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Tel Aviv University – Shlomo Sand (Dept of History) – gets bad peer review of book by Israel Bartal who reduces the work to fiction.
What is Sand trying to prove in this study? In his view, the homeland of the Jewish people is not Palestine, and most Jews are descendants of the members of different nations who converted to Judaism in ancient times and in the medieval period. He claims that the Jews of Yemen and Eastern Europe are descendants of pagans.
According to Sand, this historical truth was concealed by Zionist thinkers, who developed an ethno-biological ideology, and the so-called "Jewish people" was invented as late as the 19th century. Furthermore, he argues, the idea of a "nation" that was exiled from its homeland in ancient times and which is destined to return to it in the modern age so as to rebuild its independent state is merely an invented myth.
...Or, perhaps, because everything is an invention anyway, it does not really matter whether the "imagined object" is black or white? The lugubrious Israeli combination of aggressive one-dimensional conceptuality and blatant disrespect for details will undoubtedly captivate the hearts of the public relations executives of the electronic media. However, we, the skeptical historians, who are buried between mountains of books and piles of archival files, can only continue to read what has really been written and to write about what has really been read.
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New Leftist Blood Libel - Israeli leftist academics invent claim that Israel plans to attack Iran. Trying to start war through their lies?
A constant flow of information bears witness to the fact that the Israeli government is seriously considering attacking Iran, in order to disrupt its nuclear plans. We do not disregard irresponsible actions by the Iranian government - we also oppose atomic weapons in principle and support the elimination of all weapons of mass destruction from the region. However, it is clear that the main source of the immediate danger of a new, widespread war stems from the policies of the Israeli government and the flow of threats from it, backed by provocative military maneuvers.
Coordinating Group: Prof. Gadi Algazi; Judy Blanc; Prof. Rachel Giora; Prof. Anat Matar; Prof. Adi Ophir; Prof. Yoav Peled; Reuven Kaminer, Prof. Haggai Ram; Prof. Yehuda Shenhav; Prof. Oren Yiftachel.
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Ben Gurion University students strike back at Yakim Silverman
You may recall the incident a few months back in which an Arab lecturer at the Sapir College in Sderot refused to allow a student wearing an army reserve uniform to enter his class room.
Well, this time a radical leftist self-hating Jewish teaching assistant at Ben Gurion University named Yakim Silverman did the same thing. A few weeks back he asked a student in reserve uniform not to enter his class. Silverman teaches in the Ben Gurion U math department, the same department in which ultra-leftist Kobi Snitz, head of Anarchists for Attacking Israeli Police and Tearing down the Security Wall so that Terrorists can Get In, used to teach. Snitz has since moved to Bar Ilan's math department. On his Linkedin entry, Silverman describes Ben Gurion University as occupied Palestinian land. It is not known whether he ever studied under Ben Gurion University anti-Israel fanatics Neve Gordon or Oren Yiftachel.
Yesterday a student wearing an army reserve uniform and a mask entered the classroom in which Silverman sat with two students and dumped a bucket of paint on him.
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Hebrew University - Professor Mordechai Kremnitzer (Dept of Law) Seeks to Disarm Israel
In a recent op-ed, Kremnitzer condemned a Knesset bill to exempt Israel from paying damage claims to Palestinians harmed during hostilities. This issue is indeed clear-cut: no army can operate under the expectation of a flood of lawsuits against its officers and soldiers. ... One doesn’t have to be a military or legal expert, though, to imagine the effectiveness of an army hamstrung by fears of mass litigation.
But considering Prof. Kremnitzer’s positions on Mordechai Vanunu’s acts, the interrogation of terror suspects, targeted killings of terror masters, and home demolitions, it’s no surprise this Knesset bill wasn’t to his liking.
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Israeli Anti-Zionists finding niche in Academia as "Token Jews"
Yet many of these Israeli academics have built their reputation on a scholarship that is harshly critical not only of Israeli policy, but of Israel's very existence. Anti-Israel scholars who hail from Israel are cited favorably by the entire range of Israel's critics. These range from pro-Palestinian groups like the Committee to Stop Demolition of Houses in Palestine, the Committee to Stop Torture and Breaking the Silence to Jewish anti-Zionist groups like the American Council for Judaism. They also include neo-Nazis and Islamists.
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Hebrew University - Eyal Ben Ari (Dept of Sociology) uses the banner of Feminism to cover up alleged rape
But the most disturbing part of the entire story is the way Feminism hangs over it. Ben-Ari and Nitzan were believers in the fact that the Israeli military, and military in general, is a patriarchal, chauvinistic negative culture. This culture is in direct contrast to the enlightened and progressive culture found at the university. Yet it turns out that raping and sexual assault were not taking place in the barracks but perhaps in the very hallowed halls of the ivory tower, right at the center of feminism, sociology and anthropology at Hebrew University. ... If the allegations prove true and the extent and period of Ben-Ari's activities is correct then we see that while the pashas of feminism at Hebrew University were busy critiquing the military they were ignoring the stench of sexual depravity and indecency under their very noses where women were being subjected to the most degrading and disgusting predatory male lurking in the halls of the academy and wrapping himself in the mantle of feminism and progressive thought. The best female minds in sociology and anthropology were being subjected to gratuitous sexual perversion by those same people who dared preach about the immoral chauvinism and ‘militarism’ that supposedly infected Israeli society.
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Ben Gurion University’s Disloyalty Pledge
Several faculty members at BGU openly call for Israel to be eliminated and replaced by a Rwanda-style bi-national state run by the PLO with an Arab majority, including Prof. Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin. BGU sociologist Lev Grinberg made headlines last year for claiming that Israel was engaging in "symbolic genocide against Palestinians" when it assassinates arch-terrorists and mass murderers like the Hamas' Sheikh Yassin. This led the past Minister of Education in BGU to boycott BGU's Board of Governors meeting.
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Nefarious Cover Up at the Hebrew University!!!
The women who were abused, molested and raped by the good professor (Eyal Ben-Ari), a leading member of the Tenured Left at the Hebrew University, had filed detailed complaints about him to Hebrew University campus authorities. In a long expose in Maariv today (August 1), alas – not on their web site, the paper reproduces a letter that was sent to the Dean of Social Sciences at the Hebrew University. It was suppressed and ignored. The chiefs at the Hebrew University circled their wagons around their comrade, the rapist professor.
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Hebrew U Professor who Thinks Non-Rape is Racism Gets Busted for Rape
The "Non-Rape as Racism" thesis was co-supervised by one Eyal Ben-Ari, a Hebrew University professor of sociology, who claims to know something about the sociology of the military. Ben-Ari is a far-leftist with a track record of turning out anti-Israel propaganda, such as claims that Israel is an ultra-militarist society, and much of his propaganda is misrepresented as scholarly research. The other co-supervisor of the rape thesis was Ben-Ari's co-author in a book about Israeli "militarism." Israeli feminist groups never had a word to say about that "thesis" nor about Ben-Ari's role in inventing the "No rape as Racism" hypothesis.
