as Student, President of TAU Defends the Terrorist ApologistJust to bring you up to speed, Omar Barghouti is a non-Palestinian Arab pretending to be a Palestinian, who has organized campaigns for boycotts and divestment against Israel and against Israeli universities. Barghouti claims Israel carried out genocide against Arabs. The same Barghouti was admitted to Tel Aviv University's Department of Philosophy as a PhD student in "ethics." The fact that Barghouti falsely claims that Israel carried out genocide should be enough to convince anyone that he is no scholar and no researcher and does not belong in any university. But the Department of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University is one of the school's wall-to-wall anti-Israel leftist extremism departments. If there is a single non-leftist in that department it is news to me. Department faculty members are leaders in the campaign to end the existence of the Jewish state. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Shlomo Sand’s (Dept of History) new book is called “amateurish”; told where he “really failed”Had Sand written a political tract as to why he believes there needs to be a single-state, I would not for a second, have minded. Unfortunately, he has written that political tract and disguised it as a history. … What Sand (and Finkelstein for that matter) do, is … cherry pick the parts of history that fit with their preconceived ideas no matter how far on the fringes of history those ideas are, and then casually dismiss anything that doesn’t. … Where Sand really fails is his conclusion. Israel does not need to exist as a Jewish state because Jews believe that 2000 years their direct ancestors lived there. Israel needs to exist as a Jewish state because the world is, at best, ambivalent about Jewish suffering. Israel needs to exist as a Jewish state because even if the Jewish people were invented the hatred towards them is not. Israel needs to exist as a Jewish state because books like Sand’s are so popular. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Daniel Bar-Tal (Tel Aviv University - Dept. of Political Psychology) and David Newman’s (Ben Gurion University – Dept of Political Science) use of “McCarthyism” is “absurd, intellectually dishonest and immoral” according to NGO-Monitor.org Executive Director Prof. Gerald SteinbergIs the right to criticize restricted to this elite, while its members have divine immunity from being criticized when they fail to live up to the universal moral principles that they exploit? Furthermore, I find ideological claims of "attempts to restrict free speech" and the absurd use of the term "McCarthyism", intellectually dishonest and immoral. By screaming "McCarthyism" whenever critical analyses of their claims or activities are published, these critics can themselves be accused of trying to suppress and discredit free speech. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Daniel Bar-Tal (Dept. of Political Psychology) makes excuses for genocidal terror'I realize that terror is a symptom and has deep causes. It is defined in very specific way to differentiate it from other types of violence. But the Israeli government refuses to look at its causes and jumps on the American war against terrorism, trying to present the situation in the Middle East as being similar to the situation of September 11 and the war in Afghanistan....The recent wave of terror was so severe and symbolic that about 70% of us are ready to accept almost every act of violence to stop this bloodbath. People in such moments loose their human perspective and turn into fearful and vengeful warriors.'For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Terrorism Aviv University accepts a New PhD StudentHe already got his MA from Tel Aviv University in "ethics." That is correct, Tel Aviv University evidently considers Palestinian anti-Semitism and terrorism "ethical." He is also a militant supporter of Israel's extermination under what the anti-Semitic Left these days calls the "one-state solution." His group has made headlines for demanding that Israeli universities themselves be targeted for boycott (see the following article). So here we have the spectacle of Tel Aviv University treating this pogromchik as a scholar and accepting him for PhD studies. He is on record as claiming that Israel is conducting genocide against Arabs (see the following article). Anyone who thinks Tel Aviv University has retained any academic standards at all will now have to think again. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Shlomo Sand (Dept of History) has book reviewed by fellow TAU Historian and Israel Prize Laureate Anita Shapira, who discredits the book as “artificial”Sand bases his arguments on the most esoteric and controversial interpretations, while seeking to undermine the credibility of important scholars by dismissing their conclusions without bringing any evidence to bear. … Sand would like to promote a new Israeli agenda, striving for harmony between Jews and Arabs, to be based on the remodeling of Jewish identity. … But reconciliation between peoples makes necessary a mutual recognition of truth, not an artificial analysis that presents a fabricated front, a quasi-mask that hides the real differences. What Sand is offering is this kind of artificial analysis. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Stalinism Day at Tel Aviv UniversityThe content of the talks at the "conference" was exactly as expected. Several of the speakers were party henchmen from the Stalinist MAKI party and not academics at all. Representatives of the communist party were on the scene distributing party "literature" and propaganda books. Every single speaker celebrated and praised communism, and most spent time attacking Zionism, Israel and Israel's very existence, praising Arab terrorism as "resistance" to Zionist colonialism. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
At Tel Aviv University, one-sidedly promoting communism is "academic freedom," but protesting human rights abuses by Communist China is prohibited by the campus officials!The president of Tel Aviv University, Prof. Zvi Galil, has just issued this apologia in defense of the one-sided communist indoctrination conference to be held at Tel Aviv University. We have left the English and spelling uncorrected. Here is the original message: from Prof. Zvi
Galil <zg1@post.tau.ac.il> It is a conference
on the history of the Comunist party in Israel.
