Israeli Academic Extremism
Gerald M. Steinberg,
president of NGO Monitor, declares Far-Leftist Tenured Israeli
Academics to be tools of the world-wide De-legitimization of Israel
campaign
The
political war aimed at delegitimizing
Israel, and at preventing the IDF from acting to stop terror
attacks, is now recognized as a major threat. These are not the
sentiments of alarmists; this is the conclusion drawn by Eitan Haber,
a close advisor to prime ministers, including Yitzhak Rabin ("IDF
isn't enough in face of global de-legitimization campaign faced by
Israel.")
Haber's
analysis only scratches the surface of the de-legitimization
campaign waged against Israel. These efforts are not new; since the
2001 UN "World Conference Against Racism" in Durban, South Africa –
international NGOs and some within Israel have introduced into the
public lexicon slogans referring to Israel as an "apartheid state"
guilty of "war crimes" that does not have the right to exist.
...
NGOs
orchestrate these incidents, stripping away the context of terror
and hate, and placing Israel and its supporters on the defensive.
This strategy is coupled with ongoing efforts, such as the boycotts,
divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement, to single out and isolate
Israel. A parallel tactic, promulgated by Israeli-Arab NGO Adalah
(funded by the New Israel Fund -NIF and the European Union) portrays
"Israel as an inherent undemocratic state." Similarly, NGO "lawfare"
cases against Israeli officials in foreign courts attempt to
delegitimize the Israeli justice system.
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Caroline Glick asserts -
The Israeli Public is fed up with the Academic Left's "Intellectual
Terror" led by the likes of Neve Gordon
Israeli academia is in an uproar. And this is a good thing. Last
week, the Zionist student movement Im Tirtzu opened a rather modest
campaign against Ben- Gurion University's Politics and Government
Department....
And the howls of protest stretched from the Negev to the border
with Lebanon. One of Im Tirtzu's central goals is to engender an
atmosphere of academic freedom and intellectual pluralism on
university campuses. Over the past generation or so, those campuses,
and particularly the humanities and social sciences faculties, have
become hotbeds of anti- Zionist activism and intellectual terror.
Stories of professorial intimidation of and discrimination against
Zionist students are widespread, as are instances of outright
indoctrination in the classrooms.
...
The situation at Ben-Gurion University's Politics and Government
Department is particularly distressing. It is headed by Dr. Neve
Gordon, an anti-Zionist activist who has written that Israel is a
"proto-fascist state," has castigated it as an "apartheid state" and
has signed petitions calling for international academic, scientific,
economic and cultural boycotts of the country.
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Ben Dror Yemini defends
the Rights of Critics of Academic Leftists - The real McCarthyists
are Those who Try to Silence Critics of the Left
(translation from Maariv)
But there is something else that is permitted:
to publicize the existence of these courses, their contents, their
motivations and political bias, and to publicize their use of
brainwashing. ...
It is also perfectly permissible to disclose
that the vast majority of professors from the Political Science and
Sociology Departments hold extremist anti-Zionist views. Anyone who
claims otherwise really wants leftist academics to be allowed to do
whatever they wish without criticism.
Yet at the same time anyone who so much as
dares to think differently from the leftist Canon is not permitted
to utter a word. It is prohibited to criticize, expose or refute.
The reason for that is that the "sanctity of the academia" is
reserved exclusively for the radical Left. Every word of criticism
is met with screams about "McCarthyism", "Fascism", and other "isms"
from the bla bla of the academic First Amendment.
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Moshe Kaveh, President of
Bar-Ilan University, Calls for Dismissal of Tenured Traitors who
Support the International Academic Boycott
The president of Bar-Ilan University has called for Israeli
professors who support an academic boycott of their country to quit
or be fired.
The statement comes as Israel's parliament
debates legislation that would allow lawsuits against academics
and others who support various boycotts of the Jewish state. The
bill is not expected to become law, but it is generating questions
about the role of scholars at public universities in Israel.
Bar-Ilan's Moshe Kaveh, a former chairman of Israel's Committee
of University Presidents, is the first leader of an Israeli
university to back the dismissal of the handful of Israeli
professors who publicly expressed support for a boycott. Last year
the president of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
had no kind words for Neve Gordon, a professor of politics and
government, for advocating an international academic boycott, but
did not fire him.
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Joel Golovensky,
President of The Institute for Zionist Strategies, states that
denial of Academic Freedom by Anti-Zionist McCarthyists in Israeli
Academia is now a documented fact
The phenomena and dynamics of academic
conformism have been well investigated and do not need revelation by
the Institute for Zionist Strategies (see, for example, "The
Politically Correct University," edited by Robert Maranto, Richard
E. Redding an Frederick Hess, and the writing of Harvard University
professor Harvey Mansfield). ...
This is the anti-Zionism found to govern
Israel's sociology departments. Wouldn't it be important to know if
this is in fact the case? Haaretz's editors may be the only
reputable people in the country who genuinely believe that there is
no serious anti-Zionism bias in the sociology departments - a bias
now thoroughly researched and documented. ...
The study by the Institute for Zionist
Strategies finds that works reflecting a Zionist viewpoint are
discouraged, and that students are effectively denied a fair
presentation of the Zionist perspective. If these facts are true -
even in part - academic freedom and excellence is being thwarted,
impeded and seriously undermined. This situation cannot be swept
away by epithets and gestures - certainly not by a serious journal
of news and opinion.
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When Naiveté Becomes
Sedition - How the Left has Crossed the Line
That a growing number of Israeli leftists
regard their own country as a paragon of evil is bad enough. Also
growing, however, are the manifestations of open anti-Semitism among
Jewish Israeli leftists. Their intellectual nexus is Israel's
professoriate (exposed in detail at
www.isracampus.org.il).
Israeli tenured academics are the sponsors and
initiators of campaigns all over the world to boycott Israel,
including boycotts against the very universities that pay their
salaries.
Hundreds of Israeli university professors have
been involved in organizing mutiny and insurrection among Israeli
soldiers, and some have even been arrested for violence. Israeli
university authorities wink at such faculty behavior and sometimes
condone or promote it.
Israeli students are increasingly complaining
about being harassed by leftist faculty members if they dare express
dissenting pro-Israel opinions in the classroom, and some claim
their grades were lowered as punishment for this felony.
In-classroom anti-Israel indoctrination is
becoming more common at Israeli universities. Israeli extremist
academics have misused their classroom podiums to force-feed their
students anti-Israel libel and anti-Jewish venom. Some courses
consist of little more than North-Korean-style one-sided political
indoctrination. "Academic" conferences held weekly on Israeli
campuses are often anti-academic exercises in one-sided advocacy of
leftwing positions.
Faculty hiring and promotion decisions are
often subordinated to political bias and gestures of leftist
political solidarity. Authors of tracts as openly anti-Jewish as the
Protocols of the Elders of Zion are granted tenure automatically.
Israeli extremists with mediocre academic records are hired and
promoted as acts of solidarity by other leftists within the
university system. University officials often pretend that
anti-Israel political propaganda is serious scholarship and
research.
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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.”
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“Academic Freedom” and a
Tale of Two Professors
The absurdities surrounding the leftist take on academic freedom
have never been so glaring as in
a pair of events,
involving two very different
professors in Israel, both allegedly involved in “sexual
insensitivity.”
… The
tenured extremism at Ben Gurion University has long been
defended by the university officials on grounds of “academic
freedom.” But that just made the recent firing of Professor Yeruham
Leavitt all the more outrageous. Leavitt is actually a retired
professor who was retained by Ben Gurion University to teach an
ethics course to students in the Clinical Pharmaceutical Department.
Alas,
Leavitt, was guilty of political incorrectness, and was fired
for that. The very same President of the University, Rivka Carmi,
who defends having dozens of radical tenured traitors on her
academic staff,
defended the decision to fire Leavitt because he had made
“offensive” and “insensitive” statements.
… For the second of our Tales, let us introduce
Eyal Ben-Ari. He is a far-leftist full professor of sociology at
the Hebrew University
in Jerusalem, a department famous for employing far-leftist and
Marxist anti-Israel radicals. He
claims to know something about the sociology of the military. He
is an anti-Zionist extremist with a track record of turning out
anti-Israel propaganda, such as claims that Israel is an
ultra-militarist society. … He is now famous for two things –
his supervising a ludicrous thesis claiming that
Jewish soldiers are racists because
they do not rape Arab women, and for himself being arrested
under suspicion
of multiple counts of rape. From his role in that now famous “rape
thesis,” it was already known that Ben-Ari had goofy ideas about
sexual (mis-) behavior. But it turns out that the ultra-feminist
Israel-bashing professor of sociology practices what he preaches.
