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Hebrew University - Cowboy Goldblum Packed Heat to Shoot Jews

Warring Wikipedia editors discuss report that Amiram Goldblum owned a Peace-Now-Maker to shoot fellow Jews, whom he says "threaten" him by criticizing him.

The Sydney Morning Herald piece is of 1600-1700 words, with the following mentions of Goldblum who was interviewed, a few weeks after the murders: "Amiram Goldblum is a Hebrew University Professor and a spokesman for a movement known as Peace Now which advocates a dialog with the Palestinians and whose supporters come largely from Academia and the professions. Mr. Goldblum lives in Baka on the top floor of a stone house whose most conspicuous feature is a large burglar alarm mounted over the front door - he has long been a target of the Israeli Right, an "ashafist" or PLO supporter in the words of his Jewish detractors. So inflamed was the mood, fuelled by the arrival of dozens of extremist Jews, on the day of the Baka murders that accusations levelled that he had sheltered the murderer in his house. Rocks were thrown, but Mr Goldblum has taken the sensible precaution of closing the metal shutters over his windows". He also consulted a senior police officer who advised him to arm himself against possible attack. So it is that Mr. Goldblum now carries a gun at home "to protect myself", as he says ruefully, "not against Arabs but against my fellow Jews". As this is NOT a report by someone who was on the spot on the day of the murders, it is questionable to what extent one can use it except for the direct single quotation of Goldblum. It is interesting that in the WP article about Baka, Jerusalem, the murder is not even mentioned. it is also not mentioned in the article about Baka on Hebrew Wikipedia.

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Weizmann Institute of Science - Kobi Snitz (Dept of Neurobiology) Organizes Naksa Day Demonstration

Continues to organize demonstrations at Nil'in despite second warning from the GSS.

Date: 7/6/2012
Subject: Fwd: Saturday: Demo in the displaced village of Beit Nuba to mark 45 years of Occupation

Demo in the displaced village of Beit Nuba to mark 45 years of Occupation this Saturday
The village of Beit Nuba was destroyed in 1967 and its residents displaced forcefully. The Wall now separates them from the remaining lands of their original village.

When: Saturday, June 9, 2012 at 15:00
Where: Beit Nuba village (near Beit Liqya, off road 443)
Register for transportation: Kobi Snitz 054-219-1547

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Date: May 1, 2013
Subject: Fwd: הרשמו להפגנות המשותפות של סוף השבועי 3.5 - 4.5 Register for the Weekly joint Demos

Register for Transportation to May 3rd - May 4th Weekly Demonstrations Against the Wall and the Settlements

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Ni'lin Friday May 3rd
Contact Kobi at 054-2191547

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Leftists Demand that the Defamation of the IDF is Protected "Freedom of Speech"

Leftwing liars wet their pants about new law placing them on the financial hook for spreading lies about the IDF. They wish to continue their slander of the IDF with impunity.

Well, many years too late, the Knesset is now considering a new law that would grant the legal standing to sue people making false defamatory claims about the actions of soldiers. The idea is that if someone claims falsely that Israeli soldiers carried out some sort of atrocity or crime against humanity and it could be proved that the claims are lies and the person making the claims knew they were lies, than the liar could be sued for defamation in civil court. Anyone who has any evidence of actual misbehavior by any soldier would of course be protected from being sued. Any soldier or civilian could file civil suit against the liars. Read more about the law here: http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Knesset-ctee-approves-law-to-ban-defaming-IDF-312235

The Israeli fascist Left of course is up in arms and is screaming to high heavens about this new "assault against freedom of speech and democracy." This from the very same people who spent recent years cheering on the persecution of rabbis and others for endorsing or recommending a book the Left considered to be racist, or who cheered on the denial of freedom of speech to the Kahanists.

The Left insists that defaming Israeli soldiers is part and parcel of freedom of speech. The very same far leftists who cheer on the leftwing academics who file fascist SLAPP harassment suits against anyone who dares to criticize THEM and tell the truth about THEM are now suddenly all upset about the possibility that leftwing liars could be sued for defamation.

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University of Exeter - Ilan Pappe Accuses Israel of Genocide

In a regal interview he gave the Israeli press on the eve of the state's " Independence Day," Shimon Peres, the current president of Israel, said the following:

"I remember how it all began. The whole state of Israel is a millimeter of the whole Middle East. A statistical error, barren and disappointing land, swamps in the north, desert in the south, two lakes, one dead and an overrated river. No natural resource apart from malaria. There was nothing here. And we now have the best agriculture in the world? This is a miracle: a land built by people" (Maariv, 14 April 2013).

This fabricated narrative, voiced by Israel's number one citizen and spokesman, highlights how much the historical narrative is part of the present reality. This presidential impunity sums up the reality on the eve of the 65th commemoration of the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of historic Palestine…
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The comparison is very different when it is viewed historically and it is in this context that we should realize the criminality of Peres' narrative which is as horrific as the occupation — and potentially far worse. For the president of Israel, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, there were never Palestinians before he initiated in 1993 the Oslo process — and when he did, they were only the ones living a small part of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

In his discourse, he already eliminated most of the Palestinians. If you did not exist when Peres came to Palestine, you definitely do not exist when he is the president in 2013. This elimination is the point where ethnic cleansing becomes genocidal. When you are eliminated from the history book and the discourse of the top politicians, there is always a danger that the next attempt would be your physical elimination.

It happened before. The early Zionists, including the current president, talked about the transfer of the Palestinians long before they actually disposed them in 1948. These visions of a de-Arabized Palestine appeared in every Zionist diary, journal and inner conversation since the beginning of the 20th century. If one talks about nothingness in a place where there is plenty it can be willful ignorance. But if one talks about nothingness as a vision or undeniable reality, it is only a matter of power and opportunity before the vision becomes reality.

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Tel Aviv University - Yehouda Shenhav (Dept of Sociology) Defends the 'Nakba'

Calls to define Jews from Arab countries as refugees were made in the past, but back then, they were silenced by Israeli governments. Why the change of policy? Partly due to a relatively new recognition that Israel will no longer be able to hide its responsibility for the Nakba.

The Foreign Ministry's bookkeeper's trick betrays the fear of the Palestinian claim of compensation and return – a central tenet of Palestinian demands. It proves that Israeli recognizes that the '67 paradigm will not bring an end to the conflict, due to its denial of the Nakba. As a result of this recognition, the leaders of the new campaign hope to use the Mizrahi Jews to block the Palestinians from carrying out their "right of return," and offset the compensation claims might be forced to pay for the Palestinian property that was expropriated by the Custodian of Absentee Property (the Israeli authority that confiscates and manages Palestinian property, most notably real estate). It is an idea that is historically twisted, unwise from a policy perspective and unjust from a moral point of view – as its history demonstrates.
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The analogy between the Palestinian refugees and the Jewish Mizrahis is thus baseless, not to mention offensive and immoral. It serves to cause friction between Mizrahi Jews and Palestinians, it is an insult to a great number of Mizrahim and harms chances for real reconciliation. More than that: the analogy points to a clear lack of understanding regarding the meaning of the Nakba. The Nakba does not only refer to the events of the war. The Nakba is, at its core, the prevention of those who were expelled from returning to their homes, lands and families after the establishment of the State of Israel. The Nakba is an active and clear policy of the State of Israel – not just the chaos of war.

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Ben Gurion University - Defeatist Lev Grinberg (Dept of Sociology) Promotes Capitulation to Hamas' Demands as a Means to Stop Gaza Terror

The fundamental problem with Israel is that it is able to think only in terms of force… At best, the problem is identified in time, which leads to negotiations. But usually it takes a strong blow to pave the way to negotiations, or simply to run away.
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Israel was willing to negotiate with Egypt only after the 1973 war, which was a military victory but a political defeat. The 1982 Lebanon war was both a political and a military defeat, eventually leading Israel to recognize the Palestinians in the early 1990s, following the First Intifada, when the Chief of Staff declared there was no military but only political solution. Only then did the politicians get the message and begin negotiations.
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Operation Pillar of Cloud reveals that Hamas gains the upper hand in any situation, even if an unconditional ceasefire agreement is signed, because it has survived the Israeli attack and will be able to continue arming itself for the next campaign. It is therefore the only partner for preventing violence.

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Ben Gurion University - David Newman (Dean of Social Sciences), who set up a university department in which no non-leftist opinion may be expressed, complains that the Israeli government is "McCarthyist" and Suppresses Pluralism

Newman bemoans the fall of the Left, pines for the periods of Mapai hegemony, and supports the right those who participate in attacks on Israeli soldiers to also participate in the determining the laws of the country.

Leading Israeli government figures, not least former foreign minister Avigdor Liberman and Education Minister Gidon Sa'ar, have demonstrated, time after time, that they do not understand the basic principles of what a true democracy is about. In his attempt to shut down an academic department at a university, Sa'ar has been exposed as an enemy of freedom of speech…

In their boycotting of leading Israeli philosopher Rivka Feldhai, preventing her from taking part in the meeting between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and a group of leading Israeli and German scientists, the government has demonstrated to the world that it does not understand the distinction between legitimate debate and criticism of government policies, and the dangers of a 2012 version of McCarthyism, where dissenting voices are targeted and threatened, or prevented from being heard in important international meetings and conferences.
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It is 35 years since the first right-wing government, under Menachem Begin, came to power. Begin and his government set about altering the previous ideological and institutional hegemonies of the Left, which had been controlled by the Mapai party ever since the establishment of the state. During the ensuing 35 years, there have been more right-wing governments than left-wing ones, but this has not prevented these political leaders from continuing to accuse the newspapers, the TV, the universities and the courts of being controlled by the Left, and thus justifying their continued attempts to target as many as possible as they impose their own version of contemporary newspeak.

This oft-repeated mantra flies in the face of reality as one looks at the composition of such bodies as the media agencies (the right-wing Makor Rishon and Israel HaYom instead of the left-wing Davar and Al-Hamishmar), the politicized Council of Higher Education (which under Gidon Sa'ar has become a right-wing watchdog of the country's universities) and increased political intervention in the appointment of High Court judges. And yet they continue to target any form of dissenting opinion as though they, the country's leaders and government, still belong to a minority who continue to be disenfranchised, despite their gradual takeover of the country's institutions in a way unsurpassed even during the periods of Mapai hegemony.
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One small glimmer of hope for Israel's democracy in the coming year was Sunday's High Court decision to allow MK Haneen Zoabi to contend in the forthcoming elections, after her candidacy was vetoed by the right-wing-dominated election committee.

The High Court, even with its political appointees under the Netanyahu administration, has sent a clear message to the government about the inherent dangers in the continued erosion of Israel's democratic values. It is to be hoped that this message will not be lost on the next Israeli government which is likely to be even more right-wing than the outgoing administration.

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Tel Aviv University - Tovi Fenster (Dept of Geography), and her fellow members of the academic jihad, battle against Israeli defense measures that keep out the mass murderers and suicide bombers

Fenster sets the academic stage for the redivision of Jerusalem - the Capital of Israel.

Amidst this spatial and social reality, a separation wall was established in 2002 around East Jerusalem, which undermines the city's social and spatial arrangements on a number of different levels, from the metropolitan urban and municipal to the personal. The official Israeli justification for the construction of the wall hinges on security considerations, with the declared objective of preventing terrorists from the West Bank from entering Israel. But in Jerusalem, a metropolitan city that is home to two national groups engaged in a prolonged conflict, the main effect of the wall is a separation between Jerusalemite Palestinians and Palestinians living in the West Bank, resulting in the disruption of relations between the city and its eastern hinterland. Studies on the effects of the wall at the municipal level suggest that the construction of the wall has had serious negative impacts in the areas of employment, transportation, economics and demography, among others.4
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We argue that while the Israeli justification for the construction of the wall is based on security considerations, from the perspective of Palestinian residents, the building of the wall reflects Israeli aspirations for the Judaization of space in Palestinian East Jerusalem…
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For Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem, the wall represents the Israeli establishment view of them as those who are "on the wrong side of the wall" or "foreigners" and as a threat to Jewish hegemonic ambitions for the demographic "Judaizing" of space. Many Palestinians living in the vicinity of the wall in Ash-Shayyah understand this separation as a first step in a process aimed at expelling them from the city to the West Bank. These feelings are heightened by additional processes occurring in the city, such as house demolitions, the infiltration of Jewish settlers into Palestinian neighborhoods and a slow but steady increase in the number of people deprived of residency status.
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The spatial realities of these processes have placed the Palestinian residents of Jerusalem within a complex geography which creates ambivalence both in functioning and identity. This geography causes them to assume an intermediate position that reflects their hybrid status. On the one hand, they feel a moral, religious and national obligation to stay near their holy places and protect their national cultural assets in the city despite the difficulties posed by the Israeli establishment's policy of discrimination and dislocation. On the other hand, to the east of the wall, a national and political space is slowly forming to which Palestinians living in the city demand the right to belong13 and to operate freely — a claim denied them in the context of their living space. Between these options stands the separation wall, which fences off and deepens the paradoxical situation that the Palestinian population experiences as a spatial object within a social geography of isolation and alienation.

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Martin Sherman Warns of the Growing Dangers from the Delegitimization of Israel Facilitated by the Israeli Post-Zionist Tenured Radicals

Sherman gives kudos to Isracampus, and others, for doing 'sterling work' exposing the 'vindictive and malevolent slander' by these Radical Tenured Academics.

AK: Would the primary thrust of your effort be directed principally toward foreign sources of delegitimization?

MS: No, not at all. One of the major sources – and arguably most pernicious one - is domestic: The post/anti-Zionist academics in the Israeli universities –a.k.a. tenured radicals.

Indeed, entrenched faculty in Israel academe have in many respects become the epicenter of the forces for the delegitimization of Israel and the demonization of anyone who dare supports it. In the past I have expressed my concern publicly on this matter (see By thy own hand, Academic Freedom and the Shape of the Earth , Dishonest or incompetent? , and most recently A Giant Pall of Shame ); as have others who share my sense of foreboding ( see Academics on rampage , Mount Scopus or Mount Olympus? and  Academic Brainwashing: Anatomy of Israel Higher Education, 2010 (translated from the Hebrew in "Maariv"). Also see the brilliant interview with Melanie Phillips on Israeli TV.

AK: How bad is the situation?

MS: Several recent studies have shown that virulent anti-Zionist themes have become an overriding – or at least extremely common – feature of much of the teaching and research conducted in the social sciences and humanities faculties throughout Israeli academe. Indeed, in many ways it has become accepted as the sole – or at least dominant – standard for academic wisdom.

This cadre of anti-Zionist academics have become – whether directly or indirectly – the dominant provider of intellectual input for many individuals and institutions – including those in Jewish communities across the globe. This in turn has resulted in the exacerbation of hostility towards Israel among its enemies, and an erosion of support among its friends.

Unless this phenomenon is confronted, curtailed and counteracted, no form of Israeli advocacy can be effective for:

• It undercuts all pro-Israel messages and amplifies all anti-Israel ones.
• It lends credence to the venom of Israel's foes and undermines the credibility of Israel's friends.
• It serves as "proof" of Israeli fiendish malfeasance and is exploited to dismiss any evidence disputing this.

AK: How can this problem be addressed?

… It is crucially important that such facilities be set up inside, and that their intellectual output emanate from within, existing mainstream academic establishments…
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Moreover, a significant time period is likely to be required for such nascent centers to acquire adequate public stature and prestige, creating a detrimental delay in bringing their influence to bear on the public discourse.

AK: So how do you deal with that?

MS: By contrast, locating a substantial policy research center with a countervailing pro-Zionist orientation within, or interfacing with, the current academic establishment will do much to circumvent – or at least greatly reduce – these difficulties, since neither its geographic location nor its organizational affiliation can be used to disqualify or disparage its work.

AK: How would the IISS differ from say the various "Monitors" that are active today, such as the NGO Monitor, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) , MEMRI, IsraCampus and Israel Academia Monitor (IAM)?

MS: The IISS sees it role extending beyond that of a monitor.

There are a number of organizations doing sterling work in exposing vindictive and malevolent slander being directed against Israel from both domestic and foreign sources –like the ones you have just mentioned. However – by their very mandate as a monitor – they are reactive bodies rather than proactive. They respond to the initiatives of Israel's detractors rather than embark on initiatives of their own.

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Ben Gurion University - Yonatan Mendel (Dept of Political Science) Asks a Stupid Question

Acting as a reporter for Walla News, Mendel utilizes his ultra-leftist powers to deem himself more knowledgeable about Iran than a panel of experts on the Iranian Conflict.

The crowd applauded. It isn't every day that Israelis and their American supporters get to hear that they have nothing to do with the instability of the region. The US invasion of Iraq? Israel's forty-year occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip? Israel's continual refusal to reply to the Syrians' proposals for negotiations? All of these are part of the past. Fortunately, a new demon had been found to take everybody's sins on himself: Ahmadinejad.
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The professor returned to his seat. I held my pen tight, as if it was my last friend on earth. After a few seconds I started breathing. The crowd was still applauding. I couldn't understand why such a distinguished professor was not willing to lift the fog over Iran by supplying even the most basic facts. Why didn't he mention that Ahmadinejad has no control over Iran's nuclear programme, or its army, or any of its security forces, or any of its strategic plans; and that even if he was both stupid and crazy he would still be unable to make these kinds of decision? Why did Lewis, an expert on the Middle East, not find it appropriate to mention that power over Iran lies entirely in the hands of the supreme leader Ali Khamenei? Was it because such an explanation might put paid to the unity of the panel or stand in the way of the audience's notion that a pre-emptive attack was needed? We wanted a war so much.
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I waited a few seconds and said: 'My name is Yoni Mendel and I am from Walla News Israel. I would like to ask Mr Woolsey a question, because it deals with US foreign policy. The four of you represent the same point of view. But there are also other views. Professor David Menashri, the head of the Tel Aviv Iranian Studies Department, and Ephraim Halevy, the former head of Mossad, have argued on various occasions that a dialogue with Iran, or even a secret negotiation channel with the US, could be the solution to the crisis… Well, the question is: don't you think that American policy is not helping to halt the Iranian nuclear programme, but contributes to the exact opposite?'

There was giggling around me. Woolsey didn't hesitate. 'I think that's nonsense,' he said. The crowd applauded: an easy knockout. … [H]e concluded, 'I don't believe that anybody who knows anything about Iran, frankly, believes that serious negotiations are possible.'

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I phoned my boss and shamefully reported that among a pro-war audience with pro-war experts in a pro-war country I had asked a stupid question. Rottem told me not to worry too much. I was cheered to think I hadn't lost my job.
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The worst of it is that – among the audience, the media, the participants, the politicians, the academics – almost no one felt that something or someone was absent… How can an audience go on clapping their hands at a discussion that is discussion-free? On the eve of a war with Iran, a war with unknown consequences, Israelis refuse even to consider an option that does not involve violence. A country that has lived by the sword refuses to question it, even when its own future is at risk.

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Oranim College - Caroline Glick Exposes Danny Zamir's (Leadership Academy Director) Role in the Attack on the IDF as Part of a Joint Leftist Academic-Journalistic Pincer Movement

The Yitzhak Rabin pre-military academy in Jaffa is run by the kibbutz movement. It is the only pre-military academy that is openly and avowedly leftist. Its founder and director Danny Zamir was jailed in 1990 for refusing to serve in Nablus during the height of the Palestinian uprising. In 2004 he allowed his 1990 manifesto calling for soldiers to refuse orders to be reprinted in a book Refusnik: Israel's Soldiers of Conscience which was published with a forward by Susan Sontag and a recommendation by Noam Chomsky.

In its year-long program, Rabin academy cadets are subjected to post-Zionist political philosophy that according to sources familiar with the institution indoctrinates them to believe that Israel has no right to exist as a Jewish state…

Last month Zamir organized a conference of his former cadets who are now serving in IDF combat units. There, he encouraged these young soldiers to tell him and their war stories. In what can only be compared to a Communist group confessional, Zamir told Channel 10 that young soldiers were encouraged to view their actions in Gaza as immoral. A number of them accepted the terms of debate and described purportedly immoral acts they alleged were carried out in Gaza. In most cases, Zamir's soldiers acknowledged that they were not present on the scenes in the events they described…

Zamir claims that he took these non-eyewitness accounts to the IDF and asked that they be investigated. Since he refused to provide the names of the soldiers involved in the alleged incidents and his eyewitness accounts were from soldiers who had not witnessed the accounts, the IDF officers he spoke with said they would have a hard time investigating.

UNHAPPY WITH THIS response, Zamir published the unsubstantiated accounts in his school's bulletin and gave the bulletin to two far-left reporters - Ofer Shelach from Channel 10 and Amos Harel from Ha'aretz.

In an act of unmitigated journalistic malpractice, on Friday night Shelach presented the unattributed testimonials as first-person accounts. He used actors to read out the soldiers' statements as if they were the soldiers themselves, and never told his audience that the voices they were hearing were not the voices of the actual soldiers. Then, he attacked the IDF for refusing to take these accounts seriously and for having the nerve to note that the Rabin pre-military academy is a known leftist institution. He of course didn't mention that Zamir himself served a prison sentence for refusing orders or that as recently as 2004 he contributed to a book explaining why the IDF is an immoral army.

As for Harel, he published the soldiers' statements in Ha'aretz. He then wrote an "analysis" arguing that the IDF cannot discount the statements by these anonymous voices because, in his view, the soldiers have "no reason" to lie. The fact that they present no evidence of their claims is apparently of no importance.

Now by presenting these second hand accounts of battles as fact; by presenting Zamir as a credible and objective observer; and by instructing the IDF to be ashamed of itself and mend its ways, Shelach and Harel are certainly atoning for their "sin" of supporting the army in Operation Cast Lead. Perhaps for them, that was all this was about.

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Leftist Radicals Rally to Endorse the Hunger-Striking Terrorist Samer Al-Issawi

[A] group of radical leftists, including quite a few tenured anti-Israel radicals, have published a petition cheering on the "hunger striking" terrorist and demanding that he be released. They insist he is innocent. Their proof? He says he is. So do his parents.

Al-Issawi was actually convicted of terrorist acts in 2002 and sentenced to 26 years in prison. He was released in the massive "exchange" that allowed kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit to be released. Later Al-Issawi resumed his terrorist activities and was arrested again. Since Israel in the past agreed to release some terrorists who engaged in hunger strikes, Al-Issawi decided to jump on that bandwagon.

Israeli intelligence agencies insist he resumed his terrorist activities and was arrested for this. The tenured anti-Israel leftists say they believe the terrorist and not the security forces. Some of those extremists proclaiming their adoring faith in the claims of the terrorist have track records in calling for world boycotts against Israel or in denouncing Israel as a fascist apartheid regime.

Among the tenured Leftists proclaiming their support for Al-Issawi in the petition that appeared in Haaretz on April 14, 2013:
Amiram Goldblum, Hebrew University - Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Alon Liel, Tel Aviv University - Dept of Political Science
Yehuda Bauer, Hebrew University - Dept of Contemporary Jewry
Haim Ben-Shachar, Tel Aviv University - Dept of Economics
Menachem Yaari, Hebrew University - Dept of Economics
Gabi Salomon, University of Haifa - Dept of Education
Danny Filc, Ben Gurion University - Dept of Politics and Government
Motty Perry, Hebrew University - Dept of Economics
Menachem Klein, Bar Ilan University - Dept of Political Science
Zeev Sternhall, Hebrew University - Dept of Political Science
Arie Arnon, Ben Gurion University - Dept of Economics
Joseph Agassi, Tel Aviv University - Dept of Philosophy
and Shimon Shamir, Tel Aviv University - Dept of History

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Ben Gurion University - Yonatan Mendel (Dept of Political Science) gets turned while in England

While a PhD student at Cambridge, Mendel's ultra-leftist heart bleeds during Operation Cast Lead, however is hard pressed to find any time to write about the suffering of the children in Sderot.

Since I was a soldier myself ten years ago, I worry I might be called up as a reservist. If I were to refuse now, when Israel is at war, I would be sent to prison. But still, I tell myself, that would be so much easier than being part of what my country is doing…
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[B]ear in mind that in Israel every man is a soldier, either in uniform or in reserve, there is no avoiding the conclusion that there are great pressures for it to act as a military society. Not acting is damaging to the IDF's status, budget, masculinity, power and happiness, and not only to the IDF's. This could explain why in Israel the military option is almost never considered second best. It is always the first choice.
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I have problems speaking to my closest friends and family these days, because I can no longer bear to hear the security establishment's propaganda coming from their mouths. I cannot bear to hear people justifying the deaths of more than 200 children killed by Israeli soldiers. There is no justification for that, and it's wrong to try to find one. Usually I feel part of society in Israel. I feel that I am on one side of the political map and other people are on the opposite side. But over the last few days, I feel that I am not part of this society any more. I do not call friends who support the war, and they do not call me. The same with my family. It is a hard thing for me to write, but this is how it is.

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Letter Cheering the Imprisoned "Hunger Striking" Arab Terrorist Circulated on the Israel Social Science Chat Forum of Israeli Professors

Anti-Israel "activist," Noam Hoffstater (Ben Gurion University, Israeli Center for Third-Sector) posted the letter below (in Hebrew) endorsing the imprisoned "hunger striking" Arab terrorist Samar Issawi. The letter was distributed on the 'Israeli Social Science Chat List' to the great applause of many professors on the list.

When Roni Shtarkshall from the Hebrew U expressed outrage that it had been posted on an Israeli academic list, he was attacked in numerous emails by the usual tenured Left for expressing his "anti-democratic" objections, including Gal Levy, Julia Chaitin (from Sapir College), and Iris Agnon (who runs the censored leftist-only "public education" forum at Ben Gurion University).

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Tel Aviv University - Communist Gadi Algazi (Dept of History) admits that he and other left-wing activists are undermining the State of Israel

As part of a speech during a 2013 Land Day rally, Algazi also promotes illegal land squatting, rejects the Jewish nature of the State, and redefines the legal actions of the Israeli Government and Courts as 'warfare'.

But I am not here only because of the past but also because of the present, because of what is happening now. Land Day is not just a day of remembrance. It is a day of struggle against what is happening now. The State of Israel's war against its residents continues today in the Negev. In the Negev, heavy police forces and bulldozers go out to commit systematic destruction about once or twice a week. We have grown used to the fact that once or twice a week, heavily armed police forces gather in the Shoket junction or the Beit Qama junction in order to go forth on a campaign of demolition. We have grown so used to this that we don't perceive that this is actually a form of continuous warfare.

This country continues to be the site of a war. Modern warfare is conducted not only with tanks, but with bulldozers. You don't only fight it with bombers, but also with zoning plans. Yes, this is a war waged by the state, and real people are its casualties: their health, their hopes, their futures, their human and national dignity. True: Many states around the world neglect their citizens, and Israel also neglects and humiliates its poor. But not many states in the world take part in never-ending wars against their own citizens.

I am here to tell you, alongside many other left-wing activists in this country, that we refuse to take part in a the state's war against its Palestinian citizens. We will do all we can to undermine it, in Jaffa, in Acco, and in the Galilee, but mainly in the Negev.
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There is not "Bedouin Problem" in the Negev. The problem is a racist government and its dispossession projects. We must stop the Prawer Plan! This is indeed the struggle of the Negev's Arab residents, but we cannot, we cannot, leave them to wage it alone.
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A state of all its citizens and of both its peoples, a state that is both a Jewish and an Arab state, a Jewish-Arab state, with full, equal rights for all. Not just political equality but also cultural and national equality, equality that comes with correcting the injustices of the past, giving back land, the return of the refugees, and a more equitable distribution of wealth and opportunities.
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A state in which the Arab past is not being erased; a state whose future belongs to the people who live in it, to all its citizens, men and women, and not to racist demographers, who are busy counting babies and for whom real people's lives do not count.

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Oranim College - Danny Zamir (Leadership Academy Director) Stirs the Pot with Racial Slur

A Labor conference grew boisterous Thursday after a speaker referred to the audience as "arsim" – a derogatory, often perceived as racist, Hebrew slang term used to describe the Israeli stereotype of 'vulgar' men.

Following the statement, the audience protested, as several people got up and many voiced their offense. Security officers tried to calm things down, but the crowd was appeased only after the speaker – Danny Zamir – apologized for what he had said.

Zamir is the chairman of the Rabin Pre-Military Academy, and his comment was made while he was sharing the stage with Labor Chairwoman Shelly Yachimovich.

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Ben Gurion University - Yonatan Mendel (Dept of Political Science) Promotes Nakba Awareness

While a PhD student at Cambridge, Mendel also slandered Israeli Democracy and the IDF in unfounded dismissing statements typical of the Ultra-Leftist's Demonization, Double-Standard, and Delegitimization campaigns of Israel.

Tel Aviv University showed the power of its imagination when, in May 2008, the student council decided to hold the fun and enjoyable annual Day of the Student on the exact day that Palestinians commemorate the Naqba. The excuse given by the student council was that 'we were not told of the problematic timing of the celebrations.' This is arguably even more dangerous than saying that it was done on purpose: it makes it plain that for the Jews in the country, even the educated and 'liberal' citizens of Tel Aviv, the Palestinian people are invisible. The bill that would make it illegal for Israeli Jews and Palestinian citizens of Israel to commemorate the Naqba was initially approved by the Ministerial Committee for Legislation in May this year. I don't know if the bill will become law, but the Naqba undoubtedly took place; it is not a day of celebration for many people. A recognition of the Naqba, taking responsibility for the fate of the 700,000 Palestinians who escaped or were expelled in 1947-48, a willingness to try and compensate these refugees, now numbering several million: these gestures, even if symbolic, even if too late, would mean the beginning of the end of Israeli denial. But soon, the bill suggests, anyone who dares to express their feelings on this day will be imprisoned, in the 'only democracy in the Middle East'.

The claim to be the 'only democracy', as well as to have 'the most moral army in the world': these phrases are great examples of the Israeli fantasising project... This 'liberal' terminology acts like a sleeping pill for a society that wishes to dream about being liberal and democratic. Maybe it is time for someone to wake it up.

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Hebrew University - Zeev Sternhell (Dept of Political Science) Calls for Washington to Suppress Israeli Sovereignty

Sternhell insists that his misguided Leftist Ethics must trump Jewish Values, which he claims deny democracy.

Only massive American intervention, backed by an elegant threat on critical security matters, can break open the lock of the settlement movement. Indeed, there will be no solution to the Palestinian national problem, which dictates the future of Israeli society more than any other factor, unless the United States decides that American interests require it....
It's reasonable to assume that researchers in Washington know that it has been this way since the state was established. Israel went to wars it had initiated, but never once did it come up with a peace initiative out of free choice. Every proposal was condemned as defeatism or rejected for fear it might undermine Israeli society's belief that it was completely right, or that it had an absolute right to every inch of the Land of Israel. There's no reason to believe that in our time, when the settlers hold the real power, there will be a dramatic change in these behavior patterns, which are deeply ingrained in the way we regard the Arab world....
It's likely that Israeli domestic politics will force us into a situation where we must choose between the left's ethical and ideological values, and the settler right wing. The right wing is trying not only to prevent Palestinian independence, but to turn Israel into a country whose identity is dictated by its Jewish essence while its democratic component is wiped out.

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Tel Aviv University - Daniel Bar-Tal (Dept of Education), who called for silencing and suppression of Isracampus, now suddenly thinks the anti-Israel Left is being Silenced by Patriots

The anti-Zionist Marxist propagandist discovers a threat to democracy

This approach is reminiscent of the spokesmen of the Chinese regime, who use the same reason to silence criticism from within and exert tight control over the media, cultural works and academia. The approach of Oren and his colleagues must therefore justify regimes that attempt to silence criticism of anti-Semitism in their countries for fear that making such criticism public might damage their countries' image and interests. ... Oren and those like him are dictating to the public what the government believes to be the rules of appropriate behavior. Conservative groups operating on the ground strengthen these messages by keeping track of statements that are made or written and then smearing anyone who expresses opinions that differ from the leadership's. This is how a political climate is constructed in which people are afraid to express their opinions and where free speech, one of the most prominent characteristics of a democratic society, is restricted.

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Israeli Academics Accused of Spearheading the BDS Campaign against Israel

Isracampus plugged as part of the effort to expose these Academics who have gone beyond "critical thinking" into treacherous activities.

Steven Plaut, an economist at Haifa University and a founder of IsraCampus, a self-styled "campus watchdog" group, summed up the right's mood in a recent commentary in Arutz Sheva, the settlers' main news agency.

He accused Israeli academics, particularly in politics and sociology departments, of spearheading the international boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. "Arguably, the worst institution in the country when it comes to anti-Israel agitprop (misrepresented as academic performance) has been Ben Gurion University (BGU)," he wrote. "And the worst anti-Israel department in all of Israel has been BGU's Department of Politics" ("Shut down Ben Gurion U politics department," 19 September 2012).

The real aim of the campaign against Gordon and Ben Gurion University was noted by a professor at the university, who wished to remain anonymous. "It sends a very strong message to other academics and departments in Israel that they should not engage in critical thinking. In the present climate, it's either cheerlead for Netanyahu or keep your head down."

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Ben Gurion University - "Rabbi" Yonatan Mendel (Dept of Political Science) Complains how Zionism "Hijacked" Judaism

While a PhD student at Cambridge, Mendel surmised that Israel ignore basic tenets of Judaism - moral basis for State policy - in order to satisfy his ultra-Leftist reflexes. Mendel also alludes to Zionism being a racist movement, however, conveniently ignores that the phrases 'Hebrew labour' and 'Hebrew market' were born in a time when the Jews of the Ghettos were denied the right to own land and thus could not be farmers.

This attitude enabled the founders of Zionism and the majority of Israelis today to pull out of the sea of Jewish knowledge religious precepts that support their agenda. Like skilful pearl divers, Israeli society has brought up to the surface only those glowing stones which have Zionist purposes, and kept those which do not (including those in which God himself is mentioned) deep at the bottom of the ocean. Consider some of the more popular Israeli-Jewish 'moral validations' of state policy. These validations, drawn exclusively from Jewish tradition and texts, have become part of the political consensus, and secure the place of religion not just in the 'secular' political debate but in wider Israeli-Jewish society.

Ha-Ba le-Horgekha Hashkem le-Horgo is a teaching of increasing popularity among Israelis. Taken from the Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 72:1, its most precise translation is: 'If someone comes to kill you, get up early to kill him first.' It seems that every online newspaper Comment section will include this sentence when discussing Israeli aggression: the Gaza offensive? 'Kill him first'. The Second Lebanon War? 'Kill him first' again. A Google search for the expression 'kill him first' and 'flotilla' yields more than 4,200 Hebrew results, confirming the centrality of this narrative. This convenient license to kill extends beyond the online community to Israeli decision makers and politicians.
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Almost as popular as these two precepts is 'Aniyei 'Irkha Kodmim, loosely translated as 'the poor of your city take precedence over the poor of a different city.' Taken from the Babylonian Talmud, Bava Metzia 71:1, this is used by Israelis to justify the preferential treatment of Jews. It is quoted almost every time human rights organisations highlight the inferior treatment of Palestinian citizens of Israel or the living conditions for Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. The use of this quote has intensified lately due to the debate about the thousands of refugees and migrant workers threatened with deportation. The fact that many of them have children who were born in Israel, or that deporting them would endanger their lives, does not convince large parts of the Israeli public, who cleave to principle of the 'precedence of our poor'… "The poor of your city take precedence"' Six weeks later, the poor people of Gaza had buried 1,400 men and women. These three verses, overused in Israeli-Jewish discourse, exemplify the hijacking of 'Judaism' to suit the Zionist programme.
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Zionism's basic separationist aspirations—Hebrew labour, a Hebrew market, a Hebrew state—have been nurtured and protected by the belief that 'the poor of your city take precedence over the poor of a different city'. In contemporary Israel, this verse provides a pseudo-religious justification for racist practice, while in its original context it is closer to our own 'charity begins at home'.

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University of the Witwatersrand - Ran Greenstein (Dept of Sociology) Presented an Event that Denied Israeli Democracy and Proclaimed it an Ethnocratic State

Greenstein could not get a REAL job in Israel, SO instead he fled to the African bush, pretends to be an academic, and from there defames Israel. Shlomo Sand (TAU) gets in on the act as well.

The Afro-Middle East Centre and WISER invite you to the launch of a new book on Israeli politics.

Presented by:
Ran Greenstein

Can a state be both democratic and ethnically self-defined? The Afro-Middle East Centre's (AMEC) latest publication Pretending democracy: Israel, an ethnocratic state unpacks this issue by using Israel as a case study. Based on papers presented at AMEC's 2010 conference themed 'Locating ethnic states in a cosmopolitan world: The case of Israel', the book interrogates concepts such as 'cosmopolitanism', 'nationalism', 'ethnocracy' and 'citizenship'.
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One section elaborates on comparisons between Israel, apartheid South Africa and pre-Good Friday Northern Ireland. Also tackled is the thorny issue of forms of statehood and rich debate takes place in the book between those advocating a South Africa-style single state solution and those promoting a binational state as the most just solution to the inherent contradictions between Israel's claims of being both a Jewish and a democratic state and its discrimination against Palestinian citizens and occupation of Palestinian lands.

The concluding chapter, by assessing post-apartheid South Africa, looks beyond the conditions and stipulations that would result in a single state wherein Jews and Arabs enjoy the same rights, to teasing out the steps that need to be taken to ensure that these rights are substantive.

Contributors to this volume include award-winning author Shlomo Sands, whose piece debunks the notion that Jews form a genealogical ethnicity; South Africa's former intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils, whose chapter uses the South African Communist Party's 'colonialism of a special type' framework to assess and explain the behaviour of Israel.

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University of Toronto - Noa Shaindlinger Joins the Terrorists in Testing IDF Reactions

Shaindlinger and friends contradict local Arab customs that keep women out of the front lines. In Hebron, she and other extreme-left activists act as human shields while taking advantage of the IDF's unwritten agreement that respects the local female population's non-combatant status.

Annual "Open Shuhada Street" demonstrations have been met with excessive violence by the Israeli military, as I witnessed myself this past February. In light of recent successful women-only actions in Nabi Saleh and the growing visibility of women in protests throughout the West Bank, local activists decided to test the ground and see how the army reacts to an all female-direct action. Since any action in Shuhada street necessarily involves the risk of brutal arrests, which are much more complicated for Palestinians, they decided to invite Israeli and international solidarity activists for this symbolic – but important – act.
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Later on, as some of us mused that they were probably confused by our actions. We were women, unarmed, Israeli and international citizens, which made our presence there perfectly legal. Their confusion becomes even more obvious when one considers they were pushing us towards the Palestinian-controlled area, which is legally forbidden for Israeli citizens.
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Some of us had expressed doubts about this action. A few said that the dress-up part reminded them of oriental lore; others were critical about the prominent role of men in organizing and "defending" us. But after we exited the checkpoint, spirits were up. The general sense was that this action was successful – we did, after all, achieve our goal of walking up Shuhada street to the checkpoint, as planned, embarrassing the soldiers and the settlers while we were at it. As one Israeli activist from Jerusalem explained to me: the idea to dress up originated from Palestinians as a strategy…

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Ben Gurion University - Yonatan Mendel (Dept of Political Science) Accuses the Government of Israel and the Zionist Movement of Discrimination

This debate is nothing short of astounding. There's the Israeli government sitting on top of private Palestinian land, and negotiating with the Jewish settlers such details as the compensation level, the number of houses that will be built instead for them…

It seems as if the Arabs, the ones who actually own the land, are not a party to the dispute. Nobody offers to build ten buildings in the West Bank to compensate them for any building constructed on their land illegally. Nor has anybody suggested them an even fairer compromise proposal… Not only does Israel never compensate Palestinians for construction it mainly talks to them in the language of destruction. But the absence of such proposals from the Israeli discourse, and the general absence of Arabs in the discussion, indicate that something in Epstein's critique has not faded yet, despite the 105 years that have elapsed. The Zionist movement, and now Israel, still do not see the Arabs. So even in 2012, it still seems to have remained the "hidden question"; it remains and annoying buzz that there is really no need to address.

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University of Haifa - Yousef Jabareen (Dept of Law) Brings 'Israeli Apartheid Week' to Israel

Jabareen participates in conference that promotes the BDS movement and the academic boycott of Israel. Ronen Shoval, 'Im Tirtzu' Chairman, denounces the participation of Jabareen in the 'Antisemitic propaganda campaign against Israel.'

The ["Israeli Apartheid"] conference, held as part of the "Apartheid Week," will feature Dr. Yousef Jabareen, senior lecturer at Haifa University, who will speak about "racism within the Green Line," and Dr. Haidar Eid, a professor from a Gazan university, who will speak over Skype about "the similarity between Palestine and South Africa before the removal of Apartheid laws."

Event organizers are young Arab activists who are members of the local branch of the BDS movement, which leads the international boycott campaign against Israel.

Raja Zaatara, one of the organizers and a member of Hadash party politburo, said: "The green line has a policy of apartheid and the territories have a regime of apartheid…

"If anyone in the U.S. or in Europe chooses to boycott Haifa University because it discriminates against Arabs, or Tel Aviv University because it runs more than 50 projects for the Army, I can quite understand them… The boycott is a legitimate tool of civilian struggle."
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"This is yet another play of the Theater of the Absurd, which continues to break new records. Arab citizens of Israel—Israelis such as Dr. Yousef Jabareen, who lectures in Israeli academic institutions and even heads an academic institute in Israel, taking part in a conference accusing the state of Israel of apartheid," said Im Tirtzu Chairman, Ronen Shoval. "This conference is part of hallucinatory Antisemitic propaganda campaign against Israel and against Israeli democracy."

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Tel Aviv University - Shlomo Sand Defames his own University

Sand makes this comment and others on Iranian PressTV - Feb 2013.

Sand: Why this village? Because you see I'm working in Tel Aviv University, I am a professor of history in Tel Aviv University. And Tel Aviv University is built on the land of this village that disappeared in the 30 of March 1948. Now it was a friendly village, it wasn't against Zionist colonization, I'm speaking till '48 and the university is built on this land and also my apartment in the same area, in the same neighborhood. And I think that to write about the land of Israel, to meet the land of Israel, I'm obliged also to confront myself with the fact that I am working in a place that has no sign that this village existed.

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Tenured anti-Israel Extremists Produce Headlines from the recent 'Apartheid Conference' held under the Auspices of the Van Leer Institute:

Hebrew University - Amiram Goldblum (Dept of Pharmaceutical Chemistry) founds yet another radically Leftist 'Watch Group' to document Israeli 'Apartheid'.

Bar-Ilan University - Menachem Klein (Dept of Political Science) claims Israeli rule in unified Jerusalem 'illegal'.

Hebrew University - Frances Raday (Dept of Law) complains how Israeli Policies might not qualify for 'Apartheid' under International Law.

Ben Gurion University - Oren Yiftachel (Dept of Geography) abandons the term 'occupation' for the term 'apartheid'.

Tel Aviv University - Alon Liel (Dept of Political Science) calls on US President Obama to cancel visit due to the 'shame' of Israeli apartheid.

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Hebrew University - Amiram Goldblum (Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences) Claims on an anti-Israel semi-communist web site that Maariv editor Ben Dror Yemini is "inciting" to get Goldblum murdered!

Goldblum's evidence? Yemini dared to criticize Goldblum's anti-Israel agitprop!

'It appears that Yemini enjoys providing the combustible materials to the radical and violent Right. If one of them injures one of the "Goldblums" as Yemini calls us and against whom Yemini engages in criminal incitement, he will be awarded a grant and promotion.'

Original statement in Hebrew here: http://on-the-left-side.org.il/?p=6971

 

Hebrew University - Maariv Editor Ben Dror Yemini denounces Amiram Goldblum (Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences) as a Serial Liar and Obsessive Defamer of Israel

Isracampus Translation of Excerpts from Yemini's March 8 column

Amiram Goldblum, who was the initiator of the "Survey" about Israeli attitudes about annexation, managed to manufacture for himself a front-page headline in "Haaretz" claiming that most Israelis endorse apartheid. This is a lie long ago debunked… But Goldblum is not giving up. He is setting up his own new organization. It is not trying to battle against apartheid. To the contrary, Goldblum is trying to convince anyone and everyone that Israel is ALREADY an apartheid regime. Here is Goldblum: "Israel's holding the territories between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean, whether these are formally annexed or not, makes Israel a de facto apartheid regime."
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Ah but the facts simply do not matter. After all, we have our Goldblums to fabricate a danger of impending apartheid! The contributions to their budgets will already be on their way, perhaps even from the EU itself. Maybe from countries where hostility towards aliens and foreigners is FAR worse than in Israel.

Goldblum's lying "apartheid survey" has been thoroughly discredited and debunked. But lies retain their own feet, as the Hebrew saying goes. Goldblum's survey has enjoyed international popularity and "success." That is because those forever seeking to paint Israel as a monstrosity and abomination never forego any new ammunition. Donations are assured. Perhaps even from the New Israel Fund [on whose board Goldblum sits -- Isracampus]. Maybe also from Europe.

So we should have no delusions. Goldblum's new initiative, like so many others in his same industry, will do nothing to promote human rights and will not be engaging in any legitimate criticism. It will just be one more assault weapon in the campaign of demonization against Israel.