From his role in the rape thesis, it was already known that Ben-Ari had goofy ideas about sexual (mis)behavior. But now it turns out that the ultra-feminist Israel-bashing professor of sociology practices what he preaches.
The very same Professor Eyal Ben-Ari was arrested yesterday for suspected rape and sexual abuse of his students, and arraigned before the Jerusalem magistrate's court.
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Israeli University Heads Join Leftist anti-Israel Group in Demanding that All Controls be Removed from Palestinians entering Campuses
The Israeli university system is not only corrupt and mediocre but dominated by leftist politicization. While university officials often shrug their shoulders when listening to complaints about the many tenured traitors operating out of their campuses, insisting that it is all just a price that needs to be paid if academic freedom is to be preserved, they generally insist disingenuously that politicization of the campus leadership by the Left does not exist at all.
Oh no? Consider the petition to the Israeli Minister of Defense sent by the members of the Council of University Presidents this week, as reported on the YNET news web site (http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3574835,00.html). These are university PRESIDENTS, not rank and file Post-Zionist academic quacks!
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Open University - Mustafa Kabha (Dept. of History) quotes the imaginary "massacre" fabricated at the University of Haifa by Ilan Pappe and Teddy Katz: "Tantur .. The worst Zionist massacres in Palestine"
He (Historian Mustafa Kabha) said: "The massacre left in the Al-Tantur great impact on the Palestinians in the neighboring villages and paved the displacements."
In return the Israeli historian Teddy Katz - who suffered a defamation lawsuit by the unit after Alexander detect the circumstances of the massacre in Al-Tantur Masters study at the University of Haifa in 1998 - that the testimonies received by recalling the fall of 230 Palestinians in the massacre.
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Ben Gurion University - Neve Gordon, (Dept. of Political Science) celebrates anti-Israel violence and hooliganism in the West Bank
'Another aspect of Ni'lin that goes against existing stereotypes is that Palestinians and Jews are not fighting on different sides of this fray, but rather scores of Jewish Israeli and international activists are standing beside the Palestinians residents as they try to stop military bulldozers from destroying Ni'lin's land. Indeed, among those injured are many Israelis. The story of Ni'lin is, in other words, the story of a colonized people resisting colonization.'
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Tel Aviv University Academics among those demanding Israel's Extermination in the "Haifa Conference for the Right of Return And the Secular Democratic State in Palestine"
'In the second part of the opening session, there were three speeches in Hebrew: Yehuda Kupferman (Tel Aviv University) from the "Committee for a secular and democratic state in the whole of Palestine," and Dr Uri Davis from "the movement against Israeli Apartheid in Palestine" - both from the initiating committee, and Dr Anat Matar (Tel Aviv University) , a leading activists in support of the rights of Palestinian prisoners and for the rights of Israeli youth to refuse serving in the Israeli army....(Among the demands were to) Strip the Jewish presence in Palestine of its colonialist nature, which is connected to the racist Zionist project, as a tool of imperialism and global capitalism.'
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Hebrew University - Students Charged with Operating al-Qaeda Cell on Campus
The Shin Bet and the police have arrested six Israeli Arabs, four of them residents of east Jerusalem, on suspicion of planning to operate an al-Qaeda cell in Israel.
Among the suspects are students at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
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Israeli academics lobbying against Israeli security control of movements and in favor of "freedom of movement" for Palestinian terrorists in the name of academic freedom. See the role call of signatories:
The initiators of the petition:
Prof. Menachem Fisch, Tel-Aviv University
Prof. Raphael Falk, The Hebrew University
Prof. Eva Jablonka, Tel-Aviv University
Dr. Snait Gissis, Tel-Aviv University
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Tel Aviv University – Shlomo Zand (Dept of History) – Students protest Zand’s book that denys a Jewish Nation
Professor Shlomo Zand of Tel Aviv University says there is no such thing as a Jewish Nation. Students at the university say that the professor is anti-Semitic.
In his new book, Zand says that Judaism is a religion and is connected to no nation.
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Israeli Academic "Righteous Jews" that "commemorate Palestinians who have been depopulated, dispossessed, humiliated, tortured, and murdered by the Zionists".
You will all be pleased to hear that an American Holocaust Denier and Neo-Nazi has set up a web site to honor what he regards as "Righteous Jews," meaning anti-Semitic self-hating Jews and those working against Israel.
It is supposed to imitate the "Righteous Gentiles" honors by Yad Vashem. Many of those so honored are Israeli leftist academics.
The "Righteous Jews" web site (http://www.righteousjews.org/) is run by one Daniel McGowan, a notorious Holocaust Denier (see http://mystical-politics.blogspot.com/2007/10/daniel-mcgowan-holocaust-denial.html for details)
Gowen was once a lecturer at Hobart and William Smith College in Geneva, New York, now retired. For more on McGowen's Nazi activities see
http://one-state.net/mcgo.html
http://zundelsite.org/english/news/070326_McGowan_vs_Bishara.php?tmpl=print
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Dec06/McGowan30.htm
The test for inclusion in the list is supposed to be that the recipient of the "award" helped to "Commemorate Palestinians who have been depopulated, dispossessed, humiliated, tortured, and murdered by the Zionists."
Among Israelis so honored by the Neo-Nazi web site are Adi Ophir, Aharon Shabtai, Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, Anat Biletzki, Ariella Azulay, Avishai Ehrlich, Avraham Oz, Boaz Evron, Daphna Golan, Haim Bresheeth, Haim Yacobi, Ilan Pappe, Moshe Machover, Moshe Zuckermann, Nurit Peled Elhanan, Oren Ben-Dor, Oren Yiftachel, Orit Kamir, Yigal Arens, Uri Davis, Shimshon Bichler, Uri Hadar, Ruchama Marton, Yitzhak Laor, Zalman Amit.
The full list of the laureates appears here:
http://www.righteousjews.org/initial-list.html
University of Haifa - Professor Dalia Sachs is a “feminist” whose concern for women is selective
Unfortunately, like many radical leftist academics in Israel, this woman, whose expertise is in a form of therapy in which patients are encouraged to engage in vocational tasks or expressive activities, such as art or dance, usually in a social setting, fancies herself a research sociologist on the state of women in Israel and somehow ties it all in with the Security Fence and support for the goals of Israel’s enemies.
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University of Haifa - Who needs Shakespeare?
Here is what they are teaching in the English Department at the University of Haifa (guest lecturer from Tel Aviv University):
'The Israeli queer activist group "Black Laundry" emerged in 2001 following the outbreak of the second Intifada. Black Laundry effected a two-fold shift in Israeli LGBT politics - both in its move from identity politics narrowly defined (i.e. a politics focused solely on the interests of the LGBT community) to a politics of identification concerned with the occupation as well as with other types of oppression...'
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Dr. Isaac Barr (Michigan) comments on anti-Israel extremism at Ben Gurion University:
From: DrIHeart
To: president@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
Sent: 7/11/2008 1:32:55 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Subj: Ben-Gurion University is loosing Jewish support.