… Ben-Ari has not been dismissed for his “sexual insensitivity.”
Unlike Leavitt, Ben-Ari is a far leftist. Could that have anything
to do with the difference in his treatment?
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Asher Maoz, TAU Professor
of Constitutional Law, decrees Academic Boycott as "the greatest
threat to Academic Freedom"
'Yet another lecturer calls for a boycott of
Israel because of the occupation. His colleague calls for an
academic boycott of Israeli universities, including the one that
employs him. Another lecturer's students claim he silences them when
they disagree with him. ... But the greatest threat to academic
freedom is the academic boycott. This weapon - even if those who
preach it are trying to target government policy - strikes a mortal
blow at the freedom to research and develop, because it cuts the
scholar off from sources of funding for his research and from
colloquy with colleagues, which is essential to academic research.
Nor can we ignore the fact that those who call
for a boycott will not be harmed by it themselves. They will enjoy
the best of both worlds - both the rights conferred by belonging to
the boycotted university and the right to exemption from the very
boycott they advocate.'
[Note how many articles are suddenly appearing
in the Israeli press about academic freedom – and this one actually
appeared in Haaretz and was actually written by a TAU prof! And it
actually favors academic freedom!]
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A Review of the
Bash-Israel Pre-Conference organized by Far-Leftist Academics prior
to the Prestigious International Geographical Union’s regional
conference held in Tel Aviv
As happens so often, the ideological opinion
offered by Israeli scholars, under the banner of free speech and
pluralism, at these conferences was primarily monolithic,
anti-Israel, and leftist. If scholars were somehow still able to
leave these conferences with a neutral or positive view about
Israel, it was in spite of the best efforts of Israel’s academics
who organized the pre-conferences, not because of them.
... For Newman, only one voice should be heard
in a democratic society, the voice of critique and anti-state
hatred. The only ‘beacon of light’ in Israel are the organizations
and individuals who compare the country to a fascist state and the
only “value” of democracy is the voice of extremism. On the other
side democracy is having a “black day” when other organizations use
free speech to critique those who critique.
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Dan Illouz clarifies the
Goals of Im Tirtzu through Examples of Leftist McCarthyism on
Israeli Campuses
Rachel Avraham, a student at Ben Gurion University, published two
critical academic exposes on the content of a lecture given by Ben
Gurion University's Dr. Oren Yiftachel, entitled "Selected Topics in
the Geography of the Middle East". After publishing these exposes,
Rachel Avraham was summoned by the head of the Geography department,
Prof. Avi Rubin, “to discuss the possible ramifications” of her
“defamatory” exposes. An email communication between the two was
then started. Rachel Avraham felt threatened by the tone and nature
of these emails. Fearing she would be discriminated against for
having disagreed with her professor, she hired a lawyer to deal with
further communications with the university. Defending Rachel
Avraham’s right to disagree with her professor is not an affront to
Dr. Oren Yiftachel's right to free speech. It is not McCarthyism. It
is nothing other than the defence of free speech.
In November 2009, Professor Nira Hativa, who
was responsible for the computerized feedback provided by students
to their professors, wrote that “there are a lot of students that
complain and report that they feel significantly hurt by the
presentation of facts from a perspective which is contrary to their
views but that they are worried to express opposing views because
they feel such an expression might reflect badly on their marks or
other things which professors have control over.” Professor Hativa
continued and wrote: “I was exposed to many complaints from students
of professors who express extreme leftist positions in their
lectures and attack the State of Israel, the Israel Defence Forces,
the Zionist movement and other, even worse, things”.
A PhD student at Hebrew University testified
that he was once told that “anything “right of Meretz” was best not
spoken aloud or it would have a serious detrimental impact on my
career in Israeli academia”.
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Emmanuel Navon accuses
The Left of being too busy delegitimizing "Im Tirtzu" to hear what
they have to say
Instead of relating to what they have to say,
Leibowitz is “warning” us that he will end up in a concentration
camp if we don’t shut them up. Similarly, Hebrew University
historian Dmitry Shomsky wrote an op-ed in Ha’aretz on June 22 to
dismiss the book of Ronen Shoval, Herzl’s Vision 2.0, as a
fraud. But rather than addressing Shoval’s thought-provoking points,
Shomsky’s critique boils down to “don’t listen to him.” .... The
reaction of Shoken, Shomsky, Leibowitz & all is both pathetic and
encouraging. They know that they are losing a power they
artificially hold via manipulations.
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"Academic Freedom" does
not include threatening Israel's Legitimacy or Existence through
Boycott
Academic freedom does not grant academicians
the right to risk their colleagues’ place of employment, and should
such academicians believe their university deserves to be boycotted,
they should be honest with themselves and start the boycott
themselves by resigning and shunning their salary and the research
budget they received.
There is no reason that would require a State,
just like any other organization, to fund and sponsor people who
travel the world and call for boycotts and sanctions against it, as
such people threaten the State’s legitimacy and thereby its
existence as well.
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Knesset at Long Last
Taking Action against Tenured Traitors; Plans to Impose Large Fines
on Academics calling for Boycott of Israel
According to the proposal, a group or a person
who was harmed by a boycott on behalf of Israeli elements will be
able to sue the boycott organizer or party promoting it for NIS
30,000 ($7,756.35) without the burden of proof of damage. In
addition, the party will also be able to gain an additional sum
through a civil suit in accordance with the level of damage it
sustained.
The bill's initiators noted a similar law
exists in the United States which forbids American citizens from
taking part in boycotts of friendly countries, including Israel. The
bill aims to target elements in the Arab sector which participate in
the economic boycott imposed by the Palestinian Authority on goods
manufactured in Israeli factories in the settlements and Israeli
territory. The bill also aims to deter academics who participate in
international academic boycotts of Israel.
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Benny Morris' radical
retreat helps expose where New Historians disseminate "propaganda or
even falsehood" instead of history
As noted, Morris speaks openly about his failed
expectations regarding the Palestinians' aims in the Arab-Israeli
conflict. Probably, in addition to his learning process on the roots
of the conflict, he could not ignore the fact that there are
virtually no "new historians" on the Arab or the Palestinian side
who could inquire into how the religious factor was so detrimental
in perpetuating the conflict and how radical Islam was instrumental
in inciting against the acceptance of a Jewish state. Hence, he ends
his study on 1948 with a clear "J'accuse" against those historians
who fail to understand the Arab rejection of the Jewish state and
disregard clear facts and statements of religious hatred.
In his more recent books and articles, Morris
has become the leading and most effective voice in exposing how the
remaining New Historians cling to their unfounded and false
messages. Morris's journey and his radical retreat from his earlier
publications constitute an unusual testament to the thin line
separating history from propaganda or even falsehood. When the
recording of events is motivated by a determination to create a
postmodern political narrative, it may end up escaping from history
altogether.
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Isi Leibler, retired
Senior Vice President of the World Jewish Congress, warns of Stalinism at Ben-Gurion
University (or just behavior in a "degenerate manner")
The firing of Dr. Leavitt exemplifies the absurd and obscene
double standards being imposed by Israeli academic institutions.
Universities are willing to sack a lecturer for expressing a view
not considered politically correct by dominant academic
establishment. Yet the same authorities insist on retaining tenure
for a senior academic like Gordon, described by Alan Dershowitz as a
man "who has gotten into bed with neo-Nazis, Holocaust deniers, and
anti-Semites... a despicable example of a self-hating Jew, and a
self-hating Israeli."
…
This episode demonstrates how a cabal of post-Zionist and far left
academics have succeeded to create an environment in which tenured
staff are conscious that they have a license to debase the State -
and even call for the destruction of their own University in the
name of academic freedom - whilst suppressing any views that are
politically incorrect from their bigoted perspective. It is truly
reminiscent of the universities in the former Soviet Union approved
by Stalin.
The government and donors to Ben-Gurion University and other
academic institutions should have their heads examined if they
continue providing funds which can be exploited in such a degenerate
manner.