Tel Aviv University's Long Track Record of Pandering to CommunismIt seems that an art exhibit was being shown on the campus of TAU last year in the persecution of the "Falun Gong" in China was depicted. The Falun Gong are a sort of meditation, exercise movement with some features of a religious cult. China has been brutally suppressing and persecuting members of the movement. Some of the artists in the exhibit were survivors of China's forced labor camps, and endured the tortures they depict. The Chinese Embassy in Israel was not amused and complained to the heads of Tel Aviv University. In one of the most brazen acts of cowardice in the Western world, the university officials ordered the exhibit shut down in order to appease the Chinese communists!!! For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Yehuda (Judd) Ne'eman (Dept of Film and Television) has no problem accepting the Israel Prize (and the prize money) from the State he condemnsYehuda Ne'eman, like so many of members of the Far Left academic mafia, is a hypocrite. He already made clear that he would not refuse the Prize, awarded by the "judges" Prof. Ram Levi, director Orna Ben Dor and Dr. Anat Preminger. "I feel like I belong and I don't belong; the part that belongs very much wants to be a part of things and receive recognition, while the part that doesn't belong is kicking and telling me all the things a person has to say to himself and not to anyone else," he told Ha'aretz, after expressing delight at the news of the Prize. "With all the horrible things Israel does, I know that from the perspective of history, on the scale of evil, we are not at the top of the chart." How comforting. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University to be Converted to a Gulag (for a day)Many of us have long suspected that Tel Aviv University (TAU) often serves as a communist re-education gulag, dominated by its post-Zionist anti-Israel far-leftists in whose classrooms no Zionist or non-leftist opinion may ever be expressed. But this coming March 25, 2009, it really will be a gulag! At least for one day! Israel's pro-terror communist party MAKI will hold its "congress" that day in the TAU law school, which has been much in the news recently for attempts at suppressing academic freedom there, gulag-style. For more details and to
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Tel Aviv University. - Daniel Bar-Tal (Dept. of Political Psychology) celebrates Israeli loss of will to resist, capitulation to Arab propaganda:'Prof. Bar-Tal says the simplistic view most Jewish Israelis hold is a consequence of living daily in the face of ongoing violent conflict. A socio- psychological infrastructure is developed for the sake of self-preservation that on the one hand is functional in coping with the conflict, but on the other hand feeds it.' For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Daniel Bar-Tal (Dept. of Political Psychology) for whom no reason is good enough to go to warThis is probably one of the most difficult periods in my political life as a Jew living in the State of Israel. The events of the war in Gaza hit hard my foundations of hope that a peaceful conflict resolution between Israelis and Palestinians can be achieved in the near future. Moreover, my trust in humanity has been weakened seeing the ease with which human beings rally for a war, exercise blind patriotism, express desire for vengeance, delegitimize the opponent, and develop insensitivity to human life, denial of responsibility, self-righteousness and moral entitlement. This is in contrast to the great difficulty that human beings have in mobilization for peace. We see over and over again that it takes many years and many efforts to persuade people in the importance of peace, but it takes an extremely short time to convince people in the need of war. It is even more difficult to establish moral considerations. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Ran HaCohen (Dept of Comparative Literature) prettifies and legitimizes anti-Semitism'So a private person who doubts the loyalty of Jews in a telephone interview is a dirty anti-Semite to Foxman. But a major political party that publicly defames Arab Israelis and pledges to revoke their citizenship gets a pass from the director of the Anti-Defamation(!) League, purportedly committed to "Fighting Anti-Semitism, Bigotry, and Extremism"!' For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Anat Biletzki (Dept of Philosophy) and Anat Matar (Dept of Philosophy) support Hampshire College divestment from IsraelThey endorse, among other things, the boycotting Israeli goods and calling on the American Government to stop funding Israel. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - PM Olmert: No funding for bodies that refuse to employ officers"In my opinion, any university that disqualifies lecturers on such grounds, before an examination [of their service] has been concluded, is not suitable to receive funding from the Israeli government," Olmert said. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Olmert denounces Tel Aviv University anti-democratic leftist faculty members as self-righteous hypocritesPrime Minister Ehud Olmert came to the defense of Col. Pnina Sharvit-Baruch on Sunday, speaking out against those seeking to prevent her from taking up a teaching position at Tel Aviv University when she finishes her IDF career in the coming weeks. The prime minister blasted the "self-righteous hypocrites" at the university who "presume to preach morality" without first learning the facts of a case. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Prof. Shlomo Avineri denounces the "McCarthyism" at Tel Aviv University, the attempt to impose an anti-Israel leftist litmus test on those who can teach in the TAU Law School'The attempt to "protect" those who belong to the left while employing McCarthy-style methods against those associated with the right is nothing but hypocrisy, which has no place in academia. The people working to prevent Sharvit-Baruch's appointment do not realize that the proposal gives legitimacy to the dark forces that lurk on the sidelines of Israeli society, to begin pursuing the voices in academia that strike them as "unpatriotic" or "insufficiently Zionist." This may even apply to some of the people heading the fight against Sharvit-Baruch.' For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Daniel Breslau (Dept. of Sociology) gives “advice” to President Obama on how to manipulate Israel for Palestinian BenefitAll of these tactics have been convenient for Israel and the US, allowing them to support Palestinian rights and peace in principle, while in practice denying them. Through Palestinian fragmentation, continued violence that Israel itself often instigates, and the decline of the Palestinian Authority, Israel has worked hard to make the complaint of `no partner` a reality. This is why George Mitchell and the Obama Administration have such a difficult task. The new president must anticipate the lengths to which Israel will go to avoid direct, substantive, and binding negotiations. Real pressure on Israel will inevitably result in a confrontation as Israel will make moves such as those listed above to test Obama. He will have to be wise to Israel`s tactics, and will have to be ready to neutralize them as soon as they arise. For more details and to see the full original article, go here On the anti-Semitic web site Counterpunch, Ben Gurion University's Neve Gordon and Tel Aviv University's Yigal Bronner smear Israel using Hamas propaganda "statistics" verbatim'This latest assault underscores that Israel, not unlike Hamas, readily resorts to violence and does not distinguish between civilians and combatants (only the weapons at Israel's disposal are much more lethal). No matter how many times the Israeli government tries to blame Hamas for the latest Palestinian civilian deaths it simply cannot explain away the body count, especially that of the children. In addition to the dead, 1,855 Palestinian children were wounded, and tens of thousands of others have likely been traumatised, many of them for life.....Israel's masters of war must be happy: the seeds of the next wars have certainly been sown.' For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Chaim Gans (School of Law) thinks Israel has a right to exist only if it destroys all the settlements and withdraws to the Green Line. That is his "defence" of Zionism!Moreover, Israel must bring all of this to an end not only because the occupation of the West Bank and the inequality between Jews and Arabs in Israel are bad in and of themselves and corrupt Israel's present and future moral standing, but also because these practices render Israel's good faith in relying on the justice of Zionism's past questionable. