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Israeli Academic ExtremismProfessors fuel fire of anti-Israel propagandaRadical Israeli Jewish academicians that condemn Israel’s right to exist fuel the fire of anti-Israel rhetoric, said Dr. Yitzchak Mansdorf, former director of the pro-Israel campus advocacy David Project, at the recent Jerusalem Conference. He was referring to the anti-Israel propaganda war on college campuses, saying that the new form of antisemitism challenges Israel’s legitimacy on a political, ideological and academic level. ...Ignorance of Jewish history – by non-Jewish and even by Jewish-Israeli professors – is another reason cited by Mansdorf.
Professors fuel fire of anti-Israel propaganda Written by Avraham Zuroff Jerusalem – Radical Israeli Jewish academicians that condemn Israel’s right to exist fuel the fire of anti-Israel rhetoric, said Dr. Yitzchak Mansdorf, former director of the pro-Israel campus advocacy David Project, at the recent Jerusalem Conference. He was referring to the anti-Israel propaganda war on college campuses, saying that the new form of antisemitism challenges Israel’s legitimacy on a political, ideological and academic level. “Last week, [Israeli Ambassador to the US] Michael Oren ‘spoke’ at the University of California at Irvine. I say that he ‘spoke’ because he didn’t get in more than a few sentences at a time before he was heckled,” Mansdorf related. Oren’s lecture was interrupted more than 10 times with shouts of “killers” and “how many Palestinians did you kill?” before university police arrested the hecklers. Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon was similarly verbally attacked at Oxford University by a student protestor who shouted Itbah al-Yahud [Slaughter the Jews]. Protestors outside the Oxford Union chanted: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” The protest was organized by the Oxford University Palestine Society. A “carnival” of anti-Israel protests takes place annually throughout Canada and around the world during Israel Apartheid Week, this year beginning March 1. During last year’s events, students at the University of California at Irvine made a mock checkpoint at a main campus entrance. The checkpoint was manned by ‘Israeli soldiers’ who referred to Israel as the “Fourth Reich” and “Holocaust in the holy land.” Mansdorf mentioned several reasons for the campus warfare against Israel’s legitimacy. One obvious reason is antisemitism, as in the case of an Oxford student’s call for the slaughtering of Jews. Whitewashing Jewish history Ignorance of Jewish history – by non-Jewish and even by Jewish-Israeli professors – is another reason cited by Mansdorf. He mentioned Al-Quds University’s web site as an example of Arab whitewashing of the Jewish claim to Jerusalem. Students studying towards an MA in Jerusalem studies at the university are taught about the Armenian, Byzantine and Palestinian connections to Jerusalem. The students aren’t taught about any Jewish link. Mansdorf points out that Al-Quds’ web site even denies the existence of King David and Solomon’s Temple. However, students learn about Israeli history from a Palestinian perspective. Students touring the former Arab Jerusalem neighbourhoods of Deir Yassin and Ein Kerem are taught how they were “taken over by the Zionist occupying forces.” In contrast, they aren’t taught about the Arab massacre of Jewish doctors and nurses on a convoy from Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus. |