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Ronen Shoval, Chairman of the Im Tirtzu Movement,
condemns the Academic Left for “the attempt to escape” public debate
on the over-representation of post-Zionism in Academia
The attempt to escape a matter-of-fact discussion on the
anti-Zionist bias in some departments, and the feeling of exclusion
and humiliation felt by many students will come to naught. Throwing
around swearwords like "McCarthyism," "fascism" and "Stalinism" a
dozen times a day won't stop the public and the students from asking
over and over the following questions.
Is there, in some parts of academia, an over-representation of
post-Zionism in complete disproportion to this worldview's
representation in the overall population? How did this situation
come about? Is it true that academic achievement is limited to these
circles, or could it be that academics of such persuasions promote
their fellow post-Zionists? Is it right for academics, people with a
clear vested interest, to be the only ones marking the boundaries of
"academic freedom" - or rather, deciding that such freedom means
that everything is allowed? Don't the public, the education minister
and NGOs have a right to help mark the borders of academic freedom?
Is merely raising this question equivalent to censorship and a witch
hunt? Could it be that the cries of McCarthyism are the real
attempts at censorship?
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Education minister Gideon Sa'ar vows to punish Israeli professors
who back academic boycott
A few days after saying he intends to take action against Israeli
professors who call for an academic boycott of Israel, Education
Minister Gideon Sa'ar is scheduled to appear on Monday before the
Knesset Education Committee to discuss the limits of freedom of
expression in schools. … "Israeli academia apparently suffers from 'Palestinomania,'
a mild psychological illness whose symptoms include self-hatred, an
affinity for Israel's enemies, Jewish anti-Semitism and/or
anti-Zionism," Shamalov Berkovich said in the Knesset. "The spread
of 'Palestinomania' demands the immediate and painful treatment for
all of our sake, and the sooner the better."
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Israel Hayom Reports about Leftist Harassment of
Students
The main article appears here. The headline is:
“If you think like me, then you will get your grade.” The news story
cites the latest report distributed by the Zionist student group Im
Tirtzu in which they document the anti- and post-Zionist bias that
exercises hegemony over Israeli academia. The story cites several
people, including Prof. Eli Pollak from the Weizmann Institute,
charging that Far Leftists control academic dialogue in Israeli
universities. He describes how right-leaning professors are harassed
at Israeli universities and fear for their careers. The article also
cites anti-Semitic extremist Neve Gordon from Ben Gurion University,
the Israeli Norman Finkelstein, as saying that complaints about
leftist harassment is all hooey and the Im Tirtzu report is not
reliable. You know, unlike Gordon’s propaganda books.
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David Solway, World Renown Poet, on self-hating Jewish
"Intellectuals"
The same is more or less true of
another Jewish luminary, Avishai Margolit, feted as Israel’s
“foremost philosopher.” A founding member of Peace Now, which should
tell us all we need to know, Margolit insists that Israel should
lift the “siege” of Gaza, forgetting that the so-called siege allows
thousands of tons of supplies, medicines and electrical power to
transit from Israel into Gaza, except when the crossings are closed
owing to Hamas sniper fire and mortar bombardments or when the
Ashkelon generator comes under attack. The great philosopher also
appears untroubled by the prospect of suicide bombers and guerilla
fighters sifting into Israel as students, laborers and patients.
Further, Margolit does not seem aware of the fact - he has much
company here - that Israel is under no obligation, neither domestic
nor international, neither legal nor moral, to victual and replenish
an uncompromising enemy. What other nation on the planet would
commit a folly of this nature? Margolit may be an acclaimed
“thinker” but he is neither wise nor street-smart; the fatuousness
of his proposals is exceeded only by the dangers they would unleash.
In short, Margolit is a typical Jewish savant of emeritus caliber,
crowned with laurels and showered with awards, dispensing nuggets of
pseudo-sagacity, and completely irrelevant.
Then there are the Jews who embody
the yetzer hara, the propagators of lies and harms. These are Jews
like Neve Gordon of Ben-Gurion University, famous for describing the
country that pays his salary, which he is apparently in no hurry to
forgo, as an “apartheid state,” and for having raised his arms in
solidarity with Yasser Arafat in his Mukataa compound during the
last intifida. Or Bard College professor Joel Kovel who has
published a book titled Overcoming Zionism in which he condemns the
creation of Israel, places the term Islamo-Fascism in scare quotes,
traffics in barefaced lies (“Israel’s bombing of ambulances,” its
deliberate targeting of “humanitarian aid workers and UN observers,”
its causing of ecological disasters, etc.), and opts for the
one-state solution beloved of closet antisemites. Or poet Aharon
Shabtai who in his volume J’Accuse vilifies Israeli soldiers as
killers from the egg. Or author Shlomo Sand, celebrated in Europe
for his recently published The Invention of the Jews which argues
that the Jewish “nation” is a late social construct without
historical or biblical warrant. Or Kenneth Roth, executive director
of Human Rights Watch, who solicits funds from the Saudis and
flagrantly tilts HRW reports to excoriate Israel and “parrot
Palestinian testimonies.” Or filmmaker Shimon Dotan whose
documentary Hot House sympathetically profiles Palestinian terrorist
Ahlam Tamini who murdered fifteen Israelis, eight of them children.
Or the leftist daily Haaretz’s literary critic and belletrist
Yitzhak Laor who champions the late, fiercely anti-Israeli
Palestinian laureate Mahmoud Darwish (who compares Jews to “flying
insects”) and considers Israel as a country fighting a “dirty war,”
a killer of “unarmed Palestinians.” Or Middle East prof Mark LeVine
who believes Israel needs to be saved from itself and that the Gaza
war was unjustified, and cites highly contaminated sources like “a
joint Tel Aviv University-European study,” Jimmy Carter, a Hamas
spokeman in the Los Angeles Times, the United Nations Relief and
Works Agency (UNRWA), revisionist Avi Shlaim, Haaretz Israel-bashing
lefties Gideon Levy and Amira Haas, and of course the redoubtable
Neve Gordon, to support his bias. Of despicables like Noam Chomsky,
Norman Finkelstein, Naomi Klein and Ilan Pappe, nothing more need be
said; the very names are sufficient.
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Gerald Steinberg, NGO Monitor Chief, condemns Leftist
manipulations of Freedom of Speech by David Newman, Daniel Bar-Tal,
and others
'Others involved in this ideological trench warfare include Prof.
Daniel Bar-Tal. In a conference at Tel Aviv University, allegedly
focused on academic free speech in the context of conflict, Bar-Tal
condemned imagined “right-wing” McCarthyite threats to Israeli
democracy and freedom of speech. The list of speakers also included,
Prof. Galia Golan (Peace Now), Newman and Prof. Naomi Chazan, head
of the controversial New Israel Fund. Chazan passionately wrapped
herself in the bandages of victimization, while saying nothing when
I presented the examples of how the NIF and partner organizations
seek to silence their critics.'
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Isi Leibler uses Tel Aviv University as an Example for
Anti-Israel Academics who have Crossed The Line
Regrettably, 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
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Dershowitz vs. Tenured Extremists
Suddenly, 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!
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Alan Dershowitz attacks Israeli Far-Left who partake in “legal terror” against Israel
According
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
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A Governor at Tel Aviv University attacks Israel's Academic
Fifth Column
To 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.
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Dr. Yitzhak Klein gives
reasons for Israeli Academics justifying Terror; suggests
counter-measures
In an
interview given to Arutz Sheva TV, Dr. Yitzhak Klein,
director of the
Israel Policy Center, explains about the motives for anti-Israel
Israeli Academics supporting terror against Israel. According to
Klein, who gave a lecture titled “Darkness at Noon: Israeli
Academics Justify Terror against Israel” (extract
can be seen here) at the
three-day seminar - Intellectuals and Terror: the Fatal Attraction -
being held at the Ariel University Center, some of these public
statements by the anti-Israel Academics are criminal offences that
should be prosecuted under Israeli Law.
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Hebrew University Professor Elhanan Yakira (Dept of
Philosophy) denounces the Academic Fifth Column in Israel
Who are the big names in the Israeli
community of opprobrium?
There are so many, and no doubt most of them
are unfamiliar to English readers. Haifa-born Ilan Pappe, who now
teaches in England, completely embraces the Palestinian narrative.