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
The Assault on Academic Freedom by Tel Aviv University Leftist Faculty MembersThe anti-Zionist caucus of far-leftist professors at Tel Aviv University has a new cause. It is the suppression of academic freedom in the university's School of Law. The leftists are upset that the school is considering allowing the woman colonel who heads the Israeli Defense Forces international law division to lecture in its Law School. The far-leftists are opposed to that. Basically they are opposed to anyone teaching in the School of Law who is not a far-leftist anti-Zionist like them. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Ran HaCohen's (Dept of Comparative Literature) continues to serve as Hamas' MouthpieceWhen I talk of ignorance, I do not mean that Israelis do not know there is occupation. They have known that for three-and-a-half decades, and their ideology has enabled them to live with it -- more (on the Right) or less (on the Left) comfortably. But the current phase of occupation differs from its former stages in the intensified use of disinformation and state-controlled ignorance. And so, while Israelis generally believe that "it must be quite terrible over there," very few of them know which Palestinian towns are under siege or closure at a given time, and what is the difference between the two. They do not know of villages locked behind a fence and a closed gate. They hardly know where the so-called "Separation Fence" is erected, and what it means for the Palestinians. Israelis have no idea how long it would take for a Palestinian to get from Ramallah to Bethlehem, and whether he is allowed to. And they definitely do not know that when the army is reported to remove a permanent checkpoint somewhere in the occupied Palestinian territories it is replaced by an even worse temporary checkpoint. Obviously, all this has immediate impact on the question "who is to blame" for the violence, which translates directly into political support. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Anat Biletzki (Dept of Philosophy) invents Reality with StatisticsA group of British academic anti-Semites is circulating an electronic leaflet in which they explain that insists that 8000 Hamas rockets landing on Israeli civilians just do not count, because they are just symbolic protests and do not do very much damage. Therefore it is only Israeli retaliation that counts as the launching of war. Translation: dead Jews do not count because Jewish lives have no value and Jews deserve to be sent to concentration camps. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Moshe Zuckerman's (Dept. of History) anti-Israel rhetoric gets quoted by the traitor and spy Azmi BisharaDr. Moshe Zuckerman of Tel-Aviv University provided an interesting answer to these questions, by saying, "Zionism always wanted to create an "Israeli" identity, however the realities constantly challenges this aspiration and contradicts it and regardless of how hard Zionism tries to fabricate "Israeli" identity and by force, the outcome is that the "Israeli" identity does not exist. Dr. Zuckerman continued by saying, "There has never been a unique culture and civilization that is different than the culture of the local communities that they lived in. In other words, the culture of the Jews who lived among the Arab people was a reflection of the Arab culture, as the culture of German Jews reflected the German culture, and so on." In other words Dr. Zuckerman recognizes the constituents for Nation building that Jews in general lack. Jews are merely a religious group. They have no common language, no common history, no common culture, no common territory and no common economical system to form a Nation that might be entitled for the right of self-determination. Yet, Mr. Bishara accepts the Zionist-fabricated "Israeli culture" as sufficient constituent for forming a Jewish state on Palestinian stolen land. So, it could very well be that Mr. Bishara is more Zionist than Dr. Zuckerman. Most importantly, Mr. Bishara did not bring the issue of culture and heritage simply out of ignorance, because he has prepared the Arab masses to accept the Zionist existence in Arabia, while preparing the Zionist masses for accepting the Arabs within 1948 OP (Occupied Palestine) as a cultural/National minority, and to grant them culture autonomy, as he calls it. And, what is worse is that Mr. Bishara prepares the Arabs within 1948 OP to assimilate and to integrate in the "Israeli" society, which is a contradiction to his doctrine of recognizing the Arabs as a "National minority." For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Anti-Zionist Professor Moshe Zuckerman (Dept of History) Invents a New Anti-Semitic Blood LibelAnti-Zionist Tel Aviv University professor Professor Moshe Zuckerman (history) tells German radio that Israel has murdered 400,000 Palestinians during the Gaza conflict. See this report. Head of TAU's Institute for German History. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Ran HaCohen's (Dept of Comparative Literature) attacks Ben Dror Yemini and Maariv NewspaperBut Taub's demagoguery fades compared to Ben-Dror Yemini's (an Israeli Daniel Pipes) in Ma'ariv. In a column titled "The Most Justified Offensive Ever" (miraculously, the very words used by his Ha'aretz twin Ari Shavit for the Lebanon War just two years ago), Yemini draws a straight line from Hitler to Hamas (no coincidence they both start with an H, just like Hezbollah, Saddam Hussein, and Hemorrhoids), and explains that "Since the Nazi ideology […], no movement has been as dangerous to world peace as political Islam." My apologies for quoting this trash; we need an Israeli demagogue to instrumentalize the Holocaust, and Yemini was born for such dirty jobs. (Israel's policy is) 'The damage to the civil population should be maximized, because the worse the humanitarian crisis is, the better and the sooner the operation would end. It's the same major-general, by the way, who just a year ago caused outrage by urging the Israeli government to negotiate directly with Hamas. Do not to look for consistency, integrity, or intelligence where war criminals are involved.' For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Shlomo Sand's Revisionist Pseudo-History of the Jewish PeopleSand describes his own venture into historic revisionism as an exploration in historiography, and notes: "My initial intention was to take certain kinds of modern historiographic materials and examine how they invented the 'figment' of the Jewish people. ... Sand, who was once active in the Israeli splinter Maoist group Matzpen, also wanted to learn about stories of conversions to Judaism and then to connect those strands into a theory that claimed that all Jews everywhere are the descendants of converts. That being the case, Jewish peoplehood must itself be a fabrication, one invented in 19th century Germany, notably contemporaneous with the antecedents of Nazism. For Sand this is not a coincidence, because then Zionism can be shown to be similar to Nazism, is proven illegitimate, and so Israel should not exist at all. This is quite a novel way to rewrite history. