University of Haifa
University of Haifa - David Blanc (Dept of Math) uses
University facilities for Personal Reasons and to Promote Draft
Dodging
Blanc utilizes Haifa U computer
infrastructure to garner support for his son's
treason and lawbreaking. Where is Blanc's 'Equal Burden'?
From:
David Blanc [mailto:BLANC@MATH.HAIFA.AC.IL]
Subject: Demonstration in support of Natan Blanc at the Qirya
in Tel-Aviv on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 18:00
A demonstration in support of Natan Blanc, who has been sentenced
to a tenth term of 28 days in prison for refusing to serve in the
Israeli Army, will take place this coming Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at
18:00 opposite the Ministry of Defence on Kaplan Street in Tel-Aviv.
Please be there at 6 PM sharp.
For more details and to see the full original
article,
go here
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."
…
"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."
For more details and to see the full original
article,
go here
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).
…
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.
For more details
and to see the full original article,
go here
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.
…
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
For more details
and to see the full original article,
go here
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.
…
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.
…
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."
For more details
and to see the full original article,
go here
University of Haifa - Tony Greenstein -
ALEF Ultra-blogger - Background Check into Sadam Hussein Connection
While an
activist in the student movement, Greenstein became prominent [2] in
an organisation known as the British Anti-Zionist Organisation –
Palestine Solidarity (BAZO). BAZO had been formed in 1975 [3] and in
its early years it was simply known as BAZO or the British
Anti-Zionist Organisation.[4] The appendage "Palestine Solidarity"
was added much later.[5] The organisation became more well known in
Britain in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
BAZO was
particularly active in the UK student movement, and it was denounced
by many left wing organisations as antisemitic.[6] One of the of
left wing organisations that condemned BAZO for antisemitism was, as
Greenstein admitted himself,[7] the Trotskyist Workers'
Revolutionary Party. Given the antics of this party, which was later
exposed as to include spying on prominent British Jews for Libya,[8]
it says something that
they accused BAZO of antisemitism. Greenstein was one of
BAZO's top people having been on its Secretariat[9] and he
distributed BAZO material at National Union of Students (NUS)
conferences.[10]
…
What is of
particular interest about BAZO is the funding from and control by
Iraqi Ba'ath party that Greenstein admits. The Iraqi Ba'ath party
were, in Greenstein's own choice of word, the "piper" calling the
BAZO tune.[20]
…
Aaronovitch
declared: "the slander campaign against me was almost certainly the
work of Iraqi officials interested in the question of [NUS's]
de-recognition of NUIS."[27] The
Guardian
also implied that it was supporters of the Iraqi regime behind the
forged letter.[28] The distributors of the libel were BAZO.
Greenstein admits BAZO were controlled by Ba'ath funders. He has
stated that when he had enough proof to be aware of this, he
resigned.[29] This subsequent resignation does not alter the fact
that – by being a leading light in BAZO and a distributor of their
material – Tony Greenstein was carrying out activities that Saddam
Hussein's men would have approved.
It is time
for Greenstein to come clean: to set the record straight and provide
a full and detailed explanation about his involvement in BAZO, and
the organisation's funding and control by the Iraqi Ba'ath party.
For more details
and to see the full original article,
go here
University of Haifa & Beit Berl College - Dalit
Baum Becomes a Target for the New Anti-Boycott Law
In about one month the
International Solidarity Movement will hold a national
conference in St. Louis, Missouri, at a Jesuit college no less,
where they will train college radicals from all over the US on how
to bring down the Jewish national homeland.
…
Dalit Baum, an Israeli math professor from Who Profits?, a
division of
CWOP, is the main featured guest. Ms. Baum has found her fortune
touring the world to de-legitimize Israel and boasts she has cost
the Israeli economy over 1.5 billion dollars in business. She also
urges boycotts of any companies that aid Israel's defense industry
(might stop those suicide bombers).
Ms. Baum has jobs at Haifa U. and Beit Berl, paid for by the
Israeli taxpayer, but she's double dipping and being paid by the
Hamas supporters at Code Pink and Global Exchange to tour America.
This is to be the second Jesuit college at which she lectures,
giggling to her audience at the last one about how much fun it is to
promote boycotting, divesting from and sanctioning Israel.
In San Francisco,
Dalit Baum lectured last year to the Students for Justice in
Palestine on how to boycott Israel and made it a point to show
photos of an industrial park in Modi'in, that she called a
"settlement", where Israelis
worked telephone banks as customer service agents for
the world. Most of Modi'in is inside the Green Line. But then again,
she also called for the expulsions of all the Jews in East Jerusalem
and boycotts of all the businesses in other areas of Israel, while
claiming she only wanted the Judea and Samaria businesses boycotted.
…
Arutz Sheva ran an
article only days ago about how the
businessmen in Modi'in were up in arms because the EU declared
their city a "settlement" and decided to boycott it. That
interpretation by the EU can be credited to Dalit Baum's activities.
Baum has even taken credit for similar boycotts by the EU.
…
Are there any Jewish lawyers out there who are willing to represent
the businessmen of Modi'in who are damaged by the actions of Dalit
Baum and Huwaida Arraf?
For more details
and to see the full original article,
go here
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.
For more details
and to see the full original article,
go here
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.
…
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."
…
"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:
For more details
and to see the full original article,
go here
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."
For more details
and to see the full original article,
go here
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.
…
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.
…
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.
For more details
and to see the full original article,
go here
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.
…
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."
For more details
and to see the full original article,
go here
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
For more
omissions and to
see the full original article,
go here
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
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]
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.
…
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.
…
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.
…
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.
For more
omissions and to
see the full original article,
go here
What passes for academic publication at the University
of Haifa:
University of Haifa - Yuval Yonay (Dept of Sociology), anti-Israel
Marxist sociologist and expert on "Queer Studies," publishes
"academic" article claiming Israel silences its Arab athletes
Israeli media discourse is by and large
intolerant towards views that challenge its nationalistic
fundamentals. The same discursive rules are evident in the way both
the sport media and fans respond to opinions expressed by Arab
soccer players. While the talkbackers’ responses tend to be more
aggressive and vicious than those of journalists and commentators,
the spirit of the two groups studied is similar: both rebuff
Palestinian players’ political statements and refuse to sympathize
or engage with them in a serious dialogue.
When the Palestinian players dare to make
critical statements, a very common response is to draw a strict
dividing line between ‘clean’ sports and ‘dirty’ politics, claiming
that the former must remain clearly separated from the latter. ...
The public discourse puts them back ‘in their place’ and reminds
them that they are neither qualified nor have the moral authority to
represent the Arab public.
... Summarizing our findings, it is evident
that the Arab-Palestinian soccer players who excel on the turf are
prevented from serving as a channel to convey the voice of
Palestinian citizens in Israel. When they try to fulfil such a role,
they are vehemently silenced and sent back to the turf.
Paradoxically, the attempts of Arab-Palestinian politicians to carry
the same voice are also futile.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
University of Haifa - Micah Leshem (Dept of
Psychology), writing in the Segel-Plus chat list on October 6, 2011,
defends the vandalizing of Joseph's Tomb in Nablus by Palestinians
and the painting of swastikas on the shrine as "resistance":
From: Micah Leshem <micahl@psy.haifa.ac.il>
To: SEGEL-PLUS@list.haifa.ac.il
Sent: October 6, 2011
"No. It was intended as resistance to the
occupation, which imposed 'Jewish Holiness' on the Palestinian
Sheik's tomb by force of arms and by Settlers, and at the cost of
many Palestinian lives.
"It was not a Jewish holy place before the
occupation. In that it differs from, eg the Wailing Wall, etc.
"Hence it is not in the province of the
Jewish-Arab Center, and should not be so.
"It is an intentional provocation adding insult
to injury to suggest that it is in any way comparable to what
happened in Tuba– which was an act of hate, racism, and terror
inflicted on innocent people in their place of worship.
"The distinction is clear.
"Micah"
University of Haifa -
Gavriel Solomon (Dept of Education) says Israel's Citizenship law is
like the Nazi Nuremberg Laws.
Israeli educational psychologist Prof. Gavriel
Solomon said that "the idea of Judenrein (Jew free zone), or
Arab-rein is not new... Some might say 'how can you compare us to
Nazis'. I am not talking about the death camps, but about the year
1935. There were no camps yet but there were racist laws. And we are
heading forward towards these kinds of laws. The government is
clearly declaring our incapacity for democracy."
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
University of Haifa - Law
School denounced by Prof. Shlomo Avineri for Banning Hatikva;
Compares them to Neturei Karta Fanatics
I am not aware
of Jews or Muslims who have asked any British public body whatsoever
not to play the anthem as it "hurts their feelings."
...
