Most Recent Updates
David Newman (a.k.a. Neve Gordon Lite from the Dept of Politics at BGU that the international panel of experts called for shutting down) attacks Isracampus in the anti-Israel pro-LSD hippy magazine "Tikkun," on whose board of editors he sits; Newman forgets to mention that he has been leading the McCarthyist campaign to silence critics of the Radical Left
Or,
they are all members of the anti-Zionist, Israel bashing,
self-hating Jews conspiracy who have been targeted by any one of the
three extremist right wing organizations Im Tirtzu, Academic Monitor
and Isracampus in recent years.
And this is but the tip of the iceberg....
Almost anyone who dares to think aloud, promotes social justice, works on behalf of peace and the cause of human rights, dares to dream (as did Herzl so many years ago) or believes in freedom of speech, has a chance of finding himself / herself on the list. Indeed, anyone reading this column and who perceives themselves as a law abiding upright citizen of the State of Israel could well find themselves on this list.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
IDI Watch - IDI grants award to a leader in Israel's Stalinist Communist Party MAKI
MK Dr. Dov Khenin (Hadash) won the Israeli Democracy Institute’s (IDI) Parliamentary Award. On Saturday, Khenin was declared exceptional MK. Khenin will receive their awards at an IDI ceremony February 2
NGO researched all 120 MKs’ parliamentary activity, and rated quality activity, specifically in supervising the government, as opposed to passing private legislation, which is less likely to become law than government bills. The IDI also rated MKs’ connections with voters and budgetary responsibility, as well as speeches and parliamentary questions.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Ariella Azoulay is Jilted by French Anti-Semitic BDS Supporter; Cites his TAU Lecture would Conflict with his Support of the Boycott of Israel
It
seems that one of Israel's far-leftist pseudo-academics tried to
invite the anti-Israel communist French "political philosopher" to
Israel to help her peddle her pro-Palestinian wares. But, alas, he
turned her down and refused to come to Israel to bash Israel because
he was honoring the Boycott Israel movement. Isn't anti-Semitism so
confusing, sometimes?
The Israeli would-be
hostess of the anti-Semite is none other than Ariella Azoulay. She
has been in the news a bit the past few years because she failed to
get tenure at Bar Ilan University, and the academic fifth column in
Israel whined that it was all a dark right-wing conspiracy. Of
course the reason she did not get tenure is that she has an empty
academic record. She is nothing but an anti-Israel propagandist… See
this:
http://www.isracampus.org.il/third%20level%20pages/other%20-%20Ultra%20Left%20Bemoans%20the%20Canning%20of%20Ariella%20Azoulay.htm
and
http://isracampus.org.il/third%20level%20pages/Editorial%20-%20Steve%20Plaut%20-%20Israeli%20Tenured%20Taliban.htm
…
Ariella's most recent initiative was to try to host the rabid
anti-Israel communist French "political philosopher" Jacques
Rancière in Israel… Ranciere had been scheduled to lecture at Tel
Aviv University on Jan. 25, 2012. But while Ariella tried to get him
to come to Israel, the terrorists from the Pacbi.org "Boycott,
Divest" group (http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1793)
called upon Ranciere to stay home. Rancid Ranciere then announced
through some other terrorist web sites (like
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/noted-french-theorist-jacques-ranci-re-cancels-israel-lecture-heeding-boycott)
that he would stay home. Leaving his anti-Israel hosts at Tel Aviv
University high and dry.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Ben Gurion University – BGU Prof Israel David Determines that the Demise of BGU's Imbalanced Pol-Sci Dept is Inevitable Based on his Insider Information
Ben Gurion University has found itself at a fork in the road, where it is
being required to provide clear and non-evasive answers to Israel's
Council on Higher Education, the public body that oversees higher
education in Israel. As the reader no doubt recalls, this Council
earlier appointed an international panel of professional evaluation
for the department of politics at BGU, and that panel recommended
shutting down the department of politics altogether, unless the
severe academic and professional shoddiness and incompetence there
would be cured.
…
There are indeed quite a few "imbalances" at Ben Gurion University.
Take for example the fact that nine out of the eleven tenured
faculty members in the department of politics at BGU, as well as a
great many of the non-tenured faculty members there, are radical
extremist seditious far-leftist activists. [Actually, all 11 tenured
faculty members are far-leftist activists – Isracampus] The chance
that such a department could have emerged by chance is far lower
than the chance of winning millions in the lottery. It should be
noted that no similar "coincidence" can be found at any other
university! Therefore there can be no doubt that this department was
constructed intentionally using the "One friend brings in another
friend" method of nepotism, and that in turn is the source of the
absence of professional and scientific standards in the department.
…
The imbalance of interest when it comes to the department of
politics is the imbalance of purpose. The bulk of faculty members in
the department have no idea what the mission of an academic
institution is… [The current chairman of the department, Dr. Dani]
Filc believes the mission of the department is advocacy, whereas the
proper mission of an academic unit is research and instruction. Much
more serious is Filc's inability to understand that it is NOT a
proper function for an academic department to persecute and harass
Israeli army officers, smearing them as "war criminals," nor to
vandalize Israeli military security points and checkpoints, nor to
infiltrate illegally into Arafat's headquarters in Ramallah and
there get photographed in warm embrace with Arafat (which a faculty
member in this department has already done), nor to organize violent
illegal "protests" (some of which have already been the subject of
prosecution in BGU disciplinary committees).
…
Shutting down the department of politics at BGU is a matter of great
seriousness. There are precedents in Israel for doing so… And that
is what has to be done at BGU!
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Betzalel – Zvi Elhyani - Yet another Israeli Academic Leftist Calling for Murder of Jews
Allow us to introduce you to one Zvi Elhyani, who is on the teaching staff at the Bezalel Arts and Crafts College. He is one of the architects for jihad who are active in Israel in promoting the Palestinian agenda.
Elhyani is in the news this week for calling for the murder of West Bank "settlers." He was outted (in Hebrew) at this web page.
The call to murder
settlers appeared on his personal facebook page.
…
Want to ask Israel's Attorney General why Elhyani is not locked away
behind bars for calling for murder? Write to him via Fax
972-2-6467001. Send a copy to Yaakov Neaman, Minister of Justice, at
sar@justice.gov.il.
You can also use this
form letter to submit electronically although the headings are
in Hebrew: Mail address is:
Attorney General of Israel
Ministry of Justice
29 Salah a-Din Street
Jerusalem, 91010
Want to ask the heads of
Betzalel why someone who is issuing calls for murder is on their
faculty? Write to these people:
Bezalel Arts College
President
Prof. Arnon Zuckerman
Mount Scopus Campus
Mount Scopus P.O.Box 24046
Jerusalem 91240
Telephone: 02-5893333
Fax: 02- 5823094
Email:
mail@bezalel.ac.il
Officers:
http://bezalel.ac.il/en/about/leadership/staff/
Contact Info:
http://bezalel.ac.il/en/contact/
Friends Offices: The
Friends Organizations
Ms. Amira Ben-Dor
Chairwoman of the Jerusalem Friends of Bezalel
Ms. Jennifer Roth
President of the Friends of Bezalel New York
Friends of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Inc.
501 Fifth Avenue, New York,
NY 10017
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Bar Ilan University - Menachem Klein (Dept of Political Science) thinks it is Israel's fault that the Arab world is so anti-democratic
It
seems clear that Israel welcomes the Arab Spring with a very
cold shoulder. Israel has traditionally preferred to maintain
close relations with non-democratic monarchs and dictators,
rather than communicating with the people. Israel's security,
according to this view, is assured first by its own force, and
second by strong Arab leaders who agree to cooperate secretly or
openly with Israel.
Netanyahu's deep suspicions about the authenticity of the Arab masses' awakening are accompanied by a sharp division between "us" (Israel) and "them" (the Arab masses). According to Netanyahu, Israel has always embraced democracy, but the Arabs have not yet. "Israel stands out. It is different," exclusive and without doubt better. "Israel is not what is wrong about the Middle East. Israel is what is right about the Middle East." The dichotomy between right and wrong is, according to Netanyahu, the same as between Israel and the Arabs.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Interdisciplinary Center (Herzliya) - Galia Golan's (School of Government) Gynocentric Campaign for "Palestinians" against Israel
In
many cases, women are used not only to moderate behavior (the
role, for example, of Machsom Watch at the checkpoints) but to
actually carry out the many tasks associated with human security
and winning over the hearts and minds of the population.
Research has indeed found that women tend to take on the
stereotypical "tough" characteristics of males in the military,
but there is also evidence that police forces, for example, have
become more restrained when large numbers of women have been
added to their ranks. Other research has shown that men may
react more favorably to women, believing women (according to the
stereotype) to be more fair than men, more considerate and
trustworthy.1 There is of course, the risk of exploitation of
this stereotype or misuse by the military of soft power, for
purposes other than genuine peace-building, but the advantages
as distinct from "hard power" may be worth the risk.
Women May See Things That Men Don't See
This is not to say that men cannot employ soft power, undertake the tasks of human security, or come up with peace-building ideas such as peace parks instead of early warning stations. Indeed, a man, Dr. Alon Liel, proposed that a peace park be created on the Golan Heights once it is returned to Syria, and the idea has been employed in southern Africa for some years. However, a gender perspective of security arrangements would most likely focus on solutions with the potential to produce different ideas or introduce different considerations. Even as women differ from one another according to class, culture, background and so forth, women's experience of daily life is different from men's experience. Women, therefore, may well see things that a man does not. This is one of the reasons why security studies deal with the subject of agency and in particular human agency, which is increasingly associated with non-state actors, including women. Women become the ones doing the job, but they also set the discourse, raise the issues, determine priorities, suggest what must be done and articulate just what constitutes security, by and for whom. Thus women become not only the recipients, or the object of security considerations, but also resources for deciding on and producing security. And with this, women can perhaps contribute to a change in the concept of security to a concept more suited to an era of peaceful post-conflict relations rather than the concept of hard security that characterizes the Israeli scene today.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Isracampus answer to Haaretz and to Those Accusing us of "McCarthyism"
Here
is everything you need to know about academic freedom and freedom of
speech in Israel:
Leftists who insist that only leftists are entitled to exercise freedom of speech - are fascists.
Leftists who insist that all people who criticize leftists are McCarthyists - are fascists. They are also McCarthyists.
Leftists who claim that the exercise of freedom of speech by anti-Oslo dissidents in the 1990s caused Rabin to be assassinated - are McCarthyists. They are also fascists.
Leftists who claim that no one should be allowed to refer to anti-Israel traitors as traitors - are themselves fascists.
Leftists who pretend that other leftists who call for BDS or Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel are anything other than traitors – are liars. They are also fascists.
Leftists who endorse terrorist attacks against Jews are traitors.
Leftists who demand a "Palestinian right of return to Israel" are traitors.
Leftists who endorse Arab fascist movements - are fascists.
Leftists who support or vote for the communist party are mentally deranged. They are also fascists.
Leftists who support the elimination of Israel are traitors and fascists.
Leftists who attempt to use the courts to suppress freedom of speech for non-leftists – are fascists.
Leftists who censor chat lists of academics in order to bar non-leftist opinion from being expressed - are fascists.
Leftists who demand that non-leftists be silenced because their exercise of freedom of speech produces violence – are fascists.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – PhD candidate Omar Barghouti promotes the BDS against his own university in the US
Recently
Omar Barghouti, a Columbia graduate in electrical engineering who is
now pursuing a PhD at Tel Aviv University in Philosophy spoke at
three occasions in northern California to promote boycott,
divestment and sanctions against Israel, even his own university.
...
Barghouti declared Israel an apartheid state throughout the evening
during his speech held at the Presbyterian Church in Oakland,
California. He saw nothing hypocritical about his own status as a
subsidized graduate student in Israel, and instead likened himself
to Nelson Mandela. The speaking engagements were sponsored by
assorted groups affiliated with the International Solidarity
Movement in order to raise funds for the
Middle East Children's Alliance, an ISM group that launders most
of the ISM's "tax deductible" donations on the US West Coast. Other
sponsoring groups included the anti-Israel extremist group
Jewish Voice for Peace, which is made up for the most part of
Marxist Jews and
Al
Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, which calls for
the destruction of Israel as a Jewish state and an unconditional
right of anyone pretending to be a "Palestinian" to "return" to
Israel.
...
Barghouti began the lecture stating, "Israelis have been colonizing
our lands since the Nakba in 1948." Throughout the lecture he
acknowledged no Jewish history or any right to any part of the land
of Israel by Jews.
He continued, making the
accusation that Israel had altered history and "destroyed thousands
of Palestinian books," and claimed that there are still thousands
more such books hidden away in the library at Tel Aviv U. You know,
the library where he is supposed to be writing his PhD. So if the
books are in that library, we guess they were never destroyed. Hmmm.
...
He then falsely described conditions in Gaza as the "most subhuman"
in the world. He failed to mention the Jacuzzis and designer stores
in the malls. He recounted an unverified tale of an elderly
Palestinian woman "shot while walking along" there for no reason at
all and accused Israel again of "ethnic cleansing."
...
Barghouti tried to lecture as an academic, but the problem was he
kept lying through his teeth. Besides false claims about apartheid
in Israel (Barghouti himself is proof this is untrue), he then went
on to claim falsely that 93% of the land in the West Bank is off
limits to non-Jews and said Israel has communities where only Jews
can live. Actually Israel is full of communities where Jews cannot
live, only Arabs. Meanwhile, Barghouti had no criticism of the law
in the Palestinian Authority that metes out a death sentence, even
retroactively,
if someone sells his land to a Jew. Barghouti also repeated
the oft-used canard of "Jewish only roads" in the West Bank.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Ben Gurion University - Tenured Enemy of Freedom of Speech Neve Gordon (Dept of Political Science) sets up a Web Site that Claims to Mock Isracampus
Haaretz
(http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/10-percent-of-israeli-academics-labeled-anti-zionist-by-campus-watchdogs-1.408535)
reports that Ben Gurion University’s worst Anti-Semite Neve Gordon
has set up his own little web site called www.blacklist.co.il that
is an attempt to mock Isracampus. The web site purports to invite
radical leftists to sign up to be added to black lists of
anti-Israel extremists. Gordon claims his web site will allow
leftist academics to search the archives of Isracampus and other
watchdog groups to see if they are listed and find what is said
about them there. But we tried out Gordon’s site and it did not do
any of things Gordon claims it does. It does not even locate any
article written about Neve Gordon himself, showing what an effective
search tool it is!
Meanwhile Gordon lists the owners and initiators of the webs “blacklist” site he runs here: http://blacklist.co.il/cgi-bin/bl/who.py
Well, we checked that list of names. Aside from Gordon himself, none of the people in that list except Yinon Cohen is even an academic.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Haaretz reports on how Isracampus Exposes the Tenured Left
Three
self-proclaimed watchdog organizations have labeled about 10 percent
of Israeli academics as anti-Zionist, according to a recent study by
a group of academics, artists and university students who aim to
counter the categorizations. The organizations, which are open about
their activities, are Im Tirtzu, IsraCampus and Israel Academia
Monitor. … Members of the group include political scientist Prof.
Neve Gordon of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Israeli Film
Directors Guild chairman Rani Blair; and the chairman of the Israeli
Documentary Filmmakers Forum, Uri Rosenwaks.
…
University of Haifa economist Prof. Steven Plaut, one of the
founders of IsraCampus, said in a statement: "Our main function is
to quote what these teachers say and write ideologically and
politically in order to bring it to the attention of the public. The
issue is not an ideological argument, but rather publicizing the
anti-Israel group that openly supports the enemy," Plaut said.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
On the Segel-Plus chat list at the University of Haifa, the anti-Israel extremist Micah Leshem (University of Haifa, Dept of Psychology) denounces parents who circumcise their babies:
FROM:
micah leshem
TO: segel-plus@list.haifa.ac.il
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Bill is totally correct.
Female circumcision, multiple child-bearing in an overcrowded
planet, foot binding and leg elongation, excision of the tip of an
infant's penis, breast implants and nose-docking, hatred of the
other, etc - all are examples of mutilations by participants coerced
into willing participation by tradition, religion, brainwashing, and
most horrible of all - PARENTS.
Micah
Tel Aviv University - Ronen Shoval, "Im Tirtzu" Chairman, Documents Yehouda Shenhav's (Dept of Sociology) 'Ignorance'
A
few days ago, the Student Union network posted a video clip a
lecture you gave as part of the Introduction to Sociology course, an
obligatory course in the Sociology and Anthropology department. In
the course of the lecture, the footage shows, you relieved yourself
of the following drivel:
"When
this whole story with this stupid organisation called Im Tirtzu was
taking place, which attacked the fact, the stupid fascist, which
attacked the fact, by the way sponsored with American evangelist
Christian radical money, which is ready to support this as part of
its war against the Arabs in Israel, a complicated story, they
claimed, that in the political science departments, they did a
report in the political science departments, and claimed that most
of the faculty there is left-wing. This connects to your question.
Most of the faculty isn't left-wing, it's liberal in its way of
thinking. Because social sciences are inherently liberal. So to say
that most of the staff is left-wing, liberal, is nonsense, because
the repertoire on which you draw is liberal. Otherwise you'll shut
these departments down. Because the term "left-wing" is very
problematic in that context, because what exactly is left wing? I
think, and this is to confuse you a little more, that someone
supporting two state for two peoples is a right-winger. Left winger?
I'm opposed to two states for two peoples. So I'm left-wing?"
We preserved the garbled style of the original.
Comments of such nature, made before an audience of students on an obligatory course, betray shameful ignorance on your part. As a "great liberal" you clearly violated instruction 1109/11 (21.12.2010) of the Higher Education Council, which clearly state that "any attempt at politicisation of the academia should be rejected." In this decision, the Higher Education Council ruled that the lectures should strive to expose the students "to as varied a survey as possible of the areas which they teach." Which, of course, failed to take place. In this last lecture you unilaterally abused your standing, expressing one-sided political opinions while barefacedly ignoring the Higher Education Council's decision.
You claimed that Im Tirtzu attacked the face that faculty members in political science are left-wing, or, according to your interpretation, liberals. This is blatant misrepresentation of our reports, and, graver still, the concept of liberalism. The report we released on the developments in the political science didn't assault the "left-wing" political opinions of faculty members, but displayed the lack of variety in the content materials, along with the exclusion, elimination and silencing of researchers and research approaches that are not anti-Zionist or anti-national.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Ben Gurion University – Discriminating against Jews
Racism
and discrimination have suddenly appeared as a serious problem in
Israeli academia. The racism and discrimination in question is
anti-Jewish and is being practiced by Ben Gurion "University." That
is right, 73 years after Kristallnacht Jews are being discriminated
against and barred from attending a university program in psychology
at Ben Gurion "University" because it is only open to Arabs. And a
Jewish victim of this overt discrimination has filed suit with the
Supreme Court.
The program in question is a MA program in psychology open only to Arabs and particularly to Bedouins. Jews who qualify are excluded. In addition, the program is secret. Ben Gurion University has been trying to hide it from the media and from students and even from the government.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
University of Exeter - Ilan Pappe (Dept of Israel Bashing) – Time Has Come to Recant Outlandish Accusations
Ilan
Pappé rode to fame by bashing Israel, repeatedly accusing the Jewish
state of war crimes and crying oppression when academics actually
looked at his
evidence
and
found it
lacking.
…Ignorance is no excuse for an academic, nor is stubbornness a
virtue. When Benny Morris mistreated quotes by
David Ben-Gurion and
Theodor Herzl, he was rightly pilloried for it. In December
2006, he came clean and acknowledged that the Ben-Gurion quote was
fraudulent. Kudos to him for reversing the error.
Alas, to advance his polemic, Pappé has embraced the false Ben-Gurion quote endorsing ethnic cleansing, an outlandish accusation. Some of those who relied on Pappé have issued corrections, or are in the process of doing so. Not Pappé, however. He may believe that tainting Israel with original sin justifies his lies.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Ben Gurion University – Calls for PolSci Dept to Stop Ignoring the Recommendations from the Council for Higher Education or Resign
Back
at Ben-Gurion, the political biases of the politics department are
well-documented. Indeed, though Prof. Newman should be lauded
for his
efforts to combat the proposed academic boycott of Israel in the
UK, they do ring somewhat hollow when the chair of his own
department
supports the boycott, a matter to which one would assume Newman
would urgently attend. Instead of ignoring the report, Prof. Newman
and the rest of the faculty should immediately correct the failings
in their departments. And if they fail to step up, the authorities
should press them to step down.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Ben Gurion University – Additional Calls to Deal with BGU's Tenured Tanzim
Yaakov
Bergman, a prominent professor at the Hebrew University, has joined
the assault on the Tenured Tanzim who teach "politics" at Ben Gurion
University. He published a response to Neve Gordon and Dani Filc,
the two most extremist Israel-hating faculty members in this
otherwise wall-to-wall anti-Israel far-leftist department.
…
Then, Commentary Magazine
adds its voice:
…Back at Ben-Gurion, the political biases of the politics
department are
well-documented. Indeed, though Prof. Newman should be lauded
for his
efforts to combat the proposed academic boycott of Israel in the
UK, they do ring somewhat hollow when the chair of his own
department
supports the boycott, a matter to which one would assume Newman
would urgently attend. Instead of ignoring the report, Prof. Newman
and the rest of the faculty should immediately correct the failings
in their departments. And if they fail to step up, the authorities
should press them to step down.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Haifa University and Tel Aviv University sponsored a pseudo-academic "conference" supposedly on "gender" that featured official collaboration with the extremist pro-terror anti-Israel NGO "Machsom Watch"
http://www.gendersite.org.il/w
[The Friday night tour of Jerusalem sponsored by "Machsom Watch" is on the last page]
Tel Aviv University – Chen Misgav (Dept of Geography) Describes "Bodily Functions" - the Death of Academic Standards at TAU
Universities
are traditionally places where new ideas are always welcome. Once a
theory or question is presented, academic research and study of the
subject matter at hand can provide evidence and information to
better mankind through understanding. Thus the academy can find a
cure for a disease or explains why some cultures are enabled to
advance. Sadly, this has been perverted over the last several
decades, where academic inquiry is replaced by one-sided advocacy,
often for loony things.
…
Along comes PhD student
Chen Misgav from Tel Aviv University's Geography department. Bear in
mind that at many universities, geography is not even regarded as a
bona fide academic discipline. … And what does Misgav do for
research? As far as we can tell, he has a great time trolling gay
sex clubs in Tel Aviv where he can claim his sexual recreational
pursuits serve the dual purpose of getting him "partnered up" as
well as getting him an advanced degree and fellowships to travel the
University circuit abroad as well as in Israel.
…
Misgav continues:
"My research focuses on
people and spaces on the event itself – the party and the interior
halls and spaces of the club, where bodily performances, drags,
alcohol, sexual practices and music connects (sic) together. My main
aim on this research is to check how bodily performances, gender and
identity expressions define special spaces inside the club's halls.
I conducted many field observations in the club and later on made
some in-depth interviews with people who spent time in this club,
focusing especially on gay men and transgendered (sic) women. … In
my paper I discuss these different and unique constructions of
sexual identity and the role of bodily performances and gender
through the production of these heterotopias. I will show the extent
to which space plays an important role in the construction of
identity through body performances."
…
Chen insists that we all have to hear about his homosexuality, which
is then
conflated by him into an attack against "Zionism" and the Jewish
state.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
University of Exeter - Ilan Pappe (Dept of Israel Bashing) goosesteps for the Jihad again; whines about being persecuted
Of
course there were US President
Barack
Obama's pandering appearances in front of
AIPAC, the
Israeli lobby, and his administration's continued silence and
inaction in face of Israel's colonization of the West Bank, siege
and killings in Gaza, ethnic cleansing of the
Bedouins in
the Naqab and
new legislation discriminating against
Palestinians in Israel.
The complicity continued with the shameful retreat of Judge Richard Goldstone from his rather tame report on the Gaza massacre — which began three years ago today. And then there was the decision of European governments, especially Greece, to disallow campaigns of human aid and solidarity from reaching Gaza by sea.
…
In recent years, I have learned firsthand how intimidation of this kind works. In November 2009 the mayor of Munich was scared to death by a Zionist lobby group and cancelled my lecture there. More recently, the Austrian foreign ministry withdrew its funding for an event in which I participated, and finally it was my own university, the University of Exeter, once a haven of security in my eyes, becoming frigid when a bunch of Zionist hooligans claimed I was a fabricator and a self-hating Jew.
Every year since I moved there, Zionist organizations in the UK and the US have asked the university to investigate my work and were brushed aside. This year a similar appeal was taken, momentarily one should say, seriously. One hopes this was just a temporary lapse; but you never know with an academic institution (bravery is not one of their hallmarks).