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Carlo Strenger (Dept of Psychology) rewrites history"We Jews demand of the world never to forget that 6 million of us were killed in the Holocaust. We would do well not to forget that some 6 million black Africans died during the long history of the slave trade, one of the most shameful chapters in the history of humanity.... Obama's election is a triumph of universalism over chauvinism." For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Ran HaCohen's (Dept of Comparative Literature) article serves basis for new call for economic boycottIt is about mentioning the fact that Israel is breaching each and every principle of "free market" economy in the OT – and this is what the OECD is supposed to promote. It was the Israeli academic Ran HaCohen from Tel Aviv University who succinctly pointed to this argument in his article Keep Israel out of elite economic club The Electronic Intifada, 17 June 2008 For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - The leftwing McCarthyism of Carlo Strenger (Dept of Psychology) who thinks all non-leftists are guilty of terrorismThe Sternhell Attack gave the Left an excuse to judge and sentence the Right without trial upon the front pages of the newspapers. Then Strenger – imitating Emile Zola – “accuses” Isracampus.org.il, among others, in order to cover up that the conviction of the Right – imitating Alfred Dreyfus – was based on false accusations and misrepresentation of justice. 'I accuse those Jews, inside Israel and outside, who run websites that track "dangerous left-wing intellectuals" in Israel. They call people like Zeev Sternhell "anti-Semitic," "self-hating Jews" and "enemies of Israel....For too long the Israeli Right has taken a forgiving attitude toward its 'wild weeds.' For too long it has used extremists to present its own views as acceptable mainstream." Unlike the police, Strenger claims to know who attacked Sternhell's home and who was behind it. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University Marxist sociologist Yehuda Shenhav explains why the "Palestinian refugees" deserve compassion, but the Jewish refugees from Arab countries (or what he calls "Arab Jews") do not:'Any reasonable person, Zionist or non-Zionist, must acknowledge that the analogy drawn between Palestinians and Arab Jews is unfounded. Palestinian refugees did not want to leave Palestine. Many Palestinian communities were destroyed in 1948, and some 700,000 Palestinians were expelled, or fled, from the borders of historic Palestine. Those who left did not do so of their own volition. In contrast, Arab Jews arrived to Israel under the initiative of the State of Israel and Jewish organizations. Some arrived of their own free will; others arrived against their will. Some lived comfortably and securely in Arab lands; others suffered from fear and oppression.' For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Ran HaCohen (Dept of Comparative Literature) Conveniently Forgets Arab Terror When He Scoffs About Israeli Security ConcernsBut that's not the end of it: the report also states that "For its part, Israel would like to supervise border crossings, maintain a limited deployment in the Jordan Valley, continue overflights of the Palestinian territory, maintain early warning stations on mountain ridges, and hold emergency response units in Palestinian areas." Oh, so that's what Israel means by a "two-state solution": An "independent" "Palestinian" "state" with Israeli supervision on its borders crossings, full of Israeli soldiers, Israeli jets, Israeli military stations – and, of course, Israel's right to send even more soldiers into it in "times of emergency." Shall we – to expose Israel's true face – suggest mutuality? How about Palestinian control on Israel's border crossings, a Palestinian military presence along Israel's Mediterranean coast, Palestinian jets free to fly over Tel Aviv and Dimona, Palestinian military stations in Haifa and Ramat Yishay, and Palestinian emergency response units in Israeli areas? Obviously, such "security arrangements" are completely incompatible with a sovereign, independent state. … The Israeli proposal – as its "security arrangements" reveal – proves once again that Israel is no partner for peace. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv U’s Chomsky disciples in linguistics leave us speechlessWhen historians look back at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, they will no doubt observe the importance that words played for Israel’s enemies in the dispute. Blowing up a bus full of people becomes “legitimate resistance,” and a security fence to keep out suicide bombers and terrorists suddenly becomes an “apartheid wall”; “occupation” takes on multiple meanings—does it mean the West Bank and Gaza or all of Israel? In fact, it means both depending on its usefulness at the time the phrase is spoken by irredentist Arabs. Words such as “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing” increasingly refer to a subjugated Palestinian Arab population that in reality seems to only grow exponentially. To the outside world, a plethora of deceptive words, be they in English or translated to other languages, suggest Israel is persecuting the Arabs who are bent on the Jewish state’s annihilation by distorting that Israel, a Jewish haven from European Nazism, has in effect become the nation of the new Nazis and that the Arabs are the new Jews. Such is the power of words used to manipulate ideas and disguise facts in any language. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Shlomo Sand (Dept of History) – gets bad peer review of book by Israel Bartal who reduces the work to fiction.What is Sand trying to prove in this study? In his view, the homeland of the Jewish people is not Palestine, and most Jews are descendants of the members of different nations who converted to Judaism in ancient times and in the medieval period. He claims that the Jews of Yemen and Eastern Europe are descendants of pagans. According to Sand, this historical truth was concealed by Zionist thinkers, who developed an ethno-biological ideology, and the so-called "Jewish people" was invented as late as the 19th century. Furthermore, he argues, the idea of a "nation" that was exiled from its homeland in ancient times and which is destined to return to it in the modern age so as to rebuild its independent state is merely an invented myth. ...Or, perhaps, because everything is an invention anyway, it does not really matter whether the "imagined object" is black or white? The lugubrious Israeli combination of aggressive one-dimensional conceptuality and blatant disrespect for details will undoubtedly captivate the hearts of the public relations executives of the electronic media. However, we, the skeptical historians, who are buried between mountains of books and piles of archival files, can only continue to read what has really been written and to write about what has really been read. