Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv University's
Long Track Record of Pandering to Communism
http://thejewishpress.blogspot.com/2009/03/we-recently-posted-report-on-one-day.html
Posted by
Steven Plaut
March 21, 2009
We
recently posted a report on a one-day indoctrination session in
communism to be held on the campus of Tel Aviv University this week,
in which communism will be celebrated. While TAU officers are
disingenuously insisting that the conference is merely ABOUT the
communist party, a fast look at the program indicates that it is to
be a one-sided CELEBRATION of communism, where all the speakers are
either communists or pro-communists. The only non-Marxist is Prof.
Anita Shapira, a Zionist scholar, but she is merely there to greet
the participants on behalf of the School of the Humanities and
otherwise will not lecture. The above poster represents the notion
of balance and pluralism that seems to govern the thinking in some
parts of Tel Aviv University!
Many of the
speakers are officials in the Israeli communist party or academic
faculty who are card-carrying communist party members. For an
updated report on this "conference," go
here.
The poster for the
conference with the list of speakers, featuring a photo of Stalin
and a hammer and sickle, can be seen
here.
As you can see
from that report, this is hardly the first time that Tel Aviv
University collaborated with the Israeli communist party in its
indoctrination activities.
However, an even
MORE amazing story is the fact that Tel Aviv University has
exercised self-censorship and suppressed freedom of speech to coddle
communism and pander to communists. The news report is
here.
It seems that an
art exhibit was being shown on the campus of TAU last year in the
persecution of the "Falun Gong" in China was depicted. The Falun
Gong are a sort of meditation, exercise movement with some features
of a religious cult. China has been brutally suppressing and
persecuting members of the movement. Some of the artists in the
exhibit were survivors of China's forced labor camps, and endured
the tortures they depict.
The Chinese
Embassy in Israel was not amused and complained to the heads of Tel
Aviv University. In one of the most brazen acts of cowardice in the
Western world, the university officials ordered the exhibit shut
down in order to appease the Chinese communists!!!
The above news
story reports:
'The decision to
shut down the exhibit was made by the University's top management,
and that the Chinese Embassy in Israel pressured the University in
this regard. One of the works displayed at the exhibition, titled
"Tragedy in China". "It is important to ask why the Chinese Embassy
threatens a university because of an art exhibit," said Nitzan. "I
think the answer is clear," he continued. "The exhibition displays
paintings of the banned Falun Gong spiritual practice and the
torture the practitioners in China are suffering from." '
See also
this.
While the whole
world protests the dhimmitude being exhibited by some European
governments too cowardly to protect freedom of speech, here we have
the spectacle of the heads of Tel Aviv University suppressing
academic freedom and freedom of speech in order to mollycoddle
Chinese communism.
This being the
case, the decision to hold a one-sided celebration of communism and
indoctrination into Marxism on the campus of Tel Aviv University
this week hardly is a novelty!
If you are upset
by this story, please take a few moments and let the heads of Tel
Aviv University know what you think.
Write to
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
The Council for Higher Education in Israel
(governmental body that funds and supervises Israeli universities
and colleges)
Prof. Shlomo Grossman
Planning & Budgeting Committee Chairman
Council for Higher Education
Email:
grossms@mail.biu.ac.il
P.O.B. 4037, Jerusalem 91040, Israel
Tel: 02-5679911
Fax: 02-5679969
E-mail:
info@che.org.il
Minister of
Education
Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports
Kiryat Ben Gurion, Jerusalem
Email:
sar@education.gov.il
Phones: 972-2-5602330/856/584; 972-3-6935523/4/5
Faxes: 972-2-5602246; 972-3-6951769
To
see the "congress" flyer (Hebrew),
go here
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