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Ben Gurion University – Neve Gordon (Dept of Political Science) Writes in Al Jazeera; Suggests Unreasonable Arab Demands to Bring About the End of the Jewish State of Israel and Unilateral Israeli Comprise
Israel’s
continued unwillingness to fully support these three components is
rapidly leading to the annulment of the two-state option and, as a
result, is leaving open only one possible future direction: power
sharing.
The notion of power sharing would entail the preservation of the existing borders, from the Jordan valley to the Mediterranean Sea, and an agreed upon form of a power sharing government led by Israeli Jews and Palestinians, and based on the liberal democracy model of the separation of powers. It also entails a parity of esteem - namely, the idea that each side respects the other side’s identity and ethos, including language, culture and religion. This, to put it simply, is the bi-national one-state solution.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Meet the Hebrew
University’s Model Student of the Year:
Terrorist murderer wants to Finish his BA; Model Hebrew University
Student
(Perhaps
he was not accepted to Ben Gurion University’s Politics department
because he was not anti-Israel enough for them!!)
Sharatha said that his one request of Israel now that he has been released is to be allowed to finish the university degree from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, which he began while in prison. Allowing terrorist prisoners to study while in prison is just one of many benefits given to them by Israel. In comparison, Gilad Shalit spent five and a half years in Hamas captivity and was not allowed one single visit from the International Red Cross.
At the end of the interview, Sharatha encouraged future terrorists who will commit murderous acts towards Israelis.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Ben Gurion University - Professor Ze’ev Maoz (University of California & Interdisciplinary Center (Herzliya)) endorses the Calls for The Complete Shutting Down of the Department of Politics at Ben Gurion University; Insists it is a bunch of substandard pseudo-academics
He
begins by proclaiming that he is a proud member of the Israeli Left.
… He then reveals that he himself had been recruited nine years ago
by the Council on Higher Education to evaluate the very same
department at BGU. At the time he proposed shutting down the entire
department for essentially the same reasons as those in the new
panel report. He claims his reasons were entirely academic, not
political, just as the current panel’s recommendations are academic.
Back then, Maoz found that there are no serious academic standards in place in that department. Most of the faculty members have no serious credentials in political science. He says that not only was the Council on Higher Education not conducting a witch-hunt against the Politics department at BGU, but it even refused to implement Maoz’ own recommendations, treated the department with permissive (his word) kid gloves, allowed it to go on functioning and even to develop new programs for students, and refused to apply the same rigorous standards to the department of Neve Gordon and David Newman that it was applying to all other departments across the board.
He concludes that the Department of Politics at BGU is an academic disgrace and the petitions of support for it are motivated by the most dubious of motives. Translation: those petitions consist of anti-Israel extremists seeking to defend other anti-Israel pseudo-academic extremists from criticism and accountability.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Ben Gurion University - David Newman (Dean of Social Sciences and Humanities) Defames London Professor Efraim Karsh and the Middle East Forum
Dismisses any criticism emanating from the Jewish Diaspora as “disgraceful” “verbal terrorism”
The
use of “Nazi” slur terminology has also been used as a means of
delegitimizing legitimate criticism of Israel and its policies. Just
this past week, an Israeli emigrant to the UK, Prof. Efraim Karsh of
Kings College at the University of London, used the right-wing,
pseudoacademic journal Middle East Forum to attribute such remarks,
falsely, to the writer of this column.
The article by Karsh is a
pathetic attempt to falsify facts and portray the intellectual Left
(sic), be it in Israel or elsewhere, as rabidly anti-Semitic and
thus to shut down the debate on any form of legitimate debate and
discourse concerning the situation in Israel.
…
And when it emanates from “patriotic supporters” of Israel who sit
in the safety of their Diaspora homes in the USA or London, it is
not only disgraceful, it is outright laughable. It is a form of
verbal terrorism which must not be allowed to take root in the
debate concerning Israel and anti-Semitism. The issue is simply too
serious for that.
[Isracampus comment: The Middle East Forum is a far more respectable academic institution than is the Department of Politics at Ben Gurion University, built by David Newman as a pseudo-academic jihadist camp in which uniformity of thought has been documented, and Efraim Karsh’s academic credentials are countless times stronger than David Newman’s!
As to the “falsely” attributed “Nazi” slur terminology, Isracampus would like to refresh Newman's memory. The forgetful Dean has used such “Nazi” metaphors to delegitimize Israel in the Jerusalem Post as recently as Nov 2011:
“These may sound like strong words and I will no doubt be strongly criticized for making such a comparison, but we would do well to paraphrase the famous words of Pastor Niemoller, writing in 1946 about Germany of the 1930s and 1940s: “When the government denied the sovereign rights of the Palestinians, I remained silent; I was not a Palestinian.”
Prof Karsh reports in correspondence with Isracampus that the above is the quote that prompted his Middle East Forum expose.]
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
The death of academic freedom in Israel!
Israel's Leftist Thought Police Demands Censorship over “incorrect
information” in a textbook
Could the same censorship be applied to “incorrect information” in Shlomo Sand’s book - ‘The Invention of the Jewish People’?
A
number of homosexual activist academics started a campaign against
the book [Prakim nivharim b'psichiatria, 2010 ed.], and the chat
lists of Israeli faculty are filled with calls for suppression of
the book and censorship of "incorrect" ideas about homosexuality.
The book contains "incorrect information," insist the censors.
Suppose that it does. But so does the book by Shlomo Sand. Since
when does the fact that a book contains incorrect information
entitle the leftist thought police to suppress and censor it?
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Rallying the International anti-Israel Left on behalf of the Extremists at Ben Gurion University
…Last
year Israel’s Council on Higher Education, which oversees and funds
Israel’s universities (and is composed of representatives of those
same universities) appointed a special commission to investigate and
evaluate the Department of Politics at Ben Gurion University. That
commission found what everyone already knew, that the department is
a radical monolithic politicized incitement camp, not a serious
academic department, one in which anti-Israel activism had replaced
serious scholarship and in which serious academic standards have
been trashed. The commission proposed that the entire department be
shut down unless radical reform and restructuring takes place,
including complete de-politicization of and introduction of real
pluralism into the department.
Since that CHE report was issued, Israel’s radical Left, led by its tenured Left, has been leading a campaign to defend the anti-Israel indoctrination camp calling itself the Department of Politics at Ben Gurion University… And they are also being championed by Haaretz, the radical anti-Israel leftist “newspaper,” better thought of as a Palestinian newspaper published in Hebrew… Universities must continue to serve to indoctrinate students into correct leftist anti-Israel ideology. All attempts at interfering with this sacred mission must be resisted and defeated.
Now the tenured Left in Israel is organizing petitions of like-minded radical tenured leftists in Israel and around the world to express their support and solidarity with the Ben Gurion University indoctrination camp.
…While one could go
through the lists of signers of the petition name by name to
document their own anti-Israel far-leftist biases, it is sufficient
to illustrate the point with one of the leading signers, Berkeley’s
Judith Butler. She is a notorious collaborator with anti-Semites and
supporter of Israel annihilation and can represent the other
signers.
…
To remove all doubt, Butler made it clear that she objects to
Israel’s presence not only in the West Bank, where she was doing her
Terrorism Grand Tour. She also wants Israel removed from within
Israel’s pre-1967 borders. Butler has long supported a worldwide
boycott of Israel, and not simply because Israel “occupies” the West
Bank. She has made it clear that she demands that Israel allow
millions of Arabs claiming to be Palestinian “refugees” to flood
into Israel and convert it into yet another Palestinian Arab state.
She wants this even after the creation of some Palestinian state. …
Butler
explained to her terrorist hosts that she opposes the existence
of a Jewish state even alongside some future Palestinian Arab state.
Instead, she favors what she calls a bi-national state, something
along the lines of Rwanda.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
University of London & Middle East Forum Director Efraim Karsh Exposes Ben Gurion University’s Pseudo-Academic anti-Israel Dean of Social Sciences and Humanities David Newman
So
much so that
an international committee of scholars, appointed by Israel’s
Council for Higher Education to evaluate political science and
international relations programs in Israeli universities, recently
recommended that BGU “consider closing the Department of Politics
and Government” unless it abandoned its “strong emphasis on
political activism,” improved its research performance, and
redressed the endemic weakness “in its core discipline of political
science.” In other words, they asked that the Department return to
accurate scholarship rather than indoctrinate the students with
libel.
The same day the committee’s recommendation was revealed, Professor David Newman -- who founded that department and bequeathed it such a problematic ethos, for which “achievement” he was presumably rewarded with a promotion to Deanship of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, from where he can shape other departments in a similar way -- penned an op-ed in the Jerusalem Post in which he compared Israel’s present political culture to that of Nazi Germany…
… And therein, no doubt, lies the problem with BGU’s Politics and Government Department: the only Israeli department singled out by the international committee for the unprecedented recommendation of closure. For if its founder and long-time member, who continues to wield decisive influence over its direction, views Israel as a present-day reincarnation of Nazi Germany in several key respects, how conceivably can the department ensure the “sustained commitment to providing balance and an essential range of viewpoints and perspectives on the great issues of politics” required for its continued existence?
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Isracampus Invites you to send Condolences
As you no doubt have heard, Kim Jong Il, the goosestepping Stalinist brat who had been running the North Korean gulag in recent years, just croaked. Isracampus would like to invite you to send an e-note of condolence to Noam Chomsky; his email address is chomsky@MIT.edu
Then, please send similar letters of condolence to Israel's own leading hardcore communists and Stalinists. These include TAU "historian" Shlomo Sand: shlomosa@post.tau.ac.il; his sidekicks Gadi Algazi at gadi.algazi@gmail.com and Yoav Peled at pol1@post.tau.ac.il; Oded Lowenheim, who teaches international relations at the Hebrew University, at oded.lowenheim@huji.ac.il; Jacob Katriel, retired Technion Stalinist, at jkatriel@techunix.technion.ac.il; Eyal Nir from Ben Gurion University, an active communist party member, at eyalnir@bgu.ac.il; Ofer Cassif, central committee member, at ofercass@mta.ac.il; and Yuri Pines from the Hebrew University, at pinesy@mscc.huji.ac.il (if you do not think he is a Stalinist, see his web page at http://www.eacenter.huji.ac.il/Pines).
University of Haifa – Dalit Baum is caught telling Lies by Omission at USF; promotes BDS "information" and "tools" overseas
The
guest speaker for that evening was
Dalit Baum,
who runs the anti-Israel website "Who Profits?" She is an Israeli
radical leftist who in the past called for the dismantling of the
Jewish state. She has boasted that she has already cost the Israeli
economy in excess of 1.5 billion dollars by promoting BDS against
Israeli firms worldwide. Baum bills herself as a "feminist scholar"
and was introduced as such by Zunes, even though she only holds a
degree in math and has never published any academic work regarding
feminism. Baum made clear during the evening that she was at USF to
present to the students "information" and "tools" they could use to
boycott and divest from the Jewish state. Zunes commented at Baum's
"courage," speaking at USF, because of Israel's new law allowing
lawsuits by companies affected by BDS against activists like Baum.
…
Baum's lecture could only be described as a form of "lying by
omission"; that is, presenting just enough information about a topic
to elicit a positive or negative reaction without presenting all the
facts. In some instances she just outright lied.
…
Baum began by showing a map of Israel and the Palestinian Authority
then saying that Israel has no borders. She claimed that 3.5 million
Palestinians live in the area but that the Israeli communities
(settlements) had control over the main roads and implied only Jews
were allowed to use them. She referred to the areas around the
settlements as being "ethnically cleansed." She made no effort to
point out that Arabs who are Israeli citizens are the same ethnic
and religious makeup as Arabs in the Palestinian Authority nor about
how various security measures were needed because Palestinian
terrorists routinely attack Israelis who use those roads. Nor did
she say Arabs from the PA can use those roads after getting security
clearance, such as taxi drivers. She told her audience, "If you are
Jewish you can go to some areas and if you're not you can't go to
other areas all in a country that has no borders." This was an
example of leaving out just enough information to make a false
impression: if a person is an Arab and an Israeli citizen he is
permitted to go anywhere any Jewish Israeli citizen goes.
Palestinian Authority Arabs are restricted due to terror attacks on
Israelis. Israel's lack of permanent borders is because the Arab
states back in 1967 all agreed to refuse to make peace with Israel
so the "borders" are in fact temporary armistice lines subject to
final negotiations as part of a peace deal. Few of the students
attending her lecture would have known this and clearly Baum and
Zunes didn't want them to.
…
She objected to an unmanned robot vehicle Israel builds and use,
which patrols the border urging the manufacturer be boycotted. The
robot seems to have more academic publications to its credit than
Baum. She talked of Caterpillar and Rachel Corrie and Gaza and told
the audience Israel routinely bulldozes homes with people in them.
She falsely claimed the Israelis just pull up to civilian homes for
no reason and give the occupants only a few moments to flee, "if you
are very old or disabled you die." This was blatant lying. Home
demolitions only are used to destroy homes that were used as bomb
factories or homes of suicide bombers and they are not random.
For more omissions and to see the full original article, go here
Hebrew University - David Levi-Faur (Dept of Political Science) serves as Social Science Censor
Meet
David Levi-Faur, who teaches political science at the Hebrew
University. He is the official censor of thought on the Israeli
Social Science chat list, open to professors and students in the
social sciences. As long as they express leftist opinions.
On the social science list that he controls and censors, leftist anti-Israel opinion posts appear daily by the score, including malicious ad hominem attacks against those who dare to criticize far-leftist anti-Israel faculty members, and also against the watchdog groups like Isracampus that expose tenured treason.
Levi-Faur however routinely blocks and prevents postings by those who have been attacked, even in cases of correcting factual errors. On his list it is a basic right to attack, lie about, and insult non-leftists, but non-leftists do not have a right of reply. Bash-Israel postings are disseminated via his list because Levi-Faur thinks their positions are correct, while incorrect postings that challenge the Bash-Israel crowd are blocked and vetoed. Levi-Faur's ideas of freedom of speech and pluralism seem to be similar to those that once dominated the Soviet bloc.
Israeli tenured leftists among extremists demanding that Netanyahu government leave the sitting judges alone and not intervene in how they appoint judges anti-democratically all on their own
Some
of the signatories to the petition include Sefi Rechelvsky, Prof.
Yehuda Bauer,
Prof. Ze'ev Shternhal who suggested that terrorists attack
settlers and not other Israelis, and radical left authors
Amos Oz and
Yoram Kaniuk.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
University of Exeter - Ilan Pappe's (Dept of Israel Bashing) own Employer Looking into Pappe's Habit of Playing "fast and loose" with Facts, demanding an explanation from Pappe
It
looks like Ilan Pappé will finally have to explain himself for a
quote he attributed to Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben
Gurion, in an academic journal, the Journal of Palestine Studies and
in his 2006 book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Officials at
University of Exeter have asked Pappé to respond to a challenge from
CAMERA about the origin of the quote, for which Pappé has not
provided a legitimate citation. The Journal of Palestine Studies has
done the same thing.
…
Pappé reports on page 23 of his book that in 1937 David Ben-Gurion
wrote the following in a letter to his son: "The Arabs will have to
go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as
a war."
…
It is a damning quote, but it's almost certainly a fabrication. In
Dec. 2006, soon after the quote first appeared in print, another
historian, Benny Morris,
declared that the quote was an invention in a letter to The
Independent.
…
Morris' statement that the quote attributed to Ben-Gurion was an
"invention" should have prompted Pappé to either provide an
accurate, verifiable source for the quote or to issue a retraction
to prevent others from using it. Instead, the quote, which lacked a
valid citation, lingered on – without correction or retraction – in
the fever swamp of anti-Zionist commentary.
…
An official from University of Exeter's Ethics Committee has stated
that the matter is currently under review, that the university takes
such concerns "very seriously" and that a report will be
forthcoming.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Ben Gurion University - David Newman (Dean of Social Science and Humanities Dept) denounces those who "leaked" the fact that his BGU department consists of Anti-Israel Extremists devoid of serious academic achievements; He then whitewashes the politicized hiring process in that department
Comes perilously close
to supporting and advocating BDS
WHOEVER LEAKED the report to the press clearly had a political agenda. It is unheard of for such reports to be leaked or publicized before the CHE has an opportunity to discuss them. And the way in which it was leaked, partially and with false information and highlights, clearly was intended to create a hostile public atmosphere prior to the meeting of the CHE. The report will be the subject of a specially convened meeting of the Knesset Education Committee tomorrow – and it is clear that this has very little to do with education, but a great deal to do with politics.
The idea that universities appoint faculty according to their political opinions is the most ridiculous of all the accusations. Anyone who has the slightest knowledge of the appointment and promotion process (be it at Ben Gurion or Bar Ilan) will know that this is a tortuous process, demanding a thorough review of the candidate's academic and professional competence, his research achievements, his publication record and letters and recommendations which are received from academic peers throughout the world. [ROFL!! – Isracampus]
... Their ongoing, well-funded war of attrition against freedom of debate and academic freedom is slowly destroying Israel's democracy and leading academic friends around the world to think twice before developing research links with Israeli universities and academics. Academics who have refused up until now to be part of the boycott campaign are now turning against Israel because of the country's growing international image as a place where people, and now entire departments, with the "wrong" political views are being silenced and threatened by the activities of these extremist right-wing groups.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Chen Misgav, a PhD student in Geography under the supervision of far-leftist Tovi Fenster, claims to be a figure in "Queer Geography," at least when he is not busy participating in the Boycott-Israel Movement and in anti-Israel Violent Protests
I am working on queer geographies and
activism in Israel but my academic work doesn't deal with the
Israel-Palestine conflict. However on the other hand my personal
activist work has a lot to do with the fight against apartheid - I
work with two activist groups: "Solidarity against the fascism" and
"Anarchist against the wall", Many of the people in this two action
groups, in particular the anarchists are queers. Some people from
the anarchist started recently to distribute the BDS campaign call "Rfu$e"
(you can find it on facebook) and I take part on it. So i can't help
with academic articles (but will be happy to get what you have, i
know the work of Butler and the BDS book by omar bargotti). This
week from tomorrow to Saturday there will be an activist annual
conference in the village of Bili'n - here is the program and i will
go to the conference on the second day by myself, and probably to
the Friday demonstration as well as I do almost every week:
Regards,
Chen Misgav
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Ariel Handel (Cohn Institute) claims Israel has violated Einstein's laws about time and space in the West Bank
The
Paper's main argument would be that Israel is controlling the
Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) by systematically dismantling
the relation between space and time, or, in other words, by
disassembling the correlation between spatial absolute value and
usage value.
Absolute value is what can be measured in uniform distance units, which are, basically, indifferent to the occurrences in the measured space: for example, aerial distance between two points. Usage value, in contrast, deals with spatial actual usage possibilities… Spatial usage value always embodies time in it. Paving road between two points does not change the distance in kilometers, but shortens drastically the actual distance between them. In the same manner, blocking road lengthens the actual distance by containing time postponement within it.
I will attempt to analyze few basic modes of spatial control, which are used for describing Israel's control mode in the OPT: prison, ghetto, siege, camp and "movement policing"… The analysis would show that although having few similarities among each of the mentioned models none of them fully describes the situation in the OPT, which can be understood only by referring to what I would like to call "technologies of spatial uncertainty".
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Amit Barak, 'Im Tirtzu' spokesman, Implores BGU President Rivka Carmi to Comply with the CHE Recommendations or Resign
Unfortunately,
however, the university, under your guidance, has chosen to
completely disregard these demands and continues to silence the
student body, while enabling the professors in the Department of
Politics and Government to continue their uniform, anti- Israel
teachings.
Professor Neve Gordon recently announced that the kidnapping of Gilad Schalit was not terrorism, while, at a conference held by the Department of Politics and Government last week, terrorists sentenced for the murder of Israeli citizens were termed "political prisoners."
Professor Carmi, under your guidance Ben- Gurion University of the Negev has been the subject of a report containing severe criticism, degrading the reputation of Israeli academia.
Today, you have a unique opportunity to begin leading the university back to prominence by choosing to adopt the recommendations of the Council for Higher Education and completely revamping the structure of the Department of Politics and Government, including lecturers, courses and syllabi. We implore you to follow this path, in order to restore the status and reputation of the university.
If, on the other hand, you refuse to accept the decision of the CHE, you should take responsibility for these failures and resign immediately.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
The Full report of the International Panel that called for the dismemberment of Ben Gurion University's Politics department due to pseudo-scholarship, absence of standards, and monolithic anti-Israel indoctrination
http://www.scribd.com/doc/7423
Ben Gurion University - David Newman (Dept of Political Science) Claims that One-Sided leftist Classroom Indoctrination is the highest form of academic pluralism
The
Council for Higher Education is set to vote Tuesday to ratify the
external report it commissioned on the political science faculties
at Israel's universities, including Ben-Gurion University of the
Negev's Politics and Government Department, which came under heavy
criticism. The document lists a series of shortcomings at Ben-Gurion
University and even advises, as a last resort, closing down the
department entirely if the problems are not resolved.
The report also refers to the fact that students at the Ben-Gurion University department are exposed to the personal political opinions of their professors, noting: "Lecturers must ensure that their personal opinions are presented as such, so that the students can judge things from a critical perspective and be exposed to a wide range of perspectives and alternatives."
… According to Prof. David Newman, the dean of Ben-Gurion's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and one of the founders of its Politics and Government Department, "The department has become a target for attack by all those who wish to suppress any pluralist dialogue and trample every piece of academic freedom. One brief glance at this activity is enough to grasp the inherent danger it poses for the existence of Israeli democracy."
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Interdisciplinary Center (Herzliya) - Galia Golan (School of Government) Far Leftist Galia Golan, Founder and Leader of radical leftist 'Peace Now', cannot seem to Find any Political Bias at Ben Gurion University; Claims Pluralism in the classroom negates Academic Freedom
Furthermore,
committee member Prof. Galia Golan refused to sign the report,
claiming it was politically-motivated. Instead, Golan wrote a
Minority Opinion (can be read at the end of the report below), in
which she wrote that the demand “for a balance (of views) in the
classroom… runs directly counter to the principle of academic
freedom.”
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Aeyal Gross' (Dept of Law) "Pinkwashing" claims are basis for Israel-bashing in New York Times
The
growing global gay movement against the Israeli occupation has named
these tactics "pinkwashing": a deliberate strategy to conceal the
continuing violations of Palestinians' human rights behind an image
of modernity signified by Israeli gay life. Aeyal Gross, a professor
of law at Tel Aviv University, argues that "gay
rights have essentially become a public-relations tool," even
though "conservative and especially religious politicians remain
fiercely homophobic."
Pinkwashing not only manipulates the hard-won gains of Israel's gay community, but it also ignores the existence of Palestinian gay-rights organizations. Homosexuality has been decriminalized in the West Bank since the 1950s, when anti-sodomy laws imposed under British colonial influence were removed from the Jordanian penal code, which Palestinians follow. More important is the emerging Palestinian gay movement with three major organizations: Aswat, Al Qaws and Palestinian Queers for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions. These groups are clear that the oppression of Palestinians crosses the boundary of sexuality; as Haneen Maikay, the director of Al Qaws, has said, "When you go through a checkpoint it does not matter what the sexuality of the soldier is."
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Aeyal Gross (Dept of Law) denounces Israel for its "Pinkwashing"; Tolerance towards Gays is no reason Why Israel should be Allowed to Exist
LGBT
activists in Israel now find themselves in a double bind. Victories
for civil rights, which are gained with hard labor, and often with
the government's representatives explicitly objecting to them in the
courts, are quickly co-opted by the government in its efforts to
present Israel's liberal credentials.
Gay rights have essentially become a public-relations tool. In
this campaign Israel is portrayed as a progressive "western"
country, as opposed to "backwards", homophobic Islamic countries.
This is then used to justify Israel's own version of the "war on
terror," including the occupation and attacks on the Palestinian
population. Consider, for example,
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's introduction of the issue of gay
rights in Iran in his speech to the United Nations in 2009, or
his
recent suggestion that human rights groups sail to Iran and Gaza,
"places where homosexuals are hanged," rather than criticize
Israel. A further dimension of this process is the co-optation of
the plight of gay Palestinians,
often through the
creation of a false narrative according to which Israel supposedly
gives them safe haven. .
The recent campaign promoting Tel Aviv as a mecca for gay tourism
is but one example of how gay rights are used to re-brand Israel as
a land of freedom: while Tel-Aviv is a friendly and integrated city
when it comes to the gay community, the freedoms it offers are
denied to Palestinians as well as other marginalized groups such as
migrant workers.