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University Academics among those demanding Israel's Extermination in the "Haifa Conference for the Right of Return And the Secular Democratic State in Palestine"'In the second part of the opening session, there were three speeches in Hebrew: Yehuda Kupferman (Tel Aviv University) from the "Committee for a secular and democratic state in the whole of Palestine," and Dr Uri Davis from "the movement against Israeli Apartheid in Palestine" - both from the initiating committee, and Dr Anat Matar (Tel Aviv University) , a leading activists in support of the rights of Palestinian prisoners and for the rights of Israeli youth to refuse serving in the Israeli army....(Among the demands were to) Strip the Jewish presence in Palestine of its colonialist nature, which is connected to the racist Zionist project, as a tool of imperialism and global capitalism.' For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Shlomo Zand (Dept of History) – Students protest Zand’s book that denys a Jewish NationProfessor Shlomo Zand of Tel Aviv University says there is no such thing as a Jewish Nation. Students at the university say that the professor is anti-Semitic. In his new book, Zand says that Judaism is a religion and is connected to no nation. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Anat Matar (Dept. of Philosophy) Gets Arrested Participating in an Illegal DemonstrationThis morning at five o'clock army and border police forces entered Bil'in, declared a curfew, prohibited the weekly demonstration and ordered the eight Israelis, who had stayed the night in Bil'in, to leave. When they refused they were all arrested…. Some 25 Israelis were arrested, among them Dr Anat Matar of the Tel-Aviv University, Philosophy Department, and veteran Meretz activist Latif Dori. Some of them were dragged into the police cars after passively resisting arrest. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
University of Haifa - Who needs Shakespeare?Here is what they are teaching in the English Department at the University of Haifa (guest lecturer from Tel Aviv University): 'The Israeli queer activist group "Black Laundry" emerged in 2001 following the outbreak of the second Intifada. Black Laundry effected a two-fold shift in Israeli LGBT politics - both in its move from identity politics narrowly defined (i.e. a politics focused solely on the interests of the LGBT community) to a politics of identification concerned with the occupation as well as with other types of oppression...' For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv Philosophy Professor Anat Matar promotes draft dodging from the IDF to aid her Palestinian Arab “Allies”And here Anat Matar, the self-avowed deep thinker and philosopher, shows how she is neither. She states in an interview, “As for ending the occupation itself, I'm far from being optimistic. But of course, pressure on the U.S. government, boycotting Israel in all sorts of ways - in short, making manifest the similarity between Israel and Apartheid South Africa - all these could perhaps change something. I'm not sure about the short run. But slowly, slowly this should be understood by more and more people.” One wonders where is her concern for the 30% of Israeli children and the elderly who must eat in soup kitchens due to the Arab League Boycott she supports. The suffering of Israelis apparently means nothing to Anat Matar. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Anat Matar hard at work at destroying Israel through creating a "Right of Return" for "Palestinian refugees"Haifa Conference for the Right of Return And the Secular Democratic State in Palestine Friday and Saturday, June 20-21, 2008 Haifa, Al Midan Theatre, Khouri St 2 Friday, June 20 17:00 - Youth meeting: Youth struggle, the Return of Palestinian refugees, and the Secular Democratic Society 19:00 . Opening Session On behalf of the Initiating Committee . Rajaa Zo'abi O'mari Ayman O'deh . Secretary General - Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (HADASH) Awad Abed El-Fatah . Secretary General - National Democratic Alliance (BALAD) Muhammad Kanaa'ne . Secretary General - Abnaa elBalad Movement (The movement is part of the coalition that constitute the Initiating Committee) Palestinian speakers from the post-1967 occupied territories and the Diaspora Dr. Anat Matar Prof. Bhim Singh from Kashmir Greetings to the Haifa Conference. Cultural Program For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Kenneth Mann (Dept of Law) 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
It has been almost two years since the last FFIPP conference in
Ramallah. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Gadi Algazi (Dept. of History) laments at the wrong WallTrue, the fence was built after a wave of attacks on Israeli civilians during the bloody days of the second intifada. It was built by exploiting the black days of violent suppression of the intifada in the territories, the choking of Palestinian civilian protest, of suicide bombers. But Sharon’s project was far-reaching from the start, a project of systematic annexation and cutting the West Bank into fenced reservations for the natives. But most importantly, the fence was built on fear, through deliberate exploitation of real fears, and real suffering. You can build on fears. Especially barbed-wire fences. You can also make a nice profit from it. The main question is how we, and are children after us, will live behind those fences. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Ran HaCohen (Dept of Comparative Literature) blames Israel for all Palestinian ProblemsThe Palestinian territories have no central bank, nor their own currency or monetary sovereignty: they are dependent on the Israeli shekel. Nor do they have declared and internationally recognized borders nor geographic contiguity, a precondition for defining an economic unit. The Palestinian-controlled enclaves are encircled, divided and separated by Israeli roadblocks and by Israeli-controlled areas, like roads closed to Palestinian traffic, Israeli settlements, army facilities etc. Only Israel can decide whether a Palestinian laborer, businessman or entrepreneur may move from one point to another -- within his allegedly independent economic unit. ... If this goes together with a ‘commitment to free economy,’ then Zimbabwe and North Korea can join OECD just as much. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Distributed the Week at Tel Aviv University:
Danger: Islamofacism in Tel Aviv UniversityLast week the Arab student committee held elections. The winner: the EQRAA party, which belongs to the "Islamic Movement in Israel". They got over 50% of the student votes! Many of those voting for the Islamofascists were admitted to Tel Aviv University under affirmative action preferences for Arab students, and some received fellowships paid for by donors to the university! Two days prior to the elections it was discovered that three Arabs from Lod, who were members of the Islamic Movement, planned to kidnap an IDF soldier, murder him, hide his body, and demand the release of Palestinian terrorists. The Islamic Movement is active in war against Israel and support for Palestinian terror. It publishes hate propaganda against Jews and celebrates Palestinian suicide bombers. Its leaders have been convicted of financial and logistical support for the Hamas terror organization. When the Arab students voted EQRAA, they voted for terrorism and against the State of Israel. A majority of the Arab students who voted are radical, racist, fascists and terror supporters. They are a clear and present danger!