President, The fact that BGU harbors and nourishes a radical anti Israel, anti Jewish person like Neve Gordon is a disgrace. On his sabbatical in Ann Arbor University of Michigan he did whatever he could to propagate hate to Israel and her right to exist. Under the mask of "freedom of speech" and "academic freedom" he attempted to indoctrinate students to share his views. He must be doing same in BGU. He ignored homicide bombers, Qassam missile launching and the plight of Sderot. He does not allow to be criticized. Students complained. Academic freedom requires accuracy, fairness, honest, balance and must allow criticism. University classes cannot be a stage for propaganda. BGU should not renew the tenure of Neve Gordon.
Isaac Barr MD, 6209 Dakota Circle, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 48301.
Does Yuli Tamir want to be education minister for the Palestinian Authority or Israel?
Yuli Tamir as Education Minister on July 22, 2007 approved a school text for Israeli children describing the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 as a 'Nakba', or catastrophe, for use in Israeli Arab schools. Asked her reasoning, Tamir replied on Israel Radio that "The Arab public deserves to be allowed to express its feelings.” ... Simply put, the Nakba is a myth perpetuated by the education ministries of the totalitarian Arab world to justify taking back Israel from the Jews.
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Hebrew University - Far-Leftist Professor Amiram Goldblum, a founder of 'Peace Now,' insists on employing a convicted terrorist in his Hebrew University laboratory:
' professor at Hebrew University wants to allow a convicted Arab terrorist who stole bomb-making materials from his chemistry lab to be allowed back to the lab, Channel 2 TV reported Sunday... The laboratory's previous director, Prof. Avi Domb, adamantly vetoed the idea of Hadmi's return, but his successor, Prof. Amiram Goldblum, thinks otherwise. Goldblum, one of the founders of radical leftist group "Peace Now," said that the university has no grounds to refuse to readmit Hadmi and allow him to finish his doctorate, because he has already been punished and served his jail sentence....Hadmi was convicted of being a member of a terror cell that planned suicide attacks against Israelis and recruited other Arabs to the cell.’
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Tel Aviv Philosophy Professor Anat Matar promotes draft dodging from the IDF to aid her Palestinian Arab “Allies”
And here Anat Matar, the self-avowed deep thinker and philosopher, shows how she is neither. She states in an interview, “As for ending the occupation itself, I'm far from being optimistic. But of course, pressure on the U.S. government, boycotting Israel in all sorts of ways - in short, making manifest the similarity between Israel and Apartheid South Africa - all these could perhaps change something. I'm not sure about the short run. But slowly, slowly this should be understood by more and more people.” One wonders where is her concern for the 30% of Israeli children and the elderly who must eat in soup kitchens due to the Arab League Boycott she supports. The suffering of Israelis apparently means nothing to Anat Matar.
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Bezalel Academy artist and lecturer David Tartakover uses art to attack his fellow Israelis
As mentioned, Tartakover has enormous contempt for religious Jews, something that also colors his hatred for Jews who reside in Yesha. He expressed this artistically when he defaced the memorial of assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin with the words, Killed by a Kippa wearing Jew! thus lumping all religious Jews (no doubt to him, all those in Yesha are religious too, when many are not) into the same group.
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Tel Aviv University - Anat Matar hard at work at destroying Israel through creating a "Right of Return" for "Palestinian refugees"
Haifa Conference for the Right of Return And the Secular Democratic State in Palestine
Friday and Saturday, June 20-21, 2008
Haifa, Al Midan Theatre, Khouri St 2
Friday, June 20
17:00 - Youth meeting: Youth struggle, the Return of Palestinian refugees, and the Secular Democratic Society
19:00 . Opening Session
On behalf of the Initiating Committee . Rajaa Zo'abi O'mari
Ayman O'deh . Secretary General - Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (HADASH)
Awad Abed El-Fatah . Secretary General - National Democratic Alliance (BALAD)
Muhammad Kanaa'ne . Secretary General - Abnaa elBalad Movement (The movement is part of the coalition that constitute the Initiating Committee)
Palestinian speakers from the post-1967 occupied territories and the Diaspora
Dr. Anat Matar
Prof. Bhim Singh from Kashmir
Greetings to the Haifa Conference.
Cultural Program
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Pluto Press, outlet for anti-Israel academics, scrapped by the University of Michigan
Pluto Press lost its American source of distribution through the prestigious University of Michigan Press due to poor scholasticism and a pattern of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish books said to counter “Zionism” (a.k.a. Jews). StandwithUS, a Jewish and Israel advocacy group, showed U. Michigan that material that was not scholastically accurate was being disseminated by U. Michigan Press as scholastically accurate material and included downright polemical tomes against Israel that were not even subject to peer review before dissemination as with other books. This was damaging the University’s academic prestige.
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Israel Academics Participate in Conference that promotes "ending the Occupation"
The following Israeli academics participated in FFIPP-International Conference that promotes "ending the Occupation":
Menachem Klein, Bar Ilan University - Dept of
Political Studies
Kenneth Mann, Tel Aviv University - Dept of Law
Eyal Wiezman, University of London - Dept of Visual Cultures
It has been almost two years since the last
FFIPP conference in Ramallah.
Since then, the situation in the Occupied Territories has
deteriorated with the
rapidly worsening conditions in Gaza, the continued construction of
the Wall
and the settlements, continued violence— mainly against the
Palestinians- and
the lack of any progress in the ‘negotiations’. The tensions between
Hamas and
Fatah continued as well and the isolation of Hamas contributed to
the general
deterioration. The Annapolis conference has failed to produce any
positive
change in the region and the occupation of Iraq is now threatening
to escalate
into, potentially, a major confrontation with Iran.
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University of Exeter - Ilan Pappe (Dept. of Political Science) plays the Racism card
The resistance to the Palestinian Return means an unconditional support for the concept of the white enclave. Many of those that in their origin were part of the Arab civilization and who tried to “whiten-up”, i.e., to become Ashkenazi, are today the most ardent supporters of this concept despite the fact that what is awaiting most of them, especially those coming from North Africa and Caucasus, not to even mention members of the Druze, Bedouin and Ethiopian communities, is a thick and impenetrable glass ceiling on the way to a good position on the white island.
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Ben Gurion University - Uri Ram (Dept. of Sociology) clashes with the President of University of Haifa
The President of Haifa University declared that a certain teacher who supports the boycott should resign, because one cannot support a boycott of the university and still "enjoy its delights." It's good to know that the President is "enjoying the delights" of the university. Maybe this is why he thinks that the university is his own private property, or the property of those who agree his stance. It is, of course, a "non-political" stance - just a simple acquiescence to the occupation and its horrors, all while enjoying the university's delights.
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Tel Aviv University - Gadi Algazi (Dept. of History) laments at the wrong Wall
True, the fence was built after a wave of attacks on Israeli civilians during the bloody days of the second intifada. It was built by exploiting the black days of violent suppression of the intifada in the territories, the choking of Palestinian civilian protest, of suicide bombers. But Sharon’s project was far-reaching from the start, a project of systematic annexation and cutting the West Bank into fenced reservations for the natives. But most importantly, the fence was built on fear, through deliberate exploitation of real fears, and real suffering.