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A Night of Apartheid

Amiram Goldblum, Oren Yiftachel and other Tenured Extremists hold event with Marxist Van Leer Institute denouncing Israeli "Apartheid."

Wednesday's event was organized by a group of left-wingers who are currently forming a new nonprofit called "For the struggle against racism and apartheid tendencies in Israel." The event, entitled "Is there Israeli Apartheid?" took place in a much smaller venue — the Van Leer Institute…
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[Gideon] Levy is the journalist behind a controversial article about a controversial survey that ostensibly showed that Jewish Israelis would support Israel becoming an apartheid state or think they already live in one. (The survey was itself commissioned by Peace Now board member Amiram Goldblum, who introduced Wednesday's event.)…
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The next speaker, Menachem Klein, a senior lecturer in Bar-Ilan University's political science department and a B'Tselem board member, focused his remarks on the situation in East Jerusalem. What happened there could not just be described using the A-word; it was, rather, "ethno-apartheid."

Hebrew University professor emeritus Frances Raday tried to answer the conference's question by looking at how international law (such as the United Nations' 1973 Apartheid Convention) defines the A-word. She also slammed Israel for refusing to cooperate with a recent UN Human Rights Council probe into the settlements, despite acknowledging that the body is obsessed with Israel.

"Not one country in the world thinks settlements are legal," said Raday, who directs the Concord Research Center for Integration of International Law in Israel. "This is not our territory to decide what's going on there."
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Raday was followed by Oren Yiftachel from Ben Gurion University's geography and environmental development department, who said that we should stop using the word occupation to describe what's going on in the West Bank. "That word implies it's temporary, but that is not what's happening," he said. He then juxtaposed a map of Israel/Palestine and apartheid-era South Africa. "Some things that are similar, some things are different," he said.

Next up was Alon Liel, a former Foreign Ministry director-general, who said that it was hard for someone like him to agree with the harsh words already spoken. In the end, though, he had to acknowledge that "in the situation that exists today, until a Palestinian state is created, we are actually one state. This joint state — in the hope that the status quo is temporary — is an apartheid state."
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Similarities between the "original apartheid" as it was practiced in South Africa and the situation in Israel and the West Bank today "scream to the heavens," added Liel. There can be little doubt that the suffering of Palestinians is no less intense than that of blacks during apartheid-era South Africa, he asserted.

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Tel Aviv University - Daniel Bar-Tal (Dept of Education) Vilifies Israel in an Attempt to Garner Support from Liberal US Jews

We have had bad years. We are witnessing a process of deterioration in Israeli society during which we have gone beyond boundaries that should not have been crossed. Every time we think we can't sink lower, we find that actually there is no limit to how low we can go. The last Knesset was particularly bad. It enacted racist and anti-democratic laws. It infringed on freedom of expression. Under Gideon Saar, the Minister of Education, the system took a clear turn in promoting undisguised jingoism. There were numerous attempts to silence criticism… The peace process has been silenced. These are only some examples in a long list of disquieting signs indicating our decline; and we do not see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Among the signees:
Gaby Salomon
Ram Levy
David Harel
Sammy Samoha

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Tel Aviv University - Shlomo Sand (Dept of History) Fraudulently Picks his Quotes to Suit his Needs

Then to Shlomo Sand. Sand said Jews consider themselves a 'people' for purely selfish reasons - they want to own land and a people can own land whereas a religion cannot. Zionism and Judaism are opposed, he says. He claims there are no mentions of Israel in the Bible and there was no exodus of Jews after the destruction of the Temple by the Romans. In the 19th Century, he says, Rabbis opposed Zionism, that's why the First Zionist Congress had to be in Basel and not Munich. He claims that the Talmud forbids Jews to go to Palestine; that "political public antisemitism" has disappeared; and that 'secular' Jews will diappear too because they define themselves by the Shoah and by antisemitism (cue for plug for next book which will be called "The Invention of the Secular Jew"). He calls Israel a racist state.

Fortunately Sand's lies were exposed by a number of good questioners.
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That's Sand all over: an academic fraud who cherrypicks sources that he pretends proves his point and even takes them out of context when it suits him.....

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Tel Aviv University - Michael Kagan and Anat Ben-Dor (Dept of Law) Bash Israel, the most Pro-Gay Rights Country in Mid-East, over 'Pinkwashing' Arab Gay Rights

Kagan and Ben-Dor accuse Israel of violating the International Refugee Convention.

In their 2008 study, "Nowhere to Run: Gay Palestinian Asylum-Seekers in Israel," Michael Kagan and Anat Ben-Dor describe in detail Israel's unsympathetic and unbending policy towards gay Palestinians. In stark contrast to the vibrant gay culture within Israel, in the West Bank and Gaza Strip Palestinians face intense discrimination and often brutal violence if they are discovered to be gay… However, despite their desperation, Israel refuses to even review gay Palestinian applications for asylum (those who have successfully received asylum have had to submit their cases directly to the UNHCR headquarters in Geneva). Moreover, gay Palestinians who have illegally entered Israel have been arrested and promptly deported--returned to the very environments in which their lives were at risk and in which they will now face further danger as they are questioned not only for their sexuality but for their choice to spend time in Israel.

While Israel should be protecting gay Palestinians simply because of its commitment to human and civil rights, Kagan and Ben-Dor point out that Israel is also legally bound to do so under the Convention and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees that Israel ratified in 1951. (It should be noted that this Convention does not apply to those Palestinians who are refugees as a result of the 1948 or 1967 conflicts and who are receiving protection from UNRWA. However, there are many within and outside the Occupied Territories who are not registered with UNRWA and thus qualify for protection from the UNHCR)…

Kagan and Ben-Dor argue that Israel could easily avoid this discriminatory policy and democratic pitfall by addressing each request for asylum individually… Anticipating Israeli objections to their policy recommendation, Kagan and Ben-Dor explain that "granting asylum to a Palestinian in Israel would set no precedent, and have no relevance, to the dispute over whether Palestinian refugees from 1948 have a right of return. The right to seek asylum invokes a separate body of law from the debate over refugee return; the Palestinians we discuss in this report are seeking international protection in Israel as a foreign country, not return or repatriation to ancestral homes" (26).

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Ben Gurion University - Call for Yair Green's Resignation

Prof. Geoffrey Alderman, British Jewish Historian and Journalist, advises Green to step down, based on the principles of integrity, selflessness, accountability, and honesty, until his name is cleared from illicit Madoff funds.

But the matter that I now bring to your attention reaches far higher up the executive chain of command than a mere academic department. It touches upon BGU's board of governors, and in particular upon the man who currently chairs the executive committee of that board, Israeli lawyer Yair Green and Mr Green's alleged relationship with the infamous American-Jewish financer Bernard Madoff.
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But the Madoff scandal is far from over… The American authorities are determined to track down the criminal profits these frauds generated… A court appointed "trustee," Irving Picard, has been authorized to unravel Madoff's schemes.

And in furtherance of his mandate, Picard has indicted Yair Green. Green has been a generous benefactor of Ben Gurion University. The fact that he sits on its board of governors should therefore come as no surprise, nor is this fact of itself troubling. But questions are now being asked about the ultimate source of the moneys he so charitably disbursed. Some months ago Channel Ten aired a disturbing documentary focussed on Green, his friend Madoff and their financial dealings. But he has so far rebuffed every call for him to resign his governorship of BGU. Scarcely less shocking, BGU is supporting him in his obstinacy.

Yair Green is innocent unless and until a court of law finds him guilty. Meanwhile, he should show us all that he is a man of integrity and selflessness and do the decent thing by retiring from BGU so that he can concentrate on preparing his defence.

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Tel Aviv University - For Daniel Bar-Tal (Dept of Education) Israel can do no Right

Even after capitulating to Arab demands in the Disengagement, Bar-Tal still whined about 'Israeli Leadership'.

Our basic claim in this paper is that Israel does not want to negotiate with the Palestinians because the present leadership does not have anything meaningful to offer that corresponds to the minimal Palestinian goals. The minimal Palestinian goals, held by the majority of the populace and part of the leadership (see for example, Shikaki, 2006), correspond to the contours of the Clinton proposal, the Taba agreement, the Geneva accord or the Saudi proposal…

… The willingness of the international community to accept the unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2005, and to put the Road Map on hold, signaled to the Israeli leadership that it is possible to dictate a unilateral approach. This, in their view, is much safer than negotiations over difficult issues, such as Jerusalem and refugees.

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Tel Aviv University - Yael Berda (Dept of Sociology) forms "Israeli Opposition Network"

Another deed by the ISM agent in a long line of subversive activities that aim to delegitimatize the State of Israel.

Yael Berda is a PhD candidate currently at Princeton University in New Jersey, besides being an attorney and faculty member in sociology at Tel Aviv University. Together with other Israeli ex-pats in the U.S. who are part of the Israeli academic fifth column, she recently formed a new "Israeli Opposition Network" to "stand up against the new Israeli government," the one elected by the Israeli people. After all, Berda believes she is so darned smart that only she and her friends in far off America know what's right for the Jewish state, and to hell with its voters.

Berda has served as one of the leftist attorneys in Israel who volunteers her services pro bono to (or is paid secretly by) the pro-terror International Solidarity Movement and the Palestinians…
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Comrade Berda also engages in the ISM and Arab propaganda tactic of "lying by omission" to push her ideas. This tactic involves leaving out just enough information in telling a story to give the reader a false impression. For example, one passage in her book reads as follows:

"… I was shocked by what I saw in the military courts. Not only were there different laws for the entire [Palestinian] population, but there was also physical separation in the court between the entrance for Jewish civilians and the entrance for Palestinian residents. There were even separate sitting areas…"

Of course, the separate seating areas in the court were not to separate Jews from Arabs. They were to separate Israeli citizens, be they Druze, Muslims, Christians, or Jews, from the Palestinians from the Palestinian Authority. The Palestinian Authority is a large terrorist camp in which terrorists roam freely with governmental collusion. Most of the Palestinian "police" are in fact also members of terrorist groups, like the Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade. Berda knows this, but wants her American and other western reading audience to see this as racial segregation.

Berda's ISM pals at anti-Israel conferences and in churches love to tell Americans there are "Jew only" roads in the West Bank where Arabs are not permitted to drive. This is another example of lying by omission; bypass roads were created by Israel because Arab civilians throw bombs and rocks at Israeli drivers and Arab snipers shoot at them. True, they are Israeli only roads, but usable by non-Israelis once they obtain a security background permit.

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Tel Aviv University - Shlomo Sand (Dept of History): Israel is "a sh***y nation" and "the most racist society in the world"

Last night Tel Aviv University history professor Shlomo Sand referred to Israel as a "shitty nation" (clip 1). He called Israel "the most racist society in the world" and said that he has been fighting "Jewish racism all my life" (both clip 2). And he declared that anti-Semitism doesn't exist in the western world today (clip 3).

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Ben Gurion University - David Newman (Dean of Social Sciences) justifies BDS

The Ariel recognition has provided new ammunition for the pro-boycott and BDS movements which, until now, have been unable to justify their calls for academic boycotts inside Israel (largely unsuccessful and not implemented) due to the government's policies with respect to the Palestinians.

Many Israeli academics undertake their own personal boycott of Ariel, refusing to take part in joint scientific work with Ariel faculty. Nor do they attend seminars or conferences which take place at that institute.

Based on the academic criteria used for the recognition of Ariel, there are a number of large colleges of higher education in Israel which are no less deserving of full university status. But the country is not seeking to recognize new universities, and the only reason for the recognition of Ariel is the fact that it is located in the West Bank.

Many international faculty who actively oppose and fight against all attempts at academic boycott, and who promote scientific collaboration and research between the two countries, are telling us how this latest decision removes the very basis and justification for their antiboycott activities. Some have made it clear that they are no longer able to defend Israel's universities in front of their colleagues. For their part, those who actively promote and support boycott are now able to prevail upon their dithering colleagues, who until now have hesitated from taking such action. They are able to show them that the Israeli government makes no distinction between civilian activities inside Israel and those operating in the West Bank.

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Ben Gurion University - Political Science Dept to Remain Open

On Tuesday, the council [of Higher Education] decided to overturn the decision [to close the Political Science Dept] and recommend that new students be admitted to the program next year, provided that the faculty hire an additional two or three faculty members by the end of the year.

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Tel Aviv University - Daniel Bar-Tal (Dept of Education) Trashed for Validating the "Profound Distortions" of the Arab "Narrative"

Yaakov Ahimeir is appalled that Bar-Tal equates the factual depictions of Terror Acts as a negative description of "the Other." Ahimeir the famed journalist questions the Academic integrity and objectiveness of Bar-Tal and his Textbook Study.

A textbook taught at one of the Palestinian Authority schools states that the "ancient history of Palestine bore witness to the invasion of the Israelites, led by Joshua in [the 12th century B.C.E.], and to their battle with the Canaanites and the Palestinians."… In that case, it was Palestinians who lived between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.

"King David fought the Canaanites and the Palestinians and built his kingdom on part of the Palestinian land," so claims one Palestinian textbook…

And there is another so-called fact printed in Palestinian textbooks that has been deemed worthy of teaching Palestinian schoolchildren: We didn't know it, but the Palestinians were led by Goliath. The Philistine Goliath was a Palestinian leader…

The research, presented by Professors Daniel Bar-Tal of Tel Aviv University, Bruce Wexler of Yale and Sami Adwan of Bethlehem University, was funded by a grant from the U.S. State Department. In the study, the professors examined 492 Israeli textbooks and 148 Palestinian textbooks on various subjects.

… "Terrorism peaked when 13 students and teachers from Moshav Avivim were murdered on their way to school (1970)." Is this a "negative" representation of the Palestinians, as the study asserts, or simply a description of fact, of a terrifying incident that actually happened? In the eyes of learned professors, including one Israeli, this is an example of "negative" representation. Was this terrible incident fabricated? Is there any ideological bias in this description? Or is it simply factual truth?
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Why is it so important whether Goliath was Palestinian or Philistine? Because that is not how one teaches peace, reconciliation or mutual recognition.

… Non-Israeli diplomats have warned in the past of profound distortions found in Palestinian schoolbooks. Perhaps the books have been slightly modified since, but why weren't the three educated professors who conducted the study more appalled by the examples above? Is it really possible to look at these things with nothing more than academic neutrality?

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Tel Aviv University - Daniel Bar-Tal's (Dept of Education) Report on Israeli and PA textbooks Suffers from Pre-Existing Bias

Bar-Tal's prior, biased opinions and questionable objectivity on the Arab-Israeli Conflict should have invalidated his participation in US State Dept's Survey.

At a press conference on Monday, Wexler slammed Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar… This political attack makes one wonder whether bias was built into the project from the start.

Prof. Daniel Bar-Tal has a long history of critiquing Israel's education system for what he claims are its values of belligerence and victimization. As co-editor of the radical Left Palestine-Israel Journal from 2001 to 2005 (whose masthead shows the colors of the Palestinian flag next to an Israeli flag that does not include a Star of David), he wrote about "The Arab image in Hebrew School Textbooks" (2001). He concluded that "the great majority of the books at best stereotype Arabs negatively, but often they also delegitimize them in the context of the conflict." Foreshadowing the current study, he wrote that the stereotypes were backed up by "graphic descriptions of Arab pogroms, murders and riots."

Bar-Tal's views should have led to concern about the potential for bias in the CRIHL study. In 2009, he published a startling condemnation of Israel for its actions in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead…

The war, he wrote, "derived from the continuous dehumanization of the Hamas organization." He went on to claim that "most Israeli Jews do not know that Hamas was originally founded by the Israeli authorities."

A university professor who believes Israel created Hamas and argues that it is a victim of dehumanization by Israel, rather than the other way around, was supposed to provide an unbiased opinion on Israeli textbooks? One is left with the conclusion that there is overwhelming evidence of pre-existing bias on the part of the authors.

The project set out by naming a scientific advisory panel of 21 experts. According to panel member Arnon Groiss, a PhD from Princeton and an Arabic language journalist at the Israel Broadcasting Authority, the advisers were rarely allowed to be involved in the project and almost never met.

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Israeli Academics Sign up for "Jews for Justice for Palestinians"

Jews for Justice for Palestinians

WE BELIEVE THAT

• Peace in the Middle East will only come about with mutual recognition and respect and must be seen as just by both sides.

• Peace requires the end of illegal occupation and settlement.

• Violence against civilians is unacceptable.

• Israel's policies in the West Bank and Gaza are breeding hatred and resentment.

• It is crucial that Jews speak out for Palestinians' human rights.

• The humanitarian values of Judaism have been corrupted by the Israeli state's human-rights abuses…

WHO WE ARE

Jews for Justice for Palestinians is a network of Jews who are British or live in Britain, practising and secular, Zionist and not. We oppose Israeli policies that undermine the livelihoods, human, civil and political rights of the Palestinian people.

We support the right of Israelis to live in freedom and security within Israel's 1967 borders.

As well as organising to ensure that Jewish opinions critical of Israeli policy are heard in Britain, we extend support to Palestinians trapped in the spiral of violence and repression…

Israeli Academics among the list of signatories:
Prof Emeritus Moshe Machover
Prof Haim Bresheeth
David Newman
Amir Paz-Fuchs
Eyal Weizman

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Tel Aviv University - Ludicrously-Stretched Reasoning in Daniel Bar-Tal's (Dept of Education) Co-Authored Report Whitewashes Examples of Hateful Arab Incitement

For example, Bar-Tal's report equivalates suicide bombers with IDF service.

For a long time, researchers and critics have provided ample documentation that textbooks of the Palestinian Authority under Mahmoud Abbas glorify suicide bombers, demonize Israelis and feature maps that erase the Jewish state altogether.

Now comes still another study, funded by the State Department, that this time purports to give equal critical weight to the contents of Israeli and Palestinian textbooks. The study has all the academic earmarks of expert, balanced authorship -- a joint effort by an Israeli professor, Daniel Bar-Tal of Tel Aviv University, and a Palestinian professor, Sami Adwam of Bethlehem University.

Except that under all their professional veneer, the two professors have to stretch mightily to the point of ludicrousness to support their basic thesis that when it comes to inciteful propaganda, there is little, if any, difference between Israeli and Palestinian textbooks. To achieve this result, the study whitewashes the worst examples of hateful Palestinian incitement.
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So how does Professor Bar-Tal, the Israeli co-author, manage to put Israel in the same dock when it comes to inciting children to become "martyrs" -- i.e. suicide bombers? How do Israeli textbooks match that? According to the Israeli professor, "both sides are in the stage of mobilizing, with most Israeli children being prepared for compulsory army service," Kershner reports.

In other words, the study finds Palestinian suicide bombings and IDF service equally abhorrent.

To her credit, Kershner alerts Times readers to the fact that previous studies of Palestinian textbook by monitoring groups showed that they promoted widespread dehumanization of Jews and Israel and rejection of Israel's right to exist -- unlike the new study that "avoids harsh language and couches the bad news in a kind of symmetry." A polite way of saying that Palestinian sins are treated with kid gloves, while Israel gets tarred -- all in an absurd effort to achieve equivalence.
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No wonder that the Israeli government boycotted the study, sensing a propaganda trap. The Israeli Ministry of Education dismissed it as "biased, unprofessional and significantly lacking in objectivity with pre-determined findings" and without reflecting any "reality."

Arnon Groiss, an Israeli member of an Israeli-Palestinian advisory panel to the study and author of many previous reports critical of Palestinian Authority textbooks, distanced himself from the new study. "Palestinian Authority textbooks," he said, "prepare the pupils for a future armed struggle for the elimination of the state of Israel."

Simply put, an anti-Israel gambit by the State Department, with American taxpayers left to pay the freight.

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Tenured Leftists at Bar Ilan University Smear IDF and the Settlers

BIU's Rackman Center for the Advancement of Women published a pamphlet containing uncontested claims of sexual harassment of Arab women by Settlers and IDF. BIU denies the slander charges as "only a Hebrew translation of the UN document". The Rackman Center is offended by the "demagogic and fraudulent" accusation.

A brochure published by Bar Ilan University, Israel's only religious university, contains the outrageous claim that Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria and IDF soldiers sexually harass Arab women. The claim is not contested in the brochure.
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Titled "A Guide to the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women," it was authored by Rackman Center head Prof. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari and Adv. Tamar Megiddo.
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The molestation claims appear in CEDAW's 2011 remarks on Israel, under the heading "Violence against Women and their Harassment in the Occupied Palestinian Territories." It reads thus:

"While it notes the complexity of governmental administration in the area, the committee notes with deep concern that Palestinian women and girls continue to suffer from violent attacks, both by state elements (Israeli soldiers) and by non-state elements (settlers, among others), as well as all other forms of violence within their communities, including the violation of their right to life, physical, mental and verbal abuse, and sexual harassment. In addition, the committee notes with great concern that only rarely are such incidents accompanied by documentation, legal charges or punishment… Moreover, the committee notes with concern that the limitations on movement in the occupied territories, as well as routine harassment of children and teachers by settlers on their way to school and from it, have adversely affected the access of women and girls to education and health."
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Despite the fact that there has never been a single known incident of sexual harassment of Arab women by soldiers or Jewish residents since the liberation of Judea and Samaria in 1967, at no point does the brochure make any reference to the outlandish claims by CEDAW, or attempt to deny them.
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We asked Bar Ilan University to explain why it published uncontested libelous accusations against Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria, and the soldiers who serve there. We also asked whether Prof. Halperin-Kaddari attempted to protest against the inclusion of the accusations in the CEDAW remarks.

Bar Ilan University's spokesman, Haim Zisowitz, spoke to Prof Halperin-Kaddari and said that her position as Vice President of the UN's CEDAW implementation committee did not allow her to protest the contents of the convention.

The university's written response to Arutz Sheva reads as follows:

"This is an official document of the UN committee that was handed over to the official Israel delegation in January of 2011, after the country reported to the convention. In no way is this a publication by the Rackman Center, but only a Hebrew translation of the UN document."

The Rackman Center added this reaction:

The document is an official UN committee document, which was translated into Hebrew by the Rackman Center. These are the committee's recommendations to the state of Israel, and they appear in the Justice Ministry's official website in the same wording… It is therefore demagogic and fraudulent to make this accusation regarding the Rackman Center!

It is obvious that the Rackman Center disagrees with those paragraphs in the committee's recommendations. Only one who is seeking to libel can interpret these matters as an expression of support by the Center of the UN committee's accusations toward the soldiers and settlers.

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Tel Aviv University - Daniel Bar-Tal (Dept of Education) Gets Caught Defending Arab Hate-Indoctrination in PA Schools and the Terror it Promotes

Itamar Marcus, Palestinian Media Watch Director, exposes Bar-Tal's flawed analysis, inaccurate methodology, misrepresentations, and blatant omissions in the recent Council of Religious Institutions of the Holy Land report.

It is hard to imagine a more flawed analysis of Palestinian Authority schoolbooks than the recent report of the Council of Religious Institutions of the Holy Land, led by Sami Adwan of Bethlehem University and Daniel Bar-Tal of Tel Aviv University.

The report's inaccuracies start with its methodology of systematically citing all quotes from Israeli and Palestinian schoolbooks under the same headings – forcing the appearance of symmetry even when none exists.

Another major flaw is giving as much weight to the fringe, ultra-Orthodox school system in Israel as it does to mainstream state schools. This artificially inflates the number of problematic examples on the Israeli side to support the report's misleading attempt to demonstrate equivalence.

But the ultimate failing of the report is that it intentionally masks the hate and promotion of violence that are central to the PA educational system. This hatred, together with the hate and terror glorification expressed by the daily actions and messages of the PA leaders and through their controlled institutions, is rapidly condemning the next generations to continued conflict.

What did this report hide from the world? That the overall message that permeates the PA's teachings about Israel throughout the school system is the total rejection of Israel's most fundamental right – its right to exist.
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IT IS significant that neither this legitimization of "armed struggle" "against colonial and foreign rule and racist regimes" – the PA's definition of Israel – nor the mandating of eternal religious violence against Israel were even mentioned in the Bar-Tal/Adwan report.

Had the authors included this area of research, they would have been forced to concede that there is no corresponding defense of terror and promotion of violence in Israeli textbooks.

The failure to cite these significant and dangerous messages in the PA's schoolbooks – messages which have been promoted actively by PA leaders since 2000 to justify their terror against Israel and killing of Israelis – is indicative of the report's flawed methodology and fundamental errors.

These and the many other omissions and misrepresentations necessitate immediate and public rejection of the findings by the US State Department, whose funding in 2009 launched the project.
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While the Palestinian Authority is ultimately responsible for the hatred and terror it promotes, its defenders, especially Israelis like Bar-Tal, are ultimately enablers of this hatred. Such misleading reports could ease the international pressure that has been put on the Palestinians to replace their hate education with peace education.

Public rejection of this Bar-Tal/Adwan report by the US is not merely the right thing to do. People's lives are depending on it.

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Scandal at Ben Gurion University
Ben Gurion University - Yair Green, BGU's Chaiman of Executive Committee Who is Under Investigation in the Madoff Scandal, Might Have Donated Illicit Funds to BGU

Monies dispensed by Green awarded him his BGU position, an honorary PhD, and political contacts in the Labor Party, including Israeli President Shimon Peres. Has the salary for Neve Gordon been paid in part with stolen funds?

Ben Gurion University in Israel is probably best known for being home to many of the worst far-leftist anti-Israel radical faculty members in the country, people like Neve Gordon, Oren Yiftachel, and David Newman… Now it has been learned that the University is also up-to-its-neck involved in the Bernard Madoff mega-scandal. Indeed, it appears that part of the salaries for Neve Gordon and his ilk come from funds stolen by Bernard Madoff from his victims and transferred to BGU.

In recent months many details have emerged about the connections between Ben Gurion University and the Madoff scandal. In particular, attention is focusing on the role of Israeli lawyer Yair Green, who currently serves as the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Governors of Ben Gurion University. BGU was a major beneficiary of donations transferred to it by Green, whose source was money stolen by Madoff. The University has indicated no plans or willingness to return any of the stolen funds.

Green is being investigated in the United States and in Israel; he has been indicted in the United States by the court-appointed trustee Irving Picard, who is in charge of unraveling and cleaning up the disaster left over by the Madoff Affair. That Affair involved the largest Ponzi scam in human history, in which losses to investors amounted to more than $50 billion. While Madoff's victims came from across the spectrum, a very large portion of them were Jewish institutions, philanthropies, and individuals. Green is suspected of being involved in several funds with close ties to the Madoff operations, and also operating a "charity fund" in Israel that made donations to Israeli universities and other institutions using funds stolen by Madoff from his victims.
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Green not only ran "Magnify," but also some other funds or operations in which Igoin was involved, including Primero and Strand, based in the Virgin Islands. In 1988 Green set up with Igoin the so-called Yeshaya Horowitz Association, which funded applied research projects in Israel. It is named after an 18th century kabbalist and Rabbi. Its stated purpose was to channel donations to Israeli universities, hospitals and other institutions.
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Green was also the direct beneficiary of funds handled by his operations, including a payment of over three million dollars from the "Magnify" fund. Green's children also received cash "gifts." Green claimed that some of these came from the daughter of Albert Igoin, who now lives in Europe. But when contacted by Israel's Channel Ten, she denied even knowing who Green is or having met him. Igoin himself died in 1995.

Green began raising funds for Ben Gurion University while the Madoff scheme grew. In exchange, he was first granted an honorary PhD by the University and later appointed chairman of the executive committee of the University's Board of Governors by its leftist President Rivka Carmi, a post he still fills. Green also developed political ties with Israeli politicians, especially from the Left. He has close ties with Israeli President Shimon Peres and with assorted Labor Party activists and leaders, including Avishai Braverman, past president of BGU. The Labor Party's one-time Minister of Education Yuli Tamir appointed Green to sit in the country's Council on Higher Education. Peres received funds from Green and granted him honors in exchange.

If you would like to demand that Ben Gurion University return all the stolen funds it received out of the Madoff Affair, then please write to

The Council for Higher Education in Israel
(governmental body that funds and supervises Israeli universities and colleges):

Prof. Manuel Trachtenberg
Chairman, Council on Higher Education
Email: manuel@post.tau.ac.il
POB 4037, Jerusalem 91040, Israel

Aharon Beit-Halahmi
Planning & Budgeting Committee Chairman
Council for Higher Education
Email: betha@eurofund.co.il
P.O.B. 4037, Jerusalem 91040, Israel
Tel: 02-5679911
Fax: 02-5679969
E-mail: info@che.org.il

Ministry of Education

The Honorable Gideon Sa'ar
Acting Minister of Education
Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports
Kiryat Ben Gurion, Jerusalem
Email: gsaar@knesset.gov.il
Additional Email: sar@education.gov.il
Phone: 972-2-6408131
Fax: 972-2-6753525

Shalomit Amichai
Director General of the Ministry of Education
Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports
Kiryat Ben Gurion, Jerusalem
Email: mankal@education.gov.il

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University of Haifa - David Blanc (Dept of Math) Does his Best to Remove the Jewish State from the Equation

After completing his PhD in Mathematics, David Blanc went home to Israel and began a gig paid for by the Israeli taxpayer teaching at the University of Haifa… Blanc has urged his students to refuse to serve in the IDF, has supported Palestinian colleges that are really bases for terrorist groups, and has routinely taken a stance against anything that normative Israeli society considers as necessary for the security of the state.

Another of Blanc's accomplishments is that he taught and encouraged his son, Natan, to refuse service in the IDF, to be a "refusenik" (a.k.a. draft dodger).
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Natan Blanc makes it clear he's not a pacifist. Other conscientious objectors to the IDF serve as medics or do desk jobs to help fellow Israelis. Natan Blanc, well-schooled and encouraged by his daddy, makes it clear that his refusal to serve is not religious but rather political. He says that "after four years full of terror... it is clear that the Netanyahu government, like that of his predecessor Olmert, is not interested in finding a solution to the existing situation, but rather in preserving it."

It's easy to see where young Natan gets his distorted world view on Israel: from daddy. David Blanc routinely signs anti-Israel statements and petitions, like the following:

"We, faculty members from a number of Israeli universities, wish to express our appreciation and support for those of our students and lecturers who refuse to serve as soldiers in the occupied territories… For thirty five years an entire people, some three and a half million in number, have been held without basic human rights… We hereby express our readiness to do our best to help students who encounter academic, administrative or economic difficulties as a result of their refusal to serve in the territories…"

He misuses the University of Haifa's name, as do other leftist faculty members, to attack the Israeli government in the name of "academic freedom":

"We, past and present members of academic staff of Israeli universities, express great concern regarding the ongoing deterioration of the system of higher education in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. We protest against the policy of our government which is causing restrictions of freedom of movement, study and instruction, and we call upon the government to allow students and lecturers free access to all the campuses in the Territories, and to allow lecturers and students who hold foreign passports to teach and study without being threatened with withdrawal of residence visas…"

Of course, the above involved lockdowns of campuses like Bir Zeit during a terrorism spree. Bir Zeit is a Hamas recruiting and meeting stronghold and where even the student governments are led by terrorist factions like the PFLP, Fatah and Hamas. An-Najah University even held an art exhibit in honor of the Sbarro Pizza Parlor bombing with blood and body parts of Israelis strewn around a makeshift pizzeria. Arabs attend Israeli universities, including Ariel University, but no Jews can attend "Palestinian" ones, in which student government candidates argue over who has killed more Jews.

David Blanc cloned himself with another bad apple.

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Israel-hating Ex-Israelis in the US announce plans to set an anti-Israel "Opposition"

"It's a mistake to look at the results of today's election in Israel as a division between two blocks," says Nitzan Lebovic, a professor of history and a member of the Israeli Opposition Network. "The large majority of the parties in both blocks represent something closer to a Conservative agenda in American and European terms."

"As advocates for human and civil rights, we fear election results still reflect a political deadlock that stifles the possibility for change. The rise of a centrist party calling for the draft of the ultra religious is not expected to address the more serious concerns about Israel. As long as control is maintained over a large population of Palestinians with no representation and no citizenship, Israel's label as 'democratic' remains an unfulfilled promise," says Itamar Mann, an Israeli lawyer at Harvard Yale Law School.

"With over 25% under the poverty line and the wholesale privatization of national assets to a small number of families, while most of the public struggle with massive debt and the inability to afford a home, the current leadership benefits the few while over four million Palestinians whose lives are controlled by the Israeli Government could not participate in the vote," says Liron Mor, currently at Columbia Cornell University.

"We want Israel to be a democracy. We are part a growing opposition in Israel, not only to the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza but also to the corrupt and unjust economic policies that have sent the middle classes spiraling into poverty. We care deeply for the public in Israel, are extremely concerned for the residents of the occupied territories and for future of the state in the region. We believe we must raise our voices in the US to show that there is a young and capable democratic opposition to the current Israeli leadership," says Yael Berda, an Israeli Lawyer at Princeton University.

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University of London - Eyal Weizman's (Centre for Research Architecture - Director) Agitprop Constructed on Hate

Weizman's perceptions of "humanitarian law" have led him to promoting the aims of the Palestinian terrorists and Hamas apparatchiks, and his ideas are based on those of dead French communists and Ayatollah Khomeini supporter Michel Foucault. His "Forensic Architecture" (a nonsense term he invented) allows him to tie his field of study to complain about Israel's "occupation" as a "violation of human rights." Apparently, the blowing up school of buses of Jewish children is NOT a forensic human rights violation.

In an interview in a communist website about his book, Hollow Land, he ties architectural structures to his condemnations of Israel… Weizman's architectural analysis leads to his condemnations of the IDF, citing, for example, the tactic of boring through the walls of Arab homes in Jenin to avoid ambushes on the streets outside as a horrific atrocity by Israel. He doesn't mention (or probably even care) how 23 IDF soldiers were killed unnecessarily in an ambush in fighting in the streets of Jenin back in 2002 that led the IDF to develop such a life-saving tactic…

Hollow Land and three other architecture oriented books by Weizman were all published by the Marxist ultra-leftist Verso publishing house in London, which publishes all manner of anti-Israel and revolutionary communist propaganda books for the communist reading market. Other publishers worldwide ignore such books.
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Of course, Weizman is heavily involved with such far-leftist anti-Israel NGO's which try to present Israel's lifesaving Security Fence as an "Apartheid Wall" that denies human rights to the Palestinians. After all, it makes it tougher for them to send out suicide bombers. Weizman served on the board of directors of the extremist anti-Israel, EU-funded NGO B'tselem, which strives to smear Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria and the IDF and Israel in general whenever possible.
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Quoting another interview with Weizman:
"If you look at the layout of settlements, they are always built on hilltops. People know that, but they may not realize that they also are built in rings, over the summit, in a way that generates territorial surveillance in all directions. I began to understand that these are urban-scale optical devices, and every design move in them is calculated to enhance vision. The planners always speak about the view as pastoral and biblical, almost in a romantic sense. They speak about the terraces and olive groves and stone houses, which are obviously created for them by the Palestinians. The Palestinians are almost like the stage workers who create a set, but they then have to disappear when the lights come on. The army also uses the eyes of the civilian settlers, almost hijacks them, to generate territorial surveillance. There is almost an illegal use of civilians to generate supervision of another part of the civilian population."
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Weizman is also on the board of advisors of the Human Rights Project at Bard College in upstate New York, the only college in the U.S. that has an official chapter of the ISM and was involved in planning the Gaza Flotillas. It is a strange juxtaposition of Israeli leftists and communist-anarchists who affix to everything, even architecture, the idea that Israel violates humanitarian law and decency.

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Haaretz Tries and Convicts 'Im Tirtzu' of Spying on the Radical Left

There is a fascinating story underway at the fringes of election-eve Israel. Israel's radical Left has always been anti-democratic, and is showing increasingly fascist tendencies these days. One manifestation of this is that the Left tries at every opportunity to suppress the freedom of speech of non-leftists. It does so in a variety of ways, including legislation, court lawfare, suppression of pluralism in many of the country's media, and so on.
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But the most amusing twist to all this is the growing number of complaints coming from the same anti-democratic leftists about how freedom of speech for leftists is supposedly under attack by Israeli conservatives! And they are increasingly pointing to the supposed surveillance and "spying" activities against them being carried out by critics of the far Left.

Several watchdog groups and web sites, led by Isracampus.com, keep tabs on and monitor the radical tenured Left in Israel, the extremists who are on the faculty at Israeli universities. They operate a bit like Campus Watch in the US. The monitoring consists of citing verbatim what the radicals write and say in public. The Israeli Left has long claimed that such monitoring is equivalent to creating "blacklists," supposedly like the lists of people boycotted in the days of Joseph McCarthy. Of course a more accurate description of these exposure and monitoring efforts would be "citation."…
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Another group that has been very successful in exposing the far Left has been the Zionist student movement Im Tirtzu, headed by Ronen Shoval… The Im Tirtzu students have also (gasp!!) recorded what left-wing professors say in their classroom lectures and published these statements. Left-wing professors have accused the students of "spying" because they obtain course outlines and syllabi from propaganda courses operated by tenured leftists in the universities and publish their contents. In other words, the students are engaging in journalism. The far leftists insist this is really spying and McCarthyism.
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A few months back Shoval and his Im Tirtzu students filed a huge libel suit against a small gaggle of leftists for setting up a Facebook group accusing Im Tirtzu of being a "fascist organization" and accusing its leaders of being "fascists." The suit is for 2.6 million shekels ($660,000) in Jerusalem District court. As part of their court action, Shoval and his people are also keeping tabs on the radical political activism of the lawyer representing the defendants, the ultra-leftist Michael Sfard. He is associated with Israel's "Association for Civil Rights in Israel," a far-leftist NGO group that has no interest in defending any civil rights for Jews or in defending freedom of speech… Student leader Shoval dared to provide information on Sfard's activities to two newspapers. I guess that makes Shoval guilty of journalism.

… [Haaretz] has been covering the story of the "spying" on Sfard in detail, which is a bit amusing because one of the defendants in the libel action is herself a Haaretz writer and editor. Haaretz even cites the claim by one of the far-leftist defendants that reporting what leftist NGOs do is a form of terrorism.
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This is just the tip of the oppressive iceberg to suppress the radical Left, screams Haaretz. In an op-ed by its educational reporter this week, it points to a long litany of supposedly anti-democratic initiatives by the Israeli Right…

So from all the above, you can see that the complaints by the Left that freedom of speech and pluralism are under a McCarthyist assault in Israel are completely valid. The only problem is that the assault against freedom and democracy is coming from the Fascist Left.

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Tel Aviv University - Iranian propaganda website builds case for the Delegitimization of the State of Israel Sovereignty with Shlomo Sand's (Dept of History) academic subterfuge

Sand denies the Exodus, trashes the Bible as a blasé political treatise, and refutes the Jewish historical connection to the Land of Israel in an interview with Haaretz. Sand's claims are used to argue that Anti-Zionism is not modern Anti-Semitism and props Iranian attempts to delegitimize Theodore Herzl, the Balfour Mandate and the UN partition.

In an interview for Haaretz.com… Tel Aviv University lecturer and author of the book, The Invention of the Jewish People, Shlomo Sands [said]:
There is no such thing as national territory that has belonged to the Jewish people since the Biblical period and I prove that in my book. That is a mythic statement which is characteristic of national leaders in the modern history of the past 200 years. The territorial myth has worked well since the start of the 20th century.
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Other researchers… along with Sands himself have a new approach to Biblical research. These scholars among others believe that the Bible was written around the 5th century B.C.E. and the third century C.E. According to Sands, "It (the Bible) began to be written after the political intellectual elite were exiled from Judea to Babylon… There is no doubt that the talented authors knew the meaning of exile first hand." Sands added…

This implies that more than spiritual guidance to mankind, or real history, these researchers believe that the Bible is actually a political treatise, written in coded languages to the masses of people who were under the thumb of hostile rulers…

Not only do the modern secular scholars of the world realize that the idea of Jewish homeland and Jewish nationality are foreign to the Jewish religion, the very construction of such ideas are considered heresy by the authentic Jewish religious authorities…

This statement makes two very important points that cannot be ignored in an exploration of the heretical concepts of Jewish homeland, Jewish people and nationality that led to the Balfour Mandate and the UN partitioning of Palestine to create a Jewish homeland. They are 1). Theodore Herzl, who is credited with being the father of Zionism was a secular Jew with no rabbinical training or background. 2). He had no political, or religious authority to interpret Jewish law, nor did he have the authority to create any new laws or introduce any innovations to Jewish law or tradition such as the creation of a Jewish homeland, or the existence of a Jewish nationality or people.

If Jewish researchers such as Shlomo Sands and others are revealing the truth about the Zionist hoax that led to the establishment of Israel in Palestine and understand the importance of these facts in respect to peace, why is it that Muslim and Arab researchers are not addressing these issues? The liberation of the land is difficult because the hearts and minds of the world must be free from guilt, which is the effects of the century old Zionist myth of an historic Jewish people and homeland in Palestine.

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Hebrew University - Orit Kedar (Dept of Political Science) Endorsing the Stalinists

In the op-ed titled "An irresponsible vote," Cohen and co-author Orit Kedar, a Hebrew University political science professor, responded to an article the week before by Prof. Shlomo Avineri, who called on those who opposed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from the left to vote for the Labor Party.

Cohen and Kedar wrote: "The Labor party headed by Shelly Yacimovich is not an alternative for right-wing voters, but weakens the red left and turns it into a faded pink.... A democracy with Likud-Beiteinu at its head needs a fighting opposition, a true and brave alternative, not one that is afraid to say the word 'occupation.'

"Hadash, which Avineri did not even mention as a legitimate party, has to its credit social and progressive legislation it succeeded in passing in the most right-wing Knesset ever," the op-ed continued. "[Hadash] has also managed to stop a significant part of Netanyahu government's attempts to pass anti-democratic legislation.... In the present political climate, strengthening these forces is the most responsible action."

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Hebrew University - Amiel Vardi's (Dept of Classics) endless accusations against Israel in the name of "peace", "democracy" or "human rights" are nothing more than attempts to de-legitimize Israel

Vardi, the "Human Rights Activist", participates in confrontation to secure the freedom to pee and gets arrested.

Amiel Vardi is senior lecturer in the Classics at Hebrew University in Jerusalem…Vardi also is a co-founder of the far-leftist NGO, Ta'ayush, another of the closely linked International Solidarity Movement (ISM) groups that strive to promote the irredentist and revanchist goals of the Arabs against Israel.
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Vardi recently made the tabloids and the local news in Israel when he confronted an IDF Colonel in a closed military zone after he and his fellow "protesters" were ordered to leave the property belonging to the settlement of Maon in the West Bank. The settlement was being trespassed on by an Arab shepherd and his flock. The Ta'ayush crowd claimed to be "defending" the shepherd and his "ancestral land". A video of the confrontation appeared on the virulently anti-Israel weblog Mondoweiss and showed Vardi facing down an IDF Colonel after being told to leave the area. Vardi kept demanding an explanation, screaming at the officer. "You have to tell us why we have to leave," he bellowed at the Colonel.

The Mondoweiss video has since been removed, perhaps because Vardi feared it could be used as evidence against him in court. The Israeli government has finally started to crack down on some of the deliberate interference with the IDF. However, another video, possibly part of the same one, has reemerged on You Tube here. Vardi, a college professor, is clearly shown interfering with the IDF and led away in handcuffs at the end of the video. Part of the issue in the video is a Bedouin woman who tried to reenter the close military zone in order to urinate being told she cannot do so and to go elsewhere.

So there you have it. The IDF prevents Arab women from peeing! Perhaps another complaint for the International Criminal Court?
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[A]fter being asked his opinion about comments by the judge about the necessity of preserving democracy and civil society, Vardi says, "Democracy has become just a word, I cannot see how one can refer to the State of Israel as a democracy. Some 3 million Palestinians under occupation have no given rights whatsoever. A democracy it is not—a democracy of those who believe the Others should not have any rights. This is not a democracy."
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The simple fact is that Amiel Vardi's endless accusations against Israel in the name of "peace", "democracy" or "human rights" are nothing more than attempts to de-legitimize Israel.

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Hebrew University - Sarah Stroumsa, the University Rector, and other Tenured Academics sign a petition sponsored by the Anti-Israel Left to oppose archeological research in the City of David

SO it is no surprise that the Hebrew University's plague of tenured leftists is growing:

The express intention of [the Elad] Foundation is to "Judaize" the area known as the "Holy Basin," including Silwan. It pursues this aim by gaining control, through purchase or other means, of houses in Silwan and by planting colonies of Israeli settlers, under armed guard, in the neighborhood. Elad also funds and oversees archaeological excavations and development of the National Park in Silwan as part of its ultra-nationalist program.
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Apart from the direct, deleterious impact of these excavations on the lives of the local residents, Tel Aviv University is about to enter indirectly into partnership with an extremist political organization—thereby establishing a de facto position on an issue that is at the center of crucial debate within Israel, with serious political and moral implications. In entering into such a partnership, Tel Aviv University will be granting the Elad Foundation the professional recognition it seeks, recognition that academic institutions in Israel and abroad have thus far refused to grant.

