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Hebrew University
Political Extremism and Nazi Salutes on the Hebrew
University Campus
Political Extremism
and Nazi Salutes on the Hebrew University Campus
Posted by Steven
Plaut
10 June 2009
The Hebrew
University just elected for itself a new president, Dr. Menachem
Ben-Sasson, who used to be a Knesset backbencher from the Kadima
Party.
His nomination comes
not only in the midst of a financial crisis for the Hebrew
University but also in the middle of a growing crisis of identity.
The seriousness of that crisis was made evident yesterday when a
group of leftist and Arab students on the campus, no doubt with the
blessings of radical anti-Israel professors, gave Nazi salutes to
pro-Israel students singing Hatikva and "Jerusalem of Gold." The
story is reported in the Jerusalem Post today,
here.
Like the other
liberal arts secular universities in Israel (Tel Aviv University,
Ben Gurion University, and my own University of Haifa), much of
higher education in Israel has been converted by these institutions
into leftist indoctrination and anti-Israel anti-Zionist
"re-education." There are entire departments in which no non-leftist
or Zionist may teach. Classrooms, especially in the social sciences,
law, education, and humanities, are often turned into little camps
for North-Korean-style extremist propagandizing. Incompetent
pseudo-academics whose entire academic records consist of
anti-Israel propagandizing get hired, tenured, and promoted, while
dissident Zionist faculty sometimes have their careers sabotaged.
Professors preach ideology in class instead of engaging in research
and scholarship, and that ideology is invariably post-modernist
anti-Israel Marxist radicalism. (The non-radicals seldom use their
classrooms for political indoctrination. My own students do not have
the foggiest idea of what my own political opinions are unless they
google me on their own!)
The politicalization
of the Israeli campus and the misbehavior of Hebrew University
radical faculty are documented in detail at the web site of the
Isracampus watchdog
group
here.
Isracampus is a group
initiative based in part on the legendary Campus Watch watchdog that
operated in the
United States, set up by the courageous Dr. Daniel Pipes.
Politicalization and
radicalization of the faculty at the Hebrew University is about as
bad as it is anywhere in Israel, and worse even than that on many
American campuses. The whole collection of reports on Hebrew
University extremism assembled by Isracampus appears
here.
The Hebrew
University record ranges from faculty members justifying anti-Israel
terrorism, to other calling for an end to Israel's existence. It
includes faculty members being arrested for engaging in illegal and
violent behavior. It contains track records of numerous Hebrew
University faculty members smearing Israel and Zionism, denouncing
Israel as an apartheid peace-hating state, one that carries out
horrific Nazi-like war crimes for the heck of it.
Anti-Israel students
at the Hebrew university are probably much more rare than are
anti-Israel faculty members, and there are probably less people in
all of Eastern Europe who believe in socialism than there are on the
faculty of the Hebrew University.
Nevertheless the
growing anti-Israel faculty extremism there is having an impact, and
the parading of leftist and Arab students on the Hebrew University's
campus giving the Nazi salute in the middle of the meetings o
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