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Isracampus hereby challenges the professors and lecturers in law schools in Israel to speak out against the McCarthyist suppression of freedom of speech and the anti-democratic firing and political persecution, in the case of Rabbi Israel Shiran at the Moriah-Barkai high school in Haifa, Israel. He was fired and demonized by Minster of Education Yuli Tamir because he dared to express a political opinion of which she disapproved, namely, his belief that Yitzhak Rabin's political ideology should not be a matter for indoctrination in Israeli schools.

We call upon professors of law to defend democracy and freedom of speech in Israel by speaking out against the persecution and repression of Rabbi Shiran.

Here is an update on the case:

'One of Israel's most famous victims of leftist McCarthyism is the young rabbi Israel Shiran, who was fired and persecuted by Israel's Leftist Minister of Education, Yuli Tamir, because he dared to express the opinion that schools should not teach Yitzhak Rabin's political ideology as unchallengeable dogma and theology.

For his sin of expressing a politically incorrect opinion, the rabbi was fired from his job as a teacher in a religious high school in Haifa. He was fired nine years ago, and has been pursuing his case in the courts. One local rep of the Ministry of Education had ordered that he be reinstated as far back as 2001. But other pointy-headed education bureaucrats vetoed that. The Rabbi then tried a series of different courts. After a Haifa appeals court found in his favor, while sharply denouncing the Ministry of Education for having fired him in the first place, the school still did not rehire him. Now the parents in the school from which he was fired are suing the school and the Ministry for contempt of court, because they have ignored the court order to reinstate the rabbi-teacher. One of Israel's Supreme Court justices, David Cheshin, expressed astonishment that the parents had to take such action.

Meanwhile, the case drags on, the Ministry of Education is still refusing to allow the rabbi to return to work, and freedom of speech in Israel remains the kidnapped bound hostage of Israel's anti-democratic Far Left.'