Tel Aviv University's notion of academic freedom is back in the headlines. We have barely caught our breath after Stalinism Day at Tel Aviv University, in which the campus was converted into a communist Gulag for a day for purposes of Stalinist indoctrination, and the president of Tel Aviv University, Prof. Zvi Galil, defended it all publicly as a bona fide exercise in academic research. Sure, it was, and might as well have been held in North Korea!

Then there was the attempt by the tenured traitors on the faculty at TAU to block the appointment to the law school of an Israeli woman army colonel because she believes Israel has the right to defend itself.

Well, now Tel Aviv University has accepted Omar Barghouti as a PhD student in "philosophy." Barghouti identifies himself as a "Palestinian," despite the fact that he was born in Qatar and grew up in Egypt. (Reminds us of Edward Said the Egyptian pretending to be Palestinian.)

Barghouti is an Arab cheerleader for terrorism who runs one of the larger groups promoting an international boycott of Israel, the so-called Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, PACBI (www.PACBI.org). He already got his MA from Tel Aviv University in "ethics." That is correct, Tel Aviv University evidently considers Palestinian anti-Semitism and terrorism "ethical." He is also a militant supporter of Israel's extermination under what the anti-Semitic Left these days calls the "one-state solution." His group has made headlines for demanding that Israeli universities themselves be targeted for boycott (see the following article).

So here we have the spectacle of Tel Aviv University treating this pogromchik as a scholar and accepting him for PhD studies. He is on record as claiming that Israel is conducting genocide against Arabs (see the following article). Anyone who thinks Tel Aviv University has retained any academic standards at all will now have to think again.

Naomi Ragen has done an expose of Omar Barghouti (see the following article). Omar refuses to answer questions about his family connections to arch-terrorist and mass murderer Marwan Barghouti.

This is the most idiotic idea to emerge from an Israeli institute of higher learning since the Open University accepted Samir Kuntar, the baby murderer released from Israeli prison to buy back corpses of IDF soldiers murdered by the Hezbollah, as a student.

A petition is being collected that demands that TAU expel their resident doctoral student of terrorism. Go here: http://www.petitiononline.com/expelOB/petition.html

To tell the heads of Terrorism Aviv University what you think of their admission of Barghouti, contact
President, Professor Zvi Galil
Email spiegelr@post.tau.ac.il
zg1@post.tau.ac.il
and galil@post.tau.ac.il
Tel Aviv University
P.O. Box 39040
Tel Aviv 69978
ISRAEL
Fax: 972-3-6422379 and 972-3-642-2752

Rector: Prof. Dany Leviatan
Email: leviatan@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.tauac.org/site/PageServer?pagename=contact_us and
http://www.tauac.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_tau

Other "Friends of" Groups: http://www.tau.ac.il/friends-eng.html

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