Israeli Signatures
3. Professor Bernard Avishai, Dartmouth College
5. Dr. Louise Bethlehem, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
13. Professor Naomi Chazan, Hebrew University and Dean, School of Government and Society, the Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo, former MK
24. Professor Yaron Ezrahi, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
29. Dr. Elizabeth Freund, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
32. Dr. Amos Goldberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
37. Professor Ruth HaCohen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
39. Professor Peter Hilman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
40. Professor Galit Hasan-Rokem, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
48. Professor Barbara Hochman, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
49. Professor Baruch Hochman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
50. Professor Zvi Jagendorf, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
56. Professor Anita Mittwoch, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
62. Professor Ilana Pardes, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
66. Professor Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
72. Professor David Shulman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, MacArthur Fellow
73. Professor Dina Stein, University of Haifa
74. Professor Zeev Sternhell, Hebrew University; Fellow, The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
86. Professor Dror Wahrman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
88. Dr. Tali Bitan, Haifa University
93. Professor Guy Stroumsa, University of Oxford, Hebrew University, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
94. Professor Sarah Stroumsa, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
138. Professor Jérôme Bourdon, Tel Aviv University
142. Professor Veronika Cohen, Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance

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Queen Mary University of London and USC - Hagit Bohrer's (Dept of Linguistics) L.A. Times diatribe is a masterpiece in lies and pseudo-history

Bohrer was born in Israel and moved to the US at the tender age of 25 to attend graduate school under Chomsky. But two years earlier she was already part of "Palestinian solidarity activities," in her words, as well as anti-Zionist groups both in and outside of Israel. These include the Hamsin Collective, the Committee in Solidarity with the Palestinian People, the Deir Yassin Committee, Women in Black (London and Israel) and others.

As it turns out, it was long before the Oslo debacle in 1993 when Hagit Bohrer decided she was a supporter of Palestinian irredentist terror groups. As a linguist, she says her specialty is syntax, or how sentences and words are formed. She uses this skill well in her diatribes against Israel, where she lies by omission, leaving out just enough information to demonize Israel. She uses no "syntax" where Israel is concerned, preferring to claim that Israel is a great big bully that persecutes Arabs and stole their country—even Jerusalem. In doing this, she even claims the Six Day War was all Israel's fault, a device to steal east Jerusalem from the peace loving Arabs.

In an article she wrote for the LA Times explaining why she was on the ISM Gaza Flotilla boats to aid Hamas, Hagit Bohrer explained why she was helping a terror group whose Charter calls for ultimate annihilation of all world's Jews. She also appeared on You Tube calling Israel "her country," even though she has spent her entire career abroad. She then participated in the Flotilla whose real aim is to open up the sea lanes for Iran to bring in missiles to shoot at Israelis.
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'It is a different Jerusalem now. It is not their Jerusalem, for it has been taken from them. Every day the Palestinians of Jerusalem are further strangled by more incursions, by more 'housing developments' to cut them off from other Palestinians. In Sheikh Jarrah, a neighborhood built by Jordan in the 1950s to house refugees, Palestinian families recently have been evicted from their homes at gunpoint based on court-sanctioned documents purporting to show Jewish land ownership in the area dating back some 100 years. But no Palestinian proof of ownership within West Jerusalem has ever prevailed in Israeli courts. Talbieh, Katamon, Baca, until 1948 affluent Palestinian neighborhoods, are today almost exclusively Jewish, with no legal recourse for the Palestinians who recently raised families and lived their lives there."
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And more still from her: "Did we know in 1967, in 1948, that it would come to this? Some did. Some knew even then that a society built on conquest and dispossession would have to dehumanize the conquered in order to continue to dispossess and oppress them.
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Continuing the diatribe, she says, "Let us note that some Israeli Jews do stand up and protest. There are soldiers who refuse to serve, journalists who highlight injustice, and human rights organizations, activist groups, information centers. In a sense, all of us seeking justice have been on a virtual boat to Gaza all these decades. We have been trying to break through the Israeli blockade, in its many incarnations. We wish to say to the Palestinians that, yes, there are people in Israel who know that any viable future for the Middle East must be based on a just peace — not the forced imposition spelled out by Netanyahu to Congress — or else we are all doomed. We want it known that the soldier is not the only face of Israeli Jews. There are those who say to the government of Israel, 'You do not represent us.' "

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Hebrew University - Dan Avnon (Dept of Political Science) - The Non-Believer in Academic Freedom

Recently the tenured chattering classes in Israel were hysterical when it turned out that one of their own, the leftist political science professor Dan Avnon, found himself the target of a campaign of boycott against Israel.
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Well, we will tell you where the free academic inquiry is. Just ask Moshe Foxman Shaal. He is today a PhD student at Tel Aviv University. But before going there, he did his MA at the Hebrew University in their political science department.

While there, he approached a senior faculty member with his proposal to write his Master's thesis about the "national-liberal" philosophical doctrines of Menachem Begin. Yes, liberal. Begin was a stickler for the rule of law, for due process, for liberal values, for freedom of speech, and he even gave lip service to economic liberalism.

Foxman-Shaal approached the Hebrew University don to be his thesis supervisor. The professor replied that he would only agree to be the supervisor if Foxman-Shaal wrote his thesis about how Menachem Begin was really a fascist, and otherwise he refused.

And just who was that Hebrew University professor? You guessed it! … Dan Avnon. You know, the symbol of free academic inquiry, objective scholarship, and freedom of speech who is now the martyr saint of the Fascist Left. (Hat tip, Makor Rishon, Dec. 21, 2012)

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Freedom of Speech For Arabs and Leftists Alone; The Israeli Left Defends Hanin Zoabi's "Freedom"

The Israeli Radical Left signs petition to reinstate Zoabi. However, most of these posturing, anti-democratic "free speech absolutists" have been involved in limiting freedoms from opponents in the past.

A few days ago, the Israeli Elections Commission banned the violent terrorist Hanin Zoabi from running for the next Knesset. Zoabi had attacked Israeli soldiers violently when they boarded the Turkish terrorist Flotilla ship on which she was riding to support the Hamas… She openly supports terrorism and the destruction of the state in whose parliament she wants to sit.

… A large petition appears in the Israeli press today [27/12/2012] under the caption, "Not for Jews Alone." It is a solidarity petition with Zoabi and a protest against her having been banned from running for election. It is also a smear campaign against Israeli non-leftist public figures. It is signed by a gaggle of tenured extremists plus some other prominent leftists.
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[T]he more appropriate caption for their petition should be "For Arabs and Leftists Alone." Freedom of speech, that is! These are decidedly not people who favor democracy and freedom of expression for all. Many signers have been involved in other petitions to deny parties and public figures from the Right the ability to run in parliamentary elections or exercise their freedom of speech.
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Among the signers of the petition against "criminals" running for the parliament is Amiram Goldblum, Hebrew University professor and founder of Peace Now. A criminal indictment was filed against Goldblum himself a few years back for his violations of Israeli campaign finance laws, but the court procedures were indefinitely "postponed" when Goldblum admitted guilt.

This is the same Goldblum who begat the recent distorted pseudo-poll that claimed that Israeli Jews support apartheid. The same Goldblum, pretending here to be a free speech absolutist, is the Israeli champion for filing frivolous SLAPP suit harassments designed to deny critics of the Left freedom of speech and to attempt to get the courts to censor non-leftists.

… They are joined by Marxist anti-Zionist professor Daniel Bar-Tal from Tel Aviv University, whose career has been devoted to churning out propaganda for anti-Semitic agencies claiming to prove that Israeli Jews are racists. Bar-Tal has been openly calling for suppressing watchdog groups like Isracampus.com that monitor and expose the anti-Israel Left. Some free speech absolutist!

Then there is Chaim Gans, the law professor at the Tel Aviv University law school, whose devotion to freedom of speech is evident in the fact that he organized the petition there to bar a woman army colonel from lecturing in the Law School because Gans does not like her political opinions. He is joined by Alon Liel, the ex-diplomat now organizing world boycotts against Israel…
 

Then there is Hebrew U's David Shulman, serving as a one-man lobby for convicted violent thug and child molester Ezra Nawi. Ze'ev Sternhell, the Marxist Hebrew University professor who urged the Palestinian Arabs to murder "settlers and who denounces "settler" children as Hitler youth, is one more great defender of freedom of speech in the petition.

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Beit Berl College - Michal Chacham and Atrocity at Beit Berl

Iris Almog lost much of her family on October 4, 2003. They were in a Haifa restaurant, Maxim, owned by a Christian Arab, when the 28-year-old Palestinian suicide bomber Hanadi Jaradat, an educated lawyer, detonated the explosive belt she was wearing in the restaurant. She murdered 21 Israelis, many of them children, and wounded 51 others. Five members of Iris' family were murdered, including her father, who was a senior navy officer, her mother, her brother, and her two nephews, aged 9 and 11.

These days Iris has been taking courses at the Beit Berl "College," which is a pseudo-college run by the Kibbutz Movement in Israel. This past week she was attending a course taught there by one Michal Chacham, a radical anti-Israel pseudo-academic who teaches "women's studies." Chacham (whose name is more than ironic) is a sponsor of calls for world boycotts against Israel… She supports the "Palestinian right of return" that would destroy Israel
(see http://www.isracampus.org.il/third level pages/Petitions - the Ogla document.htm)...

In Chacham's course, which turned out to be largely a recital of the Palestinian pseudo-history of the "Nakba," Chacham screened the slanderous anti-Israel propaganda film "Jenin Jenin," produced by terrorist Mohammed Bakri… You can imagine Iris' reaction when she saw that the course in which she was registered morphed into a celebration of the genocidal terrorists who murdered her own family… Iris was subject to abuse by the "college," forced to relive the murder of her parents and other family members while her lecturer celebrated the murderers.

Beit Berl campus officials defended this atrocity and the lecturer. The time has come to strip Beit Berl of its accreditation and to shut it down.

If you would like to express your anger about this, write to

Beit Berl College	The Council for Higher Education in Israel	Ministry of Education
Dr. Tamar Ariav President of Beit Berl College Tel: 972 (9) 747 8701 Fax: 972 (9) 7478700 Email: ariavt@beitberl.ac.il	Prof. Manuel Trachtenberg Chairman, Council on Higher Education Email: manuel@post.tau.ac.il POB 4037, Jerusalem 91040, Israel	The Honorable Gideon Sa'ar Minister of Education Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports Kiryat Ben Gurion, Jerusalem Email: gsaar@knesset.gov.il Additional Email: sar@education.gov.il Phone: 972-2-6408131 Fax: 972-2-6753525
	Aharon Beit-Halahmi Planning & Budgeting Committee Chairman Council for Higher Education Email: betha@eurofund.co.il P.O.B. 4037, Jerusalem 91040, Israel Tel: 02-5679911 Fax: 02-5679969 E-mail: info@che.org.il	Shalomit Amichai Director General of the Ministry of Education Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports Kiryat Ben Gurion, Jerusalem Email: mankal@education.gov.il

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Defeat For Moonbats – Ariel University Center Officially Recognized; University Heads run to the High Court of Justice

Outgoing Defense Minister Ehud Barak has instructed GOC Central Command Maj.-Gen. Nitzan Alon to officially recognize the Ariel University Center of Samaria as a full-fledged university, as per Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein's recommendation.
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The Council of Presidents of Israeli Universities blasted the decision: "It's unfortunate that the attorney general has decided to uphold an inadequate measure that is plagued with political interests and extraneous considerations and will prove to be disastrous for higher education in Israel," the council said.

The council claimed that no proper inquiry was made into the feasibility of the accreditation and into the college's academic quality.

"The matter is now in the hands of the High Court of Justice and we believe this decision will be overturned," the council said.

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Weizmann Institute of Science - Kobi Snitz (Dept of Neurobiology), the radical leftist and fifth column activist, gets questioned by the GSS about his subversive activities

The Shin Bet security service includes among its activities something it calls "delegitimization." At least that's what one can infer from a Shin Bet operative's statements to a left-wing activist, Dr. Kobi Snitz, who was summoned for interrogation on Wednesday...

Snitz, 41, is a mathematician employed by the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot. He was summoned for questioning by the Shin Bet for the first time two years ago...
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In its response to Haaretz, the Shin Bet said it possesses "information indicating that Dr. Kobi Snitz is involved in organizing illegal gatherings and illegal entry into restricted military zones in the West Bank. Dr. Snitz was summoned to the Rehovot police station for interrogation regarding his activities."

According to the Shin Bet, "At that time, Dr. Snitz was advised of the gravity of the illegal activities attributed to him, and was warned that enforcement measures would be taken against him if he continued to act illegally as previously mentioned.

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Tel Aviv University - TAU Students Fight Against Academic Boycott

They stand up to face off the well-orchestrated boycott campaign which is promoted in part by Israeli NGO's and Israeli Academics

The biggest sin of Joy Harjo was that she has written on her Facebook page she's on her way to visit Tel Aviv. Harjo, a Native American poet and musician, was invited to perform for students of the Department of American Studies at TAU, and provide a glimpse into the rich, indigenous culture of the American continent. But the anti-Israel activists had other plans for her: Within a few hours after her announcement, Harjo's Facebook and Twitter accounts were filled with dozens of threats and hate talkbacks.
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[Coalition of Women for Peace]'s member, Dr. Dalit Baum, a former lecturer at Haifa University and today a US resident, presented herself as a an "Israeli teacher" and begged Harjo to boycott TAU and its students, again, because of the so called "apartheid." Yes, the same TAU which allowed its Arab students only a few months ago to host a 'Nakba' memorial ceremony is now accused of being an apartheid institution…

In response, we, dozens of TAU students from across the Israeli political spectrum, have personally wrote a letter of support to Joy Harjo. Those activists call themselves "liberal and feminist," but at the same time they choose to intimidate an elder spiritual woman and Native American human rights activist into boycotting knowledge, freedom of thought, ideas and people - all the things which form the foundation of the academic institution we are so proud to be educated in.
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Joy Harjo's case revealed once again the true face of the well-orchestrated boycott campaign being waged in recent years around the world against Israel - often with the help of Israelis - to pull the rug out from under Israel's legitimacy, its institutions and its society. This is a campaign that relies primarily on intimidation of many people overseas who are not proficient in the complexity of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, using half-truths and whole lies that are constantly presented as facts. It is also difficult not to notice the paradox, in which Israeli academics, with the backup of self-proclaimed "peace NGO's," promote the boycott of academic institutions while they still educate generations of Israeli students and scholars, the future of the Jewish state.

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Israel's Tenured Left Rallies to Support anti-Israel Violence and Child Abuse

Once again the Israel dual justice system has showed its ugly face. This is the court-cum-prosecution system that promotes the agenda of the Left and refuses to convict leftist criminals of anything, while at the same time refusing to defend the freedom of speech and other basic constitutional rights of non-leftists.

The Jerusalem District court just overturned a conviction of the far-leftist child molester Ezra Nawi for calling an army officer a war criminal. Seems that this is protected speech, unlike - say - saying that people who want to enjoy rights should also comply with duties and obligations (THAT slogan was just banned as "racist" by the leftists on Israel's elections commission because it was thought to offend the delicate sensitivities of Arabs).

Nawi is a violent leftist hooligan who has been involved in a long series of violent confrontations with soldiers and police, as he pursues his promotion of Palestinian violence. He was arrested in 2007 for violence and hooliganism. He was convicted of assault and sentenced to a month of hard jail time plus 3 years of probation.

In 2009 he was in a protest in which he called a military officer a war criminal. Nawi was part of a violent anti-Israel demonstration there that the soldiers were dispersing. He was charged in 2010 with insulting a public official, which is a crime in Israel. The problem is that it is a crime that the courts are only willing to convict Jewish Right-wingers for. As far as I know, no Arab or leftist was ever convicted for it.

Nawi was convicted, but appealed and the Jerusalem appeals court just overturned the conviction. After all, under the dual justice system, laws for the geese never apply for the ganders.
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Because he is both anti-Israel and gay, Nawi became the hero and mentor of some of the worst anti-Semites on earth. He has been celebrated by Neve Gordon and Noam Chomsky, among others. For example, here is Gordon proclaiming Nawi his idol, in the anti-Semitic Neo-Nazi web magazine Counterpunch:
http://www.counterpunch.org/gordon05082009.html. Gordon also raised funds for Nawi. As you can see, Gordon claims Nawi was arrested for "caring about people's homes." Sure and Gordon was hired and promoted at Ben Gurion "University" thanks to his being a serious scholar. The Hebrew University's tenured leftist David Shulman has also spent years beatifying Nawi.
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And while we have the conscripted judicial Left in our sites, let us also mention that today's Israeli press carries large paid ads of solidarity with Hanin Zoabi, signed by leading leftist law professors. Zoabi was the Arab woman Knesset member who personally participated in violent attacks against Israeli troops in the "Turkish Flotilla" terrorist incident. She was also running for re-election to the parliament of the state which she does not recognize and which she seeks to destroy. Except the Knesset ethics committee voted to bar her from running, due to her participation in violence (and open support for terrorism).

A group of tenured law dons are unhappy with this. After all, they insist, why should Zoabi be any less entitled to run for the Knesset than Bin Laden would be to run for the US Senate?

Well, 17 of the worst leftist law dons in Israel signed the petition, opposing the banning of the terrorist form running for the parliament.

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The Feldhay Snub Exposes the Boycott Double Standard of Israel's Tenured Left

For a number of years now, Israel's tenured Left has rallied in defense of the "right" to boycott other Israelis and the right to boycott all of Israel. Whenever a public figure would speak out against the Israeli tenured traitors who call for world campaigns of divestment and economic sanctions against Israel, the Far Left bellows that this is "McCarthyism," that no one should be permitted to express disgust with such traitors… It is to a large extent the creation of Israeli tenured leftists.

… The Israeli Left wants to boycott every Jew who lives in the West Bank, including and especially Ariel University. It wants products made in the West Bank and Golan to be boycotted, and calls on foreign anti-Semites to promote such boycotts. Whenever any eyebrows are raised in Israel at their behavior, the leftists again scream "McCarthyism" and insist they are simply defending "academic freedom," and "freedom of speech." When Israel's Knesset passed a law allowing victims of such leftist boycotts to file civil suits for damages against the Leftists organizing the boycotts, again the Left bellowed that this was fascism and suppression of democracy…

In fact, there is only one form of boycott which they see as anti-democratic, treasonous, and fascist. That is when a leftist is boycotted. And that is why over the past few weeks the tenured Left in Israel has been soiling itself over the "boycott" of a leftist Tel Aviv University by Bibi Netanyahu.

Now the truth is that Prof. Rivka Feldhay was not really "boycotted" by anyone. She was just pointedly not invited by Netanyahu to participate in a pow-wow in Berlin with the German Prime Minister…Netanyahu does not consider participation in any ceremony with the German PM to be an automatic entitlement for anyone. But the Left considers Netanyahu's unwillingness to include Feldhay in the ceremony to be a fascist assault on academic freedom.

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Hebrew University - Dan Avnon (Dept of Political Science) gets Boycotted

Don't you just love it when a leftist moonbat gets hoisted with his own petard?

Well, meet the pro-Palestinian Professor Dan Avnon, from the Hebrew University's School of Public Policy and its uniformly leftist Political Science Department (http://politics.huji.ac.il/avnon.html). He is a leftist who objects to the idea that Israel should be a Jewish state, although he does not seem to have any problem with any Arab Moslem states.

Well, he found himself boycotted by an anti-Israel institute in Australia, one so anti-Israel that they hosted Ilan Pappe. The anti-Israel crowd is upset because here Avnon is a leftist but he fell victim to BDS! Boycotting OTHER Jews of course would be no problem.

For more details, see also
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/across-the-divide-boycott-shocks-unity-professor-dan-avnon/story-e6frgcjx-1226532541040

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Tel Aviv University - PM's Office Holds Academic Rivka Feldhay (Dept of History) Responsible for her Extremist Views

Feldhay banned from Scientific Symposium in which PM Netanyahu was to participate

An official traveling with Netanyahu said professor and human rights expert Rivka Feldhay was banned from a meeting of Israeli and German scientists because the prime minister did not want to allow the participation of an Israeli “who tarnishes the name of Israeli soldiers and pilots.”

Feldhay signed a petition in 2008 [link to petition (and in Hebrew) – IsraCampus] that supported Israeli soldiers who refused to serve in Palestinian territories, the official said. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.

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Tel Aviv University - Rivka Feldhay (Dept of History) Spreads Misconceptions about the CHE's Demand for Academic Standards at BGU's Dept of Political Science

She dismisses the CHE as a "right-wing political" subcommittee, laments the changes occurring in Israeli society that affects her self-appointed 'guardians of democracy', and demotes the present regime from the ranks of Democracy.

In light of all this, the proposal approved by the ICHE subcommittee to prevent new students from registering for the upcoming school year is an absolutely arbitrary decision, bearing no relation whatsoever to the work of the follow-up team. In fact, it stands in stark contradiction to the team's evaluation. Such an act is unacceptable not just because it comprises a crude intervention in the autonomy of university institutions as anchored in the law of the ICHE, and a brutal violation of the principle of academic freedom that has been a fundamental part of the university since its formation in medieval Europe. This decision—if it is approved by the ICHE plenum—is, in my eyes, utterly senseless, especially when viewed alongside another decision that was passed several weeks ago, granting university status to the University Center in Ariel (at the West Bank) based on an inadequate evaluation process that included not one professional expert from abroad…

In this state of affairs, the only way to interpret the recommendations of the ICHE subcommittee is as a right-wing political act aimed at harassing the department whose staff members belong, for the most part, to the left and hold a critical approach to the government. If implemented, this decision will lead to the indecent burial of the academic evaluation processes initiated by the ICHE and will undermine trust in it in the future. In addition, such a decision means a de facto politicization of higher education in Israel, creating a state in which lecturers are persecuted because of their political views as well as their professional and critical positions. In short: the oppression of the spirit and freedom of the academic. Taken together with the worrisome events that have been taking place in the Israel Broadcasting Authority, the recurring attempts to undermine the independence of the government's General Attorney, and the domination of the press by means of the right-wing tabloid Israel Today, this last step comprises a castration—no less—of the guardians of democracy vis-a-vis the government. A democracy without free criticism is a contradiction in terms; such a regime can no longer be called a democracy.

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Surveygate Update
Hebrew University - Amiram Goldblum (Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences) retracts his involvement in the "Surveygate" Affair; will the real Goldblum please stand up?

Goldblum gets trashed for his flip-flopping on his extremist activities in "the Campaign to Defame his Country." Goldblum's history of making statements, denying they were ever made, and suing anyone who quotes him leads the Author doubt Goldblum's creditability and conclude there is no place for him in Academia.

Israel has long been the target of campaigns of vilification by its own anti-Israel radical academics, enjoying their cushy salaries at Israel's taxpayer-funded universities. Many of these individuals lead the world campaigns of economic aggression against Israel (the so-called BDS or "Boycott, Divest, Sanctions" campaign). Some openly call for Israel's annihilation or support terrorist atrocities against Jews.

A few weeks back, one of the worst campaigns to undermine Israel's legitimacy was launched by Amiram Goldblum, a radical leftist professor in pharmaceutical studies at the country's Hebrew University… Goldblum's anti-Israel activism was suddenly thrust into the spotlight when he organized and funded a tendentious pseudo-survey of Jewish public opinion in Israel, in which he claimed that Israeli Jews support "apartheid." The "findings" of the "survey" were quickly taken at face value by the media and especially by the bash-Israel lobby.

As it turned out, the "survey" was nothing more than a shoddy manipulative pseudo-scientific exercise in distortion. It was Goldblum's own private personal initiative, paid for and sponsored by a fund Goldblum single-handedly manages (named after his late wife). Goldblum assembled a small group of far-leftist anti-Israel activists in Israel, only one of whom is an academic (and even he is a political scientist, not a statistician). They composed survey questions that were designed to produce responses that could be twisted into making it look like Israeli Jews are racists and supporters of apartheid.
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Goldblum's "smear Israel" poll was denounced by Israelis across the board, including from the Left. The ex-editor in chief of the far-Leftist Haaretz daily denounced Goldblum and the poll, and the Haaretz newspaper distanced itself from the poll (which it was the first to report). Even the New Israel Fund, the leftist NGO to which Goldblum's Fund is tied, repudiated the poll and its "findings."
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Goldblum bragged to anyone willing to listen, including in dozens of newspaper and Internet interviews, that he was personally behind the "apartheid pseudo-poll," which he admitted initiating to smear Israel and demonize the country. But then suddenly on December 2, 2012, Goldblum started denying that he had anything to do with the poll on the Wikipedia web site using his pseudonym Rastiniak.

On the same Wikipedia page he also denied being a founder of and long-term spokesman for "Peace Now," in spite of the fact that for decades he has bragged about being these. His turnarounds and episodes of volte-faces have become the central features of his modus operandi. They help to put into context his continuing insistence that he had nothing to do with the hiring of the convicted Palestinian terrorist Adel Hadmi to work in his own university laboratory.

In that incident, Israel's Channel Two TV news claimed in 2008 that Goldblum had personally intervened and arranged for a convicted Palestinian terrorist to come work in his lab and participate in a PhD program… Goldblum then denied he was the person who made the decision to hire the terrorist…
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He has been leading a campaign of "lawfare," based on submitting frivolous harassment lawsuits, designed to suppress the freedom of speech of critics of the far Left. And of course he continues to serve as button man for "Peace Now."
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Goldblum also is a walking mockery of academic standards, as he strives to suppress democracy and freedom of speech. He has no proper place in any self-respecting academic institution.

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Tel Aviv University - Aeyal Gross (Dept of Law), inventor of "pinkwashing," offers free advice to the terrorists about how to prosecute Israel criminally

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to build more housing units in the settlements, coming hot on the heels of the United Nations General Assembly's declaration of Palestine as a non-member observer state, could put Israel on a collision course with the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

Following the UN's decision last Thursday, it looks as though Palestine will contact the court once again, asking for a hearing on the crimes that are being committed in its territory. The court's prosecutor may well rule that in light of Palestine's recognition as a state, the court has authority to hear the case.

If Palestine should complain to the court, Statute 8(2)(b)(viii) of the court's constitution will be at the center of the case. This statute states, in part: "The transfer, directly or indirectly, by an occupying power of parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies is a war crime."

This statute is the continuation of a rule in the Fourth Geneva Convention. Israel's past claims that the rule did not apply in the territories may now be rejected.

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Hebrew University - Nurit Peled-Elhanan (Dept of Education) Signs a BDS Petition calling for Embargo of Israel and Rejecting Israel's Right to Self-Defense

Now is the time for a military embargo on Israel!

Horrified at the latest round of Israeli aggression against the 1.5 million Palestinians in the besieged and occupied Gaza Strip and conscious of the impunity that has enabled this new chapter in Israel's decades-old violations of international law and Palestinian rights, we believe there is an urgent need for international action towards a mandatory, comprehensive military embargo against Israel. Such a measure has been subject to several UN resolutions [1] and is similar to the arms embargo imposed against apartheid South Africa in the past.
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Israel's attempt to justify this kind of illegal use of belligerent and disproportionate military force as "self-defence" does not stand up to legal — or moral — scrutiny, as states cannot invoke self-defence for acts that serve to defend an unlawful situation which they have created in the first place [2].

Among the signees
Nurit Peled, professor of language, Israel

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University of Exeter - The Pappe Continues to Rewrite History

The pseudo-historian Ilan Pappe declares Plan Daled (D) proof of Israel's 'ethnic cleansing'.

It was written "Imagine that not so long ago, in any given country you are familiar with, half of the entire population had been forcibly expelled within a year, half of its villages and towns wiped out, leaving behind only rubble and stones…"

The quote is from the introduction to Ilan Pappe's 'The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine'. Pappe, a senior lecturer in political science at the University of Haifa until 2007, is currently a professor at the University of Essex and director of its European Centre for Palestine Studies. He is foremost among Israeli 'New Historians' who, since the publication in the 1980s of Israeli and British documents from the period, have radically rewritten the history of the Jewish State's foundation and the flight of 700,000 Palestinians from its territory.

Pappe argues that the exodus was not a mere by-product of terror and chaos but the result of a deliberate strategy designed to facilitate the consolidation and expansion of the new Jewish State. The key document which he and others cite is Plan Dalet (Dalet is the Hebrew letter D).

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However, it is clear from the material which has subsequently become available that Zionist leaders of the time saw the UN plan not as a compromise settlement but as a stepping-stone towards their objective of a state based on Jewish religious identity to include all of the "Land of Israel" — the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem as well the territory allocated to Israel. Which meant clearing the Palestinians out.

Pappe quotes Ben Gurion on December 3, 1947: "They can either be mass arrested or expelled; it is better to expel them."
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It is happening in Gaza today.

The problem does not have to do with "ancient hatreds", with the belligerence of this side or that or both, or with something wicked in Judaism or Islam or both. The problem is the state of Israel.

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Hebrew University - "Outpost," the Magazine of the Americans for a Safe Israel, blasts Amiram Goldblum (Dept of Pharmaceutical Studies) as an Anti-Israel Anti-Democratic Fanatic

The article recounts Goldblum's lifework as a fanatical anti-Israel agitator and calls for sanctions against his employer, the Hebrew University, until Goldblum is dismissed.

It would be better to say [Amiram Goldblum's] sub-specialty is pharmaceutical studies, since his primary agenda is demonizing Israel as an "apartheid regime" and filing "lawfare" harassment suits against those who criticize him and the far Left.
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Goldblum was behind the recent "Apartheid Survey" campaign against Israel…
As part of "surveygate", Goldblum and his hit team insisted that if Israeli Jews favor separate roads in the West Bank for Jews and Arabs, because of the daily attempts by Arabs there to murder Jews, it shows that Jews are racists who favor an apartheid regime. The survey evidently used the term "hafrada" in Hebrew, meaning separation, a word that can also mean apartheid. So when many Israeli Jews indicated that they favor hafrada, Goldblum and his Smeartroopers had their headline: Israelis favor apartheid.
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Even the predominantly leftist Israeli press including Ha'aretz denounced Goldblum and his smear campaign, some comparing it to the lies and distortions of the UN's "Goldstone Commission." On October 26, 2012, the deputy editor of Maariv, Ben Dror Yemini, called Goldblum an anti-Israel anti-democratic fanatic. The pseudo-survey was so ridiculous that even the New Israel Fund, with which the Yisraela Goldblum Foundation is tied, repudiated the entire "survey" and its "findings."

But Goldblum also has another rap. He was involved in violations of Israeli campaign financing laws in the election of 1998, when he surreptitiously placed illegal media ads in favor of leftist contender Ehud Barak. When Goldblum got nailed for this, a criminal indictment was filed against him. But in Israel, far-leftists are never really prosecuted by the politically-biased Attorney General's office. So after Goldblum signed a statement in which he confessed his guilt, criminal prosecution against him was "postponed," meaning it was indefinitely frozen. Goldblum likes to tell people that this "postponement" means he was cleared of his legal woes. It does not…

Goldblum was also involved in another disgrace, when it turned out that a convicted PLO terrorist was being employed in Goldblum's own laboratory at the Hebrew University, a lab in which dangerous chemicals are kept. An Israeli Channel Two TV news broadcast accused Goldblum of personally intervening on behalf of the terrorist and hiring him out of ideological solidarity with terrorists. Goldblum denies he himself made the decision to hire the terrorist, and then badgered Hebrew University spokespeople into issuing a statement saying that some other mysterious nameless campus officials were in fact the ones who had made the decision to hire the terrorist, not Goldblum himself. Channel Two then issued a partial retraction of that part of its story. Except we do not know of a single case in the entire world where someone gets hired to work in a professor's university lab without that same professor's approval and confirmation…
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But the very worst part of Goldblum's misbehavior is his serial harassment of critics of leftist extremism. Goldblum has discovered the delights of political "lawfare," using the courts for ideological warfare to suppress freedom of speech, a harassment tactic developed by Islamofascists and other anti-democratic extremists. He has filed endless frivolous SLAPP nuisance suits against conservative professors, NGOs, web sites, a radio personality, and others, all designed to force them into silence and bear the costs of fighting off his SLAPP suits. Israel has no penalties against SLAPP suit harassment. Goldblum never wins any of these but misuses the courts as a "lawfare" weapon to "punish" his ideological opponents, seeking to convert the courts into bludgeons of censorship.
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As concerned American supporters of Israel and its many academic institutions, we must make it clear to the Mt. Scopus officials that our support for their university is contingent upon their dismissal of Amiram Goldblum for his misbehavior, and his outrageous assaults against freedom of speech.

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University of California Berkeley and Beit Berl College: Professor Smadar Lavie makes sure Israel is accused of racism even if it ain't so

The cultural differences between Mizrahim and Ahskenazim Jewry have pretty much disappeared over the last 60 years, especially among the highly-mobile and successful Iraqi Jews. Jews of all cultures co-mingle and intermarry today in Israel.

But demonstrably un-oppressed college professors, in this case the anthropologist Smadar Lavie, still try to build up reputations and fame for themselves by whining about how badly the Mizrahim, particularly women, are victimized by evil Israel. Their favorite nonsense word is "racism" (Mizrahim are hardly a "race."). Lavie's obsession about "Arab Jews" is a bit of an anomaly. For the Arabs, Jews are not Arabs and never were, except in propaganda designed to deny to Jews any right of self-determination. The Arabs are, in fact, the worst racists in the world and the worst oppressors of women, a little matter about which ultra-feminists like Lavie have little interest or concern…

Much of her research concerns the Bedouin community in Israel, but she classifies the Israeli Mizrahim as victims of the big bad Ashkenazim too. Of interest is the fact that Lavie's mother was Mizrahi, but her father was an Ashkenazi Jew! One has to wonder at the parental dynamics and if father issues played a part that made a woman who had a child with a man then converted to lesbianism (that certainly aided her career advancement) has an axe to grind…

A word about the Bedouin in Israel: … The Bedouin have been repeatedly squatting on government lands that do not belong to them, but which they claim ancestral ownership and Israel's radical left like Smadar Lavie fall all over themselves to get them what they want. They are also given preference in Israeli universities. The reality is not the same as Lavie would have the world believe about the moral "bankruptcy" of the Jewish state.
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Smadar Lavie was in the California media a few years back when she allegedly kidnapped her own child from shared custody with the father. She had earlier come to the United States to promote her "academic" career. The courts sided with the father on custody issues. Today she is back in Israel, although claims to keep her professorial affiliation with UC Berkeley. She also claims to be a professor at Beit Berl College in Israel. She was once active in the so-called Israeli Black Panthers, which later morphed into a communist front. Today, she advocates for the academic boycott of Israel, including of her own college.

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Hebrew University - Prof. Avraham Sela (Dept of International Relations), whose students claim he assigns them grades based on whether they agree with his far Leftist ideology, and Oren Barak (Dept of International Relations) Call for the Hamas to be granted its own state

Hamas is, first and foremost, a social and political movement which won broad support from the Palestinian public in the most democratic elections held in any Arab society. The social and political institutions that Hamas built in the Gaza Strip since its establishment, moreover, gave its residents a minimum of services, and since June 2007, Hamas also manages to impose a public order, even if it is one that Israel finds unsatisfactory. Destruction of these institutions now will leave the Gaza Strip in governmental and social chaos which, in the long run, may exacerbate the risks to Israel.
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What Israel needs now is not a military victory over Hamas but to quickly turn its non-state Palestinian rival into a stable state.

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Pro-Hamas Petition includes Israeli Academics - appears in the Neo-Nazi Counterpunch Magazine

Yehuda Shenhav, Ilan Pappe, Haim Bereeshit, Daniel Boyarin, Rachel Giora, Gabi Piterberg, Peled-Elhanan, Dorit Naaman, Moshe Machover, Ronit Lentin, Eyal Sivan, Eyal Weizman, Nira Yuval-Davis, Yosefa Loshitzky, Oren Ben-Dor, and Hagit Borer all sign their name to a petition that slanders Israel, supports terror, and promotes dis-information.

We the undersigned watch with horror yet another ruthless and criminal Israeli assault on the defenceless people of the Gaza Strip. The assassination of the Hamas' military commander, Ahmad al-Jabari, by Israel was intended to disrupt any chance for a permanent cease fire between the two sides and caused the current cycle of violence. For the last five years al-Jabari had been responsible for limiting rocket attacks on Israel.

The inaction of the Western governments is further proof of their indifference to their electorates' wish to stop Israel from perpetrating yet another massacre against the Palestinian people.

We call upon our governments, which have stood aloof and indifferent, in the face of Palestine's dispossession and colonization since 1948 to take immediate and effective action. No other people in the world has been subjected, for more than sixty years, to such relentless acts of collective punishment and military brutality as have the Palestinian people.

Among the signed:
5.      Professor Ilan Pappe (Exeter, UK)
7.      Professor Haim Bresheeth (London, UK)
8.      Professor Yehuda Shenhav (Tel Aviv, Israel)
10.    Professor Yosefa Loshitzky (London, UK)
11.    Professor Daniel Boyarin (Berkeley, US)
17.    Professor Rachel Giora (Tel Aviv, Israel)
18.    Professor Gabi Piterberg (Los Angeles, US)
23.    Professor Oren Ben-Dor (Southampton, UK)
38.    Professor Nurith Peled-Elhanan (Jerusalem, Israel)
57.    Dr Dorit Naaman (Kingston, Ontario, Canada)
62.    Professor Moshe Machover (London, UK)
71.    Professor Ronit Lentin (Dublin, Ireland)
97.    Mr Eyal Sivan (Paris, France)
99.    Professor Eyal Weizman (London, UK)
109.  Professor Nira Yuval-Davis (London, UK)
133.  Professor Hagit Borer (London, UK)

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University of Haifa - Radical Israel hater Micah Leshem (Dept of Psychology) Publicly Denounces his own University President

Leshem rips Haifa U President Amos Shapira on the "Segel-Plus" chat list for daring to express solidarity with soldiers and suffering Israelis under attack in the south.

Well this is another sad expression of the misunderstanding of what a university is and what it is not. As the President notes, there is a delicate balance of Jewish and Arab sensibilities in our university community, yet despite this the President's letter is a statement of nationalistic and political ethnic loyalty and insensitivity. It is not the task of a university to express support for our soldiers – the president and those of us who wish to do so can – but not as a university. If the president were really sensitive to the issues he would realize that the soldiers, whom he mentions 4 times in his letter, and some of whom indeed are of our faculty, administrative staff and students, are also there killing relatives of some of our faculty, administrative staff, and students… [Huh??? --- Isracampus] Further, it is not for him to threaten students even if they did demonstrate in anguish at the assassination of a Hamas militant – it not only their right, but their obligation if that is what they feel they should bring to wider attention. In short, it is not for the president to preach what anybody should or should not think or express. To a true university, consensus of views is anathema, and minority views are particularly precious.
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I would think the most urgent thing the president should now do is pen a letter of understanding, if not support, to the sensibilities of our minority students at this time of their special anguish, as he has for the anguish this side of the National Divide.

Micah

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University of Haifa - Ultra-Leftists Mourn the "loss" of Terrorist Arch-Murderer  - University does nothing to stop them

Mayor of Haifa demands that Haifa U take steps to prevent future provocations. Haifa U belittles and refuses to denounce the incident

Dozens of Arab-Israeli students from northern Israel took part in a demonstration held at Haifa University on Thursday against Operation Pillar of Defense in Gaza. During the protest, the students held a moment of silence for Hamas commander Ahmed Jabari, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Wednesday.

Among the protesters were students from Balad and other Arab political parties.
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Haifa Mayor Yona Yahav sent a letter to Haifa University President Amos Shapira, in which he wrote: "We are shocked and disgusted by the ceremony in which Israeli students stood for several minutes in memory of the murderer, in an act of intentional provocation."

He called on the university to strongly condemn the event and make certain that it does not repeat itself.
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Haifa University said in response that "As for today's event – it was a gathering held without the university's consent. A small number of Arab students gathered, faced by Jewish students, and the whole thing ended within a few minutes."

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The BGU Tanzim Tag Team - Neve Gordon (Dept of Political Science) Teams up with Niza Yanay (Dept of Sociology) in an interview for Al-Jazeera

Most people consider "suicide bombings" as motivated by hate, while very few people consider air strikes on populated areas to be hate crimes. The media often describes the suicide attack as a hate crime, but I have never come across a report describing the US drone attacks in Pakistan - that have killed over 3,500 people - as hate crimes. This suggests that hatred as ideology is at work. And this ideology helps determine who is blamed for being the initiators of hate, who becomes the target of hatred, and, in fact, when hatred counts as hatred at all.
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Yet, my contribution has to do with my examination of the ideology of hatred. I believe that by excavating the ideology of hatred we can reveal how the political unconscious operates in the current political climate - through desire and its repression, through love and its disavowal, and through attachment and its elision. Once the unconscious workings of the ideology of hatred are laid bare then other future discourses, which recognise their ambivalence towards the other, suddenly become possible.

Let me give another example. The Israeli government forces the Palestinians to declare loyalty to the state of Israel as the condition for entering dialogue. No matter how many times Palestinians in Israel declare loyalty to the state or denounce terrorism, their words will not be heard and accepted because for Jewish Israelis this is not enough; they want the Palestinians to love them. Without love it is difficult for them to maintain their moral superiority. But at the same time the Jews in Israel will never ever admit to this.

So for me, the discourse of loyalty and betrayal, and particularly the repetitious demand that the Palestinians be loyal signifies that something else is going on here. It is about something the Jews want and will not get, or want and will never acknowledge. The repetition suggests that unconscious forces are at work here and in this case they are not individual but political.

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Ben Gurion University - Ami Vatury (Dept of German Studies) defends the militant Islamofascists who beat him unconscious in Swedish slum

However, the Swedish 'hospitality' was not enough beat the Marxism out of him. Defends the 'Immigrants' of the Scandinavian Socialist Utopia that inhabit the neighborhood in which he was mugged.

Well, Comrade Social Democrat [Ami Vatury] was in Malmo, Sweden a few weeks back. Malmo is perhaps the worst city in Europe these days when it comes to violent assaults against Jews by Moslems. There is a large, violent, and militant local Islamist population there. There have been countless incidents in which Jews from the small and disappearing Malmo community were beaten.

Comrade Vatury had gone there in person to make friends with the local Islamists and write about how misunderstood they are. As he relates in his own words in an entry in the far leftist Haokets web site (in Hebrew here), he got the Marxist stuffing beaten out of himself there, when two or three "locals" jumped him, did a Sopranos routine upon him, and left him unconscious in the street…

Vatury was taken to a local hospital, and the rest of his article is devoted to singing the praises of the socialist Swedish medical system. He notes that he was mugged near one of the low-income slums of Malmo, and then goes to extreme contortions in order to try to explain how his beloved Swedish socialism can even have low-income slums and poverty. He tries to claim that it is all somehow the fault of the rising Far Right in Sweden, but fails to notice the contradiction in having a growing Far Right in a socialist utopia.

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Surveygate
Ex-Haaretz Editor attacks Amiram Goldblum (Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences) for his role in the 'Apartheid Survey'; Calls Goldblum a biased radical

As cited in the "Polishuk" column by Menachem Rahat in "Matzav Ruach" (Hebrew weekly) Nov 9, 2012, page 36. Hanoch Marmori was the editor in chief of Haaretz. Rahat cites a recent article by Marmori on the "four failures," the biases and other problems of the Israeli media.

Rahat writes:
"Marmori writes: 'The fourth failure... is manifested in the journalist conception that was behind the (apartheid) survey. One of those who placed the order for that survey, Dr. Amiram Goldblum, a self-declared political activist... proclaims openly that the survey was initiated and ordered in order to promote action in which he believes - in his words, to act swiftly before the dangers of apartheid break out in unstoppable ways. Goldblum's "method" worked far better than even he imagined (in triggering demonization of Israel).' Haaretz swallowed the bait and gave the story (of the apartheid survey) maximum exposure and emphasis.

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Hebrew University - On the "ACADEMIA" chat list of professors, Amiram Goldblum (Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences) in 2003 insisted that Israelis have no right to object to the "Palestinian Right of Return"

In Goldblum's opinion, the settlements justify Arab refugee "Right of Return". Only the dismantling of all settlements will allow for peace negotiations. Implementation of Goldblum's suggestion in Gaza has produced thousands of Arab missiles launched at Israeli civilian population centers - each attack a war-crime.

Constructing settlements in the territories in the last 35 years has been a clear proof that Israelis are exercising, by force, their right of return to territories over the green line. As I always suggest - TOL KORA - get the settlements out and then discuss intentions of both sides. We paved the way for Palestinians to demand the right of return to proper Israel in its 4 June 1967 borders. Only when this will be undone we could probe the other side's intentions.

Shavua Tov,
Amiram

 

Amiram Goldblum wrote:
We have no right to object to Palestinian ROR [right of return – Isracampus] but after we dismantle settlements-  Ofra, Bet El, Hevron and Shilo first.  Not "Maahazim".

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Hebrew University - Amiram Goldblum's (Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences) "Apartheid Smear" Campaign exposed by Prof. Gerald Steinberg

Demands a public apology from Goldblum for his role in slandering the Israeli Society

The pseudo-poll is another form of attack in this political war to demonize Israel. Responsibility for the attack, beyond Haaretz, lies with Amiram Goldblum, a founder of Peace Now, who runs the Yisraela Goldblum Fund (named after his late wife), which paid for costs, under the wider framework of the non-profit group known as "Signing Anew." This funding, in turn, was provided by the New Israel Fund, and Goldblum is a member of NIF's International Council.

