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For the second course assignment, students were required to write an essay based on four articles taken from a book edited by two of the most radical anti-Israel extremists at Ben Gurion University: Uri Ram and Nitza Berkovitch (who frequently collaborates with Neve Gordon). The topic is supposedly “Inequality”

Ben Gurion University One-Sided Propaganda Course:

Translation of Course Outline:

Social Work Dept 2009
Course name: The social structure of Israel
No 144-1-1951

Lecturer: Prof. Jonathan (Yonatan) Anson (an anti-Israel radical and advocate of a Palestinian Right of Return and a supporter of Neve Gordon’s call for a worldwide boycott of Israel)

Course aims (shortened here): Goal is to get familiar with the central processes in the development and design of the Israeli society.

Topics:
1. Intro
2. The Israeli society in the age of globalization
3. Economic policy and its implications
4. Migration, Aliya and population growth
5. Ethnic groups
6. Class structure
7. The Palestinian citizens of Israel
8. Fertility
9. Mortality
10. Politics as an expression of consciousness

Required readings (this is the ENTIRE list for the course):

One by Uri Ram – anti-Zionist extremist from BGU, in leftist propaganda magazine “Globalization”

One by Shlomo Svirsky, leftist sociologist who runs the anti-Israel Edva Center (see NGO Monitor on Edva)

One by Yinon Cohen, far-leftist anti-Israel sociologist now at Columbia, who has published materials praising anti-Semite Israel Shahak

One by A Kazum about Inequality in Israel, with comments from anti-Israel Stalinist Baruch Kimmerling

Khattab, N., 2005, Ethnicity, class and the earning inequality in Israel, 1983-1995, Sociological Research Online, Volume 10, Issue 3, <http://www.socresonline.org.uk/10/3/khattab.html>.

A court ruling regarding Arab rioters who were shot by police in 2000

An article by Marxist anti-Israel sociologist Sami Samouha (who participated in the York University conference calling for Israel’s existence to be terminated)

Fargues, P., 2000, "Protracted conflict and fertility change: Palestinians and Israelis in the Twentieth Century," Population and Development Review, 26(3): 441-482.

Jaffe, D. H. et al., 2005, “Does Living in a Religiously Affiliated Neighborhood Lower Mortality?” Annals of Epidemiology , 15 (10): 804-810

And one Hebrew item about religious-secular relations in Israel from the Marxist Van Leer Institute

In addition, for their first homework assignment, students need to write an essay based on:

A, Leon. (1970). The Jewish Question: A Marxist Interpretation, New York: Pathfinder Press. Ch1. “The premises for a scientific study of Jewish history,” pp 65 – 87

Plus three Hebrew articles, two of which are written by venomous anti-Israel extremists (Gershon Shafir from San Diego and Lev Grinberg, who invented the charge that Israel is carrying out “symbolic genocide”) (We do not know the third name).