The recent use of the term "pinkwashing" to describe Israel's use of gay rights for propaganda, patterned on "greenwashing," may be somewhat misleading. Whereas greenwashers only pretend to "go green," Israel and its advocates often co-opt advances in gay rights that actually took place, to push forward a nationalist agenda. While Israel's record on gay and more generally LGBT rights is far from perfect, there is no denying that considerable progress has been made. As a matter of fact if we want to fully understand the role of LGBT rights in Israeli homonationalism, we must not deny the progress that actually took place, but rather engage in further comprehension and analysis of this process. We should also not erase the hard work of activists and the hardly won achievements.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Hebrew University - Far Leftist Alon Harel (School of Law) Insists that Transparency Laws are in fact a War against Law and Order
You
know, in contrast with a "Palestinian Right of Return"
The new legislation harms not only or mainly the rule of law, but law itself - the law of a country, as distinct from power that depends on brute force. Theoreticians of jurisprudence have pondered at length the difference between a robber who takes money at gunpoint and a tax official who has the police, prisons and legal system behind him. These thinkers say the law, unlike a robber's threats, is an expression of a political entity's collective will, and obedience to the law typically expresses the desire or obligation to be part of the political community.
...
The Knesset has declared war not only or mainly on these NGOs, and not even on the rule of law, but on law itself. The legislature has chosen to use law not as a tool to realize policy, but to tyrannize the people. The logic guiding this behavior is not that of a tax collector, but of a robber. "I'm stronger so I'm taking your money." The death of law and its substitution by force should make human rights groups think twice about the way they conduct themselves in the future.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
The Whole World now Knows - the Politics Department at BGU is an anti-Israel Pseudo-Academic Propaganda Group that Needs to be Shut Down at Once
In
an unprecedented move, an international committee appointed by the
Council for Higher Education has recommended that the Politics and
Government Department at Ben Gurion University be shut down unless
it addresses some of the problems pointed out by the committee.
According to the Yedioth Ahronoth daily, several of the department's researchers are considered to be radical leftists. Some of them have even called for an economic, political and cultural boycott on Israel due to its "apartheid regime."
The committee, which is headed by Professor Thomas Risse from the Free University in Berlin, expressed its concern that the department's political inclinations may be resulting in what it referred to as an imbalance between the opinions of the faculty members and the curriculum.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Ben Gurion University - David Newman (Faculty of Humanities - Dean) again attacking the donors to his own university. THEY are NOT entitled to freedom of speech!
Leads
the campaign to protect the right of the EU to fund and promote
treason in Israel
Neither are the bastions of freedom of expression immune to these pressures. Universities, where freedom of expression and diversity of opinion should be the most cherished of values, are proving themselves weak in the face of these same pressures. Right-wing donors who feel that their checkbooks give them the right to determine what goes on in a country they are not even prepared to be citizens of threaten to cease their funding and influence others to do the same.
In the tight economic situation of recent years, the leaders of these institutions are not always prepared to publicly stand up for academic freedom, as the lure of the donation takes precedence over the values around which these important centers of science and education were created in the first place. It has become easier for university heads to lay the blame for their failure to bring in new donors at the door of left-wing academics than than to attribute the drop off in funding to the realities of economic recession or to their inability to succeed in a highly competitive world of Israeli institutions (universities, hospitals, yeshivot, welfare associations) all vying for the evershrinking dollar.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Ben Gurion University - Neve Gordon (Dept of Political Science), writing in the Pro-Terror Anti-Semitic "Counterpunch" magazine, claims Israel preparing to Attack Iran for no Reason at all
Regardless
of whether Netanyahu and Barak are already set on launching an
assault, the media hype and the portrayal of Iran as constituting an
existential threat to Israel surely help to produce the necessary
conditions for a military campaign.
What is remarkable about this saber rattling is its abstraction. Not a single analyst noted that entering war is easy but ending it is far more difficult, particularly if on the other side stands a regional power with vast resources and a well-trained military (unlike Hamas or Hezbollah). And, of course, no one really talked about the likelihood of a gory future or what kind of life we were planning for our children. This kind of abstraction makes war palatable, providing a great service to the war machine.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Moshe Zuckermann (Cohn Institute) masters the art of Pseudo-History
Over
the years, the cost accounting spirit has emerged as one of the
basic patterns of Israeli political culture. From the state's
instrumentalizing of the memory of the Holocaust (which found its
supreme satiric expression in the outcry of the Israeli functionary,
"Haven't the Jewish people suffered enough?" in a skit by the
Cameric Five comedy troupe ); the lordly slogan of the senior
politician who tells the victims of the Israeli occupation: "If they
give, they'll get"; down to the "price tag" euphemism for the
pogromist actions of the Jewish Cossacks in the territories - all
these phenomena (and numberless others in the political, social and
economic spheres ) are characterized by the intentional cynical
cheapening of suffering that is concealed behind the headlines and
the words, or by its denial through subordination to the
exchange-value principle. Whenever the exchange-value principle is
applied, the victims of historic horror become a manipulative
element in some irrelevant wheeling and dealing, or the current
victims are presented as a factor in some fundamentally baseless
equation of justice, or they even become a target of repeated
duplication in terms of their status as victims.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
University of the Witwatersrand - Ex-Israeli anti-Israel extremist sociologist Ran Greenstein (Dept of Sociology) leads the jihad from the Veldt
His
revenge for the fact that Israeli universities refused him a job?
… is Israel merely one ethnic state among others, as Pogrund argues? Let us ask: which other state was founded on the massive exclusion of its indigenous people to clear the way for immigrants, an exclusion forcibly maintained to this day? In which other state is such exclusion being buttressed daily by new laws, regulations, speeches, government policies, parliamentary commissions of enquiry, and educational and media campaigns? Which other state constantly seeks new ways to bolster its ethnic nature at the expense of its indigenous people, and restrict their political, social (and – where possible – physical) presence? Which other state is a 'demographic state' in a similar manner? If the label 'apartheid' is not suitable, what alternative do Goldstone and Pogrund have to offer?
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Hebrew University – Nurit Peled-Elhanan (Dept of Education) publishes book that claims Israeli textbooks are racist; she has no problem with PA textbooks however
Her
book, Palestine in Israeli School Books: Ideology and Propaganda in
Education, is being translated into English, and presents findings
from what she says are "years of research" showing Israel has
portrayed Arabs as second-class people.
Peled-Elchanan says that
she researched schoolbooks used in the Israeli school system between
1996 and 2009, and found, she said in an interview with the British
Guardian, "dozens of examples of how children are prepared to
justify war crimes in their army service."
…
On the other hand, Peled-Elchanan said, she had no problem with PA
textbooks that present Jews as evil murderers, modern-day Nazis,
occupiers, and thieves, and do not even recognize Israel's
existence, wiping it off the school maps. She did not comment on
mathematics problems that have students calculate whether they would
down an Israeli plane under certain given.
"They are not racist and there is no incitement there, for the simple reason that they are controlled by the Israeli army…"
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
What
passes for academic publication at the University of Haifa:
University of Haifa - Yuval Yonay (Dept of Sociology), anti-Israel
Marxist sociologist and expert on "Queer Studies," publishes
"academic" article claiming Israel silences its Arab athletes
Israeli
media discourse is by and large intolerant towards views that
challenge its nationalistic fundamentals. The same discursive rules
are evident in the way both the sport media and fans respond to
opinions expressed by Arab soccer players. While the talkbackers’
responses tend to be more aggressive and vicious than those of
journalists and commentators, the spirit of the two groups studied
is similar: both rebuff Palestinian players’ political statements
and refuse to sympathize or engage with them in a serious dialogue.
When the Palestinian players dare to make critical statements, a very common response is to draw a strict dividing line between ‘clean’ sports and ‘dirty’ politics, claiming that the former must remain clearly separated from the latter. ... The public discourse puts them back ‘in their place’ and reminds them that they are neither qualified nor have the moral authority to represent the Arab public.
... Summarizing our findings, it is evident that the Arab-Palestinian soccer players who excel on the turf are prevented from serving as a channel to convey the voice of Palestinian citizens in Israel. When they try to fulfil such a role, they are vehemently silenced and sent back to the turf. Paradoxically, the attempts of Arab-Palestinian politicians to carry the same voice are also futile.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
The tenured Left is Demanding that Professors be Paid their Salaries when Imprisoned for Lawbreaking and Refusing to Serve in the Military
Dear Professor Carmi,
We, the undersigned, staff and faculty members of different
universities, protest your mistreatment of Professor Idan Landau, a
faculty member at Ben Gurion University, of which you are the
president. Last May, Prof. Landau was imprisoned for a week for
refusing to do army reserve service in the occupied Palestinian
territories. Your institution deducted half of his weekly salary,
without any legal or disciplinary procedure, on grounds of "absence
of research activity", as if his imprisonment deprived him of the
possibility of engaging in research.
… It is hard not to suspect that the motivation for this punishment is connected to Professor Landau's political views and has absolutely nothing to do with his research activity…
Among the Signatories:
6. Prof. Adi Ophir, Tel Aviv University
7. Ariella Azoulay, Tel Aviv University
17. Prof. Gadi Algazi, Tel Aviv University
31. Prof. Anat Biletzki, Tel Aviv University
47. Dr. Nir Gov, Weizmann Institute
52. Prof. Rachel Giora, Tel Aviv University
61. Prof. Chaim Gans, Tel Aviv University
62. Dr. Eyal Gross, Tel Aviv University
69. Prof. Uri Hadar, Tel Aviv University
79. Prof. Alon Harel, Hebrew University
92. Prof. Shlomo Sand, Tel Aviv University
95. Prof. Hannan Hever, Hebrew University
102. Dr. Yuval Yonai, University of Haifa
114. Dr. Orly Lubin, Tel Aviv University
126. Prof. Micah Leshem, University of Haifa
158. Dr. Hannah Safran, Jezreel Valley College
161. Prof. Avraham Oz, University of Haifa
172. Prof. Nurit Peled-Elhanan, Hebrew University, Sakharov Prize
for freedom of thought
183. Dr. Kobi Peter (Peterzil), University of Haifa
193. Dr. Hagai Kupermintz, University of Haifa
201. Prof. Vered Kraus, University of Haifa
217. Prof. David Shulman, Hebrew University
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Ben Gurion University - BGU docks Idan Landau (Dept of Foreign Literatures & Linguistics) salary for the period he spent in prison for refusing to do army service; Sanity at last at BGU?
Landau states that 'many others' in the Foreign Literature Dept spend little time on campus
Dear
staff members of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Executive Summary
In May this year I went for a week to a military prison for reserve duty disobedience. The university has decided to deduct from my salary the research part (50%) of this week. I protested the decision at the meeting I had with the President of the university this week, but to no avail. In light of the President's announcement, I no longer see Ben Gurion University as my academic home.
And now, in detail
I am a military reserve objector since the year 2000. In 2001 I went to prison for two weeks. I was a Kreitman scholarship recipient in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics. In 2003 I went back to prison for two weeks. I was already part of the university staff (as an Alon scholarship recipient). And the last time was in May this year: I went to prison for a week.
Unlike previous times, this time a surprise was waiting: the Human Resources Dept. decided to dock a week's wages from my salary. After I created a little stir and made it clear that no damage was done to my teaching (I gave supplementary lessons), or my research (the week in prison was especially productive, quiet and almost without interruption) - I was told that the decision had been suspended. It turned out that someone forgot to update me, and on June 27, the Management submitted the final decision (Management = president, rector and CEO) to deduct half my weekly wage due to lack of research. I received notice only in October, and immediately asked to meet with the President for clarification.
The official justification, repeated by the President, is that Social Security does not cover the period of incarceration. In my defense, I argued that it is unclear why there is room for indemnification when there is no evidence of damage; was my research really damaged because of the week I was in prison? The legal premise here is that research can only be performed in the physical confines of a university office. Any intelligent person (especially in our faculty) knows that it is not so; many others are not present in the office more than three times a week. Many others come to the institution only to teach, and perform their research at home.
[IsraCampus translation from the original letter (in Hebrew)]
Isracampus' Call to Students at Tel Aviv University
A
couple of days ago Tel Aviv University's airhead philosophy faculty
member, Anat Matar, was in the news for her celebrating the release
of mass murderers and terrorists as a great reason to party. She
also defended a terrorist's tossing a grenade at a bus full of
soldiers. Her own son of course was not on that bus because he was
convicted and did jail time for refusing to serve in the Israeli
army.
The same bimbette is in
the media (Hebrew only:
http://www.news1.co.il/Archiv
Now for those of you not familiar with the product, one of the great cultural achievements of Israel is "Bamba" - a high-calorie snack with peanut butter in the center, which no teenager watching South Park on television can resist eating.
Of course, Tel Aviv University still needs to explain why they have given tenure in the philosophy department to a traitor who has Bamba between her ears.
Isracampus would hereby like to call upon students at Tel Aviv University to throw Bamba at Anat Matar! Non-violently, of course.
Canadian Conference singles out Tel Aviv University as "the epicentre" of Israeli Academic Fifth Columnists
Sally
Zerker, York University professor emeritus and a pioneer in
Canadian Professors for Peace in the Middle East, deplored the
apparently increasing number of Jews who publicly denounce
Israel...
Zerker is especially enraged by Israeli professors she calls "fifth columnists" and "traitors," terms she doesn't hesitate to use because "Israel is at war, delegitimation is war, which means the Jewish people is at war as well."
Fellow panelist _National Post_ columnist Barbara Kay concurred, but instead of getting angry she finds Israeli academics and intellectuals who denounce Israel ludicrous.
She cited several examples, singling out Tel Aviv University as "the epicentre of the phenomenon. They'll never see another dollar from me."
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Academics Uri Hadar (TAU, Dept of Psychology) and Oren Yiftachel (BGU, Dept. of Geography) named as part of a concerted effort to deconstruct Zionism
The
scenes of the Israeli army's attack on Gaza at the turn of 2008
evoked... images of Auschwitz. I came out... saying to myself: Of
course, we found our [sacrificial] lamb – the people of Gaza.
– from The Hermeneutic
Underpinning of Ethnic Brutality: The Jewish Israeli Case, Prof.
Uri Hadar, Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University, 2011
...
The
sentiments expressed in the citation from Tel Aviv University's Uri
Hadar at the start of this column dovetail well with those of his
colleague Oren Yiftahel of Ben- Gurion University.
In The Jailer State (January 18, 2009), the good professor states: "Palestinian violence, and particularly the shelling from Gaza, should also be perceived as a prison uprising... suppressed with terror by the Israeli state."
In her meticulously researched and documented 'Tenured Radicals' in Israel, Prof. Ofira Seliktar traces the ongoing activities of academics who exploit their positions to promote the delegitimization of Israel. This is becoming evermore prevalent not only in academic research agendas but also in the content of courses taught and of conferences/ seminars held, as well as an increasingly weighty factor in the selection of faculty.
Seliktar describes how the "Zionist endeavor" is routinely portrayed as a "colonialist enterprise" in which the Jews have no any more rights to Palestine than the British had to India.
According to her study, Israeli academics support petitioning the International Criminal Court against IDF officers, and Israeli academic institutions are depicted – by those employed by them – as an indivisible part of an oppressive state, which has perpetrated unforgivable crimes against the Palestinian people.
Numerous Israeli scholars endorse the boycott, sanctions and disinvestment measures against Israel and even support sanctions against the very universities paying their salaries – salaries that they are somehow loath to "boycott," despite the fact that they come from the coffers of the iniquitous racist state they decry.
Might this not be cause
for the average Israeli to ponder the use being made of taxes
deducted from his hard-earned income?
...
The conceptual foundations underpinning the Zionist enterprise are
being deconstructed; the ideological edifice embodying the notion of
Jewish political sovereignty is being eroded. This deconstruction,
this erosion, is being carried out by those who should be entrusted
with the maintenance of those foundations and the enhancement of
that edifice – those charged with dispensing justice, imparting
knowledge and conveying truth
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Ben Gurion University – Eyal Nir's (Dept of Chemistry) inflammatory statements against right-wing religious group calls into question the Academic Freedom in his classroom
Two
weeks ago it was reported that State Prosecutor Shai Nitzan had
asked police to investigate Ben-Gurion University chemistry lecturer
Eyal Nir for incitement because of a call he made to "break the
necks" of a right-wing fringe group. The same week, Kent State
University Professor Julio Pino yelled "death to Israel" during a
lecture by Israeli diplomat Ishmael Khaldi. It is important to
examine not only the merits of these cases but also the wider
context of freedom of expression and the "right" of academics to
engage in extremist speech while at the same time enjoying the
presumption that their work with students remains unbiased and
uninformed by their sometimes radical views.
The Nir incident took
place in June, 2011, after Israelis marched through Jerusalem on
Jerusalem Day. Some of the fringe part of the march included a group
that chanted anti- Arab slogans and whose comments were posted on
YouTube. Nir saw the YouTube video and linked to it on his Facebook
page, with a comment in Hebrew that "gangs of bandits are swarming
our country. I call on the world to come and help break these
scoundrels' necks."
...
It is worth noting that Eyal Nir is no stranger to radical politics
in Israel. In 2010 he was photographed being arrested by the IDF
during a protest at Nabi Salah in the West Bank. Blogger Alison
Ramer wrote that "Nir was taken into an army jeep for insulting a
soldier with a racial slur."
Ben-Gurion University has
seemingly stood by Nir, noting in a statement: "Dr. Nir published
his comments as a private individual, on his personal Facebook page.
The university does not take a side in the matter, and therefore
justice should be sought in appropriate legal forum."
...
THE PROBLEM with Nir's comments is not whether they constitute
incitement under Israeli law, since the incitement law is, in my
opinion, flawed. The issue that should be raised about Nir's
diatribe is how it impacts the university environment he teaches in.
A review of cases abroad shows that most faculty members who have
been fired for things they said had their jobs terminated only in
connection to comments made in class or which were directly related
to campus activities.
…
Most respected academics know the value of having their students
believe classes are not biased against certain individuals due to
race, creed or gender. Since national-religious students in Israel
clearly constitute a creed it is certainly possible that these
students might feel that Nir's "break their necks" comment was
directed at them and would feel uncomfortable attending his classes.
How can one study in such a hostile environment? Could a black
student feel comfortable in a class where she knew that the lecturer
had written in an op-ed that black activists should have their necks
broken? Furthermore, why do academics enjoy a special type of free
speech that no other occupation enjoys? Those defending these
"outbursts" seem to misconstrue the notion of academic freedom,
which means a freedom to research, with the idea that academics have
the right to behave in the lowest manner possible, using outbursts
that befit the village drunk more than they do a holder of a
doctorate.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Ben Gurion University - BGU lecturer Esmail Nashif (Dept of Sociology) running a jihad against the "Zionist presence in Palestine" from his cushy Israeli university job
Does
the anti-boycott law preclude psudeo-academic support of the BDS
movement?
The boycott, in its diverse forms, against the colonial regime in Palestine is a welcome step so long as its objective is to undermine the regime. Presumably, the intentions and aims of the leaders of the campaigns calling for the boycott are indeed to weaken the Zionist regime in Palestine, and that they are based on the contradictions of this regime. However, the boycott against the colonial rule in Palestine raises some questions that the horizon of Palestinian collective action has often ignored. Of particular importance is the question of the relationship between the tools of resistance and their users. This question is tied to the vision from which the tools of resistance are derived. From this perspective, the boycott does not exist in and of itself, and it can be effective only if it is used in a more general framework that strives to undermine colonialism. In this article, I shall examine the relations between the general, theoretical-political framework of the boycott as a tool of resistance, on the one hand, and the Palestinian who uses the tool to bring down the Zionist colonial regime in Palestine, on the other hand.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Israeli Professors of Hate
These Israeli academics
abuse academic freedom by utilizing their universities as launching
pads to delegitimize their own country and people. The extreme
damage to Israel’s reputation and Jewish identity inflicted by these
and other Jewish intellectuals has been greatly underestimated.
…
Whether
it is Professor Shlomo Sand, who achieved celebrity status in Europe
by publishing a book denying the existence of the Jewish people, or
Professor Oren Yiftachel, who called Israel "a white... pure
settlement colonial society", these Israeli celebrities gained fame
and fortune by trashing their own country and people.
The same phenomenon happened in czarist Russia, when some Jewish social agitators endorsed pogroms against their own kinsmen, hoping that by venting their frustrations on Jews, the masses would ultimately turn on the czar.
At
the Ben-Gurion University, Neve Gordon accused the IDF of being "war
criminals" and promoted the boycott of Israel in a Los Angeles Times
editorial. Gordon's articles have also been published on the web
site of Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel and in Iran's state media.
Ze'ev
Sternhell, in the midst of the Second Intifada, when his own
students were being butchered on buses and restaurants, declared
that Palestinians should "concentrate their struggle against the
settlements".
In May 2001, after Arabs sadistically bashed the skulls of two "settler kids" in Tekoa, Israeli psychiatrist Ruchama Marton declared that "the settlers raise little monsters".
Anat
Matar of Tel Aviv University openly supported boycotts of her own
university. You find professors such as Moshe Zimmermann and other
members of the progressive community who compared the Israelis to
the Nazis. Also professors such as Idith Zertal, who thinks that the
Zionist absorption of Holocaust refugees was a form of rape.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Anat Matar (Dept of Philosophy) Joins the Jihad – Promotes Terrorist Murders of Jews
We
have reported regularly on the antics and shenanigans of Tel Aviv
University's Anat Matar, one of the worst tenured extremists at Tel
Aviv University. She is violent and has been arrested for her
violence. She despises Israel and wants it destroyed. She is a
tenured faculty member in philosophy.
... One of those released from Israeli prison was convicted terrorist Muchlas Burjal. He had thrown a grenade at a bus with Jews inside, except the grenade did not go off. Anat Matar has proclaimed him a hero and participated in the welcoming celebrations when he returned home. She organized a group of Israeli leftists to greet the terrorist at his home, bedecked in PLO flags, joined by Arab fascist members of the Israeli parliament.
Cited in Makor Rishon [print edition October 28, 2011 - Hebrew], Matar says that Burjal is a hero because he threw the grenade at a bus carrying Israeli soldiers and not civilians, and such an attack is a legitimate form of resistance. Oh, and not to worry, Matar's own son was not inside the bus because he served time in prison for refusing to do army service altogether. Matar is now lobbying for the release of another convicted terrorist, one Walid Daka, who murdered Israeli soldier Moshe Tamam. Matar insists that Daka is actually innocent because he says he is. The court that convicted him disagrees. In an interview with Makor Rishon, Matar expressed support for terrorist violence by Palestinian against Israelis as resistance to "occupation."...
Are you concerned that a tenured member of the faculty at Tel Aviv University is working as a promoter of murdering Jews and as an enabler of terrorist atrocities? Why not tell the heads of TAU what you think:
Tel Aviv University:
President, Professor Joseph Klafter
Email
klafter@post.tau.ac.il
Tel Aviv University
P.O. Box 39040
Tel Aviv 69978
ISRAEL
Tel: 972-3-6408254
Fax: 972-3-6406466
Rector: Prof. Aron Shai
Email:
aashai@post.tau.ac.il
and
rector@post.tau.ac.il
Tel Aviv University
P.O. Box 39040
Tel Aviv 69978
ISRAEL
American Friends Offices
of Tel Aviv University:
http://www.aftau.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_contact
Other "Friends of" Groups:
http://www.tau.ac.il/friends-eng.html
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
University of Exterior – Ilan Pappe testifies that evoking the blood libel is not anti-Semitic
There
is no other interpretation as a matter of history or elementary
literacy for such a statement than the following: Raed Salah was
presenting the blood libel — i.e. the medieval conspiracy theory
that Jews bake bread with the blood of Gentile children — as
legitimate.
... [Raed Salah]'s evidence is supported by that of Professor Ilan Pappe who although describing the Appellant’s address as at times incoherent and emotive, said the Appellant did not invoke the blood libel in this or any other speech, and made a clear distinction between Jews as a race and the actions of Israeli officials. The words used by the Appellant on this occasion did not amount to blood libel because he did not refer to Jewish bread; the message of the address was not anti-Semitic or even anti-Zionist
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Ben Gurion University – Eyal Nir (Dept of Chemistry) to be investigated for incitement after calling 'to break rightists' necks'; BGU Officials absolve themselves from any responsibility
Will
Dr. Nir become the first leftist indicted for incitement to murder?
Deputy
State Prosecutor
Shai Nitzan has asked the police on Thursday to investigate a
Ben Gurion University professor due complaints that have been made
over an inciting web post.
…
"I call on the world to come help break these scoundrels' necks,"
the lecturer wrote. The post was accompanied by a video clip that
showed some of the marchers chanting anti-Arab slogans.
According to a Justice Ministry statement, Nitzan said that the post warranted an investigation on suspicion of incitement to violence.
Ben Gurion University responded by saying that "Dr. Eyal Nir published the post on his Facebook page as a private citizen. The university has nothing to do with the issue, which is why the issue must be discussed in the appropriate forum."
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Uri Hadar's (Dept of Psychology) latest Pseudo-Academic Demonization of Israel as a "Brutal" Regime
We
nominate him for the first prize in the use of nonsense
polysyllables in pseudo-academic pseudo-analysis for such sentences
as this:
At the same time, the ‘case’ also acts to limit the epistemological claims regarding this hermeneutic network.