There is Yehuda Shenhav, who has a new book out challenging the
right of Israel to exist even within the 1967 "Green Line." I devote
part of my book to Adi Ophir, former editor of the post-modernist
Hebrew journal Theory and Criticism and an academic at Tel
Aviv University and the Shalom Hartman Institute. There is also Oren
Yiftachel at Ben-Gurion University, who speaks of Zionism as a
"colonialism of refugees" and "creeping apartheid." Then there is
the Haaretz crowd, including Amira Hass and Gideon Levy.
Outside Israel, a key name is the historian Tony Judt, with his
advocacy of a bi-national state.
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The Israeli Far Left congenitally disposed to treason?
After the assassination of Rabin, every Israeli
newspaper and leftist commentator denounced Bar-Ilan University,
where Yigal Amir had been a law student. Many even called for
shutting the university down. Not one of those same people has
called for closing down Tel Aviv University, where Kamm was a
student in the history and philosophy departments and where,
together with the sociology and political science departments at TAU,
one would have to search long and hard to find faculty members who
are not leftists or out and out communists.
Not a single mainstream media outlet in Israel
is denouncing the radicals at Tel Aviv University for inspiring and
breeding Anat Kamm, nor are pundits 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.
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Leftist anti-Israel Academics whine about
"McCarthyism" and about Isracampus
Hardly a week goes by here without the claim,
usually by groups on the Left, that people are being silenced and
censored by McCarthyism. In an October 2009 article, Benjamin
Pogrund claimed that university groups such as Isracampus and Israel
Academic Monitor were attacking leftist professors in “classic
McCarthyite style.” David Newman of Ben-Gurion University has
written that “the academic McCarthyism of the right endangers
Israeli democracy and society. It threatens the very basis of
freedom of speech.”
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Professors fuel fire of anti-Israel propaganda
Radical Israeli Jewish academicians
that condemn Israel’s right to exist fuel the fire of anti-Israel
rhetoric, said Dr. Yitzchak Mansdorf, former director of the
pro-Israel campus advocacy David Project, at the recent Jerusalem
Conference. He was referring to the anti-Israel propaganda war on
college campuses, saying that the new form of antisemitism
challenges Israel’s legitimacy on a political, ideological and
academic level. ...Ignorance of Jewish history – by non-Jewish and
even by Jewish-Israeli professors – is another reason cited by
Mansdorf.
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Prof. Amnon Rubinstein exposes how "University
Publishers" outside Israel promote the Israeli Academic Fifth
Column:
"The latest product in the
flourishing bash-Israel literature is Iranophobia. The book debunks
Israeli and Western anxieties about the Iranian dangers. The author,
Prof. Haggai Ram of Ben-Gurion University, argues that Israeli
anti-Iran phobias are largely projections of perceived domestic
threats to the prevailing Israeli ethnocratic order. In plain
language, he holds that Israel has to demonize Iran so as to
identify the Islamic Republic with its suppressed minorities in
Israel: the Mizrahi and the haredi communities. Iran, on this
theory, is the hated "role model" with which these suppressed
minorities can be associated: "the production of Iran as a radical
external other in Israeli imagination is to be understood in
relation to the emergence of ("Iran-like") ethnic and religious
internal others that violated the Jewish state's self-image as 'the
West.'"
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Israel's Academic Fifth Column and its "Post-Colonial"
Disgrace
Gadi Taub on YNET denounces Israel's extremist
anti-Israel academics: “Israel’s radical leftist academicians
promote false, immoral notions.”
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The Pathology of Jewish Anti-Semitism
" Jewish-anti-Semitism is a modern disease. In
the twenty-first century the world is experiencing an explosion of
it, a virtual plague. Among the most malicious and venomous of all
bigots, the Jewish anti-Semites are at the forefront of each and
every smear campaign against Israel and other Jews. Jews today are
leaders in the campaigns to boycott and "divest from" Israel,
including the "Solidarity with Terrorists" groups. They make
pilgrimage to the terrorist camps of the Hamas and the Hezb'Allah,
cheering on terrorist atrocities against Jews. They pioneered the
smear campaign to paint Israel as an apartheid regime and denouncing
Israel as equivalent to Nazi Germany is their favorite pastime.
Western campuses are crawling with them. Some of the Jewish
anti-Semites even hold leadership positions in Hillel houses. Many
others are tenured professors. An anti-Semitic Jewish judge chaired
a UN commission demonizing Israel. A Jewish member of Britain's
Parliament (Gerald Kaufman) compared Hamas terrorists to Jewish
fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto and denounced Israel as a Nazi entity.
And a shockingly large number of Jewish anti-Semites are Israelis or
ex-Israelis. "
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Israel’s taxpayer-supported
academic McCarthyism
'Pogrund
and Newman are incensed that IsraCampus and other campus watch
groups might expose to the public Israeli professors who promote the
academic boycott of Israel’s universities, or who work to support
the dissolution of the Jewish state. Pogrund quotes David Newman
in
an interview on an Arab website based in the EU:
“I have no hesitation in calling this a
McCarthyite campaign. What they are doing is very dangerous.”'
Hmmmmm.
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The IDF shows discrimination: ignores the insubordination of 350
academic “rabbis” and the anti-Israel ALEF forum at Haifa University
The IDF also has a hesder (arrangement) with
the University of Haifa, where some 40 staff members signed a
petition calling for insubordination. At that university, senior
officers from the National Security College study for a master's
degree (Ilan Pappe also taught in that program). In addition, naval
cadets and officers from Military Intelligence study there for
bachelor's degrees. And lo and behold, in the university's central
computer, in a file entitled "war criminals," a group called Aleph
published photographs of dozens of officers and by doing so
blacklisted them. (The list includes Gabi Ashkenazi, Yohanan Locker,
Yigal Slovik, Yoav Mordechai, Avi Blot, Yuval Halamish, Herzi Halevi
and Gur Rosenblatt, as well as former foreign minister Tzipi Livni.)
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A Call by Isracampus for
the Immediate Dismissal of Shai Nitzan as Israel Deputy Prosecutor
We at Isracampus would like to ask you to take a few moments from
your Hannuka week to strike a blow against anti-democratic Thought
Control in Israel. We would like to ask you to take a few moments to
demand the immediate dismissal of Israel’s worst politicized
Inquisitor, Israel’s leftist thought policeman and enemy of
democracy, Mr. Shai Nitzan, operating as the Deputy Prosecutor in
the Ministry of Justice. Nitzan, who has a track record of partisan
political decision making as the Deputy director of Israel’s
Prosecution Office, must be immediately dismissed because of his
campaign of persecution and harassment against Dr. David Bukay, for
the crime of incorrect thinking and speaking. … Last week, the
leftist Deputy Director of the Israel Prosecutor’s Office, Shai
Nitzan, ordered Dr. Bukay to come into his office as part of an
investigation into incorrect thinking and speaking by Dr. Bukay in
his classroom. The story is reported in full in detail (in Hebrew
only, alas) in the weekend issue of Maariv, and can be read here:
http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART1/977/492.html and here:
http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART1/977/491.html
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The Israeli
“Academics” doing the Dirty work for the Alternative Information
Center (AIC)
Few Israelis and even fewer Americans know much
about the Alternative Information Center (AIC) which is located both
in the West Bank in Beit Sahour and also in downtown Jerusalem. The
Alternative Information Center was set up by an Arab physics
professor from Bir Zeit University named Ghassan Andoni. It was a
precursor for the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), an
extremist pro-terror anti-Israel group, previously going under the
name Alternative Tourism. Andoni and his organization represent the
Christian communist terrorist wing of the PLO, George Habash’s
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Andoni’s Center has
become a major source for anti-Israel propaganda and disinformation.
… Just as wars are fought not only directly on the battlefield
between soldiers, but through economic warfare, this latest report
from the AIC is designed to cut the line of supply to the IDF of
educated personnel. Recall that the AIC itself grew out of the PFLP
terrorist movement. It still has the destruction of Israel in mind.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education reviews IsraCampus and the
debate it hopes to create
Left-right tensions are rising on Israeli
campuses over the complex legacy of Zionist ideology and the place
of Zionism in Israeli society, with a call for students at one
university to report on "Thought Police" professors, a campaign that
is being likened to "McCarthyite" tactics in the United States. …
Things came to a head at University of Haifa with the publication
this fall of an advertisement in the new student calendar by
IsraCampus, a watchdog modeled on Campus Watch in the United States.