It is a shame
that there are individuals at the University of Haifa who are
leading themselves down a path that is reminiscent of that of
Neturei Karta. Democracy demands a fine balance between the majority
and the rights of the minority, and Israel has failed to find this
proper balance in many aspects of life. But one must remember that
rights are not only for the minority, but for the majority, too -
and certainly when it comes to the level of symbolism.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
University of Haifa - Micah Leshem
(Dept of Psychology) shares his thoughts about getting rid of "Hatikva"
To: Segel-Plus Chat List, University of Haifa
From: Micah Leshem <micah.leshem@psy.haifa.ac.il>
Adding the Crescent to the flag is a
possibility. The UK put a number of flags together to make the
British flag. And the UK includes Angles, Scots, Celts, Welsh,
Irish, Jews and more, under the common name of British. You will be
corrected if you call a Jew living in England an "English Jew". They
consider themselves British Jews. So adding 'Palestine' to 'Israel'
is another possibility, or as a long-standing Jewish organization is
suggesting - Canaan. Of course there can be many other solutions
once we are able to discuss this.
The only reason David had to suggest it beating
about the bush is because in our current discourse certain ideas or
views invite a violent reaction. Personal safety of the discussants
is threatened, as happened, eg, with our colleague Ilan Pappe and
his family.
There is no earthly reason why a
country with a large Jewish community needs hegemony, secured by
discrimination, repression and brute force, and flaunting the
symbols now associated therewith.
Micah
Micah Leshem added the
following proposal on June 28
From: Micah Leshem <micah.leshem@psy.haifa.ac.il>
To:
segel-plus@list.haifa.ac.il
An equitable solution would be to have
Hatikva and Bilady Bilady (PLO anthem) sung at graduation
ceremonies.
Micah
Names of Academic Crusaders against
Hatikva at Haifa U
“We support the freedom of expression and
demonstration, but the attempt to present the law faculty in Haifa
as an anti-Zionist and anti-Israeli entity is illegitimate,” they
wrote…
… Professor Michael Birnhack of Tel Aviv
University Law faculty, who initiated the letter, said the support
stems mainly from a deep concern for Israeli society.
“The question of whether to sing the anthem at
the end of the ceremony is a legitimate question that is worth
debating,” he stressed, adding that “what is illegitimate is that
those who hold different views from the other side to the discussion
immediately get labeled as anti-Zionists”.
“There is no connection between the decision to
sing the anthem at an academic ceremony and the Zionist or
anti-Zionist nature of an individual or institution,” Prof. Birnhack
noted.
Names of Signatories found here [in Hebrew]
For more details and to see the full original
article,
go here
University of Haifa
Outlaws the Israeli National anthem, Hatikva
At a recent
graduation ceremony for law school students, the singing of Hatikva
was prohibited. Evidently the decision was that of the law school
dean, Prof. Niva Elkin-Koren. Her email is
elkiniva@law.haifa.ac.il.
Hatikva was evidently banned because of fears that singing it could
offend the delicate sensitivities of University of Haifa Arab
students. Their sensitivities are already under assault because
there are Israeli flags at the University, and because the
University holds Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremonies and Israeli
Memorial Day ceremonies. I have seen with my own eyes Arab students
singing the PLO "national anthem" on campus and also waving PLO and
Hamas flags. The university has not banned that. The law school at
the University of Haifa is well known as a den of radical leftists.
Maariv
reports the story (in Hebrew, here:
http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART2/253/445.html)
Ben Dror
Yemini, depiuty editor at Maariv, denounced the University of Haifa
for this (here
in Hebrew). He described the decision as "academic hooliganism"
and as evidence of the suppression of real academic freedom by
Israel's Arab nationals and radical Jewish leftists.
Want to
complain? Write to:
University
of Haifa:
President of the University of Haifa
Prof. Aaron Ben-Ze'ev
University
of Haifa
Mt Carmel, 31905
Haifa
Israel
Tel: 972-4-8240101
Fax: 972-4-8240281
E-mail:
abenzeev@univ.haifa.ac.il
Rector of
the University of Haifa
Prof. David Faraggi
University of Haifa
Mt Carmel, 31905 Haifa Israel
Tel: 972-4-8288094
Fax: 972-4-8342101
Email:
faraggi@stat.haifa.ac.il
Chairman of the Board of Governors
Mr. Leon Charney
Law Office of Leon H. Charney
Broadway 1441
New York, NY 10018
Phone: 212-819-0994
E-mail:
charney@lhcharney.com
University "Friends of" Offices
Outside Israel are listed here:
http://www.haifa.ac.il/html/html_eng/friends.htm
For more details,
go here
University of Haifa - Micah Leshem (Dept of Psychology) invents
a historic narrative
----- Forwarded
Message ----
From: Micah Leshem
To: Segel plus <segel-plus@research.haifa.ac.il>
Myself and my Arab neighbours live in Halissa
on a street named after a commander of the Etzel which carried out
the Dir Yassin massacre (sic), and to get to Hadar we cross the
recently dedicated flyover commemorating Brigade 22 which lobbed
Davidka bombs into the Arabs crowded in the market to escape,
killing maiming and sowing terror and a stampede to the Port that
overwhelmed the British guards.
If memorials are part and parcel of our tragic
history here, it behooves AB Yehoshua and like-minded folk to
promote the dedication of memorials to the Arab citizens of Haifa
who lost their lives, and those that lost their homes, and the
tragic expulsion/exodus, etc. A dedicated museum would not be out of
place either. And in predominantly Arab parts of the town, it
behooves us to let the local community decide on their street names.
We also had an Arab vice mayor in our city, but few of our
compatriots of the other ethnicity forget his shameful expulsion by
the council mob led by the current mayor in 2006.
That epitomizes the "sharing" - we (the Jews)
will token share with the Arabs so long as they do not question our
absolute mastery. Do not forget who is The Boss here. And so they
will continue to live in streets named after Heroes that killed
them, and Ethnic Ideologies movements intent on their dispossession
(eg 'Zionism Ave' in the heart of Arab Haifa).
Simple thoughts for truer consideration and
mutual respect in our city.
Micah
-------------------------------------
University of Haifa and Beit Berl College - Working from Within
for a New Holocaust: Dalit Baum (Jihad Feminist)
Apparently, neither Haifa U nor Beit Berl mind
having their names linked to the annihilationist efforts of Dalit
Baum against Jews. Baum routinely breaks Israeli law by
organizing money and supplies to the Hamas in Gaza and in
general by calling for the end of the Jewish state. Her
self-described "career" is devoted to working in support of
"existing divestment campaigns" in the US, as well as helping to
build new ones through "education." "Global Exchange" has been part
of the "Viva Palestina Tours and Flotilla" campaign to aid Hamas
since their inception.
… Dalit Baum admits she does not want Israel to
exist at all, at least not as any Jewish state. "Palestine," all of
Palestine including Haifa and Tel Aviv, is "occupied" by the Jews.
In a lecture she gave in San Francisco for the benefit of the
pro-terror "Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)," an ISM group,
she explained that while some might think her campaign pertains only
to the West Bank and Gaza, she really does not distinguish at all
between "occupation" within the state of Israel itself and that in
the West Bank when she calls for the end to "occupation." What she
really wants is the end to Israel.
… "Global Exchange" supports Hamas in its quest to
destroy Israel and world Jewry. When Dalit Baum lectured the
Berkeley SJP last year she boasted she had cost the Israeli economy
billions of dollars through disrupting its ties with Europe. She
also boasted about how she interfered with security checkpoints in
Israel designed to keep out terrorists who kill Israeli civilians.
Her new campaign in the United States seeks to promote the same
agenda in America, particularly in US colleges. The officers of
Haifa and Beit Berl should remove Dalit Baum from her teaching
positions immediately.
Why not Contact them?
Rector of the University of Haifa
Prof. David Faraggi
University of
Haifa
Mt Carmel, 31905
Haifa
Israel
Tel: 972-4-8288094
Fax: 972-4-8342101
Email:
faraggi@stat.haifa.ac.il
Director General of
Beit Berl College:
Ruthie Gavri
Phone 972-9-7476302
ruth@beitberl.ac.il
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
The University of Haifa's Rabid Israel Hater Micah Leshem (Dept
of Psychology) finds who is at fault, on the anti-Semitic "ALEF"
Chat List
Over 40 years, we have successfully, willingly,
deviously and surreptitiously, bound ourselves to a policy of
colonial expansion. Israel will extend from the Mediterranean in the
west, to the Jordan River Rift Valley in the east. For N(etanyahu),
there never was any intention to negotiate peace, his vision is
clearer than of all his predecessors. He has produced a plethora of
preconditions designed put off, shackle, and humiliate any
negotiating partner. They ranged from the unconscionable during
negotiations (accelerated settlement expansion, Palestinian home
demolitions, expulsions, and discriminatory and restrictive laws and
regulations) to the ludicrous not merely to recognize Israel (which
they have) (sic), but to do so as a State for Jews. In addition,
N(etanyahu) has stated to an enthusiastic US congress that Jerusalem
is not negotiable, neither the majority of settlements, neither the
Jordan Valley, and the Palestinian State will not armed. Thus the
starting point for negotiations is for a Palestinian state of 4
reservations communicating by corridors and surrounded by Israel
controlling all access. These preconditions torpedo negotiations,
and other are freely added, the latest being that negotiation is not
possible with the Palestinians because they include the Hamas
because it does not recognize Israel. If Hamas were as formidable as
Hezbollah, Israel would negotiate, as it did with Hezbollah, and
with the Palestinian Fatah before that.