You can build on fears. Especially barbed-wire fences. You can also make a nice profit from it. The main question is how we, and are children after us, will live behind those fences.
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Tel Aviv University - Ran HaCohen (Dept of Comparative Literature) blames Israel for all Palestinian Problems
The Palestinian territories have no central bank, nor their own currency or monetary sovereignty: they are dependent on the Israeli shekel. Nor do they have declared and internationally recognized borders nor geographic contiguity, a precondition for defining an economic unit. The Palestinian-controlled enclaves are encircled, divided and separated by Israeli roadblocks and by Israeli-controlled areas, like roads closed to Palestinian traffic, Israeli settlements, army facilities etc. Only Israel can decide whether a Palestinian laborer, businessman or entrepreneur may move from one point to another -- within his allegedly independent economic unit. ... If this goes together with a ‘commitment to free economy,’ then Zimbabwe and North Korea can join OECD just as much.
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University of Exeter - Ilan Pappe (Dept. of Political Science) thinks Israel needs to be Destroyed for a Change
"There is no chance for peace in the near future because the conditions for it are very fundamental changes in the reality, which take time. Israel has to be de-Zionised before peace is possible, and peace has to include the return of the Palestinian refugees, otherwise it would be a futile exercise."
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University of East London - Yosefa Loshitzky (Dept. of Film Studies) equates Holocaust survivors to Palestinians
“The identities represented in the films that I discuss are marked by victim hood. ... This coalition points to the centrality of victimology in contemporary Israeli identity politics, which ironically, fails to acknowledge Israel's primary victims—the Palestinians. In fact, the basis of the identities of the Mizrahim and the Holocaust survivors resembles that of the Palestinians—the experience of spatial/geographic and cultural/spiritual displacement.”
Loshitzky could demonstrate through film how the State of Israel was originally to have included Jordan; how the British screwed the Jews giving it to the Arabs; or how Jews were being murdered by Arab terrorists in Palestine long before Israel was founded by the UN in 1948 while the British looked the other way; how the Arabs have today fabricated a fake nakba (catastrophe) and history that, through the same techniques used by Herr Goebbels, they have managed to persuade the rest of the world that such fabrications are history and truth when they are not. Residing in Britain as an educator, Loshitzky could refute the continuance of blood libel against the Jews among the Brits instead of vilifying Israel with Arab propaganda of Palestinians as victims of Israel under an even bigger umbrella of Jewish victims of Israel from the Holocaust! Ask most Israelis if they feel they are victims or were saved from the Arabs by the creation of Israel, something Loshitzky considers a catastrophe and you will get a resounding no!
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University of Exeter - Ilan Pappé calls Zionism worse than Apartheid
Ilan Pappé: There are similarities and dissimilarities. The colonialist history has many chapters in common and some of the features of the Apartheid system can be found in the Israeli policies towards its own Palestinian minority and towards those in the occupied territories. Some aspects of the occupation, however, are worse then the apartheid reality of South Africa and some aspects in the lives of Palestinian citizens in Israel, are not as bad as they were in the hey days of Apartheid. The main point of comparison to my mind is political inspiration. The anti-Apartheid movement, the ANC, the solidarity networks developed throughout the years in the West, should inspire a more focused and effect pro-Palestinian campaign. This is why there is a need to learn the history of the struggle against Apartheid, much more than dwell too long on comparing the Zionist and Apartheid systems.
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University of Exeter - Ilan Pappé's new book serves the basis for a "new blood libel"
The descriptions used by JVP are almost all credited to one source: Ilan Pappe’s book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Pappe, for those unfamiliar with him, is a former Israeli lecturer at the University of Haifa who has since relocated to the University of Exeter in the UK. A doctrinaire Marxist who once ran for Knesset with the Communist-led Hadash party, he opposes the existence of Israel as a Jewish state but nonetheless supports "resistance" by Hamas, a radical Islamist movement that seeks to impose sharia law and at least tolerates, if not incites, violence against Christian "infidels" . Most tellingly, he also frankly admits that he is not really interested in facts: “‘We do [historiography] because of ideological reasons, not because we are truth seekers... ‘there is no such thing as truth, only a collection of narratives’.” This philosophy was exposed when one of Pappe’s graduate students, Teddy Katz, was shown to have falsified evidence about an alleged massacre at Tantura in 1948 by claiming that his interview subjects said one thing while the tapes of the interviews proved otherwise.
For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Distributed the Week at Tel Aviv University:
Danger: Islamofacism in Tel Aviv University
Last week the Arab student committee held elections.
The winner: the EQRAA party, which belongs to the "Islamic Movement in Israel". They got over 50% of the student votes! Many of those voting for the Islamofascists were admitted to Tel Aviv University under affirmative action preferences for Arab students, and some received fellowships paid for by donors to the university!
Two days prior to the elections it was discovered that three Arabs from Lod, who were members of the Islamic Movement, planned to kidnap an IDF soldier, murder him, hide his body, and demand the release of Palestinian terrorists.
The Islamic Movement is active in war against Israel and support for Palestinian terror. It publishes hate propaganda against Jews and celebrates Palestinian suicide bombers. Its leaders have been convicted of financial and logistical support for the Hamas terror organization.
When the Arab students voted EQRAA, they voted for terrorism and against the State of Israel.
A majority of the Arab students who voted are radical, racist, fascists and terror supporters.
They are a clear and present danger!
Tel Aviv University - Carlo Strenger (Dept. of Psychology) debates politics with those who claim Israeli "ethnic cleansing" and condones their actions
Brian, I have been following the debate in the UK and the activities of Independent Jewish Voices (IJV), and I was happy to see a growing group of Jews liberate themselves from the stranglehold of Jewish organisations who, however sincerely, believe that Israel is best served by uncritically defending Israeli actions, whatever their human cost and long-term political consequences.
My goal is to differentiate between two types of criticisms: the first type tries to foster debate, dialogue and has a political goal. I have disagreements with some of the things said by members of IJV, but I mostly feel that I can relate to them, that there is a way to enter dialogue (as with your advertisement marking Israel's 60th anniversary, published in the Jewish Chronicle).
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Let me begin with a basic belief of mine: any criticism of Israel that does not actually incite racism and antisemitism is legitimate. Many supporters of Israel automatically play the card of antisemitism to muzzle criticism. This is intellectually and morally wrong and it is dangerous. It empties the charge of antisemitism of serious content, and creates deep animosity not only towards Israel, but also towards Jews in general.
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Hebrew University - Ofer Neiman (Dept. of Computer Science) actively enlists International pressure against Israel
Neiman said his group (Yesh Gvul) still pursues its original goal of supporting military resisters, but has expanded its efforts to enlist support from people around the world to put pressure on Israel to end its occupation of Palestinian lands.