In addition, according to Goldblum's press release, the "questions" used in this transparent political stunt were formulated by individuals closely connected to the NIF, the Durban Strategy and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign. Attorney Michael Sfard is legal counsel for a number of Israeli politicized civil society groups involved in this immoral campaign, and Alon Liel (married to NIF's Executive Director in Israel, Rachel Liel) has expressed his support for so-called "targeted" boycotts in the Guardian and in the South African media. Mordechai Bar-On and Ilan Baruch are also members of the NIF's International Council.

Everyone connected with this travesty shares responsibility for the immense political damage that has been caused. Goldblum, in particular, owes the Israeli public an apology. And just as the NIF takes credit when its grantees impact positively on Israel, so too, must they take responsibility when its grantees like this do serious damage.

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Hebrew University's professor of anti-democratic SLAPP-suit harassment and anti-Israel demonization, Amiram Goldblum (Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences), sends another threatening letter, this time to Bernard Lazarus, a distinguished major donor to Israeli higher education, which has been circulated in the internet

The following threatening letter was sent to Mr. Lazarus. We have left all the grammar and spelling errors uncorrected:

Dear Mr. Lazarus,

… You have no knowledge who I am [SIC], what my positions are, and certainly you have not the slightest idea of what me [SIC] and my family have done for Israel. I can assure you that even if you had 7 lifetimes you will [SIC] not come short [SIC] of what anyone in my family did for this country in less than a single one [SIC].

You say yourself that you came here in 2000. You write in English, as you probably have no command of Hebrew [so says this professor who cannot complete a correct sentence in English without errors – Isracampus]. That may explain some of your limits of understanding what [SIC] this country is about. Others may be deeper in scope [SIC]. You seem to be an excellent demonstration [SIC] of Samuel Johnson's description of patriotism.
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However, I will not do a bit of that before you apologize publicly for your smearing of my name. You accuse me of treason and call me a renegade. I suggest that you call your lawyers to tell you what that could mean by the laws of Israel.

I expect your public apology to me immediately, in a letter that will be addressed to the exact same group of people as you wrote to above.

Sincerely,
Amiram Goldblum

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Hebrew University - Amiram Goldblum's (Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences) Role in the "Apartheid" Slander

On the very same day that Ha'aretz wrote that the poll "was commissioned by the New Israel Fund's Yisraela Goldblum Fund," the NIF issued a statement saying the organization "does not stand behind the survey in Ha'aretz and is not related with it in any way."

That the far-left NIF assumed and publicly asserted such stance confirms a level of partiality in the poll surpassing even the infamous Goldstone Report, formulated in conjunction with and featuring testimony from Israeli NGOs backed by the NIF, which falsely accused Israel of perpetrating "war crimes" during its 2008-2009 incursion into Gaza. (Richard Goldstone, who chaired the UN's "fact-finding mission" into the Gaza War and after whom the Report was named, repudiated the allegation in a highly publicized Washington Post op-ed in April 2011).
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The NIF's decision likely had something to do with the fact that the Yisraela Goldblum Fund was created by Amiram Goldblum, the more radical leftist founder of Peace Now, who still runs the foundation named after his late wife Yisraela, herself a former senior official at the NIF.

Goldblum's thoughts on Israel were restated as recently as this past May 5 at a Peace Now event: "Israel's future regarding elections and demography has already been predetermined…in the bedroom of the settlers and the ultra-Orthodox." Goldblum then called on the global left to counter the growing strength of Israel's right by finding a way to impose its agenda on the country through foreign political entities.

Perhaps even the NIF realizes that this kind of racist, seditionist rhetoric precludes someone from commissioning an objective poll. In fact, it takes a special type of Israel-hater to disseminate such invective in ignorance of the forgoing.
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On the macro level, the survey is yet another example exposing the depths to which the Israeli left has sunk. First its failed policies were discredited; then it was abandoned by its base; and now it is self-destructing.

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Ben Gurion University - CHE questions David Newman's (Dean of Social Sciences) Public Money Spending Habits

No cow is too sacred for Newman in his resistance to Academic Pluralism in his Faculty. He crosses all red lines to defend the little fiefdom he created in the Politics and Government Dept

The founder of Ben-Gurion University's Politics and Government Department, Professor David Newman, has called for international pressure and other measures to prevent the department from being shut down by the council.

"I am in favor of exerting measured international pressure, coupled with a trickle of letters from a number of world-famous organizations, some of which will be leaked to the media," Newman, now the dean of the university's Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty, wrote in an internal memo. "At the same time, we will begin legal proceedings against the Council of Higher Education through our attorneys and actions by the [university] president and the rector."

The council has threatened to prevent potential students from applying to study at the faculty in the coming academic year. The dispute began about a year ago when an international committee of experts appointed by the Council of Higher Education to evaluate political science departments at Israel's universities, issued a report harshly criticizing the department for a series of failures. The committee voiced concern that the "study of politics as a scientific discipline may be impeded by such strong emphasis on political activism" at the department, and recommended "major changes," such as diversifying the faculty's views and approaches and altering key programs.

The staff and the department's curriculum were criticized by Israeli officials as being radically left-wing and anti-Israel. The committee did not, however, recommend shutting the department down or blocking registration.
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On the steps Newman plans to take, another senior member of the Council for Higher Education said, "We wonder about the behavior of the institution. Instead of investing their academic efforts in education, the university is spending public funds on private attorneys, strange conduct, to say the least."

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Ben Gurion University - Faculty at BGU Call for the Closure of the Political Science Dept

Ben-Gurion University's Prof. Israel David of the industrial engineering and management department, and Prof. Dan Censor of the electrical and computer engineering department have openly criticized the department and its administration over the past month.

Censor published a letter on the Internet over the weekend where he wrote that the new faculty that the department had brought in on the CHE's first suggestions were just "more of the same" and that because of this, no other, more appropriate faculty will want to join the department, according to him.

"In my opinion, it follows that the department must be closed down, and persons transferred to other departments, according to their areas of activity," he wrote.

"What I don't want to happen is for the CHE to drag their feet, and maybe say that they'll close it next year or leave the issue hanging," David said. "That would be the worst."

Ronen Shoval, the head of Im Tirtzu, explained he is waiting for the decision in the hope that "the CHE does its job as academic investigator and does not surrender to the campaign of fear and threats that BGU is conducting."

Shoval further explained that in his opinion, since the department did not make the changes that the CHE demanded at first, he sees no option other than to shut down the program.

"I think it's very important to have a political science program at BGU just like there is one at every respected university. However, the university refused every opportunity to a solution, lied to the CHE, and tried to trick and manipulate it," he said.

"At this moment, it needs to close down and be reopened later, when it is ready to incorporate pluralism and academic freedom into its curriculum," Shoval added.

He also said that he holds Rivka Carmi, the president of Ben-Gurion University, responsible for "tarnishing the name of the institution."

"She needs to go home. She's the president, she's responsible for not taking the CHE seriously. She basically has just been laughing in its face," he said.

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Prof. Ziva Shamir Exposes the Eradication of Free Speech and Academic Freedom by the Extreme Radical Left in the Social Sciences

Explains the processes in which Departments like BGU's Political Science Dept are allowed to form. Laments the loss of Academic Standards that Leftist 'discourse' has brought about.

She says, "Very few will dare admit openly that several departments in Israel's largest universities, like many places around the world, are now on the most radical fringe of the political map, and quite a few fields of study long ago gave up solid research for fashionable 'discourse.'" In certain departments, says Shamir, it is impossible to express all opinions freely because the "defenders of free speech" will set up an immediate outcry and boycott any 'non-standard' speech without delay. They will condemn the speaker vociferously and delegitimize him publicly.

"Nobody will even admit that in quite a few departments, many of the lecturers can no longer be trusted, since they are tainted by extreme radical thinking. They use the objects of their research and the subjects they teach as nothing but a platform on which to proclaim their extreme political axioms," Shamir says.
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There are lecturers who commit political harassment. Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference when it comes to the fine points of what is allowed and what is not, but it's important to know that political harassment is like sexual harassment. Lecturers in classes have authority over their students. Add to that the fact that low-ranking staff members are dependent on their superiors for years.

"This leads to phenomena that are similar to cloning. A department head collects people around him who think as he does. Sometimes, the staff member behaves at first like one of the anusim [the Jews of Spain who were forced to convert to Catholicism during the time of the Inquisition, also called Marranos]. Later, they end up 'converting' because they have no choice. When a language teacher gives the class a sentence for analysis such as 'IDF soldiers at checkpoints act like neo-Nazis,' what is there to talk about? Israeli academicians call abroad for the boycotting of Israel and its educational institutions and then they're astonished when the rug is pulled out from under them."

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Special Isracampus Report:
Hebrew University - Maariv Editor Attacks Amiram Goldblum (Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences) as Anti-Democratic Fanatic

In his Oct 26, 2012 weekend column in Maariv (in Hebrew), Ben Dror Yemini attacks Amiram Goldblum as an anti-democratic extremist. Yemini notes that Goldblum was one of the initiators of the biased anti-Israel "survey" that claimed to show that Israeli Jews favor apartheid. Yemini reminds readers that Goldblum was on the election slate of the Meretz Party and that a criminal indictment was filed against him for his role in the campaign finances scandal and his refusal to testify about the sources for the funds he used to plant campaign ads in the media. Yemini reminds readers that the prosecution of Goldblum was then mysteriously "delayed." He also notes how Goldblum is on the council of the New Israel Fund, adding that Goldblum has been becoming more and more extremist over time, including in his support for anti-democratic measures to force Israel to agree to the political agenda of the Far Left.

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Ben Gurion University - BGU Faculty Come Out Against the Politics Department

Claim that taking the Council of Higher Education to court "would be taken at the expense of other important university initiatives"

Disagreement with the department's teaching methods does not only come from external groups, however. BGU Professors Israel David, of the industrial engineering and management department, and Dan Censor, of the electrical and computer engineering department, have openly expressed their critiques of the program.

"I don't want the department to close, but I am in favor of kicking out malignant elements," said David, specifically pointing to Prof. Neve Gordon, who is known for his radical left-wing political opinions and is currently on sabbatical at Princeton University in the US.

According to David, Gordon has often mentioned the term "apartheid" when talking about Israel. "I'm not against the department because I'm Zionist, that's not what makes me get involved in this at the age of 50-something. The reason is, and I hope this will be heard, that I am fed up with people pissing on my head. There are a few people here that piss on everyone, on this university," he said.

David also said that the department's website states its goal as helping students bring about "economic and political change."

"That is not the mission statement of a university program," he said. "It's the platform of a political party."

He further discussed the department's threat to take the issue to court, saying the money that would go toward such an action would be taken at the expense of other important university initiatives.

Censor, for his part, said: "I see the whole department as accomplices in the offense. I think they are in a status of 'useful idiots,' they are contributing in destroying their own environment."

Whatever the MALAG's decision, he said, it will be significant and "will change the face of Israeli academia in Israel for the better."

Censor added that the idea to sue CHE is "absurd" and "surrealist."

David and Censor agree that the program's methods and persistence in contradicting MALAG hurts the university's reputation – and their jobs. Censor noted that he had been denied the opportunity to present research at a conference, and he is convinced it was due to the controversy.

"It's a bleeding wound that will never close," he said of the program.

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Special Isracampus Report
Hebrew University - Anti-Israel "Survey" Organized and Sponsored by Amiram Goldblum (Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences) Claiming that Most Israeli Jews favor Apartheid

Amiram Goldblum runs a small foundation that was set up in memory of his late wife, Yisraela Goldblum, who was a senior official in the Far-Leftist New Israel Fund. The Yisraela Goldblum Fund is operated in conjunction with the New Israel Fund. The fund makes grants to causes supported by the Left (see here for example), but recently claims to have conducted a survey of attitudes in Israel. The story appears in English here.

The results of this supposed survey are reported in the column by anti-Israel extremist Gideon Levy in Haaretz.

Among the "findings" of the "survey" are these:

The survey indicates that a third to half of Jewish Israelis want to live in a state that practices formal, open discrimination against its Arab citizens. An even larger majority wants to live in an apartheid state if Israel annexes the territories.

The survey conductors say perhaps the term "apartheid" was not clear enough to some interviewees. However, the interviewees did not object strongly to describing Israel's character as "apartheid" already today, without annexing the territories. Only 31 percent objected to calling Israel an "apartheid state" and said "there's no apartheid at all."

In contrast, 39 percent believe apartheid is practiced "in a few fields"; 19 percent believe "there's apartheid in many fields" and 11 percent do not know.

The "Russians," as the survey calls them, display the most objection to classifying their new country as an apartheid state. A third of them - 35 percent - believe Israel practices no apartheid at all, compared to 28 percent of the secular and ultra-Orthodox communities, 27 percent of the religious and 30 percent of the observant Jews who hold that view. Altogether, 58 percent of all the groups believe Israel practices apartheid "in a few fields" or "in many fields," while 11 percent don't know.

The "findings" of the "survey" have been challenged by Honestreporting.com here and the New Israel Fund itself has announced it does NOT stand behind the "findings" in the "survey".

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Breaking News:
MK Gideon Saar, Minister of Education, calls for the firing of BGU’s Neve Gordon (Dept of Political Science)

A Major Breakthrough at Last with regard to Tenured Treason in Israel

Over this past weekend Israel’s Minister of Education Gideon Saar gave an interview in which he formally called for the firing of Ben Gurion University’s Neve Gordon.
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Gordon is the tenured extremist in the Department of Politics at Ben Gurion University who this week is the keynote speaker in a conference in Canada endorsing Arab terrorism against Jews.
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In the Maariv report, Saar is cited as mocking the claims by BGU president Rivka Carmi that she cannot legally fire Gordon. Saar, who is a lawyer, dismisses the claim.
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This is the first time that an Israeli politician has openly called for the firing of an anti-Israel tenured extremist.

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Hebrew University - Amiram Goldblum (Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences) Celebrated by the Anti-Semitic Egyptian English News Agency Al-Ahram

In an article about an American security team that will 'examine' borders between Jewish and Arab villages, Goldblum's wild accusations color more than half the item.

Professor Amiram Goldblum, former spokesman for the Israeli 'Peace Now' movement, held successive US administrations – especially the Obama administration – as responsible for the expansion of Jewish settlement activity in the West Bank.

In an article published Wednesday in Israeli daily Haaretz, Goldblum said that they [US administrations] overlooked West Bank settlement activity and preferred not to enter into a direct confrontation with Israel and Jewish organizations in the United States.

Goldblum also criticised Obama, saying that his veto against a UN Security Council bill condemning settlement policies constitutes an important turning point in favour of settlement construction.

He asserted that Obama had killed the hopes of a change in policy after being subjected to pressure from American Jewish organization and Christian right leaders.

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The Campaign by the Totalitarian Left to Preserve Ben Gurion University's Center for Radical Indoctrination

There is a species of radical Leftist that believes that it is the main purpose of taxpayer-funded universities to engage in indoctrination of students into radical left-wing ideology. Such people believe that the only legitimate form of scholarly research and teaching is to force upon students the ideas and agendas of the radical Left, because only these represent correct thinking.
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The totalitarian Left believes that taxpayers are morally obligated to fund the teaching of extremist ideology in the classroom, including by people advocating the demise of those same taxpayers and of their country. It is the job of citizens to sit back passively and pay for the far Left to operate propaganda centers, while the radicals collect their cushy salaries as payment for advocating their anti-Israel agenda…

Nowhere is this ideological extremism so clearly on display as in the Department of Politics at Ben Gurion University (BGU), a pseudo-academic propaganda and indoctrination center disguised as an academic department. It is not the only such department in Israel nor at BGU, but it may well be the worst.
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In recent weeks, the totalitarian Left has been circling its wagons in solidarity with the Department of Politics at BGU. Leftist-dominated academic associations are flooding the press and the CHE with angry demands to defend the right of the Department of Politics at BGU to engage in "advocacy" and leftist indoctrination. Recruited by the members of BGU's politics department, foreign members of the academic Left and Israeli tenured radicals, even some notorious members of the communist party, have been leading the campaign to defend the BGU propagandists.

The campaigners demand that the right of BGU leftists to indoctrinate and propagandize at taxpayer expense be defended against CHE criticism and interference. The defenders of the department insist that "positivism," meaning actual scholarly research, is only one legitimate strand of academic activity in political science, meaning they really want ideological indoctrination to be the "alternative" function of academics…

And so the Orwellian inversions continue. Under the campaign to defend the right of BGU radicals to indoctrinate students into anti-Israel ideology, pluralism and diversity are achieved by maintaining a department in which only far leftists may teach. Academic freedom is achieved by suppressing the right to criticize anti-Israel extremists. The highest form of scholarly research is the promulgation of hate propaganda and anti-Zionist advocacy. Diversity of ideas is achieved by suppressing all non-leftist thought. And the highest form of public responsibility and accountability is when taxpayers are coerced into paying for the inculcation of extremist ideas, those which the taxpayers themselves reject and abhor.

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Politicians from the Far Left rallying to support the anti-Israel propagandists in the BGU department of politics

As the debate over Ben-Gurion University's politics department continues, Meretz head Zehava Gal-On declared on Saturday that "the Likud wants to scalp the academia and show it off to [Likud activist] Moshe Feiglin's camp during the primary."

BGU's political science department has strongly divided the Left and Right, as the issue has been very much politicized in the past few weeks.

The department has been criticized for the radical left-wing opinions of some of its faculty members, by rightwing organizations such as the Zionist NGO Im Tirzu – which called the program "unbalanced" and "very disturbing."

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Prof. Dan Censor, who specializes in electrical engineering at BGU, called the comment by Gal-On "pre-election farting" and said it has "nothing to do with any factual issue."

"In her statement there is no fact other than that Gideon Sa'ar is the minister of education," he added. "If anything, Gal-On pretends to help in putting out the fire by dousing it with fuel."

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Ben Gurion University - Neve Gordon (Dept of Political Science) to be Keynote Speaker in Conference in Canada endorsing Palestinian Terrorism

Here is how the conference is advertised:

Not in Our Name: Jews in Solidarity with the Palestinian Resistance:
Independent Jewish Voices, Canada
Annual General Meeting
18-20 October 2012
Steelworker's Hall
25 Cecil Street -- Toronto

This year's Annual General Meeting of Independent Jewish Voices, Canada will focus on issues of Jewish solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for self-determination.

Keynote Speakers: Yafa Jarrar and Neve Gordon

All Are Welcome

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Hebrew University - Bernard Avishai (Dept of Business Administration) Floods the Web with Disinformation about the calls to Shut Down the BGU Politics Department on the web site of anti-Zionist Peter Beinert

Still, the threat to close down the BGU department is not a case of naked repression of academic freedom by Netanyahu's ultra government. In a way, it is worse than that, for it reflects an emergent "consensus" in the administration of higher education in Israel, aimed at stifling criticism of the occupation and its implications by advancing the presumed virtues of scientific neutrality; a consensus fueled by public officials and abetted by self-styled "Zionist" watchdog groups; a conformist partisanship advanced by muddled political language, intimidation, self-censorship, apathy, and garden-variety cowardice, much like what we saw during McCarthyism in the early 1950s....

In other words, the "centrists" on the Malag call for "balance," but what they mean to invite is what Orwell called double-think: their "consensus" entails lip-service to liberalism, at least when they attend international conferences, but not a commitment that undermines social solidarity. They are arguing for a kind of social complacency, or tribal loyalty above justice to individuals, precisely what the BGU government department says it opposes.

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Ben Gurion University - David Newman (Dean of Social Science and Humanities) complains that Israel's Scientific Reputation will be destroyed if the Council of Higher Education maintains academic standards and shuts down pseudo-academic propaganda centers

BGU underhandedly tries to increase the uniformity of critical thought in Newman's Political Science Dept under the cheap political façade of adhering to the CHE recommendations. In a typical belligerent left-wing response, Newman threatens the CHE to change or be ignored.

It is even more troubling that this chorus of international opinion is a direct result of the policies of the CHE itself, resulting from the recommendation of its Quality Assessment subcommittee to prevent further registration of new students in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University. This recommendation appears, to most observers, to have been influenced by political, rather than professional, considerations, and raises serious questions concerning the role of the CHE in overseeing Israel's universities.
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And what has been the response of the CHE to this global and unanimous condemnation? In a response which is so typical of the right wing in Israel, they have accused the university of orchestrating an international campaign against the CHE as part of the "radical leftist" attempts to delegitimize Israel.

A university which bears the name of Ben-Gurion, which is at the forefront of developing the Negev and whose social and national agenda brings credit to the State of Israel, now stands accused by the CHE of joining forces with Israel's enemies. The CHE totally ignores the professional criticism of its recent recommendations and, instead of congratulating the university on meeting almost all of the professional recommendations in the original report, has resorted to a cheap political response to a problem which they created in the first place.
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The CHE must return to being a professional body, free from political ideologies and pressures. It must seek a new way of ensuring the highest scientific and academic standards at all of Israel's universities. Failure to do so will make the CHE irrelevant, to the detriment of both the Israeli and the global scientific community.

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The Assault by the Totalitarian Left against Academic Freedom on Israel

Sharp criticism of the "Solidarity with Ben Gurion University" movement

In recent weeks the very worst assault upon academic freedom in Israeli history has transpired in the form of a growing campaign of "solidarity" with the Department of Politics at Ben Gurion University. This "department" is nothing more than an anti-Israel far-leftist propaganda and indoctrination center, containing pseudo-academics, misrepresented and disguised as a university academic department. It is also a department in which freedom of speech and academic freedom are brutally suppressed.

The department is the epitome of the ideal of the Far Left regarding what they think universities should be, namely totalitarian indoctrination centers in which students are brainwashed into Marxist and Far-Leftist ideology, in which no non-leftist dissent is tolerated.
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The nature of the Department of Politics as a pseudo-academic taxpayer-funded anti-Israel agitation center is well known by now. An international panel set up by Israel's Council on Higher Education investigated things and recommended that the department be shut down altogether. Since then, the anti-democratic totalitarian Left in Israel and abroad has been circling the wagons in solidarity with the department and denouncing the Israel Council on Higher Education as a fascist oppressive tool of the "Right." In typical Orwellian inversion, these enemies of academic freedom and freedom of speech demand that the BGU department of politics be preserved as a totalitarian anti-democratic indoctrination center, one in which no pluralism or diversity or dissent from leftist dogma is permitted.
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Anyway, today (5/10/2012) the Deputy Editor of Maariv, Ben Dror Yemini, who is himself left of center but is a bona fide Zionist patriot, takes on the "Solidarity with Ben Gurion University" movement. He does so in Hebrew here:

The academic world has found itself in the heart of yet another storm in response to the recommendations to end all registration of new students in the degree programs of the Department of Politics at Ben Gurion University. Hundreds have signed petitions demanding that this "assault against academic freedom" be stopped. As usual, the outward impression is supposed to be of the forces of enlightenment battling against the forces of darkness, meaning those seeking to silence "critics." This impression is worth a closer look!
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While failures exist in many departments, the only one for which the panel issued a call that it be shut down was the politics department at Ben Gurion University, at least unless major changes and reforms were to take place in it. The CHE unanimously adopted the panel's recommendations. It is worth noting that the members of the CHE are NOT political hacks or apparatchiks and they were NOT appointed by the Right or even by the Minister of Education. The panel included two prominent and distinguished political scientists from Germany….The "reforms" were supposed to be two-fold, first in the area of recruiting faculty who could teach sub-disciplines not currently taught in the department [meaning anything other than Marxist leftism – SP] and introduction of diversity of points of view, so that not only "critical" [meaning Marxist – SP] ideology was being taught.

The department did hire three new people. [All three were also far-leftists; what grand diversity!! – SP]. No one checked up on their political opinions or challenged their credentials. The problem was with regard to the second goal. Two of the three [Yemini is wrong – actually all three – SP] were hired in direct defiance of the instructions of the CHE. The panel had criticized the fact that most of the existing departmental faculty members belong to the "critical" [meaning Marxist – SP] strand of political science, considered fringe in academia. These are people who toss out conjectures that cannot be tested or disproved in a scientific manner. The CHE ordered the department to diversify away from its monolithic "critical" makeup. So what did Ben Gurion University do? It hired MORE "critical" faculty members. One of these is not even a political scientist at all… Meaning that the department simply defied the CHE.

This is the background to the recommendation by the CHE to shut down the department! But that recommendation served as the spark for a new campaign (by the anti-Israel far Left). So instead of carrying out the CHE instructions, BGU and its department of politics launched a political campaign.
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Those are the facts, but the "campaign" has been launched, impervious to facts and truth. Academics and journalists from around the world are sending swarms of angry messages to the CHE. Petitions inside and outside Israel are being collected. The signers are unaware of the fact that this is a battle by the CHE AGAINST those who seek to suppress pluralism and restrict academic freedom [the department of politics at BGU and its supporters – SP]. The CHE is the agency SEEKING diversity and pluralism! But it is always such fun to proclaim that Israel is a reactionary backward primitive entity that censors and silences its leftist academic critics. This is an unprecedented campaign of intimidation and distortion directed AGAINST the members of the CHE by these who would coerce them into adopting the political agenda of the Far Left. This is no academic campaign. …

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Hebrew University - Amiram Goldblum's (Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences) Battle to Silence his Critics - files anti-democratic SLAPP harassment suit against lawyer Yoram Sheftel

IsraCampus Update to IsraCampus report of Goldblum's threats to stifle Free Speech and have Sheftel removed from radio station [in Hebrew]

Yoram Sheftel denounced Amiram Goldblum as Bolshevik and Anti-Semitic [in Hebrew] on his weekly radio program after Goldblum had threatened to have Sheftel removed from the airwaves. Goldblum's rant was prompted by Sheftel's repeated on-air criticisms of outrageous 'Peace Now' activities.

Amiram Goldblum finally filed a SLAPP harassment suit against the Tel Aviv radio station Non-Stop Radio 103FM, where Yoram Sheftel hosts his show, in July 2012. The courts referred the parties to arbitration – the link [in Hebrew] below:
http://www.psika.net/119407-5193.html

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Hebrew University - LA Times reported in 1990 that Amiram Goldblum's own house was stoned by angry neighbors enraged by his political activities in support of Palestinian demands

JERUSALEM — A group of enraged Israelis drove Arab construction workers from a building site in Baka, the Jerusalem neighborhood where on Sunday a Palestinian had stabbed and killed three residents. The group then turned to the home of a well-known peace activist.
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A few of them picked up stones and hurled them at the man's second-story apartment until police intervened, arresting local residents who tried to stop them and sending the rest on their way.
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"We are being made a scapegoat," said Amiram Goldblum, a Peace Now activist whose house was stoned. "It's madness, sheer madness."
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"When there is this kind of violence, we just lose ground," Goldblum said. "We lose the people in the middle."
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"The hostility is a product of the right," Peace Now activist Goldblum said.

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Tel Aviv University - Chaim Gans' (Dept of Law) new course in Anti-Israel Indoctrination crosses all red lines

In his weekend column in Maariv Sept 28, 2012, deputy editor Ben Dror Yemini reports the latest abomination from Tel Aviv University. It seems the TAU law school this year is offering a special new course entitled, "Is a Just Zionism Possible?" The question mark appears in the course description and we bet you can guess on your own what the answer to this question will be. The lecturer "teaching" this course is the anti-democratic radical leftist anti-Zionist law professor Chaim Gans.

… [C]omments Yemini, "The Israeli academic institutions cross all the red lines, excuse me for generalizing. It is not as if we were unaware that there are plenty of academics with anti-Zionist agendas. There are. But it is no longer enough for them to urinate into the pool in which they swim…"

Yemini then reviews the academic record of Gans himself… "The approach of Gans," writes Yemini," will lead us to a slaughterhouse more commonly called a Bi-national State." … Yemini reminds his readers that Gans also has a long track record of endorsing and supporting mutiny and insurrection among Israeli soldiers, and was the initiator of the anti-democratic petition to prevent the army colonel from teaching.

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Goldblum goes International

Hebrew University's Amiram Goldblum (Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences) serving on the board of "Stop Moskowitz," a malicious smear group that attacks Industrialist Irving Moskowitz because he dares to support Israeli "Settlers"

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Prof Steve Plaut helps to enlighten David Newman (BGU, Dean of Humanities), the man who could find no wrong, as to where his Politics Dept is flawed

Sir, – The leftist geographer who single-handedly built the politics department at Ben- Gurion University of the Negev into the worst anti-Israel indoctrination and propaganda center in the country is simply is unable to find anything wrong with it ("Prof. David Newman defends BGU's politics department against Council on Higher Education registration ban," September 24).
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Newman's dissimulation is of course familiar nonsense. The simple fact of the matter is that every single member of the Ben-Gurion University politics department, including the three new recruits supposedly hired to create diversity there, are radical leftists. The main activity of the department is anti-Israel agitprop, as the international panel appointed by the Council on Higher Education (CHE) also reported.
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This is not only the most openly anti-Israel (and sometimes anti-Semitic) academic department in all of Israel, it is also the least pluralistic, least tolerant and least diversified. It is also one with the very lowest academic standards, as the CHE panel found.
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Academic standards died years ago in the department built by Newman. The fact the Neve Gordon, Israel's Norman Finkelstein, was hired and promoted by Newman on the basis of an "academic record" consisting almost entirely of churning out anti-Israel hate propaganda illustrates how academic standards there are dead.
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Yes, by all means, it is time to shut down this pseudo-academic taxpayer-funded disgrace.

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Hebrew University - Amiram Goldblum (Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences) Admitted Guilt and Expressed Remorse Over Stonewalling the Attorney General

After Goldblum's confession, a deferred prosecution agreement was procured. IsraCampus Followup to Goldblum's Criminal Indictment

[Yet another case where the Prosecutor's Office has failed to indict a Leftist involved in Criminal Behavior -- Isracampus]

The original document can be seen here [in Hebrew]

 

Ben Gurion University - Oren Yiftachel battles against Israeli Sovereignty and Democracy by Urging World anti-Semites to Pressure the Israeli Council of Higher Education to Preserve BGU's anti-Israel Indoctrination Center

The Israeli Council of Higher Education (CHE known also in Hebrew as MALAG) is on the verge of ordering the closure of the Politics and Government Department at Ben-Gurion University (BGU), Beersheba, Israel.
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Any thinking person can clearly see that the intervention is blatantly political. The government and its satellite nationalist organizations have made this department a test case in their quest to silence critical academics. To this end, we should do all we can to save this department, and with it critical and free research, particularly as regards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Against the worrying scenario of a Mccarthyist purge, we would like to ask for your help. Israeli officials and professors are sensitive to their international image. Hence we ask you to express grave concern about the possible closure of the department. A particularly effective way may be writing directly to the members of the CHE listed above (under the "Act to Protect Academic Freedom in Israel" heading). Most of them are professors and may be swayed by Israel's international reputation and by the need to protect academic freedom.

Of course, you may also write to journalist, blogs, petitions, electronic media, to your politicians, your governments and to heads of Israeli universities with a clear message – closing an academic department through blatant political intervention will gravely stain Israel's standing in the a academy, and hinder future contact and status with academics worldwide!

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Ben Gurion University - David Newman (Dean of Social Sciences) Can Find No Wrong in the Dept of Politics and Government; Attacks the Council of Higher Education

The geographer who single-handedly built the Politics Dept denies the far-leftist reality of the department, where every faculty member is a radical leftist, including the political leanings of the rumored three new recruits to be hired to create "diversity".

Prof. David Newman, dean of the Faculty for Human and Social Sciences at BGU in Beersheba, said on Sunday, “As a person who spends half his time involved in combatting boycotts in Europe, I can tell you that from responses we are receiving from friendly academics throughout the world, the Council of Higher Education is doing more damage and harm to name of Israel’s universities than all of our enemies put together.”

Claims that the politics and government program was left-wing oriented were “just not based on reality,” Newman, a Jerusalem Post columnist, said.
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Newman also said the faculty at the department was of varied personal political positions… “This is clearly a question of political interference in academic freedom,” he said.

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University of Exeter - Pseudo-Historian Ilan Pappe likens Israel to Aboriginal dispossession and South African Apartheid

Pappe returns with another fact-free round of pseudo-academic Israel Bashing from Down Under

If the creation of the state of Israel was akin to the ethnic cleansing of the resident Palestinians, does the establishment of colonial Australia amount to the same thing for the indigenous population?

This is the hypothesis put to Professor Ilan Pappe, an Israeli historian who is no stranger to controversy and unpopular arguments, on his latest tour of Australia.

“I think it's a very very fair comparison,” he says. “Both societies are settler colonial societies, dispossessing the indigenous people.”
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Another historical comparison is that of apartheid South Africa, Professor Pappe says. Invoking the word "apartheid" is highly provocative; the term has legal implications as well as emotive ones, but he is resolute that the name is justified.

The ideology of apartheid – of separation, of segregation – is not dissimilar in the two countries, he says, arguing that Archbishop Desmond Tutu has also drawn the comparison between the two situations. “I don't think it's too strong a term. As a scholar I would like to go deeply into the comparison and see the similarities as well as the dissimilarities. But from the general perspective of what kind of attitude Jews have towards non-Jews in the state of Israel, I don't know of a better term in a legal realm in that respect.”

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Special Isracampus Report:
Rivka Carmi's new "Diversity" in the Department of Politics at Ben Gurion University.

The new "Diversity" is the old "Diversity" – three NEW far-leftist radicals added

Carmi is telling the whole world that she has introduced "diversity" into the Department of Politics at BGU in response to the calls from the Council on Higher Education to shut down the anti-Israel department. Carmi is proud that there are three new "recruits" in this department. But who are these recruits? Every single one of the new recruits is a Far Leftist! That is correct. Rivka Carmi is diversifying the worst anti-Israel propaganda department in Israeli academia by adding three NEW leftist radicals to it!

The first and the worst of the three is a radical anti-Israel historian, who is not even a political scientist at all. She is Michal Givoni, and she was a "researcher" at Tel Aviv University until offered a position in the Carmi cosmetics fix-up. Givoni may be even more anti-Israel than the existing members of the Department. You can read all about her here.

She will be joined by Gad Arieli, who evidently is also a far leftist, this based on the fact that he has been on the staff of the leftwing Israel Democracy Institute and also that he is an author of [extreme leftist] (and other similar) articles…

The third new "recruit" is actually now doing a Post-Doc at UCLA and has not yet joined the department. She is Ayelet Harel-Shalev, and she is also a far-leftist. She works with and turns out propaganda for the extremist anti-Israel Arab nationalist Adalah group (see this report on it - http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article/adalah). She claims to be an expert on Israel's oppressed Arab minority (she calls them "Israeli Palestinians")… Her PhD is from the very same department of politics at BGU. So she is a product of Neve Gordon, Dan Filc, and David Newman.

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Shut down the anti-Israel Department of Politics at Ben Gurion University

Arguably, the worst institution in the country when it comes to anti-Israel agitprop (misrepresented as academic performance) has been Ben Gurion University (BGU), although Tel Aviv University is a close runner-up. And the worst anti-Israel department in all of Israel has been BGU's Department of Politics.

An international panel of prestigious experts appointed by Israel's Council on Higher Education (which oversees and funds Israeli universities) last year called for shutting down that Department of Politics altogether due to its openly extremist "activism," its absence of pluralism and diversity of ideas, and its low academic quality.

A few days ago an Inspections Subcommittee of the CHE submitted a report on the department that repeated the demand that it be closed down.

Meanwhile, the anti-Israel Left has been racing to close ranks with the BGU extremists.

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Evergreen College, Washington State and now SUNY Plattsburg: Simona Sharoni – the ex-pat Israeli who sent Rachel Corrie to her Death

Few people know that it was a radical leftist anti-Israel ex-pat Israeli professor in "Women's Studies" at Corrie's alma mater, Evergreen College, who recruited Rachel Corrie to go commit suicide for the Hamas. She inculcated in Corrie the idea that one creates "peace" and "conflict resolution" by supporting and being a human shield for Arab terrorists, while interfering with anti-terror operations. That "professor" is Simona Sharoni, currently in the Women's Studies Department at State University of occupied New York.

Sharoni is one of the founders of the violently anti-Israel International Solidarity Movement (ISM)-linked group Women In Black, an organization that supports the Hamas. These "Women" are never disturbed by the mass murders of Israeli women by Hamas terrorists. "Women in Black" frequently attacks Israel as a male-dominated warrior society that supposedly subjugates both women and Arabs. As far as we know, they have never had a single word to say about the oppression of women in Arab culture and society.
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A new book has been put out by the ISM titled "I Stand Alone," which is supposed to be made up of St. Rachel's scribbling in her "journal… In the "book" Rachel describes how three Evergeen College professors influenced her decision to go to Gaza and serve as an accomplice for the Hamas. She specifically recounts that Simona Sharoni was one of those who molded her mindset to join the ISM and become a human shield. We use the word mind loosely.
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So here we have an unstable young woman who was indoctrinated by a college professor into believing that she could change the world for the better by aiding terrorist movements, engaging in "legitimate resistance." Her then boyfriend, another ISM activist whom she discussed in her book, admitted to a Seattle reporter after her death that Rachel did not consider herself a peace activist, but an anarchist.

Rachel Corrie sought to aid the Jew-killers of Hamas in their "resistance" against "oppression", reciting clearly slogans and ideas garnered from her professor Simona Sharoni. New information has emerged that Simona Sharoni may have offered college credit to Rachel Corrie for her volunteer activities in Gaza on behalf of the ISM and the Hamas.

Simona Sharoni is the real person who should have been sued by the Corrie family for recruiting Rachel into the ISM.

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Special Isracampus Report:
Open Political Indoctrination, Brainwashing, and Politicization at the Ramat Gan Academic Center

The Ramat Gan Academic Center of Law and Business is a third-rate community college that operates in Israel. It consists of a third-rate business school and a fourth rate law school. It also has a new official approach to higher education. It is seeking to indoctrinate its students officially into far-leftist Marxist violence and anti-Israel radicalism. The college has announced (source: Makor Rishon Sept 14, 2012) that it will be granting large fellowship grants to all students in the college who sign up to work as members of extremist anti-Israel "activist" groups. Among the eligible groups a student may join to receive the fellowship is the violent pro-terror "Anarchists against the Wall," the pro-terror Communist Party front group "Machsom Watch (Checkpoint Watch)," B'Tselem (in the news this week because Hussein abu Hussein, a member of its board, insists Israel is more evil than Nazi Germany), a group seeking to force Israel to admit unlimited numbers of African infiltrators, and a few other extremist organizations. No Zionist or conservative organizations are included in the list of eligible activist groups. The fellowships given to these leftist activists are for 10,000 shekels, which is almost as high as annual tuition at a major Israeli university.
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Given the open indoctrination into anti-Israel leftism and Marxism, not only does the Ramat Gan College deserve to receive no public funds, but it should not be accredited at all as an institution of higher learning in Israel.

To express and opinion about that, write to (for more address details please see the full article):
The Honorable Gideon Sa'ar
Minister of Education
Email: gsaar@knesset.gov.il
Additional Email: sar@education.gov.il

Shalomit Amichai
Director General of the Ministry of Education
Email: mankal@education.gov.il

Make sure to send a copies to the following functionaries at this "Academic Center" and you can tell them what you think of all this:
Prof. David Menashry (whose home base is Tel Aviv University)
President of Ramat Gan Academic Center
menashry@post.tau.ac.il

Nitza Mazar
CEO of Ramat Gan Academic Center
nitzam@clb.ac.il

As well as other influential dignitaries at the Council of Higher Education
Prof. Manuel Trachtenberg
Chairman, Council on Higher Education
Email: manuel@post.tau.ac.il

Aharon Beit-Halahmi
Planning & Budgeting Committee Chairman
Council for Higher Education
Email: betha@eurofund.co.il
E-mail: info@che.org.il

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Ben Gurion University - Thabet Abu Rass (Dept of Geography) among the Gaggle of anti-Israel Activists trying to help the Bedouins Seize Control of the Negev illegally

The director of Adalah's Negev bureau, Dr. Thabet Abu Rass, commented on the decision, saying that "achieving recognition by the European Parliament that the Israeli government practices the same policies of displacement and dispossession against Palestinian citizens of Israel as it does against Palestinians living under occupation is a tremendous step forward."
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All the usual suspects, NGOs which work to weaken the State of Israel in their so-called post-Zionist world, such as Adalah, Rabbis for Human Rights, Bimkom and ACRI, back the Beduin claims. They not only support the usurping of land, they take clear aim at pillars of our Zionist establishment such as the JNF, which they claim is a racist, colonial entity that should be shut down....Their goal for the Beduin is no less than the establishment of facts on the ground, as Pnini Badash – the mayor of Omer states, "to create an autonomous region" that will eventually be contiguous with the oft-promised Palestinian state to be created only a few kilometers to the north.

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Ben Gurion University - Yossi Yonah (Dept of Education) Pooh-Poohs the Threats from Iran

The dire Iranian rhetoric is only PM Netanyahu spin to divert attention from Social Justice Issues.

So, while he exerts so much effort in providing an answer to the military threats on his citizens, Netanyahu does not hesitate to abuse them with an unrestrained capitalist policy. He fails to understand that these socio-economic wrongs pose a real strategic threat to the resilience of Israeli society, just as much as the external threats do.

Even now, after we have learned of the huge hole in the state budget, Netanyahu refuses remains adamant in his refusal to change his priorities. Instead, he places the burden on the middle class and on the weaker sectors of society, which are asked to pay the price for his failed economic policy.
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Therefore, now is the time for the Israeli public to display political maturity and refuse to fall victim to Netanyahu's diversions. Now is the time for the Israeli public to clarify to its leaders that society's internal resilience is just as important as the country's military capability to face external threats, as grave as they may be.

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Tenured Leftwing Fascists in Israel calling for Illegal Boycott of Ariel University

Prof. Chaim Ganz [Tel Aviv University] suggests drastic measures: "Stopping our work at the universities for at least one day in the course of the first or second week of studies while holding protests and informational gatherings, seems to me to be a minimum. We can also think about stopping studies for one day a week in each of the first six weeks. As a minimum."

Prof. David Levy-Faur of Hebrew University encourages his colleagues to take heart: "Do not despair. We gave back Sinai, we left Gaza, we will solve the problem of the other territories as well… but unfortunately it will cost another war or two. We are in the midst of a change in the tactics of the struggle. From a civil protest that characterized our actions since 1967, to civil resistance. The goal should be to bring all of the settlers home by the fiftieth year of the occupation, 2017."

Prof. Menachem Hofnung [Hebrew University] suggests that everyone resort to calling the institution at Ariel a "college" even if "the government" decides to approve it as a university.

Prof. Alon Harel of Hebrew U. suggests that Ariel's academicians and degrees be treated as those of "a foreign country."

Dr. Julia Chaitin of Sapir College suggested that Ariel U. be made to accept lecturers and students from the Palestinian Authority (PA). She may have been unaware, writes Bigman, that it was the PA that jailed several lecturers who participated in a conference at Ariel several months ago.

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Ben Gurion University - Neve Gordon (Dept of Political Science) compares Israel's use of Barbed Wire to the Nazi construction of Dachau

While this analysis appears accurate when thinking of the Nazi concentration camps, it does not ring true in relation to World War I. It is precisely the diverse historical roles barbed wire has played—both as sign and as action—in the modern process of separating and homogenizing society that needs to be exposed, analyzed and explained.

Explicating and trying to understand the continued widespread use of barbed wire could have added an additional dimension to this fascinating book. For example, examining the architectural similarity and differences between the camps Israel has constructed to hold Palestinians and the concentration camps Jews were held in during the Holocaust, urges one to ponder how it is that the reappearance of barbed wire in the Israeli landscape does not engender an outcry among survivors.

For more details and to see the full original article, go here

 

Special Isracampus Report:
Rivka Carmi, the president of Ben Gurion University, has announced her intention to defy the Council on Higher Education (CHE) in Israel and, in effect, to break the law and convert Ben Gurion University into an outlaw institution.

Her campaign to turn her school into Scofflaw University is in response to the recommendations by an Inspections Sub-Committee set up by the CHE Council to follow any reforms or changes that Carmi and BGU take in response to the recommendations by an international panel of experts regarding the University's Department of Politics (political science)…

[The Inspections] sub-committee reported a few days ago that little of substance has been changed, and it repeated the demand that the Department of Politics be shut down altogether starting in the 2013-14 school year…

Now the News1 web site, a news service in Hebrew, carries a report here (http://www.news1.co.il/Archive/001-D-309321-00.html) entitled "Ben Gurion University Mutinies against the CHE." It reports that Carmi and other officials at Ben Gurion University distributed a letter to all faculty and students in the university this week, announcing their intention to defy the CHE and ignore the demands and the call to shut down the Department of Politics. The letter of defiance, which can be read in its original in Hebrew here: http://www.news1.co.il/ShowCurrentFile.aspx?FileID=11060, is signed by Carmi, the BGU Rector Zvi Hacohen, and Dean of Social Sciences and Humanities David Newman, himself a geographer who is a member of the Department of Politics.

