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The Nana news site in Hebrew reports that the District Attorney of southern Israel has officially accused Ben Gurion University of sponsoring treasonous activities against the state of Israel. The event in question was a conference run by Ben Gurion University arch-anti-Israel extremist Prof. Oren Yiftachel, and was devoted to helping Bedouins illegally seize lands that do not belong to them in the Negev. The News First Class web site reported this week that a large number of parents of students at Ben Gurion University sent an enraged letter to the president of the University, Rivka Carmi, and demanded that she do something about the large number of courses in which students are subjected to non-stop anti-Israel indoctrination. (In Hebrew, here) They were particularly angry that so many BGU faculty members were proclaiming Israeli soldiers criminals and murderers.

So what does Rivka Carmi, decide to do in this matter? She issues a letter backing Neve Gordon!. She actually has a long track record of praising and supporting Gordon, although she did denounce him after his LA Times piece calling for a worldwide boycott of Israel and Israeli universities. He failed to show the courage of his convictions by boycotting BGU himself and resigning.

Let me explain. Gordon, as you know, is a faculty member at BGU who has built an entire "academic" career on churning out anti-Israel hate propaganda, mixed with the occasional communist diatribe. He is a mix between Norman Finkelstein and Ilan Pappe, except in the case of the other two, their universities exhibited some integrity.

This week Gordon ran to Haaretz and claimed ecstatically that he had gotten a letter threatening to kill him. Haaretz scanned the entire letter, printed it, and devoted a large news story to this. The letter was written in a child’s handwriting and said “I will be coming to Ben Gurion to kill you.” It was signed in handwriting “Im Tirtzu” by someone clearing trying to implicate the Im Tirtzu Zionist student organization. (The Im Tirtzu responded to reporter questions of whether they had any connection with the letter by saying the question was beneath contempt.) Now can you think of anyone who might want to do that? The word “coming” in the letter however was smudged, and the Hebrew word for “I will be coming” also looks much like “I will be telling,” which is how I read it when I saw it in Haaretz. It matters, because a letter that says “I will be telling Ben Gurion to kill you” is even more clearly a prank than the alternative reading.

Be that as it may, Gordon ran to the media and waved about his martyr’s stigmata, gaining all the attention he could get for himself, and of course blaming those people who dare to criticize the political activities and opinions of Israel’s anti-Israel leftist academics. (Can you think of anyone who does THAT?) . So Rivka Carmi, the president of BGU with the well-ventilated cranium, decided to assist him in this. She issued her own letter, denouncing the “verbal violence” against poor Neve Gordon and denouncing Im Tirtzu.

Now let’s back up a little here. Neve Gordon recently issued a statement endorsing the violent terrorist attacks against IDF troops by the Gaza flotilla terrorists. A different faculty member at BGU filed a police complaint about Gordon’s endorsement of that violence. But THIS is NOT verbal violence that controls Carmi. Gordon also led that campaign to get Israeli General Aviv Kochavi indicted in Europe after Gordon falsely accused him of being a murderer and war criminal. Kochavi had to cancel plans to study in the UK lest he be legally harassed there or attacked there violently because of Gordon. But THAT is not verbal violence. Gordon has a track record of proclaiming terrorist violence against Jews “understandable,” and Gordon himself, you recall, went to Ramallah to interfere with the army apprehending wanted Palestinian murderers being hidden in Arafat’s headquarters. Gordon served there as human shield. None of THAT verbal violence concerns Sister Carmi nor was condemned by her in her letter.

Now I cannot prove this but I nurse a strong private suspicion that Neve Gordon sent that “death” letter to himself. I have a legitimate reason for suspecting that. When Gordon began his SLAPP suit harassment against me 8 years back, a matter about which the Supreme Court will be issuing its verdict any day now, Gordon himself went to the Jerusalem police precinct and filed a false report against me there, claiming I was “threatening” him. Gordon had gotten an irate email from someone in the US, someone I have never met by the way, an email message that did NOT even threaten him. SO Gordon decided that I must be behind that, since anyone who disagrees with Gordon’s own doctrine of “Treason is the Highest form of Patriotism” must have been sent and inspired by me. (Yes, he accused me of “inspiration” in his police complaint.) The cops tossed it all out with a guffaw. Filing a false police complaint is itself a crime, by the way!

So given Gordon’s track record of filing false claims about being “threatened with death,” I think there is more than enough basis for some skepticism as to who really sent that letter this week to Gordon. If I were the cops, I would compare the child’s handwriting in the letter to that of some very young children in the Gordon household. Of course, if it should turn out that one of those youngsters penned or crayoned the letter, they would have an interesting defense. Since Gordon last fall allowed a convicted PLO terrorist to do his “house arrest” sentence in Gordon’s own Beer Sheba apartment, the kids could just say they had picked up some terrorist behavior from the house guest.

Finally, the tenured fifth column continues to pout and rage against the Im Tirtzu student group because of their report claiming that 80% of the courses in Israeli universities in political science contain anti-Israel propaganda materials. I did not do my own check of its data, and so I am not sure if the 80% is correct. It might be 75% or 85%, but I doubt anyone seriously thinks it is less than half. Be that as it may, the tenured moonbats are denouncing Im Tirtzu because their report treats people who are clearly Zionist as anti-Israel. I kid you not - but on an Israeli professors chat list, a tenured leftist denounced Im Tirtzu for counting as anti-Israel readings assigned in courses written by Norman Finkelstein. Finkie is pro-Israel, insisted the tenured moonbat. After all, Finkie claims to favor the “two-state solution.” (Never mind that Finkie favors a second Shoah.)

Anyway, there is a small clique of tenured leftists who are planning to issue a statement in which they announce that they will be offering courses that ONLY use the materials identified by Im Tirtzu as anti-Israel, this in order to protest the Im Tirtzu Report on bias in political science departments.