A new precondition N(etanyahu) seems to be
nurturing is the release of Hamas' Israeli soldier prisoner, Shalit.
Again the double-speak - N(etanyahu) actually opposes the deal on
offer. Patently, Hamas leadership cannot compromise on the
conditions they set. They know that the moment he is freed they will
all be killed by Israeli drones, like their leader Sheikh Yassin,
blown up in his wheelchair with a score of other casualties by a
guided missile, some years after a deal for his release from Israeli
prison. As long as they have Shalit, Israel is "hooped" not to kill
them. That stalemate has lasted for 5 years, suits both sides, and
will persist until we discover his whereabouts and mount a rescue
operation.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
University of Haifa - McCarthyism at Haifa U
Meretz Knesset Member Zahava Gal-On forced
Haifa University to cancel a joint appearance with National Union
Knesset Member Dr.
Michael Ben-Ari because she refused to sit down with him on the
same panel.
"I am not prepared participate in any panel with Ben-Ari because
he is a fascist, a racist and a Kahanist [followed of the late Rabi
Meir Kahane] and is not legitimate," said Gal-On.
… [MK Ben-Ari] "It is clear that the left exploits Haifa
University, which surrenders to Gal-On's dictates. This is
McCarthyism," he said, referring to the United States in the 1950s,
when Sen. Joe McCarthy tried to rid the government of suspected
Communists.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
University of Haifa - Prof.
William Freedman (Dept of English Literature) Endorses Staying Home
on Land Day to Mourn Israel's Existence
In posting to the "Segel-Plus"
List
----- Forwarded
Message ----
From: William Freedman <freedman@research.haifa.ac.il>
To: Segel plus <segel-plus@research.haifa.ac.il>
Sent: Mon, April 11, 2011 2:04:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Segel-plus]
הירשת וגם רצחת וגם הענשת את הזוכרים?
I want to add my
name and personal revulsion to this. The headline in today's Haaretz,
English version, is: 'Ministry Hunts for Arab Teachers Absent on
Land Day'. This sickens and, as a Jewish Israeli, deeply shames me.
Given this, if I taught in a public school, I'd stay home on Land
Day, partly in identification with those who protest the grave
injustice the day demarks (sic), partly to protest this revolting
suppression of the right to express and peacefully act on one's
convictions. In fact, I'd strongly urge all Jewish teachers of
conscience to do precisely that next March 30th. I'd ask, with
sorrow and outrage, What have we come to? but the question is
superflouous. We know.
Bill
---------------------------------
University of Haifa - The World according to
Micah Leshem (Dept of Psychology), posted on the "Segel-Plus"
discussion list at the University of Haifa on February 7, 2011:
While Israel is one
of the stable regimes in the Middle East, it is also one of the
major destablizers of the Middle East. With its consistent policy of
stealing Arab lands and populating them with Jews, daily outrages
against Arabs and their homes, their endless mass detention, its
periodic brutal military adventures involving the mass killings of
Arab citizens, and persistent refusal to negotiate peace in good
faith (eg the Saudi initiative, UN 242) it has contributed much to
the rift between Arabs and their leadership.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
University of Haifa - Dalit Baum (Dept of Women's
Studies) Agitating for Sanctions against Israel; Reported by Ilan
Pappe and friends
So
Israel vows to keep building homes in illegally occupied East
Jerusalem (Report,
19 November). Today the British security corporation
G4S and the French company Veolia, which collects waste for UK
local authorities and universities, will stand accused of complicity
in Israeli human rights violations. Israeli academic Dalit Baum will
give evidence in London to a tribunal on Palestine that G4S is
aiding her country's war crimes by providing equipment for
checkpoints, prisons and illegal settlements in the occupied West
Bank. Moreover, Adri Neiuwhof, a Swiss-based expert on public
contract regulations, will cite Veolia's profits from the occupation
as a partner in the Jerusalem light rail project that links west
Jerusalem to settlements.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
University of
Haifa - Hysterical Tenured Left reacts to Im Tirtzu students
The tenured radical Left at the
University of Haifa is hysterical and in panic. It seems that
students from the local chapter of the Zionist "Im tirtzu" student
organization have started attending classes of some of the radicals,
taking notes and threatening to cite what the faculty members say in
class. On other campuses, Im Tirtzu students have already started to
tape lectures with small cameras or cell phones.
That has the tenured Left at the
University of Haifa soiling itself. In recent days the chat list of
faculty members at the university has been flooded with hysterical
postings by leftist faculty members denouncing the students as
fascists and for violating the "rights" of the professors. Most of
the hysterics are coming from the very same University of Haifa
professors who sponsored and collected a petition a few years back
demanding that army officers be prevented from giving talks to
students in high schools. So you can see they have a very
sophisticated appreciation of academic freedom. One of the posteurs
was Prof. Gabi Salomon, quoted in the press last week as comparing
the proposed loyalty oath for immigrants to Israel to Nazi Germany's
genocide of Jews.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
University of Haifa – Prof. David
Faraggi, the new Rector, denounces
the Ariel cultural boycott as "not legitimate"
Haifa University's new rector,
Professor David Farji added that it was the lecturers' right not to
go to the territories for ideological motives, but that a boycott
was not legitimate.
"The Ariel college is a wonderful
institution responsible for serious studies. There is no doubt as to
its legitimacy, regardless of its geographic location," he said.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
A Review of the
Bash-Israel Pre-Conference organized by Far-Leftist Academics prior
to the Prestigious International Geographical Union’s regional
conference held in Tel Aviv
As happens so often, the ideological opinion
offered by Israeli scholars, under the banner of free speech and
pluralism, at these conferences was primarily monolithic,
anti-Israel, and leftist. If scholars were somehow still able to
leave these conferences with a neutral or positive view about
Israel, it was in spite of the best efforts of Israel’s academics
who organized the pre-conferences, not because of them.
... For Newman, only one voice should be heard
in a democratic society, the voice of critique and anti-state
hatred. The only ‘beacon of light’ in Israel are the organizations
and individuals who compare the country to a fascist state and the
only “value” of democracy is the voice of extremism. On the other
side democracy is having a “black day” when other organizations use
free speech to critique those who critique.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
University of Haifa – Sami Smooha (Department of
Sociology) claims the Jewish State of Israel cannot be “both
democratic and Jewish”
Sami Smooha, who is professor of sociology at the University
of Haifa, said that Israel is neither a liberal nor a
constitutional democracy, but something special. In the past he has
termed Israel an “ethnic democracy,” but he now declined to use any
term containing the word “democracy” to describe Israel. He
emphasizes that he is a sociologist, not a political philosopher,
and as such he maintains that Israel cannot be both democratic and
Jewish. ... As an antidote to Israel’s specialness Smooha recommends
a special kind of anti-Semitism. Smooha argues that Israel’s Jews
don’t want a Jewish and democratic state but rather a Zionist and
democratic state, which is somehow worse. A “Zionist” state
maintains that it is connected to all the world’s Jews and engages
in Zionist “projects,” such as settling Jews in Israel, trying to
create an amalgamated Jewish identity out of new immigrants, and
consolidating Jewish dominance through law and politics. ...
Smooha’s call for an “end to the millet system” is code for
repealing legislation that takes into account the Jewish identity of
Israeli citizens. ...Smooha’s vision is an Israel without a national
or ethnic identity, albeit a state with a lot of Jews—much like
Florida. There would be this significant difference: Unlike Florida,
in this state a particular ethnic minority does get to be
recognized as an official “national minority,” with cultural
autonomy and other semi-national rights.
... He wants the Palestinians to be Palestinians and the
Jews to be democratic, and essentially he calls on Israel’s Jews to
discriminate against themselves. His justification is that the Jews
are colonial settlers and therefore don’t really have rights. He did
say that he thinks Israel’s Jews have the right to
self-determination though not sovereignty. But it is hard to see how
Jewish self-determination could find expression if his laundry list
of policy recommendations were adopted.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
University of Haifa - Ron Kuzar (Dept of English
Literature) Stars at the Conference Demanding the Destruction of
Israel
The University of Haifa event was evidently an initiative once again of
the Arab student union. Held in the large Safdia Auditorium on
campus with about 30 people in the audience, the “conference”
consisted of two anti-Israel Arab speakers and one anti-Israel
Jewish speaker. This is pluralism and balance these days in Israeli
academia.