Tel Aviv University - Carlo Strenger (Dept. of Psychology) debates politics with those who claim Israeli "ethnic cleansing" and condones their actionsBrian, I have been following the debate in the UK and the activities of Independent Jewish Voices (IJV), and I was happy to see a growing group of Jews liberate themselves from the stranglehold of Jewish organisations who, however sincerely, believe that Israel is best served by uncritically defending Israeli actions, whatever their human cost and long-term political consequences. My goal is to differentiate between two types of criticisms: the first type tries to foster debate, dialogue and has a political goal. I have disagreements with some of the things said by members of IJV, but I mostly feel that I can relate to them, that there is a way to enter dialogue (as with your advertisement marking Israel's 60th anniversary, published in the Jewish Chronicle). ==== Let me begin with a basic belief of mine: any criticism of Israel that does not actually incite racism and antisemitism is legitimate. Many supporters of Israel automatically play the card of antisemitism to muzzle criticism. This is intellectually and morally wrong and it is dangerous. It empties the charge of antisemitism of serious content, and creates deep animosity not only towards Israel, but also towards Jews in general. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University. - Daniel Bar-Tal (Dept. of Political Psychology) conveniently omits Israel’s Academic Fifth-Column in his list of dangers confronting Israel at SixtyThrough the years many thousands of Palestinians, including civilians and children who were not engaged in any violent activity against Israel, were killed or injured by the Israeli forces. More than 600,000 of the Palestinians were arrested through the years of occupation, many thousands spent years in prisons and as detainees, many were tortured, some were expelled and their houses demolished. Many aspects of Palestinian collective and individual lives are controlled by the Israelis and through the years this has had an immense negative effect on the development of their economic, societal and political infrastructure. According to UN 2007 report 57 percent of the households in the territories live in poverty. In principle, this occupied population lives without basic human and civil rights under continuous humiliation and discrimination that cannot be accounted for by threats to the security of Israel. As examples it is possible to provide about 100 checkpoints and several hundred roadblocks that turn the lives of the Palestinians into a miserable experience, or the fact that many of the settlements and the outposts were built on private Palestinian land confiscated under false pretexts, or the attempts to build security the fence well beyond the green line in order to take hold of more Palestinian land. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Aviad Kleinberg (Dept of History) wants Israel to stop liking AmericaYet what caused my sense of discomfort (not to mention slight nausea) was the absence of any limits, or what I would call lack of self respect. The flattery showered on Bush was embarrassing and exceedingly exaggerated – bowing down to the ground where a handshake would do. Bush was repeatedly presented as a leader who has no equal, a cosmic savior almost. He is our father, our king, and the US is our beloved and loving mother. We love and adore our beloved mother and father. Our gratitude knows no boundaries. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Ran HaCohen (Dept of Comparative Literature) belittles Israel on Independence DayChristians – the ancient self-designated heirs to the Jews – commemorate Christ's tormented way to resurrection and redemption in the weeks leading to Easter. Zionists – the modern self-designated heirs to the Jews – have their Lent after Passover, commemorating what they construct as their via dolorosa leading to the "Jewish State." In the weeks following Pesach the country indulges in a nationalistic orgy, hardly imaginable in any other modern state, reminiscent of a primitive tribe. If you want to understand how a whole nation is led to defy its own interests, to follow a corrupt, de facto military leadership wasting the nation's fortune and blood on unnecessary wars and immoral occupation for decades, pay a visit to Israel shortly after Pesach. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Shlomo Sand (Dept of History) denies 3000 years of Jewish History and dismisses the Diaspora as an "invention"In this work, the author attempts to prove that the Jews now living in Israel and other places in the world are not at all descendants of the ancient people who inhabited the Kingdom of Judea during the First and Second Temple period. Their origins, according to him, are in varied peoples that converted to Judaism during the course of history, in different corners of the Mediterranean Basin and the adjacent regions. Not only are the North African Jews for the most part descendants of pagans who converted to Judaism, but so are the Jews of Yemen (remnants of the Himyar Kingdom in the Arab Peninsula, who converted to Judaism in the fourth century) and the Ashkenazi Jews of Eastern Europe (refugees from the Kingdom of the Khazars, who converted in the eighth century). Unlike other "new historians" who have tried to undermine the assumptions of Zionist historiography, Sand does not content himself with going back to 1948 or to the beginnings of Zionism, but rather goes back thousands of years. He tries to prove that the Jewish people never existed as a "nation-race" with a common origin, but rather is a colorful mix of groups that at various stages in history adopted the Jewish religion. He argues that for a number of Zionist ideologues, the mythical perception of the Jews as an ancient people led to truly racist thinking: "There were times when if anyone argued that the Jews belong to a people that has gentile origins, he would be classified as an anti-Semite on the spot. Today, if anyone dares to suggest that those who are considered Jews in the world ... have never constituted and still do not constitute a people or a nation - he is immediately condemned as a hater of Israel." For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Anat Biletzki (Dept of Philosophy) issues a call to the Prez of TAUCommemorate Sheikh Muwanis Published by StudentCoalition on Mar 30, 2008 Category: Politics Region: Israel Target: students/workers of Tel-Aviv university and other supporters Web site: http://www.nakbainhebrew.org/images/sheikh_muwannis_lowresolution.pdf Description/History: (The petition is available in Hebrew, Arabic and English) A letter to the president of Tel-aviv university - A request for commemoration of the village of Sheikh Muwanis on campus and in university publications (signatures would be added to the letter). Please note your status and department at TA university, if relevant. Petition: To: Prof. Tzvi Galil President, Tel Aviv University Re: A request for commemoration of the village of Sheikh Muwanis on campus and in university