… "There's a group of Israeli professors who are misusing the
classroom for political indoctrination," said Steven Plaut, an
associate professor of business administration at Haifa, who paid
for the IsraCampus advertisement. "They are using their positions
within Israeli academia to basically promote an anti-Israel
political agenda. Other people have the right to know what they're
doing."
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Many Israeli Academics are “disconnected” and “unsure of their
place” in Israeli society
It is apparent that the central problem
with too many of Israel's academics is that they are unsure of their
place in society, they misunderstand their relevance and they are
embittered and hysterical in their pronouncements to the point of
having a childlike "crying wolf" mentality when discussing the
conflict in the Middle East. … There was a time in history when
academics understood that their role in society, shaping its
culture, encouraging it along a proper course, developing the
national narrative. The academy knew that its life was intricately
linked to that of the society it lived in. It was the highest level
of that society and had a responsibility to it. Israeli academics
who call on European powers to invade the country to "save it from
itself," those who call the country "Nazi," those who call for
boycotts of their own country, those who go into "exile" abroad or
those who encourage the murder of citizens in the country simply do
not view themselves as responsible for the country at large. They
are so disconnected from the society that they no longer feel any
responsibility to be decent and mature in their rhetoric toward it.
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Erez Tadmor, Im Tirtzu Director, warns about the Anti-Zionist
“thought police” at Israeli Universities and Colleges; cautions
about the harm to Israel’s international image
“Anti-Zionist professors have created
an informal “thought police,” he said. Those academics who hold
different political views are passed over for promotion, he charged.
“This is cynical exploitation of the system by professors... there
is a general atmosphere meant to frighten those with different
views.” … Another problem created by the existing situation is that
of poor public relations, he noted. When many Israeli academics are
openly critical of the state of Israel, their views become fodder
for anti-Israel activists abroad, and the result is harm to Israel's
image in the international community.
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Im Tirtzu Poster invites students to report Anti-Israel Faculty
Attached here (in Hebrew)
a poster the Im Tirtzu student organization is displaying on all
Israel campuses this week. It calls on students who witness
political indoctrination in class or in course syllabi to bring the
matter to their attention.
To see the Im Tirtzu
poster, go
here
Hebrew University - Ze'ev Sternhell (Dept of Political Science)
insists Israel is guilty until proven innocent and maybe even after
that
'Everyone understands that the army's
opposition to a probe of the accusations against it can have only
one reason: There is something to hide. It is not the Goldstone
report that has opened another painful phase in the erosion of
Israel's credibility, but rather the cavalier attitude here toward
the heavy Palestinian losses. In broad circles of Western European
and American intelligentsia (sic) - in the universities and among
cultural and media figures - Israel arouses ever-deepening
hostility.'
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Monitoring sites, like
IsraCampus.Org.il, have the Israeli Tenured Left hysterical
Haaretz
today [23/10/2009] ran in its English web site a hysterical column
attacking the monitoring groups and web sites, including
Isracampus.org.il, for daring to expose the political
activities of Israel’s Tenured Left. As you know, these include open
advocacy by tenured academics in Israel of terrorism against Jews,
of boycotts against Israel, and of Israel’s annihilation. The
Haaretz column is a hysterical attack on those who cite
verbatim what anti-Israel leftist academics write and say. That
constitutes “McCarthyism,” according to the writer, Benjamin Pogrund.
The writer is not an academic but is a leftist journalist from South
Africa living in Israel, known mainly for once having ties with
Nelson Mandela and for his writings against apartheid when he lived
in South Africa. Today he is a leftist Zionist of sorts, and has
made some speaking tours overseas with Palestinians to tout the
Left’s agenda.
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Tel Aviv University –
Summary of the Anti-Israel Activity in the Philosophy and Political
Science Departments
In 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.
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Isi Leibler, retired
Senior Vice President of the World Jewish Congress, calls for
legislation to “deny tenure” for tenured Anti-Israel Academics
Regrettably, successive Israeli
governments failed to respond even when professors at universities
funded by Israeli taxpayers and Diaspora Zionists began exploiting
their positions to delegitimize their country. They identified with
Israel's enemies, calling on the world to boycott Israeli
institutions, including their own universities. Israel prides itself
on being the only country in the region in which genuine freedom of
expression reigns supreme. … To tolerate such abominations in the
name of freedom of expression is taking an ideal to a lunatic
extreme. Besides, it is hard to visualize the authorities adopting
such a laissez faire approach had the offenders been racists,
fascists or even radical right-wing extremists. In fact, when senior
academics like Ben-Gurion University's Neve Gordon, call Israel an
"apartheid state" and encourage the world to boycott Israeli
institutions, they are the ones abusing academic freedom. It is thus
high time for the Knesset to set up a non-partisan commission to
recommend legislation to deny tenure at state-sponsored institutions
to those indulging in such activities.
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Isi Leibler, retired
Senior Vice President of the World Jewish Congress, asserts its time
to “expose” and “marginalize” tenured Anti-Israel Academics
It is thus surely time to stop ignoring the self-loathing Jews
and Israelis who now occupy key roles in the campaigns to
delegitimize and demonize our people. Freedom of expression enables
them to continue articulating their vile attacks on their own
people, but it is high time that they be exposed and marginalized
from mainstream Jewish life. It is an absolute scandal that some of
the worst culprits, including those calling for boycotts of their
own country, retain tenure in Israeli universities funded by Israeli
taxpayers and Diaspora Zionist philanthropists.
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Dr. Emmanuel Navon
accuses the Academic Left of creating "dogmatic" and "intellectually
boring" students
What is anchored
on Israeli university campuses, however, is not true power, but true
weakness. I have … always been struck by the fact that my students
are confused when I ask them to think. This confusion confirms what
I experienced as a graduate student in Israel. We were asked to
learn, but not to think. To repeat, not to be critical. All the
professors were on the same political wavelength (guess which one),
and they did manage to produce formatted and dogmatic students that
knew their field but had no culture and critical mind. Israeli
campuses introduced me to something new: intellectually boring Jews.
Faced with uncritical and ignorant 20-somethings who just finished
the army and only care about getting a degree and a job, Israel's
most radical professors have it easy. And what they have to say
hardly makes our universities a source of national strength: Young
Israeli residents of Judea and Samaria are like the Hitlerjungen
(Moshe Zimmerman, Hebrew University); Israel's policy toward the
Palestinians is one of politicide (Baruch Kimmerling, Hebrew
University) and ethnic cleansing (Ilan Pappé, formerly from Haifa
University); the very existence of a Jewish people is a "myth"
invented by Zionism (Shlomo Sand, Tel-Aviv University); there never
was a unified Israelite monarchy in biblical times (Israel
Finkelstein, Tel-Aviv University); Israel is an apartheid state that
should be boycotted by the world community (Neve Gordon, Ben-Gurion
University), etc.
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Prof. Uriel Reichman of
the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center Denounces anti-Israel
anti-democratic members of the Israeli Academic Fifth Column
The most extreme allegations against
Israel are often made by a small anti-Zionist group of Israeli
university professors. … Recently, in an article published in the
Los Angeles Times, an Israeli professor called his audience to
boycott Israel on all levels, to "save that apartheid state from
itself." How should a university respond to such writing? Is it a
case of constitutionally protected free speech or academic freedom?
There is a difference between internal democratic debate, what
course should a nation adopt, when being called in for sanctions by
other countries. The professor who wrote the L.A. article would
probably support the use of international military forces, in case
the sanctions fail its "save Israel from itself" campaign. Calling
other nations to take action against your own country - be it by
economic sanctions or military force – means turning your back on
the internal democratic system. … it is very odd that such a
professor is requiring a salary from a state university funded by
the tax payers' money. Freedom of speech is guaranteed to enable
free debate in a society; it does not extend to calls for force,
which will actually terminate debates. Such calls have also nothing
to do with academic freedom. It is a joke to regard a call for
academic boycott as being part of academic freedom.