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University of Haifa - Professor Avraham Oz (Dept. of General Studies) - The Lizard of Oz - encourages fellow academics to hate Israel
.."[We want to] express our appreciation and support for those of our students and lecturers who refuse to serve as soldiers in the occupied territories. Such service too often involves carrying out orders that have no place in a democratic society founded on the sanctity of human life." Oz, who probably never served in the Territories, once wrote, "The average Israeli kids go to the army and turn [into] sadistic animals!" (but they sure don't pass out candy or dance in the street when Arab terrorists are killed, or parade with machineguns). Oz is also quoted as saying "The repressive policies of my country against the Palestinian population is appalling, racist, sometimes horrifying in its cruelty, and often having crossed the boundaries of war crimes...."
Ah, yes, Israel is guilty of war crimes, another trope of the PA propaganda ministries where maybe the Wizard Named Oz really wants to practice his literary skills. And, of course, Israel is responsible for Arab terrorism against itself: "A gigantic army tramples over a small nation. Soldiers performing mass arrests, scaring little children, humiliating their parents, fostering a new generation of suicide bombers, and ensuring the continuation of the conflict for posterity." (note: the italicized terms are all used in PA propaganda despite no compelling evidence there is any truth to it other than constant repetition in the Media. There also is no Palestinian “nation” yet, due to Arab terrorism and Israel is the size of a postage stamp compared to the Arab world.)
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Ben Gurion University - Neve Gordon, (Dept. of Political Science) writes in the anti-Semitic web magazine "Counterpunch" that Israel is practicing the "politics of death"
'If in 1968 Israel helped Palestinians in the Gaza Strip plant some 618,000 trees and provided farmers with improved varieties of seeds for vegetables and field crops, during the first three years of the second Intifada Israel destroyed more than ten percent of Gaza's agricultural land and uprooted over 226,000 trees.
The appearance and proliferation of the flag on the one hand, and the razing of trees on the other, signify a fundamental transformation in Israel's attempts to control the occupied Palestinian inhabitants. It appears as if Israel decided to alter its methods of upholding the occupation, replacing a politics of life, which aimed to secure the existence and livelihood of the Palestinian inhabitants, with a politics of death.'
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University of East London - Dialogue of the Deaf with Haim Bereshit (Dept. of Cultural Studies)
Seth Frantzman conducted an email dialog with Haim Bereshit, excerpts from which are displayed below:
You have a problem, don’t you? Palestinians are NOT indigenous to Israel, but to Palestine, which seems to be a place you are unaware of. There is nothing you can do to remove this fact from reality. Maybe you should think seriously what you are doing there, as long as your attitude is what the message reflects.
Haim
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So, you - an American Jew, is indigenous to palestine, which you typically tell me is Israel, the occupying power... So is someone from Russia, even if they are not Jewish. The only people who have no right to live in Palestine, are of course the Palestinians. This is so simple, just and self-evident that it is breath-takingly obvious.
Haim
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Take me to court for not answering your questions...
Haim
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Why is this such a hard discussion to have? Is it, perhaps, because you cannot answer the question. I don't have to answer the question because I reject the very notion of people being 'indigenous'.
Seth Frantzman
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University of Haifa - Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi (Dept. of Psychology) claims that Israel supported oppressive regimes to divert attention away from "colonialism of Arab lands"
Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi is Professor of Psychology at the University of Haifa and has written a series of books and articles painting Israel as an evil imperialist militarist society. Compared to most other anti-Israel Israeli academics, Beit-Hallahmi has produced academic papers in his field and has published research and books beyond works sponsored or paid for by the PLO or European Union. His specialty is in the study of cults.
Hallahmi's book, "The Israeli Connection: Who Israel Arms and Why,” is in fact a conspiracy theory in which Israel allegedly sold arms to Central America and South Africa, as well as to the Shah's Iran wherein Beit-Hallahmi suggests Israel, as an oppressive colonialist enterprise, sought to maintain colonization in those other parts of the world as a way to protect its own colonialism of Arab lands.
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Israeli Academics threaten the future of the Israeli State
A list of Anti-Israel statements and actions are laid out in the following article.
Among those mentioned are Haifa University politics professor Ilan Pappe, who is quoted saying:
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“I want people to boycott Israeli institutes.”
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“I think the de-Zionisation of Israel is a pre-condition for peace; I have no doubt about that.”
and Ben-Gurion University politics lecturer Neve Gordon who went to Ramallah in February 2002 and clasped hands with Yasser Arafat.
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Hebrew University - Did Baruch Kimmerling illustrate the stupidity of the intelligentsia or was he just plain evil and self-serving?
There is a particular cultural malady amongst many Israeli “sociologists” and “political scientists” that allows them to postulate in a vacuum free of the reality on the ground for the average Israeli. Being a PhD and college professor, particularly with tenure, spending time abroad in the safety of the US or Canada and being a discussant in a university setting with Arab intellectuals and professors who will patiently sit and sophistically discuss the need to end the Jewish state as a means to some egalitarian utopian society (that in reality will never exist in peace and calm in the midst of a Muslim-Arab umma) must be a great life. Meanwhile, the average Israeli has to worry about his children getting blown up as he works and earns about $18,000 a year and does his six weeks of reserve duty to protect the Jewish people from an Arab culture that has reintroduced child sacrifice, that perpetuates misogyny, honor killings, homophobia and promotes, above all, the murder of Jews as not only a noble pursuit, but even a Godly one. The late Professor Baruch Kimmerling referred to this Arab culture in euphemistic terms as simply “Palestinian nationalism” deserving of the world’s respect. Goebbels’ Big Lie showed how repetition gives validity to a lie; Israeli intellectuals like Kimmerling did more than the Big Lie ever could to demonize the Jewish right to self-determination by legitimizing the myth of a Palestinian nationalism that was fabricated from whole cloth by the Arab League. Kimmerling may now be dead, but his ideas and statements are still alive to be used by the Arabs.
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Tel Aviv University. - Daniel Bar-Tal (Dept. of Political Psychology) conveniently omits Israel’s Academic Fifth-Column in his list of dangers confronting Israel at Sixty
Through the years many thousands of Palestinians, including civilians and children who were not engaged in any violent activity against Israel, were killed or injured by the Israeli forces. More than 600,000 of the Palestinians were arrested through the years of occupation, many thousands spent years in prisons and as detainees, many were tortured, some were expelled and their houses demolished. Many aspects of Palestinian collective and individual lives are controlled by the Israelis and through the years this has had an immense negative effect on the development of their economic, societal and political infrastructure.
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Hebrew University - Alice Shalvi (Dept. of English) tries to "deceive" American Donors
Just this week, the New Israel Fund (NIF) sent out an email solicitation for donors with a personal plea and letter from Professor Alice Shalvi of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Shalvi, who is a Professor of English and an expert on Shakespeare, was recently awarded the Israel Prize. Some have suggested she won the national honor because of leftist political pressure to give it to a woman who is a feminist activist. Regardless of why she won the Prize, apparently the New Israel Fund thought she was an effective (and deceptive) enough personality to use for an email solicitation for donations from wealthy American Jews who don’t know all that much about the New Israel Fund, or Alice Shalvi for that matter.