publications Dear Sir, We, students and employees of Tel Aviv University and their supporters, hereby request that you take action to commemorate a chapter in the history of our institution which has heretofore been silenced – the fact of its erection on the lands of the Palestinian village of Sheikh Muwanis, which was destroyed in 1948 and its residents forced to become refugees. Commemoration is possible through many means, for example the construction of memorial markers, as is common around the world and in Israel. We consider it particularly important to make public the past of the university club, the "Green House", formerly the home of the Abu-Kahil family of Sheikh Muwanis. This building is one of the sole remnants of the village, but its history is absent from the official publications of the University. It would also be appropriate to respect the memory of the village's cemetery, upon which many university parking lots have unfortunately been constructed. In our opinion, a leading institution dedicated to the search for and revelation of the truth, such as Tel Aviv University, is morally obliged to take this important step of recognition of historical truth – documented among other places in research done at the University itself. In addition, this is a gesture of rapprochement of the kind which we deem very necessary at the present moment. While Israel celebrates the sixtieth anniversary of its foundation, the Palestinian people are marking six decades since their national catastrophe, the Nakbah. After such a long delay, the University would do well to act against the willful ignorance of the plight of the Palestinian people and the deliberate erasure of its presence. We would appreciate it if you would agree to meet with a delegation of the signatories to this letter to discuss the topic. This letter recaps the content of a previous letter, sent on 28 October 2003 to then-University President, Prof. Itamar Rabinowitz, by students and employees of the University, the descendants of the residents of Sheikh Muwanis, and the members of Zokhrot organization. The previous letter is hereby attached. http://www.nakbainhebrew.org/index.php?id=143 For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Carlo Strenger (Dept. of Psychology) Takes on the Passover HaggadaThis past week, Strenger outdid his anti-Israel leftist friends and took on not only Zionism but the Passover Haggada! You can see it, in http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/spages/976908.html in Hebrew (not available in English). There Strenger explains how the Haggada is a backward archaic anti-democratic document. And in fact that is the whole problem with Israel that it attempts to incorporate in its essence those primitive sentiments from the Bible and Haggada. Now what really bothers Strenger of course is that if people read the Haggada or the Bible they may get the foolish idea that Jews have the right to their own state and to Jerusalem, something Strenger no doubt wants us all to "question." Israel has squashed the "traditional Jewish tradition of critical thinking and irony," opines Strenger, meaning . I guess . that too many Israelis laugh at his own "ideas." He names Woody Allen and Steven Spielberg (and Spinoza, who is fashionable among the atheist clique) as non-religious Jews whom we in Israel should all take as our role models. He claims Maimonides himself abandoned Judaism for a while, although (to Strenger's disappointment?) returned to it. He denounces the Zionist movement and Ben Gurion for filling the minds of Israelis with such mythology and archaic nonsense, which then directly led to a group of simply awful people building settlements in Palestinian lands after 1967. He adds that the story of Masada is a fabrication and that the great archeologist Yigal Yadin knew it was fake but kept it hidden in a grand conspiracy because he was afraid of what revealing the fabrication would do to Israeli morale. All of which proves that Strenger's mind is about as deep as that of Barry Chamish and just as capable of inventing conspiracist nonsense. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Yigal Bronner (Dept of East Asian Studies) and Ben Gurion University - Neve Gordon (Dept. of Political Science) refute Jewish claim to the City of David"Archaeology has become a weapon of dispossession," Yonathan Mizrachi, an Israeli archaeologist, said in a recent telephone interview with us. He was referring to the way archaeology is being used in Silwan, a Palestinian neighborhood in the oldest part of Jerusalem, where, we believe, archaeological digs are being carried out as part of a concerted campaign to expel Palestinians from their ancestral home. According to the Old Testament, King David established Jerusalem as his capital, but the Jews were later conquered and expelled. Israel occupied East Jerusalem during the Six-Day War four decades ago, and ever since Israeli archaeologists have been trying (unsuccessfully) to produce proof of David's presence in that area. Occasionally they have even refrained from documenting the long Muslim presence, which is the cultural heritage of the Palestinian inhabitants. And, at any rate, the fact that not a single Muslim structure has been preserved in the entire national park that has been set up in Silwan is a clear indication of this erasure strategy. By concentrating almost entirely on unearthing the remains of the Judean kingdom, while ignoring the subsequent 3,000 years, archaeologists have violated several ethical rules as stipulated by the World Archaeological Congress. Those include the acknowledgment of the "indigenous cultural heritage, including sites, places, objects, artifacts, human remains" as well as establishing "equitable partnerships and relationships" between archaeologists and indigenous peoples whose cultural heritage is being investigated. For more details and to see the full original article, go here and here
Tel Aviv University - Professor Amos Funkenstein (Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science, Chairman) interviewed in Haaretz, December 9, 1988:Between 1933 and 1937, up to Kristallnacht, the situation of Jews in Germany was in some respects better than that of Arabs in the territories. In other respects, it was worse, but overall, the resemblance is remarkable. In the first place, both the Jews in Germany and the Palestinians in the territories were "subjects" denied citizenship. But the Jews in Germany had at that time more lawful options to pursue than the inhabitants of the territories. A Jew there, in 1936, did not yet feel totally outlawed - it was from 1938 that the Nazis began to break into their homes and stage pogroms on a scale resembling ours. Generally, it was harder in Germany than here to subvert the legal order... It occurred to nobody that elderly Arabs ordered to remove the roadblocks from the streets are like the Jews of Vienna, whom the Nazis, after entering the city, forced to sweep the snow... Jewish culture is in general not tolerant. It has always been intolerant towards dissenting minorities, such as the Karaites or the Samaritans.