Kuzar states: “Israeli-Zionist ethnicity is an injurious discriminatory
one inside Israel, a thieving and apartheid set of policies towards
Palestinians.”
Isracampus Update:
The entire videotape of Kuzar’s speech at the “Destroy Israel Day”
symposium is now available and can be viewed by anyone. At least
anyone with a strong stomach. The speech appears here:
Part I:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xNHhCWsHL0
Part II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rENnFW4S87o
(Youtube only allows tapes up to 10 minutes so
it had to be broken into two sections to post) The video quality in
not the best but Kuzar’s words can be clearly heard and it can be
clearly seen that it is Kuzar speaking.
Anyone with the slightest doubt as to the
accuracy of what was cited above is invited to sit through his
recorded talk.
So what are we to make of the fact that Kuzar
falsely denied those very same citations when attributed to him,
lying boldfaced to the entire academic staff of the University of
Haifa? Kuzar also deliberately posted his (sanitized? fabricated?)
alleged “lecture notes” to convey an incorrect representation of
what he said in his talk. He lied so many times on the Segel Plus
list in the past two weeks that I am not sure I can count all the
instances.
So just how does Kuzar now propose to explain
his behavior? Well, we thought we would help him out a bit with
this. We have prepared a list of excuses from which he can choose
one, just placing an “X” next to the one that appeals to
him most:
1. Kuzar’s dog ate the REAL lecture notes for
his talk.
2. The real Ron Kuzar is being held in an island with an iron mask
on his face and his evil twin gave the talk at the “Destroy Israel
Day” symposium.
3. The symposium talk was presented by a clone of Ron Kuzar
developed by biomed scientists at the Technion war institution.
4. Kuzar forgot what he himself had said at the symposium.
5. Aliens from outer space took control of Kuzar’s mouth and made
him say what he said at the symposium.
6. The youtube tapes were falsified by the SHABAK in the same way
that the Gaza Flotilla tapes were, and Kuzar has Hamas witnesses to
prove it.
7. It was not really Kuzar speaking those words but people hidden
outside the Safdie auditorium on a grassy knoll.
8. A dybbuk took possession of Kuzar’s soul until it can be
exorcised.
9. “Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?” (--Richard Pryor)
10. Let’s hire Johnny Cochrane and then go see if we can find the
REAL lecturer who gave that talk.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
University of Haifa - Uri Bar-Joseph (Dept of
International Relations) Fabricates "New History"; Discovers that
Israel Itself Caused the 1973 Yom Kippur War because it refused to
make peace with Egypt
In other words, Israel had two options: to
progress with a diplomatic process that guaranteed, already at the
start, a peace agreement with Egypt in exchange for the evacuation
of all of Sinai, or to enter a war that the Arab side would initiate
with the goal of motivating Israel to embark on such a diplomatic
process.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
University of Haifa - Dalit Baum (Dept of
Women's Studies) trains how to boycott Israel at an
International Solidarity Movement meeting
Dalit Baum gives a lecture on how to boycott Israel during her ISM tour
to the US. She discusses the scanner at the Kalandia checkpoint and
describes her
activities that got the Danish parliament to stop
selling the Dutch-made scanner to Israel. Baum also gives details on
how she got Dexia bank to stop loaning money to Jews for homes in
settlements.
Click here to view the full
lecture
Click here for more details about Dalit Baum's lecture.
If you feel that Dalit Baum's has
abused her State-funded position in a way that will cost Israelis jobs,
please complain to University
of Haifa and Beit Berl College administrators. They too have
families in Israel who are threatened by this woman:
President of the
University of Haifa
Prof. Aaron Ben-Ze’ev
Tel: 972-4-8240101
Fax:
972-4-8288110
E-mail:
abenzeev@univ.haifa.ac.il
President of Beit Berl College
Dr. Tamar Ariav
Tel: 972 (9) 747 8701
Fax: 972 (9) 7478700
Email:
ariavt@beitberl.ac.il
University of Haifa - A Covert Look at Dalit Baum (Dept of
Women's Studies)
Dalit Baum’s
specialty is promoting BDS, or Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
against Israel as a modern extension of the
Arab League Boycott. As a radical member of the
Coalition of Women
for Peace, an NGO set up mostly by lesbian academics in support
of the Arabs getting whatever they want from Israel, Dalit
Baum has further carved out a niche for
herself in the subgroup titled
Who Profits From the Occupation? You want to know who profits
from the “Occupation”? Dalit Baum profits,
that’s who. Baum was the founder of the
radical group Black Laundry that is composed of radical lesbians who
support the misogynist Arabs in their quest to dismantle the Jewish
state.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
University of Haifa – Yuval Yonay (Dept of Sociology,
specialized in "Queer Studies") endorses the decision by a
restaurant in Haifa to deny entry to Israeli soldiers on University
of Haifa chat list
The death of academic standards? Can the
University of Haifa explain why such a person serves on its faculty?
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
University of Haifa
– Avraham Oz (Dept of Theater) smears Israel Science Adviser
Professor Israel Hanokuglo
To represent this as "racism" or "racialism" is the height of
absurdity. Similar genetic research has been used to show that in
some rural English regions the population is descendent from Flemish
migrants. In fact, the disease in question is also common among Jews
who emigrated from Syria. The Left has launched a libel campaign
against Hanokuglo. In the message below is a letter being circulated
by one Abraham Oz, a Theater lecturer at the University of Haifa and
a far-leftist. The message speaks for itself, and will -- in all
probability -- form the basis of a libel suit against Abraham Oz by
Dr. Hanokuglo.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
The IDF shows discrimination: ignores the insubordination of 350
academic “rabbis” and the anti-Israel ALEF forum at Haifa University
The IDF also has a hesder (arrangement) with
the University of Haifa, where some 40 staff members signed a
petition calling for insubordination. At that university, senior
officers from the National Security College study for a master's
degree (Ilan Pappe also taught in that program). In addition, naval
cadets and officers from Military Intelligence study there for
bachelor's degrees. And lo and behold, in the university's central
computer, in a file entitled "war criminals," a group called Aleph
published photographs of dozens of officers and by doing so
blacklisted them. (The list includes Gabi Ashkenazi, Yohanan Locker,
Yigal Slovik, Yoav Mordechai, Avi Blot, Yuval Halamish, Herzi Halevi
and Gur Rosenblatt, as well as former foreign minister Tzipi Livni.)
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
University of
Haifa - Ron Kuzar (Dept of English) calls for world boycott against
Bar Ilan University
"I do find some similarities between
South-Africa's apartheid and Israel's conduct in the occupied
territories...The boycott against Bar-Ilan University is fully
justified since this university actively supports a college which is
part of the settlement apparatus."
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
University of
Haifa – Haggai Kupermintz remains unrepentant in his participation
in a blood libel
Recently University of Haifa lecturer in "peace
education," Haggai Kupermintz, was taken to task for never having
apologized for being one of the signatories on a petition from a few
years ago containing a blood libel. The petition accused Israel of
planning to conduct genocidal atrocities the moment the Allied
invasion of Iraq was to begin. The war and came went and no Israeli
genocide against Arabs. Kupermintz never retracted or apologized for
his role in this. The petition was published on the pro-jihad
Aljazeera and on many other anti-Semitic web sites.
When challenged about this on the "Segel-Plus"
chat list of University of Haifa faculty members, Kupermintz posted
this response:
RE: [Segel-plus] Fw: Conceits of the Academic
Far Left
Thu, November 19, 2009 11:36:39 PM
From: Haggai Kupermintz <kuperh@construct.haifa.ac.il>
To:
segel-plus@research.haifa.ac.il
Ah, but you got it all wrong, Stevie! In fact,
word got out to the Bush administration that the infamous leftist,
Marxist, Antisematic (sic), Noe-Nazi (sic), Anachist (sic),
Self-hating Jewboy Mafia of the Haifa branch of Bir Zeit university
is behind the petition. As if Saddam wasn't enough... He immediately
and personally gave orders to halt the cleansing operation. We
understand your frustration that we saved our beloved Palestinian
people, but at least give us credit for our achievement. Surly, you
know what we eldres (sic) can accomplish. Don't under estimate us!