The New Israel Fund tries to pass itself off as an organization that seeks to make Israel a better place to live and a prosperous society. Currently managed by a former US State Department hack named Larry Garber, who handled USAID funds for anti-Israel organizations and NGO’s and even paid with USAID funds for a Palestinian constitution based on Sharia Law like those of Saudi Arabia and Iran, the NIF can never find enough organizations to aid that seek to give aid and comfort to Israel’s enemies. For example, the NIF has funded one subsidiary that paid activists to hand out flyers at train stations in Israel encouraging IDF soldiers to desert the IDF and offering to pay them salaries while they sit in jail (most IDF soldiers do not receive pay while serving their required national service). The NIF is in fact a fundraising arm for every “Jewish” group that works in nearly full cooperation with Arab entities out to destroy the Jewish state, all the while using the trite “social justice” mantra of “fighting oppression” used by communist-inspired and frequently Arab-led groups worldwide like the International Solidarity Movement.
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Queen’s University, Canada - Israeli/Canadian Film Professor Dorit Naaman encourages "the murder of fellow Israelis
The dictionary definition of pornography is “obscene writings, drawings, photographs, or the like, especially those having little or no artistic merit.” While the popular connotation of the term used in media refers to displaying lewd sex acts, Israeli-Canadian filmmaker Dorit Naaman from Queen’s University in Canada doesn’t have to have sex scenes in her films to make them pornographic; as she accomplishes her own manner of lewdness by her encouragement of the murder of fellow Israelis by elevating female Arab terrorists to a level of being just some women seeking equal rights from men, rather than their being female primitives imitating their male counterparts who engage in terrorism and the murder of Jews.
Naaman likes to contrast these Palestinian women with Israeli women who defend the Jewish people in the IDF by using a form of equivalency that is truly pornographic if one only takes time to smell the coffee, or look at this woman’s work.
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Good Morning, Elijah: Amos Oz Does The Peace Tour
Oz is at his silliest when he tries to distinguish between stark unequivocal moral choices and complex ambiguous ones. “You Europeans have a tendency to frame everything in simplistic good vs. bad terms,” he says. “This is OK for some conflicts, like that between fascism and anti-fascism, or that between colonialism and anti-colonialism, or that between the U.S. and Vietnamese, but the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is not that.”
Of course, the allegedly simple moral conflicts offered by Oz tell us more about him than about the conflict. Anti-fascists have at times been worse than fascists; anti-colonialists generally were far more savage and brutal than European colonialists; and Oz’s insistence that the U.S. was the unambiguous evil power in Vietnam is little more than the attempt of an Israeli leftist to pander to fashionable anti-Americanism, to ingratiate himself with those who imagine Europe is the moral superior of the U.S. – something Oz tries to do repeatedly throughout the evening.
The other problem with Oz’s silly characterization of moral clarity vs. ambiguity is that the Arab-Israeli conflict is actually as morally unambiguous as was World War II. Yes, Allied troops sometimes conducted acts of injustice and, yes, German and Japanese civilians were often killed as the war was fought out, but that changes nothing about the moral unambiguousness of that conflict.
The Arab-Israeli conflict exists because the Arab world, controlling 22 states and territory nearly twice that of the United States (including Alaska), is unwilling to allow the Jews to enjoy any self-determination or control over even a tiny piece of territory. Ultimately, the tremendous damage that Oz and his kind have done has been in muddying what should be a clear moral understanding of the Middle East war, all in the name of the sanctity of moral symmetry, and this muddying has undercut Israeli willingness to resist and fight.
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Tel Aviv University - Aviad Kleinberg (Dept of History) wants Israel to stop liking America
Yet what caused my sense of discomfort (not to mention slight nausea) was the absence of any limits, or what I would call lack of self respect. The flattery showered on Bush was embarrassing and exceedingly exaggerated – bowing down to the ground where a handshake would do.
Bush was repeatedly presented as a leader who has no equal, a cosmic savior almost. He is our father, our king, and the US is our beloved and loving mother. We love and adore our beloved mother and father. Our gratitude knows no boundaries.
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Haifa University - Partial Holocaust Denial on University of Haifa Chat List
The ALEF list is a list for outright anti-Semites, cheerleaders for terrorism, and Neo-Nazis, operating through the University of Haifa computer and under its auspices as a university chat list. The 'dialogue' concerning the Holocaust began when one Shraga Elam, an ex-Israel best known for his lavish praise for David Irving, claimed that 'at most' 5.1 million Jews were murdered by the Nazis during World War II. This was supposed to be based on an estimate of the world Jewish population posted on a Hebrew University web site by HU's demographer Prof. Sergio DellaPergola here.
There it says that there were 11 million Jews world wide (elsewhere it says 11.4) after World War II and 16.5 before the war in the entire world.
Elam and his ilk then claim that 'at most' 5.1 million Jews were murdered, and the 'Six Million' number is Zionist propaganda. Elam was then joined on the ALEF list by Stalinist British anti-Semite Tony Greenstein and others (including a professor of psychology from Haifa University), who agreed.
This is all familiar stuff taken from Neo-Nazi and Holocaust Denial web sites, who make similar 'statistical arguments.'
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Tel Aviv University - Ran HaCohen (Dept of Comparative Literature) belittles Israel on Independence Day
Christians – the ancient self-designated heirs to the Jews – commemorate Christ's tormented way to resurrection and redemption in the weeks leading to Easter. Zionists – the modern self-designated heirs to the Jews – have their Lent after Passover, commemorating what they construct as their via dolorosa leading to the "Jewish State." In the weeks following Pesach the country indulges in a nationalistic orgy, hardly imaginable in any other modern state, reminiscent of a primitive tribe. If you want to understand how a whole nation is led to defy its own interests, to follow a corrupt, de facto military leadership wasting the nation's fortune and blood on unnecessary wars and immoral occupation for decades, pay a visit to Israel shortly after Pesach.
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Hebrew University - Moshe Behar (Dept of Politics) ignores the facts
Behar drafted a letter to every Jew in the world that wants to see Israel ended as a Jewish nation in which he calls for "a clear call of a halt to all American and other aid to Israel" and implementation of UN Resolution 242 that he says "emphasized the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by force" and "affirmed the principle of withdrawal of Israeli forces from territories occupied in the recent [1967] conflict."