Especially, my firstperson account implies the non-deterministic nature of the related dynamisms, inasmuch as its subject of enunciation (the writing author) clearly subverts its logic.
'People who are engaged in brutality over long stretches of time become increasingly brutal. … Below I give some examples of how my account can explain certain non-trivial characteristics of Jewish Israeli brutality towards Palestinians. Secondly, the above shorthand version does not and cannot explain how brutalities that seem intractable often – even if not always – come to an end of their own internal dynamics, while the longer discussion may indicate the manner in which the logic of the brutality network can be subverted or transcended. … Of course, this may always be done by the intervention of powers that are greater than those of the ongoing brutality. This possibility seems to me the main source of hope for a change in the course of Israeli–Palestinian events, although for the time being it seems like a far dream. Yet, even if the ongoing brutality is stopped through external intervention, it is still necessary to transform the internal dynamics of the social and cultural communities that are involved in the conflict.
…
This is especially so if one appreciates the significance of the two recent attacks by Israel on civilian populations and installations, namely, the 2006 attack on Lebanon and the 2008 attack on Gaza. These were the most brutal and disproportionate attacks that Israel has ever carried out… Never before has such a liberal government enjoyed such universal support for operations that were so blatantly brutal and disproportionate.'
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Elia Leibowitz (Dept of Physics) claims that unless Israel withdraws voluntarily from all the "settlements," it will be forced into such withdrawal by 9-11 style attacks on Tel Aviv Skyscrapers
Puts forward that the 'only' way to deal with security risks to the nation is through the Leftist Agenda and capitulation to Hamas demands.
'The
government's only choice is between carrying out the withdrawal
while Tel Aviv's Azrieli Towers are still standing tall on Derekh
Hashalom or carrying out the withdrawal after their collapse, which
almost certainly will be the work of man. Clearly such an event
would end the possibility of the Israeli government choosing between
those two options for withdrawal.
In the framework of an Israeli withdrawal carried out while the Azrieli Towers are still standing, the government has the power to set the Green Line as the border for withdrawal. But if the withdrawal occurs after the towers collapse, the wave of killing and slaughter that causes their destruction will be only a part of the tragedy of this unfortunate country, and there is considerable doubt about whether the withdrawal will stop at the Green Line.'
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Martin Sherman castigates the Leftist Tenured Traitors for abusing their academic credentials to delegitimize Israel
For an increasingly visible, vocal and vitriolic sector among Israeli academics is playing an influential role in the public discourse on the Arab-Israeli conflict that can only be defined as detrimental, dysfunctional and, regrettably, at times disloyal.
Motivated mainly by fear of donor desertion, university authorities have attempted to downplay the scope of the phenomenon – trying to dismiss it as marginal in influence and negligible in size.
This is a manifest
misrepresentation of the facts.
...
But it is not only what Israeli academics have failed to do that is
of concern. What they have done is even more disturbing.
Many — some unwitting, others wittingly — have thrown their weight behind the burgeoning drive to delegitimize Israel internationally, particularly in intellectual circles across the globe.
Regrettably, frequent use — or rather abuse — is made of academic titles or positions to create an aura of authority on issues where none exists.
Take for example the good Prof. Shulman, who is listed at Renee Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. On his website he details his areas of academic expertise as the history of religion in South India, poetry/poetics in Tamil, Telugu and Sanskrit; Dravidian linguistics; and Carnatic music, none of which appears to have any relevance for the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Yet making use of his academic credentials, he blogs regularly in The New York Review of Books, vilifying Israel and validating much of the vitriol of its detractors.
Thus almost immediately following the IDF interception of the Mavi Marama in its attempt to break the naval quarantine of Gaza, he applied his expertise in South Asian culture to the realm of maritime law and national security.
...Such examples are far too numerous to catalog in this essay, but some will be dealt with in future columns, for this is an issue that has far too long been neglected.
A giant pall of shame
Israeli academe will have much to answer for to future generations.
For despite its long list of illustrious accomplishments, a giant
pall of shame and disgrace is beginning to rise above it — shame for
what it has done; guilt for what it has not.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
University of Haifa - Micah Leshem (Dept of Psychology), writing in the Segel-Plus chat list on October 6, 2011, defends the vandalizing of Joseph's Tomb in Nablus by Palestinians and the painting of swastikas on the shrine as "resistance"
From: Micah Leshem
<micahl@psy.haifa.ac.il>
To: SEGEL-PLUS@list.haifa.ac.il
Sent: October 6, 2011
"No. It was intended as resistance to the occupation, which imposed 'Jewish Holiness' on the Palestinian Sheik's tomb by force of arms and by Settlers, and at the cost of many Palestinian lives.
"It was not a Jewish holy place before the occupation. In that it differs from, eg the Wailing Wall, etc.
"Hence it is not in the province of the Jewish-Arab Center, and should not be so.
"It is an intentional provocation adding insult to injury to suggest that it is in any way comparable to what happened in Tuba– which was an act of hate, racism, and terror inflicted on innocent people in their place of worship.
"The distinction is clear.
"Micah"
Israeli Academics Lobbying for "recognition" for "Palestine"; What will they say when Tel Aviv is bathed with rockets fired from Recognized Palestine?
We, the undersigned, call on all persons seeking peace and freedom, and upon all nations to join us in welcoming the Palestinian Declaration of Independence, to support it and to work and act together in order to encourage the citizens of both countries to live together in peace, based on the '67 borders and mutual agreement. A final and complete end to the occupation is a basic condition for the freedom of both peoples, for the realization of Israel's Declaration of Independence and a future of peaceful coexistence.
Prof. Chaim Adler, Israel
Prize laureate
Prof. Joseph Agassi, Philosopher
Prof. Eva Illouz
Prof. Elie Barnavi, former Ambassador to France
Prof. Yehuda Bauer, Israel Prize laureate
Prof. Haim Ben Shahar, former President of Tel Aviv University
Prof. Miriam Ben-Peretz, Israel Prize laureate
Prof. Menachem Brinker, Israel Prize laureate
Prof. Judith Buber Agassi
Prof. Yehuda Elkana, former President of the Central European
University
Prof. Yaron Ezrahi, winner of the Political Science Society Award
Prof. Menachem Fish
Prof. Haim Gans
Prof. Galia Golan
Prof. Amiram Goldblum
Prof. Naomi Graetz
Prof. Hanoch Gutfreund, former President of the Hebrew University
Prof. Galit Hasan-Rokem
Prof. Ruth Hacohen
Prof. David Harel, Israel Prize and Emet laureate
Prof. Avnet Katz
Prof. Elihu Katz, Israel Prize laureate
Prof. Yehoshua Kolodny, Israel Prize laureate
Prof. Avishai Margalit, Israel and Emet Prize laureate
Prof. Dov Pekelman
Prof. Itamar Procaccia, Israel Prize laureate
Prof. Gabi Salomon, Israel Prize laureate
Prof. Hillel Schocken
Prof. Alice Shalvi, Israel Prize laureate
Prof. David Shulman, Emet Prize laureate
Prof. Zeev Sternhell, Israel Prize laureate
Prof. Carlo Strenger
Prof. Zeev Tzahor, President of Sapir College
Prof. Menahem Yaari, Israel Prize laureate, President (Emeritus) of
the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Prof. Yossi Yonah
Prof. Yirmiyahu Yovel, Israel Prize laureate
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Hebrew University - Frances Raday (Dept of Law) thinks creating a terrorist state for Palestinians firing rockets into Israel is essential for Israelis
The
recognition of a Palestinian state is as important to Israel as to
the Palestinians. For Israel to continue to function as a democratic
and Jewish state, it must bring about a symmetrical right of
self-determination for the Palestinians....
An additional strategic advantage for Israel is that, once recognized as a state, Palestine's jurisdiction will extend only to those who are living in Palestine. This is at present a contested concept: the Palestinian Authority is regarded as the exclusive representative of the Palestinian people and it is claimed that the current process of General Assembly recognition does not fully reflect their role in the resolution of the conflict.
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Professors at Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University collaborating with the Anti-Israel NGO "Zochrot"; Indoctrination "conference" about the "Palestinian Nakba," mourning Israel's Creation
Hebrew
Literature and the Palestinian Nakba
A Seminar
We invite the public, researchers, scholars and students, to send proposals for lectures dealing with presences, traces, and representations of the Palestinian Nakba in the Hebrew literature.
We define the Nakba in
its broadest terms. We are especially interested in lectures dealing
with the boundaries of time and space of the Nakba, and ways of
understanding it as trauma.
...
The steering committee: Huda Abu Mokh, Moran Banit, Tomer Gardi,
Hannan Hever, Mahmoud Kayyal, Shira Lapidot, Khaled Fourani, Yehouda
Shenhav.
Moran Benit, Moran.benit@mail.huji.ac.il
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Interdisciplinary Center (Herzliya) - Galia Golan (School of Government) - The "New History" Revisionism of Galia Golan
Once
the PLO, in 1988, accepted the two-state solution, agreeing to a
state only in the West Bank (including east Jerusalem) and the Gaza
Strip, along with recognition and peace with Israel, the end of the
conflict became possible....
Rabin exacted just one clarification and binding assurance for the
future, the PLO's explicit recognition of Israel's right to exist.
We know what has happened since then – opponents, on both sides, by means of terrorism, settlement expansion, assassination, did what they could to prevent peace, leading to the collapse of Oslo. No wonder that Israel's rejection of the PLO's "historic compromise" led to the growth of rejectionist Hamas and its violence against Israel.
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Tel Aviv University - Raef Zweik, Co-Director of the "Minerva Center" at TAU, is Lobbying against the existence of Any Jewish State
Why is Tel Aviv University employing such a varmint?
The
net result was that Israel had no need for an apartheid system.
Discrimination against a group is an indication of that group's
existence, and because a large part of the Palestinian population
had already been expelled or had left out of fear during the war,
there was no obvious Palestinian presence in the new state. … In
such conditions, there was no need to refer to separation between
Jews and Arabs, because Jews and Arabs lived in geographic and
economic realities so different that they might as well have been
living in different countries.
For precisely the same reasons that apartheid or any formal separation had been unnecessary in Israeli legal texts, so had explicit mention of the Jewishness of the state been unnecessary. This remained the case for almost four decades, not because there was no Jewish state but because its existence was self-evident—a historical, geographic, and natural phenomenon.
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Ilan Pappe continues the battle for Israel's Annihilation from the University of Exeter
Pappé's
premise is that the Jews had no moral right to assert their case for
national self-determination in Palestine because there were Arabs
living there. For the same reason, the Arabs were justified in
rejecting every compromise offered, including the UN's 1947
partition plan, because the Jews were "newcomers."
In Pappé's history, the Jews "expelled" over 700,000 refugees and inexplicably – never mind the continuing state of war between Israel and the Arab world – refused to let them return.
Pappé's latest polemic focuses on those Arabs who heeded Jewish leaders and did not flee. He finds it galling "that those who stayed became the 'Arab minority of Israel.'" (He calls them "Palestinian citizens of Israel," since he abhors the term "Israeli Arabs.")
... Pappé's loathing of Israel allows for no such complications. Pity the student assigned his latest book, and shame on any professor for assigning it.
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Tel Aviv-Jaffa College - Ofer Cassif (Dept of Political Science), the publication-less "Academic" wonder
We tried to track down the academic publications of
Ofer Cassif to see just what it was about him that inspired the
Tel Aviv – Jaffa College to hire him to teach students in political
science. Alas, we could not find any. All we could find were a
handful of anti-Israel Op-Eds in the internet, mostly in Hebrew.
Cassif claims to be some sort of expert on "Social Justice,"
whatever that is. But we could not find anything academic he has
published about that either, anywhere.
... Cassif's main "academic contribution" seems to consist of an Op-Ed that claims that Israel's citizenship law, which requires an oath of allegiance to non-Israelis who apply for Israeli citizenship, is at least as bad as German Nazism. The fact that most other countries have similar oaths of allegiance does not convince Cassif that THEY are Nazi regimes. Only Israel is so honored in his writing.
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Hebrew University - Nurit Peled Elhanan (Dept of Education) continues to mourn her daughter by promoting the agenda of her daughter's killers; flaunts the Boycott law
"Dear
South African peers,
"We are members of BOYCOTT! Supporting the Palestinian BDS Call from Within, a group of Israeli students, professors, citizens, and residents who are active against our government's policies of apartheid, occupation and racism.
...
"We support your resistance to the Israeli government's propaganda in your universities and your efforts in advocating the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions of Israel campaign at your campuses.
"In Solidarity!
"Professor Professor Nurit Peled-Elhanan and 25 others on behalf of BOYCOTT!"
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Tel Aviv University - Adi Ophir (Dept of Philosophy) Still Trying to Annihilate Israel by means of Polysyllables
Israel
has knowingly contributed to the catastrophization of the OT
(occupied territories), especially through the new regime of
movement established since 2000, and it has consistently refused to
change its policies in order ameliorate the Palestinian living
conditions. The systematic destruction of the Palestinian social
fabric and the reduction of the Palestinian economy to sub-Saharan
standards seems a fair price Palestinians have to pay for the
security of Israelis. The occasional “humanitarian gestures” the
government is willing to offer remain symbolic and would never
compromise the draconian administrative-military rule of Palestinian
space and movement. In other words, the Israeli government is
completely aware of its contribution to the catastrophizing process
and would do nothing to cope with its root causes. And yet, the same
government pretends that it would go out of its way, if necessary,
to avoid crossing the threshold of catastrophe… A bunch of
humanitarian organizations, UN agencies, special delegates of the EU,
and other diplomats readily place themselves as a buffer between the
catasrophizing machinery of the Occupation and the catastrophe
itself. They help Israel suspends “the real” catastrophe while
catastophizing the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The suspension
itself has become part of the machinery of catastrophization, and
the suspended catastrophe has become an essential element in the
machinery of the Israeli rule and domination of the Territories.
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Hebrew University - Two Hebrew University faculty members, David Shulman (Dept of Comparative Religion) and Amiel Vardi (Dept of Arts), rallying in support of the anti-Israel, convicted Pedophile Ezra Nawi
(U)ntil
Senator David Norris's presidential campaign was derailed, his [Nawi's]
six-month prison sentence in 1997 for sodomy of a minor was
relatively unknown in Israel.
Nawi's close associate and supporter Professor David Shulman, of the Hebrew University, has described him as "a tough-minded, soft-hearted plumber". When asked if he knew of his previous convictions for sodomy and drug abuse, Shulman replied: "This is an old thing which happened a long time ago and is therefore irrelevant. People change in life, including Nawi."
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Hebrew University - Nurit Peled-Elhanan (Dept of Education) Blames the settlers for the Palestinians murdering her daughter
“Terrorist
attacks like this are the direct consequence of the oppression,
slavery, humiliation and state of siege imposed on the
Palestinians,” she told TV reporters in the aftermath of Smadar’s
death.
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Ben Gurion University - Dahlia Scheindlin (“Conflict Resolution” lecturer) just Wants To Flotilla Along with the Jihadis
A
lot of Israel’s academic-fifth-column has its origins in the
left-wing Marxist ideology that has taken over humanities
disciplines in American universities… A living breathing example of
the product of this situation is Tel Aviv University doctoral
candidate
Dahlia Scheindlin... She is a “researcher” (meaning political
advocate) with the leftwing Israel Democracy Institute and lectures
at Ben Gurion… “Peace and Conflict Studies”, Ms. Scheindlin’s
pseudo-field of research, is an American university touchy-feely
invention that originally emerged out of marriage counseling. Its
underlying fundamental idea is that in any conflict both sides have
to be accepted as having some valid arguments and they need only to
listen compassionately to one another to settle their differences.
So when Arab hordes scream, “Itboch al Yahud!” (Massacre the Jews!), they are simply letting off steam and hoping for productive dialogue and feeling the pain of the Other. Peace is achieved by always recognizing the legitimacy of at least some of the grievances of the other side unless the other side is Israel, which has no legitimate demands, even the right to exist as a Jewish state.
... A case in point is Scheindlin’s writing in the leftwing Huffington Post in an article titled, “Dismantling Israel’s Myths.” There she defends the pro-Hamas Gaza flotillas and their bands of violent terrorist passengers, the “human shields for Hamas” who help keep the conflict roiling forever... This is a woman who makes her living “researching” conflict resolution? The fact that Ben Gurion University would have her lecture students is another example of the absence of serious academic standards at that school.
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Hebrew University – Fires Eyal Ben-Ari for Improper Relations with Students
The Tenured Academic was canned in an almost unprecedented fashion. Same professor supervised the thesis that claimed that the absence of rape of Arabs by Jewish soldiers proves Jews are racists.
The
Hebrew University of Jerusalem yesterday announced it was dismissing
a professor and permanently banning him from acting as an adviser to
its students, after he was found to have had an improper
relationship with three female students.
In February, the university's disciplinary tribunal suspended Prof. Eyal Ben-Ari for two years after it ruled he had acted in a manner "unbecoming a faculty member."
However, the university appealed the ruling, seeking a harsher finding. The tribunal found that that Ben-Ari, a senior lecturer in sociology and anthropology, had taken advantage of his position to have intimate relations with one of the students, and in suggesting to two others that they share a room when they were abroad together.
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Tel Aviv University - Stalinist Pseudo-Historian Shlomo Sand (Dept of History) Finds some Imminent Dangers of Genocide
He
claimed the Jews were merely a religious phenomenon and as they came
from all over the world, and so had no connection with each other,
they could not be described as “a people”. Sand is an Israeli Jewish
atheist.
Today’s Jews, he said,
are just descendants of converts from African tribes i.e. the
Khazars and the Berbers. These tribes had simply converted en masse
to Judaism.
...
Then, after defining Nazi Germany as an ethnocentric state, he said
he was against Israel being defined as a Jewish state because “I am
sure it will finish with the massacre in the Galilee, because 20%
are non-Jews in this state”.
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Israeli Fifth Column Academics Continue Call for Boycott to Spite the Newly Passed Anti-Boycott Law
We,
Israeli citizens, members of Boycott![2]
[footnote #2: Our full name is: "Boycott! Supporting the Palestinian
BDS Call from Within". Aka: "Boycott from Within"], hereby reiterate
our support and promotion of the Palestinian Call for Boycott,
Divestment and Sanctions against Israel, until it complies with
international law and universal principles of human rights[3].
We declare this in spite of the new legislation by the Israeli
Knesset, which aims to penalize our and our partners' activities,
curbing freedom of speech and political organizing and most
importantly – banning Israeli citizens from acting according to
their conscience when it conflicts with the deplorable policies of
the state.
Among the Signatories:
Shir Hever
Anat Matar
Ofer Neiman
David Nir
Kobi Snitz
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Duke University - Rann Bar-On (Dept of Math) joins the Jihad
I
call for boycott against the State of Israel in order to harm the
State of Israel by means of boycott. If this is not clear enough, I
will clarify: I (Ran Baron, ID number: 036490597) hereby call for
any person to deliberately avoid economic, cultural or academic ties
with another person or another factor only because of his ties with
the State of Israel, one of its institutions or an area under its
control, in such a way that may cause economic, cultural or academic
damage.
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The Goosestep March of Israel's Anti-Israel Academic Extremists
Consider the following, albeit a tiny sampling of their high profile utterances: Professor Yehudah "Judd" Ne'eman, Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University Faculty of the Arts, an Israel Prize Winner (usually reserved for those on the far left), publicly called for a civil war. Unlike the above rabbis who simply interpreted Jewish law, Professor Ne'eman urged his fellow leftists to execute a "war between the political left and the Jews of Judea and Samaria," AKA the "settlers." Even though recordings of Ne'eman's statements were obtained and publicized by Israel's TV Channel 1, incredulously, he was never called in for investigation by the state prosecutor's office.
His call follows a recent statement by former Technion physics professor Oded Regev that he would be willing to volunteer in a civil war against the radical right. Oded lobbed this verbal grenade, "I believe that there is only one way to overcome the religious extremists and that is through organized violence, through launching warfare in the full meaning of the term. Anyone who does not surrender in that war will be incarcerated. Those rabbis and their friends continue in the tradition of Goebbels."
Not to be outdone in his leftist vitriol, Professor Eyal Nir, of Ben Gurion University's chemistry department (following in the infamous footsteps of Neve Gordon, BGU's poster boy for worldwide anti-Israel rhetoric) likewise incited against the nationalist sector, calling "on the world to come and help break these scoundrels' necks." His "scoundrels" were young Jews who marched with Israeli flags on Jerusalem Day through areas lightly populated by Jews in our united capital.
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Ben Gurion University - Confessions of Political String Pulling and Hiring Practices at BGU contrasts President Rivka Carmi's claims of Ivory Tower Utopia
[Benny
Morris said] '… In fact, I was given a job (at Ben-Gurion
University) only in 1997, and only after the intercession of
Israel's (far-leftist at the time -- SP) president, Ezer Weizman,
years before my allegedly specious "conversion" to pro-Zionism that
Karsh says occurred in or after 2000.'
So when the president of Ben Gurion University, the cabbagehead Rivka Carmi, insists that hiring at Ben Gurion University is completely depoliticized and political ideology plays no role in hiring, we would like to hear her explain away the hiring of Benny Morris, which – by his own insistence – took place simply because of the ideological and political intervention of Ezer Weizmann.
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Ben Gurion University - Anti-Israel Crusader Neve Gordon (Dept of Political Science) claims that the Israeli democracy is dead because the Knesset defends Israel, writing in the anti-Semitic "Counterpunch" web magazine
Israeli
legislators realise, though, that in order to quash all internal
resistance, the destruction of the rights groups will not be enough.
Their ultimate target is the High Court of Justice, the only
institution that still has the power and authority to defend
democratic practices.
Their strategy, it appears, is to wait until the Court annuls the new laws and then to use the public's dismay with the Court's decisions to limit the Court's authority through legislation, thus making it impossible for judges to cancel unconstitutional laws. Once the High Court's authority is severely hamstringed, the road will be paved for right-wing Knesset members to do as they wish. The process leading to the demise of Israeli democracy may be slow, but the direction in which the country is going is perfectly clear.
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Tel Aviv University – Merav Amir (Dept of History) is leading the world Campaign to Boycott Ahava Cosmetics; claims the Dead Sea is Occupied West Bank Territory
After years of strenuous
denial, Ahava Dead Sea Laboratories, an Israeli cosmetics firm with
its main manufacturing plant in an illegal West Bank settlement, is
proven by documentary evidence to be in violation of international
law through its theft of Palestinian resources. This evidence was
recently discovered by Who Profits, a research project of the
Israeli Coalition for Peace, which documents corporate activity in
the Israeli occupation of Palestinian and Syrian territory.
… Merav Amir, Coordinator of Who Profits, said, “Ahava can no longer continue misleading consumers about where they get the mud used in their products. This mud is from the Occupied West Bank and is stolen from the Palestinian people.”
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Tel Aviv University - Ran Hacohen (Dept of Comparative Literature) Weeps, Whines, and Lies about the anti-Boycott Law while Demonizing Israel as "Slave Owner"
In
other words, every Israeli producer based in the occupied
territories can sue anyone calling for a boycott. If I call to
boycott all settlements products — I am not saying I do, I say "if"
— each and every Israeli firm based in the occupied territories can
sue me, and there are hundreds of such firms. So not only do they
operate on stolen Palestinian land, not only do they enjoy generous
state benefits from my tax money (that's why they moved to the
territories in the first place) — now they can sue me and take my
money too for calling for a boycott (if I ever do). What started as
a dispossession of the Palestinians now moves to the dispossession
of any Israeli who dares oppose that dispossession. What started as
enslaving the Palestinians may end in enslaving their supporters
within Israel.
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The Protests to the Citizenship Law by the Israeli Left Draws the Ire of other Academics
If there were an annual award for hypocrisy, the Israeli leftists now protesting a proposed amendment to the Citizenship Law would surely have this year's title sewed up. The rhetoric has been utterly over the top: the Association for Civil Rights in Israel called the amendment "anti-democratic"; author Sefi Rachlevsky termed it "fascist"; Prof. Gavriel Solomon even compared it to the Nazis' Nuremberg Laws.
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University of Haifa - Gavriel Solomon (Dept of Education) says Israel's Citizenship law is like the Nazi Nuremberg Laws.
Israeli
educational psychologist Prof. Gavriel Solomon said that "the idea
of Judenrein (Jew free zone), or Arab-rein is not new... Some might
say 'how can you compare us to Nazis'. I am not talking about the
death camps, but about the year 1935. There were no camps yet but
there were racist laws. And we are heading forward towards these
kinds of laws. The government is clearly declaring our incapacity
for democracy."