A Little Problem
of Consistency at the University of Haifa
A university in Norway is calling for worldwide
boycotts of Israel. Meanwhile the president and the rector of the
University of Haifa have taken to the airwaves to denounce that
initiative. See this:
http://newmedia-eng.haifa.ac.il/?p=1415
The only problem? They have done nothing about the
members of the faculty at the University of Haifa who are themselves
calling for a worldwide boycott of Israel! Prof. Daphna Carmeli,
Prof. Yoram Carmeli, and Prof. Vered Kraus are
listed here.
These University of Haifa leftist anti-Zionists
were calling for such a boycott against Israel and against Israeli
universities even before the recent call for such a boycott issued
by anti-Israel extremist Neve Gordon from Ben Gurion University.
Want to let the heads of the University know
what you think of this “inconsistency”? Write to
University of Haifa:
President of the University of Haifa
Prof. Aaron Ben-Ze’ev
University of Haifa
Mt Carmel, 31905 Haifa Israel
Tel: 972-4-8240101
Fax: 972-4-8240281
E-mail:
abenzeev@univ.haifa.ac.il
Rector of the University of Haifa
Prof. Yossi Ben-Artzi
University of Haifa
Mt Carmel, 31905 Haifa Israel
Tel: 972-4-8240405
Fax: 972-4-8342101
Email:
yossib@univ.haifa.ac.il
Chairman of the Board
of Governors
Mr. Leon Charney
Law Office of Leon H. Charney
Broadway 1441
New York, NY 10018
Phone: 212-819-0994
E-mail:
charney@lhcharney.com
University "Friends of" Offices Outside Israel
are listed here:
http://www.haifa.ac.il/html/html_eng/friends.htm
University of
Haifa – Student Union Head claims that Haifa U management turns a
blind eye to far-leftist indoctrination
The Haifa
University Student Union has distributed a calendar diary containing
an advertisement calling readers to know who the “anti-Israeli
lecturers” are, in Haifa U. and in other academic institutions
throughout Israel. The advertisement contains the web address of
IsraCampus – a website devoted to exposing lecturers who are
employed in Israeli universities, yet openly agitate against the
state of Israel. ... The head of the Haifa University Student Union,
Felix Kuritni, said that he believes that the decision to print the
advertisement was justified. “Students who study here need to know
who their lecturers are and if there are lecturers who oppose the
State of Israel it is important to publish their names. ...
Unfortunately the campus management turns a blind eye and continues
to allow all kinds of political cells like Hadash and Balad to hold
conventions on campus.”
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University of
Haifa – YNet quotes University and Student Union Heads defending
IsraCampus.Org.il’s right to publish ad that denounces Anti-Israel
Lecturers in Student Union daily planner
Students at Haifa
University are outraged over the contents of an ad included in a
daily planner distributed by the Student Union at the beginning of
the academic year. The ad urges students to become aware of
"anti-Israel lecturers" from universities across the country,
including the Haifa institute. A complaint was sent to University
President Professor Aaron Ben Ze'ev pointing to incitement. …
Chairman Felix Koritney commented, "It's an advertisement bought and
published in the planner as by other advertisers. We went over the
content and it is fine by us. It informs the students, in the way
other websites inform of corruption and ethics violations…Students
should know who they take classes with. We love the State of Israel
and support it and see no wrong with the ad." Haifa University
issued a statement reading, "In accordance with its policy and the
student rights law, the University of Haifa allows freedom of speech
on campus, even when it opposes the contents of opinions, so long as
no State laws were violated."
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University of Haifa - Israel hater Micah
Leshem (Dept of Psychology), cheers on Neve Gordon's call for a
Boycott against Israeli "apartheid"
There is no consensus on political issues,
theories abound, and Gordon, as a political scientist, has one which
he propounds. Quite possibly his LAT article reflects his personal
views too, but in this particular case there is a grey area between
his personal views and his professional analyses, and that is what
lends credence to his analysis and probably irks the rightists no
end. It is both his academic and personal freedom that irks them, ie
his freedom to express views they loath.
For more details and to
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University of Haifa – Micah Leshem (Dept of
Psychology) Supports Gordon's Call for Worldwide boycott of Israel
On Thursday, August 20 the LA Times
published an op-ed in which Ben Gurion University Professor Neve
Gordon wrote that the question that kept him up at night, both as a
parent and as an Israeli citizen, was how to ensure that his two
children as well as the children of his Palestinian neighbors do not
grow up in an apartheid regime. He concluded that the only thing
that the only workable solution would be "massive international
pressure." (1) Following the publication of the article there has
been such a vehement and aggressive attack against Gordon in Israel
(2), that we believe "massive international pressure" will be needed
to keep him from being fired from his job.
We are protecting here more than one
person and one job. Help us protect the ability to talk openly about
the Israeli occupation and about nonviolent options to address it,
such a boycott, divestment, and sanctions.
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University of Haifa
– A.B. Yehoshua can’t seem to tell the difference between reality
and the plot of one of his stories
I have long felt that many of the finest creative minds in the
literary world, whether poets, dramatists, or novelists, must be
taken cum grano when they see fit to pronounce on political
issues. Not all, of course, but perhaps most. It is as if they are
occupationally prone to conceiving the political arena as part of an
aesthetic framework, susceptible to snug resolutions, rather than
the messy and often insoluble dynamic that it is. They tend to
confuse,
in the words of E.M. Forster [8], plot with story …
But Yehoshua represents a different case in point. He is not a
foreigner but an Israeli writer whose ancestry, political
engagement, and proximity to actual events should, one might assume,
have freed him from the web of fantasy in which the literary mind is
so easily snared and served to alert him to the structure of
reality.
During one of our supper
conversations in the university refectory, the subject turned to
Israel’s impending disengagement from the Gaza Strip. Yehoshua,
whose sympathies are robustly on the left and who tends to identify
with those whom he regards as underdogs, a.k.a. the Palestinians,
could not contain his enthusiasm for the process, making light of my
skepticism. The great man knew. All would be well. It
had to be. The Palestinians would recognize Israel’s readiness
to endure sacrifices, would surely be grateful for the greenhouses
and infrastructure left behind to promote their nascent economy, and
would respond in good faith to this new and impressive initiative.
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“Affirmative Action” at
the University of Haifa: Supervisor of the Fabrication of the
Tantora Massacre Thesis promoted to Full Professor
The University of Haifa just decided to promote Prof. Kais Firro to the
rank of full professor, despite the fact that Firro has very few
academic publications to his record. Firro is best known for having
been the formal thesis advisor to the anti-Israel extremist
Teddy Katz, in which the
thesis fabricated an imaginary “massacre” of Arabs in the
village of Tantora by the Alexandroni battalion of the Palmach
during Israel’s War of Independence. Katz later admitted in court
that the allegation
was a fabrication. For details, see this:
http://weeklystandard.com/check.asp?idArticle=99&r=jjldm While
the malicious
Ilan Pappe, back then on the faculty of the University of Haifa
in political science, has generally been assumed to be the driving
force behind the fabrication, Kais Firro officially supervised and
approved the thesis and gave it a grade of 97. The University later
revoked Katz’ degree and refused to recognize the thesis.
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Why does
University of Haifa sociologist Sammy Smooha cheer for Israel's
enemies?
It's not just that Smooha embraces anti-Israel
Arab elements and supports them in their attacks on Israel's
existence. It's that he feels that Israel as a Jewish state is
nothing more than an "ethnic democracy" for Jews, by which he means
something BAD. He has built his career on claims that Oriental or
Sephardic Jews are victims of discrimination in Israel. He has
demonstrated little interest in the plight of Oriental Jews being
bombed and rocketed by Palestinians in Sderot and Netivot in
Israel’s south.. … the origins of the Smoohas in Israel's sociology
world as "dedicated to advancing their ideology that they have come
to focus far more on rewriting Israel's history than on examining
the issues of the greatest concern to Israeli society today. Their
proclivity for myth-smashing, coupled with their commitment to
imported theoretical models preclude any serious discussion of the
unique aspects of Israeli life and cause them to downplay, or even
distort, historical facts. These problems are so acute that they
call into question the credibility of sociological research in
Israel.
For more details and to
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University of Haifa - Head of Board of Govs of Haifa U
makes excuses for the Judenrein Rally of the Jihad Sheikh
Charney, who was a
layer before becoming involved in politics and real estate, also
said that if the issue had been taken to court, it would have forced
the legal system to better define the limitations of freedom of
speech on campus - a positive development, he said, as the
universities were not capable of making the decision on their own.
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University of Haifa - Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi's (Dept
of Psychology) leads the movement for "Boycott, Divestment, and
Sanctions" against Israel
Join the US Campaign to Mark the 4th Anniversary of
the Palestinian
Civil Society Call for BDS ("Boycott, Divest,
Sanction")
July 9th, 2009
To view and print a full-size black-and-white
version of this flyer, please
click here.