   

… [T]he letter denounces the report by the Inspections Sub-Committee, calling it unfounded and unprecedented and devoid of facts. It also threatens to take legal measures against the CHE (which provides the bulk of BGU's funding), to make sure that the recommendations are not implemented. In the letter these BGU officials insist that the demands of the Sub-Committee are an assault against academic freedom and are politically motivated and undemocratic. Evidently it is undemocratic for taxpayers to be able to expect accountability and serious standards of academic excellence from a university they pay for! (How amusing that the very same BGU people insist on the right to maintain a one-sided department of anti-Israel indoctrination within Ben Gurion University!!)

… The letter concludes with the proclamation by its signers that the Department of Politics will continue to operate unimpeded.

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Isracampus Special Report:
Yediot Ahronot Reports that Ben Gurion University's Political Science Department is about to be Closed

Israel's daily Yediot Ahronot reports on Sept. 6, 2012 that the Department of Political Science at Ben Gurion University is on the verge of being forcibly shut down by the Israeli State Commission on Higher Education, the public body that oversees and regulates (and funds) Israeli universities.

According to the news story, an independent balanced international panel of experts investigated the department and found it extremely politicized (meaning uniformly far leftist and anti-Israel) and with abysmally low academic standards. The Council on Higher Education adopted and approved the panel's proposals. Among these was the demand that mainstream ideas and methods also be taught in the department, in contrast with the current situation in which only Marxism and "post-colonialist" post-Zionist rhetoric are the main forms of analysis. The panel spoke out most forcefully against the open political activism (most of it anti-Israel) that dominates the activities of the department. The panel expressed skepticism over whether the students were actually learning anything scholarly besides being indoctrinated in "activism"…

The international panel proposed that no new students be admitted for studies in that department in the 2013-14 school year unless serious reforms are first undertaken.

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Ben Gurion University - Lee Kaplan Takes Neve Gordon (Dept of Political Science) to Task; Provides Rebuttal to Gordon's Attacks on Kaplan and the Haifa Court's Credibility

Gordon celebrates Rachel Corrie's "martyrdom" as one unconsummated Human Shield for Terrorists only can. Kaplan fills in the blanks about the terrorist-accomplice Rachel Corrie that Gordon conveniently wishes others to ignore. "The Nation" itself refused to run Lee Kaplan's Rebuttal, showing that its one-time Stalinistic Tendencies are still alive and well!

One such victim of the demise of academic standards [in the Social Science and Humanities, particularly in History and Political Science and Communications Departments] was the young woman Rachel Corrie, who died while trying to interfere with the work of an Israeli army earth mover operating in Gaza…

… Gordon recently wrote an Op-Ed piece in the extremist anti-Semitic "The Nation," magazine, which celebrated the "martyrdom" of Rachel Corrie and questioned my own journalistic integrity. This coming from someone whose main venue for venting his opinions is the Neo-Nazi "Counterpunch" web site and whose Bash-Israel diatribes are also published on the site of Holocaust Denier Ernst Zundel.

Gordon specifically attacks me for submitting a photograph that was cited in the 145 page transcript of the trial in which ISM activists in the West Bank are shown waving terrorist-provided machine guns in the presence of an Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade terrorist and a Palestinian policeman.
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Gordon is supposed to be a college professor so one might assume he knows how to do research. Well, one would be wrong. Gordon's academic record consists almost entirely of churning out anti-Israel hate propaganda misrepresented as research. The photos, he claims, attempted to impute guilt of the ISM by association. My article here names the people in the photos and discusses the ISM at length…

Before I parse the rest of Gordon's "article" in the Nation, let me show you another photo, this one of Neve Gordon:

The above photo was taken shortly after the Passover Massacre in Netanya, Israel in 2002, where 31 people, some Holocaust survivors, were murdered by a suicide bomber who was dispatched and paid by Yasser Arafat himself. Gordon, in the photo, was acting as a human shield for Arafat who was surrounded in the PLO's headquarters by the IDF. Gordon entered Ramallah illegally, a bit like Rachel Corrie in Gaza, in order to interfere with Israeli army anti-terror operations.

The ISM was founded by similar "human shields." You can see why Gordon embraces them. In the photo, Gordon is clearly making a victory and solidarity salute in support of Arafat.
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What Neve Gordon conveniently left out in his column in the Nation was that Rachel Corrie was recruited and trained by the ISM. She was even given a training manual, one that I furnished to the Haifa court, showing that the organization prepares all volunteers before going into combat zones to interfere violently with the anti-terrorist activities of the IDF. Marxist Gordon tries to suggest that Rachel Corrie may not have agreed with ISM teachings about terrorism as "legitimate resistance," when she made statements to the contrary. Actually, Rachel Corrie wrote home to her mother in praise of the "martyrs" (suicide bombers) who were fighting the Israelis and in support of "legitimate resistance" (ISM Newspeak for terrorism). Gordon did not mention in his article in The Nation that Rachel Corrie wrote copious emails home to her mother, in which she described entering the weapons smuggling tunnels dug by Hamas to bring out the dead bodies of terrorists killed in them by the IDF.
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"Professor" Gordon, like Rachel Corrie, likes to pose in front of cameras with terrorists and to aid international murderers, while claiming to be a peace activist. It therefore comes as no surprise that he writes such an article in The Nation, insisting justice was not done for the Corrie family. Since the Corries were not jailed by Israel for their role in abetting terrorism, in a sense we agree that justice was not done. The judge even ordered the Israeli taxpayer to pay the state's cost for the trial for another ISM propaganda stunt.

The Corries are touring the world promoting the goals of the Hamas. The trial was just another publicity stunt by them to damage Israel. Gordon tries to beget countless other Rachel Corries in his lectures when he calls upon his students to emulate this young woman who died for the Hamas.

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Sapir College - Ofer Cassif continues the struggle for a network of Gulags in Israel for those who dare to disagree with Stalinism

CPI: New head of the International Relations Committee
TUESDAY, 31 JULY 2012
Dr. Ofer Cassif is now substituted for Aida Touma-Sliman as the Head of the International Relations Committee of the Communist Party of Israel (CPI). Comrade Cassif is a member of the Political Bureau of CPI. He previously served as parliamentary assistant to the late comrade Meir Vilner, and was the first to be jailed for refusing to serve in the Occupied Palestinian Territories during the first Intifada. On the whole, he was jailed four times in Israeli military prisons.

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Ben Gurion Univeristy - Neve "SLAPP SUIT" Gordon (Dept of Political Science), who illegally interfered with IDF anti-terror operations, defends the right of terrorist-accomplice Rachel Corrie to do the same

Defends the harassment suit by her parents against Israel, and condemns the judge who tossed it out. Questions Lee Kaplan's journalistic integrity and dismisses any responsibility that Rachel Corrie had in her own death that Kaplan's photos implicate.

In the days leading up to the ruling, I wondered how the state was going to make the case that Corrie was to blame for her own death; I therefore read the 145-page summation submitted by the defense. The document appeared convincing at first. Indeed, if read on its own—ignoring the political context and the plaintiff's summations and response—one might easily be persuaded that Corrie was a reckless human being who was fully responsible for her own demise.
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Let's consider the photographs, since they were brought forth as markers of unadulterated truth.

Corrie's face is directed upwards, mouth wide open; she is screaming as she looks at a piece of burning paper held with both hands against the sky. She is portrayed here as the paradigmatic extremist whose fanatical behavior is influencing a group of young children huddled around her. The caption for this photo reads: "The deceased, Rachel Corrie, burning an American flag during a protest in Rafah."

Directly under this photo of Rachel is a picture of four people, three of whom are holding guns and one wearing a uniform without a gun. The two standing figures appear to be foreigners, the person in uniform appears to be Palestinian, while the face of the second person sitting is intentionally blurred. (Why? We are not told) The title of this photo and of another one next to it (with several people posing in a similar manner, two with guns) reads, "Photographs of organization members holding guns, disclosed by the American journalist Lee Kaplan."

Let's set aside the question of whether the so-called journalist Lee Kaplan—whose claim to fame are [sic] articles he writes for the academic monitoring website IsraCampus—is trustworthy and think about what these images are meant to prove.

The fact is that we are not told where and when the two additional photos were taken, who the people in the photographs are, whether Corrie knew them or what their affiliation is. Yet this uncertainty is obscured by the placement of these suggestive photos adjacent to the one of Corrie. Through this crude juxtaposition, the state attempted to impute guilt by association.
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Due to a deeply ingrained institutional bias that has been documented by law professor David Kretzmer of Hebrew University, the judge did not ask the defense team such questions. He was not disturbed by the fact that the state failed to produce a military order declaring the region a closed military zone, or by the fact that the state's expert witness had been the IDF spokesperson at the time of Corrie's death, or by the fact that several minutes were missing from the military tapes that recorded the incident. Nor was the judge at all disturbed by the state's twisted presentation of the political context in which Corrie's killing took place.
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The defense team used these statistics against Corrie, claiming that she put herself in harm's way, but one could, more persuasively I think, say that she was an incredibly courageous human being who believed that all people should enjoy basic rights, such as freedom, self-determination and security. And Rachel was willing to struggle for such rights.

Haifa District Court Judge Oded Gershon showed no empathy toward this line of thinking, and on August 28 handed down his verdict: the State of Israel and the Defense Ministry were not responsible for Rachel Corrie's death.

Tragically, the judge's dismissive attitude mirrors the attitude of the US State Department from the time of Rachel's killing up to the verdict.

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Indiana University - Jon Simons (Dept of Communications), Ex-Pat Israeli - the US "Peace Now" Mouthpiece

When it comes to Israel's Ariel College being granted university status by the country's Council on Higher Education, Professor Simons has been leading the war AGAINST it! Alas, Ariel College is located across Israel's Green Line (Curious to note that Indiana University also lies outside the boundaries of the original 13 colonies!). He wrote an article that appeared in an ultra-leftist internet magazine, Ceasefire, in which he complained that granting Ariel College such lofty status would only serve to promote the "occupation" and somehow be responsible for helping to derail "the two state solution."
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In his Ceasefire article, Simons joins the attack by other Israeli academics (supposedly 1000) opposed to a new Israeli university status for Ariel College.
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Simons even uses a quote from a colleague to warn against "the 'academization (sic - another made up polysyllable) of the occupation' if the college in Ariel became a university." Quoting still another colleague, he admonishes his readers that "…the University in Ariel would be a stain on the reputation of Israeli scholarship and research. He also understood that the approval of the college as a university would invite calls for an international academic boycott."

Such fuzzy thinking from Simons becomes more evident if one reads his abstracts from his other scribbling. Israel, you see, is guilty of everything when it comes to "branding" (selling) the notion of peace.

Simons, as a member of and promoter of the American wing of "Peace Now," the EU-funded Israeli "peace" movement that supports whatever the Arabs want, promotes the NGO's destructive agenda against the Jewish people.

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Ariel University Will be Established because it's "the Will of the Voters" Despite 40 years of Leftist indoctrination

For over 40 years Israeli society has been subjected to an intense indoctrination onslaught, involving the "Ministry of Truth" marketing its special lexicon by way of media mouthpieces and the Israeli academia: Peace (which has instigated war), human rights (excluding the right of Jews to a national home and to self defense), rule of law (as long as the law adheres to the Left's values), democracy (meaning a disregard for majority rule), pluralism (meaning giving room to all the minority opinions, even the most esoteric ones, but not to the majority opinion), silencing (after having grown accustomed to hearing only themselves, they become angry when voices that differ from their own appear in the media here and there), enlightenment (meaning ignorance of historical facts but a solid grasp on emasculating political correctness), etc.
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Another important battle currently being waged in the education arena is the declaration that Ariel University Center in Samaria is officially the eighth Israeli university. The Left has completely lost its mind on this issue. The government has managed to overcome every obstacle on the path to approving Ariel's official university status. The hypocritical objections voiced by the Committee of University Heads to the status upgrade will be remembered with shame, just like previous objections to the establishment of the existing universities. The self-promoting, short-sighted professors will be confronted by elected officials and the latter will bring about the will of the voters. The Ariel University will be established.

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Cracks in the Leftist Ivory Hegemony over Where Protest & Free Speech End and Incitement & Treason Begin

Even leftist Stern from IDI thinks the signers are traitors. Calls petition to IDF pilots led by Chaim Gans (Tel Aviv University - Dept of Law) and others an "act of betrayal"

 

The online petition, effectively a call to mutiny, was organized by several academics, led by Tel Aviv University law professors Menachem Mautner, former head of the Law Department, and Chaim Gans. The letter says that an attack on Iran would be a "mistaken gamble," and that Israel would pay a heavy price for an attack that would at best delay Iran's nuclear program.

The petition says that while those signing could be jeopardizing their military service and even civilian careers, they would be "rendering an important and vital service to the State of Israel and all who live here" by showing Israelis that they do not have to "blindly obey" the government's apparent intention to embark on a highly questionable mission. It does not raise the issue of a democratically elected government's right to make decisions that law-abiding citizens obey and the lawful methods to fight decisions with which a citizen disagrees

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The Ivory Cartel Circles the Wagons to prevent Competition and Sharing of the Fiscal Loot

The presidents of Israel's universities and one of its larger colleges on Monday petitioned the High Court of Justice to overturn a decision granting Ariel University Center (AUC) official status as a university.
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The university heads contend that since the budget committee concluded there was no need for a new Israeli university, AUC should not receive exceptional treatment. Moreover, they argue that Israel's higher education scene has been in crisis for a decade in terms of financing, an issue that has significantly harmed the ability of universities to perform research and other functions at competitive levels internationally.

The petition says the financial crisis has led to brain-drain, with some of Israel's brightest students and researchers choosing to study abroad. It adds that even if the Judea and Samaria council had the jurisdiction to make AUC a university against the position of the Council of Higher Education, the criteria it used were unreasonable.

The petition says the criteria compared AUC only to the goals it created for itself, and not to other Israeli or international universities, and emphasized quantity and a bland list of factors divorced from wrestling with the holistic question of whether AUC really deserved to be a university.

The president of Hebrew University, Prof. Menahem Ben-Sasson, referred to the financial crisis in the academic sphere by saying the state would need to add billions to the budget, both for the entire academic community and for a new university, as the $50 million Steinitz had promised would not be sufficient.

Ben-Sasson also said that if Israel were going to add a new university, at least five other quality schools should be ahead of AUC. He stated that the move had both undermined solidarity among Israeli universities and caused problems for Israeli universities in relation to universities abroad.

AUC responded in a statement accusing the university heads of trying to undermine a decision of Attorney- General Yehuda Weinstein, who ratified the Judea and Samaria council's decision as legal.
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The statement slammed the Council of Higher Education as a "cartel" attempting to preserve its hegemony over higher education in Israel and preventing newer institutions from competing in research, pursuing knowledge and receiving budgetary resources.

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Ben Gurion University – Neve Gordon (Dept of Political Science) Outed Along with Other Jewish Anti-Semites

Among its many critics, there is a startling number of Jews who calumniate Israel and, in some cases, champion those threatening its existence.

Noam Chomsky heads this list, but he is hardly alone. Norman Finkelstein, Ilan Pappe, Richard Falk, Tony Judt, Howard Zinn, Eric Hobsbawm and many other Jews have joined in this project. Neve Gordon, head of the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University, claims that "Israel resembles Nazi Germany."

Gabriel Schoenfeld's explanation of this in The Return of Anti-Semitism is straightforward: amid a rising tide of anti-Semitism, Jewish enemies of Israel are out to save their own skins, aiming "to deflect the poisonous arrows coming at their fellow Jews."

In The Oslo Syndrome: Delusions of a People Under Siege Kenneth Levin asks: "Why are Jews so self-destructive? So suicidal?" He argues that constant oppression can lead to a variant of the Stockholm Syndrome: "empathy for and emotional bonding with the aggressor." The logic of this "embrace by members of an abused community of the indictments of their abusers" is that this allows the possibility of "salvation [through] self-reform and concessions."

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Hebrew University - The Bimbo Starlet of the Electronic Intifada - Hebrew U's Jihadist Propagandist Nurit Peled-Elhanan (Dept of Education)

Peled's book, Palestine in Israeli School Books, supplies the 'academic' 'proof' for Orwellian inversions, brain-washing claims and detracting from the Israeli Education System in general

In an important new book, Palestine in Israeli School Books, Israeli language and education professor Nurit Peled-Elhanan buries the second part of Livni's myth once and for all.

Peled-Elhanan examines 17 Israeli school textbooks on history, geography and civic studies. Her conclusions are an indictment of the Israeli system of indoctrination and its cultivation of anti-Arab racism from an early age: "The books studied here harness the past to the benefit of the … Israeli policy of expansion, whether they were published during leftist or right-wing [education] ministries" (224).
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Inculcation of anti-Palestinian ideology in the minds of Israel's youth is achieved in the books through the use of exclusion and absence: "none of the textbooks studied here includes, whether verbally or visually, any positive cultural or social aspect of Palestinian life-world: neither literature nor poetry, neither history nor agriculture, neither art nor architecture, neither customs nor traditions are ever mentioned" (49).
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Peled-Elhanan concludes: "The books studied here present Israeli-Jewish culture as superior to the Arab-Palestinian one, Israeli-Jewish concepts of progress as superior to Palestinian-Arab way of life and Israeli-Jewish behavior as aligning with universal values" (230).

While Israeli war crimes are not entirely ignored, the textbooks do their best to downplay or justify massacres and ethnic cleansing.
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There is some sloppy editing here, and the academic jargon at times slips into the realm of mystifying. But those quibbles aside, Peled-Elhanan's book is the definitive account of just how Israeli schoolchildren are brainwashed by the state and society into hatred and contempt of Palestinians and Arabs, immediately before the time they are due to enter the army as young conscripts.

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Hebrew University - Amiram Goldblum (Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences) Thinks that Judaism Poses a Greater Threat to Israel than Arab Terror or Iran

Goldblum's glorious expectations of peace from "The Disengagement" have proven false.

1. Any decent participant on this list will agree that the "posting accusation" is ridiculous. No one received such a posting.

2. As for Oslo, it was not signed by Peace Now but by Rabin and Peres, and PN did not even participate in its conception. Personally, I was against Oslo and still am against any attempts to reach agreements with the Palestinians because it is not possible, IMHO, to subjugate and make peace at the same time. I am for unilateral retreat from most of the WB & Gaza, and hopefully open peace talks later, but not as a condition for retreat.

3. In view of recent developments, I think that messianic Judaism is becoming as dangerous to the existence of Israel, if not more, than Palestinian ROR, and certainly more than Iran.

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Hebrew University - Amiram Goldblum, the far leftist professor of Pharmacy at the Hebrew University and founder of Peace Now, has discovered some “nose pickers”

Isracampus hereby calls upon the Officials of the Hebrew University to change Amiram Goldblum's title to "University Professor of Rhinotillexomania"

“Nose pickers” is the term of choice adopted by this leading light of education and culture, scientific enlightenment, and sophistication at the Hebrew University to refer to those who criticize his political extremism!

Amiram Goldblum signed himself up under the pseudonym handle “Rastiniak” in order to edit entries on Wikipedia. You can see his use of his real name and several conversations with him on Rastiniak’s user page here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Rastiniak.

In several places on this page “Rastiniak” discloses that he is really Amiram Goldblum, using the “Rastiniak” pseudonym as his “sock puppet” sign-in and “handle.”

In any case, Rastiniak/Goldblum shows us all his level of culture and eloquence, along with his command of the English language, here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Macaddct1984 (near bottom of page), where he writes:

“The page where my name was smeared as a non-zionist is the work of a group of liers [SIC] that [SIC] are Jewish facsicts [SIC].

There is not a single evidence [SIC] to call me an anti zionist [SIC] except for me having charged these people legally at the court [SIC] in Israel and their hatred to me [SIC] because I represent for them the native sabra [SIC] Israeli who fought in Israeli wars while they were picking their noses.

I can only warn you that if you do not delete my name from the list of these infamous people [SIC] you are yourself subject to the possibility of legal charges [SIC] against you.

Sincerely,
Professor Amiram Goldblum

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Ending the Politicized Leftist Hegemony in Israeli Higher Education

Here is an infuriating historic moment: the establishment of the Council for Higher Education’s Planning and Budgeting Committee. On May 17, 1977, the conservative camp won the general election, assuming leadership of Israel for the first time after 50 years of left-wing hegemony (since 1931). On June 20, 1977, Menachem Begin was sworn in as prime minister. In the interim, the Left was in hysterics and launched a frantic effort to cement its other strongholds outside the government. On June 6, three weeks after the election and two weeks before the new government was sworn in, the leftist interim government deviously transferred authority over the higher education budget (and more) from the government’s hands into the hands of the Planning and Budgeting Committee, or, in other words, into the hands of the academic establishment. In short, anything to prevent the Likud savages from gaining control over higher education as well.
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If you try to be hired at any of Israel’s universities with a conservative (right-wing) resume, you will find that even if your academic achievements outrank those of your leftist colleagues, the underlying test question will be whether or not you belong to their exclusive club. Does this remind anyone of the current situation in the Israeli media or in the Israeli justice system? There is reason for that. Academia, the media and the justice system are the three leftist strongholds that the conservative camp is having trouble infiltrating. But their immunity will not last forever. The leftist hegemony is beginning to crumble on all three fronts, and all three strongholds are heading toward extensive pluralism and healthy friction between opposing viewpoints.
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In conclusion: Ariel University will flourish as Israel’s eighth university and pose a profound Zionist challenge to the old academic establishment.

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University of Haifa - Post-Zionist Uri Bar-Joseph (Dept of International Relations) Serves as Spin Doctor for the Ayatollahs

This is true for Iran as well. It as a second rate power that is vulnerable to economic sanctions and military intervention. Its leaders have proven that, unlike Hitler, who was a compulsive gambler, they pursue a much more cautious foreign policy. The international community (and the US in particular) has learned a lot since it abandoned Czechoslovakia and failed to bomb Auschwitz.

The West is acting with growing intensity to halt Iran – mainly to protect its own strategic interests – and most experts believe the measures it is taking should be given more time before other options are considered.

… Iran has already proven during the war with Iraq that is willing to pay a heavy price of hundreds of thousands of casualties to take its revenge on whoever attacked it. The tragic irony is that an Israeli strike driven by the memory of the Holocaust may eventually lead to an existential threat on Israel.

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Ben Gurion University - Danny Rubinstein (Dept of Communication Studies) can't help but slander the settlers and complain about the "Judaization of Jerusalem"

Creates a Pre-1967 Palestinian Independence Movement out of thin air

There is no doubt that Fayyad, supported by Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), is attempting to create a new reality in the West Bank… His success has been limited for the simple reason that without progress on the political front, there is no possibility of establishing a serious infrastructure for a Palestinian state. For example, in keeping with the Oslo Accords, Israel continues to rule over 60 percent of the West Bank—"Area C." This includes all the settlements, the main roads, and the whole of the Jordan Valley and the Judean Desert. In these areas, the settlers and the Israeli Defense Force have almost complete control, and within Area C are "reserved tracts" through which Israel regulates the water supply and the flow of traffic on the roads. Without control over these lands, the Palestinian Authority cannot construct a physical infrastructure (for example, the national airport that Fayyad wants to establish in the Jordan Valley). In fact, there is no possibility of establishing Palestinian control, and Fayyad knows this. In consultation with Abu Mazen, he arranged a series of demonstrations and protests against the separation barrier; against the provocations of the settlers, whose produce the Palestinians ban and burn; against the strengthening of the Israeli hold on East Jerusalem (which the Palestinians refer to as the Judaization of Jerusalem); and against the continuing expansion of the settlements.
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From its beginnings at the start of the twentieth century, the Palestinian movement has had one clear goal: to free itself from foreign occupation, first from the British and then from the Israelis. The demand to create a Palestinian state does not appear in the national covenant that the PLO proclaimed in the 1960s. And in the short period in which most Palestinians lived under Arab rule (from 1948 to 1967), they did not work for the establishment of a state in the West Bank and Gaza.

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Tel Aviv-Jaffa College - Ofer Cassif (Dept of Political Science) is Ultra-Sensitive to a Politically Incorrect Statement

But is OK with Stalin the Mass Murderer

The professorial chat lists have been filled with hand-wring by eye-rolling leftists expressing their horror at the comments by Hetsroni, whose freedom of speech was in their opinion forfeited the moment he dared utter a politically incorrect sentiment. But the irony is that the campaign against Hetsroni on these chat lists was launched and led by one Ofer Cassif, who teaches political science at a minor community college in Israel. Cassif, it turns out, is a member of the central committee of the Stalinist Israeli Communist Party. See
http://isracampus.org.il/third%20level%20pages/Editorial%20-%20Ari%20Ben%20David%20-%20TA-Jaffa%20College%20-%20Ofer%20Cassif%20-%20publication-less%20wonder.htm

So the same guy leading the charge against the Ariel professor who dared in an insensitive manner to dismiss Silman as a "parasite" is also a leader of the party that celebrates and defends the mass murders by fellow communists of tens of millions of people as parasites. So his ultra-sensitivity about the word and the concept appears to be a bit selective, would you not say, Comradeski?

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Leftist Israeli Academics despair another Masada; Sign Declaration of Capitulation and Subjugation

“Recognition of the Palestinian State – and then negotiations – rather than another Masada. In front of our very eyes, an insane drama is being acted out. The Prime Minister of Israel is leading his citizens to Masada. Human morality, Jewish history and the interests of Israel – all clearly show the way to being the first state in the world to recognize, in the United Nations, our neighbor state and them to enter into negations, based on equality, regarding territorial exchanges and security arrangements. After all, the Palestinian State recognizes the State of Israel in the "67 borders. The Jewish People arose in the Land of Israel, there they developed their identity. The Palestinian People arose in Palestine, there they developed their identity. Therefore, we sincerely welcome the expected declaration of independence by the Palestinian State, Israel's neighbor, and within the borders at the time of our independence which were determined at the end of the War of Independence in 1949; the borders more commonly known as the '67 borders. This is the natural right of both the Jewish and the Palestinian people – as written in Israel's Declaration of Independence "to be masters of their own fate, like all other nations, in their own sovereign State". The independence of both peoples strengthens one and the other, it is both a moral and basic necessity at one and, the same time, it is the foundation upon which good, neighborly relations are built. We, the undersigned, call on all persons seeking peace and freedom, and upon all nations to join us in welcoming the Palestinian Declaration of Independence, to support it and to work and act together in order to encourage the citizens of both countries to live together in peace, based on the '67 borders and mutual agreement. A final and complete end to the occupation is a basic condition for the freedom of both peoples, for the realization of Israel's Declaration of Independence and a future of peaceful coexistence.”

Among the list of signatories

Prof. Chaim Adler, Israel Prize laureate	Prof. Joseph Agassi, Philosopher
Prof. Eva Illouz	Prof. Yehuda Bauer, Israel Prize laureate
Prof. Haim Ben Shahar, former President of Tel Aviv University	Prof. Miriam Ben-Peretz, Israel Prize laureate
Daniel Blatman,Head of the Department for Contemporary Judaism	Prof. Menachem Brinker, Israel Prize laureate
Prof. Judith Buber Agassi	Prof. Yehuda Elkana, former President of the Central European University
Prof. Yaron Ezrahi, winner of the Political Science Society Award	Prof. Menachem Fish
Prof. Haim Gans	Prof. Galia Golan
Prof. Amiram Goldblum	Prof. Naomi Graetz
Prof. Hanoch Gutfreund, former President of the Hebrew University	Prof. Galit Hasan-Rokem
Prof. Ruth Hacohen	Prof. David Harel, Israel Prize and Emet laureate
Prof. Naomi Chazan, former Knesset member	Prof. Avnet Katz
Prof. Elihu Katz, Israel Prize laureate	Prof. Yehoshua Kolodny, Israel Prize laureate
Dr. Alon Liel, former Director General of Foreign Ministry	Prof. Avishai Margalit, Israel and Emet Prize laureate
Raz Naftali	Prof. Dov Pekelman
Prof. Itamar Procaccia, Israel Prize laureate	Prof. Gabi Salomon, Israel Prize laureate
Prof. Hillel Schocken	Prof. Alice Shalvi, Israel Prize laureate
Prof. David Shulman, Emet Prize laureate	Prof. Zeev Sternhell, Israel Prize laureate
Prof. Carlo Strenger	David Tartakover, Israel Prize laureate
Prof. Zeev Tzahor, President of Sapir College	Prof. Menahem Yaari, Israel Prize laureate, President (Emeritus) of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Prof. Yossi Yonah

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Hebrew University - Amiram Goldblum (Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences) brags about law-breaking to the Associated Press

His disdain for Israeli Authority extends over 20 years

Amiram Goldblum of Peace Now said: "The Army informed us they won't approve the meetings. We're going anyway. Let them block us on the way.

"This is a political decision with far-reaching implications. The settlers are pressuring them and they are surrendering to the settlers. This whole battle is a fight over who will be permitted political activity in the territories."

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Hebrew University - Makor Rishon Reports on the Illegal Contributions of 'Peace Now' to Barak's Election Campaign in 1999 and Amiram Goldblum's (Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences) Alleged Participation in the Affair

Peace Now, a Non-Profit Organization, is Forbidden to Organize or Provide Funds for a Political Party

Only after he was elected did the close connection between Peace Now and Barak's election headquarters become known, in the context of the nonprofit organizations affair.

Three central Peace Now figures worked very closely with Barak - Janet Aviad and Amiram Goldblum, as the heads of two of the nonprofit groups, and Yuli Tamir, who would later become Minister Yuli Tamir. Peace Now took an active role and was directly involved in Barak's second round headquarters in the final month before the elections. The headquarters, which was compartmentalized from everyone else, was managed by Haim Mandel Shaked.

Someone there came up with the idea of running a secret advertising campaign for Barak, using the figure of the late Yitzhak Rabin.

But there was a problem how to fund such a campaign, which could not be directly associated with Barak's election campaign.

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Isracampus' Challenge to Amiram Goldblum
(Hebrew University, Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences):
END THIS OCCUPATION NOW!

The late great professor Yosef Ben Shlomo, a professor of philosophy at Tel Aviv University, accused Amiram Goldblum (Hebrew University, Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences) of being an "occupier." According to Ben Shlomo, Goldblum lives in the Jerusalem house that actually belongs to an Arab refugee living in Kuwait. Ben Shlomo wrote on the web site of the Israeli Teachers Union:

אני יושב במקום שלא היה בו כפר או בית ערבי. אחד מראשי שלום עכשיו, עמירם גולדבלום, יושב בבית של ערבי החי היום בכוויית.

[I dwell in a place that was neither an Arab home or village. One of the heads of Peace Now, Amiram Goldblum, lives in an Arab's house who now lives in Kuwait. - Isracampus Translation]

Professor Ben Shlomo's statement is repeated here: http://dc.fresh.co.il/Scoops/40720.html
where his quotes are attributed to a Yediot Aharonot interview in the '7 Days' supplement in 2002.

IsraCampus takes this statement as truth since a simple web-search turns up neither a retraction by Ben Shlomo nor a verdict from a Libel suit, which Goldblum is so fond of filing, in the 14 years since this statement was made.

Another simple web search places a Goldblum at the residence below at least until 2009:

IsraCampus asks Goldblum what was he doing in the house of this nice Arab until 2009?
Goldblum, GIVE UP THE HOUSE YOU ARE OCCUPYING! SHOW US THE COURAGE OF YOUR CONVICTIONS!

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Tel Aviv University – Alon Liel (Dept of Political Science), Israel's former Ambassador to South Africa, Supports the Boycott of Israel and the South African Attempts to Enable it

Alon Liel is a former Israeli ambassador to South Africa and former director general of the Israeli foreign ministry. But when his former office harshly criticized South Africa for enabling a consumer boycott of exports from West Bank settlements in May, Mr. Liel's response sharply diverged from the party line.

In a commentary published in Business Day, a South Africa daily, he sided with the South African government, rejecting the foreign ministry's contention that encouraging the boycott constituted a "racist" policy. With his very public break with government policy, Liel became the rare former senior official to encourage such a boycott.
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"The simple act of marking settlement products differently to Israeli products pulls the rug from under the refusal to declare a border," he wrote. "I buy Israeli products every day and do my best not to buy Israeli products from the Occupied Territories. I don't see why you, living outside Israel, shouldn't have the same choice."
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Liel argues that at a time when West Bank settlements are expanding, applying pressure to AUC and the dozens of businesses based in industrial parks in the settlements could deliver a "symbolic" blow and persuade some to relocate inside Israel.

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Hebrew University - The Criminal Indictment that was Filed Against Amiram Goldblum (Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences) by the Jerusalem Attorney General

According to these web sites in Hebrew:
http://www.news1.co.il/Archive/001-D-1754-00.html
http://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=500933 and
http://news.walla.co.il/?w=/10/79477
Amiram Goldblum, a founder of "Peace Now," was called before representatives of the State Comptroller in 2001 and questioned regarding a number of political ads that he and his accomplices had placed in the Israeli media (including in the Russian language media), where the financing of these ads was considered suspicious. The ads were placed in an effort to influence voters in the 1999 elections in Israel. Goldblum was suspected of illegal campaign finances among his activities in the NGO 'Citizens from the Right and Left'.

Goldblum refused to answer the questions and a criminal indictment was filed against him at the request of the State Comptroller for refusal to answer questions, a crime that can be punished by up to two years in prison. An indictment was filed by the Jerusalem Attorney General's Office. The Attorney General asked to call Goldblum's own attorney, Avigdor Feldman, as one of the witnesses against him.

On these web sites:
http://www.news1.co.il/Archive/0019-D-51-00.html
http://rotter.net/forum/gil/5109.shtml,
Knesset Member Michael Eitan blasts Goldblum for his behavior. He mocks Goldblum for belonging to NGO's supposedly fighting for "clean government" and "transparency" while himself refusing in a criminal manner to answer questions directed at him about possible illegal campaign finances.

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Hebrew University - The Israeli Press Council Dismissed Complaint Filed by Amiram Goldblum (Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences) against INN reporter as frivolous

According to the "Seventh Eye" (Ha-Ayin Ha-Shvi'it) web site and magazine, as reported in Hebrew here: http://www.the7eye.org.il/articles/Pages/210512_Practical_people.aspx

The Israeli Press Council (http://www.moaza.co.il/BRPortal/br/P102.jsp?arc=27521) recently dismissed as frivolous a complaint filed with it by Amiram Goldblum, a professor of pharmacy at the Hebrew University and a founder of the extremist organization "Peace Now." Goldblum had filed a complaint against journalist Gil Ronen when the latter reported on an internet site about the content of a television news broadcast by Israel's Channel Two. That broadcast concerned the alleged hiring of a convicted Palestinian terrorist to work in the laboratory of Prof. Goldblum. The TV broadcast claimed that Goldblum had made the decision to hire the terrorist out of ideological convictions. Channel Two later retracted the part about Goldblum being the person who made the decision to hire the terrorist in his lab. Goldblum claims unnamed officials at the Hebrew University actually made the decision.

After the partial retraction by Channel Two, the Israelnationanews.com web site, where the Ronen article had appeared, removed it. Nevertheless, years later Goldblum filed a complaint against Ronen with the Israel Press Council. The council, as noted, dismissed the complaint as frivolous.

The Seventh Eye report also describes Goldblum's livid denunciations of the Press Council and its decision.

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University of Leicester - Ex-pat Israeli Claudia Prestel (Dept of Historical Studies) is a walking fifth column against Israel's existence.

Claudia Prestel is a Reader in Jewish history at the University of Leicester, specializing in German-Jewish history. She is even listed as a member of the University's Center for the Study of the Holocaust. But do not be fooled. Prestel also is an active member of the so-called "Friends of Al Aksa" on her campus. She is relentless in her hatred and attacks against Israel.
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Prestel likes to chant the anti-Semitic refrains of the terrorists about how pregnant Palestinian women regularly lose their babies at checkpoints (which are not there to stop terrorists and suicide bombers but to prevent Palestinian births). These claims are fiction, which show that Prestel belongs to the Ilan Pappe school of pseudo-scholarship.
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Prestel doesn't limit herself to just the written word. She pontificates live at Friends of Al Aksa presentations, whose leader helped organize the Mavi Mamara Turkish terrorist flotilla incident. There she "discusses" Jewish history as a litany of abuse against the Palestinian population. She functions as the Jewish "confirmation" that Arab terrorists are in fact nothing more than peace-loving pacifists interested in quilting

Notably, Prestel also supports the boycott, divestments and sanctions movement of economic aggression against Israel, having participated in and supported the Ride for Palestine in the UK. She doesn't mind starving Jews out of their country to show her humanitarianism.
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Claudia Prestel is in favor of annihilating the Jewish state of Israel in order to create an Arab dominated Islamofascist state in its place. She signed a petition put out by Ali Abunimah, an ISM leader and Palestinian crony of President Obama, and the Arab Action Network, an irredentist group that insists on the "Palestinian Right of Return" for any Arab who claims he or she is a refugee. Her co-signers on the petition read like a list of British and American Who's Who of tenured anti-Semites.

Prestel is so intellectually bankrupt she even supports to this day the infamous long-debunked Goldstone Report, which accused Israel of atrocities against Gaza and Hamas during Operation Cast Lead. She did this after Goldstone himself said the Report is untrue. Other petitions she has signed object to any assistance given to Israel even to defend itself.

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Hebrew University - The Palestinian's Tokyo Rose, Nurit Peled-Elhanan (Dept of Education), continues to find reasons why Israel needs to be destroyed

Interview: Israeli school books write out Palestinian, Arab story

The Palestinian farmer is not presented with a kuffiyeh or anything specifically Arab, just oversized, ratty clothes that evoke imagery of a poor laborer that could be from anywhere. This is a different perspective. There is no more glorification of the kuffiyeh here, or of anything specifically Arab.

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Do you think Jewish identity has become more racialized than it was in the past?

Of course. I mean, it came with Zionism -- they had not conceived of black Jews when they started. But many of the early Zionists came from Eastern Europe, and they were called the "Ost Judden." They were the "Eastern Jews" and they were inferior to the "Western Jews," from Western Europe.

So they westernized themselves when they came, toward the other Jews. The funny thing is, those early Zionists said they perpetuated a western culture, but they had never met a western culture until they came here. The only people who came with Western culture were the Jews from Arab countries, because they studied in French and British schools.

But when Jews came from Arab countries, they had to give up their Arabness -- to give up their culture, their music, their habits, their clothes, their accent. They really worked on that. It is all part of the same racism. It is white supremacy.

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Message from Dr. Kochava Malchiel, submitted to Isracampus:

I was wondering if anyone knows if James Holmes, the shooter of the Batman cineplex in Colorado, will now be hired by Hebrew University to work in the lab of Prof. Amiram Goldblum.

(Isracampus does not know the answer.)

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Hebrew University Hires Leftist Extremist from the "Yesh Gvul" Organization to serve as its Point Man against Ariel

Well, Kalman Liebskind, the intrepid columnist for Maariv, has a weekend column revealing just how the Hebrew University, one of the two strongest and oldest institutions in the Ivory Cartel, is battling and agitating against the accreditation of Ariel. It seems the Hebrew University, which also led a campaign in 1964 to block accreditation to Bar Ilan University, officially hired a radical anti-Israel leftist extremist to lead its campaign. It commissioned a "report" about Ariel written by Dr. Zeev Rotem, who just happens to be a long-time agitator for the extremist Yesh Gvul organization, an organization financed by all the usual forces of darkness specializing in promoting mutiny and insurrection among Israeli soldiers, especially among those in the air force (see http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?2623-Group-of-Israeli-Pilots-Refuse-to-Carry-Out-Airstrikes ). Yesh Gvul has long led the campaign for soldiers to refuse to serve until the Israeli government adopts the political agenda of the communist party. Rotem used to teach at Tel Aviv University. He likes to accuse Israel of committing indiscriminate murder and atrocities against "Palestinians."

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Ben Gurion University – David Newman (Dean of Social Sciences and Humanities) making excuses for the Boycott-Israel Assault Mob!

Why is it so difficult for Newman to understand that his opinions and activism Must Lead to Israel being inundated with tens of thousands of rockets fired from his beloved proposed Palestinian State?

We can go on contesting each other's right to be here, or we can – each of us – make those painful compromises which require each of us to make do with only part of the territory between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River. We each require guarantees that the other side will no longer threaten our safety and security, and that the human rights and democracy of both peoples will be respected.

This will almost certainly require a clear line of separation, a border...

There will now be renewed calls for sanctions, BDS and boycotts by those groups who are continuously seeking ways to delegitimize Israel. Only this time they will no longer be forced to make a distinction between sovereign Israel and the "occupied territories." By trying to justify an unjustifiable situation, all we will have managed to do is to weaken even further the foundations on which the sovereign state exists.

For all those of us out there in the battle to deflect and defuse the boycott attempts, this report has just made our task a hundred times more difficult. It has simply played into the hands of our detractors, weakened even further our international standing, and reflects the failed policies of a right-wing government which is doing its best to lead Israel into a new era of international isolation.

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Reprint from 2004:  Hebrew University - When an Israeli Diplomat Trashed an "Art Work" celebrating a Palestinian mass murderer of Jewish children, on display in Stockholm, Hebrew U's Amiram Goldblum denounced the Ambassador

"This was not a piece of art," the ambassador told Sweden's SR radio news station. "It was a monstrosity. For me it was intolerable and an insult to the families of the victims," he said. "As ambassador [of] Israel I could not remain indifferent to such an obscene misrepresentation of reality."

Feiler describes himself as the "eye-bleeding ultimate composer of intifadic and eruptive lung-outs." It turns out his parents were both communist party members in Israel and he was raised on a kibbutz.

What is most interesting about this is how ready much of the Israeli Left has been to denounce the Ambassador for defending Jewish dignity and to defend the anti-Semitic "artist" and his absolute right to produce such obscenity. The Far Leftist daily Haaretz ran an editorial, several Op-Eds and lots of letters to the editor denouncing the Ambassador as a bully and vandal, and defending the piece of "art". They were joined by many others on the Israeli Left. Suddenly "artistic" expression is absolutely protected. Except the theater by the Ambassador is not.
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"The Stockholm Bully" [by Amiram Goldblum]

"The aggressive response of Mazel to what seems to be an idiotic artistic expression, will remain in public memory as another display of Israeli violence, deriving from 35 years of occupation. That is also the source of the governmental response, praising the bully rather than recalling him and replacing him ASAP. Israel has enough rednecks in the academy, no need to have them as diplomats."

Now, it is interesting to place this sudden absolutism of the Left regarding artistic expression in context. This is the very same Israeli Left that insists that any poster that shows politicians the Left likes in an unflattering manner, such as Yossi Beilin or Yossi Sarid wearing an Arab kafiya, is grounds for prosecution for "incitement". This is the same Left that cheered uncontrollably when Tatiana Suskind, the poor young woman who had made a poster of the Prophet Mohammed as a pig, was sentenced to a long prison term.

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Academics Supporting Bedouin Squatting and Grabbing State Lands in Unrecognized Villages

However, the Beer Sheva District Court has already rejected the Bedouin 'proof' of claims to vast stretches of Negev 'wasteland' and bashed Oren Yiftachel's shameful and inaccurate testimony in the process

All these forces with government and Jewish National Fund (JNF) bulldozers arrived at the village to uproot 300 residents, young and old, and raze their homes to the ground - all to plant a JNF forest on their land. Since then they have repeated the spectacle some twenty times, in recent days and weeks with vicious beatings and shooting of Bedouin children, women and men, causing some to be hospitalized.

Even if it is true that they came with legally signed orders, it is no less true that the Bedouin residents and the Israeli government are locked in a dispute over ownership of the land. This is not the way to settle a dispute that is still under deliberation in the courts. The Bedouin residents have documents and proof of their traditional rights to the land and of their residence there for hundreds of years, from the time of the Ottoman Empire and the British Mandate, prior to the establishment of the state of Israel.
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This policy violates the basic rights to shelter, to life, and to well-being, rights which the state ensures for the Jewish population in Israel, but ignores with regard to the Arab population. The right to housing is anchored in international law, particularly in treaties on social, economic and cultural rights that Israel has signed and ratified.

Among the Signatories

David Grossman	Prof. Naomi Chazan	Anat Matar
David Tartakover	Prof. Oren Yiftachel	Prof. Aryeh Arnon
Gadi Algazi	Prof. Ilana Krausman	Prof. Uri Ram
Dr. Mordechai Bar-On	Prof. Moshe Shoked	Prof. Iris Parush
Prof. Amiram Goldblum	Prof. Itzhak Nevo	Prof. Aeyal Gross
Prof. Ruchama Marton	Jonathan Pollack	Prof. Neta Ziv
Prof. Daniel Bartal	Dr. Dan Filk
Prof. Avner Ben-Amos	Prof. Anat Biletzki

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Hebrew Univeristy - David Kretzmer (Dept of Law) says that the new Levy Report proves that Israel is Apartheid

Arbitrarily rejects the prevailing valid International treaties which have been ignored for 45 years

The Edmond Levy report was written by a Committee established to find a way, if possible, to "legalize" settlements established in the Territories without government approval. While the object of the Committee was to help the government out, adoption of the report's position on the status of the West Bank would have far-reaching consequences that seemed to have escaped the Committee…

The report adopts the old, tired and universally rejected arguments that the West Bank is not occupied territory.
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Soon after the war ended in 1967, Palestinians petitioned the Supreme Court challenging acts of the military in the newly-occupied territories. In replying to these petitions the government had to decide what legal regime applied in those territories. It was forced to choose between two possibilities. If it were to regard the territories as part of the State of Israel, not only would Israel be censured by the international community for annexation of territory in breach of international law; it would have to extend political rights to the Palestinian residents of the territories. If the territory were not Israeli territory, it would have to accept the only other known regime for territory conquered in war, namely a regime of belligerent occupation. It chose the latter path. Hence for 45 years the military authorities in the territories have exercised the powers of an occupying power under international law and have defended their actions before the Supreme Court of Israel on the basis of the international law of belligerent occupation.
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So there you have it: Accepting the Levy report will mean that all private land requisitioned for military needs must immediately be returned to its owners. The other direct implication is clear. The Levy report complains about inequality between Palestinians and Israelis. It cites Israel's Basic Law. But the real inequality on the West Bank is that the Israeli settlers have political rights in the state that controls their lives and the Palestinians do not. That is one of the grounds for the claim that the system there has elements of apartheid. If it accepts the Levy approach, the government will no longer be able to answer this claim by arguing that the territory is subject to a temporary regime of belligerent occupation. Either Israel's government will have to acknowledge that apartheid is living and kicking, or it will have to extend political rights to all Palestinian residents of the West Bank.