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Ben Gurion University - BGU Middle East Historians Do their Edward Said Impressions:
Haggai Ram (Dept of
Middle East Studies), Ahmedinejad's rep in Israel supporting the
Iranian regime and claiming it is all a Zionist plot to paint Iran
as violent and fanatical, and his sidekick Yoram Meital, from the
same department, have an Op-Ed in Haaretz. It is nothing less than a
recycling of the fruitcake "theories" of Edward Said, about how all
western Orientalists are racists who cannot possibly understand the
Arabs. Said was a professor of English literature.
The two BGU "Middle East experts" start out by slapping Israel's Middle East Studies profs for not foreseeing the current wave of unrest in the Arab world. Of course THEY did not foresee it either!
Here is the whole
atrocious piece in Hebrew
http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/spages/1218078.html
Tel Aviv University - Rachel Giora (Dept of Linguistics), Ultra Hater of Israel, Insists Israel Can Only be saved by being Boycotted
BDS
(boycott, divest, sanctions) will free both the oppressed, and the
oppressor
… To meet with retribution and attempts at repression, resistance need not be violent. And when it unites people, it cannot be silenced. Exemplary in this respect is the feminist revolution. It has been liberating women as well as men everywhere, without bloodshed. In the same spirit of solidarity and non-violent resistance, the Palestinian civil society called in July 2005 for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel "until it complies with international law and universal principles of human rights." The effect of this call has been immense and is still growing, so much so that Israel can no longer turn a blind eye to it. Israeli leaders acknowledge that the boycott movement against Israel is effective. Defense Minister Ehud Barak warned of "a political tsunami" against Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu considered boycotting the Mideast Quartet meeting for fear of international pressure.
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MK Alex Miller, Head of the Education Committee, proposes no funding for Academic Institutions that do not play the National Anthem
MK
Alex Miller, Head of the Knesset’s Education, Culture and Sport
Committee, is initiating a bill that would make academic
institutions that do not play the national anthem in their
ceremonies ineligible for state funding.
… “This action has nothing to do with academic freedom and expresses the private will of people to use their position and status in order to express a radical political stance that disrespects national symbols. Some hinted that they decided to forgo the playing of HaTikva so as not to offend certain populations. This is a slippery and dangerous slope. What will be the next stage? Will they also remove the national flag?”
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Open Calls for Bloodshed and Violence coming from the Israeli Far Left
First, a few days ago,
the leftist anti-Israel extremist, Professor "Judd" Ne'eman, who
teaches film at Tel Aviv University, outdid himself and called for a
civil war against the Israeli "Right." Ne'eman made it clear that he
wants this civil war to break out as a tactic to aid the Palestinian
campaign against Israel.
He has a long, long track record of issuing violently anti-Israel
pronouncements…
Actually, Ne'eman is not the only lefty tossing about the term "civil war" these days, when referring to something they would like to see happen because too many Israelis refuse to endorse the extremist Left. A.B. Yehoshua uses the term also. They do not mean a civil war in which people challenge one another to spelling bees or soap box debates. They mean a civil war in which lots of people get killed.
… But the calls for
bloodshed coming from Comrade Ne'eman and his friends are tame
compared to what just came out of the mouth of one Oded Regev, a
faculty member in physics at the Technion (http://physics.technion.ac.il/~regev/).
… Regev published an internet article in response to Ne'eman's call
for civil war entitled, "If you will have me, I am in." He adds
there that if he would be permitted to lead a company of artillery
he would gladly open fire at the evil side, meaning the Right and
the religious Jews. He adds, "I also believe that there is only one
way to overcome the religious extremists and that is through
organized violence, through launching warfare in the full meaning of
that term. Anyone who does not surrender in that war will be
incarcerated." Regev went on to describe those rabbis arrested by
Shai Nitzan and his friends as "those
who continue in the tradition of Goebbels."
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Open Call for Violence at BGU too
For
months the cabbagehead president of Ben Gurion University, Rivka
Carmi, has been telling everyone and anyone willing to listen that
there are no tenured traitors at all at her university besides Neve
Gordon (SHE calls him a traitor!). … There are no problems at all at
BGU, insists Madame Cabbagehead, other than Little Neve.
Well,
let us introduce you to Dr. Eyal Nir, who teaches chemistry at BGU,
at least when he is not busy as an activist in the HADASH Stalinist
Party and other anti-Israel groups. Over the weekend, the YNET news
web site, run by Israel's largest daily Yediot Ahronot, reported
that Nir issued a call for murdering Israelis who fail to support
his far-leftist communist political positions. Specifically, he
called for the breaking of the necks of Israelis who march with
Israeli flags and support the right of Jews to live in neighborhoods
of East Jerusalem where Stalinists like Nir think that Jews do not
belong.
…
The "theory" that "incitement" produces murder has been embraced by all of the Israeli media and by almost all of the political establishment. … Preventing "incitement" that will cause violence is the figleaf of the leftists in the Attorney General's office when they harass, interrogate, and arrest rabbis and activists who express opinions of which leftists disapprove. … But the crusade of the Israeli establishment against freedom of speech and "incitement" has never extended to incitement to murder by leftists. Not a single leftist has ever been jailed for expressing approval of terrorism, of murders against Jews, or for endorsing anti-Semitic groups, ideas or positions.
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University of Haifa - Law School denounced by Prof. Shlomo Avineri for Banning Hatikva; Compares them to Neturei Karta Fanatics
I
am not aware of Jews or Muslims who have asked any British public
body whatsoever not to play the anthem as it "hurts their feelings."
...
It is a shame that there are individuals at the University of Haifa who are leading themselves down a path that is reminiscent of that of Neturei Karta. Democracy demands a fine balance between the majority and the rights of the minority, and Israel has failed to find this proper balance in many aspects of life. But one must remember that rights are not only for the minority, but for the majority, too - and certainly when it comes to the level of symbolism.
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University of Haifa - Micah Leshem (Dept of Psychology) shares his thoughts about getting rid of "Hatikva"
To:
Segel-Plus Chat List, University of Haifa
From: Micah Leshem <micah.leshem@psy.haifa.ac.il>
Adding the Crescent to the flag is a possibility. The UK put a number of flags together to make the British flag. And the UK includes Angles, Scots, Celts, Welsh, Irish, Jews and more, under the common name of British. You will be corrected if you call a Jew living in England an "English Jew". They consider themselves British Jews. So adding 'Palestine' to 'Israel' is another possibility, or as a long-standing Jewish organization is suggesting - Canaan. Of course there can be many other solutions once we are able to discuss this.
The only reason David had to suggest it beating about the bush is because in our current discourse certain ideas or views invite a violent reaction. Personal safety of the discussants is threatened, as happened, eg, with our colleague Ilan Pappe and his family.
There is no earthly reason why a country with a large Jewish community needs hegemony, secured by discrimination, repression and brute force, and flaunting the symbols now associated therewith.
Micah
Micah Leshem added the following proposal on June 28
From: Micah Leshem <micah.leshem@psy.haifa.ac.il>
To:
segel-plus@list.haifa.ac.il
An equitable solution would be to have Hatikva and Bilady Bilady (PLO anthem) sung at graduation ceremonies.
Micah
Names of Academic Crusaders against Hatikva at Haifa U
“We
support the freedom of expression and demonstration, but the attempt
to present the law faculty in Haifa as an anti-Zionist and
anti-Israeli entity is illegitimate,” they wrote…
… Professor Michael Birnhack of Tel Aviv University Law faculty, who initiated the letter, said the support stems mainly from a deep concern for Israeli society.
“The question of whether to sing the anthem at the end of the ceremony is a legitimate question that is worth debating,” he stressed, adding that “what is illegitimate is that those who hold different views from the other side to the discussion immediately get labeled as anti-Zionists”.
“There is no connection between the decision to sing the anthem at an academic ceremony and the Zionist or anti-Zionist nature of an individual or institution,” Prof. Birnhack noted.
Names of Signatories found here [in Hebrew]
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Tel Aviv University - Carlo Strenger (Dept of Psychology) has Found the Real Threat against the Jewish People - it is Israel!
Israel
has never had a government that so blatantly violates the core
values of liberal democracy. Never has a Knesset passed laws that
are as manifestly racist as the current one. Israel has had foreign
ministers who were unworldly and didn't know English; but it has
never had a foreign minister whose only goal is to pander to his
right-wing constituency by flaunting his disdain for international
law and the idea of human rights with such relish.
Moreover, there has never been a government so totally oblivious of its relation to world Jewry.... How can we, who have suffered from racial and religious discrimination, use language and hold views that - as Israel Prize laureate and historian of fascism Zeev Sternhell argued - were last held in the Western world by the Franco regime?
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Ben Gurion University - BGU's Anti-Israel Extremist of the Week - Amnon Raz Krakotzkin (Dept of Jewish History) has a Plan to Eliminate Israel, replace it with "Binationalism"
On these grounds I believe that a bi-national
framework is crucial for any thought and discussion on the question
of Palestine. The concept of "bi-nationalism" does not necessarily
refer to the one-state solution, as it is commonly understood in the
political discourse. Rather, it involves fundamental principle
elements whose realization should be advanced by any political
process: (a) national and civic equality between Jews and Arabs; and
(b) reconciliation based on historical justice. Considered in this
way, the concept of bi-nationalism does not describe a "solution,"
but rather serves as a crucial point of departure and perspective to
direct the struggle towards democratization and de-colonization,
based upon the recognition of both Palestinian and Jewish rights.
Underlying this point of departure is the recognition that it is
impossible to separate the discussion on the rights of the Jewish
people from the discussion on the rights of the Palestinians.
Bi-nationalism is first of all a description of the reality already established by the Zionist regime–one obviously asymmetrical and colonial; it is the reality in which Jewish superiority is exercised in different ways upon geographically divided Palestinian groups.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - More anti-Israel Pseudo-Research from Marxist Sociologist Yehouda Shenhav - Let's Flood Israel with those Pretending to be "Palestinian Refugees"
In
addition to the conflict between the Jews and the Palestinians, a
structure of this kind would take into account the gigantic gaps
among the Jews themselves in matters of ethnicity, religious
identities, and class differences. It would also require a radical
change in the land regime in Israel. For example, the liberal Jews,
who live in Tel Aviv and comprise a privileged class, will have to
contribute their share in solving the conflict, just as poor
residents of the illegal settlements of Ariel or Ma'ale Adumim will
have to.
Within such a political structure of decentralized sovereignty and of open spatial movement, it will be possible to allow the return of the Palestinian refugees, not as a symbolic action in recognition of the injustice, but as a real political action. Although the return of the refugees will be based on the pre-war (1948) geography as a vision, it will simultaneously ensure that the moral and political injustice of the past is not mended by means of new injustice. I believe that only within a sovereignty structure of this kind will it be possible to also ensure the Jews' rights in the spatial sphere.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
University of Haifa Outlaws the Israeli National anthem, Hatikva
At
a recent graduation ceremony for law school students, the singing of
Hatikva was prohibited. Evidently the decision was that of the law
school dean, Prof. Niva Elkin-Koren. Her email is
elkiniva@law.haifa.ac.il. Hatikva was evidently banned because
of fears that singing it could offend the delicate sensitivities of
University of Haifa Arab students. Their sensitivities are already
under assault because there are Israeli flags at the University, and
because the University holds Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremonies
and Israeli Memorial Day ceremonies. I have seen with my own eyes
Arab students singing the PLO "national anthem" on campus and also
waving PLO and Hamas flags. The university has not banned that. The
law school at the University of Haifa is well known as a den of
radical leftists.
Maariv reports the story (in Hebrew, here: http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART2/253/445.html)
Ben Dror Yemini, depiuty editor at Maariv, denounced the University of Haifa for this (here in Hebrew). He described the decision as "academic hooliganism" and as evidence of the suppression of real academic freedom by Israel's Arab nationals and radical Jewish leftists.
Want to complain? Write to:
University of Haifa:
President of the University of Haifa
Prof. Aaron Ben-Ze'ev
University of Haifa
Mt Carmel, 31905 Haifa Israel
Tel: 972-4-8240101
Fax: 972-4-8240281
E-mail:
abenzeev@univ.haifa.ac.il
Rector of the University
of Haifa
Prof. David Faraggi
University of Haifa
Mt Carmel, 31905 Haifa Israel
Tel: 972-4-8288094
Fax: 972-4-8342101
Email:
faraggi@stat.haifa.ac.il
Chairman of the Board of
Governors
Mr. Leon Charney
Law Office of Leon H. Charney
Broadway 1441
New York, NY 10018
Phone: 212-819-0994
E-mail:
charney@lhcharney.com
University "Friends of" Offices Outside Israel are listed here:
http://www.haifa.ac.il/html/html_eng/friends.htm
For more details, go here
The Death Throes of Israel's self-hating Left
The genius of the NGO movement is its promotion of Israelis themselves to make the case against Israel. Who better to convince Westerners that they are wrong to admire Israel than Jews feigning concern over Israel's moral standing? The story of those Israeli Jews who have made careers out of attacking Israel's right to exist, such as Biletzky and Yiftachel, illustrates the degradation of the once mighty Israeli peace movement.
Originally the movement
sought legitimacy and prominence in Israeli politics, and received
it for a time—and because it was part of the political process, it
was constrained by the need for electoral support and popular
legitimacy. Yet the collapse of the Oslo Accords in 2000 and the
Palestinian terror war that followed presented the peace movement
with an existential crisis: With whom, exactly, were Israelis
supposed to make peace?
...
This "human-rights community" has thus not only opposed every consensus Israeli security measureOperation Defensive Shield during the intifada, the security fence to stop suicide bombers, the targeted killings of terror-group leaders, the Lebanon War, and the Gaza Warbut has branded them war crimes and human-rights violations for which Israel should be punished.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Meet Ben Gurion University President Rivka Carmi's latest little darling, Eyal Nir (Dept of Chemistry)
Remember this is a tenured faculty member at
Ben Gurion University!
Among his many bon mots there are these:
"The rotten corpse calling itself the state of Israel must be
strangulated."
"All of Israel is an entity established on the ruins of the Arab
community."
The state of Israel is "The Zionist monstrosity that can never be
satisfied."
"International sanctions must be placed on Israel to coerce it to
live
up to international standards of behavior and to strip it of its
nuclear weapons."
Doc Jihad also likes to call everyone with whom he disagrees, notably the Im Tirtzu Zionist student organization, "Skinheads." Think Israel has the right to exist? You are a skinhead! He refers to all of Israel as the skinhead nation. He uses "stormtrooper" as a synonym for Zionist.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Ben Gurion Univeristy – BGU Faculty Members oppose settling Israel by Jews WITHIN the 1967 Borders
According
to YNET (http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4083778,00.html
[in Hebrew]), the tenured leftists are irate because an NGO calling
itself "Ayalim" has been approaching students and asking to speak in
classrooms at the University about their initiative to set up rural
communities in the Galilee and the Negev designed for students. The
tenured Left is upset that Ayalim people are not recruiting Arabs to
move to these settlements. Led by Dr. Hamutal Tzamir, who teaches
Hebrew literature, and who as far as we know has no Arab neighbors,
these "academics" are screaming against the "racism" in the
initiative. Wouldn't it simpler if Tzamir and her friends simply set
up their own organization calling itself Jews Against Jews?
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Ben Gurion University – Eyal Nir's incitement to murder inspires a petition to get him fired
In
response to his incitement to violence and hateful speech, we the
undersigned demand that Eyal Nir be fired immediately from his
position as a professor in the University of Bar Ilan.
We see no room in an Israeli University for a professor employed by the University to speak hatred and promote violence against a group of citizens of our country.
Bar Ilan University should not tolerate such behavior by one of its professors and should take immediate action making a statement proclaiming that hatred and violence will not be tolerated.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/fire-dr-eyal-nir-immediately/
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Open University – Yigal Levy (Dept of Sociology) helps to spread lies about "Jewish jihad" and "war crimes" during Operation Cast Lead
"We have reached the
point where a critical mass of religious soldiers is trying to
negotiate with the army about how and for what purpose military
force is employed on the battlefield," said Yigal Levy, a political
sociologist at the Open University who has written several books on
the Israeli army.
The new atmosphere was evident in the "excessive force" used in the recent Gaza operation, Dr Levy said. More than 1,300 Palestinians were killed, a majority of them civilians, and thousands were injured as whole neighbourhoods of Gaza were levelled.
"When soldiers, including secular ones, are imbued with theological ideas, it makes them less sensitive to human rights or the suffering of the other side."
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Ben Gurion University – Left-wing Faculty Member Eyal Nir (Dept of Chemistry) Incites to Commit Murder of Right-wing Activists
A
lecturer at Ben Gurion University has issued a Facebook call for
violence against right-wing activists who marched through the
capital with flags on Jerusalem Day, urging people to "break their
necks".
"I call on the world to come and help break these scoundrels' necks," Eyal Nir, a doctor of Chemistry known as a left-wing activist, wrote on the social networking site. He described the rightists as "gangs of bandits swarming in our country".
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
A Call on Israeli Society to Boycott the Boycotters
This is simple and easily done, and each and every one of us can contribute. Take a person like Professor Emmanuel Farjoun from the Hebrew University. He was interviewed by Channel Two and he admitted that he was trying to bring us to our knees by means of an international boycott. Professor Farjoun has students, colleagues, research assistance, neighbors, relatives. There are stores he shops in, cafes he frequents. Each and every one of those locations ought to turn him into a persona non grata. And wherever it is legally possible, they ought to refuse to serve him, to give him work; they ought to turn him a cold shoulder. The same applies to Professor Neve Gordon from Ben-Gurion University. This man has worked to have IDF officers prosecuted by foreign courts. The same applies to Kobi Snitz, an Israeli mathematician who belongs to the group that led to the cancellation of the Pixies' concert.
The time has come for students to refuse to enter lectures given by Neve Gordon, for people to refuse to work and fraternize with Kobi Snitz, for their aunts, relatives and acquaintances hang up the phone on them. Of course, there are more people and groups on the list, such as Yesh Gvul. They all repudiate the right of Israeli and Jewish society to determine its own fate. They are all trying to twist our arm by means of foreign courts and governments. They have all become far more dangerous than Ahmadinejad and Nasrallah, and the time has come for us to respond accordingly.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Ben Gurion University – Neve Gordon (Dept of Political Science) Resorts to Boycott after he Can't Change Israeli Policy by Democratic Means
In
a sense, the need for a boycott is a sign of weakness following the
polarisation and marginalisation of the left in Israel. We are
witnessing the development of a proto-fascist mindset. I am, for
example, extremely anxious about the extent that the space for
public debate in Israel is shrinking.
One of the ways of
silencing dissent is through the demand for loyalty, so that a
slogan you hear a lot now is "no citizenship without loyalty". This
reflects the inversion of the republican idea that the state should
be loyal to the citizen and is accountable for inequities and
injustices.
...
Yet there is also a sense that the pro-government proponents have
gone too far. They are not only targeting people on the far left,
but practically everyone who is even slightly critical of government
policies. A couple of months ago a high-school principal who
objected to military officers coming in to speak to his pupils, was
all but crucified.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Hebrew University - Bernard Avishai (Dept of Business Administration) celebrates the espionage and treason of Anat Kamm
'But
what if the military, acting as an occupation force, is itself
violating bounds set by the judiciary, and its actions are arguably
making citizens less safe? What if a whistle-blower leaks documents
to a journalist, who then uses them to write a story questioning the
legality or efficacy of the military's actions?'
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
University of Haifa - Micah Leshem (Dept of Psychology) invents a historic narrative
-----
Forwarded Message ----
From: Micah Leshem
To: Segel plus <segel-plus@research.haifa.ac.il>
Myself and my Arab neighbours live in Halissa on a street named after a commander of the Etzel which carried out the Dir Yassin massacre (sic), and to get to Hadar we cross the recently dedicated flyover commemorating Brigade 22 which lobbed Davidka bombs into the Arabs crowded in the market to escape, killing maiming and sowing terror and a stampede to the Port that overwhelmed the British guards.
If memorials are part and
parcel of our tragic history here, it behooves AB Yehoshua and
like-minded folk to promote the dedication of memorials to the Arab
citizens of Haifa who lost their lives, and those that lost their
homes, and the tragic expulsion/exodus, etc. A dedicated museum
would not be out of place either. And in predominantly Arab parts of
the town, it behooves us to let the local community decide on their
street names.
We also had an Arab vice mayor in our city, but few of our
compatriots of the other ethnicity forget his shameful expulsion by
the council mob led by the current mayor in 2006.
That epitomizes the "sharing" - we (the Jews) will token share with the Arabs so long as they do not question our absolute mastery. Do not forget who is The Boss here. And so they will continue to live in streets named after Heroes that killed them, and Ethnic Ideologies movements intent on their dispossession (eg 'Zionism Ave' in the heart of Arab Haifa).
Simple thoughts for truer
consideration and mutual respect in our city.
Micah
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Hebrew University - Dafna Golan (Dept of Law) denounces Israel for its "apartheid" and demands law breaking
I
too refuse to obey illegal laws. In a country where spacious prisons
were built under the protection of the law, in which people live in
fear, it is not only our right but our duty to offer a space of
hope. As long as we do not have agreed-upon borders, we are living
in an occupying country that discriminates between the rights of
different groups based on their ethnicity.
In such a country, just like in South Africa under apartheid, it is our right and our duty to challenge the legality of the law.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
University of Haifa and Beit Berl College - Working from Within for a New Holocaust: Dalit Baum (Jihad Feminist)
Apparently,
neither Haifa U nor Beit Berl mind having their names linked to the
annihilationist efforts of Dalit Baum against Jews. Baum routinely
breaks Israeli law by
organizing money and supplies to the Hamas in Gaza and in
general by calling for the end of the Jewish state. Her
self-described "career" is devoted to working in support of
"existing divestment campaigns" in the US, as well as helping to
build new ones through "education." "Global Exchange" has been part
of the "Viva Palestina Tours and Flotilla" campaign to aid Hamas
since their inception.
… Dalit Baum admits she does not want Israel to exist at all, at least not as any Jewish state. "Palestine," all of Palestine including Haifa and Tel Aviv, is "occupied" by the Jews. In a lecture she gave in San Francisco for the benefit of the pro-terror "Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)," an ISM group, she explained that while some might think her campaign pertains only to the West Bank and Gaza, she really does not distinguish at all between "occupation" within the state of Israel itself and that in the West Bank when she calls for the end to "occupation." What she really wants is the end to Israel.
… "Global Exchange" supports Hamas in its quest to destroy Israel and world Jewry. When Dalit Baum lectured the Berkeley SJP last year she boasted she had cost the Israeli economy billions of dollars through disrupting its ties with Europe. She also boasted about how she interfered with security checkpoints in Israel designed to keep out terrorists who kill Israeli civilians. Her new campaign in the United States seeks to promote the same agenda in America, particularly in US colleges. The officers of Haifa and Beit Berl should remove Dalit Baum from her teaching positions immediately.
Why not Contact them?
Rector of the University
of Haifa
Prof. David Faraggi
University of Haifa
Mt Carmel, 31905 Haifa Israel
Tel: 972-4-8288094
Fax: 972-4-8342101
Email:
faraggi@stat.haifa.ac.il
Director General of Beit
Berl College:
Ruthie Gavri
Phone 972-9-7476302
ruth@beitberl.ac.il
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Ben Gurion University - Mayor of Omer calls for boycott of BGU
Well,
Maariv
reports (June 2, 2011) [in Hebrew] that the mayor of Omer has
issued a call for a boycott of Ben Gurion University because of the
treasonous activities of its radical anti-Israel faculty members.
Hizzoner, Pini (short for Pinhas) Badash, is calling upon Jewish
donors in Israel and abroad to halt all contributions and donations
to the University because the university refuses to take action
against its tenured traitors and its faculty members who are
actively working against Israel.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Propagandist Daniel Bar-Tal (Dept of Education) and friends Compose Pseudo-Research about the Psychology of being an "Occupying Society"; However They Ignore Research into Psychological Damages from being Targeted by Genocidal Terrorists and Fascist Arab Military Aggression
Within
this framework, they describe the psychological challenges that the
occupation may pose to the members of the occupying society. Next,
they introduce psychological mechanisms that members of an occupying
society may use in order to avoid facing these challenges. Finally,
they offer a number of ideas regarding the relationship between
these mechanisms and the process of ending the occupation.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Sapir College - Anti-Israel Film Lecturer Eyal Sivan Promotes Israel's Extermination on Al Jazeera
Later, in 2004, Sivan filed a libel suit in Paris courts against philosopher Alain Finkelkraut (Sivan vs Finkelkraut) for the latter's claim that Route 181 was a "call to murder Jews" and that Sivan himself was representative of a "particularly painful, particularly frightening reality - Jewish anti-Semitism". Finkelkraut also claimed that Sivan's film was a constant plagiarism of Claude Lanzmann's Shoah, a ten-hour innovative documentary about memory and the Holocaust, and called on Lanzmann, a former Israeli ambassador to France, to testify on Finkelkraut's behalf.