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The Orwellian Lobby for Neve Gordon
Neve Gordon makes Ilan Pappe look like a
serious academic and a patriotic Zionist. He makes Micah Leshem and
Yuval Yonay look rational and pro-Israel. It is always amusing
watching the Israeli Academic Fifth Column joining anti-Semites from
all over the world, rushing out to defend the right of anyone to
smear Israel and Jews, and to defend the most mind-bogging
falsehoods and blatant fabrications in the name of "academic
freedom." These are invariably the very same people who oppose
freedom of speech for those who disagree with their own political
agendas and, in particular, oppose freedom of expression for those
who think Israel has the right to exist and the right to defend
itself
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Uri Davis – the token Jew on the Fatah Council; reduces Zionism
to “land grab based on ethnic cleansing”
He has been here before, not least as the man who first proposed
the critique of Israel as an "apartheid state" in the late 1980s.
Davis's involvement in the first UN World Conference Against Racism
in Durban in 2001 was condemned by the Anti-Defamation League.
During a career of protest he has been described – inevitably – as a
"self-hating Jew". He calls himself an "anti-Zionist". And his
personal history is a fascinating testimony to the troubled history
of the postwar Israeli left and forgotten trajectories in the story
of Israel itself. The man elected to the Revolutionary Council in
31st place from a field of 600 has been as much shaped by the tidal
forces of recent Jewish history – not least his own family's
sufferings in the Holocaust – as any fellow citizen of Israel. But
he disputes a largely manufactured account of that experience that
he believes has been used deliberately "to camouflage" its
"apartheid programme". Now he enjoys an extraordinary mandate to
explain his own views. And he hopes, too, that just as the small
number of white members of the ANC widened its legitimacy during the
apartheid era in South Africa, other Jews can be attracted to
participate in Fatah, transforming it into a broader-based movement
that stands for equal rights for both Arabs and Jews in a federated
state. ... His own self-description is a case in point, fine-tuned
over the decades. "It has gone through a number of stages. In my
autobiography in the mid-1990s I described myself as a Palestinian
Jew. That has now changed to a Palestinian Hebrew of Jewish
origins." How he frames his own identity is part of his attempt to
impose an "alternative narrative" to the one that has dominated
Israel since its foundation in 1948 by what he describes as "a
settler-colonialist" strand of Zionism built on a massive act of
"ethnic cleansing". That moment – known as the "Nakba", or the
catastrophe to Arabs – saw the flight of 650,000-750,000
Palestinians who fled or were expelled from their homes by Jewish
forces. Davis is careful with his definitions of both "Zionism" and
his own "anti-Zionism". The Zionism that he opposes is the
"political Zionism" of Israel's founders, the Zionism that amounts,
he says, to land grab based on ethnic cleansing.
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Academics lining up to
endorse or condemn Neve Gordon's call for a worldwide Boycott
against Israel
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:48:47 GMT
From: Niza Yanay <niza@bgu.ac.il>
….
Personally, I don’t believe
that Dr. Gordon will be fired. Rather, the university seems intent
to do whatever it needs to make his life at BGU unpleasant so that
he will leave of his own accord… and then pretend that academic
freedom in Israel has not been compromised at all. …
-Sydney Levy
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Bemoaning the Plague of Self-Hatred at Israeli Universities
The Israeli university
reflected Zionist ideals. It maintained the continuity between the
traditions of the past and the country taking form in the present
without foregoing the secular-pioneer mission of building a
sovereign independent state without waiting for divine intervention.
However, as enlightened freedom of thought is replaced by a
politically correct agenda, over-emphasis of secular anti-religion
remains and paves the way for self-hating revisionism. For instance,
one of the "new historians" "proved' that Jewish self-awareness as a
nation and their continued connection to the Land of Israel are
inventions meant to justify Zionist ideology retroactively. A
well-known archeologist, who was awarded a prestigious award,
regurgitated this claim and applied it to biblical times. According
to him, the kingdom of David and Solomon never existed and was only
invented to justify control of the Palestinian territories with a
claim of historic right. A third "new historian" went far enough to
say that the Jewish people are an invention, saying that Jews are
all converts from other nations. With this kind of curriculum to
rely on, it is no wonder that students are staying away from Jewish
university studies.
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University of Exeter – Uri Davis, the “Palestinian Hebrew” and
convert to Islam, is the first Jewish nomination for the Fatah
Revolutionary Council
Dr. Uri Davis told Ma'an that
one of Fatah's weakest attributes has been its failure to establish
ties with international parties, movements and human rights
organizations, and promised to step up efforts, if elected. Born to
Jewish parents in Jerusalem, Davis describes himself as a
Palestinian Hebrew. Davis has written a series of books and articles
that classify the State of Israel as an apartheid state, alleging
that Israel's policies towards Palestinians, including Palestinian
citizens of Israel, are comparable to South Africa's apartheid
policies.
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Attack on Homosexuals triggers Massive Orthodox Bashing by
Israeli Bigots
In other words, the McCarthyists are claiming
to enjoy powers of clairvoyance. The police have not indicated that
there is the slightest piece of evidence that the perp or perps were
even Jews, yet the politically correct postureurs “KNOW” that
Orthodox Jews are behind it! Would it not be interesting if it turns
out that the murderers were Arab terrorists who happened to take
note of the club in Tel Aviv? Or, even more plausibly, that the
murderers were from the Fat’h or Hamas, groups whose intolerance of
homosexuality is notoriously murderous. Homosexuals are routinely
tortured and murdered by Palestinians groups, and the situation is
no better in most Moslem countries. You will hear very little about
that from the pro-intifada gay militants.
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Im Tirtzu
Activists protest anti-Semitic one-sided “conference” on the conduct of IDF combat soldiers during Operation Cast Lead hosted at the Van
Leer Institute
A group of activists from
the student organization Im Tirtzu held a demonstration outside a
Rabbis for Human Rights conference at the Van Leer Institute in
Jerusalem on Wednesday. The conference is focusing on the conduct of
IDF combat soldiers during last January's Operation Cast Lead in the
Gaza Strip. Holding up signs that decried "Blood libels against IDF
soldiers for the sake of European cash," the activists heckled
participants arriving at the conference and explained to curious
passersby that they were unnerved by the one-sided testimonies being
given inside the conference and the apparent lack of factual data
backing up the claims.
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PsychoActive conference at Tel Aviv University - Yet another TAU
"academic" exercise in one-sided Israel-Bashing
These 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.
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A Litmus Test For
Opponents of the "Nakba Law"
There are two types of people posturing their outrage at the
proposed "Anti-Nakba" law. One consists of free speech absolutists.
The other consists of anti-democratic haters of Israel, many of them
people with a neo-fascist disdain for freedom of speech. The first
group truly believes in freedom of speech, even for radicals,
traitors, and extremists. The second group consists of people who
are fighting against the "anti-Nakba law" because they agree with
the "Nakba nuts" that Israel's very existence is a catastrophe,
something that should be corrected by means of exterminating Israel.
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The IsraCampus challenge
to Israeli Law Professors
Isracampus hereby
challenges the professors and lecturers in law schools in Israel to
speak out against the McCarthyist suppression of freedom of speech
and the anti-democratic firing and political persecution, in the
case of Rabbi Israel Shiran at the Moriah-Barkai high school in
Haifa, Israel. He was fired and demonized by Minster of Education
Yuli Tamir because he dared to express a political opinion of which
she disapproved, namely, his belief that Yitzhak Rabin's political
ideology should not be a matter for indoctrination in Israeli
schools.
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Israeli communist
academics to participate in new Stalinism Days
Tel Aviv University has
not yet recovered from its Stalinism Day a few weeks back and now yet another Stalinism Day, or days, May 15 and May 16.
Among the participants will be a host of communist party officials,
plus convicted terrorist spy Udi Adiv, plus Hebrew University math
professor Emanuel Farjoun, BGU sociologist Uri Ram, and others.
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Anti-Zionist and
Post-Historians Pose an Existential Threat to Israel’s Continued
Autonomy
As Israel's new prime minister,
Benjamin Netanyahu, said in a recent interview, "Politicians,
whether they know it or not, are guided by ideas. Right now, in
Israel, they are starting to be guided with the wrong ideas." These
wrong ideas stem from the current post-Zionist discourse promulgated
in the media and academia. … Today, though, the majority of Zionist
students on Israeli campuses remain silent while a small but vocal
minority of anti-Zionist and post-Zionist students are taking
control of the public discourse. This creates a tragic reality as
Israel's future leaders are being inundated with anti-Zionist and
post-Zionist ideas as part of the education upon which they
presumably will base their eventual leadership.
