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Ben Gurion UniversityBen Gurion University – BGU on the Front Line of the BDS as a consequence of its own facultyBut now along comes the sweetest story of comeuppance the country has ever seen. A university in South Africa that used to be one of the main bastions of South African racism and apartheid is voting this week on a proposal to boycott and apply sanctions against the very same Ben Gurion University. For being part of Israeli "apartheid," of course. And where did the South African anti-Semites hear that Israel is an apartheid regime? From anti-Israel BGU faculty members, of course.
http://thejewishpress.blogspot.com/2010/09/ben-gurion-universitys-tenured-left-and.html Ben Gurion University's Tenured Left and Comeuppance
Steven Plaut Well, what goes around certainly comes around. As you know, Ben Gurion University faculty members are among the world's worst promoters of the false calumny that Israel is an "apartheid" regime. These are people who know perfectly well that Israel is the only country in the Middle East that is NOT an apartheid regime. Meanwhile, the university president, rector, and dean of social sciences are all leading the campaign to defend these tenured traitors and to denounce as "McCarthyists" those who dare to criticize the Ben Gurion University academic fifth column, demanding that the critics of the traitors be silenced. But now along comes the sweetest story of comeuppance the country has ever seen. A university in South Africa that used to be one of the main bastions of South African racism and apartheid is voting this week on a proposal to boycott and apply sanctions against the very same Ben Gurion University. For being part of Israeli "apartheid," of course. And where did the South African anti-Semites hear that Israel is an apartheid regime? From anti-Israel BGU faculty members, of course. Ben Gurion University long ago gave up its pretenses of having any real academic standards, at least with regard to most of the departments in the social sciences and humanities, and even of being a bona fide institution of higher learning. At Ben Gurion University, denouncing Israel as a fascist racist terrorist entity is not only a sufficient condition to get yourself hired and promoted as a faculty member, in some departments it is a necessary condition as well. I must say that I am simply delighted at the thought of South Africans boycotting Ben Gurion University and I think we should all encourage the South Africans to go ahead with their plans for BDS ( = Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) against the tenured Left that controls and runs (into the ground) Ben Gurion University. I think we should all follow their lead! Here is the whole report: South Africa May Ban Ben Gurion U. Anti-Pollution Project by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (Israelnationalnews.com) Israel's Ben Gurion University is worried that a South African university may stop a joint project designed to solve Johannesburg water pollution. The University of Johannesburg's senate is scheduled to vote Wednesday on a petition signed by Nobel Prize winner Desmond Tutu and 200 government officials and academics who want to cut off ties with the Israeli university because of the presence of Jews in Judea and Samaria. "Israeli universities are an intimate part of the Israeli regime by active choice," Tutu wrote in a South African newspaper this week. "While Palestinians are not able to access universities and schools, Israeli universities produce the research, technology, arguments and leaders for maintaining the occupation." He accused Ben Gurion University of "maintaining links to both the Israeli defense forces and the arms industry," and he wrote that it "structurally supports and facilitates the Israeli occupation. For example, BGU offers a fast-tracked program of training to Israeli Air Force pilots." Ironically, Ben Gurion University has been headed by two presidents who became Labor party Knesset Members and are outspokenly in favor of expelling most Jews from Judea and Samaria and creating a Palestinian Authority state in their place. The university is also a hotbed for left-wing and Bedouin activists whose views are non-Zionist. The Be'er Sheva-based university said is it "disturbed" by the campaign to cancel a research agreement to collaborate on biotechnology and water purification. It pointed out that then-South African President Nelson Mandela in 1997 received an honorary doctorate from Ben-Gurion University and that he "applauded the university's accomplishments" in his acceptance speech. "We have a center of excellence which represents the best in the traditions of the Jewish people: a sense of mission, internationalism and inventiveness," Ben Gurion officials said in a statement. "The joint research project is designed to solve real problems of water contamination in a reservoir near Johannesburg and as such is for the direct benefit of the residents of the region. BGU sees this joint project as an opportunity to make its well-reputed expertise in water research available to improve the welfare of the South African people. "Those opposed to this collaboration accuse BGU of 'abusing academic freedom, abusing human rights and being an accomplice to an Apartheid government system in Israel.' These accusations – and others made in their statements -- are totally false and based upon ignorance and prejudice." [Story update – the proposal to boycott BGU was rejected]
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