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Tel Aviv University - Ran Hacohen (Dept of Comparative Literature) Denounces Israel as a Racist Atrocity

Lawlessness and Maniacal Suicide Bombers must have their place in Hacohen's enlightened society

While thousands of asylum seekers are pushed to starvation and crime, Israel opens its gates every year to thousands of foreign workers, mostly from Asia; entire branches of the country’s economy — especially agriculture and construction — depend on this cheap labor, since the Palestinian commuters were pushed out of the labor market to perish behind walls and fences....
Modeled on the violence against Palestinians, the incitement and eruption of violence against Africans is just another symptom of the fascist atmosphere in Israel, and it does not end with Africans.

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Ben Gurion University's Assault against Jewish Studies

Dean David Newman slashes Jewish Studies Dept while adding to his Pol Sci Dept; Neve Gordon gets to control the funds

[A]ccording to Makor Rishon, Dean Newman has a new cause and that is slashing and reducing the departments in the university in which Jewish Studies are taught. The university has departments of "Jewish Thought," Jewish History, and Hebrew literature. Dean Newman thinks that is far too much. He wants to reduce the sizes and number of those departments, slash their budgets and merge them into a single small department. Is he upset because so few students and faculty in these departments participate in campus pro-Hamas rallies and call for world boycotts of Israel?

Newman, whose own department was denounced for its academic standards, likes to call these Jewish departments "mediocre" in terms of academic quality. They do not publish enough in English, he says, you know – unlike the books by Neve Gordon calling for world boycotts of Israel and denouncing Israel as an apartheid regime. Of course, at the same time Newman is struggling to ADD slots and budgets to his OWN political science department! Newman, whose department runs "conferences" every few weeks in which only leftists may speak, including conferences devoted to Marxist indoctrination, criticized the Jewish departments for running conferences whose academic quality was not "high enough"!

The newspaper notes the atmosphere of suppression and terror introduced by Newman, manifested in the fact that none of the faculty members of the departments being targeted by Newman were willing to be interviewed. The newspaper also notes that while the commission appointed by Israel's Council on Higher Education demanded that BGU's department of political science not run a PhD program or accept PhD candidates (because of the department's low quality), not only is the department still doing so but the chap in CHARGE of the doctoral program is none other than Neve Gordon. Gordon's own PhD is from the sixth rate Notre Dame University, where he was associated with the Kroc Institute… According to Makor Rishon, Newman has also appointed Gordon to be in charge of the School's budgets.

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Betzalel – Zvi Elhayani - Organizes Boycott of Tel Aviv's "White Night" Festivities

Ultra-leftist "social protest" activists are planning a "rage demonstration" for Tuesday evening in order to protest police violence against the "social protest" on Friday and Saturday. Coincidentally or not, the leftists borrowed terminology often used by Hamas, which declares "days of rage" once in a while.
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Following the weekend run-in with police, two leftist activists initiated the boycott – dubbed "Black Night" – and have had limited success thus far, according to a report in Yisrael Hayom. A few shows have been cancelled, including a panel discussion with writers and musicians.

One of the two initiators is architect Tzvi Elhayani [source here – IsraCampus], apparently the same man who was under investigation in the past for issuing a "death to settlers" call on his Fadcebook page. He was never charged.

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Tel Aviv University - Israel's Minister of Infrastructure Accuses TAU of Direct Responsibility for anti-Israel Violence

Minister of Water and Energy Uzi Landau (Yisrael Bateinu) on Tuesday told Arutz Sheva that annual Nakba Day violence begins in Israel's universities.

"If Jews are promoting it... standing in respect for the Nakba Day in the heart of Tel Aviv, in the University of Tel Aviv... This is already throwing stones," Landau said.

These are stones thrown "from Tel Aviv, by our own people on ourselves," he continued. "Why are we surprised that this is what Arabs are doing in Beit Lechem…

"This is ludicrous. Only those who are sick can understand the behavior of those students in Tel Aviv University who prefer to respect those who suffered in the Nakba."

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On Tuesday, Israeli security forces clashed with rioters who attacked soldiers, police, and paramedics in several locations in Judea and Samaria.

Security forces – in response to hurled stones and firebombs, burning tires rolled at security lines, and explosives – responded with rubber bullets, tear gas, and other riot control measures.

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Ben Gurion University - Ofer Neiman (Dept of Math/Computers) Lobbies for Arab Violence against the Jews

In exposing the behavior of Israel's academic leftists, Isracampus reports in most cases about well-educated people who like to define themselves as "peace activists," who believe they think beyond the curve, and as "humanitarians" who are concerned about abuses of the Arabs by nationalistic Jews. Most of course seem to view the world in a Manichean mindset, that is, all is good or bad and there is no gray in-between. They often claim that Israel is the embodiment of evil, of oppressive colonialism and apartheid. These people gravitate to Academia where they can get tenured and be sheltered from accountability. Political Cronyism among other faculty and staff converts Israeli academia into a self-perpetuating bureaucracy misinterpreted as "academic freedom."

This describes tenured treason superstar in Math and Computer Science Professor Ofer Neiman at Ben Gurion University. He is an open advocate of Palestinian violence against Jews.
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Neiman is one of the leaders of the Boycott Within movement, which consists of Israelis urging world boycotts of their own countrymen. They promote these boycotts from within Israel, even against the University that employs Neiman:

Quoting Neiman: "There are Israelis -- not just a few -- who think this is equivalent to treason. I disagree… Ours in not a violent campaign… And another thing about BDS is that it gives a voice to people all over the world…"

Sorry, but no, Ofer, it is treason when someone lobbies for those who want to harm one's fellow countrymen and one aids and abets a genocidal enemy.

Economic aggression under the guise of "BDS" or "Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions," ultimately directed at Israeli children, is violence. Indicting those engaged in BDS treason is resistance.

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Breaking News – Ben Gurion University loses multi-million dollar contribution because of the anti-Israel activities of Neve Gordon conducted under BGU's auspices

Maariv June 23, 2012 reports ( http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART2/380/004.html) that Ben Gurion University's cabbagehead president Rivka Carmi has just announced that the university lost a multi-million dollar contribution that was intended for development of the university library and other infrastructure investment because the donor was outraged at the treasonous activities being conducted by Neve Gordon, a lecturer in political science at the University, including his open calls for world boycotts of Israel. According to the story in Maariv, the donor conditioned his or her contribution on Gordon being dismissed. Carmi refused to initiate dismissal proceedings against Gordon. Carmi claims there is no "legal basis" for firing Gordon. She failed to note the academic basis for doing so, namely, that Gordon's "academic record" consists largely of Bash-Israel hate propaganda. She also failed to note that Gordon's track record of law breaking, including his illegal interference with the IDF's anti-terror operations, is itself sufficient legal justification for his being fired.

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Hebrew University - Hanan Hever (Head of Dept of Literature) Argues that "It Does Not Matter" Who's Responsible – Israel is Always Culpable

It is not important whether or not the Holocaust caused the establishment of the State of Israel. Neither is the fact that the State of Israel gave refuge to a substantial number of Holocaust survivors, rehabilitating them in buildings and towns that were, in essence, Palestinian ruins. It seems there can be no historical argument over this fact.

Because of this historical fact, which to this day allows the Holocaust to be used as a justification for the State of Israel's existence (even if it was not the cause of its establishment), Israel bears heavy responsibility.
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And Israel's responsibility for the Nakba does not stop at the events of 1948. The Nakba, which is ongoing, is only getting worse – and for that, Israel is culpable.

It does not matter whether, in 1948, the Palestinians fled their homes or were driven from them. What matters is that when the dust settled, they were not allowed to return. Even if Israel's establishment is not connected to the Holocaust, Israel took in Jewish refugees while creating Palestinian ones. That that creates an undeniable connection between the Holocaust and the state's creation.

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University of Exeter – Ilan Pappe (Dept of Israel Bashing) continues his Jihad against the Jews

Like Amiram Goldblum, Pappe wishes to transform Israeli "mentality and ideology" externally by force

For an activist, the realization that change from within is unattainable not only grows from an intellectual or political process, but is more than anything else an admission of defeat. And it was this fear of defeatism that prevented me from adopting a more resolute position for a very long time. After almost thirty years of activism and historical research, I became convinced that the balance of power in Palestine and Israel pre-empted any possibility for a transformation within Jewish Israeli society in the foreseeable future. Though rather late in the game, I came to realize that the problem was not a particular policy or a specific government, but one more deeply rooted in the ideological infrastructure informing Israeli decisions on Palestine and the Palestinians ever since 1948. I have described this ideology elsewhere as a hybrid between colonialism and romantic nationalism.[1]

Today, Israel is a formidable settler-colonialist state, unwilling to transform or compromise, and eager to crush by whatever means necessary any resistance to its control and rule in historical Palestine. Beginning with the ethnic cleansing of 80 percent of Palestine in 1948, and Israel's occupation of the remaining 20 percent of the land in 1967, Palestinians in Israel are now enclaved in mega-prisons, bantustans, and besieged cantons, and singled out through discriminatory policies.
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But there is really no other alternative [to supporting BDS]. Any other option—from indifference, through soft criticism, and up to full endorsement of Israeli policy—is a wilful decision to be an accomplice to crimes against humanity. The closing of the public mind in Israel, the persistent hold of the settlers over Israeli society, the inbuilt racism within the Jewish population, the dehumanization of the Palestinians, and the vested interests of the army and industry in keeping the occupied territories—all of these mean that we are in for a very long period of callous and oppressive occupation. Thus, the responsibility of Israeli Jews is far greater than that of anyone else involved in advancing peace in Israel and Palestine. Israeli Jews are coming to realize this fact, and this is why the number who support pressuring Israel from the outside is growing by the day. It is still a very small group, but it does form the nucleus of the future Israeli peace camp.

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Hebrew University – Nurit Peled-Elhanan (Dept of Education)  Names Israel 'Racist' and 'Apartheid' in her 'Naksa' Day Speech

Defiles Israel on the Anniversary of the Six Day War

This year the apartheid regime of the State of the Jews proved its complete loyalty to racism and the principles of racism. Twenty-five racist bills were submitted and more than ten racist laws have been passed this year, and hardly any Jewish citizens went out onto the streets. More than three hundred people imprisoned without trial launched a hunger strike to the death for two months and more, and hardly any Jewish citizens went onto the streets. Thousands of children are not going to school in East Jerusalem because the Jewish ministry of education does not allocate classes or because the racist Citizenship Law makes them the citizens of no-place and no one is going onto the streets. The separation of families, the expulsion of residents, the confiscation of lands, children abducted from their beds and cruelly interrogated, families evicted from their homes out onto the street, farmers tortured by kippa-wearing bullies under the protection of the army and on the orders of the government - and hardly anyone goes out onto the streets. That is the peak achievement of the Zionist movement.

The State of Israel, which was officially declared as an apartheid state, is distinguished by what has always been the most typical and successful method of racism: the classification of human beings. The Hebrew language that keeps getting uglier under the auspices of the army of Occupation and the bureaucracy of Occupation, is full of classifications: there are people who are a cancer in the heart of the nation and there are people who are a security danger, and there are people who are a plague or a demographic nightmare and there are people who are a health risk, all of them classified and categorized in such a way that even the most ignorant and boorish of Israel's ministers manage to learn this categorization by heart.

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Hebrew University – Amiel Vardi (Dept of Arts) Ignoring the Law and Organizing Illegal Housing for Arabs

We wonder if Vardi supports law breaking to defend the inhabitants of the Ulpana settlement and "affirm their rights" of settlement under the San Remo Resolution

From: Amiel Vardi <amiel.vardi@gmail.com>
Subject: [Taayush] important action this Saturday afternoon action in Mufakkara

Saturday, May 19th 2012 – Demonstration in the Palestinian village of Mufakkara

The Popular Struggle Coordination Committee promotes an important campaign in support of Mufakkara village community and organizes an event concerning new houses building, on Saturday May 19th 2012, at 6 p.m.

The purpose is to reinforce the community's right to live and to develop the area by building houses and providing legal support.

Additional Info: Mufakkara is located in C area, under civil and military Israeli control. The Palestinian village has been often target of restrictions, demolitions, evacuations and abuse policies aimed by the Israeli Army. Recently, on May 2nd the District Coordination Office delivered stop working orders to 4 infrastructures in the village of Um Fagarah: an house-tent and three prefabricated houses. The prefabricated are an humanitarian response to the demolitions of November 24th…

Nevertheless, the Palestinian communities in the South Hebron Hills are strongly involved in affirming their rights and resisting to the Israeli occupation choosing the nonviolent way.

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Ben Gurion University runs yet another biased anti-Israel "conference," one in which BGU Professor Aref Abu-Rabia (Middle East studies) engages in Slander and Libel

It was in the midst of my reply to some of these comments that BGU Professor Aref Abu-Rabia interjected, "But you are a collaborator, aren't you?" His outburst didn't end there; he then said "collaborator" again and mumbled something about the Holocaust.

In an academic setting, one might think that accusing people of being connected to the Nazis or of being "collaborators," a term also associated with Nazism, would be considered inappropriate. But the conference organizers, (BGU's) Avi Rubin and Iris Agmon, were mum.

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The misbehaving academics are not solely to blame. It is the culture of extremism as well. One conference attendee told me, "I've gotten used to this harassment and lack of respect."

WHEN THE university becomes the equivalent of a cross between a football locker room and extremist political rally, where decorum is at its lowest level, the culture of the academy has sent the message that this hostile environment is acceptable.

It is a shame that in a university named after Israel's first prime minister, a person who dares to question whether the Beduin do in fact have indigenous rights to much of the Negev – a right they don't have in any other country in the Middle East – is condemned as a "collaborator." We know what that implies. The collaborators with the Nazis were killed after the war.

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Counterpunch, the venue of choice for people like Neve Gordon, Uri Avnery, Ilan Pappe, Hannah Safran, Lev Grinberg, Jeff Halper, and all the other Israeli anti-Semites, is proclaimed a Neo-Nazi magazine by the prestigious British web site Harry's Place:

Counterpunch: A Neo Nazi Magazine

Counterpunch's front page story is an article by Eric Walberg.

Here are a few other stories by Walberg, a couple of which are published on neo-Nazi sites. A couple were written under the pseudonym "Simon Jones", but Terry Glavin is clear that this is Walberg.

Does anybody here still seriously want to argue that Counterpunch is not a magazine of the far Right?

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University of Exeter – Another Israel-Bashing Quote Cited by Ilan Pappe (Dept of Israel Bashing) Has Been Shown to be Source-less

Well, it is time for Pappé to provide the source for yet another quote, this one attributed to Sir Walter Shaw, chairman of the commission charged with investigating the 1929 riots.
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On page 248 of The Rise & Fall of A Palestinian Dynasty: The Husaynis 1700-1948, Pappé reports the following: "'The principal cause [of the riots]", Shaw wrote after leaving the country, 'was twelve years of pro-Zionist policy.'"

Again, historian Benny Morris has challenged this quote…

CAMERA has inspected the record for the 46th meeting of the Shaw Commission (included in volume two) and looked for the quote in question.
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The quote Pappé attributed to Sir Walter Shaw is not in any of these locations… Did Sir Walter Shaw actually write the words attributed to him, or is this another invention similar to the quote Pappé falsely attributed to David Ben-Gurion in 2006?

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Melanie Phillips, British journalist and author, Plugs IsraCampus' Efforts in Documenting the "Systematic Corruption of the Academy by Jewish Academics"

One of the most shocking aspects of the campaign to demonise and delegitimise the state of Israel is the part played in this diabolical endeavour by Jewish and Israeli academics on the political left. We're not talking here about people who are merely critical of Israeli policies. We're talking about people who lend their names and academic credentials to lies, libels, distortions, fabrications, misrepresentations and other malicious fantasies in order to demonise and delegitimise Israel, treatment they afford to no other country.
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Within Israel itself, the demonisation of their own country by Israeli academics has to be seen to be believed – not least for the free rein they are usually given to debauch the role of a university and substitute lies and propaganda for facts and knowledge. If anyone challenges them, they start screaming that they are being demonised. Not surprisingly, a steady stream of them find their way onto the campuses of Britain, where the already Judeophobic atmosphere supplies them with an unlimited supply of the oxygen of hatred. The IsraCampus website is doing sterling work recording this systematic corruption of the academy by Jewish academics both within Israel and abroad. It is a deeply tragic and unique phenomenon.
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Bizarre? Grotesque? Suicidal? Sure. Yet astonishingly, all but ignored by Jews in Israel and elsewhere, who choose to pretend this is not happening. IsraCampus is fighting back. Where are all the rest?

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University of Haifa - Marcelo Svirsky (Dept of Political Science and Cardiff University) Thinks Critics of the Zionist Entity are never Critical Enough

Haifa University's political science department was long the home of the arch-hater of Israel and pseudo-academic fraud Ilan Pappe. Today it is home to Political Science Lecturer Marcelo Svirsky, currently abroad in the UK, where he is busy smearing Israel as a racist society that engages in "ethnic cleansing" and "colonialism." Marcelo Svirsky seems intent on following in Pappe's footsteps.
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In the letter to [prominent French intellectual Bernard Henri] Levy, Svirsky compares the Gaddafi regime to Israel's Zionist state in the most noxious terms and adds: "But we should be under no illusions: for governments, cozying up to those who may become the future rulers of Libya would facilitate the exploitation of the country's vast resources in the future. By contrast, an Israeli-Palestinian agreement, and the stabilization of the region that would bring along, is far less attractive to Europe and the West's interests."
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"I struggle to find the words to describe your ignorance here, in particular with regard to how ethnic segregation and discrimination against Israel's Palestinian citizens within the Green Line structures an imperative to fight the system."

"Fight the system" here means supporting anyone fighting against a Jewish state, using violence when "necessary." Svirsky criticizes Levy for not damning Israel when it dared to stop the terrorist flotilla designed to aid Hamas in opening up the sea lanes to bring weapons into Gaza:

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Tel Aviv University - Aeyal Gross (Dept of Law) Grossly Misrepresents the Death of 'Innocent' Terrorists Killed During Terrorist Acts

Lumps them together with other Arabs Killed Over the Last Decade in an Attempt to De-legitimize Israeli Security Concerns and Residency Laws

So it's no wonder that the truth is only a side note when bashing Israel. According to Aeyal Gross, Associate Professor and a lecturer on international and constitutional law at Tel Aviv University, who is already on CAMERA'a focus, no less than 50 Palestinians were killed in the last decade in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip by Israeli civilians, aka settlers.

Only in a minority of the cases of violence against Palestinians were indictments served. (According to statistics provided by the human rights group B'Tselem, since 2000 Israeli civilians have killed 50 Palestinians in the territories, in addition to perpetrating many other non-fatal instances of violence.)…
From certain points of view, the security risk to Palestinians from Israelis is more serious than that to Israelis from Palestinians. Even if Palestinians manage sometimes to hurt Israelis, sometimes in serious terror attacks, when it comes to Palestinian violence against Israelis the police and the army are there to protect the Israeli population…
If the Citizenship Law is truly security-oriented, and its purpose is to protect the population from people who might attack it – logically it should be applied in the opposite direction. Israelis – in light of their proven tendency to steal Palestinian lands and act violently toward Palestinians – should be prohibited from entering the territories.

... Half of those supposedly innocent Palestinians about which Gross is lamenting, are ruthless terrorists who either killed, were planning on killing, or would kill if given the chance. Their deaths were caused in self defense, by the people who's job it is to protect their communities from such murderous terrorists in the first place. Gross, either by dishonesty or malice, purposely omitted these facts when writing his op-ed in Haaretz.

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BGU Would-be Murderer not to be Prosecuted - Political Corruption in Israel's Attorney General Office

Leftist Attorney General Circles the Wagons to defend Leftist Anti-Israel Lecturer Eyal Nir (Dept of Chemistry) from BGU who Incited to Murder

For those who think I am exaggerating when I say that Israel has a corrupt politicized dual justice system, one for leftists and the other for everyone else, then just consider the following news item:

You may recall the reports here about one Eyal Nir, a far-leftist anti-Israel lecturer in chemistry at Ben Gurion "University," the Bir Zeit of the Negev. Nir posted calls and threats to murder non-leftists on his Facebook page. The same Attorney General's Office that rounds up and arrests Rabbis by the bushel if they dare to recommend that people read a book of which the Leftists disapprove was petitioned to prosecute Nir. Today it was announced that Nir will not be prosecuted.

And don't hold your breath waiting for Rivka Carmi, the Cabbagehead president of Ben Gurion "University," to do anything about Nir either.

'Case Closed Against Inciting Lecturer

The State Attorney's Office announced, Thursday, that it was closing the file of a Ben Gurion University lecturer who had called, on his Facebook page, to "break the necks" of right wing participants in last year's Jerusalem Day Flag Dance parade. The announcement cited lack of evidence. The Legal Forum for the Land of Israel, which filed the complaint has announced that it will appeal the "surprising" decision. "Law enforcement cannot ignore such a blatant incitement to murder, said Forum Director, Nachi Eyal.'

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Tel Aviv University – Aeyal Gross (Dept of Law) Translates Article As He Sees Fit

Writing in Ha'aretz today, Eyal Gross, who is apparently the same Eyal Gross who is a lecturer on international and constitutional law at Tel Aviv University, seriously distorts a Ha'aretz article published last week about police incompetence in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank). While the Dec. 9 report found that the police were equally incompetent whether investigating complaints lodged by Israeli settlers or Palestinians, Gross falsely writes today that only Palestinians suffer from police incompetence…

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Shlomo Sand, the pseudo-historian Stalinist from Tel Aviv University, claims he witnessed murder of a Palestinian and did nothing about it.

Also admits being a Stalinist. We believe his second statement.

One night in September 1967 he witnessed soldiers abusing an elderly Palestinian man who had been arrested with a large amount of dollars in his possession. "I climbed onto a crate and watched a harrowing scene through the window," he writes. "The detainee was sitting tied to a chair, and my good buddies were beating him all over and occasionally pressing burning cigarettes into his arms. I climbed down from the crate, threw up and returned to my post shaking and frightened. A little later, a pickup left carrying the body … My friends shouted to me that they were going to the Jordan River to dump the body."

You were armed − why didn't you intervene? You could have fired in the air, summoned help.

"I lost my senses completely. I was afraid to intervene. The fact that I did not try to do anything to stop them depressed me for years and resonates within me to this day. That is why I write about in the book, because I still have guilt feelings. I am ashamed that I did not do anything. When I got back from reserve duty in Jericho, I went to see MK Meir Wilner [head of the Israel Communist Party] and told him about it. I also consulted with [the writer] Dan Omer, whom I had met during the fighting, when we both shook as we shot in Abu Tor. Omer, who was five years older than I, adopted me. He and Wilner said there were too many cases like that and there was nothing to be done. That night I felt that I had lost my homeland, namely my childhood neighborhood in Jaffa, along with my parents, the neighbors and the school. A concrete homeland that I lost at that time."

Why are you invoking this now?

"In the book I do a national reckoning. You know, I am not anti-national....

Did you go back to the murder of the Palestinian man in order to say, "Look, I am one of you and once I was even made to be a bit of a war criminal"?

"Like everyone, I too am a bit of a war criminal. That is part of my life. Some time after that reserve service in Jericho I became a daily activist in Matzpen [the Maoist organization – Isracampus] and distributed leaflets and sprayed slogans on walls at night and got beaten up. I was a member of the political fringe. I am not a victim, but my psychological distress started then, at the age of 20. The years in Matzpen gave me a great deal, and the political activity was a type of healing. I later left the organization heartbroken, and in despair sank into drugs. My partner and my best friend got into heroin. Maybe because I am Polish I did not follow them, and instead of heroin I took matriculation exams and entered university. The best friend committed suicide. Others left the country."

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Tel Aviv University - Is the professor who wrote "The Invention of the Jewish People" himself also the Inventor of the Sand-Threatening People?

Was the "threat" reported by Shlomo Sand (Dept of History) a fabrication?

A report in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz claims that the prominent historian Professor Shlomo Sand of Tel Aviv University has received a number of death threats through the post. Prof. Sand, who is well known for his anti-Zionist stance and the author of "The Invention of the Jewish People", has been sent threatening letters and a bag containing a chemical substance. The letters have warned him that his days are numbered because he is "an anti-Semite" and "an enemy of Israel".

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Tel Aviv University – Ariella Azoulay (Dept of the Arts) Pouts over the lack of 'Academic' Study into Israel's Foundation as a 'Catastrophe'

We should note that even a serious study of the Nakba and the civil disaster accompanied the destruction of the obvious existence-together of Arabs and Jews until the founding of the State of Israel, even the little that is addressed regarding the disaster of such magnitude - is outside the fence.

Has not the time come to produce civil statistics in the study of 1948? Has not the moment come for us to know how many naissant doctoral theses have been blocked, mostly even before sprouing [sic], when arab students - but also Jews - wanted to research the Nakba?

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Tel Aviv University – Yoav Peled (Dept of Political Science) Bashes Israel in New York

Disseminates Claims of Racist Israeli policies that date back to the Mandate Period; Pegs Israel the Aggressor in the 1967 War to make "the Zionist Enterprise" fit the "Colonialist Thesis"

Among the most heated arguments was the one between two political scientists, Yoav Peled of Tel Aviv University and Mitchell Cohen of Baruch College in New York.

Peled argued that the Zionist enterprise in Palestine fit the “colonialist thesis,” albeit it was an unusual case, because it did not have a “mother country” to support it. Great Britain, although committed by the Balfour Declaration to Jewish settlement in Palestine, soon proved an unreliable ally.

Still, asserted Peled, Jewish projects in the country after 1920 marginalized and impoverished the Palestinian Arab peasantry, as Jews bought up land from absentee landlords during the Mandatory period, and directly expropriated Arab land after 1948. Also, many institutions such as the kibbutz refused to employ Arab labour.

Peled was taken to task by Cohen when the Israeli academic maintained that the 1967 Six Day War was not a defensive one but one initiated by Israel. Cohen challenged this statement, referring to Egypt’s massing of troops in Sinai and closing the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping.

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Yaakov Ahimeir, senior Israeli journalist, Warns of the Dangers of the Agitprop and Indoctrination dispensed by the Academic Radical Left

Joins the call to dismiss Academics who support the BDS movement

[Prof. Shamir] warns against politicization becoming the dominant power: expressions of politicization, she stresses, turn academic instruction into nothing less than uncontrollable and unrestrained brainwashing and indoctrination.

Pulling from her own experience, she maintains that there are quite a few "crusader" lecturers who try to convert their students to their "religion." The days during which teachers understood that they can't turn their classrooms into branches of their political parties are long gone. Teachers no longer feel the need to avoid troublesome political dictates that promote discrimination and segregation. Shamir also calls for an examination of the academic establishment – she urges the establishment of a committee, comprising jurists, philosophers, linguists and researchers – but without politicians – that would formulate the essential distinction between research and political propaganda.

We must eradicate the improper practice, which has spread among quite a few faculty members, of turning classrooms and university offices into branches of the political parties whose flag they wave, while making undue use of the university's mail services, internet services and telephones.
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Fearlessly, Shamir calls for the immediate dismissal of lecturers who promote boycotting Israeli academic institutions: "they themselves can have the honor of teaching abroad," she says.
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In my opinion, Shamir's charges are harsh, but true. The Council for Higher Education, and its chairman Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar, cannot maintain indifference in the face of such accusations. Without fearing what others may say, they must reach tough conclusions. This is not about limiting academic freedom, not by a long shot.

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Hebrew University - Amiram Goldblum (Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences) Calls on Israeli Left to Undermine Israeli Democracy and Have its Agenda Forced Upon Israel by Foreign Powers

Goldblum is a radical Leftist with a long track record of political extremism (see this and this)

... Goldblum's speech there [is] reported in detail in the May 18, 2012 issue of Makor Rishon [Video of said speech can be found on the 'Peace Now' facebook page or at this link - Isracampus]. There Goldblum is quoted as calling on Israel's Left to stop wasting its time attempting to persuade the general public to embrace its political agenda, evidently because it is clear that the public will never do so. Goldblum said he has no interest in the Israeli electorate and general public and called upon the radical Left to go directly to political groups abroad, outside of Israel, and recruit them as pressure groups to coerce Israel into accepting the agenda of the Israeli Left. In other words, Goldblum is openly contemptuous of democracy and Israeli sovereignty.

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University of Haifa Cancels "Nakba Day" Activities on Campus

Finally some Common-Sense at an Israeli University

Haifa University announced Wednesday that it would not allow an event marking "Nakba Day" to take place on its campus. The early afternoon announcement came just a few hours before the event was to start.

The university said in a statement that while the event had originally been touted as "a cultural event," it turned out Tuesday that the intention was to mark "Nakba Day" – as Arab enemies of Israel call the anniversary of the founding of the Jewish state. "In these circumstances, the university decided not to allow the event to take place."

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Yaakov Kirschen, Dry Bones Cartoonist, Has More to Say about Nakba Day at TAU

 

Tel Aviv University - Michael Freund, Founder and Chairman of Shavei Israel, Issues a Call to De-Fund Tel Aviv University because of its Undermining Zionism and Israeli Sovereignty

Gives Props to IsraCampus for documenting the "various anti-Zionist and Marxist loons"

Have these people lost their minds? What on earth would prompt Jewish students at an Israeli institution of higher education to lament the founding of their own country?

Clearly, something is very wrong at Tel Aviv University. Though ostensibly a Zionist institution, its administration ignored the pleas of various public figures and permitted this outrage to go forward.
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Clearly, university administrators have lost sight of one of the essential purposes of education. As the 18th-century political philosopher Baron de Montesquieu pointed out, the promotion of love for one's country "ought to be the principal business of education."

This is so patently obvious that it should not even need to be stated.
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As Dr. Steven Plaut and the IsraCampus organization have been documenting for years, various TAU departments have become hothouses for anti-Israel hotheads.

These range from a professor who denies that the Jews are a nation to another who has referred to the residents of Judea and Samaria as "Jewish Cossacks."

Yet another TAU instructor justified a Palestinian grenade attack on Israeli soldiers as a legitimate act of resistance while others have affirmed their support for efforts to boycott the Jewish state.

If you find this hard to believe, just go to the IsraCampus website (www.isracampus.org.il) and see for yourself how various anti-Zionist and Marxist loons have been indoctrinating Israel's younger generation at TAU with toxic views. Anyone concerned for the future of Israel should be concerned by what is happening on campuses such as Tel Aviv University.

A growing cadre of Israeli academics are preaching extremist far-left views and turning the hallowed halls of higher education into profane pillars of puerile Palestinian propaganda.

There is no reason why the Israeli taxpayer, or pro-Israel Diaspora Jews, should continue to generously fund TAU even as it serves to undercut the values they hold dear.

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Knesset to Close Nakba Law Loophole

Right-wing groups were not the only people upset by a Nakba Day ceremony held at Tel Aviv University on Monday. On Wednesday, Yisrael Beiteinu MKs were due to submit a new bill that would allow the government to deny or revoke budgets from universities that allow such ceremonies on their premises.

The bill is meant to bolster the Nakba Law, which the Knesset passed a year ago and that allows the Finance Ministry to withhold government funds from organizations that organize or allow events that violate "the principles of the state."

The Nakba Law defines such events as ceremonies that deny the existence of Israel as a Jewish, democratic state; that support terror or racist propaganda; that mark the founding of the state as a day of mourning; or damage the symbols or flag of Israel.

Education Minister Gideon Saar has looked into the question of whether it was legally possible to withhold funds from Tel Aviv University because of the Nakba Day ceremony, but found that since the university hadn't funded the event, it was not. The new legislation from Yisrael Beiteinu, authored by Education Committee Chairman Alex Miller – who also wrote the Nakba Law – is designed to close this loophole.

… Tel Aviv University said in response that "the university has always operated and will always operate in accordance with the laws of Israel."

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Hagai Segal, the Middle-Eastern Affairs Academic & Consultant, Concludes that TAU Management is Mortified by the Founding of the Jewish State

The permission granted by university management to the Nakba rally contained a subconscious component of identification with the very idea and not only with organizers' right to express it. Indeed, this academic institution has been nurturing pangs of conscience over the events of 1948.

With every passing year, the university is having greater trouble contending with the fact that we established a state here despite Arab objections. This is why it approved the rally without thinking twice. To this point, the school still does not understand what's the problem – it's been listening to the Palestinian narrative so closely that it developed emotional indifferent to the Jewish narrative.

When the education minister urged the university to renounce the permit for the event, he performed his national and educational role well. A healthy state cannot show indifference to a rally meant to express great sorrow over the state's very establishment.

… [T]ake a look at the website of the Zochrot non-profit group, a Jewish-Arab organization dedicated to promoting the memory of the Nakba, also one of the rally's organizers. When they speak about "the occupation," they refer to 1948, not 1967. For them, Tel Aviv University is in fact still Sheikh Munis.

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Ben Gurion University - Hysterical attack on Isracampus by David Newman (Dean of Social Sciences) in JPOST

Bemoans increased involvement of Board of Governors' dealing with Traitorous Academics who abuse their positions; Boasts the increased attention of the Council of Higher Education but fails to mention that the Council almost closed the department Newman founded.

In recent years, spurred on by extremist right-wing groups, members of the Boards of Governors have also become increasingly involved in the political debate surrounding Israeli universities and their academic staff. Many of them have blindly supported the false assertions of well-oiled and funded groups, such as Im Tirtzu, NGO Monitor, IsraCampus and Academic Monitor, that the universities have become hotbeds of "anti-Zionism" without ever bothering to check the facts on the ground.
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The crisis of the humanities, which was all too apparent during the past decade, has finally been recognized by the Council of Higher Education (the MALAG) which is beginning to redirect resources to this field. In financial terms, the liberal arts and the humanities will not always stand up to the stringent measures of economic feasibility. [nor to the stringent measures of Academic standards – Isracampus]

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Yaakov Kirschen, Dry Bones Cartoonist, Hits Nail on Head

 

Suggestion for Tel Aviv University, from Steven Plaut

Gents: Since you have decided to approve a Nakba Day event on campus property to mourn the creation and existence of Israel and to demand the recognition of the "Palestinian Right of Return," I would like to suggest that you show us the courage of your convictions. After all, this week is also the exact date of another tragic event in history, the defeat of another national struggle for self-determination and human rights.

That is right, this week is the anniversary of the Tragischer Tag, the Tragic Day, the date in which the great tragedy of the German people took place, in which Hitler was defeated and the Reich was overrun and its independence lost.  The British and American aggressors and their allies and accomplices won their imperialist war and carried out a terrible ethnic cleansing of the Volkdeutsch, just as the Jews carried out ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the Nakba that Tel Aviv University is about to commemorate. Moreover, the Germans evicted en masse by the millions from their homes in Central and Eastern Europe have never been granted their inalienable "Right of Return" to their homelands.

SO why should not Tel Aviv University ALSO approve the holding of a Tragischer Day mourning event in Antine Square, smack on campus property (even though Tel Aviv University spin PR people have been trying to lie to people and claim it is not campus property!). Indeed, since most of the same people who will be holding Nakba Day will also want to participate in Tragischer Day, maybe the two events can be held together, together with PLO flags and swastikas. I am sure the communist atheists and the Islamofascists who plan to say a special "alternative Yizkor Prayer" at the Nakda Day event can also say one for the German victims of ethnic cleansing and aggression. Can there be any doubt that many faculty members from Tel Aviv University, including most of the departments of history, psychology department, linguistics, political science, sociology, and law will be interested in attending both events.

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Tel Aviv University – Education minister Gideon Sa'ar bashes TAU over "Outrageous" Nakba Day ceremony on campus

Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar asked Tel Aviv University President Professor Joseph Klaftner over the weekend to reconsider his decision to allow students to organize an "outrageous" on-campus ceremony to commemorate Nakba Day.
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TAU approved the students' ceremony despite the Nakba Law, passed in the Knesset last year and upheld by the High Court of Justice in January, which allows the finance minister to cut the budget of any state-funded institution or body that holds events that mark the Jewish state's independence as a day of mourning.

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Isracampus Nomination for Israel's Stupidest Academic of the Year: Tel Aviv University - Aeyal Gross (Dept of Law) leads the campaign to denounce Israel for "Pinkwashing", Gross' nonsense word for mentioning the decent treatment of homosexuals in Israeli society

Gross fears it could lead to Israel being Respected and Admired

Not only is the LGBT community being appropriated, but so are the Palestinians. Oren claimed in his speech that Israel provide asylum for LGBT Palestinian organizations that cannot freely operate in the territories. In reality, Israel has refused to take in LGBT Palestinians....
While the headquarters of two LGBT Palestinian organizations that operate in both Israel and in the West Bank are located in Israel, the state does not give them "shelter," and their appropriation for Israel's propaganda needs is outrageous – not only because of the ongoing oppression of Palestinians in Israel and in the territories, but also because the appropriation is done in order to divert the conversation from Palestinian oppression in an attempt to present Israel as a liberal democracy.

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Tel Aviv University Lying to the Public

The heads of Tel Aviv University have been nailing lying to the public. They were trying to defuse the worldwide wave of rage at them over the decision to hold "Nakba Day" events on the TAU campus, mourning the creation and existence of Israel. Hey, we have no say over this, the PR Spin doctors for TAU are now saying, because the Nakba Day "protest" is to be held outside the campus, where we have no control.

Except that the Nakba Day event is to be held ON THE CAMPUS, in Antin Square, which is campus property, right next to the main entry gate. It lies outside the main TAU campus fence on Haim Levanon Street but it is unambiguously campus property, where no one can even hand out leaflets or sell Pepsi without campus permission. That is why the Dean of Students was asked and had to approve this Nakba atrocity, which he did approve, and that is why the university asked the organizers of it to pony up cash to pay for the presence of campus security personnel there. If it were really in a public space, none of that would be required.

So in short the PR people and officials of Tel Aviv University have been caught with their pants on fire!

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Tel Aviv University is determined to out-treason Ben Gurion University. THAT is the only possible explanation for the fact that the University will be hosting "Nakba Day" events on the campus this year, in which Israel's creation and existence will be mourned.

The main mourning ceremony will be held on the campus mall. It has been approved by the Tel Aviv University Dean of Students, although many TAU students are reportedly outraged. It has been announced that an "alternative Yizkor" prayer will be said by the communist atheists and Islamofascists organizing the event. On behalf of all the "Palestinians" who died in the attempt by the Arabs to conduct genocidal ethnic cleansing of Jews in 1948-49.  While a growing number of Western universities prohibit holding such events on campus facilities because of the fact that "Nakba" events are nakedly anti-Semitic and pro-terror, Tel Aviv University has no such scruples.

Want to demand that Tel Aviv University be de-funded?

Write to The Council for Higher Education in Israel
(governmental body that funds and supervises Israeli universities and colleges)

Prof. Manuel Trachtenberg Chairman, Council on Higher Education Email: manuel@post.tau.ac.il POB 4037, Jerusalem 91040, Israel

Aharon Beit-Halahmi Planning & Budgeting Committee Chairman Council for Higher Education betha@eurofund.co.il P.O.B. 4037, Jerusalem 91040, Israel Tel: 02-5679911 Fax: 02-5679969

Other names and emails of Council members can be obtained here:
http://www.che.org.il/peoples/default_e.aspx

Send copies of your request to:

President, Professor Joseph Klafter Email klafter@post.tau.ac.il Tel Aviv University P.O. Box 39040 Tel Aviv 69978 ISRAEL Tel: 972-3-6408254 Fax: 972-3-6406466

Rector: Prof. Aron Shai Email: aashai@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.aftau.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_contact
Other "Friends of" Groups: http://www.tau.ac.il/friends-eng.html

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Ben Gurion University - David Newman (Dean of Social Sciences) Denounces "exclusion of critical voices" by Israel while excluding all Non-Leftist Critical Voices from his Own Department at BGU

In his Op-Ed, David Newman complains about Israel attempting to "exclude those who think differently," such as Israel's barring entry into the country for Gunter Grass, a man who would be welcomed with open arms by Newman's politics department at BGU as a fellow hater of Israel and Zionism. Newman is opposed to preventing "critical voices" from entering Israel. This coming from the fellow who has spent recent years demanding that critical voices of critics who criticize the anti-Israel Left be silenced and suppressed.

Of course this article about how terrible it is to exclude those who think differently is written by a professor who built up the entire politics department on the principle of excluding all those who are pro-Israel or non-leftist. Zionists and non-leftists are rigidly prevented from teaching in Newman's department!

"This is part of a policy which Israel has adopted in recent years in relation to many who are critical of the country and its policies vis-a-vis the Palestinians. It is a policy which is causing immense damage to Israel's reputation as a democracy where free speech is allowed. Outspoken critics of Israeli government policies, such as Noam Chomsky, the noted Jewish linguist and philosopher, Norman Finkelstein, the American political scientists and activist who has been critical of the way in which the Holocaust has been manipulated for political gain, and, most recently, Gunter Grass, the German novelist and Nobel prize winner – have all been denied entry into Israel.
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Preventing these critical voices from entering the country only draws added attention and headlines to their views. It is a policy which reflects a cowardice to engage in debate with people whose opinions do not fall in line with those of a state which has become increasingly hard-line in both its domestic and international positions in recent years. It raises questions concerning the very definition of the state as an open democracy. It makes us look pretty stupid in the eyes of the world, including those who strongly support and promote Israel within the international arena, but who believe that Israel has to justify its policies rather than simply shut the debate down because the views expressed are unpopular at the best, or indefensible at the worst."

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Special Isracampus Report
Tel Aviv University's Daniel Bar-Tal (Dept of Education) is Collaborator with Norway's leading Neo-Nazi

Johan Galtung is the Norwegian Marxist sociologist and anti-Semitic moonbat who was in the headlines recently… He also claims that "Zionists" were behind the massacre of Norwegian teenagers carried out last year by the deranged Norwegian Neo-Nazi Anders Breivik. Galtung claims the Israeli Mossad was behind the massacre. His evidence? Jews are bloodthirsty murderers and the Norwegian Neo-Nazi was a bloodthirsty murderer, so obviously there must be a connection! Galtung also insists that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a true historic documentation of the global Jewish cabal… Galtung also claims that Jews control the world's media. In short, Galtung is the worst Nazi and worst anti-Semite to emerge from Norway since Quisling…

Now as it turns out, the Nazi Galtung has carried on a long-term collaboration with one of the worst Jewish haters of Israel inside Israeli academia.

Daniel Bar-Tal is an "expert" in "peace education" (meaning leftist indoctrination) at Tel Aviv University in the Department of Educational Psychology. Bar-Tal is a radical Marxist anti-Zionist who insists that the real obstacle to ending the Middle East conflict is Zionism.
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As you can see on this web page, Bar-Tal and Galtung collaborated on a "panel" sponsored by the so-called "Palestine Israel-Journal," an anti-Israel "journal" run by Palestinian terrorists and some leftist Israeli Jewish fellow travelers. The web page is at http://www.pij.org/ddetails.php?id=22 … This does not appear to be the only collaboration between the two anti-Semites. There are references to other collaborations in the internet. Bar-Tal and Galtung are both considered leading lights in "peace education," that pseudo-discipline in which students in education schools are subjected to North Korean style re-education into the Left's radical ideology. The duo like to cite one another (for example, http://tau.ac.il/~daniel/pdf/13.pdf), sometimes contribute essays to the same volumes, and Galtung's "writings" are assigned by Bar-Tal to his students in his classes.

Curiously, Bar-Tal's choice of chums and collaborators also does not seem to trouble Tel Aviv University officials much either. Want to ask them why? You can complain to:

President, Professor Joseph Klafter Email klafter@post.tau.ac.il Tel Aviv University P.O. Box 39040 Tel Aviv 69978 ISRAEL Tel: 972-3-6408254 Fax: 972-3-6406466

Rector: Prof. Aron Shai Email: aashai@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.aftau.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_contact
Other "Friends of" Groups: http://www.tau.ac.il/friends-eng.html

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Tel Aviv University – Amal Jamal (Dept of Political Science) Rejects the Bible and the "Zionist narrative"; Has Nothing but Criticism for the State that Pays his Salary

Dr Jamal introduced his talk by describing the "Zionist narrative" as Jews returning home to a land that was promised by God according to the Bible. But, he said, the Palestinians pose a heavy threat to that narrative.