The presiding judge at the trial rejected Finkielkraut's conflation of criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism, and, according to court documents, dismissed Sivan's petition based on the argument that Finkielkraut's attack was part of a legitimate political disagreement. Following the trial, Sivan lost his teaching position at CLEMI (the French Ministry of Education's centre for information media) and the French television network, ARTE, decided to cease commissioning his films. ...
The veil of democracy is being ripped from Israeli faces. This for me is a sign of weakness. When a state needs laws it does not mean it is strong, it means it is weak and afraid because it has no vision for the future. Still, there is great work being done by dissidents, and this is a new position. For many years there were just Israelis living outside, but there is a position of dissidence that they have voiced. People like Illan, they have a voice to contribute to the historical debate. In Israel, maybe there is not a political organised left, but there are so many open questions. Just today I received a magazine from Tel Aviv University that covers philosophy and politics, and the university is organising a seminar about the one-state solution.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University's Hosting of the Genocidal Sheikh Salah triggers Knesset Proposal
Miller's
committee held a discussion earlier in the week over Salah's
appearance at Tel Aviv University. During the meeting, Miller
scolded the representatives of the university, saying that "The
purpose of Salah's public appearances is to deepen the conflict,
incite young people against Israel and enlist them to an armed
struggle against it."
Miller added that "Such a person should not be welcomed at academic institutions and the university should have made a decision that sent a clear message that a person convicted of helping terrorist groups is not welcome there."
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Jews for Genocide!
Israeli
academics among those calling for the obliteration of Israel, in
petition by pro-Jihad "Palestine Justice Network":
Among the pro-genocide
signers:
Oren Ben-Dor (Dr.), School of Law, University of Southampton, UK
Haim Bresheeth (Prof.), BRICUP and University of East London
Ilan Pappe (Prof.), University of Exeter
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Ben Gurion University - BGU President Rivka Carmi Hysterically Attacks groups that "Monitor" anti-Israel Faculty Members in Israel
Defends
the Neve Gordons as "Critical thinking and alternative
perspectives"; Defends anti-Israel NGOs as "human rights watchdogs"
'The truth is that these monitoring groups claim to be motivated by a love of Israel, but in fact they have a clear political agenda which they are willing to advance using the age-old method of blackmail. Either Israeli universities accept their conditions and "remove" those people with whom they disagree, or they will encourage donors to cut off funding.
These are the kinds of attacks that do not allow for critical thinking or alternate perspectives, and have created an atmosphere in Israel today such that pro-human rights groups are being dismissed as "anti-Zionist," only adding to the polarization of Israeli society.'
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Treachery at Tel Aviv University - Salah TAU speech prompts emergency Knesset meeting
IsraCampus
asks how long will Governors support financially an institution
which offers facilities with impunity to those advocating our
collective demise? This scandalous behavior needs prompt reaction as
inaction is to condone our potential collective suicide.
The University of Haifa showed uncharacteristic good sense when it banned a campus appearance by the Islamofascist terrorist Sheikh Salah, who runs the Islamist fundamentalist movement inside Israel. The bloody sheikh, arrested for his role in the flotilla aggression, was invited by the local Arab student union. Last year the same sheikh spoke at Haifa U and called for Arab students to become suicide bombers.
No sooner does the University of Haifa display common sense than Tel Aviv University does the opposite. The very same Salah was invited by Tel Aviv University and did indeed appear.
'Salah, the head of the Islamic Movement's northern branch, called on Tuesday for the "liberation" of Jerusalem from Israeli authority, and criticized US President Barack Obama's call for a Palestinian state on 1967 lines with land swaps, saying that such swaps would lead to the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes.
"Two weeks ago, Haifa University decided to prevent Salah from giving a lecture and spreading his illegal messages of incitement. In light of this, we will consider putting sanctions on Tel Aviv University," [Alex] Miller [Israel Beiteinu] said.'
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
The University of Haifa's Rabid Israel Hater Micah Leshem (Dept of Psychology) finds who is at fault, on the anti-Semitic "ALEF" Chat List
Over
40 years, we have successfully, willingly, deviously and
surreptitiously, bound ourselves to a policy of colonial expansion.
Israel will extend from the Mediterranean in the west, to the Jordan
River Rift Valley in the east. For N(etanyahu), there never was any
intention to negotiate peace, his vision is clearer than of all his
predecessors. He has produced a plethora of preconditions designed
put off, shackle, and humiliate any negotiating partner. They ranged
from the unconscionable during negotiations (accelerated settlement
expansion, Palestinian home demolitions, expulsions, and
discriminatory and restrictive laws and regulations) to the
ludicrous not merely to recognize Israel (which they have) (sic),
but to do so as a State for Jews. In addition, N(etanyahu) has
stated to an enthusiastic US congress that Jerusalem is not
negotiable, neither the majority of settlements, neither the Jordan
Valley, and the Palestinian State will not armed. Thus the starting
point for negotiations is for a Palestinian state of 4 reservations
communicating by corridors and surrounded by Israel controlling all
access. These preconditions torpedo negotiations, and other are
freely added, the latest being that negotiation is not possible with
the Palestinians because they include the Hamas because it does not
recognize Israel. If Hamas were as formidable as Hezbollah, Israel
would negotiate, as it did with Hezbollah, and with the Palestinian
Fatah before that.
A new precondition N(etanyahu) seems to be nurturing is the release of Hamas' Israeli soldier prisoner, Shalit. Again the double-speak - N(etanyahu) actually opposes the deal on offer. Patently, Hamas leadership cannot compromise on the conditions they set. They know that the moment he is freed they will all be killed by Israeli drones, like their leader Sheikh Yassin, blown up in his wheelchair with a score of other casualties by a guided missile, some years after a deal for his release from Israeli prison. As long as they have Shalit, Israel is "hooped" not to kill them. That stalemate has lasted for 5 years, suits both sides, and will persist until we discover his whereabouts and mount a rescue operation.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Secret Islamofascist lecture by Islamic Movement's Salah.
Even
University of Haifa has banned Salah's appearance on campus
Head of Islamic Movement's northern branch speaks before Arab students, calls to fight 'occupation.' claims Arabs 'have right to pray in Al-Aqsa Mosque'
Under a cloud of great secrecy, Head of the Islamic Movement's northern branch Sheikh Raed Salah, took part in a convention held at Tel Aviv University on Monday.
… Salah addressed the possibility of the establishment of a Palestinian state, saying: "We must keep fighting until we remove the Israeli occupation and free the holy Jerusalem."
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Ben Gurion University - Campus Watch responds to Dean David Newman's "flawed information," "hackneyed clichés" and "unsupported attacks"
In
"Bashing the Academic Left," a rambling rant against critics of
left-wing Israeli professors published in today's [14/4/2009]
Jerusalem Post, Ben-Gurion University government professor
David Newman strays far afield in his unfounded, and
unsupported, attacks on
Campus Watch.
… Critics who cannot muster empirical arguments often settle for ad hominem attacks and hackneyed clichés, and no cliché is more worn than the charge that off-campus critics of higher education engage in McCarthyism.
… Newman's information is flawed and his analogy fails. …More to the point, without naming any donors to CW or the other organizations he mentions, Newman impugns their reputations by raising the specter of "extremist right-wing" donors whose views are "totally unacceptable" to some, and who may even "advocate" breaking the law. Where is his evidence for this absurd, unfounded charge? Who are these extremists? If he knows any, surely he would list their names and thereby embarrass any organization that accepted their donations. Once again lacking empirical evidence to advance a reasoned argument, Newman resorts to hollow insults and baseless charges.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Amal Jamal's (Dept of Political Science) Crusade against Israel
Jamal's
agenda is apparent everywhere in the book in his choices of
rhetoric. The secondary title of the book is "Media Space and
Cultural Resistance." The book overflows with bias and anti-Israel
bile. With no sense of his own self-contradiction, Jamal insists
that Israel is obsessed with control of the Arab media, with
surveillance over it, and also with ignoring Arab opinion and the
Arabic media altogether. He sees the media in general not as
institutions that reflect public opinion, but rather as those that
control thinking and opinion. He uses the term "hegemonial" with
obsessive regularity. Israel has a "ferocious military government"
(p.47), engaged in "cultural imperialism" (p. 96) via its "media
policy" against its "Palestinian" minority.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Geoffrey Alderman Demolishes Ben Gurion University Dean David Newman's Defense of Tenured Treason
TO
BEGIN with, no academic is above the law. An academic who – shall we
say – incites violence can expect both criminal and institutional
penalties – criminal because of the law of the land and
institutional because an academic who incites violence brings her or
his institution into disrepute. Even for those with tenure, the
charge of bringing the employing institution into disrepute can
customarily result in dismissal. And quite apart from this, there is
the issue of defamation. Can an academic legitimately claim that he
should be able to – say – libel or slander a colleague without
hindrance? Of course not! So academic freedom is not academic
license.
... (In Britain during war) Academics most certainly could not say what they liked, if for no other reason than that the law of the land prescribed draconian penalties (including hanging) for offenses deemed by the courts to fall within the definition of treason. This definition included consorting with the enemy, inciting, aiding and abetting the enemy, and engaging in any act likely to give comfort to the enemy.
... I must also point out that the BDS movement is itself at odds with the very concept of academic freedom, since it seeks to make the espousal of a particular set of political principles the price for entry into that academic dialogue which is at the very heart of what we mean by a university.
"Agree with my views" – it says – "or I will boycott you and freeze you out of the academy."
In this sense I believe that the movement is essentially totalitarian, and indeed fascist in nature. It has no place – none at all – in a true university environment.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Ben Gurion University –Appeal to BGU's Board of Governors NOT to support continued employment of Anti-Israel inciters
The
news of the massive refusal of Jewish donors to support Ben Gurion
University as long as it continues to operate as Israel's University
of Treason continues to thunder in Israel.
In the Hebrew news web site News1 comes an interesting Op-Ed written by Yehuda Drori. The writer was once in charge of fundraising for the Keren Kayemet fund in the American southwest. His article in News1 is entitled, "No Contributions to Slanderers and their Patrons." His article calls on people to contact donors and supporters of Ben Gurion University and other Israeli schools, and to call upon them NOT to support those academics involved in slandering Israel and serving anti-Semites and Israel bashers.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Ben Gurion University - Maariv Defends the Right of BGU Donors to Refuse to Support BGU
In
recent weeks, a series of malicious media attacks against the donors
to Ben Gurion University have been published by representatives of
Ben Gurion University itself. Evidently these officials believe that
smearing their own donors is a great way to up the level of their
generosity! Some of the most venomous attacks have come from David
Newman, the Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at BGU. Newman
accuses the donors to his own university of plotting to suppress
academic freedom at BGU. He calls them McCarthyists and other foul
names. And he also smears every organization and person that dares
to criticize the many far-leftist anti-Israel extremists among the
faculty at BGU. Every conceivable form of treason should be
protected as academic freedom and freedom of speech, insist Newman
and his ilk. But anyone who dares to speak out AGAINST such tenured
treason is a "McCarthyist," someone who must be suppressed and
silenced.
Among those critics of tenured extremists, who have NO right to freedom of speech and NO right to criticize, are the DONORS, insist Newman and his friends.
For the first time, a major Israeli newspaper has published a defense of those donors to Israeli universities who refuse to finance "academic" treason, and an attack on those who smear such activist donors.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Ben Gurion University - Fact-free Nevie strikes again! Neve Gordon (Dept of Political Science) attacks Isracampus on anti-Israel radical web site "972+"
Claims
we are "collaborating with the government to stifle academic
freedom." This from the fellow who organizes conferences in which no
non-leftist and no Zionist may speak! When asked why that is, Gordon
responds: "The whole notion of 'balanced' is now being used as a
weapon against the left. If there's a conference on Darwin we do not
need to invite creationists. For a Holocaust conference we should
not be inviting Holocaust deniers – although one could claim that in
the name of balance we would have to. Why, one might ask, should we
invite people who are against human rights?" In other words, all
Zionists and non-leftists are opposed to human rights.
Gordon says:
"There's an assault on Israeli academia in general. It involves an
alliance between forces such as IsraCampus and Israel Academic
Monitor on the one hand, who try to convince donors to stop giving
money to universities that harbor leftists, and Im Tirzu, which
tries to mobilize government Ministers and Members of Knesset to
pressure the top university executives to discipline recalcitrant
academics. There's an alliance between elements in civil society, a
handful of donors, and the government to stifle academic freedom and
criticism of Israeli policy. The phenomenon is not only in the
academic sphere…it also includes, for example, the attacks on the
human rights organizations in Israel.
"As I understand it, the assault has a twofold objective. The idea
is to prevent the flow of information from Israel abroad, and
because both academics and the Israeli human rights community have
strong networks outside of Israel they are the one's currently
targeted. Simultaneously, there is an attempt to stifle internal
debate, by reducing the limiting discussions about policies that
lead to social wrongs and more violence and aggression....
"We are seeing a totally new phenomenon in Israeli academia:
students sitting in class, filming the classes and then passing
information on to the monitor groups and the media. The recordings
are almost always edited, so the information doesn't reflect what
really went on in class. Such students consider themselves to be
class monitors , rather than people who have come to the university
in order to study, broaden their horizon and expand their
knowledge…not unlike the McCarthy era in the US, some Israeli
student see themselves as agents of the state, as spies."
The interviewer Dahlia Scheindlin is herself a leftwing anti-Zionist who teaches politics at BGU
(The web site is censoring out talkbacks from non-leftists under the guise of "trolling". No Academic freedom to be found here.)
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
The Hysterical Leftist Opponent of Freedom of Speech, David Newman, Dean of Social Sciences and Humanities at Ben Gurion University, attacks Isracampus
How
dare anyone criticize extremist anti-Israel academics!!! Newman
forgot to mention that Zionists and non-leftists are prohibited from
teaching in his own Department of Politics at BGU!!
"The thought police of the extreme rightwing has grown in strength in recent years. It includes sites such as Campus Watch and Isracampus, well-funded organizations like Im Tirtzu and NGO Monitor, whose objectives are to prevent freedom of expression among all those who do not share their fortress view of the world. For them, anyone who believes in such values as peace, human rights or the universal values of Judaism are collectively labeled as traitors, anti-Zionists and enemies of the Jewish State. In scenes reminiscent of darker days, they send their representatives into universities to record lectures, which are then selectively edited, published on their web sites and used as ammunition to impose an extreme rightwing agenda on public discourse.
The attempt by my own university to prevent a conference on human rights from going ahead last week, and its refusal to allow the conference organizers to use the Senate Hall for the main session, was a knee-jerk reaction to this form of pressure."
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
University of Haifa - McCarthyism at Haifa U
Meretz
Knesset Member Zahava Gal-On forced Haifa University to cancel a
joint appearance with National Union Knesset Member Dr.
Michael Ben-Ari because she refused to sit down with him on the
same panel.
"I am not prepared participate in any panel with Ben-Ari because he is a fascist, a racist and a Kahanist [followed of the late Rabi Meir Kahane] and is not legitimate," said Gal-On.
… [MK Ben-Ari] "It is clear that the left exploits Haifa University, which surrenders to Gal-On's dictates. This is McCarthyism," he said, referring to the United States in the 1950s, when Sen. Joe McCarthy tried to rid the government of suspected Communists.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Sapir College - Dingbette Galore! Julia Chaitin (Dept of Social Work) has a New Song for Passover:
We occupy
Palestine
(Let their people go)
With checkpoints, sieges and arrests
(Let their people go)
Chorus:
Go up Bibi
Up north to Ramallah
Tell old Abbas
We'll let their people go
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Ben Gurion University – Neve Gordon (Dept of Political Science) is awarded the Qaddafi Human Rights Prize
Members
of the Zionist student organization "Im Tirtzu" crashed the
Nuremberg Rally at Ben Gurion University. They handed out to
participants copies of a diploma, announcing the award to Neve
Gordon of the Muammar Qaddafi Prize in Human Rights. As you recall,
Qaddafi's people sit in the UN's "Human Rights Commission," and
their ideas about human rights are exactly the same as those of Neve
Gordon: namely, that pretend concern for "human rights" is a great
bludgeon to use to destroy Israel.
Maariv cites officials at Ben Gurion University who expressed unhappiness with the one-sided anti-Israel character of the "conference." That did not have any effect on the content or the organizers, who just went ahead and held their Nuremberg Rally in campus facilities paid for by the Israeli taxpayer. Gordon himself is cited by Maariv as saying that there is also opposition in Iran and Syria to human rights conferences. He is wrong. The sort of conference he ran, consisting entirely of Israel bashing, is precisely the sort of "human rights conference" that Libya and Syria often happily host.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
University of Haifa - Prof. William Freedman (Dept of English Literature) Endorses Staying Home on Land Day to Mourn Israel's Existence
In
posting to the "Segel-Plus" List
----- Forwarded
Message ----
From: William Freedman <freedman@research.haifa.ac.il>
To: Segel plus <segel-plus@research.haifa.ac.il>
Sent: Mon, April 11, 2011 2:04:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Segel-plus] הירשת וגם רצחת וגם
הענשת את הזוכרים?
I want to add
my name and personal revulsion to this. The headline in today's
Haaretz, English version, is: 'Ministry Hunts for Arab Teachers
Absent on Land Day'. This sickens and, as a Jewish Israeli, deeply
shames me. Given this, if I taught in a public school, I'd stay home
on Land Day, partly in identification with those who protest the
grave injustice the day demarks (sic), partly to protest this
revolting suppression of the right to express and peacefully act on
one's convictions. In fact, I'd strongly urge all Jewish teachers of
conscience to do precisely that next March 30th. I'd ask, with
sorrow and outrage, What have we come to? but the question is
superflouous. We know.
Bill
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Hebrew University – Efrat Ben Ze'ev heads for UC-Davis; One more tenured anti-Israel extremist from the Hebrew University propagandizing against Israel
Ben-Ze'ev holds a PHD in anthropology from
Oxford University. She is an activist with the anti-Israel
organization Ta'ayush. She is the author of Remembering Palestine in
1948: beyond national narratives and Palestinian Refugees of 1948:
Remembrances.
In August 2009, Ben Ze'ev wrote an article entitled "The National Trap," which promoted the work of the late Palestinian terrorist Ghassan Kanafani and the Nakba narrative in general. In June 2009, Ben Ze'ev spoke as part of a conference at York University entitled "Israel/Palestine: Mapping Models of Statehood and Paths to Peace," which examined different solutions for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including a two-state solution, having a single bi-national state, as well as federal and con-federal approaches.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Hebrew University - David Shulman (Dept of Comparative Religion) heads the Cheerleaders for Terrorist Jawad Siam
http://religions.huji.ac.il/faculty/shulman.html
A reminder: This Friday there will be a guided tour of Silwan, the so-called City of David, in part as an act of solidarity with Jawad Siam, one of the major activists in the neighborhood. Jawad has been arrested many times in recent months and is being held under house arrest. His trial-- a blatantly political trial by any standard-- begins this week.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Ben Gurion University - Rivka Carmi and the BGU Nuremberg Rally
Rivka
Carmi, President of Ben Gurion University, insists there is no
on-campus anti-Israel propagandizing and indoctrination at BGU. Not
a bit. So read about the one-sided anti-Israel atrocity BGU is about
to host!!
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Sapir College - Julia Chaitin (Dept of Social Work) Responds to Rocket Attacks by Cheerleading for the Hamas
Julia Chaitin may be the leading pro-Hamas voice coming out of the Negev and the embattled town of Sderot, the regular target of Hamas rockets and bombs. She exploits her residence in the Negev to legitimize her anti-Israel activism. She recently organized a "Solidarity with Hamas" conference at Sapir College.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Ben Gurion University - The Creative "Logic" of David Newman (Dean of Social Sciences and Humanities) - The South African Boycott of BGU is all the fault of BGU's Own Donors!
Meanwhile
Ben-Gurion University will continue to develop. Its 20,000 students
and almost 1,000 teaching and research faculty will continue to push
the frontiers of science.
Its politically aware [meaning leftist – Isracampus] faculty will continue to take part in the vibrant debate about the nature of Israeli society.
The boycotters, whether they be anti-Israel activists such as UJ, or the anti-democracy activists of Im Tirtzu and the right-wing donors, will become forgotten footnotes of history, remembered only for their attempt to manipulate science for their own narrow aims.
A plague on both of their discriminatory houses.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Ben Gurion University - A Letter to the Heads of Ben Gurion University from a Former Director of Its "Friends of" Offices in Los Angeles
What
do Academic rights & freedoms & Civil-Political
Freedoms-of-expression in any Democracy have to do with lecturing
for 10 solid years, (as Neve Gordon has been doing diligently with
impunity and with the Univ. support & Rivka Carmi's support),
specifically calling- lecturing for the delegitimization and
demonization of Israel's, thus directly undermining its very
existence???
How many thousands of Jewish & non-Jewish BGU students has Neve Cordon brainwashed to detest & hate Israel over the last 10 years???...
With such Professors blossoming on Israeli Universities campuses, who needs enemies like Achmadinejad? With professors like Neve Gordon, who needs to read the "Charters" and the "Covenants" of the PLO? Fatah? Hamas? and the Hezbullah, that not only do not recognize Israel and its very rights to exist, but specifically call for Israel's destruction ??? Does Neve Gordon teach his students about 1,000,000 Jewish Refugees from the Arab countries & from Iran that Israel fully absorbed since 1948???
I am astonished, disappointed, enraged and heartbroken,
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
University of Exeter - On the anti-Semitic pro-terror "Counterpunch," Ilan Pappe (Dept of Israel Bashing) Proclaims that Israel is Not a Democracy, unlike Libya
No,
Israel is definitely not a democracy. A country that occupies
another people for more than 40 years and disallow them the most
elementary civic and human rights cannot be a democracy. A country
that pursues a discriminatory policy against a fifth of its
Palestinian citizens inside the 67 borders cannot be a democracy. In
fact Israel is, what we use to call in political science a
herrenvolk democracy, its democracy only for the masters. The fact
that you allow people to participate in the formal side of
democracy, namely to vote or to be elected, is useless and
meaningless if you don't give them any share in the common good or
in the common resources of the State, or if you discriminate against
them despite the fact that you allow them to participate in the
elections. On almost every level from official legislation through
governmental practices, and social and cultural attitudes, Israel is
only a democracy for one group, one ethnic group, that given the
space that Israel now controls, is not even a majority group
anymore, so I think that you'll find it very hard to use any known
definition of democracy which will be applicable for the Israeli
case.
FB: What is your nationality, Ilan?
IP: I don't have a clear nationality. I have a citizenship, an Israeli citizenship.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Feminist Soap Opera at Tel Aviv University's "Women's Studies" Department
The
very fact that there exists a "Women's Studies" Department at Tel
Aviv University may tell you most of what you need to know about the
background to all this. While one can argue over whether there could
hypothetically be an interesting avenue of scholarly inquiry
involving gender issues, this is obviously never (or almost never)
what is done in such "Women's Studies" departments. Instead,
"Women's Studies" consists of full-time advocacy and propagandizing.
In Israel, all "Women's Studies" departments are far leftist and
anti-Israel. It is not the only department in which advocacy is the
raison d'etre.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
IsraCampus Report on an "Academic Conference" Run recently by Tel Aviv University
On
Wednesday March 23, 2011 Tel Aviv University hosted an "academic
conference" with the title of "Nationalism and Morality: The Zionist
Narrative and 'The Arab Problem'"
In other words, from the get-go, the conference's basic hypothesis is that Israeli nationalism has a problem with morality, that the history of Israel is just "one narrative," and that Zionists are anti-Arab racists. This hypothesis dominated much of the "discussion" in this day of anti-Zionist on-campus indoctrination.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Ran HaCohen (Dept of Comparative Literature) thinks the Itamar Murders of Babies were Ok because Israel had Built a Fence on the Land of the Murderers
The
Israeli government immediately exploited the atrocity to announce
the construction of 500 new houses for settlers. The barbarian
slaughter could have been an excellent propaganda asset—especially
now that terror attacks are so seldom and Israel is in desperate
need of pretexts for entrenching its colonialist project—were it not
for the catastrophes in Japan that started the very same day. In its
frustration, Netanyahu's government even tried to feed the
international media with snuff-style pictures of the murder, photos
so horrible that the Israeli media refused to show them (though they
did become a hot commodity among smart phone users).