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The Israeli Left just awarded to itself the Israel Prize once
again
A panel of people appointed by Labor Party
Minister of Education Yuli Tamir, all of whom had personal ties to
the Israel Democracy Institute and had received money from it,
decided to award this year's Israel Prize to - (drumroll) - the
Israel Democracy Institute (IDI). The IDI is a leftist political
SWAT team, promoting the Left's agenda.
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Israeli academics collaborating with the Boycott Israel
efforts of the anti-Israel "FFIPP"
Koby Snitz and Hannah Safran participated in
Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace’s (FFIPP) campaign with the
Hampshire Students for Justice in Palestine, Amherst, MA to push for
the boycott of Israel by the Hampshire College.
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When it Does not Add Up: Anti-Israel Mathematicians at
Israeli Universities
Israeli far-leftist anti-Israel academics in
the mathematics field may have their own abstract ways of looking at
things, but they are paid by the Israeli taxpayers, and then promote
an anti-Israel agenda that sometimes involves terrorist attacks
against those same taxpayers.
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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.
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To
see the "congress" flyer (Hebrew),
go here The Israeli Academy and the Gaza
War
Many of the Israeli scholars who opposed the war in
Gaza did so under the increasingly fashionable guise of being ‘lone
voices,’ standing up the oppression of their own country. In the
English language environment (including the internet) in which many
of them published, this claim was used as an all-purpose calling
card and publicity gimmick. The most common themes in their writing
are that of Gaza being a ‘prison’ and the need to compare
Israel’s actions to some
other ultra-evil regime. The favorite regimes for comparison have
been the Nazis, but sometimes
apartheid
south Africa,
Russian pogromists,
or European colonizers can be recruited. The theme of Gaza being a
colonized ‘prison’ is used in order to justify the ‘resistance’ of
Hamas, meaning its terror and rockets. This recycles the dialectic
of Albert Memmi’s Colonizer and Colonized or Fanon’s
Wretched of the Earth. Under the logic of "post-colonialism,"
the colonized is always allowed any extreme so long as he is
opposing what can be dismissed as colonialism.
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Site that collects the Who's Who of the anti-Israel Academic
Israeli Left
Get to know your anti-Israel Academic Extremists
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Anti-Zionists and
Post-Historians exposed gleefully rewriting history in an attempt to prove that
Jewish labor and love of the land was really just a reason to destroy
another people
The rewriters,
like Benny Morris, Ilan Pepe and Baruch Kimmerling, mostly publish
first in English to gain the praise of the West's "justice seekers."
Their works are then quickly grabbed for translation into Arabic and
displayed in marketplaces in Damascus, Cairo and Tunis. Their
conclusion is almost uniform: that in practise Zionism amounted to
an evil, colonialist conspiracy to exploit the people dwelling in
Palestine, enslave them, steal their land, and disinherit them. …
Such calumny is not new: the doctrine that Zionism is a colonialist
movement serving imperialism by exploiting and enslaving Arab
peasants and laborers was formulated and disseminated in Soviet
propaganda organs since the 1920s, embellished with "scientific"
terms from the Marxist-Leninist lexicon. … Ze'ev Sternhal, Yigal
Eylam, Yehoshafat Harkabi and many other academics, slavishly
imitated by journalists and politicians, regard stressing religious,
cultural and emotional affinity to the land - the most important
rationale for our existence here - with sheer contempt. They see it
as contaminated by nationalism, fundamentalism, fetishism ("a
pronounced national fetish, like the Land of Israel," wrote Eylam) -
and even fascism.
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Israeli student protest group - Im Tirtzu - publishes
statistics on anti-Zionist studies in Israel

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Israeli Academics join in supporting Palestinian lies
Israeli support for the
Palestinan call for action
We the undersigned Israeli citizens support the urgent appeal
issued by Dr. Heydar Abdel-Shafi, Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, Dr. Mustafa
Barghouti, Dr. Azmi Bishara, Rana Nashashibi, Dr. Eyad Sarraj,
Khader Shkirat and Raji Sourani on 29 March, entitled:
"Break the Conspiracy of Silence, Act Before it is too Late"
[published by Al-Ahram Weekly last week]. We hereby call
upon our fellow citizens to join us:
Prof. Aharon Eviatar, Hoffit
Dr. Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin
Prof. Avraham Oz, Tel Aviv
Prof. Baruch Kimmerling, Jerusalem
Dr. Daphna Levit, Tel Aviv
Dr. Daniel Amit, Rome
Dr. Edeet Ravel, Toronto,Ca.
Haim Hanegbi, Journalist, Tel Aviv
Dr. Ilan Pappe, Haifa
Dr. Lev Grinberg, Jerusalem
Pnina Feiler, Kibbutz Yad Hanna
Dr. Ruchama Maton, Tel Aviv
Adv. Tamar Pelleg-Sryck, Tel Aviv
Dr. Tikva Honig Parnass, Jerusalem
Yehudith Harel, Ramat Hasharon
Dr. Yossi Amitay, Kibbutz Gvulot
Uri Avnery, Journalist, Tel Aviv
Please send your signature to: <Raji Sourani-pchr@pchrgaza.co.il>
and cc to: <ye_harel@netvision.net.il>
PLEASE circulate this appeal as widely as possible.
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Hypocrisy of the Israeli Left
For Sternhell and those
of his mindset on the Israeli Left, though, the main charge against
the settlements was that they supposedly perpetuated Israeli rule
over the Palestinians -- in their view the crux of all evil. And it
was when the positions of such left-wing academics, writers, and
cultural figures seeped into the mainstream, being adopted by
politicians like Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin, that Israel created
the PA, dismantled most of the “occupation,” and replaced it with
direct Palestinian rule.
Don’t hold your breath
waiting for Sternhell and his friends to do some soul-searching
about the result -- a reign of horrific abuses inconceivably worse
than the few instances of settler misconduct they keep harping on.
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About that Attack on Prof. Sternhell
Beyond that, several other rather tame
observations might be mentioned. These include:
- Sternhell's political outlook and opinions
were repugnant before the attack and did not become any less
repugnant because of the attack.
- Radical Leftist sedition does not become legitimized because of
the attack on Sternhell, no matter who carried it out.
- Critics of the radical Left do not become delegitimized because of
the attack on Sternhell, no matter who carried it out.
- Critics of Prof. Sternhell's opinions have as much right to
express their criticisms as Sternhell himself has to express his.
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The Two Societies: the university and the security services
When the state calls upon its men and women to serve, and if needs
be die, those called upon deserve recompense from the state. If that
comes in the form of discounts and decent pay and a good education
at a top ranked university that is only fair. To claim that the
university owes them nothing, to claim that the ivory tower exists
in a vacuum may sound nice today, but one day that vacuum may be
rudely punctured, as it was by the July 2002 terrorist attack at
Hebrew university. Then suddenly the civil society begs for
protection.
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Post Zionist Uri Davis shows true colors, abandons Judaism
Just two months ago, Davis took part in an Arab-sponsored "Haifa
Conference," billed as "defend[ing] a secular democratic state in
historic Palestine." A summary of the conference written by Yoav Bar
states that the Conference "was our moment to raise our heads from
the exhausting daily struggle and promise ourselves and the world
that the suffering of the Palestinian people may be brought to an
end and there can be a bright future for everybody in Palestine
after we get rid of the racist Zionist disorder." ... Dr. Davis gave
one of the three Hebrew speeches at the Conference; the others were
delivered by Yehuda Kupferman of the "Committee for a Secular and
Democratic state in the Whole of Palestine," and Dr. Anat Matar, a
leading supporter of the rights of Palestinian prisoners and the
rights of Israeli youth to refuse to serve in the IDF.
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Israeli University Heads Join Leftist anti-Israel Group
in Demanding that All Controls be Removed from Palestinians entering
Campuses
The Israeli university system is not only
corrupt and mediocre but dominated by leftist politicization. While
university officials often shrug their shoulders when listening to
complaints about the many tenured traitors operating out of their
campuses, insisting that it is all just a price that needs to be
paid if academic freedom is to be preserved, they generally insist
disingenuously that politicization of the campus leadership by the
Left does not exist at all.
Oh no? Consider the petition to the Israeli
Minister of Defense sent by the members of the Council of University
Presidents this week, as reported on the YNET news web site (http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3574835,00.html).