This, he argued, has led to an Israeli policy of manufacturing "quiet Arabs" and "floating Arabs" who have no ability in Israel to influence what they want to be.

Israel, he said, is doing this by redefining the Jewish state and hollowing out Palestinian citizenship.

Part of this is a mechanism of "Control and Neglect". "Neglect" means de-developing the Israeli Arabs so they become unequal to other citizens. And "citizenship" as a control mechanism is used to inhibit Israeli Arabs from integrating fully into Israeli life.

He said that in Israel "Jews live. Palestinians exist".

He criticised the Knesset with its automatic majority that can enact any law. Other tools used included separation and "the racist Wall" and other walls being built in Lod and Caesarea. The citizenship law, the boycott law and the Nakba law were other examples as well as the limiting of resources for Israeli Arabs and the removal of citizenship in cases of treason.

Dr. Jamal concluded his talk by saying that the Jewish state is a hegemonic project that cannot tolerate contention and that this will eventually lead to its breakdown and that Israeli policies will close off any hope of a two state solution, eventually leading to a "one state solution".
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I asked Dr Jamal why, if as he stated, Israeli Arabs could not influence their future in Israel then how had he become so successful there. I then went on to suggest that at least in Israel the Arabs had a chance to argue their case while in the surrounding Arab countries Arab citizens were either being slaughtered or undergoing the imposition of strict Islamic laws.

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UCLA - Leftist Fascist Gabriel Piterberg (Dept. of History) Jihads against Freedom of Speech for Pro-Israel Speakers

Anti-Israel Propaganda should be the only Protected form of Speech

Piterberg did not object to the principles that President Yudof outlined. Rather, in his convoluted presentation, he denounced the statement because it used the principles of free speech to condemn tactics that anti-Israel activists have been using with increasing frequency. Piterberg charged that the statement "criminalized political dissent."
...Rather than recommend that anti-Israel activists moderate their behavior, Piterberg went on the attack. He charged that the statement was biased and showed unwarranted, "disproportionate concern for Jewish students" and alleged that it ignored "harassment and threats to Palestinian and Arab students and their allies," though he could not cite any comparable examples of anyone disrupting their events. He denied that defacing Israeli symbols was an affront to Jewish students, declaring that it is racist to associate all Jews with Israel. He ridiculed the idea that anti-Semitism is a problem on campus, mocking such concerns as a figment of overwrought imaginations. To prove his point, he showed a Seinfeld clip satirizing such concerns.

Piterberg then argued that anti-Israel activists' actions do not deny the free speech of others. He accused pro-Israel groups of misrepresenting the extremism of these incidents. Then, in a breathtaking inversion of reality, Piterberg contended that when incidents did become menacing or violent, it was because pro-Israel groups fomented or initiated the threatening atmosphere, essentially blaming the victims.

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UCLA - Gabriel Piterberg (Dept. of History) Invents "Ethnic Cleansing" of Arabs by Israel, even if history proves otherwise

But there is a danger that debate could become too narrowly focused on the single issue of whether or not there was an Israeli master plan to effect a comprehensive expulsion of the Palestinian Arabs from their homes in 1948. [2] The moral pressure behind this obsessive question is understandable, and should be respected. But it is also true that it takes for granted that what matters is the framework of the perpetrators, not the perspective of the victims. The existence or otherwise of an explicit Zionist intention to unleash ethnic cleansing, under cover of war, poses problems that Israelis certainly need to confront....
The reality is that the eventuality of massive expulsions was inherent in the nature of Zionist colonization in Palestine long before war broke out in 1948.

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Special Isracampus Report
Harvard Prof. Alan Dershowitz denounces BGU's Neve Gordon (Dept of Political Science) as a Fifth-Rate Pseudo-Academic and Traitor, Compares him with Holocaust Denier

On April 27, 2012 the Right-leaning daily Makor Rishon ran an extensive in-depth interview with the legendary professor of law Alan Dershowitz... Dershowitz fires his most devastating ammunition in the interview against three anti-Semitic Israelis. They are Neve Gordon from Ben Gurion "University," Ilan Pappe, once at the University of Haifa but today a full-time Israel Basher in Britain at the University of Exeter, and the demented Holocaust Denier, ex-Israeli sax player Gilad Atzmon.

In the interview, Dershowitz is asked about a comment of his cited last year in Globes in which he said that some of the worst enemies of Israel are themselves Israelis. Dershowitz responds by saying that not only are these anti-Israel Israelis among Israel's worst enemies, but also they are among Israel's most dangerous enemies. He then says that he has in mind (in this order) Neve Gordon, Ilan Pappe and Gilad Atzmon. ...Dershowitz says that these three and people like them are "People who wrap themselves in the Israeli flag only for the purpose of burning it. The only time these people claim to be Israelis at all is when they wish to wave this as a certificate to legitimize their own malicious and unreasonable attacks against Israel." While insisting that criticism in and of itself is something positive, Dershowitz says that these people are not "critics" but rather are seeking the demonization and delegitimization of all of Israel in the most hypocritical manner.

Dershowitz is then asked about the ulterior motive of these people. He replies: "Most anti-Israel Israelis are fifth rate academics incapable of finding themselves professionally or academically in Israel. Hence they try to find themselves positions in Europe, even though they generally are also too inferior to get work there. But they believe if they market themselves as anti-Israel Israelis, the novelty will boost their standing and they just might find jobs. I realize this may sound like I have a personal grudge against them, but in fact this is the simple truth."

It is notable that Dershowitz lumps Neve Gordon (and Pappe) together with Gilad Azmon, an open Holocaust Denier...

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Tel Aviv University – Anat Matar Participates in Illegal Demonstration on Campus

In her defense she claims it wasn't illegal because she says so

Tel Aviv University will conduct an examination of senior lecturer Dr. Anat Matar for her participation in a solidarity demonstration with hunger striking Palestinian prisoner Hanaa Shalabi.
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In response, Dr. Anat Matar said that the demonstration was not an illegal act, and that "People stood quietly on the grass with eyes and hands tied, and that in my opinion does not require approval".

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Special Isracampus Report
Ben Gurion University - Oren Yiftachel: Legacy of Fraud, Incompetence, and Struggle against the Existence of Israel

Oren Yiftachel is one of the worst anti-Israel "academic" extremists in Israel… He specializes in trying to paint Israel as a racist apartheid entity, or – to use his own favorite nonsense word – an intolerant "ethnocracy." He justified the firing of Hamas rockets into Israel, even when some landed near his own campus, on grounds that Israel had "jailed" the entire Palestinian population of Gaza. This "jailing" consisted of refusing to allow the Gazan terrorists to import advanced weapons systems. (See this anti-Semitic smear by him, still carried on the BGU official web site, and see also this) Yiftachel churns out anti-Israel hate propaganda for some of the most anti-Semitic groups and magazines on the planet. Along with BGU's Neve Gordon and Lev Grinberg, he is part of the core BGU group of tenured extremists who make no secret of their endorsement of Arab mass murder of Jews.
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For the past few years, Yiftachel has spent much of his time attempting to demonize Israel for supposedly mistreating its Bedouin citizens. This "mistreatment" consists of Israel's refusal to accept at face value the fictional and imaginary "legal" claims of the Negev Bedouins to huge portions of the entire Negev... Yiftachel also has a long track record of denouncing Israel for allowing Jews to move to the Negev and the Galilee, or what he calls "Judaizing" these territories. The term "judaization" has been used by anti-Semites as a nonsense term to denounce Jews since the Middle Ages.

In recent weeks, Yiftachel testified in a Beer Sheba Court about those Bedouin claims in a suit against the state of Israel brought by the Bedouin lobby. Yiftachel's fraudulent testimony has now become the matter of public record and of a growing number of media reports.

Yiftachel gave false testimony to the court. A second geography professor from Jerusalem, Prof. Ruth Kark, gave non-fictional and factually correct testimony on behalf of the state, challenging the fraudulent claims of Yiftachel and the Bedouin lobby. Kark has published a serious academic book about the Negev Bedouins, along with her PhD student, Seth Frantzman, currently an editor at the Jerusalem Post and someone who often writes for Isracampus.

The court ruled against Yiftachel and his lobby. The judge in question, Sarah Dovrat, went out of her way to denounce Yiftachel for fabrication and fraudulent misrepresentation of the contents of a number of historic documents during his testimony, denouncing him explicitly for testifying about the contents of documents he had never even bothered to read!

The denunciation of Yiftachel and his fraud has now appeared in several news venues. Citations from the judge's verdict in which Yiftachel was denounced were posted on an Israeli chat list by the distinguished Israeli professor of Geography from Tel Aviv University, Gideon Biger.

On April 20, 2012, a particularly good expose of Yiftachel's fraud was carried in Hebrew by the Makor Rishon daily newspaper [paraphrased in English in the full article]…

A second somewhat similar article appears this week on the internet at http://2nd-ops.com/adiby/?p=5658 (in Hebrew). It accuses Yiftachel of forgery and perjury, when he submitted to the court a corrected later affidavit carrying the false date of an earlier affidavit he had submitted.

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Bar Ilan University hosts Terrorist

The PA Official Threatens: "make peace" or else

Violence directed at IDF soldiers is legitimate, former Palestinian Minister of Prisoner Affairs Ashraf al-Ajarmi told a conference held at Bar-Ilan University on Monday.
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"In a number of years the Palestinians will be the majority and we will be given all the territories," al-Ajarmi warned…

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Tel Aviv University - Shlomo Sand (Dept of History) bashes the Zionist Entity in interview with Iranian Holocaust Denial TV Station

Israeli Professor Shlomo Sand says the mythical perception of the Jews as "a chosen nation-race" have led to truly racist thinking by Israeli officials. He believes the Zionist regime is becoming isolated for subjecting Palestinians to apartheid.
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But so far, the events in Exodus, the second book of the Hebrew Bible, were largely exploited as a historic fact. It says Israelis were "chosen people" and that God promised them "a holy land" in return for their faithfulness. And till this very day, that is the basis of the Israeli claims over the Palestinian lands.

Such "tragedies" Sand sees projected in the latest move by Israeli officials to cut ties with the UN Human Rights Council over investigations into Jewish settlements in the West Bank. He describes this move as "suicidal" and says the world must "save Israel from itself".

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Tel Aviv University - Communist Gadi Algazi (Dept of History) denounces the "American Empire" for developing a crowd control device

The non-lethal device uses noise

The truth is that even in this case the West Bank serves as a laboratory for trying new technologies of oppression. After the IDF purchased these systems from the American corporation, it was already tried on protesters in the West Bank, in Beit Ummar for instance. And despite all this, we give thanks in the name of all the protesters for the marked improved in the quality of oppression!

The recorded announcement was likely meant to signal to the operators that this was the time to use their ear plugs, but they just couldn't resist adding an advertisement? More importantly, these new protest-dispersal technologies totally disconnect the police officers and soldiers from any human contact. Behind the helmets, the see-through plastic shields and the ear plugs, they see nothing, they don't see our faces. It's easier to integrate into the oppression machine.

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Ben Gurion University - Writing in anti-Semitic pro-jihad "Counterpunch," Little Neve Gordon (Dept of Political Science) is back with a new Blood Libel and Historic Fiction

Under the directives of Israel's first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, many of the remaining Bedouin were uprooted from the lands they had inhabited for generations and were concentrated in the mostly barren area in the north-eastern part of the Negev known as the Siyag (enclosure) zone. This area comprises one million dunams [one dunam = 1,000m2], or slightly less than ten per cent of the Negev's territory. Through this process of forced relocation, the Negev's most arable lands were cleared of Arab residents and were given to new kibbutzim and moshavim, Jewish agriculture communities, which took full advantage of the fertile soil.
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Prawer's algorithm is an extremely complex mechanism of expropriation informed by the basic assumption that the Bedouin have no land rights. (From this we learn that Gordon does not know what an algorithm is -- Isracampus)

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Special Isracampus Report –
Ben Gurion University - Judge Dismisses Oren Yiftachel (Dept of Geography) as a Charlatan

In an important landmark court case, Judge Sarah Dovrat in Beer Sheba court dismissed the fraudulent claims presented by Prof. Oren Yiftachel (Ben Gurion University, Dept of Geography). Yiftachel has a long track record of granting "academic" artillery support to fraudulent claims by Negev Bedouins to huge tracts of land they do not own and to which they have no legitimate claims. Yiftachel's position has long been that Israel needs to recognize every imaginary "claim" to land made by any Negev Bedouin.
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In the verdict rejecting the Bedouin case, the judge repeatedly blasted Yiftachel and his "research." She accused Yiftachel of endorsing claims made by Bedouins without even having bothered to read them. She attacked Yiftachel for relying on the "Palestine Law Report" without even understanding what it was referring to, and then trying to twist and turn his way out of his being nailed for his errors. It would have been far more dignified for Yiftachel to concede his errors, said the judge in the verdict. The Bedouins were represented by radical leftist lawyer Michael Sfard and were ordered to pay 50,000 in court costs.

For more details and to see the full original article, go here

 

Ben Gurion University – Rivka Carmi, BGU President, Staves the Closing of the Political Science Dept with Cosmetic Changes

As you recall, an international panel had called for shutting down the political science department at BGU because it is nothing but a pseudo-academic radical anti-Israel propaganda center engaged in anti-Israel hate and demonization. It is composed entirely of far-leftist anti-Israel extremists and no Zionist is permitted to teach in the department. And it is a department devoid of the slightest hint of serious academic standards or scholastic achievement. It is home to Neve Gordon, in the news this week for defending Iran's right to nuke the Jews, and also to the enemy of freedom of speech David Newman, Dean at BGU, who actually is a geographer, best known for his helping produce an anti-Semitic documentary for British TV.

Well, Rivka Carmi proclaimed that the school would make some cosmetic changes in the department to get the international panel off her back. Israel's Ivory Soviet, the Council on Higher Education, seems to be buying her spin. It has backed down from the decision to shut down this BGU department for jihadist studies.

For more details and to see the full original article, go here

 

Special Isracampus Report:
Maariv exposes Sexual Misconduct and Predation by Tenured Leftists

Isn't it delicious when leftist academics get nailed for their sexual misbehavior?

Well, Maariv April 2, 2012 runs a special expose of the sexual molestation of students by faculty members at Israeli universities. It proclaims Tel Aviv University the country's champion institution for faculty sexual misbehavior. TAU may also hold the single largest menagerie of far-leftist tenured faculty members in the country.

The paper also reports how the administrations at Israeli universities try to stonewall and protect the tenured offenders. The cases range from inappropriate grabs to outright rape, and cover all manner of pankying and hankying.

Israel's State Comptroller is currently preparing a detailed report on the cover-ups and failures of the universities to maintain law and order among their tenured sexual predators. Maariv ran its own independent investigation and found that complaints by students of being sexually molested and harassed by faculty are routinely buried and shoved under the rugs. In cases where disciplinary hearings are held, a faculty molester gets judged only by other faculty members, people having no legal credentials. Among the now famous cases of molestation discussed in the paper today are that of Eyal ben Ari, far-leftist anti-Israel sociologist from the Hebrew University, who was fired because of his behavior, and his colleague Gideon Aran, the radically anti-Orthodox sociologist from the same department, Ehud Olmert's brother-in-law, who was ordered to pay compensation to a woman with whom he had "improper relations."

The paper claims the number of offenses and the number of complaints from students have been increasing dramatically. While the paper does not note this, most – if not all – of the offenders are academic leftists.

For more details and to see the full original article, go here

 

Hebrew University - Nadera Shaloub-Kevorkian (Dept of Law) uses Biased "Narratives" in lieu of Academic Research in order to Bash Israel

Her prejudices are everywhere apparent in her "research interviewing." In her book, Shaloub-Kevorkian claims that in her "interviews" with women and girls the term "weaponize" (sic) was used by them to describe their everyday clothing, always "from woman to woman." We are to believe that Arab women and schoolgirls dress to "weaponize" (sic) against the masculine dominant culture among Israelis. But not among Arabs, even among whom marriage guides about beating wives are number one best sellers. She then falsely claims that Arab women were dispersed from their villages in 1948 during the misnamed "Nakba" as an intentional part of Israeli policy. The fact that the Arabs attempted to launch a genocidal war of destruction against the Jews is nowhere mentioned.

"Rape" accusations by Shaloub-Kevorkian are particularly vile. The irony is that an anti-Israel leftist graduate student at the Hebrew University wrote a thesis trying to prove that the well-known fact that Israeli soldiers never rape Arab women proves that the Jews are racists!

For more details and to see the full original article, go here

 

Writing for the jihadist Aljazeera, Ben Gurion University's own Mini-Ayatollah Neve Gordon (Dept of Political Science) Joins the Initiative to Defend Iran's Right to Nuke the Jews

Preparing Israel for war

Most analysts wittingly or unwittingly intimated, however, that there were other reasons for initiating the current cycle of violence, and justifying a major offensive on Gaza was not one of them.
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The recent attack is, however, not only about allocating more money to the military; it is also about Iran. The media continuously drew a connection between the Islamic jihad, which launched most of the rockets against Israel, and Iran. The IDF spokesperson pointed an accusing finger towards Teheran, claiming that it is transferring weapons and money to the Islamic Jihad. A couple of days later a headline in Yisrael Hayom declared, "Iran is Behind the Jihad's Rocket Attack". Hence, another objective was to show the Israeli public that Iran, by means of a proxy, had already begun attacking Israel.

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Leftist Fascist Academics Exempt from Prosecution when They Call for Murder

The State Attorney's Office has refused to file charges against a former lecturer at the Bezalel art school who wrote "death to the settlers" on his Facebook page.

The man, Tzvi Elhayani, wrote: "Death to the settlers – because you are a spiritual murder of the nation of Israel."

Following this publication, the Legal Forum for the Land of Israel asked the Attorney General and Government Legal Advisor to initiate an investigation on suspicion of incitement to murder.

… Last June, a lecturer at Ben Gurion University [Eyal Nir – Isracampus] called for violence against Jewish participants in the Jerusalem Day Flag March. "I call on the world to come and help break these scoundrels' necks," he wrote on his Facebook page, and described the flag-bearing marchers as "gangs of bandits swarming in our country."

While an investigation was reportedly launched against Nir four months later, there has been no report that charges have been filed.

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Hebrew University - Amiram Goldblum (Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Peace Now Founder) has an explanation for the 1983 death of Peace Now activist Emil Greenzweig - the Likud leaders killed him

The organizer of the 1983 demonstration, Naftali Raz, says that if the law stipulates the possibility of an early release, then that is what must be done. Another voice in the same vein is that of Prof. Amiram Goldbloom, who marched alongside Grunzweig in the demonstration. He has no problem with Avrushmi, he says, "but rather with those who incited him and sent him - Ariel Sharon and Tzachi Hanegbi [the present environment minister]. Avrushmi was only a tool and not the person to whom I would attribute that whole terror attack. Sharon, who is now blaming the terrorist attacks on those who dispatch the bombers, will certainly be able to understand that the guilty party is not Avrushmi but himself, for inciting."

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Academics Ariel Rubinstein (TAU, Dept of Economics) and Amiram Goldblum (Hebrew U, Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences) express support for Academic Boycott of Ariel College

"The petition's objective is to undermine the normalization in the relationship between Israel and the occupied territories," Rubinstein said. "We are dealing with a catastrophe whose implication is a failure to partition the land; this may threaten the State's existence as a Jewish entity."

Rubinstein added that he does not dismiss the possibility of imposing an academic boycott similar to the one imposed against South Africa during the apartheid era.
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Another signatory to the boycott petition is Professor Amiram Goldblum, a chemistry lecturer at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

"By signing, we declare that we shall refuse invitations for lectures or seminars in the territories," he said. "We will not appear at the Ariel College or at its branches, because we believe that any appearance or academic discussion there violates the law and international conventions, which Israel should adhere to like all other nations."

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Hebrew University's Amiram Goldblum (Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences) Acted as Spin Doctor for Terrorist Abed Rabbo In Sycophantic Interview in Anti-Israel "Journal"

Amiram Goldblum: Your open vision of media and of culture is really very encouraging. But you know, in Israel, when the state was created, all the media even many years after the state was created were still held in the hands of Ben-Gurion who had direct control of Kol Yisrael (Israel Radio) until the mid-1960s, I believe.
When I started working in Israel Radio in 1970, ministers would still call the office of the editor of the news and tell him, Put this in or take this off the news. There was a central role of censorship.
Now I am wondering, with all that you have told us: I hear one open vision from you, and, on the other hand, Khaled describes officers here and there who are doing the closings. Is there official censorship, or a sort of a diffuse censorship perpetrated by local authorities, local governors, local military?

Yasser Abed Rabbo: There is no direct censorship, believe me.

Amiram Goldblum: Not on movies, books, theater, nothing?

Yasser Abed Rabbo: No. No direct censorship. But I tell you frankly, there is censorship of backwardness. After 30 years of Israeli control and censorship, and the strangling of our freedom, we want to build a new life.

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According to the CAMERA organization and web site, Hebrew University Professor (Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences) and Peace Now Radical Amiram Goldblum spent Years Demonizing Ariel Sharon

The first report, a supposed profile of Sharon, featured an interview with "peace activist" Amiram Goldblum, who was allowed to demonize Sharon as building a "career out of the politics and the culture of hatred," and looking at everything as a "battlefield where he has to conquer something." Ludden added to the vilification, telling listeners that Goldblum "considers Sharon's candidacy immoral, given his long military record," but she failed to disclose facts about her guest that might have lead reasonable listeners to question his judgement and credibility.

Omitted were details such as that Goldblum is an extreme leftist distant from the Israeli mainstream. Goldblum was repudiated even by his colleagues in the very dovish Peace Now movement after he explained away Saddam Hussein's Scud attacks and threats of annihilation as due only to Israel's alleged failure to make concessions to the Palestinians. In 1990, after a Palestinian stabbed and killed three Israelis in the Baka neighborhood of Jerusalem where Goldblum lives, even his own neighbors began to stone his house in frustration at what they saw as his outspokenly pro-PLO views. Goldblum also publicly opposed the Gulf War as an alleged American grab for power and oil, rather than an attempt to liberate an occupied country and rein in a dangerous dictator.

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Tel Aviv University - TAU Faculty join rally in support of Female Terrorist released in Shalit Deal

Demonstration at Tel Aviv University for female terrorist released in Shalit Deal and arrested again for engaging in terrorism. Participating in the demonstration were a professor and full professor. Contempt!!! [Isracampus translation from the Hebrew]

To see the original article, go here

 

The Galilee College (AKA Yezreel College) in Afula employs an Israeli Norman Finkelstein, Holocaust Trivializer Ruth Amir

Even worse, anti-Israel fanatic (and Haaretz columnist) Akiva Eldar is on the College's Board of Governors!!

'In her new book, "Who is Afraid of Historical Redress: The Israeli Victim-Perpetrator Dichotomy," Dr. Ruth Amir wrote that the perception of Israeli-Jewish victimhood, which was always present in the Jewish narrative and Jewish thought, became even stronger after the Holocaust and serves to give Israel political legitimacy.

Amir, who heads the Department of Multidisciplinary Studies at the Jezreel Academic College (full disclosure: This writer [Akiva Eldar] is a member of the college's board of governors), notes that the fact that Israel sees itself as a victim justifies its aggression and injustice. With the help of guilt-neutralizing mechanisms, Israelis disengage the circumstantial link between an action and its consequences, and absolve themselves of responsibility. That is why they aren't interested in trying to correct injustices and reconcile with their neighbor.'
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Want to tell its officials what you think about this airhead anti-Semite teaching at their college?
Write to Sagi Melamed below and ask that your message be passed on to Prof. Aliza Shenhar, President of the College:

Sagi Melamed, VP,
External Relations and Development,
Yezreel Valley, 19300 Israel
sagim@yvc.ac.il
Phone: 972-54-721-4217.
http://www.yvc.ac.il/en/7079.html

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Oxford's Israel-Hating ex-Israeli Avi Shlaim says that Israel is "the main threat to regional stability"

The challenge for Obama is to reign in his reckless junior ally and to reorder American priorities in the Middle East. The main threat to regional stability is not Iran but the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. And the main source of hostility towards America throughout the Arab and Muslim lands is Israel's oppression of the Palestinian people and America's complicity in this oppression.

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Hebrew University – Nurit Peled-Elhanan (Dept of Education) whines hysterically about generations of "racist education"; rejects the Jewish and Democratic State of Israel as the "Judiazation Project" and calls for open "rebellion" under the guise of Civil Disobedience

For decades now the Zionist project of colonizing the land and judaizing it has required the removal of the Palestinians one way or another, either by law or by the sword, and there is no longer any need to cover up those supreme objectives and to disguise them with empty words about democracy or security or historic rights. All of us are mobilized, willingly or unknowingly, in the project of the judaization of the land and all of us have memorized, since we began to memorize, the absolute necessity of a Jewish state with a Jewish majority in the Land of Israel. And the Land of Israel, as we all know, includes the State of Israel, the Palestinian territories and a lot more. There is no map in Israel that is called "The State of Israel". All the maps are called "The Land of Israel". Already three or four generations of Israeli children have been learning from books that contain maps that show the Palestinian territories as part of the Land of Israel which is devoid of colour, empty of institutions and empty of people ; an ancient area that is waiting and longing to be colonized by Jews – or at least by non-Arabs. Israeli children have been learning for generations now that their neighbours – whether they be Palestinian citizens of Israel or subjects of the State of Israel stripped of human rights – are nothing but a terrifying demographic problem and a security threat. Those very children have meanwhile grown up, their senses of truth and justice and human brotherhood have been dulled by racist education and they have risen to be the politicians and generals who now declare openly and with the arrogance of all-powerful masters what was once concealed with hypocrisy: that the other face of the judaization project is the elimination of the Palestinian people, whether by rubber bullets or by bullets without rubber, by bombs or by laws…
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The only way to fight this tendency is through a blanket rejection of the racist laws of the democratic Jewish state, and especially to teach our children of their democratic right to say no to evil, no to ignorance, no to apartheid, no to service in the Occupation army and no to collaboration with ethnic cleansing.

We must reject the very term "Jewish and democratic state" and especially, remove the conjunction "and", which is not merely a conjunction but a sequential "and" – that is: "Jewish" comes first, and only afterwards comes "democratic" – or an "and" of conditionality, i.e. only when the state is completely Jewish can it be democratic.

Meanwhile we are living in a state that has absolutely nothing to do with democracy. We who have not grown up with democracy and whom no one taught the values of democracy, who have been educated to think that exploitation, plunder, lies, discrimination and slaughter are the very essence of democracy, need to admit openly that we are living and have always lived in an apartheid state that is a danger to all of us...

If we do not raise the banner of rebellion today, in a few more years people like us – if we remain like as such – will be herded into detention camps or prisons. The freedom of speech that already now is dangerously restricted will be eliminated altogether...

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Tel Aviv University - Yehouda Shenhav, Marxist Sociologist, dreams of the utopia after Israel has been annihilated

While the geography of 1948 must serve as the moral compass for the return, it cannot be reconstructed during the return. Implementing the return (which in al-Rimawi’s story will be brought about by armed struggle) must take into consideration the fact that many areas have been taken over –violently – by Jews. The new communal structure will take the geography of destruction into account, but will merge it with the new communities created during the refugee years.

The existing refugee communities are, moreover, larger than the original village communities, a given situation that will also require a decentralized organizational structure. The model of the phoenix could provide a solution while enabling the creation of community centers that preserve the multidimensional structure of the original nakba landscapes. The project will be constructed on a foundation of complex cultural “mirrors” connecting and intersecting a network of villages, towns and community buildings designed to preserve the genealogy of the nakba and mirror the new geography.

In addition to the return of communities based on the heterotopic network structure, individuals will also return to large cities like Jaffa, Haifa, Lod, Ramla, and Jerusalem. If the building from which the refugees were expelled is still standing, they will be able to demand it. If the present residents agree, they will be generously compensated. Very large sums of money will be required to pay for such compensation and to resettle the refugees; but shortage of funds must not be an excuse for failure to implement the return inasmuch as the return and its implementation will be fundamental principles of the regime. Disputes will be brought to the constitutional court. The court will base its decisions on liberal-individual principles as well as on political-national principles. It will have to consider all aspects of the nakba as well as changes that have occurred in the ethnic, national and religious structure of the population since 1948.

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Ben Gurion University - Cabbagehead Rivka Carmi, the mad cow president, is the star of a sycophantic cover story in the Haaretz weekend magazine.

The entire first 1/3 is about the role of the radical Left at BGU, about BGU's loss of respect and reputation because of the role of the radicals, and about the criticism of standards in the politics department. Carmi gives her typical spins. She even manages to bash the donors to BGU.

"It was a routine report," Carmi says drily about the CHE document [which called for radical changes in the Political Science Dept or to close the department completely-Isracampus]. "They are always examining a different field across all the universities. We thought we would adopt the report's conclusions about strengthening the core subjects, even though there was an argument about this, because the department was established with a mandate to be different... But our thinking was that if the committee says so, then maybe we overdid things a little, and okay, we accept the conclusions."
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So, what do you do when a donor says, "Get rid of a wayward teacher or I will cancel my donation"?
"That has happened on more than one occasion. I try to put things into context and say that it is an extreme political approach espoused by fewer than a handful. We have 800 faculty members, and of them five, maybe ten, espouse that approach... One of them, a donor to a beit midrash [place of Torah study] on the campus, became so angry that he stopped donating. So what? There was also an American who wanted to donate $7 million to the library."

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University of Haifa –ALEF chat list gets plugged as being a source of vicious anti-Israel attacks

The tone of their attacks can’t be rivalled outside Israel for viciousness. Under the auspices of the University of Haifa, for example, anti-Semitic discourse is distributed by ALEF, an anti-Israel chat forum. It includes endorsements of terrorism, calls for the extermination of Israel and even support for Holocaust deniers.
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One of Israel’s misfortunes was the premature birth of an intellectual class. Uniquely amongst the nations, Israel had its own university — Hebrew University — 20 years before statehood. Many of the European intellectuals who formed its professoriat were already infected with anti-Zionism through their discipleship to philosopher Martin Buber, who spun utopian fantasies of a binational state with Arabs and Jews united in civic harmony.
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Most encouraging was the development of a pro-Zionist youth group called Im Tirtzu — “If you will it” — referring to Zionist movement founder Theodore Herzl’s famous dictum, “If you will it, it is no dream.” Im Tirtzu is a vigorous presence today on most Israeli campuses, successfully documenting and disseminating such indecencies as leftist students at a BGU campus rally giving Heil Hitler salutes to pro-Zionist students.

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Matar and Algazi support the boycott of Israel in Letter of 500 against the prohibition of the conference "Israel: an apartheid state?"

We would hereby like to express our dismay at your decision to withdraw permission you had previously given to the symposium "New approaches sociological, historical and legal to call for an international boycott Israel: an apartheid state? ", to be held on 27 and 28 February next at your institution.

This decision seems particularly serious because it threatens free speech and academic freedom. The reasons that you call, including the risk of "disturbing public order", we do not seem very convincing in terms of the implications of your decision.

Among the signatories
Anat Matar (Dept. of Philosophy, Tel Aviv University),
Gadi Algazi (Historian, Tel Aviv)

For more details and to see the full original article, go here

 

Ben Gurion University – Idan Landau (Dept of Foreign Literatures & Linguistics) claims rock throwing is not a "violent protest"

Say, Landau, how come there are no photos on your blog of Jewish children murdered by West Bank Arab terrorists that the Israeli soldier failed to arrest?

Landau's choices of words resemble those on Hamas web sites.

Everything Israel does is "unlawful", "occupation" and "dispossession." Hezbollah terrorists are "freedom fighters."

Oh, and here's more of his take on rock throwing at Jews:

"Just to be clear: throwing stones at an occupying army which prevents you from demonstrating on your own land does not constitute "violent protest." It is the expected response to someone who not only steals your land but also denies you the basic right to protest this. If the army stops acting against the residents of Nabi Saleh and just gets the hell off their lands, no one will throw stones at it."

Since Idan Landau claims stone throwing is not a "violent protest," I think we should have students take stones into Landau's classes and throw them at him for fifteen months while he lectures. This could be our protest to his support for those who don't want to negotiate and settle with the People of Israel, but to really wipe them off the map.

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Hundreds of Tenured Leftists Trying to Sabotage Ariel University because they do not Like its Geographic Location

The college in Ariel was established as part of a vision whereby Israel continues indefinitely its occupation of these territories. This policy rules out the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, and inevitably leads to the violent repression of the Palestinian population. The Palestinians living in the region of Ariel are barred from entry into the settlement and the college. An academic institution that is not serving the population around it, and in fact ignores and alienates the local population, can not be part of a free academia in a democratic state.

The Israeli academia has flourished so far due to it being a part of a free, democratic society, with close ties to the academic communities of democracies around the world. Mixing the Israeli academia with the ideology of occupation and settlements undermines these ties, and compromises its functioning.

The continuing occupation and settlements policies destroy the democratic foundation of the state of Israel. Democracy is the essence of the academic establishment, and we therefore see it as our duty to stop the attempt to recruit the Israeli academia in the service of the occupation effort.
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4. We call on the heads of the existing Israeli universities to refuse to accept the representative of Ariel University into the Council of University Heads.

Among the signers
67. Anat Bielski
122. Amiram Goldblum
129. Neve Gordon
134. Rachel Giora
143. Haim Ganz
187. Alon Harel
230. Hanan Hever
267. Oren Yifatchel
298. Orly Lubin
324. Idan Landau
326. Micah Leshem
344. Anat Matar
366. Judd Neeman
402. Hanah Safran
405. Avraham Oz
422. Dani Filc
430. Nurit Peled-Elhanan
447. Bill Freidman
487. Menachem Klein
497. Vered Kraus
541. Haggai Ram
567. David Shulman

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Tel Aviv University - Michal Givoni (Dept of History) Strives for New Polysyllables that Can help Eliminate Israel

Michal Givoni is a mistress of one-sided anti-Israel propaganda disguised as academic work.

She completed her Ph.D. at the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University in 2008. Her work purportedly deals with transnational humanitarianism, contemporary practices of "witnessing," and "testimony" and "governmentality" (a nonsense polysyllable she likes to use). Givoni was a researcher at the fiercely anti-Israel semi-Marxist Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, where she co-directed (together with Adi Ophir and Sari Hanafi "a research project on the Israeli occupation in the Palestinian territories." She was one of the editors (again together with Ophir and Hanafi) of a volume on the subject, entitled The Power of Inclusive Exclusion: Anatomy of Israeli Rule in the Palestinian Territories (Zone Books, 2009).
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She produced a paper in which she compared the treatment of the Arabs in Gaza with that of Jews during the Holocaust, citing Breaking the Silence and the Goldstone report. Several of the soldiers who supposedly revealed "war crimes" had not actually witnessed any of the events they described, and in at least one case, had not been in Gaza at all at the time the alleged events were said to have taken place. Even Haaretz, the Pravda of the radical anti-Zionist Left, has seen fit to condemn the "witnessing" by Breaking the Silence. For Givoni, all the proof needed that Israel is evil is for an Arab fascist or a Jewish communist to allege so.
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Givoni is among faculty teaching a program at Bard College in New York, part of a consortium of colleges teaching about "international human rights." We suspect the leading human right they defend is the right of Arabs to murder Jews. Bard has the only officially sponsored and campus funded chapter of human shields for terrorists (better known as the ISM) in the United States that actually trains ISM human shields to go to the West Bank and who were involved with the Flotillas. That chapter will be part of a massive march to "take back Jerusalem" led by the PFLP on March 30th this year. Perhaps Michal Givoni will help the marchers with their propaganda about Israeli "human rights violations."

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University of Exeter – Harvard Invites the Academic Fraud Ilan Pappe to come Lobby for Israel's Extermination

The "star" of the Harvard pogrom will be Ilan Pappe, who is arguably the most thoroughly discredited pseudo-academic on the planet. Pappe is a notorious fabricator, someone who claims proudly that facts and truth are of no importance.
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His own University of Exeter recently chastised him for his infamous habit of playing fast and loose with facts. Pappe is best known as a fulltime anti-Israel propagandist who has done more than any other anti-Israel Israeli to promote the moral equivalence of "Nakba denial" with Holocaust denial. He is a "new historian" in the sense of pseudo-historian. His mission in life is to invent an imaginary Palestinian historic "narrative." Nearly all those beating the "Nakba" drum today cite Pappe and his "books" about the supposed "ethnic cleansing" of Arabs by Israel in its war of independence. (For those who do not know, "Nakba," meaning "catastrophe," is how Arabs refer to Israel's birth.)

Pappe was a lecturer in political science at the University of Haifa, but moved to resume the position of a pseudo-academic propagandist position at the University of Exeter in the UK. Even other anti-Zionists have repudiated Pappe as a liar and fabricator. He openly calls for Israel to be exterminated and endorses Hamas terrorism. He considers Noam Chomsky insufficiently anti-Israel.

[Pappe] was also the central figure in the now infamous "Tantura Affair." In this incident, Pappe coached a graduate student of his into inventing a non-existent "massacre" of Arabs by the Hagana Jewish militia (Alexandroni Brigade) in Tantura, south of Haifa, a "massacre" that Pappe claims took place in 1948. Not a shred of any evidence for any such "massacre" exists. Arab and other journalists who were present at the time of the battle that took place in Tantura reported no massacre. Arabs living in the town at the time confirmed that a battle did occur, but that after the battle the Jewish militiamen aided and assisted the townspeople, not massacring anyone… [The graduate student] later admitted in court with his lawyer present that the entire massacre was an invention.

No matter – Pappe roams the world and continues to spread the lie about the imaginary Tantura "massacre," a lie that has found its way into nearly every anti-Semitic web site and Neo-Nazi magazine on Earth, and even a handful of otherwise respectable mainstream journalists foolishly rely upon him. Pappe has lied about practically everything else, including about being "persecuted" by his own university in Israel. In fact, Pappe was never fired for his fraud and fabrication by the University of Haifa, although he should have been. (Some wags even suggested the university should be boycotted for not firing Pappe.) That did not stop Pappe from waving his stigmata as "victim of Zionism" before the European anti-Semites promoting "divestment" from Israel. His recruitment by the University of Exeter proves how indifferent that school is to scholarly standards. His coming appearance as the star of the Harvard academic pogrom shows that things are not much better there.

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Taking the "academic" Jihad to Harvard:
Dalit Baum (University of Haifa) and Ilan Pappe (University of Exeter) are Slated to Participate in Rwandan-Style "One State Solution" Conference

Harvard University is going to be hosting a conference entitled "One State Conference: Israel/Palestine and the One State Solution," scheduled to take place March 3-4.
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Speakers include, Ali Abunimah, the Executive Director of the Electronic Intifada; Dalit Baum, of the BDS organization Coalition of Women for Peace; Ilan Pappe, radical left Israeli academic and fervent supporter of the BDS movement; Marc Ellis, Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Baylor University, who compares Zionism to colonialism and Israel's treatment of the Palestinians to the Nazi treatment of Jews; as well as a number of other academics and scholars who advocate similar beliefs.

"Most of the speakers are heavily involved in anti-Israel advocacy. The conference program features an activist workshop, in contrast to an academic or research framework in which different perspectives are presented… Such events represent the antithesis of constructive academic dialogue and peaceful coexistence," the NGO Monitor claimed.

"Those who promote a one-state 'solution' advocate creating an entity which would, through its merger with the Palestinian Arab population of the West Bank and Gaza and an influx of Palestinians from neighboring states, lose its Jewish majority and its Jewish character. In effect, Jewish self-determination would be nullified," the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) reported. The forum is clearly focused, therefore, on "dismantling the Jewish State of Israel."

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University of Exeter – Ilan Pappe (Dept of Israel Bashing) working for another "Final Solution"

The adherents of this veiled assault on Israel argue that the "two-state solution," "in which Israel is secure and the Palestinians have sovereignty," as President Obama told Time magazine, has been a failure. Of course, the two-state solution has failed because since 1948, the first time Arabs rejected a Palestinian state, a critical mass of Palestinian Arabs have wanted something more than sovereignty: they want Israel destroyed and her land possessed by Arabs from "the river to the sea," as PLO chief Yasser Arafat used to say. The one-state solution, which envisions a single nation comprising Arabs and Jews under a single government, is a way to achieve the same aim. Such a state would obviously require the end of Israel's Jewish identity, and would result in an Arabic demographic explosion that in any kind of representative government would marginalize Jews. Moreover, we can see the most likely sort of regime that would rule the "one state" by looking next door at Egypt, where Islamists are now in control and relations with Israel have deteriorated. Whatever the result, such a state would not resemble the liberal democracy of Israel today.
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Even more suggestive of the conference's bias is the presence of Ilan Pappé, whose scholarly malfeasance got him cashiered from Haifa University over his involvement in a student's master's thesis that fabricated an Israeli massacre of Palestinians. Such an episode will surprise no one familiar with Pappé's own work, which as historian Efraim Karsh has written, displays a "consistent resort to factual misrepresentation, distortion, and outright falsehood." Pappé is clearly an ideologue and propagandist, as he frankly admits: he sneers at "objectivity," professes that he is "not as interested in what happened as in how people see what's happened," and crows that "my ideology influences my historical writings." That such a travesty of the profession of history is invited to speak at a prestigious university testifies to how intellectually and morally corrupt the American academy has become.

This rather loose attitude towards evidence and fact embraced by Pappé reveals itself as well in the on-line descriptions of the panel topics, where one finds libels such as references to "the original 700,000 [Arabs] who were ethnically cleansed from Palestine in 1948 and 1967," moral cowardice in phrases such as "a great deal of violence has isolated the two peoples from one another," and the de rigueur question-begging epithet: "How can justice for the victims of racism or violence be achieved?" You get the picture: racist Israelis who ethnically cleansed Arabs from their homeland and incited a "cycle of violence" need to abandon their Jewish identity and their ancestral lands in order to resolve a bloody conflict.
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Winning international sympathy and support for the "oppressed" Palestinians has been a critical element in the "phases" strategy. The Kennedy School conference––like the boycott of Israeli academics, one of whose prime movers is Ilan Pappé–– is yet another example that this strategy to destroy Israel by manipulating international opinion has been working. The "one-state solution" is in fact an enabler of a slow-motion final solution.

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USC – Yigal Arens (Dept of Computer Sciences) – the Al Awda Jew of the Jihad

Yigal Arens is a self-proclaimed Marxist (a bit strange since Marxism is about as opposed to pacifism and non-violence as anything you can find on the planet). And just as the most radical leftists in Israel do, he joins in cheering the worst Arab irredentist groups, like Al Awda, the Palestine Right of Return Coalition, whose clear cut goal is not only the complete destruction of a Jewish state, but the annihilation of the Jews.
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Arens often speaks at Al Awda conferences as the faithful Jew of the Jihad, who will help protect the organizers from charges of anti-Semitism. After all, he is not only a Jew, but the son of Israel's former Defense Minister!
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Yes, the spoiled scion of Moshe Arens in his cushy Los Angeles home is "ever optimistic" that the Palestinians will some day toss the Jews into the sea.  But poor little Yigal - he lacks the courage of his conviction and prefers the yuppie LA style to going to live among his beloved Palestinians. They may not turn out to be all so pacifistic!

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Tel Aviv University – Shlomo Sand (Dept of History) is Ridiculed by Fellow Historian

But, [Shlomo Sand] argues, there actually was no mass forced "exile" so there can be no legitimate "return". This is the take-away headline that makes this book so contentious.
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What the Romans did to the defeated Jews was dispossession, the severity of which was enough to account for the homeland-longing by both the population still there and those abroad. That yearning first appears, not in Zionist history, but in the writings of medieval Jewish teachers, and never goes away.

There are many such twists of historical logic and strategic evasions of modern research in this book. To list them all would try your patience.
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Sand would counter that such a refuge for the victims [of the Holocaust and centuries of expulsions and persecutions] could have been in China, or on the moon, for all that Palestine had to do with the Jews. But since his book fails to sever the remembered connection between the ancestral land and Jewish experience ever since, it seems a bit much to ask Jews to do their bit for the sorely needed peace of the region by replacing an ethnic mythology with an act of equally arbitrary cultural oblivion.

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The Left declares Jihad against Freedom of Speech for its Critics!!
Hebrew University - Zeev Sternhell (Dept of Political Science) defends anti-democratic Leftist McCarthyists being sued by Im Tirtzu for calling Im Tirtzu "Fascists"

Im Tirtzu filed its suit a year ago against the seven owners of the Facebook page [called "Im Tirtzu - Fascists"]: Roy Yellin, Yuval Yellin, Edan Ring, David Remez, Noam Livne, Tal Niv and Ari Remez. The movement's suit argues that the aim of the seven is to silence the activities of Im Tirtzu by delegitimizing it.
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In texts written by Shuval, Sternhell sees a clear expression of fascist thinking. References to the nation as an organic body, Sternhell says, are fundamentals of fascist thought. Other signs of fascist thought include the view of an atrophied West and the sense that the situation in Israel is an emergency requiring extremist action and struggle against the "traitors."
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Attorney Nadav Haetzni, representing Im Tirtzu, said: "This is an attempt by members of the radical left to publicly destroy Im Tirtzu, which is a Zionist and Democratic movement in line with the spirit of Zeev Benjamin Herzl." He charged that the defendants have violated the law because their actions are slanderous and libelous.