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Haifa University – Bill Freedman
and 230 other academics vow to disobey anti-Nakba
laws if passed
According to the declaration, the
proposals are "harshly anti-democratic, and all gravely violate
basic rights essential to democracy and to freedom of expression." …
The initiative to circulate the declaration began when Professor
Bill Freedman of Haifa University sent an email to his colleagues on
the matter.
For more details and to
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Haifa University – Gideon Sa’ar taking Haifa University to the
Council for Higher Education over Salah’s lecture
Education Minister
Gideon Sa'ar is planning a debate at the Council for Higher
Education over Sheikh Raed Salah's lecture at Haifa University on
Wednesday. According to the minister, the Islamic Movement leader
took advantage of academic freedom in order to incite against
Israel. Salah claimed during his visit to the university that Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu planned "to dig additional tunnels under
the al-Aqsa Mosque and rebuild the Temple on the Temple Mount."
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Haifa University - Lecture Hall at Haifa University made
Judenrein - Jewish students barred from attending lecture by head of
the Islamic (Islamofascist) movement of Israel
Islamic Movement leader Sheikh Raed Salah gave a talk to Arab
students at Haifa University on Wednesday, while Jewish students
were not allowed into the lecture hall. The Jewish students
expressed their outrage at how the hard-line sheikh was let in to
the campus, but the university said it couldn't prevent Salah's
entrance, saying that they had their hands tied.'
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University of Haifa - As'ad Ghanem (Dept of Political Science)
declares founding of the State of Israel “a colonial action”; denies
that Israel is a democracy
The only man in
Israel deemed worthy of writing it is Dr. As'ad Ghanem, who by
chance or not, was also the main drafter of a document entitled "The
Future Vision of the Palestinian Arabs in Israel." This document
includes these civic pearls: "Israel is the outcome of a colonialist
action which was initiated by the Jewish-Zionist elites ... [it] was
established by colonial states ... it continues conflicting with its
neighbors incessantly ... and implementing a colonialist policy ...
Israel cannot be defined as a democratic state. It can be defined as
an ethnocratic state ... the state must acknowledge responsibility
for the Nakba ... [it] should recognize the Palestinian Arabs as an
indigenous national group that has a right to choose its
representatives directly."
For more details and to
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University of Haifa - Asad Ghanem Head of Political Science
Dept lobbying for Israel's annihilation via a "Right of Return" for
"Palestinian Refugees"
BADIL is proud to announce the winners of
the 2009Al-Awda Award, the third annual public competition of its
kind. The award aims to foster Palestinian talent and creativity and
to raise the profile of the Palestinian Nakba and the right of all
forcibly displaced Palestinians to return to their homes and lands.
…
Category: Research Papers
Members of the selection committee: Asad Ghanem, Norma Masriyah,
Aziz Haidar, Musleh Kanaaneh, Shawqi Alayasa
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University of
Hafia - Dr. Dalit Baum
(Dept of Women's Studies) and the
Academic Lesbians for Jihad
Back in Israel these days, Baum
is teaching (if that is the right word) at the "Community School
for Women," a lesbian feminist "school" she helped found. Baum, a
loudly self-proclaimed lesbian, has managed to
connect her anti-Israel animus to support for the greatest
homophobes and persecutors of homosexuals in the world, the Arab
Islamofascists and the Muslim states. There homosexuality is often a
capital offense. She is a leading member of a group calling itself
"QUIT," which stands for "Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism," a
homosexual anti-Israel anarchist/Marxist group set up to
demonize Jews and Israelis while excusing Arab homophobia and
persecution of homosexuals. Dalit Baum
embraces and supports the very same people who would kill her
for being gay!! Perhaps that explains why she has never ventured
into any Muslim country to preach her ideas.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
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University of Haifa - Showtuners on Hitler in Springtime?
University of Haifa holding a conference
entitled, "Queer Experiences during the Third Reich and the
Holocaust." It is sponsored by the "Bucerius Institute for Research
of Contemporary German History and Society" at the University of
Haifa. The point of most of the speakers is evidently to compare
Nazi treatment of homosexuals to the Nazi genocide against Jews.
Never mind that most of those "homosexuals" arrested and killed by
the Nazis were in fact communists whose arrest as "homosexuals" was
designed to humiliate them. The speakers include a mix of Israelis
and Germans.
The conference progam can be viewed here:
http://bucerius.haifa.ac.il/
For bias in Israeli
departments of German Studies,
go to the following essay
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University of Haifa - Avraham Oz (Dept of Comparative
Literature) Defends A Pal Terrorist
Samieh is also active in the Abna al Balad
movement and was among the organizers of last year's Haifa
conference on the Right of Return and a secular democratic state.
Last December he helped organize public mourning rallies and
non-violent protests against the Israeli offensive in Gaza. In
January 2009, Samieh was warned by the Security Services that a way
will be found to punish him for this civil and political activity.
The opportunity presented itself on February 10th, general election
day in Israel. A group of extreme rightist fanatics announced their
intention to serve as official monitors of the voting process in Um
al Fahm, second largest Arab city in Israel. Samieh, a native of
this town, joined residents in a protest demonstration. He was
arrested along with a fellow-resident minutes after the event began.
For more details and to
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When it Does not Add Up: Anti-Israel Mathematicians at
Israeli Universities
Israeli far-leftist anti-Israel academics in
the mathematics field may have their own abstract ways of looking at
things, but they are paid by the Israeli taxpayers, and then promote
an anti-Israel agenda that sometimes involves terrorist attacks
against those same taxpayers.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
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University of
Haifa - Dr. Ron Kuzar (Dept of English) writing on the Segel-Plus list on
17 February 2009, denounces Israel's existence:
'Therefore, I am
against Israel as a Jewish state. I am also against recognizing the
Palestinians as a minority with group rights. I want to
de-nationalize Israel...'
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
University of
Haifa - Yuval Yonay (Dept.
of Sociology) writing on the Segel-Plus list on
18 January 2009,
endorses the smears of Israel as a Nazi country made by anti-Semitic
British Member of Parliament. Yonay writes:
'He also mentioned
that an Israeli spokeman [sic] replied that many of the Palestinian
victims (800 at the time, climbing to 1245 as of this morning) were
militants "was the reply of the Nazi" and added: "I suppose the Jews
fighting for their lives in the Warsaw ghetto could have been
dismissed as militants." If someone can find a logical flaw here, I
am interested in seeing it.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
University of Haifa -
Tenured Faculty comes out against flying the Israeli flag at the
University
This is going to
sound like another Plaut spoof, but I am afraid the following story
is entirely for real. It involves the outpouring of anguished calls
by faculty members at the University of Haifa NOT to have the
Israeli flag flying on campus! ... The response to the gesture by
leftist faculty members at the University of Haifa was boisterous
and hostile. How dare the university have Israeli flags waving on
campus! It is offensive and insensitive to Arabs!
For more details and to
see the full original article,
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University of Haifa - Ramzi Suleiman (Dept of Psychology) <suleiman@psy.haifa.ac.il>,
Arab Professor, misusing his position to post Hamas
propaganda on the University's Segel-Plus chat list, claiming that
Israel is perpetrating genocide and "Judaizing" Jerusalem.
Here is an excerpt:
Segel-plus] Fw: A Precis of Israeli
Violations
Ramzi Suleiman <suleiman@psy.haifa.ac.il>
Posted on Jan 14, 09
A Precis of Israeli Violations in the period
'The year 2008 is considered as the
bloodiest. At the end of 2008, Israel has launched a wide genocide
war against the Palestinian Gazans; due to that hundreds are killed,
thousands are injured, and hundreds of the Palestinian houses,
mosques, institutions and health care centers are demolished. Israel
has been violating the International humanitarian law and committing
war crimes.
'Israel is using Dense Inert Metal
Explosives (DIME), depleted uranium weapons, bombs with cluster
ammunition and phosphorous bombs; hundreds of innocent palestinian
citizens are killed by these weapons, the majority of them are
women, children and worshipers. Israel has employed it's [sic]
full-fledged arsenal to attack Palestinian populated areas,
ambulances, medics, universities, mosques, and schools.'
Want to let the heads of the
University of Haifa know what you think of this? Contact:
To whom can you complain?