These are university PRESIDENTS, not rank and file Post-Zionist
academic quacks!
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Does Yuli Tamir want to be education minister for the
Palestinian Authority or Israel?
Yuli Tamir as Education Minister on July 22, 2007 approved a school
text for Israeli children describing the establishment of the State
of Israel in 1948 as a 'Nakba', or catastrophe, for use in Israeli
Arab schools. Asked her reasoning, Tamir replied on Israel Radio
that "The Arab public deserves to be allowed to express its
feelings.” ... Simply put, the Nakba is a
myth perpetuated by the education ministries of the totalitarian
Arab world to justify taking back Israel from the Jews.
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Pluto Press, outlet for anti-Israel academics, scrapped by the
University of Michigan
Pluto Press lost its American source of distribution through the
prestigious University of Michigan Press due to poor scholasticism
and a pattern of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish books said to counter
“Zionism” (a.k.a. Jews). StandwithUS, a Jewish and Israel advocacy
group, showed U. Michigan that material that was not scholastically
accurate was being disseminated by U. Michigan Press as
scholastically accurate material and included downright polemical
tomes against Israel that were not even subject to peer review
before dissemination as with other books. This was damaging the
University’s academic prestige.
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Israeli academics lobbying against Israeli security control of
movements and in favor of "freedom of movement" for Palestinian
terrorists in the name of academic freedom. See the role call of
signatories:
The
initiators of the petition:
Prof.
Menachem Fisch, Tel-Aviv University
Prof.
Raphael Falk, The Hebrew University
Prof.
Eva Jablonka, Tel-Aviv University
Dr.
Snait Gissis, Tel-Aviv University
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Israel Academics Participate in Conference that promotes "ending
the Occupation"
The following Israeli academics participated in FFIPP-International
Conference that promotes "ending the Occupation":
Menachem Klein, Bar Ilan University - Dept of Political Studies
Kenneth Mann, Tel Aviv University - Dept of Law
Eyal Wiezman, University of London - Dept of Visual Cultures
It has been almost two years since the last FFIPP conference in
Ramallah.
Since then, the situation in the Occupied Territories has
deteriorated with the
rapidly worsening conditions in Gaza, the continued construction of
the Wall
and the settlements, continued violence— mainly against the
Palestinians- and
the lack of any progress in the ‘negotiations’. The tensions between
Hamas and
Fatah continued as well and the isolation of Hamas contributed to
the general
deterioration. The Annapolis conference has failed to produce any
positive
change in the region and the occupation of Iraq is now threatening
to escalate
into, potentially, a major confrontation with Iran.
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Israeli Academics threaten the future of the Israeli State
A list of Anti-Israel statements and actions are laid out in the
following article.
Among those mentioned are Haifa University politics professor Ilan
Pappe, who is quoted saying:
and Ben-Gurion University politics lecturer
Neve Gordon who went to Ramallah in February 2002 and clasped hands
with Yasser Arafat.
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Good Morning, Elijah: Amos Oz Does The Peace Tour
Oz is at his silliest when he tries to
distinguish between stark unequivocal moral choices and complex
ambiguous ones. “You Europeans have a tendency to frame everything
in simplistic good vs. bad terms,” he says. “This is OK for some
conflicts, like that between fascism and anti-fascism, or that
between colonialism and anti-colonialism, or that between the U.S.
and Vietnamese, but the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is not that.”
Of course, the allegedly simple moral conflicts
offered by Oz tell us more about him than about the conflict.
Anti-fascists have at times been worse than fascists;
anti-colonialists generally were far more savage and brutal than
European colonialists; and Oz’s insistence that the U.S. was the
unambiguous evil power in Vietnam is little more than the attempt of
an Israeli leftist to pander to fashionable anti-Americanism, to
ingratiate himself with those who imagine Europe is the moral
superior of the U.S. – something Oz tries to do repeatedly
throughout the evening.
The other problem with Oz’s silly
characterization of moral clarity vs. ambiguity is that the
Arab-Israeli conflict is actually as morally unambiguous as was
World War II. Yes, Allied troops sometimes conducted acts of
injustice and, yes, German and Japanese civilians were often killed
as the war was fought out, but that changes nothing about the moral
unambiguousness of that conflict.
The Arab-Israeli conflict exists because the
Arab world, controlling 22 states and territory nearly twice that of
the United States (including Alaska), is unwilling to allow the Jews
to enjoy any self-determination or control over even a tiny piece of
territory. Ultimately, the tremendous damage that Oz and his kind
have done has been in muddying what should be a clear moral
understanding of the Middle East war, all in the name of the
sanctity of moral symmetry, and this muddying has undercut Israeli
willingness to resist and fight.
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Israeli State Radio Outs the Academic Fifth Column
Until now, Israel's state-owned media have
generally never done any investigative reporting on Israel's Far
left and Academic Fifth Column. The TV and radio stations are owned
by the Israel Broadcasting Authority, and the IBA has always been a
poorly-disguised promoter and guardian of the Left. Its heads have
never hidden the fact that they think their mission in life is to
advance the Left's agenda.
That is why the decision to run a series of
radio shows viciously attacking the academic far Left and the
"Post-Zionists" is so significant, and why it has the far leftists
in Israel soiling themselves in anguish.
Recently the first of what is promised to be a
series of two-hour radio shows on the subject was aired on Reshet
Bet, one of the large state-run radio channels in Israel. It can be
heard via the internet in Hebrew at
this URL:, where you need to click the program entitled "The
Anti-Zionist Congress." (or listen directly
here or download the program as a file
here) These shows are part of the wider state-media coverage of
Israel's 60th independence anniversary celebrations.
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The Fate of Jewish Anti-Zionists
by Ami Isseroff
Israelenews.com
March 31, 2008
http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/4939
Anti-Zionist Jews and those whose views amount to anti-Zionism
are an unpleasant fact of life. This article was not written to
condemn them, or to refute their ideas in detail, but rather to
point out that they will eventually find themselves isolated by the
people whose cause they are championing. This is already happening.
Anti-Zionist Jews are among the most vociferous, visible and
effective opponents of the existence of the state of
Israel today. Who has done more to advance the myth of Zionist
"ethnic cleansing" than Ilan Pappe? Who has done more to combat the
"Holocaust
Myth" by his subtle and effective "Holocaust Industry" campaign
than Norman Finkelstein?? Who has been at the forefront at spreading
the libel of "Apartheid Israel," if not Jeff Halper? Who has made
hatred of Israel respectable in US Academia if not Joel Beinin? Who
has done more to advance the image of Israel as a tool of the
colonialist imperialist warmongers than Noam Chomsky? Who has been
the ideological soul of the British boycott campaigns, if not
Jacqueline Rose? Who has done more to discredit the IDF and
demoralize Israeli youth than Dorothy Naor with her "New Profile"
movement? It is the Golden Age of anti-Zionist and anti-Israel Jews.
All over the world, the watchword is "Just Peace in Palestine." Jews
are leading the fight to brainwash the world into thinking that
genocide is justice. Anti-Semitism was abandoned by the respectable
right; now it is the Jews who must lead the anti-Zionist fight, the
struggle to deny the rights of the Jewish people. Surely it is
absurd that Jews lead the anti-Zionist movement!
Homemade Israel-bashers
By Amnon Rubinstein
'Incitement against Israel can be found on the
lowest level in some of the social science departments in Israel's
universities. A well-known philosopher in Tel Aviv University called
Israel the dustbin of Europe - and students, as we know, are
influenced by their teachers, even when the latter are seized by a
frenzy of hatred toward the state that provides their livelihood,
and at the expense of which, thanks to their attacks on it, they
make their names.'
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Professors of hate
By Isi Leibler
The flow of new
initiatives from academics throughout the world seeking to
delegitimize Israel continues unabated. Now the emphasis is directed
towards anti-Israeli boycotts as exemplified by the recent outrage
from the British Association of University Teachers.
Sadly, in many
universities, academics of Jewish origin have assumed key roles
denigrating Israel often claiming to do so out of "a sense of Jewish
justice."
But the most harmful
academic purveyors of hatred against the Jewish state are located at
our own universities. They demonize their own country and try to
persuade their students that Israel was born in sin. Their negative
impact abroad is devastating.
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