Why Does Tel Aviv University Remember Tanya ReinhartTanya Reinhart was an anti-Zionist militant that embarrassed even some of the die-hard leftists in the Israeli academia. She denounced the Oslo agreement, she condemned the security fence, she advocated the Palestinian "right of return", and she was captivated by conspiracy theories and even supported the boycott against her own university. Yet, her colleagues in Tel-Aviv held an evening in which they paid tribute to her activities on the first anniversary of her death. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Yinon Cohen Badmouths Israel at Columbia University'[Amnon Rubinstein, writing in Maariv] tells of ... a meeting attended by two Israeli professors. One proposed the screening of the film Jenin, Jenin, a cinematic slander of Israel, and the other proposed inviting Israel-demonizing Norman Finkelstein to campus. Rubinstein doesn't name the two, but the sad thing about Columbia is that their identities aren't obvious. More than two Israeli professors there could have made these sorts of proposals.... So were they? The chair has been filled by Yinon Cohen, a Tel Aviv University sociologist who works mostly on labor markets and migration. Cohen isn't a hard-left post-Zionist, but he's far enough left to have signed a May 2002 open letter by some Israeli faculty. At the time, Israel was wrapping up Operation Defensive Shield, its response to the wave of suicide bombings inside Israel that had killed Israelis in the hundreds. The letter's signatories announced their "wish to express our appreciation and support for those of our students and lecturers who refuse to serve as soldiers in the occupied territories... [T]he present war is not being fought for our home but for the settlements beyond the green line and for the continued oppression of another people." For more information go to http://sandbox.blog-city.com/columbia_israelis.htm
Columnist Steven Shamrak denounced "self-hate, disloyalty to their own country and self-destructiveness" by Israeli Academics:'It is astonishing what is happening on the political front in Israel's universities. The level of self-hate, disloyalty to their own country and self-destructiveness is unprecedented: 'At the Tel Aviv University: Gadi Algazi, a history professor, stated: "Commercial and political exploitation of lands stolen by Israel." I wonder where he got his qualification from? Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy, Anat Biletzki claims that she is working for the human rights of the Palestinians but completely ignores the Jewish right for land and Israel's right to exist and requirements for self-defence. 'At the University of Haifa: Professor of Psychology Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, in addition to his pro-Arab views, proclaimed that the rights to free speech, freedom of association and freedom of religion do not exist in Israel. In this case, why is he is not in jail? Could he tell us how many Arab or Muslim organizations he knows that are able to take similar anti-government statements in their own countries?' For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Ran HaCohen (Dept. of Comparative Literature) insists that the answer is that Israel is evil and guilty so now what was the question again?'But the best example of HaCohen’s logic is his equating in the same article the allied bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the worst of war atrocities. HaCohen cynically wears on his sleeve as justification for his narcissism that some of his family were in the Holocaust in Europe, while he ignores the Holocaust that was also going on in the Pacific under the Japanese. On a personal level, this writer’s late uncle who flew 35 missions over Germany was sweating bullets over being sent next to fight Japan when those two atomic bombs forced the issue. US estimates were one million casualties if Japan had to be invaded.' For more details and to see the full original article, go here Tel Aviv University - Elad Orian (Dept. of Physiology and Pharmacology), engaged in mutiny and insurrection among Israeli soldiers, co-stars in the anti-Israel propaganda film Bil'in Habibti'The best part was to have a real refusenik (Israeli former soldier who joined the peace demonstrations and refused to serve further) Elad Orian there, he gave many interesting tales about his experience, such as going for the first time with sniper mentality among Palestinians shouting allah ho akbar, his experiences with army and how once arrested the soldiers could talk to him freely, how some sent secret text messages expressing support during the demonstration, how Israeli society has largely come to conclusion that the occupation isn’t sustainable (mentality is something like ok one way or other lets keep Palestinians out so build wall, or else their population grows and Jewish majority cant exist) so peace movements has many supporters so the film was also quite popular but its big step to actually be an activist supporting their cause, to be on the "other side".' http://joyboseroy.blogspot.com/2007/12/openmedia-film-on-palestinian-village.html
Tel Aviv University - About Kim Yuval (Dept. of Psychology) and his brother Yani, who was shot while confronting the army last monthPart of the "Joint Struggle against Israeli Apartheid" 'The solidarity between the Palestinian residents of Bil'in village, internationals and the anti-occupation and anti-Zionist Israelis who each week trekked to the village has become an inspiring model for joint popular struggle....The solidarity between the Palestinian residents of Bil'in village, internationals and the anti-occupation and anti-Zionist Israelis who each week trekked to the village has become an inspiring model for joint popular struggle, not only in Palestine but also around the world.' For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Avi Shlaim, Israeli extremist from Oxford who wants Israel to be annihilated, to be honored at Tel Aviv UniversityThe University of Tel Aviv is hosting the Iraqi-Israeli-British new historian for a lecture on King Hussein and Israel. Will he tell them what he wrote on page 8 of his new book? That the Balfour Declaration calling for a Jewish Homeland was an Atrocity? For more details and to see the full original article, go here
For Tel Aviv law professor Neta Ziv, it’s all “academic” (even if it kills Jews and destroys Israel)Professor Ziv is the embodiment of how the abstractions of academia can ultimately lead to the opposite of what the academy was meant to do: to enhance society through the application of scholastic study and scientific inquiry to arrive at truth. This is clearly present in her applications of American jurisprudence to Israel’s situation as a tiny democratic country surrounded by a sea of Arab nationalist and Islamic dictatorships calling for the state’s destruction. Ziv defines her activities as preserving human rights; others might define them as enabling the enemies of Israel to destroy the Jewish state. As an educator, she promotes developing what could be considered “cause lawyers” who use the courts to promote a radical agenda against the state in time of war. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Philosophy Professor Anat Biletzki’s “philosophy” is to smear Israel abroadProfessor Biletzki’s analytical philosophy is to smear Israel abroad politically at anti-Israel symposiums and events on college campuses and elsewhere that are fundamentally organized by Arab irredentist groups that frequently use the words “human rights” and “peace” as a deceptive cover to destroy the Jewish state. As an expert in the philosophy of language, Professor Biletzki of all people should understand how language is used to mask real intent, particularly by Arab propagandists. Despite this, she speaks frequently to and is quoted extensively by members of the International Solidarity Movement who claim to be “nonviolent human rights advocates” in one breath, then endorse violence against Israelis as “legitimate resistance” in the next as they act as human shields for terrorists For more details and to see the full original article, go here
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couple of days ago Tel Aviv University's airhead philosophy faculty
member, Anat Matar, was in the news for her celebrating the release
of mass murderers and terrorists as a great reason to party. She
also defended a terrorist's tossing a grenade at a bus full of
soldiers. Her own son of course was not on that bus because he was
convicted and did jail time for refusing to serve in the Israeli
army.