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Hebrew University
Hebrew U Professor who Thinks Non-Rape is Racism Gets Busted for
Rape
http://thejewishpress.blogspot.com/2008/07/professor-who-thinks-non-rape-is-racism.html
Posted
by Steven Plaut
July
31, 2008

Hebrew University Academic practices what he
preaches?
What was left of the academic reputation of the Hebrew University
was demolished altogether July 30, 08. The reason was the arrest of
the leftist professor of sociology who had been one of the thesis
advisors of that notorious thesis claiming that Jews are racists
because Jewish soldiers do not rape Arab women.
In recent days, headlines have reported the stories of the Hebrew
University
president joining a call of endorsement for the activities of a
far-leftist anti-Zionist group that claims Israel is an apartheid
land, Arab students at the Hebrew University
being arrested for membership in al-Qaeda, and a Hebrew
University professor of pharmacy
insisting on hiring a convicted terrorist to work in his
chemistry lab. But these were relatively minor disgraces compared
with that now infamous "rape thesis."
To remind you, a Hebrew University
graduate student claimed in her thesis that the absence of any
history of rapes of Arab women by Israeli soldiers proves that Jews
are racists and oppressors, people who do not even regard Arab women
as worthy of being sexually abused. The student at the Mount Scopus
campus and her "research" were then awarded a university honor for
these impressive "discoveries" by the "Shaine Center," a Hebrew
University sociology "research" center dominated by far leftists.
Nitzan had argued that abstaining from rape is just as inhumane and
oppressive as "symptomatically raping" and in fact replaces it,
because it just serves to reinforce the intolerance felt toward
Arabs by Jewish soldiers. These racist soldiers think of Arabs as so
inferior and horrid that they do not even feel a compulsion to rape
them. While giving some shallow lip service to how the "question" of
rape refusal is "very complex," Nitzan's own "answer" is quite
simple and straightforward - it reflects Jewish racism against
Arabs.
Israel, she claimed, is so racist and anti-Arab that abstaining from
rape is part and parcel of its determination to enforce rigid "lines
of division." She asserted that individual soldiers who refuse to
rape represent an intentional policy of oppression roughly similar
to when governments order mass rape, because in both cases the
"policy" serves to subordinate and dehumanize the oppressed victim
population. The thesis drew its "scientific" conclusions from
interviews with 25 reserve soldiers, ages 23-32, who served as
combat troops in the "occupied territories" during the intifada.
None of the comments by any of these soldiers supports or provides
any confirmation, even the most indirect, to any of the lunatic
"conclusions" reached by Nitzan.
Facing a storm of public outrage, the president of Hebrew
University, Prof. Menachem Magidor, and the Rector, Prof. Haim D.
Rabinowitch,
jointly issued an announcement defending the student and
dismissing those who expressed outrage over the contents of the
thesis.
The "Non-Rape as Racism" thesis was co-supervised by one
Eyal Ben-Ari,
a Hebrew University professor of sociology, who claims to know
something about the sociology of the military. Ben-Ari is a
far-leftist with a track record of turning out anti-Israel
propaganda, such as claims that Israel is an
ultra-militarist society, and much of his propaganda is
misrepresented as scholarly research. The other co-supervisor of
the rape thesis was Ben-Ari's co-author in a book about Israeli
"militarism." Israeli feminist groups never had a word to say about
that "thesis" nor about Ben-Ari's role in inventing the "No rape as
Racism" hypothesis.
From his role in the rape thesis, it was already known that Ben-Ari
had goofy ideas about sexual (mis)behavior. But now it turns out
that the ultra-feminist Israel-bashing professor of sociology
practices what he preaches.
The very same Professor Eyal Ben-Ari
was
arrested yesterday for suspected rape and sexual abuse of his
students, and arraigned before the Jerusalem magistrate's court. It
seems that Ben-Ari made it a habit to condition giving nice grades
to and getting research grants for his female students on their
sleeping with him. He was clearly not being racist though, because
he is the same guy who discovered the academic finding that raping
proves you are not racist. The police claim Ben-Ari had been
behaving thus for the past fifteen years! This was not the first
Hebrew University professor
arrested for sexual misbehavior.
The Jerusalem weekly "Yediot Yerushalayim" broke the story and
claimed Ben-Ari routinely attacked his female students sexually and
violently. It cited two students who claimed they had been violently
raped by Ben-Ari. He is also accused of using university funds to
take his female students on trips for sexual trysts. He purchased
for one of them a vibrator and then submitted the bill for
reimbursement to the Hebrew University's Shaine Center (the very
same Center that granted an award to the "Non-Rape is Racism"
thesis!).
While awaiting trial Ben-Ari is subject to a restraining order
preventing him from entering the Hebrew University campus, as well
as an order not to leave the country. The same ultra-feminists in
Israel who insisted that an (unmarried) cabinet minister be indicted
because he gave a French kiss to a woman in his office have yet to
say a word about the behavior of this member of the Tenured Left.
Haaretz July 31, 2008 reports that female students in the Department
of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University, which claims
to specialize in feminism and social justice, allege that Ben-Ari is
not
the only tenured lecher in the department who abuses them
sexually, and that these faculty members walk about boasting of
their "conquests" of the PhD students. Strangely, the university
authorities never looked into their behavior.
Ben-Ari had also served as a consultant to the Israeli army over the
role of women in the military.
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