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
University of Exeter - Treason du jour from Ilan Pappe (Dept. of Political Science), the Lord Haw-Haw of the British Jihad
The
new law, like the previous others, institutionalize the Apartheid
State of Israel or for short ASOI. ASOI is now one of worst
apartheid regimes in the world. It controls almost all of Palestine
(apart from Gaza which it imprisoned hermetically since 2005). It
has, in absolute terms the highest number of political prisoners
(China was reported to have less then 1000, Iran has few thousands);
Israel holds nearly 10,000 of them. It has the largest number of
apartheid laws and regulations than any country in the world and
apart from the Arab regimes that are now collapsing and rogue states
such as Miramar and North Korea, has the longest imposition of
emergency laws and regulations that rob citizens of their most basic
human and civil rights. Its policies against the discriminated
native population, now composing nearly half of the overall
population in ASOI, include atrocities such as barring people from
using water sources, from cultivating their fields, building more
houses, from getting to work, schools or universities and it bans
them from commemorating their history and in particular the 1948
Nakbah.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
University of Exeter - The Frauds of Ilan Pappe (Dept. of Political Science)
What
higher distinction can there be than this -- he has been cited, with
very strong approval, by that great maven of Jewish perfidy, Ms.
Jennifer Peto of the University of Toronto.
But Mr. Pappe has made a mistake that cost him dearly. He has not contented himself, as have certain others, with being an "activist" against Israel. No, he has allowed himself the conceit that he still is the historian he once was, a scholar, and he has masked his current propaganda with the externalities of scholarship. And once he did this he invited the scrutiny of scholars, and these have shown little mercy in proving him a malicious fabricator.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Stalinist Yoav Peled (Dept of Political Science) Shills for the Hamas
Besides,
the Muslim Brotherhood already announced that it is Israel that has
not lived up to the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty of 1979, and they
are right, because the first part of that treaty talks about the
Palestinians. It doesn't start with Israel-Egyptian bilateral
relations, that's only in the second paragraph. And Israel of course
has not lived up to its obligations under the treaty with respect to
the Palestinians....There hasn't been any suicide bombing since
2002. This is not at all the issue. This is not about suicide
bombers, but Israel's determination to maintain control over the
Palestinian territories. It's not a matter of the Palestinians
changing; it's a matter of Israel changing.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
University of East London - Expatriate Israel-hating Haim Bresheeth (Professor of Jew Baiting) Demands that the Coen Brothers (movie producers) Boycott Israel
Your
much-celebrated presence will adorn a colonial settler state still
vigorously engaged in the business of dispossessing and driving out
the indigenous inhabitants, who are the Palestinians. Of course the
United States itself is built on the bones and demolished
civilizations of its own indigenous inhabitants, but for the
Palestinians the struggle is real and present – an every day battle
to hang on to land, houses, livelihoods, hopes and ambitions.
Your appearance in Israel will unfortunately help camouflage the brutal realities of a powerful and illegal military occupation. However much you believe you can go there simply as artists, your presence will be spun to reassure the Israeli public that their ruthless colonial society is 'normal', and to promote Brand Israel abroad. You will be saying, to Israelis and to the world, that Israel's violently racist treatment of the Palestinians is acceptable.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - TAU's Anat Matar (Dept of Philosophy) has crayoned a new anti-Israel "Book"
"By
highlighting the various images of Palestinian prisoners in the
Israel-Palestine conflict, Abeer Baker and Anat Matar chart their
changing fortunes. Essays written by prisoners, ex-prisoners, Human
rights defenders, lawyers and academic researchers analyse the
political nature of imprisonment and Israeli attitudes towards
Palestinian prisoners. These contributions deal with the prisoners'
status within Palestinian society, the conditions of their
imprisonment and various legal procedures used by the Israeli
military courts in order to criminalise and de-politicise them. Also
addressed are Israel's breaches of international treaties in its
treatment of the Palestinian prisoners, practices of torture and
solitary confinement, exchange deals and prospects for release."
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Ben Gurion University President Rivka Carmi Complains that her university is under unprecedented attack thanks to the "treasonous article" published by Neve Gordon in the Los Angeles Times
But
less than an hour after my landing in Israel I received a panicky
phone call from the US, in which I was informed that a faculty
member at BGU, Dr. Neve Gordon (since promoted under Rivka's guiding
hand and with her blessings to Associate Professor --- Isracampus)
had just published an article in the Los Angeles Times. This article
calls upon the entire world to boycott the state of Israel, which
Gordon there terms an apartheid regime. From that point and onwards,
I received and continue to receive an unprecedented storm of angry
messages and outraged letters from donors and supporters of the
University, as well as from others who merely heard about the
article. I also was forced to take enraged phone calls from donors
and Jewish public figures in Israel and abroad.
The
university officials and many of you members of the faculty work
hard at raising funding for the University. Unfortunately, without
these donations we simply do not have life (sic), and certainly not
development and progress. This work is particularly difficult during
a period of global financial strife and of intensified competition
for funding from other public bodies, especially other universities.
An article such as this brands our University as an institution
undeserving of global Jewish support. Many of those contacting me
stated that they would never again support any Israeli university
employing people who harm Israel in this way, and indeed that they
would encourage their friends and associates to likewise withhold
donations. I am citing the bottom line from so many letters and
messages that I am receiving these days.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
University of Exeter - Professional Israel Basher Ilan Pappe (Dept. of Political Science) Proclaimed Hero of the Raelian Movement of UFO Chasers
Raelian
movement of UFO hunters has decided to grant its award for "Honorary
Guide of Humanity" to Israeli expatriate anti-Semite Ilan Pappe.
Now I think it is lovely that Ilan Pappe is at long last getting the recognition that he so richly deserves for his important scholarly work and university career. Pappe has built his academic career upon inventing an imaginary massacre at Tantora, out of fabricating the tale that Israel carried out "ethnic cleansing" of Arabs, and out of serving as Israel's Lord Haw-Haw in regard to everything else. Now, evidently, he has decided that the planet earth is just not large enough for "the Guide of Humanity's" ego and so Pappe is taking his campaign against the Joos to the stars.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Ben Gurion University - David Newman's (Dept of Political Science) latest Smears of Israel - Claims Undemocratic Israel has mere Democratic "Veneer"
Does
BGU's Dean of Social Science have mere Academic Veneer, as well?
In the Jerusalem Post, Newman claims that Israel is filled with three anti-democratic populations: Russian immigrants, Orthodox Jews, and low-income Sephardim. Why are these anti-democratic? Because they are all hostile to the Far Left!! David Newman's test of "democratic" is whether someone agrees with the anti-Israel post-Zionist Left!
"What is fast becoming an anti 'others' tsunami, is an internal kulturkampf taking place between the declining and politically inactive old elites, and those groups who were, for a long time, at the socio-political periphery.
OVER THE past 20 years, the country has experienced substantial demographic and political change. This is reflected in the absolute growth of formerly peripheral groups such as the haredi and national-Orthodox communities, immigrants from the former Soviet Union and the poorer Mizrahi groups. These diverse groups now make up more than half the Jewish population, and hold many key positions in the Knesset and other decision-making institutions.... The convergence of these groups at this specific juncture, despite the internal contradictions and even mutual animosities between their respective beliefs and interests, has for the first time created a critical mass which is challenging the democratic ethos of the state."
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Yet
another Israel-basher from the Hebrew University
Professor (emeritus) Gideon Shimoni (Dept of Contemporary Jewry)
denounces Israel as an Apartheid Regime (sort of)
There
is, however, a sense in which the South African case is
instructively comparable to that of Israel. It relates to the
reality of Israel's decades long occupation regime over the post-war
militarily occupied territory known as the West Bank, or in Jewish
tradition as Judea and Samaria. No military occupation can be
morally benign and this one is undeniably no exception.
...It is in this respect alone that use of the South African analogy
to critique Israel is justified, and importantly so.
....Thus it is that the everyday reality of governance, work,
protest and suppression in the occupied territory looks a lot like
South Africa under apartheid.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Israel's Tenured Taliban Targeting Bar-Ilan University
Israel's Tenured Taliban is out in force this week. The academic extremists have a new cause celebre. They are bashing Bar-Ilan University because Bar Ilan refused to grant tenure to one Ariella Azoulay. The Tenured Taliban are claiming that she was turned down because she is a leftist and because Bar Ilan University represses and suppresses leftists. A group of 70 academic extremists sent a petition to the Israel Council on Higher Education, denouncing Bar-Ilan, demanding that the Council "investigate" politicization at Bar-Ilan. Among the signatories to this petition are people like Lev "The Hamas is Today's Heroic Maccabees" Grinberg from Ben Gurion University, Yehouda "Replace Israel with a Rwanda" Shenhav, a Marxist sociologist from Tel Aviv University, and of course Israel's academic Lord Haw-Haw, Neve Gordon from Ben Gurion University.
The spectacle of THESE signatory people complaining about politicization of the campus is rather amusing. Many of them are people who were only hired and promoted by Israeli universities in the first place thanks to their own anti-Israel far-leftist and Marxist politics. Many were simply hired as acts of political solidarity by other leftists in the system. Not a single one of the signatories had anything at all to say about Ben Gurion University firing people who had expressed unfashionable politically incorrect thoughts, including Yeruham Leavitt, who was fired by BGU for saying he did not think it was healthy for children to be raised by gay couples.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
News
Flash:
Hebrew University - Sexual Predator Gideon Aran - brother-in-law to
Ehud Olmert
Gideon
Aran is the ultra-leftist sociology lecturer at the Hebrew
University who has been in the media all this week due to his having
harassed sexually a Hebrew University student. Ultimately the Hebrew
University paid about 38,000 NIS in "hush money." Unlike Prof. Eyal
Ben-Ari, from the same department, whose name has been in the media
for many years due to his OWN sexual harassment of students (some
students accused him of rape), Aran's name was being quietly kept
hidden until this week. Why was that? ... Was Ehud Olmert behind the
hiding of Aran's identity for years? And for the long failure of the
university and the legal system to take action against Aran?
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Isracampus Exclusive: Globes Newspaper exposed Dr. Gideon Aran's escapades three years ago; Hebrew University Officials might be involved in conspiracy to conceal wrong-doings on campus
The
sex scandal involving Dr. Gideon Aran, a sociologist at the Hebrew
University, was in fact first broken to the world by the Israeli
business daily newspaper Globes on June 13, 2008, but without Aran's
name. Aran is referred to there only as "'A' from the Department of
Sociology." Those familiar with the department would have assumed
that the A was referring to Hebrew University sociologist Eyal/Ayal
(like Aran, spelled with a Hebrew Alef) Ben-Ari, whose name was
already in the press with regard to alleged sexual harassment of his
students. The Globes article later mentions that there were indeed
two Professors named "A" or "ALEF" who were involved in sexually
harassing female sociology students at the Hebrew University.
... In any case, we now know that the offending faculty member was indeed Gideon Aran. We also know from the Globes article that the entire story and the behavior of Aran were well-known to the Hebrew University authorities and faculty at least as far back as June 2008. And they did nothing at all about it. They swept the entire affair under the carpet until Haaretz decided to break it and name names this week!
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Debauchery Spreading in the Hebrew University Department of Sociology
Last
week the Hebrew University's own ethics and discipline committee
suspended Ben-Ari for two years from teaching and from receiving his
salary, and slapped his wrists in some other ways, like freezing
some of his research funds. After this, and 8 years after the
original complaints, the Hebrew University has also asked the state
Prosecution to reopen their investigation of Ben-Ari.
And just hours later, Haaretz breaks the scoop of the Aran Affair.... What did Aran do? Well, he sexually harassed one of his female students, and the harassment was so bad that the Hebrew University itself agree to pay 38,000 NIS (around $10,000) in hush money to buy off the student and prevent her from going public and filing criminal charges against Aran.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Hebrew University - Uproar over Hush Money Paid to Silence Complaint of Sexual Harassment by Hebrew University sociologist Gideon Aran
In
May of 2009, prior to the mediation proceedings, a university
disciplinary tribunal issued an opinion stating: "The conduct to
which the defendant [Aran] has admitted is unbecoming in the
extreme, and when it is directed at a student, it is difficult to
think of more serious conduct. The humiliation and harassment that
characterize the defendant's ongoing conduct are intolerable in
society in general, but their seriousness is much graver in the
setting of an academic institution."
The opinion also noted that, beyond the violation itself, the instance constituted exploitation of Aran's status and authority as a teacher.
Orit Kamir, a legal scholar specializing in sexual harassment law, said the university's contention that relations between Ben-Dayan and Aran were consensual and therefore do not constitute sexual harassment is ill-founded in light of the university disciplinary tribunal's finding that Aran exploited his status and authority as a teacher.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Hebrew University calls on Attorney General to Indict Professor of Sociology Eyal Ben-Ari
Hebrew
U calls on Attorney General to Indict Professor of Sociology Eyal
Ben-Ari, the professor accused by his students of raping them and
the fellow who invented the idea and supervised the thesis claiming
that the lack of rape of Arab women by Jews proves that Jews are
racists.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Hebrew University - Leftist anti-Israel Sociologist Eyal Ben-Ari suspended for "Inappropriate Relations" with Students
Same professor supervised the thesis that claimed that the absence of rape of Arabs by Jewish soldiers proves Jews are racists. Why was Ben-Ari not suspended for rape?
Many
years too late, the Hebrew University finally got around to
suspending far-leftist anti-Israel Professor of Sociology Eyal Ben-Ari.
He was the supervisor of that famous MA thesis that "proved" that
the reason that no Arab women are raped by Jewish soldiers is that
the Jews are such racists. Ben-Ari had been accused of numerous
women graduate students of raping them and molesting them. I guess
he was just proving that he was not a rapist. In any case, he has
now, at long last, been suspended, but for "inappropriate
relations," and not for rape. Why not? Inappropriate relations
sounds like a romance with a goat.
In my opinion the most remarkable part of the Ben-Ari saga is that he used Hebrew University research funds to purchase vibrators to give as gifts to his female students. Really. Earlier reports concerning the affair appear here: http://frontpagemag.com/2010/07/19/a-tale-of-two-professors/ You can see a picture of his vibrator here: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/1/21
"Eyal Ben-Ari, a professor of sociology and anthropology at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, has been suspended for two years without pay after a disciplinary panel ruled that he had engaged in inappropriate relations with three female students who were under his tutelage. The panel ruled that Ben-Ari had exploited his position of authority to engage in intimate relations..."
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Prof. Gerald Steinberg explains why the real Danger to Democracy is Leftist Whining about Financial Transparency of Radical NGOs
When
officials from Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, and another
dozen nations use their "soft power" to fund dozens of Israeli
groups, such as Breaking the Silence, Yesh Din, and the Public
Committee Against Torture in Israeli, whose officials travel the
world declaring that Israel is a nation of war criminals, these
groups are also promoting the interests of their sponsors.
(In contrast, the U.S. government generally does not fund Israeli political advocacy NGOs, and the few exceptions, such as the ill-advised attempt to use the "Geneva Initiative" organization, ended quickly.)
… The new legislation, which is based on the U.S. Foreign Agents Registration Act, is designed to prevent these exceptions, and to promote the public’s right to know who and what forces are behind powerful political campaigns that take place outside, and often in direct opposition to, the electoral process.
Had the NGO recipients endorsed this transparency legislation, instead of falsely denouncing it as anti-democratic, the proposed investigations aimed only at one side of the political spectrum (and misdirected at alleged Arab government funding) would not have been introduced.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Ronen Shoval, Chairman of "Im Tirtzu", defends Knesset probe for NGOs
Chairman
of Im Tirtzu Defends Knesset Demand for Transparency in Funding Far
Leftist Anti-Israel NGOs
During the past year, the vast majority of the public became convinced that the organizations that call themselves human rights groups actually belong to the extreme left and seek to force their radical values on others through foreign funding. The vast majority of the public does not believe the lies that are being spread against the IDF fighters, and knows that Israel makes every effort to avoid harming innocent people. Most of the public knows that Israel is a democratic and open state. They do not buy the lie that all of us are backward, violent and racist, just because a negligible minority decided it has a monopoly over enlightenment, democracy and human rights.
… Since Israel is a democracy, and since transparency is a condition for democracy, we are entitled to know who is funding and fueling the campaign of hatred against us. Which special interests are meddling in Israeli democracy and bestowing great power - sometimes disproportionate, sometimes undemocratic - in the hands of a radical minority? In another few months, we shall get the answers to which we are entitled.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Isi Leibler, past VP of World Jewish Congress and Jerusalem Post columnist, recognizes the danger in Leftist NGOs
Some of these NGOs are also directly responsible for the demonization of the IDF, which takes extraordinary measures to minimize civilian casualties in a manner unmatched by any other military force.
They succeeded in slandering soldiers as inhuman monsters and war criminals deliberately killing innocent civilians, and laid the foundations for the lies and distortions upon which the Goldstone commission findings were based. This also led to calls to try our soldiers as war criminals at the International Criminal Court.
What made these NGOs so effective were the enormous funds at their disposal. Much of this money originates from European governments and elements hostile to Israel exploiting these organizations as vehicles to blatantly interfere in the internal affairs of our country and undermine our global standing.
There is thus every reason to expose the sources of these funds, both to highlight the unethical activities of the governments concerned and to enable Israelis to appreciate that many of these NGOs, acting under the guise of human rights advocacy, are in reality promoting a very different agenda, funded by foreign political groups seeking to delegitimize the Jewish state
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
IDI Watch / Tel Aviv University - Yehouda Shenhav (Dept of Sociology) invents an Ashkenazi Conspiracy
Prof.
Yehuda Shenhav of the Van Leer Institute says the past five years
have seen a revival of the Ashkenaz culture, and more people are
searching for their Ashkenaz roots.
Shenhav says the revival is also expressed in the establishment of a new Ashkenaz movement in Israel.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Mona Charen exposes Israel's Academic Fifth Column
Neve
Gordon, a professor at Ben Gurion University of Beer-Sheva, has led
international efforts to boycott the Jewish state. Rachel Giora, a
professor at Tel Aviv University, actively encourages international
divestment campaigns. Shlomo Sand, the son of Holocaust survivors
and a professor at Tel Aviv University (and Berkeley), proclaims
that “there is no Jewish people and no justification for a Jewish
state.” Meirav Michaeli, the leading announcer on the Army radio
channel, has urged Israelis to resist the draft. Israeli professors
have cheered the idea of issuing international arrest warrants for
leading Israeli politicians and army officers — though none has so
far volunteered to renounce his own salary as a contribution to
international sanctions.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University – Yoav Peled (Dept of Political Science) - Anti-Israel Marxist Jews at TAU
Western
universities are not the only centers of tenured academic extremism.
In Israel the most notorious den of Marxist faculty members and
radical tenured leftists is Tel Aviv University. Curiously, the
radicals there spend a lot of their time and energies bashing one
another for not being radical enough.
The leading combatant now attacking other tenured radicals is Yoav Peled [1], a professor of political science at Tel Aviv University, an unreformed Stalinist [2]. His sidekick is Horit Herman Peled, evidently his wife, and in any case someone who teaches art at Oranim College, where her specialty is to design art exhibits and poems that "prove" Israel is a colonialist entity guilty of ethnic cleansing.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
University of the Witwatersrand (once the bastion of Afrikaaner racism) - Ran Greenstein (Department of Sociology), Anti-Israel ex-Israeli sociologist, discovers some apartheid, and it is NOT in South Africa!! [Revenge for Ran's inability to get an academic job in Israel?]
In
the last decade, the notion that the Israeli system of political and
military control bears strong resemblance to the apartheid system in
South Africa has gained ground. It is invoked regularly by movements
and activists opposed to the 1967 occupation and to other aspects of
Israeli policies vis-à-vis the Palestinian- Arab people. It is
denounced regularly by official Israeli spokespersons and unofficial
apologists. ...
The right of return is vested in individuals and they are the only
ones who can negotiate on their own behalf.
It is this issue, above all, that makes the Israeli apartheid of a special type different from historical South African apartheid, and more difficult to overcome. As a result, Palestinians have been deprived of the key weapon of struggle used by black South Africans: their strategic location in the economy and their ability to strike and disrupt the daily lives of white citizens, as a crucial political lever. Due to the historical trajectory of excluding indigenous people in Israel/Palestine, compared to their incorporation in a subordinate role in South Africa, they operate largely outside the boundaries of the Israeli-dominated economic system.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Sapir College is Turned into a Hamas Lobby for 4 Days
Among the organizations raising the ire of the Legal Forum for the Land of Israel are Zochrot ("Remembering"), the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel. Zochrot is described on its website as "a group of Israeli citizens working to raise awareness of the Nakba, the Palestinian catastrophe of 1948."
In a letter to Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar, Knesset Education, Culture and Sports Committee Chairman Zevulun Orlev, local government heads and Sapir College itself, the forum opposed a state-funded college holding "one-sided political conferences at the leftist edge of the Israeli ideological spectrum" without permitting the participation of "balancing figures."
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - UK physician tells TAU to discipline anti-Israel academics
A
Jewish community leader and prominent physician has written to the
rector and president of Tel Aviv University, calling for the school
to take a stand after two of its lecturers called for support of a
boycott of Israel in a British newspaper last week.
Prof. Stuart Stanton, president of the British Society of Urogynecology and chairman of Hadassah UK, wrote to TAU rector Prof. Aron Shai and president Prof. Yossi Klafter after Prof. Rachel Giora and Dr. Anat Matar, along with 10 other Israeli activists, wrote a letter that was published in the Guardian, calling for British author Ian McEwan to turn down the Jerusalem Prize.
…
Last year, Matar, from TAU's philosophy department, was the guest
speaker at an event advocating a boycott of Israel at London
University's School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), a
campus renowned for anti-Israel activity. Her talk was entitled
"Supporting the Boycott of Israel: Campaigning from Within."
Both Giora, of the university's linguistics department, and Matar are active in the BDS campaign and are members of a group called "Boycott! Supporting the Palestinian BDS call from within." In 2009, they both stood in solidarity with Ben-Gurion University academic Neve Gordon, who was criticized for an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times calling for a boycott of Israel.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Rachel Giora (Dept of Linguistics) and her Comrades in Jihad demand that Poland Boycott Israel
Letter
To The Polish Government Regarding Israel's Apartheid Policies
By Prof. Rachel Giora,Shir
Hever, Eytan Lerner, Ofer Neiman & Emily Schaeffer
• In particular, we expect Poland to cancel arms trade between Rafael and Poland 's Bumar for Spike Missile production, given that these weapons are used by the Israeli military against civilians
• Promote an EU arms embargo on Israel, in accordance with the tenets of international law.
...
Cancel contracts and operations in Poland by Israeli companies that are clearly violating International Law through their illegal operations in servicing and building illegal settlements in occupied Palestine. Contracts should not be signed nor implemented until these companies cease their material and financial support for the illegal occupation of Palestinian territory.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Harvard University's Kenneth Levine (Dept of Psychiatry) on the Israeli Academic "rot"
Within humanities and social science departments of Israeli universities, the all-too-common abandonment of education and its replacement with anti-Zionist and "post-Zionist" indoctrination built on false and defamatory claims, is well documented and widely recognized. An incident such as Teddy Katz receiving a grade of 97 from Haifa University's history department for his masters thesis, submitted in 1998, falsely claiming that Israeli soldiers massacred Arabs in the village of Tantura during the 1947-1949 war, is just one of the more notorious examples of this phenomenon.
But the involvement of large numbers of natural and physical science faculty members in the recent petition - their categorical endorsement of claims against Israel that are either bogus or, at best, dubious and open to incisive counter-argument - represents more than simply a numerical expansion of those Israeli university departments touched by a debauching of academic integrity.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
University of Haifa - The World according to Micah Leshem (Dept of Psychology), posted on the "Segel-Plus" discussion list at the University of Haifa on February 7, 2011:
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While
Israel is one of the stable regimes in the Middle East, it is also
one of the major destablizers of the Middle East. With its
consistent policy of stealing Arab lands and populating them with
Jews, daily outrages against Arabs and their homes, their endless
mass detention, its periodic brutal military adventures involving
the mass killings of Arab citizens, and persistent refusal to
negotiate peace in good faith (eg the Saudi initiative, UN 242) it
has contributed much to the rift between Arabs and their leadership.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
The IDI's Academic Swat Team - Carmon, Kremnitzer (Hebrew University) & Stern (Bar-Ilan University) - Stoops to McCarthyism in its Assault against the Freedom of Speech of Non-Leftists
This
decision joins a series of proposed bills designed to inflame the
volatile relationship between Jewish and Arab citizens. Similarly
provocative bills include the so-called "loyalty oath," the "nakba"
bill and the initiative to allow small communities to reject
candidates for residency based on "incompatibility" with the
community's social fabric. Although clearly targeted against one
particular group, such bills inevitably create an opening for
discrimination against others.
...
This talk of "loyalty" and "treason" invites violence. It is
difficult not to recall the days prior to the assassination of
Yitzhak Rabin. The populist exploitation of fear, suspicion and
animosity toward Arab Israelis, asylum-seekers and others, all under
the banner of patriotism, is eroding support for the principle of
equality – a basic tenet of the Declaration of Independence.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Ben Gurion University - Ben-Dror Yemini trashes yet another Left-wing Fanatic Teaching at BGU - Zvi Bentwich (Dept of Health Sciences)
Ben
Dror Yemini, depity editor of Maariv, Israel's second daily, blasts
Prof. Zvi Bentwich, for his running the treasonous pro-terror
leftwing NGO "Physicians for Human Rights." who is mainly in BGU's
health sciences department but also teaches a leftwing propaganda
course in the politics department.