University of Haifa:
President of the University of Haifa
Prof. Aaron Ben-Ze.ev
University of Haifa
Mt Carmel, 31905 Haifa Israel
Tel: 972-4-8240101
Fax: 972-4-8240281
E-mail:
abenzeev@univ.haifa.ac.il
Rector of the University of Haifa
Prof. Yossi Ben-Artzi
University of Haifa
Mt Carmel, 31905 Haifa Israel
Tel: 972-4-8240405
Fax: 972-4-8342101
Email:
yossib@univ.haifa.ac.il
Chairman of the Board of Governors
Mr. Leon Charney
Law Office of Leon H. Charney
Broadway 1441
New York, NY 10018
Phone: 212-819-0994
E-mail:
charney@lhcharney.com
University "Friends of" Offices
Outside Israel are listed here:
http://www.haifa.ac.il/html/html_eng/friends.htm
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University of Haifa - Post-Zionist Uri Bar-Yosef (Dept of
International Relations) thinks that since the Golan is not an
air-tight defense, there is no reason why it should not be handed
over to Syria
'According to the understandings that have
already been reached with the Syrians during previous talks, the
area between Damascus and the border with Israel would be
demilitarized on the basis of the Sinai model in the peace agreement
with Egypt. In that situation, no Israeli target would be in the
range of Syrian artillery.'
[Hmmm, where have we had such things before.]
For more details and to
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University of Haifa - Yuval Yonay (Dept of Sociology) - Literacy
does not seem to be part of the job requirement for faculty at the
University of Haifa:
University of Haifa's Yuval Yonay, explains why
the Hamas is murdering Jews, as posted on the Segel-Plus chat list:
Why do tyhey [sic] desire death? Might
they be desperate? Can one imagine why? Have they sought death for
millenia [sic]? Or does it have something to do with being
under occupation, watching their hhopes [sic] being shuttered
[sic] again and again?
Yuval Yonay, Senior Lecturer
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
University of Haifa
Mount Carmel, 31905 Haifa
Tel.: ++972-4-8240016; Fax.: ++972-4-8240819
University of Haifa - Hannah Safran (Dept. of Women's Studies),
writing in the anti-Semitic web magazine Counterpunch
'Once again we face a leadership that knows one
solution only: WAR....You cannot put an end to injustice with
military power and destruction. The Palestinians are fed up with
this approach and they are not likely to sit and wait peacefully
until Israel realizes that there is no military solution to the
Palestinian-Israeli conflict. '
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
Anti-Israel Violence Rampant at the University of
Haifa and the Hebrew University; Administrations Turns a Blind Eye:
'Hundreds of students from the University of
Haifa participated in a rowdy demonstration against Operation Cast
Lead in the Gaza Strip Tuesday afternoon, clashing with police as
the servicemen separated between them and students demonstrating in
support of the IDF operation in the Strip.
Twelve of the demonstrators were arrested for
allegedly attacking police officers.'
For more details and to
see the full original article,
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University of Haifa - Avraham Oz (Dept of Comparative Literature)
applauds role in charges of fictitious "War Crimes" brought against
IDF Officers.
Also
laments the recent transparency to previously "privileged secrecy of
proceedings" that allows for "administrators to get rid of faculty".
This is my country:
Where conscientious citizens objecting to atrocities perpetrated in
their name by generals, officers, and soldiers in active service and
reserves, are pursuing their bringing to international justice for
war crimes, since the Israeli justice system shuns its moral
obligations. And where such citizens are threatened by a senior
Likud MP Steinitz (a former colleague at my university - where
else?) who attempts to legislate a "treason law," remindful of dark
ages, whereby such conscientious citizens will be prosecuted and
serve jail for their initiative.
This is my country:
Where a university, where classes on democracy are given, is opening
a military program of studies for intelligence cadets to study on
campus in uniform, appropriating a whole section of the students
dormitories (far from answering the needs of Arab and needed Jewish
students), to become military quarters of sorts (you guessed right,
my own university); while still not recognizing the elected Arab
students committee (representing about 20% of the students), nor the
demand to put signs in Arabic (an official language in Israel) on
campus, closing down its theatre for mounting plays in Arabic, or
forbidding a Christmas tree to be placed near a HANUKKA lamp while
the two religious holidays concur; and rather, using its dwindling
budget to hiring private law firms to prepare the legal grounds why
NOT to put such signs in Arabic, or to dispute a recent court ruling
preferring transparency to privileged secrecy of proceedings (which
grant immunity to administrators to get rid of faculty far from the
public eye).
For more details and to
see the full original article,
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University of Haifa - As’ad Ghanem (Dept of Political Science)
denounces Israel as an apartheid "ethnocracy" while speaking in
Maryland
The Palestine Center interviewed Dr. As'ad
Ghanem of the University of Haifa about the state of the Palestinian
citizens of Israel and published the interview in full. He is
currently a visiting researcher at the University of Maryland,
College Park.
"Israel’s “Ethnocracy” and the Demographic
Threat: Dr. As’ad Ghanem on Israel’s Palestinian Citizens"
For more details and to
see the full original article,
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University of Haifa - Haggai Kupermintz is one professor of education who needs
educating about PLO intentions
Kupermintz, the Professor of Education, showed
his lack of realistic education right after the
Passover Massacre in 2002 … where 31 Israelis, most of them
Holocaust survivors, were blown to bits during a Passover Seder in
Netanya. The bomber should have been of interest to Professor of
Education Haggai Kupermintz because he was a Palestinian Arab youth
and a graduate of the then eight-year-old Palestinian hate-education
system. The Arab killer was a product of an Arab regime that heralds
suicide bombing, pays the families of killers for martyrdom, and
even abuses ambulances for the transfer of suicide bombers, all the
while promoting anti-Jewish, anti-Israel and anti-US hatred through
its education programs in all forms of media.
Where was a letter or petition from Haggai as
an educator and supporter of Peace Education to Arafat about such
misuse of education? Instead, Kupermintz signed a petition objecting
to the taking of the Mukata, an act which provided evidence that the
Palestinian leadership under Arafat and Abbas themselves had not
only authorized the Passover Massacre attack but that Arafat had
personally authorized payment for it.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
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University of Haifa - Ron Kuzar (Dept of English) - fan of the
"Canaanite" movement of post-Jewishness - deconstructs and
prettifies the "Palestinian Right to Return," discovers it means
something other than the annihilation of Israel, a discovery that
will come as a great shock to the Palestinians:
"The Term Return in the Palestinian
Discourse on the Right of Return"
2008, Discourse & Society 19(5)
'The term return is used in the English texts
of contemporary Palestinian political authors writing on the Right
of Return of Palestinians to their homes and homeland. The first
part is dedicated to a semantic analysis of return as a radial
category with a core meaning and extensions. Then the meanings of
return in these texts are discussed, as used in the discourse of
Palestinian maximalists versus pragmatists. It is shown that (1)
different meanings of return are selected according to whether the
writer is a maximalist or a pragmatist, and (2) a reality that
harmonizes with these meanings is narratively constructed.'
(We would like to see Kuzar present his
findings in Gaza City!)
For more published material by Ron Kuzar's see these:
http://members.tripod.com/alabasters_archive/kuzar_intros.html
and
http://research.haifa.ac.il/~kuzar/afterword-excerpt.html
For more details and to
see the full original article,
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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.
For more details and to
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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...'
For more details and to
see the full original article,
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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 Meida. 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.)
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
University of Haifa - Ilan Gur-Zeev (Dept. of Education)
thinks Israel is colonialist and phalocentric
Ilan Gur-Zeev wrote this on Segel-Plus list
May 29, 2008:
'In light of the relations between current
postmodern rhetorical, psychic, philosophical and political trends
and its articulation within postcolonialist frameworks it is a
challenge well beyond the signification of "degrees" of "old"
anti-Semitic "influences" or "degrees" of Israeli manipulations of
anti-Semitic attacks as a gate for Israeli escape from
responsibility and self-awareness. ... . In boycotting Israeli
academia, therefore, you are closer to struggling the Lutziferian
power, or, the essence of colonialism, namely, the quest to overcome
heterogeneity, diversity, otherness and the quest for violent
"consensus", "truth", and (American like) "peace" that is
conditioned by so much suffering of the marginalized, silenced ones
and all "others" to the Judeo-Christian/phalocentrist colonialism
that "America"/Israel serve today as its most violent agent.
Boycotting Israeli academia, therefore, must
overcome the facts of what really happened in the Teddy Kats affair
or in "Jenin, Jenin" and so forth, since it is a moral and psychic
drive to overcome this world of facts, this triumph of the
universalization of Jewish essence - AVODA KODESH that many
academics, NGO activist and so many transformative-oriented
frustrated soles are committed to....'
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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:
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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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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University of Haifa - Avraham Oz (Dept. of Theater) writes to
his ALEF colleagues on March 12, 2008:
Dear friends,
This message was posted last night to the
faculty circuit of the University of Haifa by the notorious Steven
Plaut, a Professor of Business Administration at the University,
who has recently resorted to energetic political activism on the
circuit, having reduced for some reason his regular contribution to
"web site", in which he urged his
readers to send hate mails to a group of Israeli dissenting
university professors, providing our addresses. Do open the link
below: it speaks for itself. You may be relieved to know I have
immediately been summoned to the Dean. Let's see what happens.