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University of Exeter – Ilan Pappe (Dept of Israel Bashing) gets a pass from his University for using a source-less quote "proving" ethnic cleansing by David Ben-Gurion

For one brief shining moment, it looked as if the University of Exeter was going to hold Ilan Pappé accountable for attributing a fake quote to David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister.

Those hopes were in vain. Not only did the university's Ethics Committee fail to hold Pappé accountable for his fabrication, the committee accepted an explanation from the historian that is simply so byzantine and ludicrous that it raises questions about how seriously officials at the University of Exeter take the pursuit of truth and respect for the historical record.

In short, Pappé dug himself deeper into a hole when he responded to a challenge about the fake quote, and the Ethics Committee decided to shack up with the historian in the hole he dug. … [University of Exeter] Ethics Committee reported its findings to CAMERA in a letter signed by chair Professor Nicholas Talbot. The upshot of this letter, detailed below, is that Pappé was given a pass.

… Talbot reports "there may have been a different version in some of the many reprints" of Pappé's book.

"If this is the case," Talbot writes, "the Professor Pappé has assured us that it will be corrected in the next edition."

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University of Haifa - On the Social Science chat list, Micah Leshem (Dept of Rodent Psychology) insists that Social Science Proves that all of Zionism is evil.

Two facts should be completely clear to us all in this attack on academia, and to Im Tirzu, The Institute for Zionist Strategy, The Minsiter of Education Mr. Sa'ar, and their ilk.

1. Zionism is a political Movement. An ideology. It has its mystical and Nationalistic narrative. It has nothing to do with sociology except as a subject of enquiry, and therefore has no relevance as a yardstick to assess scholarship or scholars.

2. If Im Tirzu and The Institute for Zionist Strategy and their ilk find that sociology is anti-Zionist, they should realize it is because objective science finds Zionism objectionable in the broad context of the discipline, to which nationalistic or sectarian loyalties are anathema. Sociology is not more or less anti Zionist than anti-Polisario.

Politicization of science contributed to the ultimate demise of the Nazis and the Soviets. Let us hope that we can resist the fascist pressures to politicize Israel's universities, as Prof Braverman stated this PM on Osim Seder, Arutz 2.

Micah

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University of Exeter - Ilan Pappe (Dept of Israel Bashing) continues to bash Israel

Where was the "discussion" in allowing an unchallenged Ilan Pappe to state:

"What do you do about a rogue state like Israel? How do you treat it? What is the right policy towards a country, a state, that violates systematically all the United Nations' resolutions, that violates systematically and abuses civil and human rights? This is now the conversation, this is why all these pro-Zionist Jewish communites are so fidgety, this is why all the Israeli Embassies have nightly meetings 'what do we do?', not changing Israeli immoral behaviour, 'how do we now justify Israeli immoral behaviour?'"

And in allowing him to demean what blacks went through in apartheid South Africa when he said:

"South Africa had the right to exist. And Israel has the right to exist. Apartheid had no right to exist. Therefore, we all worked for the change of regime in South Africa. The kind of regime Israel maintains in the occupied territories, the kind of regime it maintains towards its Palestinian minority in Israel and the kind of policies it pursies against Palestinian refugees has no right to exist. And I think that is what the (bds) campaign is all about…We are talking about a change of regime and we don't even suggest bombing the Israelis to change the regime as we would have if it had been an Arab country."

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Haim Kreisel, BGU Professor, Dismisses the Radical Left "Blacklist" claims as "Ludicrous"

Attests that Far-leftist Positions helps in the Promotion Process in the Social Sciences Dept

I am referring to the recent comical attempts to depict all those who challenge this movement's growing strength in the academic world as the heirs to the late Senator Joseph McCarthy, in particular the mainstream Im Tirtzu student movement and its purported "blacklist."

I am not disputing the claim that Im Tirtzu compiles lists of academics who write and teach against the Zionist Idea (or Israel as a Jewish State) and even goes so far as to criticize some of them publicly. Im Tirtzu occasionally even calls for the ouster of an academic whose salary comes mostly from the government but still calls for international boycotts of Israel, and even of its universities of which he/she is a member.

But calling this a "blacklist," with all the historical associations involved is, well, ludicrous....But yesterday's tragedy becomes today's farce; I know of no academic criticized by Im Tirtzu who has lost his/her job as a result, or whose academic career was jeopardized. In fact, I can testify as an academic insider that Im Tirtzu's claims that in a number of academic departments in the social sciences holding far-left (or "post" Zionistic) positions actually gives one an edge, and certainly helps in the promotion process, are true.

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Ziv Tidhar, Israel Radio announcer, blasts the local Radical Leftist Shoah-deniers' use of the "Twisted Parallel" between the "Nakba" and the Nazi Regime

Just like seasonal flu, upon the arrival of remembrance days Israel's media is overcome by a murky wave of opinion pieces by Israeli Shoah-denying intellectuals… The local Shoah-denier is inspired by the radical Left in the world's most prestigious academic institutions. He engages in dwarfing the implications of the Shoah and in minimizing its relative weight as a constitutive event that has no parallel in the history of humanity.

Through verbal juggling, the denier turns the victim of the Holocaust into a belligerent thug who must be restrained, silenced, and preached to…These people, who experienced the Shoah on their own flesh, as well as their descendents, are accused of refusing to leave behind this "post-trauma," which is said to cloud their overall judgment…

For Holocaust deniers, the "Shoah trauma" is not an emotional experience that calls for compassion and stands in and of itself, but rather, merely an argument used by Israelis as an excuse for their "narrative," which faces the "Palestinian narrative." The latter also offers a trauma in the form of a "Nakba," translated as "Shoah" to Hebrew.

There are no similarities whatsoever between the German extermination machine and the Palestinian national tragedy, yet the twisted parallel is almost explicit when "post-Shoah paranoia" is enlisted as an explanation for Israeli aggression.

The open and explicit threats to eliminate the State of Israel, growing global anti-Semitism, and the extermination ideologies that are being taught again – this time at schools located only a few kilometers away from here – are presented not as a realistic translation of reality, but rather, as merely reflecting the abovementioned paranoia.

These Shoah deniers argue that without the Holocaust, the State of Israel would not have been established as result of the pressure exerted on the nations of the world by the paranoid Jews. These nations are said to have been pushed, against their will, to approve the inception of the new state in sin, while perpetuating a conflict that Israelis refuse to terminate (as noted, because of that same "post-trauma.")

This is how the well-oiled Holocaust denial machine works. This is how Shoah discourse is being dwarfed and minimized. Instead of a discussion on universal implications, we get a constant trickle of the Middle Eastern context, for the purpose of making the crimes of occupation and militarism seem graver.

Israel was not established because of the Shoah. The Zionist enterprise has moral validity even without the Holocaust. The denier will always cheapen and dwarf the Shoah's universal implications in order to produce a narrow, localized debate, while slamming and abusing the survivors as the last to learn the "lesson." Meanwhile, there are people worldwide who read the words written by these Israeli Shoah deniers, quote them, and rush to send them an invitation for the next academic convention.

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David Newman (a.k.a. Neve Gordon Lite from the Dept of Politics at BGU that the international panel of experts called for shutting down) attacks Isracampus in the anti-Israel pro-LSD hippy magazine "Tikkun," on whose board of editors he sits; Newman forgets to mention that he has been leading the McCarthyist campaign to silence critics of the Radical Left

Or, they are all members of the anti-Zionist, Israel bashing, self-hating Jews conspiracy who have been targeted by any one of the three extremist right wing organizations Im Tirtzu, Academic Monitor and Isracampus in recent years.

And this is but the tip of the iceberg....

Almost anyone who dares to think aloud, promotes social justice, works on behalf of peace and the cause of human rights, dares to dream (as did Herzl so many years ago) or believes in freedom of speech, has a chance of finding himself / herself on the list. Indeed, anyone reading this column and who perceives themselves as a law abiding upright citizen of the State of Israel could well find themselves on this list.

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IDI Watch - IDI grants award to a leader in Israel's Stalinist Communist Party MAKI

MK Dr. Dov Khenin (Hadash) won the Israeli Democracy Institute’s (IDI) Parliamentary Award. On Saturday, Khenin was declared exceptional MK. Khenin will receive their awards at an IDI ceremony February 2

NGO researched all 120 MKs’ parliamentary activity, and rated quality activity, specifically in supervising the government, as opposed to passing private legislation, which is less likely to become law than government bills. The IDI also rated MKs’ connections with voters and budgetary responsibility, as well as speeches and parliamentary questions.

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Tel Aviv University – Ariella Azoulay is Jilted by French Anti-Semitic BDS Supporter; Claims his TAU Lecture would Conflict with his Support of the Boycott of Israel

It seems that one of Israel's far-leftist pseudo-academics tried to invite the anti-Israel communist French "political philosopher" to Israel to help her peddle her pro-Palestinian wares. But, alas, he turned her down and refused to come to Israel to bash Israel because he was honoring the Boycott Israel movement.  Isn't anti-Semitism so confusing, sometimes?

The Israeli would-be hostess of the anti-Semite is none other than Ariella Azoulay. She has been in the news a bit the past few years because she failed to get tenure at Bar Ilan University, and the academic fifth column in Israel whined that it was all a dark right-wing conspiracy. Of course the reason she did not get tenure is that she has an empty academic record. She is nothing but an anti-Israel propagandist… See this:
http://www.isracampus.org.il/third%20level%20pages/other%20-%20Ultra%20Left%20Bemoans%20the%20Canning%20of%20Ariella%20Azoulay.htm
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http://isracampus.org.il/third%20level%20pages/Editorial%20-%20Steve%20Plaut%20-%20Israeli%20Tenured%20Taliban.htm
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Ariella's most recent initiative was to try to host the rabid anti-Israel communist French "political philosopher" Jacques Rancière in Israel… Ranciere had been scheduled to lecture at Tel Aviv University on Jan. 25, 2012. But while Ariella tried to get him to come to Israel, the terrorists from the Pacbi.org "Boycott, Divest" group (http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1793) called upon Ranciere to stay home. Rancid Ranciere then announced through some other terrorist web sites (like http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/noted-french-theorist-jacques-ranci-re-cancels-israel-lecture-heeding-boycott) that he would stay home. Leaving his anti-Israel hosts at Tel Aviv University high and dry.

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Ben Gurion University – BGU Prof Israel David Determines that the Demise of BGU's Imbalanced Pol-Sci Dept is Inevitable Based on his Insider Information

Ben Gurion University has found itself at a fork in the road, where it is being required to provide clear and non-evasive answers to Israel's Council on Higher Education, the public body that oversees higher education in Israel. As the reader no doubt recalls, this Council earlier appointed an international panel of professional evaluation for the department of politics at BGU, and that panel recommended shutting down the department of politics altogether, unless the severe academic and professional shoddiness and incompetence there would be cured.
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There are indeed quite a few "imbalances" at Ben Gurion University. Take for example the fact that nine out of the eleven tenured faculty members in the department of politics at BGU, as well as a great many of the non-tenured faculty members there, are radical extremist seditious far-leftist activists. [Actually, all 11 tenured faculty members are far-leftist activists – Isracampus] The chance that such a department could have emerged by chance is far lower than the chance of winning millions in the lottery. It should be noted that no similar "coincidence" can be found at any other university! Therefore there can be no doubt that this department was constructed intentionally using the "One friend brings in another friend" method of nepotism, and that in turn is the source of the absence of professional and scientific standards in the department.
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The imbalance of interest when it comes to the department of politics is the imbalance of purpose. The bulk of faculty members in the department have no idea what the mission of an academic institution is… [The current chairman of the department, Dr. Dani] Filc believes the mission of the department is advocacy, whereas the proper mission of an academic unit is research and instruction. Much more serious is Filc's inability to understand that it is NOT a proper function for an academic department to persecute and harass Israeli army officers, smearing them as "war criminals," nor to vandalize Israeli military security points and checkpoints, nor to infiltrate illegally into Arafat's headquarters in Ramallah and there get photographed in warm embrace with Arafat (which a faculty member in this department has already done), nor to organize violent illegal "protests" (some of which have already been the subject of prosecution in BGU disciplinary committees).
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Shutting down the department of politics at BGU is a matter of great seriousness. There are precedents in Israel for doing so… And that is what has to be done at BGU!

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Betzalel – Zvi Elhayani - Yet another Israeli Academic Leftist Calling for Murder of Jews

Allow us to introduce you to one Zvi Elhayani, who is on the teaching staff at the Bezalel Arts and Crafts College. He is one of the architects for jihad who are active in Israel in promoting the Palestinian agenda.

Elhayani is in the news this week for calling for the murder of West Bank "settlers." He was outted (in Hebrew) at this web page.

The call to murder settlers appeared on his personal facebook page.
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Want to ask Israel's Attorney General why Elhayani is not locked away behind bars for calling for murder? Write to him via Fax 972-2-6467001. Send a copy to Yaakov Neaman, Minister of Justice, at sar@justice.gov.il. You can also use this form letter to submit electronically although the headings are in Hebrew: Mail address is:
Attorney General of Israel
Ministry of Justice
29 Salah a-Din Street
Jerusalem, 91010

Want to ask the heads of Betzalel why someone who is issuing calls for murder is on their faculty? Write to these people:
Bezalel Arts College
President
Prof. Arnon Zuckerman
Mount Scopus Campus
Mount Scopus P.O.Box 24046
Jerusalem 91240
Telephone: 02-5893333
Fax: 02- 5823094
Email: mail@bezalel.ac.il

Officers: http://bezalel.ac.il/en/about/leadership/staff/
Contact Info: http://bezalel.ac.il/en/contact/

Friends Offices: The Friends Organizations
Ms. Amira Ben-Dor
Chairwoman of the Jerusalem Friends of Bezalel
Ms. Jennifer Roth
President of the Friends of Bezalel New York
Friends of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Inc.
501 Fifth Avenue, New York,
NY 10017

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Bar Ilan University - Menachem Klein (Dept of Political Science) thinks it is Israel's fault that the Arab world is so anti-democratic

It seems clear that Israel welcomes the Arab Spring with a very cold shoulder. Israel has traditionally preferred to maintain close relations with non-democratic monarchs and dictators, rather than communicating with the people. Israel's security, according to this view, is assured first by its own force, and second by strong Arab leaders who agree to cooperate secretly or openly with Israel.

Netanyahu's deep suspicions about the authenticity of the Arab masses' awakening are accompanied by a sharp division between "us" (Israel) and "them" (the Arab masses). According to Netanyahu, Israel has always embraced democracy, but the Arabs have not yet. "Israel stands out. It is different," exclusive and without doubt better. "Israel is not what is wrong about the Middle East. Israel is what is right about the Middle East." The dichotomy between right and wrong is, according to Netanyahu, the same as between Israel and the Arabs.

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Interdisciplinary Center (Herzliya) - Galia Golan's (School of Government) Gynocentric Campaign for "Palestinians" against Israel

In many cases, women are used not only to moderate behavior (the role, for example, of Machsom Watch at the checkpoints) but to actually carry out the many tasks associated with human security and winning over the hearts and minds of the population. Research has indeed found that women tend to take on the stereotypical "tough" characteristics of males in the military, but there is also evidence that police forces, for example, have become more restrained when large numbers of women have been added to their ranks. Other research has shown that men may react more favorably to women, believing women (according to the stereotype) to be more fair than men, more considerate and trustworthy.1 There is of course, the risk of exploitation of this stereotype or misuse by the military of soft power, for purposes other than genuine peace-building, but the advantages as distinct from "hard power" may be worth the risk.

Women May See Things That Men Don't See

This is not to say that men cannot employ soft power, undertake the tasks of human security, or come up with peace-building ideas such as peace parks instead of early warning stations. Indeed, a man, Dr. Alon Liel, proposed that a peace park be created on the Golan Heights once it is returned to Syria, and the idea has been employed in southern Africa for some years. However, a gender perspective of security arrangements would most likely focus on solutions with the potential to produce different ideas or introduce different considerations. Even as women differ from one another according to class, culture, background and so forth, women's experience of daily life is different from men's experience. Women, therefore, may well see things that a man does not. This is one of the reasons why security studies deal with the subject of agency and in particular human agency, which is increasingly associated with non-state actors, including women. Women become the ones doing the job, but they also set the discourse, raise the issues, determine priorities, suggest what must be done and articulate just what constitutes security, by and for whom. Thus women become not only the recipients, or the object of security considerations, but also resources for deciding on and producing security. And with this, women can perhaps contribute to a change in the concept of security to a concept more suited to an era of peaceful post-conflict relations rather than the concept of hard security that characterizes the Israeli scene today.

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Isracampus answer to Haaretz and to Those Accusing us of "McCarthyism"

Here is everything you need to know about academic freedom and freedom of speech in Israel:

Leftists who insist that only leftists are entitled to exercise freedom of speech - are fascists.

Leftists who insist that all people who criticize leftists are McCarthyists - are fascists. They are also McCarthyists.

Leftists who claim that the exercise of freedom of speech by anti-Oslo dissidents in the 1990s caused Rabin to be assassinated - are McCarthyists. They are also fascists.

Leftists who claim that no one should be allowed to refer to anti-Israel traitors as traitors - are themselves fascists.

Leftists who pretend that other leftists who call for BDS or Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel are anything other than traitors – are liars. They are also fascists.

Leftists who endorse terrorist attacks against Jews are traitors.

Leftists who demand a "Palestinian right of return to Israel" are traitors.

Leftists who endorse Arab fascist movements - are fascists.

Leftists who support or vote for the communist party are mentally deranged. They are also fascists.

Leftists who support the elimination of Israel are traitors and fascists.

Leftists who attempt to use the courts to suppress freedom of speech for non-leftists – are fascists.

Leftists who censor chat lists of academics in order to bar non-leftist opinion from being expressed - are fascists.

Leftists who demand that non-leftists be silenced because their exercise of freedom of speech produces violence – are fascists.

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Tel Aviv University – PhD candidate Omar Barghouti promotes the BDS against his own university in the US

Recently Omar Barghouti, a Columbia graduate in electrical engineering who is now pursuing a PhD at Tel Aviv University in Philosophy spoke at three occasions in northern California to promote boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel, even his own university.
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Barghouti declared Israel an apartheid state throughout the evening during his speech held at the Presbyterian Church in Oakland, California. He saw nothing hypocritical about his own status as a subsidized graduate student in Israel, and instead likened himself to Nelson Mandela. The speaking engagements were sponsored by assorted groups affiliated with the International Solidarity Movement in order to raise funds for the Middle East Children's Alliance, an ISM group that launders most of the ISM's "tax deductible" donations on the US West Coast. Other sponsoring groups included the anti-Israel extremist group Jewish Voice for Peace, which is made up for the most part of Marxist Jews and Al Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, which calls for the destruction of Israel as a Jewish state and an unconditional right of anyone pretending to be a "Palestinian" to "return" to Israel.
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Barghouti began the lecture stating, "Israelis have been colonizing our lands since the Nakba in 1948." Throughout the lecture he acknowledged no Jewish history or any right to any part of the land of Israel by Jews.

He continued, making the accusation that Israel had altered history and "destroyed thousands of Palestinian books," and claimed that there are still thousands more such books hidden away in the library at Tel Aviv U. You know, the library where he is supposed to be writing his PhD. So if the books are in that library, we guess they were never destroyed. Hmmm.
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 He then falsely described conditions in Gaza as the "most subhuman" in the world. He failed to mention the Jacuzzis and designer stores in the malls. He recounted an unverified tale of an elderly Palestinian woman "shot while walking along" there for no reason at all and accused Israel again of "ethnic cleansing."
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Barghouti tried to lecture as an academic, but the problem was he kept lying through his teeth. Besides false claims about apartheid in Israel (Barghouti himself is proof this is untrue), he then went on to claim falsely that 93% of the land in the West Bank is off limits to non-Jews and said Israel has communities where only Jews can live. Actually Israel is full of communities where Jews cannot live, only Arabs. Meanwhile, Barghouti had no criticism of the law in the Palestinian Authority that metes out a death sentence, even retroactively, if someone sells his land to a Jew. Barghouti also repeated the oft-used canard of "Jewish only roads" in the West Bank.

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Ben Gurion University - Tenured Enemy of Freedom of Speech Neve Gordon (Dept of Political Science) sets up a Web Site that Claims to Mock Isracampus

Haaretz (http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/10-percent-of-israeli-academics-labeled-anti-zionist-by-campus-watchdogs-1.408535) reports that Ben Gurion University’s worst Anti-Semite Neve Gordon has set up his own little web site called www.blacklist.co.il that is an attempt to mock Isracampus. The web site purports to invite radical leftists to sign up to be added to black lists of anti-Israel extremists. Gordon claims his web site will allow leftist academics to search the archives of Isracampus and other watchdog groups to see if they are listed and find what is said about them there. But we tried out Gordon’s site and it did not do any of things Gordon claims it does. It does not even locate any article written about Neve Gordon himself, showing what an effective search tool it is!

Meanwhile Gordon lists the owners and initiators of the webs “blacklist” site he runs here: http://blacklist.co.il/cgi-bin/bl/who.py

Well, we checked that list of names. Aside from Gordon himself, none of the people in that list except Yinon Cohen is even an academic.

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Haaretz reports on how Isracampus Exposes the Tenured Left

Three self-proclaimed watchdog organizations have labeled about 10 percent of Israeli academics as anti-Zionist, according to a recent study by a group of academics, artists and university students who aim to counter the categorizations. The organizations, which are open about their activities, are Im Tirtzu, IsraCampus and Israel Academia Monitor. … Members of the group include political scientist Prof. Neve Gordon of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Israeli Film Directors Guild chairman Rani Blair; and the chairman of the Israeli Documentary Filmmakers Forum, Uri Rosenwaks.
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University of Haifa economist Prof. Steven Plaut, one of the founders of IsraCampus, said in a statement: "Our main function is to quote what these teachers say and write ideologically and politically in order to bring it to the attention of the public. The issue is not an ideological argument, but rather publicizing the anti-Israel group that openly supports the enemy," Plaut said.

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On the Segel-Plus chat list at the University of Haifa, the anti-Israel extremist Micah Leshem (University of Haifa, Dept of Psychology) denounces parents who circumcise their babies:

FROM: micah leshem
TO: segel-plus@list.haifa.ac.il
Sunday, January 1, 2012

Bill is totally correct. Female circumcision, multiple child-bearing in an overcrowded planet, foot binding and leg elongation, excision of the tip of an infant's penis, breast implants and nose-docking, hatred of the other, etc - all are examples of mutilations by participants coerced into willing participation by tradition, religion, brainwashing, and most horrible of all - PARENTS.
Micah

 

Tel Aviv University - Ronen Shoval, "Im Tirtzu" Chairman, Documents Yehouda Shenhav's (Dept of Sociology) 'Ignorance'

A few days ago, the Student Union network posted a video clip a lecture you gave as part of the Introduction to Sociology course, an obligatory course in the Sociology and Anthropology department. In the course of the lecture, the footage shows, you relieved yourself of the following drivel:

"When this whole story with this stupid organisation called Im Tirtzu was taking place, which attacked the fact, the stupid fascist, which attacked the fact, by the way sponsored with American evangelist Christian radical money, which is ready to support this as part of its war against the Arabs in Israel, a complicated story, they claimed, that in the political science departments, they did a report in the political science departments, and claimed that most of the faculty there is left-wing. This connects to your question. Most of the faculty isn't left-wing, it's liberal in its way of thinking. Because social sciences are inherently liberal. So to say that most of the staff is left-wing, liberal, is nonsense, because the repertoire on which you draw is liberal. Otherwise you'll shut these departments down. Because the term "left-wing" is very problematic in that context, because what exactly is left wing? I think, and this is to confuse you a little more, that someone supporting two state for two peoples is a right-winger. Left winger? I'm opposed to two states for two peoples. So I'm left-wing?"

We preserved the garbled style of the original.

Comments of such nature, made before an audience of students on an obligatory course, betray shameful ignorance on your part. As a "great liberal" you clearly violated instruction 1109/11 (21.12.2010) of the Higher Education Council, which clearly state that "any attempt at politicisation of the academia should be rejected." In this decision, the Higher Education Council ruled that the lectures should strive to expose the students "to as varied a survey as possible of the areas which they teach." Which, of course, failed to take place. In this last lecture you unilaterally abused your standing, expressing one-sided political opinions while barefacedly ignoring the Higher Education Council's decision.

You claimed that Im Tirtzu attacked the face that faculty members in political science are left-wing, or, according to your interpretation, liberals. This is blatant misrepresentation of our reports, and, graver still, the concept of liberalism. The report we released on the developments in the political science didn't assault the "left-wing" political opinions of faculty members, but displayed the lack of variety in the content materials, along with the exclusion, elimination and silencing of researchers and research approaches that are not anti-Zionist or anti-national.

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Ben Gurion University – Discriminating against Jews

Racism and discrimination have suddenly appeared as a serious problem in Israeli academia. The racism and discrimination in question is anti-Jewish and is being practiced by Ben Gurion "University." That is right, 73 years after Kristallnacht Jews are being discriminated against and barred from attending a university program in psychology at Ben Gurion "University" because it is only open to Arabs. And a Jewish victim of this overt discrimination has filed suit with the Supreme Court.

The program in question is a MA program in psychology open only to Arabs and particularly to Bedouins. Jews who qualify are excluded. In addition, the program is secret. Ben Gurion University has been trying to hide it from the media and from students and even from the government.

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University of Exeter - Ilan Pappe (Dept of Israel Bashing) – Time Has Come to Recant Outlandish Accusations

Ilan Pappé rode to fame by bashing Israel, repeatedly accusing the Jewish state of war crimes and crying oppression when academics actually looked at his evidence and found it lacking.
…Ignorance is no excuse for an academic, nor is stubbornness a virtue. When Benny Morris mistreated quotes by David Ben-Gurion and Theodor Herzl, he was rightly pilloried for it. In December 2006, he came clean and acknowledged that the Ben-Gurion quote was fraudulent. Kudos to him for reversing the error.

Alas, to advance his polemic, Pappé has embraced the false Ben-Gurion quote endorsing ethnic cleansing, an outlandish accusation. Some of those who relied on Pappé have issued corrections, or are in the process of doing so. Not Pappé, however. He may believe that tainting Israel with original sin justifies his lies.

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Ben Gurion University – Calls for PolSci Dept to Stop Ignoring the Recommendations from the Council for Higher Education or Resign

Back at Ben-Gurion, the political biases of the politics department are well-documented. Indeed, though Prof. Newman should be lauded for his efforts to combat the proposed academic boycott of Israel in the UK, they do ring somewhat hollow when the chair of his own department supports the boycott, a matter to which one would assume Newman would urgently attend. Instead of ignoring the report, Prof. Newman and the rest of the faculty should immediately correct the failings in their departments. And if they fail to step up, the authorities should press them to step down.

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Ben Gurion University – Additional Calls to Deal with BGU's Tenured Tanzim

Yaakov Bergman, a prominent professor at the Hebrew University, has joined the assault on the Tenured Tanzim who teach "politics" at Ben Gurion University. He published a response to Neve Gordon and Dani Filc, the two most extremist Israel-hating faculty members in this otherwise wall-to-wall anti-Israel far-leftist department.

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Then, Commentary Magazine adds its voice:
 …Back at Ben-Gurion, the political biases of the politics department are well-documented. Indeed, though Prof. Newman should be lauded for his efforts to combat the proposed academic boycott of Israel in the UK, they do ring somewhat hollow when the chair of his own department supports the boycott, a matter to which one would assume Newman would urgently attend. Instead of ignoring the report, Prof. Newman and the rest of the faculty should immediately correct the failings in their departments. And if they fail to step up, the authorities should press them to step down.

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Haifa University and Tel Aviv University sponsored a pseudo-academic "conference" supposedly on "gender" that featured official collaboration with the extremist pro-terror anti-Israel NGO "Machsom Watch"

http://www.gendersite.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/final-program11.pd

[The Friday night tour of Jerusalem sponsored by "Machsom Watch" is on the last page]

 

Tel Aviv University – Chen Misgav (Dept of Geography) Describes "Bodily Functions" - the Death of Academic Standards at TAU

Universities are traditionally places where new ideas are always welcome. Once a theory or question is presented, academic research and study of the subject matter at hand can provide evidence and information to better mankind through understanding. Thus the academy can find a cure for a disease or explains why some cultures are enabled to advance. Sadly, this has been perverted over the last several decades, where academic inquiry is replaced by one-sided advocacy, often for loony things.

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Along comes PhD student Chen Misgav from Tel Aviv University's Geography department. Bear in mind that at many universities, geography is not even regarded as a bona fide academic discipline. … And what does Misgav do for research? As far as we can tell, he has a great time trolling gay sex clubs in Tel Aviv where he can claim his sexual recreational pursuits serve the dual purpose of getting him "partnered up" as well as getting him an advanced degree and fellowships to travel the University circuit abroad as well as in Israel.
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Misgav continues:

"My research focuses on people and spaces on the event itself – the party and the interior halls and spaces of the club, where bodily performances, drags, alcohol, sexual practices and music connects (sic) together. My main aim on this research is to check how bodily performances, gender and identity expressions define special spaces inside the club's halls. I conducted many field observations in the club and later on made some in-depth interviews with people who spent time in this club, focusing especially on gay men and transgendered (sic) women. … In my paper I discuss these different and unique constructions of sexual identity and the role of bodily performances and gender through the production of these heterotopias. I will show the extent to which space plays an important role in the construction of identity through body performances."
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Chen insists that we all have to hear about his homosexuality, which is then conflated by him into an attack against "Zionism" and the Jewish state.

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University of Exeter - Ilan Pappe (Dept of Israel Bashing) goosesteps for the Jihad again; whines about being persecuted

Of course there were US President Barack Obama's pandering appearances in front of AIPAC, the Israeli lobby, and his administration's continued silence and inaction in face of Israel's colonization of the West Bank, siege and killings in Gaza, ethnic cleansing of the Bedouins in the Naqab and new legislation discriminating against Palestinians in Israel.

The complicity continued with the shameful retreat of Judge Richard Goldstone from his rather tame report on the Gaza massacre — which began three years ago today. And then there was the decision of European governments, especially Greece, to disallow campaigns of human aid and solidarity from reaching Gaza by sea.

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In recent years, I have learned firsthand how intimidation of this kind works. In November 2009 the mayor of Munich was scared to death by a Zionist lobby group and cancelled my lecture there. More recently, the Austrian foreign ministry withdrew its funding for an event in which I participated, and finally it was my own university, the University of Exeter, once a haven of security in my eyes, becoming frigid when a bunch of Zionist hooligans claimed I was a fabricator and a self-hating Jew.

Every year since I moved there, Zionist organizations in the UK and the US have asked the university to investigate my work and were brushed aside. This year a similar appeal was taken, momentarily one should say, seriously. One hopes this was just a temporary lapse; but you never know with an academic institution (bravery is not one of their hallmarks).

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Ben Gurion University – Neve Gordon (Dept of Political Science) Writes in Al Jazeera; Suggests Unreasonable Arab Demands to Bring About the End of the Jewish State of Israel and Unilateral Israeli Comprise

Israel’s continued unwillingness to fully support these three components is rapidly leading to the annulment of the two-state option and, as a result, is leaving open only one possible future direction: power sharing.

The notion of power sharing would entail the preservation of the existing borders, from the Jordan valley to the Mediterranean Sea, and an agreed upon form of a power sharing government led by Israeli Jews and Palestinians, and based on the liberal democracy model of the separation of powers. It also entails a parity of esteem - namely, the idea that each side respects the other side’s identity and ethos, including language, culture and religion. This, to put it simply, is the bi-national one-state solution.

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Meet the Hebrew University’s Model Student of the Year:
Terrorist murderer wants to Finish his BA; Model Hebrew University Student

(Perhaps he was not accepted to Ben Gurion University’s Politics department because he was not anti-Israel enough for them!!)

Sharatha said that his one request of Israel now that he has been released is to be allowed to finish the university degree from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, which he began while in prison. Allowing terrorist prisoners to study while in prison is just one of many benefits given to them by Israel. In comparison, Gilad Shalit spent five and a half years in Hamas captivity and was not allowed one single visit from the International Red Cross.

At the end of the interview, Sharatha encouraged future terrorists who will commit murderous acts towards Israelis.

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Ben Gurion University - Professor Ze’ev Maoz (University of California & Interdisciplinary Center (Herzliya)) endorses the Calls for The Complete Shutting Down of the Department of Politics at Ben Gurion University; Insists it is a bunch of substandard pseudo-academics

He begins by proclaiming that he is a proud member of the Israeli Left. … He then reveals that he himself had been recruited nine years ago by the Council on Higher Education to evaluate the very same department at BGU. At the time he proposed shutting down the entire department for essentially the same reasons as those in the new panel report. He claims his reasons were entirely academic, not political, just as the current panel’s recommendations are academic.

Back then, Maoz found that there are no serious academic standards in place in that department. Most of the faculty members have no serious credentials in political science. He says that not only was the Council on Higher Education not conducting a witch-hunt against the Politics department at BGU, but it even refused to implement Maoz’ own recommendations, treated the department with permissive (his word) kid gloves, allowed it to go on functioning and even to develop new programs for students, and refused to apply the same rigorous standards to the department of Neve Gordon and David Newman that it was applying to all other departments across the board.

He concludes that the Department of Politics at BGU is an academic disgrace and the petitions of support for it are motivated by the most dubious of motives. Translation: those petitions consist of anti-Israel extremists seeking to defend other anti-Israel pseudo-academic extremists from criticism and accountability.

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Ben Gurion University - David Newman (Dean of Social Sciences and Humanities) Defames London Professor Efraim Karsh and the Middle East Forum

Dismisses any criticism emanating from the Jewish Diaspora as “disgraceful” “verbal terrorism”

The use of “Nazi” slur terminology has also been used as a means of delegitimizing legitimate criticism of Israel and its policies. Just this past week, an Israeli emigrant to the UK, Prof. Efraim Karsh of Kings College at the University of London, used the right-wing, pseudoacademic journal Middle East Forum to attribute such remarks, falsely, to the writer of this column.

The article by Karsh is a pathetic attempt to falsify facts and portray the intellectual Left (sic), be it in Israel or elsewhere, as rabidly anti-Semitic and thus to shut down the debate on any form of legitimate debate and discourse concerning the situation in Israel.
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And when it emanates from “patriotic supporters” of Israel who sit in the safety of their Diaspora homes in the USA or London, it is not only disgraceful, it is outright laughable. It is a form of verbal terrorism which must not be allowed to take root in the debate concerning Israel and anti-Semitism. The issue is simply too serious for that.

[Isracampus comment: The Middle East Forum is a far more respectable academic institution than is the Department of Politics at Ben Gurion University, built by David Newman as a pseudo-academic jihadist camp in which uniformity of thought has been documented, and Efraim Karsh’s academic credentials are countless times stronger than David Newman’s!

As to the “falsely” attributed “Nazi” slur terminology, Isracampus would like to refresh Newman's memory. The forgetful Dean has used such “Nazi” metaphors to delegitimize Israel in the Jerusalem Post as recently as Nov 2011:

“These may sound like strong words and I will no doubt be strongly criticized for making such a comparison, but we would do well to paraphrase the famous words of Pastor Niemoller, writing in 1946 about Germany of the 1930s and 1940s: “When the government denied the sovereign rights of the Palestinians, I remained silent; I was not a Palestinian.”

Prof Karsh reports in correspondence with Isracampus that the above is the quote that prompted his Middle East Forum expose.]

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    The death of academic freedom in Israel!

Israel's Leftist Thought Police Demands Censorship over “incorrect information” in a textbook

Could the same censorship be applied to “incorrect information” in Shlomo Sand’s book - ‘The Invention of the Jewish People’?

A number of homosexual activist academics started a campaign against the book [Prakim nivharim b'psichiatria, 2010 ed.], and the chat lists of Israeli faculty are filled with calls for suppression of the book and censorship of "incorrect" ideas about homosexuality. The book contains "incorrect information," insist the censors. Suppose that it does. But so does the book by Shlomo Sand. Since when does the fact that a book contains incorrect information entitle the leftist thought police to suppress and censor it?

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Rallying the International anti-Israel Left on behalf of the Extremists at Ben Gurion University

…Last year Israel’s Council on Higher Education, which oversees and funds Israel’s universities (and is composed of representatives of those same universities) appointed a special commission to investigate and evaluate the Department of Politics at Ben Gurion University. That commission found what everyone already knew, that the department is a radical monolithic politicized incitement camp, not a serious academic department, one in which anti-Israel activism had replaced serious scholarship and in which serious academic standards have been trashed. The commission proposed that the entire department be shut down unless radical reform and restructuring takes place, including complete de-politicization of and introduction of real pluralism into the department.

Since that CHE report was issued, Israel’s radical Left, led by its tenured Left, has been leading a campaign to defend the anti-Israel indoctrination camp calling itself the Department of Politics at Ben Gurion University… And they are also being championed by Haaretz, the radical anti-Israel leftist “newspaper,” better thought of as a Palestinian newspaper published in Hebrew… Universities must continue to serve to indoctrinate students into correct leftist anti-Israel ideology. All attempts at interfering with this sacred mission must be resisted and defeated.

Now the tenured Left in Israel is organizing petitions of like-minded radical tenured leftists in Israel and around the world to express their support and solidarity with the Ben Gurion University indoctrination camp.

…While one could go through the lists of signers of the petition name by name to document their own anti-Israel far-leftist biases, it is sufficient to illustrate the point with one of the leading signers, Berkeley’s Judith Butler. She is a notorious collaborator with anti-Semites and supporter of Israel annihilation and can represent the other signers.
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To remove all doubt, Butler made it clear that she objects to Israel’s presence not only in the West Bank, where she was doing her Terrorism Grand Tour. She also wants Israel removed from within Israel’s pre-1967 borders. Butler has long supported a worldwide boycott of Israel, and not simply because Israel “occupies” the West Bank. She has made it clear that she demands that Israel allow millions of Arabs claiming to be Palestinian “refugees” to flood into Israel and convert it into yet another Palestinian Arab state. She wants this even after the creation of some Palestinian state. … Butler explained to her terrorist hosts that she opposes the existence of a Jewish state even alongside some future Palestinian Arab state. Instead, she favors what she calls a bi-national state, something along the lines of Rwanda.

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University of London & Middle East Forum Director Efraim Karsh Exposes Ben Gurion University’s Pseudo-Academic anti-Israel Dean of Social Sciences and Humanities David Newman

So much so that an international committee of scholars, appointed by Israel’s Council for Higher Education to evaluate political science and international relations programs in Israeli universities, recently recommended that BGU “consider closing the Department of Politics and Government” unless it abandoned its “strong emphasis on political activism,” improved its research performance, and redressed the endemic weakness “in its core discipline of political science.” In other words, they asked that the Department return to accurate scholarship rather than indoctrinate the students with libel.

The same day the committee’s recommendation was revealed, Professor David Newman -- who founded that department and bequeathed it such a problematic ethos, for which “achievement” he was presumably rewarded with a promotion to Deanship of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, from where he can shape other departments in a similar way -- penned an op-ed in the Jerusalem Post in which he compared Israel’s present political culture to that of Nazi Germany…

… And therein, no doubt, lies the problem with BGU’s Politics and Government Department: the only Israeli department singled out by the international committee for the unprecedented recommendation of closure. For if its founder and long-time member, who continues to wield decisive influence over its direction, views Israel as a present-day reincarnation of Nazi Germany in several key respects, how conceivably can the department ensure the “sustained commitment to providing balance and an essential range of viewpoints and perspectives on the great issues of politics” required for its continued existence?

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Isracampus Invites you to send Condolences

As you no doubt have heard, Kim Jong Il, the goosestepping Stalinist brat who had been running the North Korean gulag in recent years, just croaked. Isracampus would like to invite you to send an e-note of condolence to Noam Chomsky; his email address is chomsky@MIT.edu

Then, please send similar letters of condolence to Israel's own leading hardcore communists and Stalinists. These include TAU "historian" Shlomo Sand: shlomosa@post.tau.ac.il; his sidekicks Gadi Algazi at gadi.algazi@gmail.com and Yoav Peled at pol1@post.tau.ac.il; Oded Lowenheim, who teaches international relations at the Hebrew University, at oded.lowenheim@huji.ac.il; Jacob Katriel, retired Technion Stalinist, at jkatriel@techunix.technion.ac.il; Eyal Nir from Ben Gurion University, an active communist party member, at eyalnir@bgu.ac.il; Ofer Cassif, central committee member, at ofercass@mta.ac.il; and Yuri Pines from the Hebrew University, at pinesy@mscc.huji.ac.il (if you do not think he is a Stalinist, see his web page at http://www.eacenter.huji.ac.il/Pines).

 

University of Haifa – Dalit Baum is caught telling Lies by Omission at USF; promotes BDS "information" and "tools" overseas

The guest speaker for that evening was Dalit Baum, who runs the anti-Israel website "Who Profits?" She is an Israeli radical leftist who in the past called for the dismantling of the Jewish state. She has boasted that she has already cost the Israeli economy in excess of 1.5 billion dollars by promoting BDS against Israeli firms worldwide. Baum bills herself as a "feminist scholar" and was introduced as such by Zunes, even though she only holds a degree in math and has never published any academic work regarding feminism. Baum made clear during the evening that she was at USF to present to the students "information" and "tools" they could use to boycott and divest from the Jewish state. Zunes commented at Baum's "courage," speaking at USF, because of Israel's new law allowing lawsuits by companies affected by BDS against activists like Baum.
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Baum's lecture could only be described as a form of "lying by omission"; that is, presenting just enough information about a topic to elicit a positive or negative reaction without presenting all the facts. In some instances she just outright lied.
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Baum began by showing a map of Israel and the Palestinian Authority then saying that Israel has no borders. She claimed that 3.5 million Palestinians live in the area but that the Israeli communities (settlements) had control over the main roads and implied only Jews were allowed to use them. She referred to the areas around the settlements as being "ethnically cleansed." She made no effort to point out that Arabs who are Israeli citizens are the same ethnic and religious makeup as Arabs in the Palestinian Authority nor about how various security measures were needed because Palestinian terrorists routinely attack Israelis who use those roads. Nor did she say Arabs from the PA can use those roads after getting security clearance, such as taxi drivers. She told her audience, "If you are Jewish you can go to some areas and if you're not you can't go to other areas all in a country that has no borders." This was an example of leaving out just enough information to make a false impression: if a person is an Arab and an Israeli citizen he is permitted to go anywhere any Jewish Israeli citizen goes. Palestinian Authority Arabs are restricted due to terror attacks on Israelis. Israel's lack of permanent borders is because the Arab states back in 1967 all agreed to refuse to make peace with Israel so the "borders" are in fact temporary armistice lines subject to final negotiations as part of a peace deal. Few of the students attending her lecture would have known this and clearly Baum and Zunes didn't want them to.
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She objected to an unmanned robot vehicle Israel builds and use, which patrols the border urging the manufacturer be boycotted. The robot seems to have more academic publications to its credit than Baum. She talked of Caterpillar and Rachel Corrie and Gaza and told the audience Israel routinely bulldozes homes with people in them. She falsely claimed the Israelis just pull up to civilian homes for no reason and give the occupants only a few moments to flee, "if you are very old or disabled you die." This was blatant lying. Home demolitions only are used to destroy homes that were used as bomb factories or homes of suicide bombers and they are not random.

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Hebrew University - David Levi-Faur (Dept of Political Science) serves as Social Science Censor

Meet David Levi-Faur, who teaches political science at the Hebrew University. He is the official censor of thought on the Israeli Social Science chat list, open to professors and students in the social sciences. As long as they express leftist opinions.

On the social science list that he controls and censors, leftist anti-Israel opinion posts appear daily by the score, including malicious ad hominem attacks against those who dare to criticize far-leftist anti-Israel faculty members, and also against the watchdog groups like Isracampus that expose tenured treason.

Levi-Faur however routinely blocks and prevents postings by those who have been attacked, even in cases of correcting factual errors. On his list it is a basic right to attack, lie about, and insult non-leftists, but non-leftists do not have a right of reply. Bash-Israel postings are disseminated via his list because Levi-Faur thinks their positions are correct, while incorrect postings that challenge the Bash-Israel crowd are blocked and vetoed. Levi-Faur's ideas of freedom of speech and pluralism seem to be similar to those that once dominated the Soviet bloc.

 

Israeli tenured leftists among extremists demanding that Netanyahu government leave the sitting judges alone and not intervene in how they appoint judges anti-democratically all on their own

Some of the signatories to the petition include Sefi Rechelvsky, Prof. Yehuda Bauer, Prof. Ze'ev Shternhal who suggested that terrorists attack settlers and not other Israelis, and radical left authors Amos Oz and Yoram Kaniuk.

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University of Exeter - Ilan Pappe's (Dept of Israel Bashing) own Employer Looking into Pappe's Habit of Playing "fast and loose" with Facts, demanding an explanation from Pappe