Israeli Academic Extremism
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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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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