The article by Yemini
demolishing Bentwich is only in Hebrew, here:
http://www.nrg.co.il/app/index.php?do=blog&encr_id=f2b4c1b55be76d1e6d7b777256ea0370&id=2105
But it puts the lie once again to Rivka Carmi's idiotic claims that "only Neve Gordon" is the problem, that there are no other leftwing extremists teaching in the politics department. Now it turns out that even people teaching there who come from Health Sciences are leftwing anti-Israel propagandists.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Rachel Giora wants the Pirate of the Caribbean to help her Make Israel walk the Plank!
Tel
Aviv University's Rachel Giora (Dept of Linguistics) joins the rest
of the Jews for a Hamas Victory in demanding that Vanessa Paradis
and Johnny Depp boycott Israel
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Anat Matar, Rachel Giora, and their Fellow Israelis for the Elimination of Israel demand that Israel be Boycotted by Winner of Jerusalem Prize
As
Israeli citizens who support
the boycott, divestment and sanctions call on Israel, we believe
that if
Ian McEwan accepts the Jerusalem prize next month in Jerusalem (Letters,
26 January), it will make him a collaborator with
Israel's worst human rights offenders and its "business as
usual" policy. The Jerusalem prize is awarded by the Israeli
establishment, which is keen on branding Israel in general, and
Jerusalem in particular, as beacons of enlightenment and democracy.
In reality, Ian McEwan will be playing into the hands of and shaking
hands with cynical politicians who are trying to whitewash their
systematic human rights violations. Specifically, he will be
legitimising the actions of Jerusalem's racist mayor,
Nir Barkat, who pursues and defends the expulsion of Palestinian
families from their homes in East Jerusalem, in order for them to be
occupied by Jewish settlers. If McEwan "opposes illegal Israeli
settlements", how can he accept the accolades of the people who are
responsible for that abomination?
Here are the names of the
Signers:
Ronnie Barkan, Ofra Ben-Artzi, Joseph Dana, Professor Rachel
Giora, Neta Golan, Iris Hefets, Shir Hever, Eytan Lerner, Dr
Anat Matar, Rela Mazali, Ofer Neiman, Jonathan Stanczak
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Soros Poodle and Pappe Groupie Yehuda Elkana thinks Mass Murdering Suicide Bombers are Equivalent to Jewish Settlers
"When I came out of the
camp and settled in Israel I had decided that what happened in Nazi
Germany should never happen to Jews again. At the same time, I
wished that the same brutality should not be unleashed on others.
And hence, I believe that Palestinians should be protected from
Israel's occupations as the violence is no less brutal than Nazi
occupation," said Elkana. According to him, Palestinian suicide
bombers and Israeli occupants are born out of the same mould.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Hebrew University - Feminist Professor Frances Raday (Dept of Law) insists it is illegal for Israel to Defend itself if Gaza Palestinians are Denied Free Importing Powers
"That
is correct, because according to international law - and the
committee relates to this - if the suffering that is caused the
civilian population is excessive, as opposed to the direct military
and concrete advantages that are accrued, then the embargo is
illegal.... t is possible that if the committee had had a woman or
man with a feminist outlook among its members, that person would
have attached greater seriousness to the significances of the
blockade, the prevention of educational materials from entering
Gaza, the entry of building materials for constructing schools and
apartments, the prevention of entry of toys. A person with a
feminist approach would have understood that a prolonged blockade on
a scope like that leads to suffering that is perhaps not
proportional to the military advantage it embodies."
Hey Frances - is shooting rockets into homes of Sderot women illegal?
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Martin Sherman in Jerusalem Post on Israel's Academic Fifth Column
In fact, in the context of Israeli academe, the contrary if true. It is the complacency / complicity / capitulation of the academic mainstream visà- vis the radical leftists that has constricted the freedom of expression and the scope of "permissible" opinions and/or research. This is undeniable in light of the almost total absence – certainly the gross underrepresentation – of pro-Zionist perspectives, and certainly of robustly hawkish ones, across the entire spectrum of the nation's faculties of social sciences and humanities (including law).
This wildly disproportionate dearth is even more remarkable – and revealing – given that over the past two decades, the dominant dovish paradigms have been refuted by reality – apparently demonstrating that such "intellectual inbreeding" has severely degraded the quality of academic output.
...The problem extends far beyond the explicitly post/anti-Zionists who propose annulling the country's status as a Jewish state and transforming it into a "state of all its citizens," and/or openly condemn it as an ethnocratic apartheid regime, meriting not only international censure but sanction.
Oren Yiftachel, for example, depicts Israel (on both sides of the Green Line) as a "colonialist ethnocracy," and Neve Gordon has explicitly called for a boycott of the country because of its "apartheid policies."
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Ben Gurion University - Parents Claim "We Won't Send Our Children to Ben Gurion U"
Boycotts,
incitement, subversion against the state's foundations, silencing of
students who are afraid to say their opinions when lecturers and
their assistants are within earshot. That, you call pluralism!
We, too, will make use of our right to freedom of speech. We will send this letter to the Minister of Education and to the Chairman of the Knesset's Education Committee, we will send this letter out in mass circulation and we will declare that we will not send our children to an academic institute that silences Zionist mouths, incites against the IDF, drips poison and preaches destruction.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
UCLA - Yael Korin leads a list of "Proud to be Ashamed to be Jews"
More
recently, some American Jews (Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein,
Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, Hedy Epstein, and Yael Korin), joined
Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Nobel Prize winner Mairead (Corrigin)
Maguire and signed a
California-based petition to boycott companies which do business
with Israel; interestingly, Finkelstein, Epstein and Korin are
children of Holocaust survivors. That's a theme unto itself but for
another day.
Some American and Israeli-born Jews also joined the ongoing international campaign to boycott Israeli academics—yes, even Israel's politically correct left-wing academics. There are, so far, more than 700 signatories, including Bill Ayers, Mona Baker, Hamid Dabashi, Barbara Ehrenreich (no, she's not Jewish), Charlotte Kates, and Joseph Massad. Some of the Jewish signatories are: Anna Baltzer, Judith Butler, Marilyn Hacker, Yael Korin (again), Ilan Pappe, Adrienne Rich (who is half-Jewish), Sarah Schulman, Adam Shapiro, and Ella Shohat.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
University of East London - Haim Bresheeth (Dept. of Cultural Studies) supports Palestinian Right of Return, but Opposes one for Jews
As
a result, the Palestinian people now live either under Israeli rule
or in exile. Those in the territories occupied by Israel in 1967
(many of them refugees from areas occupied in 1948) live under
continuing harsh military rule; those in the territories occupied in
1948 are second-class residents in a Jewish state, denied the rights
and privileges accorded to those residents recognised by the state
as Jews.
On 9 December 1987, the Palestinian people living under Israeli military occupation rose up against their oppressors. On 15 November 1988, the Palestine National Council declared the establishment of the independent state of Palestine. Two years on, the Intifada continues. it is now manifestly clear to everyone that the Israeli military occupation must end, and that the PLO is the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people. Any pretence to the contrary is an obvious lie.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Ben Gurion University - In the pro-terror anti-Semitic web magazine Counterpunch, on the same page alongside Holocaust Denier "Israel Shamir," Neve Gordon (Dept of Political Science) Whines that Making anti-Israel groups reveal what he says they already reveal is fascist oppression
Considering
that the funding of all human rights organizations in Israel is made
public each year and scrutinized by the state auditor, the idea of
creating a parliamentary commission to inspect their income is
merely a smokescreen. The parliamentary commission's actual goal is
to intimidate Israeli rights groups and their donors and, as a
result, stifle free speech.
[This, from the Neofascist who filed a SLAPP harassment suit against another professor to stifle free speech!]
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Leftist Indoctrination at Tel Aviv University is not new - a comment on the event of Ze'ev Segal's Death
The
whole world seems now to have heard about the hostility to freedom
of speech at Tel Aviv University. The death this week of Ze'v Segal
is as good an opportunity as any to retell the following tale of
horror of one-sided ideological indoctrination at Tel Aviv
University.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Ben-Gurion University - Yael Ben-Zvi (Dept of Linguistics and Literature) - Post-Colonialist BUTCH(er) of Words
Ben-Zvi's
dogma of "post colonialist theory" amounts to her belief that Israel
is a conspiratorial concoction of Ashkenazic Zionists. When it
comes to being an anti-Semite, no closet can hold her!
Pity the poor hapless students at Ben Gurion University
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Ben Gurion University - Tali Latowicki – yet another pseudo-academic Israel Basher from BGU
The
question that lingers is if her job there was obtained because she
spouts the ever present anti-Israel dogma, or if she became
so-against-the-Jewish-state as a result of working on the Negev
campus that Neofascist Neve Gordon calls home. …
But nothing can compare with Tali Latowicki's justification for suicide bombings and terror attacks:
"And between us, it is clear that these terror attacks, that seem to us like Satanic craziness, are the only way for the Palestinians to remind the average Israeli of their existence. Because if it will be quiet here, really quiet, the average Israeli will not care if several million people are rotting under closure. He will simply forget that they exist and will continue to live his everyday life. He will not have any interest in returning one meter of their land."
Latowicki recites the Arab mantras about the "stolen lands" (that weren't stolen) and "the right of return." And she excuses terrorism some more…
This woman is an embarrassment for Ben Gurion University, if BGU is even still capable of being embarrassed by its anti-Israel pseudo-academics.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Ben Gurion University - BGU Attempting to Control Damage from its Tenured Extremists
In
the past year, Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba suffered a series
of public statements by staff members which gave it an image of an
institution identified with radical ends of the political spectrum.
One of the most controversial affairs concerns Prof. Neve Gordon from the Political Science Department. Gordon had published an article at the LA Times calling for a boycott of Israel which he described as an "apartheid state."
The new protocol states that "In voicing their political or religious opinions, unlike particular professional views, staff members should refrain from using the Ben-Gurion University's name." The lecturers were asked to clarify they were speaking for themselves and not representing the university's positions
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Knesset Member Daniel Danon Calls for Investigation of Anti-Israel Political Groups Operating in Israel with foreign funding
They
call themselves the guardians of human rights as a way to ease their
conscience.
But some extreme left-wing organizations are financially supported by foreign governments that are clearly anti-Israel. A more obvious term comes to mind for such organizations: fifth column. This is the appropriate name for those who work nonstop to weaken the very state they live and work in.
Many of these groups have been working for years against the IDF and the government, as we strive to deal with the complicated realities of the Middle East. In many other democracies (including those that fund these organizations), these groups would have to deal with legal action against them – not to mention widespread public outcry.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Ben Gurion University - Neve Gordon (Dept of Political Science) with poster in Hebrew and Arabic denouncing Israeli leaders as "war criminals"; Standing next to sign in Arabic calling for Terrorist Violence "In Spirit and in Blood"
BGU Professor Neve Gordon, on far left, is holding a sign that denounces Israeli leaders as "war criminals". He is also standing next to a sign in Arabic calling for terrorist violence "In Spirit and in Blood". Gordon is participating in a demonstration endorsing the Flotilla Terrorists and condemning the Israeli Naval Action to stop them.
The demonstration is undeniably unlawfull as one can see from the blatant calls for murder and violence. To see more of this demonstration for terrorism, and the signs and slogans used, you may view the two clips below:
The first clip
was taken from the first pro-Flotilla demonstration on the 31.05.10.
Professor Neve Gordon is holding a poster in Arabic saying War
Criminals to Trial. Gordon took part in the demonstration that
chanted terrorist slogans supporting suicide bombings against Jews
and endorsing violence, chanting "In spirit and in blood we will
redeem you"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S82WXqUOCY8
The second clip
from 02.06.10 consists of mainly students and staff of Politics and
Government Department. Pro-Flotilla supporters demonstrating at the
heart of the campus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LcRhZ_hYE
We wish to thank Professor Israel David of Ben Gurion University who edited the clips as well as translated them and sent us for distribution.
Weizmann Institute of Science - Nir Gov (Dept of Physics) Organizes 155 Members of the Tenured Left to call for Boycott of Ariel University
The
signatories state that Ariel was an illegal settlement whose
existence contravened international law and the Geneva Convention.
"It was established for the sole purpose of preventing the
Palestinians from creating an independent state and thus preventing
us, citizens of Israel, from having the chance to ever live in peace
in this region."
The petition was initiated and organized by Nir Gov of the Weizmann Institute's Department of Chemical Physics. Unlike other such initiatives, over a third of the list's signatories are from the natural and exact sciences.
[Could they be after the budgets granted to Ariel? Looking for 155 Ideas of people who should be Boycotted?]
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Tel Aviv University - Carlo Strenger (Dept of Psychology) compares Israel with Nazi Germany
Similarly,
in the 1920s Germans felt humiliated by the Versailles treaty, and
their already weak economy could not withstand the onslaught of the
Great Depression. As a result, the theory that a Jewish conspiracy
had brought down Germany became ever more popular.
In Israel, there are currently two main variations on the theme of conspiracy. Netanyahu's main story line is that Israel is being delegitimized and that its very existence is called into question. He keeps repeating that the global criticism of Israel has nothing to do with the settlements, nor with the stalled peace process. Since the world doesn't accept Israel's existence, it doesn't matter what Israel does: it will be isolated and under criticism.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Hebrew University - anti-Zionist Professor Daniel Blatman accuses Israel of Preparing Genocide
In
Haaretz today, Hebrew University Professor Daniel Blatman writes the
most anti-Semitic article that has yet to appear in the Israeli
mainstream media… In his ranting anti-Semitic article, Blatman
bleats: "No society is immune to deterioration into violent racism.
In the Israel of today, we can observe quite a few conditions whose
presence in other societies and among other peoples led to racial
separation, ethnic cleansing and even genocide. There are minority
groups (Arabs and foreigners) who are ostracized by the majority, a
growing racist ideology, attempts to limit the political activities
and civil rights of the minority, a tense security situation and
strong political elements with vested interests in territorial
expansion."
Blatman's rant is part of the current wave of Jewish self-hatred in Israel under which leftist Jews insist that Israel's refusal to allow unlimited numbers of Africans seeking better-paying jobs to enter the country is the moral equivalent of the Nazi Holocaust of Jews.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Ben Gurion University's Official Campaign of Lies and Disinformation
All
of this puts into perspective the weekend column (December 31, 2010)
in Maariv by Kalman Liebskind, one of the best publicist journalists
in Israel. The column is so important that my translation of it
follows here. Liebskind has revealed that Ben Gurion University is
intentionally lying and providing disinformation to its supporters
and prospective donors from all around the world and in different
languages.
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Ben Gurion University - Im Tirtzu wants to take BGU to court for dragging feet in changing their radical anti-Israel Departments and failing to deal with Profs who support boycotting Israel
In
Sunday's letter to Ben-Gurion University President Prof. Rivka
Carmi, Im Tirtzu leaders Ronen Shoval and Erez Tadmor wrote that in
July, they had pointed out the "gross politicization of the
Department of Politics and Government," as reflected by the fact
that "eight out of 11 tenured faculty members held radical political
views."
The July letter also charged that faculty members were not hired in a transparent manner, that students' education suffered from "the presentation of a grossly one-sided view of the course material," and that senior faculty members in the department supported an academic boycott of Israel, in contravention of the CHE's stand. That letter closed with a threat to work to persuade donors to halt contributions to the university unless these problems were corrected - a threat not repeated in the current letter.
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Tel Aviv University - Ran HaCohen (Dept of Comparative Literature) engages in an orgy of treason for anti-Semitic "Antiwar" web site
Israel's
orgy of racism and fascism since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
formed his far-Right coalition almost two years ago...
Orthodox Judaism has failed to accommodate to the Jewish majority
status; Zionism has refused to come to terms with its pre-state
colonialist roots, even within "smaller Israel" (let alone the
Occupied Territories). The racist rabbis may be less eloquent than,
say, Shimon Peres, but both Peres and the rabbis are part and parcel
of a much deeper Israeli ethos of ethnic discrimination. In fact,
the victims of Israel's relentlessly discriminatory policy are by
far more numerous than those of the shameful rabbinical edict.
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University of Exeter – Ilan Pappe (Dept. of Political Science) continues to Jihad Along
"Language
transformation" is key to the BDS strategy, Pappé revealed. He told
a packed house at Rothko Chapel to "throw [out] the old dictionary"
and "introduce a new dictionary."
"This is an anti-colonialist movement," Pappé said of BDS, urging his Houston audience to use language to equate the current "Palestinian struggle" against Israel with the former struggle against apartheid South Africa.
Calling Israel an apartheid state is a "valid definition," Pappé said.
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Hebrew University - Hebrew U professor Bashir Bashir proposes a Middle East with no Israel in it
Bashir
Bashir, an adjunct lecturer in the department of political science
at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Leila Farsakh, associate
professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts,
Boston, proposed a binational solution to the conflict over the
division of land that comprises Israel and its occupied territories
during a talk at the Kennedy School of Government yesterday.
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Israeli Tenured Traitors call on the Dutch to Boycott Israel
In
view of the facts presented here, we would like to share with you
our conclusion that the Hebrew University is institutionally
complicit in Israel's illegal policies of occupation and racism.
Therefore, we would like to ask you to respect the memory of Prof.
Cleveringa and move the 2011 Cleveringa lecture to a different
venue!
We would be interested in your response.
Sincerely
Ofra Ben Artzi
Prof. Rachel Giora
Neta Golan
Ohal Grietzer
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Ben Gurion University - Israel-hating Neve Gordon (Dept of Political Science) insists that Arabs be exempt from obeying the law, recruits the Bible to demonize Israeli demolition of illegally built structures, in anti-Semitic "The Nation" magazine.
The
viewers are asked to open their wallets in order to "sow a seed for
God." In this case, the donations seem to have actually been
allocated toward sowing seeds, but these seeds are ones of hate and
strife. They are antithetical to Isaiah's prophecy about the people
beating their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning
hooks. Indeed, if Isaiah were alive today, he would probably be
among the first to lie in front of the bulldozers in an effort to
stop the destruction of the Bedouin homes.
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Hebrew University - The left-wing fascist Hanan Hever (Dept of Literature) complains that everyone in Israel who disagrees with him is a right-wing fascist
The
new citizenship law is a good law. According to the latest trends,
it works in the interests of Israel. First of all, it makes clear
the state of affairs in the country, that in the past year or rather
since the summer of 2010, the country's fascist side strengthens. It
will increase the international pressure on Israel and it looks like
it may be the only thing that can rescue Israel from the current
bleak state of affairs.
...
The only hope to stopping fascism won't come from within. The weakening of liberal and democratic forces, trapped in the grip of their theological commitment to the Jewishness of the nation, is the first sign. In fact, examples in 20th century of fascism actually being stopped from within rather than from external war are rare. Therefore as the fascist face of the nation is unmasked more, the external forces will grow, whether through the growing economic boycott or by other means.
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Ben Gurion University – US International exchange student shares her bad experience with Oren Yiftachel's (Dept. of Geography) Intimidations and Propagandistic Teaching Style
This
past semester [Spring 2010], I took a course at Ben-Gurion
University entitled "Selected Topics in the Geography of the Middle
East," which was taught jointly by Dr. Nir Cohen and Dr. Oren
Yiftachel. The course was part of the MAPMES program, which is a
masters program taught in English that is designed to teach
international students about the situation in the Middle East. To my
dismay, in this particular course, international students, instead
of being educated about the complicated reality in the Middle East,
were instead being taught to be hostile towards Israel.
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University of Haifa - Dalit Baum (Dept of Women's Studies) Agitating for Sanctions against Israel; Reported by Ilan Pappe and friends
So
Israel vows to keep building homes in illegally occupied East
Jerusalem (Report,
19 November). Today the British security corporation
G4S and the French company Veolia, which collects waste for UK
local authorities and universities, will stand accused of complicity
in Israeli human rights violations. Israeli academic Dalit Baum will
give evidence in London to a tribunal on Palestine that G4S is
aiding her country's war crimes by providing equipment for
checkpoints, prisons and illegal settlements in the occupied West
Bank. Moreover, Adri Neiuwhof, a Swiss-based expert on public
contract regulations, will cite Veolia's profits from the occupation
as a partner in the Jerusalem light rail project that links west
Jerusalem to settlements.
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Hebrew University - Alon Harel (Dept of Law) shows his Scorn and Contempt for the Holy Bible
Based
upon Harel's aggressive and offending behavior, as shown in this
video, one can extrapolate his attitude towards open and free
exchange of ideas in dialog during his lectures.
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Hebrew University Law Professor Alon Harel has an idea about the Bible
Alon
Harel is a far-leftist
anti-Israel and
anti-democratic professor of law. He
does not think that critics of the Left should be allowed to
enjoy freedom of speech.
Well, now he also has some interesting ideas about the Bible, or - to be more precise - where exactly the Bible should be placed. I do not want this posting to be too crude but Harel's proposal is that it be placed in one of his bodily areas where ordinarily sun's rays do not reach. That is correct - this professor at the Hebrew University says that. The Hebrew University is supposed to be one of the bastions of Jewish civilization. See the tenured barbarian for yourself here. It is in Hebrew but has subtitles translating it to English.
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Hebrew University - Alon Harel (Dept of Law) Continues to Attack the Bible, or those who Read it
A
video clip published in recent days displays some words I uttered
during a protest held in Sheikh Jarrah a few months ago; these words
show contempt for the Bible....
The more prevalent expression is the daily utilization of the Bible for political sectarian aims, such as the justification for expelling people from their homes, justification of methodical discrimination against Arabs in respect to housing and employment, and usage of the Bible in order to justify a convenient housing solution in central Jerusalem at the expense of Palestinian families.
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Emmanuel Navon accuses Leftist Israeli Academia of "Scorn and Arrogance"; Rectors of BGU and TAU stoop to heckling at Knesset hearing
Instead of addressing the issues raised by the IZS and by Im Tirtzu, the academic establishment has reacted with scorn and arrogance. At the Knesset hearing, Ben-Gurion University rector Zvi Hacohen interrupted IZS's presentation, calling it "nonsense" and claiming (without proof) that its paper did not meet the most basic criteria of academic research. Tel Aviv University rector Aharon Shai also claimed IZS's paper was not a research paper (without explaining why) and added that adopting an academic code of ethics (as proposed by Sa'ar at the beginning of the hearing) would "destroy Israeli academia."
... TWO DAYS after the Knesset hearing, Haaretz came out in defense of the universities by claiming that adopting a code of ethics would harm academic freedom. It wrote that Sa'ar proposed such a code as a result of the lobbying of Im Tirtzu. But the idea of a code was first proposed by Prof. Amnon Rubinstein, a renowned academic with impeccable liberal credentials. Moreover, BGU has such a code (the only local university to have one).
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Tel Aviv University - Finance Ministry withholds TAU funding due to failure to correct excessive salaries
The
Ministry of Finance cited "salary irregularities amounting to
millions of shekels" as the reason for the order. It added, "For
months, Tel Aviv University has not cooperated or fulfilled the
orders of the Director of Wages at the Ministry of Finance."
… The Ministry of Finance said, "In addition, the university's management was asked to deal with the matter of excessive salaries at the institution, but has not done so. It should be pointed out that, over the past year, there were many attempts at dialogue between the Director of Wages and the university management, in which the Council of Higher Education was also a party. Since the university, through its actions, is not fulfilling the provisions of the Budget Law, Steinitz decided on this extraordinary measure to delay the state budget to the institution."
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Tel Aviv University - Carlo Strenger (Dept of Psychology) plugs IsraCampus
Paradoxically,
the simultaneous campaign against Israel's universities waged by
Israel's right wing actually lends credibility to the assertion that
these academic institutions are actually bastions of enlightened
ideals of objective neutrality. In accusing the academia of
promoting anti-Zionist ideas, the direct opposite of what the
European boycotters are claiming, Israel's right, of all groups, is
actually proving the universities' neutrality.
It has been asserted that the universities are bastions of anti-Zionism, that don't allow room for Zionist views and that are full of professors who are anti-Israeli self-hating Jews supplying Israel's enemies with ammunition. There are right-wing [sic] websites [link to IsraCampus.Org.il] that feature "galleries of rogues," - anti-Israel professors, intellectuals and pundits.
One right wing organization tried to pressure the president of Beer Sheva's Ben-Gurion University to fire left-wing lecturers by threatening to convince donors to withhold funds. And now Education Minister Gideon Saar and the Knesset education committee are looking into the possibility of establishing an 'ethics code' for Israel's universities. Ostensibly this is intended to make sure that students and lecturers are not being intimidated for expressing right-wing views, and to make sure that the Zionist viewpoint is fairly represented in the curricula of the social sciences and humanities courses. In reality, it is a blatant attempt to exert political pressures on Israel's universities.
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