For better days,
Your mailman
Message posted:
Please open
http://isracampus.org.il/ALEF%20Watch.htm
This material is being disseminated via a
venue nominally associated with the University of Haifa.
Columnist Steven Shamrak denounced "self-hate, disloyalty to
their own country and self-destructiveness" by Israeli Academics:
'It is astonishing what is happening on the
political front in Israel's universities. The level of self-hate,
disloyalty to their own country and self-destructiveness is
unprecedented:
'At the Tel Aviv University: Gadi Algazi, a
history professor, stated: "Commercial and political exploitation of
lands stolen by Israel." I wonder where he got his qualification
from? Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy, Anat
Biletzki claims that she is working for the human rights of the
Palestinians but completely ignores the Jewish right for land and
Israel's right to exist and requirements for self-defence.
'At the University of Haifa: Professor of
Psychology Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, in addition to his pro-Arab
views, proclaimed that the rights to free speech, freedom of
association and freedom of religion do not exist in Israel. In this
case, why is he is not in jail? Could he tell us how many Arab or
Muslim organizations he knows that are able to take similar
anti-government statements in their own countries?'
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Technion, University of Haifa, and Hebrew University - For
Professors Jacob and Tamar Katriel and their children, bashing
Israel is a family affair -
by Lee Kaplan
"Jacob Katriel is in fact
a Stalinist communist ideologue who has been a central figure in
Israel’s communist party that is mostly dominated by Arab-Israeli
members who are irredentists against Israel’s Jews. If it has
anything to do with smearing the Jewish state, Katriel will do it
while reaping the rewards of his tenured retirement sinecure paid
for by the Israeli taxpayer and donors to Israeli universities. His
wife and children are equally close allies in damning Israel any way
they can. Among Katriel’s major efforts, supported equally by all
members of his family, are attempts to compare Israel with apartheid
South Africa in order to promote worldwide divestment making a false
comparison with what was a genuinely racist South African regime
back in the 1980’s."
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original article,
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University of Haifa - Yuval Yonay (Dept. of Sociology) is upset
about "Racism" at his own university (from Segel Plus chat List)
"(Original spelling, uncorrected) Yonay:
'Attached is a disturbing story from yesterday (sic) local
newspaper. It might serve a model in fascist classes how to use use
(sic) half truths, straight lies, fears and demagogy to foster
polarization and hatred. Arab students (who, for the authors, are
all muslims (sic), as all Hadah (sic) supporters are) dare to be
visible; they are threatening because they put Che Gavara (sic) on
their shirts; they are politically active -- what a cynical exploit
(sic) of democracy. They can demonstrate everywhere and whenever
they want (in reality, they can demonstrate for 2 hours every week,
on Mondays and Wednesday, 11:45-12:15 and 13:45-14:15). It is also
their fault that there are no dukhanim of Jewish organization. In
short, you don't have to learn fascism to talk like Gobbles (sic). I
hope our spokeperson (sic) do (sic) something about it.' Yuval"
University of Haifa - Micah Leshem (Dept. of Psychology) -
Malignant Anti-Israel Ignorance, by Dr. Gary Katz
'With all due respect, Leshem's 'Israel's right
to be racist' was an abject hate-filled diatribe of poorly written
and researched slogans, a pure symptom of the lack of
accountability, upholding of academic standards, and pathology that
permeates Israeli academia. Not only was any semblance of
objectivity or decency not present, but also it betrayed much more
about the pathology of the Israeli extreme-left than it did about
anything having to do with our daily reality in Israel. When it
comes to Israel-bashing it is a worldwide free ride with no risk,
accountability or need to back up the filth spewed; all with the
falsification that the haters are taking great risks and exhibiting
unparalleled courage by joining the world-wide "hate Israel"
sideshow."'
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University of Haifa - About Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi's (Dept
of Psychology) book "The Israeli Connection: Whom Israel Arms and
Why"
This book has examined the connections first
of radical Zionism, and second, of the form in which it penetrated
the state, with the Nazis and other groups of fascist tendency links
that will surely surprise most readers. We've also stressed the
important links between certain radical circles in the Israeli
administration and post-war fascists. During the Cold War, dictators
and juntas all over the globe gladly established close, yet often
highly confidential, working relationships with certain circles in
the Israeli administration.
That these circles influential in the Israeli administration support
fascist regimes and organizations worldwide is established in detail
by Israeli writer Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi. According to his book The
Israeli Connection: Whom Israel Arms and Why, Israel has insured the
"stability" by supporting oppressive regimes all over the world.
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Ilan Pappe Invents 'Ethnic cleansing in Palestine'
In his recently released book The Ethnic
Cleansing of Palestine, Pappe claims that Israel prepared a special
plan for the ethnic cleansing of Palestine's Arab population known
as Plan D for dalet. Pappe's "evidence" is derived from his
interpretations of files found in the Hagana and Israel state
archives...But Pappe makes one egregious mistake. He never bothers
to ask the same question of the Arabs he does of the Jews: What
about their lists, their intelligence reports and their
ethnic-cleansing plans? What were Arab intentions in the five months
between the passage of the UN partition plan on November 29, 1947,
and the birth of Israel?
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llan Pappe's "New History"
Pappe outlines Plan D (Dalet in Hebrew), which followed earlier
plans A, B and C, and included forcible expulsion of some 800,000
Palestinians from both urban and rural areas with the objective of
creating by any means necessary an exclusive Jewish state without an
Arab presence. The methods ranged from a campaign of disinformation
-- “get out immediately because the Jews are on their way to kill
you” -- to Jewish militia attacks to terrorize the Palestinians.
... There is no doubt in Pappe’s
mind that Plan D “was a clear-cut case of an ethnic cleansing
operation, regarded under international law today as a crime against
humanity.”
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Ilan Pappe on the "Electronic Intifada" Web Site
Like those enlightened pundits who used liberal organs in the United
Kingdom, such as The Guardian, to explain to us at length how
dangerous is the proposed academic boycott on Israel. They have
never expended so much time, energy or words on the occupation
itself as they did in the service of the ethnic cleansing of
Palestine. UNISON, Britain’s large public service trade union, must
not be deterred by this backlash and it should follow these brave
academics who endorsed the debate on the boycott, as should Europe
as a whole: not only for the sake of Palestine and Israel, but also
if it wishes to bring a closure to the Holocaust chapter in its
history.
... To its credit one should openly
say that the means used by Hamas are part of an arsenal that enabled
it in the past to be the only active force that at least tried to
stop the total destruction of Palestine
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The Hamas is Alive and Well at the University of Haifa
A Fund run by the Islamic Movement student group linked to Hamas,
says terror expert
"Jewish students and other elements
at (Haifa) University are protesting the rising Islamification on
campus. They say Islamist rhetoric can be found across the
institution," Yedioth Haifa reported last Friday. .."There was also
a diary handed out by the Islamic Movement here with pictures of Bin
Laden, the burning Trade Towers, and Hassan Nasrallah," Sa'ar Ziv,
the student's union spokesperson, told Ynetnews.
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Title from Haifa weekly - 'Islam Extends its Influence in the
University'
More than 80% of the students in Israeli
higher-education system are Jewish… this fact is not felt on the
Haifan campus… Students complain that extreme Arab students
distribute materials on the verge of incitement/vilification ['hasata';
in fact, students need to submit everything they distribute—even an
invitation to an academic event—for approval by the Dean of students
Office; sometime distribution is delayed because there is no one who
knows Arabic available]. .''
... Unfortunately the university encourages
this in the name of the freedom of speech, but it verges on cynical
exploitation. With their shirts carrying the images of Azmi Bishara
and Che Guevara they seem like soldiers on the eve of a battle [the
similarity of what the anonymous official and the anonymous student
said throws doubt on the authenticity of both cited quotes]....We
often hear from students, employees, and even [the supposed to be
leftist Palestinian sympathizers] that they feel as if the
University of Haifa were a branch of Bir Zeit (Palestinian
college).'
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University of Haifa - Yuval Yonay (Dept. of Sociology) and
In-Classroom anti-Israel Indoctrination at the University of Haifa
The University of Haifa currently offers a
propaganda indoctrination course based on one-sided propaganda being
taught as "scholarship". It is in the Department of Sociology and is
entitled "The Sociology of the Occupation". It is taught by an
anti-Zionist lecturer who is probably the Hamas' second-favorite
lecturer at the University of Haifa: Dr. Yuval Yonay. Yonay is a
close collaborator with Ilan Pappe, including in promoting boycotts
of Israel and "divestment". He helped to organize a series of "Nakba
Days" at the University of Haifa with Pappe, in which Israelis were
called upon to mourn the creation and very existence of their own
country as a "catastrophe" (nakba, in Arabic).
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