Middle East historian Bat Y'eor in her book, Eurabia, has described how the Arabs continually misquote the intention of Resolution 242 insisting it says Israel must withdraw from all the territories and give it to the Arabs. But Eugene Rostow, who wrote the Resolution for the UN, says it says Israel must withdraw from part of the territory in return for secure borders. Those two issues never come into play for an Arab League that insists international law be followed only when they agree with it. There were 23 Jewish settlements in Gaza and Judea and Samaria (The West Bank) prior to 1948 that Arab armies destroyed that Israel took back in 1967. Israel already gave back Gaza by deporting its own people and giving up 70% of its agricultural export business and we all know the outcome of that: over 4,000 rockets fired on Sderot and environs immediately. Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) has a legitimate right to hold onto parts of the land regained by what could be called an attempted Arab pogrom to run the Jews into the sea in 1948. Since Behar teaches in Sderot, he of all people should logically see the folly of acceding to the Arab demands in Judea and Samaria. But logic plays no role in the careers and vocalizations of "intellectuals" like Behar who work diligently on behalf of the Arabs and enjoy fellowship sponsorship at Hebrew University, courtesy of the Israeli taxpayer.
Behar also says the world should condemn and boycott Israel over implementation of UN Resolution 338 that calls for a unilateral ceasefire, but the it is the Arab world that maintains a constant state of war since Khartoum in 1967 where the Arab League announced the three no's: no negotiation, no peace, no Israel. Saudi Arabia, allowed to dictate a "peace plan" called the Road Map, is still in a declared state of war with Israel since 1948.
Apparently, none of these facts bother Behar, especially since they do not fit the Palestinian Arab narrative. He found his academic niche as a mouthpiece for the Arabs and even now Israel will give him a sounding board at Hebrew University.
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Tel Aviv University - Shlomo Sand (Dept of History) denies 3000 years of Jewish History and dismisses the Diaspora as an "invention"
In this work, the author attempts to prove that the Jews now living in Israel and other places in the world are not at all descendants of the ancient people who inhabited the Kingdom of Judea during the First and Second Temple period. Their origins, according to him, are in varied peoples that converted to Judaism during the course of history, in different corners of the Mediterranean Basin and the adjacent regions. Not only are the North African Jews for the most part descendants of pagans who converted to Judaism, but so are the Jews of Yemen (remnants of the Himyar Kingdom in the Arab Peninsula, who converted to Judaism in the fourth century) and the Ashkenazi Jews of Eastern Europe (refugees from the Kingdom of the Khazars, who converted in the eighth century).
Unlike other "new historians" who have tried to undermine the assumptions of Zionist historiography, Sand does not content himself with going back to 1948 or to the beginnings of Zionism, but rather goes back thousands of years. He tries to prove that the Jewish people never existed as a "nation-race" with a common origin, but rather is a colorful mix of groups that at various stages in history adopted the Jewish religion. He argues that for a number of Zionist ideologues, the mythical perception of the Jews as an ancient people led to truly racist thinking: "There were times when if anyone argued that the Jews belong to a people that has gentile origins, he would be classified as an anti-Semite on the spot. Today, if anyone dares to suggest that those who are considered Jews in the world ... have never constituted and still do not constitute a people or a nation - he is immediately condemned as a hater of Israel."
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Open University - Yossi Dahan (Dept. of Philosophy) Uses the Term "Social Justice" Selectively
Thus for Yossi Dahan, “social justice” apparently means anything that Israel does is socially unjust, at least in terms of dealing with surrounding violent Arab entities that have an undying mantra to kill Jews, and ultimately to destroy Israel. He helps Arabs claim Israeli land that may not belong to them; he also defends the “proletariat” (communists in Israel want the state replaced with a new dictatorship of the proletariat and for good measure, the Arabs dominating) that includes foreign workers inside Israel illegally.
Nearly 30% of Israel’s children and elderly are forced to eat in soup kitchens because of poverty. 13,000 Israeli children have been added to the ranks of those who must eat in soup kitchens. But in my research about Yossi Dahan, I could not find an equal dedication to “social justice” for these people. He seeks to help Arabs who want to take what little land Israel has while 22 surrounding Arab countries call for her destruction with a land ratio of 650 to 1. Where’s the social justice in that for Jews?
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Israeli State Radio Outs the Academic Fifth Column
Until now, Israel's state-owned media have generally never done any investigative reporting on Israel's Far left and Academic Fifth Column. The TV and radio stations are owned by the Israel Broadcasting Authority, and the IBA has always been a poorly-disguised promoter and guardian of the Left. Its heads have never hidden the fact that they think their mission in life is to advance the Left's agenda.
That is why the decision to run a series of radio shows viciously attacking the academic far Left and the "Post-Zionists" is so significant, and why it has the far leftists in Israel soiling themselves in anguish.
Recently the first of what is promised to be a series of two-hour radio shows on the subject was aired on Reshet Bet, one of the large state-run radio channels in Israel. It can be heard via the internet in Hebrew at this URL:, where you need to click the program entitled "The Anti-Zionist Congress." (or listen directly here or download the program as a file here) These shows are part of the wider state-media coverage of Israel's 60th independence anniversary celebrations.
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Tel Aviv University - Carlo Strenger (Dept. of Psychology) Takes on the Passover Haggada
This past week, Strenger outdid his anti-Israel leftist friends and took on not only Zionism but the Passover Haggada! You can see it, in http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/spages/976908.html in Hebrew (not available in English). There Strenger explains how the Haggada is a backward archaic anti-democratic document. And in fact that is the whole problem with Israel that it attempts to incorporate in its essence those primitive sentiments from the Bible and Haggada.
Now what really bothers Strenger of course is that if people read the Haggada or the Bible they may get the foolish idea that Jews have the right to their own state and to Jerusalem, something Strenger no doubt wants us all to "question." Israel has squashed the "traditional Jewish tradition of critical thinking and irony," opines Strenger, meaning . I guess . that too many Israelis laugh at his own "ideas." He names Woody Allen and Steven Spielberg (and Spinoza, who is fashionable among the atheist clique) as non-religious Jews whom we in Israel should all take as our role models. He claims Maimonides himself abandoned Judaism for a while, although (to Strenger's disappointment?) returned to it. He denounces the Zionist movement and Ben Gurion for filling the minds of Israelis with such mythology and archaic nonsense, which then directly led to a group of simply awful people building settlements in Palestinian lands after 1967. He adds that the story of Masada is a fabrication and that the great archeologist Yigal Yadin knew it was fake but kept it hidden in a grand conspiracy because he was afraid of what revealing the fabrication would do to Israeli morale. All of which proves that Strenger's mind is about as deep as that of Barry Chamish and just as capable of inventing conspiracist nonsense.
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Ben Gurion University - Isaac (Yanni) Nevo (Dept of Philosophy) - Calls kettle black by mocking mock trial on BGU's "Academia List"
And if they shrug the image of a mock-trial, in which they are prosecutors, judges, and executioners, let me rephrase my own point without the image: Criticism is only effective, if it directs itself to the arguments of the opponent, and takes upon itself to present these arguments in their strongest light. Otherwise, it quickly debilitates into a shouting match, or as in this case of one-sidedness, a shouting campaign of name-calling and vilification. BGU-Watch and its parent organizations seem to specialize in this unenlightening genre: they vilify their opponents, they call them names, they attempt to suppress them, but they don't do one simple thing. They don't listen to their arguments, and they don't give counter-arguments.
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Ben Gurion University - Plaut Vs. Israeli Justice
I read with fascination Steven Plaut’s account of his battle for minimal freedom of speech in Israel (“How I Beat Israel’s Dual Justice System,” op-ed, April 11).
Israeli universities are indeed swarming with malignant anti-Israel radical extremists. Ben-Gurion University, named after David Ben-Gurion, is arguably the worst institution in Israel in terms of hiring and promoting anti-Israel extremists. From the start, university officials and spokespeople backed Gordon in his assault on freedom of speech in Israel and misuse of the courts, repeatedly describing him in terms such as “serious and distinguished human rights scholar,” which most of us would find a repugnant claim.
While BGU does contain some serious academic departments and scholars, notably in the natural sciences, when it comes to the “soft” disciplines of the social sciences and the humanities the school deserves its nickname of “Bir Zeit of the Negev.”
Donors and supporters in the United States should draw conclusions from the role BGU played in endorsing and justifying Gordon’s anti-democratic behavior.
Harvey Schwartz
Passaic, NJ
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Ben Gurion University - Uri Ram - McShande: One of Worst Israeli Anti-Zionists to be Honored
Uri Ram is a sociologist at the Bir Zeit of the Negev, er, I mean, Ben Gurion University. You know, the Negev's "academic" bastion of anti-Zionism.
Now the Association of Israel Studies has decided to give him an award, I guess for his efforts to see Israel destroyed and replaced by a "de-zionized" Palestinian state. The leftist Zionist David Hirsh fiercely told off Ram recently in Yediot Ahronot in a piece worth reading in full:
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Hebrew University - Zeev Sternhell (Dept. of Politics), Israel Prize 2008 nominee, legitimized Arab terrorism
In his article, “Against the Moonstruck Government” (Haaretz, May 11, 2001) Sternhell legitimized Arab terrorism in Judea and Samaria:
"Many Israelis, possibly the majority of the voters, do not doubt the legitimacy of the armed resistance in the territories proper. Had the Palestinians the least bit of sense, they would have concentrated their struggle against the settlements and would not hurt women and children, fire rockets on Gilo, Nachal Oz, and Sderot, or plant explosives on the western side of the Green Line. In this manner, the Palestinians would themselves draft the solution that will be reached in any case."
Several years earlier, in Davar, Sternhell said that “only those willing to storm Ofra with tanks, will be able to stop the fascist wave threatening to drown the Israeli democracy.”
"The Israel Prize turns its recipients into objects of national pride and consensus. The prize is awarded in the name of all the Israeli citizens, including those, whom professor Sternhell views as legitimate targets for terrorism," the Forum stated.
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Tel Aviv University - Yigal Bronner (Dept of East Asian Studies) and Ben Gurion University - Neve Gordon (Dept. of Political Science) refute Jewish claim to the City of David
"Archaeology has become a weapon of dispossession," Yonathan Mizrachi, an Israeli archaeologist, said in a recent telephone interview with us. He was referring to the way archaeology is being used in Silwan, a Palestinian neighborhood in the oldest part of Jerusalem, where, we believe, archaeological digs are being carried out as part of a concerted campaign to expel Palestinians from their ancestral home.
According to the Old Testament, King David established Jerusalem as his capital, but the Jews were later conquered and expelled. Israel occupied East Jerusalem during the Six-Day War four decades ago, and ever since Israeli archaeologists have been trying (unsuccessfully) to produce proof of David's presence in that area. Occasionally they have even refrained from documenting the long Muslim presence, which is the cultural heritage of the Palestinian inhabitants. And, at any rate, the fact that not a single Muslim structure has been preserved in the entire national park that has been set up in Silwan is a clear indication of this erasure strategy. By concentrating almost entirely on unearthing the remains of the Judean kingdom, while ignoring the subsequent 3,000 years, archaeologists have violated several ethical rules as stipulated by the World Archaeological Congress. Those include the acknowledgment of the "indigenous cultural heritage, including sites, places, objects, artifacts, human remains" as well as establishing "equitable partnerships and relationships" between archaeologists and indigenous peoples whose cultural heritage is being investigated.
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Hebrew University - Zeev Sternhell (Dept. of Politics), Israel Prize 2008 nominee, justified the killing of settlers
The Supreme Court will deliberate Monday a petition calling for the revocation of the decision to bestow the Israel Prize on Professor Ze'ev Sternhell. Members of the Legal Forum for the Land of Israel, which submitted the request, claimed that Sternhell had publicly legitimized Palestinian terrorism in an article he once published and suggested that the terrorists target settlers.
In February, Education minister Yuli Tamir rejected a request by the Legal Forum for the Land of Israel to cancel the decision to award Sternhell the prize. The request had stated that "There is no case more appropriate than Professor Sternhell's, which justifies the killing of civilians in terror attacks, provided that they are settlers."
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Ben Gurion University - Neve Gordon (Dept. of Political Science) fails in court
"Neve Gordon is a venomously anti-Israel lecturer in political science at Ben-Gurion University (BGU). Gordon was hired and promoted by BGU largely on the basis of the prodigious amounts of anti-Israel political propaganda he churns out and misrepresents as scholarship. He regularly denounces Israel as a fascist, racist, terrorist, apartheid state, and he openly calls for Israel.s elimination (in what Israeli leftist extremists these days call the 'one state solution,' but what should more accurately be called the Rwanda solution)."
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Columbia Univeristy – Professor Yinon Cohen, “the court Jew”, chosen to be Director of the Institute for Jewish and Israel Studies in “Bir-Zeit-on-the-Hudson”
Professor Yinon Cohen is what some fellow academics have termed a “court Jew,” or at least a Jew that fits historian Bat Y’eor’s description of a dhimmi Jew under Arab and Muslim rule.
Cohen’s main field of study and teaching, where he began his academic career, was as a demographer at Tel Aviv U in the sociology department. Cohen has participated in a number of scholarly works in which he portrays negatively the treatment of Palestinian Arabs as victims of Zionism, the Jews emigrating to a Jewish homeland in Israel. Such works speak of “ethnocentrism” as somehow being at the root of Zionism.
Thus, how appropriate that Professor Cohen should have participated in one study comparing Israeli immigration trends with those of Germany. After all, the Arabs, who were ardent Nazi allies during the Second World War, today just love to make comparisons between Israelis as being like the Nazis, when Israel is, in fact, a giant refugee camp for the world’s Jews resulting from German Nazi persecution and the Nazi German regime that sought to wipe out the Jewish people.
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Interdisciplinary Center (Herzliya) - Bernard Avishai (Dept. of Business and Government) denounces Israel once again
'In his ire at Israel's religious Jews, Avishai makes all manner of unsubstantiated claims about them. Their commitment to democracy is, he asserts, opportunistic; they engage in voter fraud, shirk taxes, justify male brutality against women, admire 'obscure' rabbis, engage in 'bizarre' rituals, are raised on hatred of the goy. Their eyes 'burn through you.' Several times he entertains the notion that Judaism is a racist and even a blood religion.'
Bernard Avishai is Dean of the Raphael Recanati International School and a professor of business and government at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel
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